The radical. Fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to the Iran Brookshow on this Tuesday afternoon. It's late, not typical hour for the show. Sorry.  Jig it around. Here we are at 3 p.m. East Coast time. Again, hope everybody's having a great week for our news roundup. There will be a show tonight, 8 p.m. East Coast time. Won't move it, I promise. Well, I think I promise. Won't move it. I'm not sure all the topics will cover, but we're still going to talk about the movie I saw this weekend, Golda, which, so I've got a bunch of stuff to say about that. It's a movie review of the movie Golda that came out this last weekend about Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur war in Israel, but we'll cover, I'm sure we'll cover a bunch of other topics as well. So that'll be at 8 p.m. East Coast time tonight. All right, also reminder to all of you, you can ask questions. Super Chat is the way to do that. That way you get to ask whatever you want. You get to steer the conversation and direction you want. You get to highlight the news items if the question is related to news item that you would like. All right, let's get started. We're going to start with one of the worst things the Biden administration has done since, I think, since he got elected. So, and it's part of the inflation, so-called Inflation Reduction Act. It is the idea that the act gives Medicare, right, Medicare, which is basically health insurance for everybody over 65, so Socialized Medicine, government-run Socialized Medicine for everybody over 65 in the United States. For all Europeans out there who think the United States doesn't have Socialized Medicine, you're wrong. It just limits its Socialized Medicine to people over 65 and to the very poor. So we have Medicare and Medicaid, which are basically Socialized Medicine, the government pays for all of it. So, anyway, the idea was that Medicare is, you know, it spends a lot of money on healthcare, a lot of money on healthcare. Most of it, by the way, for the last six months of your life. So most of it is like to keep you alive when it's not clear. You should be kept alive, right? And if maybe it was your own money, you wouldn't spend it on keeping yourself alive. Maybe you'd rather leave it to your kids or something. But since it's a taxpayer's money, who cares? Why not? Another six months, I'll take it. So Medicare, of course, is bankrupting the country. It's, it's, it will be the, or maybe is already, but it's going to become the largest expenditure on the budget by far. It only going to increase from here on as the baby boomers retire, get older, get sick and approach death.  So it's a massive, massive redistribution plan scheme from the young to the old. And in that sense, it's much bigger than Social Security. It's, it's, they spend a lot more money because it's healthcare. It's super expensive and the government's buying it. So anyway, so the plan was how do we reduce the amount of money we spend on Medicare? How do we reduce the cost of healthcare? And how do we, how do we, a big part of this is Medicare's coverage of drugs. Now, Medicare originally didn't cover drugs. Medicare originally just covered treatment and didn't cover drugs at all. It was Republicans led by George Bush and by the House and Senate when Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate, who expanded Medicare in one of the most costly additions to government spending ever, expanded Medicare to cover drugs. So you can thank Republicans for this. Original Medicare was passed by Democrats, the expansion, massive expansion. You can thank Republicans for. Anyway, Biden wants to curb expenses. And he also wants to satisfy the left wing and might I add right wing populists who generally hate the pharma industry. And he also wants to satisfy this idea that what do Europeans pay and Canadians pay a lot less for drugs than we do in the United States. So his solution to all of this is to have Medicare, just like governments in other countries do, negotiate directly with pharma to reduce the prices.   Of course, not only that, but Medicare doesn't just buy the one drug.  You don't want them to stop approving your drugs. So there is a massive incentive for pharmaceutical companies to collaborate and to reduce the drugs dramatically. If a drug company does not enter into negotiations with Medicare, or I guess if those negotiations do not go well according to Medicare. Listen to this. Then the drug company basically faces an excise tax of up to 95%. I mean, you can't be serious, right? 95%. Let's just have 100% taxation in the United States and finish with it. 95%. Or it will be forced to leave Medicare and Medicaid completely. In other words, the government is coming to these negotiations with the guns loaded and pointed and ready to course pharma companies to reduce those prices no matter what. This is unbelievably destructive. It's unbelievably harmful to the future of healthcare. I mean, it won't have any consequences in the short run, but it will massively reduce the amount of money available for pharma companies to invest in new drugs, in new treatments in the future. It will also reduce the appetite of investors to provide capital to biotechs and pharma companies in the future to come up with new blockbuster drugs. Because if it becomes a blockbuster, then the government's going to price control it, which is basically what this is, price controls. Now, look, the government wants to be reasonable about these things. They're bringing the guns, but they're not bringing the guns to everything. They have criteria, and what they've done is they've chosen 10 drugs to at least start this program on. And they've chosen 10 drugs, and these drugs have to meet certain criteria, and they were written into the bill, into the inflation reduction bill. And they have to be drugs that Medicare spends a lot of money on because they have to have an impact on reducing Medicare expenses. So how do they choose the drugs? Well, one, the drug has to have been on the market for a certain period of time. Look, the government's kind of reasonable, and they want the drug companies to be able to make some money, at least to pay back the development costs of the drug. So they want to allow them to make a profit for a while, just not too long, and how long is long enough, the government will decide. So if it's a small molecule drug, they get nine years before these price caps enter. And if it's a biologic drug, then they get 13 years before price controls are implemented. Price controls in America in the 21st century. The drug must not face competition. So it has to be like a drug that there's no competitors for, although that's not really true, because how do you define competitors? Like, in the first 10 that they chose today, there are several blood thinners. Maybe they don't compete directly in the sense that they don't work the same way, but they clearly substitute products. So of course the government is defining competition in a very vague, ambiguous kind of way. So they can't face competition for either generics or a biosimilar, or a drug that closely resembles a biologic, but is sold at a cheaper price. Because they figure competition would reduce the price anyway, so can't face competition. Again, that is meaningless and stupid, completely arbitrary. It can be an orphan drug. An orphan drug is an FDA designated drug for rare disease treatment that only treats one condition. That is not eligible for price reduction, price control, not price reduction, price control. And it has to be one of the highest annual expenditures as part of Medicaid, part D, part D is the drug part, right? So, you know, this is how it's all, this is how it's all going to come down. Of course what this means is those of us who might be taking drugs who have to buy drugs were under 65. And therefore, you know, but still need the drugs, my guess is prices for the rest of us are going to go up, right? So if Medicaid forces prices down, why wouldn't the drug company just raise prices on the rest of us? Who are not under Medicaid? The price control is only for what Medicare buys. I mean, the real problem here is Medicare. The real problem is Medicare's dominance over healthcare in the United States. The real problem is socialized medicine, no matter whether that socialized medicine applies to 65-year-old or to anybody. Socialized medicine is wrong. Socialized medicine distorts and perverts the marketplace. And that's the real issue. Once you have Medicare, once you have socialized medicine, well, you're going to have additional distortions. And this is one big one. And we can thank the George W. Bush administration, George Bush Jr. for this. Without the expansion of Medicare to drugs, this wouldn't have come about. We can thank our Republicans for this. And all those House members, including, you know, I don't know, the ones who believe in free markets, supposedly, and everything who voted for it. We can thank the senators. And I think this passed with a 60-vote majority. Well, I guess a lot of Democrats voted for it, too. We can thank all the senators and other Republicans for voting for this. They made this possible. Now we have price controls, because that's what the Democrats will do.  Although, you know, what's a candid someone will be very happy. Some others on the, you know, sometimes a free market might be very happy because hatred of pharma has become very, very popular. Almost like a virus that has infected people. So all the haters, all the people who hate pharmaceutical companies, all the people who hate drug companies are celebrating, I assume, right now because this will squeeze them. And I often wonder, because I hear this a lot, pharma is crony. They have their people at the FDA. They have their people in government. They control all these things. So much for cronyism. It doesn't help them much. They just had their profits cut dramatically. They just had their revenues cut dramatically. In spite of all the connections and all the people they bought off, what's up with that? I mean, they need an upgrade. Maybe they need to take an extra class in cronyism, advanced cronyism, how to prevent price controls from affecting your industry. The point is about cronyism. Is that at the end of the day, all the power resides with those wielding the guns. All the power resides with the government. And you can play games with them and you can benefit for a little bit. You can benefit for a while. You can benefit here and there. But overall, you lose. And you always will. The people with the guns don't care about you. They don't care about the people. They care only about power. They care only about manipulating. They believe in manipulation. And they will continue to do it. And this is just horrible. This is just another example of the political class in America taking more and more control of our lives and of our future. This one I take personally because it's going to affect my future. It's going to affect my future. A lot less lower probability that I will be able to take that life extending drug that allowed me to live to be 120. All right. There's a lot of talk right now about China, about that Chinese economy slowing, about struggles in the Chinese economy. A lot of the discussion is at that kind of macro level. The Chinese government should stimulate more. The Chinese government should do this more, should do that more. But everybody's really, I think most of the people who are writing about this, are really missing the picture. And really missing what is actually going on. And there's a story that I read today, came out today in actually the New York Times. Which I think actually reveals what the real problem in China is. And suggests what the real solution ultimately has to be. And that all these bailouts, talk about bailouts. And it's funny because it's funny right now because it's American economists and Western politicians and Western economists that are urging the Chinese to take on more debt and to stimulate the economy, to encourage people to go out and borrow money and consume. And for the government to redistribute more wealth. The solution, by the way, to China's problems right now, we are told by many Western economists, is they don't have enough of a welfare state. They need more welfare. They don't have enough socialized medicine. They need more socialized medicine. The way to turn China into a consumer economy, which is what everybody claims is a solution for China, is by handing people money in one way or another so that they can go out and consume. That is such a perverse and upside down view of economics.  And I'd say the rulers of China, probably for all the wrong reasons, actually acting fairly responsible. They're not stimulating the economy. They're not printing gazillions of yuan to bail everybody out. They're not taking huge amounts of debt. They're not creating inflation. They're actually being responsible, holding the line, letting the economy go into a recession because of all the excesses of debt that led to this point. Now we'll see if they actually let this happen. But what they should do is let the economy go into a recession, deregulate taxes in the meantime, particularly deregulate in China, and then allow for it to increase once all the garbage is being funneled out. But even there, there's a problem. So I want to illustrate this problem through this story that I read about in the New York Times. And it's a really fascinating story. It's about this woman who grew up in China, very poor. And she, from a very young age, left high school and started working. And she worked in all kinds of jobs just to make any kind of money and slowly accumulate some wealth and some credit. And basically used that wealth and credit to start businesses. And basically did very well and expanded those businesses. And when the economy shrunk a little bit at some point during the financial crisis, for example, she pivoted and invested in a different type of business that was more attractive to the clientele. And she built a little kind of restaurant empire and did very, very well for herself. And did it the way you do.  You're wealthy in a sense, but you're always expanding and therefore you're always taking on more debt. But she was very responsible, did this very well and was very successful for a while. And then Xi Jinping came to power. And a number of things happened. Regulators start clamping down on small businesses. Regulators starting to make it a lot more difficult for small businesses to take on debt. In addition, China's never really developed proper or systematic bankruptcy laws. For many companies like small businesses, there is no such thing as bankruptcy. Anyway, because of COVID, her businesses got in real trouble. Suddenly she had debt. The banks wouldn't lend money and she couldn't pay the debt back. She borrowed money for family, sustained, kept it going. But then again, because of all the closures, the lockdowns that China engaged in during this period, she couldn't sustain the business. As a consequence, she was arrested because it turned out she owed her employees money. She hadn't been able to pay them. Even though she had now, by this point, transferred many of the restaurants to her minority owners. She became just an employee, but turns out she owed some money. She couldn't file for bankruptcy because there's no such thing, such code in China in order to restructure her debt. Instead, what happened is she was literally arrested. She was put in jail for 16 days while the authorities tried to figure out whether she was hiding any assets from which maybe she could have paid the employees, found out that she wasn't hiding anything, let her out. Anyway, here's a woman who throughout her career, she even pivoted when e-commerce became a big thing. She was, I guess, selling merchandise before and after e-commerce. She started selling food because food can't buy on the internet or you can't cook it. It has to be physical. So here's an entrepreneur who's not allowed to fail. Failure is devastating at stand. So this is the other element I wanted to add. She's been put on one of these lists in China because she owes money and because credit rating has dropped, her social rating has dropped as well. She can't fly. She can't take the fast train. She cannot leave her hometown. She cannot go to a bank and get credit. She's stuck. She cannot actually resume entrepreneurial activity. She's being penalized for failing. In the US, one of the great virtues that we have in the US is that we allow people to fail and we allow people to get back on their feet and start up again and succeed.  You don't need to add to that.  None of that exists. She's lost her home. She's lost her businesses. She's lost everything. And that's okay. That happens even in a market economy. But there's no way for her to get out of the hole. And that's because of the social scores and the regulatory regime and the controls and the general distrust and hatred that Xi and his regime have towards entrepreneurs. Eighty percent of all new jobs in China are created by the private sector and that the private sector is now despised by the regime, discouraged by the regime. And it would rather jail entrepreneurs. And she's not asking money from the government. She explicitly says, I don't want money from the government. What she's asking is for the government to get rid of the barriers that prevent her from going out and restarting her life, restarting her businesses, restarting as an entrepreneur. This is what's holding China back. The switch in the Xi administration over the last five, six, seven years to be explicitly hostile to the private sector, to guiding banks against the private sector, adding regulations, increased regulations, not having proper rule of law, not having a proper bankruptcy regime, not having the ability to actually sustain a true entrepreneurial culture. That's what China needs. It needs massive deregulations. It needs banks that are truly private banks and are not run by the government. It needs capitalism. It needs freedom. Not more government stimulus, more government control, more government printing of money, more government telling the banks what they can or cannot do, which is what almost every western economist is telling them. So what China needs is more economic freedom. Even if a turn to the way it was 10, 12 years ago would go a long way to helping the Chinese economy recover. All right. Interesting editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Walter Russell Mead, who I read quite a lot after 9-11, who had a lot of interesting things to say about foreign policy after 9-11. Anyway, Walter Russell Mead has an op-ed today or yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. The view from the Kremlin isn't all bad. Putin has problems in Ukraine, but he's gaining in the Middle East, Africa and China. I mean, I think it overplays that a lot, but there's one paragraph that was so good I wanted to read it to you here because I thought it was perfect in terms of illustrating the essence of why Ukraine is struggling, why Russia has any success at all on the global scene. Who Russia's biggest asset is? Who's Putin's biggest ally? So this is the paragraph. Mr. Putin's strongest asset, as ever, I think he's right, this has always been the case, remains the incoherence of the contemporary West. His Western opponents are Churchill's on the podium and Chamberlain's in real life. Now that's a good line. That's a good line. So his Western opponents are Churchill's on the podium and Chamberlain's in real life. They proclaim their underlying commitment to a rules-based international order that forbids territorial conquest while quietly pressing Ukraine to accept the laws of Crimea and Donbass. They solemnly commemorate Pride Month in Kabul while preparing the wholesome abandonment of Afghans to the Taliban. They oscillate between denouncing Saudi Arabia as a pariah state and begging it, begging it for help. They moralistically instruct the global south to sacrifice for the common good and climate change even as they embrace protectionist policies that threaten the south's economic future. Now I think that's a great paragraph and it's a paragraph that exactly captures the complete and utter decay, the complete and utter dishonesty. Lack of integrity, lack of strategic thinking, lack of foreign policy that, you know, the Trump administration, the Biden administration, the European Union, the entire West has at its disposal. I mean, Putin would now have clearly have lost on the ground in Ukraine if the administration had actually approved the weapons that the Ukrainians had sought, which it ultimately did, but it took it a year to approve tanks, a year and a half to approve F-16s. That could have been done a year and a half ago. Ukraine would be a lot further along if they had done that. And of course the examples he gives, I love the one in Kabul, you know, a celebrating Pride Month in Kabul and then a month later, oops, we're out of there and handing it over to Taliban. Guess what they do to Pride Month? We have no foreign policy. We have no strategy. We have no long-term thinking. We have no, no principles. And that allows autocrats, the Toletarians, barbarians, mafia regimes like Putin's to survive and not to thrive. He's not thriving, but to survive. In a rational world, Putin wouldn't survive. Wouldn't survive. He continues in the next paragraph from Putin's point of view, this mix of aggressive rhetoric and cautious policymaking is the best of all possible American approaches. The administration's chest thumping about American values often sounds like bullying to other countries, while the unmissable contrast between bold words and timid deeds invites contempt. And that's perfect, right? And of course, it undermines it at home as well. Nobody in America understands what the hell Biden administration's doing. You know, this increases the sympathy for Vivek or Trump or whoever who wants to stop supporting Ukraine. It increases all that because there's no coherency. There's no strategy. There's no somebody coming out and explaining to the American people why this is in America's self-interest. There's none of that.  So the administration is silent. Or maybe the administration doesn't ever clue what they're doing. All right, finally, we all know that there's a real housing shortage in the Bay Area in California. We know the situation San Francisco is in, but yet in spite of how bad things are in San Francisco, certainly in spite of everything, the Bay Area is one of the most expensive places in the world to buy real estate, to own a home, to move to. Well, there is now a new solution to this. Over the last, maybe a couple of years, I think, a mysterious group called Flannery has been buying up huge swaths of land just northeast of San Francisco across the Bay, not far from Travis Air Force Base. Rumors have been swirling. And I've read stories about this, that this land is being bought up by the Chinese and it's a national security threat and a lot of the rhetoric around not allowing Chinese to buy land, which is a law that now passed in Florida, bizarre, wanted to be applied to California because hey, it was the Chinese buying land and it's next to Travis Air Force Base. This is a national security threat. Turns out, not the Chinese. It turns out that this land has been bought by an American company called Flannery that is run by a young 36 year old entrepreneur. It turns out that the backers of this entrepreneur, the money to buy all of this money has come from big shots in Silicon Valley. We're talking about some of the biggest names in the valley from Steve Jobs' wife to people like Andreessen and Moritz and a bunch of the top names in the venture capital community, the guy who started LinkedIn, I forget his name now. Anyway, the Flannery group has spent a billion dollars, one billion dollars, buying all this land in Solana County. Solana County is a county southeast of Marin County, which is the county north of San Francisco, and do northeast a little bit from San Francisco. It's a county that doesn't have a lot of inhabitants. And the plan is to build a new city then. The plan is to build what's called a mixed-use city, a city that would have both work, shopping, and residential in a place that can be walked that will not rely on cars. The entire city supposedly will be, the energy will be provided through solar energy. So the idea is to have good paying jobs, affordable housing, clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, open spaces in a healthy environment. And they're going to be building this. They are now letting the county know they're in the process of trying to rezone it so that they can build this. And this is, let me just say, put the details aside, this is fantastic. This is the kind of optimistic pro-growth, pro-building, let's make something new attitude to solving problems. Let's build, let's create, let's solve by adding, not by subtracting. And the list includes people who've changed the world already. And again, Michael Moritz from Sequoia, Mark Andreessen, Chris Dixon, the Collinsen brothers who, the founders of Stripe, as I said, Lauren Jobs, Steve Jobs, White Widow, and Nate Friedman who is the former chief executive of GitHub and others. The project is spearheaded by a 36-year-old former trader at Goldman Sachs. And they're going to build a new town. Now, I don't know if this will be successful. I mean, there's a lot of hurdles. There are a lot of challenges. I find it exciting. I find this, this is the kind of way, this is the way you solve problems. And these are problems solving like people. One of the best essays published in the last few years was the essay by Mark Andreessen on build. Let's build stuff. We used to build stuff in this country and we need to build stuff again in this country. And this is him putting his money where his mouth is and actually doing it. So good for them. I'm excited, a story to follow, to keep track of. I'll update you as things transpire. All right. Thought I'd end there on a positive note. All right. Let's now move to Super Chat is about halfway to a goal. We didn't make a goal yesterday. Didn't bug you about it. Not going to bug you today. Just mentioning it as please. Let's try to make our goals so that these news briefings, news roundups, which many of you seem to like. We've got over 100 people listening right now are sustainable. So a lot of people, since there are a lot of people here, assuming there are a lot of people who don't usually do Super Chat or stickers, use the Super Chat to ask a question. Use the sticker just to support the show. Think of it as a trade. I'm providing this value. Value in return is your financial support. All right. Let me just say, Mike, thank you. Silvanos, thank you. $50. That's amazing. Thank you. FDF, thank you. And Steven, thank you. And Antonio, thank you. Really appreciated. John Bales, thank you for the $20. Really appreciate that. All right. Jeffrey says, I hope you're excited for college football. I hate to admit it, Jeffrey. And I know you'll be really disappointed, but I really do not watch college football. And I have a problem with football more broadly that we can talk about over dinner in New York soon. Fender Harper says, have you had art of the argument by Steven Molineau? Seems pro-liberty, and I was curious if you know of the author. It's not often I hear someone characterize freedom as the absence of coercion outside of objectivity. Yes, I know Steven Molineau. Steven Molineau used to be a really, really big shot on social media, on YouTube. He had a huge channel before I think he was a band from many of his social media platforms. He is a very, very mixed bag. He liked Dyn Rand, but was also an anarchist, was an anarchist. He then went from being an anarchist to being more of a kind of a racist, you know, white nationalist type conservative or maybe that's just paleo-libertarian or whatever you want to call it. But a very, very, very mixed bag. Said a lot of positive things about Dyn Rand, but of course was an orcho-capitalist or an anarchist at the same time. But very mixed bag. You can find his videos, they're all over the place. He's a big celebrity. He made a lot of money off of his public appearance and had a huge following, much bigger unfortunately than mine. But yeah, I mean, because those more fringe views have a lot more people interested than what I have to offer you obviously. That's the reality that we have to live with until we change the world. All right, we're still about $95 short. So just for your consideration, we've got 100 people watching $94 short. You'd think that would be an easy and easy make. Thank you, Darlene. Thank you, Dave. And we've only got two questions, so this is going to be over very quickly. All right, Scott asks, glad you're going to JP's event, but are you acknowledging the right may not be as bad as you thought or are you just trying to flip his followers? The event is not going to be of his followers. The event is invitation-only. It is an event supposedly of influencers, a bunch of influencers. I'm going to see who's going to be there. I'm going to there because I want to have my hand on the pulse of what's going on. I want to be there to have a voice in the debate. So I was invited. Alex Epstein, for example, would be one of the speakers. But am I there to flip his followers? No. I'm not going to be given a stage to flip his followers. It's more to be there. Now, look, if what do you call it, certain leftist organizations invited me to come to an event, an invitation-only with a lot of influencers on what I'd call on the left, I would go with the hope of meeting people like Steven Pinker and meeting others who I think are interesting and, again, like to have the hand on the pulse of what's going on in the world. I'm hoping there are better people than Jordan Peterson there. I'm hoping some of the more rational elements of the right are there. If it turns out that everybody's just a Jordan Peterson religionists, God, I was watching some video of Knowles, which I might talk about tonight, but a video of Knowles where he talks about Ayn Rand, he talks about other stuff this morning, and oh my God, those people are hopeless and disgusting and horrible and worse than the left, right? If it's a bunch of those people, then it'll be a waste of my time. If there are people there, and particularly given that it's not in the U.S., it's in Europe, and at least in the U.K., I think the right, the right in the U.K. is much more rational than the right in the U.S. because the right in the U.K. is much more secular than the right in the U.S. So I'm just hoping to meet interesting people there, and I got invited at a pretty big discount to attend, so I'm going. I'll let you know how it is afterwards. Don't read too much into it. Zachary asks, how long should copyrights last? The current policy seems to prioritize writing from 100 years ago as opposed to active writers. Well, the current policy is a policy kind of dictated by or passed for Disney. When the copyright on Mickey Mouse was about to expire, the extended copyright law is to, I think, author's life plus 75 years. I think that's too long. That doesn't really make sense to me, although one has to think about things like corporate logos and given the corporations last much longer than the founders. But I don't know what the right number is. That's a question to ask Adam Arsoff when he's on the show. But it needs to be at least the author's lifetime and maybe some beyond that to allow the authors to benefit from it. But 75 years, which was what it is today, certainly seems, you know, too long. But, you know, on the other hand, I mean, I don't know why anybody cares that much, right? So, you know, do we really want Atlas Shrugged to go into the public domain? And when it goes into public domain to anybody to print it, change words in it, do all kinds of stuff to it, use it for all kinds of purposes, there's a value in having control of these things and who's losing exactly from not having Atlas Shrugged in the public domain. If you want a free copy, by the way, the Ironman Institute will provide you with one. So it's not like that's the problem. So, it's, you know, I don't know who loses from not being able to use Mickey Mouse because Disney has a copy right over it. So I'm open to arguments about what the time should be, but probably 75 is too much, I don't know. But it needs to be figured out by, this is what you have, experts in law and philosophers of law and economists who can get together and really figure out what makes the most sense. And it's not going to be like an intrinsic number. And this is why, maybe in different countries, it lasts differently and we can have a little bit of competition across jurisdictions. But there has to be some number agreed upon. Tessa says, what did you think about John Stasso?  I have a lot of admiration for him. It's taking him a lot of courage to go on the journey that he's gone. He started as kind of a leftist, a consumer advocate and discovered the truth. So you have to give Stasso a gazillion amount of credit for being a truth seeker. He's one of the good guys. He doesn't go very deep. He's not interested in deep. His mind doesn't go deep. It just doesn't. But so what? I respect him for what he actually does and for what he is able to do. So huge respect and admiration for Stasso. I've enjoyed working for him over the years. I don't agree with everything he does and everything he says. But, you know, I like much of what he did. Remember, Stasso got his break on Network TV and started to do his radical kind of free market stuff while he was on Network TV. Had a whole show dedicated to it for a while. Then went to Fox and today is doing his own thing with his own production company. He did not fit Fox's mold anymore. That new city across the bay you mentioned, what will they do for electricity at night or will they be using candles? My assumption is that they will be using some kind of battery technology to at night. So solar only makes sense when teamed with batteries. The problem is the expense. So my guess is they'll be hooked to the grid and they'll be using natural gas like the rest of us. At least until batteries get so cheap as that you can run a city. Look, solar energy is not crazy for a state like, at least for a portion of it, for a state like California. Once it gets cheap enough, it's crazy for Germany. But the state of California with 300 days of sunshine a year, not insane. You need backup. You can't only rely on solar. That's insane. Jeff says thanks for the great analysis. Thank you, Jeff. Really appreciate the support. We've made our goal so really appreciate you guys coming through. Paul says, have you read Gideon's decline? Gideon's decline of fall of the role of an empire? Gideon. That's not Gideon's decline of the fall of their own empire is, what's his name for that? I forget. The names don't come to me as you know. Written around the same time as the American Revolution, yes, seems like it was influenced by the age of reason. Yes, it was. I mean, some of it's wrong, but it was certainly Gibbons, not Gideons. Gibbons, thank you. It was certainly influenced by the age of reason, certainly a good book, very, very influential, and even the errors in it are relatively easy. Correct, because a lot of it is so good. It lays a very, very good foundation and a proper approach to history. Wolf, what do you say to people who argue that drug prices are inelastic? Pharmaceutical companies can simply raise prices without any correlated shift in demand. I'd say even if that's true and it's only true because Medicare has an infinite budget and therefore puts no price pressure, but in a private market, that's obviously not true. There are always substitute products and there's always the opportunity of not to take the drug if you can't afford it. And if you have insurance companies who would properly negotiate drug prices, you see we live in a world where there's no real private market so it's just not true that prices are inelastic.  But that's the market. And there'll be a lot of competition to create substitute products and replace them. So I just... the market has to be allowed to work. You can't take an American system and say look, it doesn't work in America. Yeah, because there is no market system in America. Insurance companies are constrained by regulations and by controls. Everybody's expected to get everything in terms of treatment because Medicare and Medicaid cover everything at Infinitum.  You don't really have a proper demand function. Anyway, thank you Wolf and that was Wolf's first super chat. So I don't believe drug prices are inelastic. In a real marketplace, they wouldn't be. And what we need is to create a real marketplace. And even if they are, so be it, the prices would keep going up and people would have to dedicate as much money as they can to it if it was that big of a value. And you don't have... just because you don't like the elasticity of a price of demand doesn't give you the right to control it. It's not the job of government. It's not the job of government. Even if some people die because they can't get the drug, it's not the job of government to provide them with that drug. It's not the job of government to set the prices of the drug or to cater to every need of every person in a particular country. The job of government is to protect individual rights and by setting price controls. No matter what the elasticity of demand is, they're violating individual rights. They're violating the rights of producers and consumers to set prices based on whatever the supply and demand happens to be. All right, Apollo Zeus, to what degree do you think the Chinese government is involved in Chinese tech-computer companies? I think the most strategic ones like Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, Huawei are very, I think it's very involved. Others might be less involved. I think the Chinese government is, I think like the social media companies and so on, they weren't very involved in the past and they're becoming more involved. And in particular about the ones that have expanded to the West and have strategic value to the government. Again, like Huawei and its competitor, I forget the name of the competitor, the cellular equipment manufacturer. Huawei is also now supposedly investing under a different name, heavily in semiconductors, and clearly the government is very involved in the semiconductor industry in China. Friend Harper, does ARU use logical leap induction in physics as a sort of textbook? Like I hear they do with OPA. The opening says ARUI helped fund it and it seems valuable for teaching induction in science. No, I think partially because we're currently at least not teaching not teaching what do you call it? Advanced science. Keith Lockidge is teaching kind of an intro to science and to scientific thinking. And I don't think we will be using Dave Harman's book, I suspect. I mean, given how nasty and horrible he has become towards the institute, why would the institute use his book? I mean, the knowledge in the book will use. The important knowledge in the book was indeed, you know, comes from Leonard, Leonard Picoff, and so the knowledge, but I don't think we would ever be buying the book and providing Dave Harman with royalties to provide it to our students. I think we would rather just have somebody like Keith teach some of the content based on those ideas. Shai Levy says we've had readings from it in the Francis Bacon course. So it's being used somewhat, right? It's being used somewhat. The day will come where I'll say my piece about Dave Harman, but it's not, the day has not come yet. The day will come, don't worry. You'll have to wait a while, but it will come. All right, thank you guys. We really appreciate that. We really appreciate the support. Thanks for getting to where we are. And let's see, tonight we have a show at 8 p.m. East Coast time. One of the things, I'm not sure what the rest of the topics are going to be, but certainly one topic will be the movie Golda, which just came out with Helen Mirren that features, it's about Golda Meir and the Yom Kippur War. Hopefully some of you have seen it. If not, you should go see it. It's worth seeing. I'll talk about that tonight, but we'll also talk about other topics as well. All right, everybody, have a great rest of your day. I will see you tonight. Or otherwise, I'll see you for another news roundup tomorrow morning or tomorrow sometime.


This past year we have witnessed the vocal rise in the condemnation of news as being faken by us across the nation. The objective is clear, to destroy the credibility of all forms of media by portraying them as the enemy of the people. Here in Amherst, Massachusetts, and in many other communities across the country, diligent and mindful work continues on a daily basis, providing not only transparency of local government, but also ensuring all citizens and organizations the access and opportunity to exercise their freedom of speech. Throughout the historic decision to change Amherst's town charter, Amherst media recorded and broadcasted forums and debates held by the Amherst League of Women Voters and the Democratic Committee, as well as hosting our own. All interested parties were allowed to record their viewpoints for broadcast. To assist the area municipalities, the Massachusetts Secretary of State came to Amherst to provide workshops and trainings for the upcoming elections. This effort to inform continued with the broadcasting of forums, debates and statements of the candidates for Third Hampshire District State Representative. Amherst media recorded and broadcasted debates held by the Food Bank, the Amherst Educational Foundation and the Amherst League of Women Voters. Candidates for the New Town Council were invited in to record statements, and these statements, as well as Town Council candidate forums, were broadcast around the clock on Channel 17. But local politics weren't the only voices being recorded by Amherst media. Mount Holyoke College provided the venue for former Secretary of State John Kerry to speak about his recent book and for Senator Nancy Pelosi to preside over commencement ceremonies. While Mount Holyoke had San Juan Mayor Carmen Cruz report on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the Hampshire College Art Gallery hosted the Museum of the Old Colony. Amherst media featured a short promotional video and a full studio interview with the exhibits curator, Pablo Delano. The Fourth International Conference of Cast and Race was recorded at UMass, and in turn Sharon Chen interviewed international students to gain insight on what adjustments people made to integrate their lives into American society. Joe Ranca, host and producer of Creating a Human Rights Culture, interviewed Dr. Rhonda Smith about racism, policy and micro intrusions. Additionally, Joe talked to Amherst Middle School students who worked on the Human Rights Mosaic Project. The humanities are often described as the study of how people progress and document the human experience. Greg Guantanabe was kind enough to be interviewed in our studio after his dramatic theater performance in Jean Sakata's One Man's Show, Hold These Truths, about Japanese internment during World War II. Poetry continues to inspire and move people to feel and imagine, which is what Michi Serrano did with her piece, The In-Between Race. Poet Magdalena Gomez combined forces with musician Diana Alvarez and actor-writer Janice Astor de Valle to produce Latinas on stage at Springfield's Bing Theater. WMMJN interviewed Christy Soares and two of her students from the Latinx Theater Project at UMass. Our studio is the scene of a widely diverse representation of music. Live at the Grid, spearheaded by our own Jody Jenkins, is giving local bands the opportunity to record their music and share it with the wider community. The styles and genres are diverse and the music is passionate and inspiring. In conjunction with Live at the Grid, we took our interns on the road to record bands at the local North Fire recording studio. One intern took a different approach to production. Nathaniel Gabor, Amherst-raised and former Video Vanguard member, filmed his stand-up comedy to try and make sense of the world around him, titling his series Did You Hear the One About? I recently received a trophy. It was participation trophy for bowling. We are very proud of our ongoing serieses such as Theological Devotional and Hourglass Trails, as well as Going Deeper. These shows inspire deep thought and introduce our audiences to talented and accomplished individuals. History Bites is bringing their lunchtime participants many lecturers of local lore. A window into ARPS continues to introduce the viewers to the people who work tirelessly in our public schools to educate the children of Amherst. The ever-popular Curious Giraffe show continues to engage our youthful viewers with music and fun, including environmental issues. For the slightly older audience, Science Cafe continues their series exploring topics such as why soils are super. Critical Connections, in conjunction with Karuna, introduced Shaheen Pasha and Gina Bevers, discussing what the Me Too movement represents for women of color. Critical Connections also introduced Combatants for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian NGO committed to nonviolent action. In an episode of Difficult Dialogues, Dr. Amel Kar Shabao spoke with Zayed Abbas Samrush, the program manager for cross-cultural programs with the Middle East Children's Alliance about bringing clean water to the children of Palestine. Our cameras and reporters were also covering local news like Monty's March for the Food Bank of Western Mass, the Net Neutrality protest at Verizon's Hadley office, and the First Congregational Church of Amherst Software to provide sanctuary for Luteo Perez. And don't forget the remarkable interview of Teriyaki restaurant owner, Yutei Hyak, who spoke about the Korean community within Amherst. 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Because you do it in every video. I don't do it in every video. You are hyperbolic, exaggerating. I don't do it in every video. It just feels like it, and it annoys you. Why don't you eat? I do. Not on camera. Why? It's from out of the view. Because this, it's disgusting. They're eating, and they're drinking chai. They're not being filmed.  I'm Rick. And you call me? It's the guy who pushed up Corbin. This is from our official Twitter account today. We are reacting to a Marathi language sweet trailer. Do you want to read this for me? I will, and I'll have you know. I've had people comment and say that they find my eating to be oddly satisfying. You said that already, and I don't care. Anandi Gopal? No. I had to stop there. A biopic on India's first female doctor. Awesome. Anandi Goparo Joshi. She graduated from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886. Very highly requested in the YouTube comment section. Cool. Excellent. So yeah, we know you guys think we ignore all other regions, but we don't. So don't say that or I'll block you. I don't know how many times we have, it's sad that we have to keep saying it. Yeah, yeah. We don't care where we're from.  But here we go. Good. Are you suffering from the white discharge? I don't think that's possible, Mr. Gakha. Your family doesn't want to go to a Christian school like this. The religion is too much. It's too much to be true.  Who are you? You have the right to kill me! I don't want to be afraid of any threat. I am a very bad person. If you want to teach me something, then I won't accept Christian religion. I will be Albert and my wife will be Victoria. If you don't accept my religion, then I won't accept your religion. I'm usually smarter than men.  This goes without saying, but guys don't slap women. Obviously. It's not that obvious to sum up. I think it's obvious. They just do it anyway. I think it's obvious to everyone. Certain people just don't care. I don't think it's not obvious. I think everyone knows. You shouldn't do it.  They don't think it's wrong to hit a woman.  I guess, I don't know. Don't get us started. The story looks awesome. We know you guys love the Marathi language films. We've seen a one. What I can't tell, she looks like she's very strong.  That's been a trend for us. One of the girls that said, I don't think it's possible, but it does remind me of the girl from the gun. I wonder if she was. The main girl? Which girl? The British one or the Indian girl? The British one. Yeah, she did remind me of quite a bit of her. I don't know if it was her. If this is even, as long as this movie doesn't suck, sincerely, if this movie is just as far as the artistry level of it. If it's just average artistry, I still want to see it if the telling is accurate in... That's what matters. So without giving away any spoilers, which you guys are always so fantastic in doing, please let us know if this is worth seeing, primarily from does it do justice to the woman's story, or are there other places, whether it's a film or a book where we could learn, obviously books usually you learn more. But that's what matters to me. Is this the best way to be introduced to this woman's story? Only a little over two hours. Yeah. Directed by... Samir Vidbans. Is that a male or a female? Samir? I honestly, I think Samir is a male name, but I don't know. Gotcha. Doesn't matter. Sometimes it's better for female stories to be told. Oftentimes for female stories. Not always, doesn't have to. But oftentimes. You need to have that empathy and that you need to understand in order to portray this person or direct this person to do what they need to do in this situation. Absolutely. If you're a male, sometimes men don't. No, I would 100%, like if someone came to me and said we want you to direct this film in particular, the subject matter, or even better. Let's say someone came to me and said they wanted me to direct a film about Helen. As much as I love Helen, and hers isn't a female-centric story, I would have the thought, am I the best suited director for that? Because we're telling it from Helen's standpoint, it's from a woman's viewpoint. It's one of those things that if I... I'm not a director or anything, but if I was and I needed to tell a story of some famous female or whatever, and I decided that I'm going to do that, I would surround myself with the most talented woman writers, writers and all that kind of stuff to help me also make sure I'm doing justice to telling this story. Exactly. Especially something like this where that's the comparison I use where the story isn't as much... It's about her overcoming the obstacles she had with the inability to see in here. This is a definitively feminine-centric story. This is about a woman's right to do what she was doing. And yeah, I'm with you. And please let us know if this is the one to watch because as far as the story's concerned, it's another one that I didn't know I didn't know. You didn't know you didn't know. I didn't know, I didn't know. Yeah, I didn't know, I didn't know. What does that even mean? I didn't know. Oh, I was going to tell you, she's from Kasari. The white woman? In Kasari. Remember... Oh! At the beginning of the film. Yes. Gotcha. I was like, I feel like I recognize her. And that's where she's from. She's from Kasari that we saw earlier this year. If you haven't seen, fantastic film. Yep, we liked it a lot. I was introduced to... Akshay. Which is amazing to me that that is our 90s Cheese King. I feel like outside of... That was a good movie. Outside of Amir Khan, we've had a pretty big arc with a lot of actors. Thus far? Because Amir Khan, I feel like, was the first. He was the first, but he was pretty consistent with who he is throughout most of his stuff. Oh yeah. We were exposed to. Obviously, we saw some really good acting in Dongle and other things like that. But he's pretty consistent with who he is. Like Akshay, we thought, oh, this is this astute, patriotic, big league act. And he is, but then we didn't know he had this completely other side. Exactly.  Probably not, I've never heard of him. I don't remember him. That guy. I remember him in Gully Boy. What are you talking about? I just want to go back and watch it again just because I remember we were like, yeah, the guy who played Gully Boy. He was good. He did a good job. And then we talked for hours about Alia. It's going to be such a unique experience if we had been familiar with him and then watched him. We would have been so much more impressed with him. Oh, we would have been blown away. Truly. If we had seen Ramleela and we had seen Padmavad and Bajramasthani and then we saw Gully Boy, we'd be like, the restraint. Yeah. The restraint. It hardly looks like him, honestly. Every single time I see it, I'm like, that doesn't really even look like him. Yeah. And just the restraint for somebody who has that much energy and that effervescence of a personality to be a shy, unconfident. That's why I'm so excited for his next film where he plays the cricket player. And he looks like himself. Yeah. Nice swing that picture he had. Yeah. Of that. Anyway. We've gone way off topic. Tepico is playing his wife. I don't know, too. Really?


Are you ever working on a resume? You're staring at your computer screen and you know it's close to being ready But there's something just a little bit off, but when you look at your screen It's like all the words running together and you can't tell one bullet point from the other My advice is to step away from the screen Print out your resume or write out all your bullet points on a piece of paper and then do this So then you want to take all of those Accomplishment bullet points either printed or written out and just cut them into little strips So this immediately takes you away from the screen gets you to engage with the stories that you've told So now you have a bunch of strips of paper and each strip is an accomplishment You can read each one out loud. I encourage you to read one out loud I wrote fake ones for this video, but the first one is coordinated a big thing If I can think of a better way to write that then I can write the edit right on the piece of paper And then I want to think okay, where am I resume should I tell this story it because it's a big thing I probably want to tell it at the top My second bone point is ran a circus which is important for the job I'm applying for but not that important So I know I want it towards the bottom so go through each Accomplishment bullet that you have and just lay it down in an order that you think makes the most sense reading each story out loud and Making edits as you want. So now you have all these strips of paper You have your stories in a new way go back to your Word document put in any edits that you made and then change around the order of the stories and this is just one way of Taking your resume and working with the stories in a different way


I'd like now to turn to you each house. Thank you, Doug. Let me present the Japanese viewpoint on this difficult question. Japan is the number three economy in the world after the United States and China, but at the same time, I define Japan as a kind of a front line state. Front line means that Japan is located at the front line of the confrontation, structural confrontation between the United States and China. That's why Japan's position is quite vulnerable. Japan can benefit from its close relationship with both the United States and China because China is Japan's biggest trading partner while the United States is the only Japan's security alliance partner. But at the same time, if what happens, Japan would be in a really difficult situation because Japan would be vulnerable, not just economically and financially, but militarily as well. That's why Japan need to respond to this dilemma, difficult question, but Japan doesn't have any clear answer to this question. On the other hand, I think that the Prime Minister Abe presented two strategies to this difficult question. Number one, Abe created the Quad. Quad is a kind of collaboration among the four leading democracies in the region, in the Pacific, United States, Japan, India, and Australia. By collaborating together, the four countries' democracies can respond to the light in China. This is one thing. The other strategy is for free and open Indo-Pacific strategy. With it, Japan presented much more inclusive strategy, fit, connect subregions of Indo-Pacific region. Subregions means Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, and also East Africa. Of course, the EU can join in the region and also the other powers as well, like China or Russia or any other country can join in the region because Japan's free and open Indo-Pacific strategy is quite inclusive strategy. Why it is inclusive? Because in the beginning, Prime Minister Abe presented Quad strategy, but it seems that Japan is trying to encircle China. If Japan try to encircle China, the ASEAN cannot join in. If ASEAN cannot join in the regional vision, it means that there is a hole in the middle of the region. That's why it is really necessary for Japan to try to invite ASEAN at the middle of the regional cooperation, I mean the foy. But at the same time, ASEAN clearly dislike the idea of dividing the bloc into the two opposing camps. That's why to try to attract ASEAN, it was necessary for Japanese government, particularly under Prime Minister Abe's diplomatic initiative, to try to invite ASEAN into the regional cooperation of free and open Indo-Pacific. That's why I think that Prime Minister Abe revised the original regional strategy of the Quad focusing on the Asian Security Democratic Dialogue to try to revise it to present much more inclusive strategy to embrace not just ASEAN, but other countries as well, or regional cooperation as well. So in this way, I think that Japan has been in a very important position to promote regional cooperation in the area, I mean the Indo-Pacific region, particularly by presenting two different strategies. On one hand, Japan still stick to the Quad strategy, which focus on the importance of norms and ideas of democracy, freedom, rule of law, and human rights and so on. At the same time, it is necessary for Japan to present much more inclusive strategy by promoting the free and open Indo-Pacific region, which can embrace China as well. So in this way, I think that Japan has been in a very important position to try to mitigate the tension between two sides. But at the same time, it is also important to note that Japan is sided with the United States in the field of emphasizing on the importance of norms and ideas, because Japan shares important norms of democracy, freedom, rule of law, and human rights with other like-minded partners, particularly the United States. So in this way, I think Japan has been promoting two different strategies, but combining two different strategies, I think that Japan has been in a very important position to promote the regional cooperation in the area. Thank you very much.


Hello, welcome back to this YouTube channel. My name is Daniel Rosel. This YouTube channel contains videos all about living in Israel. Today we're going to deal with the kind of post-Aliah information that Nefish Beneficent Co. simply aren't going to tell you. I call it the real person's financial survival guide to living in Israel. It's not patriotic. It's not always ethical, but it is mostly effective. We all know that the cost of living in Israel is among the highest in the developed world. If you've been living here for more than three months or however long it took you to undo birthright brainwashing, then you've probably also figured out that you can count the number of things that are cheaper to buy in Israel on only your left hand. Those are falafel, prescription medications, and Jewish education. You can remember that by the acronym FPJ, which stands for Fryerim Page Actor Prices. And that's basically it. Everything else in Israel is going to cost you more. Fortunately, to paraphrase the great pioneer of Zionism, Deodor Herzl himself, who if you were alive today would surely have been a serious Amazon Prime fiend, where there's a will, there's a way. In this video, I'm going to share some tips for buying stuff while living in Israel that doesn't put you in the minus. Tip one, don't buy stuff in Israel. The number one rule for successful, hedonistic consumerism while living in Israel is to not purchase things in Israel. The more financially minded among the olien population and will tell you that the solution is instead to stop engaging in retail therapy and to put spiritual pursuits like learning Torah above the glorious pursuits of consumerism and next-day deliveries. But we all know that that's only a fast path to depression and Yerida. The ideal solution for many on this trajectory is purchasing only foodstuffs of medicines in Israel, with literally everything else being shipped in from AliExpress, Amazon, and whoever else has decided to ship to Israel. Naturally this is incredibly unsustainable, it also means supporting merchants potentially engaging in unethical practices abroad like operating sweatshops. However, we can all agree that in the financial struggle to stay in Israel that all tactics and methods can be justified. Here's a non-exhaustive list of companies that ship to Israel. Remember that if the order value is more than $75, you'll be charged 17% VAT, which will undo some, but hopefully not all, with the savings. Remember also that customs declarations in China are more an art form than a bureaucratic document, and that merchants may be open to creative interpretations of good descriptions and values. Shine sells women's clothing. AliExpress sells essentially every product that's ever been produced. Ever. Amazon ships here and has a long-standing $49 and over free shipping policy on selected items. I hear, sell stuff you probably don't need for your health, like supplements and vitamins, but they do so at very affordable prices. Tip 2 Use your extended family as shopping mules Recently, an American couple was caught gummy-handed at Ben-Gurion airport while attempting to bring 650 pounds of fruit roll-ups into Israel. They literally had suitcases full of the popular candy because there was a shortage in Israel. The only remarkable thing about this creative import attempt was that they got caught. Otherwise, they were just continuing the time-honoured tradition among immigrants to Israel of using trips out of the country to shore up on goods. The key to not befalling the same grim and embarrassing fate as this couple is to make use of your family, extended families, and even in-laws as mules, bringing products with you whenever they are visiting Israel. If things are desperate, you may even be able to guilt old high school friends into picking some Amazon packages for you by selling them on a sub-story about how bananas haven't arrived to Israel yet and things are really quite desperate. The prevalence of the family mulling mechanism isn't known, but it's believed to be nearly universal among immigrants. Of course, this means that essentially everybody boarding an El Al flight who tells the checkout agent that nobody has given them something to pack in their luggage is lying. The key to the success of this method is of course relationship maintenance. Consider throwing in a bottle of cognac for Uncle Dory if you'll bring that new camera lens you want from B&H. Just don't forget to throw a T-Cart and destroy the package labeling. It's Dory's old lens after all. Tip 3, go on shopping trips to Europe. The third most effective way to get stuff you need in Israel for less is to embark upon shopping trips in Europe for this express purpose. Yesteryear's generation of immigrants here really had it tough. They didn't have this luxury because Ryanair, Wizair, EasyJed and all the other low-cost carriers weren't operating out of Israel yet, but thanks to the open skies agreement all has changed and it has changed for the better. These days you can book flights to Europe and back on various low-cost carriers for literally less than the cost of a single night in a shoddy hotel in Elat. If you share my bank account draining addiction to buying audio video accessories then it's worth knowing that when it comes to Amazon, Amazon.com isn't the only game or I should say marketplace in town. Within easy reach of Israel there's also Amazon.it, Amazon Italia, Amazon.fr, Amazon France, Amazon DE which is Amazon Germany and Amazon ES which is Amazon in Spain. That's only a very partial selection. You'll want to begin sending Amazon packages to your hotel room ideally just before you arrive so that you can get the unboxing out of the way as soon as possible and then enjoy the rest of your trip. Of course you can also shop for clothing and really whatever else you've determined might make your life happier and stuff as much of it as you can fit into a suitcase. Many people undertaking this method take a few precautions although the reasons why they do so are not fully understood and I'm certainly not endorsing them. They take photographs of receipts and then leave them behind in their hotel room. They unbox all their purchases to make them appear like used goods and after photographing them they remove any tags that may make it easier for customs officials to trace where good was purchased. Serial number stickers which begin with SN are a great example. Common destinations for shopping trips include Istanbul, the Far East, Italy and the UK. Even expensive destinations abroad are probably cheaper than Israel. Don't let living in Israel and the fact that most things here cost 200% of their recommended retail price deter you from shoring up on things you don't need and spending more money than you can probably afford. Instead use these three tips to maximize the amount of stuff you buy from overseas and to buy stuff for less. Thanks for watching, subscribe and like for more videos.


Okay, so now I'm talking too about my next project after a like, you know. The next year I will be very focused in some ideas or developments in Blender. One of them is the Gris Pencil staff working with Yusua, Aligorith, and in the other hand is I'm trying to make the rigging process more easy to use for independent animator. In fact, all the things that I will say in this talk is under the perspective of independent animators in Blender. It's not about professional rigging or company stuff, it's trying to make the freedom to the rigging area. So, okay, so right now, the rig, this is a black hole in the creativity of independent animators. So we have two guys here, okay. One of them is a 2D animator and the other one is a 3D animator. So, the 2D animator can design a character, right? Design a character, can animate it, right? Can make the cloth on the head movement, no, it's my case. And so, he can, he has the power to decide who looks like the character in every frame, okay? This is a lot of power, this is a lot of power. A 2D animator can draw, right? Can work with the shape. It's not constrained to work with a puppet, okay? Like in 3D. So, a 3D guy, 3D animator guy, can design, like we're all modeling a character, can animate it, right? But what happened with the, oh, right? What happened with the rig? So, because the rig is very technical stuff and it's a black hole, it's a black hole in the creativity, right? Because I saw this year after year with my students in the school. Very, this is a school, a 3D animation school. Year after year, I see very talented people, very creative guys that don't know how to make his own animation rigs, right? Because it's complicated. So, what happened? You can model it, you don't know how to make a rig and you get some free rigs on the internet or something like that or maybe cool rigs pay, right? But all the demo rigs are the same, with the same characters, with the same, for me it's a tragedy, you know? A 2D guy is free to create his own characters, his own stories. A 3D guy can't. So, you lost a lot of creativity opportunities there, because if a 3D animator can make his own rigs, his own puppets are not free to create. Just for an animator, okay? It's a good part, it's a good part, it's good but it's only a part of the creative process, right? So, what is my idea or my solution about that is try to make all the rigging process more simple to use for 3D animators, right? I'm using Maya and Max for rigging animators and stuff, and Blender. And Blender is the most easy program to make the rigs. Maya is powerful but you need a lot of technical stuff to make a simple rig. So, now I want to say some ideas in this direction. The problem are these three different areas. One of them is the body rig itself, right? Another part is the facial rig, okay? And the last part is the skinning part, right? In this talk, I will talk about the body rigging and some facial stuff. But we need more simply and easy solution for 3D animators. So, let me show you some examples. Blender is the most easy program to rig. But even that, to make a simple, standard rig features like EK, FK, right? Or curved bones or move the ankle, the elbow, the neck, the elbow, yes, the elbow. You need to make a lot of bones and a layer of different bones to make this kind of stuff. My idea is just one section, just one bone per section with all this, with this feature out of the box. So, for example, this is a special version of Blender with some improvements. We have some glitches and some problems, but let me show you this one. This is a simple rig with simple, standard features like EK, FK, this kind of thing. And even that, you need to make some two-difference layers of bones to work with us, maybe three in the legs. It's complicated for 3D animator to make all these things. The rig is for a technical guy. But what is the point? The point is, let me show you some implementation here. We have some visual problems here in the B bone representation with this flat. Normally, this will appear like square boxes, right? But right now, in Blender, if you want to take the control of the curved bones, you need to make a child to rotate this child to make these nice curved bones or make a parent bone to get this stuff. And if you want more control, you need to make something like that. This is the form bone, some control bone to stretch, and some rigging stuff here to take this control. And all these things put together in the FK chain. So you need a lot of flyer bones. What is the idea? It's simple. Take more control of these kinds of curved bones directly. So right now are more bottom here. So you have control to roll. Nobody control to roll to curve the bones. Let me, yes, curve the bones on even stretch the bones, scale the bones. So only that with this simple stuff, more control in the bones, you can afford a rig more easily because you don't need to make all this kind of thing to control these curved bones. So we have maybe this one. No, this one. OK. This is a character of an animator of a like, Abel. He's a model of Abel, from Abel. So let me show you here. And in this rig, I'm working in the animation of this zombie. It's only one bone per section, just only one bone. And you have control. You have control. This is the B bone system, right? And you have control to tweak the curves, the curved bones, and you can animate, of course, to make these fancy poses, right? For example, here, scale, rotate, with no extra rig bones, right? Yes, what is the price? It's the manual, right now the manual stuff. OK, you can animate more controls. Maybe a good idea is make a custom manipulator, a widget, to control this thing in a fancy way. We have an old script from Basam, sliders. That is another implementation. You'll have in viewport some controls about this stuff. It's the same stuff, right here. OK, so even when just one bone, you can make this kind of animation. This is in the nose. OK, it's only one bone here. Working with these new features inside. So this is an early implementation of this idea. And the other part to make this easy or more simple rig will be a new K features. Like if you can, in the K constraint, if you have the possibility of make directly the stretch bone and move the elbow, make the elbow, with these two things, it's enough to make a simple standard quality rig with all the standard features, like if K stretch bones and curve bones, and something like that, and using the minimum number of bones in the character. And an independent animator with two or three weeks learning this stuff is enough to create his own stuff. That is the point. This is just some ideas about in this direction. Because for me, the point is if a 3D animator can make his own stuff, his own puppet, his own rig, are not free to create. I'm not talking about the professional rig. If you want a really good rig with a lot of features in a production, the same rig, we are touching by 50 different animators, you need this kind of stuff. But if you are a 3D independent animator, it's a tragedy if you come aford or you are afraid about the rigging stuff. This is still technical, but there is a chance to make this kind bring back this power to 3D animators, to make a very standard rig, or a dog, or a flower, or something like that. If you need a rigger, you are free to create this thing. You don't need a rigger for a professional stuff. But this kind of power is part of the animator work. Because the puppet and the shape and the create things about new ideas, if you don't know how to make this stuff, you are not free to create this thing. So that is all. There is only a part. This is about the body rig. Ah, let me show you something here. For example, in facial animation, yes, it's play with, this is only a bone with working with all these features. It's only one bone in the eyebrow to work. This don't mean you can make more complex stuff, but the point is make simple to use for the 3D animators. So any question? I think it's really cool to see what you've done and how you've extended a simple bone to something much more powerful. And I was wondering how difficult is it to invert the math behind it so that you can just pick any point on that eyebrow and drag it, and it would calculate the most likely change in those parameters. I think this will be nice, a custom manipulator that could have face. I'm thinking about the DreamWorks example that we were given yesterday, where you could just draw with a pen, you could just drag parts of the face. I think this can come quite close if you can convert that drag into a change in these parameters, and then you don't even need a custom manipulator anymore. There are two things here. One of them is the animators don't afraid the rigging process, make it more easy. And the other thing is how control this kind of thing, this kind of new parameters, because it's some tedious and no, it's not good, new buttons in this way. You need the control, but maybe a cool thing is a custom manipulator or something like that to manipulate this in an artistic way. But for me, it's the possibility to make this thing first.  But you are using the standard Blender BGA bone. Yes, yes. Only this, all these parameters are new, OK? How much extent are you using Python? No, it's hard to call it. No, by me. I must thank you to Jose Molina, this is the developer, and this is the rigger of Alike, and we're working in this. But it's just a proof of concept. It's not a quality code or something like that. It's just to prove. The curved bones, I added that like 10 years ago, when Bessam mentioned how some rigging software works. And it's a very powerful type of bone to have a bandy bone, and it makes, I'm very happy to see that it's being picked up. And we need software developers, because character coding, animation developers, they are very rare. We only have like one in the whole Blender developer community who really understands it. So your guy has to connect with ours, right? Yes, of course. I will make sure that this happens. When can we have it? It's awesome. I'm really amazed. But for me, the idea behind this presentation is about the freedom to create in 3D and immediately dependent. This is a few ideas in this direction. It's like a grease pencil stuff or something. It's the possibility to create things in easy and in a friendly way. A bit in the same idea as the first person that makes a question. Yeah, like I think manipulators, it's really nice. But for example, in Krita, which has nothing to do, but when you want to change a Bezier curve, you just click and drag, and it automatically fits the tangents in the direction you want. Basically, it would be so awesome if you could do exactly that. You just drag. And it automatically calculates the curve. That would be just an awesome idea. OK, thank you. Thank you very much. We have a two-minute break, and then we have to see Gecko talking.


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a very good morning to all of you. I welcome you all once again to my channel and today I am going to discuss a very important and you can say basic and most used topic in psychology as well as education that is intelligence testing. Okay. And for further update kindly join my telegram group explore education and I am Dr. Rush missing assistant professor department of education SS Khanna girl's degree college University of Alhapa. This lecture is in bilingual mode Hindi as well as in English and subscribe my channel if you like my content and the delivery and this video will be useful for certain teaching examinations. Okay. So, the question is, how do you measure intelligence of a you can say 18 year old boy, 18 year old student, intelligence testing, intelligence testing are series of tasks designed to measure the capacity to make abstractions to learn and to deal with novel situations. Okay. Then an IQ test is an assessment that measures a range of cognitive abilities and provides a score that is intended to serve as a measure of an individual's intellectual abilities and potential IQ intelligence quotient. IQ or intelligence quotient is a name given to the score of the business I'm just a business I'm a test but it is used to generally denote intelligence or a score on any intelligence test. Intelligence tests favor groups from more effluent backgrounds and discriminate against less privileged racial, ethnic and social groups. How did this happen? They are saying that these intelligent tests favor affluent backgrounds and those less privileged people whether they are from racial, ethnic and social groups or from the social perspective they are discriminating against them. How did this happen? Because when the tests are made the questions are covered by the affluent background people who are dying everyday and whose use is it. We have taken a sample for the standardization if that is of the representative affluent background then less privileged people will show discrimination with it. This is what you are able to understand. Common intelligence tests that you should know repeatedly which ones are they? Without Simon it is not the end because when you go to history of IQ you have to study Simon every time. Who made the Simon test? Alfred. Who made it? We have told you before that Louis Sturman made it but his name is not in it. Because it is the adaptation of the test of Binet and Sturman was from Stanford University so students may get confused so they should remember. Then there was a lack of David Bessler You should know all the names if you interrelate them then you will remember. We read the definition of intelligence of global capacity. It is a very famous definition David Bessler made two tests for adults and for children he made it Then Less popular in India but it is read like this Kauffman and Kauffman Woodcock Johnson tests of cognitive abilities Richard Woodcock and Mary Johnson Recently we have read the theory of intelligence of Das and Nagyari who made an assessment system CAS This is one way totally western test of intelligence examples but if we talk about India I have not included that if we talk about Indian adaptation then Bhartiya battery test is very popular in intelligence and psychology in labs, in education in educational psychology Bhartiya battery is very popular and it is very popular in syllabus Bhartiya battery is also available in time so let's talk about it one day So these are some common test of intelligence whose name should be remembered along with its implementation Okay Then it is a little higher it should be a little lower Well, what is the use of intelligence test? What is the usage? What is the usage? When we do an experiment we ask what is the usage of intelligence testing What is the benefit of an intelligence test? Educational assessment and placement We will be able to do the same as you If you are a counselor or a placement officer or you are an ordinary classroom teacher then when we talk about guidance counseling we can give guidance to our students we can do counseling in particular area if your intelligence is above IQ above average then assessment and diagnosis of intellectual ability we can know if the student is a married child or if the student is less than average IQ then we will diagnose his remedy then cognitive research how much intelligence has been done then research uses this testing then job candidate evaluation whenever you read the history of intelligence testing then you will see whoever made the test made it for recruitment because in the army we want the best candidate to serve there because there is problem solving there is an adaptation you have to react according to your situation then there intelligent people can serve better hence whoever made the intelligence test without Simon he has army, alpha, army, beta so job candidate evaluation and whoever gives competitive examination there is some part of intelligence testing we can judge our IQ then assessing cognitive abilities including memory, speed and attention our memory we can quickly remember things in the sequence if they told us our attention span all these things but this is the main usage of intelligence testing then what is the concluding remark about intelligence test Kauffman and Naglieri have expanded the horizon of intelligence testing most of your initial test you are living what is G? general intelligence why? because the theories were telling that this is our unitary intelligence all these things are being used in our abilities these theories tried to make G's notion that it is not just G similarly Kauffman and Naglieri are expanding the horizon of intelligence why? because not only G what will happen if it is G that we will tell you wrong IQ meaning you can be very intelligent because intelligence is not only G but we will give you label that you are below IQ below average so there is a stigma that the IQ which is very good in the class in the top most position and everybody is very good and the IQ which is very good then I cannot do these courses but it depends on the testing you applied what is the right measurement that is why we need to keep the intelligence testing very strict that you are above average you are below average so Kauffman and Naglieri did not do this but these are not only two there are other reformers too all people tried to explain to us how, like Daniel Coolman explains in emotional intelligence Howard Gardner explains in multiple intelligences that there are multiple intelligences not only G Robert Sternberg tells us in the theory that not only academic intelligence these very different theories have one thing in common in all the theories the assumption that traditional theories and tests fail to capture essential aspects of intelligence that our traditional theories and our traditional tests do not make us smart that is why after that we should not label you and you should not give placement that first there should be a strict intelligence test and then it should be discussed okay but still we have to study the old tests because it was the beginning then it was not that information now the new tests are covering a lot of abilities okay so we wanted to talk to you but these are general things so I tried to talk to you separately okay so we will talk about Binet Simon test about Stanford Binet test and about Weshler's time okay then I can I can say that maximum portion if anything is left then I have shared the intelligence so this should be your topic okay thank you thank you all then from my side


Hi again, in this lesson we are going to talk about that how to draw a triangle with turtle graphics in Python programming language. In order to do that, let's make a new file and let's put some code inside it. First what we need to do is to import everything from our turtle module. So for turtle import everything and let's make a simple line. For example let's say that we want to go to the right, forward 200 pixels. Let's try this by making, saving file and run it. For example let's call it our file triangle.py, let's run it. And we will get one line which is 200 pixels wide. Now what we want to do is to rotate our direction for 120 degrees. So we will use left method which will turn turtle left by our angle units. In our case our angle is 120 degrees. Then we want again to go forward another 20 pixels and again make another rotation of 120 pixels and finally go forward for another 200 pixels. This and these statements here will draw three lines and these two statements will make angles between these lines. So let's save again our simple program and let's run it. And as you can see we've successfully draw a triangle with turtle graphics in Python programming language. That's all in this lesson. Thanks for watching.