What's going on everyone Sam here with latent sports cards. We are doing 2022 tops luminaries baseball hobby double case break number three random hit style So basically how this is going to work is we have a list of our 24 participants right here as we break through the product Don is going to be typing out the hits on a random hit sheet at the end. We have a second Random.org window open all the hits will be copied and pasted into here and We will random off. We'll roll the dice Whatever number it is will random the names and the hits the same amount of times and then we'll match them up Whatever name is next to your Whatever hit is next to your name is the hit you'll receive. So good luck here, everyone. Let's get right into it Talk in here one sec. Sorry about that 12 boxes, so we got more room perfect. All right box number one. Good luck here Yeah, I know five nothing strolls Carl this guy here comes another strikeout. I'm sure Empty We've got that is Reese Hoskins 12 out of 15 on the Jersey auto Nice one there on the Reese big home run he hit Reese's bug a little weird. I'll be honest with you. I was gonna say Players Yeah, so yeah, just do like Jersey auto or yes, I'm doing auto. Yeah, I think there's there's literally only autos and Jersey Autos and I'm going by last perfect Hadecky Matt Sui eat out of ten on the hit Kings home run Kings. Just kidding Red autograph congrats on that one. Good luck for the Hadecky Matt Sui Yeah, like I said as long as the serial number is correct everything else is just descriptions We've got one of one Chipper Joe three colored patch auto Wow hit Kings autograph relic. What a banger Good luck on the chipper. I would say if it's like a weird last name just do like Person last name. I mean not a weird run like a common last name like Jones because there's multiple Jones in this Well, yeah, yeah, I figure like if we come to that part. Yeah got two out of 15 one Soto There you go. Good luck on that Number one walk off on the hit Kings autograph It's been a good case so far Really good case so far I already won out here comes a strikeout Guaranteed strikeout. I said we got another red. I believe those are to ten We've got joey vato Seven out of ten home run Kings on the reds color match Very nice of vato Not too bad there We have to do a recap either on these I Nice got a cut auto that is gonna be Robin Robert one of one cut auto Good luck on that. That is so cool, man. I love the cuts in this Cut signature auto from 22 tops luminaries Heck yeah, so that's our second one of one in this case Robin Roberts Out of ten Luis Robert go into the White Sox on the hit Kings auto Good luck on that one nice Lou Bob That scared me so much right there that falling holy cow All right, we've got nice Tom Glavin 15 out of 15 on the three colored patch auto Total wins right there masters of the mound Tom Glavin, we've got nice Fergie Jenkins 15 out of 15 on the masters of the mound Fergie Jenkins very nice Masters of the mound autograph for the Cubs We've got Eddie Murray two out of ten on the Jersey auto Orioles there you go That is a home run Kings Eddie Murray game used the big chase in this someone told me is a 50 autograph booklet That you it's like one of those giant trifles Yeah, oh Yeah, so it was good what's going on Sean. How you doing, man? Yeah, so it was nice very nice card All right, here we go We've got Jose Altuve 11 out of 15 on the Jersey auto Home run Kings walk off Grand Slam. I'm assuming that's against the Yankees, so don't love this card very much I'm getting I'm really getting thrown here because I got I had to deal with Luis Gonzalez on the timeless moments What world series home run and I have to deal with this so? It was a 50-50 book. Oh my lord. All right last box of case one four out of five Brandon Marsh on the blue rookie auto Nice one there that is first MLB hit hit Kings autograph Four out of five on the Brandon Marsh All right, that'll do it for case one Sorry if the camera falls here. There we go Let's do case two. Yeah, Marcia. I'm a good postseason man This is a good player. All right, here we go. This Carl guy on his way to timeout land. I have to say It's gonna be the end of Carl Yeah, Fergie was cool, man. We're excited. Yeah, I'm up here guys. Come on Stan ten out of ten Eloy Jimenez for the White Sox that is Number three average by A. L. Outfielder in 2020 Hit Kings Nice Eloy that is mini machado Three out of three on the bat auto That is nasty Number four an MLB home run totals from 2015 to 21 Congrats on that one good luck on the machado Trying to scare it. I've been timed out before and I'll be timed out again. I Don't know that's the thing of the bright about the next box We've got Corey Seeger three out of 15 for the Rangers cool in there, man Home run Kings career home runs total 104 Wife puts you in time out fair enough We've got one of three Miguel Cabrera Nice miggy, let's go, dude home run Kings Number two Tigers season hit total by third baseman 205 Nice miggy future first ballot hall famer. This is Carl's in the doghouse. Oh, yeah Absolutely 10 of 15 Jonathan India spark of light auto That's nasty on the second year Jonathan India He's a stud next box 15 dual RPA on the spark of light That is nasty Four out of 15 miss one. No, what was the other? Yeah, same guy, but that one was a regular auto. I think that now is out of three. This one's out of 15 Plus that's a Jersey auto. So yeah, you're chilling Walker Bueller five out of ten on the master of the mounds patch auto Number two and Dodger's career win percentage. That's actually really impressive now that I think about that Congrats on that one. Good luck. It's so frustrating We always lose in the ALCS. It's we're like the Packers of the MLK that that makes it. Yeah Mark McGuire six out of 15 on the luminary signatures Number three season rookie home runs total in 87 There you go, congrats on that one on the McGuire Not a ton. I do like I like the Ravens. I collect the Ravens mostly for football So I got a lot of Ravens cards a way too many Ravens cards One out of five Joe Mauer dude, that is so sick One out of five on the Hickings only catcher to win three batting titles That is sweet congrats on that one. Good luck on the Mauer Winds on the board. Yes, sir But see Carl, that's true But then I don't have as many Yankee cards as they have strikeouts in this series that that's the difference right there So that that's where you could see how many Yankees cards I have not as many as strikeouts But more than home runs We've got Mike Trout four out of five 20 career multi-hit games. There you go on the trout. We're uh Really quick. We are uh going fishing There we go. Nice trout Well his last name is trout Mark I'm a Yankees fan too dude. I love the inks, but they're just not good So every time they like we hit something they're like, oh, we're going fishing, huh? So then I added the the cinematics into it. So What's up? Good to go We've got two out of 15 Jim Tomei. That's nasty dude Jim Tomei that is season hits total in 2006 141 Got a Tim salmon Mike Karp as well two out of 15 nice one there Break mat. There we go. We're good. All right last box guys. Good luck. Yeah, I'll tell you with a bang We got a 15 Matt Olson For the A's nice one there Oakland Hit Kings autograph card career high season hits totals 2021 Matt Olson So that'll do it for the break guys give me don one second to get everything copied over and we'll do the random Perfect. Thank you, sir Um, I don't know John to be honest That's the first one that I've pulled out of this year of him in the A's uniforms kind of bizarre Kind of kind of bizarre for sure All right, let me take you guys over to the random screen. We've got our 24 participants and our 24 hits We're gonna roll the dice. We're gonna random both lists five times And then we're gonna copy paste them over and then we are going to see what hits you guys got good luck two three four and Five Michael S down to HPC and five times on the hits one two three four and five Altuve down to Matt Olson Michael S. Jose Altuve Jersey auto 11 out of 15 HPC's got the Reese Hoskins Jersey auto 12 out of 15 Jason C. Louise Robert auto 6 out of 10 you to see Brandon Marsh Jersey auto spark of light 4 out of 15 John a the Jim Tome auto 2 out of 15 and the Mike Trout auto 4 out of 5. There you go, John Congrats, man Zach P. The Joey Vado auto 7 out of 10 We've got Nicholas S. Cabrera auto one out of three John a Chipper Jones Jersey auto one of one Wow, John have a random man Gabriel C. Fergie Jenkins auto 15 out of 15 Jason C Hadecki Matsui Jersey auto 8 out of 10 Terry R. Brandon Marsh auto 4 out of 5 John a also with the mini Machado bat auto 3 of 3. Congrats again, John Peter M. Robin Roberts cut auto one out of one Matt M. Walker Bueller Jersey auto 5 out of 10 Peter M. Mark McGuire auto 6 out of 15 Zeke Y. Jonathan India auto 10 out of 15.  That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again. Your results are coming over right now


Welcome back to JSA TV Live, the live streaming network for tech, telecom, and data center professionals. Buffy Hierarchitis, back to you live in Austin, Texas, for DataCloud, USA. And joining me today is Spencer Nakini. Spencer, welcome to JSA TV. Hi Buffy, thanks for having me. Yeah, Spencer is the marketing campaign manager for Zadara. Can you tell us a little bit more about Zadara and what your company does? Yeah, absolutely, Buffy. So, Zadara is a cloud provider. Essentially, we provide storage and compute at the edge. We can provide it within AWS or a large hyperscaler. We can even provide it on a customer's own data center or anywhere in between. We have 400 locations around the world, including 130 in the United States, which makes us really apt to deliver a fantastic platform for people that are operating over a wide variety of workloads. And I see some big names on your shirt today. Some racing names. You have some exciting clients. Why don't you tell us a little bit more about some of your clients and the industries that you serve? Yeah, absolutely, Buffy. So, actually the reason why we wear this shirt is because we are the official cloud provider for Alfa Romeo's F1 racing team. So, we have a nice little logo right here on the sleeve. And it's an interesting use case. It kind of highlights the infinite deployability of our solution. Essentially, what the people at Alfa Romeo are doing with us is they're taking a full stack from Zadara, so storage and compute, and they're deploying us trackside at every single F1 race around the world. They're running all their car analytics on it, and then they're doing simultaneous replication of that data back to their headquarters in Switzerland, not Italy, Switzerland. And, yeah, using that information to help them win races and continue growing as a team. So, it's really cool to be able to support that, and also nice to have a really high visibility way to show just how well our solutions can not only handle demanding, performant workloads, but also be deployed pretty much anywhere regardless of geography. Wow, amazing that you're the official provider of Alfa Romero, yeah, wonderful. All right, so what other types of industries and challenges are you helping to solve? Yeah, so, I mean, we work across a wide range of industries. I would say that there's two main challenges that we help people solve. First, obviously, is price. I mean, the dollar makes everything go round, and whether you're operating on-prem or in the cloud, cost savings is always key. So, for example, our main value add when we look at comparing us versus a hyperscaler like AWS or Azure, is we usually come in about 40% cheaper for a lot of reasons, namely things like we don't charge egress, as well as we have a simplified billing, and then we also are significantly cheaper as an on-prem option because we're offering our solution in an OPEX consumption-based pricing model as opposed to the CAPEX that people are normally used to. And ultimately, what that means for our customers is freedom, the freedom to scale up, scale down, the freedom to do what they want with their data without being charged, nickel and dimed everywhere along the way. And it's something that really resonates with a lot of different industries, be it's, you know, I think one of our bigger use cases is object storage for, say, police bodycams. Yeah, there are a lot of people out there that will go and try to provision large environments that are gonna hold all of their police bodycams for the next five years, but ultimately they end up running out of space within a year and a half, and Zidar helps them save that headache by being able to, rather than go back to their IT department, or to their budgetary department and ask for another million dollars for a new box, you can just spin up more Zidara machines and we'll send them out to you really as needed. Yeah. Some interesting use cases there, so thank you for sharing them with us. And if viewers would like to learn more, can you tell us where to go?  You can also find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, all of the big socials, I would say LinkedIn's probably the best place to get good content from us, but yeah, we have a whole plethora of solutions briefs and lovely white papers on our website, so feel free to visit Zidara.com slash resources. Zidara.com and very active on LinkedIn, yeah? Absolutely, yeah. Well, Spencer, thank you so much for joining us here in Austin, Texas, live, DataCloud USA, and thank you viewers for tuning in to another JSA TV live here at DataCloud USA. Stay tuned for some more great interviews and happy networking.


a portion of a piece by the Syrian violin player named Sami Shawa, recorded around the early 20th century. This is music that I would have heard or did hear when I was a little kid growing up in New York. My father's family is from Aleppo, Syria. So I heard lots and lots of Arabic music when I was a kid, at the same time. My mother was born in Ukraine, and she and I played a lot of klezmer music, and I heard a lot of Yiddish songs, and when we visit my mother's family, I want to play something that is different from what I just played, but very similar in the sense that they share the same scale or makam. So this is called Tandil's Hora. Being interesting people, today my guest, Beth Bahia Cohen, I call her a wizard of strings. And so you can see that we have in the studio some very exotic instruments, and the viewers already heard that you were having a connection with East and West. That's right. Yes, so, and we would like to hear more and hear more stories about the instruments. Okay. And then we will give you the opportunity to present your father's book, because he was a poet. He was. Cohen. And one of the poems you said you will be reading is dedicated to you. Yes, about me. Very much so, about what we're doing here today, in fact. Lovely. Sure, so I was growing up, I was a classic European classically trained violinist, and my mother was a pianist, and I had all kinds of music growing up, and so I was very interested in how the violin was played in other places, especially hearing Arabic violin was so different from Western European classical music, right? So I went about after I was free to travel, at some point in my life after college, I started traveling, and I also, many musicians came here actually from other places. The first group of musicians that came here were from Hungary, from Budapest, and they were teaching and playing the village music of Hungary. This is the music that Bela Bartok went around and recorded and used as inspiration for his own compositions. So I got very deep into that, and I had a group called Sharkan, which means dragon, with my friends, two of my friends from Lebanon, which was a women's chorus I used to play in. And so here's a little bit of something from Hime. That's a region in Transylvania. So I can just visualize already the dance itself. The what? The dance? Yeah. Yes, and this was definitely a dance. And we, as a group, Sharkan, we performed all over the U.S. and Canada performing for dancing, basically. We were a dance band. Yeah, in the horror too, I was seeing how it's moving slowly. The what? The dance. The first piece, one of the first pieces you play. Yeah, yeah. And then it was, it's not a big jump to get to play Romanian music from Hungarian. And I want to play you something here. This instrument, whoa. Let me hold it. Oops, it's okay. That's good. It's a trumpet violin. Actually, this trumpet violin was used around 1900, everywhere in the world. They put trumpet horns on violins because they were recording in, recording horns. And the violin wasn't loud enough. So they didn't have microphones, so they used this. And then it went out of fashion because the technology improved, but it still remains an instrument that's played in Romania, specifically a place called Bihor. So I'm gonna play you, this is actually an instrument that's very directional. I'm gonna maybe turn a little bit towards the microphone so it can hear, it can hear better. I know it sounds very metallic, doesn't it? Yeah, so it's probably where a few violinists like that play in a group that the sound will be louder? Yeah, they're usually, yeah, if you go to YouTube, you can put in Bihor trumpet violin. There are whole groups of people playing them together. Actually. Then I think I'm gonna play this Norwegian violin. It's called the Hardingfele. It's beautiful, it's like a piece of art. It's a piece of art, literally people painted, or drew on painted flowers and plants in the front and the back. So beautiful, isn't it, the side? There's inlay right there. Beautiful inlay on the back, inlay in the front, inlay on the fingerboard. The pegs are very interesting. Oh, look at that. And then this is a dragon on every one of them. Wow. Well, this instrument has sympathetic strings that are beneath the regular strings. Oh yeah, like a double. So the sympathetic strings don't get touched directly, but if they're tuned properly, they will resonate and create a reverb, like a natural reverb. And speaking of natural reverb, I wanna play for you a Turkish instrument called the Yaile Tanbor. That also has sympathetic strings. This instrument has strings. I'm playing in the upper two strings that look like one string, but they're in the two in the same groove. And the rest of them are sympathetic as well. So you'll hear a lot of reverb here. This is an instrument from Turkey. And I've been playing it for quite a while. And it's very beautiful, I think. Can you hear that? Yeah. Improvisation, a calm called Segya. Actually, maybe I'll play one more little thing. This is a Turkish ilahi, which is a devotional song from the Sufi tradition, which is the mystical branch of Islam. In the same Akam, Segya. You should be going to Tufts or Berkeley College. Where are you teaching? Yes, that's right, but I also teach privately. Privately. You can find me. Yes. And I love to teach all of these traditions, all these instruments. But you have also, I know, collection of all those unique instruments. Yes, maybe I can send you a picture that could be used. Yeah, I have, over the years I have collected a lot of instruments from all over and play most of them. Yeah, I know. I've seen sometimes you just take, like around yourself, so many different ones. That's right, yeah. You're performing amazingly. Well, excellent, thank you so much. And now we would love to hear your dad's poetry. May I play one more piece before we go switch to my dad? Sure. This is because he mentions it in the poem. I also played, learned Greek music for many years and traveled many times to Greece and played with lots and lots of groups and really explored how the violin is played in Greece. It's like 10 different countries. All the regional Greek violin music is very distinct according to what area it is. And then in addition to that, there are other boat instruments I discovered besides the violin. Maybe before the violin, they're called liras. And you hold them on the, right? You hold them on the lap, hold the bow like this. And there's one I have, a Thracian lira from Thracke, from Thrace, Macedonian lira, Greek Macedonian lira, Cretan lira. And then there's also one called Pontiacilira. That's from the Black Sea of Turkey and refugees from that area. When they resettled in Northern Greece mainly, they brought that tradition along. And all of this music is dance music. Yes. So let's see. I'll play, so the violin is the lead instrument in all of the Greek islands. Mainland, the clarinet is more of the lead instrument. The violin plays, but not as strong a role. So I'll play something from the island of Noxus. It's hard to do both at the same time, but that's the dance. It's just called the sirtos. And again, there's like hundreds of others. This is one more from the island of Icaria, called Icarioticos. Mm-hmm. Joseph A. Cohen was a businessman. He was a businessman. He was a great photographer and photography teacher. In fact, when he lived to a hundred and a half, and when he came to Cambridge for the last six years of his life, he started teaching again photography. Wow. After about a year and a half, he settled in, and then he started at 96. Wow. Started teaching again at Brandeis, Osher Lifelong Learning Bali Institute, and from 96 to 98. Amazing. Then he started feeling he was not remembering as well, so he stopped. In the meantime, he became a poet starting at, I don't know, age 80, I think. He retired, and then he started taking poetry classes and loved it so much. And he self-published, I helped him, his first book called A Full Life. And then at the age of 100, we put together his second book, A New Path, that was published by Ibbotson Press here in Somerville. And we used to collaborate together because he wrote poems about many different parts of the world that he was familiar with. Mm-hmm. And we had a thing. We performed often together, actually. It was quite lovely. So I wanted to read for you one of the poems he wrote about me because he has written about three of them. It's called, and this is from A Full Life. So where people can purchase it, they will be interested. Actually, I think they can get it from Amazon. I need to send new copies because I think they have used copies. Okay. But I can put new ones in there. Right. So Amazon is the place. Okay, Amazon. Yeah, Joseph A Cohen, A Full Life and A New Path. A New Path. She plays like an angel. A radiant smile adds a glow to the music she plays. Her soul pulsates to the beat of the derbeke, the haunting rhythm of Sufi chants and the wild tempos of Greek island music. Poised and confident, she plays many Bode's instruments. She brings to life music in danger of being buried by the roars of pop music. She sleeps well as princess of world music. Like an ethnomusicologist, she performs music of past eras, so authentic, so rich. Like a bird, she flies from coast to coast, continent to continent playing exotic music. She visits foreign lands to study with master musicians and to unearth hidden treasures. For this, the folks of Turkey, Greece and Egypt, we for her a tiara seen only on Browse of Queens. Beautiful. And then we know that you have a jacket from Cairo, you mentioned. Yes, this is an Egyptian jacket, yes. Yeah, so we have time to present another poem. Oh, nice. Yes. Do you have any requests? No, just up to you. Let's see, what else would be nice to, maybe Giuseppe. Oh, I love this poem. Actually, this is the one, Giuseppe, that my father and I performed together. Because you'll see, there's violin in here. Giuseppe. My father fought for, I think three years, 1942 to 45 against Hitler. And it was very important for him to do that. But he also, because he was a kid growing up mostly in Brooklyn, he was enamored of Europe. He was so thrilled to be in Europe. It opened his heart. Giuseppe. With the invasion of Anzio imminent, all leaves were canceled. A performance of Tosca at the local opera house went on without my eager presence. I was engaged in waterproofing our anti-aircraft cannons when he strolled by, cranking out Olsole mio on his fiddle. On his fiddle. I asked if he played musica classica. With pride, he replied, si signore. How grand it was for me to have a private concert while serving overseas. Dismissing my gun crewmates, I volunteered to finish invasion preparations alone while enjoying music by Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach played by an Italian street musician. Amid the roar of planes giving us cover while swarms of small crafts loaded, churning the waters of the port of Salerno, he lifted his bow above the violin and waited for one full minute before playing Bach's concerto for violin number one. Hours later he was rung dry from playing beautiful music in an atmosphere far from the quiet dignity of a concert hall. I rewarded him in the only way I knew how by drowning him with candy, smokes, and army-issued towels. Before midnight, the 451st Triple A Battalion boarded an LST and steamed up the Italian coastline in the glare of a full moon to land behind Nazi lines at Anzio. I love that. Thank you. Thank you. So, how many instruments in total in that collection you have? 30? About, probably. But, I mean, I don't, yeah. You didn't count. I haven't counted. I've had students who counted. I see. Little kids wanna know exactly how many. Right, well, thank you so much for your performance. It was just a pleasure to have a morning concert. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, a live concert. So, I know that viewers will appreciate it and we will add some videos you sent to us. Lovely. So, then they will have more music after our talk. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It was my honor.


So, Super Meat Boy does something very interesting. It increases the reward you get the longer you have attempted and failed to complete a level. In Super Meat Boy, for those of you who haven't played it, as you play, every time your little meat boy goes through and dies in some gruesome way, it records that. And it keeps recording that. If I try a thousand times, there are a thousand recordings.  So as a result, the game is scaling its reward based on my effort. And what does this do? You've all been in this boat.  It's twelve at night. You want to go to bed. You need to go to bed. But you've got like four thousand meat boys just waiting for you. Are you going to throw that away? Are you going to give that up?


Good morning guys welcome back to my channel today I'm going to show you how to make this also regenerating face balm for your skin just for the face. You can make other body buns and things like that but I thought I'd start off by just doing a face balm today and maybe later on my channel I'll show you guys how to make a body balm if you guys want to let me know if you do in the comments below. So I also want to share I am having my candles going in the background I just want them to be relaxing and never show you the burning of my candles at all since I've made them so I am not going to have them going in the background just as like a soothing little background thing yeah so when I see people's videos and have cameras going in the background it's always relaxing for me and it's nice to have them going there even just my own relaxing benefit yeah so these turn a little bit so I'm going to remount them again soon and make them flat again and then do the burn again with the whole top to make sure that it burns evenly again because I kind of stopped it a little bit early because it was getting really dark at night and I wanted to go to bed and I don't like leaving candles on and going throughout the night you know just in case like a fire hazard so I did both amounts and I thought they're probably gonna tunnel now and they did so word to the wise always let your candles burn completely on the top melt them just a little bit so that the top of the wax is completely melted that way they will have like a wax memory and then melt evenly from then on now going off topic we're going to talk about face farms now so I'll get straight back to doing that so this face balm is like a regenerating skin like face balm it's got so many different ingredients in this one the mind the background noise it's just some kids outside no one's getting murdered really the ones there's so many different ones you can make though the other idea actually from plastic freema made from her face balm that she uses after going to the beach because she lives near the sea and it's just really good for going out in the sun all the time and when your skin's exposed to like the elements such as the sun dry weather the wind it just can dry out a little bit so that's her face balm I'm going to make you more like regenerating one just for the few different ingredients can mix in with her ingredients a bit of other ingredients to make this ultimate regenerating face balm again it can be used for when you have dry skin it's mainly this one will be best to use before going to bed at night just have it over the night let it kind of rejuvenate its skin a little bit but if there are just so many different ones so if you guys are interested in wanting to kind of look into it more you can find so many different face balms out there on the in the depths of the internet you'll be able to find some different recipes but I'll just start off with this one today and then maybe you guys interested let me know if you want me to share some other face balms for different things as well and I'll have to do that as well so I'm going to be using candelilla I think that's how you say it though candelilla wax because it's going to be a vegan face balm you can swap out candelilla for beeswax if you want to use beeswax it's two tablespoons of beeswax but today I'm just going to be using one and a half tablespoons of candelilla wax and I'll also be using pink clay in this recipe it is so wonderful for skin types who are sensitive so if you have a sensitive skin a sensitive skin if you have sensitive skin this is a great clay to use because it's much more gentle on the skin compared to things like bentonite clay which is a bit more harsh I guess so we're going to be using that in the face mask as well so this is Australian pink clay they got from Bayomi I'm gonna get down the description below if you guys are looking for where to get it pink clay is really good as well because it's rich in antioxidants and helps to hydrate skin and also works to help minimize fine lines and slow down the aging process and skin as well so super important wood pink clay we're also going to be using sheer butter I got some sort of organic sheer butter and that's really wonderful because it contains vitamins A and E which are wonderful for skin so this is really really good I'm using that as well and it just looks like it's a smooth and that's going to be what we're going to rub into our skin the moisturizing side to our body butter today sheer butter is also great for helping to treat tired or damaged skin we have hemp seed oil you can just sub in olive oil or jujube oil I've been using hemp seed because it's just so many wonderful properties and I don't think I've used this hemp oil since I bought it I was like this is great way to start using it I'm going to start using it on my face palms so that's also what I'm using it today then we have some cacao butter this again is going to be great for the moisturizing side for the face balm so you don't have to use cacao butter in this recipe this is an optional ingredient but I thought I'd add an extra layer of moisturizing properties to the face balm today I'll be using my essential oils that I made so my lavender essential oil one is coconut and one is the alcohol based one I'm just going to use both of them today because I haven't been using them much lately and I was like I'll get back into using them again so I'm using that as well as some cast oil which is great for skin I've got some rosehip oil this is great because in the original recipe they said to infuse roses with some olive oil and how many rose petals with me so I'm just going to be using rosehip oil as the sub in and that's also great for skin if you see in my pink clay face mask I do combine pink clay with rosehip oil because both together are just like an ultimate combo for your skin super nourishing skin is great as well if you have acne things rosehip oil can be really good for that rosehip oil is also really good because it can be very reparative to skin hence what's really good for acne just wonderful for skin in general so that's why we're using this one today then the essential oils of today are going to be frankincense and geranium in the lavender because they're really wonderful for the skin balm face balm you can also use jasmine oil or honey myrtle oil as well like those essential oils if you'd like they also recommended to be used in face balms as well they come with very different properties yeah that's basically all the ingredients we're going to be using today so let's begin I can't even see my candles burning because the the lip like the lip candle is so low in there it'll be soon time to move my mouth again oh well it's good to just purifying the air for me so I'm just going to be using a little mason jar to put the ingredients in today because we're going to put into a pot of water later to melt the wax and butter so we'll do that first so I'm going to clean this table because dirty should make sure to have a clean work area before we start my bed so you're gonna grab your mason jar you may want it to be a little bigger than this just in case I am not sure exactly how much this will make because it's a lot of in my own recipe so they're with me we did need to change classes halfway through yeah so maybe just go the big one to begin with but I'm just gonna start off small just because I'm hoping it'll save me washing up later so grab your mason jar then you're gonna add in one tablespoon of coconut butter coconut butter wrong thing cacao butter this one is just by loving earth I actually like their brand certified organic cacao butter which is exactly what you want so your one tablespoon and put that in and turn out to still any of the sides like I did subtly brush that back in then you want a quarter cup of hemp oil and it's gonna be challenging because I haven't opened it yet one moment got it again you can just sub in olive oil or rose a petal infused olive oil we want to make it really fancy if you want to do the rose petal one we need to do is grab two tablespoons of dried rose petals organic preferably then you want to put them into a quarter cup of olive oil and then if infused overnight then you strain it out squeeze the petals to make sure you get all the juice all the properties are those petals then you can compost them and then you have your infused rose petal oil already to go so no note there then again we're gonna grab our one and a half tablespoons of candelilla wax so this is the first time I'm actually using candelilla wax on my channel I found the biome store up when I was in Queensland and they were selling candelilla wax unfortunately didn't have my own containers so I said I can borrow one of their brown herb bags it's like an eco-friendly option rather than using it in plastic and this is just basically what the wax looks like you can see that it's a little bit different of beeswax similar kind of color and spring in on the table oops the animal just chuckled that in just put that back in now it's gonna know so we're gonna need one and a half tablespoons of that but if you are wanting to use beeswax because you're not really into making the vegan version or you want to use the health properties of beeswax with it just combine two tablespoons of beeswax into your face balm I just like how we to use less of the candelilla wax for this recipe and also I want to try out some very excited I've never used it before this is the very exciting moment for me I get excited about using new wax it's as good as my life gets now we're just gonna melt this on the stove until it's melted completely I like to do it under the low low heat I put it into a saucepan cover it with water so that the waterline comes above the oil line in the cup and then I just can't turn it on to a soft boil then gently turn it into like a simmer and just let that kind of heat and melt away so it's completely melted continually stirring throughout to make sure that it melts faster and then once it's done take it off heat and bring it back out here so I'm gonna do that now my gosh side note forgot to add in the shea butter my bad guys we're carried away welcome to you guys so we're gonna add in the shea butter now they're gonna throw them in at the start of the melting so you're just gonna add in a quarter of a cup of shea butter preferably before you put it in with the hot water and I'm just gonna stir that round carefully so you don't spill the water everywhere as you can see that's done now so it's completely clear which is exactly what you want that's when you know the wax is melted with the shea butter and the cacao butter that's what you want at the end so I'm just gonna cool slide before I add in all the other ingredients so it's time to set now as you can see it's becoming a little opaque color so I'm gonna add in the other ingredients so I'm going to need about one tablespoon of castor oil I've got enough in there just enough I just quickly put my jar of butters and wax into some hot water because it's starting to set a little bit too quickly quicker than I anticipated so I put it in there and it's just helped keep it melted while I add in the other ingredients so add in the cast oil now we're gonna add in half a teaspoon of pink clay and now we're gonna add in about half a tablespoon to a tablespoon of rosehip oil then we're gonna add in about eight drops of lavender essential oil so I'm gonna do eight drops of the alcohol based one eight drops of my coconut oil based one and then you need eight drops of geranium essential oil and then eight drops of frankincense essential oil it's a bit of a pattern happening eight drops of everything you can vary the amounts if you want more of one a cent than the other or if you just want to use one cent only that's cool too very flexible that's nice and again if you want to use high myrtle or if you want to use jasmine essential oil can add in eight drops of those or you can add in more or less depending on how strong you want it to be now it's gonna mix that all through until it's well combined so once that's mixed through comes a lovely kind of pinkish tinged color and we're gonna pop that to the side and then you can just let this cool and then put it on your garden where it's done I'll leave over here cool just tip the water on my garden saves on wasting water and then you're gonna grab your jars and you're gonna pour in the wax before it starts to set into your glass containers I've just got one clear and one dark color if you want it to keep the properties the dark colors always better for that because of essential oils they're quite sensitive to light so keeping it in a darker color like dark containers better unless you're just gonna store it in the cupboard which is what I'm going to do I'm storing in my bathroom cupboard where it's dark so I'm gonna get affected by lights not too much noise that's close it should begin to set so you don't have to put in the fridge I'm just gonna mind set at room temperature and I'll slowly start to set over the next few hours but if you want to set faster you can put it into the fridge don't put in the freezer there because going from hot to cold you can crack the glass and that would be good so just make sure if you want to set just set it in the fridge if you want to be faster or to leave at room temperature for the next couple of hours and I'll be ready to go I'll be back with you guys in a few hours to show you what looks like at the end once it's set like a nice pink tinge to them from the pink clay if you want it to be more pink and to the stronger effect you can add a bit more clay in if you'd like but they look so good so when you want to use it you just apply a little bit so you'd like cleaned your face cleaned your face maybe even moisturize a little bit and just before you go to bed you just grab a little bit of the cream like so it's quite moist very hydrating a lot of good oils in there and then you just rub it around your face if you wanted to use it as a makeup remover you just apply it on your eyes or wherever the makeup is and you just gently rub it in and then when you're finished rubbing it in you grab a nice damp cloth a gentle cloth and you just rub it away you know help to rub away any makeup this is a great natural makeup remover so once you've washed it away after you've removed the makeup you can fill up with some like lukewarm water a toner or even some flower water just to apply it to your face to help remove any leftover residue from the makeup now just be careful to not get any of the balm in your eyes because I have a sense of oils in it and it can sting quite a bit so you'll be careful when you're doing that another way to use this balm or any other type of face balm is just to dampen your face a little bit with some lukewarm water or you can use a damp cloth just damp in your face then you just grab a chickpea sized amount of the face balm faked balm the face balm and like this you can use a spoon or spatula as well and you just rub it in to your face gently using circular motions rub it round and see you cover all your face and then you can opt to opt to wash it off afterwards just using a damp cloth wash it away that's if you're using it for makeup especially you can wash it away or you can do what I used to do and just leave it on overnight when you are in bed and wake up with smooth skin so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed today's video it's been so much fun making this video guys I love making things like this face balms are new to me actually again I got the idea of plastic free mermaid when she uses it after being in the sun a lot I think that's a great idea so I will be using this a lot this summer for the remaining part of the summer I'll be using this when I go outside just to keep my skin hydrated I find it gets quite dry and just yeah really super dry from being out in the sun in the wind so this would be a great way to help with that yeah I hope you guys enjoyed today's video do let me know if you've made face balm before or if you have a different recipe for a face balm I'd love to try it out thank you so much for watching and I'll see you again hopefully in my next video


This is stock number 10852. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM and heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2018 RAM 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor. It has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Bright white is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you want to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand party screen is a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. It comes with the polished aluminum rims, Firestone Transforce HT LT 27570 R18 tires and they have probably about I'd say 70 to 80% of the tread left frame and the underbody is in excellent shape. Front fender is in nice condition as well. Headlight lens is nice and clear. Front bumper is in great condition. It does have the front bumper parking sensors. No dents or dings on that and the hood is in very nice shape as well. It does have the clearance lights up top and the passenger side front fender is in great condition too. No dents or dings on there and the passenger side rim no scuffs or a scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck you can see the truck hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fast Pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre- approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade all from the comfort of your own home. Frame and underbody very clean on this vehicle has all the remaining factory exhaust all the lower rockers look great it does have the wheel-to-wheel side steps back rim is in excellent condition as well and the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires maybe just a hair bit less but still over 50% frame and under body back here is an excellent shape as we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper great condition as well and the tailgate is absolutely perfect too has a truck sport by Truxedo soft tonneau cover no rips or tears on that has a very nice spray and bed liner has the factory goose neck fifth wheel prep package you get the seven pin wiring in the bed and LED bed lighting very nice spray and bed liner in this truck goes all the way on to the tailgate as well shuts nice and solidly and as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side no dents no dings on the box very very nice and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well down the rest of the side of the truck very nice and clean this one does have the tow mirrors they fold out like so they are heated and they have LED directional signals they also fold in manually inside the bighorn package gives you the gray cloth interior there are no rips there are no tears on the seats very nice condition has lumbar factory floor mats throughout auto headlamps power windows power locks and power mirrors as we hop inside the truck here you can see that this one only has 15195 miles you get the seven inch LCD display digital speedometer outside temp and compass you can change those corners to read whatever you want comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel bluetooth and information center controls on the left cruise controls on the right steering wheel is in excellent condition no scuffs or scrapes on there you get the six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift this one has the 8.4 4c radio so you get am fmn serious xm radio capabilities you also get android auto and apple carplay capabilities so you can project your cell phone to the screen so if you have google you know google maps or ways or some other navigation program on your phone you can project it right to the screen control it same thing with music and stuff and it's really a cool feature you also get the backup camera right here you got your heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons now if you don't like doing the climate controls and everything up there uh don't worry you can do it down here with the more tactile buttons and the volume in tune and then the fan there and it does have dual climate control down here is your turned out four-wheel drive factory brake controller you can do your heated seats and heat steering wheel buttons down there as well stability control toe hall and those front and rear parking sensors you can turn those off and on it does come with a 115 volt 150 watt plug-in and the passenger side seat and floor mat are in excellent condition as well no rips or tears on there and the headliner is in really nice condition too i don't think this truck's ever been smoked in has map lights up there power side and rear window and you do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems assist and sos buttons in the rearview mirror we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood so this truck does come with the factory mirrors so those are not the original the mirrors that are on the truck are not the original mirrors these are the original mirrors they come with the truck the only difference is that these are not the tow mirrors and they do power fold in the ones on the truck do not power fold in you get the power side mirror window with the rear defrost no rips or tears on the seats very nice and clean it does have a load floor here so try and move this over so you can check that out so load floor goes like so nice and flat if you got pets or something you can put both sides down they got a nice flat place to layer if you got muddy boots or tools you put them on there you're not going to get your seats dirty or if you got uh if you're a hunter and you got a shotgun you can put it on a nice flat surface and it's not going to roll around on the hump there you also have a receiver hitch reducer in-floor storage on both sides with removable containers for easy cleaning and uh yeah that's pretty much it for the back very nice and clean and the back doors all have the child safety locks we'll take a quick look under the hood and i would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this hd video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out under the hood we have the 6.4 liter v8 hemi motor engine bay is very clean runs very smooth like i said before this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop has a 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Hello, I am Vinit Thribhuan from the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Vulture Institute of Technology, Solapur and today we shall see how to derive minimum spanning trees from graph using Prim's algorithm. So these are the learning outcomes for today's video lecture at the end of this session. You will be able to demonstrate the familiarity with Prim's algorithm. You will understand how Prim's algorithm works to find out minimum spanning tree and you will also be able to apply Prim's algorithm to find a minimum spanning tree for a given graph. So these are the contents for today's video lecture. Now we shall see what are graphs. A graph G is a pair of set V and E where set V is a finite set of vertices also called as nodes and E set is a finite set of edges connecting two vertices. An edge E belongs to set E is a pair of two nodes U and V where U and V both belong to set V. A graph which has weights assigned to the edges as we can see in the diagram given below are called as weighted graphs. So this is a figure of a weighted graph where the edges are having weights. So what is a spanning tree? A spanning tree of an undirected graph that is a graph having no directed arrows is a sub graph of graph G that spans or covers all the vertices of G. Now, as you can see in the leftmost diagram, we have an undirected graph having four nodes. So according to the definition, a minimum spanning tree is a connection of all the vertices where all the vertices are covered. So in the three diagrams, we can see in the first MST, we can see that all the all the nodes have been covered with three edges. Similarly, in the second tree, we can see that all the nodes have been covered and this tree also has three edges and similarly with the third spanning tree. So based on our definition of spanning tree, what are minimum spanning trees? So a minimum spanning tree for a weighted undirected graph is a spanning tree with minimum weight. As we saw in the last slide, a graph may have many spanning trees, but but the least weighted or the spanning tree having the least weight is called as the minimum spanning tree. So as we can see in the left diagram, there is a weighted graph given. And at the right, we have a spanning tree, which is minimum in cost. So as we can see that HBE is having weight three, AD is having weight one, AB2 and CD having weight two, which makes it the minimum spanning tree. The minimum spanning tree T of a subset of graph G is a subset of graph G, such that it forms a cyclic subset. As we can see, no cycle of edges should be formed in the minimum site spanning tree. It connects all the vertices. That means all the vertices should be included. And the total summation of the weights should be minimum. So we call the problem of determining the tree T from the graph G as the minimum spanning tree problem. So what is the minimum spanning tree of the given graph? Pause the video and answer the question. So if you have correctly attempted the question, the question was what is the minimum spanning tree of the given graph? Now as you can see, the graph has equal weighted edges. That is all the edges of the given graph are equal in weight. If this is the case, then your graph may have multiple minimum spanning trees having the same weight. So we define a very important property of minimum spanning trees here. That is, if a graph is having equal weighted edges, so we may have multiple minimum spanning trees, but the weight of all the spanning trees will be equal. So this is the prince algorithm to find the minimum spanning tree. First step is assign a key value to all the vertices of the graph and initialize it to infinity. And to the starting vertex, we assign a key value of zero. Start from any arbitrary node. We may call it as the source node. While set A, which maintains the visited, visited set of nodes, we pick a vertex you not present, not present in visited set A with the minimum key value, we include the vertex you, which we have recently picked and added to the visited set and we mark it as visited. And we update the key value of the adjacent vertices of you. So how does the updation of weight takes place? If weight of an edge UV, that is node U2V is less than the previous key value of V, we update the key value to the minimum of the two. This is the algorithm. We, as we see that lines number, line number one to five takes O of V time for execution. This particular line takes O of V into log V time, that is O of V log V time. The block from eight to 11 lines of code takes O of E into log V time, which gives us a total runtime complexity of O of E log V. Now we shall see an example of Prim's algorithm on a weighted graph. Now, this is the example having nodes from starting from A to I, all the edges have been weighted and we start our computation or determining the minimum spanning tree from node A. So as we can see the key value for node A is zero while the key value for all the rest of the nodes is infinity and in the visited set, that is set A, we set A is equal to one and the rest are unvisited. That is why we have denoted it as zero. So here we set A as one that is visited. And we have updated the key values of B and H since B and H are adjacent to A having the weights four and eight. So now we include node B in the visited node and also in the MST. We update the visited node for B, that is we make it one and now all the nodes that are adjacent to B, that is C has been updated with the key value of eight. So the updated key value of eight here is available. Now we have to select the lowest key value term or the node amongst C and H. Since C and H are both eight, we can choose any of the two. We select C. Now the key values of the adjacent nodes to C have been updated. As we see that I and D node are adjacent to C. Therefore I and D, the key values of I and D have been updated. Now as we can see that the minimum key value available was two. That is why I has now been added into the MST. Now the rest of the adjacent vertices of I, which are still unvisited are added into or their key value has been updated. So we can see that the key value of G has been updated here with six. The key value of H has been updated here with seven. So moving ahead now as we see here that the node with the least key value which is unvisited is selected and we select node F. So node F has been selected and the adjacent nodes of F that is G, E and D update their key values. So we can see that the value that is the key value of G has been updated to two. The key value of E has been updated to ten and the key value of D has been updated to yes. Because the updation it is at weight seven from C and it is at weight fourteen from F. So we keep it at minimum as seven. So the next least term or least key value was G. That is why we select G as the next node to enter into the MST. We mark it as selected or visited and then we go to the adjacent nodes of G. Now as we see here that H is at a distance of one from G that is why we update H key value here. Next is H. So we visit H here and the adjacent values of the nodes of adjacent nodes of H are updated in their key values. So we see here that the next least key value was D for the node D. That is why we select node D here as our next node and mark it as visited. So we see that after every node has been visited we mark it as visited here and search for the least key value only for those nodes which are not yet visited. So ultimately there is only one node remaining which is E which is at a distance of nine from D and we select it at the end. So we see that all the nodes have been visited here. It has been marked with one. The MST contains the set of all the nodes and the entire tree has been visited with the minimum weight. So if we compute the weight of the entire minimum spanning tree we see that the sum is 37 where the shaded edges are representing the MST. Now these are the references referred to for this video lecture. Thank you.


Cannibalism, asexuality and violence, a society that had collapsed. What's going on here? In 1972, John B. Calhoun detailed the specifications of a utopia designed for mice, built in the laboratory. Every aspect of Universe 25, as this particular model was called, was designed to cater for the well-being of its rodent residents, increase their lifespan and allow them to mate. There was abundant food, water and nesting material. The Universe was cleaned regularly. There were no predators, the temperature stable, paradise. Or maybe not. Four pairs of disease-free mice selected from the National Institute of Health's elite breeding colony moved in on day one. It took months for the rodents to familiarize themselves with their new world. Then they started to reproduce and the population increased exponentially, doubling every 55 days. Those were the good times in paradise. Past day 315, more than 600 mice now lived in Universe 25, rubbing shoulders on their way up and down the stairwells to eat, drink and sleep. Population growth slowed. Young ones found themselves born into a world with far more mice than meaningful social roles. Males faced a lot of competitors to defend their territory against. Many found that so stressful they gave up. Normal discourse within the community broke down and with it the ability of mice to form social bonds. Loan females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males, a group Calhoun termed the beautiful ones, never sought sex and never fought. They just ate, slept and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection. Elsewhere, cannibalism, asexuality and violence became endemic. Mouse society had collapsed. On day 560, the population peaked at 2200 mice. A few mice survived past weaning until day 600, after which there were few pregnancies and no surviving young. As the population had stopped regenerating itself, its path to extinction was clear. The mice had lost the capacity to rebuild their numbers. Many that could still conceive, such as the beautiful ones and their secluded singleton female counterparts, had lost the social ability to do so. On day 920 was the last conception. The last mouse died on May 23, 1973, four years and ten months after colonization. Calhoun later said that the creatures had died two deaths. The first was that of their spirit and their society. The second death was that of their physical body. It was not the first time the ethologist had built a world for rodents. Calhoun had been creating utopian environments for rats and mice since the 1940s with consistent results. Overpopulation leads to explosive violence and hypersexual activity, followed by asexuality, self-destruction and extinction. In his widely cited paper, Population Density and Social Pathology, Calhoun concluded, No matter how sophisticated we are, once the number of individuals capable of filling social roles greatly exceeds the number of such roles, only violence and disruption can follow. He then referred to a phenomenon he called behavioral sink. Behavioral sink is our desire to be in the presence of others, to be conditioned to seek to be near others and to be drawn to the crowd in spite of the conflicts that this can generate. Drawing from Calhoun's popular research, social scientists started to call for restrictions on reproduction as the only possible response to the world's rising population. Calhoun himself was more optimistic about our future. He argued, As our physical space declines, we are forced to extend a conceptual space, our network of ideas and technologies.  What are your thoughts? Is overcrowding a danger for mankind or does it only affect rodents? And if so, what can save the human psyche? Avoiding eye contact in crowded places is one strategy, but is that enough? To read more about Universe 25 and its cultural impact, read the paper of Edmund Ramston and John Adams. You'll find a link in the description below. If you like how we explain complicated ideas in simple cartoon animation, you can support us. Visit Patreon.com slash Sprouts. Just visit us, learn how it works and what's in it for you. We hope to see you there. And if you are a parent or educator, check out our website, Sproutschools.com. There you can find this and other video lessons, additional resources and classroom activities.


Why do you think Rolico will meet with Mr. Reagan? He says that's a Russian photo opportunity. Good luck in your job, large gang. It turns out better than the last one. I think Caterpillar has something to do with farming. What? Yeah, absolutely. Excuse me very much. I wasn't getting any new influence about it. Maybe some of you don't know this. Before you get started, look at your table over here. Oh yeah, he's got that. How do you like that? Well listen, I'm very happy to welcome all of you back. And as I'm very happy to welcome all of you back, I'm looking forward to discussing some important farm issues with you. But first let me share some news with you for America's farm community. Consistent with the Soviets can increase by 10 million metric tons their purchase of wheat and or corn for shipment during the second year of the agreement. And the ceiling for the second year of agreement is being raised to 22 million metric tons. As I've said many times, our philosophy is against the unfair and the wrongheaded policies of grain embargoes and we're going to continue to do everything we can to strengthen markets for America's farmers. They're the most productive people I think on the face of the earth. I just thought that you'd like to have that.


Good day. I am Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. Welcome to my humble abode. Feast weekend is a weekend of food, drink, hospitality and fun. And it's a reference to the historical Baron's treat, which used to take place here at Wadstone. And this weekend, thousands of visitors have hopefully had a really good time whilst enjoying the splendour of Wadstone. We're just hanging around at Wadstone Manor. Aren't we guys?


Procurement practitioners within the government service, recently participated in a capacity building workshop, get at improving competencies, efficiencies and productivity in the procurement of goods, services and resources on behalf of the government of St. Lucia. Director of procurement in the Department of Finance, Anthony Jean, said the training allowed participants to understand and utilize the provisions within the new procurement legislation to perform better procurements to the benefit of their agencies. It's not enough just that officers know what's in the law, but to appreciate the underlying why allows them to use that as a tool to effectively accomplish what the agencies require. It's not just purchasing or performing a procurement in compliance with the law, but you want to be able to do it in a manner that really gets you what you want for your agency. Senior consultant with Charles Kendall Partnership, Rob Thompson, was one of the facilitators of the workshop. I've been in procurement for 30 plus years, working with both private sector and the public sector, but specializing in terms of public procurement and helping developing nations as well as European countries to interpret the regulations in a practical way which will deliver good value for money procurement, but cylindrical compliance, rather than having people focus purely and simply on compliance without thinking about is it good value in the end when they make their procurements. He stressed the important rule procurement officers perform, as procurement touches more of government's expenditure than any other function. If we get the procurement rights, buying hospitals, buying roads, even buying office equipment or furniture, whatever you think government needs, it has to be bought and that's why procurement is fundamentally one of the most important functions within government to deliver a good return for the investment that people make in their taxes that they pay. The international tax consultant employed participants to strive for value for money in the procurement process. Usual approach for people to take because it's a safe approach is to buy the cheapest so the lowest price. What I'm saying to them is it's equally good value to buy one which has a better life cost than it is simply the initial purchase price. So look at things over their life and sometimes it's worth paying more to start off with because over its life it actually has a lower cost. The takeaway for participants, he said, is that performing good procurement leads to good compliance with the standards and legislation. The week-long workshop at the Finance Administrative Building in Point Seraphine also involved participants from the audit department who review public procurement. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon, reporting.


This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 the hardest-hitting internet talk radio station on the planet and this is of course my illuminated keyboard All right, and I it is a July the first 2013 and I got myself a new PC new custom built PC Here we go It is It's a beauty it has large fans, okay It the CPU is liquid cooled as a liquid cooled CPU All right, it has 12 gigabytes of memory That's right 12 It has two hard drives inside one terabyte each so two separate one terabyte hard drives one Terabyte hard drive is for the programs and the operating system and the other is for data Okay, there's the one for data A nice eerie gothic looking green inside and one of the positive features about this computer This custom built PC is that it has a washable magnetic intake fan for in the front so I Can remove it rinse it under cold water get all the dust off and just snap it right back in Which is great? Considering the fact that Large amounts of dust will eventually become detrimental to your computer Here we have plenty of room for air circulation Okay, with the big fans like I said liquid liquid cool CPU and A walking 12 gigabytes of memory With two separate one terabyte hard drives, so that's it