The ending of One Piece is something we already know because Oda has been hinting at this from the beginning, from the very first chapter, Romance Dawn, and the recent reveal of Gear 5th pretty much confirms this. The fact that there are a lot of different sources of inspiration that has influenced Oda's work is not a surprise. The series is jam-packed with allusions to ancient mythology, famous artworks, kids programs, religious symbols, and so much more.  Although there aren't many explicit references to dates in the series, those we have seen provide a pretty clear picture of when the current storyline is taking place in history. For example, through the exploration of Montblanc Nolan's journey, whose exploration landed him in Jaya in the year 1122, we know that the events of current day One Piece is taking place in around the 1500s because we were told that Nolan's adventures took place approximately 400 years in the past. And from Nolan's logbook, we know that one of the calendar systems that is used in the One Piece world, and the one that Nolan was using, is that of the Age of the Sea Circle, which for all intents and purposes, seems to match our real-world Gregorian calendar in terms of months and dates. Which is to say that it's almost as if One Piece is taking place in the 16th century of our real world, albeit in an alternate universe where people have supernatural powers by eating unappetizing fruit and where humanoid species such as fishmen and giants exist. And now of course, this won't be an exact one-to-one century-to-century comparison, and different islands do seem to be stuck in different time periods, such as Little Garden, which is still home to dinosaurs, placing them in the Jurassic Age, and in terms of technology where characters use flintlocks and muskets, which didn't really come about until the 1800s in our real world, or even the widespread existence of telephones, albeit snail-based telephones. It seems the One Piece world is much more advanced than we were in the 1500s. And of course, who could forget? The mind-blowing reveal that the ancient kingdom that existed almost a millennial ago had such advanced technology that even Dr. Vega-Punk struggles to achieve. But this also seems to be quite like our real world, where different species on different continents advanced at different speeds. And similar to our real world, generally having a Eurocentric view of history, Oda seems to have provided a timeline and calendar which is comparable to the European world, thereby placing the world of One Piece in the 16th century. And this also checks out when we consider what was going on in our real world during the 16th century, particularly in the world of pirates. The piracy was rampant in the 1500s and peaked in the 1600s, which has become the era known as the Golden Age of Piracy, the same exact term used in One Piece to describe the era that Goldie Rogers set aflame. And the reason why this is significant is because the history of our world and that of One Piece lines up much more than we realize. And so this may reveal where the story is taking us in the future. We know that the One Piece world dates back to at least 5,000 years ago because the Tree of Knowledge is said to have been planted around that time. So the fact that the Age of Sea Circle doesn't go back this far may indicate that similar to the real world where we have historical periods, BC and AD, there may be a period in One Piece that categorizes events which took place prior to the beginning of the Age of Sea Circle. Perhaps this is the Age of Heaven that Robin alluded to in the Ardabastar arc. Either way, what's important is that we know from at least 1100 up to 900 years ago. There are great civilizations in the One Piece world that were thriving. This is clear from Shandoro, the city of Gold which we know to have prospered in the year 402, and the great ancient kingdom which flourished before the events of the void century 900 years ago. And it just so happens that this lines up with the classical age of our real world history. Spanning an extremely long period from 800 BC to late 400 AD, human society witnessed the apex of great civilizations such as the Babylonians, Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. These civilizations are heralded for their advanced scientific knowledge, philosophy and technology. And we use many of their inventions and developments still today including maps, roads, central heating, and even flushing toilets. And this bears close resemblance with recent reveals in One Piece. Bega Punk suggests the ancient kingdom to have been an incredibly technologically advanced society with astounding scientific knowledge. Such that surpasses even that of the genius scientist, evidenced by the futuristic yet simultaneously ancient iron giants. So it seems like Oda has drawn very clear links between the ancient kingdom and potentially its allies and the ancient civilizations of our real world. It's surely no coincidence that the ancient weapons are all named after deities from ancient Greco-Roman mythology, but much like the real world where the period of classical antiquity was followed by the period of Dark Ages. The One Piece world with its own advanced civilizations were plunged into the void century. In real life history, the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages as it's also known came about due to the fall of the Roman Empire which is caused by civil war and political unrest as well as external attacks from other tribes. And this may be what happened in the One Piece world, although we know for sure that the 20 kingdoms who would later go on to form the world government opposed the great kingdom. It's also been suggested that there may have been other deeper politics at play from Zunish's yet to be revealed traitorous action to the relationship between the Nefrotari kingdom to the rest of the D clan. It seems like there's more to the great war than just the other kingdoms being jealous over the ancient kingdom's power and influence. And while that may be just speculation, in any case, the void century is a very clear reflection of the Dark Ages, a period in real world history where previously advanced technology and knowledge was lost. In One Piece, the world has been seemingly forced into a state of darkness. All knowledge and the technology of the previously glorious era is kept secret by the world government, which brings us to the period just before the current timeline to the present. But it seems like much of the recent events of the One Piece world, spanning from around the period of Rocks the Zbeck to Goldie Roger, is a reflection of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, meaning rebirth, spanned from the 15th to 17th century. It was a period in our history marked by new knowledge and discoveries in terms of science and exploration and an effort to revive the ideas and achievements of the classical era. And this period seems to be heavily represented in One Piece, where figures like the Zbeck or the Ohara scholars were determined to unearth the lost secrets of the void century or the grand adventures embarked by the late pirate king, resulting in finding a new island, Laugh Tale, very much resembling the exploration and discovery of new lands in our real world during this time. And in this light, the world government also seems to be a reflection of a real life institution that existed during this period. OK, I know you might be wondering, how does this all link to the ending of One Piece, but bear with me. In our history, as ideas flourished, the power and the influence of the Catholic Church diminished, which up to this point was the almighty authority in the European world. And perhaps the greatest example of the relevance of all of this to One Piece is the case of Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer who expanded on previous studies by other Renaissance astronomers to champion the heliocentric model of our solar system. Up to this point, two men said believed in the geocentric model, which claims that the Earth was the center of our universe. The Church opposed the heliocentric model, which theorized that the Sun was the center of a solar system and went as far as to persecute Galileo, who later died in house arrest. And now, why is this relevant? Because this is the story of One Piece, the parallels between the world government and the old Catholic Church are clear, both being the authoritative institutions of their respective worlds, and right down to the aesthetic choices that Oda has made in designing the world government. The architecture of Marijua's Pangea Castle closely resembles the Vatican Palace, and the empty throne is shaped like Saint Peter's Square. And the existence of the Holy Knights in One Piece adds yet another real-life touch, as Oda was likely inspired by the knights that served as a military order for the Catholic Church. And with the recent name reveals of all the Gorossae as having a clear planetary theme, it's also fitting that there are only five Gorossae members because during this period in history, we had only discovered five planets. It wouldn't be until after the 1700s that we would discover Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which are the names of the three planets that haven't been assigned to a Gorossae. It just so happens to be the names of the ancient weapons, meaning that much like the geocentric model advocated by the Catholic Church, Imus surrounds themselves with the planetary elder stars. So what does this all mean? One Piece is the story of our world moving from a geocentric model to realizing the truth of the heliocentric model. And the reveal of Gear 5th with Luffy having the Nika devil fruit, making him the sun god, is a clear indication of this. Whereas currently the world places the world government with the world nobles, and for those who know, Imu at its center and head, Luffy is the representation of the sun as sun god Nika, who will set the world free. And as much as the church in our real world tried to stop this movement, going to great lengths to preserve their order and authority, so too is Imu and the world government doing all that it can to ensure that the light of joyboy does not shine. But it doesn't end here, because as much as the renaissance marked the transition away from the Middle Ages to the modern era, this period, which is usually associated with art and culture, was also wrought with revolutions and civil war. The late renaissance to the early modern age was an ugly period which saw much conflict and conquest. Filled with wars and bloodshed. And again, this is present in one piece, where both pirates and the world government wreak havoc and violence across the kingdoms and villages. More recently, we've witnessed revolutions take place where citizens of kingdoms like Lusia have deposed their royal leaders. And in this way, Luffy as the representative of the sun has much more meaning than just representing the heliocentric model, because Luffy is the bringer of the dawn, and not just any dawn, but romance dawn. And while we have come to know this term, romance dawn, to mean the start of Luffy's romanticized adventure, the emotions of excitement, mystery, and a pure love for the journey ahead, Oda seems to have very clearly hidden a core period of history in the series yet again. Because in the real world, we've also seen a period of romanticism, marking the 18th century following the early modern era, and shortly after the world defining French Revolution, romanticism was an artistic and cultural movement that swept through Europe. It pushed back on the ugliness and darkness of the rational early modern era, and featured aesthetics focused on beauty and the sublime. It dared to hope and consider possibilities rather than just facing harsh realities. In fact, romanticism is often defined according to five elements. Imagination, intuition, individuality, idealism, and inspiration, words that all perfectly embody Luffy. From the very first arc, the very first chapter of the series, Oda marked Luffy as the figure of romance dawn, as the figure of romanticism, an intuitive figure that provokes the world to imagine, hold on to their ideals, respect individuals' rights and freedoms, and inspire hope for the future. One Piece is a story about Luffy's journey to become Pirate King, but it's also a story about our human society, how we've developed and backtracked, plunged into darkness, how we've fought, and how we've been reborn to learn new truths and dare for better and brighter worlds. Because ultimately, how One Piece ends is about hope and possibilities, about imagining our future of ideals and inspiration, of the dawn of romance. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below. If you liked this video, please do subscribe. Thank you to all of our Patreon and channel members, and thanks to everyone for listening to another one of my rambling thoughts. This is Joygirl, and I'll see you again soon.


Thanks for having me here. I'm really looking forward to talking about the data. And I am here going first as the scene setter. The data that the Pew Internet project has is really very sort of, I think, sets a nice background for the discussion today. And my colleagues will actually, I think, expand on and in some cases even problematize some of the definitions and the ways that we've even thought about some of these things. But I think they set a nice groundwork. And as Dana said, I'm Amanda Lenhart. I'm a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. And for those who don't know, we're a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based here in Washington, D.C. that studies the social impact of the Internet on Americans. So just to give some background to the methodology of the data I'm going to be presenting today, we interviewed 700 parent-child pairs in November of 2007. So this is our most recent data set. We actually just released it last week. And then also 935 parent-child pairs in October-November of 2006. All of the teenagers we talked to are 12 to 17. They are nationally representative samples. The October-November 2006 sample is a callback. And the November 2007 sample is a national call. So they're slightly different, but they actually are quite similar and we're, I think, they're both not quite nationally representative. We also conducted focus groups with teenagers in 2004, 2006, and 2007. And of course, all of this builds on our previous survey work that started in 2000. So as I said, I'm going to scene set. So who is online? Currently, as of December 2007, 75% of American adults go online, and 94% of American teens ages 12 to 17 use the Internet. 87% of all parents go online, and that's a number that's been very stable for the past three or four years. 73% of all parents, families have broadband. And as you can see, that is quite close to the number of Americans who have broadband. And just as context, that those broadband numbers have increased tremendously over the past two and a half years. It's also important to remember, even as we are discussing Internet-related topics, there's still about 6% of teenagers who don't use the Internet at all. I also wanted to put in this slide about where teens go online. I think one of the things that we'll be talking about here mainly applies to home Internet use. We're talking about how families can protect teenagers online. But it's important to remember that teens are going online from many, many different places. And in fact, 93% of online teens access the Internet from multiple locations. Still, the predominant location of access for the vast majority of teens is home. 77% of teens say they go online most often at home. But I just wanted to give us a sense of the variety of locations in which we're dealing with Internet access. And of course, what's missing from this slide? Mobile access. That's something that I think we'll see is increasingly going to be an issue. And in fact, we see on this slide that 59% of online teens own a desktop or laptop, so possess. It's not necessarily access. This number isn't about access. This is about possession. 71% of online teens, this is 12 to 17-year-olds, own their own cell phone. If you look at the older kids, it's, you know, it's up in the 80s. This is the device that teens have often. They are web connected though. It's still quite expensive for most teens to access the web through their cell phone, so it's not a prevalent activity. But it is something that we need to think about, particularly as the social networking sites that they're using increasingly integrate mobile functions into their websites. So what are teens doing online? I think it's always important to talk about the fact that teens are doing such a huge variety of things online, to get a context of where what we're talking about fits in. I know that we're focusing today on social networking. And where you can see that, that's, it's pretty big. They have 58% of them have a profile online. But they still, more teens go and get news online. More teens are looking online for information about sports stars and famous people and entertainment news. You know, 55% of teens are going online to look for information about a college or university that they'd like to attend. 28% are looking online for health information. So there's a lot of different uses that teens, you know, make of this internet tool that they have. Since we're focusing today on social networking, I wanted to present some of our basic data. And this is our most recent number of online teens with profiles. 58% of online teens have a profile. This isn't actually much of a leap from our last, the last time we asked this. So the question is slightly different, so it's a little bit harder to compare. However, I think the most telling is the age break. You'll see that among 15 to 17-year-olds, 77% have an online profile on a social network compared to just 38% of the 12 to 14-year-olds. And this number is pulled down by the 12 and the 13-year-olds. The 14-year-olds are probably belong in this category. Other demographic factors are not significant in use of social networks. Income and race ethnicity do not determine whether or not you use a social networking website. So let's get to the meat of the talk for today. I'm going to lay out some basic data that we have about... I'm going to focus today on contact as Dana has asked us. But I want to just at least make clear that I think there's a lot of different ways to kind of cut this sphere of discussion. There's inappropriate contact and there's inappropriate content. There is both unwanted and wanted of both of those things, which I think my colleagues will talk about a little bit more later. So what I'm going to focus on today are the upper two points. Inappropriate contact with strangers and with peers or bullies. I'm going to touch a little bit on the inappropriate content as I talk about what parents are doing to regulate and monitor how teenagers use the technology in the home. So let's jump right in. In our study, we used the definition. We asked teens whether or not a complete stranger, that is somebody who is unknown to you or any of your friends, had ever contacted them online. And I will state right off the bat that our question doesn't specifically focus on social networks. It is a much broader question. It encompasses instant message. It encompasses email. It encompasses chat rooms as well as social networking sites. And we found that 32% of online teens had been contacted online by a complete stranger. Now it's also important to note that complete stranger is a very broad term here. That can mean a peer. It can mean an adult. It can mean a band. It can mean a political campaign. It can mean any one of a number of things. Of the teens who have been contacted by a complete stranger, so of this 32%, 23% of them said they were made scared or uncomfortable by that contact. That actually translates to just about 7% of online teens. So it happens. But it's not a very large percentage of teens who experience this. We did a regression analysis in October that looked at the factors to understand independently and the factors were really at work here in predicting the likelihood of experiencing strangers. Yes? Sure. Unsolicited email. Potentially it could in the way that the question was framed. I mean, the exact question language was, have you ever received, I believe, actually I have it here in my slides. I can get the exact question for you, but yes, the question is broad enough that it could potentially include unsolicited email. But to get back to this, we wanted to understand which out of all of the sort of factors that could go into whether or not a teen had received some kind of contact, what was a predictor of this contact? And we found in order of strength that posting a photo online predicted that. Now these percentages are the raw percentages of how many teens actually said, how many teens who posted a photo also said they had been contacted by a stranger. So sorry, of the teens who had been contacted by a stranger, 49% had posted a photo, 44% had a profile online, 39%. Anyway, so of the posting a photo is the strongest predictor of being contacted by a stranger. Then having a profile online, generally on a social network, also a predictor. Being female was also a major predictor. And using the social networks to flirt with others was a predictor. In terms of all the factors that predicted a greater likelihood of saying that that contact was scary or uncomfortable, the only factor that was statistically significant was being female. Another interesting series of findings from this regression analysis we did is that there's actually no association between stranger contact and any other content that you have posted to your online profile, other than the photos. So posting your name, posting the city where you live, posting other information about yourself or Sagittarius, none of that is relevant and none of that predicts whether or not you've had online stranger contact. Being a social network user means you are more likely to have received this kind of contact from a stranger. You're more likely to have had somebody contact you, but you're no more likely to say that you found it scary or uncomfortable. So you're, you know, that you have this contact but it doesn't necessarily affect you any more than if you're not using a social network. No, it's exactly, it's the same. There's no statistically significant difference between the two. He asked whether or not, I said that they're no more likely to find the contact uncomfortable and he asked whether they were less likely to find the contact uncomfortable and I said it was no statistically significant difference. We also found that having internet monitoring software on your computer at home was correlated with lower reported levels of contact, not filtering software, but monitoring software. Monitoring software is on about 45% of the home computers. So how did teens respond to this stranger contact? So of the teens, of this, yeah. Go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah. Just any photo, having a photo posted at all, yeah. So we asked the teens, asked the 32% of teens who had had this contact, what you did, what did you do? And we found that 65% of teens say, oh, I just ignored it or deleted it. 21% said they responded so they could find out more about the person. 8% responded and said leave me alone. And 3% said it rose to the level of telling an adult in a position of authority about that experience. So I want to move on to peer-to-peer contact. We actually defined this as, the way we asked these questions is we actually set out these different behaviors. We didn't actually signal to the teens that we believe that these behaviors were cyber-bullying. So we refer to this more effective, I think this is more effective to refer to this as online harassment, but it is also sometimes called cyber-bullying. 32% of online teens, in fact the exact similar number to those who have experienced online stranger contact, have experienced online harassment. 15% of teens say they've reported having private material forwarded without permission. 13% had received a threatening message of some kind. 13% said someone had spread a rumor about them. And 6% had someone post an embarrassing picture or photo without their permission. Yes, Larry? I think that's a possible interpretation. Yes, I think the way the question is worded is having someone forward private material or material that you had intended to be private without permission. Intended to be private is the language. So I think we're probably picking up on things that are not necessarily innocuous or not necessarily, I mean it could be an innocent mistake, but I don't necessarily know that it's exactly what you're talking about. Steven? I don't know the complete coincidence. I think what it is saying is that these kinds of experiences are, that's about the level that we see them in the teen population, that about a third of teens have experienced both of these activities. I also want to say too that are the 32%, this is, it's based off of these four items and we acknowledge that we missed some big ones here. We missed fake profiles, creating fake profiles, hijacking of webpages. So there's some particular activities that aren't included in here that might make that number larger, but certainly, yes. The question that we asked, actually excellent, as you can see at the bottom, is that we asked teens where they think bullying happens more to people like them and they said, or your peers, for people your age, do you think bullying happens more offline or online? And they said they believed it happens more offline than online. In fact, two thirds say they believe that bullying happens more in an offline space and I think Michelle is going to talk about that with some data that talks about the prevalence of online versus offline bullying. We also did ask a similar question about stranger contact, whether or not teens believe that stranger contact was more likely to happen for people someone their age, online or offline, and they believed online, actually, was their response. About the same percentage, about two thirds say they thought it happened online more often. Just to return back to bullying, girls are much more likely to have experienced these behaviors. Again, similar. These kinds of contact experiences online are something that girls are at least reporting to us more and feel more comfortable telling us about. 38% of all online girls have reported experiencing one of these harassing behaviors. Social network users are also more likely to report online bullying. 39% of social network users have experienced some of this behavior. Again, so we see for both bullying and stranger contact that it's the social network users and the girls who are experiencing more of this. I just also want to roll back though. We've talked about, and I've shown in some of my data, that in fact it doesn't matter what you post to your profile. But I think there is, of course, concern about what teens are posting to their profiles. I think, again, we're going to hear some more data about how that's not necessarily relevant to the predator or the stranger contact discussion, but I think it is relevant on a broader level in terms of teens protecting their privacy online. And we found that 66% of all teens with a profile have in some way restricted access to it. Now that could be hiding it, taking it down, that could be making it private using the privacy tools. 77% of profile owning teens with a currently visible profile say that only their, sorry, 77% have a currently visible profile of those teens. 59% say that only their friends can see their profile and 40% say anyone can see their profile. And I think this highlights a real tension that you have with social networks in terms of privacy versus sociability. And the point of the social network is to be able to share things within this network of your friends and to keep it within that network of your friends, yet at the same time you want friends who are not yet in your network to be able to find you, however you might define friendship. So I think there's a tension between keeping information within your network but sharing enough information publicly so that you can be found by the people who you would like to have find you. Also, teens post a lot of fake profile, information to their profiles, for a variety of reasons, of course. Some of it is protective. I lie about my age so that people don't know how old I am. I tell them I live in Beijing, even though I live in Philadelphia. But certainly also teens lie because they want to be perceived as older and want to be respected, as this quote from this young man suggests. So now I want to move into talking about parents and their sort of control and monitoring of the home internet space. Parents generally place their computer in a public location in the home. And that's, I think, something we've been hearing for years. Parents are getting the message, put the computer in a public place so you can keep an eye on it. Parents also say they check up on their teens after they go online. 65% of parents, in fact, say that they go to the computer and in some way look around to see what their children have been doing. Of course, savvy kids can hide their tracks pretty easily, but nevertheless, that's a behavior that parents exhibit. I think it's important also to note that the two most popular, most prevalent behaviors by parents are in fact sort of non-technical behaviors. These are things that a parent, you don't need a piece of technology to do these. You just need yourself and a space and a table in your house. But there are technical tools that parents use as well, and we're going to wrap back around and talk about rulemaking, which is a third way that parents can monitor and somehow restrict access to their computer, to the computer in the home. 53% of families say they filter, and as I mentioned earlier, 45% of teens, sorry, families have monitoring software on the computer that their child uses. Also, kids are actually very aware of the filtering and monitoring that's going on. 50% of teens said that they believe that their computer had filtering software on it. 35% said they believe that it had monitoring software on it, and those teens were actually relatively correct. There was obviously some places where the teen was right or the teen was wrong, and the parent reported something different. But for the most part, the teen and parent reports do line up. Parents are actually, so again, going to parents and rulemaking. Parents make a lot of rules around technology in the home. Only 7% of parents have no rules related to media or technology. Interestingly, parents are more likely to report making rules about content rather than rules about time spent with media. So the content rules that parents have, as you can see, the television is the most regulated technology in the home. But the internet sites and video games are a close second behind them. But again, parents also do have rules about time spent with media. It's just slightly less reported than time spent, sorry, than rules related to content that may be viewed. As you can see, again, very similar numbers of parents saying they have rules for each of those media in the home. But parents also have rules about information that may be shared or may not be shared online. 68% of parents of online teens say they have some kind of rule about what their child may share over the internet. How they actually go about enforcing that we did not ask, since clearly this is a larger percentage of parents than who have monitoring software on their computer. But that is something that parents did tell us. So just some final thoughts before I hand the baton over. Only a very small number of teens report this uncomfortable online stranger contact. Most of them actually handle what contact they do experience pretty well by ignoring it or deleting it. There's very little association between the contact that you get and the information that you have posted online. Bullying is reported by the same percentage of teens as stranger contact, and yet, as we'll hear more about, it does happen more offline, or at least teens definitely believe that, and some other research suggests that that's the case. Parents are more likely to use and report using non-technical methods of protection, rulemaking, location in the home, rather than physical actual pieces of technology that have to be loaded and set up and purchased. And then I also want to flag for future discussion, making sure that we're thinking about at least the impact of mobile technology as we see 71% of teens have a cell phone. What does that mean for, again, regulation and protection in this space? And with that, I'm going to hand it over. Thanks, and I'll look forward to your questions.


Our next speaker will now focus especially on the risks that threaten a modern network society as a result of security gaps in information technology. And here, too, we could not wish for a better expert. David Besen is full professor and soon, I guess, dean at the Department of Computer Science at ETH, where he heads the information security group. His research focuses on information security, in particular on foundations, methods and tools for modeling, building and validating secure and reliable systems. They even have a new one prepared. He is editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and of Spring of Alarx book series on information security and cryptography. He's also the founding director of the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003 to 11. I suggested earlier on that as beautiful as their words always sound, philosophers don't often help as much to understand the real world. However, I would like to expressly exclude the Harvard philosopher Daniel Klein from this accusation. His main thesis is that complex phenomena are often best understood with a joke. I take the liberty of trying out this method again to call our second speaker on to the stage. How can we best control complex systems today and what are the risks? Perhaps the joke about the interaction of man and machine in a modern airliner, a very complex means of transportation, will give us some interesting insights. The joke goes like this. The passengers in an airliner are waiting impatiently for takeoff. The airliner is full down to the last seat. Suddenly two men in pilots uniform board at the rear entrance. Both are wearing dog glasses. One is led by a guide dog and the other struggles with a long white stick to find his way along the aisle to the cockpit into which both disappear. Nervous craps of conversation, anxious laughter in the cabin. Everyone is hoping for a sign that this is just a joke. But the engines are already starting. The plane rolls on to the runway and accelerates for takeoff. The passengers in the window seats press their faces against the glass and see that the runway ends directly at the open sea and that the airliner, although getting faster and faster, has not yet lifted an inch. Just as they reach the end of the runway, all the window seat passengers begin to scream loudly. But at that very moment, the plane takes off gently, the screaming in the cabin stops and the plane flies peacefully towards the clouds in the cockpit. One pilot turns to the other and says, you know, Bob, one day the passengers will scream too late and we'll all die. I don't know what you think, but personally, despite my skepticism about the anonymous algorithm increasingly controlling my life in this situation, I would prefer to rely on the airplane's autopilot. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our next speaker with an applause as deafening as the concerted revving of all four engines of an Airbus A380 so that he knows he need and achieved us from anything when describing the ridiculous IT risks in our modern society since we have already fastened our seat belts. Professor David Basin, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. So in my talk, I'll be looking at information security, not only the question of what, but also the why and the how. And in the end, it's relevance for financial advisors and investors. If we look at the world today, it's driven by cyber physical systems. This is in the case in many areas of society. For example, finance, communication, energy distribution, entertainment, warfare we just learned. There we have systems calling the shots. These are IT systems that are networked. They work together. We have systems of systems. These systems, moreover, sense the world and react to the world causing effects in the world. Think cyber physical. Unfortunately, we're increasingly less secure. These systems aren't increasingly complex and they're embedded in other systems which are embedded in the world. And I'll have a lot to say about that. And moreover, there are dramatic changes in the threat landscape. If we go back far enough, we have attackers which are sometimes acutely called script kiddies. And indeed, back in the 80s and 90s, people would hack computers for fun. They didn't even realize the damage they could cause. In the early 2000s, we saw the first really malicious worms that would try and do damage. In the meantime, attacking has become very professional and attackers are very skilled. The best attackers are nation-state adversaries.  But they're not just the Americans. They're also the Chinese and the Russians are very good at this. The Iranians are quite good at this, too. And these adversaries are very skilled, very professional, very well-funded. They have tremendous resources and tremendous patience. I'll come back to them. Let's first look at complexity. So systems are complex. Here I have various systems ranging from pacemakers to cars to platoons of cars to self-driving systems, et cetera. Let's take a look at one of the simpler systems we have here, a pacemaker. A typical pacemaker has about 100,000 lines of code in it. But that's not enough. We have systems of systems. So if I have a pacemaker, my pacemaker talks to my telephone. So I can see, for example, data about the therapy I'm receiving. My telephone talks perhaps to the cloud of the pacemaker company so they can collect data and do analytics. Furthermore, there's probably a PC in some hospital, perhaps with a 10-year-old operating system that hasn't been patched for 20 years, where the doctor can over the cloud, over my cell phone, reprogram my therapy. So although the pacemaker itself is relatively simple with 10,000 lines, we have a system of systems, and if you can attack any of these systems, you can kill the patient. With cars, the situation is a little bit more complicated. A typical car has about 100,000,000 lines of code. But it doesn't stop there. Again, we have systems of systems. So in a typical self-driving car infrastructure in the future, you will have the cars speaking with each other. They'll be speaking with roadside infrastructure. They'll be speaking with the car manufacturer who might do software and firmware updates on the fly. Again, if any one of these components has bugs, and trust me, they will, then attackers can take over your cars. The situation, of course, is similar in other domains. Think military, for example. These concerns are not just hypothetical. It really is the case that the attackers are not just good and professional, but they're doing what they can do to begin with everything is being hacked. Believe it or not, there are hackers who are specialized at breaking into implantable medical devices. So examples are not just pacemakers, but also cochlear implants, insulin pumps and the like. As a result, if you're a person who is politically exposed or for that matter you care about your life, you might consider disabling the wireless interface. That was the case with Dick Cheney. Attackers are very good in specializing in other areas as well. There are attackers who are specialized at attacking automobiles, how to get malware onto the bus of your car to infect the embedded systems in your car. Not just to steal it, but really to take over your car. Another example would be in the military domain, attacking drones. One way to do this, of course, is that drones are not isolated systems. You also have systems of systems. They depend on GPS signals, so on satellites to get their location. It turns out it's remarkably easy to spoof GPS signals, and you can convince a drone that it's anywhere you would like it to be and have it fly into buildings or crash into the ground. It's not just that everything is being hacked. Everyone is being hacked. So nation-state attackers are doing this. Here I have just a couple examples of the Syrians and the Chinese attacking the U.S. Of course, the U.S. has also carried out the other attacks themselves. For example, Stucknets is a good example where American, Israel set back the Iranian nuclear capabilities a number of years by attacking some of their plants there. Everybody is doing it. The Chinese are very good at it. They try out their malware, typically on Taiwan. The Russians are good at doing it. Ukraine is their playing ground. This has almost become daily business these days. So it really is the case, I believe, too, that the next war will be fought in cyberspace. Moreover, everybody is interesting. Of course, politicians are interesting. There was spying, for example, sorry about this, on Margaret Thatcher by the Americans for a number of years. Of course, the British are into the game, too. There's widespread hacking within Europe by the British. But the interesting thing is it's not just famous politicians. Data on all of us is being collected. We know a lot from the Snowden revelations that the NSA is pretty much collecting all data it can on computer networks, communication networks, and the like. Not just metadata, who is talking with whom, but the actual data themselves. They're storing it in their NSA cloud, and they can use it later on when they have need to. There's a question of who we can trust. Many people say, well, I'm unsure about my own infrastructure. I will outsource to the cloud. But cloud providers aren't necessarily secure. On one hand, they can be hacked from the outside. You may have applications running in the cloud, but the applications themselves may be unsafe. Or it may be that there's no reason to trust the cloud service providers. We know from the Snowden revelations, for example, in America that the NSA worked with all of the major IT manufacturers, whether we're talking about Microsoft, Google, Sun, etc. And for those that they couldn't work with or would stop working with them, they would simply attack and compromise. Perhaps the one cloud which is safe is the NSA's cloud. They haven't outsourced the storage of their data to an external cloud provider. They build their own internal cloud, which is highly secure. Maybe this is something that companies should keep in mind. Can this be solved by politicians? Can this be solved contractually? Well, there have been attempts to do this, but unfortunately, they don't work very well. For example, one month after this agreement was done, the Americans realized that, of course, the Chinese were still carrying out their cyber hacks. And probably they were doing it, they, the Chinese, all along. Okay, so it's a little bit of what is happening out there in terms of security. We'll look shortly at what's happening in terms of privacy. But I'd like to ask the question of why. How did we get there? I'd like to give you a couple explanations. But let's go back in history. In the good old days, you had a user and a computer. So a single user system. Think back to the early 1980s, for example. Then shortly after that, you had multi-user systems. So people would share a computer. And then at that point, users had to worry about each other. Some of the other users could be adversaries. They could be attackers. Then came client servers. You would have your machine as a client. You would use servers typically within your own IT infrastructure. This would be over the internet. And unfortunately, of course, the internet is a very hostile place. It's very easy to tap traffic, modify traffic, etc.  More recently, of course, there is the cloud. There are problems in both settings. So where you have your own internal computers, you need to worry about them being hacked not only from the inside, from the outside, but from the inside. Insider threats are a huge problem, for example, for banks today. For the cloud, these clouds may be run by service providers or even governments. But as the Snowden revelations showed, there's no reason to believe that your security interests are their security interests. If you're interesting enough, you may be compromised. Finally, an additional problem is that what used to be our safe computer is now typically, in an enterprise environment, bring your own device.  And these are notoriously difficult to secure because typically they're administered by people who are not experts in security. So summing up some of the sources of information in security today is we've seen complexity. So complexity was one problem. But another problem is virtualization and trust. We trust parties that may not be trustworthy. We're virtualizing pretty much everything. Our networking, our storage, our management, our infrastructure, and it may be that the parties who are handling this are not really worthy of our trust. So here in Switzerland, I'm a little bit concerned. We use hardware made in the US or China. Our operating systems are made in the US. Our applications are, most of the things on our software stack are made in the US. We're using cloud services typically provided in the US. It's quite clear that we do not have, we here in Switzerland, we do not have much sovereignty. If the US government wants access to our data, if they want access to our endpoints, it's very easy to compromise this. Note that the symmetric situation is not the case. The Americans do not need to have so much fear about what's happening here in Switzerland. Finally, when we look at root causes, there's a third that I would like to pull out and that is that the systems we use are social technical systems. These systems include humans and even if you get the IT right, unfortunately humans usually get it wrong. So wetware, not just hardware and software, but humans are very easy to hack. Here's an example of Brennan who used to be the CIA director. How his personal email account was hacked, where he by the way had confidential documents. It was hacked by a 15 year old. Now you might say surely the director of the CIA is smarter than a 15 year old and you would be right. He didn't have to socially engineer Brennan himself. The way he did it is he socially engineered and hacked Verazon. He pretended to be an employee of Verazon. He got information from Verazon or Verizon that allowed him to do identity theft. So things like pins and last for digits on the bank card. And then he called AOL where Brennan had his account and convinced AOL by answering security questions using the stolen information that he had lost the ability to access his account and the account was restored for the hacker. So these are the problems that we face today and here are some of the reasons for them. There's a separate kind of a problem that's closely related to security and that's privacy. And I'd also like to touch on that. Where in the world are we today? Here I have a beautiful graphic that shows different types of privacy data breaches where if you can read the fine print you see how many million records. For example here a friend finder network over 412 million records were compromised. I suppose here in the financial service area you know about Mosok and all of the records that were compromised. Here I have on the right of it the reasons for these and these are just typical weaknesses. If software has one weakness where you can do a vulnerability like a buffer overflow or things haven't been configured correctly then you can typically compromise servers and steal all of their data. This can have a huge impact of course for the people whose data is stolen. If for example your social security information is stolen in America your financial information is stolen. It's not just that the attacker knows things about your finance and your person but typically that's enough to start stealing your identity. Another aspect is AI which was also mentioned in the last talk. We are being hacked by AI and to some extent by the companies we trust with our data even if they are not externally hacked. We're being somehow attacked by the AI that they use and their partners use. Here is a classic example that I'm sure many of you are aware of because it was quite recent. This was Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. What happened there was Cambridge Analytica had an app that harvested the data of 87 million Facebook users. It was particularly unpleasant about this. It didn't just collect the data of the users who were using the app who had somehow consented to using this and perhaps even read the fine print that their data is being collected but collected all of their friends app. This is an example we've heard of but Cambridge Analytica wasn't the only one doing this. It was in the economic interest of Facebook to go quickly and break things. That was their slogan. To partner with companies in ways that they could make money and data protection was a secondary concern. Why is this a problem? With this you can basically hack people. The CA data combined with users' Facebook likes and publicly available demographic information is very useful for profiling people to understand their political interests and their political direction. For example, one can make models based on this data that if a person is neurotic, for example, then target adds to them that emphasize security. If a person is conscientious, then target adds at them when they're surfing, they get adds that emphasize responsibility. If they're open, then target adds for personal growth. There is the belief that these models were likely used by Trump's political campaign to influence the outcome of the election. We are literally being hacked. What is at risk? As financial analysts, you think about risk. On one hand, we have our critical infrastructures at risk, energy distribution, transportation, military, communication, etc. But there's more at stake. Our central values are at risk. Our privacy, our ability to have things that are precious to ourselves that we can somehow protect. In fact, these days, one of the most personal parts of ourselves is now going online. That's our genetic information. We're increasingly being sequenced, and that goes into genetic databases. And if those databases can be hacked, then people can learn the most personal things about you as an organism, you as an entity. So I find that very scary. Democracy is at risk. Elections are being hacked. Voters are being manipulated. We can end up with governments that aren't what the people want. Finally, serenity is an issue. You may or may not know this, but if Donald Trump were to wake up today, or tomorrow, and have a bad day, he could cut off the internet in at least seven different ways in Switzerland. He could just hit a kill switch.  It would be a major disaster. We do not have control over this. Let me in my final couple minutes summarize with some discussion points, which I think perhaps are interesting from the financial perspective. The first point, which is a rather depressing one, is that security and privacy is probably worse than you think. I say probably because if you're in the security profession, you've learned to be incredibly paranoid and depressed about this. But maybe in the financial profession, you're not there yet. But I've emphasized we have technical ecosystems, we have systems and systems, they're complex, and moreover, a little dirty secret, is the way we build our systems today is very immature. We really don't understand how to build secure systems that are bug-free and cannot be hacked. Then there's a point about lack of economic and political incentives in the post-Snowden world. Companies like Facebook want to monetize your data. Other companies want to get their apps out quickly. Governments don't have an incentive for security. They have an incentive for insecurity. If insecure applications are built out there and you find a zero-day exploit, that's as good as a nuclear-tipped weapon. The situation is degrading. Everybody speaks about digitalization. It just means more processes and services in the real world will be vulnerable. And on top of this, hackers are getting better. Second point is that this can make or break companies. A typical example of this would be Bering's Bank, which went bankrupt due to insider trading, which is basically due to improper controls on IT systems. And I have some other examples here of recent hacks that have been major problems for companies. Moreover, even in traditional companies like pacemakers or if you build elevators and things like this, you typically don't think about IT security, but if you don't get it right, it can be the downfall of your company. If you make a pacemaker and your pacemaker data and communications is controlled in some cloud-based infrastructure and a bad person can hack into your cloud, then it will be literally like in a science fiction movie where they can press a button and all wearers of your pacemaker will die on the spot. It's not a joke. What does this mean from the business investment side? It means we have to rethink things with security in mind. First of all, security and privacy risks must be adequately measured and weighed. It means companies, when you think of investing in a company or buying a company, part of a due diligence is not just a financial due diligence, but a risk-based due diligence and security should be a central part of this. I also think from the standpoint of governing and managing companies, it requires a new way of thinking about security. In a certain sense, you shouldn't have corporate secrets because all secrets will be leaked eventually. You should run your companies in a hyper-transparent way assuming that everything is known to everybody. The next point is, of course, you have to be prepared for the worst. You need pre- and post-breach preparedness. And part of having a company that uses digitalization means preparing for this, and investing in companies requires understanding how well they're prepared. The next point is skepticism in new technologies in snake oil. I've given one example here, and I'm happy to talk with it later with whoever would like or at the break, but please don't fall for don't worry, we're secure, we use the blockchain. A final point as a way of hope is that it is possible that research advances can lead to a more secure world. In my group together with other groups, we're actually working on a more secure internet that solves many of the problems available today with denial of service attacks and the like, and it's actually not snake oil, it actually exists and can be used. And I'm also happy to talk with people about that and explain to them how we can go to a better future. Thank you. Professor David Beyschen, ladies and gentlemen.


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There is a common misconception that patients with asthma cannot master high resistance dry powder inhalers. A recent study suggests otherwise. Researchers examined 994 consecutive adult patients in the UK during general practice asthma review, approximately 90% of whom already used a preventer inhaler. The team systematically examined the peak inspiratory flow rate, PIFR, needed for successful drug inhalation via inhalers of different device-specific resistances. Each patient's PIFR was measured using the N-check dial meter. The study nurses had extensive experience in conducting asthma reviews and were trained collectively to standardize and optimize their use of the N-check dial meter. Patients were tested at two or three levels of resistance. At the level of their personal preventer inhaler, if they used one, at an R5 level corresponding to high resistance dry powder inhalers, DPIs, and at a low R0 level corresponding to the resistance of pressurized metered dose inhalers, PMDIs. At each resistance setting tested, patients were instructed to breathe out to comfortable exhalation before performing up to three inhalation maneuvers. If the patient passed, this result was recorded. A pass was defined as an N-check dial reading of 30 to 90 liters per minute at settings R1 to R5, or 20 to 60 liters per minute, at the R0 setting, based on published standards. Regardless of their current device and with the same level of training provided, more than 93% of patients with asthma achieved the PIFR required to operate a high resistance DPI. In contrast, approximately 30% of patients failed to achieve the PIFR required to operate a PMDI, including a fifth of patients currently using a PMDI. Patients failing the PMDI setting inhaled too fast. Rapid inhalation with PMDIs is associated with poorer delivery of medicine to the lungs. This study demonstrates that most adult patients with asthma can achieve adequate inspiratory flow to successfully use high resistance DPIs. However, nearly 20% of patients who currently used a PMDI device failed at R0, even after three assessments with coaching.


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Clearly Australia finds itself in a very dynamic part of the world at a very interesting and complex time and what we want to do with this event, Australia 360, is to look at how Australia is travelling in this very dynamic region at this time. Our aim is to both explore the challenges that are arising from Australia from a range of regional developments and then to look at the policy instruments that Australia has available to respond to these and then to try and bring it all together to say well what kind of approaches is Australia taking at the moment? Are they adequate to the challenges we face? Are there more things we should be doing? In other words, attempt to put our arms around the whole set of issues around Australian foreign policy and that's something that we in the Bell School feel we're pretty well qualified to do because the Bell School is very much about seeing Australia's challenges in the whole, embedding it very much in the Asian and Pacific context, looking at the international affairs, the diplomacy, the strategic issues, a whole range of different questions, trying to bring it all together into a sort of synthesized view of Australia's foreign policy challenges and that's what we'll be aiming to do on this day.


Okay here we are at the Lordstown website. This is April 29, this is recent, this is about the earnings call coming up. There's a lot of blah blah. Now I just want to parse out a few things. Watch the Q's view video on this and just wanted to give a little different perspective. Talking about the call on May 9, the closing remains subject to additional closing conditions which are the lawyer blah blah blah. It says further negotiations and execution of a contract manufacturing agreement. So it sounds like the contract manufacturing agreement to manufacture the endurance. Since they mentioned the word execution, is this okay? The implication would be that it is okay. Now what's not okay, and this is the second half of the joint venture really, is the design and engineering services provided by Lordstown Motors to the MIH platform slash Foxconn. The fees of which fees generated and paid to Lordstown will pay for the manufacturing of the endurance in my evaluation of the agreement. Jointly designing engineering and validated vehicle programs, commercial vehicle market, using Foxconn's mobility and harmony platform, which implies no hub motors, we don't know, maybe they could use hub motors anyway. The idea here is snake eating its own tail, they generate fees from designing these vehicles, those fees are paid back to Foxconn for manufacturing, the contract manufacturing of the endurance for the bill of materials and manufacturing fee. No agreement has been reached to date, and this also was Hightower's last statement, four days, five days prior to this publication. Discussions are continuing. So we have here commercially reasonable efforts. Now, I had made a previous video on this, I'm going to try to link it here either with a pop-up or something. Commercially reasonable efforts imply good faith negotiations, and good faith negotiations, and you know involved parties wanting to come to an agreement. And during the last call which I parsed, you could see my video on the last call, earnings call of Lordstown Motors, CEO Dan was very specific about negotiating in good faith, being all in, and he specifically, I believe the quote is, said he was holding Foxconn's feet to the fire on this. So no agreement has been reached, discussions are continuing. Q's views had mentioned basically that it was a fake, complete, whatever the French is, that if this wasn't reached, there was no alternative, and they were going to get first choice of all the assets and so forth, and I'm not an attorney, but that's fairly clear to read through the agreement and see that's kind of what's going on. I think the point that's being missed, in my opinion, and of course I am not an attorney, okay, commercially reasonable efforts, okay. In the event and we, and in to date no agreement has been reached, discussions are continuing. Again, Hightower made the same statement and more on the 24th, but this is what we know to date, okay, and if this part of the venture does not go through, Lordstown is going to have a hard time paying the manufacturing fees for the endurance. That's the idea, this is at two sides of the same coin, and a accurate public radio host, as I previously mentioned, had said this is, this was the rub with Foxconn. However, they entered into an agreement in principle which set out these terms and that they commercially, they make commercially reasonable efforts. So the point I'm trying to make here is if this, in the case, and I am not saying this is going to be the case, I think they're, and I made a point with the rest of this video about there being a case for making this, for not slowing this process down and making hay while the sun shines because there's a magic, magic market potential here to do this deal quickly and get production started. Anyway, commercially reasonable efforts, again, good faith negotiations. If this does not go through, I don't believe it's going to be cut and dried. I don't believe that, in my opinion, I think there's going to be claims of bad faith negotiations and I think that's going to go to court. Whatever the terms of this agreement or pre-agreement, AAP agreement was, but the terminology I do believe, and you can look at that last earnings call and specifically my video on parsing out the words of DJ Danny, good faith efforts. Okay, so in other words, they have to want to come to an agreement. Anyway, that's not something for me to decide. If any lawyers out there want to comment on that. Anyway, May 9th is what they implied on the release about the CFIS being approved. As an announcement date, they've kind of walked that back a little bit here and they've mentioned a drop dead date of May 14th. So it went from May 9 to May 14, unless the parties have agreed to an extension of the repayment deadline. So in other words, this repayment deadline is going to kick into in on the 14th, if they do not reach an agreement, which would have been announced on the 9th. So if it doesn't go through, then hey, you know, they're going to have to repay everything and then unless the parties have agreed to an extension of the repayment deadline. So they got a fallback position, fallback position, fallback position. So they have both parties have said clearly second half, they're going to start manufacturing the endurance. So it looks like the contract manufacturing, not a problem so forth. It is this MIH involvement that seems to be the rub. Excuse me, are you on there? They have stated here further negotiations and execution, which implies, I believe, that the contract manufacturing of your endurance is done by way of review. This no agreement has been reached on the MIH joint manufacturing engineering design. Discussions are continuing. I mean, here's the thing. Foxconn may, I mean, the thing is the endurance is ready to go. The engineering's done the line set up. Everything's ready to go. So, you know, Foxconn can step into that role. As far as designing these new programs, this Foxconn feels that they do not need Lordstown. I mean, I'm just making being the devil's advocate here to do this engineering and design if it were the case that this were not to be completed, or they have a problem with the fee structure that Lordstown would charge for that. I would just say to that there are many advantages of having Lordstown take over this role for Foxconn. And it is a plug and play input into the battery electric vehicle space. And for them to have this assembled group of people that are, you know, everything is based off the U.S. market. And the U.S. market is based off the California market. And the world market is really based off of those standards with some variation in battery electric vehicles. And Lordstown Motors, their main office is in Orange County as far as the endurance goes and the product is going to be launched in California. They have a depth of knowledge here. There are many advantages for Honhai or Foxconn to use the services of Lordstown Motors. Again, they're looking at, and the CEO of Foxconn has said this, speed to market, get market share, establish a business, establish products. And now they may feel that they have talent in Taiwan or China that can do this engineering and design. But again, that's not going to, well, will it work in the United States? We, you know, under the Trump administration, imports of BEVs were limited by certain machinations from China. So we don't really have a big, a lot of Chinese vehicles coming into the U.S. market. Certainly the design standards are different for the Chinese market as to what would be applicable in the U.S. market. So Foxconn is in a position to have a, as I say, a plug-and-play engineering and design. An instantaneous high tower, DJ Dan said, 24 months they can have two vehicle programs launched on the MAH program. That is speed to market. Okay. And they have a good engineering group, they're a very efficient engineering group. I think conceptually, and I think the AAP has said conceptually, this is what they want to do, I would think the discussions are under the fees paid, any royalties that would be due to any party in these types of details. But again, we don't know, we can only go by what they have said and they have said there are no agreements and discussions are continuing. And that is the status as we know it, although I am optimistic about it, commercially reasonable efforts to reach this agreement. Good faith bargaining. Again, there's complexity here. And this is the rub. Again, right is a high risk investment. And they're stating right here, and we have to go by what we know. No agreement has been reached. They've used different nomenclature with the endurance manufacturing for the negotiations and execution of a contract. So they have differentiated these two programs. But in fact, both of these programs aren't necessary for Lordstown, which is cash strapped, as we know all startups are to get the endurance off the ground. But we can be hopeful. The fact that they have fallen back from the original deadline. Now they have fallen back to the May 14th deadline. Now they have fallen back to a potential extension period. I think they are negotiating and I think these are really hard negotiations. So I am optimistic. I think it makes more sense for Foxconn to do this than not do this. I think there's a lot of giant pile of money on the table that these two companies can scoop up and they are wasting valuable time, not wasting valuable time, but they need to get this agreement done to scoop all that money up. Because the money is there. I've made the point in the rest of this video. So this is where we are. And again, we can speculate on this. We have to go by what's in black and white and what the principles have said. And that's the status. I am optimistic that they I think the fact that they have extended these these deadlines means that they in fact are negotiating. So I am optimistic that this is all going to come to fruition. And I just wanted to mention the point again, commercially reasonable efforts, that to me tells me good faith negotiations. Look at my video. I guess the point I'm making here is if this agreement is not met that Lordstown does have potential legal standing for bad faith negotiations. So that's that's not as cut and dried as some other video makers want to put it. But I am optimistic that this this can all come to to be if they can negotiate this through. And I'm sure if anyone can do it. Danny Avaji can do it because he is the right person for this job. So let's see what comes to be. I think all in all, there's a lot of hard nose negotiations going on. And there's a lot of money at stake. So but I am optimistic. And this this wording is what it is. But no agreement has been reached against the, you know, if the announcement is it's impossible to reach an agreement. That's a different story. I think everybody knows what time it is involved with this. A lot of money on the table. Well, let's get to making that money. And I think that the Chinese Foxconn, I think they're well aware of you know, what's going on. And again, hard nose negotiations. Let's see what we can only all wait and see what will happen. I am optimistic though. I am optimistic and I have made my optimistic case in the rest of this video. All right. Thanks for watching. So this is Monday at close. I just looked at the stock chart on Nasdaq. The short interest is trending down a bit in Lordstown. Options are frozen at $2. There were some big, in my mind, big transactions made on Friday. A lot of shares were moving. The price did not drop. I don't know if that implies sales, short covering, what, but some big number of trades went in late in the day on Friday. The institutional holdings, again, are on balance. It would seem, although there's a late reporting structure on there, the standard deviations within norms. There was a drop as a result of the Seapus announcement because of a disappointment for not a full drop. Let's keep an eye on this and see what happens.


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I'll do this recap first real quick So one the 15 Scott with the Padres chat with the A's trust them with the Mariners Dalton with the Mets Mickey with the Yankees Darren with the Red Sox Danny with the Rockies Adam with the Rays David with the Tigers and Marlins Daniel with the twins Kevin with the Brewers Scott with the Braves Barry with the Nationals Jimmy with the Astros second half here Danny With the Pirates Petra with the Guardians that last Bob Meljo Jimmy with the Royals Danny with the Dodgers Timothy with the D-backs Julian with the Cardinals Chad with the Rangers Tristan with the White Sox Jimmy with the Giants Danny with the Phillies Mark with the Reds Chris with the Cubs Matt with the Orioles Mickey with the Blue Jays and Douglas with the Angels Alright, I'll format this real quick. We'll pause the video. She's gonna trade chatter. If not We'll just print and rip and get right to it. No, we'll be right back. Thanks. Oh All right, we're back couple teeth. Oh, I might give it a moment here. Actually LA for Jays That just came in last second. I'll give it a moment here. See if Let's see It's up to Danny though Oh the trade offer in from Mickey He's in the office with the phones talking to talking to his guys I'll give it. I'll give it a few minutes. I don't think we can do the two for one. So I'm gonna I'm gonna rock it here. I'm gonna print and I'm gonna rip So no trades officially, but we did have some offers in some sort of trade couldn't trade mojo Here it is. Our case of rule number nine They prayed and I'll be YouTube edition. I'm gonna use this Some good teams up though a couple teams that have chasers some of the cell sheet hits We're printing this one time and then we're gonna rock and roll There we go. All right. Sorry about the weight. Y'all. Let's get to it Random team three hit parade Timothy with a d-vax at the top Berry with the nationals at the bottom. All right y'all good. Well, thanks again random team number four on the site right now for the six-box of this and Tops probe jumbo menu to the filler for it up as well And you already got a spot for it too. So those spots are already going 12 show up spots for now Good luck everyone Some fun fun stuff in here. Hi, it's Joey Vado out of ten four out of ten three color patch and auto Going to the Cincinnati Reds and mark Start there Jeremy Pena Update gold refractive one twenty twenty two tops in a pack PSA ten twenty five out of fifty Nice for the Houston Astros and Jimmy 22 ALCS and World Series MVP box three ice That's one of our sell sheets right there one out of ten Julio Rodriguez rookie auto from tops five star go into the Mariners and Tristan Congrats, man Very very nice Nice to see that card live. I remember one night. I think it was like New Year's Eve Stuff around here. It's like two or three in the morning just doing five star We pulled a couple of his redemptions. Nice to see that card alive Nice Miguel Cabrera two out of ten from Sterling triple relic and auto for the Detroit Tigers 2021 top Sterling that's gonna go to David. All right box five here And ultimate second to last box nine five of Trade Turner Bowman first auto 2014 Bowman chrome draft San Diego Padres edition on the trade Turner. That's gonna go to Scott So I'm trying to trade couldn't trade mojo. I believe no, maybe not actually no But I just remember us And the last box here from our six box case That's gonna close up around team three, but like I said, we're in a team for on the site right now with tops Chrome jumbo 92 Where's the two potential? Well, let's do it. Thanks again y'all last box last card best Jason Dominguez that's some try to trick couldn't trade mojo For the Yankees and Mickey best of 2020 auto from 2020 Bowman's best Jason Dominguez on the other nice Excellent case. We got more on the side right now. Thanks again folks. That's the case breaks calm. Bye


Well, he's very important to our lineup, you know, ever since we got Luke, he has done a great job for us here with the Yankees. He has power, he can hit for contact, good defense, you know, so when you take everything into consideration, you can say, you know, how important Luke is for our team.


What if that was your little brother or little sister being tormented? Would you want other people to stick out for your little brother or little sister if you weren't there? Anybody? The great program that started by the US Justice Department doing some research. They wanted to know why children tend to be more aggressive or when they are part of a group are aggressive towards others. And in order for them to learn some life skills lessons, they decided to start this great program, which is an acronym for Gang Resistance Education and Training. It teaches kids about life lessons. A lot of times even before they get offered drugs or join a part of a group, maybe a gang, they are recruited. And so it gives them insight as to why they're being recruited or some other students might be mean to them and then it teaches them how to react to those type of situations. As the friends are talking, they see some other 8th graders tormenting a 6th grader.  Why can't they just leave that kid alone? Don't they remember what it was like when they were little? Part of the lesson is role-playing, so they would have to take on a character with each story in order for them to put themselves in their situation. The great program will show them what how to react to certain situations. It teaches them that joining gangs, it's not a future.


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Kyle, just curious how you felt behind the plate since summer camp has started. I feel good. I feel good. We've been working on a lot of stuff to try to get us in game readiness as quick as possible. So I've been feeling pretty good. Is there anything specifically that they've been having you do to try to expedite the process? I think we're just making sure that we touch on something every single day in our drill work.  So I mean, I think that's helping just routinely catching guys every day. The next question will go to George King. George, please unmute your line. What's the thinking about wearing the protective mask underneath the catcher's mask for you? Oh, I don't know. I'm kind of in close vicinity with a couple of other people, so might as well just throw the face covering on just in case. Not sure if it'll help much, but anything works. Thank you, George. Next question will take Sweeney Murdy. Sweeney, please unmute. Kyle, I wanted to know how you found the extra inning drills yesterday and what you thought of the process of working with the runner at second base and kind of all the various things you have to think about and work on there. Well, it's something I kind of grew accustomed to in AAA last year. Was it the last two years or just last year? I think the last two, yeah. Yeah. So I mean, it's just something I'm familiar with it. Whether or not I like it, that's a different story, but so it was, to me, it wasn't a big shock really. It's kind of something I've gone through several times before. Do you like it? I don't know. Want me to get back to you on that? Yeah. All right, thank you. Yep. Thank you, Sweeney. Next question will come from Christy Ackard. Christy, please unmute. Hi, Kyle. Just to follow up on the protective face mask you wore, was it comfortable to do during a game and will you do that during the regular season? Yeah, this one, this one, it's pretty thin. And it just kind of slides up like this or whatever like that. So I mean, it's nice, cool material, so it doesn't really hinder me. I don't like wearing it hitting because it kind of messes with me turning my head. But for catching, there's nothing really that bugs me about it. Thank you.


Ladies and gentlemen, I beg you to be a shield to all who gather to pay tribute to fallen soldiers of the MFO Task Force and to express our grief for and with the families who have pitched communities into ones of caring as well as crying, of support as well as suffering, of crying in spite of tear reunion yet to come, when we too shall mount up with wings as eagles and all sorrow and sighing shall pass away. Amen. Dear and our families that serve and live here, we thank you for coming to the home of the spirit of us can feel the deep and abiding human warmth that you have for the armed forces of this great country. With us today and sitting with you from peacekeeping duties in the Sinai. Also with us are those brave soldiers of the Task Force. There are also many families who lost loved ones that could not be physically present with us. And the same is true for a soldier with considerable years of service. The only solace that I can personally take from this tragedy is that if a soldier has to die, it should be in the service of his country. Us this morning, you honor us with your presence. In the name of the American people, passing of American soldiers killed as they returned from difficult duty abroad is marked by our presence here. Most of the young men and women we mourn were returning to spend the holidays with their families.  Those who saw them at their last stop, we wonder how this could be. How could it have happened and why? We wonder at this dark tragedy of it all, the enormity of the lost. For lost were not only the 248, but all of the talent, the wisdom, and the idea of way for the rest of us. Who but an idealist would go to hard duty in one of the most troubled places of the world and go not as a matter of conquest, but as a marginal expertise. But the men and women we mourn today were peacemakers. They were there to protect life and preserve a peace, to act as a force for stability and hope and trust. They were the ones of whom Christ spoke when he said, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Their son or daughter, their friend, their father are shaken nonetheless. And we all mourn with you. The joy it was to witness the things they said and the jokes they played, the kindnesses they did, and how they laughed. You were part of that. You who mourned were a part of that. Just as you think today of the joy they gave you, think for a moment of the joy you gave them and be glad. For love, love is never wasted. Life, they were our heroes. In death, our loved ones, our darlings. They were happy and singing. They were right and mere man can fly as flights of angels take them to their rest. I know that there are no words, and we know one thing. Every bit of our thinking, they are now in the arms of God. Look right down through the sky in blue. Keep your eye on the job to be known. It remains standing as we join in our final hymn to our country, America the Beautiful.


Good evening. I'd like to call to order the third meeting of the 2016 2017 common counsel with a clerk Please read the quote for the day. Thank you, mayor Nowadays true job satisfaction and happiness is about fulfilling your full potential Tapping into your own creativity and feeling that you can make a difference. Thank you. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God With liberty and justice for all with a clerk, please call the roll for attendance There are 15 present Alderman Damro is excused Next we'll move on to Approval and manage from our last meeting Alder person down a hue Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. I opposed motion passes Next is the mayor's appointments city attorney Thank you I've got four appointments first one from the mayor submitting the following appointment for your confirmation all the person Rose Marie Trester to be considered for appointment to the Historic Preservation Housing Rehabilitation Loan Commission Term to expire April 27 2017 second is Submitting appointments to the mayor's neighborhood leadership cabinet from the near-north neighborhood association for terms expiring April 30 30th 2017 Joe Clark is the primary representative Ryan Berg alternate representative Then submitting the following appointments for your consideration to the committee structure subcommittee Established according to resolution 165 15 16 all appointed May 2 2016 expiring April 17 17 Mary Lynn Donahue sellers in grievance chair and chairman Joe Heidemann committee the whole chairman Roman drawn District to Michael van der Steen mayor and non voting members Darrell Hoffman city administrator Charles Adams city attorney Susan Richards city clerk and finally Appointing Alderman Rose Marie Trester to be considered for appointment to the county emergency medical services counsel for the term May 2016 through May 2018 Thank you very much those appointments will lie over to our next meeting Do we have anyone registered for public forum? Okay, next item is mayor's announcements like to start out with a proclamation Whereas the office of city clerk a time-honored and vital part of local government exists throughout the world And whereas the office of city clerk is the oldest among public servants And whereas the office of city clerk provides the professional link between the citizens local governing bodies and agencies of government at all other levels and whereas the city clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and Partiality and rendering equal service to all and whereas the city clerk serves as the information center on functions of local government and community And whereas the city clerk continually strives to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of city clerk through the participation in educational programs seminars workshops annual meetings of their state County and international professional organizations and whereas it is the most appropriate that we recognize the Accomplishments of the office of city clerk. I now therefore Mike van der steen by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby recognize the week of May 1st through May 7th as municipal clerks week I'll present this to our clerk Susan Richards And then the last one is we have a skate park design meeting This will be our third and our last design meeting that will be held at the Qantas Field House on May 10th and San Tech Consultant will present their design recommendations for the skate park Okay, next we'll move on to hearings. We have four hearings tonight Just going to read them all and then we'll see if there's any speakers for them Item 2.1 is the hearing amending the city's future land use map of the city of Sheboygan's comprehensive plan to change the land use classification of property located at 1524 1526 Salmon Avenue from neighborhood preservation to employment classification Hearing 2.2 is the hearing to amend the city zoning map to change the use district classification of property located at 1524 and 26 Salmon Avenue from class UC urban commercial to class UI urban industrial classification Item 2.3 is the hearing to amend the city's future land use map of Sheboygan's comprehensive plan to change land use classification of properties at 1413 Erie Avenue and 1416 Ontario Avenue Item 4.2 is the hearing to amend the city's zoning map to change the use district classification of property located at 1413 Erie Avenue and 1416 Ontario Avenue from class in our neighborhood residential to UC urban commercial Classification is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard Chad? I'm not going to give my home address. No, I am speaking We have to treat you just like everyone else I we've gotten some calls from Alderman about these two properties and the I just want to give a little point of clarification It's what it is is it's a rezone of two properties and a changing of our comprehensive plan to reflect the rezone the two properties are well the three properties the two the 1524 Salmon Avenue is a property that's owned by cautious construction company a couple properties West of emo jeans on Salmon Avenue Paperbox special specialty has a contract to Purchase those properties and do some industrial expansion. They're the large green Building you see on Calumet the other properties are two properties directly west of the Starbucks Starbucks at 14th and Erie Starbucks has a contract to purchase those two properties They're two residential properties and demolish them and expand the parking lot and anybody that has been a Participant at that Starbucks knows that parking is very tight and there's a lot of issues with parking on the street So they're hoping to get about eight to ten stalls off-street parking. So they're looking to rezone those properties to Expand the parking lot to the west and they're also looking at some future redevelopment Opportunities in that neighborhood as well. So if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them Otherwise in a quick nutshell, that's really what's being planned Thank you for that information Jed Is there anyone else who wishes to be heard? All the person down here All those think for that motion in support all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motions passed next we'll move on to the consent agenda and include items 3.2 through 3.11 all them person down here Thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on any of the individual items and the consent agenda Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage Actually 15 eyes Motion passes moving on to reports of officers 4.1 is an arrow by the city Planning Commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 53 of 1516 by Alderman Koth and Thiel amending the city's comprehensive plan future land use maps to change the land use classification of properties at 1413 Erie Avenue and 1416 Ontario Avenue from neighborhood preservation to community mixed use and recommends that the ordinance be passed Alderman Bellinger Thank You mayor I move to accept and file pass your ordinance Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none will the clerk, please call the roll Motion passes item 4.2 is an arrow by the city Planning Commission to who is referred general ordinance number 52 of 1516 by Alderman Koth and Thiel in our own number 132 the 321 of 1516 by the city clerk amending the city zoning map to change the use district classification of property at 1413 Erie Avenue and 1416 Ontario Avenue from class and our neighborhood residential to class UC urban commercial classification and recommends that the ordinance be passed Alderman Bellinger Thank You mayor and move to accept and file and pass your ordinance Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on this motion? See none, please call the roll Motion passes item 4.3 is an arrow by the city Planning Commission whom is referred general ordinance number 50 of 1516 by Alderman Koth and Thiel amending the city's comprehensive plan for future land use maps and change the land use classification of property at 1524 and 1536 Seaman Avenue from neighborhood preservation to employment classification It recommends that the ordinance be passed Alderman Bellinger. Thank you mayor move to accept and file and pass your ordinance Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? See none with the clerk, please call the roll Motion passes Item 4.4 is an arrow by the city Planning Commission to whom is referred general ordinance number 51 of 1516 by Alderman Koth and Thiel and arrow number 320 of 1516 by the city clerk amending the city's zoning map to change the use district classification of property at 1524 and 1536 Seaman Avenue from class UC urban commercial to class UI urban industrial Classification and recommends that the ordinance be passed Alderman Bellinger. Thank you mayor move to accept and file and pass your ordinance Thank you for the motion in support any discussion on the motion Seeing none with the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes Moving on items 5 excuse me 4.5 through 4.16 will be referred to various committees Under resolutions Items 5.1 through 5.7 will also be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 6.1 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred RC number 375 of 1516 by law and licensing and arrow number 311 of 1516 by the city clerk submitting various license applications and recommends that the beverage operators license application 105 8 be denied based on her failure to accurate reveal a relevant convictions on her application or record of violations Related to the licensed activity her record is a repeat law offender and her failure to cooperate with the committee Alderman Lissard Thank you. I Move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted second. Thank you for that motion in support under discussion Is there a ta-na who say here? Tanya was invited to our committee meeting on two occasions and she was a no-show on both times and On the committee voted four to one to deny her license Thank you very much any other discussion on the motion Seeing none with a clerk, please call the roll 14 eyes one no Motion passes item 6.2 is an RC by law and licensing to whom is referred RC number 375 of 1516 by the law and licensing committee and arrow number 311 of 1516 by the city clerk submitting various license applications and recommends that taxi cab drivers license number 0465 be denied based on his failure to accurate reveal a relevant convictions on his application his record of violations Related to the license activity his repeat his record is a repeat law offender and his failure to cooperate with the committee Alderman Lissard. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted second Thank you for that motion and support under discussion is Curtis D. Witt here Curtis was invited to our committee on two different occasions and didn't show at either one and the vote was unanimous with the whole committee To deny his license Thank you for those comments and any other discussion seen none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes item 6.3 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred RC number 375 of 1516 by the law and licensing and arrow number 311 of 1516 by the city clerk submitting various license application and recommends that taxi cab drivers license application 103 to be denied based on his failure to accurate reveal a relevant convictions on his application His record of violations related to license activity his record is a repeat law offender and his failure to cooperate with the committee All the person was sorry. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted second Thank you for that motion and support under discussion Yes, is Fernando Gomez here Mr. Gomez was invited to our committee on two different occasions and did not show up either time It was unanimous that we deny his license Thank you for those comments any other discussion See none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes Motion passes item 6.4 will be referred to the public protection and safety committee Under ordinances item 7.1 is an ordinance by alderman lasard drawn Herman Jose and Trester amending sections and municipal code as to add additional exceptions to the restriction banning class B Licenses from being issued to premises where businesses and other than the sale of fermented malt beverages is Conducted Alderman lasard, thank you. Mr. Mayor. I ask that we suspend the rule Is there any objection to suspension Seeing none, please proceed We would like to get this ordinance passed as this particular party is going to be for painting parties But this happened to be in a woodworking Event and she did come into our committee We totally believe that she understands that all the rules that apply to having a beverage License in like our restaurants and our bars She understands the rules completely and we All agreed that we should change this ordinance, so I'm going to ask I'm going to move that the ordinance be put upon its passage Thanks for that motion and second to support under discussion Alderman borne Thank You mayor attorney Adams is this Change that we're making if I read this correctly this is To comply with a new state statute also correct. It just simply brings our ordinance up to date with the state statute. Okay, thanks Thank you for that question any other discussion Seeing none while the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes Item 7.2 we refer to the public works committee other matters city attorney There's one other matter It's an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2016 in June 30 2017 that'll be referred to the law and licensing committee Next is a contemplated closed session Alderperson Donahue Thank You mayor I moved to convene in closed session under the exemption contained in section 1985 sub 1 sub e of the Wisconsin statutes for competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session for the purpose of deliberating Regarding long-term strategy regarding city-owned property known as the armory Thank you for that motion in support with the clerk. Please call the roll for a closed session 15 eyes Motion passes. We'll take a brief recess till 25 after the hour and reconvene. Thank you and for our viewers at home We will not be coming back after closed session. We'll be adjourning in closed session