But yeah, so that's my little spiel about shipping containers, and now we have Vivian who's going to come up and give you a much better talk about the history of Oakland. So Vivian. Alright, so I hate to be a huge jerk, but actually part of the reason Oakland went downhill was because of the shipping containers, because they basically decimated the number of longshoremen that we needed. So, there went all of our jobs. Womp womp. So, tonight I will be telling you guys about a history of Oakland's reputation. Why it is that people go, oh, Oakland. That's nice. So, ways people think of Oakland. There are many. Scary. Dirty. Poor people. Drugs. Gangs. Occupy. Police brutality. Sometimes hipsters. Elefacing the Oakland booty. We've got something going for us. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. However, it wasn't always this way. For a long time, Oakland was a thriving metropolitan center and actually stood to eclipse San Francisco as sort of the hub of the North Bay, or of Northern California rather. It was easily hub of the North Bay. So, this is the Oakland Museum of California, if you're not familiar with it, is amazing. And this is one of their many pictures from the late 1930s. A bustling downtown cafe. We have, what else? We have 14th and Webster. Look at how pretty it was. We had street cars. They were so nice. And then oil companies were like, oh no, get buses. Lovely postcard. So, World War II was when Oakland really exploded. During World War II, because there was the Pacific Theater going on, California saw an enormous increase of population. Somewhere along the lines of a 25% increase from people coming in to work in shipyards and aircraft manufacturing. That was mostly LA and the Bay Area. Port of Richmond was big, and Port of Oakland was really the huge one. We all know Kaiser now, but in fact where they originally were thriving was in ship manufacturing. They were one of the first companies to offer healthcare to their employees, which is where Kaiser Hospital started. They were really good to their employees. They ran a 24-hour ship manufacturing plant and they could churn out boats at an absurd rate. And so there were tons of people coming in to Oakland to work there. Our industrial jobs were up 166% and in four years our unemployment dropped to 2%, which is ridiculous, especially considering how many more people were moving in. So we had an enormous growth in our population and specifically in our black population. California as a whole saw a 400% increase in the black population in about this four-year window as we were ramping up for World War II. And where previously the Bay Area, we had racially segregated neighborhoods, but it wasn't like a vicious divide. There weren't a lot of tensions, but as all of these migrants were coming in mostly from the south, housing shortages were beginning and everyone was going, oh my God, now I have nowhere to live because of all of these migrants coming in to work in the shipyards and they work 24 hours a day, so they're getting off at like 7 in the morning and getting drunk. What is with that? And we start seeing a huge increase in racial tensions and segregated neighborhoods. However, it was an exciting place. Downtown Oakland was open 24 hours. You could go to a bar pretty much any time, which isn't too far off from the way it still is. You just have to know someone, but it was much more socially accepted at that point. It was a shopping destination. We had big department stores, exciting places to go, restaurants, theater. People would come in to like spend a nice afternoon with a family in Oakland. Aw yeah, Oakland. Things changed. Once again, womp womp. Come on, there we are. We have a lot of now derelict housing. We have beautiful graffiti. And of course, Occupy. We're known for our wonderful citizen police relations. We can blame all of this on the burbs as jerks. Manufacturing fled Oakland after the war, where previously it was really profitable to be right in downtown Oakland because you had this workforce. They're now going, you know what? I don't care how much workforce we have. Come on, 8,000 for an acre versus 180 grand. Where are you going to buy? Seriously. So all of these different companies left Oakland. We had a loss of 33% of our industrial jobs, 10,000 manufacturing jobs, and unemployment was as high as 14%. Well, the national average was only 4%. Oakland was one of the few urban areas. I want to say it was one of I think four that were classified as an officially depressed region by the US government. This was a time of general economic success, and Oakland was not doing very well. Also, white flight. Everyone else was leaving for the suburbs because houses are cheap and cars are cheap. So why live in the city when you can have a house and a yard and 12 cars and 18 kids? And it's just beautiful. You have a frigid air in the kitchen, and if you get frustrated with the baby, you put it in the frigid air. I mean, it's suburban ideals. And so they made these neighborhood covenants because discrimination was not yet illegal. And even if it was, people are really good at finding loopholes to be assholes. So it was a restriction on who could purchase homes in the suburbs, obviously along racial lines. In addition, there's a thing called redlining where banks, including government funding, labeled all neighborhoods in Oakland that were largely minority as high risk. And if you weren't white, you were also considered a high risk borrower. And so anyone who still lived in Oakland could not get a loan for a home. If they already owned a home and it needed improvements, they couldn't get loans for it. Businesses could not get loans. So all of a sudden there was no way to bring money into Oakland, and it was all leaving with the industry to give you a sense of these covenants. San Leandro in 1950 had 20 black people, and in 1960 it had 17. Like, this is just taking tokenism to absurd levels. Whereas West Oakland, the black population in 1940 was 16%, but after white flight and neighborhood covenants, it was up to 62%. So you can see how all of a sudden our racial divides that were already kind of there were becoming incredibly exacerbated. And because they were trapped in areas that they couldn't improve homes, you can't bring in new businesses, everyone is getting compressed. There's less and less and less housing. And so that's where you get people piled into apartments all together. And it's just this increase in misery that leads to both bad things happening and negative perception from outsiders. The jobs were in the suburbs, but workers couldn't move there. And a lot of them didn't have cars or a way to get there. So now there are no jobs, there's no housing, and there's no way to bring anything in. Picard does not approve. And alas, the sun sets in West. West Oakland specifically. So it used to be 7th Street was this really thriving business district. There were a lot of locally owned businesses and because West Oakland has always historically been a largely African-American community, these were of course largely black owned businesses. However, screw all y'all, we want freeways. We're just going to bulldoze right on through your downtown because you know what?  I like cars. So they cleared out West Oakland and their timing was really bad. They just kind of left a big empty swath for like almost a decade. Well, they were like, well, we're going to build Bart, but we're thinking about it. We'll get around to it eventually. You know, just enjoy it. Look at all this open space you guys have now. It's great. And in addition, the covenants didn't just keep out homeowners. It kept out businesses too. So anyone whose business was bulldozed, in other words basically all of them, they couldn't relocate their business anywhere else because real estate in Oakland was already at a premium and they couldn't leave to any other suburb. So homes were destroyed and they couldn't move. Businesses were destroyed. So again, we're just pressing everyone into a smaller and smaller space with fewer and fewer options for anything else that they can do. That's that big old hole. Once upon a time, that was a business district. So Bart, West Oakland was bulldozed for two things, Bart and the freeways. And the thing is those weren't made because they were like, let's make Oakland accessible. They were made because they were like, we have all these people in the suburbs with jobs and money and we want to get them to where the stores are. So now you can just go straight into San Francisco. Like why stop in Oakland when you can go to Neiman's if you have all this money? Just go straight to downtown San Francisco. So this completely changed what was going on in Oakland. People aren't coming to the theater in Oakland anymore. They're going to San Francisco. They aren't coming to restaurants in Oakland anymore. They're going to San Francisco. And it's no longer convenient to live in Oakland and commute to San Francisco because it's actually more relaxing to get on Bart out in Lafayette and just drive on into the city instead of living in Oakland and dealing with the Bay Bridge. So everyone's just passing right by Oakland, maybe glancing out the window, probably not. So basically in a really short time, a period of roughly 10 years, we had enormous losses of jobs, huge closings of business, losses of homes. And basically this led to an exponential increase of misery. The residents are trapped. Racism is rampant. Cops in Oakland were actually largely imported from the south. They were generally white cops imported from the south with a history of racial discrimination. And in case you guys haven't noticed, the Oakland cops haven't gotten a better reputation since. And so Oakland was basically boiling over. This led to all of the really cool stuff that started to happen in Oakland in the 60s and 70s with a lot of activism and protests and people coming out and fighting back and realizing we don't have to settle for what's going on. But at this point around the beginning of the 60s, when all of this was coming to a head, Oakland had completely changed. It had gone from this beautiful, thriving, economically strong city to basically a ghetto. And the cat does not approve also. Picard and the cat are on the same page. So right now Oakland is still divided. I think we're all pretty much aware of that. We're working on it. We're getting better. But it's definitely, I see it every day in my classroom, the neighborhood-based biases that my students have towards each other. The way that they make assumptions about who's from where based on race and that there's a lot of identity and a lot of hate around this. So while Oakland as a whole is 45% black, West Oakland remains 77% black. And up until a few years ago when that great grocery co-op near the West Oakland bar came in, so up until just a few years ago, there were 53 liquor stores in West Oakland and not a single grocery store. One of the major issues with the freeways and BART was that Oakland lost a lot of its access to produce and malnutrition and poor health of Oakland children remains an enormous issue. But again, it's going down a little bit. We're still way underemployed. As of, I think it was the 2011 census, we were at minimum of 14.1% unemployment. But again, that's people actively collecting unemployment. I think we've all walked down the streets and seen that there are plenty of people who aren't but definitely are not employed. 40% of Oakland teens will not graduate high school. I teach at Oakland Tech, which has the best graduation rate in the district and we're still at a 20% dropout rate, which is really depressing. There's an 80% within the first five years, small business failure rate in Oakland. Again, our police are in trouble in that we have our fair amount of police brutality of antipathy toward the police that they have to deal with so that when we have the good police who are really working hard and doing their jobs because there are plenty of them out there, they have to deal with this as well. And also, it's just a hard thing to be a cop in Oakland. And by June of this year, we were already up to over 50 homicides. I couldn't find the most recent statistic, but that's halfway through the year and we're already at four homicides a week, basically. That's messed up. Again, the cat is sad. We have made the cat sad. So obviously, things we can do, shop local. What's amazing is how much of a recovery Oakland actively is making right now. We have great local businesses, especially on the food scene, like restaurants, hell yeah. There are so many great community organizations, especially within individual neighborhoods. You have community development corporations. There are tons of opportunities for working with teens, working with homeless. There's so much that we can do to get involved. Again, there are so many activist groups that you can donate money to because frankly, no one else is giving them money, so we have to. Otherwise, they'll never be able to do anything. Be an informed voter and vote in local elections. If no one does, things will just keep going. Pay attention to what's going on. It's really easy to be like, maybe I'm just being white liberal guilt when I look at these police things and I think, that must have been racist. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and think we need to make sure that what's going on in our community is okay, that we're not just going, maybe I'm over analyzing this and being too politically correct. No, give it a shot. What did I just press? Okay, there we are. All right, and finally, don't lose sight about everything that's great about Oakland. We have so much awesome stuff going on. Like, look how pretty Merritt is. It's so pretty. I mean, it also has a distinctive smell, but if you close your nose, it's beautiful. This was one of my favorite things at Occupy last year. Oh, Loney Land. Outside my school, my students put that up.  They are so aware of the world and what is going on. Like, they're amazing. They constantly blow me away and they deserve so much better than what we're giving them. And this is up on Telegraph. I unfortunately, you know, I phoned through a chain link fence, not super great, but there's so much amazing street art in Oakland. Again, people here know what's up. So here are some readings that these things come from, my information, and of course, a big thanks to my colleagues from the History Department at Oakland Tech. Thank you, guys. I will take any questions. So West Oakland is pretty old, like, 1880s. What was the neighborhood and the racial population of West Oakland until World War II? West Oakland was largely, there was definitely that sort of where most of the black population was to begin with, but it was also a lot of Irish immigrants who were actually in the police force and the fire department for a long time, like, during around 1900s up through the Depression. The Oakland politics were pretty much run by the rough equivalent of the Irish mob, and they were based out of West Oakland. So a lot of tensions came up as new people came in. Yes? 1906 earthquake affect going back a little farther. All right, so the question was, how did the 1906 earthquake affect West Oakland? And to be honest, I would have to look at my notes. I don't remember. I know that... So let's see. All right, so one of the major things, actually, was that's when Oakland got its step up. I remember now. San Francisco was so screwed over by the earthquake, and Oakland was a bit too, but as you might have noticed, Oakland tends to be a little bit shorter than San Francisco, so they got it really bad, and a lot of things like political stuff, a lot of major newspapers had moved into Oakland after the earthquake happened, and there was a lot of actually concern by the people of San Francisco that Oakland was going to take over and become the center of the Bay Area, and they were like, but it's called the San Francisco Bay, and we are San Francisco. This can't happen. So they fought pretty hard to get things back into San Francisco after they recovered, but that was sort of what started Oakland thriving. Yes? I know that West Oakland is basically very important in regards to the shipping and its proximity to San Francisco, but it's physically a relatively small part of Oakland and I'm wondering why you focused mostly on West Oakland, and also, since you were talking about white light, is that where Piedmont came from? That's partially where Piedmont came from, yes. So West Oakland is the main reason that I focused on it is that it is the major, it was the huge influence with the shipping and the shipyards and all of the changes really most dramatically affected West Oakland. It also, in very similar ways, affected East Oakland, not in that East Oakland wasn't bulldozed to make Bart in the freeways, but East Oakland had the same problems, basically anywhere in the Flatlands. West Oakland is just a really good sort of microcosm of what happened, but all of the Flatlands, it was pretty much the same thing. Yes? That's a really great question. I would suggest finding some organizations where you can mentor teens. There are a lot of them. I know there are things like there's college track. They're based down in Jack London Square, but they serve a number of teens. You can definitely go to your local schools and find out they're always looking for people for after-school programs. We have a ton of things at Tech that are basically volunteer-driven. There's a group called Oakland Kids First. Again, that's all over the city, but they run some fantastic, fantastic programs in the schools. They really help. They get kids doing things after school as opposed to just wandering the streets. They help develop leadership skills, help them take ownership of their schools and their peers, and also, of course, help with things like getting them to graduation and getting them on to college. Last question. Your hand first, yes. You said that Oakland was one of the top destinations in the world, I believe, the top destination in the United States. So I guess it's a two-part question. A, do you believe them? And B, do you think it's had any influence on Oakland's stores? So the question was about the New York Times. Apparently naming Oakland like a top destination in the United States. Number five. Okay. It's interesting. So I haven't read that. And I'm torn because on the one hand I do actually think Oakland is a great place to come to because there is so much fascinating history here. We have amazing museums. There's like this wonderful art scene. If you guys have ever been to Art Murmur, you basically can't move anymore because it's so great. So there are, I think, a lot of good things, but on the other hand, I kind of worry about tourists coming here.  And I would worry about what they would do. I feel bad enough when I see them doing that thing where they're like, oh yeah, I'm going to be totally smart and put my backpack on my front so I can protect it. And then like craning around to take a picture with their backpack just like gaping open. And I'm like, I'm just going to drop something in there to see if you notice. So I would worry about tourists, but I don't know. I would say the Bay Area definitely because if you see only Oakland, you're missing out on a lot, but I think Oakland is worth coming to. All right, so thank you guys. Enjoy the rest of the night.


First of all, I want to thank Supervisor Don Saylor. He's a longtime friend of mine when he was a city councilman and I've been a 17-year city councilman in Paradise, and so we've been friends for years. I was born and raised in Davis. My dad who's 93 and my brother still live here at the same house I grew up in, so this is terrific. In fact, Don texted me this morning and asked me if I was going to still be there because there was POTUS was going to be in town and I said No, I'm going to be there. I won't tell you the words I said exactly, but the choice was let's see Davis, suit work beer, mumbo gumbo, playing, and friends versus the president of the United States. It was no contest. Here I am. So things are tough up there. It is ugly. Everybody I've talked to said they've never seen anything so devastating. You'll find one house standing out of a hundred. Every member of our city council lost their homes. My daughter and her husband who works for Cal Fire lost their home. My movie theater that I own there is still standing, but without the population of about 58,000 people between Paradise and Magalia and the surrounding communities that were effectively out of business. So it's pretty sad that you can have something that survives and so it's gonna be difficult for the next eight to ten years really until we can recover, but I'd like to say Paradise is is not gone. It's just closed for remodeling.


Cancer. It's a very scary word. But an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Pikeville Medical Center is hosting a Stroke Awareness Day event on Tuesday, May 2nd with guest speakers and free screenings to spread the message. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the mountaintop media stage in front of the Appalachian wireless arena. Knowing the risk factors and how to combat them could make a major difference in someone's life. So we're really excited about Stroke Awareness Day this year. We've had to cancel the past few years due to COVID, but we're back at it this year. We're gonna be offering a lot of giveaways, a lot of free screenings. We're gonna offer refreshments, a light lunch, and then there's gonna be several speakers just to talk briefly about some risk factors for Stroke and then what to do if you think you're having a stroke, the importance of calling 911 and getting to the hospital as quick as you can. So we're really excited to get back out in the community this year. The risk for stroke in eastern Kentucky is higher compared to the national average due to reasons such as diabetes, smoking, and poor dieting. PMC is offering their services to inform the public about this health issue. We live in what is called the stroke belt. In the United States, a stroke occurs once every like 40 seconds, but where we live in the stroke belt, it's actually more often because we have such a high incidence of diabetes, smoking, obesity. So the goal of Stroke Awareness Month is just to raise awareness about like risk factors for stroke, what we can do if you have risk factors that you can actually change, what you can do to change those, and then what to do if you are actually having a stroke, what to do to get help. We're going to have several tables set up. They're going to provide screenings. We're gonna have like a BMI table set up to check your BMI and then you'll move on and they'll check your blood pressure, check your glucose because all of those things, if you have those checked frequently, you can be more aware of your risk for stroke. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.


So, about a year ago, I think it was in April last year, we came along. We had two teams running a British Gas. We just started using Ember for five months. And the site at that time was a lot of legacy care. It was all server-side, JSP, Java, JavaScript. And just at that time, we spawned up, spawned up. Five teams, they're all doing iJob, different types of iJob, whatever the team wants to do, they'll do whatever they want. We have five running apps at the moment. So, we've got the online application management app. We've got the energy sales app, the services sales app, the home move app. We've also built, this is the static content page that we have running on AM6, which is a CMS system run by Adobe. And we've built the header and the footer. Those are actually Ember applications that we're actually dropping on to the site. Anything functional on a static page is an Ember application. We're looking at actually migrating all this stuff into Ember islands at the moment. So that'll be another set of Ember applications that we're actually going to be deploying on to the site. It's been fairly well received. Speed of deployment, bills, releases, beta journeys, all done through the Ember application. 300-odd releases over a year. In the old days, it was one a month, if you're lucky. So we worked from 12 to 300.  So not that we're still cheap, if you see what I mean. So the actual Ember application was also bootstrap. Anything that we actually can get out of the Ember community we're using, we're actually running a bit behind the main Ember application itself on 1.13. Ember data, anything that we can get out of the community we're using and we're trying to feed back into the community as well. As much as we can. It's a bit difficult in a corporate environment to actually send anything back because our masters above us say, sure you don't want to try and sell that as a separate thing, maybe get some money out of those poor people that are trying to actually do some work. So this is our OAM application, the front-end into the website. Uses OAuth 2. We've iterated multiple times over this. We're back to go 100% in about a couple of weeks on this. It was a beta application, as you can see on the top of my right hand side there. It's a beta application and we've been running against the current main site for, it feels like a long time, but about six months. Trying to convince the business that what we've actually created is good, is all to do with measurement, monitoring, giving you the stats. We use Omnichir for our stuff, or SiteCatList as it used to be called. And it's the speed of response of the teams that actually, the way that we're operating now is a lot faster than the other teams in the company. So they're always catching up with us and it doesn't help to actually push the journeys forward, making better, especially the beta stuff. We're using a lot of technology that we never used to use. We used to use ClickTail. If anyone's tried to use ClickTail with an SPA like these, Total Nightmare. So we've purchased another product, Inspectlet, if you ever want to look at that. Brilliant tool. SPA is straight out of the box. And videos, heat maps, scrolled stuff, all sorts of interesting things that are very useful when you're actually trying to improve a journey for a customer. Because the amount of stuff that you don't envisage when you actually do the custom comes onto the site is pretty impressive. Is the six months period, is that a reflection of just kind of the conservative culture? Very, very conservative. Are there any particular things that they're like holding out on? It's saying like, ooh, we don't know. Maybe you want to have web chat in the main journey. Maybe you want to have this. Maybe you want to have that. Maybe you want to be able to allow our agents to actually potentially mimic a customer. We've got this functionality called impersonate user. That functionality doesn't work with the way that we built this stuff at the moment. There's a way around it, but they don't want to give that to the agents, the way around, the work around, because it's too complex for them. So until we build that, they don't want to go to the 100%. So it's a bit annoying, especially because these journeys, especially the registration journey, which I'll show in a bit, is a lot faster, a lot better. We're discovering a lot of stuff when we're actually going, I'm just trying to remember the password now. Yeah, that's good. That's all right. So the application itself is we've used a lot of stuff that we, as we've been going along, we've been iterating along. The first iteration that we did about, it must have been a year ago now, was a single fuel customer. It was just gas. And every so a couple of months, we drop in new function, new customer, new segments. It's all using the data in the backend. So when we actually move across from one application to the other, it's all moving around. Because we're tying into the old site at the same time, we've still got to maintain functionality that goes back to the old site. So this is our old site in effect. Trying to convince the business that this was okay, there's another nightmare. As they see the uplift of actually some of the journeys that were built, that slowly disappears. So for us, as we've been going through our life with Ember and client-side applications and all the other bits and pieces that we've been doing, it's a total different culture that we're trying to build in the site and with the company. We still get a lot of pushback. We're still trying to improve the culture of everyone else around us.  There's only 100 of us, sorry, in the team. In each team, we've got five scrum teams. So we've got two developers, front-end developers, a BA, a solution architect, business people. And if you get a good product owner, you can see the difference in the actual way that the team works. And the actual mentality, we're going on a minimal viable product. So that entire culture that we're trying to change to use Ember in a production environment under, well, customer load. So we've only got a couple of million of customers. This is running at 50% at the moment on the site. And as I said, we're moving up to 100% very, very soon. I'm just going to go through. We've got, as I said, five applications on the site that we've actually got. And I think we came here, I think we had two right at the beginning. So it was just quote and sale, quote and home move. So let's have a quick, home move journey. And those times, we've actually rewritten and re-styled a journey multiple times. It's been going through the site as well. So we've had a total UI change since the last time we were here. So that has also been going along at the same time. We've had the stylesheets have all changed the actual feel and look and feel of the site. Because it's all client-side stylesheets, it's very easy to migrate away from one to another. We ran the two sites A and B together to see if any customers were actually dropping out because of our new VI. We saw that it was better to switch the one off. That would have taken a project six months a year in the old days. In fact, we've still got a project that's still running that is a migration project from five years ago that never completed. Do you have problems with browser support at all? Yes, because we have to support IE9 still. So we did have a bit of a period where with the front end, it was actually dropping out. We actually lost a lot of support. But the only people we've got 1% of customers that use it, proper customers. Most of those customers are actually our corporate customers as in our company because we've still not upgraded up to Windows 11. So Windows 10, sorry, and IE11. So that is our biggest challenge is not real customers, internal customers.  So because we built it so that it can actually cope with, we've actually back ported it so it actually will work with IE9. So we have to because there's no way else that we could actually do it because a lot of the people just use IE9 internally. Does InverDrop support for IE9? They have drop support, yes. Are they dropping IE9? IE8, IE9 is supported. Just. Noise to make sure that stays around? No, supposedly we're migrating off IE9 this year sometime, maybe if we're lucky. So this is our home move journey. Again, we've migrated across from, we're still using a few bits and pieces from our old site in here. But the corporate service and then we got this home services stuff. So as we're going along, it said, oh, there we go. We can carry on. But generally it's that we've got multiple applications all running at separate times. And we're all using ABs testing all the time. The fact that we can actually put fingerprints on the Ember applications, Ember CLI deployments, the speed of deployment. It's all good. There's nothing bad about the way that this stuff works. So as a corporate entity and actually people actually using this stuff, it's a lot better than what we used to use. Obviously we still got the old bits of pieces of the site. They're on there. The changes for us to actually use the Ember application are initial issues, recruitment. We've got Angular guides now doing Ember. Every so often the Angular stuff does creep in. And the conversations that I can still build is quicker if it was Angular. It can still keep coming up. But those are slowly fading away. The more support that you get, the more applications, the speed of actually changing.  Because not having fast boot, this is the discussion I was going to have. I actually have a quick word with you about fast boot and how your experiences with fast boot. I've got this problem with fast boot because it just harks me back to the old days, which is server side rendering of sites in effect. And the power that you get with client side is that it's pretty instantaneous and you don't have to have a huge amount of kit to actually run all this stuff and sessions and maintaining sessions and things like that. I may have to have a word with Stefan and those guys about this. That's my personal problem. The way that we split it up, we split the site up into small applications that are pretty quick to load, pretty self-contained. And if they need to log in, you actually log in using the old stuff to actually cope with that, so implicit flows and things like that. So you can cope with switching between applications. And if the application's got the token, obviously you get the data. The data's there. It pulls it in. So generally, all of our stuff that we're going through at the moment is being pretty, pretty good, darn good in American-type things. The API and the data's fitting. Are you going to open that up? The bot can fit the API. What's my gas bill today? You see, that's one of our goals. It's one of my goals this year is to actually expose the API so we can monetize it. Or if it's monetized, bits of it can be monetized, bits of it can be open totally. So as an identity provider, that's your first step to get your authentic identity. Then you pull the data in that you can actually give away for free. There's bits and pieces we can't give away for free. But most of it, I can't see why we can't expose the APIs out. We're actually going through a process at the moment if anyone's interested. We're moving away from all of our back-end code was all written on a legacy system, so we're trying to get off that at the moment. So we've got a project this year, if anyone's Java developers. We're moving away from OSGI built into our old core system, and we're moving to Spring Boot and Netflix, OSS, Spring Cloud, OSS, to actually make it so that the microservices running on top of Kubernetes is our goal on top of that. So actually because microservices, fully scalable, resilient. On top of Docker, yeah. Is it part of CoreOS or related to CoreOS? It's Google, so it's not related, but they use it on top of the together. So we're actually, that's this year's mission. So last year's mission was front-end, UI, get that out, get that easy to develop, deploy separately from the data. Now next year's mission, along with everything else that we're doing, is actually get the data in a system that's actually fully resilient and extensible. As with everything with British Gas, it's money and time and effort and politics. We can get coins on. I have coins on thing, yeah. If there were real bitcoins in that, that would be useful. I'm curious.  Yes. Do you share components between them? Yes. So we have a common component library that sits behind that, and we pull those into each of the actual applications that are actually deployed. Another one that comes later in your common component. Yes. I think if you look back to the talk from April. Yes. There is, I think, deeply presented a segment about that, about the shared component library. And I think it shares the component to get compiled into a file, which, literally, the file is shared between the apps as well as after it. Yeah. And that was one of the things I think they were quite interesting in releasing. Yes. How's that journey going? I'll have to remind them. Actually, what I'll do is, after this, if there's something recording, what I'll do is I'll ping him. Because he's supposed to be in here today as well, but he's coming down to London tomorrow, so he can't do both days. Family commitments, as they say. So yeah, that's it. So I think we exposed something, forms. I think we've got it put out there. I don't know how many people use it, but it's out there as well, which we are using, because we are using forms everywhere on the site, because that's what we do. We take data and put it into our, ingest it into our back-end systems. I haven't used it about the energy industry, because I've worked at it. I'll take it off the line. Yeah, if you go down the pub afterwards, I'll definitely talk about that, especially with our great pricing structure that we have for that. Do you think, eventually, all the British gas front-end will be perhaps amber? Yes. Like a single application? So our biggest issue is the amount of static data, static content that we have on the site is quite big. And what we don't want to do is create a monolith, because we had a massive monolith beforehand. And the beauty of having separate little applications that can actually be deployed out separately means that the different teams can all travel at different speeds using different techniques and different deployments. If we then built one massive application that just piled everything together and deployed it all in one go, it would potentially, we have this... In a corporate thing, it's just getting the people together to actually deploy it all in one go. And that's what we used to have. And it was a horrible mess of testing to actually get anything released. So the beauty of this is you're only testing one set of functionality, you're only testing, quote, you're only testing services, you're only testing HomeMove, you're only testing OAM. And you can test the front-end away from the back-end separately. So we use Mirage a lot for the testing. A lot of the mock stuff that we do is we put a lot of mocking into the actual front-end. So the front-end and the back-end are so separate, it helps out. If you have taken a look to engines because precisely they ask the question, do you can pretty much build independent applications and mount them together? All right, okay. So I'm actually using... Ember engines. Ember engines, yes. So just to give you the idea, your main application is basically a shell, a shell with holes. You feed the application and these applications can be deployed independently. So the big thing is you don't, since the application is the same, you don't use the session, the session is common to a lot of them. And that can be helpful. Well, that's when you stop thinking about Ember engines fast boot and you're starting to tie them slightly together when you stop thinking together, if you think about it. But they're different. Yeah, I know, but it's... They're both different. Yeah, yeah. What's your potential look at it? I said we're always rewriting. That's the thing is with this and the front end, because it's front end, you can rewrite quite a lot. We've just got to convince five teams that we're actually going to rewrite altogether. We just need to figure out the message out in the corporate community. I think to the comment, I mean, time made earlier, kind of trying to get a reaction out of the crowd, but like, you know, what I would love to see is, right, and Angular is saying because it's got... Lots of... Exactly. So, maybe that doesn't... Ember doesn't ever have to hit the corporate sector. I mean, that's possible, but it'd be nice if it did, because I think that kind of sponsorship has... So the last... I think we did... we sponsored Ember camp last year. Right. So... that was actually quite easy to do. I was quite amazed that our corporate supporters, I said, oh, that's fine, yeah, we'll support that. It's not that much money. In comparison to the amount of money we do spend on stuff. No, no, but it's... It was a part of the sponsorship, you know. So... I think we became platinum. I can't remember which one we went for. So... that support is fine. It's getting out into the community to tell other people what we're doing, because it's... it's fine, but we are actually... it's limited to what we can do that's actually far out on the innovative. Because we still have to do the actual stuff that actually gives us the money to actually run the site. So you have... can now say... I'll use Ember. Yeah, so British Gas do. The other team that uses it is another part of British Gas which is Connected Homes, which is the hive heating stuff if you ever heard the adverts on TV and everything. But they've gone for Angular because they had a... it was a recruiting thing. They said, right, how can I get people in now to do this work? I know you're using Ember. I can't be asked about that. I'm going to go for Angular because I can get people now. And that's the main thing. And the more people that use Ember I think the corporates will stop paying people in. Even though the guys that are using Angular or have used Angular switched quite quickly to Ember. I just saw something on Twitter about someone actually doing an Ember Angular to Ember training course from someone... I think it was Tom Dale, I think, posted that on Twitter at the moment. So that would be... stuff like that would help. Equally, something that we really benefit from is employers encouraging their people on their teams to come out and give talks about the things they've been working on and the techniques they've discovered how they found onboarding to Ember and how they convinced their company to make the best on it. For anyone working in a bigger organisation with deep things to say at all as we always say five minutes is a fantastic way to talk. And I think I think yourselves in deep have been talking about getting corporates out to come out to us because you can come out if you want to come out to stains. That's where we are. So if you want to come out to stains and have a look at what we're doing I think we can organise something. That's the thing. So if it's a corporate thinking about trying to use Ember if you come out to stains you can see the way that we've actually implemented it. We've been using it now for a year and a half. In anger. That's it.


Well our marketplace awareness was, we felt was good, and we realised that once we joined the programme it was a lot, lot better after, basically by the amount of people coming into the showroom. I thought our marketplace awareness was actually quite good until we'd done the programme, but the feedback from customers is they hadn't realised we were here, they were saying, God, when did you open, and we've been here for 38 years, so we mustn't have been reaching people the way we thought we were. With this advertising with Highland Radio we're getting a lot more feedback from areas of the county that we wouldn't have, so definitely word of mouth has increased.


I would like to address in this video the specificity of 12-core device regarding the PIN assignments. In the case of a GPIO, you have to select which core will initialize the GPIO. And in case of an IP, you have to select which core will initialize the IP on what is the runtime context. So first with the basic GPIO, let's select again our PA8 and configure it as a GPIO output. Now, if I right-click on it, I've got an additional item in the menu, which is PIN reservation. By default, the value is free. Free, that means it's not assigned to one core to the other one. That means no initialization code will be generated. This is a trick, that means you think it's configured in your Cubemix, but it won't generate the initialization code. So you have to select the cortex that will be responsible of this initialization. For example, cortex M7. If I want to double-check the configuration of all my GPIO, I go in the system core category, GPIO. Right here, I can see the context assignment. I can also modify it from this menu, of course. Now regarding the IP, I can show the context of all the IP. That means which IP is defined in which context. For example, if I take again my USART1, it could have a runtime context in the cortex M7. That means the cortex M7 will initialize and use it. But if I want to use it in the booth core, I can select this. Then after, I have to select what is the core which is responsible of its initialization. For example, the M4. Now I select the mode, and I can show the different default parameter. If you check the pin selected, if I right-click, I don't have this menu to select what is the core. Because it's really linked to the IP here and not to the pin itself. So to sum up, if you select the runtime context of the USART on cortex M7, in the CM7 project, the code generated will do the initialization of the GPIO in alternate mode for the USART. You will have the USART initialization code with the parameter you define on the core to this initialization. Nothing in the CM4 project for sure. Symmetrically, if you selected the CM4 project for the runtime context, you will have all this code in the CM4 project and nothing in the CM7. And if you select both runtime contexts, you can select the initializer. So in this case, for example, the CM7. All the initialization code will be in the CM project GPIO USART on the core to this initialization code. But on the CM4 project, you will also have the definition of the function to initialize the USART because you will need to use it in the runtime context. And that's mainly what I want to show you. So what is really important to remind is on the GPIO basic function, you have to select which core is assigned because you won't see it in this context menu. But if here you've got a pain context to free, no initialization code will be generated. I hope this was interesting for you and thanks for your attention.


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Today we are opening packs from 2004 and before. What's up guys we're back with another old school opening. Almost every pack from this video is from 2004 or before. It's gonna be pretty awesome but first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these two cards. They have an exerian universe from the collector tent and a gate guardian Japanese print. These are both really awesome. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed and let me know your favorite pack or card from the video. In this video we have I think six first edition ancient sanctuary. I mean that's pretty cool. That's the 11th set ever made. Then we have one rise of destiny first edition. We have four first edition. These are hobby soul of the duelist I believe. Let's check this out. Yeah 97 so we could potentially pull a horus ultimate rare. If that happens like we will lose it. Then we have a some number I believe 12 flaming attorney. You guys know I love this set so I'm really excited about these. And then we have a few special editions. We have a rise of destiny so a couple more of those packs. These are first edition in this special edition which is really cool. And then a couple these are not from 2004. These are duelist pack special editions. A little bit newer but still pretty old. Let's start off this video with a rise of destiny first edition pack. Let's see if we can pull ultimate rare to koichi. I mean creators in here we've got the perfect machine king. There's so many really cool cards. Let's see if we can pull me back to square one. We have mirage knight. Raging flame sprite. Zing zin who this card was actually really good in dual links early on. And chain burst where we got the mochi mochi king cool. Furen Kazan eagle eye and malice dispersion. First pack had not much but now we have flaming eternity guys. If we pull the sacred phoenix even if it's an ultra it's it's unlimited but who cares. Ultimate rare would be insane. There's so many awesome ultimate rares in here hopefully we can pull one of them. I think phoenix wing windblast is a retail ulti which is really cool. So even if this is a retail pack we could get it. We're in prodigy we've got a mental burst and meteor of destruction. That's like one of the worst options. Space mambo and release restraint. Very cool. Let's go into a duelist pack special edition. I'd probably say one of the least exciting. This this was also a little bit like I think you got like wet or something at some point the outside of it. So not the best one to keep sealed so this is the perfect thing to open. Inside we have the block man promo and then we have a few packs. I don't know it's actually a lot of packs because the duelist packs have like usually more. All right the block man looks to be in pretty good condition. Very cool. I mean this card looks nice it's just Legos. I mean Legos are very nostalgic. I mean who didn't play Legos back in the day. Those are pretty cool. Duelist pack Chazz Princeton. Let's see what we can get out of here. Can we pull something good from Chazz? I guess arm dragon level 10. Is that is that in here the original print? O'jama yellow. Chathonian. The grave of in kindling super rare. We got V Tiger jet and Chathonian Palmer. Very nice. That's a super rare. Okay cool super rare. That's like our first real pull of the video. Let's try a Jaden. Is this the one that has this is duelist pack JNuke. Okay. Is this the one that has Cartrooper? I can't remember. I think it might be. Let's see we have Elemental Hero Aviant. Transcendant Winx. Bubble Blaster. Okay we got a pretty cool one. They have all these equip spells for the Elemental Heroes which are like really terrible but they're very funny. And just cool the bubble blaster for the bubble man. I mean as if you would actually use that but it's pretty funny. Chazz. See what you got Chazz. Chazz it up. Chazz it up. Can we Chazz it up enough to get arm dragon level 10? I've never pulled that so that'd be cool. Chathonian Blast. Z Metal Tank. VW Tiger Catapult. I mean that name is missing a lot of stuff. What's going on there? Is this one of the ones where it has like something else printed into it? Or is this just missing random things? You guys are going to have to let me know. Is there actually another name in there? I feel like there is. I don't know you guys let me know. Like is there like another name that was printed onto there and that's why it was messed up like that? I'm not sure. I'm going to put it to the side just in case. Jaden Yuki. Here we go. Let's go. Jaden. Do these give us like a card list? A reinforcement of the armies on there that doesn't. Okay. Bubble Shuffle. Feather Wind, Polly, and Clayman. Man, elemental heroes. They're so cool. Too bad like they were bad for so long. I guess they're still not very good and it's like the classic ones are really bad. Arm Dragon level three. Let's get the 10. Oh, John McGreen. Level, wait. Level Modulations like that too. It feels like there's supposed to be another name in there. That is weird. Okay. Arm Dragon level five. Final pack. So we've gotten some strange missing part of the name cards out of Chazz. Let's see if Jaden can get anything. We have strategy card seven. Burst into tricks. We've got the fusion Sage. Elemental hero, Rampart Blaster. That's a really cool card. Sparkman and Polymerization. Okay. Time to move on to another Flamie Eternity. This is a fun opening. This is a lot of sets that I do not get to open too often. So let's see if we can pull something epic out of them. The Light Hex Sealed Fusion. Good goblin housekeeping. Rescue Cat. Good pull. It just got reprinted so it's probably down, but it's still pretty valuable. That's a good one. And then Refusion. Shadow Slayer. Mechadog Marin. Release for Strength. Catnip Kitty. And the Dark Hex Sealed Fusion. Let's try a first edition Ancient Sanctuary. We have not pulled any, or we've not opened one of these yet. So let's see if we can pull something cool. We're looking for that Enemy Controller. Dark Magic Attack. Burst Dream of Destruction. Any of the Seekers are really cool. I guess Ancient Sanctuary from the Sky is a cool Super Rare. This is opening very strangely, but eventually we will get it open. There we go. All right. Let's not damage any cards. Micro Ray. Very nice Disc Fighter. I think Knight of Salem is in here as well. Soul Reverse. Oswan Apparition. And the Draining Shield. Does it sound like Spirit Caller and Legendary? Back to Flaming Eternity. We do have probably the most of these. We definitely have the most of these. We have 12. So compared to the other ones, we have a lot. Hopefully we can get an Ultimate Rout of something. All of these have Ultimate Rare Potential except Ancient Sanctuary and Duelist Pack. Let's see if we can do it. Majigaya Panda. Oh no. Look at the corners. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no, no, no. Please don't be damaged. Rescue Cat. And he's damaged on the corner. What a bummer. And then the Big Tuss Mammoth. All right. So that whole pack was absolutely just messed up. Blade, Rabbit, Hand of Nephthys, and Golem Sentry, unfortunately. All right. Let's just get this one opened up and we'll throw it into the other packs that we have. For this special edition, we got the Hero Spirit. That one looks really cool. And then we got our packs as well. Let's start off with a Chaz Princeton Pack. Duelist Pack Jazz. Come on, Chaz. Give us something good. Chaz it up here. Strategy card number one. We got the X-Head Cannons. Thony and Alliance. Oja Muscle V-Tiger Jet. And why dragging it? Next, another Flaming Eternity. Please do not be damaged. Like, please. Come on. The cards don't be damaged. Come on. We have the Light-Head Sealed Fusion. Good golem on housekeeping. Rescue Cat. Are we three out of like four or five? That's insane. That's a really good card. Refusion. Too bad we didn't open these before the reprint. And then... Oh! Ultimate Rare King Dragon. Thank goodness this wasn't the damaged one. This is actually a very nice card. It actually has pretty decent value. Oh my goodness. Ultimate Rare Unlimited. Are these Hobby Packs or are these... Are they Hobby Packs or are they just... I can't remember exactly how the flame... Like the mid-sets worked. But we just pulled a Super Rare Ultimate Rare. This is a really good pull. I was wondering if we were ever going to pull anything because they are loose packs. You never know what those... Wow! Did we pull something? That's a great pull. Ultimate Rare King Dragon. Dragon. Dragon. Whatever you want to call them. It's going to be hard to live up to that one. That's an incredible pull. I don't know what the Unlimited is, but I know the first editions are pretty pricey. I think they're like over $100 for that card. So that is definitely a great pull. Ogre King. We've got the Chathoni Alliance. The Infernal Incinerator. Okay. Arm Charger and Chathoni and Palmer. Imagine if that was the dinged up card. I would have cried. All right. Another Ancient Sanctuary. I'm starting to... I'm getting hopeful now because we just pulled a crazy good card. Can we pull something else out of here? That would be awesome. We've got the Nubian Guard. Kazaki. Backfire. This opening is not backfired so far. We've got the Three-Ump Lakuta and... The Ancient of Creation. Venus. Knight of Salem. There's another good common. This is a pretty good opening so far. We've only pulled like one real foil besides the Duelist Packs, which I think it was bad. But we've pulled a lot of good commons. We've pulled obviously one great foil. Let's see if we can pull the big card out of Chas. Let's go. Oh, Jama Green. Oh, Jama Yellow. Level Modulation. Arm Dragon Level 5 and Wide Dragon Head. Okay, not this time. Back to our Flaming Eternity. They've been good to us so far. Now I'm like, okay, can we get like another Ultimate Rare? Is that possible? Another Rescue Cat. We opened a whole box and got like four or five of these. We've gotten that many in this opening. That's crazy. Good Goblin Housekeeping. I don't know what they're worth now. Hopefully they're still a couple bucks. Hyena. I figure they are. And Brain Jacker. All right, Threatening War. That's it. Threatening War is a great card. I might take that out, too. Poison Fangs and Divine Dragon Ragnarok. Let's go into a Duelist Pack. Jaden Yuki. The first of three Duelist Packs for the Jaden Man. All right, we've got a Rota here. The Royer returning alive. Rotweiler. Winged Caribo. Cool Spark Broster. And Dark Catapults. Let's try our first Soul of the Duelist First Edition. If we get a Horus, guys. I don't know what I would do. I would like literally cry. This feels like it has less cards. Neo Arcanor. We've got the Heavy Slump. Enraged Muka Muka. Dark Factor of Mass Production. And Mind On Air. Believe it or not, my mind is on air. Back to Flaming Eternity. Give us another Ulti. We're getting a little greedy here, but let's do it. We've got the Abare Ushioni. Beast Soul Swap. Element Valkyrie. Refusion. Assault on GHQ. Firebird. Dark X Refusion Cangor. We finally did not pull the Rescue Cat. All right, Duelist Pack. Jaden Yuki. Let's go. Let's do this. All right, we have Enemy Controller. Transcendent Wings. Bubble Man. Elemental Hero. Rampart Blaster. And Polymerization. We're pulling a lot of that Rampart Blaster. Another Flaming Eternity. Been good to us so far with the commons and then the Ulti. Let's see if it can continue to do so. The Abare Ushioni yet again. Element Burst. Element Valkyrie. Beast Soul Swap. And Shadow Slayer again. Space Mombo. Threatening Roar again. Dark X Refusion and Firebird. Final Jaden Pack. Can we pull... I hope Karcherber's in here. I'm not really sure if it is, then hopefully that. Element... Elemental Hero, Avian. Not Element. Elemental Hero Burst. And Wing Caribo Level 10. That's a cool card. We've got the Warrior Returning Alive and Sparkman. Now let's get this Rise of the... Rise of the Duelist is what I was about to say. Rise of Destiny open and get those packs out. Let's see what promo we get. I think we can get CED out of here? No, Dark Magician Girl. Yeah, TLM is CED. Dark Magician Girl could potentially be in here, which would be pretty big. That's a nice card. All right, here's the moment we find out if it is the Dark Magician Girl. Let's open this up like this. Please be Dark Magician Girl. Please, please, please. Not Vampire Lord or whatever the other three options are. Oh, it was! Yes! Dark Magician Girl. And it looks to be in pretty nice shape overall. Wow, it looks really minty. Okay. This opening is... It's doing pretty well. That's a good one. Okay. So now we've got three Faded Rise of the Duel. How are these Faded? That's crazy. I guess they just... My print thing. That's wild. Let's start off with one of them. Already got a Dark Magician Girl. I mean, this is sweet. I'm enjoying this opening so much. We've got a Homonculus, the Alchemic Beam. We've got the Mindhack Swords. Raging, Flamesprite. It's all for the Double Purification. Can't speak. And a Machine Dube. This Ulti is huge. Very cool. Harpy Lady One and Bakoychi. This is still a decent rare. Back to our Flaming Eternity Packs. We still have so many packs. Like, I didn't even realize how many this is. This is... This is fun. This era is very fun. I enjoy it. We don't get to open it too much. We've got Panda. Ben Kai. This is one of them of the contract. Flaming Ruler. I'm struggling to speak today. And Four Seas Fire with the Catnip Kitty. And the Earth Hex Seal Diffusion. Time for Ancient Sanctuary. So far nothing. Well, we did get Nine of Sailing. I guess that's something. But not much. We have not pulled much. We've got Sword of the Soul Eater. Nubian Guard. Backfire. Three Omblacuda. Oh, a Needle Burrower. I always pull the Needle Burrower. Like, every time I open this set. But it is a super. We cannot complain about that. The back looks decent. Centering is better than usual when I pull out of the set. It's usually way off. This is actually pretty good. All right. We'll take that. We got Monster Gate. Another Knight of Sailing. It's always after Monster Gate. That's pretty nice. Back to our Flaming Eternity. Flaming Eternity has given us a one hit wonder. We haven't pulled like any supers or anything. We just pulled one Ulti. Which is like, maybe these were Wade and they missed the Ulti or something like that. Abari Ushioni. Be Soul Swap. Element Valkyrie. Nope. There's a Super Rare. Blast Magician. It doesn't look like these were Wade. Blast Magician. This is a really cool Super Rare. Ultimate Rare. This card looks absolutely amazing. I've posted it on Instagram before. You guys follow me at rexon34. Shameless Plug. Make sure to check out my Twitter as well. Let's get back to the actual cards. Blast Magician. Very cool. I love that card. Man. Flaming Eternity has been good. Another threatening war. We've got so many good comments. Time for our second Soul of the Dual List. So far, the first pack did not give us anything worthwhile. Basically, all we can get out of here is like an actual foil. I think level up is an okay comment in terms of value. Ninjutsu Art of Decoy. Hey, Dane. Fusion Weapon. Come on. Where's the Black Flame Dry? I'll take level 4, Ulti. I'll take 6, 8. I'm just going to die. Hammer Shot. Okay. That's not an Ulti. We don't have to worry about dying. All right, Ritual Weapon. Very cool. We still have more Flaming Eternity than everything else. So we're going to go back to this. I think we're getting pretty even now. We still got like 10 packs plus left to open up. So this is going to be sort of a longer old school opening, which is cool. Beastal Swap. If you guys have old school packs, you want to sell me, hit me up on Instagram or through email, anything like that. Or if you just want me to open them, I would love to do that. It's a great video. Flame Ruler and Pigtas Mammoth yet again. He has revealed himself again. What is going on there? This is like printed into the card. That's really weird. It looks like you can just brush it off, but you can't. That's strange. Let's go into another Rise of Destiny. Here we go. The Rise of the Destiny. Horpy Lady 2. Creeping Doom Manta. Back to square one. Mirage Dragon. A Team Trap Disposal Unit. All right. And Pitch Dark War Wolf. Let's go to a first edition ancient sanctuary. We did get a Super Rare last time, so there is hope for some big pulls. Ooh, Zaborg the Thunder Monarch. I seem to pull this guy a lot too. Back to our favorite set, Flaming Eternity. Oh, a mirror! But he met the king of all animals. All right. I might have stopped the camera.  So we missed a couple minutes and we'll finish this back. This is ancient sanctuary. I've not revealed the rare. Let's see. We have the even nightmare. Okay. So what you guys did miss, unfortunately, was another ultimate rare. And I recorded my face, so maybe I'll show that by itself real quick. I don't know why I didn't record that. Unfortunately, at least it wasn't like a sacred phoenix. That would have been depressing, but we did pull this. Why now I should not be doing this? Okay. At least I realized it and didn't record half the video. So we can continue. We still have eight packs left, I think. So let's go on a Soul of the Duelist.  I'm kind of sad about it, but let's just keep going. You guys, you can believe me or not that we pull. I mean, it's not the craziest ulti, but it's an ulti. It's really cool. Ritual Weapon. Here we go. Element Dragon. Mass Dragon. Now let's do all the mice. And... Oh, Master of Oz! Cool card. Heavy Slump. Element Soldier. And Ultimate Baseball Kid. Pretty cool. Okay. Flaming Eternity. I'm very sad that we didn't record that now. Maybe we'll pull a third ultimate rare. That'd be pretty cool. We got the Arms Samurai Benkai. Light Exiled Fusion. Centrifugal Field. Insect Knight. And... Ultimate Insect Level 5. Okay, Golem Century. Hand him that this and the Blade Rabbit. All right. Let's go into our final rise of Destiny. Here we go. The camera is recording. Nothing to worry about this time. Back to square one. We've got the Dark Magician Girl. Zing Zin Hu. Harpy's Hunting Ground. Harpy Girl. That's a decent card. And... Rare Metal Morph. I thought that might be something. Foxfire. Pitch Park. Pitch. Dark. Pitch. Black War Wolf. There we go. And Fruits of Kazaki Studies. Rise of Destiny didn't give us much, but the Special Edition did give us the Dark Magician Girl, which is cool. Our final Flaming Eternity Pack. Let's see if we can pull something actually on camera this time. Here we go. Centrifugal Field. Chewskie the Mouse Fighter. Flame Ruler. Here we go. World in Prodigy. I'd be surprised. That'd be three Ultis. Like, they would have to be from different boxes, probably. Oh, a Feather of the Phoenix is super rare, so we did get four foils out of those 12 packs. So we ended up getting, like, the better half of the box, I would say, with the, you know, the two Ultimate Rares. All right, two more packs. We've got Ancient Sanctuary. Then we're going to do our Soul of the Dualist First Edition Hobby Pack. The Horus of the Black Flame Dragon is crazy. So let's see if we can get it. First, we want to get the Enemy Controller here. Piranha Army. Human Wave Tactics. The Atomic Firefly. And Double Costin Delta Attacker. That's all right. We went two for six. That's actually really good for old school packs. We'll take it. And finally, Soul of the Dualist First Edition. Horus of the Black Flame Dragon, PSA 10 is one of the most expensive cards out there. It's just crazy. Super hard to find as well. So let's see if we can pull it. I am down to pull it. We have Ninjutsu Art of Decoy. Howling Insect. Level up. That's a decent common. Dark Mimic Level 1. And the Rufflesia Seduction. All right. Horus of the Servant and Goblin Colliglifer. Colligrifer. We did get Horus of the Servant. So that's something. If you guys enjoyed that video, make sure to subscribe and like the video for more epic content in the future. Hopefully we will not be making any more crazy recording errors like we did in this video. Shout out to TCG Trusted Cards, Toa Info Show, Tomato Juice, Noa J, Stanley, Mike Nantz, Mimic Gecko, Dualist Kingdom Cards, and Spanky McFarlane. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


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So this week we have the rare spawn hunt, where certain enemies scattered across the universe who used to be rare spawns are now guaranteed to be in their set locations. They also, so Gearbox State, have increased chances in dropping certain loot. Today guys, we test this. How's it going people? My name is DPGener, I'd like to thank you for stopping by and checking out my video. If you do enjoy it, leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you want more, Borderlands. Also guys, I am giving away copies of Borderlands to win one for yourself or a friend. Simply subscribe and make sure you have notifications turned on. Drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below. Okay so rare spawn hunt week thingy bob joe is live right now. Certain enemies which are rare spawns are now guaranteed to appear in their certain locations, and also have increased chances of dropping legendary loot. Now on my initial video of me talking about this and this actual weekly event, it seems as though many people would not gain any increased loot drops. So I thought I would test it myself. The place I chose to test was a red jabber who had an increased chance in dropping random legendary grenade months. I will state I did this online without any specific loot artifact or extra lock artifact to in fact see if loot drops seemed increased. So 50 runs of this red jabber. Thought you would see in the background now.  Okay so this is the place for increased grenade months. Legendary grenade months according to gear box. Now I did record every rarity I did have drop as I plan on doing another video another 50 runs of this place with a lock artifact which supposedly gives you 10% plus extra lock so I am definitely interested in seeing the results. So yeah the entire results are as follows. I got two commons, 34 on commons, 60 rares, 22 epics and 11 legendos. None of which were grenades, two were weapons. The grenades I got were the fastball, nagata, red queen, moxies bouncing pear, widowmaker, stormfront and surge, one or two duplicates in there. Weapons I got were the destructo spinner and avenge for damned. So out of 50 runs guys I managed to get 9 grenades, 9 legendo grenades. All of which said grenades were pretty poor. While considering my goal to at the moment are the hex variants and the firestorm, none of these compare. So after 50 runs what do I think? Well in my honest opinion running the red jabber in search of that perfect hex for your build, the perfect firestorm for your build, is a complete waste of time. I 100% guarantee you guys find an elsewhere, spots like draveward, spots like the offline loot tink, tront, gigamind, they would all drop you way more legendos and way more grenade muds in the same time farming here. These 50 runs took me ages people. The save point also by the way is a fast travel spot. So unless you have means of moving quicker, then it's quite a long trek to rinse and repeat these 50 times. So yeah guys, although the red jabber will 100% be there, it seems as though it still isn't worth your time trying to get that grenade mud here. Now people I do have another video incoming where I test to see if the lock artifacts actually work and grant you increased lock. And let me tell you, the results are pretty damn crazy. So stay tuned for that guys. But yeah, just to recap, running the red jabber 50 times over only gave me 9 legendary grenade muds. In my opinion, definitely not worth it for the time and effort you would have to put in doing this. And on that note guys, we have come to the end of the video. Now it begs the question, are there actually increased legendary loot drops with these said respawn bosses? I mean 9 legendary muds at 50 runs? I mean that's pretty damn bad. But you tell me what you think down below in that comment section. But on that note guys, we have come to the end of the video. If you guys enjoyed it, leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around to and enjoy daily borderlands videos, be sure to subscribe. And if you never want to miss a video or upload a can to a notifications on by hitting that power button. But guys, thanks as always for stopping by. Hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


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This is stock number 9500. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used half-ton truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2012 Chevy Silverado 1500 extended cab short box. This truck has the 5.3 liter V8 motor with active fuel management from this HD video. You will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. I didn't see any dents or dings on that front bumper. Factory fog lights. That front bumper piece looks really good. Summit white is the color. This one has the 20-inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers. So your rims always look nice and look nice. It has the Bridgestone Duler. These are two 75-55R20 tires and these tires have right around half the tread left on them. No dents or dings on that front fender. The hood is in excellent condition. There's no cracks on any of the grille pieces. The chrome looks like it's a nice condition. The headlights are nice and clear. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. As you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. Cab is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings down this side of the truck. Back rim is in nice condition as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. You can see that that frame and underbody is in really nice condition considering this is a 2012. And it's like that all the way underneath. Lower rockers are in excellent shape as well. We want to make sure that you get the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible so that when you get here there's absolutely no surprises. Rear bumpers in really nice condition, no dents or dings. It does have the backup sensors. It has the locking tailgate. Tailgate itself is in excellent condition. Didn't see any dents or dings. It has a very nice access soft rolling tonneau cover or roll-up tonneau cover I should say. The bed, a couple little scuffs and scrapes but for the most part very very clean. No major dents or damage. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and that one does lock. It has the chrome tube bed rails. And as we go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side. And these rockers really nice too.  There are no rips. There are no tears on these seats. Very very nice condition. It does come with a power driver seat. Weather tech floor mats in the front. Carpentine is nice and clean underneath. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. As we hop inside here you can see that this truck has 69,349 miles. You get an outside temperature display as well as a compass display and a mileage display as well. Leather wrap steering wheel. It's in really nice condition. Has bluetooth audio controls on this side. Has a cd player. The six speed automatic transmission. Turn dial four wheel drive. Power pedals, backup sensors and stability control. You have your dual climate control right there. And this one has AM, FM and Sirius XM satellite radio capabilities. Up here you have your on-star capabilities as well as your home link buttons. That's for your garage doors, security systems and lighting systems. Passenger side seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that. We got a weather tech floor mat on that side. And that carpeting is really nice and clean. 40, 20, 40 split bench seating as well. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. There are no rips. There are no tears back here. Has the fixed glass window with the rear defrost. Latch child safety systems. These seats fold up for extra storage. We have all weather floor mats back here as well. Those are factory ones. And the carpeting is nice and clean as well and you can see how those seats do fold up. The one thing I like about these extended cab models is these doors open up all the way. So it makes it very easy to get in and out or if you have to pack a bunch of stuff back there, that's pretty easy too. And then these back windows do power down. The other thing I wanted to mention about the interior, it smells very clean in this truck. I don't believe it's ever been smoked in. Very, very well maintained inside the vehicle. We'll take a quick look under the hood at the 5.3 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean. Runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 400 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we got to go to our website www.SummitAuto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot. Videos of every single used vehicle that we have all at SummitAuto.com. Thank you so much for checking out the video. If you want to make this truck yours, give us a call right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Ask for one of our sales associates to make this truck yours today. Once again, that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thanks again for checking out the video. If you want to check out more, go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos you see there. In fact, in a second, you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. 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