Hi everyone, Joe for JaspiesCase, rakes.com, coming at you with 2020 Panini Origins Football, eight box, half case, pick your team at number eight. There you go. October the third, got everybody right here. Sean with LastBot Mojo and the Dolphins, there's everybody else, thanks for getting in. Got a lot of teams in this number block right here, which I uploaded into a separate video, the randomizer video itself. Everyone knows how this works by now. It's right next to me over here. All right, and remember it made that line on the box right there so you know that it's the second half of the same case that we popped open just a few minutes ago. That's right, the Mahomes randomizer is still rolling on there as well.  At JaspiesRakes on Instagram only. Ted will still be going, this was my last break of the night, but Ted will still be going for a little bit longer and take care of your personal box needs. There's Aaron Donald to 299. That's a number block team, so that goes to number zero. It's 170 out of 299. I'll go to Mike G. That Brady number two out of 25, buccaneers. Just 10 off his jersey number, that would have been huge. That goes to Oliver and the number two. Two out of 25, Tom Brady in his buccaneers gear. It kind of looks good in that buccaneers gear. Now that he's not in a Patriots' Uniform, I have less beef with him. There's Stefan Diggs, Bills, Michael, Chase Claiphol, 39 out of 149 Steelers, Michael Mary, and a redemption, any guesses there? And we've got Brian Edwards, two color patch and autograph. And that's another one, another raider for pads. It's been like a raider's case here. Not numbered. But still pretty nice. I don't think he's gonna be active for this game either. It's gonna be a difficult one for the raiders this weekend. It's Dak Prescott. And the redemption is Focus, JK Dobbins. Nice one for the number block. The Baltimore Ravens are a number block team. So that goes to number zero, Mike G. And you get a free top lower out of his. Oh yeah, that's right. Cowboys are, so this will be a non-numbered card. That'll be the non-numbered randomizer. And Bill's is Michael Masetti, okay. Next box. Nice Logan, thank you. All right, there's Josh Allen, 36 out of 175 for Mike, Masetti and the Bills. Another Tom Brady, this time 69. Nice, out of 99. Going to David in the number nine. Behind Kenyan Drake is Hiram Matthew for the Chiefs. That's part of the non-numbered group. Chase Claiphol seems to be on the thicker side unless I grabbed a card. Oh, I grabbed a redemption. Still nice, it's one out of five. Part of the red star right there. One out of five, Chase Claiphol, Michael Mary and the Steelers out of fives and under are a train whistle. That window kind of looks like one of the Steelers stars, right? There's Mike Mary, right? The window looks like the stars, which I think represents like the old steel companies. The big steel companies in Pittsburgh, you want to say? All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-woo! And he's, I feel like he's getting a little more active in that Pittsburgh, on that Pittsburgh team, right? KJ Hamler, two-color jersey and autograph. Yeah, it looks really nice, Mike. Thanks for getting to that break. Robert Johnson with the Broncos. KJ Hamler, Kenyan Drake, Cardinals, Matt McLaughlin. McLaughlin. And the next redemption is Lynn Bowden Jr., another Raider. Still a Raider in this set. Not with them anymore, but that'll still go to Pat and my Raiders. We got T.J. Watt right here for you at 35 out of 175. Tyler Murray, 68 out of 79, Cardinals. Pat might have to switch to being a Raiders fan after this break. That's like a fantasy team. You'd be like rooting for those guys. Aaron Jones, Packers, non-numbered block, group team thingy right there, whatever that is. Russell Wilson, Relic, 13 out of 25. I love these hometown roots cards. You can see the roots growing right there. From Richmond, Virginia. Claypool, multi-talented Logan. In Primus, now in the NFL, multi-talented. The RPA is Denzel Mims, two-color patch and autograph. That'll be for Cameron Goodman and the J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets. DJ Morris, part of that non-numbered group. Carolina's in that number block group. Do that randomizer at the end. And from all the way back there, can you guess? It's gonna be T. Higgins. T. Higgins for Cincinnati, Pat with the Bengals. You get a free top loader out of this too. To a T. Next box. Oh yeah, it's red. That's out of 99, I think. Pat, nice. I missed the parallel there. Yeah, it was a red parallel to 99, I believe. Fletcher Cox to 299, 298 out of 299. That'll be for Daniel Wolfe in number eight. AJ Brown, 46 out of 99. That'll be for Patrick Davis and the Titans. I wonder how, you think teammates are kind of miffed?  AJ Brown's trying to get himself ready for another week of football.  I guess it'll be a bi-week for me. Early bi-week for me. Josh Jacobs for Pat and the Raiders. Another redemption. K.J. Hamler, three-color patch. 153 out of 199, going to Robert and the Broncos. No, I mean, yeah, you can't help if you get COVID. I get it, Tyler, but you know, you think privately AJ Brown's like, man, I had vacation plans in week eight and now I gotta change that around because they're probably gonna play in week eight. Brandon Iick, two-color patch and autograph. Niners, Lee, Matt Ryan. I guess it all depends on how they got it, I suppose. They're being reckless. Matt Ryan goes to David Callender and the Falcons and the Redemption is J.K. Dobbins. Another J.K. Dobbins for the Number Block. Wow, Mike Krasinski with Baltimore Zero. Right, and Gold Ink. Why am I missing the extra part of the redemption? And Gold Ink. It's a nice parallel. All right, four boxes to go. Yeah, I like, I mean, I love John Gruden. I think he's great. I think he's a good motivator. I think he generally does love the game and probably, you know, what was the knock? He was coming back and everyone's like, oh, maybe the game passed him by. He got too comfortable in the booth. But no, I really think he, I think he really does love it and has been following it and was getting ready to get back into it. The paycheck was nice, but I respect him a lot as a coach. Let's hopefully he can get some good players together and another Super Bowl victory under his belt. 57 out of 175. Dak Prescott for Shawn Matic in Number Seven. There's Randy Moss for Minnesota. And I think this is a one per case sort of situation and it's not numbered. And that'll be part of that non-numbered group. I like the origin stories right here. A little fun little read after, right out here. Carson Wentz will also be part of that group. The Relic is Justin Herbert. Charger, Shawn Matic. 36 out of 49. The on-card is Tua Tagal Viola. Wasn't I just saying? Hey, I feel like we haven't seen a lot of Tua autographs here. Here's an on-card autograph for Shawn Matic, Last Spot Mojo. Yeah, I don't know. I really like the Dolphins' Jerseys, you guys. Dolphins' Jerseys are great. There's Darian Devans. Nice patch there too, 38 out of 75. Tua's gotta really, Tua's gotta turn that franchise around. Tua's gotta turn that franchise around, make that jersey great. Patrick Davis this time. With that one, there's Todd Gurley for David. Three right here, three boxes to go. Good luck, everybody. Now, this is my last break of the evening, but Ted is still live on Instagram, at Jaspie's Breaks, on Instagram. Ooh, a plate on the bottom. It's like a non-auto plate. Flip it that way. There's Tyler Boyd 34 out of 175 for Pat Cologne and the Bengals. And the plate is Teddy Bridgewater, one-of-one Teddy Bridgewater. And Carolina is a number block team, so that goes to number one. And that's Pat Cologne. There you go, Pat. We got a new bell here. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo! There's Leonard Fournette and the Jags. That'll be for Jens. You're welcome. It's a good run. Justin Herbert, big relic right here. 18 out of 199 for the Chargers. That's gonna be for Shawn Matic. All right, he's on some sort of streak, Logan. Peter. Jalen Rigor. Five out of 10. Gold ink, oh, that's what the gold ink's gonna look like. And that's for the number block group. Number five, Shawn Matic with Eagles Five. Nice. This case is strong here. Josh Kelly. He's pretty good. I think him and Eckler, nice little tandem there for the Chargers. Shawn Matic has the Bolts, too. There's Baker. That's for David and the Browns. Last two boxes coming up. Two Mark Ingrams. One is 266 out of 299. Shawn Matic with number six. Mark Ingram out of 99. Is 86 out of 99. Shawn Matic with number six. Jamal Adams reveals a Tyreek Hill for the Chiefs. Part of the non-numbered pile. We've got Josh Allen. Hometown Roots, he's from Montclair, New Jersey. 33 out of 49. That's Jaguar's Josh Allen going to Yens. We got Antonio Gandy-Golden, Steven Olson, 54 out of 99 with the Washington football team. Hey, there you are, Shawn. Thanks for grabbing an expensive team like the Dolphins, you're rewarded. Doesn't work out like that all the time, as you know. This time it did, man, thank you. And then Antonio Gibson after the Gandy-Golden, both Antonio's going to Steven Olson and the Washington football team. And there's Jamal Adams for the Jets, Cameron Goodman. All right, and the final one. All right, we've got 116 out of 299, Keenan Allen, Chargers, Shawn Matic. We've got Phillip Rivers to 99. Yeah, what's up? Which one's the base? Are these base, even though they're prospects? We probably should have sent all of them to be on. Probably easier to ship them off, yeah. I think it's easier that way. Cause like most, yeah, most of them are prospects, so. All right, Phillip Rivers goes to, I almost said Chargers. He goes to the Microzinsky and the Colts. There's Mitchell Trabisky for the Bears. That'll be for David. Hopefully Mitch wasn't buying. He was renting in Chicago. We've got John L. Wayne Drew Locke, he wishes. Three out of 49. Origins of Greatness. Robert Johnson with the Broncos. Three out of 49. Is that Jersey, is that, is he number three? Yeah, it looks like it, right? There you go. The on-card is poor Michael Pidman. I think he's been to IRD. He is number three, all right, there you go. Matt goes to Microzinsky. And last but not least, Smog's cousin or brother, LaMichael P. Ryan, three-color patch and autograph. That goes to the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets, Cameron Goodman, he had to, I'm a Raiders fan. I had to take that shot. All right, and there you go. DK Metcalf, Seahawks, Brian with that one. I respect the L-Way though. I don't know if Drew Locke's gonna get there. It's gonna take a little while. I got the tool right here. Quick recap before I randomize the non-numbered cards. It's kind of a short break, so it's worth a look. I think we had a pretty good break. Kind of wanted to show off that, yeah, look at that Steelers Relic right here. That's pretty cool. Mike Mary with that one. Brian Edwards up front. That two, of course. I think we had a decent break here. A couple JK Dobbins' which was nice. Jalen Rago Golding, the Bridgewater plate. There's a couple Brady's right here. So pretty nice stuff. This is the non-numbered group right here. So mostly base cards, almost all base cards, except for the origin stories, which falls one per case. So that's gonna go to one person in the number block. So let's flip back to the list here. Let's go to the number block tab. Let's grab everybody's names. Put them into a new list. Name on top after six. We'll get it. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Sean Mattock, there you go. It's your day. There you have it. Your name's on top. You get those extra cards. Thanks for watching, everybody. I'm Joe, for jaspyscasebreak.com. Thank you very much for an excellent week, excellent day, and excellent week of breaks. We'll be back tomorrow. Check us out. That was Pick Your Team number eight. I'm Joe, jaspyscasebreak.com. Good night.


Hello, I'm your host Alex Friedberg and this is the Alexly Analyst Show. Thank you so much for joining me today. We are going to be discussing the best industries for data analysts in 2021. Now, honestly, just about every single industry was impacted last year, and that is definitely going to carry into 2021. And I think it is very smart to look at this before you start looking at the job market so that you know what kind of companies you should be applying for them, or at least what industries are really solid and that you have a better chance of landing a job in. I'm going to have a high or a top, a medium and a low tier. And in the top tier, there are going to be companies or industries that I highly recommend looking into ones that are hiring a lot that are doing really well. The medium tier is industries that are doing okay are doing pretty well. The low tier is going to be one that for the most part, for the vast majority of you listening are ones that I do not recommend. They got hit really hard due to COVID and they haven't really recovered or I haven't seen a lot of recovery, a lot of hiring from them. And so before we start, I want to say, this is not my opinion. I'm trying to be as objective as I can about this. Of course, I'll interject with my opinion throughout. You guys know how it goes, but I took this from a lot of different sources and I kind of aggregated it all and took the averages from those scores. If they ranked them number one, number three, number five, the average was a three. And so I kind of tried to take that approach to this and I'll leave the links of where I got all of these numbers and whatever that I'm going to be talking about. I'll leave those in the description if you want to go check those out individually. There's probably like six or seven of them that I pulled it from. But I want you to know that this is not my opinion, although I do have a lot of opinions on it. Before we actually really get into it, I want to say that if you have watched a lot of my Alexi and Les shows before and you see at the end, I always talk about Patreon, I now have a new way that you can support the channel and that is through buying some of my merch. Now, I call it merch because that's what everyone calls it. But it's honestly, it's just a shop to, if you want to support it, if you want to buy something cool, if you coffee mugs like I do because I drink coffee more than I used to, you can go and buy stuff like that. This is, trust me, I'm an analyst and this is a trust me, I'm an analyst shirt. I think it's super cool. I buy my own products because they're really cool. And so if you want to support me in that way, absolutely recommend doing that. I will have a link in the description. Now, let's get into it. Enough self promotion for the day. Well, maybe later. Let's look at the top tier first. The golden goose, the industries that everyone is going to be looking toward because these ones are really thriving during this time. And it's probably not going to shock you, which ones I talk about. So the top industries that I have listed, and again, before I get started, this is not my opinion, although my industry is in this top list. It is healthcare. That's mine. We also have finance and banking, and we have social media and big tech. Now, I don't think it takes too big of an imagination to know why these are really thriving during this time. Healthcare is thriving because data is exploding at an unprecedented rate. And it's just, it's insane. And the amount of data that is needed to drive everything that's going on in the country right now is just insane. And so teams that used to be one person or two people are now five, six or seven, because they just have so many projects, so much data to work through, they need to hire more people. There's a lot of teams hiring right now for data analysts. And so that one I think is pretty obvious. Finance and banking, I gotta be honest, I don't know much about finance and banking, so I had to read up quite a bit on that during this time. Is doing really well, and I don't think it's ever done terrible, except maybe like 2008, 2009 timeframe, at least since I've been born, is doing really well during this time because everybody is needing something from the bank. Loans, mortgages, anything. And so, of course, it's just doing really well. There wasn't too much else on that topic that I got from it. It's just banking as usual. Money is important, people value it, it's gonna do well. The next one, and this one is, to me, the most interesting would probably be social media and big tech. Social media has become just insanely huge over the past like 10 years.  I'm currently stuck at home. And I gotta be honest, I'm on social media more than probably I ever have been with YouTube and LinkedIn and Facebook, not really Twitter, but all these things, I'm on it all the time. And so, I know that other people are as well, and the numbers support that. People are going on there, and it's just, it's insane. So, if you can get into this, they are hiring a lot more than usual. And there's no shortage really of jobs. You just gotta be a little bit more qualified potentially to get something at like a social media company or a big tech company, but they are hiring a lot right now. So, I don't think the top tier really is gonna surprise anybody. I don't think anybody's watching this and thinking, wow, Alex, that is a gem.  I don't think anyone's ever thought that. And so, you're definitely not gonna think about that. Let's move on to the medium tier, and I will say that this was just a weird one for me. The low tier is gonna make perfect sense, but the medium tier was interesting. And I had to do a little bit of digging into each of these to understand why they weren't ranked as highly or as low as some of the others. So, in the medium tier, we have government, we have automotive, real estate, and construction. Now, the government one apparently has just always been kind of medium tier. I don't know, it never really talked in any of these articles about, you know, how much it was impacted due to COVID, but I'm sure, you know, people are working from home, any data analysts related position, but the reason they kept saying it was one to get into was that the benefits are super good in a lot of government jobs. And when I think government jobs, I think like, in my mind, I'm thinking like local governments. My mind goes to the show Parks and Rec. And so, I'm thinking, you know, my local Parks and Rec department needs a data analyst, and I go there and they have good benefits. But government can also go as high as like the Department of Justice or like the FBI or CIA or something like that. So, you know, just the benefits itself are going to be really good. And, you know, from everything that I was seeing, it hasn't really affected it too much. And so, it still holds that kind of middle ranking. The next one is automotive. Now, the automotive industry took a huge hit early on in, early on to mid 2020. That's because everybody was working from home. Nobody needed a car. I could have genuinely like driven my car off a cliff and I would have been fine for like six months. I had all my groceries delivered. I didn't need to go out. I didn't need to do anything. And so, people stopped buying cars. They sold their cars. I mean, there was a huge dive in the automotive industry. And so, it doesn't surprise me that, you know, this one is the medium tier. I'm glad that it's back there because before they'd almost basically stopped hiring and refiring people for like a three, four month span, things are starting to go up as parts of the country are reopening and, you know, the lockdowns are a lot less frequent, even though things are still kind of bad. The automotive industry is starting to do better and they're starting to hire more. So, they're on that upward track of you can kind of ride that wave, you know, look at Toyota, look at Ford, some of these larger automotive industry places are companies. You know, these are places that you can look into and see if they're hiring. I know near me, we have a lot of Toyota. There's like a huge Toyota plant with analysts and engineers and all those things like right down the road from where I work. The next one is real estate. Now, I know very little about real estate. And so, I didn't really even understand that data analysts were part of real estate. I don't still fully 100% know how it works. But if you are someone who is a data analyst in looking in the real estate market, apparently is doing much better than it was when the pandemic first started.  Some of these articles mentioned things like Redfin and Zillow, like companies that you can work for in real estate, but also they're talking about some national, you know, providers who provide like mortgages and stuff like that surrounding real estate. Again, that is not my specialty. I'm being completely honest here, but you know, it makes the list. It's on its upward climb still. And that's what everything was saying is that real estate is starting to do better than it was last year. So, it's one that is starting to hire more starting to do better. The last one is construction. And I will say that this one was the most interesting one to me because almost every single article that I read had it mentioned, but I had almost no idea how analytics pertained to construction. When I think construction, I think about the people who are building these houses down the road for me who are super loud all the time and just hammering and drilling away 24-7. That's what I think of when I think of construction. I don't think about all the backend stuff that it takes to organize and buy all the materials and the raw materials and get them distributed and all these things. I never think about those things, but apparently there's a whole infrastructure that needs to be done for that. And that's where analysts come into play. Of course, early, mid, 2020, construction was way down. But because of things opening back up and all these things that I mentioned for a lot of these other ones, it's starting to come back really fast. And so a lot of places are hiring. Again, that is one that I'm just recently learning about. That's not my area of expertise at all. But one that I'm extremely interested in, I think that was everything I read was a lot more fascinating than I thought it was going to be, to be honest. Let's get to the one when I think most people are interested in, but will not be shocked in at all. And before I go into this, again, I want to say that if you have a real specialty in one of these areas, you might be able to still get a job. But a lot of these industries took a huge dive in 2020. And so going into 2021, there is not as abundant of positions available, if any, because a lot of them are probably on hiring freezes or their companies are shutting down. So the low category is travel and transportation for obvious reasons, retail, food and fitness, and then agriculture. And yes, agriculture was on the list and kept getting low rankings. And so I'm going to mention it, although again, one that I was really surprised by it's kind of like that construction, I didn't know agriculture had a lot of analytics involved. But again, that's just me being super naive to different industries other than my own. So let's start at travel and transportation. One sec. Yeah, let's start at travel and transportation. Of course, this one got hit really hard. So if you worked for any type of airline, any type of bus or shipping or really any of those transportation travel industries, they got hit really hard. Another one kind of related to that is things like Airbnb. That's that that traveling aspect place, things like that got hit really, really hard. And they have not fully recovered, although they're starting to do a little bit better. I mean, we had over in the US, we had like a million people fly in the US, which I don't advise, but people are still doing it. And so I think that one is not really surprising, to be honest. I don't think that shocks anyone. The next one is retail, food and fitness. Now, this one was in is in the low, but was kind of on the brink of being medium because a lot of these places are starting to kind of figure things out and are starting to hire more because they're starting to make more money. The food one and retails specifically for food, you know, a lot of companies are now doing delivery very well. They have a lot of these online online company or online website setup. They're working through DoorDash and all these other places. And so they kind of have everything set up now. One second, Max was coming over, I wasn't sure if he wanted to be part of the show or not. Buddy, you're gonna have to wait, buddy. He wants to go outside, but he can wait like 10 minutes. He's totally fine. I let him out like 30 minutes ago. I am a good owner, I promise you. So food is starting to do better. So things like, I mean, think of like national chains like Pizza Hut. I mean, you know, just that's just one small example of the thousands of chains out there and small restaurants out there that need analysts to analyze all this online data for them. And so, you know, think about that when you think food and retail and fitness, I mean, they're just not in a good place. And so, you know, they are starting to figure things out. They're starting to get permission to open back up like fitness related things. Retail is starting to open back up again, really slowly. Food is figuring things out. A lot of online data, but, you know, a lot of these places are just getting on their feet again. So I wouldn't be looking at those as my main options. So if you really have a passion for Pizza Hut and you're like, that's my dream job, go for it. But expect that there's probably gonna be less jobs available than there used to be. The last one is agriculture. Again, a super interesting one. And my first thought was people are buying groceries more now than ever. You know, everybody's at home. They need groceries. You know, how is that being affected? Everything that I was reading, it was talking about supply chains, how supply chains had been hit. And because of that, there were a lot of layoffs in the agricultural field. Again, not in my area of expertise, but super interesting, something that I never even contemplate or think about when it comes to that industry. I'm just like, they grow food, they transport food, we buy the food. So, you know, another one to consider. With all that being said, you know, with the top, the medium, the low tier, if you haven't already chosen an industry to go into them, if you're fresh out of college, and you're saying, I want to go into healthcare, I think that is fantastic. There is a lot of jobs out there. But with these top ranked ones, that domain knowledge helps. And so, if you already have a background in healthcare, if you already know something about healthcare, and you try to get into it, you're gonna have a good chance, to be honest. But if you're trying to go into finance and banking, and you have, you know, a completely unrelated degree, no experience, I mean, it's gonna be tough, like any other season of life or season of job hunting, it's gonna be tough. So, don't just expect it because it's on the top tier, it's an easy job to get. It's still gonna take work, you still have to have the right skill sets and credentials and all these in background and domain knowledge. So, there is that. I really do think going into 2021, it's important to talk about the subject because, you know, a lot of people are in the market right now. A lot of people are in the job hunt. And you don't want to be targeting industries that were really hard hit. In my opinion, you know, I don't, you can do whatever you want. In my opinion, you shouldn't be doing that. You should really be trying to target the ones that are on their upward trajectory or doing really well. So, an example for one like Big Tech is like Amazon, Google, all these large companies. You know, you may not have what I would consider like for myself, I probably wouldn't be able to get in there because, you know, they need like a good school, good education, potentially. But these are ones that are hiring a larger rate than ever before. And so, maybe not ever before, you know, but during this time, a year ago until now, they're doing really, really well. So, it's one to look into if you haven't already. We're gonna switch things up in just a second. But before we do, if you haven't already, if you want to support the channel, go on over to Patreon, support the channel. It would mean a lot to me in 2021. It means a lot to me now. And for all the people who support me on there, you guys are amazing and you guys are my favorite people. Let's say there's 500 people watching. I have 20 people on Patreon. You guys are my favorite 20. The other 480 mean less to me. That is just the reality of it. I don't feel bad about saying that. But if you want to be part of that group of people who supports the channel, I would appreciate that. That would mean a lot to me. Thank you. Let's move on to one of my favorite times of the show. There's the question of the week. Super excited about this one. I think this one's really relevant to today's topic. Give me one second. I got something in my eye. Really relevant to today's topic, kind of in a way you'll see. It's from Michael Robinson and he says, what is the odds of me getting work slash contracts without a degree? Just considering heading down this path and coming from hospitality with self-employed up until the outbreak and business minded.  I'm guessing any favors are any good. I don't know why I just capture that correctly apparently. That's a really good question. If you don't have a degree, what are the odds of getting work or contracts right now? Probably not going to like my answer, Michael, but your chances aren't super great right now, even in those top industries. Reason being is a lot of people are out of work and a lot of people are looking for jobs right out of college, switching careers, laid off. It's a saturated space right now and so the chances of you without a degree, which is a requirement, kind of a minimum requirement for a lot of jobs, the chances are a lot lower just right off the bat because the vast majority of these jobs require a minimum of a bachelor's degree. I think that hospitality is also not the best industry to be coming from. I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm not saying it's impossible. I promise you, I'm just trying to be realistic. I think hospitality is not a great industry to be coming from either. It's just not one that's super data analyst focused or has a lot of domain knowledge that you can use to get a lot of jobs. Although there are some companies that are hospitality focused that they may value that and so do some research. I just think that it's a tough market right now. It really is. That's why I'm talking about this subject because the market is tough. I want you to have the best chance of looking at the best industries and the best opportunities to get a job. I appreciate your question. I hope that answered your question. I don't want to discourage you. I just want to make you aware that it could be kind of tough right now. You may have to work extra hard and do more projects, market with more people, reach out to more people and really work hard to get a job or a contract right now. All right. I lied earlier. This is actually my favorite time of the show. Come on, guys. You know what time it is. You know what we're about to do. If you've made it this far, you are among an elite few, an elite group of people who are dedicated to their careers.  What kind of people do that? People who are not dedicated to their careers and that's just the truth. They're not going to make it. Be proud of yourselves. For making it this far, I'm proud of you. For that, if you want to, this is completely voluntary but makes me smile. If you want to make me smile, if you want to be part of that elite crew, or at least you want to show that you're part of that elite crew, you're already part of it. In the chat below, in the comment section as it were, I have a keyword for you that you can put and just to show that you made it this far and you were part of that elite squad, so it can be said. Of course, we're starting it off in 2021, vegetable-based. I can't turn my back on my vegetables. I can't do it. The vegetable of the week or the first week of 2021 is onions and I think it's very appropriate. I think onions have been used for a lot of metaphors and if it can be used in Shrek, I think I am intelligent enough to use it as well so I will try but probably not as effective as Shrek. They did a pretty great job. 2021 is going to be the onion of life. For you, for me, for this country, whatever country you are in, it's peeling back those layers of humanity, survival. Can we figure out who we are on the inside and get past all those layers of figuring out what to do, who we are and what we're supposed to be? I believe that we can and sometimes you need a helping hand to peel back that onion layer. Not my best work. Honestly, not good at all but I tried. I did my best. It was my first bad analogy or metaphor, whatever you want to call it, of 2021. There you go. Hit it off. Start it off really strong with this one. I don't have much else to say. I will say, let me do a time check. We're at the end so I'm just chilling now. I'm honestly, I'm really excited about 2021. I have a lot of goals, a lot of goals, a lot of plans. I hope you do too. I really recommend having some personal as well as some career goals. I have a lot of personal goals, a lot of career goals and I'm constantly revising them. You would not believe how many times I revised it last year. As this channel continued to pick up last year, my goals just kept changing. Every single month, it was a different goal. I was like, wow, it's doing a little better. Maybe I need to do this now. Or in my career, I was like, well, I'm doing really well at this. This should be the goal of mine. Closing out the show, I just want to encourage you or make you think about what kind of goals you're going to be setting for 2021. I don't like the word resolutions. I think that it has a really negative connotation. I just use goals. I say those are my 2021 goals. They're not my resolutions. I've always thought that resolutions were, I've looked up the definition one time and it said that resolutions were vague statements, whereas goals are specific, smart goals, you know what I mean? I like to set goals instead of setting resolutions. I know you probably don't care, but 99% has dropped off and it's just me talking now. I thought I'd share that little tidbit of information. If you guys have any suggestions for videos, I have plenty planned. Don't worry. You don't have to worry about me. But if you want to be part of the channel and provide a topic, and if I choose it, maybe I'll give you something. I don't know. That'd be cool. Or do some type of giveaway. I don't know. I'm just rambling. If you want to do that, give me a suggestion below. I will genuinely look at it and consider it. If it's good. If it's not, I'll comment back to you and be like, that was not a good suggestion. So take it or leave it. Thank you guys for sticking around so long. One of my goals is to ramble more at the end, just for Rameling's sake, to talk, share my mind for the whole beginning of the show. I take it pretty seriously and I try to stay on topic and now I just do whatever I want. So that's one of my goals. Anyways, I appreciate you. You guys are great. Have a good one. I will see you in the next episode.


y about hot tubs is you fill them once you don't keep replenishing the water you fill them once and then what you do is you treat that water so I don't know how often people change the water in these hot tubs because there are chemicals to keep it clean but I'm not trying to poo poo your point I'm not really quite sure if Airbnb owners pay water rates like any other commercial business also what's going on with people being nude on the side of the road in a hot tub 086625000 is the whatsapp and text number right my husband has a chronic health condition and he's on a treatment requiring him to have blood tests on every four weeks he has a medical card but has to pay 10 year each time for transport cost of getting blood to the hospital the transport costs that's right I couldn't figure out what was said to me previously um the cost that is not covered I think some GPs claim that HSE don't cover the cost of transport and that's why they pass it on to the public it gets very complicated then doesn't it when you get to that point and the bloods were for the long-term illness not other conditions okay thank you for that a family member was told when asked they had to pay for bloods they have a long-term illness and bloods were for hospital appointment hi Greg I'm sure there's cameras outside letter Kenny shopping centre might show who dropped the money that comes in from indeed and if anyone down there wanted to check I'm sure they could obviously Rashiin Khan she's just a citizen who happened to find this money and wants to get it back to its owner but maybe have you ever noticed I don't want to comment about CCTV because it might sound like I'm talking about the shopping centre CCTV which I'm not but you know so often so often the camera footage is so poor right okay a Teto Crisp sign which went missing from a pub in Donegal 70 years ago has been has found its way home it went missing from McGrory's bar now known as the Shamrock bar in Mount Charles in the fifties the sign which reads Teto Goromai is thought to be that is the worst pronunciation of that side sign ever it's thought to be one of the first to advertise the famous Irish Crisp brand it was spotted in an Irish bar in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and has since been returned to Mount Charles terlock McGrory joins us on the program now good morning to you terlock thanks so much for your time good morning thank you for ringing me I really appreciate it's right it's Greg here I think you were chatting to Naila Notion but that's okay terlock come here your mother owned the bar in Mount Charles is this in the fifties at the time that the sign went missing yes my mum and father here in Mount Charles it was known as Brian McGrory's bar and at that time the sign had to be there previous to the sixties that had to be and do you remember any stories of the sign actually going missing no stories of the sign going missing because it's like at that time as I said there was no actual story if it had gone missing you'd only be telling your lie you know no I get you no I understand that so the real stories then how it was discovered how it was found so what is the story there terlock well friends of councillor and old Jordan's friends were out on holiday in Rotterdam and the ice skirts of Rotterdam and the Irish bar I think it was called Murray's Irish pub and while they were seated at the bar they noticed this sign on the back of the bar the barman and they took it down and showed them the sign and on the rear of the sign was my mother's signature wow and they were able to make the connection to McGrory's bar in Mount Charles after the back of that obviously that is correct because they lived locally and they recognised my mum's name right away and made the connection to the pub and then what happened next well the barman actually he asked them do you wish to have the sign do you know the connection do you know these people and they said right away well we know Tordock McGrory in Mount Charles and they said the barman said you're welcome to take the sign back to Mount Charles with you on your way do you know there is the chances of this happening are I don't know they're absolutely astromanical you can give up on winning the lotto anyway terlock because I would say the odds of this being the sign out of Mount Charles your mum actually signing it it being taken down and shown to people who are friends of cancer and old Jordan them recognising your mother's signature and then taking it back with them to Ireland I mean the odds are just enormous aren't they unbelievable I just can't believe it so my mother would and father would be so proud if they had seen this you know all right okay so they've passed on now have they terlock so actually it must have been really quite emotional for you or whatever emotion you might have felt you know to have this sign that your mother signed all the way back from Rotterdam to you yeah it was just unbelievable but I just couldn't believe it because back then I was very young you know yeah very very young and you have it back in opposition now I have it here in my hand wow and what size is it it's a circular made of a plywood and it's printed on both sides as Gaelic on one side and English say Teto are sure good I would say it's possibly one of their original advertisement signs yeah for sure and it's like brand new yeah and did they ever discover how it found itself in a bar in Rotterdam I mean is there any working theories other than someone bought it in an auction or it was given to someone or perhaps my mother gave it to someone I honestly couldn't say wow okay this way back home and Teto what type of a fellow are you like is it just like an amazing coincidence does it feel like a sign or something not just a sign in its physical sense or like what have you made of the whole story your mum and dad's possession back in your hands now what does it meant to you or have you looked any deeper into it yeah I suppose it's very very sentimental it would be to the family I also have two other brothers and it's just an unbelievable story right okay it is fantastic and what are you doing with the sign now does it take pride of place in the house or what's the story I take pride less of it hung up here in the kitchen of the house for anyone to see no Jordan's not trying to picture claim on it is he no I was wondering maybe Teto Crisp might have an interest in it well because of the sentimental value Turlock I didn't want to talk about its financial value but I want to know what these programs are like satellite channels and these old signs are very valuable yeah sentimental Trump's everything we can hold on to you can't put a price on sentimental value is not it Turlock no no no no okay listen it's a wonderful story Turlock McGrory thank you so much for sharing it with us and it's lovely to have that little family history back in your possession it's remarkable alright Turlock take care thank you very much bye bye that's Turlock McGrory there his mom and dad owned Brian McGrory's bar in Mount Charles friends of friends were in an Irish bar in Rotterdam they noticed this sign Oscar to get on one side English on the other it's for Teto Crisp the barman said do you want to have a look at it they recognised Turlock's mom's signature on it and the barman said well if you know where this belongs take it with you they take it back and it's backing Turlock's hands what are the odds it's a remarkable strange and wonderful story as well but there you have it and it's priceless it's invaluable because of the sentimental value there brilliant story thank you very much Turlock for getting in touch with us hi Greg there is two laws in this country if I'm Irish and I buy a UK car I have a short time to pay the VRT there's nox charges as well isn't there but customs and guards are turning a blind eye to the other vehicles that have been here in Ireland for months now well there's a derogation I presume you're probably talking are you about Ukrainian cars there's a there's a derogation there and an agreement with insurance companies in Ukraine to cover them and all that kind of stuff right blood tests I was in my doctor's surgery to get bloods it cost 30 euro because I've got no medical card or I don't have a GP visit card beside me there was an asylum seeker with a medical car but no money he told them that he had no money and they sent him up to the hospital he admitted that he was an asylum seeker without money I inquired why I couldn't get free bloods and they told me that they needed the nurse to fill out a form in order to get sent to the hospital and get free bloods okay let us take a break our next guest gonna join us very shortly watch the show live now on YouTube and at highlandradio.com the 9 till noon show is brought to you by letter Kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at letter Kenny see you dot ie or in 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Reception and online at Eventbrite to miss and napping night off Springsteen magic the rape crisis center in partnership with Oath Studios is set to unveil a short film documentary highlighting the valuable work they do in supporting survivors of sexual violence the film will also examine the charity's urgent need for funding the documentary which has been described as powerful will be launched at a special event on February 2nd at Sarah's letter Kenny and there's an invitation to the wider community to attend but to talk a bit more about it I'm joined by Martina Porter who's manager of the Donegal rape crisis center good morning Martina thank you for your time today morning great good to have you on board with us so whose idea was this this film and I've sort of outlined the aims of it but maybe you could add a little bit more to it for us well it was actually Oath Studios who approached us Gemma made contact with me and said they would like to she had been following us on our own social media and she said they would like to basically create a short film to promote the service and just to let people know about the work that we do really and I suppose this has the positive in a couple of directions here because I think in terms of people supporting the work that it does it gives the general public a better understanding of what you do we do lots of interviews and we describe things but maybe when people can see the staff themselves explaining it it might resonate a bit better but also the many people who are the victims of of sexual abuse or sex crimes who don't come forward and a lot of that might be well I don't know what happens when they do or whom are going to be dealing with so I think in many different ways has the potential to have a really positive impact the more eyes that see it the better yes I mean rape crisis centre sounds horrible Greg there's no two ways about it and that's why we would invite people to come in for a cup of tea a coffee and have a look around so I think this film it does number one you get to see it through the eyes of someone coming into the centre and seeing that oh it's not all clinical it's not all medical it's quite nice bright friendly safe space and then to hear the various staff members talking about their work and the passion they have and the compassion and dedication I think it just hopefully it will break some of those barriers towards someone coming forward and just realise we're just ordinary people helping all ordinary people who have been through awful things but this is a safe space and can be their safe space and also to I try and make because I was told once that it was helpful that engaging with the services of the day don't go rape crisis centre and actually say that the name of it it's really it is very impactful but you know it's about supporting people and what have you it's not like let's get you to the Guardian or whatever it's about getting people in to help and support them through very traumatic times in the way they want and in the way that's best for them absolutely I always say to clients or potential clients you know they're in the driving seat great it's up to them what they want to talk about nobody's going to question them about the events or event if they want to tell us whatever details they can but you know we're not like the guards we're not investigators it's where the person's at and what we can help them with how it's impacting their life now so it may be anxiety sleeplessness issues in school or work so it's where the person's at it's not about going over and over what happened previously obviously if someone wants to talk about that they can but our clients may decide to never report and that's absolutely fine if they want to report and go through the legal system then we can support and help with that but really it's up to the individual themselves what group they want to take but we will supply them with as much information to make an informed decision one thing that is maybe not talked about as much as it possibly should be is the supports that are given to people the cancelling supports alternative therapies advocacy education areas of work that maybe people aren't fully aware that the centre provides yes well we have disclosure training coming up now at the end of this month and the end of February we don't get core funding for education or training so it was through the HSE suicide prevention fund we got money to deliver this disclosure training to community groups and all I know some of your staff are coming Greg we ran out of funding for our schools program sadly so you'll see Neve who was our education officer talking about the program the schools program when we were making the film but sadly now we don't have that anymore because we couldn't get funding for it but we do you know accompany people to the guard station the guards would come here and meet people with fantastic team of guards here in Donegal and the DPSU in letter Kenny so they will come and discuss to people what the local process would be to report we do court accompaniment we do accompaniment to SATU the sexual assault treatment unit we can help with victim impact statements you know sometimes we I'd have to do letters for somebody if they can't do school exams, college exams if they're falling behind the food bank here have been fantastic to clients as well or trying to help people get accommodation so there's lots more than just to our work but as you say Greg that's pretty much the invisible work that goes on behind I want to at the end talk about funding and what have you but in terms of you know the last year the last couple of years are you seeing any notable it's all notable changes in the cases the type of cases the caseload how many people you're seeing versus a previous years I'm not expecting you have all those stats right in front of you Marina but just interesting interested to know if there's anything any particular trends that they're jumping out at you well the numbers are always go up and I know we spoke before about the numbers of young people affected by sexual violence so we do now work with young people 12 up and we have a fantastic parent guardian supporters group it's like a psycho-educational group and we met once a month last year so they've asked to meet twice a month this year which is fantastic our space here is a bit small for that at the moment so we're trying to get a bigger space obviously that's funding and we have several groups plan to work with young people again we don't have the space at the moment our staff to do that but we've had a lot since before the summer a lot of international protection clients so that's a completely new thing for us mostly from Africa African countries so I am trying to source funding I think we need someone specialised the Donegal intercultural platform are fantastic they came over did some training with the staff for cultural awareness and are they not talking about any individual cases at all of course but is there a trend in why they're visiting is it instances of sexual assault within their homes or their accommodation or is it predominantly female or a mixture or it's predominantly females so they would have fled their home countries due to physical and sexual violence and then sadly we do have clients who have been affected by sexual violence since they came to Ireland as well so there's trauma upon trauma and being isolated away from their families their friends sometimes their children it's it's really tragic I mean every case that comes but when we're talking about our usual clients they would have support from friends from family whatever here maybe they only have one person but at least one person but a lot of the newer clients we're seeing now they're so alone and they're living in very craft and really unsuitable conditions for the most part as well you mentioned about an element of the documentary about education what was being taught in schools is this about consent it was a consent program I mean we know the big thing here is to try and prevent any of this happening to educate the potential perpetrator of what's right and wrong to educate the victim as to what's right or wrong and to tell people where so the big thing there is to get in when it's appropriate at a younger age and you were doing great work in that regard in getting into the educational settings to teach but you've had to put that on hold because of a lack of funding available, I mean you have to prioritize where money goes and that is one area that simply could no longer be funded no, we funded the pilot ourselves first of all and then we did get money from the county council and various small bits of funding with some from the toy show for that as well but since August we've had no money for it at all Greg and I mean education is the way forward because I went out to the couple schools myself as well and young people were not aware that they're actually breaking the law, sharing intimate images different things the very basics they don't have and if they don't know that it's not only affecting the person who's on the receiving end of sexual violence but the perpetrator as well that's going to affect their career, their future everything and they're wider family too for most parents or guardians can you imagine if you get a knock at the door and there's this claim made against your person and I'm presuming you have to offer some support for them or signposting at least as well because that turns potentially their world upside down as well so on to funding you can go to iDonate and donate directly to the Donegal Rate Crisis Centre to support the work with victims to support some of the programs we talked of education what is the breakdown in terms of the support you get from the state they should be chucking money at this left, right and centre as far as I'm concerned but what matters is what I say but in terms of the breakdown how then rely on to you also on public funding to help support the services and the supports well we really are, our core funding was from Toosley so now it's going to be the new organisation that's taken over now since January so we we had to do major funding applications there just before Christmas and we don't know our budget for 24 yet we were meant to find out mid-December we don't know so staff are kind of concerned that may have been funded say through the toy show so we don't know now if we have the money to pick up that gap in the funding we got some money from the Department of Justice and everything else all grants applying so donations and fundraisers really are very very important for covering the things because our core funding mainly goes to counselling ours we need the money for everything else you know the the reality is not exclusively of course but the majority of people that are availing of Donegal Rape Crisis Centre services are going to be female and young people children as well and if we have an interest in protecting our these people then we should be communicating or at least getting on to our TD not communicating sorry donating but getting on to our local TDs or government ministers whatever and saying hold on why why can the Donegal Rape Crisis Centre not adequately plan for 2024 because it doesn't know how much money it's getting yet you can't work with your hands tied either I'm not expecting you to comment on that and pitch yourself against potential sort of influencers I wouldn't do that to you but I'm feeling it must be frustrating that you could be doing an awful lot work more than filling out forms all day trying to grab money together so if you want to donate and help these people you can go to the Donegal Rape Crisis Centre online or visit idonate.ie forward slash causes forward slash Donegal Rape Crisis Centre and just finally there's an invite for everyone to attend this premiere of this short film which focuses on the services provided by DRCC it is on the 2nd of February at 7pm insist to Sarah's whatever you want to say about encouraging people to attend that it's over to you Marina. The more people that come the better really just to find out about the service and also break the stigma surrounding attending an event like that about a service such as ours we're having a fundraising raffle so if anyone would even like to donate prizes for the raffle would be good and yeah we will post the film then on our website shared on social media after after the launch obviously but it's just really to let people know that we're here and our service is free okay listen Marina it's very important for people to know that it's not going to cost them money to avail of our support thank you for all the time this morning I really appreciate it bye bye that is Marina Porter Donagall manager of the Donagall Rape Crisis Center back with more shortly the 9 till noon show with letter Kenny credit union simplify your debts with a debt consolidation loan from letter Kenny credit union call us on<PHONE_NUMBER> or apply online via our app or in office today and it's ours to protect from 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thanks so much for your time listen I don't know much about weather but the setting up here does seem to be very useful for snow falling snow lying what is the science telling us yes so we have an orderly or not westerly read a very cold air over us now right up until Friday so it's going to stay pretty much cold right through until Friday now the showers are going to start feeding into night and early tomorrow morning into the north and northwest so Dunningall is going to see some snow showers now it will actually drag in a little bit less cold air for time tomorrow morning so it might turn into kind of a sleety kind of mix of rain, sleet and snow at lower levels mess for time but probably falling the snow on high ground there will be some accumulations of snow likely in Dunningall but the problem is it's going to freeze after that then tomorrow night so whether it's rain sleet or snow that falls there is going to be likely frost on top of that which is going to form ice and then you're going to have more showers on Wednesday feeding in again so it is going to be a tricky few days I mean the Harley folks in Dunningall are well used to a bit of cold but it's the ice that's probably going to cause some problems in terms of local roads that aren't greeted and as I say it could be a couple of centimetres of snow accumulate especially on higher ground when we talk about higher ground Alan we're not necessarily talking the top of Virgil are we higher ground you know there's a lot of higher ground in Dunningall yeah no absolutely you're talking about over probably 150-200 metres so that's not particularly high especially given the landscape that you guys have so no you mean it's just at lower levels and beside the coast it may well be rain and sleet but then any kind of further inland and uplands a little bit it is likely to fall of snow but there will be showers primarily so it'll be hit and miss so you could leave your house and think oh it's grand or oh 10 minutes and all of a sudden you start meeting cars with snow on them I'm wondering where you're heading and then you hit snow so it's just going to be hit and miss it's going to be localised so as usual local radio will be invaluable and people should stay up to date with the weather there is a yellow weather warning for tonight and tomorrow for snow and ice there's likely to be more weather warnings especially for cold temperatures over the next few nights because as I say it's really Friday evening before we start to see temperatures rising but the problem is we're going from maybe nice cold settle weather apart from the showers to very wet and windy weather for the weekend and next week I'm afraid yeah well yeah nothing nothing nothing in there that's middling in between and as you said Alan it's not necessarily the amount of snowfall it's the fact that it's going to be so cold all of the time that we will see some accumulations and it might be slow to thaw and we're going to see quite a bit of it or some of it on higher ground 150-200 metres above sea level yeah and as I said the fact that it's going to stay cold afterwards so even if there is a little bit of a sleety snow kind of mess on Tuesday it's going to freeze then and it's going to continue to kind of maybe slow thaw freeze slow thaw freeze so the icy situation is going to continue until Friday really until Friday night even so yeah it's just easy as you go and stay warm and just make sure that people have enough heating especially the elderly and the vulnerable and that because there's not going to be much of an increase in temperatures by day so if you don't want to have the heat and buildings they're going to get cold quite quickly yeah for sure I noticed that myself Alan this and thank you as always for your time that's Alan O'Reilly there from Karlo Weather you can check him out on Twitter, Facebook he's on threads everywhere okay so just to keep you as Alan quite rightly said there's two different types of weather up here but just to keep your wits about you and leave plenty of time extra time for travelling because sometimes it's not just the speed that you want to go there's other drivers in front of you I saw some overtaken this morning where people obviously were getting impatient behind three or four vehicles and you just wouldn't want to be at it also too and I don't own animals but I do know cats often seek shelter even if you don't own cats in cars up under and above wheels so no harm you don't want to be responsible for any harm coming to a lovely animal I would imagine so no harm particularly in the urban areas but not exclusively just to check your cars this morning to make sure there's no cats in above the tyres or what have you because they're also seeking warmth and comfort as well I live in Donegal and there are hot tubs at rented houses and a lot of people using these hot tubs aren't wearing anything it's not nice as a lot of people walk the road as it leads to the beach nearby okay that's interesting is there a thing in Donegal of people skinny dipping in hot tubs I generally like to wear my shorts in a hot tub but that's two different people now talking about nudies, nudists and hot tubs so we were on about civil registration office as well in Nettra Kenney of course no harm meant to the staff there's not many of them working really really hard but a lot of work to do between deaths marriages and what have you births the HSE cannot comment on individual cases or the particular circumstances surrounding them there are currently a number of vacancies in the Nettra Kenney Civil Registration Office we have worked to progress to fill positions but as you may be aware the recent recruitment pause has limited our ability to do so as cleaners outlining as a result we're currently unable to meet the demand for the service in full the HSE are working to meet the demand for appointments within current resources available to them the HSE sincerely apologises for the inconvenience this causes individuals and we fully acknowledge the impact of this on members of the public so what they're saying is yes they're short staffed there is a recruitment embargo they can't fill these positions I'm sorry but that means that we can't we can't provide the service that we'd like to service demand for the services currently full and no real hope whilst that recruitment embargo is in place for those looking to use those services I've been asked to wish a happy birthday to Maeve also I beg your pardon I've been asked to wish a happy birthday to Maeve Sullivan I'm just going to take a little sip of this coffee because my throat's dry delicious Maeve is on the golf course road Nettra Kenney best wishes to you happy birthday from Greg lovely name Greg Shane Eugene and Orla as well as grandchildren Jack Oscar Serb Ethan and Molly all lovely names have a lovely day I hope you spoiled rotten a caller says I have a stoma bag I can't go to a decent toilet in Nettra Kenney or Ballet Buffet because there are no decent toilets you need a clean place to empty the stoma bag sometimes you have to empty the bag every 15 or 20 minutes it's a disgrace that there are no decent clean public toilets in Nettra Kenney or Ballet Buffet I am able to go out I have to then think where I could use the toilet if I had to the only reliable clean toilets are doctor surgeries I can't even go for lunch without worrying about the toilets and that is a reality that we were I was trying to relate as the listener earlier on quite rightly pointed out it can be an issue if you've got children or whatever but there's lots of people for different neat reasons that need toilets pregnancy I can't say all the conditions but you know what I mean lots of different reasons right ok a lot of these messages I have here are quite long and I want to save them for tomorrow back to toilets. Toilet facilities in a shopping centre in Galway charge 50 cent accepting card and coin payment see that's a private enterprise I wouldn't be a fan of paying to go in a private shopping centre I was talking more about public toilets would be people be prepared to pay to pee in public driving test disruption today some postponed weather check your centre it's amazing isn't it teaching people to drive but they won't test them when it's a bit icy and then you pass your test and you go out and it could be icy and what have you done to learn about that anyway thanks so much for your company this last three hours we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine have a wonderful Monday as I say particularly tonight and overnight drive carefully leave plenty of time space defrost windows and all that malarkey just be safe chat to you tomorrow at nine


Arthur, you are closely associated with the concept of the Divine Feminine, and we on Earth humanity is moving into the Divine Feminine at this time. What are a few things we should be paying attention to so we can fully heal and embody the feminine principle to really help the beautiful Mother Earth and to help humanity, women, women, and everything in between, to thrive? Connecting to your Divine Feminine can appear in many different ways. One, as you mentioned in the conversation before, is the ability to flow and not to try to control and put your own limits on it, but we will say that the bigger picture of connecting to your Divine Feminine is really connecting to your inner creator.


Hello everyone, today we are learning on the topic called gating system. At the end of this session, we will be able to understand the gating system and its elements and what are the types of gating system. What the contents are covered here, gating system, elements of gating system, goals of gating system and types of gating system. Now first we will look at what is gating system? Gating system, the assembly of channels which facilitates the molten metal to enter into the mould cavity is called gating system. Alternatively, it can be said the gating system refers to all passages, ways through which molten metal passes to enter into the mould cavity. The nomenclature of the gating system depends upon the function of different channels which they perform. Now we will be looking at what are the different elements of gating system. First look at this figure. What we see at this figure is first the pouring cup. This is the pouring cup where the molten metal is the first place to enter into the system to make the casting. Second we will immediately observe under the pouring cup a sprue. It connects the pouring cup with the sprue well. Generally the design of the sprue helps us to reduce the defects like erosion. The third element what is called sprue well. Generally this sprue well is placed immediately under the sprue which helps to reduce the turbulence when it is flowing from sprue to runners. Now after the metal enters from pouring cup to sprue to sprue well it runs, rushes through the runner. Runner is what it connects the sprue well to different elements of ingates. Now you see the runners are of straight section. It depends upon how much runner we give depends upon the casting weight, casting size and type of the casting which we use. From runners we use the metal rushes to the mold with the help of ingates which are also called as gates. At the end of the sprue you will see a runner well. Now this is gating system what is there. Another element a riser is there which is placed at the hot spot in the casting which is now it is not shown in the figure but which is very important element as part of whole casting. Now you see at the boat ends there is some extension is provided. This extension helps us to reduce to reduce the proper flow if it is not occurring and plus the turbulence which if it all occurs. Now coming what are the goals what are the major roles what we will see of the gating system. The main important role is to minimize turbulence to avoid trapping gases into the mold. As we know the metal when it starts flowing it has a huge turbulence and with the help of proper gating system the turbulence can be avoided and if gases are present that also with the help of gating system we can remove it otherwise these gases will create large number of defects and finally we need to throw away the castings or we have to revert the castings. Second to get enough metal into the mold cavity before the metal starts to solidify. As we know there is some solidifying there is shrinkage occurs for all metals so one of the goal of the gating system is to provide enough metal to the casting before the metal starts to solidify. Second to avoid shrinkage as I already told you. The next important goal of gating system is to establish the best possible temperature gradient in the solidifying casting so that the shrinkage if occurs may be in the gating system not in the required cast part. As we know if the casting has some defects internally it has to be thrown away. Now this kind of possible temperature gradient can be helped with the help of two first if the gating system is designed in a positive powerful manner so this can be avoided otherwise in other cases chills are been used which helps us to provide the temperature gradient. Second as we know when the metal flows throughout the system it carries some amount of debris or non-metallic inclusions and if that debris be the past of the casting it will lead to defect or the functioning can affect. So the important goal of once again the gating system is to incorporate a system for trapping the non-metallic inclusions so these are the five important gating system functions or we can say the goals of gating system. Now we will understand what are the different types of gating system before that we will understand what is gating ratio. Now gating ratio it is defined as ratio of sprue area to total runner area to total ingate area on the basis of this gating system may be classified as pressurized gating system and non-pressurized gating system. First we will look at what is pressurized gating system the total cross section area if it decreases towards the mould cavity it leads to pressurized gating system. As we can easily see or understand that cross section area if it decreases towards the mould cavity a pressure is being created so it is termed as pressurized gating system. Now back pressure is maintained by the restriction of metal flow then the important part is flow of liquid volume is almost equal from all gates back pressure helps in reducing the aspiration of sprue always runs full because of restriction the metal flows at a high velocity leading to more turbulence and charges and chances of mould erosion so this is one of the disadvantages of pressurized gating system. Now we look at what is unpressurized gating system the total cross section area in this case increases towards mould cavity restriction is only at the bottom of the sprue flow of liquid volume is different from all gates aspiration in the gating system as a system never runs full so this is one of the disadvantages of unpressurized gating system and there is less turbulence now think if the gating ratio is defined as 1 ratio 2 ratio 4 which type of gating system it is called references you can refer NPTEL PLGEN principles of foundry technology and NPTEL's latest lecture courses thank you.