OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. All right, well, good afternoon, everybody. It's great to be here with you. I'm Virginia Burroughs here with Will Netterson at Test and Adult School. And we're here to share our journey or steps through D-LAC. So we want to start with this quote from Steve Jobs. And I think it's a great quote here. I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it. I think that's what we feel like right now in our journey of D-LAC over the two years is we're creating something big. And the step might have been hard as we go through our ups and downs, and you'll hear that today. But it started because we took that first step. So we're really excited about that. For those of you who don't know, Test and Adult School is located in Mid County, Orange County. We're part of the Test and Unified School District. And when we like to say we're about 20 minutes south of Disneyland, in case you're aware of that place. Let's see if this is a cooperate. Okay, so here we go. We're rolling people, you know, that's technology. So the makeup of our school, our small little school has right now currently 854 students. As you compare it to last year, we've definitely grown from the 621 prior. But I'll just be honest with you, two years ago, we lost and went to only 300, about 352 students. So we're celebrating the growth, but I'll be reflective with you. Pre-COVID, we were at 1,800 students. So we've got a way to grow still, so. But our primary focus in our program is ESL. That's our bread and butter in one sense. It's our largest population of students enrolled with us. We do citizenship preparation, adult basic education in mathematics and reading. And then we have our adult high school diploma and equivalency. I love this fact. We service the 18 year old, but our oldest ESL learner is 81 years old. That is just great to know that they're coming and wanting to still engage in English, that beginning literacy class. I could keep talking, but I'll be quiet. And in our school represented, we have 20 other languages besides English, English that are represented. Because we're a small school, we have 30 part-time teachers, which is one of our challenges. We have one part-time counselor, seven classified staff who help glue everything together. Our classes are both online and in person and we offer instruction mornings, evenings, and Saturdays. So a little bit about us. Now that we've been talking again, I'm Will Netterson and the coordinator for our program, we don't have a direct principal, but I'm the administrator that oversees our program. So my title is coordinator. I joined Test and Adult School in the 18, 19 school year. So had a year under my belt before COVID and everything hit to try and understand. My background prior to that though is elementary education in the same district. I'm gonna add the reason that this is important is because I helped the school district pass a bond measure that was technology based for the K-12 to bring technology to everyone. So that was something coming into the adult ed world. I'll bring a little bit more into that background. I'm Virginia Burroughs. I'm currently the instructional coach for our ESL program. I began an adult ed way back in 1988 when I took a part-time job as a bilingual instructional assistant and I never looked back because I love adult education. And she's kindly being shy, but she was the one after flexibility that helped reopen Test and Adult School and took that step back to give me the opportunity. So I love that. Our team as well as we have supporting team members, Virginia came on new this year for year two. My first year was with Laura Flores, Miranda who had better opportunities. So we celebrate that but she's still with the school in other ways. And then we've worked with our leadership team that consists also of our school counselor and our adult ABE or lead ABE ASC teacher. So Lillian Tranchow and Stacy Sevkic. So we just want to acknowledge them in that process. Great.  We were at a place where we were kind of marching in place but not moving ahead a whole lot. So Delac really presented that opportunity for us to really try something new. So we're going to call it the nudge is what Delac did. We just became a WIO agency. And so all of a sudden these things opened and the introduction to OTAN was one of them. And an email came through that said, apply for Delac. Well, let me give you a little background about test and adult school reopening. We were paper pencil based. Do you know talking about my part-time teachers? A lot of them are tired. Paper and pencil is a safe place to be. The technology, if you were going to talk about what's available to our staff and students, it was a laptop, a document camera and a projector, so thank you for that investment. But that's what was there for our students. We might have had that one computer lab but not a lot of technology for our students. And then our textbook didn't have that electronic component that we were using. So definitely heavy paper pencil. So Laura came to me and said, hey, Will, we should really apply for this Delac thing. Yeah, okay. And I'm an administrator trying to do it all but she's like, no, Will. So I appreciate her nudge to that. And our focus on the initial application was to integrate digital literacy skills into our teacher's instruction. As you heard, that's where our base was. Then a push.  So we were starting that journey and then all of a sudden, as with all of you, we ended up trying to figure out how in the heck do we do this anymore? So our first step was to go to asynchronous classes or independent study and then that next fall, we got our teachers on board with Google Meet and Zoom and started that journey. And it wasn't pretty and it wasn't easy but those were our first steps. But it was amazing. I have to tell you to think of a team who wasn't looking at technology. We did a lot of amazing things and part of it was the interaction here. This image speaks a lot to Delac, if I can just put it this way. Sometimes when you see this, you think of the team that's standing at the top ready to pull the next person. I wanna flip that view for you and I want you to see us as testing at all schools. The ones trying to climb and reach out because we knew that we wanted to succeed and achieve higher for our students and part of that was digital integration. The Delac team, so Penn and Netta, sorry for that, Dr. Porter, Susan, it's that team that could reach up and support us and pull us and moving forward. So again, as it says here, the first steps towards getting somewhere is to decide what you are not going to stay where you are, we weren't gonna stay. We knew that we wanted to make a difference and I think that's the important piece. So, Ideal 101 came into our existence and with that, as you all know, it was a lens that really changed the focus of what are we gonna look at and things that we hadn't thought about, recruitment, about orienting individuals. What is distance learning really gonna be when you don't have distance learning and also when you go to an online component that you know nothing about, a lot of those pieces. So we appreciate those components and made us think about and then being able to, I know it was work for us, those of us that have this journey understand it to fill out the information to be reflective but to then get the feedback from the teams. I'm sorry, I'm looking at all of you in here. The feedback that you talked about, the feedback I'm gonna call out Garden Grove in our team meeting with Susan as well. Destiny giving her insight and her questions too. I think we appreciate it because it really gave it a different focus. So in that year and looking back at what we did at year one, you heard me say it was a laptop, document camera and a projector that typically was technology at our school. We invested in purchasing Surface Pros. That was our district's device. We had about 60 Surface Pros come on so we could lend them out to our high school side of the house or an ESL student who didn't have accessibility. Teachers also got Surface Pros and then we ordered 40 iPads to try and bring in because we were able to, the second half of the year bring in students in a limited number of quantity to try and bring that technology. And then the inspiration from you, we understood that social media, we needed to get the word out. So we had a Facebook account that was stagnant but looking at bringing in a Twitter account, Instagram account. Now if you try and look us up at Tessin Adult School, we're still learning about it if I can put it that way or keeping up with it, finding the managing at pieces but it's that communication that's so important. We also hearing about orientation and wanting to give a clearer picture for our students of what they should expect from us, created an orientation video and then from Ideal 101, the screener. You know, what digital capabilities do you have in asking, we created a four question screener. Can you send an email? Do you know how to navigate the website? Can you type those components and it gave us a quick understanding of what our students had as they were coming in and registering, they're answering this quick screener for us. With that, we ended year one with our plan. You know, where was our focus and the five focus areas, technology access for learners and staff. We knew that we need to invest in more technology but we also needed to invest in getting into the hands of individuals. So we purchased more devices in those pieces. Recruitment, mailing postcards. I know that sounds old fashioned as we're talking about digital literacy but sometimes you need that, right? To say, oh, come into us. The Instagram and those pieces. Screening and orientation is a big piece that we've set this process. Our classified staff now understand you don't just come in to take a test with us. You're coming in, we're gonna introduce, show a video. So really brought the classified staff on board. Online registration was huge for us because we could start saying, oh, who are we missing that comes and fills out a registration form? How can we follow up? So that wasn't even our teaching staff but our classified staff. And then professional development and staff support. So how we built for year two, know Virginia will get more into that. And then looking at instruction and assessment, you heard me talk about paper and pencil. I can proudly say now this year, I can count the number of paper and pencil tests we've given on my hand because we went e-testing. We took the steps. So those are big for us. So to those of you that are larger, please understand it's big for us. All right, I jumped in in year two. And the things that stood out for me from this work was the triple E framework because it really informed us of the components that matter for digital resources. Was very helpful when we looked at building our rubric about what we should be considering. That was a great exercise for us. We had Melinda come and do a whole professional development. She didn't come. The Google suite, which helped our district as a Google district, but the adult school had never gotten in on any of that training. So it was our turn and that was very helpful. It was kind of the first step for most of our teachers for getting into like a digital suite of tools. The sessions, I love Dr. Porter's things on the leadership aspects, how we perceive ourselves as a cultural entity, how our community sees us. Having difficult conversations with faculty and staff who weren't quite moving into those places as quickly or as seamlessly as that we had hoped. And then the integration of technology. We actually tried something and ended up having to pivot it a little bit. So that was good learning for us. What we accomplished, we developed onboarding workshops that we developed in terms of being offered before instruction started in basic email understanding and being comfortable with an online platform as well as a new curriculum which we started, which we did Burlington English for professional development. We tried to really bring what Melinda had taught us into teachers' hands in smaller pieces at that point so that they could understand how to make and use a Google form with students in an iPad or how to do a QR code to make that another way students could access content. And then finally our rubric. The rubric we developed, we applied to USA Learns, specifically the citizenship curriculum because our citizenship people didn't really have a lot of digital aspects to their curriculum. And we know that that matters maybe even more to them. So that's something where we did an application to that. Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take a step forward. We've had to remember that that half step back is important. So we're gonna call it missteps, but really we look at it and we've tried to frame it as a change of course to move forward. Part of that onboarding, we celebrate that we did it, we piloted it, but I'm gonna be honest with you, enrollment was low, attendance was even lower. We attempted it twice and even got worse results. So we know that there's a change in that. With that we've looked that we would wanna bring in a team that's gonna go into actual classrooms because we learned from our teachers as well. Teach us all together so we all know together how to work in function. So that's one of our plans is taking a coach myself and another teacher to go in and support. And then professional development, using Google Forms to ask our teachers in survey, be shared with us, we need more time to think. So allowing a time of collaboration where we are quiet and they can exchange ideas together and reflect on what we've just learned together or what we've learned in the past to refine our practice. It's huge and it's important. So that's part of what we're looking to move forward with. Challenge is still the slide is the same one. Part-time staff is always gonna be a challenge for us. Funding for professional development and for technology. I'd love to get a technology piece into every one of my adult's hands that comes through our door so that way they can touch it. Cause sometimes touching it breaks that fear of even working with technology and being able to take that first step and be risk takers is huge. We want them to be innovators, creators. They have to touch the device first. And then in a moment you heard me say, we're still behind on that. We want to build that. And we close with this. I just want to read this quote to you. A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. Dilak and Otan, thank you for taking us on to build us as leaders. And we hope that we can build leadership at our own school so they can be collaborators and innovators as well. So we know there's more future work to do but thank you very much. Thank you.


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Welcome to Lightning Talks. We have five people doing six things, and first up is Sean. Hello, I'm Sean, so Deagert is a multi-faceted project trying to solve a lot of problems at once – the source package certainly is. And so I wanted to briefly talk about one of the things that Deagert makes better the things that deagit makes better that is a reason why you should consider incorporating deagit push into your existing workflows. So one of the things that we offer our users in our stable releases is that we say, look, we are going to make sure that you can do apt-get source, apt-get build-dep package name, and then it will build. Right? That's one of the things we ensure and it's an RC bug if that doesn't work.  Felly oedd opnod yr aeth yn gwineud i ni diwethaf am yr ystod yn ni wneud i gyd-ciw. Now, Digit clone is kind of a shortcut there, so Digit clone will have to get source and commit it to git, roughly, there's more stuff going on, but that's one way to understand it. And that's the git history you get if you type Digit clone when the maintainer just uploaded the package with depot. So it's kind of useful, it's in git now so you can type git clean and that's pretty convenient, but I think we could do a lot better for our users. We could give them the whole packaging history and potentially even the upstream history, which makes it much more, which is a lot of power for debugging problems on their system. So that's what you get when you do Digit clone when it wasn't Digit pushed, what happens when it was, well that's what you get. If someone, like I did, typed Digit push, then when the user types Digit clone, they get this rich history with all this useful information for debugging. They can revert an upstream change, for example, and then try and build it or all that kind of stuff. And as you'll see, the Digit push command has GBP in it. This wasn't a fancy git debris-based workflow or anything like that. All I did was drop Digit GBP push into my existing team GBP workflow. So if you're on a team that has a GBP-based workflow, consider incorporating Digit push and give this extremely useful thing to our users. Thanks. Right, next up is Judith, telling us, Stebien Lani, worth every penny. OK, the main issue about having a talk about what Stebien Lani is, will you be able to fill five minutes with it? But I'm prepared and I'll have a backup. So who of you is still using Lani? Who of you plans to use Lani? That's great, so Lani is not completely abandoned. But back in 2009, when it was released, everyone was using it. And now you feel somewhat lonely about it. And of course, there are reasons for it. For example, it got security support discontinued in 2012. And of course, it's missing a lot of fancy stuff like HTML5. This might not be an issue if you don't like videos. And even if you would have support for HTML5, probably you wouldn't have support for most of the codex. And of course, you don't have this emoji thingies, which also could be an upside for you. The worst issue is that about, I think, 65% of the web is not usable for you. Because you do not have the support for the encryption. And you're missing recent CSS, which means the DevCon page looks like this. And it's supposed to look like this. Of course, it also has upsides. You spend a lot of time finding workarounds, using change routes, trying to compile your stuff yourself. One of the possible solutions would be to make Lenny testing zombie or something like this. But this is going to break. So the best solution is just making a change route. Of course, this is going to be a collapse because the bigger the gap gets, the more problems you get with running the recent Debian on the Lenny kernel. So if you want to run Jessie, you need to install a kernel from backwards. But there will come a point when this will no longer be possible.  And it's really stable. You don't get any updates. No one is writing software for it, so it's great. And of course, you don't get any of the new bugs. There are lots of security bugs I just reading. Okay, the first version of the kernel it has, it was 2012. So I don't care because I'm using Lenny. But it's a lot of fun and maybe some of you might want to try it. Gunnar, we have you for the first of two presentations. As I said, we have five people doing six things. Two of these are from Gunnar. Okay, this is not really for me. I'm presenting a work I didn't do. Or that I took a very small part of. Let's subtitle Debian videos. So in Debian 13, Madame Zoo created this team. It has had around a dozen contributors. It has an IRC channel, don't worry. It's not high traffic. I think I have a month worth of conversations on screen at any given moment. And it has a mailing list, which I now see we should migrate soon to something more modern. You can find the Salsa project, you can find it in Amara. Amara is a framework for subtitling videos or making translations. What is the motivation for this project? Well, it is accessibility. Many of you have suffered trying to understand somebody speaking in broken English or speaking in incredibly fast English. So what we aim to do is to subtitle all of the talks or some of them at least because it takes quite a bit of work. There are people with hearing problems and there are people who are not fluent enough to follow English who may prefer reading it. So how this is made? I differ a bit with Thomas Vincent who prepared this. He says it's three main steps I have done it in two. Transcription and synchronisation are two different activities I have used usually Aegisu, so I do them together. He prefers Amara, a web-based tool. So it's first transcribing all the text and then cutting it to match and to be of adequate length of the time part of the speech takes. And then of course reviewing it. And of course it's always better if you do some work, somebody else will review it. You get much more things. So we have this amount of subs made for each of the last several depth comps. Sometimes we do very little work. It's sad that we only managed to do say one for depth comp 14. For depth comp 16 there has been a lot of work done, but it has not been deemed publishable. I don't have information on 17 or so. But there is work and this is hard work and I think it's work worth doing. I should do more and so should each of you. So join us. I will try to get you up to speed. Maybe the best way is the IRC channel. It's basically watching the same very cool talks you come here to watch or which you download somewhere. And make, well watch them really slowly. Of course it's most important to keep this work in mind. So if you are speakers at depth comp, make sure you use the microphone correctly. Attendees, well we also want your questions. So wait for the microphone or go to the microphone before asking questions. And that's it. Just as a last point, it takes me usually around four hours per hour of video, which is not that much. I think it's really a nice service we should try to have. Thank you very much. Next is Ian Jackson with a quick demo, which will take a moment to just change laptops. Very quick and very keen. Just one moment. So Sean's explained why you should use DGIT push for Debian's users. I'm going to demonstrate why you should use DGIT push yourself. You'll see here, I've just run the test suite. This is my real upload workflow. All I've done is resize the windows. Test suite has passed. I look at my Kit K. OK, tested is at master. I'll just finalize the change log. I'll need a window for that. Just a moment, I'm going to put down the mic and type. OK, so my branch is prepared. I just need to faff with my PGP key. It's a bit slow here because the Wi-Fi is a bit slow, so it needs to fart about slightly. Normally this is a bit faster. By the way, the monitor here has gone. Oh no, it's flickering. It's just always doing that. So this is a native source package. You can use this with any of the other workflows, like the GBP workflow that Sean was talking about earlier. Do I actually have Wi-Fi here? If I'm trying to do a demo up and upload with no Wi-Fi. No, here we go. It's just double checking everything. Checking my signatures, doing the stuff. All sorts of like frantic paddlings going on under the scenes here. I don't need to worry about any of this. There we go now. There it's pushing the Git objects to the Git repo server so that the Git users get that history. There we go. Now it's uploading to FTP master. It's made all the signatures. I'm just going to take my key off. There we go. That's it. Uploaded. Back by popular demand. Gwna. Meanwhile, anybody know any good karaoke tracks? Okay. I'm going to show a project I didn't do. It's not mine. It seems I'm not doing anything. I'm just showing other people's work. That's right. This is not Debian related, but still I want to share with you. My Mexican friend in Japan who visited on my way here found this. You've all read about the Scratch programming environment, which is very nice for teaching cheerlearn or teaching newcomers how to program in a nice easy way without syntax only with blocks that are very, very hard to get right. The main problem with that is that it was made in flash. Hence it's basically death. It's obsolete. It runs in a non-free environment. So he made as found, which looks very similar and which adds several things. Of course I'm not that familiar with it all, but let's just open this as an example. The Space Invaders game. It even runs. Somehow it runs. I don't remember the key, but don't worry. It runs. Here you have the program. I'll now show something that's easier to grab on a single. Let's see the classics. Fibonacci example. One of the things that Scratch doesn't do is to handle the concept of standard input and standard output. It's implemented in JavaScript and can be run locally. I couldn't get it to run on the first try, but I know it can. This is the main program. This is the function to calculate a Fibonacci. You can check. It's quite simple to get right. If the value is 0, return 0. If it's 1, return 1. Else return the sum of eith minus 1 and eith minus 2. I'm showing this. Running it is very boring. We all know Fibonacci. But it's very nice that it can show what this compiles to in JavaScript. I think this can be used as a teaching, a very good teaching help. This is, well, amigojapan.github.io and he has the sources available here. I will be happy to relay any questions you have for him if his contact is not displayed here. That's it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We have our last speaker. It's Hector. He's requested a double slot. I guess we'll indulge him. Oh, that's exciting. Right. Come on up then. Hello. Thank you. Hello. Speaking to many people here. Are you able to see the slides? I was talking to some people here. I didn't have much time to prepare this. I didn't have any pictures either. But I thought it was important to let people know a bit of the history of the Debian embedded and the ARM ports. So at the very beginning, it was 1999, Jim Peake bootstrapped the Debian ARM port thanks to Russell King that was working enabling support for the RISC PC on the upstream Linux kernel. And there was a lot of unsigned char and unaligned access issues to go through at the time. And that's what all the fun started. There was support for a few boards at the time, NetWinders. It was a big platform RISC PC, LART, Dicus N2100, which could also run a different ABI, which was the embedded ABI, the RML port. Are you able to see it or not? Yeah. So the ABI port, there was a Leonard Bytenheck work on the port in 2007 as part of an applied data systems, and he did a build for ARM V40 using open embedded help doing this work. And then Riku Voipio announced the first RML signage uploads buildemon. And you can gather more information at the link, at the wiki page on the ARM EABI port page. And we had support for different hardware and the main platforms, which include many different boards, were based on Orion chips from Marvell, Keywood, Intel has their own ARM line, IXP4XX, and the IOP3XX, which is this look, was one of the popular platforms at the time. And then there was an emulator from ARM called Versatile. So the combinations in the kernel was like exploding at the time and the kernel maintainers were a bit upset of having to do different kernel build for every different hardware out there. So side tracking from ARM, we needed cross tools. There was a cross tool chain was provided by Ndebian. There were some pre-lending cross tool chains 295, based on the GCC 295 binary packages you could install. But then Ndebian worked on, well Nikita Juchenko created and updated some patches for cross GCC 3.X, 3.3. He was trying to keep up to date those patches. And they were like getting rotten quite easily. And then myself, I pick up support for those in 2005 and updated them for 3.3, 3.4. GCC 4.X also had a cross GDB, which now we have GDB multi-arc that you can install from the archive. You don't need a cross variant. And we enable multi-lips support in the cross compilers. So after a few years, 2014, I moved on to other things and the cross tool chain got picked up by Guki and Marcin, which were working on a Leonardo and enable multi-arc support and uploaded to Ndebian. So the embedded Ndebian kind of fade out and now it got merged into Ndebian. And now Matias Clos maintains the GCC cross package as he can do uploads of the cross compilers and keep them in sync with the native compilers. So at the time we also on the user land on Ndebian, it was released in 2009. It was released in Ndebian Grip, which the purpose for that it was filter the Ndebian binary packages, remove all the fact like documentation and things that were not meant to run, to be on an embedded system, repack the binary file and release them into some repository, a public repository. So people could install that. A lot of innovations came from that discussions at the time, like multi-strap, the package vendor, the package filters and others. And then other like anonical, for example, pick up on the deep package vendor idea and push it further. But all the initial ideas were created through these meetings. And with Ndebian Grip, you could get, it was created multi-strap, which was another way to run the bootstrap. And you could come up with 56 megs of installed size, not compressed root file system. When you multi-strap Ndebian, you could have 90 megs of a root file system.  You get binaries that you can clean, and then instead it was like 2008 megs. And if you like migrate from Ndebian to Ndebian, you could get up down to 160 megs. So it was quite safe in the space. And then there were some ideas that were not really ever released, crash and bake. Well, crash I think there was some pre-release, but never crash idea was a cross build, a user land replacing core utils with busy box, so it would be less than what Grip was. And bake it was a cross build, a minimal user land, but without updating capabilities, so you could just bake on a target, a hardware like firmware, that is not meant to be updated. So this morning we had some buff session, Ndebian Cross, there are some people that might be picking up on some of the ideas. I don't know if you are interested, it could be interesting to see some work forward on this. And then the Ndebian army chef came on. I was involved with Constantinos Margaritis in the initial part of the hard float. It was sponsored by Toby Churchill and Genesis, Genesis for the Effica MX devices. They have a laptop or a laptop or a netbook. And then Linaro Canonical also helped a lot doing upstream support for the hard float. There's also a wiki link documenting these things in the Ndebian wiki. And the initial support was meant for the Effica devices, so it was running a free scale MX-5 chip. But later, thanks to Linaro, we got a unified kernel and we were able to move to the ARM multiplatform, ARM MP kernel, with device tree support. And we only have one binary to build and run on any other platform. So that kindly got happy the kernel maintainers. And finally, the Ndebian ARM 64. It was a migration from the 32-bit userland to 64-bit. And it was bootstrapped by ARM Linaro internally. There was no hardware available publicly. And they were using fast models and also later they enabled QMU. And later we got some chips made and made available. It was a Juno board for ARM and XGIN hardware and that helped bootstrapping the Ndebian port in Ndebian ports and later in the official Ndebian archive. There's also a wiki link there that you can access. And now we have a unified kernel for ARM 64, but we have some different ways to run the bootloader. So now you can run your boot, you can run XCPI boot or UEFI. And thanks for being here at the end in Lightning Talks and this talk. And if you want more info, you can search the ARM ports wiki, the ARM ports mailing list and the embedded mailing list, which the embedded mailing list was sidetracked by the bootstrapping, which is the goal is to build Ndebian from sources and the Ndebian cross mailing list, so we are worried about being able to cross build packages. So you have all these mailing lists available and wiki resources. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. We were meant to have one more speaker who on short notice is not available. I believe the gist of his talk was please join SPI. So on behalf of that speaker, please join SPI. Thank you all for coming too. Wait. This is very brief. Right. So SPI, I don't know if you know what SPI is. OK. So SPI is one of Ndebian's trusted organisations. It holds quite a lot of Ndebian's money, quite a lot of DEFCOM's money. It's quite important. It's a bit boring to be honest, but it has a release critical bug.  They date from years and years and years ago. They were like some horrible hack for by people who didn't really understand. It's terrible. We need to fix the bylaws. We have written new bylaws, but we need the approval of two thirds of the SPI contributing members, which might be you, to get those bylaws through. Two thirds of people have to vote in favour of the whole membership, not two thirds of the people who are voting. So we're having a big drive where we ping all the contributing members. Every Ndebian developer is entitled to be a contributing member. People who contribute to Ndebian in other ways are often entitled to be contributing members of SPI. So we're working on removing the inactive people from the numerator, but we want to increase the denominator. We want the two thirds to get two thirds. We need lots of people who are interested enough, at least, that you'll go and vote in the new bylaws approval thing when that comes up later in the year. That's going to be like a month or two. The new bylaws are pretty good. They've been extensively reviewed in public. It's a complete rewrite, so asking for the diff is not really very helpful. If you want to know more about that, ask the SPI general mailing list or ask me or ask anybody with one of those SPI stickers on their laptop. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. See, I didn't have to do it myself after all. Yes, so thanks all for coming to Lightning Talks. See you at Lightning Talks again next year in Coddachyba. Bye.


Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Imagine you are in a meeting at an office building. Your boss is speaking about next week's project. Then everyone takes a break for lunch. But you do not go to a restaurant or store. Instead, you exit the room. Inside the walls of the building are thousands of plants. Some produce fruit. Some produce salad greens. You grab a small plate. Go to the wall and pick the ingredients for your lunch. Then you sit down under a tree and begin to eat. You are 30 stories above the ground. This may seem like a fantasy, but this describes plans for a real building called the Zhiyan Mu Tower. It will be built in Shenzhen, a city in southern China. And it may represent the future of cities. Today's spotlight is on the Zhiyan Mu Tower and the future of cities. The Zhiyan Mu Tower is a kind of vertical farm. It is not the first vertical farm. Vertical farming is already happening in some countries. The country with the most vertical farms is the United States. But there are vertical farms in many countries, including Japan, Thailand, Germany, the Netherlands and the UAE. Many of them grow leafy green vegetables like lettuce and kale. Economic experts consider vertical farming a growing market. But the Zhiyan Mu is one of the biggest planned projects. The Zhiyan Mu Tower will be a tall glass skyscraper. It will be 51 stories tall. It was designed to have offices and apartments. But it is also designed to grow plants. Each window will be filled with them. And the building will produce 270,000 kilograms of food every year. Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect. He designed the Zhiyan Mu Tower. He named it after a tree from old Chinese myth. In the story, this tree connected heaven and earth. Ratti designed the tower for the Chinese grocery business, Wumart. The tower will be Wumart's new headquarters. But people can also rent rooms there. Each person living in the Zhiyan Mu Tower will have their own garden. But these are not just any gardens. They are vertical gardens. And the whole tower is one big vertical farm. Vertical farms are different than traditional farms. Traditional farms need soil to help plants grow. But vertical farms use methods like hydroponics. These methods give water and nutrients to the plants directly. They do not need soil. Vertical farming also lets farmers put plants anywhere. In a vertical farm, farmers hang plants above and beside each other on a wall. Sometimes they use special lights to help the plants grow. Others, like the Zhiyan Mu Tower, hang plants by windows. The tower is so high, the plants get plenty of sun. Doing this also has another benefit. When plants take in sunlight, they also take in heat. This helps control the climate in the tower. So the tower will use less energy. Vertical farms can be very efficient. Traditional farms can only grow food at some times of the year. But vertical farms can grow plants all year. Some vertical farms trap rainwater. They can recycle the water they use. So droughts or reduced rain do not affect the farms. The Zhiyan Mu Tower will even get moisture from the air. But vertical farms are a very good use of space. They use far less land than a traditional farm. Brian Mulady is the manager of a vertical farm. He told Spectrum News. With the area of growing, you usually expand out. But with this, you are expanding up. You use less water and land. And you create less waste. It is a more sustainable way to farm. Today, environmental experts encourage people to use land efficiently. They want people to use natural resources in the best way possible. With the least amount of waste. Land efficiency will be especially important as the world's population grows. Dixon de Palmier is a former professor at Columbia University. He invented the modern idea of vertical farming. He talked to the website BigThink. We expect the human population to increase. So over the next 40 years, you might have 3 billion more people to feed. And you look around for the land where that food will come from. And you do not find it. It is not there. So the biggest problem facing the global population is where will the food for the next 3 billion people come from? So it could come from some place other than a traditional farm. The question is, could vertical farms solve that problem? Efficient use of space is important for another reason. It helps fight climate change. According to the World Health Organization, over 50% of the world lives in cities. But most of our food does not come from cities. It comes from the country. This means that people living in cities must ship food into the city. The food must come from even farther if it is not in season. Some fruits, like avocados, can travel for thousands of miles before people buy them. This uses a lot of fuel. Food producers must also use preservatives to keep the food fresh. This damages the environment. It also adds to climate change. Vertical farming might help reduce these problems. A traditional farm cannot fit in a city. But a vertical farm can. The Janmu Tower shows that even if you live in the city, there can be a farm in your home. Much of the food people eat in the tower will come from the tower itself. They will not have to go anywhere to get it. They will not have to ship as much food in. And the food will be grown without pesticides or preservatives. It will be better for the people and the environment. Vertical farming can even help in places where people cannot grow food. Fukushima is a city in Japan. It once had several nuclear power plants. In 2011 there was a big earthquake. The earthquake caused a tsunami. This huge wave hit Japan and caused terrible damage. The power plants in Fukushima melted down. This contaminated the area with radiation. People could not go there without getting very sick. People in Japan were very scared of the radiation. They did not want to eat food grown anywhere near Fukushima. So the government funded vertical farming. These new farms were safer than traditional ones. They allowed people to have fresh food without fear of radiation. Vertical farming is not a perfect solution to these problems. A vertical farm can cost a lot of money to build and run. Some vertical farms use lights to grow plants. They also keep their plants in controlled climates. This uses a lot of energy. It can even lead to more pollution, making climate change worse. But many people believe that they can overcome these problems. They believe buildings like Jammu Tower will help. Carlo Ratti even believes that buildings like this are the future of cities. He writes, This approach will be a big part of the design of future cities. It is an answer to one of today's most difficult building design challenges. That is, how do we bring the natural world into building design? Would you live in a place like the Jammu Tower? Would you like to work in one? You can email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com. You can also find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The writer of this program was Dan Christman. The producer was Mitchell Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. This program is called Vertical Farming and the Future of Cities. Visit our website at www.spotlightenglish.com to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com coming out to a 2022 Panini Capstone Baseball, just a single pack break number six, given away the final 12 top-prone black team. That's coming up in the next video. But first, the break itself, big thanks to this group for finishing it off, appreciate it. All 30 teams are in, let's roll it, randomize it, three into three, six the hard way. One, two, three, four, five, and six. For the next dice roll, let the end of the break, three into three, six times for the teams, one, two, three, four. All right, kind of like Antonio Gates, basketball to football, Frank Thomas was a little football to baseball. All right, so here's the first half of the list right here. Here's the second half right here. Love watching, love watching old Chargers games, there would be like drink every time an announcer mentions that Antonio Gates, did you know used to play college basketball? Drink every time that happens and probably get alcohol poisoning by the half. Do you know that Clayton Kershaw and Matthew Stafford went to high school together? Any hits in here? Nothing too crazy here, but Gila, it doesn't matter what team you get in this. That doesn't count because look, the break is already over. What counts is who's going to get those teams, who's going to be in the top 12? That's what counts. Who cares about what team you get in the break? This is the part that matters. Who's going to get teams in the top chrome black break coming up in the next video? Randomize everybody's names, snake eyes, two times, top 12, after two. Good luck, one and two. After two, 13 through 30, sad times. Sad faces here, but appreciate you getting in. Top 12, you've got teams, Eric you've got a team, Oliver with a team, Jeremy, Evan, Stephen K, Brandon, Simon, Katherine, Marcus, Kenneth, Kenneth and Stephen K. Congrats the top 12. We will see you in the next video for the break. So Stephen K with Houston, Kenneth with the Dodgers and the Mets, Marcus with Philadelphia, Katherine with Washington, Simon with the Padres, Brandon with Baltimore, Stephen K with the Chicago Cubs, Evan with Cleveland, Jeremy with Minnesota, Oliver with the Giants and Eric with the Miami Fish, the Marlin with those little rooftops next to your name so you know you won those spots in this capstone break. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time. I'll see you in the next video for this break, jaskiescasebreaks.com.


These delusionals are your wife, Rastas. They're big Marley fans. They think they're black. Semi-political, but mostly smoke a lot of weed. Don't even get me started on YouTube. I live in the Bay Area, which means every August, except the past two, half the population of my town gets all done up to go to something in the desert, and I end up seeing a lot of this. If you don't understand why this frustrates me, you really need to stick around for the rest of this video, which is sponsored by Wondrium more on them later. What frustrates me even more is when one of them tries to talk to me about their hair. You know, because I used to be a hairdresser and people do that, and tells me, well, the vikings in the ancient Celts had dreadlocks, so it's okay for me. Buddy. Buddy. Hi, I'm V, former hairstylist, current fashion historian, and not a fan of this look.  The hairstyle we're talking about is commonly called locks, but there are plenty of abbreviations and alternate names. Many people consider the term dreadlocks to have negative connotations, but there are also some people who prefer that term. For simplicity, I'll be using the word locks spelled with one C for the rest of this video. Before anyone goes off about how confusing this is, it's not like white people never disagree on the right word for something either, so if this is you, please do examine why this particular bit of linguistic variance bothers you so much. Locks have a long and established history in numerous African cultures, beginning with the ancient Egyptians, and if you want to learn more about that history, go watch this video by Muse of Muse and Dionysus. Listen to a black person instead of having to hear it from my pale face. Because I am going to spend the rest of this video talking about all the things that are not locks, I do want to make sure we have a working definition of what locks are. I'm not saying this because I think I am the most qualified person to talk about locks. I'm not. Don't get me started on how little cosmetology school teaches about natural hair. Source info can be found in the upper corners, some further reading is linked in the description, and then my Patreon has my full annotated bibliography with all this snarky commentary too. However, listening to me is not a substitute for listening to black people talk about black culture and should not be treated as such. Locks are formed by strands of coily hair locking into place around each other. With different styling and maintenance methods, the hair can form styles from freeform locks to sister locks and everything in between. They are one of many ways to protect coily hair from damage and breakage. Coily hair can be extremely delicate with very fine strands, and the belief that it is always coarse comes from ignorance and racism. Another racist myth is that locks are never washed and are, by their nature, dirty. Caring for locks absolutely does involve washing them. How frequently depends on the person's individual life and hair routine, just like with any other hairstyle. Most people with locks wash their hair far more often than most medieval Europeans did, and will often care for their locks daily by misting or oiling the hair.  Locks are not gross, but this myth sure is. One of the most important distinctions between locks and this nonsense is what the hair is actually doing. Locks rely on the hair's coil for their structure. My hair may be curly, but it's not curly enough to truly lock. Similar-looking hairstyles on straight hair have a different structure because they don't have the coil in their texture. They're basically long cylindrical tangles, which I refer to as mats. Lock-like hairstyles do have long histories in certain non-black cultures, especially ones with trade connections to Africa. They have an extremely long history in Hindu religion and may also have been worn by the ancient Hebrew Nazarites. Lock-like styles also have a history among some Tibetan Buddhists, indigenous North Americans, indigenous Australians, and possibly the Aztecs. However, none of these people are white. The Minoans are often brought up as an ancient white culture that wore locks, but Muse's video does an excellent job stepping through the issues with that conclusion. TLDR, they likely picked the style up from ancient Egyptians, who were African, and the Minoans would not fit well into our modern idea of whiteness. A lot of the artwork held up as evidence for their wearing locks is not detailed enough to tell whether it's showing locks or braids or individual curls of hair. If you're a costumer who can distinguish the difference between, say, 1870s versus 1880s Western bustle dresses, then you can, in fact, tell the difference between two visually similar styles that are very different in the details. You have that skill. You just haven't learned to apply it in this context. Let's get to the myth-busting. The idea that ancient Celtic peoples had locks or mats is often traced back to a supposed quote from a supposed Roman source, note my repeated use of the word supposed, that says they had hair like snakes. However, there does not appear to be any solid source for this quote. We can't find who said it, or when, or in what context it was written down. It does not appear in the primary sources we do have about the Romans' interactions with the Gauls or Britons or any other Celtic peoples. This is not a source that can be relied on. Even if this quote did have a solid source, it has no context at all suggesting it refers to locks rather than any other hairstyle the Romans would find unusual or want to denigrate. It's not like they were bound for being fair and understanding of foreign cultures. They definitely didn't invent a word for literally every non-Roman culture that is still used as an insult today. The ancient Celts did do some pretty interesting things with their hair, some of which are misinterpreted as evidence for locks or mats. A Roman source that we can actually pin down describes the hair of the Gauls, a Celtic people living in France at that time. Apparently they would wash their hair in a lime solution, lime as in the mineral limestone, not the citrus fruit. This bleached, stiffened, and fluffed up the hair so it could be spiked if short or have a ton of volume if longer. The chemistry of how this works is pretty cool. A limestone solution would have a very high or basic pH, which raises the outer layers of the hair cuticle, making the hair more fragile and tangle-prone, but also fluffier. Playa dust is also high pH and is known for affecting people's hair, so you might get yourself some historical accuracy points, just maybe not the ones you meant to. We also have records of the Irish wearing a hairstyle called glibs or glibs. I've seen people say a glib refers to braids bound with yarn, but what we have actual evidence for is this thing. It's often called the reverse mullet by modern costumers where hair is shaved on the back and crown of the head and grown into a long fringe at the front and sides. Interestingly, this style might have also been worn by the Viking Age Norse. There's a letter from sometime between 990 and 1010, where a Saxon monk called Elfridt chides his brother, you adorn yourself in Danish fashion with baird neck. And then we see this hairstyle on the Normans in the Bayeux Tapestry who were descended from the Viking Age Norse. As for the Irish, though, our sources for it are from the 16th century. Laurent Vitell, who wrote a chronicle of Archduke Thurden and the first visit to Ireland, says they were shorn and shaved one palm above the ears, but on the forehead they leave about a palm of hair to grow down to their eyebrows like a tuft of hair which one leaves hanging on horses between the two eyes. Much of the speculation about the glib being a matted style comes from one Edmund Spencer writing around 1596 that the Irish went into battle without helmets and trusted their glibs to protect them from swords.  So this should be taken with a large helping of salt. To sum up, bleached spiked hair? Check. Reverse mullet? Also check. Anything remotely resembling locks? Not a thing. Something I struggle with when doing this kind of historical research is that, well, I know. It's not that I think I need a degree to do good research, but the background and context from lecture classes can be super helpful. Enter Wondrium, the sponsor of this video. 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Wondrium is offering my viewers a free trial, so if you want to support my channel and get more of your history fix, please visit wondrium.com slash snappy dragon, or click the link in the description to start your free trial today. So, Viking-age Norse hairstyles. This is probably the one I hear most often, despite how contrary it is to the historical record, guessing that's got something to do with the frequent appropriation of Viking-age Norse imagery by white supremacists. Records of what the Norse actually did with their hair are pretty thin. However, we have so many primary sources that talk about the Norse combing their hair, often daily and or more often than other cultures. The off-sided Ahmad ibn Fadlam traveled from the Abbasid Caliphate in what is now Syria to the Rus' Vikings in the 10th century, and though his account probably contains much embellishment and pearl clutching because weird foreigners! He does describe the Norse men combing out their hair in a basin of water every day. A little later on, the equally oft-quoted John of Wallingford complained that the Danes living in England were want after the fashion of their country to comb their hair every day. He then goes on to list all the other reasons that English women preferred Danish men such as bathing weekly and changing their clothes, and therefore all the Danes in England must be killed off, right? Daily combing was a common method of hair care in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages, and I've tested its effectiveness out myself. Here's the thing, you cannot comb locks or mats. That's just not a thing that works, unless you're combing them in an attempt to remove them. The absolute closest thing to evidence for the Norse ever wearing matted hair is a story that actually emphasizes how unusual matted hair would be. In one of Snorri Sturluson's Heimstreinless Sagas, this Norse king called Herald, fancies a woman called Gudda, who says she won't sleep with him until he conquers all of Norway. Which… look. If a woman in a folk story ever says, I won't sleep with you unless you do this extreme thing, understand that she just means no. Lookin' at you, kibukwa murder ballads. But I digress. Herald says, actually, that's a great idea. I won't cut or comb my hair until I've done it. This is supposed to be a sign of hyperbolic, epic fantasy narrative device-level commitment that he would give up something as fundamental as basic haircare until he's finished his conquest. Dude gets nicknamed Herald Tangle Hair until he's king of all Norway, then cuts his hair and is re-nicknamed Herald Pretty Hair. As for women's hair, we know even less about specific haircare practices, but we do have some artistic depictions of a hairstyle where long hair is tied in a large overhand knot at the nape of the neck. And to once again preempt someone saying that those lines represent locks or mats, can I point out how the same sort of line work is used at the bottom of the figure's dress? There are only so many ways you can represent texture in teeny little metal figures. So this is not evidence of anything other than the artist wanted to show that this is hair. The Viking Age Norse might well have worn interesting hairstyles, they might well have worn braids, they might well have decorated their hair in different ways than other cultures. But the information we have about their haircare goes directly against the possibility that they wore mats or locks. Literally the only record we have of a European culture wearing anything that remotely resembles locks if you squint is the Polish plat. But this is a very specific hairstyle with a very specific history. In this region there were folk beliefs that a large tangle or mat in the hair was caused either by illness leaving the body or by supernatural means such as curses or fairy-like beings. Cutting the mat off could offend those supernatural forces and cause worse illness, so people kept them and sometimes created them using waxy or sticky hair products. During the 17th and 18th centuries the Polish plat became the focus of classist and ethnic discrimination against Poles, as well as anti-Semitism because anti-Semites will take any excuse. We do have some extant Polish plats as in literal sections of hair, so we know that this was a real thing that existed. However, because of the prejudice associated with them, it's uncertain how much we can trust any sources from outsiders that may have been depicting them pejoratively. If you're of Polish heritage and want to do this with your hair, sure. But the rest of us need to understand that this is, once again, a different thing than this. So where did this myth actually come from? It's literally just cultural appropriation and white supremacy. There's no historical evidence at all that would lead someone to believe that either the ancient Celts or the Viking Age Norse had locks unless that person had already made up their mind and was looking to invent a justification. There's not even much to base a made-up justification on. I also think it's very telling that white folks didn't become interested in locks at all until celebrities like Bob Marley and Whoopi Goldberg popularized them in the 70s and 80s. From then until today, white hippies' matted hair is praised for being free-spirited and bohemian, even when it's very poorly cared for. White fashion designers are complemented for the edgy choice to put fake wool locks on white models. While white people do all this, black people face extensive discrimination for wearing locks, to the point where the US literally needed to make a law against hair discrimination. It's good that we've done it, but infuriating that we need it. This is the crux of what cultural appropriation is, taking a culturally significant practice, especially from a marginalized group, out of context, performing it incorrectly or without understanding, or in a way that disrespects its original significance and then benefiting from doing so while the originating culture faces discrimination for it. We don't live in the time of the ancient Gauls or Britons. We don't live in the Viking Age. We live in the 21st century, and in the 21st century, white people appropriating black hairstyles is a huge problem. It does ongoing and significant harm to black people, right now, today. So what I really want to know is, why do folks care more about finding vague historical justifications than about hurting people through their actions in the present day? Some obscure quote from the Romans isn't going to undo centuries upon centuries of accumulated ongoing racism. It would not change things for any of my black clients who had me straighten their hair before job interviews because they knew they'd be lowballed otherwise. To say nothing of the black folks who have been fired, suspended from school, or had their hair cut or shaved against their wishes, in the modern world, any scraps of history are nothing to what's still going on. They do not matter.  The good news is you have lots of other options. Unfortunately, historical-ish TV shows like The Vikings appropriate a lot of African braiding into their hairstyles because it's considered cool and edgy when white people do it, and that's not what I'm talking about. Let me know if you're interested in a video breaking down the differences, and I'll see what can be done. Europe has its own long and rich history of braided and protective hairstyles, which can be great for situations where modern hair washing isn't an option. I've tested some of them, and there are some really knowledgeable medievalists and historical customers on YouTube and elsewhere who have done even more. You can do any number of beautiful, festive, and damaged reducing things with your hair, and you will look all the better for them not being based in racism. I have wanted to make this video for literally longer than I've had my channel, and I am so glad to be sharing it with all of you. Seriously. I was making angry Facebook posts about this in 2018! Send this video around to your burner friends, or any of your friends who you think might need to see it, and tell me in the comments about an interesting hairstyle or hair care practice from your culture's traditional dress. Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe for more hair history myth-busting. Y'all can help me get some use out of that cosmetology training now that I'm not doing hair. If you're coming back from the playa, I hope you had a fun and safe burn.  Also hydrate hippies.


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He just Got hurt never ruined his career Happened to Boja. No one calls Bo Jackson a bust Got a Gavin sheets auto on his first bowman paper card for the White Sox to 99 it's a 2017 White Sox again, White Sox have a ton of hits in this it seems So like that was like 10 braves guards Yeah let down for sure like we all want we all wanted to see more Bo Jackson We all want to see more of whoever Pablo Lopez auto to 99 on a Marlins 2022 tops card. He's dealing this year but for the twins Yeah, Odin was not a bust either Odin wasn't animal Telling you man. I don't call you got young do what you want, but me I don't call players that get hurt busts to Marcus Russell bust Ryan Lee bust They played and they stunk. Yeah Johnny Manziel bust You know what I mean Cedric Mullins auto to 36 Orioles 2021 tops Cedric Mullins John Ross bust He's even when he played he wasn't good Sam Barton boss Like Grand Hill wasn't a bust he got hurt as soon as he got to the magic Like literally played like maybe two full scenes with the magic over like six years Yeah Mark canna auto to 49 on a heritage for the A's mark canna A's 2018 heritage Yeah, no, Odin was not a bust. Odin was a Foot injury man That's like if that's like if to a like if if his career kind of doesn't go the way you just like dude working cushions man. Yeah What tops holiday for the raise one-of-one Brandon Lau It's a 2021 tops holiday one-of-one Brandon Lauford Tampa. Yeah, John Ross isn't madden legend There's an MXC channel on Roku Carl. That's great. That's great news.  Yeah, so Zion's not in that category for me. You all say what you want though 6 to 62 Tigers Auto Matt Manning on a 2021 Bowman, I believe you go Tigers Kenny Blankenship. I can't say that other name. But yeah Yeah Yeah, we'll have this might be lay out exact Wilson if he doesn't turn around will be you know what I mean That's that's that's a case Shane Boz as a pirate 68 on his first Bowman from 2017 Bowman Pirates Shane Boz. I talk about that all the time has been Yeah, Roy Aldridge and Odin were like the best team in the league when they play together There's a pro. There's a 24 prospect auto book and Bowman. I haven't seen yet, dude. I got to do some research Raise again Matthew liberator auto to 39 on a 2019 Bowman chrome card Liberator raised to 39 that is a Giants Elliott Ramos 2019 Bowman auto to 54 Elliott Ramos Giants Dude, that sounds awesome. Maybe we'll pull maybe we'll pull it up during the SGC break That would be awesome freaking awesome. I hope we pull at least one monster card there Okay, so we've got an autograph signer Carlos Rodan So how this is gonna work guys, I'm going to random this to the team so see he's on a new team this year He's a Yankee right now. He will not have Yankee's cards in this So I'm gonna random this to between was he just about the white socks and the and the Giants for the I think that's it We're gonna random between those Those teams whatever teams he's played for before this year because he's on a new team That's how this is gonna work If he was on the same team it would go to the current team, but since he's on a new team Yankee's There will not be 20 23 cards in this product So let me go to baseball reference and make sure he was only white socks and Giants, right? Yeah, so that's what we're gonna do. I'll random this at the end between the white socks and the Giants Because there will not be there's no team on this redemption. There will be no team on the checklist He could have buyback autos from the Giants and the white socks. So that is what we're gonna do We're gonna random between those two teams in just a moment here But again, if we pull the card and the guy's been on the same team for like we pull Like at the ground would go to the Mets, you know, I mean or if we were to pull like Like a key like a key K hernandez that's gonna go red socks because his current team He's been on for a few years. That's how we're gonna do that. It's it's really weird with six series But it's just that's what we're gonna roll with guys That's the rule we're going with got a brewers. Yes money ground all out of the 25 Brewers ground all the 25. Yeah, he was with white socks for longer But it's again six series is so random guys and there's no definitive checklist So it's a little like the rules change slightly for something like this Mariners now we got a Mitch Handiger auto 5 out of 10 5 out of 10 Mitch Handiger 2019 Heritage no archives I think it's archives, right? Either way Mitch Handiger Mariners got facsimile and real auto next that for the A's and Matt Olson 2016 Bowman, I believe 2018 Bowman 2018 Bowman Matt Olson to 45 auto A's Yeah, the magic draft that's a bonus the goats Then traded them on draft night him and all the depot for Sergei Bakker, dude, and then he was quickly They were quickly traded from They were traded what that was like a three team trader where they traded later that night To the Pacers All the deep bones the bonus first Sergei Bakker Giants of 2022 top-sotto of Micah Shremsky to 36 laggin We laggin How did I who did a quiz this we're good though recordings fine Shremsky Giants OBS dropping frames I don't have drop frames there must have been a quick disconnection to reconnect type thing That's what I would assume so I would assume Or Vitas Well, I was talking about the bonus. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Randy or Rosa Rana. That's such a cool card Steel's home plate. I was against the Red Sox of the TROP. I remember watching that game. I was there. You were there Yeah, pain 15 of 22.  That's a cool one He steals home in a rose rain is crazy to do things like that white socks out of 34 Lucas G. Leto Heritage 2018. Hey did to the Dodgers in the World Series love Randy for that Him in the World Baseball Classic, dude, he's the most fun. He's the most fun player to watch in baseball It's like him. It's like trade turner like those guys are so fun Braves auto here dance be swanson 12 of 21 heritage 2018 as well Dan's be heritage so whenever like OBS like does whatever it does the recording is gonna be fine like on the The video on demand so they won't change when you upload it Phillies auto here Zach Wheeler 41 to 43 20 21 tops Fill the Zach Wheeler and last one. We'll do that Rodin random Orioles bowman chrome 2021 auto of DL Hall to 31 Orioles DL Hall Great prospect that'll do it. Let's do the random for the Carlos Rodin. So again This will be random between the White Sox of the Giants the teams he's played for he's currently a Yankee But there will not be 20 23 cards in this set. So random between the White Sox and Giants since we do not know the team Good luck 6 and 1 7 times What was up top gets it? 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 go into the White Sox One of the White Sox. All right. Thanks again everybody. We're moving on to case number three


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another video. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now, on to the video. And what I'm looking at today is a care package that I just received in the mail from my friend and fellow YouTuber Larkin's Lair. If you didn't know, Larkin not only does figure reviews on YouTube, he has an Etsy shop where he makes some fantastic upgrade sets for your modern transformer figures. Now the sets he included in my care package was an upgrade set for my Generation 2 Starscreen, Studio Series 86 Perceptor, Legacy Core Class Skywarp, and Legacy Laser Optimus Prime. So now, without further ado, let's get these upgrade sets opened up and get them attached to their figures. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now, the first add-on we're going to take a look at is for G2 Starscreen. And by G2 Starscreen, I mean your Earthrise or Studio Series 86 Starscreen that you converted to G2 thanks to Toyhacks. And this is a set I'm really proud of because I gave Toyhacks the idea for this and they even made my name a decal. Now, if you recall, the original G2 Starscreen had a sound box that attached to the back of the figure. You press a button, it will light up and make noise. Now, Larkin's here does not light up or make noise, but it is highly detailed to look pretty much exactly like the original Generation 2 accessory. Now, there is some assembly required with this set. You've got these little treads that you attach via these peg holes. You've got one attached already, but as you can see, it's a simple procedure right there. And there you have the sound box and how you attach this to Starscreen as you flip out this little peg right here. And it attaches to his back. And there you go. So now with Toyhacks decals and Larkin's accessory, that looks very, very Generation 2. And what's cool is these little sections right here that I just put on a while ago are tank treads.  And what Larkin has also added is that this little tank here is blast effect compatible. So we've got a couple blast effects right here. So there's one and there's the other. So now you've got the little tank opening fire. Now, this is a recolor of a set that Larkin made earlier for Generation 2 Ramjet. So both of these options are available on his Etsy shop. And I do believe he made a black one for G2 Sandstorm. So there you go. There is the tank drone sound box. Next up is the accessory set for Studio Series 86 Perceptor. And this set includes two gap fillers for the forearms, a gap filler for the back, and a missile and missile launcher. So first thing, let's take a look at the gap filler for the back. If you have this figure, he has this unsightly gap on his back. That's where his head goes for transformation. But thanks to Larkin, he's got this little piece right here, pegs right into that hole, covers up that unsightly gap.  So that is awesome. Next up, we'll take a look at the forearm fillers right here. And these, pretty easy to install. You just lay them over the gap there where the fist is, peg them in, and they actually lock in nice and tight. Now for transformation, you'll take these gap fillers. And when you open up the legs, when you turn them into microscope mode, these gap fillers fit into this section right here. Let me see if I can get it. It's hard to do this on camera. But there you go. You want to make sure the little two dots are facing toward the inside of the leg. So that way you can use those both for robot and microscope mode, microscope. That's funny. Okay, next up is the launcher and missile. And if you didn't know, the original Generation 1 Perceptor did have a launcher and missile. And this is modeled after that. If I can get everything on camera. So there you go right there. Let me get G1 out of the way. And what's cool is this will fit right in Perceptor's hand. So you can do this a couple of different ways. You've got the launcher right here and it is blast effect compatible. So it looks like he's launched the missile. You can also attach the missile into the launcher like so to really complete that G1 look. And if you wanted to, this is blast effect compatible as well.  So there you go guys. There is the upgrade set for Studio Series 86 Perceptor. Absolutely love that back panel. Next up is the upgrade set for Legacy Core Class Skywarp. And if you bought a Core Class Skywarp, like everyone else, you were probably very disappointed that he came with his tuning fork of despair instead of his weapons that attach to his arms.  He needed his weapons and that's where Larkin comes in. And these look really good, modeled after Kingdom Core Class Starscream's weapons. They'll attach right up here on top of the arm.  Plug right into his shoulders. And man, that looks so much better. And the collar matches perfectly. So now Skywarp looks a lot better alongside Kingdom Starscream. So now we just await Core Class Thundercracker and see what kind of weird weapon he comes with. So there you go. There is the upgrade set for Core Class Skywarp. And lastly, we have the upgrade set for Legacy Laser Optimus Prime. And this set includes one handheld blaster and four gap fillers. Now taking a quick look at the blaster, I love this. This looks so good. It is modeled after the original G2 Laser Optimus Prime blaster. Now this blaster here belongs to RID Scourge, but it's the same thing as you can tell. So if you have a Laser Optimus Prime, you know the turret weapon could double as his handheld blaster.  So we'll go ahead and put this new blaster in Prime's hand. And it looks so much better. And actually it has an extra peg right there so he can dual wield it. They're not dual wielding. I hold it with both hands, but I like it like that. That is awesome. And let's see. Is it Blast Effect compatible? It sure is. So that is awesome. And I forgot to show. I just realized Core Class Skywarp's Null Rays or Blasters or whatever they are. They are Blast Effect compatible, but the Blast Effects don't fit over the little peg right here. You are going to have to force them up just a little bit to stay in place. But yes, that does work. Now moving on to the Gap Fillers. These go on the back of Optimus Prime's legs right here. So we'll go ahead and grab this one here, which goes on this leg. You can kind of see how these line up. Now this peg is right. There's a peg right there. It pegs into that first hole right there below the knee. So we'll get that one attached and then flush. And now we've got the second little piece and see the little notch right there? That goes along the notch on the hole. So you match that up and then just push that into place as well. Gives you a nice tight fit, doesn't affect transformation whatsoever and looks so much better. So yes, that is awesome. Larkin, thank you so much. And there you have the upgrade set for Legacy Laser Optimus Prime. I have to give a huge shout out to Larkin's Lair for creating these awesome upgrade sets for these figures. They've definitely improved the looks of my Transformers. I love the blaster for Perceptor and Prime. The guns for Skywarp were a must have. And that G2 sound box looks awesome on my Toyhack Starscream. Now if you guys would like to pick up some of these items for yourself, I do have a link to Larkin's Etsy store in the description of this video. These items are made in the USA and they ship fast. Once again, big thank you to Larkin's Lair. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Once again, this is Patriot Prime, signing out.