Podcasts about SCCS

In this episode, Marta and Willem invite a long-time listener and supporter of the Bestek podcast and a postdoctoral fellow at PurpLE, Ezgi Uysal, to discuss her research on the topic of sustainability contractual clauses (SCCs) in public procurement contracts. The podcast begins with Ezgi briefly explaining what the SCCs are and what makes them unique, before quickly diving into a discussion about the contractualization of sustainability in public procurement. The speakers then examine different types of SCCs as well as challenges concerning enforcement. They discuss the potential consequences of the failure of contracting authorities to enforce said obligations. Additionally, the speakers argue in favour of the need for improvements in contract management to deliver sustainable public procurement and communication between the contract-drafting and contract-managing teams and discuss whether these problems could be solved by a legislative intervention. For dessert, Ezgi reflects on her PhD experience and provides some heartfelt advice for the first-year PhD students and beyond.

You have a car, and we may have a fix. Why not give it a shot! Russ Chris and Shannon are here to help you. Under The Hood. Street Racing? Organize your own SCCA local club. Car our local club contact them on their facebook page SCCS on facebook. Prepper Cars How much car insurance should I have? 2012 Silverado V6 Temperature Sensor on engine. 13 Honda Ridgeline Tire replacement just 1 or all 4 with AWD? 11 Charger how to keep it going longer with almost 300k on it now.

Send us a textOn this week of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal catch up on some happenings in the privacy world. We discussed US election results and a peek at some potential changes to come, such as appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, EU first review of the thingy (the EU US Data Privacy Framework), (please note - there is no need to have both SCCs and register to the framework), TrustArc's new Privacy Pulse newsletter, Japan had the first mutual adequacy decision with EU and now South Korea has an equivalency mechanism. We also mentioned some S. Korea enforcement, such as TikTok, Canada's pending privacy legislation, and yet another update to Meta's advertising program. Tune in for some #livinglearninglaughing. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and IG @seriousprivacy @podcastprivacy @euroPaulB @heartofprivacy and on Blue Sky under the same - Serious Privacy, EuroPaulB, and HeartofPrivacy - and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! Proudly sponsored by TrustArc. Learn more about NymityAI at https://trustarc.com/nymityai-beta/ #heartofprivacy #europaulb #seriousprivacy #privacy #dataprotection #cybersecuritylaw #CPO #DPO #CISO

On this weeks program Chris talks to Matt Katzen about his Strategic Cycling Corridor project, his cycling interests, planning, design, what are strategic cycling corridors, riding SCCs, principal bicycle network (PBN), potential easy wins, political will, fixing connections such as Flemington Bridge, treatments, modial filters, upgrades, Victorian Auditor-General's Office: Developing Cycling as a Safe and Appealing Mode of Transport (2011), opening up opportunities for people to use the network, creating routes that are convenient, safe, direct and contacting local councillors and politicians to inform them of your concerns.News includes Gipps Street Elevated Ramp update, changes to social media, Critical Mass South, Friday 29 November 2024 and a potential heatwave at the end of this weekProgram musicAncedata, Bike SongKhruangbin, People EverywhereKing Stingray, Camp Dog 

GIVEAWAY - send us a message and let us know your favorite thing about the Square Pizza Pod. We are giving away SchermCo swag to the first three people that send us a note!Welcome back to another episode of #squarepizzapod. This week, guest host and Associate Director of Family Empowerment, Mathu Gibson, sits down with Cherie Graham (Chief of Instructional Support and Family Engagement) of Sugar Creek Charter School. Sugar Creek Charter School is one of the oldest charter schools in Charlotte, NC. Their mission is to eradicate generational poverty in the lives of their students by providing a rigorous education from kindergarten through 12th grade, focusing on academic preparation, college and career readiness, and life skills for success. On this episode, we discuss Graham's journey to education and the work she and Sugar Creek Charter are doing to empower families at their school.In this episode: Influence and story: Education journeySugar Creek Charter School and communities What challenges families at SCCS face, + how is SCCS working to help families overcome themVision and hope How she sees herself making a difference in the lives of familiesSupport the Show.

Op 20 april 2023 heeft de raad besloten een Sociaal Cultureel Centrum (SCCS) te realiseren in het hart van het dorp Soesterberg. Na het raadsbesluit is de stuurgroep, bestaande uit Stichting Balans, SWOS, Kunstenhuis Idea en Stichting De Linde, aan de slag gegaan met de realisatie van het SCCS. Twee (lokale) aannemers hebben een offerte hebben uitgebracht voor de verbouwing van ‘de Plint'. Na beoordeling van deze offertes bleken beide het vooraf bepaalde krediet met € 786.500 te overschrijden. Het is dan ook noodzakelijk om de raad een aanvullend krediet te vragen. De planning waarmee de aannemers hebben ingeschreven op de aanbesteding gaat uit van een besluit over de voorgenomen gunning voor 8 maart 2024. Schuift de voorgenomen gunning op dan betekent dit dat de datum van oplevering, 1 juli, ook opschuift. Dit heeft ongewenste consequenties voor zowel de bibliotheek als SWOS. De bibliotheek moet per 1 juli moet verhuizen uit de Carolusschool, aangezien deze ruimte nodig is voor het onderwijs. Daarnaast loopt ook het huurcontract van de SWOS tot 1 juli. Uitstel zal daarmee leiden tot aanvullende kosten of een ongewenste verschraling van het voorzieningenniveau in Soesterberg. De raad wordt gevraagd in te stemmen met een extra krediet van € 786.500 (incl. btw) voor de realisatie van het SCCS. De jaarlijkse extra lasten bedragen maximaal € 49.000.

Op 20 april 2023 heeft de raad besloten een Sociaal Cultureel Centrum (SCCS) te realiseren in het hart van het dorp Soesterberg. Na het raadsbesluit is de stuurgroep, bestaande uit Stichting Balans, SWOS, Kunstenhuis Idea en Stichting De Linde, aan de slag gegaan met de realisatie van het SCCS. Twee (lokale) aannemers hebben een offerte hebben uitgebracht voor de verbouwing van ‘de Plint'. Na beoordeling van deze offertes bleken beide het vooraf bepaalde krediet met € 786.500 te overschrijden. Het is dan ook noodzakelijk om de raad een aanvullend krediet te vragen. De planning waarmee de aannemers hebben ingeschreven op de aanbesteding gaat uit van een besluit over de voorgenomen gunning voor 8 maart 2024. Schuift de voorgenomen gunning op dan betekent dit dat de datum van oplevering, 1 juli, ook opschuift. Dit heeft ongewenste consequenties voor zowel de bibliotheek als SWOS. De bibliotheek moet per 1 juli moet verhuizen uit de Carolusschool, aangezien deze ruimte nodig is voor het onderwijs. Daarnaast loopt ook het huurcontract van de SWOS tot 1 juli. Uitstel zal daarmee leiden tot aanvullende kosten of een ongewenste verschraling van het voorzieningenniveau in Soesterberg. De raad wordt gevraagd in te stemmen met een extra krediet van € 786.500 (incl. btw) voor de realisatie van het SCCS. De jaarlijkse extra lasten bedragen maximaal € 49.000.

With Nina Müller, Ethical Commerce Alliance Director and host of the Ethical Allies podcast. __ Notes: A more comprehensive coverage of all relevant updates can be found on our blog. The topics below have been specifically addressed during this recording: GDPR fines reached a new record when the Irish DPA, following considerable pressure from the EDPB, issued a 1.2bn EUR fine to Meta for its inability to comply with the Schrems II CJEU doctrine. The company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp was also asked to cease all data transfers to the US. It was made clear that there is no possible way to either rely on SCCs (already updated to their latest post-Schrems II version, and already complemented with additional safeguards that only stopped short of end-to-end encryption) or any of the available derogations. This leaves the upcoming EU-US Data Privacy Framework as the only way out of the current deadlock, which affects a vast majority of businesses operating in the European Union.   LinkedIn is expecting its own GDPR fine in Ireland. Microsoft has set aside $425m for the expected DPC blow, as the supervisor completes an investigation initiated in 2018. The Austrian supervisor sided with NOYB/Max Schrems and considered that a website had breached the GDPR through the inclusion of a Meta/Facebook pixel and Single Sign-On widget (resulting in a personal data transfer to the United States). It appears from the decision that isolating any of these two features would not have made a difference, and, as well explained by Jorge García Herrero (ES), this misses a few key technical details: Whereas the SSO will only result in a transfer of limited information from Meta to the website (ie. In the opposite direction), the Facebook pixel collects entirely new hits or “events” for existing users of the platform. Also, Meta was here considered a mere data processor despite the fact that the company seems to be in full control of the purposes and means of the processing (note: the EDPB Guidelines on targeting social media users make Meta a joint controller in the use of Facebook pixels for paid advertising scenarios). TikTok suffered additional blows on the basis of both the privacy risks entailed in the Chinese Government accessing personal information about US or EU citizens, and the ability of its secret algorithm to curate the specific content made available to said individuals, thus exerting an undesirable level of influence. While its US CEO, Shou Zi Chew, testified before Congress, The US Federal Government, as well as many others throughout Europe, forbid their own personnel the use of the app on their official devices. Montana announced fines for the Google Play and Apple iOS stores if the app was not hidden for Montana-based individuals by January 1st 2024. The EU Commission announced that it would stress-test Twitter's ability to respond to disinformation in line with the upcoming Digital Services Act to ascertain whether it will already be at risk of breaching the new legal framework before it enters into force on August 25th. The company had announced its withdrawal from a voluntary code of conduct. Filtering out the robots on a given website (through the typical prompt that only a human should be able to respond to successfully) has just become more expensive. France's CNIL issued an #ePrivacy fine to scooter company Citiscoot for its retrieval of device information in the use of Google reCAPTCHA (it was accompanied by a separate breach of the GDPR due to its excessive collection of geo-location data). For its part, the Finnish DPO ordered (FI) the Finnish Meteorological Institute to disable the same tool (Google reCAPTCHA) on the basis of the resulting EU-US data transfers in the current post-SchremsII scenario - in this case Google Analytics was also involved in this decision for the same reasons, and the Institute ending up removing both tools from its website as well as being asked to delete all of the historical data available.  CNIL issued a 380k EUR fine to pan-European medical advice service Doctissimo for various GDPR infringements as well as a breach of the ePrivacy Directive (responsible for 100k of the total amount) consisting in serving two advertising cookies after users have selected the Reject All option in the website's consent banner.  FTC enforcement actions involving the use website/app user data for digital marketing purposes (healthcare, children): GoodRx, Betterhelp, Edmodo, Premom. The CNIL published the results of its own research on the use of cookies (assisted by CookieViz, an auditing tool developed internally, now open sourced) and the evolution of acceptance rates and third party cookie numbers over time. Other than a reminder of the 421 EUR piling up in cookie-related fines since 2020, the report contains interesting conclusions: 68% of French internet users consider that the information provided by the advertising ecosystem is insufficient or non-existent 39% are now rejecting all cookies, with 49% actively managing their consent preferences (analytics-related cookies are normally favored). The share of sites serving more than 6 third-party cookies dropped to 12% from 24%,  with 29% of all websites not serving any third-party cookies at all (vs. 20%) The IAB released TCF 2.2 on May 16th, finally removing the extremely confusing legitimate interest selectors for advertising and content personalization, replacing purposes and feature descriptions with a more user-friendly language, standardizing information about vendors, and providing a path for end users to withdraw their consent. CMPs are due to implement these changes by September 30th 2023. Following the TCF 2.2 announcement, Google has started reviewing and certifying Consent Management Platforms introducing new requirements under its Additional Consent Mode specification (important to remember that Consent Mode's Ghost call is still considered in breach of ePrivacy unless consent is specifically requested).

Welp, the Irish DPC fined Meta $1.3 billion, the highest ever GDPR fine, and it ordered Meta to stop transferring data from the EU to the U.S. The implication, obviously, is that every other company using SCCs to transfer data is also in breach of the GDPR. But the problem is at the political level! We can't solve this organizationally. So, what's a company to even do? Eduardo Ustaran talks you off the ledge.

Dr. Feldman on SALIENCE - Cemiplimab for SCCs - When dupi doesn't work - Digital minimalism in medicine - Malignant and premalignant oral lesions - Luke's PDPC course and the Intermountain Derm Society meeting: ⁠⁠⁠https://registration.socio.events/e/idspdpc23/promo-codes/ATTENDEE⁠⁠ The University of Utah's Dermatology ECHO: ⁠⁠https://physicians.utah.edu/echo/dermatology-primarycare⁠⁠Connect with us! - Web: ⁠https://dermaspherepodcast.com/⁠ - Twitter: @DermaspherePC - Instagram: dermaspherepodcast - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DermaspherePodcast/ - Check out Luke and Michelle's other podcast, SkinCast! ⁠https://healthcare.utah.edu/dermatology/skincast/⁠ Luke and Michelle report no significant conflicts of interest… BUT check out our friends at: - ⁠Kikoxp.com⁠(a social platform for doctors to share knowledge) - ⁠https://www.levelex.com/games/top-derm⁠ (A free dermatology game to learn more dermatology!)

Mark Smith, a pastor and an SCCS teacher, guides us in a study of Luke 8:4-15. We explore how the Parable of the Sower is a story of the heart shared to teach us about the conditions of our own hearts and describe what happens when the Gospel takes root in a willing and noble heart.

In the first episode of season 4 of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth of Catawiki and Dr. K Royal of Outschool welcome season 4 launching on Data Protection / Privacy Day 2023! From current events, to laws, to breaches, to SCCs - we probably covered it all! Paul even challenged ChatGPT to describe our season 1.The Serious Privacy podcast, by TrustArc, season 1 covered a variety of core topics related to privacy and data protection. Some of the key topics discussed in season 1 include:Overview of key privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPAThe role of Artificial Intelligence in privacy and data protectionBest practices for creating and implementing a data privacy programImpact of privacy on different industries such as healthcare and financeThe future of privacy and data protection and how it will shape our worldReal-world examples of data breaches and how to respond to themHow to handle sensitive data and protect against cyber threatsCurrent trends in data privacy and the challenges of protecting personal information in the digital ageOverall, season 1 of the Serious Privacy podcast aimed to provide listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the current state of data privacy and the challenges that organizations face in protecting personal information in the digital age. It also provided practical tips and best practices for organizations to create and implement a data privacy program to protect sensitive data and comply with regulations.Should you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to us via seriousprivacy@trustarc.com or info@seriousprivacy.eu, or via Twitter at @podcastprivacy. You find us on LinkedIn as well - just look for Serious Privacy. You will find K on Twitter as @heartofprivacy and myself as @EuroPaulB.

On 4th June 2021, the European Commission published a decision in respect of a new set of modernised standard contractual clauses ("EU SCCs") for compliance purposes with the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), taking into account the decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") published on 16th July 20202 in connection with the EU-US Privacy Shield and the old standard contractual clauses ("Old SCCs") ("Schrems II Decision"). From 27th December 2022, where you rely on standard contractual clauses as a transfer mechanism, the New SCCs must be used. From this date, the original standard contractual clauses will no longer be an appropriate safeguard under Article 46 of GDPR. In this episode of the Compliance Files, Steven Roberts, vice chair of the Compliance Institute's Data Protection & Information Security (DP&IS) Working Group talks to Flavien Corolleur, Senior Legal Counsel/Director and Data Protection Officer at SS&C Financial Services (Ireland) Limited and a member of the DP&IS Working Group on International Data Transfers and Standard Contractual Clauses, and what is required prior to the deadline of the 27th December. Flavien provides updates on his article in the summer edition of the ICQ and practical matters to consider. https://d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net/public/users/Integrators/BeeProAgency/652846_635112/ICQ_Summer22_WebVersion.pdf

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The fish farm industry does not want to leave British Columbia's coastal waters in 2025. In a recent press release Andreas Kvame, CEO of Grieg Seafood, said, “Our industry is in continuous development with new technologies and innovations, and in Grieg Seafood we are committed to improvements that strengthen biological control and reduce interactions with wild salmon.” David Kemiele, Managing Director of Cermaq emailed Cortes Currents, “Our new protocol extends to the end of 2025 and we are using that time to refine what our operations will look like moving forward beyond 2025 and definitely innovation plays a critical role in that plan.” Dan Lewis, executive director of Clayoquot Action, explained, “They call it an SCCS semi closed containment system and what we're seeing with the consultation that DFO is running is the wording the ministry is using is things like we want the industry to leave the way with technological change and is becoming more and more clear that what they're talking about is these semi-close containment systems in the water.” Stan Proboszcz, senior scientist with the Watershed Watch Salmon Society, added, “There aren't any proven semi-closed containment projects that I know of anywhere that work. I know a few of the companies have been trialing that technology in British Columbia over the last several years and all I've heard about are failures. If they're talking about it, I honestly believe having worked on this issue for so long that it is just talk to maintain the status quo, which is open nets."

En lytter har stilt meg spørsmålet om aluminium i antiperspiranter og annen kosmetikk er farlig, så jeg har gravd litt i litteraturen og snakker om det. Jeg drøfter også en mangel ved Folkeopplysningens nyeste episode om Gift, og om bitcoin-fadesen i El-Salvador. I et leserinnlegg i Subjekt mener skribenten at antirasisme avler rasisme. Men kan vi egentlig komme oss utenom det, eller er det et nødvendig steg på veien mot et fargeløst samfunn? Og hvor bærekraftig er egentlig plantebaserte kjøtterstatninger?How sustainable are fake meats?https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/how-sustainable-are-fake-meats/#p3Subjekt: Når antirasisme avler rasismehttps://subjekt.no/2022/05/30/nar-antirasisme-avler-rasisme/VKM: Risikovurdering av aluminium i næringsmidler og kosmetiske produkter i den norske befolkningen (2013)https://vkm.no/risikovurderinger/allevurderinger/risikovurderingavaluminiuminaringsmidlerogkosmetiskeprodukteridennorskebefolkningen.4.175083d415c86c573b59c0ff.htmlVKM: Kommentar til SCCS' risikovurdering av aluminium i kosmetiske produkter (2014)https://vkm.no/risikovurderinger/allevurderinger/kommentartilsccsrisikovurderingavaluminiumikosmetiskeprodukter.4.2994e95b15cc54507161e54d.htmlSCCS: OPINION ON the safety of aluminium in cosmetic products (2022)https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-11/sccs_o_235.pdfSaksynt: Antiperspiranter øker ikke risiko for brystkrefthttps://tjomlid.com/2013/11/10/antiperspiranter-oker-ikke-risiko-for-brystkreft/Saksynt: Aftenposten publiserer dårlig vitenskaphttps://tjomlid.com/2015/03/10/aftenposten-publiserer-darlig-vitenskap/Saksynt: Kan jeg få tilbake parabenene mine, takk!https://tjomlid.com/2015/05/31/kan-jeg-fa-tilbake-parabenene-mine-takk/A year on, El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is stumblinghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/year-el-salvadors-bitcoin-experiment-is-stumbling-2022-09-07/

This week on Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal say goodbye to season 2 of Serious Privacy and look forward to season 3. 2021 might be a year that many of us actually would like to forget but for the privacy community, it was an exciting year and a lot of good things have happened. We have new laws, new guidance, more enforcement and court decisions, and a continuously expanding field of privacy professionals. The podcast continued to grow - this is the 91st episode and well over 50,000 downloads to date - and received wide recognition, including from the master of the privacy podcast directory Jeff Jockisch! A few weeks ago, you already heard predictions from lots of IAPP Brussels visitors for 2022. Today, you'll hear ours. Will they come true? Do you agree? We had amazing guests on this season and our first season. It is difficult to choose which ones to feature in this episode. Some episodes are chosen by the listeners, so those are easy, but the others - not so easy at all. You will hear select clips from Helen Dixon about international investigations and dealing with criticism, Romain Robert with noyb (about enforcement taking time), tracking and dark patterns, from episode 36 (Jocelyn Paulley, Partner at Gowling WLG in London and Lindsey Schultz, Senior Counsel at Global Privacy for Visa), Eric Cole (cybersecurity and ethical hackers - episode relevant again because of Log4Shell), and Emerald de Leeuw (recommendation for Paul to get started) - along with information on PIPL and SCCs. As always, please feel free to share your thoughts with us - therewill be a year end show on the best episodes. Get your vote counted! Follow us on LinkedIn as Serious Privacy and on Twitter @podcastprivacy @EuroPaulB and @HeartofPrivacy. 

Hi Folx, welcome to this very special unabridged version of the past of Dugongs and Seadragons miniseries: A workshop titled “Dugongs and Sea Dragons: Using Game Play and Storytelling to Engage Diverse Conservation Voices” organized by Josh Drew of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and Chris Parsons of the University of Exeter. The episode has the full introduction, one-shot adventure, and post adventure Q&A period. Please support Dugongs & Seadragons on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DugongsAndSeadragons

Welcome back to the Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York, workshop “Dugongs and Sea Dragons: Using Game Play and Storytelling to Engage Diverse Conservation Voices” Thanks for joining us for episode three. Last week our heroes had managed to find a clue to declining battle crabs from the fishing merchant Ben Riggins. Riggins gave them the address of a warehouse in the fishing district. The address was from a person that was speaking to Riggins about making a trap for catching battle crabs. Let's see what they discover… Please support Dugongs & Seadragons on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DugongsAndSeadragons

Welcome back to the Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York, workshop “Dugongs and Sea Dragons: Using Game Play and Storytelling to Engage Diverse Conservation Voices” Thanks for joining us for episode two. In our previous episode, we had gone over the details of the study we are publishing, did the long introductions to all the people that participated the workshop game and finished with the narrative introduction to the game. Today, we are going to get into the game. The game is meant to show our workshop listeners that even complex conservation issues can be approached with the shared storytelling of D&D to help people understand the thinking behind these issues.   Please support Dugongs & Seadragons on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DugongsAndSeadragons

Welcome to the first episode of the SCCS podcast. In this episode we sit down to talk with two University of Edinburgh scientists from the School of Engineering: Dr Mathieu Lucquiaud, Reader in Clean Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage; and Dr Camilla Thomson, Chancellor's Fellow in Energy. We discuss all things CCS, including their background, research interests, the NEWEST-CCUS project, COP26, and the world's first MOOC on CCS.

Hey folx and welcome to a special series of Dugongs and Seadragons. We are between season 1 and two right now and during this time The dugongs and seadragons crew had an opportunity to do a workshop on how to use table top roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons to help engage people in conservation.   The workshop was done virtually at the Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York, through the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History. The workshop was 2 and a half hours long, but we have edited it into three 25-40 minute episodes to be release over the course of November.   We really hope you enjoy learning about how the crew here at Dugongs and Seadragons have managed to come up with a way to use our passion for D&D into a way to share our passion for the ocean and conservation.   For those of you just joining us on D&SD, we want to thank you for taking the time to listen to the important research we have been doing to see if we are really having an impact on marine science and conservation education. For are already devoted listeners, please note that the editing of this workshop was limited to removing the Um's and Uh's so you are going to get to see a glimpse into all the random shenanigans we chatter about during an episode, and if you want to listen to more of these randomness, you can sign up for our patreon, where we keep a library of all the unedited episodes. This month's adventure is also a cannon to the Dugong and Seadragons' world, and takes place between season 1 and season 2.   Please support Dugongs & Seadragons on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DugongsAndSeadragons

Businesses today are data driven and data dependent, but the rules that govern how data can be used and shared across borders are becoming increasingly tricky for international organizations to navigate, subject to constantly evolving and often conflicting requirements in each region. None more so than in Europe, where changes over the past 18 months—including updated versions of the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border data transfer—have raised new sets of questions for organizations seeking to comply with the rules for moving personal data from Europe to places like the United States. In this special National Cybersecurity Awareness Month episode, partners Vivek Mohan and Oliver Yaros along with host Julian Dibbell discuss these changes and a few things businesses can do to stay on top of them.

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Over 5 years of cryptocurrency market and blockchain research experience.) wil be on to talk about SuperBid's NFT marketplace and update us on recent developments for SuperBid.Resources:Subscribe to our Benzinga Crypto Youtube Channel Today's Cryptocurrency Prices by Market CapCheck Out Other Benzinga Podcasts Here:Check Out All Benzinga Crypto News HereGet Moon or Bust Crypto Merch Here Join the Telegram: https://t.me/moonorbustBZ for 25% of Moon or Bust Podcast swag.Claim 1000 ZING airdrop: https://www.benzinga.com/zing Meet The Hosts:Brian MoirSolidity and React Developer | Blockchain Enthusiast | Decentralized Internet Advocate | Crypto investor since 2012https://twitter.com/moirbrian Logan RossBlockchain Analyst @ Benzinga | President @ Wolverine Blockchain | Crypto investor and educator since 2016https://twitter.com/logannrossRyan McNamaraBought sub $90 ETH during the bear market | Liquidated on ByBit | Was into DeFi before it was cool | Ran ASIC mining operation in 2016 (sorry planet Earth) | $UNI Bag Holderhttps://twitter.com/ryan15mcnamaraDisclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited TranscriptHello, zinger nation. Welcome back to moon or bust your home for all things. All coins and defy. This is flight 47 on the moon or bus rocket ship. If you can believe it. Uh, today's space flight will be hosted by me, Logan Ross, and co-hosted by Brian Moore, defy developer and Ryan McNamara, exit liquidity nation.How are you guys doing today? Fantastic. Hey, quite the name you came up with today, Logan just pull it right off the top. How was things in Logan's world? You Logan's world is going pretty well. Just keeping it calm, stay in busy, trying to, you know, just, just stay focused. Just do it. Provide the best moon or bust content in the world, uh, that I can possibly come up with coming up with all these crazy names off the top.So, uh, yeah, so let's, let's talk about a couple of safety procedures that we need to get out of the way before we can start the show. Uh, so first up I need anyone who is willing and able to please activate their. But in, into the on position, uh, I need everyone else to comment down below the crypto projects.You're looking at this week, drop tickers, whatever it might be, and maybe let us know why you're looking at them, what you're thinking about them. Uh, and if we get time at the end, we'll go through them all. Uh, after that, while you're down there, I want to point out a couple links in the description below.So first up is the Benzinga crypto YouTube channel. Uh, you do not want to miss out on this content. It's all the highlights from all of our crypto shows here at Benzinga. If you're new, make sure to subscribe to the main channel as well. Also, we have a telegram and merge. If you join the telegram, we'll give you a 25% off discount code so you can get a sick moon or bust a theory about.Designed by yours truly. Uh, and as always make sure to connect with us on Twitter and check out our helpful money site resources in the description as well. Uh, okay, so let's get right into the news. Ryan, you want to tell us about the sushi swap hack that happened? I think Brian could probably do a little bit better job as the defiant developer, but $3 million were stolen off of sushi.Swap from the Misa launch pad. Brian, do you want to go over this in detail a little bit more? Um, you let me pull it up and you go ahead and do a little run down and let you pull up. So this happened, was it yesterday, Logan, there was 865 Ethereum stolen off of me. So, which is a product on sushi swap for small tokens.It's essentially a launch pad where people can invest in a initial Dex offering. So similar to ICO, but it's called the IDEO. Um, so someone was able to inject malicious code into the software. So everybody trying to get these tokens or ended up just giving their ether to this guy's wallet. But luckily there are a lot of nice hackers in crypto.So this guy already gave back the funds and then some, so he's still. 864.8, Ethereum, which is about $3 million. And today he gave back 865 Ethereum. So maybe it's earning interest on it or something. A rumor has it that he got some miso soup delivered to his house. So maybe he was paying them back for the miso soup delivered to his house.I that's not confirmed, but that's what I saw on Twitter. So, I mean, if it's on Twitter, it's probably cool guy. I want him to hack me next. If he's going to get back the money, give back the money. It looks like this attack was, uh, called a supply chain attack. And I actually don't know too much, um, about how that kind of works.I was trying to look into it and get some details, but it's, it's a little bit more, um, involved or complicated than a. The, the flash loan attacks or, you know, that kind of exploit, it's not as straightforward or simple as, you know, you may rise in the price and then taking all out and excellent liquidity or taking everything out of a certain wallet or something.It's a, uh, a supply chain attack. And so it's, this is a new one to me. I think it's been around, but. Yeah, it's a little different. I have to look into that and report back on what a supply chain attack is. Next time I heard that it was a malicious code, injection attack. Um, and I mean, that one seems more, more common to me.That's probably the same thing. I mean, maybe it's just another name for. Uh, anyways, let's see. So how about that new, uh, sushi swap NFT. I'm Ryan. Yeah, that's really exciting. It's called show you NFT. And it's coming out this month on sushi swap. Lots of developers are working on this right now and it looks like it's going to be the first real big competitor to open.See, everybody uses open, see for NFTs right now. And like we've covered on the show. There's been a lot of problems with it. From servers from employees from a lot of different things on open. See it hasn't been a great experience for many users there. So this is going to be really interesting to see how this sushi swap.And if ti marketplace goes over there adding some really cool features to it. For example, you can place bids on NFTs and that either is usually locked up, say on open sea and you can't use it on sushi swap. You'll be able to earn yield on your. So this is going to be like particularly well for the people who have hundreds of NFTs and a lot of Ethereum.And, you know, they're going out and going on board apes and putting in 30, 40 eith bids and hoping that they get accepted now, instead of just having that be locked up on the platform, they can actually be earning interest on their Ethereum while these bids are placed on an FTS, which I think is really cool.There also, they're also fractionalizing NFTs. So you'll be able to get fractionalized NFTs on the platform, which is essentially buying a piece like a share of an NFT. We'll see if the sec comes after sushi for that. I know they're after unit swap right now and fractionalize NFTs are likely to be security.So there will probably be regulation coming four or five fractionalized NFTs. We haven't seen it yet. I mean, it's such a new space, but I really like what sushi swaps doing. They've been putting so many new products onto their website and I love where they're going. So what do you guys have to say about sushi?Swap about show you NFTs. What's your take, do you think they can think about sushi? Swap? I found my notes. Um, so the malicious code and the whole hack is somebody went into the get hub and change the wallet address to their own custom wallet address for the IDEO. And so they, uh, you know, everyone depositing funds just put it straight to this.Person's, you know, Ethereum wallet. Yeah. He was like, okay, well, now that I got that look how easy it is. He returned it, but that's really what happened. So there was malicious code put into the front end to change out the wallets and everything like that. So malicious though, wasn't malicious because he gave it back after a day.It might've been because they threatened to file with the FBI. But I think a lot of these people who do this in return, the funds are just trying to protect people from these bugs in the code. And they don't want to go to the government. I mean, so many people in crypto are libertarian. They want to deal with the government.Um, so I mean, this is just another way to do it. And honestly, it seems more effective because they keep the funds safe in their own wallet and they exploit something. It gains a lot of attention and then it gets fixed within a day or so instead of actually try and go to the government to get something done, which would take months or even years to do, it's kind of like hacktivist.Yeah, you have, there's quite a bit of that. And it's, I think it's a good thing because you don't have people just straight taking everything. Like you said, you have people trying to protect other people's funds, protect a project and make sure things are growing. And I like that. I mean, I don't want $50 million of mine stolen, but I don't have 50 million.Yeah. I mean, once you discover the bug, it's the classic prisoner's dilemma, whoever you report it to then has the opportunity to just take the money themselves. Right. So he has to lock it up and then hopefully he'll be a good guy. He or she will be a good guy and return the money. Um, okay. Let's see. So yesterday reportedly, uh, $1,000,000,001.2 billion of Eve disappeared from centralized exchanges, uh, glass nodes, reporting, some different things.Uh, but this one is from, I think it's called into the block. Uh, it was the people, it was the company that reported. Um, we S we haven't confirmed, uh, with glass snowed yet, but we're working on it. So if this is true, we'll just report it, uh, you know, tentatively for now, uh, and talk about what it could mean if it is true.So, Ryan, you want to take it away. So yeah, if this is true, $1 billion, $1.2 billion of each leaving exchanges should be pretty bullish for the asset. So if people are taking their Ethereum off exchanges, typically they aren't looking for liquidity. If you have your crypto on an exchange, You can easily sell it for FIA and then cash out of your investment.Whereas people transferring off of exchanges usually do so for enhanced security to hold over the longterm or use with the Phi project. So if you're using Ethereum with DFI projects, there'll be locking it into smart contracts. Maybe you're staking on eith too, with this much money, maybe you're using a different program to earn some passive income, but usually it's a really good scientist.Ethereum leave exchanges. That's essentially a theory that isn't going to be. At least on centralized exchanges until it's brought back onto these exchanges and sold for Fiat currency. So in my opinion, this is something that's really bullish. And we haven't seen this since. What is that like? No April was, this is a new record all the time, all time record.That's huge. But the last time you saw anything similar was back in April and you can see that was right before each shot up like 60% or even higher. It looks like it shot up from maybe $2,200 all the way to $4,000. So obviously we don't know if that's going to happen again, but we see when he leaves exchanges, especially in high volumes like this, a lot of times it's a good bullish signal for.Yep. And they pointed out the last time this happened, as you said, Ryan, if the price of Ethereum increased by 60% within 30 days. Uh, so, um, I got my fingers crossed that this is true. Could be good news. Oh, ready. Got anything else for us today on the agenda? I think we covered the news. Shall we hop right into the interview?Let's do it. Okay. So today we have with us a very special guest. His name is TiVo and he is a researcher and expert on special economic zones. So I'm going to bring him on to stream. Uh, Hey, TiVo. Welcome. Hello. Nice to meet you. Yeah. Nice to meet you too. How are you doing today? Excellent. Glad to hear it.Well, thank you so much for joining us. Uh, I'm not particularly an expert on special economic zones, so I'm excited to learn today. Um, so could you tell us a little bit about your background, uh, in various industries about special economic zones and then maybe eventually how you got into crypto? Sure, sure.So I'm the co-founder of a firm called the Adrian Oakville group where the only business intelligence firm that works with, um, exclusively and the Sez India. We primarily work with investors who want to put their money in the zone who want to invest in building a new zone and sort of do all of the background research necessary to guide them through that process in terms of crypto.Um, it's been more of a personal hobby of mine. I first got into crypto in 2013, uh, due to a conference. So I've been seeing sort of the, the, the different booms and busts over the years and all of that, the, the case. Um, but recently it's intersected with my professional career because it turns out that a lot of special economic zones are now trying to adopt regulatory frameworks to promote cryptocurrency, to legalize it in countries that are otherwise illegal.So it's this very fascinating trend on the regulatory. Okay. So for anyone out there who hasn't heard of special economic zones before, uh, could you just tell us what they are and what the purpose of them is? Sure. So especially economic zones are a part of a country that has its own rules and regulations separate from the rest of the country.Think like a native American reservation that is exempt from federal laws and can have a casino. If you're an American and legal cannabis. Well, sometimes governments that have a lot of very complicated rules for doing business. We'll do this with a business park or they'll do this sometimes with the whole city.Um, you've probably heard of them Hong Kong, wouldn't left Britain and rejoins China rejoined as a special economic zone with a lot of legal autonomy. Uh, Dubai is a city that has, I think 46, 47 SEZs it's just a city state of city states. Um, this is about 7,500 STDs in the world, 12,000 total, they're in 70 countries and they account for this huge percentage of the world economy, and nobody's ever heard of them, which is why they're so fascinating.Yeah, that is crazy. I had no clue that. I mean, it's, there's so many in Dubai. What would be the purpose of having so many in one small location? Sure. So in the case of Dubai, um, this is a common misconception. Dubai did not have any. So what happened is that you have this, you have this, this desert country in the middle of nowhere and all of their neighbors were politically unstable and had oil.So instead of selling oil, what they decided to do was to settle legal stability, and they outsourced the legal system to the best lawyers from the UK to the best lawyers from Singapore, they created these special economic zones for different entities. Uh, DMCC Dubai, uh, multi commodity center, uh, Dubai international financial center for different industries that had different legal systems.And because all of their neighbors were trying to pump the oil sort of during the gold rush, you know, the people who made the money, weren't the, the, the schmucks who are out there panning for gold. It was the people selling the pancakes and selling the shovels. So that's basically what Dubai did. Hmm.Fascinating. I don't know if you have an estimate, but what, uh, like what portion of the global economy or what effect, uh, of the total global economy desk Easy's play. Are you ready to be somewhat terrified? I'm ready. Okay. You're going down. Walmart. You're looking all of the plastic crap that they have.What percentage of it was made in a special economic. According to world bank figures. Uh, I'll let Ryan gets 10% about 50%. So if you're, if you're looking at the largest Sez is a special economic zone in Saudi Arabia, $1 trillion of money from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, you know, invested in this thing.Um, the population of the special economic. You have cities with populations, 40, 50, 60 million people living in China, uh, millions of people in India, living in them. And many of the people who live in Denmark only at most vaguely aware. So what this means is that. When governments want to try some new legal sort of legal system.And I have some very interesting examples of this, uh, with something like cryptocurrency, which is highly controversial, the moment they start putting it in SEZs, it's almost like they're testing something to implement on a more widespread national level. So it was very interesting applications. So what have we seen with crypto?And Sez so far. So in 20 12, 1 of the first jurisdictions to start regulating cryptocurrencies was the Cayman enterprise city and became an islands. Now came in Ireland, already sort of top rated jurisdictions. Maybe a tax Haven has its own issues, but it's sort of like the top rated jurisdiction within the top rated jurisdiction already.Right. And they decided to start regulating crypto code. And instead of actually reducing regulation on crypto, they actually increased it. But because they did this before anyone else, it meant that all of the investors who had regulatory concerns started investing there. So, um, a lot of these, the like the browser brave and a whole bunch of these, these, these, I think coin from, uh, are all based and came in.Um, other interesting examples. It turns out that a lot of these special economic zones. Have electrical generation. So during downtime, when you know, nobody's using electricity at 3:00 AM, right? So, and if you're have a coal plant, all of that electricity is just wasted. So in the past, what they've done is literal mining, where they actually will smell to metals with the excess electricity and like literally have the metal refineries and smelter.Is there any Iran, a country or cryptocurrency is legal. We had this guy on my podcast. Um, Iran has legalized Bitcoin and its special economic zones has hold a mining. Operations is actually working with all sorts of investors and what's even crazier. They're going to start legalizing it for retail investors for companies registered on the, on the Kish island, uh, just a few weeks ago.So we're going to see a lot more of that. That's cool. So it seems like SEZs are almost like a pilot program before it goes out to the entire country. Yes. Yes. So when, when China reformed from, from socialism to capitalism in the 1980s, um, they had just had this mass famine from rapidly changing everything to communism.Where about 50 million people died of famine in China due to economic mismanagement in the fifties, for a sense of scale, the entire death toll of all of world war II, including the whole. Is 80 million. So 50 million people starving China, 80 million people die in all of world war II. Right? So worst disaster in human history, maybe second, worst after world war II.So they really did not want to just like adopt capitalism on the national level when the switch to socialism was so disruptive. So they tested it in these special economic zones. And, uh, within the first year, 60% of all foreign investors. Coming to China was coming through the SEZs. Wow. So SES, these have been around for a long time, then it's not like they're a new phenomenon non, when did they start coming about?So I've actually been doing a lot of research to this. Um, if, if that's sort of an interesting rabbit hole, but, uh, the Roman empire to give you a sense of scale, one of their enemies was the city state of roads. Um, roads is like, you know, sort of the island that's right next to Turkey. Roads had all of this massive navies and the Romans had to attack by sea, but they're Navy.These were crap. Worst of all that the fighting Carthage at this point, this is 1 66 BC. They'd been fighting Carthage at to this point for 30 years. So their manpower was totally exhausted and roads were there could have been an alternate timeline where roads unseated, Rome, and wiped out the Roman empire before it had a chance to be born.But Rhodes had one critical. It's entire government budget, which is funded by a 2% tariff on all goods going through their parts. So the Rogan's created a special economic zone with a 0% tariff, right next to roads. And in five years roads with so bankrupt that they voluntarily begged to join the Roman empire.Wow. That's a cool story. So, uh, moving back to crypto TiVo, have you consulted for any cryptocurrency projects? Um, no. Okay. So what's the typical role? Like, do you see blockchain playing a role in these STCs for the, for the companies that you do consult for? Yeah. So, um, one of the companies that we consult for, have you heard of Kronos?It sounds familiar, but I'm not familiar with the audience anyway. So most is a VC fund. The anchor investor is Peter TLF PayPal. Okay. My wife works there and you should talk to Patri Friedman. I could give you an intro. He's the guy who runs the fund is actually investing. Uh, and they have a whole bunch of famous LPs, but I don't want to get in trouble, but less well-known well-known figures.I, I think Balaji is public. So I'll, I'll say him, but what they're doing is they're actually going out and they're actually investing in sort of like the really futuristic projects that are going through. Make the cryptocurrency regulation happens. So it's sort of the invisible underpinning and you have some servers, you know, you have a registered company in the zone, you have the servers in that zone.And as long as you're not dealing with us investors, you have to deal with sec. Um, you can bring in investors from anywhere in the world and there'll be a, there'll be exempt. So they're looking at projects and in Honduras, uh, Nigeria, they've already invested in, uh, looking at other projects in Africa.Yeah, don't want to get in trouble, but a very interesting stuff. So cool. And then I saw that one of your services is information assurance where you help companies verify and secure data. What are your thoughts on the intersection between information assurance and crypto and blockchain technology? So I can't really comment too much about that, but it's actually not information assurance or I guess that's part of it.That's really the big use for blockchain, right? But it's for online company registries. Um, because if you, if you just have like some random dude who just starts like a blockchain registry, right? You, you, you, you release the software online and get a bunch of users. It's not actually tied to any legal system.So it doesn't the U S government doesn't recognize this in contract law. But if you're tied to say the government. I don't know, let's, let's just make up a country, say Nigeria or something like that. And you're all Cayman islands. Right. And you're tied indirectly because the SEZs are. Can act as a metaphorical user interface between you and the government.So you actually registering your company with the zone and the zone itself is on the blockchain. That actually creates a situation where you can implement these technologies legally in a way that normally kind of bypasses having to like change legislation, to have blockchain company registration recognized by the U S government.So very interesting ways you can hack and bypass the legal system. Hm. So turning back to regulation for a second, uh, how should the U S and I, and other sovereign countries, and maybe how, how will Sez is playing this as well? How should they handle crypto regulation? Um, I can't really speak to that simply because I'm not a, an expert on crypto regulation, but my, my own perspective is that, and this is just sort of a personal opinion, not a professional.Is that the government should create sort of sandbox environments where people can, Hey, you signed this document, you know, maybe I'm going to lose everything and you, you, you acknowledge and you just try whatever. And maybe it turns out to be stupid, but I really think that's sort of the, the approach that, um, is going to generate the most innovation.Interesting. It's like we saw that Bitcoin beach in El Salvador. Like a little test city. Uh, yeah, that makes sense. I don't know anything about it yet, but, uh, interesting project. So TiVo, you guys also provide cyber security audits to your companies who are in SEZs. Why is this particularly necessary for companies that are in special economic zones?Um, you know, it's just sort of a standard package of it services. Uh, one of our co-founders Herzon on Flores just used to be doing cybersecurity. He did cybersecurity for Virginia police. So it's just like, Hey, let's just toss that in as sort of a service we offer, but really, you know, our, the, the bulk of our services right.Is mostly due diligence. It's mostly, Hey, I want to invest in X, Y, Z zone. Um, and working with investors on that front to get into the zone. I have some interesting sort of actually examples that are quite relevant right now. Um, right now, one of the big things that's, that's, that's, that's that's going on is Belarus.The Belarus industrial park, right. Has announced this complete cryptocurrency sandbox, but you know, people, I'm sure your, your listeners, or at least a good percentage of them will know that there are massive. Uh, protests against the Bella Russian government, right? There are massive situations where the government was almost basically overthrown because it was so corrupt by the people and massive, you know, horrible police, crackdowns, horrible treatment of protestors.Right. So we're kind of like the guys you'd hire before you go to Belarus to figure it out. Hey, if you go here or if you go to some other country, um, you're going to get in trouble and all sorts of weird.so my, my next question for you TiVo is about the types of blockchain implementation that you've seen in SEZs. Is it mostly like say payment processing where you can send payments like cross borders for very cheap, or is it more adoption of private blockchains within a company? We're an investment or is it more like blockchain platforms, like a theory or Solano where you can interact with programs on a blockchain?Um, so it's, it's, it's kind of disappointing. You don't really see that many. So w if you're talking about the well established special economic zones that are already in existence, you don't actually see that many real day-to-day applications of blockchain yet. However, to the extent that it is arriving, Uh, it's much more on the payment processing side.Um, it's less that the blockchains themselves are using the, the, the, the, sorry, the special economic zones themselves are using blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. What it is is that it's more that the, uh, the, the, the, the people. Are setting up these companies in order to operate in a given region are relocating to the zones and the zones are basically bending over backwards, going really, you know, all out, uh, in order to sort of help make that happen.Hmm. Interesting, interesting example. Right. So in may of this year, two of Dubai's most longstanding special economic centers. These SEZs have been around for, you know, 40. Uh, DMCC and the IFC Dubai international financial center. Um, these zones typically stayed away from crypto. These zones very much, uh, headquarters of site, Blackstone, Warburg, Pincus type old school wall street, private equity firms, middle Eastern headquarters for these companies.And typically the zones that have done crypto, you know, the zones that have gone for. I have been kind of like the zones in Iran or the zones in Belarus. And they've been kind of the SEZs in weird place as of the last six months, the big trend that you're seeing with kind of this, this, you know, third, big bubble in the last like six years sort of coming to an end is that the zones have realized, Hey, crypto may crash and rise or whatever, but it's going to be here to stay.And if they're not sort of on the bandwidth, Uh, they're going to get left behind. So they're adopting regulatory frameworks, which on paper look like they're imposing all of these sanctions on crypto, but by actually creating this environment, um, are actually able to sort of reassure investors that these are going to be stable places to invest in.So have you seen that special economic zones that have made regulation for cryptocurrency? Have an influx of investors come to them over the past year with blockchain exploding and crypto going up. So. Yes, not only do they have an N so Cayman enterprise city has, I think it's either 200 or 250 spots.All 200 and 250 are full with a huge waiting list for any office space. Um, I spoke to a guy who ran a random textile park company in El Salvador. He rans El Salvador's biggest textile, special economic zones. You know, all they do is like make t-shirts and white rubber gloves too, and good, useful stuff.And he wakes up one day reads the news. Huh? Cool. El Salvador's, you know, adopting. It doesn't think much of it opens his inbox and has, you know, 900 emails from random people, cold emailing him to relocate to his own. And he's like, what in the world is going on? You know? And you're hearing the most crazy stuff as soon as one of these zones even announced its crypto.Um, it, th th th they get bombarded, but the problem is that these zones have no ability to identify, say, Ponzi schemes from, you know, legitimate projects. So it's, it's, they're also terrified. Uh, a lot of the ones are, are full of Ponzi scheme. It's a total, it's a total mess right now. So it sounds like countries and their citizens have a lot to gain from introducing these crypto special economic zones attracting lots of innovation.Uh, but they do have to, you know, start small work their way up, learn the valuable lessons about the Ponzis and the real projects. Um, that's cool. What would you say the most important role that crypto or blockchain plays in these special economic zone? So in one, one really interesting trend is that a lot of these zones there's like every possible imaginable industry has a zone and the level of specificity, the level of granularity think of zones.It's like a tailored legal system to target a very granular, specific industry. Right. And I'll give you an idea. I was talking to a guy who does nonwoven fabrics, things like wool or rubber gloves, plastic, blue tarp, all of that's non-woven fabrics. And I'm like, so tell me more about the textiles industry.And he got really pissed off and he's like, I'm not textiles and non-woven fabric totally different industry. And like, that's sort of the level of meekness. Right. And a lot of these zones. We're office parks, a lot of these special economic zones where like, like, you know, rows of computers, cubicles, whatever, uh, in the Philippines, all over the world.And the workers are just never coming back to the offices. It's not a two-week lockdown. It's not a six month lockdown. They're all working from home. None of them want to go back to the Cuba. Um, and now all of these zones have this infrastructure for office space, which could be adopted for crypto, could become, you know, startup incubators, and they're suddenly left scratching their heads.So I kinda think that the, these governments are slow moving. Um, I'd say that they're trying to use cryptocurrency and blockchain as sort of a replacement in half the cases. It's a replacement for anchor tenants who disappeared. And then the other half of cases, they're kind of late to the bandwagon and they're desperately trying to find their way to get in.So it's, it's generally one of two things and occasionally you have some really forward-thinking, you know, jurisdiction. You have three or four. That I actually are, but yeah, that, that, that actually sort of our foreign thing, but usually it's fear and a fear of missing out. Yeah. I can see that. Well, how big are special economic zones?W w what's the range or how can you tell where it's located? All right. So I have two sort of extreme stories. Um, there, the us has something called foreign trade zones. There's about 250 300. All they are. Is that good? The enter and exit the foreign trade zone legally haven't entered the U S so the idea is that you're building a car, you import the tires from, you know, Germany or whatever you put them onto the car and they don't have to pay the tariffs.So the us has like the most basic lowest level of Sez. They barely even count. I, I read online that in San Jose, California, when I was visiting there, then the special economic zone. So I messaged the guy and I'm like, Hey, can I visit the zone? And he's like, oh, sure. And the first bad sinus, he says, nobody's visited me in years.So he takes me to this, you know, 40 story building. Right. And I go into this building and I go up this elevator and there's this dusty little office that is, um, you know, three meters by two meters like this, like dusty, tiny one extreme. And that was the foreign trade zone. That, that, that was. Um, uh, so on the, on the largest and, um, you, you have in El Salvador the same within a few months of, of, of, uh, El Salvador announcing that they were going to Bitcoin.China announced the zone several hundred square kilometers. That's going to encompass 20% of El Salvador's coastline. So. So, if you look at these zones into the in desert countries like Saudi Arabia, or even the UAE or Oman, right. You have zones that are hundreds of square kilometers. So it's really the whole gamut in terms of population.Once again, dusty closet, uh, Chinese Ken's in population. How do you delegate, uh, especially getting an exam, like H how do you just say, like, Hey, this is the zone, this is what we're doing. So there's two ways that special economic zones, uh, come about. Um, the first is sort of, application-based think a government official with a Sharpie drawing on a map from now on this area over here will be the special economic zone.That's kind of like the China model. You know, it's the pointing at the map, the tapping, we will have economic development. Um, the other model is application-based. So that's like Columbia, where if you own say two or three square kilometers of land and meet this long checklist of requirements, you file an application and you get, um, you get special economic zone status on their land.So sometimes they're started by the government. Sometimes just started by business. Uh, we got stats that our company. One third are, are purely government. One third are purely private and one third public private partnerships. So it's almost exactly evenly divided. Um, but the extent of the private designation is pretty incredible because you have the city of Google, uh, Gurgaon and India, and they switched the names about 10 years ago.And the entire zone has private water system, private police, private fire department, private electricity, primary management, nothing is done by the government at all. And you have zones that are taking this even further in Honduras. You can even apply to have entirely privatized legal systems for all civil law.So anything that's not criminal law that's in these Honduras is Adams. That's going to be special economic. It goes to a fully privatized legal system within the zone. And it's scaring a lot of people and you know, whether or not it works out, I think is still up for debate, but they go pretty far sometimes by the way, constellation 1 million.So, wow. That's incredible. And that's super interesting. I'm really surprised. I haven't heard of that. And I'm sure that's a super interesting case study to research about, uh, have you done some research on this? Like how is it really playing out? Because I haven't heard. Okay. How how's what playing outside privatization in, in these SEZs that are doing this.Um, as far as I can tell, it's a roll of the dice. Most of the time, you're going to get a two to five and not much will happen either way. Sometimes you get a six and you get the city of Shenzen, you know, which goes from a fishing village of 60,000 to a mega city of 60 million. And like 40 years and accounts for 60% of China's investment than 70% of their things.You know, you get retarded, crazy results. One way. Sometimes you get golden triangle Sez in Myanmar. The legal autonomy for some zones enables the worst in humanity. So the triads have their own special economic zone in Laos, on the border with me and mark and they have a casino, but it's known for human trafficking.Uh, 245 women were abducted and forced into prostitution recently freed by ocean authorities in this zone, you have wildlife smuggling, um, and there's actually YouTube videos. If you look up, uh, golden triangle, uh, special economic zone on YouTube, they, they, they, they, they map mass manufacture methamphetamines.Um, they, they have, they have like lions that they like make fight and cages with each other. And. Uh, they have like all sorts of animals that they take apart for traditional medicine. So you have the worst possible and humanity and the best possible. And it's, you know, you're kind of gambling as a country in this.There's not really much of a way to predict what the results were. These are wild. One last thing from, from me is can, uh, we saw you talking about a start-up society. Can you just tell us a brief example? We don't have to go too deep into it, but what a start-up society is and how they correlate to SEZs.Sure. So I started in 2015, a nonprofit think tank called the startups and studies foundation. I left in 2017. Um, a startup society is just. Anybody who's trying to create a society to Nova. So say the country of Catalonia before it becomes a country while it's still like an independence movement is a start-up society or a special economic zone could be another type of.Gotcha. Interesting. So I have a question for you. You say the us government, uh, contracts, you to create a crypto sandbox in the country. What would you pitch to them? Ooh, good question. Um, You know, w what I would do probably, and there's just sort of, the way I am is I would do a crap ton of research, and I would find a ton of people.Who've done a lot of research. Um, and I'd go about it by interviewing about two or 300. And I know I'm not just giving you an answer like plastics, but I go back, I try to interview two or 300 business people who do cryptocurrency, um, at all sides. It's very new people, people who are sort of on the very high end of companies, very well.And I get, you know, all of their top five regulatory pain points, uh, get all the interviews for the top five regulatory pain points for 200 people. And, uh, based off of that, I try to come up with like the three D I wouldn't try to do too much. I'd just try to fix the three biggest, most common pain points to all of the interviews.And really, I think that the, the best results for these kinds of things is. You know, really ask the people involved and not try to do it in the abstract, although I'm sure that if I was like a crypto lawyer, I could just say, you know, plastics or whatever. Very cool. And those location matter when it comes to Cristo.Yes. Yes it does. And I'd say that it matters for three reasons. One, you probably are actually going to be doing to take advantage of a lot of the incentives. You actually have to be physically. So you want to be in a nice location where there's not corruption. That's really beautiful. Um, I live in Switzerland, uh, actually live 20 minutes from Lichtenstein, which is one of the, the crypto capitals of the world and maybe 30 minutes to the other direction from zoo.Right. It's such a beautiful country that that's totally white. People are coming. Even if the regulations aren't say as good as the next reason why location matters is because the regulation can change. The voters of the country can just say overnight new election comes as a coup you know, um, okay.We're just getting rid of the special economic zones and by the way, Uh, we want you to either go to jail for 15 years, we're turning all of your keys and we're taking all of your crypto, you know, so that totally can happen. And in fact, I'm sure it will happen. I'm sure. At some point the government takes there's enough crypto rich people that are there for a conference we'll just like start arresting people and demanding keys on trumped up stuff.So number one, location actually matters. Number two is, uh, you don't want, you know, to have a corruption and number three has electricity. The average cost per kilowatt hour globally as 14 cents. Um, you can get half that in some places. So if you're especially doing mining, uh, that's very valuable. However, like those zones I mentioned in Iran, you know, it's, it's, it's, they, they in fact will subsidize your electricity in some cases.Interesting. So earlier this year we saw China banned Bitcoin mining. They've basically taken control over it and issued their own central bank, digital currency. Instead, are we seeing China do any experiments in their special economic zones with crypto? Okay. Want to know something LR. This is going to blow your minds again.Are you ready please? Do. I was in 500 special economic zones in China, right? Oh, how many Chinese special economic zones are there? Run by Chinese corporations outside of. Oh, I, I it's either going to be a really high number or I'm imagining a really high number is going to be a high number. But could you say that question one more time?How many companies are they're run by the Chinese government and Chinese state run companies, Chinese special economic sounds outside of China? Well, there's about 10,000 of them worldwide and 2,500 are in China already. So that leaves about 7,500. I have no clue, maybe 2000, if it's a high number. Well, you're, you're over it, but there's 500 Chinese SEZs outside of China.And so what qualifies it as a Chinese SCC? Like a special economic zone, that's run by any Chinese company. That definition is if the usually zones have an operator, which is kind of like the country that owns the land, builds the buildings, cleans the law and whatever, if that company is Chinese, we have a, by the way, we're about to publish the world's first map of every single special economic zone on earth and took us two years of work.Um, but, but one of the data we collected was to see where all the Chinese. And it's terrifying because in some of the most extreme cases, we found Chinese SEZs outside of us military basis. So the U S has all of these overseas bases and the like, like a bunch of idiots, the U S government is, you know, Hey, we're going to go in through military imperialism, spend $2 trillion and then leave Afghanistan 20 years later, the Chinese.No we're going to do, we're going to build a happy mall right next to the U S military base and invite TGI Fridays to the shopping mall. So all the off duty soldiers will spend money on us, government money in our shopping, bubbles find like Chinese shopping miles outside of any military base in Africa, you find that there's military basis.The only connection they have to the outside world are Chinese freeways and Chinese railroads. You know, I don't think it's actually that the trends are going to shut it off. I just think it's that they're like taking all the money from the U S government basically indirectly, um, in terms of, uh, cryptocurrency, um, you know, the Chinese are always up to, uh, they really want to promote, you know, Th th the digitization of the, of, of the Yuan and promoting sort of the digital one as the one world currency that's running administered by China.So, you know, I think you're going to just see that be implemented. Um, and all of the zones, I have kind of an interesting little anecdote of this, and I don't want to mention the zone cause they're good people. I don't want to embarrass them, but one of the largest special economic zones in Africa, our team is about to do it.And we emailed them and we're like, Hey, we heard your zone splint by the Chinese and villain. No, no Chinese people here, you know, it's all Chinese characters, it's all a, we chat, pay every single star, um, uh, you know, giant Chinese flag that says, uh, uh, sort of, you know, welcome home. And, um, you have zones with names like qualling special economic zone in Georgia, you know, the country of Georgia.Hm. So I'm guessing that these countries let China have these special economic zones just for the purpose of developing their own economies as well. Yes. And you know, to be fair, I think the reason why China has done so well with the SCCs is because it's actually pretty good for, you know, the, the, the locals peaceful.Yeah. There's there's problems there. Chicanery, there are corruptions, but many of the time it's. All the men in your town suddenly get jobs that pay twice as much working for the Chinese factory, where there's been no development in a war torn country for 20 years, you know, you're going to be very supportive of China, right?They're doing what sort of, uh, America wishes it did during the cold war, but a zillion times better. And I think they learned that from the U S. Very interesting. Do you, uh, do any, like personally, do you invest in cryptos? Do you follow any projects or are you into that space at all? No comment. No, I got it.Yeah. That makes sense. Are you interested in the, in NFL? Um, okay. I think NFTs are totally stupid. The reason why is because I think intellectual property is like an outdated sort of institution. We need to be moving towards, you know, open source, copyright free. So, uh, to the extent the NFTs are, are, are.For people claiming ownership of like digital assets. I think that's like really the wrong direction. Um, however, I imagine that there's a ton of other non-trivial applications out there, so I'm not hating on those, but I am hating on, uh, what is it? Crypto kitties or whatever has.It's interesting to see that these digital assets are the first type of NFT to really get put into the mainstream, though. We did see it's real a use NFTs in a pilot program for, I think it was land deeds and Carla. And so it's really cool to see governments like catching an eye for NFTs. And it's going to be really interesting to see where it goes, because like you said, TiVo, it's not just about these digital assets or verifying like digital IP.There's a million different use cases for them. And we're only scratching the surface right now. So you said land needs and Carla. Yes, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. That's that's like exactly what it should be used for, right? Yeah. Yeah. I imagine it is going to be your whole identity, like in the future where you're going to have, you know, your, um, your, it is going to be tokenized, whatever your social, everything.Maybe hidden, but you know what I mean? I think that's how you can verify everything and never get lost and all that other stuff, like you said, there's a ton of, um, different use cases for entities, not just profile pictures or images like you, you know? Cause I understand the, uh, kind of thing about. But at the same time, I feel like there is a need to, uh, essentially show off on the internet flex, if you will.Like, like people will buy Rolex's and fancy cars. And with so much time that people spend on internet these days, I think it only makes sense to have a way for people to show off on the internet. Like they do. Fancy cars or other things that might not really have the tangible value that they're worth. I mean, there, there are a lot of things like that in the physical, tangible world.And, and I think it to a degree makes sense. Although silly, I don't think that the government should like regulate it or anything, but I just wish that instead of showing you. You know, so in the, in the, in the middle ages, right. Which was like a time when everything was like a special economics, right.Rights, this age of totally crazy city states. Um, so my, my other hobby outside of STC is medieval history, but in the middle east, there really was this, this, um, this attitude of like, Hey, the rich people are going to show off by like building charts and Publix works and funding the arts and funding sciences.I, and I really hate seeing Lamborghini's and Rolex's when we could be crowdfunding Elon Musk to go build a colony on the moon, or we could be like, you know, funding, like fishing fleets to get rid of all of that plastic in the ocean. So I just wish it was channeled in that direction. Yeah, no, that totally makes sense.So I saw on your website, you like to do a lot of book reviews. Uh, could you tell us maybe how you got into that? What you've been reading lately and any recommendations you might have for us here on moon or bust? Sure. So for book reviews, um, this is my personal website, this isn't my, my company, uh, just for fun.I decided I dropped out of college about five years ago and I decided that instead of going to college, I was going to read a book a week nonfiction and review it. Huh? I've stuck to it on average the last few months, has it been that. But I, I, it, it averages out to like 1.2 books a week or something like that.Um, and I mostly read and medieval history. So I've been starting in chronological order and going to the present from about 500 BC trying to read like five to 10 books per century. Um, so I met about 1200, so I've got like decades left to reach the prison because it's, but anyways, um, in terms of history books, um, this goes into special economics.I recommend a book called lost enlightenment. And what this book is about is there was this last Islamic golden civilization, you know, in central Asia during the middle ages, which, uh, basically reached like late 16 hundreds level of technology and like 1800. And they totally get wiped out by the Mongols and the region like loses like a quarter of its population goes back.So you have this situation where there's a super technologically advanced society that pops up in a place that you haven't heard of, you know, a real loss civilization, they go back. So it also tells you that, you know, technology, it's not just an upward linear line, the, the, the Italians and the Renaissance staff to pick up the torch.And it declined and it sort of stays low for a long time. Uh, so lost enlightenment is, is a good one. Um, in terms of special economic zones, another good book is on China by Henriquez Henry. Who actually negotiated a lot of the opening up of China. And it's the history of like how China used special economic zones to reform its economy, to, you know, totally change it society.And it turns out that there's this like four foot, 10, five foot five. I don't know how tall he is, but this little, tiny little guy called dunk shell ping who, everybody who nobody's. Who saved the most human lives of like anybody in the 20th century by building special economic zones and bringing free market to China and like tripling the GDP per capita, you know?Um, so that's the next one. I really like lost enlightenment, uh, sorry. Lost enlightenment on central Asia, uh, on China by Henry kitchen. And I think that the third good one is seeing like a state by James Scott, which is just a book about how, when you look at things from the perspective of statistics and government planning, it just distorts your view on everything.So hope that's not too much. I really like, no, I got those written down TiVo. How do you find time to read? So, so many books, I just listened to audio books. So I'm like just always listening to audio books every minute I have. Very cool. Uh, oh, what's that? No, sorry, go ahead. Oh, no, no. I just wanted to mention in the time that we have left a few sort of interesting crypto things, if we had time in SEZs B might be kind of interesting.So one of them, that's, that's one trend that is quite interesting is remember how earlier I mentioned and my wife, by the way, wrote a paper about this for the world free zones organization. Um, so remember how I mentioned how a lot of STDs have lost business from work from. Typically to take advantage of the regulations in an sec, what you had to do was you had to be like physically based there, like physically doing business there.And in some cases you even have to pay for the cost of the gut of a government agent to come like inspect, to make sure that you're actually in the zone, not there on paper. Some zones have decided because of work from. To start letting companies take advantage to register as like a work from home company in the zone and start taking advantages of the legal system of the zone working from home.So you could be at a laptop anywhere in the world. And if you're the right special economic zones, be taking advantage of a legal system that really like benefits your need working for. And I think that that from a legal perspective, It's kind of a loophole and who knows if it will last, but if it does last, it's going to, I think totally changed the game for companies doing all of these things that are very regulatorily difficult from a crypto perspective.Awesome. Well, if you guys want to find, find out more about T-bones work, we have his website linked in the description below. You can go check that out. Uh Teebo. If you have any closing thoughts or shout outs, you want to give, tell the audience where to connect with you. The Florida. Yes. Well, I add 100% of the people who connect to me on LinkedIn and I eventually respond to 100% of my messages.So everybody add me. And, um, I'd love to help you with any SEZs are send any books or whatever. Um, so that's the best place to find me. Uh, the company is Adrian Oakville group, um, which you have linked, I imagine. And, uh, yeah, that's. Alrighty that has been this, uh, episode of moon or bust. 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Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited TranscriptHello, zinger nation. Welcome back to moon or bust your home for all things. All coins and defy. This is flight 47 on the moon or bus rocket ship. If you can believe it. Uh, today's space flight will be hosted by me, Logan Ross, and co-hosted by Brian Moore, defy developer and Ryan McNamara, exit liquidity nation.How are you guys doing today? Fantastic. Hey, quite the name you came up with today, Logan just pull it right off the top. How was things in Logan's world? You Logan's world is going pretty well. Just keeping it calm, stay in busy, trying to, you know, just, just stay focused. Just do it. Provide the best moon or bust content in the world, uh, that I can possibly come up with coming up with all these crazy names off the top.So, uh, yeah, so let's, let's talk about a couple of safety procedures that we need to get out of the way before we can start the show. Uh, so first up I need anyone who is willing and able to please activate their. But in, into the on position, uh, I need everyone else to comment down below the crypto projects.You're looking at this week, drop tickers, whatever it might be, and maybe let us know why you're looking at them, what you're thinking about them. Uh, and if we get time at the end, we'll go through them all. Uh, after that, while you're down there, I want to point out a couple links in the description below.So first up is the Benzinga crypto YouTube channel. Uh, you do not want to miss out on this content. It's all the highlights from all of our crypto shows here at Benzinga. If you're new, make sure to subscribe to the main channel as well. Also, we have a telegram and merge. If you join the telegram, we'll give you a 25% off discount code so you can get a sick moon or bust a theory about.Designed by yours truly. Uh, and as always make sure to connect with us on Twitter and check out our helpful money site resources in the description as well. Uh, okay, so let's get right into the news. Ryan, you want to tell us about the sushi swap hack that happened? I think Brian could probably do a little bit better job as the defiant developer, but $3 million were stolen off of sushi.Swap from the Misa launch pad. Brian, do you want to go over this in detail a little bit more? Um, you let me pull it up and you go ahead and do a little run down and let you pull up. So this happened, was it yesterday, Logan, there was 865 Ethereum stolen off of me. So, which is a product on sushi swap for small tokens.It's essentially a launch pad where people can invest in a initial Dex offering. So similar to ICO, but it's called the IDEO. Um, so someone was able to inject malicious code into the software. So everybody trying to get these tokens or ended up just giving their ether to this guy's wallet. But luckily there are a lot of nice hackers in crypto.So this guy already gave back the funds and then some, so he's still. 864.8, Ethereum, which is about $3 million. And today he gave back 865 Ethereum. So maybe it's earning interest on it or something. A rumor has it that he got some miso soup delivered to his house. So maybe he was paying them back for the miso soup delivered to his house.I that's not confirmed, but that's what I saw on Twitter. So, I mean, if it's on Twitter, it's probably cool guy. I want him to hack me next. If he's going to get back the money, give back the money. It looks like this attack was, uh, called a supply chain attack. And I actually don't know too much, um, about how that kind of works.I was trying to look into it and get some details, but it's, it's a little bit more, um, involved or complicated than a. The, the flash loan attacks or, you know, that kind of exploit, it's not as straightforward or simple as, you know, you may rise in the price and then taking all out and excellent liquidity or taking everything out of a certain wallet or something.It's a, uh, a supply chain attack. And so it's, this is a new one to me. I think it's been around, but. Yeah, it's a little different. I have to look into that and report back on what a supply chain attack is. Next time I heard that it was a malicious code, injection attack. Um, and I mean, that one seems more, more common to me.That's probably the same thing. I mean, maybe it's just another name for. Uh, anyways, let's see. So how about that new, uh, sushi swap NFT. I'm Ryan. Yeah, that's really exciting. It's called show you NFT. And it's coming out this month on sushi swap. Lots of developers are working on this right now and it looks like it's going to be the first real big competitor to open.See, everybody uses open, see for NFTs right now. And like we've covered on the show. There's been a lot of problems with it. From servers from employees from a lot of different things on open. See it hasn't been a great experience for many users there. So this is going to be really interesting to see how this sushi swap.And if ti marketplace goes over there adding some really cool features to it. For example, you can place bids on NFTs and that either is usually locked up, say on open sea and you can't use it on sushi swap. You'll be able to earn yield on your. So this is going to be like particularly well for the people who have hundreds of NFTs and a lot of Ethereum.And, you know, they're going out and going on board apes and putting in 30, 40 eith bids and hoping that they get accepted now, instead of just having that be locked up on the platform, they can actually be earning interest on their Ethereum while these bids are placed on an FTS, which I think is really cool.There also, they're also fractionalizing NFTs. So you'll be able to get fractionalized NFTs on the platform, which is essentially buying a piece like a share of an NFT. We'll see if the sec comes after sushi for that. I know they're after unit swap right now and fractionalize NFTs are likely to be security.So there will probably be regulation coming four or five fractionalized NFTs. We haven't seen it yet. I mean, it's such a new space, but I really like what sushi swaps doing. They've been putting so many new products onto their website and I love where they're going. So what do you guys have to say about sushi?Swap about show you NFTs. What's your take, do you think they can think about sushi? Swap? I found my notes. Um, so the malicious code and the whole hack is somebody went into the get hub and change the wallet address to their own custom wallet address for the IDEO. And so they, uh, you know, everyone depositing funds just put it straight to this.Person's, you know, Ethereum wallet. Yeah. He was like, okay, well, now that I got that look how easy it is. He returned it, but that's really what happened. So there was malicious code put into the front end to change out the wallets and everything like that. So malicious though, wasn't malicious because he gave it back after a day.It might've been because they threatened to file with the FBI. But I think a lot of these people who do this in return, the funds are just trying to protect people from these bugs in the code. And they don't want to go to the government. I mean, so many people in crypto are libertarian. They want to deal with the government.Um, so I mean, this is just another way to do it. And honestly, it seems more effective because they keep the funds safe in their own wallet and they exploit something. It gains a lot of attention and then it gets fixed within a day or so instead of actually try and go to the government to get something done, which would take months or even years to do, it's kind of like hacktivist.Yeah, you have, there's quite a bit of that. And it's, I think it's a good thing because you don't have people just straight taking everything. Like you said, you have people trying to protect other people's funds, protect a project and make sure things are growing. And I like that. I mean, I don't want $50 million of mine stolen, but I don't have 50 million.Yeah. I mean, once you discover the bug, it's the classic prisoner's dilemma, whoever you report it to then has the opportunity to just take the money themselves. Right. So he has to lock it up and then hopefully he'll be a good guy. He or she will be a good guy and return the money. Um, okay. Let's see. So yesterday reportedly, uh, $1,000,000,001.2 billion of Eve disappeared from centralized exchanges, uh, glass nodes, reporting, some different things.Uh, but this one is from, I think it's called into the block. Uh, it was the people, it was the company that reported. Um, we S we haven't confirmed, uh, with glass snowed yet, but we're working on it. So if this is true, we'll just report it, uh, you know, tentatively for now, uh, and talk about what it could mean if it is true.So, Ryan, you want to take it away. So yeah, if this is true, $1 billion, $1.2 billion of each leaving exchanges should be pretty bullish for the asset. So if people are taking their Ethereum off exchanges, typically they aren't looking for liquidity. If you have your crypto on an exchange, You can easily sell it for FIA and then cash out of your investment.Whereas people transferring off of exchanges usually do so for enhanced security to hold over the longterm or use with the Phi project. So if you're using Ethereum with DFI projects, there'll be locking it into smart contracts. Maybe you're staking on eith too, with this much money, maybe you're using a different program to earn some passive income, but usually it's a really good scientist.Ethereum leave exchanges. That's essentially a theory that isn't going to be. At least on centralized exchanges until it's brought back onto these exchanges and sold for Fiat currency. So in my opinion, this is something that's really bullish. And we haven't seen this since. What is that like? No April was, this is a new record all the time, all time record.That's huge. But the last time you saw anything similar was back in April and you can see that was right before each shot up like 60% or even higher. It looks like it shot up from maybe $2,200 all the way to $4,000. So obviously we don't know if that's going to happen again, but we see when he leaves exchanges, especially in high volumes like this, a lot of times it's a good bullish signal for.Yep. And they pointed out the last time this happened, as you said, Ryan, if the price of Ethereum increased by 60% within 30 days. Uh, so, um, I got my fingers crossed that this is true. Could be good news. Oh, ready. Got anything else for us today on the agenda? I think we covered the news. Shall we hop right into the interview?Let's do it. Okay. So today we have with us a very special guest. His name is TiVo and he is a researcher and expert on special economic zones. So I'm going to bring him on to stream. Uh, Hey, TiVo. Welcome. Hello. Nice to meet you. Yeah. Nice to meet you too. How are you doing today? Excellent. Glad to hear it.Well, thank you so much for joining us. Uh, I'm not particularly an expert on special economic zones, so I'm excited to learn today. Um, so could you tell us a little bit about your background, uh, in various industries about special economic zones and then maybe eventually how you got into crypto? Sure, sure.So I'm the co-founder of a firm called the Adrian Oakville group where the only business intelligence firm that works with, um, exclusively and the Sez India. We primarily work with investors who want to put their money in the zone who want to invest in building a new zone and sort of do all of the background research necessary to guide them through that process in terms of crypto.Um, it's been more of a personal hobby of mine. I first got into crypto in 2013, uh, due to a conference. So I've been seeing sort of the, the, the different booms and busts over the years and all of that, the, the case. Um, but recently it's intersected with my professional career because it turns out that a lot of special economic zones are now trying to adopt regulatory frameworks to promote cryptocurrency, to legalize it in countries that are otherwise illegal.So it's this very fascinating trend on the regulatory. Okay. So for anyone out there who hasn't heard of special economic zones before, uh, could you just tell us what they are and what the purpose of them is? Sure. So especially economic zones are a part of a country that has its own rules and regulations separate from the rest of the country.Think like a native American reservation that is exempt from federal laws and can have a casino. If you're an American and legal cannabis. Well, sometimes governments that have a lot of very complicated rules for doing business. We'll do this with a business park or they'll do this sometimes with the whole city.Um, you've probably heard of them Hong Kong, wouldn't left Britain and rejoins China rejoined as a special economic zone with a lot of legal autonomy. Uh, Dubai is a city that has, I think 46, 47 SEZs it's just a city state of city states. Um, this is about 7,500 STDs in the world, 12,000 total, they're in 70 countries and they account for this huge percentage of the world economy, and nobody's ever heard of them, which is why they're so fascinating.Yeah, that is crazy. I had no clue that. I mean, it's, there's so many in Dubai. What would be the purpose of having so many in one small location? Sure. So in the case of Dubai, um, this is a common misconception. Dubai did not have any. So what happened is that you have this, you have this, this desert country in the middle of nowhere and all of their neighbors were politically unstable and had oil.So instead of selling oil, what they decided to do was to settle legal stability, and they outsourced the legal system to the best lawyers from the UK to the best lawyers from Singapore, they created these special economic zones for different entities. Uh, DMCC Dubai, uh, multi commodity center, uh, Dubai international financial center for different industries that had different legal systems.And because all of their neighbors were trying to pump the oil sort of during the gold rush, you know, the people who made the money, weren't the, the, the schmucks who are out there panning for gold. It was the people selling the pancakes and selling the shovels. So that's basically what Dubai did. Hmm.Fascinating. I don't know if you have an estimate, but what, uh, like what portion of the global economy or what effect, uh, of the total global economy desk Easy's play. Are you ready to be somewhat terrified? I'm ready. Okay. You're going down. Walmart. You're looking all of the plastic crap that they have.What percentage of it was made in a special economic. According to world bank figures. Uh, I'll let Ryan gets 10% about 50%. So if you're, if you're looking at the largest Sez is a special economic zone in Saudi Arabia, $1 trillion of money from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, you know, invested in this thing.Um, the population of the special economic. You have cities with populations, 40, 50, 60 million people living in China, uh, millions of people in India, living in them. And many of the people who live in Denmark only at most vaguely aware. So what this means is that. When governments want to try some new legal sort of legal system.And I have some very interesting examples of this, uh, with something like cryptocurrency, which is highly controversial, the moment they start putting it in SEZs, it's almost like they're testing something to implement on a more widespread national level. So it was very interesting applications. So what have we seen with crypto?And Sez so far. So in 20 12, 1 of the first jurisdictions to start regulating cryptocurrencies was the Cayman enterprise city and became an islands. Now came in Ireland, already sort of top rated jurisdictions. Maybe a tax Haven has its own issues, but it's sort of like the top rated jurisdiction within the top rated jurisdiction already.Right. And they decided to start regulating crypto code. And instead of actually reducing regulation on crypto, they actually increased it. But because they did this before anyone else, it meant that all of the investors who had regulatory concerns started investing there. So, um, a lot of these, the like the browser brave and a whole bunch of these, these, these, I think coin from, uh, are all based and came in.Um, other interesting examples. It turns out that a lot of these special economic zones. Have electrical generation. So during downtime, when you know, nobody's using electricity at 3:00 AM, right? So, and if you're have a coal plant, all of that electricity is just wasted. So in the past, what they've done is literal mining, where they actually will smell to metals with the excess electricity and like literally have the metal refineries and smelter.Is there any Iran, a country or cryptocurrency is legal. We had this guy on my podcast. Um, Iran has legalized Bitcoin and its special economic zones has hold a mining. Operations is actually working with all sorts of investors and what's even crazier. They're going to start legalizing it for retail investors for companies registered on the, on the Kish island, uh, just a few weeks ago.So we're going to see a lot more of that. That's cool. So it seems like SEZs are almost like a pilot program before it goes out to the entire country. Yes. Yes. So when, when China reformed from, from socialism to capitalism in the 1980s, um, they had just had this mass famine from rapidly changing everything to communism.Where about 50 million people died of famine in China due to economic mismanagement in the fifties, for a sense of scale, the entire death toll of all of world war II, including the whole. Is 80 million. So 50 million people starving China, 80 million people die in all of world war II. Right? So worst disaster in human history, maybe second, worst after world war II.So they really did not want to just like adopt capitalism on the national level when the switch to socialism was so disruptive. So they tested it in these special economic zones. And, uh, within the first year, 60% of all foreign investors. Coming to China was coming through the SEZs. Wow. So SES, these have been around for a long time, then it's not like they're a new phenomenon non, when did they start coming about?So I've actually been doing a lot of research to this. Um, if, if that's sort of an interesting rabbit hole, but, uh, the Roman empire to give you a sense of scale, one of their enemies was the city state of roads. Um, roads is like, you know, sort of the island that's right next to Turkey. Roads had all of this massive navies and the Romans had to attack by sea, but they're Navy.These were crap. Worst of all that the fighting Carthage at this point, this is 1 66 BC. They'd been fighting Carthage at to this point for 30 years. So their manpower was totally exhausted and roads were there could have been an alternate timeline where roads unseated, Rome, and wiped out the Roman empire before it had a chance to be born.But Rhodes had one critical. It's entire government budget, which is funded by a 2% tariff on all goods going through their parts. So the Rogan's created a special economic zone with a 0% tariff, right next to roads. And in five years roads with so bankrupt that they voluntarily begged to join the Roman empire.Wow. That's a cool story. So, uh, moving back to crypto TiVo, have you consulted for any cryptocurrency projects? Um, no. Okay. So what's the typical role? Like, do you see blockchain playing a role in these STCs for the, for the companies that you do consult for? Yeah. So, um, one of the companies that we consult for, have you heard of Kronos?It sounds familiar, but I'm not familiar with the audience anyway. So most is a VC fund. The anchor investor is Peter TLF PayPal. Okay. My wife works there and you should talk to Patri Friedman. I could give you an intro. He's the guy who runs the fund is actually investing. Uh, and they have a whole bunch of famous LPs, but I don't want to get in trouble, but less well-known well-known figures.I, I think Balaji is public. So I'll, I'll say him, but what they're doing is they're actually going out and they're actually investing in sort of like the really futuristic projects that are going through. Make the cryptocurrency regulation happens. So it's sort of the invisible underpinning and you have some servers, you know, you have a registered company in the zone, you have the servers in that zone.And as long as you're not dealing with us investors, you have to deal with sec. Um, you can bring in investors from anywhere in the world and there'll be a, there'll be exempt. So they're looking at projects and in Honduras, uh, Nigeria, they've already invested in, uh, looking at other projects in Africa.Yeah, don't want to get in trouble, but a very interesting stuff. So cool. And then I saw that one of your services is information assurance where you help companies verify and secure data. What are your thoughts on the intersection between information assurance and crypto and blockchain technology? So I can't really comment too much about that, but it's actually not information assurance or I guess that's part of it.That's really the big use for blockchain, right? But it's for online company registries. Um, because if you, if you just have like some random dude who just starts like a blockchain registry, right? You, you, you, you release the software online and get a bunch of users. It's not actually tied to any legal system.So it doesn't the U S government doesn't recognize this in contract law. But if you're tied to say the government. I don't know, let's, let's just make up a country, say Nigeria or something like that. And you're all Cayman islands. Right. And you're tied indirectly because the SEZs are. Can act as a metaphorical user interface between you and the government.So you actually registering your company with the zone and the zone itself is on the blockchain. That actually creates a situation where you can implement these technologies legally in a way that normally kind of bypasses having to like change legislation, to have blockchain company registration recognized by the U S government.So very interesting ways you can hack and bypass the legal system. Hm. So turning back to regulation for a second, uh, how should the U S and I, and other sovereign countries, and maybe how, how will Sez is playing this as well? How should they handle crypto regulation? Um, I can't really speak to that simply because I'm not a, an expert on crypto regulation, but my, my own perspective is that, and this is just sort of a personal opinion, not a professional.Is that the government should create sort of sandbox environments where people can, Hey, you signed this document, you know, maybe I'm going to lose everything and you, you, you acknowledge and you just try whatever. And maybe it turns out to be stupid, but I really think that's sort of the, the approach that, um, is going to generate the most innovation.Interesting. It's like we saw that Bitcoin beach in El Salvador. Like a little test city. Uh, yeah, that makes sense. I don't know anything about it yet, but, uh, interesting project. So TiVo, you guys also provide cyber security audits to your companies who are in SEZs. Why is this particularly necessary for companies that are in special economic zones?Um, you know, it's just sort of a standard package of it services. Uh, one of our co-founders Herzon on Flores just used to be doing cybersecurity. He did cybersecurity for Virginia police. So it's just like, Hey, let's just toss that in as sort of a service we offer, but really, you know, our, the, the bulk of our services right.Is mostly due diligence. It's mostly, Hey, I want to invest in X, Y, Z zone. Um, and working with investors on that front to get into the zone. I have some interesting sort of actually examples that are quite relevant right now. Um, right now, one of the big things that's, that's, that's, that's that's going on is Belarus.The Belarus industrial park, right. Has announced this complete cryptocurrency sandbox, but you know, people, I'm sure your, your listeners, or at least a good percentage of them will know that there are massive. Uh, protests against the Bella Russian government, right? There are massive situations where the government was almost basically overthrown because it was so corrupt by the people and massive, you know, horrible police, crackdowns, horrible treatment of protestors.Right. So we're kind of like the guys you'd hire before you go to Belarus to figure it out. Hey, if you go here or if you go to some other country, um, you're going to get in trouble and all sorts of weird.so my, my next question for you TiVo is about the types of blockchain implementation that you've seen in SEZs. Is it mostly like say payment processing where you can send payments like cross borders for very cheap, or is it more adoption of private blockchains within a company? We're an investment or is it more like blockchain platforms, like a theory or Solano where you can interact with programs on a blockchain?Um, so it's, it's, it's kind of disappointing. You don't really see that many. So w if you're talking about the well established special economic zones that are already in existence, you don't actually see that many real day-to-day applications of blockchain yet. However, to the extent that it is arriving, Uh, it's much more on the payment processing side.Um, it's less that the blockchains themselves are using the, the, the, the, sorry, the special economic zones themselves are using blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. What it is is that it's more that the, uh, the, the, the, the people. Are setting up these companies in order to operate in a given region are relocating to the zones and the zones are basically bending over backwards, going really, you know, all out, uh, in order to sort of help make that happen.Hmm. Interesting, interesting example. Right. So in may of this year, two of Dubai's most longstanding special economic centers. These SEZs have been around for, you know, 40. Uh, DMCC and the IFC Dubai international financial center. Um, these zones typically stayed away from crypto. These zones very much, uh, headquarters of site, Blackstone, Warburg, Pincus type old school wall street, private equity firms, middle Eastern headquarters for these companies.And typically the zones that have done crypto, you know, the zones that have gone for. I have been kind of like the zones in Iran or the zones in Belarus. And they've been kind of the SEZs in weird place as of the last six months, the big trend that you're seeing with kind of this, this, you know, third, big bubble in the last like six years sort of coming to an end is that the zones have realized, Hey, crypto may crash and rise or whatever, but it's going to be here to stay.And if they're not sort of on the bandwidth, Uh, they're going to get left behind. So they're adopting regulatory frameworks, which on paper look like they're imposing all of these sanctions on crypto, but by actually creating this environment, um, are actually able to sort of reassure investors that these are going to be stable places to invest in.So have you seen that special economic zones that have made regulation for cryptocurrency? Have an influx of investors come to them over the past year with blockchain exploding and crypto going up. So. Yes, not only do they have an N so Cayman enterprise city has, I think it's either 200 or 250 spots.All 200 and 250 are full with a huge waiting list for any office space. Um, I spoke to a guy who ran a random textile park company in El Salvador. He rans El Salvador's biggest textile, special economic zones. You know, all they do is like make t-shirts and white rubber gloves too, and good, useful stuff.And he wakes up one day reads the news. Huh? Cool. El Salvador's, you know, adopting. It doesn't think much of it opens his inbox and has, you know, 900 emails from random people, cold emailing him to relocate to his own. And he's like, what in the world is going on? You know? And you're hearing the most crazy stuff as soon as one of these zones even announced its crypto.Um, it, th th th they get bombarded, but the problem is that these zones have no ability to identify, say, Ponzi schemes from, you know, legitimate projects. So it's, it's, they're also terrified. Uh, a lot of the ones are, are full of Ponzi scheme. It's a total, it's a total mess right now. So it sounds like countries and their citizens have a lot to gain from introducing these crypto special economic zones attracting lots of innovation.Uh, but they do have to, you know, start small work their way up, learn the valuable lessons about the Ponzis and the real projects. Um, that's cool. What would you say the most important role that crypto or blockchain plays in these special economic zone? So in one, one really interesting trend is that a lot of these zones there's like every possible imaginable industry has a zone and the level of specificity, the level of granularity think of zones.It's like a tailored legal system to target a very granular, specific industry. Right. And I'll give you an idea. I was talking to a guy who does nonwoven fabrics, things like wool or rubber gloves, plastic, blue tarp, all of that's non-woven fabrics. And I'm like, so tell me more about the textiles industry.And he got really pissed off and he's like, I'm not textiles and non-woven fabric totally different industry. And like, that's sort of the level of meekness. Right. And a lot of these zones. We're office parks, a lot of these special economic zones where like, like, you know, rows of computers, cubicles, whatever, uh, in the Philippines, all over the world.And the workers are just never coming back to the offices. It's not a two-week lockdown. It's not a six month lockdown. They're all working from home. None of them want to go back to the Cuba. Um, and now all of these zones have this infrastructure for office space, which could be adopted for crypto, could become, you know, startup incubators, and they're suddenly left scratching their heads.So I kinda think that the, these governments are slow moving. Um, I'd say that they're trying to use cryptocurrency and blockchain as sort of a replacement in half the cases. It's a replacement for anchor tenants who disappeared. And then the other half of cases, they're kind of late to the bandwagon and they're desperately trying to find their way to get in.So it's, it's generally one of two things and occasionally you have some really forward-thinking, you know, jurisdiction. You have three or four. That I actually are, but yeah, that, that, that actually sort of our foreign thing, but usually it's fear and a fear of missing out. Yeah. I can see that. Well, how big are special economic zones?W w what's the range or how can you tell where it's located? All right. So I have two sort of extreme stories. Um, there, the us has something called foreign trade zones. There's about 250 300. All they are. Is that good? The enter and exit the foreign trade zone legally haven't entered the U S so the idea is that you're building a car, you import the tires from, you know, Germany or whatever you put them onto the car and they don't have to pay the tariffs.So the us has like the most basic lowest level of Sez. They barely even count. I, I read online that in San Jose, California, when I was visiting there, then the special economic zone. So I messaged the guy and I'm like, Hey, can I visit the zone? And he's like, oh, sure. And the first bad sinus, he says, nobody's visited me in years.So he takes me to this, you know, 40 story building. Right. And I go into this building and I go up this elevator and there's this dusty little office that is, um, you know, three meters by two meters like this, like dusty, tiny one extreme. And that was the foreign trade zone. That, that, that was. Um, uh, so on the, on the largest and, um, you, you have in El Salvador the same within a few months of, of, of, uh, El Salvador announcing that they were going to Bitcoin.China announced the zone several hundred square kilometers. That's going to encompass 20% of El Salvador's coastline. So. So, if you look at these zones into the in desert countries like Saudi Arabia, or even the UAE or Oman, right. You have zones that are hundreds of square kilometers. So it's really the whole gamut in terms of population.Once again, dusty closet, uh, Chinese Ken's in population. How do you delegate, uh, especially getting an exam, like H how do you just say, like, Hey, this is the zone, this is what we're doing. So there's two ways that special economic zones, uh, come about. Um, the first is sort of, application-based think a government official with a Sharpie drawing on a map from now on this area over here will be the special economic zone.That's kind of like the China model. You know, it's the pointing at the map, the tapping, we will have economic development. Um, the other model is application-based. So that's like Columbia, where if you own say two or three square kilometers of land and meet this long checklist of requirements, you file an application and you get, um, you get special economic zone status on their land.So sometimes they're started by the government. Sometimes just started by business. Uh, we got stats that our company. One third are, are purely government. One third are purely private and one third public private partnerships. So it's almost exactly evenly divided. Um, but the extent of the private designation is pretty incredible because you have the city of Google, uh, Gurgaon and India, and they switched the names about 10 years ago.And the entire zone has private water system, private police, private fire department, private electricity, primary management, nothing is done by the government at all. And you have zones that are taking this even further in Honduras. You can even apply to have entirely privatized legal systems for all civil law.So anything that's not criminal law that's in these Honduras is Adams. That's going to be special economic. It goes to a fully privatized legal system within the zone. And it's scaring a lot of people and you know, whether or not it works out, I think is still up for debate, but they go pretty far sometimes by the way, constellation 1 million.So, wow. That's incredible. And that's super interesting. I'm really surprised. I haven't heard of that. And I'm sure that's a super interesting case study to research about, uh, have you done some research on this? Like how is it really playing out? Because I haven't heard. Okay. How how's what playing outside privatization in, in these SEZs that are doing this.Um, as far as I can tell, it's a roll of the dice. Most of the time, you're going to get a two to five and not much will happen either way. Sometimes you get a six and you get the city of Shenzen, you know, which goes from a fishing village of 60,000 to a mega city of 60 million. And like 40 years and accounts for 60% of China's investment than 70% of their things.You know, you get retarded, crazy results. One way. Sometimes you get golden triangle Sez in Myanmar. The legal autonomy for some zones enables the worst in humanity. So the triads have their own special economic zone in Laos, on the border with me and mark and they have a casino, but it's known for human trafficking.Uh, 245 women were abducted and forced into prostitution recently freed by ocean authorities in this zone, you have wildlife smuggling, um, and there's actually YouTube videos. If you look up, uh, golden triangle, uh, special economic zone on YouTube, they, they, they, they, they map mass manufacture methamphetamines.Um, they, they have, they have like lions that they like make fight and cages with each other. And. Uh, they have like all sorts of animals that they take apart for traditional medicine. So you have the worst possible and humanity and the best possible. And it's, you know, you're kind of gambling as a country in this.There's not really much of a way to predict what the results were. These are wild. One last thing from, from me is can, uh, we saw you talking about a start-up society. Can you just tell us a brief example? We don't have to go too deep into it, but what a start-up society is and how they correlate to SEZs.Sure. So I started in 2015, a nonprofit think tank called the startups and studies foundation. I left in 2017. Um, a startup society is just. Anybody who's trying to create a society to Nova. So say the country of Catalonia before it becomes a country while it's still like an independence movement is a start-up society or a special economic zone could be another type of.Gotcha. Interesting. So I have a question for you. You say the us government, uh, contracts, you to create a crypto sandbox in the country. What would you pitch to them? Ooh, good question. Um, You know, w what I would do probably, and there's just sort of, the way I am is I would do a crap ton of research, and I would find a ton of people.Who've done a lot of research. Um, and I'd go about it by interviewing about two or 300. And I know I'm not just giving you an answer like plastics, but I go back, I try to interview two or 300 business people who do cryptocurrency, um, at all sides. It's very new people, people who are sort of on the very high end of companies, very well.And I get, you know, all of their top five regulatory pain points, uh, get all the interviews for the top five regulatory pain points for 200 people. And, uh, based off of that, I try to come up with like the three D I wouldn't try to do too much. I'd just try to fix the three biggest, most common pain points to all of the interviews.And really, I think that the, the best results for these kinds of things is. You know, really ask the people involved and not try to do it in the abstract, although I'm sure that if I was like a crypto lawyer, I could just say, you know, plastics or whatever. Very cool. And those location matter when it comes to Cristo.Yes. Yes it does. And I'd say that it matters for three reasons. One, you probably are actually going to be doing to take advantage of a lot of the incentives. You actually have to be physically. So you want to be in a nice location where there's not corruption. That's really beautiful. Um, I live in Switzerland, uh, actually live 20 minutes from Lichtenstein, which is one of the, the crypto capitals of the world and maybe 30 minutes to the other direction from zoo.Right. It's such a beautiful country that that's totally white. People are coming. Even if the regulations aren't say as good as the next reason why location matters is because the regulation can change. The voters of the country can just say overnight new election comes as a coup you know, um, okay.We're just getting rid of the special economic zones and by the way, Uh, we want you to either go to jail for 15 years, we're turning all of your keys and we're taking all of your crypto, you know, so that totally can happen. And in fact, I'm sure it will happen. I'm sure. At some point the government takes there's enough crypto rich people that are there for a conference we'll just like start arresting people and demanding keys on trumped up stuff.So number one, location actually matters. Number two is, uh, you don't want, you know, to have a corruption and number three has electricity. The average cost per kilowatt hour globally as 14 cents. Um, you can get half that in some places. So if you're especially doing mining, uh, that's very valuable. However, like those zones I mentioned in Iran, you know, it's, it's, it's, they, they in fact will subsidize your electricity in some cases.Interesting. So earlier this year we saw China banned Bitcoin mining. They've basically taken control over it and issued their own central bank, digital currency. Instead, are we seeing China do any experiments in their special economic zones with crypto? Okay. Want to know something LR. This is going to blow your minds again.Are you ready please? Do. I was in 500 special economic zones in China, right? Oh, how many Chinese special economic zones are there? Run by Chinese corporations outside of. Oh, I, I it's either going to be a really high number or I'm imagining a really high number is going to be a high number. But could you say that question one more time?How many companies are they're run by the Chinese government and Chinese state run companies, Chinese special economic sounds outside of China? Well, there's about 10,000 of them worldwide and 2,500 are in China already. So that leaves about 7,500. I have no clue, maybe 2000, if it's a high number. Well, you're, you're over it, but there's 500 Chinese SEZs outside of China.And so what qualifies it as a Chinese SCC? Like a special economic zone, that's run by any Chinese company. That definition is if the usually zones have an operator, which is kind of like the country that owns the land, builds the buildings, cleans the law and whatever, if that company is Chinese, we have a, by the way, we're about to publish the world's first map of every single special economic zone on earth and took us two years of work.Um, but, but one of the data we collected was to see where all the Chinese. And it's terrifying because in some of the most extreme cases, we found Chinese SEZs outside of us military basis. So the U S has all of these overseas bases and the like, like a bunch of idiots, the U S government is, you know, Hey, we're going to go in through military imperialism, spend $2 trillion and then leave Afghanistan 20 years later, the Chinese.No we're going to do, we're going to build a happy mall right next to the U S military base and invite TGI Fridays to the shopping mall. So all the off duty soldiers will spend money on us, government money in our shopping, bubbles find like Chinese shopping miles outside of any military base in Africa, you find that there's military basis.The only connection they have to the outside world are Chinese freeways and Chinese railroads. You know, I don't think it's actually that the trends are going to shut it off. I just think it's that they're like taking all the money from the U S government basically indirectly, um, in terms of, uh, cryptocurrency, um, you know, the Chinese are always up to, uh, they really want to promote, you know, Th th the digitization of the, of, of the Yuan and promoting sort of the digital one as the one world currency that's running administered by China.So, you know, I think you're going to just see that be implemented. Um, and all of the zones, I have kind of an interesting little anecdote of this, and I don't want to mention the zone cause they're good people. I don't want to embarrass them, but one of the largest special economic zones in Africa, our team is about to do it.And we emailed them and we're like, Hey, we heard your zone splint by the Chinese and villain. No, no Chinese people here, you know, it's all Chinese characters, it's all a, we chat, pay every single star, um, uh, you know, giant Chinese flag that says, uh, uh, sort of, you know, welcome home. And, um, you have zones with names like qualling special economic zone in Georgia, you know, the country of Georgia.Hm. So I'm guessing that these countries let China have these special economic zones just for the purpose of developing their own economies as well. Yes. And you know, to be fair, I think the reason why China has done so well with the SCCs is because it's actually pretty good for, you know, the, the, the locals peaceful.Yeah. There's there's problems there. Chicanery, there are corruptions, but many of the time it's. All the men in your town suddenly get jobs that pay twice as much working for the Chinese factory, where there's been no development in a war torn country for 20 years, you know, you're going to be very supportive of China, right?They're doing what sort of, uh, America wishes it did during the cold war, but a zillion times better. And I think they learned that from the U S. Very interesting. Do you, uh, do any, like personally, do you invest in cryptos? Do you follow any projects or are you into that space at all? No comment. No, I got it.Yeah. That makes sense. Are you interested in the, in NFL? Um, okay. I think NFTs are totally stupid. The reason why is because I think intellectual property is like an outdated sort of institution. We need to be moving towards, you know, open source, copyright free. So, uh, to the extent the NFTs are, are, are.For people claiming ownership of like digital assets. I think that's like really the wrong direction. Um, however, I imagine that there's a ton of other non-trivial applications out there, so I'm not hating on those, but I am hating on, uh, what is it? Crypto kitties or whatever has.It's interesting to see that these digital assets are the first type of NFT to really get put into the mainstream, though. We did see it's real a use NFTs in a pilot program for, I think it was land deeds and Carla. And so it's really cool to see governments like catching an eye for NFTs. And it's going to be really interesting to see where it goes, because like you said, TiVo, it's not just about these digital assets or verifying like digital IP.There's a million different use cases for them. And we're only scratching the surface right now. So you said land needs and Carla. Yes, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. That's that's like exactly what it should be used for, right? Yeah. Yeah. I imagine it is going to be your whole identity, like in the future where you're going to have, you know, your, um, your, it is going to be tokenized, whatever your social, everything.Maybe hidden, but you know what I mean? I think that's how you can verify everything and never get lost and all that other stuff, like you said, there's a ton of, um, different use cases for entities, not just profile pictures or images like you, you know? Cause I understand the, uh, kind of thing about. But at the same time, I feel like there is a need to, uh, essentially show off on the internet flex, if you will.Like, like people will buy Rolex's and fancy cars. And with so much time that people spend on internet these days, I think it only makes sense to have a way for people to show off on the internet. Like they do. Fancy cars or other things that might not really have the tangible value that they're worth. I mean, there, there are a lot of things like that in the physical, tangible world.And, and I think it to a degree makes sense. Although silly, I don't think that the government should like regulate it or anything, but I just wish that instead of showing you. You know, so in the, in the, in the middle ages, right. Which was like a time when everything was like a special economics, right.Rights, this age of totally crazy city states. Um, so my, my other hobby outside of STC is medieval history, but in the middle east, there really was this, this, um, this attitude of like, Hey, the rich people are going to show off by like building charts and Publix works and funding the arts and funding sciences.I, and I really hate seeing Lamborghini's and Rolex's when we could be crowdfunding Elon Musk to go build a colony on the moon, or we could be like, you know, funding, like fishing fleets to get rid of all of that plastic in the ocean. So I just wish it was channeled in that direction. Yeah, no, that totally makes sense.So I saw on your website, you like to do a lot of book reviews. Uh, could you tell us maybe how you got into that? What you've been reading lately and any recommendations you might have for us here on moon or bust? Sure. So for book reviews, um, this is my personal website, this isn't my, my company, uh, just for fun.I decided I dropped out of college about five years ago and I decided that instead of going to college, I was going to read a book a week nonfiction and review it. Huh? I've stuck to it on average the last few months, has it been that. But I, I, it, it averages out to like 1.2 books a week or something like that.Um, and I mostly read and medieval history. So I've been starting in chronological order and going to the present from about 500 BC trying to read like five to 10 books per century. Um, so I met about 1200, so I've got like decades left to reach the prison because it's, but anyways, um, in terms of history books, um, this goes into special economics.I recommend a book called lost enlightenment. And what this book is about is there was this last Islamic golden civilization, you know, in central Asia during the middle ages, which, uh, basically reached like late 16 hundreds level of technology and like 1800. And they totally get wiped out by the Mongols and the region like loses like a quarter of its population goes back.So you have this situation where there's a super technologically advanced society that pops up in a place that you haven't heard of, you know, a real loss civilization, they go back. So it also tells you that, you know, technology, it's not just an upward linear line, the, the, the Italians and the Renaissance staff to pick up the torch.And it declined and it sort of stays low for a long time. Uh, so lost enlightenment is, is a good one. Um, in terms of special economic zones, another good book is on China by Henriquez Henry. Who actually negotiated a lot of the opening up of China. And it's the history of like how China used special economic zones to reform its economy, to, you know, totally change it society.And it turns out that there's this like four foot, 10, five foot five. I don't know how tall he is, but this little, tiny little guy called dunk shell ping who, everybody who nobody's. Who saved the most human lives of like anybody in the 20th century by building special economic zones and bringing free market to China and like tripling the GDP per capita, you know?Um, so that's the next one. I really like lost enlightenment, uh, sorry. Lost enlightenment on central Asia, uh, on China by Henry kitchen. And I think that the third good one is seeing like a state by James Scott, which is just a book about how, when you look at things from the perspective of statistics and government planning, it just distorts your view on everything.So hope that's not too much. I really like, no, I got those written down TiVo. How do you find time to read? So, so many books, I just listened to audio books. So I'm like just always listening to audio books every minute I have. Very cool. Uh, oh, what's that? No, sorry, go ahead. Oh, no, no. I just wanted to mention in the time that we have left a few sort of interesting crypto things, if we had time in SEZs B might be kind of interesting.So one of them, that's, that's one trend that is quite interesting is remember how earlier I mentioned and my wife, by the way, wrote a paper about this for the world free zones organization. Um, so remember how I mentioned how a lot of STDs have lost business from work from. Typically to take advantage of the regulations in an sec, what you had to do was you had to be like physically based there, like physically doing business there.And in some cases you even have to pay for the cost of the gut of a government agent to come like inspect, to make sure that you're actually in the zone, not there on paper. Some zones have decided because of work from. To start letting companies take advantage to register as like a work from home company in the zone and start taking advantages of the legal system of the zone working from home.So you could be at a laptop anywhere in the world. And if you're the right special economic zones, be taking advantage of a legal system that really like benefits your need working for. And I think that that from a legal perspective, It's kind of a loophole and who knows if it will last, but if it does last, it's going to, I think totally changed the game for companies doing all of these things that are very regulatorily difficult from a crypto perspective.Awesome. Well, if you guys want to find, find out more about T-bones work, we have his website linked in the description below. You can go check that out. Uh Teebo. If you have any closing thoughts or shout outs, you want to give, tell the audience where to connect with you. The Florida. Yes. Well, I add 100% of the people who connect to me on LinkedIn and I eventually respond to 100% of my messages.So everybody add me. And, um, I'd love to help you with any SEZs are send any books or whatever. Um, so that's the best place to find me. Uh, the company is Adrian Oakville group, um, which you have linked, I imagine. And, uh, yeah, that's. Alrighty that has been this, uh, episode of moon or bust. We hope you enjoyed it.If you did, please leave us a like, and we can get more of this content for you in the future. Uh, for now we're signing off sticker on for pre market prep. It will be linked in the chat. Uh, but thanks for tuning in. We will see you next.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/moon-or-bust/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Recent Development On 4 June 2021, the European Commission published modernized Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) for data transfers under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The modernized SCCs were published as two sets: the first set regulates the cross-border transfers to third countries outside the EU and is a replacement to old SCCs, whereas the second set is for data transfers between data controllers and data processors.

What is the nature of innovation? Is it overhearing a conversation as with Morse and the telegraph? Working with the deaf as with Bell? Divine inspiration? Necessity? Science fiction? Or given that the answer to all of these is yes, is it really more the intersectionality between them and multiple basic and applied sciences with deeper understandings in each domain? Or is it being given the freedom to research? Or being directed to research? Few have as storied a history of innovation as Bell Labs and few have had anything close to the impact. Bell Labs gave us 9 Nobel Prizes and 5 Turing awards. Their alumni have even more, but those were the ones earned while at Bell. And along the way they gave us 26,000 patents. They researched, automated, and built systems that connected practically every human around the world - moving us all into an era of instant communication. It's a rich history that goes back in time from the 2018 Ashkin Nobel for applied optical tweezers and 2018 Turing award for Deep Learning to an almost steampunk era of tophats and the dawn of the electrification of the world. Those late 1800s saw a flurry of applied and basic research. One reason was that governments were starting to fund that research. Alessandro Volta had come along and given us the battery and it was starting to change the world. So Napolean's nephew, Napoleon III, during the second French Empire gave us the Volta Prize in 1852. One of those great researchers to receive the Volta Prize was Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone in 1876 and was awarded the Volta Prize, getting 50,000 francs. He used the money to establish the Volta Laboratory, which would evolve or be a precursor to a research lab that would be called Bell Labs. He also formed the Bell Patent Association in 1876. They would research sound. Recording, transmission, and analysis - so science. There was a flurry of business happening in preparation to put a phone in every home in the world. We got the Bell System, The Bell Telephone Company, American Bell Telephone Company patent disputes with Elisha Gray over the telephone (and so the acquisition of Western Electric), and finally American Telephone and Telegraph, or AT&T. Think of all this as Ma' Bell. Not Pa' Bell mind you - as Graham Bell gave all of his shares except 10 to his new wife when they were married in 1877. And her dad ended up helping build the company and later creating National Geographic, even going international with International Bell Telephone Company. Bell's assistant Thomas Watson sold his shares off to become a millionaire in the 1800s, and embarking on a life as a Shakespearean actor. But Bell wasn't done contributing. He still wanted to research all the things. Hackers gotta' hack. And the company needed him to - keep in mind, they were a cutting edge technology company (then as in now). That thirst for research would infuse AT&T - with Bell Labs paying homage to the founder's contribution to the modern day. Over the years they'd be on West Street in New York and expand to have locations around the US. Think about this: it was becoming clear that automation would be able to replace human efforts where electricity is concerned. The next few decades gave us the vacuum tube, flip flop circuits, mass deployment of radio. The world was becoming ever so slightly interconnected. And Bell Labs was researching all of it. From physics to the applied sciences. By the 1920s, they were doing sound synchronized with motion and shooting that over long distances and calculating the noise loss. They were researching encryption. Because people wanted their calls to be private. That began with things like one-time pad cyphers but would evolve into speech synthesizers and even SIGSALY, the first encrypted (or scrambled) speech transmission that led to the invention of the first computer modem. They had engineers like Harry Nyquist, whose name is on dozens of theories, frequencies, even noise. He arrived in 1917 and stayed until he retired in 1954. One of his most important contributions was to move beyond printing telegraph to paper tape and to helping transmit pictures over electricity - and Herbert Ives from there sent color photos, thus the fax was born (although it would be Xerox who commercialized the modern fax machine in the 1960s). Nyquist and others like Ralph Hartley worked on making audio better, able to transmit over longer lines, reducing feedback, or noise. While there, Hartley gave us the oscillator, developed radio receivers, parametric amplifiers, and then got into servomechanisms before retiring from Bell Labs in 1950. The scientists who'd been in their prime between the two world wars were titans and left behind commercializable products, even if they didn't necessarily always mean to. By the 40s a new generation was there and building on the shoulders of these giants. Nyquist's work was extended by Claude Shannon, who we devoted an entire episode to. He did a lot of mathematical analysis like writing “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” to birth Information Theory as a science. They were researching radio because secretly I think they all knew those leased lines would some day become 5G. But also because the tech giants of the era included radio and many could see a day coming when radio, telephony, and aThey were researching how electrons diffracted, leading to George Paget Thomson receiving the Nobel Prize and beginning the race for solid state storage. Much of the work being done was statistical in nature. And they had William Edwards Deming there, whose work on statistical analysis when he was in Japan following World War II inspired a global quality movement that continues to this day in the form of frameworks like Six Sigma and TQM. Imagine a time when Japanese manufacturing was of such low quality that he couldn't stay on a phone call for a few minutes or use a product for a time. His work in Japan's reconstruction paired with dedicated founders like Akio Morita, who co-founded Sony, led to one of the greatest productivity increases, without sacrificing quality, of any time in the world. Deming would change the way Ford worked, giving us the “quality culture.” Their scientists had built mechanical calculators going back to the 30s (Shannon had built a differential analyzer while still at MIT) - first for calculating the numbers they needed to science better then for ballistic trajectories, then with the Model V in 1946, general computing. But these were slow; electromechanical at best. Mary Torrey was another statistician of the era who along with Harold Hodge gave us the theory of acceptance sampling and thus quality control for electronics. And basic electronics research to do flip-flop circuits fast enough to establish a call across a number of different relays was where much of this was leading. We couldn't use mechanical computers for that, and tubes were too slow. And so in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor at Bell Labs, which be paired with Shannon's work to give us the early era of computers as we began to weave Boolean logic in ways that allowed us to skip moving parts and move to a purely transistorized world of computing. In fact, they all knew one day soon, everything that monster ENIAC and its bastard stepchild UNIVAC was doing would be done on a single wafer of silicon. But there was more basic research to get there. The types of wires we could use, the Marnaugh map from Maurice Karnaugh, zone melting so we could do level doping. And by 1959 Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng gave us metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFETs - which was a step on the way to large-scale integration, or LSI chips. Oh, and they'd started selling those computer modems as the Bell 101 after perfecting the tech for the SAGE air-defense system. And the research to get there gave us the basic science for the solar cell, electronic music, and lasers - just in the 1950s. The 1960s saw further work work on microphones and communication satellites like Telstar, which saw Bell Labs outsource launching satellites to NASA. Those transistors were coming in handy, as were the solar panels. The 14 watts produced certainly couldn't have moved a mechanical computer wheel. Blaise Pascal and would be proud of the research his countries funds inspired and Volta would have been perfectly happy to have his name still on the lab I'm sure. Again, shoulders and giants. Telstar relayed its first television signal in 1962. The era of satellites was born later that year when Cronkite televised coverage of Kennedy manipulating world markets on this new medium for the first time and IBM 1401 computers encrypted and decrypted messages, ushering in an era of encrypted satellite communications. Sputnik may heave heated the US into orbit but the Telstar program has been an enduring system through to the Telstar 19V launched in 2018 - now outsourced to a Falcon 9 rocket from Space X. It might seem like Bell Labs had done enough for the world. But they still had a lot of the basic wireless research to bring us into the cellular age. In fact, they'd plotted out what the cellular age would look like all the way back in 1947! The increasing use of computers to do the all the acoustics and physics meant they were working closely with research universities during the rise of computing. They were involved in a failed experiment to create an operating system in the late 60s. Multics influenced so much but wasn't what we might consider a commercial success. It was the result of yet another of DARPA's J.C.R. Licklider's wild ideas in the form of Project MAC, which had Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. Big names in the scientific community collided with cooperation and GE, Bell Labs and Multics would end up inspiring many a feature of a modern operating system. The crew at Bell Labs knew they could do better and so set out to take the best of Multics and implement a lighter, easier operating system. So they got to work on Uniplexed Information and Computing Service, or Unics, which was a pun on Multics. Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIllroy, Joe Assana, Brian Kernigan, and many others wrote Unix originally in assembly and then rewrote it in C once Dennis Ritchie wrote that to replace B. Along the way, Alfred Aho, Peter Weinber, and Kernighan gave us AWSK and with all this code they needed a way to keep the source under control so Marc Rochkind gave us the SCCS, or Course Code Control System, first written for an IBM S/3370 and then ported to C - which would be how most environments maintained source code until CVS came along in 1986. And Robert Fourer, David Gay, and Brian Kernighan wrote A Mathematical Programming Language, or AMPL, while there. Unix began as a bit of a shadow project but would eventually go to market as Research Unix when Don Gillies left Bell to go to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. From there it spread and after it fragmented in System V led to the rise of IBM's AIX, HP-UX, SunOS/Solaris, BSD, and many other variants - including those that have evolved into the macOS through Darwin, and Android through Linux. But Unix wasn't all they worked on - it was a tool to enable other projects. They gave us the charge-coupled device, which resulted in yet another Nobel Prize. That is an image sensor built on the MOS technologies. While fiber optics goes back to the 1800s, they gave us attenuation over fiber and thus could stretch cables to only need repeaters every few dozen miles - again reducing the cost to run the ever-growing phone company. All of this electronics allowed them to finally start reducing their reliance on electromechanical and human-based relays to transistor-to-transistor logic and less mechanical meant less energy, less labor to repair, and faster service. Decades of innovation gave way to decades of profit - in part because of automation. The 5ESS was a switching system that went online in 1982 and some of what it did - its descendants still do today. Long distance billing, switching modules, digital line trunk units, line cards - the grid could run with less infrastructure because the computer managed distributed switching. The world was ready for packet switching. 5ESS was 100 million lines of code, mostly written in C. All that source was managed with SCCS. Bell continued with innovations. They produced that modem up into the 70s but allowed Hayes, Rockewell, and others to take it to a larger market - coming back in from time to time to help improve things like when Bell Labs, branded as Lucent after the breakup of AT&T, helped bring the 56k modem to market. The presidents of Bell Labs were as integral to the success and innovation as the researchers. Frank Baldwin Jewett from 1925 to 1940, Oliver Buckley from 40 to 51, the great Mervin Kelly from 51 to 59, James Fisk from 59 to 73, William Oliver Baker from 73 to 79, and a few others since gave people like Bishnu Atal the space to develop speech processing algorithms and predictive coding and thus codecs. And they let Bjarne Stroustrup create C++, and Eric Schmidt who would go on to become a CEO of Google and the list goes on. Nearly every aspect of technology today is touched by the work they did. All of this research. Jon Gerstner wrote a book called The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. He chronicles the journey of multiple generations of adventurers from Germany, Ohio, Iowa, Japan, and all over the world to the Bell campuses. The growth and contraction of the basic and applied research and the amazing minds that walked the halls. It's a great book and a short episode like this couldn't touch the aspects he covers. He doesn't end the book as hopeful as I remain about the future of technology, though. But since he wrote the book, plenty has happened. After the hangover from the breakup of Ma Bell they're now back to being called Nokia Bell Labs - following a $16.6 billion acquisition by Nokia. I sometimes wonder if the world has the stomach for the same level of basic research. And then Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman from Bell end up sharing the Turing Award for their work on compilers. And other researchers hit a terabit a second speeds. A storied history that will be a challenge for Marcus Weldon's successor. He was there as a post-doc there in 1995 and rose to lead the labs and become the CTO of Nokia - he said the next regeneration of a Doctor Who doctor would come in after him. We hope they are as good of stewards as those who came before them. The world is looking around after these decades of getting used to the technology they helped give us. We're used to constant change. We're accustomed to speed increases from 110 bits a second to now terabits. The nature of innovation isn't likely to be something their scientists can uncover. My guess is Prometheus is guarding that secret - if only to keep others from suffering the same fate after giving us the fire that sparked our imaginations. For more on that, maybe check out Hesiod's Theogony. In the meantime, think about the places where various sciences and disciplines intersect and think about the wellspring of each and the vast supporting casts that gave us our modern life. It's pretty phenomenal when ya' think about it.

Kate and Stephen share their nature news after some hot weather brings out all that's good and slightly less welcome from the world of invertebrates. There's advice on how to help birds in warm weather. We look ahead to a vital climate conference in Glasgow. And we hear from a young woman who has fallen in love with the peat bogs at RSPB Scotland's Forsinard reserve. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review. And get in touch with your nature news podcast.scotland@RSPB.org.ukYou can also find out more about how to get involved in campaigning for action on the nature and climate emergency at these linksClimate Scotland https://climatescotland.org/SCCS https://www.stopclimatechaos.scot/Climate Fringe https://climatefringe.org/

On this week of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the potential new law for Colorado, the Colorado Privacy Act, SB21-190. On June 8, it was passed by the House, meaning it is now ready for the governor's signature. If it passes, it will be the third state omnibus privacy law in the US, with Virginia having passed the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) earlier this year and of course, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In this episode, we cover elements such as government practices, individual rights, the extensive opt outs, and key definitions. For example, one topic is centered on how in Colorado bills can become law by “letting it ride” after 30 days - and why Colorado has 30 days for the governor to sign. This contrasts with the federal provision of the pocket veto. Join us as we discuss the specifics of the potential Colorado Privacy Act, its penalties, and its comparisons to the CCPA, Virginia CDPA, and the GDPR. More detail on the Colorado Privacy Act can be found on TrustArc's website, where we provide extensive detail in a series of four blogs - Part I - a general overview with key definitions and enforcement Part II - individual rightsPart III - special processing activities and opt outs (sales of data, profiling, targeted ads)Part IV - responsibilities of the parties and contractsIf you did not catch today's webinar on the SCCs and EU activities, please feel free to watch it - hot off the presses with both Paul and K. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. In addition, if you like our podcast, please do rate and comment on our program in your favorite podcast app. We also have a LinkedIn page for Serious Privacy, so please follow for more in-depth discussion.

On 21 June 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released the long-awaited updated Recommendations on possible supplementary measures when transferring personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA). These Recommendations align with the new Standard Contractual Clauses for International Transfers that were released by the European Commission on 4 June 2021 and require organisations to conduct third country risk assessments before transferring personal data. In this episode, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the details of the new European guidance, but also comment on how to do all this work in practice. Is it for example reasonable to expect such detailed assessments from companies? Is the risk-based approach really back? And how does all of this guidance relate to the whole debate about the scope of application of the GDPR. The lawyers in Paul certainly don't seem to agree on the interpretation of the GDPR… As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. In addition, if you like our podcast, please do rate and comment on our program in your favourite podcast app. ResourcesTrustArc has a website providing further guidance on International Data Transfers Paul and K are doing a webinar on International Transfers on 30 June 2021 at 11am ET. You can register here.

Wenn ein Lieferservice auf der Unartig-Liste des Datenschutzes landet, sind Laura und Cornelius nicht weit. Die beiden haben viel zu besprechen! Neben dem Für und Wider von GPS-Tracking, geht es um Cornelius‘ Heißhunger auf Burger und den vermeintlichen Kundenwillen immer zu wissen, wo die Pizza gerade ist. Und auch der internationale(re) Datenschutz bietet Stoff für Diskussionen. Es geht um die neuen SCCs, Brexit, Schrems II (oder vielleicht doch schon Schrems III) und Fragebögen der Aufsichtsbehörden.

Google zieht nach: Änderungen auch für Android Werbe-ID AAID (Android Advertising ID) 175 Organisationen fordern Verbot von biometrischer Überwachungstechnik im öffentlichen Bereich Verabschiedung neuer Standardvertragsklauseln Auftragsverarbeitung internationale Datentransfers Covid-Zertifikat durch EU-Parlament angenommen - Start 01.07. Digitaler Impfausweis CovPass ab Montag verfügbar Erste Bewertung des Testlaufs zum thüringer digitalen Impfausweis durch Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten Hasse Vollständige (Video-)Überwachung während der Arbeitszeit unverhältnismäßig Schmerzensgeld für Arbeitnehmerin aufgrund Veröffentlichung von personenbezogenen Daten ohne Einwilligung durch den Arbeitgeber Auskunftsanspruch gem. Art. 15 DSGVO anwendbar bei Examensklausuren Aktuelle Bußgelder aus Schweden BSI aktualisiert Hilfestellungen für KRITIS-Betreiber/-Prüfer

On this week's episode  of #SeriousPrivacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal discuss the new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for international transfers that were adopted by the European Commission on 4 June 2021. These model contracts, that come in four modules, finally replace the old SCCs, some of which date back to the early 2000s. The modernised versions are fully GDPR compliant, embrace the accountability principle and include many requirements to address the limitations set by the Schrems II decision.Listen to the conversation to get a better understanding of what the new SCCs entail and how they can (and cannot) be used by organisations. You will hear more about why some non-European companies will not have to use SCCs going forward, but also on the assessments that you will need to undertake. Since recording the episode, the timelines for the Transfer SCCs have become clear too:27 June 2021 - the new SCCs become applicable27 Sept 2021 - the old SCCs become invalid for new contracts27 Dec 2022 - all SCC-based contracts will need to be updatedResourcesTrustArc blog introducing the new SCCsTrustArc microsite with all international transfer related information As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com. In addition, if you like our podcast, please do rate and comment on our program in your favorite podcast app. 

La Commissione Europea ha pubblicato le nuove Clausole Contrattuali Standard (CCS) sui trasferimenti di dati personali che hanno implicazioni rilevanti e introducono nuovi obblighi sostanziali.In questo podcast, Giulio Coraggio, partner dello studio legale DLA Piper, spiega cosa cambia con le nuove SCC sui trasferimenti di dati personali al di fuori del SEE e come le aziende dovrebbero prepararsi alla loro adozione.

On 4 June 2021 the European Commission issued new standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries.  These modernised SCCs will replace the previous three sets of SCCs that were adopted under Data Protection Directive 95/46. 

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breibarth and K Royal connect with the Global Privacy Officer at GameStop, Seán Dunne. He really knows the company well, given that he started in retail operations almost 12 years ago. Now, he is responsible for global data protection compliance with laws ranging from the familiar GDPR and CCPA, to the less well known Canadian anti-spam legislation, and the privacy laws of Australia and New Zealand. This is quite the perspective to share with our listeners who are curious about the challenges one faces with a truly global privacy office, that includes major operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but is based in Europe. Gamestop operates on multiple fronts with online and brick and mortar locations, multiple streams of operations and data flows, and has consumers at various ages. It is quite complex, but fascinating to understand his priorities, challenges, and daily approach. We spoke about an EU privacy person managing the US privacy operations (particularly challenging), new state laws, the possibility of a federal law in the US, Privacy Shield, SCCs, and the criticality of a privacy dictionary. Join us as we discuss global privacy operations, preferences for “data protection” versus “privacy,” and the skills needed to be a successful privacy professional. Coming from the tech side of business, Seán has interesting insight on collaboration. As always, if you have comments or feedback, please contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com.

Welcome to another episode of the Conversations for Financial Professionals podcast where we are shaping the next generation of financial advice.   Today we have Andy Andrews. Andy is the author of more than 25 books that have been translated into more than 40 languages among those are several New York Times bestsellers including "The Traveler's Gift" which has was named one of the Five Books You Must Read in Your Lifetime by ABCs Good Morning America. Andy also works as a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies and is one of my favorite authors (I have 7 of your books in my personal library). I think you are one of the foremost authorities on mindset and just a sage when it comes to discussing the topic of perspective. Show Highlights: Andy talks about perspective and why it is a key attribute for financial advisors. (6:42) Andy discusses his biggest obstacle that prevents viewing things from different angles. (10:17) Andy discusses some tangible steps on how to personally develop what Jones called a gift in Andy’s book The Noticer and The Noticer Returns. (10:56) Andy gives us some insights on some of his most quoted statements over the years, what they mean, and the philosophy behind them.  (21:05)   Resources: Click here for a really cool offer that Andy gave to #CFFPPodcast listeners! Are you a current or aspiring financial professional?  Click here to receive tools that will help you become a next-generation financial professional! Watch a video clip of this episode on our YouTube channel by clicking here. To receive a newsletter digest of Jumpstart community happenings, click here.   Subscribe to the podcast by clicking here. Want to connect with me? Join my exclusive “tribe” by clicking here. Thanks again for listening, reading, and watching!   Conversation Transcript: 00:00:02 Dominique Welcome to conversations for financial professionals, a podcast to help shape the next generation of financial advice. I'm your host, Dominique Henderson. And today we have Andy Andrews. One of those individuals that will immediately go into your list of favorites. He is an author of many bestsellers. Today we were able to break into the power of your perspective. How do you gain perspective? What are some of the things that are tangible steps that allow you to see things from different angles to maybe pull you out of a spot that you are currently in, that you don't like? And I get some time to unpack several brain food quotes made famous by Mr. Andrews. This is definitely a podcast episode. You don't want to miss it. We get into so many things, and I know you're going to leave today empowered to become that financial professional, to serve your client at the next level, let's get to the conversation.  00:01:01 Dominique Welcome to another episode of the conversations for financial professionals podcast, where we are shaping the next generation of financial advice. And today we have Mr. Andy Andrews, a personal favorite of mine. Andy, you are the author of more than 25 books that have been translated into more than 40 languages, tons of New York times, best sellers, including one of my favorite, The Traveler's Gift, which was named one of the five books you must read in your lifetime by ABC's good morning, America you've been a consultant to fortune 500 companies. Like I said, one of my favorite authors, I think you are one of the foremost authorities on mindset and just a Sage when it comes to the topic of discussing perspective. So welcome to the podcast. How are you?  00:01:50 Andy Buddy! Thank you. It's just an honor to be here where you donate Dominique. I appreciate you having me. Yeah. Yeah.  00:01:57 Dominique That's great. This power of perspective subject. I know that you are. If I want to talk to anybody, if I had my wishlist, you would be the person that I want to delve into this subject with. But, before we get started, let me ask you, are you excited to see a new year? What do you do, anything special? when the calendar turns, like what, at this stage in your career, what do you do? Anything? Anything like that? 00:02:22 Andy Dude? Right now, I am not as excited to see the new year as I am glad to be out of the old one. I mean, like if 2020 was a hula hoop, it had been made out of barbed wire. I mean, it was just unbelievable. And, and so, I'm glad to be doing anything different. So, yeah, I, I, I make plans and I, I grabbed hold of, what my responsibilities are going to be for the year. I, have decided that a number years ago, I didn't know why that I kind of veered away from goals. I just, and I didn't want to say anything because everybody, yeah, that seems to be just like peanut butter. I was like everybody and, but something about it bothered me. And, and so I, I began to really kind of go to the bottom of the pool on that subject and go to the foundation of that subject.  00:03:26 Andy And, and, I, it's a longer discussion, but I found some things that I feel like, do we want something that has a better chance of working or lesser chance of work? And do we want something to work some of the time or something where it's all the time. And, and so if I made two statements to you, like, if my goal this year was 40 of whatever, I, if I said to with my company, this year, I have a goal of 40. Now, if I said to you, when my company this year, I have a responsibility to produce 40, which one of those carries more weight. Right? I mean, people, goals have gotten to be kind of a thing. I don't know if it's just because it's so common, but they've gotten to be a thing this like, people like, yeah, Hey, don't matter if you miss your goal, you just set a goal.  00:04:23 Andy You're at least you're farther along, you're at least you're farther along. And so really okay. Well, if you'd spend most of your life driving, several different ways to a particular destination. All of a sudden, the department of transportation experts declared that there was one particular detour and this was the best way. You became one of thousands of people in your city that decided to take that route. The problem was that so many people kept wrecking along the way. I mean, they're just constantly, but the department of transportation said, well, we've kept track of your wrecks and you are wrecking farther along the way every time. So you're getting closer to your destination. Would that make sense to you? Right. I think that responsibility is the, and as were talking before, it is a nomenclature change, but words matter, and they matter, it matters what you say to yourself.  00:05:42 Andy It matters what you say to other people.  00:05:45 Dominique No, I love that. I think those are, when we,  I love it because I think this kind of segues right into one of first questions I have for you is about looking at things from multiple different angles. Right. I don't know that this is just this, common to only, or let's just say exclusive to financial professionals. It should be for everybody, but what would financial professionals and, you're working with somebody it's always like, how's my investments doing how my investments doing, which that's one aspect. Right? I love for you to kind of take a little time with the power of looking at things from multiple angles, because a lot of my audience is going to be people that are kind of on the outside looking in to see whether or not this career is going to be for them.  00:06:32 Dominique What are some of the things maybe from your personal playbook or your personal experiences that allowed you to start looking at things from multiple angles?  00:06:42 Andy The one of the first things, Dominique, that really made a difference to me to be able to, step aside and look at it differently is to understand what perspective actually is. It gives most people. If you ask them, tell me what perspective is,  they would say, Oh, it's how you see something. It's whether you see the glass half full or half empty, it's just is how you see something and you, okay, that's good. But, but in reality, and that's the definition most people hang on, but in reality, it is much more than that. Okay? It is, it's not how you see things. It's how you choose to see things because see your perspective is yours. It's yours. You own it. Nobody can take it from you. It is yours. The glass half full or half empty. The glass is what it is. It, whatever level it is, that's the level.  00:07:50 Andy You're the one who chooses. Whether you see it as half empty or half full. Now, the reason this matters is because the perspective you choose about any situation sends you down one road or another. Okay? So, we all know that we don't really want to hire a glass, half empty people. We don't really want to follow glass half empty. We want to hire a glass, half full people. We want to promote glass, half full people. We want to follow a glass, half full people. Aren't children to grow up, to be glass, half full people. So, you can look at a situation, whatever that situation is. And, you can say your perspective can be, this is the worst thing that could've ever happened to me. Okay. If that is your perspective, then you are much likely to sit down, think about it, get depressed, do nothing.  00:09:05 Andy And, and you will have been right. Your perspective will have been right on target. It was, it really was the worst thing that could have happened to you because now look what everything's happening now. I mean, it's just been downhill from that moment. Or you could look at this and say, okay, I don't know where I'm going from here, but everything changes and change is part of it. Even the greatest things happened in my life because something changed that I wouldn't have chosen. This is, I think this is going to be the best thing that could have ever happened in my life. Now if you really do think that it allows you to sit up smile, go out, interact, spend what extra time you might have reading, praying, helping somebody doing something, getting some different, knowledge and information. You can look back and go, wow.  00:10:17 Andy I mean, how many times have people said, man, if that hadn't happened, we'd never be here. We thought that was the worst thing, there for. We'd said, no, come on now. We've got it. Over and over again, while I live on the coast and long when hurricanes come in here, there are some people who think this is the worst thing that could've ever happened. I think not for it, not for everybody because roofers, there ain't no money in a couple of years, then they most roofers making a lifetime does pretty good.  00:10:56 Dominique No, I think, I mean the lighter side of things is one thing. The mindset and I want to play devil's advocate for just a second, because when you were talking, it made me think of something because when I started reading your stuff, I was going through, my family was going through a matter of fact, I was in a, a stint of unemployment. I was like, man, this is never going to end. I remember a mentor saying to me, he's like, dude, do you really think that, I mean, I was like early thirties. He was like, do you really think you're never going to work again and your early thirties? And when he said that, I was like, actually, that makes a lot of sense. Not too long after that, I found your stuff. I remember something about Jones and the noticer I'm going to, I'm a quote real quick.  00:11:36 Dominique It's like, I've been given a gift of noticing things that others miss. Maybe you can talk about some of the tangible steps or strategies on how you develop this, because some people are going to say here's a devil's advocate part. Well, that's just positive thinking Andy and Dominique. That's not like that doesn't change anything. Can you actually train yourself to notice things and take different perspectives?  00:12:02 Andy Yes. And, I am not a, a like a motivational speaker, person. That's not me. That's not what I do. I actively flag against it. If you look at andyandrews.com, you will never see the word motivational anywhere on it. Now, some people call me that occasionally because they don't know how else to turn what I do, but motivation is encouragement. It, it has a statute of limitations. We all know I could fire you up. You could fire me up, but that's going to last until the first crazy thing happens in our life. And, and, but here's what does matter, what matters is proof, proof lasts. I'm not talking about like a mathematical proof. I'm talking about proof beyond a reasonable doubt, that kind of proof where you hear something you hadn't thought of, or hadn't heard and you go, huh. Well, that makes total sense. I never thought of it that way.  00:13:11 Andy What I want to do here with your question is I want to give proof beyond a reasonable doubt here. Now, part of that proof beyond reasonable doubt came with what we're talking about. The glass half empty, glass half full. I mean, I didn't just say you can choose to see it either way. I gave you an example of where a person's life goes when they are thinking that way. All right. I'll give you a real life example, down here on the Gulf coast. I think it was, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago. I mean, you'll remember this happening, but we had an oil spill, the big, oil rig blew up. There were people around here that literally just left their keys in their businesses and just left. I mean, they just left, because the news was saying this would be generations before it was changed.  00:14:20 Andy This would be generations that nothing would ever be the same again. Now forget for a minute that it was all cleaned up and less than a year. And, forget that and forget that. We can see, diary entries in Hernando, Desotos men down when they were on the coast of Texas saying there are these black balls of pitch that float up that are excellent for the cracks in our boats. Yeah. The earth has been leaking oil for centuries. Okay. So, so forget that for a minute. Let's just talk about the way people were looking at that time and what they did and what, the way they, like I said, so we're a fishing community. This is a sport fishing community. There's a lot of charter boat captains here. These guys have the big boats that they run out for a red snapper out 20, 30 miles out.  00:15:24 Andy They take charter boats full of tourists and people. It's, it's a lot of money to go and they use a lot of gas and these boats cost a lot. They're all paying notes on their boats. Like most people do on their house, right? And so this is their business. When that happened, it shut everything down. Well, the banks didn't say, okay, you don't have to pay for your boat. These guys were in a world of hurt. And, and all of a sudden, with everybody saying, this is the worst thing that could possibly happen. As we're saying there, my boys went to school with some kids and that dad was a charter boat captain. He went in his boat, one morning and shot himself and killed himself. Which is a, a, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. This shook this community up in such a huge way.  00:16:37 Andy And, and I, I had said, I, I didn't say this in response to this, but I'd always said in Tama crisis, you're not lacking money. You're not lacking time. You're not lacking leadership. You're only lacking an idea. One idea, we've seen one idea, make millions, we've seen one idea, make, save millions of lives. One idea will get you from where you are to where you want to be one idea. It's just a thinking thing. The, the idea of the thinking, you don't look at your industry, you don't look at what everybody does because the results, the data is in on that. Okay. Okay. So, so you begin to look in other areas, look, in terms of value, how can I be valuable? How can, what I know be valuable to other people? How can I create value for other people? You look in other ways.  00:17:38 Andy There were a bunch of charter boat guys. One of them are really good friend of mine that they said, people are coming down here like crazy. Because they want to see this oil spill and the national guards not letting them on the beach. Why don't we charge people like 20 bucks and we'll just ride them around. They, they started loading people on their boats and I get on the little microphone. I go, if you'll look to your left, you'll say some oil over on the right bank. There is oil up ahead. We'll be coming to some oil. And, they were riding around for an hour for 20 bucks, come back, pick up another load of people driving around. They were making more money than they made fishing without the fuel costs without going out and getting beat up in the waves. When the oil spill was cleaned up, they were like, Oh man, the oil's gone.  00:18:47 Andy And so they're like, I guess we gotta go back to fishing, but my buddy Chris said, no. Don't, we have seen so many dolphins when these dolphins are in shore all the time. You can find them really easily in a boat. So they started dolphin tours, dolphin tours. That's how that started down here, these dolphin tours. Chris would send his 12 year old boy in a skiff out in the morning, Chris would advertise dolphin tours and it's like, 20 bucks. If you don't see a dolphin, you don't have to pay. He would send his 12 year old, out in a little skiff in the morning with a walkie talking. And, the boy, dad, founded officer Dan around bear point, and they're right there, take her down. There you go. Chris always got paid and, but it was an idea just thinking.  00:21:05 Dominique You unpacked so many nuggets of wisdom in that story. I mean, it's just, I'm thinking specifically the fact that, I have financial advisor, friends, financial professionals that like, Oh, COVID man, I can't get out to see clients. I can't do this. And I can't do that. It's just the matter of the way that you look at it to see if you're going to make lemonade out of lemons, or are you going to sit there on your hands and complain and moan. So then, that was beautiful. I love that. I want to take the balance of our time together for you to take some of the quotes that I've heard you say, you may or may not remember this, but in 2014 I took my, cousin. We drove up to Oklahoma, which is about a three hour drive, Oklahoma city. And you spoke at a leadership summit.  00:21:55 Dominique I think it was like crossroads church. It was you and John. I have a ton, well, not a ton. I have a handful of like soundbites that I was like, Oh my gosh, this is so great. I want you to kind of maybe just expound on those just somewhat of a lightning round, if you will. Okay. So, okay. You said, and I think you alluded to this, but maybe if you want to unpack more, you said proof is better than encouragement because you never have to wonder again. I think about this in the light of what I just said about COVID and how people feel this thing about the imposter syndrome. I'm not there yet. So I can't give people advice. I can't charge people for that expertise, but maybe kind of expand on that whole notion around proof is better than encouragement.  00:22:41 Andy Yeah. Prove is better than encouragement because proof has to be aligned with truth. It has to because it has to make sense. Okay. Because, because we're talking about not a mathematical proof, you can't mathematically prove things around us, or situations or actions. We're talking about a proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That's that kind of proof where people go, wow, well, that makes total sense. I never thought of it that way. That kind of proof has to be aligned with truth and it has to stay aligned with truth because at any point that somebody begins to get information that proves this wrong or that it tends to make them say, well, no, wait a minute. Well then it's no longer proof. So it must be aligned with truth. If you can align that truth with proof, then there you go. And, and I, I hear you about the imposter syndrome, but we've all had, I mean, when we think back, my favorite teacher that I ever had was in the eighth grade, her name was Mrs.  00:24:06 Andy McLloyd. Matt, can you get the key to the cabinet and grabbed me, Ms. Mac Lloyd's picture of that. I got to tell you, Mrs .McLloyd. She is just my favorite. She's my favorite teacher and world. And, and so I remember she was the first person who told me I could write. She was the first person that told me I was funny. One time I made some crack in the class and everybody laughed. She said out of my room, I was like, man, she said, get out of my room. I was horrified because I loved her? She followed me out in the hallway and she turned around and she said, okay, you're funny. All right, you kill me. You just kill me, but you got to let me have the class sometimes. Okay. You are funny, but you need to have timing. You need to pick your moment.  00:25:00 Andy It'll be funnier and you can write funny too. So you're a writer. I always remember her well then, and I just loved her. She was the first person to me that, well then years later, yeah. I'm like 50 years old. I go to that city and I'm speaking at something. I, they asked is anybody you want to see? I say, yeah, I want to say Mrs. McLloyd. They brought her in and I was expecting some creaky old lady? Oh, she was like about my age. I realized, well, when I was in the eighth grade, she was in her first year of teaching. She was just like trying to stay a chapter ahead of us. Wow. She could have said, no, I'm not worthy. I don't know enough to teach this yet. I don't know. She was the best kind of teacher. Here's Mrs. McLloyd.  00:25:58 Andy She was the very best kind of teacher.  00:26:02 Dominique That's great. That's great. I love that for imposter syndrome. That, that, I mean, like, do you get some time? I was just telling my group, you've got to do things afraid. Don't let this year be a year when you miss opportunities, because you're afraid. Do it afraid most people that you see that are successful, do things afraid all the time. That story sounds like a perfect example of that.  00:26:23 Andy Yeah. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is doing something in the face of fear. I mean, you show me a fighter pilot. Who's actually been in battle that says he was never scared. I'll show you somebody who shouldn't be flying a plane. Cause they're crazy.  00:26:45 Dominique This is a good point. This is a good point. Okay. Let me do this one. Average people compare themselves to other people, but extraordinary performers compare themselves to their potential.  00:26:59 Andy Yeah. That is, that I have found that to be true over and over again, average people compare themselves to other people. When you think about it, that is why they end up being average because they go, am I doing good? Am I doing good? Am I not doing good? And if they're, if everybody else is kind of, they're okay. If they're a little behind those speed up and if they're a little ahead, Hey, they relax. I'm going to take a weekend off. Now a perfect example of somebody who compares themselves to their potential. I've worked with Nick Saban, a bunch and I say a bunch, is, a great relationship with Nick. We don't see each other often, but he is a, he's an awesome guy. His wife has better than he is, which is what we should all be able to say about our wives. And, and so, but Nick, one time I was watching a game and I was with a bunch of friends who were fans of the other team.  00:28:07 Andy Well, one of the first things I said to Nick, when we got together, as I said, I want to help you compete in ways your competition doesn't know a game is going on. And that's what I do with businesses. I help them compete in ways the competition doesn't know game is going on. Nick was a perfect person to work with because he compares himself with his potential. I'm watching this game and it's two minutes to go. He's ahead. It's a national championship game. He's ahead, 21 to nothing. Two minutes ago, national championship game, and one guy had a false start. It was a five yard penalty, stopped the game and they showed Nick on the sidelines. He was just like, yeah, he was just going nuts. Somebody in the room that I was in said, okay, Nick, calm down. You're gonna win the game. You've already got it won. 00:29:11 Andy You don't have to act like that. Just calm down and be enrolled kind of condescending. Well, I didn't say anything, but I knew what was happening because one of the things that we had worked on and competing in a way that competition and no games going on is the kind of people were going to be so that the officials would have a more positive view of us then a less positive view. And, and so were going to do things and act in certain ways because, officials, I've worked with sec officials and Sunbelt officials and they can call holding on any play. They want to call it. They can call it anywhere. Okay. What the person in the room did not know is that they were about to go through an entire national championship game without a single penalty. And it was too much. Yeah. Now in reality, Nick was fine with that because it wasn't perfect.  00:30:16 Andy He was able to, and so comparing yourself with your Potential is tough sometimes because every time you get close to it gets farther out. And so you have to regroup. You're always looking for the best. I remember the first conversation I ever had with coach Saban. He's, I've asked a lot of people, what are you looking to do? And you wouldn't believe how many coaches dominate you and believe how many coaches have said, I want to have us in contention for the division title every year. I'm like, I want to walk out because I don't want to go, dude, you can be in contention for the division title every year and be fired in four years. You better think bigger than this. When I asked Nick that, he said only win five national championships in a row with one team. Wow. Now I haven't done it yet, but right now he's on track to pass Bear Bryant, the most national championships ever.  00:31:35 Dominique No, I think that's really powerful. I think that segue is this last, quote I want you to opinion on, which is the principle of the path. It is direction that determines destination, not intention, right? The intention may be, I want to be in contention so that I can win a championship. If your direction is not like, Hey, I want to win this thing. It's, like in the NFL we go it's Superbowl or bust every year. If you don't have that in your mind, it reminds me of a book before you opine on it reminds me a book. It's by, it's called Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Malls. He talks about how the brain is basically a turn by turn GPS. If you don't give it an instructions, you don't know where to go. So I think. I think, I think the Nick Saban attitude, as opposed to his peers are, Hey, I got this particular direction.  00:32:31 Dominique It's very specific. This is the only way I'm going to achieve this goal is if I put that in there. Now, granted, I may have a flat tire. I may have whatever, but I'm going for broke.  00:32:41 Andy Right. Right. And, and he, boy, he has a, he has ingrained that in that culture, and that culture has also leaked into the fan base and alumni. It's, it's amazing, what the expectations are here. So, but the idea, this is the one that they, you just laid out. Tell me again, the turn by turn GPS. Now the path. Yeah. The principle of the path. 00:33:21 Dominique The principal path. It is the direction that determines destination. Yeah.  00:33:24 Andy Yeah. Intention, not intention. I, I had PBS specials years ago and there was a, another guy that had a PBS special at the same time. He was a lot more famous and it just like, it slaughtered my ratings all the time, and said that didn't bother me. The only, the thing that bothered me was I had already gotten into this thinking deeper, idea, this idea of thinking to the bottom of the pool, that I have a book called The Bottom of the Pool. It's a book that Forbes called one of the seven books. Every entrepreneur should read. And it's a very different business book. I had gotten into this thinking to the bottom of the pool thing. The title of this guy's PBS special really bugged me. The title was The Power of Intention. I mean, I'm like, and I still believe there is no power intention.  00:34:48 Andy There is no power. I mean, are you serious? Because I mean, if I came to you and I said, Dominique, I cannot believe the way my wife is treating me. The way she talked to me last night after I intended to bring her flowers and the way she's treating me lately, after everything I have intended to do for this woman, you would go, are you out of your mind? Are you kidding me? He didn't do anything he was just intended to. You think, well, where do you think? And, but that's the way people live their lives. And so it's not intention it's direction. The principle of the path says is not intention that will determine where you go his direction. And, and that's why the, there is, a horrible question that people ask. There is a great question that people can ask. The horrible question was, is this all right? Is this is okay.  00:36:02 Andy All right. Because that, see it as functioning adults in the world, we know where the line is in just about every situation we know where the line is and where do you cross into real trouble? We know where that line is. Okay. If we know where that line is, why would we snuggle up so closely to the line? Right? I mean, if where the edge of the cliff is, you don't walk the edge. Okay. But, but people allow themselves to get closer and closer to it by going, well, is this okay? And they tell themselves, yeah, this, okay, sorry. I moved a little closer to the line. They go, oh, what about this? Okay, well, it's technically is okay. Technically, you know, get a little closer. What about this, okay. It technically is probably better to ask forgiveness than ask permission and then before they know it, they're having to think about how far over the line can I operate before I start seeing some consequences and then it's disastrous.  00:37:25 Andy Okay. The great question, people can ask that reveals the principle of the path is this a wise thing to do, because is this a wise thing to do that reveals direction? I mean, we look sometimes at situations when we, you could have seen that coming down the pathway, right. And, and a lot of things we do, they, people say that success is slow and that is true, but they forget that failure is slow too. I mean, when that jail door slams shut that all, didn't start that day. Yeah. That was a long time coming. And, and so is this a wise thing to do is a great thing to live as a great thing to teach your children. This a wise thing to do because it reveals the pathway that you're on?  00:38:36 Dominique No, I think that statement right there could be, the sum of just about all the SCCs violations for any financial professionals that we've ever seen, if they would ask that question first, that we probably wouldn't have the amount of fraud well, to bring this thing into, for landing, as this is a podcast to help empower tomorrow's financial professionals with tools to serve their ideal client in a much deeper level, much better level. In that context, Andy, what word or words of wisdom would you have for the next generation of financial advisors?  00:39:11 Andy I would say number one, to think clearly to the bottom of the pool, where you will find, you think clearly to the truth, there are things that can be true and yet not be the truth. There are, in, one of the biggest minefields you will ever traverse in your life is the minefield of true because people stop when they get answer that is true because it's an answer and it produces some results, but there's a book called Good to Great. And it's a great book. Okay. It's a great book. Millions of people have done very well by following this book, but I would challenge anybody to say, look, there is a difference in great and best. So let everybody else good to great. I think you need to good to great to best don't stop it. Great. People stop at what is true, where they can drill down deeper into the truth and they can get answers that will solve problems that will heal.  00:40:38 Andy That will, that will add a, the truth is like the foundation. That's the Bible that's as far down as you can go and you'll know when you get there, cause you can't ask why anymore. Now you see this on TV news all the time, these guys arguing, and somebody will say, well, why is that? ? And then somebody will say, well, it's because there are no more fathers in the homes and her go well, that's right. That's right. I move on to another topic. Okay. Well, that's true, but okay. So, okay, well this and this. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Okay. Why is that? Why is this and this oil because of that and that. Okay. You can go to the bottom of the pool and you can, the answers you need in every situation, but don't be fooled by stopping at what is true.  00:41:44 Dominique Wow. Wow. That's great. Mr. Andy Andrews. Thank you. This has been an honor, personal pleasure of my own to hear your wisdom. Here just the Sage advice that you have on all these topics, wishing you a very great best 20.  00:42:07 Andy Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it. I'd love people to visit us, Andy andrews.com and we do some live things. I I'm in wisdom Harbor studios here in Orange beach. I want to give you right now on the air while you will feel compelled to answer me with a yes, I would love, I, I do is probably not nearly as good as yours, but I do a podcast called the professional noticer and I would love to have you as a guest on the professional noticer.  00:42:46 Dominique Absolutely no question. That's a no brainer.  00:42:50 Andy I mean, I am serious. I, I feel very blessed to have gotten to know you just. I, I, I just, man, I can sense your heart and, your readers and listeners or your followers are very fortunate to have you, but,  00:43:09 Dominique Well, thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that, but no, yeah, let's make it happen. I, I definitely would enjoy that, but great. Thank you so much.   

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Show Notes  In today’s conversation we have Dr. Brad Klontz. Brad helps people master the psychology of wealth and live a life of abundance. He’s also managing principal at Your Mental Wealth Advisors™, Co-Founder of the Financial Psychology Institute™, and Associate Professor of Practice at Creighton University Heider College of Business. Dr. Klontz is also an author of 5 books on financial psychology, including Mind Over Money, Facilitating Financial Health, and Financial Therapy and most recently "Money Mammoth: Unlocking The Secrets Of Financial Psychology To Break From The Herd And Avoid Extinction".     Today we cover money, psychology and marketing.  More specifically, how social selling and the digital marketing landscape has evolved since Dr. Brad entered the business. We will also dive into a relatively new social media platform--TikTok.  Dr. Brad will share some of the tools for crushing content on the platform along with the advantages/disadvantages, and finally a posting strategy that you can use.   Show Highlights    How Dr. Brad turned 2020 into a “win-win” situation. (2:25) Dr. Brad talks about the evolution of marketing and why some businesses hesitate with getting into social media. (9:16) Why your comfort level can cause you to miss out on opportunities that platforms like TikTok bring and the key to selling online. (11:29) Dr. Brad’s perspective on TikTok as a social media platform. (12:41) Why TikTok has an extremely “low bar” for content creators. (13:39) Dr. Brad shares his number one tip on starting a TikTok account and how to be successful. (16:07) Dr. Brad shares his posting strategies and how he got to 260,000 followers (26:56)   Resources: Read the blog. If you'd like to connect with Dr. Brad, click here.  Check out Dr. Brad’s latest book by clicking here. Are you a current or aspiring financial professional?  Click here to receive tools that will help you become a next-generation financial professional! Watch a video clip of this episode on our YouTube channel by clicking here. To receive a newsletter digest of Jumpstart community happenings, click here.   Subscribe to the podcast by clicking here. Want to connect with me? Join my exclusive “tribe” by clicking here. Thanks again for listening, reading, and watching!     00:00:00 Dominique Welcome to conversations for financial professionals, a podcast to help. Shape the next generation of financial advice. I am your host, Dominique Henderson, and today's conversation is with Dr. Brad Klontz. Dr. Brad  and I met each other in 20, early 2020. I invited him on the podcast to talk about behavioral finance, because that is his expertise. But as of late, Dr. Brad has been spending a ton of time on developing his social media strategy specifically on TikTok. Today, the conversation is all about how to use TikTok to market your financial services. Dr. Brad  and I talk about the missed opportunity that financial professionals are possibly losing out on when it comes to social media and specifically this platform. We talk about why we talk about some strategies from a macro and a micro standpoint about how you can actually start putting content out there and what it's all about. Are you mission focused? Who are you trying to reach? And do you have a strategy for doing that? This promises to be one of those conversations that you are going to walk away with a greater understanding on exactly what you can be doing to use TikTok  to market your financial services practice. So let's go to the conversation. 00:01:25 Dominique  Welcome to another episode of the conversations for financial professionals podcast, where we are shaping the next generation   00:01:35 Dominique Of  financial advice today, we have Dr. Brad Klontz. You help people master the psychology of wealth and live a life of abundance. I got that right from your LinkedIn via, in addition to that, you're a managing principal at your mental wealth advisors, co-founder of the financial psychology Institute and associate professor of practice at Creighton university Heider college of business. Woo hoo. I am afraid and alum, you're also the author of five books on financial psychology, including mind over money, facilitating financial health and financial therapy. Most recently money mammoth unlocking the secrets of financial psychology to break from the herd and avoid extinction. The reason that largely you're here, my friend is because I know of all this stuff through your TikTok  account, because you are such a TikTok  savant. Welcome to the podcast.   00:02:28 Brad Thank you. It's I, I love chatting with you, so I'm very happy to be here. Yeah,   00:02:32 Dominique Man, we share a lot of similar interests, a lot of common folk that we know together. Matter of fact, I was just talking to a mutual friend, Sandra Davis. And so yeah, this is really cool. Let me ask you this. How have you been like, we're in a new year? 20 Delta is a hand that most of us would not have expected. Do you have any specific takeaways?   00:02:45 Brad Yeah, I like, I'm just fascinated with, first of all, it's terrible, it's been awful. Like let's just all admit it. Right. And, but what I have this little mantra that I, that on good days, I say to myself, which is where's the opportunity. This is something that I'm constantly feeding into my own mind, so that I can be aware of where the opportunities are. So, with that awareness, I ran across a bunch of opportunities in 2020, and I actually had a fabulous year creating content, exploring some other business models, creating some couple courses. I mean, I've just been throwing myself into, this is the reality we have. So where's the opportunity within this reality?   00:03:41 Dominique No, I think that's wonderful. I, I don't know if this is a Chinese proverb, but it's like the same symbol for chaos is the same symbol for opportunity. It's like where there's chaos, there's also opportunity. Which I think is a good segue too, because what I want to talk about today, we know that you can go with the best of them on the financial therapy and the behavioral finance front. We'll link to that previous episode that we talked about before, in judging risk tolerance. I'm pretty sure we'll overlap some subjects with that, but I really want to talk about, how to market financial services, and what maybe financial professionals can be thinking about using some of these platforms, specifically a platform such as TikTok, which, I don't know if people know this term, but about organic reach is incredible, for this platform. I want you to kind of dive into that and I think the way I want to kind of set that up though, is how do you believe did take me through the evolution first? How do you think marketing has changed from like winning you and I got in the business versus now, like kind of opine on that for .   00:04:44 Brad Yeah. I mean, I, I'm not, I wouldn't consider myself an expert in marketing, although I probably am from, outside perspectives, but I feel like there's been a big hesitation to get into social media from the compliance side of the business. We're always slow on that side. Because when you talk to your compliance office about doing anything, you say, Hey, I, can we talk about, and then they say no, because that's how they get paid and that's how they stay alive. That's, they're much happier if you do nothing.   00:05:16 Dominique Can I say something parenthetically though? okay. I do agree with that notion largely I think let's call it Tim cases or seven or six, or maybe even more than that eight out of 10 cases are like that. Would you also say that compliance officers, in a, let's say you're managing a thousand or 1500 or 10,000, registered reps. You also have to manage to the lowest common denominator too. Right? So you have to say no, almost right, because you got Joe knucklehead over there, that's going to be doing something. Whereas you got all these other people that would be following the rules, but then you've got the Joe knuckleheads.   00:05:51 Brad No, it's absolutely true. Unless you're making it crystal clear, you're not going to have any recourse in terms of saying, Hey, didn't, you weren't supposed to do that. So, it's nothing but love and good vibes for your compliance officer, but just understand their job is to keep your business around, and to make sure that you're doing right by society and taking care of people. And so that's their mindset.   00:06:13 Dominique No, I would agree. They, they got that the mentality of the can't sink, the battleship, it only takes one person, to be, somewhere on the SCCs radar or the state, it's securities advisor and that one headline tanks, the whole ship. So I get it.   00:06:29 Brad It does, it does seem to be like a shift though, where more and more people are on social media. I mean, that's what LinkedIn is, by the way. Like, if you've ever put a post on LinkedIn, it's the equivalent of doing anything on TikTok or Instagram or any place else, frankly. I mean, you're putting yourself out there. It's these, it's essentially a website, an app. I think it's hard to find advisers right now who aren't involved in social media.   00:06:53 Dominique No, I, I think you are right in that. I think one of the things that I've always admonished or strongly encouraged, the advisors that I work with too, is making it personal. There's nothing wrong with crossing the lines. I think maybe you can, of kind of speak to this, those maybe what advisors probably perceive or financial professionals as a whole perceive as a gray area, right. Where I don't want to talk too much about my personal or I don't know how that may fill into fit into the narrative of what I'm, whatever I'm trying to, offer from a financial services standpoint. Do, do you think there's a gray area or do you like, this is all me, this is all Dominique, this is all Dominic. Like, how do you view that?   00:07:37 Brad I look at it, like if I have a client in the office, who's just walked in more of a traditional introduction. I might not just lay out my entire life story like that I don't think they really want to hear that, but I think in terms of social media, I think the more that you can talk about yourself and be yourself, the more likely you are to attract clients who are exactly the ones you want. I feel like social media does throw yourself out there in a broader context in the world. I think it's actually to your advantage, frankly, to talk about some of your interests and, more personal information about yourself, do you have kids? Do you like tennis? I mean, what is it you're into because people will, they're looking for ways to connect. Like how do you stand out from every other advisor? And some of that personal information can be really great in terms of attracting people who frankly, you probably want to work with anyway.   00:08:27 Dominique No, I love that. I love that. You're saying that because I think what advisors and financial professionals may think about, they may think about the cell first versus the connection first, because there is no cell without the connection. So I'm glad you said that. I think the opportunity that is potentially lost, if you don't wait out onto the dance floor of social media, is that, people don't get to know the non-suited up button up person that is behind all of us. Right. There is a, whether we actually physically wear a suit and tie or not, there is a more conservative side to what we do. That's what I think consumers view us as, but when we show, spending time with our significant others or whatever that may be, that does offer another perspective into who you are. That's what clients like you said are connected to.   00:09:16 Dominique So I love that.   00:09:16 Brad No, that's great. If you feel weird about selling on social media, if this gives you a bad feeling inside, I just want you to honor that feeling because it's a terrible idea to sell on social media, by the way, I mean, it's just the absolute wrong thing to do. Because people really get turned off on it really fast, but social media, the opportunity there is for you to sell yourself and to provide content that's helpful, that's useful. That's engaging. What you want to have is people think of you when they think of that problem, eventually that they run into in their financial life. They think of you as somebody that they know they trust. I mean, there's this weird psychological phenomenon where we feel an intimate connection with people on social media. It's something really to be curious about and this step back and think about this.   00:10:01 Brad Like, if I've watched 20 videos of yours, I'm going to feel a special connection to you. It's, it's the K person brain. It's like, if I'm staring somebody directly in the face and listening to them, my brain says, this is somebody, and trust because our brains have not evolved to the point of social media where we realized actually this person doesn't know you at all. What's so fascinating. It creeps into your subconscious that there's this connection. And it happens. It happens to all of us on social media, and there is the opportunity for you to feel a connection and have other people feel connected to you and feel a sense of trust and connection.   00:10:33 Dominique Let's double click on that for a second. Cause I want to park right there. I think you bring up a lot of good points and I'm loving the fact that you're bringing the behavioral science part of how humans just interact. I think this may be lost on some financial professionals. That's why I want to dig in because the more video content you create, whether yours there's one like, or no likes or 1500 likes, you're still building that connection because people are seeing you more. They're they're getting to know like, and trust you like Ziglar says, so I wonder to your point earlier, or maybe not, is it a sell so much if you are just connecting with them, right? Like, what is your opinion about this whole notion around selling? Cause I know some people feel a funny way about that word. What, what would be your thoughts about it in the context of making that consistent content and connecting with people? It seems like the cell has patterns naturally.   00:11:29 Dominique That's my opinion.   00:11:29 Brad Yeah. That's my opinion also. I think direct sales and sales on social media always feel bad. Like they do. Like if you want to give away content that's actually the culture of social media is giving away content, giving away information. I think that you got to think about what is it you're selling. And in my opinion, you're selling yourself. You're selling yourself as the expert, as this incredibly helpful person. If people don't have to look really far, all they have to do is click on your profile to find your website and see exactly what you do. It's not like you're hiding that in any way, but you want people to be attracted to you based on this incredible value you're giving to the world. They're going to find you if they want your service. Absolutely. I agree. I agree. So let's pivot here because,   00:12:13 Dominique People listening to this at this point are probably like, okay, so like what is TikTok as opposed to Instagram or Facebook or any of the things that I'm let's call it, I'm more, they're more normalized or are they more familiar with kind of give us a, a macro breakdown of like really what TikTok is as an information platform or social platform, before we kind of dive into the weeds of maybe strategy.   00:12:41 Brad Yeah. I just see TikTok  is just the next big social media app. I don't see it as a whole lot different from Facebook, from Instagram, from Myspace, do you still have a MySpace account, but you take it as back it's just the next thing now what's interesting. It has its own culture, which is really fascinating. You have to approach each one of these social media apps and websites as a culture. Like you really have to understand the culture. It's a totally different culture. All of them are by the way, but what TikTok  does it's you gotta think short form video. This is punchy stuff. It's 10 seconds, 15 seconds. You can go as long as 60 seconds. I think the average one that really hits is around 10, 15 seconds long. And, it has a lot of incredible in-app editing tools. The thing I love about Tik TOK is that the bar is so incredibly low on production value that there's like literally no excuse.   00:13:39 Brad What's so fascinating about the entire platform is highly produced. Content is sort of shown there. What people want is they want to see you in your living room. I'll be honest. They want to see you in your bathroom. There's a line, there's a lot of content that has been created where people are standing in their bathroom in front of the mirror. Essentially they're looking at their phones, staring at the mirror, looking back at themselves. It's unbelievable. People have created millions of viewers based on that, but that shows you the intimacy people want to see you in your natural setting. They don't want to see a studio. They don't want to see a bunch of production.   00:14:13 Dominique Let's pause right here, because I've worked with, I don't know, I've probably consulted hundreds of advisors and we talk about a term. You just use production value, right? Because there is a certain Polish that let's say a video on your website, talking about your financial services and how much AUM you manage will be different from the content that you put on TikTok . What I've always told advisors though, is before come up with an idea about what needs to go on your website and you hire a crew and you blah, and do all that kind of stuff. Wouldn't it be nice to kind of know if that idea is going to even fly by testing it out on social media. You only need a phone to do that. Like, do you agree with that? Like, cause I think these platforms have a really great testing mechanism, like a trying mechanism when you kind of think about maybe refining some type of precious metal and all the draws burn off, like your message can get a lot better if you hone it by social proof.   00:15:13 Dominique Like, do people even resonate with one idea that you have thrown out on TikTok  or one of these other platforms before you do a whole lot of production value with your website? Would you agree with that?   00:15:22 Brad I think that's brilliant. I absolutely agree with it because the great thing about TikTok  and some of the other social media platforms is you're going to get feedback almost immediately on whether or not this is resonating with people because the algorithm doesn't lie.   00:15:37 Dominique Explain that, unpack that because all these platforms have their own algorithm, right? So just for kicks and grins, so YouTube, which I've kind of made my home on is it's all about video views and it's watch time and everything else, desert it's pales in comparison, comments likes all that kind of stuff. That's great. But video views watch times. That's the biggest thing. Long form content is a better idea, especially if you're giving really helpful stuff. Whereas it sounds like it's the opposite on TikTok.   00:16:07 Brad The opposite on TikTok , the same metrics apply though. It's all about watch time and it's all about views. It, but essentially the attention span is so much lower there because of that one minute, barrier. So it's gotta be punchy. It's gotta be short. I mean, it's really been an exercise for me on how to deliver like, viral content because it's not going to go anywhere unless you grab somebody in the first one to three seconds. I feel like on YouTube, you have more like you have 15 to 20 seconds to grab somebody. Right? And so I think it's a very different and I feel so much more pressure putting out a YouTube video when it comes to production content too. Like it takes me for a four minute video on YouTube. I'm going to say five hours to write it, to edit it, to, put it in B roll, whatever I'm going to do there.   00:16:56 Brad What's so fascinating about TikTok  is I'll make six videos a day in an hour.   00:17:03 Dominique Because you're just really just shooting on your phone and it's just, stream of consciousness type of stuff.   00:17:09 Brad You're shooting on your phone. It's incredible. And there's, that's what I love. I love the low barrier. It just takes away all of your excuses. Like just write down all of your excuses right now about why you're not producing content and they're all erased when it comes to TikTok. Nope, you actually don't have to do your hair. You don't even need to leave your bathroom and all you need is your phone. So get on it.   00:17:30 Dominique No, I love that. I love that. That kind of dovetails into maybe why you chose that platform to kind of, really build, a following there. I think one of the key things here is, as an, as a financial professional, there's a lot of things that we do afraid we take tests, afraid we, get licenses, and are afraid. We talk with clients. This just seems like another barrier of things that you do afraid, and you put yourself out there. I'm wondering, what have you noticed from just a mental barrier standpoint that may keep people from moving forward with this? I know we kind of went up, went over this a little earlier, but I'm just trying to think maybe with your talks with peers or whatnot, they're like, I don't really know. Cause that's my my market's not on there or whatever.    00:18:19 Brad Yeah. So, I mean, you obviously have to think about what persona you want to put out into the world. That's something to think about, right? Like who are you on social media? And it's not like you're pretending to be somebody else. I mean, you all have various roles. Like I'm a very different father than I am professor. Like, so you have to just think about who you are on social media and not only that, but on which platform, like, I'll be honest with you. There's 99% of the stuff I put on TikTok. I would never put on LinkedIn, are you kidding me? Like my Dean's going to see that stuff. And so.   00:18:53 Dominique I don't know,   00:18:53 Brad If he is, I'm very scared right now. So, so you've got to think about like the culture, like, what is it for me though? I gotta tell you it goes beyond that. Like, so I actually feel like on a deep philosophical level, like I'm here on earth to do something and I don't really care. I have this avatar onTikTok  that I have in mind. This is somebody that I deeply love and I care about, and I'm going to try to connect with this person, whatever it takes, if I have to do like a silly like dance, if I have to do something like that, I don't care. Like I I'm so mission focused on TikTok  in terms of trying to give a certain message to this person that I care about on there, that a lot of that melts away. I that's actually been my hack for overcoming my ego around giving speeches around doing podcast interviews, media interviews, television, the whole deal is what is my mission? And my mission as you mentioned, is, it's to help bring hope and healing to the world.   00:19:52 Brad That's my mission. I run everything through that and then my ego melts away. That's, that's,   00:19:58 Dominique It's actually a good segue. I want to talk about, let's talk about TikTok  micro strategies. Like if somebody is listening right now and they're like, okay, I'm buying in. I think I can do this. Let, let me start to think about some tangible steps where I can use this specific social app to start to get my message out. I think you provide a really good blueprint. Let's kind of unpack that. Have a mission that basically you see how you're impacting the world as a financial professional, whether that giving comprehensive financial plans or building investment strategies or whatever that is to whoever that is. That is a very first, a good, very first step. What would you say is kind of next, or maybe something from Dr. Brads  blueprint of how you create content?   00:20:45 Brad I would say have an avatar in, so by avatar, I mean, who is the person on the other side of this phone, who's going to be watching your content? Who is that person? What do they care about? What are they worried about at night? What do they love? What do they, and so I, by the way, I have a different avatar for each app, essentially because they have different audiences. I'm speaking a different language, I'm talking to a different person. I think that really helps that is if there's anything that I could pin my success on TikTok , it's probably that, like, I have a very clear avatar in there. Somebody I'm talking to, it's not in frankly, it's not my typical multi-million dollar wealth management client. Although much of it applies, I have a very specific avatar and the more specific it can be about who is this person you want to talk to, it just really helps you get really clear about the message you want to deliver.   00:21:35 Dominique Yeah. Cause I think, one thing I've been guilty of, in the past and even now, right, is getting a little lazy with the different cultures across social media, in that I post the exact same thing one platform and another, and I start to get a little, savvy about that, which is you change the, some stuff is, one-to-one but very rarely nowadays. To your point, if you have an avatar in mind, that's a specific message to that particular avatar in that community, based on the culture of that platform. Your posting strategy on TikTok, though, from looking at your profile seems to be, like you said, up to six times a day, and I don't know that works on like a LinkedIn or anywhere else. Can you kind of speak to that about the amount of times that you post in, like when you post and things of that nature?   00:22:25 Brad Yeah. So I agree with you. I think it's very platform specific, but I've also seen a undeniable correlation with the amount of content somebody puts out and the impact and the reach, like you just can't separate those two things. If you posted six times a day on LinkedIn, I can guarantee you within one year, you're going to have way more action, way more views, way more followers, et cetera. Now, now granted, you're really going to have to dedicate yourself to that, right. I mean, because that's a major strategy and about two years ago, that's what I did. I essentially said, I'm going to spend an hour or two a day on social media. I started, we're talking to financial planners here, right. So I actually have a spreadsheet. Okay. Where I, I track all my numbers for the last two years across my social media platforms, because I decided I'm going to put some energy into that.   00:23:14 Brad I'm going to put some energy into growing those platforms. And so, yeah. The more content you produce, the more action you're gonna do.   00:23:20 Dominique Yeah, no, I think so. What I'm hearing from you is have a mission because it starts always with your, why I would agree, have an specific avatar that you are targeting. Then, I guess with that, you got to learn the nuances of the community dynamic or the social platform dynamic. You gotta be, I would say you got to start tracking your metrics. I think, cause that just talks to the strategy. Cause you're, these are for, this is forethought, right? You're not like maybe there are some stream of conscience and stuff that you're just doing, but do you have a social media content calendar? Like on this day I'm going to post this particular thing or around this particular thought that you do that too?   00:24:00 Brad I don't, I don't at all. Yeah. I, I have a target where I'm trying to post three to six times a day on TikTok. I try to take one of those posts if they're relevant and push it over to Instagram or LinkedIn, that kind of thing.   00:24:15 Dominique Okay. Okay. Having a strategy, whether the accountant is planned out or not is still part of what you would agree or recommend for people to have.   00:24:28 Brad Yeah, absolutely. Like I have a plan in mind, like what are the platforms you want to focus on? And I think it's a good idea to pick one primary and then maybe two or three secondary. So you're going after maybe three platforms. You have a primary and a secondary, because it can be really tough to hit all those at once. But yeah.   00:26:16 Dominique Talk about, talk about having that primary or maybe that hub. I think that's kind of key because I think at least with the conversations that I have financial professionals are like, yeah, I'm fine with doing this. It's just, it's just so overwhelming. Well, I mean, because there's Twitter, there's Facebook, there's Instagram, there's YouTube, there's blah. It's like, well, pick one hub where you can maybe have your let's call it cornerstone content or whatnot. As you said, push them out to those other two or three that are kind of minor in tertiary with maybe segments of it or split up content or whatever. I mean, if, I guess if you pick TikTok , you may have to think about some longer form stuff because of the time limit. What, what would be your thoughts on that?   00:26:56 Brad Actually my best, LinkedIn content happens to be TikTok videos because they're pretty right. And they're punchy. Right. So yeah, I absolutely agree with that. And, and you just need to have a general philosophy, like how many posts do you plan on doing a day? And I know, and I'm, as I'm saying this, I'm just imagining the listener going with all these mental blocks to doing this, right. You're going to look like a fool. You're going to look, people are going to judge you and it's like, look, your first videos are your worst videos. Like they're just absolutely the worst and you're going to have to get over that hump. I would suggest that you make terrible embarrassing content right now versus three years from now. So get embarrassed right now. Get it pumping out now, because three years from now, you're going to be in a much better place.   00:27:40 Brad I'll tell you this, I actually, I think I posted, Oh my goodness. Almost a thousand videos last year on TikTok. All of oh no, just on TikTok. Yeah. I think it was in the 900 range. I'm going to tell you what, like they are way better now than they were at the beginning of 2020.   00:27:59 Dominique Wow. Okay. Let me just unpack that for somebody that is cause I'm big on numbers. For somebody that's out there, if you posted a thousand on just one platform, that's roughly 20, which the math is about two to three a day. For all of those out there dislike does just, can't do one. I mean, there's inspiration for you, but I mean, let's talk about something that I want to park on real quick. Went over this before, but I want to unpack this because you brought it up a couple of times. The actual talk track that is going on in your head when you're putting yourself out there and you're making a thousand videos is man, I'm gonna do this. Whether people like it or not, this is my mission. I'm focused on the person that I can help. I may look foolish. I may not do everything right.   00:28:49 Dominique I'm gonna make some mistakes. At the end of the day, I'm going to check this thing off as done because I actually did it as opposed to, I don't have the right phone. My compliance department's going to say whatever, maybe talk about some of the self-work or self-awareness personal development that maybe needs to take place with that person. That's repeating that in their head.   00:29:14 Brad Yeah. You got to get over yourself. I mean like it, one way to look at it is, that is like the most devastating form of self-love and ego adoration. It's like, look, you can't really love yourself that much. Right? Like, it's almost egotistical for you to be that worried about it. It's like, who are you? Yeah. Right, right. It's like, so for me, anyway, that's kind of where I go with it. I'm giving you my own mental tricks. Like, the other thing is like, how dare you? Like, all right. Here's the other thing, how dare you? Honestly, I am so upset if you're listening to this right now, and you are a financial expert and you are letting the financial conversation be had by all these people who know nothing about it. If you want to know what got me onto TikTok, it's this, my nephew showed me TikTok.   00:30:04 Brad And I started flipping through there. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was seeing day traders, selling day trading, talking to me about all their returns, talking about this incredible thing. This is the way to make money. I got so upset. I got so angry. That's why I started creating content. I'm like, there's an entire generation of people here who are falling into this trap. And I was stunned. I couldn't believe it because I thought that kind of died away in the nineties. When the tech bubble, I couldn't believe that it was back in full force and I sat there and I saw all these people and I could picture them all being incredibly hurt by this misinformation. So, psychologists do this all the time too. Like they're not very good at speaking to the public. They're not very good at making things understandable.   00:30:46 Brad All the best-selling self-help books are written by non psychologists. Some of the information they give out is just, is terrible and harmful. I'm just going to say that, come on, man, I need you. I need you on these social media platforms, sharing the truth, educating people if because you're not doing it. Other people are doing it. Guess what? There's an entire generation of people are consuming this content and getting all this misinformation because you are too afraid of being judged by somebody.   00:31:15 Dominique Wow. I think, that deserves an a man because I resonate with that so much. I think there are a lot of us that, Andy Andrews has this very great quote that says that the whole purpose of analysis is to come to a decision like weigh the pros and cons, to the, to your point, you're qualified, especially if you're like a CFP. I mean the amount of stuff that they dump into our brains during that education process, good could power a whole career of content creation. The point is I think you hit a lot of nerves there because it, they essentially, it is just being afraid of how people may judge you and think of you, let me ask this was some of this, fervor and, maybe some inspiration for money mammoth. Cause I want to talk about that next. I mean, this is, I think from a standpoint of truth versus falsehood or untruth, this what you just said in the last, 30 seconds or so is definitely something that this new consumer financial services needs to hear.   00:32:28 Brad Yeah. I think that it did influence my work on TikTok. First of all, the other thing I get so much hate social media. Let me, let me just explain this to you. Like, it's not like you're going to be sitting you sit back and be received with loving, open arms. It's like, there's a bunch of like angry 14 year olds on that app. Right. They're really gonna give it to you with your bald head and your gray beard and okay. Boomer. So just understand that's absolutely gonna happen. I've just described to you though, my mental strategy for dealing with that. I know they're all 14 year olds who, quite frankly, they might even be 50, but they have this like very wounded 14 year old inside of them. What you're going to notice is that the most criticism and hate you get on any social media platform is going to come from people who have anonymous profiles and have never posted any content.   00:33:19 Brad So understand this. They are, they're really afraid of being judged and they're hypercritical of themselves and they're probably super nasty to themselves. They probably had a parent who was nasty to them. They've internalized this like highly critical nastiness and it's very, confining for them. What they're doing is just projecting that on you. Just understand if you're getting hate from people, that's who you're getting it from. And, and frankly, as a psychologist, I care about those people. I, I feel bad for them. I worry about them. I wanna support them. Anyway, that's your mental strategy for dealing with hate because that those are the people who are doing it, content creators, like if you're actually putting your stuff out there into the world and think about this in your own life, like you're really putting yourself out there. You have a lot of compassion for people who have the courage to put stuff out there.   00:34:07 Dominique No, I would agree. I, and I think, one way that I've kind of mental hack that is when I actually started getting negative comments or posts and things of that nature, or even a thumbs down on YouTube is I realized, man, I must actually be touching a nerve if somebody is disagreeing with this, I think, I mean, from a creativity standpoint, you got to start thinking that if you're putting stuff out there and nobody's saying anything negative, then you may need to push a little harder against the establishment is kind of the way I think about it. One of the parts of what I do is I try to be polarizing not to be off putting necessarily, but just to say, I may have a different opinion or different way of thinking about something than you. Let me challenge you with that, to see how you accept me or not.   00:34:57 Dominique Right. It's a very telling sign that I use with people that I want to bring into my practice or people I want to work with. Because if you, if we disagree on something and that's going to be that off putting for you, that's probably going to be a detriment to our business relationship and we, that we don't want to go there. Right. Right. Absolutely. Let's talk about, the book just like what is the premise of it and in what can people expect when they read the money mammoth?   00:35:25 Brad Yeah. For money mammoth, it was influenced by all the stuff I've been doing on social media. In that it's the first book where I actually put in a lot of, I'd say some basic personal financial planning information. I've avoided that in the past. Partially because I wasn't a certified financial planner for the first few books. I felt like there's a real need for it. Here I've created a bit of a following and I have a bit of credibility with a certain audience. I thought, I would find ways to do it in a totally appropriate compliance way where you're not telling people what to do. This is the other thing too, like you don't dispense advice on social media, like, and if you do that, your compliance office should be very concerned about you. You know, that's not what you do. You don't, I'll get comments all the time.   00:36:10 Brad Like, should I do a Roth IRA? It's like, well, you never say yes to that. I have no idea who this person is, what their circumstances. You find ways to talk about it. The Roth IRAs can be incredible under the right circumstances. You know, I don't know your situation. I can't tell you what you should do. I mean, there's very easy ways to get around the quote advice. Not to get too stuck on that, but for money mammoth, I did include some of that information because I saw such an important need for it. And essentially money mammoth. The concept is around the metaphor of the cave person back during the days of the wooly mammoth. This is the brain that allowed us to survive and thrive in that environment. It's the same brain we have right now that trips us up in terms of our relationship with money.   00:36:51 Brad The whole book is wrapped around that metaphor, looking at your ancestors, looking at your tribe, the influence of the people around your family, your parents, and then getting into survival techniques. It's interesting, we had that whole concept before this crisis happened, but it turned out to be a, pretty apropos just in terms of how to survive a crisis and how to manage and avoid extinction if you will. We put a lot of information on, in there on how to essentially survive these crises. By the way, there's going to be another one, and these things happen. How do you manage it psychologically in terms of making the right financial decisions?   00:37:25 Dominique No, I think there's a great setup, especially for the segment of the audience that will be listened to this that are consumers or financial services, because I know that in the last several months, specifically during the pandemic, I've gotten a lot of people come to me and say, Hey, I've had the time to kind of contemplate my future. I've been putting this stuff off so long. Like what do we need to do to get everything in order now? And I think this presents an excellent opportunity for financial professionals and providers or financial services to really connect with people to your point earlier because people are wanting this information. They're not, no one is sitting around saying, I want my N to be bad. I don't want to finish well, people know they need to plan. The, the fact of the matter is not because of a lack of information, but it's usually because of the lack of guidance it's like, because there is so much information and it's like, should I do this? Or should I do that? And the inaction comes in and I think that's where, to your point, your call to action to financial professionals is to, Hey, you have this information, let's guide people to where they need to go, because we're essentially are just facilitators.   00:38:32 Dominique So, no, I love that. Any other resources you have? I know you said you may have a TikTok training course in that work.   00:38:40 Brad Yeah. We've been working on a tic-tac training course, mainly because it's this strange platform. And, I found tic-tac to be actually incredibly receptive to professional content. As a matter of fact, they reached out to me and, asked me to help create more like legitimate financial education content on TikTok, which is, which has been really incredible. I actually see them promoting the expertise from people who are actual professionals who have a knowledge base in certain areas. And that's incredible. They've recognized that there's a lot of misinformation going on. That's more than any other platform that I've ever heard of. It's, it's incredible. Like, I'm wearing a TikTok hat and they sent this to me and I'm on weekly calls with them around creating content that will be useful. As I mentioned, that's legitimate from professionals. So, that's one of the things I've been a huge fan of.   00:39:32 Brad As part of those calls, we're always talking about, best strategies on TikTok, how to get the most organic reach. Essentially yes, we're, I'm creating with a partner, a course on TikTok for professionals on how can we use this and how can we maximize it? And, we talked about this a little earlier too, and it's like, I didn't really choose tic-tac. I would say TOK chose me and what happened. You mentioned this earlier with the organic reach and I had one video, so I'm posting across all these platforms and I had one video go 6 million views. I got to tell all of a sudden you're like, wow, like that's a significant percentage of the us population for that just saw this video that I created and obviously resonated. It was obviously helpful. I think it was that type of organic reach that I just kept doubling down on the content on that platform.   00:40:20 Dominique No. Good for you, man. I'm really happy to hear that. I know you do great work. I know you are also invested in academia and the next generation, which is the reason why I think we resonate so well in overlap in our synergies with what we're trying to do with change, how people view financial advice and financial advisors, period. I no longer in one of the reasons why I created this podcast, candidly is because I'm really tired of at a dinner party. Somebody saying financial advisor in the room clearing like we do way better work than that. The people that do that work, I want them to come to the front and the people that want to get in here and do that type of work. I want them to be attracted to the industry. I'm so glad for what you're doing. We always close with, the fact of empowerment, right? So this podcast is to help, empower tomorrow's financial professionals with tools to serve their clients at the next level.   00:41:12 Dominique And so in that context, Dr. Brad, I would love any word or words of wisdom that you would want to leave with. Tomorrow's financial professionals.   00:41:22 Brad I think it would be this, that just go ahead and get in the game. Like at the end of the day, this is going to sound pretty morbid, but at the end of the day, we're all going to be stuck in a hole with dirt thrown on top of us, and nobody's going to care, I mean like a hundred years from now, and it's like, look like you're on earth here to do something like, I don't know what that is. I mean, the opportunity in the financial realm is like, this is the number one thing that stresses people out like money is the number one stressor. And, in the, in America, eight out of 10 people, stress kills people. I actually see us in this profession as being in a unique opportunity, a unique place to actually heal, like, to actually be a source of hope and healing for people that I that's, the mission that I am really trying to live out in my life.   00:42:06 Brad I see that as a financial professional, this isn't just about returns and making people more money. No, no. You are in a position to help people deal with the thing that keeps them up at night that kills them. So this is the mission I see. If you can just embody that mission, it's so much easier to create content because essentially you're saving lives. I'm not saying that I actually wrote an entire article. I have a very solid argument on how you're actually saving lives by helping people with their financial plans. That's really the way I see it. That's the mission that I'm living in my life and I really want you to live. Conversation Transcript: 00:42:41 Dominique Wow. Wow. That's great. I cannot agree more. This has been great, Dr. Brad, TikTok savant. Thank you for spending time with us on conversations for financial professionals. Thank you. My pleasure. 

In this episode, I reveal ingredients that are found in many of our products, particularly air fresheners, and examine what they can do to our health. I also show you how to create your own air fresheners and perfume that are much safer to use. This episode is sponsored by WYSK Spark Radio, https://live365.com/station/Spark-Radio-a82219. To keep this podcast going please feel free to donate athttps://paypal.me/yopistudio?locale.x=en_US If you would like to read more on this topic or any other previous topics, you can do so by checking out our blog at https://yopistudio.blogspot.com/ Feel free to see what we are up to by following us at:  https://twitter.com/Dauricee https://parler.com/profile/Daurice/ https://www.facebook.com/yopistudio/ https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaEntertainmentAssociation/ To listen to the  podcast, watch creative videos and skits go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvn6tns6wKUwz9xZw11_vAQ/videos Interested in projects Daurice has worked on in the movie industry you can check it out at www.IMDb.com under Daurice Cummings. Please add us to your RSS Feed, & iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Pod, Sound Cloud, and our favorite Podbean! For comments or questions, you can reach us at yopi@post.com To learn more about today’s topic, check out our references below. References: EC (Environment Canada). 2008. Domestic Substances List Categorization. Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry. CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review). 2006. CIR Compendium, containing abstracts, discussions, and conclusions of CIR cosmetic ingredient safety assessments. Washington DC. NLM (National Library of Medicine). 2012. PubMed online scientific bibliography data  http://www.pubmed.gov. ICCR report: “Considerations on Acceptable Trace Level of 1,4-Dioxane in Cosmetic Products,” available on U.S. FDA, “1,4-Dioxane in Cosmetics: A Manufacturing Byproduct”  Scientific Opinion on The Report of the ICCR Working Group: Considerations on Acceptable Trace Level of 1,4-Dioxane in Cosmetic Products,” 15 December 2015, SCCS/1570/15 Robert L. Bronaugh, "Percutaneous Absorption of Cosmetic Ingredients," in Principles of Cosmetics for the Dermatologist, Philip Frost, M.D., and Steven Horwitz, M.D., Eds. St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1982 Roderick E. Black, Fred J. Hurley, and Donald C. Havery, “Occurrence of 1,4-Dioxane in Cosmetic Raw Materials and Finished Cosmetic Products,” Journal of AOAC International, 84 (3), 2001, pp. 666-667 Hardy J. Chou, Perry G. Wang, Wanlong Zhou, and Alexander J. Krynitsky, “Determination of 1,4-Dioxane in Cosmetic Products.”  Poster session presented at 124th AOAC Annual Meeting; 2010 Sept. 26-29; Orlando, Fl Wenninger, J.A. (1980) Drug Cosmet. Ind. 127, 62, 64, 68-69, 117-118; FDA “Cosmetic Handbook” 1983, 1991, 1994.   https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/potential-contaminants-cosmetics/14-dioxane-cosmetics-manufacturing-byproduct https://www.ewg.org/guides/substances/4201-PEG40HYDROGENATEDCASTOROIL/ https://yopistudio.blogspot.com/2021/02/creating-your-own-natural-scents.html https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-labeling-claims/organic-cosmetics#Does_FDA https://yopistudio.podbean.com/e/what-does-the-fda-do/    

This episode covers the spectrum of keratinocyte atypia from actinic keratosis, to Bowen’s disease, and finally squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). SCC is the second most common skin cancer and about 600 Australians die from SCC every year. Join Dr Blake Mumford, Associate Professor Alvin Chong, and Dr Michelle Goh as they discuss their approach to actinic keratoses, the best management for high-risk SCCs, and everything else you need to know about these common skin lesions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this "Brexit Musing" Episode, Giulio Novellini, Counsel from PORTOLANO CAVALLO discusses the possible implications Brexit has on the data transfer, privacy and protection sphere in Europe, the UK, and also the farther-reaching United States.  While GDPR will continue to apply in the UK, Giulio will also underline the key aspects for UK and US companies with regard to data privacy & transfers. Giulio Novellini, Counsel, joined PORTOLANO CAVALLO in 2018 and specializes in privacy, data protection, Internet and e-commerce and new technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Smart Contracts).Throughout his professional career, Giulio has assisted national and international companies with litigation and compliance issues related to Personal Data Protection. He has acquired particular experience in advising clients in matters concerning websites, apps, online compliance relating to the use of cookies, the processing of data for marketing, e-commerce, the foreign use of personal data and violations of personal data.Giulio supports clients by providing legal advice, privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default, evaluation of impact on privacy and audits.In 2020 he has been ranked by Legal500 as “Rising star” for Data Privacy and Data Protection. He is also ranked by Who's Who Legal  as a “Global Leader” in the “Data Privacy and Protection” chapter of the WWL: Data 2020 guide and as a “National Leader” in the “Data” chapter of the WWL: Italy 2020 guide.

In just a single week, so much has happened. The California Privacy Rights Act was passed by voters and will come into effect on 1 January 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union once again confirmed that consent is not valid when relying upon pre-ticked boxes, and the European Data Protection Board issued its Recommendations on international data transfers in the wake of the Schrems-II ruling. In the meantime, Finland is dealing with a major health-related data breach, the Biden transition team was announced, which includes some privacy-minded people, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Zoom including a requirement to implement a full privacy and security program. And that was just the tip of the iceberg before the European Commission issued the draft of new standard contractual clauses.In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal invited Paul Schwartz, a leading international privacy expert with a broad view on law and technology issues. He is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law and the Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Join Paul, K, and Prof. Paul Schwartz as they discuss immediate reactions to the recent privacy events, and put the considerations in context within US privacy law as well as global context. Nothing is off limits for framing these new developments - US law, state law, enforcements, new administration priorities, European requirements, operationalizing privacy, and even HIPAA. Catch up on news and analysis of these momentous events, via other episodes (such as the one with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna), webinars, blogs, and published advisories. ResourcesK’s comment on Paul’s lookalike celebrity - Al Pacino https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/ Professor Anupam Chander https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/anupam-chander/ Social MediaTwitter: @privacypodcast, @EuroPaulB, @heartofprivacy, @trustarc, @paulmschwartz, @BerkeleyLaw, @BerkeleyLawBCLT, @privsecacademy

Uncertainty and ambiguity shroud the implications of the CJEU’s decision in the Schrems II ruling (‘Schrems II’) for Irish businesses. This is according to a survey from the Association of Compliance Officers of Ireland (ACOI) of one hundred data protection specialists from tech and other organisations throughout the country. Approximately 65% of those surveyed say the greatest challenge presented by the July 2020 ruling thus far, is the lack of clarity from regulatory bodies, while over half of businesses surveyed said the ruling will negatively impact their business data transfers. Highlights from the ACOI Schrems II Impact Survey include: The lack of clarity around implementation was cited by the majority (65%) as the biggest challenge facing their business on the back of this ruling, followed by the limits it puts on businesses when it comes to transferring data (21%), and the costs involved with implementation (14%) 4 in 10 say it will affect their ability to do business in the US. Interestingly, more firms think its impact on their ability to do business with the UK will be greater (60%) Almost 6 in 10 (59%) say an unsuccessful Brexit outcome will restrict their transfer of data to the UK in 2021 Even if Brexit negotiations are concluded with any degree of success, most firms (75%) believe there will still be issues which may limit their potential to transfer data to the UK. Michael Kavanagh, CEO of ACOI spoke of the findings, “All sectors of business have or will be affected by the Schrems II ruling on international data transfers and, in an already challenging business environment, this is an obstacle which is going to be very difficult for many to overcome. The message from businesses is that the most pressing and immediate concern is the lack of clarity on how the ruling should be applied. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) commented in July that “...the DPC acknowledges the central role that it, together with its fellow supervisory authorities across the EU, must play in this area. In that regard, we look forward to developing a common position with our European colleagues to give meaningful and practical effect to today’s judgment”. This has left firms in a difficult position until that EU-level guidance is published, particularly smaller businesses that are already under severe pressure due to COVID-19 related restrictions. Last Thursday a draft EU Commission decision and related new draft SCCs were published with a period for feedback running until 10 December 2020. The ACOI have welcomed the development, citing it as the commencement of the guidance that ACOI members are calling for. However, they have cautioned that, given the deadline for submissions, it actually gives little, if any, time for companies to prepare for Brexit. Mr Kavanagh continued, “There’s no doubt that businesses want to be compliant, but they are unsure how to be. For instance, when it comes to Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) how do they provide the necessary checks? This will be very onerous for smaller businesses. And with the Privacy Shield invalid with immediate effect – what can they use in the interim? At this point, and in lieu of any concrete instruction from the DPC and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), businesses believe there is a real need for Government intervention. The vast majority (71%) are calling on the Government to step in and assist and support them, such as by providing a temporary grace period whilst Irish and EU supervisory authorities provide clarity. The ruling wasn’t black and white and so it will take some time before the issues are ironed out and definitive guidance can be given. But we can’t leave firms in limbo until then. The powers that be need to address this and give these businesses a way to proceed with their daily business activities when it comes to data transfer.” The ACOI say that the requirement in particular for companies to put in place additional...

This past week, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted it’s Recommendations on international data transfers post Schrems-II and the European Commission released the long-awaited draft of new standard contractual clauses. At the same time, the EDPB adopted an updated version of their earlier guidelines on the European Essential Guarantees: criteria that a third country’s (non-European Economic Area country) legislation needs to meet in order to justify an interference with the right to privacy and data protection. In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breitbarth and K Royal bring you an EXTRA episode with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna with the Future of Privacy Forum. Although you will hear about these momentous events in a variety of additional TrustArc forums (other Serious Privacy Episodes, blogs, and published advisories), this is worth a special episode tailored specifically to your need to know about these documents. You should note that feedback on the Recommendations are due at the end of November and comments on Standard Contractual Clauses are due December 10, 2020. Less than two weeks later. Join Paul, K, and Gabriella as they share their reactions to the new guidance and SCCs. In particular, Paul and Gabriela were on the former Working Party 29, responsible for issuing guidance. This new guidance is unexpected in some ways. This is what you want to know about what will happen next in the world of international transfers, how to read to new SCCs, and what can be done with supplemental safeguards - or not.Social MediaTwitter: @privacypodcast, @EuroPaulB, @heartofprivacy, @trustarc, @gabrielazanfir, @futureofprivacy Instagram @seriousprivacy

When we discuss regulatory matters on Staying Connected, listeners likely squirm a bit worrying whether they’re doing the right thing for their companies.  Undoubtedly, two of the most important regulatory topics we stay on top of are the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On this 11 minute podcast, LB3’s Deb Boehling, a Partner at LB3, and Patrick Whittle, who is Of Counsel, along with TC2’s Joe Schmidt  look at an EU regulatory issue known as "Schrems II" and explain why it has made complying with GDPR a lot tougher.  * 12th November 2020 – EU releases draft Implementing Decision with updated Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers from the EU to third countries.  Comments due by 10th December; final SCCs expected early 2021.  The draft updated SCCs align with our strategies in this podcast.

Squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are commonly occurring, dangerous cancers that may originate from skin stem cells. By developing methods to identify the stem cells that will lead to cancer, Fuchs' lab has been able to study how these cells differ from normal skin stem cells. They found that the gene expression profile in normal versus cancer stem cells is very different and is likely the result of differences in the cancer stem cell niche. The tumor microenvironment may include immune cells and greater proximity to TGF-beta secreting blood vessels. Fuchs' lab showed that cancer stem cells exposed to TGF-beta had increased expression of proteins in the glutathione metabolism pathway; the same pathway which is involved in the breakdown of chemotherapy drugs. Further studies in SCC patients, showed a strong correlation between increased mRNA levels for glutathione pathway proteins and decreased survival. These results suggest that drugs which block TGF-beta activity, in combination with other chemotherapeutics, may be an effective therapy for some SCC.

BCCs are one of the keratinocyte carcinomas, the other being SCC. These are cancers which arise from keratinocytes, the cells which make up a vast majority of the epidermis. BCCs are the most common type of skin cancer. In fact, BCCs are the most common type of cancer, period. To give you some perspective, in Australia, the incidence of keratinocyte carcinomas, BCCs and SCCs, is five times all other cancers combined.It is estimated that 70% of Australians will have at least one skin cancer by the time they reach age 70. Our guest specialist for this episode is Dr Michelle Goh, a consultant dermatologist at the Skin Health Institute, where she works in the Skin Cancer Assessment and Transplant Dermatology Clinics. Michelle is without a doubt one of the busiest and most experienced dermatologists in Melbourne. She is the current Victorian examiner for the Australasian College of Dermatologists and has consulting positions at several hospitals, including the Skin Health Institute, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, The Austin, The Alfred, and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Her areas of interest are complex skin cancers especially in patients who are immunosuppressed, cutaneous adverse reactions to drugs including immunotherapy, and biologics therapy in inflammatory skin disease. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Sioux City Community School District reports a dozen positive cases of COVID-19 from students and staff this week. Five students and seven staff members, according to a weekly update. A news release says Siouxland District Health conducted contact tracing and anyone in close contact has been told to self-isolate or quarantine. School officials will not talk about specific cases or schools impacted. The district plans to resume fulltime in-class learning for students starting next week. Virtual learning is still available. That was the option chosen by 30% of students in the school district at the start of the academic year. A Polk County judge says he will decide next week whether to allow the Des Moines school district to temporarily move completely to online classes rather than comply with a state order intended to ensure children return to at least partial in-person classes. The judge says he hopes to reach a decision on the temporary injunction by Tuesday, when school is

Bryan Cave data privacy attorney Christian Auty returns for Episode 36 to talk about the real world implications of the Schrems II opinion from the European Court of Justice. What is Schrems II? It is shorthand for Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems. In it, the Court of Justice reaffirmed that generally, transfers of personal data from the EU to non-EU countries are prohibited unless sufficient measures are taken to protect it. The court followed law found in the European Data Protection Directive and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Both say that personal data of EU citizens may not be transferred to non-EU countries unless proper safeguards are in place and only if the Non-EU country ensures an adequate level of protection for the personal data transferred. In short, Schrems II invalidated the EU/US Privacy Shield Framework that many companies used to legally transfer data between the EU and US. The EU and US governments created the Privacy Shield so companies could become certified to securely transfer data between the EU and US. The Schrems II court did not believe that the Privacy Shield did enough to protect EU personal data because, among other things, even under the program, EU citizens have no right to challenge government requests for their information under the Foreign Information Surveillance Act. As Christian explains, although Schrems II invalidated Privacy Shield, it did not invalidate Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) and he suggests that if you do not have SCCs in place and you transfer data from the EU to the United States, you should look into them. Standard Contractual Clauses are model contract clauses officially sanctioned by the European Commission that address how companies must handle and protect personal data of EU citizens. Christian says too that companies can bolster their contracts and SCCs by implementing a law enforcement policy–a specific policy about how a company will handle inquiries from intelligence agencies or law enforcement regarding data.

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The Schrems II decision is a Serious Privacy topic. Privacy professionals in the EU and the US had the 16th of July marked on their calendars for a long time. Today was the day the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union would publish their verdict in the case between the Irish Data Protection Commissioner on the one hand, and Facebook and Max Schrems on the other. The Schrems-II case, as it is commonly known, has made as much of an impact as its predecessor did in 2015.On Thursday morning, July 16, the Court invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield, and seriously restricted the use of standard contractual clauses. Reason enough for a special Serious Privacy episode to discuss the case and what comes next.Paul Breitbarth and K Royal talked briefly with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna of the Future of Privacy Forum and Sophie in ’t Veld, Dutch member of the European Parliament. We were looking for their reactions to the decision, their expectations, and their recommendations of what happens now. They did not disappoint in providing their insight. Join us as we have an open discussion with two preeminent privacy professionals to discuss a critical privacy event, that may have global consequences.TrustArc was prepared for any eventuality, and rest assured, we have you covered.LinksTrustArc - Privacy Shield Ruling RecapCJEU - Press Release CJEU - Full Verdict NOYB - CJEU Media Page

On this episode we explain the changes we have made and discuss how Covid-19 is impacting the car world.

Look at this guy: we have Dave Smith, owner and founder of Factory Five Racing, joining all the way from Boston. We talk about his business, Dan Gurney, and Hyundai's smaht pahk commercial.

It's a podcast about a podcaster as Mark Greene joins us all the way from Gig Harbor, WA (gotta practice that social distancing) to speak to Dean and Big Jay. The prolific podcaster tells us how he created his show, "Cars Yeah with Mark Greene" and his latest project with Keith Martin of American Car Collector Magazine called "Buy Sell Hold," which focuses on the collector car market.

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This article is part of the 2019 Oncology Special Issue of Natural Medicine Journal. Read the full issue here.    Tina Kaczor, ND, FABNO, interviews Shauna Birdsall, ND, FABNO, on what clinicians need to know about skin cancers. From preventing squamous cell carcinomas to recognizing melanoma, Birdsall details the essentials of cancer-related dermatology. This interview includes a broad review of what you can do to help patients prevent skin cancer. Do you remember the ABCDE’s of recognizing melanoma? Where do squamous and basal cell carcinomas usually occur? What is the ideal range for serum vitamin D? What other supplements have evidence for reducing the risk of squamous cell cancers? We cover all this and more in this in-depth discussion between integrative oncology experts. About the Expert Shauna M. Birdsall, ND, FABNO, is a naturopathic physician and fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology. Birdsall graduated from National University of Natural Medicine in 2000. After completing a residency at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in 2002, she provided patient care and supervised naturopathic medical students there until 2008. She took on a leadership role at Western Regional Medical Center at CTCA in Goodyear, AZ, in 2008 and was later elected vice chief of the medical staff there. She also chaired the Medical Executive Committee, Credentials Committee, Peer Review Committee, and served as the Medical Director of Integrative Oncology until 2018. Birdsall recently joined Avante Medical Center in Anchorage, AK. One of Phoenix Magazine’s Top Doctors 2014-2018, Birdsall is strongly committed to providing individualized, compassionate, evidence-based care to empower and provide hope to cancer patients. Transcript Tina Kaczor, ND, FABNO: Hello. I'm Tina Kaczor, editor-in-chief here at the Natural Medicine Journal. I'm talking today with Dr. Shauna Birdsall about skin cancers, and Dr. Shauna Birdsall has graduated from the National College of Natural Medicine in the year 2000. After that, she went to Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and she has been a specialist in integrative oncology since graduation. She's most recently taken a position at Avante Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, where she'll be providing patient care in a hospital-based setting. Shauna, thanks so much for joining me. Shauna Birdsall, ND, FABNO: Oh, thank you for having me. Kaczor: Dr. Birdsall, you've recently worked closely with a lot of dermatologists in a dermatologist setting, and you and I got talking about that. I was intrigued by a lot of the things that you learned, and I would like you to elaborate a little bit on how working closely alongside these dermatologists maybe changed your perspective of oncology and skin cancer specifically. Birdsall: I have to say I was blown away, and this is a bit embarrassing. Working with patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation for cancers like breast cancer and pancreatic cancer, I had always seen dermatology as more on the periphery. Working with dermatologists showed me how often dermatologists are diagnosing things like melanoma and really saving people's lives. It completely changed my perception around the integral nature of the specialty. Kaczor: Yeah. I think that's what struck me, because you and I have parallel universes in the idea of our professions. We both graduated in the same year, and we've both been doing integrative oncology. I have to say I haven't worked closely with dermatologists. I share your inclination to say, "Ah, yeah, skin, we can catch that. No problem. We always catch skin cancer," and, I mean, that's despite the fact that of course we've both worked with people with metastatic melanoma. We'll get to that and the importance of prevention, especially to prevent such tragedies as metastatic disease. I'd like you to give us a primer, and just give us a really basic overview for the clinicians out there on the types of skin cancers that there are, and who they most likely effect as well. Birdsall: Sure. First of all, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer, and in the United States this year, more than 5 million people will be diagnosed with skin cancers. First and foremost, we like to talk about actinic keratoses. These are also known as AKs, and they are really precancerous lesions. You'll hear, the resounding themes of those that have sun exposure as being at risk for these cancers as I go on, but essentially actinic keratoses are often flaky or scaly patches of skin, and it's important that those are identified and treated, as sometimes they can lead to squamous cell carcinoma. The most common type of skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma or BCC. This accounts for about 80% of skin cancers, and BCCs usually look like a flesh-colored pearl or bump, or a pinkish patch of skin. All of these skin cancers are going to be more prevalent in patients with fair skin, although patients with skin of all colors can develop these skin cancers. Then, as I mentioned we're going to repeatedly talk about risk with sun exposure, and that means that the areas of the body that are most frequently exposed to sun such as the face, head, chest, arms and legs are going to be the most prevalent areas that you can see these cancers. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most second type of skin cancer, and you're going to also see squamous cell cancers on areas like the rim of the ear. You really need to be able to make sure that those are identified, as those cancers can spread more deeply into tissues and cause additional damage, as well as metastasize elsewhere. Melanoma, as we talked about earlier, is the deadliest form of skin cancer. It's actually been on the rise for the last 50 years. Melanoma in situ annual incidents in the United States is 9.5%, and in the United States melanoma has become the fifth-most common cancer in men and women. Melanoma increases with age, and you do see again the sun exposure and fair skin as common risk factors. I think later on, we'll talk about more risk factors for melanoma. Kaczor: Yeah. That's an incredible statistic. Nearly 10% incidence for in situ melanoma. Wow. Birdsall: Yes. Which is why I really started waking up to the issues with skin cancer detection and prevention, working with dermatologists, because I just was blown away, as I mentioned, with how often they were diagnosing either melanoma in situ or melanomas. Kaczor: That's just checking. I mean, that's just skin checks, not coming in with that complaint. Birdsall: Yes. Kaczor: Most of our listeners are practitioners that are primary practitioners. Very few are going to be specialists in skincare, of course. I'd like us to maybe, if you could, go through how to recognize melanoma, and maybe making sure that when we are seeing our patients ... and this could be in a specific skin exam, or it could also just be an incidental finding on their arm or their face or whatever. What are we looking for with melanoma? Birdsall: Melanomas frequently develop in a mole or suddenly appears as a new dark spot on the skin. If you'll recall, we have the ABCDE warning signs, and I'm just going to go through those just for all of our review. A stands for asymmetry. B stands for border, either irregular, scalloped or poorly defined. C stands for color, varied really from one area to another in the same mole, and you can see shades of tan and brown, black, white, pink, red or blue. I think one of the most shocking melanomas that I saw was a melanoma inside the web of the toes in a patient that just looked like a little pink spot. D stands for diameter. While melanomas are usually greater than 6 millimeters in size, which is the size of a pencil eraser, when initially diagnosed they can be smaller. E stands for evolving, a mole or a skin lesion that looks different from the rest or is changing in size, shape or color. What is important to know as well is that melanomas don't necessarily read the textbooks. As I mentioned, they can look like something that, for those of us who are not dermatologists, may not look like something of concern, which is why I became aware of the need for annual skin exams. Kaczor: Yeah. Yeah. It is remarkable that some of them don't look like much, and I think that erring on the side of caution, especially as our patients get older and older, because aging is a risk factor for all cancers, and I'm assuming skin cancer is included in there. Okay. Is there anything else? Last notes besides ABCD and E, and anything else that people should be looking for clinically before we close that discussion? Birdsall: An area that's itching, bleeding. An area that opens up and appears to heal over, and then opens up again. Anything like that also needs to be evaluated. Kaczor: Okay. Yeah. Referral to a dermatologist is simple enough that I think it's ... again, erring on the side of caution seems like a smart thing to do. We talked about melanoma, and experience shows us that of course it's the most likely to go somewhere. It's most likely to spread and become fatal for some patients, but I'm curious. Basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, what is the risk of any local or metastatic disease with those? Birdsall: In the majority of patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma or basal cell carcinoma, the disease remains limited to the skin and with appropriate treatment is considered, "cured," which you and I both know we don't get to use that word very often in oncology. It's exciting that something can be cured with appropriate treatment. However, in 3 to 7% of patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, and rarely in individuals with basal cell carcinoma, local, regional or distant metastases can occur, which increases the risk for mortality or death. Kaczor: Do you happen to know, is this analogous to melanoma in that the depth of the lesion has anything to do with it? Do you know? Birdsall: Yes. For both basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, both the depth and the size can contribute to risk, which is why even though a patient might only have a small spot, why it's important that it be caught early and treated, because left to its own devices, the larger it gets, the more at risk a patient is. Kaczor: Okay. Well, that makes logical sense. As far as melanomas go, you mentioned in situ is nearly 10%. Are most of them still caught in the early stages, before they go anywhere? Birdsall: Yes. Yeah. About 85% of melanomas are caught when there's only localized disease, so Stage I or Stage II at presentation, which as you and I both know, that's when you see the best survival rates. At diagnosis, about 15% have regional nodal disease, and only about 2% have distant metastases at the time of diagnosis. We're getting better at diagnosing skin cancers and melanoma, and it's theorized that dermatologists are more likely to biopsy these days because of seeing a higher prevalence. Kaczor: I see. Okay. Can I ask one question? That is, in some states, including where I am in Oregon, naturopathic physicians can do minor surgery. The question I have ... I know my opinion on this, but I want to hear your opinion on this. It's not uncommon for shave biopsies to happen in-office. This is true of primary care physicians across the board, not just naturopaths. If someone suspects a melanoma, yea or nay on something like a biopsy of that, whether it's a punch biopsy or a shave biopsy? Birdsall: Nay, and the reason is that there is research that the sooner after initial diagnosis ... so the sooner after initial biopsy ... that patient is able to get definitive treatment for their melanoma, the better. One of the risks, if someone other than a dermatologist or another health professional biopsies melanoma, is that there's then a delay potentially in getting the patient in to the provider that's going to be able to provide definitive treatment for that melanoma. That's one of the risks. Really, you want to see the highest level of specialty if you suspect a melanoma. Kaczor: Okay. I think that needs to be reiterated time and again, because every once in a while you come across those patients, and your hair stands up when they tell you what first happened to their lesion, and you just hope that it didn't go anywhere. Okay. Let's talk about, again, we're talking to our audience is generally practitioners that are frontline folks, and which patient populations, which types of people, should there be particular vigilance for skin cancers, like higher levels of suspicion, and who exactly? Birdsall: Okay. I warned you that we'd keep going back to a couple of things. Fair-skinned individuals, particularly those with blonde hair, red hair, lighter-colored eyes, blue eyes, although again, the warning that skin cancers can occur in patients of any skin color, and then that hallmark UV, exposure to UV radiation. More sun exposure, more risk. Also, however, living in sunny climates or higher altitudes, again because you're getting more direct exposure to UV radiation, as well as lower latitudes. Moles, patients that have more than 50 moles are at higher risk, and patients that have had a history of dysplastic nevi nearby or abnormal moles. Patients with actinic keratoses are at higher risk. Patients with either a family history of skin cancer or a personal history of skin cancer, and immune suppression. I want to just take a moment to talk about immune suppression, because that can include a variety of different patient populations. That can include patients living with HIV or AIDS, or oncology patients that maybe are receiving chemotherapy or maybe their immune system hasn't recovered from prior chemotherapy, and it does include patients on immunosuppressive drugs such as for organ transplants. Patients who've had an organ transplant are at high risk for skin cancers because they're likely to have a lifetime of immune suppression because of those immunosuppressive drugs. Lastly, exposure to radiation. You and I think of patients that have been exposed to radiation like breast cancer patients, lung cancer patients, et cetera. However, sometimes patients are exposed to radiation for skin conditions like basal cell carcinoma or eczema or acne, just different types of radiation. Then, exposure to chemical substances like arsenic can also increase risk, and then age increases risk. We're just at higher risk, the longer that we're living a lifetime out, being exposed to the sun. Kaczor: Is it true that childhood exposures can have an effect decades later? Like someone who grew up down in San Diego, for example, but they live in Minnesota? Birdsall: Yes, especially to melanoma. I am a-fair skinned person and I had an unfortunate history of a couple of different blistering sunburns, and that history of childhood sunburns and history of blistering sunburns can increase risk, especially for melanoma. Kaczor: Okay. Yeah. That's good to have validated, because I've always heard that. Maybe in our patient intakes, it's something we should put on our intake forms. Not only where did you grow up, but did you get burned, sunburned? Birdsall: Yes. Kaczor: Back in the day, of course, there was a time when people intentionally went out there and called a burn halfway to a tan. Birdsall: That actually reminds me. I don't think of indoor tanning frequently these days, but exposure to indoor tanning and tanning beds. Maybe your patient is very responsible now as an adult, but maybe in their teenage years had a long history of exposure to tanning beds. Kaczor: Yeah, yeah. It's something that's easily overlooked in an intake. Maybe we should make sure that that's top of mind. Let's talk a little bit about screening and prevention, and how can we make sure that we do catch things early, especially melanoma. What are the current recommendations, even, for skin cancer prevention? Birdsall: It's interesting. As far as screening, it remains somewhat of a controversy, which surprised me. US Preventive Task Force is considered one of the authorities on screenings, and to date, the US Preventive Task Force hasn't found sufficient evidence either for or against skin screenings. What's interesting is there is a lot of debate amongst other experts in the field. The American Cancer Society actually recommends a cancer-related checkup every three years for patients between age 28 to 40, and then also encompassed in that cancer-related checkup is other kinds of screenings in addition to skin cancer screenings, and then every year for anyone over 40. Interestingly, the American Medical Association really sees it as individualized, and recommends that a patient should talk to their physician about frequency for skin cancer screenings, and those at moderate risk even should see their PCP or dermatologist annually. The American Academy of Dermatology issued a statement regarding their disappointment over the recommendation by the US Preventive Task Force, and felt that the public should know that that recommendation that was neither for nor against annual skin cancer screening did not apply to individuals with suspicious skin lesions or those with increased skin cancer risk, and does not apply to the practice of skin self-exams. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that patients really function as their own health advocate by regularly conducting skin self-exams and that if the patients see anything unusual, that they should see a dermatologist. Unfortunately, we all know that there's not always consistency with patients regarding advising for self-exam, and a patient can't necessarily see the back of their neck or their back, that may have had a lot of sun exposure. A number of dermatology providers still recommend annual skin exams, which after working with dermatologists, I'm definitely an advocate for as well. Kaczor: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. All it takes is a few cases. We're all a product of our experience, right? You see a few cases where it could have been prevented, and it seems and it is tragic. What can we do? I guess once we identify patients who are at higher risk, due to either childhood or exposure or fair skin or immune suppression, like what can we do to prevent skin cancers? Birdsall: Again, not to sound like a broken record, but decreasing sun exposure is the first thing. Interestingly enough, while I was just reviewing the research when I was preparing for our interview, I was looking at the Environmental Working Group and sunscreens, because there are definitely sunscreen ingredients these days that people have concerns about. For a patient that might be more holistically inclined, they might feel somewhat reluctant to put some of the ingredients that are in sunscreens on their skin, and so there's still a number of things that we can recommend. One is the physical sunscreens that are more of a barrier, and zinc oxide and titanium dioxide were considered generally safe and effective by the Environmental Working Group, and those are sunscreens with definitely friendlier ingredients that people may feel a lot more comfortable using and recommending. Secondly, wearing clothing shields our skin from sun exposure. There's some really interesting sun-protective clothing that is coming out as well if people are in the sun more frequently. Just trying to stay out of the sun during the peak periods or during high heat indexes is also something that patients can do as well. Then, doing annual skin exams. Because as you and I talked about, we may not feel concerned about a lesion that a dermatologist may instantly pick up on as something that may need to be further evaluated. Kaczor: Yeah. On that note, I don't remember when I read this, but years ago I remember reading they did surveys of lesions, and they had primary care physicians and dermatologists assess them and see who was most accurate. Nobody bats a thousand, but it was remarkable how much better the dermatologists were at visually assessing lesions correctly. Birdsall: Well, what was interesting working with dermatologists is I'd ask them why they were attracted to their field, why they went into dermatology, and they said because it's actually a field of medicine that you visually diagnose. You can visually see what's going on. Internal medicine, you might look at the results of a patient's lab work or a chest X-ray, but dermatology, you can actually see pathology and treat it. Kaczor: Yeah. How interesting. Yeah, so I guess you're good at that. Some people are better than others, I think. We are naturopaths, and so let's talk a little bit about diet and supplements and other things that we can do. What can we do from a supplement standpoint? Is there anything we can add or anything we should avoid, for that matter, that could lower the risk of developing cancer, skin cancer specifically? Birdsall: There was a really interesting Phase 3 randomized trial of nicotinamide for skin cancer prevention published in the New England Journal of Medicine in October of 2015, and in the study, 386 participants who had a history of at least 2 non-melanoma skin cancers ... again, that's basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma ... in the past 5 years were randomized to receive 500 milligrams of nicotinamide twice daily or placebo for 12 months. They were seen by dermatologists every 3 months. At the end of the study, the rate of new non-melanoma skin cancers was lowered by 23% in the nicotinamide group, and noteworthy was the fact that there was no benefit after the nicotinamide was discontinued. I would say about 70% of the dermatologists that I was working with recommended nicotinamide to their patients. That's actually compelling data from my perspective in regards to a supplement. There's another supplement that has less research but is something interesting to watch called polypodium leucotomos, which is a fern from Central and South America. It was actually shown in studies to prevent both UVA- and UVB-induced toxicity and DNA damage. There was a study showing that 240 milligrams of a supplement containing that ingredient twice daily suppressed sunburn, and was found to extend the time outdoors before skin started to tan, so that's another possibility. I think we know as naturopathic doctors that vitamin C, E, zinc, beta carotene, omega-3 fatty acids, lycopene and polyphenols, especially in things like green tea, do also help to prevent free radical damage, which is what the exposure to UV radiation causes as well. Kaczor: Okay. Yeah. Is there a specific role ... I don't I honestly don't remember where I have this idea from, so you can validate or invalidate my presumption ... about using vitamin A specifically for actinic keratosis? Birdsall: Sure. There was a study on high-dose vitamin A reducing the incidence of actinic keratosis converting to squamous cell carcinoma, and the study looked at doses ranging from 25,000 IU a day, 50,000 IU a day and 75,000 IU a day. They did indeed find that that did prevent those AKs from turning into SCCs pretty significantly. However, from my perspective, there'd need to be a risk/benefit weighing of that for any particular patient. Kaczor: Yeah. Because 25,000 to 75,000 IU daily for an extended period is ... Birdsall: Correct. I had some concern after looking at that. Kaczor: Yeah. Yeah. Recently, I mean, I generally wasn't too concerned with vitamin A levels as we gave them until ... because we would often use this dose for antiviral effects. Recently I came across a study that did suggest that high doses for prolonged periods actually can lead to or at least are correlated with fatty liver. I was a little surprised by that. I came upon it, of course, by way of patient care and doing a little due diligence. Anyways, that's just a little caveat Birdsall: Right. I just am looking at that study and thinking about the fact that you would need to be on that long-term. I just had some concerns about using that particular amount of time. Kaczor: Yeah, yeah. Not just the known, but the unknowns. Okay. Let's turn to vitamin D, because that whole "Do I'd get enough sun for vitamin D, am I getting so much sun that I'm increasing my risk of skin cancer," it seems to be a bit of a conundrum. On the same note and maybe in the context of this, is there a difference between sunburns and suntans and their link to skin cancer? Birdsall: Okay. I think that there's definitely good evidence to suggest that vitamin D production from sun exposure poses too much of a risk for skin cancer. That's probably not the way that we want to be getting enough vitamin D, and there is more risk with a sunburn. However, suntans, our concept of tanning as being something that adds to our attractiveness, which I think in this day and age has faded with all the concern and the risk. Tanning does pose a risk too. That is still damage to your skin. Actually, as I was reviewing the research and thinking about this interview ... I'm just going to throw this in now, even though it's a little tangential and random ... if you have patients that are worried about the anti-aging, about the appearance of their skin, really the very best thing that they could do is to avoid sun exposure, to apply sunscreen, et cetera, because even that tanning still actually represents damage. Kaczor: Okay. The vitamin D, what I hear you saying is it's best taken supplementally. Birdsall: Yes. Kaczor: Because we have access of doing labs for our patients and such, is there an ideal dose to give, or do we base it on laboratory values? What is your opinion on that? Birdsall: My opinion is that we need to base it on laboratory values, because there's so much individual variation on intake of vitamin D and the impact of that intake. One patient may consume a lot of dietary sources of vitamin D and actually be at perhaps not an optimal, optimal level, but not be deficient in vitamin D. Another patient may take some vitamin D supplements and actually get to pretty high levels of vitamin D pretty quickly. I think the only thing that we can do for our patients right now is to do lab testing. Having said that, there is a lot of controversy over what the right values are, what the right range is. Again, when I was doing research just to make sure that I was totally up to date before we talked, it looks like people are in agreement over the fact that a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level below 20 nanograms per milliliter is considered deficient and does need repletion. We have more concurrence over that value. What's still controversial is what is that optimal range? Is it between 30 and 40? Is it 50? What we do know is that vitamin D can reach toxic levels, and that that's not good either, and that there is more and more data on too high of a level of vitamin D posing risk. I think that that again argues for making sure that we're adequately testing our patients, because say they're deficient, we decide that they need repletion. It's still hard to monitor, without doing that testing, where they're at from a vitamin D level as you're doing repletion. Kaczor: Sure. Sure. Yeah, I totally agree. I think that laboratory values should be just part of a routine lab for most people, given the many ways that vitamin D adequacy protects us from so many diseases. My last question is having to do with those who know they have a family history of skin cancers, maybe even particularly melanoma, but skin cancers in general. Is it appropriate, I suppose, for certain patients with a strong family history to look at genetic predispositions and hereditary syndromes that include skin cancer? Birdsall: That's interesting, again still a little bit of a controversy. We can test for a couple of genetic mutations related to melanoma. People who have a mutation on a gene known as CDKN2A have a higher risk of developing melanoma, pancreatic cancer, or a tumor of the central nervous system. A mutation on the gene called BAP1 means a higher risk of getting melanoma, melanoma of the eye or mesothelioma, and kidney cancer. However, the challenge is that if a patient carries a mutation on one of those genes, their lifetime risk of getting melanoma ranges from 60% to 90%. However, only about 10% of the people who develop melanoma have one of these genes. What we do know is that we're still evolving our scientific knowledge of genetic mutations, and it's highly likely that there are additional genetic mutations that we just haven't found yet for melanoma. This is a really important conversation for a patient to have with their healthcare provider, or even ideally with a genetic counselor, who can counsel them on the risks and benefits of genetic testing overall. Kaczor: Yeah. Yeah. Genetic counselors are a great referral for us to have, because we don't need to figure everything out and they have it all either at their fingertips or in their minds, so they're they're great professionals to ally with. All right. Well, I think that that's a really good survey and a nice review of reminders of things we may know, and maybe some things that are definitely new to our listeners. I can't thank you enough for taking some time and sharing your expertise with us today. Thanks, Shauna. Birdsall: Thanks. Thanks for having me. Kaczor: Take care.

We’re super exited to share some of the amazing conservation students and researchers from the 2019 Student Conference on Conservation Science in Brisbane, Australia! WCC was lucky to score an invite to attend some of the incredible student talks, plenary speakers, poster presentations, and we even managed a handful of special guest interviews (see below for segment times). In this first part, we share interviews with student poster presenters and special guest speakers. With so many amazing student researchers and conservationists in various fields from across the world congregating at the Uni of Queensland for this conference, we barely scratched the surface and wish we had time for more. Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy these presentations and interviews from numerous conservation students across a broad swath of scientific disciplines, just a small sample of the breadth of knowledge and talent involved in biodiversity conservation around the world. For more on #SCCSAus2019, check out SCCS-aus.org, Facebook@SCCSAus, and Twitter@SCCS_Aus Segments as follows: Prof. Bill Laurence (3:50) James Cook University Prof. Sarah Bekessy (27:23) RMIT Prof. Hugh Possingham (37:19) University of Queensland Dr. April Reside (43:43) University of Queensland

System Administration, Configuration Management, Build Engineer, and DevOps have many of the same responsibilities but over the years the names have changed. Listen as Darren Pulsipher gives a brief history of his journey through the software and product development over the last four decades and how so much has changed and much has remained the same.

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An Agent Born To Be One With Nature with Boris Simurina FROM PREPARING ATHLETES FOR TOP CAREERS TO PREPARING THEM FOR A LIFE Could you train yourself when necessary? What would that teach you? What’s behind preparation and making it to the finish line? The mind. Connecting 6 building blocks of mind, breathe, hydration, nutrition, repairing (aka sleep) & movement! & much more Shownotes: http://beyondathletic.com/54

The third edition of our SCCS coverage from around the world From March 24-26, the 16th edition of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Cambridge, was hosted by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Since the very first...

The third edition of our SCCS coverage from around the world From March 24-26, the 16th edition of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Cambridge, was hosted by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Since the very first...

The third edition of our SCCS coverage from around the world From March 24-26, the 16th edition of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Cambridge, was hosted by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Since the very first...

Adi und Michi (Feuermurmel) erklären mir, was es alles für Versionierungssysteme git, und warum eben Git der heisse Scheiss ist und was es alles kann. Axel fehlt in dieser Sendung leider, weil ihm der Arzt wegen Heiserkeit das Reden verboten hat. Und das, obwohl grade UKW-Wochen bei Radio Radius sind! Trackliste FragmentD – Pegadrome Stefan Poiss – Mindkiller (Parsec Soundtrack) Saga Musix – Superwave Rams – Ridiculous Stupid Noise George Woods – Lucky One Git :: Git Git :: Wikipedia über Git Git-GUI :: Grafische Benutzeroberfläche für Git Gitk :: Git Repository Browser GitX :: Grafischer Git Client für MacOS X Fugitive :: Ein Git Wrapper Github :: Github Gists :: Github Gists Git Annex :: Für grosse Dateien in Git Stundenbla :: In Cron geschriebenes Stundensignal auf Schweizerdeutsch Cogito :: Cogito steht zum Verkauf SCCS :: Source Code Control System von 1972 Subversion :: Apache Subversion Bitkeeper :: Kommerzielles Versionierungssystem, einst von Linus Torvalds für den Linuxkernel benutzt GNU CVS :: Concurrent Versions System von Mercurial :: Mercurial SCM File Download (155:54 min / 157 MB)

Adi und Michi (Feuermurmel) erklären mir, was es alles für Versionierungssysteme git, und warum eben Git der heisse Scheiss ist und was es alles kann. Axel fehlt in dieser Sendung leider, weil ihm der Arzt wegen Heiserkeit das Reden verboten hat. Und das, obwohl grade UKW-Wochen bei Radio Radius sind! Trackliste FragmentD – Pegadrome Stefan Poiss – Mindkiller (Parsec Soundtrack) Saga Musix – Superwave Rams – Ridiculous Stupid Noise George Woods – Lucky One Git :: Git Git :: Wikipedia über Git Git-GUI :: Grafische Benutzeroberfläche für Git Gitk :: Git Repository Browser GitX :: Grafischer Git Client für MacOS X Fugitive :: Ein Git Wrapper Github :: Github Gists :: Github Gists Git Annex :: Für grosse Dateien in Git Stundenbla :: In Cron geschriebenes Stundensignal auf Schweizerdeutsch Cogito :: Cogito steht zum Verkauf SCCS :: Source Code Control System von 1972 Subversion :: Apache Subversion Bitkeeper :: Kommerzielles Versionierungssystem, einst von Linus Torvalds für den Linuxkernel benutzt GNU CVS :: Concurrent Versions System von Mercurial :: Mercurial SCM File Download (155:54 min / 157 MB)

In the cold Winter, The PrimateCast journeyed to warm up in Australia and to cover the second Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Australia. SCCS Australia was hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane between January 19 and 29,...

In the cold Winter, The PrimateCast journeyed to warm up in Australia and to cover the second Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Australia. SCCS Australia was hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane between January 19 and 29,...

In the cold Winter, The PrimateCast journeyed to warm up in Australia and to cover the second Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Australia. SCCS Australia was hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane between January 19 and 29,...

*SPOILER ALERT* we Discuss the finale of doctor who so listen with caution if you havnt seen it yet. "Kieran's Comic News" as well as some Worst 10 lists that none of us have heard of. We take some questions, one of which leads Ricky into a verbal contract involving a celebrity punching him in the face (have a listen and find out what thats all about) and we try our best to plug Beyond the Bunker's "Moon Issue 3"... it does not go well

After a brief break for Halloween, we're back to discuss Halloween, including previous Halloweens, future Halloweens, and costume ideas. The SCC were at Heroes and Legends Planet Neath convention the day after. Kieran fills us in on two weeks of "Kieran's Comic News". Also, Ricky wins risk, And Tranter shares his somewhat interesting theory of Captain America: Civil War.

It was Pauls 30th, so we talk about our birthday trip at the weekend where Tranter got to live out his dream and visit a Trampoline park in Camberley, followed by a legendary BBQ challenge at Blues Smokehouse in Bracknell. all while dressed as superheroes. As well as "Kieran's Comic News", Age of Ultron, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Today we run over "top 10" greatest movies, loosely because no one could decide which is their favorite movies. More from "Kieran's Comic News" plus some question from 'Listeners' including costume color schemes and thought on Civil War theories.

Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 5th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Bangalore – India. The PrimateCast crossed a new border by rolling out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the meetings of the SCCS held between September...

Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 5th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Bangalore – India. The PrimateCast crossed a new border by rolling out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the meetings of the SCCS held between September...

Join us on The PrimateCast as we cover the 5th Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) Bangalore – India. The PrimateCast crossed a new border by rolling out its mobile podcasting unit to cover the meetings of the SCCS held between September...

We find out who did their homework from last week as we 'Fantasy-Cast' Copperopolis characters. Webber explains his comic-train, "Kieran's Comic News", some Comic recommendations and Lucy turns up with Beer Pong

Back from their trip to "Stoke CON Trent", the boys talk about their. including their new game, 'Cosplay Bingo', Unisex toilets, the Origin of the Shameless Self-Promotion game, and the saddest gaming arcade in the world. as well as a story from Webbers Summer Camp and "Kieran's Comic News".

Webber cuts his mini-holiday short so he can tell us about winning a toddler sized Goku from a claw machine. "Kieran's Comic News" causes debate on PG-13 rated Deadpool Movie, and we answer more than usual Questions from our listeners, like: our opinions of Batman Zero Year and our picks for the main protagonist in the Deadpool. all this and LEGO

We talk about our trip to Bedford NICE comic con. We introduce "To Joe Stickman". "Kieran's Comic News" spills light on possible theories for Captain America 3, and we discuss forthcoming Marvel Legends Infinite series action figures

What do the terms benign, malignant, histogenesis, differentiation, stage and grade mean when applied to cancer? Whats the difference between an adenoma and an an adenocarcinoma? What's the adenoma - carcinoma sequence? Without understanding these basics you'll quickly get lost when learning about cancer and treatments for cancer. All is explained in this podcast, in which Jon Lund talks to David Semeraro using examples and pictures of macroscopic and microscopic cancers including adenocarcinomas, BCCs and SCCs.

The transcription factor SOX2 (3q26.3-q27) is an embryonic stem cell factor contributing to the induction of pluripotency in terminally differentiated somatic cells. Recently, amplification of the SOX2 gene locus has been described in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of different organ sites. Aim of this study was to investigate amplification and expression status of SOX2 in sinonasal carcinomas and to correlate the results with clinico-pathological data. A total of 119 primary tumor samples from the sinonasal region were assessed by fluorescence in-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry for SOX2 gene amplification and protein expression, respectively. Of these, 59 were SSCs, 18 sinonasal undifferentiated carcinomas (SNUC), 10 carcinomas associated with an inverted papilloma (INVC), 19 adenocarcinomas (AD) and 13 adenoid cystic carcinomas (ACC). SOX2 amplifications were found in subsets of SCCs (37.5%), SNUCs (35.3%), INVCs (37.5%) and ADs (8.3%) but not in ACCs. SOX2 amplification resulted in increased protein expression. Patients with SOX2-amplified sinonasal carcinomas showed a significantly higher rate of tumor recurrences than SOX2 non-amplified tumors. This is the first study assessing SOX2 amplification and expression in a large cohort of sinonasal carcinomas. As opposed to AD and ACC, SOX2 amplifications were detected in more than 1/3 of all SCCs, SNUCs and INVCs. We therefore suggest that SNUCs are molecularly closely related to SCCs and INVCs and that these entities represent a subgroup of sinonasal carcinomas relying on SOX2 acquisition during oncogenesis. SOX2 amplification appears to identify sinonasal carcinomas that are more likely to relapse after primary therapy, suggesting that these patients might benefit from a more aggressive therapy regime.