Hi, my name is Danny and welcome to Esoteric Moment. I have a bunch of videos that should have been edited and uploaded, but that didn't happen. So instead I'm doing a quick update video while I am standing on our farm. We closed on August 1st, so we've been here about a week now as I record this. And we were working on our house because it's a fixer-upper that is happening. But all of our projects went a little askew, so we tried refinishing the floors ourselves. But the sander just wasn't strong enough for the type of finish that were already on the floors after we ripped up the carpet. So then we went back to Home Depot to rent a bigger sander, and that one wasn't available and we only had a larger car to transport things for so long. So that was interesting. We're redoing the bathroom. We're going to hire a plumber to redo the pipes because we need to rearrange it. It doesn't have a shower right now, and it has sloped ceilings, so you can't even put a shower where the tub is right now because my husband would not be able to stand up straight. The ceiling is sloped that far. So we bought a lot of tile and a lot of time at Home Depot. I think we're going to finish that demo today, hopefully, mostly. We ran into some old vermiculite insulation that we think has fallen from the attic. And there's a strong chance that it has asbestos in it, so we're kind of deciding how we want to handle that remedial process particularly. It's just a small section, but you know, got to be careful. The actual land is beautiful. The pairs should be ripe like next week or maybe two weeks later. We found out that there are plums here, that we didn't know. And there were big tomato plants waiting for us and lots of flowers. The garden is just in really beautiful shape. We figured out where we want to put our garden next year, raised beds for like tomatoes or crops that need a lot of attention. And then we'll do the rest of our things with swales and permaculture. And we're still walking the land and figuring out how that will work here on this property. We don't want to do anything major until we really understand this land and what it needs and how we can work to the things that it gives us. I think the permaculture will work really well here and our plans should be a good fit. We were really excited to see the stream is still running. We were slightly worried that maybe that was just like a winter snowmelt spring, but it seems to go all year round so far. There is bee balm everywhere in the pastures. Sadly, it's a really like bitter, spicy flavor, but the butterflies love it. So that's great. Probably probably just won't be like drinking it or using it in tea as much as I would like. I might need a different cultivar for a better flavor. Lots of queen and lace flowers, the nettles kind of pass the prime for eating, but we've got like a small batch by the barn, which I think will be really great for taking care of allergies and making nettle soup, which is delicious. It's just a really peaceful, beautiful place, and I'm so glad that we're here. I can't wait for the house to be in a little better shape so that we can move in and then we can spend our time working on the projects that we really love, which is gardening and planting trees and just spending time outside. I'm also looking forward to finding a place where I could do maybe a stone circle, or ideally I would love to like plant an actual grove of some sacred trees and have that as being my outdoor spiritual place, but we're going to have to find the right spot and make sure that the spirits of place here, you know, that's something that they want to. We'll see what happens. Thanks for your patience as I get things finished and videos uploaded. I hope you guys are having an awesome summer. If anyone has done home renovation before, please in the comments give me all of your advice because I think I was a little naive in how much we could accomplish in a limited amount of time. I know we can accomplish it. I'm just shocked at how long everything's taking. So if you have advice about home renovations or, you know, buying property in general, adulting tips below, please. Thanks for watching and as always, may you find peace in the sacred grove.


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How's everyone doing today? How you doing around the world? It's good to see everybody in the comments and thanks for all the comments yesterday Man a lot of inspiring words being shared about how people remain grateful through injuries through tough running shoe situations and all that so, okay I am recovering coming back from that 5k race that took a little more out of me than I expected I have the calf sleeves on right now. Just working on that compression And so I'm heading into the gym to yes show you my full full full full core workout routine that I do once a week in The gym, but before that I'm gonna go do a nice easy run remember yesterday I took the day off no running and my legs are feeling my legs are saying thank you. Thank you. Thank you They feel really good today. I'm not out of the woods yet Still need to be very on the ball with respect to everything just it's like it's it's from here to the marathon and Beyond but I just got to be really on the ball with taking care of the leg There we go six miles 10k I'm gonna continue to strive to convert my miles into kilometers a couple people have been asking recently If I could do that and sometimes I do forget but today was a 10k and probably I don't know what the pace was I'm guessing like 815 830 pace per mile. So and I'll convert that to kilometers back in the studio Oh, man, okay into the gym and feeling good still some tightness in my left foot That is the foot that struggled with a plantar fasciitis last year So I need to continue to monitor that massage Strengthen ice all that good stuff. So anyway, we're gonna get in there roll it out and then show you the the core workout All right, and I should mention the core workout that I'm about to do was I'm adopting. It's not my core workout This is what we used to do at the University of Colorado and the former lifting coach there Who was my coach went on to coach the San Diego Chargers? He became their lifting coach? This was a while ago. I'm not sure if he's still there now, but Vernon was his name Vern. We called him. So anyway, uh, yeah It's a doozy. It's a doozy. Let's do this. Come on Something happened today What is today? April 11th Three year three year of daily blogging three years today I totally forgot three years of daily blogging today three years ago. I started so that 2016 crazy April 11th 2016. I woke up one morning and said here we go. Here we go It feels It feels like three years It's been a haul it's been a haul a lot of early mornings late nights editing all that good stuff. Isn't that crazy? Nice. Yeah, now become Spider-man car Anyway, just thought I'd let you know and oh, it's crazy we will have to throw a party at like that I don't know five-year five-year party Honey good stuff good stuff crazy. All right, we're going to the shooting three years in a row Publishing a daily vlog. It's crazy. Thank you all for being here And I just got a message from a buddy saying congrats on passing 13,000 subscribers Well, it's like that's great and all like thank you for the congrats, but it's like it's not me It's you so thank you for coming on board for sticking with me through thick and thin. It's absolutely Inspiring okay, here we go in case you missed it. I did unbox another pair of Nikes That's right the Nike Wild Horse 5 go check it out upper right hand corner in case you did not see that second video from yesterday It was a pretty fun unboxing. All right. Remember yesterday. I received the email one second from Slovenia it was a challenging email these are the shoes you're about to see on your screen the shoes that a young man I believe he's 18 years old is wearing right now in Slovenia So I wrote this young man back and asked him so what is your shoe size and this is what he sent I saw your YouTube video and I'm really really grateful for this. Yes I have only this pair of running shoes and I wear EU size 44 or nine and a half in the US so that came in at 1242 PM but I received another email today Listen to this another email at 858 a.m. He said hi I'm from Slovenia, and I always wanted to give shoes to your giveaway, but sending shoes to the US is a hustle I get it. It's like shipping costs are expensive So he said in your last latest video you mentioned a guy from Slovenia that has really bad running shoes I had he goes on to say I have 44 and a half size Pegasus 35 EU size I can give them to him They are two months old and have around 30 kilometers in them about 18 miles So they are in way better condition than his current running shoes by the way the fit is a little small for 44.5 so they might be good for someone with size 44 keep up the good work that is amazing Oh my goodness on the three-year anniversary of this daily vlog It makes it all worth it all the late-night editing all the the filming and the external hard drives and the Computer crashing and whatever challenges might come forth from publishing a daily vlog the fact that maybe This this man in Slovenia is able to connect with this young man in Slovenia and get shoes like exchange running shoes Like it makes it all worth it. So I just found that's amazing So I'm gonna connect them both and it sounds like this young gentleman is gonna get some very very gently used Pegasus 35 how cool is that? Okay moving on? Let me pull up my notes here on core work. Let's do this Why should runners do core work? So as runners we are very well known for Overuse injuries meaning we're using the same muscles tendons ligaments through our gait cycle Hundreds and thousands of times over and over and over again well to help stabilize our glutes our hamstrings those big Muscles in our lower legs especially but also in our upper body like our pecs our biceps We have stabilizing muscles that is your core So you have remember we talked about last week how to run faster go check it out do strength work so as runners, I'm a big big proponent of Making sure all of the strength work that we're doing all of the core work that we're doing is Designed to help us move as straight as an arrow And so all of the core exercises that I'm about to show you they're designed to help us stabilize and support the major muscle groups that are doing the heavy lifting through our gait cycle, okay? You're ready for this exercise number one the foam roller. That's right The foam roller is more of a warm-up, but I put it in the core exercise category Why once you put the foam roller on the ground you get off your feet and you're down low to the ground you start Rolling back and forth working the kinks out of your legs.  So foam rolling is exercise number one I usually do three minutes at least just rolling back and forth back and forth, okay? Exercise core exercise number two and I should also mention all of these exercises I would ease into them.  Okay exercise number two the jump rope and once again This is more of a warm-up. It's a little outside of the traditional core exercise category But as I get on as I get that jump rope and I start jumping It's amazing how much better I feel afterward and I realize it is if your legs are tired You might want to skip this but I love it for once again firing your upper body Firing your hip flexors firing. You are working your core. It's it's might be minimal But you are working your core and as runners we often may be Might not be as strong in the hand-eye coordination category But believe it or not for fast turnover the better your hand-eye coordination the better So jump roping also helps with that. Okay exercise number three for your core for runners in the gym Good old planks. That's right.  Oh, it feels good And yeah, you just hold it there and just squeeze and by the end of it You're gonna be hurting pretty good and core exercise number four Just stay right there on the mat But turn over get on your back put your knees in a bent position and then basically this is called Left middle right. That's right.  That's right. Just lay in on your back.  Make sure your back is nice and flat on the ground.  You will work your core as well You'll feel it burning in your abs eventually But all your hip flexors and I do three sets by 30 seconds for the flutter kicks and core exercise number six If you're working the front of your torso, so your abs you also need to work your back.  All right So Superman's and basically go slow three sets of ten and you're gonna raise up That's right raise your legs and arms up at the exact same time Try and hold it in the up position for about a half a second to a second Once you're at the top and then let back down as slow as possible and then raise back up Three sets of ten. This is gonna be working your entire back But especially your lower back, which is so important especially for downhill running your lower back can often Absorb a lot of that downhill pounding at least that's what I have found on the trails and really focus on this Superman exercise because we work on the front of our core so much I think we often overlook our backs and core exercise number seven reverse crunches This is gonna work your upper abs.  I like to do three sets of 15 for this one And it's it's also it's also a benefit It's gonna stretch your your glutes basically and your upper hamstring So it's like a it's a workout, but it's also a stretch so pull it towards you both sides three sets of 15 Oh, and this is again your upper abs. It's called the reverse crunch core exercise number eight here We go the exercise ball crunch Okay, and what's nice about this one is that you are also gonna be working your upper body So get an exercise ball put it on the ground and then you're kind of gonna do a Superman move to get on over the ball and then you're gonna end up in a push-up position And then you're gonna put your toes on top of the exercise ball and then basically just like you see on the screen there You're gonna pull the ball toward your chest You're gonna pull your knees toward your chest and you're gonna do three sets of ten ease into it work up to that You don't have to start there and again this one if you can only do one core exercise I would recommend this one. It's a full body workout.  It's amazing It's called the exercise ball crunch three sets of ten. I love that one and core exercise number nine We are almost there stick with me. You got this you can do this too Okay, I learned this one again from my CU lifting coach who went on to work for the San Diego Chargers So that's got to give him a little bit of credence, right?   We go. This is how you do it you get up on one foot So you're balancing so you're working on your balance and your hand-eye coordination with this one as well You get in the running position Balancing on one foot and basically you're gonna go all the way down to the ground with your opposite hand Touch your toe Sending your opposite leg back almost like a figure skater and your opposite in your hand as well Your other hand as well back and so with this one your hips are gonna be screaming at you I feel it the most in my upper glutes and my hips. I love it. It's so good And so now why do I do this core exercise last basically? We're not wrestlers. We're not kayakers We're not soccer players where we are upright runners We are straight as an arrow runner. So I like to end the core exercises like to get off the ground Stand up get back into the running position and remind myself, okay, why am I doing all of this core work? I'm doing this core work to get better at running right to get faster running to stabilize those major muscle groups For my running gate. Okay, so that's why I like to end with this one.  It's kind of like that one So, okay, there you have it. Those are my 10 core exercises for runners If you have any questions, let me know down below. I hope those made sense I tried to be as clear as possible with the filming and explanation Okay, of course core is gonna be the keyword core is the keyword and the question of the day Do you do specific core work in the gym or at your house? That's what's nice You can do a lot of this at your house. Okay. Do you do that? If so, what is your favorite core exercise? And why and I'll just let you know my favorite is definitely that exercise ball crunch I just love that one. It's kind of fun to do and you're definitely getting a full body Workout. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is it three years of daily vlogging in the books What a what a gift to have you here I just got a text actually from someone saying congrats on 13,000 subscribers. So it means I think we must have hit 13,000. I actually don't know actually let's just pull it up Let's see here. Where are we out here third? Oh my gosh. Wow, okay 13,010 that's amazing you all rock. Thank you for being here Thanks for watching and spreading the word about this channel. Frankly, we're just getting started. Shall we do another three years? I think we shall see beauty work hard work hard work hard. That was crazy I was just signing off and I think the battery on the camera died seek beauty work hard and Love each other. We'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow


An area of our plant that we have yet to visit is our hardtop lamination and hardtop rigging areas. So let's take a deep dive on this episode of Behind the Glass. Design, function and comfort are all key elements in a well thought out hardtop. Modern hardtops provide much more than shade and have become iconic features of our boats. At the core, hardtops provide shade and protection from the elements. They are a key design feature and it gives the center console the iconic look. Special care is given during the designing and planning phase to accommodate for many comfort and safety features. For one, the hardtop is the perfect mounting spot for the anchor light and navigation lights due to it being the highest point on the boat. Other convenience lights like the built-in spread lights and cockpit lighting are also accounted for. In addition to lights, modern electronics and joystick systems require antennas that will be mounted on the top as well as optional equipment like radars. Wrapping around the back, additional ride holders and support is also typically seen depending on the size of the top. The rear legs are added on the larger models for additional structural support. These rear supports lock in the top in six spots and stop any movement even in the roughest conditions. For those looking to elevate their visibility, we have a wide offering of half tower with second stations. This option swaps out the top for a different top that features a sunroof style sliding door and an electronics pod. On this pod, we mount electronics and duplicate controls from the main helm. New technology in steering and other advancements in the electrical systems has made this possible. The hardtop construction method is two fiberglass parts joined together to allow both the top and the bottom to have a finished gelcoat surface. Once completed, the two parts are bonded together using a bonding putty. This manufacturing process is what allows for the strategically designed cavities inside the hardtop. These cavities will be used as storage and to run wires inside the top. Now that we understand what we are building, let's take a look at the manufacturing steps. The two half molds are first sprayed with gelcoat. The mold corresponding to the top will be white and the mold corresponding to the underside will receive a gelcoat that matches the boat's color scheme. This is how we achieve the matching underside color. Next comes the equivalent of a skin coat layer. This layer is what ensures proper cosmetics and supports the gelcoat layer. This is followed by a layer of coring material that has been precisely cut in our CNC room. Each top has a design kit of corer that gives support and accounts for additional options like outriggers. Following this layer is a bulk layer of fiberglass to encapsulate and strengthen the top. As we have seen, the next steps are all prep steps for infusion. Starting off with adding the necessary flow media that allows the resin to flow through the part property. Next comes a complex network of tubes that has been meticulously engineered for each top. This will ensure even flow throughout the entire part. To get the proper vacuum on the part, sealant tape is applied to the perimeter of the mold. This is followed by the bag. The bag is carefully sealed using the sealant tape all the way around. All of the vacuum and resin ports are also carefully routed through the bag and sealed with additional sealant tape. The part is put under vacuum to check for any leaks. Once satisfied, the resin ports are opened and the part begins to get infused. This process will take between 35 to 45 minutes. The two parts will be set aside to cure. Once cured, it's time to join the two halves. The process starts by first removing the bag and flow media from the parts. Next, in order to ensure good adhesion, the edges where the two parts will be joined is sanded and cleaned off. Once sanding is complete, a predetermined amount of bonding putty and methyl methacrylate will be applied in specific areas to the bottom half of the hard top to join the two parts. Once applied, it will be moved to an area where a lift will be used to raise the top portion, flip it and lower it down to join the bottom portion of the top. Special alignment pins that are built into the mold are used to precisely align the two halves for a perfect uniform edge. Once aligned, the parts are secured and will begin to cure. Once the part is finished curing, it will be removed from the mold carefully and put in a dolly to await final trimming. Special templates called splashes are used to mark precise holes for installation spots or components. These include speakers, additional storage, lights and more.  The top is rolled into our finishing department where they will sand the edge smooth and uniform. They will follow this with gel coat for a seamless look. The fabrication part of the top is now complete. Next is time to add components and wiring. In a top rigging sub-assembly, a team member will rig up all of the components required to complete a boat order. A specified kit of parts arrives at the rigging station with all of the components specified by the order. The technician will install and pre-wire as much as possible in preparation to install the top on the frame. If you remember from our metal fabrication episode, we build and powder coat all of our tops in-house. The corresponding frame is delivered and the now fully rigged fiberglass shell is test fitted on the frame. The technician will then fish any wires through the pre-designed routes completing any final connections. At this point, the hardtop and frame meet up with the console to be assembled on the jig alignment cart as we saw last season in the center console episode. Modern hardtops provide so much more than just shade. Advancements in manufacturing and design pack these tops with features and amenities. The techniques shown in this episode are part of the SportTech advanced fabrication process. These preparatory manufacturing steps yield the best results and have been thoroughly tested for durability, longevity, and finish. All sportsman boats feature a 100% composite construction with no wood, NMMA certification, and a 10-year haul-limited warranty. Join us in our next episode of Behind the Glass as we hit the road for the first time and head on down to Miramar, Florida to visit the JL Audio Manufacturing Facility. From Summerville, South Carolina, my name is Victor and thanks for watching.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to our pre-owned vehicles of the week. So I'm Gabrielle and I'm over here at Oxmer Toyota. So you guys, we are going to have two pre-owned Subaru's that we're going to talk a little about. Why don't we go ahead and start with this one right here? Our first vehicle is a 2021 Subaru Outback Touring XT. Now the exterior color is in a crystal white pearl. This is all-wheel drive. There is going to be alloy wheels. You're going to have navigation. There's a sunroof, Bluetooth, clean car facts. There's going to be the eight-way power driver seat with lumbar support. There's heated leather seating and there's going to be a backup camera. Now that interior is in a Java brown leather. The mileage is $31,424 and the price is $40,995. Now our last vehicle is a 2018 Subaru Forester 2.5i Premium. The exterior color is in a ice silver metallic. There is alloy wheels. This is all-wheel drive. So you're going to have things like Bluetooth. There's a backup camera. You're going to have a sunroof. This had the exceptional service history as well maintained. Now that interior is in a black cloth. The mileage is $77,273. The price is $24,995. All right, if you all have any questions, feel free to let us know. All of our contact info is listed right here. Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. Bye.


I started using wood prediction probably in the early 90s and it was before I started using speech recognition. Wood prediction was a nice stepping stone to move on to speech recognition. It allowed me to feel comfortable with actually writing. I would see a window pop up and the window would allow me to choose specific woods and this opened up my vocabulary, which was great, as well as it speeded up the time in writing, which was very helpful and it helped me be more accurate in my writing. Wood prediction I use in combination with several assistive technology devices. I use it with speech recognition and I use it with text to speech. So I have a package of software options that are on my desktop that I use. So if I have a wood document open and I'm actually writing in it, I may use speech recognition or I may just use the wood prediction piece as I'm typing the actual woods appeal for me and I get to choose which one I want to use.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebricks.com. Happy new release day, guys. 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball Hobby Edition is here, guys. HGA version releases on Friday, but today we have a hobby and we've already sold out a couple Pick Your Teams, including this one here. Pick Your Team number one. This is a 12 box case over, guys. Remember, all-card ship. Find two Chrome autographs per master hobby boxes. And let's get this started, guys. So, again, we had a little team random that helped sell out, sold out Pick Your Teams one and two. So, there's that right there. So you have a character sign that means you won that from the team randoms. Everybody else bought them straight up. So number two's coming up next after this. And it is a 12 box case. Now Pick Your Teams three and four is also in the same boat. It's in a team random. Start off with 23 spots as well and we're already down to 14, so we've already sold nine. So by the time I think we get both of these Pick Your Teams done and the World Cup soccer box done, I would assume that probably has the next one also sold out, too. Toronto? Blue Jays? Number one? Is that correct? This copy and paste was already there. I can double check for random teams, but Pick Your Teams is a little harder, but good thing is that, of course, you have the proof and it was wrong and it always just changed the name. All right, most likely just to kind of help this go by a little faster. Let's rip like half this case open and then we'll go through the hits. So I believe this should take me only about like 45 minutes. I believe it's gonna take me about 45 minutes. But I think to give myself time to put the break away, print out labels, upload video, and I should 10, 15 minutes would be perfect timing. No problem, man. Good luck. So yeah, I had this little cheat sheet. I was kind of studying up on some of these players or at least the names to look out for. So there's quite a few that people consider a pretty good prospect to look out for. I guess some people are into Reed Trimble, I believe, for the Baltimore Orioles is pretty good. Ruffella for the Red Sox. Ricardo Cabrera for the Reds. Jason Shurio for the Guardians. I think it's a big prospect. That's where the Guardians are so expensive probably. Young Kiel Fernandez for the Rockies. Of course you have Bobby Whitton here. Rain Don Con, Dodger is not bad. Roderick Arias is a pretty good one for I guess for the Yankees. Jackson Merrill for the Padres. Julio, of course, is in there. Juan de Franco. Vakato for the Nationals, I guess is a big one. You even have Brady House in here as well. There's a couple of players, I forgot who they were, but they might have already been a first. They might have already been a first, but this might be their first time as an autograph. So look out for some players like that. And yeah, a lot of crazier names, right? I feel like the most years. This isn't like your normal draft class. And it's never like something very simple, right? I mean, I get a lot of these players are more international, especially like from the Dominican Republic, a lot of Latino countries. So you'll have some of those players like that. But then of course you'll have like other ones, you know? They'll just be like, wow, I haven't heard a name like that in a while. All right, we'll rip these first six. All right, looks like Canada Belgium is back. I know this is a baseball break, but you know, world cup time right now. Kind of hard not to talk about it, right? Anybody watch some of the morning games? I woke up to Spain winning 7-0 today. Gaby scoring a goal. I think they was leaving a hat trick in that game. How about Japan, 2-1 over Germany? The sport folks here in the States are probably just eating right now. They're feasting off of Argentina the other day, now Germany this day. Also I believe we do also have like a top little list only, like kind of sleep list.  So we kind of just stick to the main ones. Now of course, you know, there could be some that maybe we could have missed or maybe later, be like, oh no, that guy's really, really good. But this is what we're going to be top loading only. And I like to say it just for you guys, just so you guys know.  So I think our list is just going to be Julio, Wander, Bobby Whipp, Bagnale, Neal Cruz, Spencer Torkelson. And then you're going to have the Vaquero from Washington. You have Roderick Arise from the Yankees, Shirio, Yassir Mercedes, Yonkel Fernandez and Jackson Merrill. Now this is just the list we were given. So if I miss anything, obviously when the shipping team of course goes through the stuff and sorts it out for you guys, if they see those names, they'll most likely, you know, throw a sleeve and top load on them as well. Really? Yeah, they were transfer fighters. Oh really? They just took out their location and she called them and they're like, no, we're not. Tell me. Yeah, so they're, they'll be there at six. Oh, okay. I think something, when you guys get there. Yeah. But this one should be here exactly at six, so. Okay. Oh, I'm excited. Well, I can most likely let them in too. Well, they have to download the app, what do they do? No, it just sends them a text message and then it'll open up like a virtual key, I believe. I could test it on Jessica when she gets here. Also, I believe they still have Invictus in this as well, Arizona Folly, Grelix, and I believe the case hit is a Ascension still. All right, they still put those in here, I think. No, I mean, if I miss anything, honestly, I mean, the sorting team is really good at making sure that we, if we miss something that's not, like, let's say if I miss a Julio rookie or something like that, and it's not penny sleeve at least for them to top load them in the sorting process when they have them per teams and they'll do it.  But no, I know you're messing with me, but it's just like, you know, that's just the way it is.  So obviously we try to be fair and try to, you know, take care of you guys as well. But that's of course just for like the base cards, you know? Obviously, if it's numbered, autographed, you know, short print, whatever the case may be, that's always gonna be top loader for you, but it's just more for the base cards. Because, you know, maybe right now they're gonna sell for five, 10, 15, $20, but as this goes out into the market and floods the market, you know, right now this could be selling for, let's say, 15 bucks. But by the time a few weeks passes, this might be only like a $5 card, maybe even less. Kyle Tucker numbered a $4.99. And then we got, it came to the leak. Looks like a very interesting insert. Get used to this list. Young Piel Fernandez, okay, we got that. I got a Juan Soto blue, number 2150. Usually they have it over here, but this time the number is on that side. It's a little different. Jose Ramirez purple to 250. And first autograph is JT Schwartz for the Metz, that's Ed. Wilford Veras, I think these are one per box shimmers, so those won't be numbered. And Khalil Watson, these are kind of like the throwback, I believe. Boom, oh, actually, sorry, no, this is the Bowman Ascension, actually. So I think those are one per box, aren't they? Are they one per case? I think they're one per box, but I could be wrong. Pete Cromstrom, I feel like there's a lot of numbered cards for a box that's Bowman. Cromman this year. And Moribol, or Moribol, Jason. That's another way to spell Jason. Jason.  She'd be like, because Jason is not your typical, like Mexican, Latino name, but they would say, like she would say JC, or she would say that, Jason. So there's the first box. All right, next box here. Denzer Guzman, South Relic, and Khalil Watson, Bowman Ascension, autograph. How about that? That's numbered 100 of 100. Who has the Miami Marlins? Matthew Linder, there you go, man. Madrigal to $4.99. Colson Montgomery, Jose Miranda, and Alex De Jesus. All right, next box. We got a Roberto Campos, and that looks red, doesn't it? And it is a three out of five red for the Detroit Tigers. Matthew Stubblefield, there you go, man. We got Eddie's Leonard, that's to $1.99. Blaze Jordan Green, and then we got a Bowman Chrome Prospects autograph blue way rave. Refracted Parallel of William Borgala, which is for the Phillies. And that's Phillies, Ben Smith. Another Invicta there, Jay Allen, Simone Poin. And a Mason Hour, that's to $2.50, Bowman's first purple. Tampa Bay Ray's going to Timothy. Vera, a nice Christian Vaquero, to $2.99. Rosni Contreras, to $4.99. Lonnie White, Ortega, and Alexander Ovales. Christian Yellows to $4.99. Chris Bryant, Sal Frillick, and Luis Chevalier. Mack Muncie, and Bowman Ascension, Wilman Diaz. Willie Vasquez, that looks like a yellow, to $75. And Samuel Muñoz for the daughters. I know, right? I remember a guy named Chris Bryant for the Cubs. You know, fun fact about Chris Bryant, Mike, is me, Nick, Mike, I think Joe was there too. That was the first year we all went to the national. All right, in 2015. And a fun fact about that is we went to Chris Bryant's first game as a cub there in Chicago. And they were losing, so we ended up leaving a little early. Actually not first game, sorry. It wasn't his first game. It ended up being the first game he homered, and it was a walk-off homerun too. But what I was trying to say is we left the game early like I think in the eighth, because we were like, ah, they're not gonna win. So we started leaving and then the ninth comes up and I think they have like a runner on base. And as we're walking out, we hear like the ball be hit and then people start screaming. And then it was Chris Bryant hitting a walk-off homerun to win the game. And we always like to say to pretend like we say, oh yeah, we were there for that, but we technically were. We just didn't witness it because we were leaving. Matt Olson. Well Mariners would have a mixture of course of Julio. But obviously Dodger I assume have more prospects maybe than the Mariners do. So it's kind of, you know, kind of just depends on how you feel about the hobby. Like do you like to collect prospects or do you want to try to hit potentially rookies? Yerlin. Jose Ramirez. Well yeah, I mean honestly if you go back to that game I think you would agree that it was kind of just boring. They weren't going to win basically. It was like a low scoring game.  And by the time we get back to Rosemont and hotels and we got to wake up super early for the next day of the national, we were just like, ah, whatever. We came to a game that was cool. But yeah, then he ended up hitting a walk-off and it's like, it was just exactly as we were leaving. But yeah, that's just a good example, right? It's like if you're going to leave in the ninth, like top of the ninth, you might as well just stay for the bottom, right? I mean, because you really don't know what could happen. But I mean, we were there. Just, we were just hearing it as we were leaving. All right, so there you go guys. There's the first couple there. Oh, oh, so what does everybody, did anybody travel to like a different state to go visit family for Thanksgiving guys or is everybody, everybody gets to stay in their own, their own city and maybe they came to visit you. I'm thankful that I don't have to do nothing like that yet. Cause you know, I never know, right? I mean, if I ever move or family moves out of the state, but I feel like it's such a hassle to do that. The only thing I ever had to do is just kind of split families up and first half go one side, second half go the other. And tomorrow, do we have, do we have three football games again tomorrow for Thanksgiving? I know we always have the Lions and Cowboys, but is there still a third game at night? I don't know man, I'm kind of, kind of want to take the Lions to upset the Buffalo Bills, just straight up. Moneyline. He's not playing tomorrow? Do you part or do you mean off just like he hasn't been himself? I just, I just think I feel like taking him because Detroit at home this year has played really well and regardless who they've been playing besides the Patriots game, they score points on defenses. I mean, not to say Buffalo's defense is not good enough, but they score points. It's just more like, will Buffalo outscore them? Which they should, but I mean, like I said, I feel like them at home is always not a bad bet. And I mean, especially, I'm sure you're gonna get like what? They're probably favored by like seven and a half, nine and a half, I assume. So of course you could take the points, but just thinking more like a straight up deal. They've been rolling too, as of lately. It's crazy, man. Go look at all the Lions games this year. Every game I think minus the Patriots blowout has been like under five, seven points, I think. Less than a touchdown. But yeah, you're right. He just hasn't been himself forcing stuff. Yeah. I don't know. That Eagles game was a little frustrating and I watched this past weekend, but I do love that again with adversity against them, they were able to come back and beat the Colts. And again, Jalen Hertz has another strong game. I hate that. Of course he had like a strip sack because he was just kind of waiting for the longer play to develop and Miles Sanders just couldn't hold his block for that long. But I mean, again, played a pretty darn good game. Great passing, accuracy. It's just, of course, again, this week, besides Quiz Watkins last week, A.J. Brown had a fumble when they had all the momentum to come back earlier in the game. I can't believe that was their first win when trailing for by more than 10 points in the first quarter since 2010. That was the last time the Eagles had won a game when they were trailing by more than 10 points, 10 or more points in the fourth quarter. And that game that they won back in 2010 happened to be the Miracle in the Meadowlands, a number two into Sean Jackson, did that walk-off punt return. But they were trailing by more than 10 points though, but I think in the fourth quarter it was only 10. I remember that game was like 24 to three or something like that. Hey, what's up, Harold?  The Californians. What, so then you're not here, right? So did you like get, did you still have that house that you're releasing run or did that, did you like give that up already? Cause it's just been too long. How much is it? You got some good tenants? Marina Del Rai. I love that little area though, Marina Del Rai. My wife went to LME right there. So always used to be in that area. Just a little expensive though. 3K a month? Well, that actually doesn't sound that crazy actually, Ryan, for that area. How many bedrooms or what's the deal? Kick them out, Ryan. I'll go there. I mean, I love where I live in Long Beach in downtown, but I feel you're right. I mean, just in case the move happens, at least you still have a nice place in the meantime and rather get something back rather than nothing, right? But I was gonna say, like 3,000 for like a multi-bedroom potential house or a condo, whatever the case may be. I thought it would be a lot more there, for sure. Here we go. We got Trace Weenie. We have Jackson Job. Oh yeah, two bedroom, one and a half bath, yeah. If it's like 34, you know, a little bit more than that, that's pretty much what it's going for. Woo. I don't know if this guy's any good, Jaden Rudd, but that's an orange to 25 though. And we'll take that there for a deporter and victim allow. Dominguez. We have West Calf. Yep, today's hobby and on Friday's HTA. And we got a Bowman Chrome Projects autograph of Leonardo, Leonardo, sorry, of Falcazar for the Reds. I don't know why my focus is off a little bit. It's weird. Might be the camera. Usually focus is always pretty well. Brian Acunha there as well. We have Dustin Harris. We got a Henry Davis. That is like a weird color. It's like a mixture of like turquoise and pink. It's numbered at 125. Yeah, I must say the color does really pop. Mikel Garcia to 499. Joe Mac. Job. Josh Lowe to 75. And Wu Bin Cho to 250 for the same low as Cardinals. Robert Willie Vasquez, Balcazar. Let's say he just didn't sign his autographs, but it's basically what it'll be like. Emmanuel Valdes, Astros. All right, we got Zach Delosh, which is a Arizona Folly Grelick, or not Grelick, the numbered car for the Mariners. And what? Balcazar couldn't sign his prospects autographs, but he signed this one?  So what, did he only sign X amount? Oh, you know what? He didn't sign his base prospect, but he probably signed his numbered cards. That makes sense. He's like, I don't got time for signing a thousand of these, but I'll have time to sign the numbered cards though. Next box here. Yendri Rojas, let's say Green Shimmer. Should be numbered to 99. Oh, looks to save. Wow, what a save. Max Buncie, Dylan Dog, Novelli Marte, to gold, to 50, and Drew Ellis Rookie. That's her first rookie autograph. Two boxes left, guys. All right, I see some potential nice colors. William Borgola, for the Philly, that's a one per box shimmer. Vidal Bruhan Orange, damn. That was a little bit of a teaser there. Ray Timothy to 25. And Deilin Lyle, that's for the Washington Nationals. George Springer, Luis Angelicunha, and Chogan, Westcalf, Drew Baker, Alexander Suarez, Jose Altuve. All right, last stock here, guys. Good luck. Looks to be potentially might have a numbered autograph. I don't know if that purple's gonna be a numbered card or just an autograph. Most likely just a numbered card, I guess. Luciana and Jake Rucker. All righty, guys, and there you go, everybody. That was the break. So just quick autograph recap, Rucker. Suarez is an autograph there for the Giants. We have Cho for the St. Louis Cardinals, redemption there, Balcazar for the Reds. Valdez for the Astros, Dodd for the Braves. Ellis for the Diamondbacks. Deilin for the Nationals, Balcazar again there. Cho again, Garcia for the Kansas City Royals. Orange Rudd for the Toronto Blue Jays. Yerlin there for the Reds. Cooper Bowen for the Yankees. Chevalier for the Seattle Mariners. Munoz for the Dodgers. Ovales for the Tampa Bay Rays. Contreras there for the Pirates. Mason Hour for the Tampa Bay Rays. Bargola for the Philly, it's a blue. Red combos to five. Khalil Watson, Jesus for the Dodgers. Schwartz for the Mets. Yacin there for Texas, and then there's another ascension there. And of course we have a lot of numbered cards. I'm gonna kind of separate those right now too as well. Numbered, and then of course just the other ones that we sleeved up just to kind of have a little protection towards them. But a lot of numbered cards in this though, guys, like a lot. This side over here too, some numbered, numbered. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you guys. Next one is coming up, it's number two.


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Hello and welcome to Mapping Fortlines, NewsClick's new show. In this show, every week, we look at certain geopolitical issues in a particular region and analyze its implications not only for this region, but for the entire world. Today, we'll be talking about the situation in West Asia, specifically with reference to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, after the victory of the Houthis in what is called the Najran Front. To talk more about this, we have with us Prabir Purghaista. Hello, Prabir. Prabir, so the Yemen war we've discussed this earlier has been going on for since 2015. And as far as we understand the victory the Houthis have claimed in Najran, the occupying certain amount of territory in Saudi Arabia, capturing at least three brigades, seems to mark a qualitative difference as far as operations are concerned, because they have entered into Saudi Arabia, actually captured soldiers and territory. So how do you see the immediate implications of this as far as this war is concerned, that is, before we go to the regional implications, as far as the war is concerned immediately? You know, it's clear that Saudi Arabia has been faltering on the Yemen war after the attack that it launched. It believed that the air force or the air force superiority it had, they could bomb Yemen to submission. And they had a mercenary army, United Arab Emirates was very much a party, if not leadership, providing military leadership to that army. But also they had soldiers from all over to fight for them. And they thought these two were enough, air power and a mercenary army, and they would really be able to remove the Houthis from power and install their puppet. That was the intent that they had. But even after the brutality of the bombings they have done for the last four years, killing of nearly 100,000 people as far as official statistics, virtually official statistics are concerned, and the huge damage it has caused, starvation, recurrence of cholera and so on. With all of this, they have not really succeeded their objectives. But the last month, there have been two significant challenges they have faced. One is of course the fact that Houthis can hit them as well. And even Aramco, the big refinery complexes that they have is not safe. These alienation plants, the airports, their capital, all of this is under the Houthis drone capabilities. So they have equalized the air potential that Saudis have and primal control over air over Yemen. They have neutralized partially by their ability to hit Saudi Arabia at will using drones and Saudis have not been able to prevent that. But the Najran battle, as you say, marks a qualitative change because the first time in a positional warfare not within Yemen, but in Saudis, they have captured larger quantities of arms, ammunition, vehicles, as well as they have claimed that they have actually defeated three brigades, which would be anything, 9 to 15,000 people, and have also taken a lot of prisoners. A lot of these three brigades seem to be from the videos, the pictures that we see are probably Yemenis who have been fighting under the Saudi banner, aligning with the Saudis, Mansur Hadi's troops. So they seem to have broken. But what is significant is, we also saw insignias of Saudi national guards, the Saudi Arabia's national guards, which is the Bedouin force, which is loyal to the House of Saud, and they are supposed to be the crack troops that Saudis always had, and they were essentially used for very specific purposes, mainly for the protection of the royal family. So the fact that even they were involved and they lost with such overwhelming air superiority, missile capabilities, and of course, much superior arms against Houthis who are lightly armed. They used rocket launchers, we could see rocket launchers being there in their hands. Probably some of the Iranian supplies, 1980s level of arms otherwise, all of that they seem to have not only fought, out fought them, but have completely broken them in this battle. And this takes place, as you've said, within Saudi Arabia. Of course, one could argue that these were the territories Saudis have taken over from Yemen in the 30s and not returned. But let's not get into those territorial claims as of now. The interesting part is, this was within Saudi Arabia, and this, if it continues, then it appears the Saudis may actually be open to a Yemeni invasion. And let's also look at the Saudi map itself. The eastern part of Saudi Arabia is a Shia-dominated area. And Saudis have, let's put it in the most mild manner possible, have not treated them very well. These are the oil areas. So this is where really the oil wealth of Saudi Arabia is. And this is with the area is largely populated by Shias. They are not the fiber Shias of the Houthi variety. They are really the traditional Arab 12-verseers or the Iranian 12-verseers, as they are called. And therefore, this is a force which is not particularly happy or the population particularly happy with the Saudi king and the Saudi dispensation, which has been brutally stamping down of all opposition and has also had a capital punishment to one of the Imams that they had. This is not a very nice picture for Saudi Arabia. If the Houthis militarily come into this area, this is really hitting at the soft underbelly of Saudi Arabia. The Shia population, which is there in this region, and also the fact that the large part of this, or at least the part with near Yemen, also are under historical claims that Yemen has in Saudi Arabia. So not good omen for Saudi Arabia as of now. I don't think they can sustain a capturing of Saudi territory for too long. But it does create huge problems of Saudi Arabia. Certainly invasion of Yemen is no longer a possibility for Saudi Arabia. I think that writing on that is very clear on the wall. And I think the Houthis have also claimed during the Aramco attack that they had the support of certain sections within Saudi Arabia. So it's even more of a concern for the country. So moving on from here, let's look at some of the diplomatic steps that have taken place after this. So after the Aramco attacks, the Houthis did offer ceasefire, which Saudi Arabia refused. And after that, there was some talk of Saudi Arabia suspending aerial raids, talking about prisoner exchange, although in the aftermath of this operation, they seem to have again bombed their own soldiers. But the most important development that has happened after this is Iraqi prime minister's assistant, announcing that Saudi Arabia has expressed willingness to engage with Iran probably in Iraq. And there was also Mohammed bin Salman's interview where he said that a war with Iran would be disastrous, and it would completely destroy the entire region. So do you see this as some sort of a back down as far as Saudi Arabia is concerned or have they finally figured that there is really no other option but to have some form of talks? I think there are two aspects to this. One is, of course, the picture of the Houthi-Saudi battles that are going on. And in this, you are right that Houthis were the first to offer unconditional ceasefire. And Saudis at that point of time had said four areas will not bomb, but we don't accept an unconditional ceasefire. When you talk about bombing their troops, they really bombed the troops which had surrendered, who were probably Yemenis and with Houthi. So that itself is also something, a question mark, who they were really bombing. They were afraid that they are going to join the Houthis and therefore probably taking them out as it were before they really joined them. But when it comes to sitting down with the Houthis, they still seem to have a problem. So what they are doing is trying to get Iraq and trying to negotiate with Iran at the moment, believing that Iran will pull back the Houthis. So that's the other part of it, that it's not so much a Houthi-Saudi sitting down and talking, but it is saying, let's look at the whole region. And now we have Houthis on one side with Iran, and let's negotiate with Iran and let's talk about the region as a whole. So at the moment, it's not very clear that on what is the level at which Saudis want to disengage. Are they saying that our talks with Iran will also open itself to an arrangement with the Houthis? It also means discussion regarding Iraq, whether the Shia and Sunni population. Does it also mean regarding Syria? So there's a large number of areas or questions in which the Saudi Iranians really confront each other ideologically as well as militarily. But that is a much larger picture that includes Israel, it includes Turkey, it includes the United States and of course includes Russia as well. So I'm not very sure what Saudis are looking for in terms of engaging Iran. But I think the good part is post that bombing that Saudis did on their own troops or on the surrendered troops, there has been no further air activity that we are getting reports of in Yemen. So Saudis seem to have stopped their attacks. The Yemenis of course wanted them to come to the table and they feel that they at the moment have the stronger hand. In being able to force a negotiations. But even if they get a ceasefire, it's a huge victory for them. Even it's an unofficial ceasefire. So I think that is changing the context in Yemen itself. So I think you are going to see a two track development over here. The larger engagement with Iran, which will at some point, you'll have to involve the United States, Russia at the local level. Certainly Iraq and Syria and at the narrow level, which is Saudi Yemen. I think you are going to see a direct Saudi Yemen engagement. But probably as a part of brokering a larger peace. And the fact that Iraq is brokering this is interesting. Because Iraq has in its government a Shia section and a Sunni section. So they are saying that we are the best place to do it. But the US is not taking very kindly to this. And one of the arguments is the Iraqi upsurge that is taking place right now against the government. So part of the reason it's taking place at this time is really also American encouragement for them to take to the streets. So try to destabilize the Iraqi regime or put pressure on the Iraqi regime.  So this seems to be a more market picture at the moment. But I think what we are seeing slowly is the region as a whole has to come together to solve these problems. And instead of getting brokers from outside the United States who are more interested in querying the pitch in the region, that these countries learn to live how can they get a certain kind of security and how they can work on the via media for themselves. And in that sense, the Russian proposal, which has been one of collective security, I think is increasingly going to look more and more attractive to the region. Then the US brokered hegemonic peace or shall we call the peace of the hegemon. But the United States imposes peace on all the warring groups and appears to be an independent neutral interlocutor as long as you give all its oil to the US or at least in US dollars. So I think that part of the hegemonic control of the United States is really breaking over the region. And the fact this talk is taking place is not being brokered by the United States. US has originally said we will broker a talk with the Houthis. That seems to have been a no starter, so a non-starter. So I think what you are seeing is also a hesitant return to countries talking to each other how they can resolve these differences. And I hope Saudis and Houthis will also resolve the differences. And let's put it very bluntly, good sense will dawn on the Saudi royal family, which at the moment seems to be remarkably devoid of it. And it's also interesting what you said because the process in which in the region, or the broad region in which the US is involved and that's in Afghanistan, has completely almost collapsed. Whereas we also, we saw the earlier example in Syria where the Astana talks were actually quite instrumental in bringing about peace and that was against something without the US and with countries in the region. So as far as Iran is concerned too, it's something they have been saying that collective involvement from all the countries in the region is what can bring peace. So it might be, this might again be another instance of a similar discussion actually having impact. Well I think yes, it's a very small start. We still haven't seen Saudis and Iranians talk to each other. We still haven't seen Saudis and Houthis talk to each other. But as I said, some hesitant start of processes is I think important. But let's face it, the United States has the ability to scupper this process as well. How, whether they will play a spoiler or to the degree they will play a spoiler has to be seen. And at the moment, of course, Trump is a little bit hamstrung by the fact of that Ukraine and his impeachment, which you know in rest of the world we don't just understand that what is the, what's happening in the United States, but leaving that out. What we do think is yes, hesitant shall start of certain processes, but what is happened, what's going to happen is something that is not going to be straightforward, linear, great peace. Everybody is singing peace and so on, but it is going to be a slow return and it will be probably some steps forward, couple of steps back till we get a process when we get a regional peace agreements looked at and regional understandings and arrangements rather than guarantees from outside between neighbors. Thank you, Prabir. That's all we have for this episode of Mapping Fortlines. See you next week and keep watching NewsClick.


Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico, it's theCUBE. Covering Coin Agenda, brought to you by SiliconANGLE. Hello everyone, welcome to SpecialCube Coverage. We're here, exclusive conversations at Coin Agenda. We're just at Blockchain Unbound. Puerto Rico is where we're at and we're covering all the trends and latest news and analysis in cryptocurrency, blockchain, decentralized internet. My next guest is Dan Bates, founder and president of Impact PPA. Dan, great to have you on. Thanks, John, glad to be here. So one of the trends I'm noticing is a couple things. Flight to quality on the ICO side, first of all, a lot of the deadwoods being pushed aside by the community, still some stuff out there that might not have a business model, but good entrepreneurs doing it. Then you start to see real use cases emerging. I interviewed Green Chain, they're disrupting how produce grains move in between suppliers and buyers, and other impact mission-driven stuff. How do you solve the energy crisis? We're in Puerto Rico, the grid's half alive, everyone knows that. You're doing something really compelling. Take a minute to explain what you guys are doing because you have a token up and running. What are you guys doing? What's your value proposition? So what we do is we've created a system by which you can now have renewable energy delivered to developing nations and we've taken the intermediaries out of the equation whereby the World Bank historically would take years to fund a project. If they would do that, their big trepidation was how do you get paid at the end of the day? So what we've done is we've come up with a solution that allows for generation of energy, using renewables and track it all the way through to a payment rail, if you will, that a user can now prepay for energy on their mobile device. It's M-Pesa. If you know what M-Pesa is in Africa, 70% of the transactions in Africa are done on a mobile device. We are decentralized M-Pesa for energy. So okay, mobile app, I get everyone can think about Uber and all the benefits that Airbnb brings, you just have stuff happen. Talk about what's under the hood, what's actually disruptive about what you guys are doing, give some specifics, because you're tying in devices that are generating energy, you're using the blockchain, you have a token, how's it all work? Okay, so what we do is in the ability to fund a project, getting the World Bank, getting USAID out of the equation, what we now allow for is the community. Typically we are very liberal or tend to skew liberal, right? We actually believe that climate change is real and we want to help support these economies and these new types of, you know, betterment of the planet, right? But we don't expect that to be a philanthropic effort. So people will buy the M-PAC token, which will fund projects that will then create what we're doing right now, it's an ERC-20 of what we call a gen credit, not a secondary token, it's a credit that allows people to access the ledger. So a guy will go down to the store just like he does right now and he charges his phones with more minutes or with a data plan, it's fiat to a plan, a digital currency, we do the same thing. It's now fiat into a gen credit, we call it, that allows them to transact with the blockchain so we get identity, we get reputation, we get trust and honesty about those transactions using the blockchain. Okay, so where does the energy come from? Because the energy sources now are interesting because you're seeing people do amazing things, solar panels, wind farming, and they see an Asia top of the apartment buildings with a lot of wind. How do they move that power into the market? All right, so what we do is, right now we're using wind and solar, rooftop or microgrid. For instance, we just finished a project in Haiti doing 150 kilowatts for a town called Lesewa. They haven't had power in two years, Hurricane Matthew, prior to Hurricane Maria coming through Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's in a similar situation, right? So we created this microgrid using their existing infrastructure like transmission and distribution. Then we put smart meters on the home. That smart meter connects to the blockchain and now people can have power at their homes pay as you go. Awesome, so what have been some of the hurdles you guys have had? Obviously to me it's a no brain or energy being tokenized, so that makes such sense. Why wouldn't you want to do that? Obviously there's regulatory issues that are incumbent, legacy, dogma, or and or specific legislation, paperwork, whatnot. Where's the efficiencies being automated away with the blockchain? And what are some of the hurdles that you guys have gone through to get to this point? All right, so we work in the emerging economies of the world. Oftentimes there is not the kind of regulation that we have in the US or in the developed world, like the EU or something like that. So when we go out to remote places like Kenya and Ethiopia, Latin America, wherever it might be, we don't have some of the issues that you would have if you were trying to set this up in Palo Alto. I don't have to worry about PG&E and interconnect and an offtake and all that. So what we do is that we'll go out, set up a microgrid. We're giving power to people who may have never had it before. So all those regulatory layers are stripped away. They're grateful for it. They can they pay for it?  But they know that if they can buy power on a cell phone like they're already doing for other goods and services, now we've got a game changer. Dan, talk about the token economics. I get the payment rail piece, mobile app, no brainer, I get that check. Okay, easy to use. Now I want, as a buyer of energy, there's a token, I get some token there. Where's the other side of the marketplace? How does that token economics work? Can you just take us through a use case and walk us through that example? Sure. So as I said, the M-PAC token is our base token. That will be the value token that purchasers will buy in order to fund projects. Once we go beyond that, we now have what we call a GenCredit. It may not be a token in the traditional sense or a coin. It's a credit that allows us to transact with the ledger. That way we can know about these people. One of the greatest opportunities that we feel that we have in the marketplace is identity and reputation. You have a billion, two people who don't have a connection. What if we could learn about those billion, two, and understand how they use power and where they use power? So GenCredit is kind of off-chain management that you're doing. You write to the ledger for inter-mutal access for that transaction. I got to ask you about things like spoofing. Why can't I just take your energy? This is where the tokens become interesting because it should solve the spoofing problem. Well, right, and energy needs to be passed down copper. It's got to go on a wire. That doesn't mean somebody's not going to cut the wire and bootlegged and all that stuff. Spoofing's not going to be the problem in this case. It is a physical connection that needs to be made. Our smart meters allow for us to turn on or off that connection by the user, right? If he doesn't pay, he doesn't get it. You know, there's vandalism, there's theft all over the world, and we have methods in place to try and mitigate that as much as possible. You saw our platform that we're building. We're tokenizing our media business. It's amazing. You like it, it was good. Thanks for the plug, there. I wasn't asking for a plug, but I appreciate the plug.   My son's Alex working with us. We have a young team as well. I want you to talk about someone who's so experienced in the business. You've done a lot of variety of ventures from, you know, film to entertainment, technology. Us older veterans, the polite way to say it, have seen the movie before. They've seen the waves. This is a huge wave, but this wave is going to be, we can surf a few of them, hang 10 on our boards, but this wave is really going to be powered and led by the younger generation. What's your thoughts, share your vision of the role that the younger generation has to take here and what makes them capable in your mind? Okay, so I'm going to answer that question two ways. First of all, I'm so enamored with what the younger generation is trying to do with this disruption. Let's change their existing paradigm and make something better. That's what blockchain allows for all sorts of industries, goods and services, right? It's going to be amazing what these guys come up with. That's one of the things I love about doing this thing, right? I'm an old guy. And I get to hang around these smart young people. It makes me feel young again. But the other thing that we have, and I think you to share it as well, is we have to offer to these young guys experience, right? It's not like we're going to go out into a market that we don't know about and try and explore it for success. I've been in the renewables business for 10 years delivering projects to 35 countries. I got my boots on the ground. I got my hands dirty doing this for 10 years now. And I think the other part of that, building this project and making it successful is the team that we've put together behind it. We have an advisor who advises presidents, Dr. Michael Dorsey. That's really important. That's valuable that he understands the global marketplace the way he does. The other one is Vinay Gupta, who has been in blockchain since the 90s and has always wanted to work in the developing world with a blockchain distributed ledger technology. That's really important. I think I want to just double down and re-amplify that point. This is not a young man's game only exclusively. It's this market's attracting alpha entrepreneurs, older veterans, because as you said earlier, it disrupts every vertical. That's right. So experience and mentorship, bringing people together that can help accelerate the disruption. That's right. Driven by the young guys. Cool, I love that. But it's not like Zuckerberg made this one comment, oh, if you're not under the age of 30, then you don't know social delivery.  But in this case, this market is open and willing to learn and the disruption's the mission. That's right. And this team matters. That's right. Experience, the makeup of your board, makeup of your advisors, so there's a role for everybody. Look, experience is capital, right? It is its own virtual currency. Having been in all these countries, having worked with presidents, having worked in the 90s, since the 90s, that is valuable. It's intangible, but it is valuable. Dan, I think we just invented a new category in the ICO category, an advisor choking. There's plenty of advisors. And it's a cottage industry, believe me. They're getting tokens anyway. But imagine if you could actually measure an advisor. Yeah, the quality of the advisor and the roles that they play. Absolutely, it would be great. That's coming up next in our next ICO, right? Hey, I really appreciate what you're doing. I love how you're working with your son, father, son team. You recognize the role of how the generations can shift together. Love it. Love your mission. Thank you. Thanks for sharing. The teams coverage here in Puerto Rico, we've been here on the island all week, getting the best stories, the best people, sharing them with you. We're open content, this is theCUBE, doing our part here at Coin Agenda for one day. We're not going to be here tomorrow. We're going to go to Vegas. Just came back from Blockchain Unbound, great stuff. John, let me give you the URL if you don't mind. No problem, go ahead. Please, if you want to go learn more about us, impactppa.com. Great job, impactppa.com. This is theCUBE live coverage here in Puerto Rico. More after this short break.


Γεια σας! Είμαι Αθήνα Ραμμου και είμαι πρόσφυσιογησης της Γέντερας Βαθμιστικής Βαθμιστικής. Εγγραφήσαμε από ΤΕΤΑΑ στην 2014. Θα ευχαριστώ για την οικογένωση για να κάνω αυτή η δημότητα. Στην αυτή η δημότητα που είναι δημιουργητική για οι διεθνικές της κοινωνικής κοινωνίας. Όπως όλοι οι Ελληνικές που θέλουμε να κάνουμε, θα θέλω να σας πω πρώτα ένα ιστορία για την πρώτη κοινωνικής κοινωνικής κοινωνικής κοινωνίας. Η δημότητα της κοινωνίας είναι Αγνωδάης. Προσπαθούσε στην Αισιανία Ταθένση στην 4η αιθνή Βαθμιστικής, όπου στην τέτοια κοινωνία οι κοινωνίες ήταν ανοιχές από την κοινωνική κοινωνικής κοινωνικής κοινωνικής. Φυγήσαμε, εξέγγεστε όλες,shapedagogue!? Γνωρίζουμε, favorragio dopamine calls μιαouv. Αγνωτήθηκαν να προσφαθεί τα κομμάτια της λαμβάνης που είχαν φορά ή θέλουν να εξοπηθούν αδερφούς. Συμβουλήθηκαν να αγνωτήθηκαν να εξοπηθούν την αυτης και ήταν ανοιγμένη να συμβουλήσουν τη δεύτερη. Οι άλλοι οι δεύτερες που αγνωτήθηκαν την αγνωτήθηση της αυγήκας έκουσαν να υποφαθούν την αυγήκη της αυγήκας. Στην αγραδία, πριν από το αριό Βαγγούς, Αγγροδάης, πάνω από αυτού, αφήτησε τα κλώματα, αφήτησε ότι ήταν η γιάννη. Είναι αυτοκλή με το αγραδείο της λόγας, που αφήτησε τα κομμάτια από τη δημιουργία της λόγας, αλλά ήταν δημιουργημένη από οι γυναίκες της σημείας που έλεγε. Στην σχέση της, η λόγη ήταν αφήτηση να αφήτησε τη δημιουργία της λόγας, και να προηγήσουν themselves for their equal value. Today I'm going to present you about... to talk about systemic inflammatory response syndrome in cardiopulmonary bypass and the role of NETs. First of all, we will talk about some historical facts, of course. We will talk about the following facts. First of all, we will talk about some historical facts. Of course, mechanism of inflammation during cardiopulmonary bypass, definition of sears, NETs, what are they, the role of NETs in sears, methods for the treatment of sears. The need for a bloodless, still surgical field led to the discovery of the heart lung machine. A milestone was the discovery of heparin that allowed the extracorporeal circulation to take place without the danger of blood clotting in the circuit. 1952, the first successful intracardia correction of a congenital heart defect by Ues and Lilehi at the University of Minnesota. 1954, first successful open heart surgery using cross-circulation. 1955, a use of the first heart lung machine with Gibbon type oxygenator. The evolution of cardiac surgery, the discovery of cardiopulmonary bypass machine along with the mechanical circulatory devices since 1950 have made cardiac procedures safe, improved the quality and longevity of life of patients. Extracorporeal circulation makes multiple changes in normal circulation of blood and organ function causing production of inflammatory mediators. With the improvement in surgical techniques and technology evolution, many of the undesirable reactions of the body to extracorporeal circulation have been decreased. Nevertheless, the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in extracorporeal circulation remains one of the main causes of organ dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. As we like to say, the science of perfusion is manipulation of the blood. Blood is the important link between the patient and the heart lung machine. Many systems of the body are affected by the circulation of the blood in the heart lung machine and there is activation of platelets, neutrophils, complement system, fibrinolytic system and innate and acquired immunity. According to American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 1992, systemic inflammatory response syndrome is a common systemic response to a wide variety of insults. Two or more of the following clinical manifestations must be fulfilled for the diagnosis. Body temperature higher than 38°C or lower than 36°C. Heart rate more than 90 bits per minute. Respiratory rate more than 20 per minute or PCO2 less than 32 mmHg. Lucocide count more than 12,000 or the presence of more than 10% i immature neutrophils. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome is mainly initiated from blood contact to surface other than endothelium, such as the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit. From blood contact to foreign surface, a series of reactions are initiated that includes absorption of proteins, initiation of coagulation system, of complement system, activation of platelets, leukocytes and neutrophils. First of all, the exposure of blood to the extracorporeal circuit activates the contact system. Then the complement system is also activated mainly through its alternative pathway. The cardiopulmonary bypass circuit lacks than the thylial cell, surface inhibitors, that normally limit cofactor C3 activation and this contact activation, along with the stimulus of calligrain, provokes the formation of anaphyloatoxins C3a and C5a with anaphylactic and chemotactic activity. Cytochines. Compliment factors and their degradation products can exert an immunomodulatory effect inducing the synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Cytochines are intercellular messengers produced by tissues in response to different stimuli. They have been generally considered to be products for mature leukocytes within the lymphatic system, but recent reports show that their secretion may also be modulated by different cell lines such as platelets and endothelial cells. The role of cytokines and the pathophysiology of the cardiopulmonary bypass-related acute-phase reaction has been studied extensively. Besides the well-documented increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the role of anti-inflammatory cytokines and the balance among these cytokines may be important in determining the level of the inflammatory response. The toxinia is another activator for the cardiopulmonary bypass-related inflammatory reaction. Bacteria lipopolysaccharide is released by gram-negative bacteria during their growth and replication after the disruption of bacterial cell membranes consequent to antibiotic administration or low-flow blood flow. In plasma endotoxin binds to LPS binding protein, a human serum protein, whose concentration rises during the acute-phase reaction, forming an endotoxin LPS binding protein complex. At the presence of endotoxin in patients' blood after cardiopulmonary bypass has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Cardiopulmonary bypass is also associated with a number of studies Cardiopulmonary bypass is also associated with a deficit in platelet function and number. Fibrinogen is an important cofactor in platelet adhesion and is essential for platelet to platelet binding. Factors associated with cardiopulmonary bypass are hypothermia and shear forces, exposure to artificial surfaces, the use of exogenous drugs, the release of endogenous chemicals, hemo dilution from pump prime that contributes to further thrombocytopenia. Cardiopulmonary bypass and aorta cross-clamping induce myocardial hypoxia and ischemia, both of which are pro-inflammatory stimuli. Together with other factors such as complement, histamine, pro-inflammatory cytokines and the toxin and thrombin, ησκήνια contributes to the activation of endothelial cells and leukocytes, the effectors of inflammatory cytotoxicity. Last but not least, we have the activation of neutrophils. Neutrophils are a central cell type in the mediation of the systemic inflammatory response. They comprise 60% of the white blood cell count and their activation and cytotoxicity. Their activation and cytotoxic capability are an essential aspect of the body's ability to fight infection. There are four ways of neutrophil defense in bacteria. First of all, neutrophil recruitment. Neutrophil senses bacteria, slows and squeezes through blood vessels, moves towards bacteria which have been marked by antibodies for ingestion. Second, pagocytosis. Neutrophil engulfs and destroys marked bacteria. Another way is by releasing bactericidal activity, bactericidal substances that kill bacteria. And then fourth, the fourth way is releasing DNA structures that trap bacteria, nets. Neutrophil extracellular traps. Brinkman and colleagues in 2004 showed that neutrophil stimulation with PMA released web-like structures of DNA coated with histones, elastase, myeloperoxidase and cathaspin G. These structures were given the name neutrophil extracellular traps which were initially proposed to immobilize and trap and kill bacteria extracellularly. Nets from the one hand contribute to defense against infection. But from the other hand, implicated in the pathophysiology of multiple diseases, such as vasculitis, trolley, thrombotic microangiopathy, preeclampsia, cancer metastasis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and acute local liberation of histones, such as histone-free and myeloperoxidase, are thought to cause endothelial injury and exacerbate inflammation induced organ injury. Recent evidence also implicates a potential role of nets in linking inflammation with thrombosis. The formation and deposition of nets could impair perfusion at the microcirculation level because it has been demonstrated in some models of organ dysfunction in which microcirculatory compromise is well described, such as the myocardial no-reflow phenomenon and septic acne. In the context of cardiac surgery, production of nets could have pathophysiological implications. Patients with vascular disease or comorbidities, such as diabetes, may have chronic inflammation resulting in a priming of circulating neutrophils before surgery. The general inflammatory reaction, triggered by cardiopulmonary bypass, may consequently result in a burst of nets production in the perioperative period. Occlusion and injury of the pulmonary and systemic microcirculation in trans-nets formation, triggered by cardiopulmonary bypass, may be implicated in the pathogenesis of adverse patients' outcomes by inducing organ injury in multiple systems. A study that was published in 2020 by Bob Yan Shulini and his colleagues demonstrated that circulating nets increased during cardiopulmonary cardiac surgery. The exposure of blood to the extracorporeal circuit during cardiopulmonary bypass may trigger production of nets. Now, let's see the strategies to control cardiopulmonary bypass that have been developed and are based in three pillars. Improvement of biocompatibility of artificial surface, temporary inhibition of blood cells activation during cardiopulmonary bypass among the bio-activities and effects of inflammatory mediators. Biocompatibility of an artificial surface depends on the composition, chemical and physical attribute of protein mosaic on the surface, one in contact with blood. The ideal biosurface should bind albumin and prevent absorption of fibrinogen, factor 12 and high molecular weight calicrine, suppress the activation of C3 and decrease the molluses during cardiopulmonary bypass. Coating also with various agents on the INAT layer of circuit to suppress inflammation should be beneficial. When we say blood anesthesia we are talking about temporal prevention of activation of blood cells from the stimuli of the biosurfaces by the applications of pharmaceutical agents during blood exposure to the materials. Platelet inhibitors prostaglandin inhibitor 2 inhibits thrombin activation but causes vasodivalation severely. Better choice is nitric oxide gas because of its inhibiting effects on adhesion and aggregation of platelets, neutrophils and activation of complement that most importantly it's short half-time, half lifetime which not only causes no systemic hypotension but also makes it easier to determine, to terminate the inhibiting effects on platelets after cardiopulmonary bypass. Glucocorticoids have long been used to reduce inflammation. They act to reduce early inflammatory processes such as increased capillary permeability edema formation leukocyte migration and also later manifestations such as the proliferation of capillaries and deposition of collagen. The primary indication for the use of the serine protease inhibitor A-proteinin in cardiac surgery is related to its role as an inhibitor of the contact pathway of intrinsic coagulation. A large number of studies have shown the ability of A-proteinin to reduce blood loss during and after cardiac surgery. In Europe, A-proteinin is approved to be used in low risk patients for cabbages only. Superoxide dismutase combined with catalase protects host tissues from oxidative damage from activated neutrophils. Other substances as manitol, alloporinol, vitamin C could be useful to reduce very radical generation. Monoclonial antibodies against cytokines and thrombox RNA2 have shown some protective effect on lungs. The perfusionists, we know all the mechanical approaches that we can do to reduce the inflammation responses. One of them is the use of emo-concentration filters that have been demonstrated to remove pro-inflammatory cytokines and to improve outcomes. Also, the heparincoated circuits there are some studies that show that they also have good outcomes and in Europe there is a great tendency to use microcircuits, the MEAC that reduce the surface area in which the blood come in contact. Pulsatile perfusion it shows to have better gut perfusion and then as an extension less endotoxins that circulate in the blood. Temperature, conflicting results and studies, they have better outcomes with normothermia but if vasopressors are needed then increased inflammatory response have been shown. Cardiotomous action blood and midiastinal chat blood are important resources of inflammatory mediators due to the direct blood air contact and the damage of blood cells caused by negative pressure some researchers insist on discarding this blood from the patient. In conclusion, Sears has been remained one of the major causes of cardiopulmonary associated organ dysfunction. The mechanism of Sears during cardiopulmonary bypass includes interaction of blood and artificial surface and endotoxinia. Neutrophils contribute to organ injury through the liberation of DNA stones like structures named neutrophil extracellular traps. Strategies to control cardiopulmonary bypass related Sears include improvement of biocompatibility blood anesthesia inhibition of inflammatory mediators I would like to mark again the exclamatory study by Govgen and Zouligny that it was demonstrated for the first time that circulating nets increase during cardiac surgery the exposure of blood to the extracorporeal circuit during cardiopulmonary bypass may trigger production of nets whether the phenomenon may predispose patients to complications after cardiac surgery should be further investigated to determine if circulating nets represent a potential treatment target. Due to the pandemic with COVID-19 I would like to share with you some information about nets and COVID-19 that I found really interesting. Coronary virus disease as we know is a novel viral infused respiratory disease that in 10 to 15% of patients progresses to acute respiratory distress syndrome triggered by a cytokine storm. In this study autopsy results and literature are presented supporting the hypothesis that a little known yet powerful function of neutrophils, the ability to form neutrophil extracellular traps may contribute to organ damage and mortality in COVID-19 patients. If this hypothesis is correct targeting nets directly or indirectly with existing drugs may reduce the clinical severity of COVID-19. Excess nets may elicit the severe multi-organ consequences of COVID-19 via their known effects on tissues and the eye immune vascular and coagulation systems. Targeting nets should be there for be considered by the biomedical community. Future is near and is expected very promising. Thank you.


Hi everyone I just thought I would do a little quick update because I know it's been forever since I've done a proper vlog I'm sorry it's just been all systems go non-stop as some of you know I've been writing a book and the deadline was coming up but the good news is the book submission is done it's finished it's submitted it's with the publishers for editing now getting ready to be published oh those that you don't know where have you been on my socials come on I'm writing a book for student nurses mainly it's like a student nurse survival guide from start to finish so applying to university your first what to do in your first weeks of universities how to write assignments how to do your poster presentations how to smash your exams revision techniques and a breakdown of academic words as well with assignments that sort of thing placement tips from first year second year third year plus placements specific as well so I've got specific stuff in there with abbreviations stuff like that anything to help your placements basically and then what else have we got and then we've got sort of towards the end so applying for your first newly qualified nurse position how to smash your interviews tips for interviews searching the right job what job to get into applying for your NMC pin and that sort of thing and then we've got some bonus rounds for things like I've got an LGBT section and how to care for LGBT patients I've got a little bit about autism and epilepsy from my amazing friend says who's very kindly added her bit because she is autistic and she is epileptic and she went to university so she's got some really good advice I've got some stuff from George as well who's putting his bit about being a transgender man my friend Dawn has also amazing thank you so much to these people who contributed my friend dawn has done a really good bit as well about being a student nurse but also being a mother so giving you tips and advice to help you with child care and things like that with studying and as well not only that but she's got some like dyslexia and things like that going on as well so giving you a top tips and advice from that side of things as well I've got a really good section on ethnic minorities as well skincare that sort of thing diets Ramadan that sort of thing there's just so much going on in this book is literally everything you need from start to finish to help you get through and survive nursing basically the things that the textbooks don't ever tell you the things that your university lecturers don't ever tell you I've put it into simple basic writing so you can understand it and smash it job done so yeah so when it's almost when it's published I will do another little video of course let you all know send you the links all that jazz I'll be doing a giveaway and yeah exciting times