and welcome continuing with our series on shell scripts 2017 and a few videos ago we went over some basics of functions but let's say you wanted to put functions inside a file that you can use with multiple scripts kind of like a header file in C if you're familiar with that at all well let's do that today I've already created a function or a script containing functions called functions.sh and here you can see we have three functions the first two just echo out some things like the Z test yay fun two says fun number two yay again and then function three which I called fun three asks you what your name is puts that in a variable and then echoes it back out to you so obviously we can call these inside here but let's go ahead and and again this doesn't have to end in .sh right your script doesn't have to end in that it could just be whatever file but I'm going to create a file I'll just call it go .sh it's going to be our main function we're going to want to be sure to tell our computer this is a bash script by giving it our shebang line there bin bash and then in here at the top we want to load up those functions again that file was called function.sh so I can say dot space and then I give it the name of the file which was functions.sh so now all those functions are loaded into the top of this basically it's like having them written there just like a header file in C so now I can call those functions I can call function two I can call function three I can call function one I can call function three again I can now save this and I can say I'm gonna make that script execute change one plus X go .sh only have to do that once on the system and then dot slash say run the script in this folder called in this case go .sh and I run that you can see it runs those functions what's my name my name is Chris so what's your name my name is Bob so that way you can create functions that you might use in multiple scripts but you don't have to copy them to each script and then because if you copy them to each script only is that duplicating you know the file but now if you need to make a change to one of those functions you have to go and change it in every file that you've put it in no you put it in one file and then you call that file whenever you need it so I hope you found that useful let's just real quick look at it again basically you create and you can have multiple of these you can have ten different ones up here but you say dot space and the name of the file if it's not in the current folder give the full path to it and then you can call those functions as if they were printed at the top of this script thank you for watching as always I hope that you have a great day please as it fills by Chris calm that's Chris the K there should be a link in the description also link to my patreon page where you help support me check out both those pages check out everything in the description and as always I hope you have a great day


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Welcome to another episode of Recover Loud. I'm your host, Mike Paddleford, and I Recover Loud. When I entered my recovery journey four years ago, I really didn't know who I was, or what I was going to be doing the rest of my life, now that I wasn't using substances to hide from all my responsibilities. One of the things I was able to do was become a recovery coach where I could turn around and help some other people find a path that might work for them. Back in 2020, I was able to start Recovery on the Road, a Facebook group where I provide recovery support and resources to anyone from around the world who might be looking for a better tomorrow. Starting the show last December was a great honor and something I really didn't know was going to work out in the end, but I was willing to try as a way to help the next person. My guest today is Melody Rose-Paul from Bangor who has found a path of recovery that worked for her and she's begun to write books about it. Melody, welcome to the show. Thank you for choosing to Recover Loud with us today. Your second book is coming out, or just came out. How does that feel? It feels good. It's kind of, and it's something that I don't even know, can I erase that? So I'll just start over. So it feels really good. I'm excited about the second book because I wrote it and I put my heart into it. I'm hoping that it's able to help other people in recovery. It's my 12 steps, but it's also a guide too. So there's tips in there for people that might be new to recovery, that don't understand the process and the first year and getting a sponsor and going to community centers and not knowing if it's going to be the fit for them.  So when I first started my journey back in August of 2018, I was really nervous about being around people. I was afraid that I would not fit in and I thought I wouldn't be able to talk or anything. I was actually the quiet one in the corner. So there was some anxiety just about trying to get better. I know it's a crowd of people that we might not know, but for me it was a crowd of people who I may have used with in the past or had a history with and for me I know it was nerve-wracking. And doing it in a different area because I went down to Portland really helped me out because I went to it and not expecting to know people. What I actually found out was a lot of people that I did know and it actually helped me feel more at ease once I got going. So Melody, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Where did you grow up? I grew up on a reservation called Escsoni and it's in Nova Scotia. It's in Nova Scotia and it's really isolated there and it's a beautiful area. I left there 20 years ago when I moved to the Bangor area and I didn't know what I was getting myself into being a mcmack. I didn't know that there were other natives in Bangor until I started going to the certain community center where I met other natives and then I started feeling comfortable and I made friends. So back on the reservation, is there a lot of people? You lived there until you were almost 20? 17. So you were 17? Yeah. And that was the life you knew coming over here to Bangor and I'm sure that was scary. At what point in your life did you start using substances? I started using substances. I started drinking in my 20s and I avoided hard drugs for a long time. But I did get hooked on prescription pills for I think about 7 or 8 years. I use prescription pills my own and my ex's. I called it the pill shuffle years where if I didn't have it I'd go look for it and it wasn't a good time. I was very depressed and depending on always to get me feeling different it's not like that today. My addiction started the same way with a slip and fall injury. I was prescribed painkillers myself and in the beginning it didn't seem like such a big deal. If I ran out I did get some but I wasn't using excessively more than I was prescribed because honestly I was prescribed quite a bit. So being able to stay under what the doctor recommended actually justified it in my mind that I wasn't doing anything wrong in those years. The first time I tried heroin it was 2016 and as soon as I tried it I instantly liked it. What happened? Can I just say real quickly what happened? So I was clean and sober for three and a half years but without a program. I was maybe one to one meet in a month. I had no sponsor. I slated from people and I was like I limited my community like stuff. I didn't volunteer. I was I guess white knuckling it. And then I had a relapse. So what was it that brought you to that first period of sobriety? I mean why did you decide to do it then? Before the three and a half years rehab because the pill phase got me where I ended up having DHS involvement and they were like you're gonna have to go to rehab for three months at least. So it was kind of forced on you at that time? Yeah it was like kind of like so I manipulated the system. I'm gonna be honest about that and you can share it if you want. Like I manipulated the system and the DHS system and counselors.  That's what I was thinking. I ended up coming to like a realization like I don't even need the volume anymore. I'm off it now so why do I want to go back? So I did the three and a half years without any substance but I was not going to medians. I was not doing a program and I think that's what got me in trouble. So in 2016 I met somebody and they needed a ride to the doctors. For a surgery and I drove them and the doctor said don't be alone for 24 hours. So I was the one that was gonna be there with them. And first thing you know he's like they gave me volume and they gave me pain pills. Do you want one? And that's when my relapse started. I caved I don't know. Now do you remember? Did you have to twist your arm? I did refuse like that first like hour maybe but then like into the third hour he was already feeling good and I looked at him and I was like it brought back those years of doing pills and I was like I was already I was like I had no I think if I had a program and like if I really understood I would have maybe went differently.  No I went out for nine months straight and I just was on a nine month rampage and I did everything I could possibly do to get drugs on a daily basis. It was bad I was like I think I sold everything in my apartment that was valuable. I was being manipulative to anyone around me I was I would do things for money that was illegal like you know and then it came to like a stop when I got so desperate that like somebody somebody like said to me like hey can you buy me some drugs and I'll share with you and I had no money at the time so I said okay my addiction my mentality wasn't there like I was first thing I was thinking was well I'll get it for her and then I'll get high and then that'll be that but it ended up I did get high and she ended up passing away you know she had an overdose and she passed away and still didn't stop me from doing what I was doing. I continued to be manipulative you know yes it was painful because it was my boyfriend sister that happened to and it was hard it was hard it was hard but my I was so sick that I didn't care I was just the feed in the monster I was trying to feed the monster still and so I got arrested and I ended up going to be locked away for 15 months and in jail in prison. And that charge was a direct result from that night? Yeah it was a direct result and it made me like realize in the county jails when I like realized I was like wow what am I like doing like why as soon as like a few weeks went by and I was thinking wow why do I do this to myself right like do I hate my life that bad and what is my pain why do I need this why do I need drugs to like know why am I numb and out right so I did like dig deep and so I did everything I could possibly do to like find out in my core what is the problem and why am I hurt and so I did everything I could possibly do I went to all meetings that was available to me in the prison I went to self health classes I read I started writing and that was my I realized that writing was my therapy growing up speaking mick mack and being bilingual it's even hard today sometimes to vocalize what I mean yeah so writing it down for me is easier like sometimes if I'm having problems with like saying something to somebody if I write it down and then give them the letter it's easier for me yeah so I I just I started writing it and is that how your first book came about yeah this my first book savage to wellness it's a memoir and I wrote it when I was incarcerated and it took me eight months to write and it's my story and it just it was all it was good for me to write it it must have been pretty healing it was healing yeah yeah so you know I I've done some writing myself and just like you it's easier for me to write or type it is for me to speak so starting my Facebook group when I did you know that was fine because I didn't have to get in front of a camera I didn't have to talk to people and for anybody that's been part of recovery on the road from the beginning you know probably remembers that I was not the guy that wanted to do a Facebook live video or you know get out in public and take pictures with people you know but this has evolved quite a bit for me and you know your story has continued and evolved and you know recently you you just got your second book walking the recovery road and I've had the opportunity to to read through some of that and you know what I found is the stories that you are sharing in there obviously they're important to you they mean something to you but I was almost instantly able to connect with you know the you in that point in your life because you know I've had some of those same experiences so it's it's healing to us as well I get a chance to read it and as you're writing it and you know going through you know that's healing for you so you know I appreciate you putting these out there as a way for us to to gain that experience that we may not have or to learn from the experiences as somebody else goes through it one important part of your journey mentioned you know a 12-step type program I know that there's different programs for different people and population groups you actually use well bride which is a Native American focused recovery program can you tell us a little bit about that so well bridey is a is a 12-step program that is a little bit more spiritual like it is like a or in a it's just the wordings different and it touches the the books and the literature it touches a little bit on our culture like the cultural pieces in there where we use like a talking stick in our circle we in our meetings we do a circle it's a circle and then we pass a talking stick and everybody has a chance to share we smudge at the beginning of the meeting smudge and helps to cleanse any energies that are around and it's spiritual and people love it and it's just it's 12-step and some of their some of their literatures from a a yeah so I just I connect it really well with it because because of the like Native American piece and I was able to understand some of it their cultural stuff is my cultural stuff so that's where I connected where you know I I do go to a 12-step meetings as well besides full variety because I need to that's my medicine yeah so I'm open to any meeting actually because I'll go to any meeting because I'm an out of control mess if I don't if I'm not medicated with my meeting yeah like any help because I'm I'm all over the place I need I need support I'm open to support and I used to never be like that yeah asking for help and you know finding a community of people that are willing to help those are all things and you know when we isolate when we hide from people when we you know ignore those that love us you know that's when we're you know not in a pet in our best place and so you know go into meetings and finding a group of people that you know it's beneficial you've actually started some meetings you've brought a variety to other areas of the state yes I brought so when I first started going to meetings you know I started volunteering my first year of sobriety I volunteered at the Angora area recovery network and that to me was so healing because I was able to that's where I got to know people and I was vulnerable and I was like sweeping the floor and doing whatever and just being around people and seeing other you know other people like me it made me feel like it was my home and so one day I was like I told one of my a couple of my friends I was like hey what do you guys think about like why don't we have you guys have a little variety like what do we have well variety and can we have it like they were like what's well variety I'm like well it's I explained it to them I said it's a it's a Native American kind of base but it's 12 step it's we are our prince of the 12 steps of like any other 12 step it's the same it's just worded different right it's the same principles it's the state it's the same steps but which is worded different yeah and it's a different little bit spin on it yeah um so I was like what do you guys think what do you think of having a meeting here I like did the research of like what time what what meetings which day so we picked the thirst you know at the barn and that was almost four years ago now yeah yeah and also it's it's been going good the meeting we have it two meetings in spring and summertime so besides the barn there's I've been able to do a meeting at the park in the Park in the summertime because friends have helped me connect there and then I've recently just a few months ago started to do well variety meetings at the Department of Corrections and window and I go to the Women's Center and I go to the pre-release and soon hopefully I'll be going to the men's side it's once a month for right now but we're we're working on doing it in the new year once a week well I mean we know that no one program is going to reach everybody and if we can connect culturally with you know a particular population that might be the secret for them that might be that missing missing link for them to get better so you know more options more availability you know it's just bound to help more people so getting these meetings out is pretty that's pretty special and when you went to the barn looking for that meeting you know it wasn't there but you know you've got it for yourself you've been running it for four years and now it's spreading you know I mean that that's this beautiful thing you know so you know I can appreciate that and I'm sure you love seeing people new people come in and connecting whether they're Native American or not right yeah we welcome anyone anybody coming in half our group is like probably non-native or more but they I've had people come up to me that have a few years of variety now and they're like will variety help me find my spiritual peace that was missing and I you know and that to me is powerful you know and I see their face every week and like it's like a family now I honestly I've gone through some stuff and being in recovery and you know I know if I'm having a bad day I can talk to the people at you know in the in the halls now I know where I have to go and yeah and you know you actually introduced it to me just by sharing it on your Facebook page and I've been sharing your posts now for as long as I can remember in recovery on the road because like I said we never know what's gonna help somebody and if that helps somebody else you know I'm willing to share that anyway and you post early in the morning you know I've told you before I think you know your well-private posts are one of the first things I see when I open up my phone in the morning and I haven't been to a well-private meeting but I always read the post I always connect and it always gets me started you know so you know I appreciate you bringing that to all of us and I will make it to a meeting sometime whether it's in Bangor or somewhere hopefully not the Department of Corrections meeting but at some point I want to. I thank you for sharing the post Michael every you know I see I've been following you and I see that you're doing good too and I'm like you know that's inspiring so grateful to be in recovery today and have friends like you and like doing the things that I didn't know I was gonna write two books like you know same reason probably you didn't know you're gonna have a show it's just recovery is miracle making right it's kind of like where it's we're doing things we we thought we couldn't do or what was holding us back is not holding us back anymore we can recover loud yeah and you know you being on your second book you know that's amazing if you'd like to tell people when the books going to be able to come out how they can get it so my second book will be available in a few weeks well it's it's going to be available probably in January online and in bookstores and I will be having a launch party at the barn on December 17 and percentage of both of these books that I have both of these books a percentage of these goes to recover centers in Maine yeah I'm gonna be starting like a mini tour in January so I will be posting dates and in a couple weeks actually I'll be at the Native Center in Boston December so it's just kind of like I'm doing things with my book stuff but I'm also working I'm gonna keep working my regular job yeah so I'm multitasking so if I'm seeing busy when you see me I am busy but I am approachable and I just want to say if you're new and you're not sure what's happening and you're scared of recovery don't be just let it all flow and just trust the process because it works and honestly I've never been so happy in my life and being with people that understand me and you know being able to to just open up and share my life with new friends that are in the community is a really good thing so if you're out there in your listen please don't be scared come join us and see what your potentials could be so thanks for coming up from Bangor today to share your book your story with us you know thanks for all the work that you're doing you know and running these meetings providing hope and options you know for other people is great so it was great to meet your melody and you know welcome to the county and have a safe trip home today thank you so much Michael for having me it's so beautiful up here I enjoyed it and it was like I just I had a good time thank you absolutely recover loud everyone on a journey to discover the truth live in life and recovery is lovely you got the power in you surround yourself a positive energy judges hitting people with provocative penalties need to make a change advocate to change the laws to people that it's not insane when you stand behind a cause I'm here to speak about the pain recovered loud to normalize the disease that's been killing all my friends and my family the time is now to let it all go recovered loud the benefit is healthy people family and friends that never have to overdose ever again never have to plead out to a lesser defense I'm proud to say that I recover loud I never thought I could but I'm so proud that I discovered how to live my life again controlled in my own destiny I needed recovery I still needed desperately addiction never defined


Hello, everyone. My name is John Hammond and I want to keep showcasing more of the introduction to Linux class that I taught a few years ago So the way we actually went about like using the keyboard and doing computer work in this Linux class It was actually on a bunch of Raspberry Pi computers So we had about 12 or more of these small microchip computers and they were running Linux So that was awesome for us Initially that was to just kind of hey show the students. This is cool, right? We've got it. We've got a computer the size of a credit card and they can do all this cool stuff once you plug in You know a keyboard a mouse and monitor an ethernet cable, etc, etc so that was good and bad in a few different ways because Yes, it was cool to have that hands-on activity every day We we actually would leave the Raspberry Pi's in their own kit and each each week or whenever class would start the students would just get out that that kid and plug in their Keyboard and monitor and etc. It's ever this was good because hey I thought it was a little bit of activity though You're not just in a keyboard you're plugging some wires in doing some stuff with your hands more than just keyboard typey typey and It I don't know it made a little bit more time for small talk and actually like okay Friendly classroom atmosphere when you've got people coming in But honestly, that's I thought a valuable good thing is part of the class. I want to keep it real I want to keep talking to these people students, right? So that also had issues because That time is taken up to set up the Raspberry Pi each day may not have been a really good thing and a lot of times We actually had issues with getting our display going. Maybe it was just the faulty Raspberry Pi Maybe it was a faulty like monitor itself or the cord. I don't know But we had issues and that was a sticking point Also, the Raspberry Pi is nice, but it's not super duper powerful. It doesn't have an insane amount of horsepower so maybe compiling some stuff or downloading some Raspberry Pi as downloading packages was just It left something to be desired, but that's okay. Like again, we knew that going in But if I were to do this again and had more resources or particularly could or would give any other advice I would explore the Raspberry Pi for a little bit. Maybe start the class off like that But then transition to something that's a real I can't say real, but because obviously Raspberry Pi is real, but a more Upstanding that's still not the right word.  Something else that's not the size of a credit card a computer Maybe running Ubuntu or something that still showcases Linux And gets them in the scene and with with Linux with Linux distributions in the operating system at all I actually had some issues during some live classroom stuff like during a lesson Or even during the scripting captured a flag competition that I hosted in class I had a bunch of binaries that I had created on my laptop, which is it like I 386 or like an Ubuntu just kind of 30 regular laptop not Raspberry Pi AMD 64 I think right or arm one of these one of these freaking a things the architecture is different, right? So what I had compiled would not run on The computers on on all the Raspberry Pi computers that were on all these student machines And that was a little embarrassing. It was pushed out in the github repository But none of them would particularly run so I just bailed on that Not a huge issue, right? Maybe that's more a fault on my own But those things do happen in funny story, whatever the Raspberry Pi is cool, but Maybe we can have something more common than that to actually study and learn and integrate with Linux Maybe a new bun to so We would need all the hardware and equipment to run a Raspberry Pi. We didn't use Wi-Fi I know there's probably a pretty quick and easy way to go about it, but Again at the time I just didn't getting the ethernet cable plugged in was work Work perfectly fine, and we had our own separate network. We were working in All of the computers we had were VGA, so we ended up using in a little adapter and again that May have been an issue for some of our other problems with VGA displays and getting some people set up and running each day so Aside from the actual hardware the software side of this now the github repository was awesome because that was my means as the content creator and as the course coordinator essentially to Produce content and then deploy it or pass it around to students I'm not handing them physical pieces of paper where you're just handwriting code or stupid stuff I wanted to keep people on the keyboard doing the hands-on technical work and Because everyone could use git and just git clone or git pull all the content and stuff that I would create They would already have accessible and this is going to be an awesome advantage and perk when I talk about training wheels Which is the shell or kind of the program that that wraps around the shell and tries to Handhold the user as they're using Linux and Linux command line for the very first time for no one It's who's never seen that before so that was kind of neat and then the way we would hand in assignments or tasking and Was was done through a student's private repository like they'd have a folder with just their own name And it would go to github. I didn't pass out a whole lot of homework Because I understand that I'm a kid too, and that's just not okay I Didn't give people a whole lot of tasking because it's a one-credit course It's an elective But I did want to get feedback and I did want to know what was working Were you learning things? Did you actually enjoy this stuff?  It's like what did you like? For what we were doing today like was this an okay approach to actually learn something new Did you feel like you were staring at a computer screen for all that time actually doing nothing or was there some? actual cognitive like recognition in there and you're learning Some of the stuff is gonna be retained you can know it later because that's what I care about I want you to learn for real doing it for real. I don't want to just talk about it in lecture During a PowerPoint, which I know is hard because that's what I'm doing on YouTube right now But I want you to be typing along and that's why some of the some of the code and some of the material in here encourages that okay so The github repository houses just about all of that code and all of the actual lessons etc etc The way that that was set up was just creating there were honestly so few students in the class I created their private repositories manually and then it would just again push and pull what I need to for the Classwide public profile public repository So the raspberry in I'm sorry the rasbian setup script I can show a little bit of code here, but I'm not diving into the big stuff yet That was just a setup script for me to just literally kind of cook Micro SD cards just to have a bunch of micro SD cards that I could okay, excuse me format I'll plug into my computer in and just okay put on the rasbian image So I can pop them in the raspberry top rend the raspberry pi and then everyone had a computer they could use Not too hard But having a script where I could just okay Just like up arrow hit enter over and over and over again We'd be able to deploy and prepare these SD cards would be better than doing it through a gooey and mouse and that stupid stuff Despite the fact I did that for the github repo. I digress so There is I think online and again, I haven't I haven't been checking up with this maybe this is different now, but There is an install guide and I have the raspberry and setup code as just a bash script that would download the Latest raspberry image file name Find the micro SD card that you may have a plug into your computer or my laptop in this case and Maybe this location may be different or where you're actually getting your SD card reader Again, I guess I can't see the future for that if you want to do this thing But this is how I was to quickly burn all these these images on micro SD cards So download the image prepare the file name Make sure we actually have it unzip the archive, etc Download etc unzip etc and flash the drive so not a crazy not a crazy complicated script but something that would make something menial and Annoying for me into a little bit faster, especially just the physical work of looking pull out the new SD card plopping the computer Get the go script blah blah blah Cool that is all I wanted to discuss in this Video because next I want to get into training wheels, which is the big big textbook Shell program that actually goes through the content and teaching of Linux So that'll be more and actually a lot more code and that will probably be spread up into other videos but I did want to talk about the Hardware and software that we did to actually keep our work And actually get integrated with Linux very very easily and very very quickly. We didn't do a virtual machines We didn't have a it burned to a bunch of computers. We just had the small credit card micro SD Raspberry Pi and The github repository was awesome. So thank you guys for watching. I want to shout out my supporters here real quick Hopefully you guys are enjoying this video series at least a little bit I know it's a lot of me talking and maybe not that interesting, but I promise we'll get into some cool stuff later Thank you to all of you people listed your phenomenal Spencer Clark Alharowitz Soke Attila Orgel off the Unrelenting World's Bastion of Terror Jen Grubb Timothy County Jacob H. You guys are phenomenal. 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SAP's always been open, they've been very ecosystem-driven. What do they have to do? What's your take on SAP in this new era of cloud enterprise software with cloud and data? Well, SAP for the past few years, John, has been very focused on usability, and so they have initiated a number of different initiatives to try to have SAP appear like a modern platform, so that when people moved to the cloud with SAP, they got there with a technology, with a graphical user interface and an experience that was reminiscent of the cloud. And so this notion of integrating Office 360, which is a cloud-based version of Microsoft Office, is a natural extension of that, and it just makes perfect sense, because Microsoft Office is, without question, the broadest, most adopted Office suite in the cloud and having SAP integrate into it so that you can from office utilize certain classes of SAP services makes an enormous amount of sense, and it's part of SAP's overall mission to, as I said, present that notion of a modern application set, not just a migrated application set. And this is the big theme we're seeing across all enterprise, but when we go to these shows from these companies, SAP, IBM, Oracle, EMC, HP, Enterprise, we always talk about their customer's customer. So I want to get your take. That ultimately is the person they're selling to and the value proposition of simplicity, data, cloud. It seems like all these vendor shows are all cloud shows, all data shows. What is in the mind of their customer's customer? Because at the end of the day, they're the ones who are buying software. They're the ones who are trying to run things simply. What's in the mind of those customers? Well, the first thing to note is that increasingly, customers in all parts of society are seeking out digital interfaces to either directly engage brands or compliment the way that they engage brands. So you walk into a retail store with your phone and you do comparison shopping while you're in the store, or you go online and you skip the retail store. But also that's the case in small businesses. We're increasingly small businesses are able to use very, very powerful software to run the same types of procurement processes that companies that have historically been four, five, eight, 20 billion dollars. And so software is flattening dramatically many of the distinctions that are, many of the things that you used to distinguish how customers behave, how small businesses behave, and how big businesses behave. And SAP wants to be at the center of that process so that the experience you gain as a consumer is transferable to the experience that has a small business owner or as a large enterprise so that the whole thing is bought together by the experiences you have with the class of software that does the work for you or you work with. I just wrote a post on Forbes over the weekend, I interviewed Weta Digital, it's an Oracle customer, and they're running high performance storage on premise because they're doing all the computer animation for these movies like Avatar, Independence Day, all the Spielberg movies. Yeah, Lord of the Rings came out of it. And amazing, but it's no cloud because they're on premise. There's still hardware, I mean it's an Oracle example, but SAP has partners that run storage, there's still a lot of stuff under the hood. So making the stuff under the hood seamless seems to be the mission. Same time, there are advances in flash, there are advances in compute, and cloud and on-prem pay a big role. What's your take on that from a practitioner standpoint, from a doer standpoint, how do they look at this new landscape? They still got to have the engine of innovation, technology, that's going to enable some of that business model innovation. Well a lot of folks talk about new platforms over the past 50 years in computing. We went from mainframe to mini computer and there's all this talk about the fourth platform or whatever some other analyst firms talk about. I think the better way to talk about it is the characteristics of the problems that you can solve as technology advances. And the problems that we're now able to solve with some of the new technologies are the problems of doing business right now. Doing a better job of serving customers, presenting options better, doing a better job of what we call managing the problems of demand, how much, where's it going to be needed, what's going to be needed, et cetera. And so what we're seeing is across the board a new class of business problems being coming in underneath the umbrella of what technology can actually do for you. And those business problems are going to be easiest to attack because many of them, especially the ones associated with demand, are at scale, since you're engaging customers, you're engaging partners, require a high amount of responsiveness to the market. So the whole notion of observe, orient, decide and act becomes absolutely crucial, agile. So as a consequence, everybody's looking at these new technologies and seeing new opportunities precisely because we're now able to identify new classes of problems that we can actually attend to with some of these new technologies. SAP been around 25 years, big anniversary, talk about for them and their competition too is a real battle for growth, growth, profit and a new kind of engagement. We're seeing obviously growth and profit have been around in history of business. So that's always stuff. They always want to be growing on new trend lines. But now you have social business, you have this notion of engagement, thoughts on SAP and what they need to do to get that growth engine going, to get that profitability, obviously software is very profitable, but now engagement, what's your thoughts on those three things? Well the first thing on the growth side is SAP is unlike a lot of computing companies and that their acquisition strategies thus far have been relatively successful. They haven't failed in a lot of their acquisitions. In fact, many of their acquisitions have led to significant new advances, not only in terms of growth, but in terms of what the overall suite can actually do. And as a consequence, they've shown double digit growth over the past five, six, seven years on a CAGR basis. From a profitability standpoint, not much to say there right now, except that if you watch their numbers as they move to the cloud, their costs seem to be scaling with that. So we're not seeing a lot of net new efficiencies lately. But some of the most interesting things that are happening with SAP is as they go through this transition, their customers and their customer satisfaction continues to go up and their employee engagement, the way that they measure employee engagement continues to go up. So think about that for a second, John. You're talking about a company that acknowledges that it's in significant transformation. It's been very aggressive at buying a lot of new companies, software companies especially over the course of the past few years. And yet at the same time, their employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction continues to go up. They're doing something right. Well, certainly a great opportunity for SAP. We're going to be on the ground. Obviously the Microsoft partnership is very telling. And this is really the strength of SAP. I want to get your final thoughts on the segment for the intro around ecosystem because software businesses like SAP have done very well in the past and we're seeing HP Enterprise doing the same thing, going back to their roots, partnership, the ecosystem, the big estim integrators to other partners. Now with data and social engagement, you're seeing a whole new level of partnerships. Your thoughts on this new ecosystem formula. Well, the notion of an ecosystem is very powerful because it says that if you gain experience with a set of relationships, partners, customers, and the social business, you can use that experience to drive new levels of efficiency and start incorporating or realizing some of the network effects that we like to talk about so much. And that's led to this notion of ecosystem competition. It's been a feature of computing for a long time. But one of the things that I find especially interesting here, John, and I think we need to look for as we go through Sappfires, we kind of wander through some of the interviews we have, is to what degree is SAP going to establish itself as one of the drivers of that competition? Historically, SAP, while being successful, has been, I say, defensive almost. Our technology's good. It does some good things, you know. But I have a sense now that SAP is going to go on the attack and so it's going to be interesting to see the degree to which SAP's ecosystem does a full frontal against Oracle's ecosystem and some of the other ecosystems out there as they try to bring what is working to more customers, especially customers that already have stuff installed and are relatively mature in other environments. I have a feeling that that's going to be a big question for SAP over the course of time. So you're saying use the ecosystem as a power generator for that growth, for that competitive advantage? Yeah, where the ecosystem, to answer the question simply, yes. But even more than that, to turn the ecosystem to attack other ecosystems. It's going to be an ecosystem battle. We're covering it live. This is theCUBE live at SAP Sapphire and you're watching theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Peter Burris. We'll be right back with more after this short break. This is theCUBE. You're watching live here in Orlando. There'll be millions of people in the near future that want to be involved in their own personal well-being.


I am Curtis, a totally legit news reporter, reporting the news here on your TV. I totally buy it, Curtis. Yay! In what some are calling a spur-of-the-moment decision, my writing stables too, a new adventure, just released on Nintendo Switch, which has left gamers around the world asking, will Wood from Beat'em-Ups quit stalling and play this new game? More on this story as it trots along. No, no, no, no, no, this game, I can't do enough. What's wrong? You sound a little... Horse. Horses, you know? Horse. Well, I never thought it'd end up back here again. My writing stables, Life with Horses, a terrible game that we reviewed back in 2019. We had some laughs, we shed some tears, and we all tried to move on with our lives. And then this, they made a sequel. My writing stables too, a new adventure. I actually had to make my own cover art this time because they only released it digitally. I guess they didn't have faith that they would sell any physical copies. Can't imagine why. Well, giddy up. That's a relief. The music doesn't make me wanna shove nails into my ears. The first game had awful audio issues. They've really stepped up the production value here. Even with the character customization, I have so many options now. Let's try to actually make me this time. Yeah, close enough.  There's enough studs already. Horseboy. Cause that's what I wanna be. I wanna be a horseboy. Yeah, well, okay, let me clarify. I wanna be a boy with horses.  Or anything silly like that. They actually designed new breeds of horses this time. Remember last time I complained that the different breeds were just the same horse model. They were making larger or smaller. It looks like independent art software is actually listening. Yay! Do not like the way that horse is. Fuck, I'm staring at me. Thank you, just quit looking at me. What a boy, named Horseboy. Name is Boy Horse. Jerry, I think. It just kinda looks like a Jerry. We're gonna be best friends, Jerry. 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Now, back to the video. Restore your horse farm to former glory, a tale as old as time itself, or at least as old as all of these horse games because every single one I've played has had this exact same premise and I've played a lot of horse games. Three, if this looks better or worse than the last game. I mean, I guess it does look better, but the last game was just so bright and full of color, it's different, not exactly getting nominated for Best Visuals. And the winner is my riding stables two, a new adventure. Well, thank you so much. I don't even know what to begin. I don't know who to thank.  I want to thank my mom.  I want, a man horse. Horse boy. This is the exact same starting area as the first game. Yeah, yeah, everything's in the same place. The house, the farm, even the horse field. Wait, hold on. That task list. Yeah, that's the same as the first game as well. Hold up a minute. Did they just slap a new coat of paint on the old game and re-release the same crappy horse game? Well, if it ain't broke, try to fix it anyway. Apparently, even though it's just me and my one horse out here, without another form of life to be seen. I'm not saying exactly what I can. Jerry still trusts me, the same amount that I trust my toaster not to burn my bread. All right, now you listen here toaster.  I want toast, T-O-A-S-T, toast. I want butter on it, like jam on it, I want it to taste good. This is what it calls, this is what you want to try. Do you want to try? You know, sometimes I think I'm being too hard on the toaster. It is just a toaster after all. It's not like you can understand anything that I'm saying. I should get him a present. I should get him, I'll get him toast.  Where was I? Eh, this, yeah, I remember this. You got a clean brush and scraped doo-doo from its feet rings. They really streamlined this part of the game. Now it's pretty easy and only takes a few moments. In this one, it took longer than cleaning a real horse. And I know because I am one. What keeps happening? Rename horse? I would never, Jerry is the perfect horse name. Oh, sell your horse. Oh, where did I get these new boots? I guess you could say I recently made a lot of money on the glue market. Oh, God, no, no, I mean the glue mobile market. My stock prices have skyrocketed lately. All right, that's enough horsing around. It's time to saddle up. Oh, wow, they actually animated that. That's a nice touch.  Oh, wow. This is an improvement. In the first game, you could only ride your horses during the Racing Hurdles minigame that was locked behind a load screen in its own separate area. This time around, you can jump on anywhere and ride around the open world. Yes, that's right, I said the open world. From the country roads, to the beach, to the winding mountain paths, you can just get on up and explore the world to your heart's content. And ah! They actually made the hurdles automatically leap this time around. You did it, electronic hearts! You really did it! Ooh! Hold on a minute, what's this? I can see markers throughout the land that'll trigger challenges and races in the game world and I have it as a treasure chest. I just found 100 credits. Oh, God, am I actually having fun? Stop that, stop it right now. You have to hate this game, remember? That's what the people want. They want you to hate it. They want you to love it. Ooh! Well, I need to get back to town, but the bridge is broken and I don't want to go all the way around, so I wonder if there's a way to fix... Oh, you can. You can fix things around the farm with the credits that you find and you earn them now, I'm not having fun. I am not having fun. No fun, no fun. Yeah, look, we still have the trees popping in and out as I'm riding along, but the game is running so smooth and so fast this time around. They've actually made improvements. I feel bad picking on it again. I mean, compare it to this. Although I do kind of miss the hilariously broken riding animation that wouldn't stop when you hit the pause button, but Vegas can't be choosers. Okay. All right, I don't want to toot my own horn here. Oh, assume that any of the improvements in this game are because of my video that I made back in 2019, but compare this house to the old one. Rather than getting confused and stuck on walls with the broken camera and resident-enabled tank controls, it's all set on a side-scrolling view and you can easily navigate your way around this frankly gorgeous home, by the way. Good for you, horse boy. Make your glue money. But at what point do I start to think that maybe, just maybe, my video influenced a lot of the changes in this game? Let's go through all the things I complained about that are fixed this time around. The cover-up. They fixed that by having no cover-up. The switch icon not having the name of the game in it. Fixed. Horrible music quality in the title screen. Fixed. Different breeds actually only being different sizes of the same horse. Fixed. The next button looping in the menus. Fixed. The tank controls, as I said. Fixed. The new house. Fixed. They even complained that I couldn't find my horse in the first game and now they've put a waypoint directing to it. Fixed. Cleaning and maintaining the horses takes seconds rather than minutes. Say it with me now. Fixed. Animation loops. Jumping hurdles. The frame rates. Fixed. Fixed. Fixed. This game is an actual game now. I'm gonna keep playing it. You know, to see if I can find anything wrong with it. Not because I'm having fun or anything. Now there's more rooms in the house. There's a library where you can read books to advance your horse boy skills. And there's a PC where you can buy new horse boy hats. Well, obviously. Also food and medicine for the horses, new books, even new horses. I gotta say, I love some of these horse names. We have Silky, Ice Ice Baby, Cream Pie. Don't. Oh, and that's all my gruelling tasks done for the day. The last thing I have to do is pick a simple carrot. And whoa, just like that, my ranch has the same rating as a golden corral. Now I just gotta work towards getting a two star. That means I have a whole new list of tasks. One of which wants me to buy a new horse. So I'll just go inside and now I bought Cream Pie. Next, I fixed up the breeding room. So now I can pick either of my two horses and make them do a dance with a lady horse and then we'll get a baby horse. The question is, who do I pick to get down a business? Jerry or Cream Pie?  You did it! Look at little Jerry Jr. He's so cute, he's so little. It's Jerry, but he's tiny to tiny Jerry. Sweet, love him. So up to here, it's been all well and good. And I'd be lying if I didn't admit there was an element of enjoyment to be had, ever. Turns out the next task wants me to complete all three Sunday race events, but it only lets you compete in one a week.  I've explored the whole world, found all the chests, done all my other tasks, but I still have two weeks left. So I decided to do what I usually do when I get depressed and just sleep for a week straight. And as usual, that solved nothing and actually make things a whole lot worse. Jerry is sick now. Jerry, no!  Jesus, it's a kids game. Won't somebody please think of the children? Or me? Or Jerry? Okay, it's no problem. You know, Jerry's my guy, I've got his back. We already know that we can order medicine from the PC, so I'll order some medicine and I'll shoot Jerry up with the good stuff and he's still sick, why? Jerry, what's wrong? Boy, speak to me, Jerry, what do you need? So it wants me to give him more medicine, but it only lets me give it to him once a day. Not a problem. It's gonna be okay. I'll just, I'll sleep off today, wake up early tomorrow and I'll give Jerry some more medicine. Here we go, a second helping of the good stuff. You can beat this, I know you can. Jerry, why are you still sick? Jerry, why? Not now, Cream, this Jerry, I know you will. You have a son, little Jerry Jr.  It's one more sweet. So I decided to do what I used to do when I get depressed and just sleep for a week.  What's wrong, boy? Speak to me, Jerry, what do you need? What's this, Jerry, why? What's this, get it? I wanna be all yours, boy. Rise and shine, it's the cell, little Jerry Jr. It made me sell little Jerry Jr. It said there was no room in the stable, room, there's plenty of room. We have a yard, the stable, hell, it's little Jerry we're talking about. I would have given him my house. Why didn't you tell me before I bred the horse there was no room for the horse? He never even got to meet his father and his father is dying. How do I break the news to Jerry? I worked so hard to build his trust over these weeks and then I get him sick and ill this? He never even got to meet his own son. Well, I guess I only have one option. I'm so sorry, sweet Jerry, I must confess. Me, what can I do to make this up to you?  Mean the stock market, I swear it was an accident. Sorry, Jerry, t-shirt, you can buy it. It's got Jerry, me, sorry, Jerry.


Helo, rhai, rhai, I'm Joe, I'm also like Carly from the Ibridge Institute at the University of Birmingham, and we're both working on a PhD project about the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site. For this particular panel today, we thought we'd discuss a particular site within the World Heritage Site, the old O'Darby Furnace, which you can see here. Now, the old O'Darby Furnace's significance is that it's the place in the 18th century where Abraham Darby was the first person to oversee the smelting of iron with coke, which was a key part of kick-starting the Industrial Revolution and modern steel production, and it is one of the two monuments that was specifically identified in the Ironbridge World Heritage Nomination dossier. It's a key part of why the Ironbridge Gorge was inscribed. It's a key part of Ironbridge's selling point to the world. It describes itself as the birthplace of industry, and this is the source of that claim. In terms of its inscription, it's a key part of why the Ironbridge was inscribed under the category of an example of man's creative genius, and now it's part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and it's part of their museum of iron, but it's actually a physically separate structure. It's an industrial archaeological site rather than a museum. So there you can see it's now kind of in a nice little lush garden. But if you have a look, what you can really see here is at the top picture, it's not a very visually appealing site. If anyone's seen an old furnace from that kind of period, it's a square block of bricks. It is, as the title describes, it was described by someone who used to work at Ironbridge as a pile of wet bricks. So as an archaeological site, it's a multi-stage site. It's an industrial site, so it was a working site. It's been altered a lot before it became disused. And as such, it's quite a difficult site to interpret for a regular visitor. The solely textual interpretation, as you walk around the furnace, what you're reading is your reading texture panels that are explaining an industrial process because you have the added difficulty that it's actually the industrial process that's significant rather than the furnace itself. This struggles with the technical language, a high reading age on the textual panels. It also has the issue with a lot of industrial sites that it struggles to tell personal stories. Instead, it focuses on a broader, more technical process and its significance for the rest of the world. And it also has an issue with the fact that it's in this rather attractive, I quite like it, this pyramidal cover building, but it does give the impression when you're going inside that you're going round a church rather than what would have been a very hot, dirty, noisy industrial process. So that's a lot of negatives. Coral is going to take us through what's positive and opportunities for future interpretation. Yeah, I'm an optimist, so I thought I'd steal the positive sides. So one of the things, this session, we were looking at archaeology in World Heritage Sites, and we wanted to look at how archaeology is in many ways the problem for interpretation of the old furnace, but it's also very much a lot of its potential for a lot of its strengths as well. So a lot of the things that are difficult about it make it quite exciting potentially and still in the present as well. Some of these are hopes rather than the current situations. So the first thing is that it's slightly church-like inside. It's very, very quiet, very hushed. It has been described as sepolcral. That is not good. Slightly dead.  But actually, some of the people I've interviewed have been talking about how it's as a quiet space, it's quite contemplative, and that allows people to reflect, to be brought into a space where they expect to be awd by the things that they're seeing. So it's not an entirely negative. It sort of indicates that it is a special place. It's not busy, it's quiet, it's peaceful, and people can think, perhaps, in that space about the past. As such, it's actually a really wonderful space for storytelling. The people who get the most out of the site are people who go on guided tours, generally, and they seem to get here a lot more about what it was like and they can imagine a lot more about what it was like. So, as a stage, it's a place where visitors and guides can really interact in co-producing stories, and that's a really powerful way of engaging the public. As it's less iconic, there's another site in the World Heritage Site, which is the Iron Bridge. The Iron Bridge suffers a little from being too self-evident in many ways. People think it's a bridge. It's obviously important because it's a bridge. With the furnace, you have to ask questions. You have to go, why is this important? What is it? And that questioning thing, that's really positive for people engaging with it. And finally, yeah, it's a mystery, and people like the stories. People think of it as a puzzle, they go round and go, what is this? And that's exciting in its own way. So, the archaeology of the furnace causes some of its difficulties, but it's also some of its real potential for its future.


Now just imagine going like I swear a hundred and ten over hills in this thing is Mr. Haney This is Mr. Haney. This is John's Ford is 66 Ford truck that has a 392 himmy stuffed under the hood Not only that this truck has the 46 re transmission with the full manual valve body with a trans brake that he said he's going to have me drive it tomorrow so we're going to try to get some videos with that but he started this truck for me earlier and it sounds awesome we are in John's Cote 66 Ford with a 392 himmy and I'm going to get to drive the truck as you can see so here we go brakes are way different than my truck there you gotta really push these brakes just don't kill me this is badass guys this is badass forgot your phone was almost dead yeah this should be just follow the road it's like right there on the other side of the uh red light in the 66 Ford with a himmy in it no uh there's a lot of things I didn't expect to be doing this weekend or in my life and this has been an outrageous trip I think sounds freaking gotta get used to the brakes though the brakes you gotta punch on them I mean I'm like putting my knee in them big time we are at the Burger King drive-thru in a 66 Ford pickup truck with a 392 himmy and a built 46 re co-bracing transmission hell yeah now just imagine going like I swear 110 over hills in this thing yeah don't don't romp on it and make me wear it drinks you're the cup holder yeah that's what I'm saying don't romp on it make me wear drinks hey man you ain't lived until you have the old school 55 mile an hour AC that is where it is old old door windows trans brake launch in the drive-thru let's see if we can take our food on a wheelie paint me throw the coffee on your camera


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. The market's going crazy once again because of this promo road to the knockouts team number two that was dropped yesterday on Friday in FIVA 22 Ultimate Team. I wanna talk about the supply that came onto the market yesterday because EA did something. For the first time, this FIFA, they dropped 50K packs in the store, not lightning rounds, just 50K packs. I think it's like a limit of a couple of them per account, but that supplied the market like mad, right? I wanna take a look at what that did and how that moved prices, what could be going on into the day today on Saturday and how we can be looking at things with these brand new road to the knockouts team two cards. So if you're enjoying the content on the channel, make sure to hit a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you're new. But let's look at this team, right? You guys have seen the team. Basically the leaks that we looked at were basically correct. There was a lot of those leaks that we saw on Thursday night into Friday that were actually correct, which kinda kills a little bit of the hype for these cards, but some pretty nice cards were added as a part of this group. De Young, Royce, Werner got a really, really big boost going from an 85 rated to an 88. Fred's card looks pretty good. El Sherawi is nice. Amavi is a great French left back for a very bargain price. I even think that Telemann's card with the five star weak foot looks pretty good as well. He's basically half the price of KDB and it's a KDB-esque card. Not as good, but still a pretty decent card there. So a solid team, right? And we do have the big clubs that we were expecting to see. Manchester United, Barcelona, Bayern, or sorry, not Bayern, but Dortmund, Chelsea. We have those clubs, I guess, represented now with road to the knockout cards that we didn't have out of last week. Also, just of note, I know a lot of you guys might be wondering, this is from the EA website. They haven't actually updated the picture to show team two yet. But these cards will assume the, basically what happened last week on matchday three as a part of Champions League, Europa League, and the Conference League. These cards, basically, if you think about it, they're upgrades like Werner and the Chelsea win that counts. So Timo Werner is on one win already. You know, Manchester United and Fred, he's got one win that counts towards his total of the three win or just the qualifying boost. Those games already apply for these cards. These are not just for the next matchdays going forward. It includes last week's matchday. So the cards and packs, pretty solid W, right? I feel like it's a more usable set of cards this week. It's solid, right? There's a lot of cards that a lot of people will just want to plug and play in their teams. As we go into the objective section, we have another L of an objective. If I'm being completely honest, this Cruisa objective is an L, right? I think the 68 pace here is just problematic. Of course, Union Berlin, I'm not sure where they even stand in the group right now where they could, if they could be going out of the Europa Conference League or into the knockouts. But this card for a lot of people is basically just a free 84 rated fodder card. It's not very hard to do. You have to play 10 matches in squad battles, score a couple and assist a couple and you get this card. But a lot of people have just already mentioned that they're using this for SBC fodder for a crazy SBC that we had and we'll talk about that as well. But we also had a pretty actual good value objective, the knockout kings. Basically it's another one of these win four objectives in the foot friendly mode, supreme scores. And you get yourself a 50K pack untradable. So that is a very nice objective. If you wanna go and grind a 50K pack, maybe at the beginning of the week once you're done with the weekend league or whenever the case. I mean, to be honest, I still think that we're gonna get a couple more cards impacts on Sunday as a, what would we call that, like the mini release. So I'm probably not gonna open my packs until then, just in case. And I won't be able to grind this until then anyway. So we'll save that until then. But objectives are a bit of an L, except for the pack objective. But SBCs were a massive W. This Bernardo Silva SBC right here is a big, big W. And so many people are doing this, but this SBC moved the market in so many different ways. The first thing was they actually required road to the knockout players as a requirement in the SBC. So we saw that added last night. We looked at the footwatch code. I didn't think much of it, but now it makes it two weeks in a row, two promos in a row, where they have required the actual promo card that is currently out. A road to the knockout for this week and it wants to watch for two weeks ago. They have required these promo cards in SBCs that come out during the second week, which is kind of crazy, right? So we've got all of the basically quote unquote discard road to the knockout players have risen up because this SBC is incredible value and it's got a lot of hype, but they actually required road to knockout players, which is pretty insane. This Bernardo Silva SBC, fantastic value, right? It's almost guaranteed to at least get one upgrade, high, high work rates. He's gonna feel incredible in game with that agility and balance. I know that he does not have finesse shot trait. He does not have a four-star weak, but only has a three-star. But for a Premier League SBC, a lot of people who I think we're using Bruno Fernandez are doing this Bernardo Silva SBC for the upgrade that he got. And that is why you're seeing a lot of market movements too. So fodder didn't really go up that much. This SBC is like 113,000 coins. We're gonna take a look at it on foot bin and you can see that it's got the kids all hyped. 3,000 upboats on this Bernardo Silva. Again, people still have fodder in their club from doing the 75 plus player picks. You know, people are very excited about this card. Really good links, right? They're Portuguese Premier League links. You can link Bruno. You can link Cancelo, of course, with all the Manchester City links that are out there as well. This is a big WSBC from EA Sports. And of course, we expect this to be upgraded as Manchester City could easily get two more wins. And of course, we expect them to get out of the group. So this should become a 90-rated Bernardo Silva by the basically a month and two weeks from now. Early December, this should be a 90-rated Bernardo Silva card, which is a dub. And I think he just fits the meta really well. Now, some people don't like it because they're like, well, I have Fakir. And that's a fair point, right? Fakir does have really good stats, but I think this Bernardo is a really great card as well. It could last you for 100,000 coins. I mean, on the market, I think this card would be somewhere around like 200K. So that's why I think, again, if you look at it in that way, that this Bernardo is incredible value. Now, that's the good part about Bernardo. But for a lot of you guys that maybe had Bruno Fernandez or some of these other cards, a lot of cards that are basically substitutes for this Bernardo have dropped off big time. Bernardo Fernandez from 65K. This is a combination of panic selling from that Bernardo SBC and also being a substitute, well, sorry, a substitute good for that Bernardo SBC and also the pack supply of the 50K packs that dropped yesterday, a lot of golds that weren't the most incredibly meta cards that people wanted to go buy for their teams. Take a look at some of these gold cards, Dembele 48K. Now, Campembe still actually rose because he dropped a little bit when the packs came out down into the low 60s, but he has risen back to 66,000 coins. That's just because he is super meta. But take a look at the drop on a guy like Paul Pogba, man, I mean, absolutely nuts. Down from 90,000 coins, he has dropped 20K. He's down 22% on this market right now. It's crazy to see how this stuff has moved. It's purely down to the pack supply. It is purely down to that 50K pack supply. And again, that's what we talked about in yesterday's video. I didn't expect the drop to be this much. I really didn't expect it to be this much, but these gold cards are getting hammered and they're getting hammered even more. And again, a lot of it is because of these 50K packs. You know, these prices are probably gonna drop into the evening Friday night and then into the early morning hours on Saturday as well. 550K packs with 183 plus rated player guaranteed. And then you have your regular promo pack that is out. Again, this is just, with the pack weight this year and all this stuff, just the amount of supply that these bring to the game in 50K packs. We've been talking about it, right? We were worried whenever 50Ks come, whenever lighting rounds come, I mean, these are gonna get destroyed. So the 50Ks are out for two days, 19 hours. They'll be out for the weekend. And then the 25K packs will reset today on Saturday at content time. Probably like they'll throw in either 15Ks, 12Ks, or maybe 35s, we will have to see. So, this is really to blame for a lot of the market panic yesterday on the gold. Anything that has impacts got destroyed. It really did. The team of the week informs even foot heroes had a lot of supply yesterday. Now that being said, since that Bernardo SBC was really hype, if you were looking to make coins yesterday, I know a lot of you guys bought cards, bought cards for your teams, and you got some big discounts, right? A lot of these cards that were Premier League that were links to Bernardo, or cards that people used, because it seems like people are, it seems like Premier League might be becoming the hype league. We know we've had Serie A and we have had La Liga become very hype in the past couple of weeks with SBCs and players released and stuff, but a lot of Premier League links rose, especially ones that were out of packs. I bought two Robertsons right before the content shop for 170,000 coins. He is up to 215,000. I sold mine at 200,000. I mean, this guy is literally up 40,000 coins today in price, an insane rise in price on this Andrew Robertson, the best left back in the Prem. At the moment, that's why he went up so much today. But if you take a look at some other Premier League informs, you see like the Inform Bernardo, or sorry, the Inform Salah, the Inform Gabrielle Jesus are both items that rebounded very well. And that is literally just because of people going out and making Premier League links and buying teams that link up to that Bernardo Silva SBC. That's why the Bernardo Silva had so much hype yesterday on this game. And that's why you saw the market move so much. Now, since there was a lot of supply first hour with those 50Ks, I actually, I didn't expect as much of a drop on the promo cards and a fluctuation like tradeability, if you will. If you remember for week one, like Esauk went down to 110K, then rose to 190. Well, since we had so much more supply today with the 50K packs being in the store, we actually saw some insane movements, first hour to second hour, on some of these brand new promo cards on the market. Now, I bought Fred for 317,000 coins, sold them for 370 a couple minutes later. El Shirawi was 50K. I bought three of these at 50 to 52,000 coins, sold them at 64 in a quick flip moment, and those were huge dubs, right? Now, as we get into the Saturday morning timeframe, late night, Friday night, I'm recording this a bit earlier than normal. It is about 10PM UK on Friday night, and you're gonna be seeing this obviously in the morning, but we're starting to see these cards drop back off again, right? We're starting to see these cards drop back off. They are gonna reach a low tonight. I don't know when that low is gonna be, but we saw this last week, too. The Friday night into Saturday morning, trading opportunity with these cards is fantastic, right? This Frankie DeYoung card was 800 and about 30,000 coins for most of the day so far, he has been in packs, and right now he is down at 750, so he has been dropping in price. As you saw, Fred, who is a very, very popular card at this moment, and the reason why Fred is so hyped is because a lot of people have probably used Conte for the last couple of weeks, and they haven't had any other alternatives, and here we have an alternative with Fred, 340,000 coins for this card at the moment. He's been to 370, he's been back down. This card tonight is gonna be one that I think rises into the morning on Saturday, so from Friday night into Saturday morning, I do 100% expect this card to move in price because he's just so hyped, and a lot of people are trying him out and giving him a go in game as we head into Saturday, so I think what you will see with a lot of these promo cards late Friday night into Saturday morning, this morning, UK time, or like when you're waking up, check, take a look at these cards, or maybe if you're up late UK, take a look at these cards and see how much they've dropped off. Just remember that the ones that rise the most are the ones that are the hyped ones, right? El Shirawi links to Tonali, that's why he rose when I flipped him earlier today. This Fred card rose because of, you know, GGMU hype, the card looks really good, they gave him like plus like nine physical or something. It's a really big boost on the card. The young is gonna be really rare. Jesus Navas, again, just an upgraded item on the best card for a right back in La Liga. Timo Werner was a million coins. We'll see how much he drops off to, it was a really nice boost on his item. Amavi is a like budget left back that's like, probably we're gonna call it the Mendee Killer, five star weak foot.  Cause he's 30,000 coins and he looks pretty good and he's got a five star weak foot. So I would keep an eye on some of these cards, specifically the ones that you saw rise the most yesterday, right? If we take a look at some of these graphs, if you find some cards that rose a lot on Friday, you can see here, 345 to 365, or just cards that you're seeing moving around a lot on the market as you watch their price, those are gonna be the ones that'll rise up today on Saturday, so that's like for the early morning into the midday hours, UK time on Saturday, but as we get close to the content drop, this happened last week with Road to the Knockouts, team number one, Marquinhos is flying by the way, 746K. He is flying, but last week what we saw was, I did some trades with Marquinhos last Saturday, a week ago, right before the content drop, some of these cards that are really high tier, so like in this week's team, Werner, DeYoung, potentially Fred and Royce, what I would watch for is some sell off. I would watch for some sell off on these cards like an hour before the content drop on Saturday, because what you're gonna have is, people are gonna be worried about more pack supply, there's always the most pack supply for these cards on Fridays, right? Now if the content on Saturday is kinda quiet, it's probably gonna be another Road to the Final, or Road to the Knockouts player, SBC, I would imagine. I would imagine another SBC for our content today on Saturday, but if the content's not that good, and there's just a little bit of pack supply, like let's say they add 15 packs or maybe 25K packs again to the store, what you would watch out for on some of these high tier cards, specifically like DeYoung, Werner, Royce, Fred, et cetera, is you would watch their prices in the couple hours leading up to the content drop. So let's say Werner goes from, let's say Friday night into Saturday morning, his team over in the card goes from 850K up to 925K, right? That's just, I'm just shooting some numbers out here. He has a little into the morning rise, overnight into the morning he goes up, as people buy him for Weekend League and try him out. They sell him off before content because they're worried about supply, you can buy in that dip sometimes because if the content's not good on Saturday, you'll see these cards shoot right back up and there'll be an opportunity to flip them or to buy them if you wanna try them out. So keep an eye on that DeYoung, the Werner, the Fred, the Royce, those higher tier cards for today on this game. Now for gold cards and for other stuff that is in this game, heroes as well, you might see a bit of a drop off late tonight, Friday night into the Saturday morning timeframe as well, UK time, but I would just be kind of careful with those icons are still up. Some icons got supplied so much today that they haven't moved, like the Schweinsteiger mid has been around like the high 400s, low 500s, he hasn't moved that much. This Carlos Alberto is getting rare overnight, he was 700K earlier, this Balak was 770, I think he maybe is up to 800, so a small fluctuation on those cards, but if you're looking to trade with stuff on the market right now, I would stick to the brand new promo cards because they're hyped, right, people are using them and just wait and watch what you see on other Premier League out of pack specials. This Sonaldo was 570,000 coins and he got Panic Soul, I was very surprised to see this Informed Sun drop so much yesterday on the market, he went from 570 down to 520 and now he's back up to 570, so Gigi's, if you got it on this card, that was a big W and we saw some nice rises. Again, those Premier League out of packs cards are the ones that did the best on Friday because everybody is kind of switching over to some Premier League links in their squads, Salah is basically 700K, so that means that he is up as well and you're seeing a lot of those Premier League links rise up in price. Now if you bought any road to the knockout from team one, I wanna talk about this for a quick second, you're seeing a nice rise on these cards as well, Sonaldo back to 845 for this item, Tonali is up about 10K, Marquinhos is up like 50, 60,000 coins and Mukiela is up 10K, Rodrigo was 220, he's up to 240, Sane is up, of course your discard, Manafa and Teixeira have risen a lot because of their requirement in that Bernardo SBC. For some of these cards, I would probably, as we usually think, the market kind of rises up from Friday into Saturday into Sunday, I wouldn't be in a hurry to sell these guys just yet, but we're gonna have another promo coming on Friday, this coming Friday a week from yesterday, so always be careful and be looking out for some of these cards to where as you might be able to find a peak point this weekend, if it was purely an investment and it wasn't for somebody in your team that you wanna have for a long time, these guys have risen so nicely out of packs that I would keep an eye on those and make sure that you're not holding on to them for too long. So one other thing that I just mentioned, but I wanna note, team two is available until Wednesday, right? That's how they do it with these promos, so when we come to the Wednesday timeframe, we will be seeing these cards go out of packs and whatever cards come in packs on Sunday with a mini-release if they do one are gonna be super rare again, just like Robertson was from last week's team. So, you know, I mean, right now on this game, it's kinda fun, right? You're trying out a new Bernardo Silva, the Weekend League, if you're playing, I know a lot of people are not playing Weekend League this weekend, which I am a part of that group, but at least we have a little grindable objective with the Knockout Kings, that is nice to have for a 50K pack there. I do expect upgrade packs to come out again, maybe the 75-plus player pick, but we'll talk about that as it comes. But as it is today on Saturday, if you're trying to trade and make coins, trading and making coins on a Saturday, it's a great time to do so. Icons, those out-of-packs cards, if you see panic before 6PM, and the content is not good. Again, I really think that today's content on Saturday would really just be another road to the Knockouts player, SBC, which again, that, you know, depending on how hype it is, could be good, could be lackluster, we will have to see. But I'm not expecting a huge day of content on Saturdays. It's just, it really has not been an insane, the Saturdays in this game have not been that insane lately. So that's kind of what I'm expecting. And again, it's a nice team, right? Nice cards to go out and try that Bernardo's gonna shake things up this week. I think a lot of your, maybe some of your La Liga cards that were inflated before, like Llorente, you know, Llorente is down with the pack supply, but some of the other La Liga cards that have been pushed up in price, or La Liga heroes, like the Llorente and the Mostavoy, we're definitely seeing some price correction on those. And some of your Premier League stuff might rise up a little bit. Some of your out-of-packs cards. So we'll definitely be keeping a watch on that as we go throughout this weekend. But I'm happy with the promo team, man. I think the promo team is a W, some nice boosts. Now, of course, we don't have another UCL matchday for two weeks yourself. So it's gonna take a bit, it's gonna be a bit until we have another upgrade. But it is nice to see some fun cards in this game. Make sure to try them out if you want to, right? Have fun, have fun with whatever that means to you in this game. Making coins, play with these cards, use players that you wanna try out. Have some fun on the game this weekend, man. That is my advice to you boys. All right, anyways, that's the video for today, boys. Let me know down in the comments what you think about this promo today. I think it's a dub and a solid dub. Like, I would give it a seven and a half out of 10. The Bernardo SBC really lifted things up today. The Bernardo SBC really lifted things up today. If this was not a good value SBC, then the day would have been a little bit worse. But nice SBC, cool cards and packs, objective against stinks, but it is what it is. You can't win them all. If you enjoyed the video, smash a thumbs up on it. And of course, subscribe if you're new. It has been Nathan Foot Account, and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


This is the Agfa Optima 1535. Maybe you've heard of it. But I'd be willing to bet you probably haven't because there isn't a ton of info about it online. At first glance it kind of looks like a toy for babies. But I think this camera is for grown-ass adults who pay big taxes and have to go to therapy. Let's find out why. Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace. After doing a lot of research, I picked up this copy of the Agfa 1535 on WeTake13%ForNoReason.com. What makes the Agfa 1535 so special? Being made in 1979, two years after the birth of a franchise that would eventually spawn the greatest movie ever, Solo, A Star Wars Masterpiece. It's certainly not its looks that make it special. It has the same style as other Agfa Optima cameras in the same line that were modeled after the famous Plobble Makina 670. Well, you uninformed degenerate, this camera is not only a point shoot in that it calculates exposure on its own for you, but the 1535 is the only camera in the Agfa Optima line that is actually a true rangefinder. The 1035, for example, and others in the same lineup are all scale focus only, which means you're just guessing focus. That's right. The fixed 40mm 2.8 lens on this Agfa 1535 is linked to a rangefinder in the viewing window. So focus is not only manual, but easy. If you've ever shot with a point shoot before, you're probably pretty aware of how the autofocus can just straight up miss sometimes, especially when you're looking through glass. So having a rangefinder kind of alleviates that issue. Speaking of the viewfinder window on this camera, it's the only reason I know of this camera's existence. Someone told me about this camera when I talked about how gargantuan the size of the viewing window on the Leica M6 is. And frankly, I'm always down for some BVE, big viewfinder energy. What's even better than that? Well, you can actually manually set ISO yourself. Among other things, the Contax T2 is hotly lusted after for its ability to overexpose or underexposed plus or minus two stops. But the 1535 can actually go beyond that. So that's the elevator pitch for this camera. But is it actually as good as it promises to be? Let's find out. Ready to rock and roll? A caffeine first, before I do any rocking and rolling. I'm more of a Fleetwood Mac state right now. Did you just get into Fleetwood Mac recently? Who? Caleb and I rolled up to an abandoned farmhouse out in the boonies that Google Maps claims is haunted. While we didn't see any demons besides our own, we did pop in some film and shoot away. I'd be starting with T-Max 400. No, you don't have a rodent infestation, or I don't know, maybe you do. But that noise you just heard is actually the sound of the shutter. It's quite unique, I guess is a nice way of putting it. It sounds kind of like a sneeze or like a sewer rat being stepped on by a dominatrix in heels. Not that I would know what that sounds like. Let's talk about the lens. I'm pretty sure it's glass, but I'm not going to flick the damn thing to find out. I'm just assuming it is based on the quality of the photos. It is pretty sharp overall with an asterisk. That asterisk being when it's closed down. As you can see when we ventured inside the farmhouse where the light was a lot dimmer, the 1535 had to open up a bit more to its 2.8 maximum aperture. Well, for starters, there's no one living in here. It says it doesn't have enough light, but we'll try it anyway. Long exposure. And, well, yeah, it's so bad I started to question if I missed focus somehow, but that doesn't seem to be the case based on the rest of the photos. Which leads me to say I would definitely recommend using higher speed film in this camera to force the lens to close down. This lens also suffers from slight pincushion distortion. It's not a lot and most of the time you probably won't even notice. I have found that a value of minus four in the distortion field of Lightroom will actually just correct it out. The Agfa 1535 is incredibly small and can definitely fit into a jacket, pants, or incredibly short shorts pocket. Here's a can of flaming hot dew for scale. I do believe where this camera's potential strength may lie is street photography. Being an automatic exposure camera with Rangefinder functionality makes this thing quite a speedy machine to shoot. I recently shot with it in New York and I was able to pop off shots that only lasted a second in reality. Because there's no need to turn this camera on or off, all I needed to think about was framing and focus, and then fire. Inside the viewfinder, the light meter is so simple that anyone can understand it. There's a simple LED that is either green or red. Green means all good, red means bad. If you have a driver's license, you can probably understand what this camera is trying to tell you. Admittedly, turning the lens here is not a super smooth function like you might expect from a Leica body or maybe just some other pro Rangefinder body. But overall, it's not unmanageable. Advancing the film on this thing is truly the best part.  My life is not pathetic, yours is. Anyway, at the next location, some guy pulled up and tried to sell me some rocks. Not like crack rock, but like normal rocks. But it was becoming clearer and clearer, we were going deeper into the boonies than we expected. So we threw on our high visibility vests so no one would randomly attack us. You guys already know what I have to do. This camera does not actually come with a lens hood as far as I know. Here's what the camera looks like without the hood. I attached a lens hood because A, it totally looks cool and two, because glare and lens flares can totally ruin an awesome image. I mean literally just ask anybody who's been to the moon ever. The filter size of this lens is 49 millimeters and yes, you can absolutely use filters on this lens because the light meter is right here so it'll see through your filter and give you an accurate light reading. Just above the meter is where you can set the ISO which makes pushing, pulling, underexposing, or overexposing film a total breeze. The downside of this camera is that the meter only goes up to about 400 ISO for some reason that I cannot possibly explain to you. It actually goes a tiny bit past 400 ISO so why don't we just call it dank and say it's 420 ISO. But regardless, if you love pushing film past 400, um yeah this is not the camera for you.  You just need some small tools like an eyeglass or cell phone repair kit and confidence of course. To adjust horizontal alignment you just remove this cap right here, take your screwdriver in, don't mone with excitement, and turn until your rangefinder overlaps while your lens is set to infinity. Mine was actually out of alignment when I got it so I was able to fix it myself instead of having to send it out to a technician somewhere in the middle of nowhere like Nebraska. Vertical alignment is less likely to be out of whack but if it is, you can look for the slot inside the film and battery chamber and just do the same thing. Turn until you're all Gucci. Fresh out of T-Maxx 400 it was time to rewind the film and load in some Cynestil 800T. To rewind the film it's actually pretty clever. All you do is push down this button right here and turn it to R which stands for really good rewinding system. And then to rewind the film you simply advance the film like you normally would. I know it's a weird system but it actually works really well. This camera is actually perfect for me and Cynestil 800T. I thoroughly enjoy shooting 800T at 400 and since the ISO doesn't go beyond 400 in this camera it's kind of just a perfect scenario.   Somewhere out in the desert there was this old destroyed bus or really just your average greyhound bus that we were totally excited to shoot. This shot is nice I think. Kind of a throwaway that ended up working well. Good news. This is actually a very special episode because I'll be starting a new segment called absolutely f***ing terrible design choices that make you want to punch a hole in your dry wall. In fact it's so infuriating that you have not only awoken the frog but you've angered it too. More on the frog later. This camera takes three P62 5U batteries which aren't really around anymore and didn't taste that good because of mercury and mercury is in retrograde or whatever so I just jammed four SR 44 batteries into the compartment and it seems to work just fine. But why the f*** did they put the battery compartment of a camera that only works with batteries inside the film chamber? What are we supposed to do if the batteries on this camera die mid roll? Okay yeah you could theoretically just note what frame you're on let's say for example frame 69. Rewind the film without losing the leader replace the battery pop the film back in and then shoot with a lens cap on until you reach frame 69 but like come on that's ridiculous.  If I ever find out who did this I'm gonna lose my s*** on them. Anyway with the sun going down on that perfect day out with the AGFA 1535 I couldn't stop thinking about this tiny powerhouse of a camera in the same way that I can't stop thinking about how much of a powerhouse today's sponsor Squarespace is. It's 2023 at this point having a professional website for your brand, business or just your own work is the industry standard but worry not if you don't already have an online space or maybe you're just planning to upgrade. Squarespace makes it easy with its custom building modules. Start from the ground up by selecting a pre-designed template carefully crafted by professionals for you to customize to your heart's content. If you're a photographer and want to arrange your work all in one place online Squarespace makes it easy with its clean and simple to understand user interface. And if you want to rearrange some things as new work comes in it's typically as easy as just dragging and dropping photos into their correct places. 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