Tell me son. Can you run? Can I run? Can you run?   You can't run faster in Corbett. Yeah, but I can't run faster than you. You look pretty in shape. Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, good. Why don't you try? You want to you want to try something? If you can if you can beat him in a race We won't rate you a ticket. Go over to the sidewalk. Speeding. Yeah, we'll speed on. Yeah, yeah. Here's what we're gonna do son We're gonna we're gonna race all the way from this side of the sidewalk all the way to the end over there, okay? I'm gonna get on that side We doing this uphill. Yep uphill.  You'll pick this dirt in line Right here This pole just pull right here. You're eating make sure to stretch Come on, can you move? Repeat that. Yeah, all the way to the end of the block. How do we want to do this race? Yeah, turn them on real quick. Let me make sure we can see him. Can you see his last turn on or no? Yeah, I can see him from here. Okay. All right, go ahead and turn them off. Okay, uh Son, you ready? Oh, yeah, that's that's even better. Okay, we'll do the horn.  That's that 42 40. That's that that's that East Texas Baptist, son Yeah That's right son, that's right That's what happens Yep, that's just what happens You must have been an in big hot lead in your day. I almost was okay Before I went and served in the military have to fight for my country one way or the other Hey, did you just flip us off?     I got a key for you officer. I got a key for you aren't you guys late? Isn't there like a parade somewhere or something? That was yesterday.  I got something for you.  I thought they were gonna shoot I was almost positive Gotta get them one of them vb long necks and hell who knows they might have started firing off I got loose seal with me and she's loaded so Can't wait Hey, what are these folks running from? Oh, hey, what are you folks running from? Hey, I got mr. Chavez. I'm playing here. Hey Hey, what's up? What's up? Hey, uh, you guys mind stopping here first? Hey copper, can you come over to the bank here on uh Legion square? Hey How's it going pretty good. Good. Good. Good. What are you boys up to today?  Uh, I could actually talk to you over here privately, mr. Lang Sure How are you folks doing tonight? I have no idea Are we getting racially profiled for beating tally and is that what's going on?  I don't even know. Well, well seen as how you're not telling. I don't seem to be surprised by that Oh, so you are racially profiled That ain't what happened. I'm just saying Anyway, so uh, let me ask you something. How do they how do they find a classic a mr. Chavez How do they find the appropriate vest for you? Like how does that work? Well?  Have you been getting lean? Is that what's going on? Well, I may have lost a pound or two here I'm gonna see in this house I don't know if I lost a couple pounds or if I just stretched the damn vest out because that first day was pretty bad I'll be honest with you. Oh, yeah You know Good to know good to know that our boys are fucking, uh, you know Staying fit Absolutely. Absolutely.   Yeah, I don't know.    I'm just kidding. Are you talking about my stature? No, I like your uniform though All right Fat cover ever seen was francis. So, you know, it's good to see they hire, you know, the bulky guys now Well, here's there. I'm still as nimble as I used to be when I spent four years Playing wild receiver of these Texas baptists. Don't you worry about that now? Let me see You want to get let me see a quick roll? Yeah, check this one out ready? You got one? Oh Shit.  Well, I gotta I gotta take the gun out. Let me shoot someone again Nice job, cornwood. All right. This is a promotion If you hit a car, I'll promote you cornwood while it's moving Yep, there we go Just go one dick length, okay You might want to take one more step cornwood Okay, I think I think it's close. I think this is close. Yeah, that should be close off close Yeah, he hit it.   What are you talking about?  No, that won't that wasn't us That is not what happened is that the door boy Wait, you should you got pictures? Hey, is that you Marlowe? No. Oh, you sound like Marlowe Car stop, it's uh westbound Los Santos Over the Los Santos freeway of armwood boulevard on the black color SUV Marsh Marlowe, Mrs. Hamalow. Hey, how are we doing today, sir?   Hey, he's calling his voice. He's calling his voice. No, I didn't he's reaching What are you doing?  Marlowe?   I just sent it to somebody so that I Ain't gonna work. Oh You'll never know Hey, uh, mr. Cohen, I think mr.  That's me cornwood. That's me throw him off to Here i'm just i'm just moving your way just so you don't get in trouble Maybe we'll get you to go get that bike. What are you doing? Marlowe get the bike marlowe marlowe.   You won't have a job by tomorrow.  Let's just take the phone get the photos. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm lying. I'm lying. I can just give him my phone Okay, give me your phone.  There you go. There's the phone You probably got another phone I didn't send it to nobody you could just take the phone. It's fine. I'll just leave Gentlemen, I feel like this man has a weapon on him Oh, what about all this weed? Oh, did I plant that one too I'm trying to go to jail today. You're trying to go to jail or you're trying to go home? Oh, man Hmm, you ain't got any more phones. Okay.   Okay I didn't record you.   Okay, hands are down coward Can I open my door?   We're trying to pull out cool tonight. It's ain't cool.   I know you're talking about looking like nerds I mean got him. I mean for some reason when people This lose the place. Wow.   It's the pussiest class in wow Now, I don't even know what you're talking about son Just bubble through everything List of core wood that's fat not a bubble.    Stop.  You can't tell me not to have fun. I don't work like that All right, why are you like this? That's how we roll Shit, when are we gonna take a picture of corn wood? For his uh badge Oh, you still need to Oh, yeah, that's right. I need uh, uh, yeah, I gotta get my badge Where do you want to take a picture at you want to throw some gang sides in front of this graffiti over here? Yeah, that'd be good. Where's that? No, no, if we're taking a photo we're taking them up to a tractor.  Oh, yeah, that's good. Oh, let's go up north. Let's go up north and give me my Yeah, yeah, let's go do that right now.   What you were doing is illegal Hey, is it your brother cletus?  Step out of the tractor pussy. Bobby get out of the tractor bobby Oh damn. Andrews. Are you okay? I'm good Here bobby get out it bobby. We might need to shoot out windows and uh, no, he'll be fine. I think he's gonna hop out here Oh, he's coming out. He always comes out. He always finishes All right, bobby. Yeah, he's all he's all done. Thanks bobby. I'm gonna go and take the tractor now Let's take a photo of uh, you for the uh Be a badge though. Is that good you get that? That was perfect. Hey come check out your uh, id short I'm sure I'm talking about that. That's a damn. That's a damn good badge right there. It is. There you go, mr. Corwood All right, that's in the mdw. I might just uh, look at that later when I'm by myself. You know what I mean Absolutely. What you're going to show it to me, mr. Corwood. There we go.   Absolutely.


a block, which is learning how the word friendship changes as you get older. I think you mean just how friendship changes, not the word friendship. No, because I- Is it the word as well? Well, okay, yeah, it's two and one. When I was a kid, a friend was like stone, man. Like to be like, that's my- I'm in the same boat, keep talking. It was like, that's my friend, that guy's my friend.  But then you learn as you get older that people will call you a friend when they're right. They're not, and you know, people will say, like, I'm friends with Brendan. Yeah. You don't know that person. Yeah. People say that all the time. The word itself is what I meant by that was it gets thrown around and it loses all meaning.  Yeah, but I think Hollywood, yes. But also like I learned it from my dad. Like my dad sometimes will say, you remember my friend blah, blah, blah, blah, who so-and-so and I'm like, you haven't talked that guy in 32 years. That's not your friend. That's a guy you need. I have a buddy and friend. I literally, the guy's a buddy, man. See, I like that. Or he's my friend, yeah. That would be more, okay, that's more appropriate for an adult to be like, oh yeah, that guy's a buddy. But I guess the word changed so much shape as I became an adult. Yes, and also our business. The business that we're in specifically, friend is such a, it's just changed. Pesos. Pesos, pesos. It's useless, it's like almost useless. It is, it's out here. It's just, it's the value. It's like love, when people go, I love, it's like nothing, you've ruined it. Brilliant, Hollywood has ruined the word. Journey, journey. Journey, he's on a journey.  So many people on journeys.  So it just has ruined what I thought as a kid, friendship, that's a core thing. And so now I see when someone's like, who really is your friend? It's a very- It's like, I find it staggering. It is, but it's a wake up call a little bit to the way that- To what though? That's what I, so we had our very famous following up. And part of that was like, yo, I didn't feel like you were my definition of a friend. And so it's not, I don't know what I'm saying. It's like, so you're as guilty as anything. What I'm saying is, and I overreact, meaning like, it's not my definition of a friend. So then I'm like, completely affronted. Like this is a total affront. And this is a, if I'm in free fall, it's like, I'm not free, but like I can't believe, I don't want to learn the lesson. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't, okay. So I now think friendships are shallow. Now what? Right. Is my life better?  I want us all to live in bunk beds. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I want you to use my shower. I do want to use your shower.  And then when, and we don't, I'm not, again, we're all adults, so it's like, but when we don't, or when it's like, I still find it a little like, wait a minute, I thought we were all gonna go back to the dorm that we all live in. But I'm gonna go eat? Yeah.  But that's, I think it's a wake up call to the truth of that we're all alone. That you have to just value the connections that you do make and be malleable with them because they will inevitably change. There's people that I was very, very close with that I no longer speak to. Not for any detriment to our, it was just that's the way that life kind of did it. I learned that, you, I'm sure, have learned it. No, I haven't had it. Well, we don't have kids and it's like, my good friends with kids, the life dynamically changes. It's out of their control. And then- Yeah, it should. You know it should. That I believe, it's like, yeah, all right. But you don't know how to, you know, it just, it happens the way it happens. I consider every child a friend has a betrayal. No, I do too. And they should give me- So thank you for sticking with me. I can't believe the things that have transpired in friendships where I'm like, did that really happen? Yeah. Did that really, I cannot believe that that happened. And I don't, the thing about, I like, the thing about being alone, I spent the day reading, I spent yesterday reading and I was like, I really like this. Yeah, it's nice. I really like it. And I'm like, was I supposed to be, I mean, I have spent large portions of my life alone reading, but so when I do go outside for a friendship, I'm like, all right, well, hopefully this will last forever. Being alone or being a friendship?  But you do like friendship. I love friendship. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like I, this is a dumb thing to say, but some of the best moments of my life are with my friends. Of course. Yeah, like I would argue probably all of them or most of them. Oh, I would say all of them. Yeah. But that's why I think it's so weird or hurtful when you realize the truth of a relationship. Like I said this before, but there was a guy that I thought I was friends with. I said something to the effect of, that's one way, that's one way to treat your friend. And he was like, we're not friends.   When was this? A couple of years ago. It was shocking. And it was ingest a little bit, but I know he meant. No, that's not ingest. There's literally not a tone. You know what I mean? He was being like, well, come on, we're not friends. We're not friends, right? I mean, we're chat buddies or whatever. Right. And I was like, oh fuck, yeah. I mean, that one hurt. That one was weird. Not because it's like, oh, you're not my friend. It's more like, oh, I guess. Well, it's like, then what do we do? Like, what am I calling text in you for? And like thinking about you. Yeah. Why am I thinking about you? Yeah. Why am I considering you in my life? That's okay. That's okay. I was okay with it. I just, I was a little off. I was put off by it where I was like, oh man, I guess my perception of this was odd, particularly because we had communicated often enough where he'd be like, yeah, that's a friend. We've done things together. But. Does that person have friends? No. Well, no, not really. No. I just assumed like I cracked the code. You know what I mean? Right. We're cool. We're very cool. Where if you text me without me texting you, I assume you're interested in some form of relationship. Yeah. I would assume, but especially if it's not business driven. If it was just business driven, totally different. I understand that. It just was not. So that's unusual. It was unusual. That's unusual, that kind of stuff. And so I just, I guess you just learn what that term means and what friendship is as you get older. And that's, it's hard for me to grasp. The reason it's a block is because I'm, it still is hard for me that I'm like, oh man, I thought this was more important. Like I thought friendship was more important. Yeah. Like, I just like. It's not. We keep using the shower thing, but I'm saying like. Yeah. You're just on the lit. Like you're just in the, you're on the fucking, but it's more than the rotation.  Why? I don't even know sometimes. But it just is.  And then when I find out I'm not on your tablet or you don't even have a tablet. I'm like, why did I, like, what do you, what's your orientation of life to the, I'm talking to the person like, so what do you, I was talking to a guy one time, a comedian friend of mine and he was like a really good friend. I'm good. And I go, I go, are we all, I was talking about comedy. I was like, are we all friends or is this entirely transactional? He goes, I think it's entirely transactional. I was like, that's heavy. That's, I don't know. I know. And I said it yesterday. I was arguing, not even arguing with somebody. We were just talking about the definition of friendship. Like, how are we defining this? And I said, look, I, I'm kind of, I guess I'm like a friend drama queen. Like, do, are we friends or not? Like, cause I think about you and then I go, well, maybe we're not friends. And maybe like so and so said, it's all transactional. It's like, it's not transactional. I love you. I just, I just am bad with, you know, X and trying to- That's okay. And he's like, and I imagine you have so many friends. I was like, I don't have so many friends. No. No, you hear the tone of the note? I mean, the volume and the tone of that note That is true. Was, was eviscerating. But you know why? It's because you don't know, you're taking it the wrong way. It's because you don't, you don't have friends that you're not gonna dedicate a real relationship to. That's a thing that you do too when you're growing up is you're like, well, I don't wanna mislead somebody into thinking that we're real good buddies if truly we don't have that connection. That's just value. I think that's more valuable than, than having all the fries guy, he's friends with I every one of you.  Just core the thing that matters than the people that you are friends with. It means something, you know? Like this, I'm not taking a shot, but it bothered me so much when Sebastian did Seinfeld's Cars and Coffee. I don't know, maybe it was the second time he did it. I know he did it more than once. But he said something to the effect of, who's your best friend? Sebastian said that to Seinfeld. Now, I know this is a Seinfeldian answer. It's not lost on me. He that he was like, best friend. Who has best friends at all? I get it. I know the Seinfeldian of it all. But then he continued to kind of go into beyond the bit of like, it's a ridiculous question. We're old men. I have my wife and, you know. Well, no wife will let you have a best friend.  Like I- The fucked up thing is he talks to a guy named Barry Marner every day on the phone for two hours. So his best friend? Yeah, yeah. It's funny. And he has for decades. And perhaps that was a thing, it was a bit. I know it was a bit.  No, I know what you mean. I don't, I think he's doing a bit because he literally talks to a guy on the phone every day. He must. Like a 10-year-old boy does. But that shows my, you know. It's a funny thing because I've never heard another man bring this up. The importance of it. And the value of it. And like, no, I need people that I can count on, not even like my emergency contact. It's like, whatever the category is. Like. I don't need you to come to my rescue when it's like, well, that's who your real friends are when the stuff gets hard. No, I just mean like people that I know emotionally I could see in a lot. Paul Bearers. Paul Bearers, yeah. Who's gonna carry me when I'm dead? Literally my Paul Bearers, like who are they? Who's gonna, that's right, yeah. That's what I'm looking for. And like, are you in? Yeah, are you in, dude?  Like I, and I'm happy for it to last that long. Yeah, totally. Like that's how long I would like it to last. But just tell me if you don't have strong arms. Look, tell me, I can, we can get like wheels.


But we have to also ensure that this anarchic freedom that is dharma is not encroached upon anymore. And the Marathas were the most powerful defence that this subcontinent ever had. So that is where it has to start, it starts bottom up.


Over to baseball in the 7-3 a final Grand Rapids they lost earlier today so it's winner take all top of the second Thunder Hawks down once nothing great play by shortstop Brooks Bachman he robs Chisago of an extra base hit bottom of the second the Hawks take over Cody Miller with an RBI single that ties things up still in the second the score is six to one now in favor of Grand Rapids Evan Mischke unloads on one for an RBI double they avenge their earlier loss on the day with a dominating 11 to five wins so Grand Rapids they will be heading to the state tournament next week if you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS


The United States was just downgraded by its credit rating from AAA plus to a whopping AA. And this is actually pretty good for Bitcoin digital assets in the long term. In the short term, it remains to be seen. And what we are talking about is there was a piece from Reuters or Fitch cuts US credit rating to AA plus. The US Treasury calls it arbitrary. And here's what we have. So Fitch today downgraded the US government's top credit rating and drew an angry response from the White House and surprised investors. I got to tell you, I'm pretty shocked that there's actually surprised investors with what's going on with debt. And we'll take a look at that in a second. Traders immediate response was to embark on a safe haven push out of stocks and under government bonds and dollar. Fitch downgraded the US to AA plus from AAA citing fiscal deterioration over the next three years. And actually we're going to take a look at a graph which shows us getting really bad over the 10 year history and repeated down the wire debt ceiling negotiations that threaten the government's ability to pay its bills. So yes, this happened and the response as far as the traders.  But I mean, for traditional finance, this is like a brutal, a brutal day for them. But you know, if we zoom out over five days, okay, it has gone out a little bit, but over a month still looking pretty good. Six months, not too bad. So again, whenever you have doubts, just zoom out to where we're at right now. Don't just think about the narrative, use your head, take a look at the things and just kind of say, well, this isn't too bad. But that again, isn't the traditional finance. How do we get affected in the crypto market? Not bad.  So there was a little bit of slight uncorrelation, but we still see that Ethereum is down, finance coin, XRP, and a whole host of altcoins, Litecoin 5.6%. Congratulations. I think they just went through their having or just about to happen. But I was kind of surprised this morning because it was so resilient. I took a look at the Bitcoin this morning when I woke up and it's actually up and it was doing pretty darn good at almost 30,000. But you have to remember the whole reason that Bitcoin and digital assets were created, Bitcoin specifically was after the great recession in 2008. And the whole point was to get people out of the traditional finance rat race and get into something a little bit more reliable. Unfortunately, the people that are buying up Bitcoin and digital assets right now are also in traditional finance space. There are the institutions, the hedge funds. So when you see a little bit of a dip in the S&P 500 for a day, where are they going to pull money out of? Well, there's this great market, which is Liquid 24.7365 besides Forex. And it is, again, Bitcoin and crypto. So when you ever see someone like this, it's usually correlated because people just, again, it's just a speculative asset right now for them. And it's going to take them a while to get it beaten their head until they understand that this is actually here for the long haul. So yes, we did go a little bit down today, but not too bad. And then also it talked about treasuries. And if you're in investments, quite honestly, I mean, for T-bills, for government bonds, I mean, why wouldn't you get into this? Look at this. Two months in the treasury yield curve, two months, you're looking at 5.5% return. If you're looking at three months, 5.5, and then 5.5 again in six months, if you go over 30 years, whopping 4% who would do that, but whatever. So yes, the treasuries are looking pretty enticing for them. So they'll get into that. And then also, as far as like debt goes, this is the piece I want to highlight, which is, you know, how they talk about how the traders were very surprised and things like that, it's just amazing to me how people get surprised on things. So this one was from the Kobayashi letter. It states, total US debt levels are expected to rise from 98% of GDP in 2023, which we used to be like 50, 60%. Now with some we're almost 100% of GDP. Our debt is almost 100% of GDP. I had to say that twice because it's even shocking to me. That's in 2023 to 118% of GDP in 2033. By 2053, if we keep going the same way, which we probably will, debt to GDP in the US is expected to hit an alarming 195%. No wonder they downgraded us. We can't pay. How can we pay? How can we this modern monetary theory just keep printing? It doesn't work like that. At some point, the actual bill gets due and you can't print funny money. So if we take a look here, and it shows you just, I mean, look, I'm old and I can remember these days when like the debt to GDP wasn't that bad.  I mean, sub 50%. And now just as soon as that pandemic hit, all of a sudden we're just here 118, 120% and going up to 195%. So that is definitely a problem. And then also, as people get into the dollar, the Dixie will go up. But I think at some point that Dixie will start to falter. And right now today, the US dollar index, which is a measure against the basket of other currencies, we're looking at 102.55. And that's up from one of its all-time highs of almost 114. And we took a bigger dip around July. I think we drop below 100 at some point. Here we go in July 14. And now today we're back up at 102. But just as a reminder, when the dollar, when the strength of the dollar goes up, Bitcoin usually goes down. And when the strength of the dollar goes down, Bitcoin usually goes up. There's a nice little graph I put together. I'll link this in the description. And yeah, in 2013, when the Dixie was 83, it was at a high point at that point, Bitcoin was actually 13 bucks. Then in November, 2013, the Dixie went down to 80.11. And Bitcoin went to 11.27. And you can see here the same thing on 2016. Dixie was up, Bitcoin went down to 6.10. Then of course, over here in 2018, Dixie was up again, Bitcoin out of 9,000 as a close of 2017. And then lastly, we can see that again, when Dixie was down here on November 2021, which the Dixie was 112, it was pretty good actually. Bitcoin went up and then Spice versus. So always watch the strength of the dollar because that's what it is. And then lastly, the correlation, we can see that today as far as the Dixie as compared to Bitcoin, as far as correlation, if you're at zero, there's no correlation. If you're at perfect negative, that means that they do the exact opposite. And then in the pluses, it means they pretty much follow those types of things. We can see that Dixie is always negatively correlated. But S&P 500 is usually positively correlated. And we can see down here that it's actually going down just a smidge, but we are still correlated to the market because those people, institutions, hedge funds, want to keep buying up. And then lastly, I will just say this that for the Fed and everything that's going on with inflation and such and such, you're going to hear a lot of stories about oil and the price of oil is going up and just like the worst thing of all time. Just remember though, it's not the production cost of oil itself, it's because of supply cuts. Now, I'm not a macro economist. I just dabble here and there, but just so you know that Russia and OPEC, they came out and said, yeah, we're going to reduce or actually supply for creating oil. So of course, once you reduce the supply and there's still the same amount of demand, you will see that unfortunately prices will go up, which is the same thing that's going to happen with the Bitcoin halving in April of 2024, when the same amount of demand is still there, but we're going to cut supply. And we'll see how that works out. And of course, also, people are talking about how awful oil production is and things like that. And yes, it has gone up quite a bit since July, we can see it. But again, if you just zoom out, right now it's below 80, it was above 80, it was freaking out. If you look over like a past a year or so, you can see that in all honesty, in 2022, we were at almost $100 per barrel. So just keep that in mind when you hear these types of stories that it's all going to be okay. And there we go. So let me know what you think about that in the comments section. And let's finish up with a little crypto news. Yesterday, we had talked about there was a case that was being brought forth to Terraform Labs, which was the creator of Luna. And the federal judge, Jud Rackoff. That's his name. I didn't make it up. He came out and kind of went against the Ripple ruling from Judge Torres. And yesterday, I talked about how this could be bad for Ripple and XRP. And I know I got a lot of hate in the comments. Let me just say this, I get it. Ripple holders, excuse me, XRP holders, you've gotten kicked in the teeth for over a year. You need two years, excuse me. And it's been very tough to hold on and keep that community. And you had a big win not too long ago. And what's not cloud that. So yesterday, when I talked about this, I tried to make it clear, but maybe I didn't, that this is no relevance. It doesn't have any relevance to the case that Judge Torres took over or looked over. And the different decisions that she made, which going forward was in my personal opinion, and a couple of different lawyers out there, it was a win for Ripple. But this piece here, and I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you why I think this is a problem moving forward. And we're going to chime in from Stuart Alderotti and what he says he is the chief legal officer over at Ripple. And we'll just get into this. So again, the federal judge denied stable coin issuer Terraform Labs motion dismiss a lawsuit from the SEC. Judge Jed Rakoff, he was district court for the Southern District of New York, rejected the use of a ruling from Judge Torres, who recently ruled that Ripple Labs did not violate securities laws and making XRP available on secondary platforms for retail investors to purchase. The big distinction was, was that when Ripple sold them to the hedge funds, there was a form of contract. You can go through and you can read what Judge Torres wrote. You can also follow Alderotti, I think I say his name, right? And he says the exact same thing. The difference was, was of course, when you are selling XRP on an exchange, and it's you as an individual and you're selling to another individual, there's no investment contract. That's what Torres says. But the difference was, of course, it just depended on who you were selling it to. Was it a hedge fund? Were you talking to them? Was it directly from Ripple or not? Or was it just from an individual investor? That was the big difference. So an emotion dismiss Terraform argued that people bought UST for practical purposes and did not have an expectation of a being an investment. And that's the thing about law. If you have a one on, you can set Preston over here. So now Luna is trying to say the same thing like, look, we're not responsible. Like this was, this was an investment and they, you know, they knew that there was no expectation of profit or actually being an investment. There was no contract. Attorneys for Terraform also appointed the recent Ripple ruling in which Torres said that while Ripple had violated securities laws and selling XRP to institutional investors, that's what she said, retail investors could not have known they were personally XRP from Ripple because they bought the token on intermediate exchanges. Judge Rakoff stated this, whatever expectation of profit they had could not, according to that court, be ascribed to defendants' efforts. How he makes no such distinction and it makes good sense that a purchaser bought the coins directly from the defendants or instead in a secondary resale transaction has no impact on whether a reasonable individual would objectively view the defendant's actions and statements as evincing a promise of profits based on their efforts. So Rakoff was saying, I'm just going to throw it, I don't really care about that. This is for the Terra Luna case. And yes, I understand that the difference between the Terra Luna case and the Ripple case, which took two years in the Terra Luna case, which is just starting, I understand, I get it. This is what Stuart Alarotti says. Chief legal officer, again, for Ripple. On closer read, the Terra judge actually agrees that orange groves alone are not securities without promises to cultivate the groves and share the profits or, i.e., an investment contract. There needs to be an agreement between contracting parties for there to be an investment contract. A lot of others dive in the Terra judge's comments, including his apparent misreading of the Ripple judge's reasoning. Example, missing the entire point that secondary market traders can't invest money in anyone or anything if they don't know who they're buying from. So the point I was trying to make yesterday was this. Very simply, you can get a judge Torres, because let's be honest, the SEC is going to come through and they are going to appeal this court case. So you can either get a judge like Torres, which really understands what's happening, or you could get a judge like Rackoff. And that's the whole thing with life. You never know what you're going to actually get. You could get somebody who's super competent and someone's like, you know what, I got a lot of things to do is let's just move this forward. So on that piece, it kind of makes me worried because you never know. Because if the SEC comes through and they've already hinted that they're going to appeal this process, this could be an issue down the road. However, the good news is this, when you do an appeal, especially in New York, from what I want to understand as far as the state cases, it could take 12 to 24 months to hear those appeals and get those going. What does that mean for us? Well, let's be honest, in roughly nine months, we are going to go through a Bitcoin halving. We are in 2020 through right now. In 2024, we'll go through the Bitcoin halving. I personally believe that the cycles are still intact. It's been working pretty well for 13 years. We'll see what happens. So by the time this actually gets to the next phase, unfortunately, it's going to be all burdensome for Ripple if SEC does appeal this. In that time, we will probably go through, or let me say this, we will maybe go through a bull run. We don't know if it's going to actually happen. This is what I think is going to happen, but I can be wrong. I've been wrong many a time, just ask my wife. So when we go through this, when this case comes through, maybe at that point, the Bitcoin ETF will actually be approved and we'll be on to a whole another thing. And if it goes positively or negatively or half a win or half a loss, whatever it actually is, in reality, I don't think it's going to make a big deal for this cycle. But again, I could be wrong. Let me know what you think about that in the comment section as I tried to explain this as best I possibly could. Let's move on to kind of some negative stuff, negative but positive. I shouldn't say negative and positive. This is actually, once these guys get burdensome or get brought to justice, it's going to be pretty good. So three arrows capital, one of the co founders, Jeffries says the US court can no longer tell him what to do. So before I move on, the whole thing with three arrows capital, you know, those collapses with FTX and Voyager and Celsius and a host of other ones, it mostly has to do with this group right here and not everything, not everything. But these guys, three arrows capital, they were doing some pretty shady things and they took all of our money. I mean, not all of it, but a big huge chunk of it. And now they're living abroad and valley and these different places, very nice places. And they're buying yachts and they're buying condos and they're buying everything else with your money. And we're trying to get that money back from the courts. And they're like, no, we don't want to do this. So here's what we got. Three arrows capital co founder called Davey said he renounced his US citizenship in that US courts no longer have jurisdiction over him, which is false. US born and raised Davey's renounces US citizenship in 2020 for the avoidance of debt. I am not subjecting myself to or accepting the jurisdiction of the courts in the US, which is hilarious because they're still going to get him. So this came after months of attempts to force Davey's and three arrows capital co founder Suzu to cooperate with the effort to liquidate their failed hedge fund and repay billions to investors. So when we talk about the process of chapter 11, chapter 15, and we're trying to claw back some of these funds, a lot of this is from three arrows capital. And that is Voyager and Celsius and some parts of FTX. If these guys would just stand up and go, you know what, we promised something, we couldn't do it. Here's your money back. I know that sounds super naive to say, but it's just the truth. That's what they did. If this happens, of course, unfortunately, I have to go through the courts, but there wouldn't be so many people with holes in their investment. So their company, what they did is they have assets in the BVI or British Virgin Islands, chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the US in order to benefit from the legal shields against creditors provided by US bankruptcy. So what they did is they said, we're not US citizens, but we're going to file chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the BVI to get us these US bankruptcy protections. Amazing how that works. Liquidators asked for Davies to be held in a contempt of court, possibly subject him to a 10,000 per day fine until he responds. Remember, that's your money that he's paying that with. Three AC founders retreated to Bali after costing investors billions with the implosion of their investment fund. And they just don't want to give it back. They're like, no, no, we earned that. Unbelievable. US financial regulators and criminal prosecutors can still issue enforcement actions or pursue indictment of foreign nationals who have committed crimes in the US or are involving US citizens or entities. So even though they renounced their citizenship, it may not matter. And hopefully they get what's coming to them. I'm interested in thinking about that in the comments and then to finish up a couple more pieces. The US government's investing BlackRock for a Chinese investments. This may be nothing, but it is kind of weird in the timing, especially when they just came through and said, we want to do a Bitcoin ETF. So we'll see. And the whole point of this is Americans retirement funds are unwittingly fueling Chinese firms. The US has flagged over security and human rights issues. Lawmakers say House of Reps select committee on the Chinese Communist Party notified BlackRock on Monday of the probes and their activities. The goal of the investigation is to gather facts that would inform the US's China policies, including American capital flows, routing massive flows of American capital. Two such Chinese entities, the US firms are exacerbating an already significant national security threat and undermining American values. Again, this could be nothing, but I just find it as very odd timing as the SEC has just validated their application for a Bitcoin ETF. We'll see how it all plays out. I am still in the impression that this will not get approved, but I sure hope that I'm wrong. And then also, I think this is good news for Bitcoin in general. Brian Armstrong was just going through tweets between him and the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. And he goes, look, and Jack's like, why are you not dealing with Bitcoin lighting? Why can't you do that? And Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase says, we're looking into how to best add lightning. It's nontrivial, but I think we're doing them all for payments, taking off in Bitcoin. Not sure why you think we're ignoring it, but we're doing it. And then Jack says, no doubt Coinbase introduced more people to Bitcoin than anyone else. And then there was a piece here, Rudy says some great news. And then one of the CTO developers came out from a cash app and said, look, if you want to do this, we'll show you exactly how to do it. Brian just DMed me and Brian said, yes, I would love to talk to you. So that would be good news for lightning network and making things work. But I got to tell you, as far as like, if you don't know what the lightning network is, it's a layer two solution that sits on top of Bitcoin. So instead of using things on chain, which can be very expensive, if you do all the transactions on chain, let's say me and you start up a fund or I want to pay you. So we have a channel together. And we do like, let's say 100 different transactions, those just go back and forth and back and forth.   Until the one point where it's okay, let's settle this transaction on chain, then we pay that fee. And for all those transactions, it's pennies in the dollar. So that's essentially the most simple way that I can put it. And I think it's good because it's cheap. And how cheap is it? This is interesting. James checked the lead analyst at Glassnode states that the median fee rate of the fee charged per one Bitcoin sent across the lightning network is currently 3000 to Toshis, which is equivalent to 84 cents to send 28,800 dollars worth of value, which is a fee of 0.0029%. You know how much I'm paying for all my online transactions from businesses? I'm paying like two to three, two to three and a half percent. Actually, well, sometimes it just it just varies. It doesn't really matter, but PayPal and Stripe, same type of thing. So if I could use Lightning Network, I definitely would. Transaction fees are free to pennies. Transparency full, and of course Visa in the bank, fund availability in milliseconds one day, cross-border payments instant, Visa 57 days and fraud non-business level. So that was a lot of news and hopefully a little bit of time. And that's all we have. I think this is good news for Bitcoin. I never understood why Elon Musk was so big into Dogecoin. And now that everybody's talking about how he's going to use transactions for Dogecoin. But I gotta tell you, when we take a look at the transaction fees, as time goes on and we get more people, it could just right up there, just as with everything else. But that's another video. So that's it for today. So look, if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. Everything we talk about is time-sensitive, but that's it for today. So thank you for stopping by. I appreciate you and I'll see you on the next one.


where she's been doing in Pakistan to reach out and especially to reach out to young girls in high school and young women in college. So Imranah, I'm gonna hand it over to you. Thank you so much, Joe. You have to stop sharing, you stop sharing. Oh, I did stop, yeah. Okay, let me share, okay, go to this. Thank you, Joe, for the kind words. My name is Imranah. I'm from Khairazan University, Islamabad. I'm senior associate at ICTP. And ICTP is like my second home. So today I'm going to talk about some of the outreach activities and I did with the specially government college schools and primary school girls and what we did for education. So optics, the topic is optics outreach and gender equity in Pakistan. Before going into details of this topic, we would like to see where Pakistan stand in education. So Pakistan has the highest number of out of school children worldwide after Nigeria. That's not a good news. Nearly 22.5 million children are out of school. So Pakistan, according to the Oslo Summit 2015, Pakistan is among the worst performing countries in education. So below I took a table from world education services. They compiled this in 2020. According to their statistics, the elementary, which is the grade one to grade five, almost 18 million students get enrolled, but out of school is almost 5 million in primary education that is from grade one to grade five. Almost 21.3% of children are out of school. In middle school, that is grade six to grade eight, 6.3 million are enrolled in schools, but 6.5 million are out of school. So it is almost more than a 50% children are out of school in this age. Skendri or the higher school is from nine to 12th grade. 4.8 million are enrolled. And out of school is around 11.3, which are not registered in any school. So the percentage of out of school children is increasing that you can see is the 70%. But situation all along the Pakistan is not same. Like in I think many developing country, the literacy rate is higher in big cities, like in same is true for Pakistan, like in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, the literacy rate is quite high and percentage of out of school children is quite low. According to the Pakistan constitution, the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to 16 year. In such a manner as maybe determined by law. Government, different governments, political and our dictatorship regime striped their level best to increase the literacy rate of Pakistan. But sometimes they are not, even providing this free and compulsory education, they were not able to achieve a good number of educated students or children in Pakistan. If this is the situation in general, what about the girls education? Because so women are almost 49.2% of total population. There is a gender imbalance at all levels of education. The out of school rate for primary age girl is 32% compared to the 21% of boys.  By grade nine, merely 30% of young women are still enrolled in school. And this again is not the uniform throughout the Pakistan. The largest province and the poorest province is Blochistan in Pakistan. Their Bochi girls, almost 78% are out of school. In Fata, which is now under the KBK, that is the Khabar Pakhtulfa, before it used to call the federal administrative derailment area. So there are 74% of girls which are out of school. Same another province in which 61% of girls are out of school. Gilgit-Burlistan is the northern area of Islamabad, Pakistan, which is very beautiful. But the education level is not very high. It is 53% of girls are out of school. In Azad Jamu-Peshmi, 52%, as you can see that I'm coming down. The number of out-of-school girls is improving a bit. In Khabar Pakhtulfa, which has a long border with Afghanistan and the novel laureate, Malala-Yusif Zayi belongs to that province. We have 51% of girls out of school. Punjab has a little bit better situation, but still it is not up to the mark. It's just in comparison to Blochistan, we have 40% of girls out of school. And in Islamabad capital territory, which is the federal area or the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, we have only 11% of girls out of school. So this number is varying in remote areas, in ruler areas, the number of girls are not able to go to school. So what are the challenges for girls outside school? There is a poverty, families are poor, it is a developing country. Pandemic has a really bad effect on poor families. There were businesses were closed, labor were not able to get work. So that is a fundamental barrier for girls' education. Because even if education is free and compulsory, there are some hidden expenditures, like books, stationery, a uniform. Then the cost of transportation from one village to far away school, that is also high. Then there are some families that believe that girls should not be educated. Then they cannot be good wives, good mothers. They should stay inside home. Then there is a gender discrimination. In Asian society, male is considered the only breadwinner. So families prioritize voice education to ensure a better economic future for the family. And then girls from remote areas of countries are unable to attend school because they cannot afford the cost of transportation. There are, if they go to school by foot, there are, they face harassment, there are many incident. And then being a neighbor of Afghanistan in many provinces and even in capital, we suffered many suicide attacks in schools and as Taliban are totally against female education and we have this kind of influence in specially in Khairberg-Pakhtunkhwa. Then there are social norms that also varies from one family or one community to another community. So that also make hard for girls to have education. So what we can do? So the idea is how and where to start. So we decided to reach out to help government schools, colleges for girls, to provide them inquiry-based training to high school and college teachers. So if teachers are trained, they will communicate in a better way to their students. We decided to help students to actively contribute to the learning process, inquiry-based and active learning kind of hands-on activity, foster science as a force that can build up active citizen to emphasize the relationship between science skill and future employability. This point can also make clear to the families that if a girl will take education, she can teach or she can do some other work that will economic, better economic future of the family that she can contribute towards that. So we started, we established one self-funded group called Active Learning and Optics in January 2016 under the umbrella of the Salam International Center for Threatical Physics and Department of Physics at Thaydeasam University Islamabad. It is all the group members are volunteers and this group brings science, a lot of group brings physical sciences to underprivileged girls, schools, colleges and female university. It also provides an enriching science experience in a friendly atmosphere because usually set up in a school, even in colleges and university, students are shy to ask or to argue with the teacher. In that process, they don't learn much. Many outreach activities were organized to support and encourage girls students to pursue careers in science. On the left bottom, you can see a huge group of private school based in Islamabad, the Hork Grammar School. So we did an Optics Fair in 2018 in connection with International Day of Light. So we received a huge response from this school and we were not able to take a group photo so you can see that our photographer went on the first floor, roof of the first floor to take this screenshot. So the second image is from an activity in which Joe was also present. This activity we did in 2019, March 2019. This is the period when Pakistan was almost at war with India and over airspace was, most of the time was blocked. And we invited grade six and seven girls from our model school that is based on Khydeasam University campus. So why we decided to do Optics? Because the light is a very, you can explain very easily. You can see light and light based technology in every aspect of your life. So we decided and then United Nations designated 2015 as an International Year of Light and light based technology. So that's why we decided and then International Day of Light is celebrated on 16th of May each year, the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser in 1960 by a physicist and in Virginia Theatre of America. So that's make us to do something in terms using light and light based technologies to students because optics is a fun. Optics and photonics, they can, you can explain many things using the light. And we did one, we celebrated in our university International Day of Light. We in connection with the LiDAR and we did an activity today, early morning. So I'll share the images with all of you. So what we usually do during these activities, we explain to them what is light. We explain whole spectrum of electromagnetic waves. Then we explain to them the different rules of light in our daily lives, like the use of laser light in medicine, in cutting, in brain finding, all these kinds depending upon the age of the group. So we do some magic tricks based on optical illusion. We explain laws of geometrical optics. And after doing hands-on activities, we experience that they don't forget these laws of optical optics. We do diffraction with single and double split interference, polarization of light. These are the few things listed over, but it's just a kind of momentum. I'm lucky to have kids from SPI. I'm lucky to have OSA suitcase. And then a Photonic Explorer kit. Thanks to Jonah Miller. We are using that. And I also have some American physical societies, kids six of spectra series number six and number seven. So here you can see this is an image from Fatma Janav women's university in Ravel Pinti. And I'm trying to explain the total internal reflection in a long glass tube. And you can see the image very clearly over here. So what we do for the younger girls, for younger girls, you cannot start from that, okay, this is monochromatic, this is the frequency range from this to this. So you have to go onto that level. So in this respect, we have experienced that the diffraction glasses from Optica and SPI helped us a lot. We have some small LED from SPI, then some lasers, and we have ordinary light. You can explain, ask them to put on these diffraction glasses. They can identify that where they can see a single color with laser. What are the LEDs? Not going into the details of how they are made or what is spontaneous emission and what is stimulated to emission. Then we do use gummy bears and we sort out M&Ms by using white light and color lights. We give them the concept of color, why mango is yellow, why blueberry is blue, by using toys, by we generate shadows. Then we show them the generation of white light and optical illusion. Usually they prefer to see the disappearing penny or the swapping of the arrow using half filled glass of water. So for senior girls, we start with the geometrical optics. We do the law of reflection, law of reflections, that is the SNL law. We ask them to find the critical angle. You can see there are girls that are trying to find the critical angle. They are using a laser diode from the photonic explorer gate. And then we explain from totally after doing the total internal reflection, we explain to the working principle of fiber optics because fiber optics can be used in communication. And now in Pakistan, most of the communication lines are based on fiber optics, at least in Islamabad. So these are again the reflection and the total internal reflection kind of thing. This is very, the top right is very famous for young girls as well as for the senior students. The stepping color by using these glass and in the left below, you can see these girls are calculating total internal reflection and calculating the critical angle of that plexiglass semi-circular dish. So giving them a difference of that, usually we all know that if we mix yellow color with blue, we get green. And if we mix red with yellow, we get orange. But in this experiment, they can see because of the reflection that blue plus yellow is not green because colors are swapped. And you can see that it is orange is there and the green is on the other side. So this is the generation of white light. You can see that there are different LEDs. We are using green, blue and red. And then we start overlapping and we explain them, this is the white light. And same time for the young girl, we say, okay, can you try, mix these color by using your coloring pencil? And what is the result? They said, oh, it is more darker. And then you can explain that that's how, what is the difference between these colored lights and those material particles? So this is for interference, we have these strips, which I got when we did active learning in optics and photonics at UNESCO project. So these are very good. They are made on a transparency. They are very precise in the wavelength. We have two for red, red light and two for blue. So by using these simple techniques, we can calculate the maxima and the minima of blue and red light. We can find the position of green wavelength on the intensity pattern. So this is again, how light travels, light travels in the straight line. Here we explain the scattering. My colleague, Professor Raheel, is putting some powder on laser pointer. And this eliminates the path of laser and it shows that it is traveling in the straight line. And also from here, we take them to why sky is blue and why sky is orange-ish red at dawn and dusk. Okay, so for senior girls, we also do diffraction with a single slit, double slit. We explain the interference. We do diffraction from obstacle, light to pinhole, spring wire, human hair and curved obstacle. These girls are also from the Phakma Janak Women's University. This is from the polarizer. We have these polarizers from Photonic Explorer Kit. You can see if you can see it, from Photonic Explorer Kit, you can see if you are using the two polarizer, having perpendicular exit, you can block the total intensity coming from the screen. Here the intensity is reduced to half and also in these two photos. We can, we also explain to them if you are using eyeglasses, we ask them to put their eyeglasses in between two polarizers to see the stress and different kinds of strains and that glass or a plastic table spoon or a fork. So how many activities we have done so far? Most of the time, you know, that we are not keeping a good track. When we are doing activities, some main issue is there is no one to take a decent kind of screenshots or photos. Most of these photos are mobile click or when Joe was there, he took very nice photos. So we did 40 outreach activities only for girls, female, girls school, colleges and universities. And as I'm teaching at Kaidiazum University, which is co-education. So most of the time, our undergraduate boys were complaining about that I'm too much inclined towards female education. So we did 10 optics outreach activity with our own undergraduate students and some private school because mostly private school are in co-education, but not these model school. They are mostly for, there are many schools for girls alone. And so this activity we did in 2019, you can identify it is not very good image that Professor Joe Damela is standing there, ICTP Deputy Director, Professor Sandro Schendler was there, George Thompson was there. And these are those girls from grade six and seven of our model school that is located on Kaidiazum, near Kaidiazum University. This low images, we did this activity last month on 25th of April. These are girls from primary model school from Islamabad. And there were grade four and five girls. And when we reached there, there were 74 girls. And you can see, and they wanted to learn, they wanted to interact, they wanted to grab the optics we took with us to explain these kind of things. So it was fun. For high school, you can see these two images on left are from a private school. And this top on left is a very famous private school, very expensive. But unfortunately, they don't have laboratories. What they do for O level and A level, they take a subject that is called alternate to practical. My daughter studied from the same school. So I know the problems. Otherwise for me, I prefer government school. They have a lack of funding. These school have lack of honesty. Their owners have lack of honesty because they don't spend money on experiments. They prefer to take alternate to practical course. So these are O levels and A level student because one of my ex student is a teacher there. So she invited us and this activity we did in April. So we explained to them some optics phenomena. And that was the first time they touched some optics or lasers and these kinds of things. Right. And then we did many activities for undergraduate students. And here you can see there are some boys because these are our own undergraduate students from Kaisen University. We did many activities with female university. On the top right, you can see this is from a women's university in Mardhan. Mardhan is a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. So I took this photo in a sense to explain to you. We distributed the certificate among them, the organizers and others. And you can see that some of the girls are hiding their faces behind this certificate. So if you have such kind of restriction, it is hard to go for higher education and things, but still we were very impressed with how they were trying to understand different phenomena and how they are interacting with us. On the top left, we visited an international Islamic university that is funded by Saudi Arabia. But unfortunately this university female campus don't have a laboratory. So we did one hands-on, one day of optics activity with the female campus of International Islamic University. So this is also from the bottom picture is from a university of Hwa. It used to be a girls college. Now it is a co-education university. Hwa is the city at the border of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. And its literacy rate in Pakistan is 100%. And the day we visited them, the total strength of the department is 350. 200 are girls and 150 are boys. So the head of department closed the whole department in order that everybody will attend our activity. So it was a very nice day we spent with them and truthful day for us and for them. So these are the in-person activities we did during pandemic. So of course there were many risk involved, not for me because I like to take risks but for my student, Abdul Rahman, he's always with me for many activities. The top left is in University of Swabi. We did in October 2020. I'm not sure because I never see any other in-person optics activity in 2020. This was, I think, we are the only one or we are among the few who did in-person hands-on activity during the 2020. The top right is we did hands-on activity with the girls. These are in grade 10. And they were going to have exam after this activity because this school was closed for one year. So these girls lost the knowledge or the teaching or studying of one year because their parents cannot afford smartphones. They don't have the iPads or televisions or computers at home. Their teachers don't have Wi-Fi connection all the time. So they were not lucky enough to have online classes. So it was a nice day with them. But of course, one day activity cannot compensate for a year of knowledge, but we are happy that we bring some happiness to them through our optics activity. The top, the below left is Sir Syed's school in Wakand, where literacy rate is too high. 150 girls attended this activity and 150 boys also attended the initial my lecture and also the initial demonstration. But we didn't have so many kids that we accommodated those boys, but we promise that we will visit for them sometime again. So this is also Islamic University, female campus that we visited after the fourth wave. When fourth lockdown, there was a small window last December in December, 2021. We visited this during pandemic. So, but these four activities according to me during lockdown and because of the pandemics were not enough. So we decided to do some online teaching and lectures for our undergrad students and graduate students. So we decided need to reach out masses together. So we gather our academia and help and other alumni from ICTP, Pakistan ICTP alumni. So we founded an alumni society under the name Pakistan ICTP Alumni Society. We inaugurated it in January, 2021. And now this society is almost one year old. So far we are done with 20 online lectures by distinguished scientists. And we also did a couple of series like Steven Weinberg lecture series of the Salam lecture series. But these lectures were for undergraduate students, not for the government school girls schools or primary schools. So they are a bit advanced level. So we did these online for some senior students. Then we also did some about female education. The top left is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 2021. We did it on 11th February. Many girls around the world contributed their point of view. Then on the top right, you can see Professor Maria Yusuf and Professor Anna Koncepthini. We invited them on International Day of Women and Girls, 2022 to share their experience with the young girls of Pakistan and in the region. And active learning in optics and Pakistan ICTP alumni society also organized a unique event to celebrate International Day of Light 2021 and also to highlight importance of female education. We invited a celebrity who is a pop singer, Iron Harun Rashid, who produced Pakistan first full-length 3D animated series under the title Burqa Avenger. So to emphasize the importance of girl education. So from all these online and outreach activities, we have learned especially from the outreach activities because they were interactive. Topics should be selected according to the theoretical background of students. The activities should be according to the age of students, which must start give an introductory talk for a session explaining aims of hands-on activity and students should be encouraged to make the predictions and ask questions. Usually in the beginning of each activity, we should, we especially I crack some jokes, I try to make them relaxed and then they are fun to be with. So there should not be any mathematical equations are involved. So what we hope, of course you can, there is no restriction on hoping. So these girls will continue in science. And one day may do outreach themselves and be a role model for a new group of girls. Be better informed citizen, capable of making decision for the betterment of everyone. What being a, I studied in Pakistan, I lived here. So I experienced many things in my times when we were living in a city, but there were no labs in my college. So we used to go to a voice college to perform experiment. So remembering my experience and how time was and after 30 years, nothing has changed.  Knowing how female children have been treated in remote areas of my beautiful country makes me want to do so much more. What I feel is that Pakistan, it's always, I feel very happy to make them happy. So Pakistan, these girls really do embed light. I should not say, but with my experience, I realized that girls in Pakistan are more brighter than boys. Their faces transmit a positive energy that says clearly we are your future, take care of us and we will take care of you as good citizen, as mothers, as good teachers, as productive member of an enlightened society where culture and tradition don't have to be in conflict with the realization of potential of young girls. So what I believe many boys or male don't agree with this. If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate whole family, your next generation. So these are the images you can see the smile on these girls. This girl is using homemade spectroscope and these images from female campus in International Islamic University. So what about our future moves? The active learning in optics group is planning to establish a regular calendar of outreach hands-on activity optics. For example, for this year as the COVID situation is much better in Pakistan, we managed to do almost six activities in the past few months. So mostly we do with the school and colleges in Twin City of Islamabad and Ravel Pinti, but from 2019, we extended these activity to Khabar Bakhtun Park. And we've been to two universities, the University of Murdan and University of Swabi. But then 2020, it was a lockdown and many other issues. We want to extend the limit of these activities to the remote areas of Pakistan and eventually make it a regional activity. And we want to take a law that is active learning in optics to Alps, which is active learning in physical sciences. So how you can reach us? There are two Facebook pages, in fact, three Facebook pages. One is on the title, Optics Workshop. You can find the details of all hands-on optics activities starting from 2016. Then we have a Facebook with the new ICTP Alumni Society. You can find recording of all those lectures I mentioned. And then Pakistan is now a new territory of International Commission of Optics. We have a Facebook page for that. I added a Dropbox link that you can check all the image, because it was not possible to add all the images, all the group photos. So we added few, but you can please kindly feel free to use. And these are my volunteers to Professor Rahil, Professor at Khydeasam University, Professor Jahan Akbar, he's from Hazara University in Mansira, KBK. And soon to be Dr. Abdul Rehman, he's my PhD student, and he has submitted his thesis. And soon, inshallah, he will be this. Okay, thank you.


All right Joe coming off of those two games in Cleveland finding a way to pull this one out down the stretch How big was this win for this group? It's huge You know obviously a couple of tough games But able to find our rhythm here early and then at the end of the day a win is a win and we'll take it However, we can get it with Kevin sitting last night. It's just a second game We've seen Kevin Kyrie James with the rest of the group I know folks want things to be perfect right away, but what is this process like building continuity connectivity out there in trust? You know, it's tough Like you mentioned, you know, this is the second time where we've had this entire group together It's gonna take time. You know, we just have to be patient. No need to panic here early You know, it's one of these things where we don't have the luxury of having a lot of practice time A lot of time together where you know, we're just kind of throw it into the fire And you really got to be patient with this whole thing It was big four tonight. He had seven three-pointers in this game matching a career high 20 points in the first half What were you seeing out there that allows you to be so aggressive and set the tone for the team? Um, you know, I think just playing off of those guys, you know They make simple plays where they're you know facilitating get in the middle and you know I'm just kind of trying to find space and get room and rhythm shots. Enjoy the win. Thanks so much