Can we measure the speed of this bullet using just this block and a string? Well, the answer is yes. It may sound insane, but but still let's see. Let's see how to do that So we have this bullet coming in coming towards this block and as it comes closer to the block It strikes a block like this and because of that the block and the bullet they start moving forward and they Move they move like this and at this at the maximum height point they come to a state of rest Now this is the whole situation. What's happening, but let's rewind. Let's let's come back So we have we have the bullet which is coming towards towards a block and we are interested in we are interested in figuring out The velocity the velocity of this bullet. Let's call that you let's say that the mass of the bullet is small M and the mass of this big block. This is capital M. This is capital M when the bullet strikes a block Like like this now both the bullet and the block they start moving forwards Let's say with a velocity of V and in this interaction in this collision when the bullet strikes a block There is one quantity which will be conserved which is conserved in every collision whether it is elastic or inelastic and That is momentum momentum of the bullet and the block system. That's really conserved So how can we express conservation of momentum mathematically? We can say we can say that the initial momentum We can say that PI initial momentum This is equal to the final momentum and we are talking about the bullet and the block system here So the initial momentum that is that is only the momentum of the bullet which is M into U This is equal to the final momentum that will be for both the bullet and the block So they become one the bullet stops up till this point They become one mass and that mass is small M plus capital M into V So you the speed of the bullet this is M plus capital M into V divided by small M Now over here we can start off by knowing some values Which is the mass of the bullet we can measure that the mass of the block We can also measure that but we don't know the speed with which both of them move We don't know this V, right? So we cannot really calculate Q. We would need to do something else So for that, let's see what else is happening We know after the collision the block moves forward both of them move forward and This they swing like a pendulum this swing like a pendulum they reach a certain height We can show that like this from the center of from the center of this block So they reach a certain height we can call that H and this is the height when the system of bullet and block They come to state of rest. So the final velocity here that is 0 So they start off with some velocity and they reach a point when their velocity is 0 At the highest point they have traveled a certain height of H So they did gain some energy, right? This is gravitational potential energy and where did this energy come from? Well, initially all they had was kinetic energy So kinetic energy all of this is being changed to gravitational potential energy and we can express this Mathematically we can say we can say that half into small m plus capital M V square This is equal to small m plus capital M into H This just gets cancelled off and V comes out to be equal to under root of 2 g H There will be there will be a G over here as well. Now you might be thinking that Well, I have seen examples where you throw a ball with a speed V It reaches a certain height of H and you can conserve energy over there Considering if we if you don't really consider air resistance and everything So the idea over there is that when there is no external work being done We can conserve energy between any two points, but here is there no external work being done? Let's think about it. So this is a bullet block and an earth system So the force of gravity is really an internal force which is doing some work and giving some gravitational potential energy But there is also one more other force. There is there is a force of tension, right? There is this force of tension. This is T. So isn't this doing any work? Isn't there an external force in the picture in the bullet and the block and the earth system? Isn't this tension doing a work? So how can we conserve energy? Well, it turns out that as the block moves this rope It's always perpendicular to the direction in which the bullet in the block system moves So somewhat like this the the curve the arc. Let's say the arc looks somewhat like this So this rope is always really perpendicular to it Which means that the tension the force of tension is always perpendicular to that direction in which the block in the bullet is moving and when the force when force is perpendicular to displacement We know that work done is always zero because f.d fd cos theta theta is 90 So work done due to the tension force. That's really zero. There is no external work done So we can conserve energy and when we do that we get we get this velocity We with which the block and the bullet started off that is under root of 2gh Now one other thing really we would just know the length of the string usually But there's a bit of a master we can calculate we can using some trigonometry We can figure out this height edge, but let's say you're using some camera You take a snapshot when the bullet in the block comes to a state of rest and because of that You're able to measure this height edge. So let's say we know the maximum height that the block in the bullet reaches Okay, so we know h we know g and when we substitute this v over here Then what do we get? Let's see you. This is equal to small m plus capital M into This is under root of 2gh divided by small m now Let's put in some numbers to get a to get a better feel of it. Usually bullet is 70 grams mass, let's say this is 1 kilogram and the height is 30 meters So when we replace replace these values over here and when you work out you you will come out to be approximately 458 meters per second and that is how one can measure the speed of a bullet using nothing But just one block and a piece of string


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I'm truly blessed to be a part of y'all energy tonight I brag on y'all because you know you my you my brother You know you from the city and you've been my brother for a minute coming to the house and just kicking it up You knew Peyton when she was little when she was a baby athlete You know what I mean and now she big and she's 12 and it's good to just see all of us growing Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just fun to be here man Y'all make people laugh and it's incredible man.  He's they use all him and zoo and Mike They all had a crib.   We used to go everywhere used to look go to the Hollywood players. Yeah, and you know, we always young Spotted comedy, but we love when we get like Comedians that we look at his old geez when they can come and then give us the history in the background and walk Us all the way up into the presentation. Well, I thought I was gonna be a football player Are you work I see Yes, I play with Shannon shop, but I wanted to really play in the NFL and In sharp was one of one of the best players I ever seen live in person Yeah, and I was honored to play with him But I wanted to be in the NFL But I had an attitude problem and I kind of like lost my scholarship and I went home When I went home, I had an opportunity my fraternity brothers. They was like, man You should tell jokes man. You can get on deaf comedy. Jan. Let me be oblivious right quick. What fraternity cap up All day the news all day you feel me. So, you know, and we don't win no flip flops No, I don't know No, they don't Well, that was a different era because we don't win no rainbows So I came home and I start telling jokes I went to mr. Henry's they used to have like open mic nights And I went up there and I start telling jokes my first night. I ain't get booed But I ain't look.  I had some corny jokes about Wonder Woman hood if she lived in my hood or breaks We would get like bust off and stuff like that. It was it was corny But my partner Rob was there. He was like, man, won't you talk about that stuff? Man, you be talking about offstage man with us man talk about that. I was like Yeah I'm gonna talk about that I thought I told my mother talk about my sister's talk about my family talk about me where we at Seven months later Bob Sumner saw me And he was like, uh, man, if you come up to uh, New Jersey and if you rip, you know, I'll put you on deaf comedy jam When I'm New Jersey I wonder what this dude. This is a funny story. I wonder what another dude He got booed. Mmm. Not your ride. Yeah My rod got booed. Thank in real life so I'm back. Bill Bellamy was hosting Naughty by Nature out there. This is imagine the scene Queen Latifa. This was New Jersey. This was the peppermint lounge I was like, I cannot lose. I go out there and destroy the joint Bob was like, all right, we're gonna put you on And put me on And you know a lot of a lot of people, you know, I think a lot of people like Donnell Rollins and you know, Joe Clare and Dominique and like a lot of comedians who I hung with at that time to help me.  Yeah Yeah So it was a teen summer hired me. They was like, uh, you want to move to new york? I was like Yeah, they was like, you got to find the story. You got to write the story. You got to host the story and you got to Find the camera crew You got to do that once a week. I was like, how much they pay? They was like, we'll pay you five fifty a week. I was like Hell, yeah, I'm about. Yes. I was living over the bodega. I was like, oh, it's easy. That's 600 a month I'm chopping up five fifteen hundred extra So I moved up to new york and um Did teen summit for years and this their stories.   He ain't bad wrapped around you What?  I know that nigga Did you know what I'm saying? So yeah, and it's like for me I know being a a comedian from the city and when I came up, you know, you quake Uh, tony wood, you know, I mean dominique. Oh, yeah, tell us some of the comedians you started with Well, like I said, donnell roland was really the first person that he was he he checked me He was like, man, you got, you know, do put how to put jokes together You know, and then I was hanging with joke clear me and joke clear was crazy. Yeah We was right hand with dominique.  We was the funniest in the world because that's all we did was right And we was all y'all Carlos Miller. Is there something interfering with your happiness and preventing you from achieving your goals? Better help will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist It's not a crisis line. It's not self-help. 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I produced like 21 shows for like spring bling your shit, you know bt awards Anything they had like I would Cover it my man saying Walker would just put me on Lynn Harris Taylor They just put me on and I would do all these productions So for two years, I didn't even tell jokes and then I went back to LA And I was uh celebrating. I think it was luneo's birthday And cat was in in the building. I was in the building. We all told jokes that night and he was like After we was like man, I'm about to do this tour You know, you want to uh come come with me. I was like, yeah I started telling jokes again So, you know, we we started doing like theaters and at first it was just you know Small crowds and then cat did um his first that special On HBO that uh this right here when he did that It was like it was like six thousand here 10,000 there 15,000 people 20,000 people and you know I was blessed to be a part of that because he was like selling out everywhere and he gave us opportunities To shine and we shine. Oh man.   I just was laughing in my I don't know I probably laughed too much when I first was doing comedy, but Um me I just like to laugh like like laughing to me is like so important Like it took me out of places of of you know Evil like you know when you don't laugh sometimes you get in the place that you know Of depressions and everything and I'm talking about people and generally so they always want to say comedians have a dark side I mean we might have a dark side, but it's everybody has a dark side But we like to be on the light side. We like to be laughing all the time We like to be making people like express themselves through happiness You know because a lot of people got a lot of joy inside, but they don't have people around to make them laugh So like when I be on stage, I'm seriously like me like I like to be me Like I don't like I don't people like how you prepare for your show. How do you get? Maybe like do you need the preparation? I mean like no, I need a nap at 3 30 and I need about a half hour And let me get up and let me rock out because I want to be myself I want to talk about the issues that I see around me. That's why like we can all connect, you know Sometimes it's a loss between like generations And that's what that's where the messed up part come in. Yeah, see, but I stay current with everything because I'm always reinventing myself Once you once you lose contact with With the people in another generation that you're messed up in life This period and if your generation lose touch with that other generation then we can't even connect no generations Right, so I just you know, I'm just glad god just give me the ability to stay strong and just be like I'm funny. That's what I know how to do and I know how to speak to people and I know how to change lives I'm glad he made me a humanitarian around here.  So what makes you do that? And why do you think that a lot of guys don't? I can tell you that one He'll tell you the same people you explained to you know who the hate nabbed niggas in the game A lot of the niggas who in those positions who don't embrace niggas on the come up doing they thing All he do is that one joke.    I'm always on the show with y'all because I'm love being on the show with y'all Like we have fun on it, you know, since it's the time of the kickstart I want to be around that I don't want to be around nothing but fun And that's exactly like we still approach this game as fans too, bro We do these big shows and we be with everybody and it's six headliners on the show I want to be there I'm watching all that shit and it's like it's a lot of motherfuckers who they they miss that part of the game And that's the best part. That's why I say It's to see your motherfuckers come up, man I'm blessing the gig as quick was my favorite and and I ended up meeting quick Like on a humble like I was emceeing at the comedies on the Greensboro and dude named Tom Simmons was was headlining He asked me who my favorite comic was in between shows. I told him quick I go introduce the the second show. I come down. He hand me the phone say walk and talk I'm like, hello. Like, yeah, nigga. What's happening?  That's enough for me But when he came in town he hit me and was like, hey, I'm at the Coliseum You want to come to the show come through got me in the show and mind you this was before Anything this one.  He said look man If you what you supposed to be and what I think you are from what Tom told me Everybody that you seen in this room, you will see again.  You really had one of the last Legendary comedy nights in the game If you think about it that last run at the motherfucking At the store or in the main room Yeah, yeah Tuesday nights uh laugh mob. Oh that was like that that was the That was the pinnacle of LA for a minute.  No, but it got too powerful for it got too powerful for even LA.  I'm thinking I'm thinking I'm like, you know, I'm like, Chris Rock show over here. We're like, look, you next He did The Bt one. Yeah, I think I had a new set that was blazing. He came through and melted that Yes, he did. Yes.  I don't like No, but you blaze that Hey, yeah, you blaze that joy to you blaze that that was one of them ones. No, look Drake came through there one night Right. Yeah, so this is a true story, right?  He started talking about Drake. He don't know Drake in the crowd Right. He started, you know, bagging on Drake saying about Drake can't something about singing. He what Right. So somebody coming back. They like red, you know, Drake in the drink in the audience I was like, Drake in the audience. I was like, all right, cool. So in my head. I'm like, damn I got I don't want to point him out. So I get on stage and I tell I tell my man He didn't get booed, but they ain't really messed with him.  You ain't here if he was here He would, you know, they was like, he is here. I was like, man, Drake ain't here if Drake was here here Come on stage. Well, we start walking. He started, we start seeing lights cameras lights, lights, you know, lights in this talk I was like, damn, it's bright as hell in here He get on stages on YouTube to he and he rock out with me and do try to get on stage Like that that was talking about him. He kicked him on stage like Get on stage, right?   He's like, man. Thank you so much for you know, taking that for me and This is a true story Thanks for taking up for me, man. You know what I'm saying? And you know what I'm saying?   This is like some corporate interest type shit Yeah, they protected everybody from Mike They protected you from next week They don't want kissing in the book They don't want to kiss none of them hooks Reds, you got a dope dope program going on in the city man Man, those was blessed to come in and talk to some of the youngers and then from dc Uh, you know, I know that you know, I can say this from experience if it was more programs like this when I was young I probably wouldn't have gotten to a lot of the shit that I got into So what made you do that of all things you could have done in the city to help the youngers What made you say, you know what I'm gonna put these cameras in their hand and show them how to work these camera I mean, it was the closest thing to me You know cameras is what I know it kept me out of trouble So I was like when the opportunity came up To do this program, you know, we wanted to do it with a lot of kids like the first program and you know, then the pandemic hit and you know, I teamed up with A good good friend of mine who was a mentee of mine. I used to mentor her At the hustles guild you asked me Selena and we just She was she she understands how to push programs and and I had this idea about the program don't shoot guns and We did the pilot program last summer in dc and we taught kids how to write the stories You know, because you know, it's it's so hard for us to tell our own stories sometimes for people to understand What our stories are, you know, that's the number one job that kids want now for the future Like they want to be youtube content So that's more than the the nasa used to be the astronaut now. They want to be content creators, right? So you really uh, you know helping the young ones Well, it's called don't shoot guns shoot cameras and like we teach them how to you know, write their stories They wrote the they wrote the film the first film 10 page short all of them the shorts um, they produced directed and uh shot the films and they also edited the films and You know the the program itself is teaching young kids how to sustain A job really have a new job and give finances to them through cameras through, you know TV and film production And you know, like even with your show, you know, we be wanting we need like you guys to you know, let some of these kids That graduate from our program to come on and you know Learn from your camera, man, bro. They ain't there from your worst thing No, we were that bro, we had some kids on here the other week that was super gifted and talented. They they had Now we had some kids on here the other week that they took they saw us on the bt awards and they shot They picked their favorite scene and they redid it when we pulled up in the cars, man And they were super smart super talented. So we're definitely going to be integrating some of that into, you know, our networking program So you gotta send us something we appreciate you know, exactly what we had you can get the collab We I mean, I always tell my friends, you know to get involved because like, you know Thanks to us a lot of you guys would influence, you know, the program is it's continuing to To grow. All right, you know, my man cat Williams. He sponsored the dc program this summer You know, I asked all of my friends to come on and sponsor different programs and you know, we can get there for We got to get us Atlanta offset of that or something. Yeah, and I know you guys out There we go.  They don't trust the niggas. We money most corporations. They always looking for a tax break So that's another thing we've been doing over here on this platform. All corporations out there. What's cameras the big camera?  We respect the shooters.  Why not now? right You know, it's a lot of people suffering and a lot of people have Things that they want to and issues they want to get across that they don't have a voice for people to talk for them Check this out, bro.     I wake up and look at myself every day and I know I'm a funny looking dude It ain't nothing it ain't I'm ugly with cute features.  Well, I kind of like I kind of work with it with my cheeks I ain't going to wear I'm mad if Michael stray on for that man. He's supposed to close it up. You know what I'm saying?  This is the 85 South Shore Do it man, let's do it Hello everybody, my name is Carlos Miller and I just came to spread a little Black love because I hope you having a good day because this is a good day sent That's black love since I love you so much.  That's the beautiful part about it It's crazy. I'll see you next time


State legislators are on an extended holiday break. Many will head back to their home districts and spend some time meeting with constituents. For Representative Matt Grossell, the momentum of the first half of the session has helped bring bipartisan support for many of his bills. Some of Grossell's bills seek to reform and strengthen both the criminal sexual conduct and child pornography statutes. The bipartisan bills are ready to move to the next level. However, a roadblock by a fellow Republican in the Senate has made it somewhat of a challenge. The only problem is that my bills are being hung up in the Senate, in Senate judiciary. They're not getting hurt. So that's, to me, that's a problem that we can easily overcome if I get enough help. Another bipartisan bill that continues to be worked on is the Bemidji Veterans Home Project. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


No, I'm trying to live stream but my phone's not connecting Do you want me to take a picture of you guys because this is just fighting? I'm just gonna have to all right. Here we go Yeah, see if that it's it's hard to get all of the All the plain in but I know I oh it is live darn it Thanks, you too. Hey guys. Sorry about that really awkward opening But welcome to vintage space's first ever live stream I was taking a picture of a gentleman and his son in front of the SR 71 which is like the most badass plane ever I have not written about it, but I can at some point. So the point of doing this live stream, which I Apologize is not actually a live stream. I'm at the Udvar hazy museum in Virginia and through some odd circumstances today I've ended up here and some of you may know some of you've been here Some of you have just heard which I'm in the I have just heard category. There's a really awesome space hangar here I'm gonna turn around you can see shuttle discovery is right there So I thought it would be fun to do a bit of a live stream of this now Unfortunately, I'm not actually doing it live Because my video today about the acoustics of rocket launches went live and I didn't want to do two videos in one day And and overload you guys so I'm gonna hold this until now now that you're watching it But we are still gonna do a bit of a live stream feel just so that I can play around with what it's like to talk to my Phone in public, but I thought that I would give you guys a bit of a reveal of going into the the space hangar at the Udvar hazy museum because there's some really amazing space stuff that you Guys would love to see and that I would love to see it I'm super excited to see so I am gonna go ahead and flip my camera around and show you as you walk in and apologies I hope the sound is coming through because the headphones so And apologies, I don't have one of those steady cam things that will actually like give you guys a non-walking I should stop walking my hands are not steady, but welcome. Oh, this place is awesome. Oh Yeah, they have my favorite things here, which is why I really wanted to live stream it for you guys So the shuttle discovery is front and center. We're gonna walk around it. Um, there's so much stuff here Sorry, I'm I'm kind of kind of floored. All right. I don't even know what that is Yeah, this is a Just so you guys know this is 100% a live stream because you can hear me saying that I don't know what things are Let's go over here. Let's start over here because this is this is what I actually came to see So a lot of you guys who have been following me for a while now know that my favorite thing in the world Is the Gemini paraglider and I came here to see let's see if we can get a picture of me with it It's here this this I'm gonna flip the camera around again. This is the Gemini regalo a test-toe vehicle So here's the wing. Here's the regalo. I've never seen one of these things in person. This is so cool Oh, I'm having way too much fun with this This is the the system that NASA developed here's the the information for those of you guys who'd like to speed read This is the system that NASA tried to develop in from 1962 to 1965 to land the Gemini spacecraft On land like an airplane so that they could not have things splashing down because as we know splashdowns I should flip this around Because splashdowns do things like corrode metal and risk astronauts drowning and all those bad things So the the regalo wing The regalo wing was designed to take take that out of the equation and actually make it so that it could land Safely on a runway. So this is why I mean I've been obsessed with this thing for ages And I know it's here the other one of these so this is this is a small vehicle that was actually raised by helicopter And then drops with and then drop down to train how it would actually land you can actually see Over here the North American aviation insignia It was built by North American and it sent three North American pilots to the hospital my interviewed I interviewed here. I should flip this back around. I interviewed one of them Don I interviewed Dominic Cusker's widow a few years ago, and he was one of the pilots that That was sent to the hospital. I think with broken ribs. I've got a blog about it, and I'll put it in the description below He was sent to the hospital I think like four days before Christmas one year and she was really mad because he was supposed to do the Christmas shopping that year The other name of the pilot who went to the hospital Escaped me right now But the third pilot who flew it was Jack Swigert who we all know then joined NASA when he retired from North American as a Test pilot and flew on Apollo 13 So that's that's little tidbits about the regalo wing There's there's obviously like way more to say I will put put links in the description And oh, we also apparently have Gemini. This is Gemini 7 Guys you should all be here you should all come to this museum Gemini 7 I'll flip this around As we know this was two weeks two weeks sitting in this Front seat of a Volkswagen is roughly how it's been described Jim Lovell and Frank Borman just did the endurance test and Said it was pretty boring and also smelled like a latrine pretty quickly Okay, what else what else can I can I show you guys? This is the problem with live is that it's very much live and it's very much me Yeah, oh wow, it's very much me not preparing things, but I thought it'd still be kind of fun Oops, sorry wrong wrong camera wrong camera. Okay freedom seven No way I thought this was I feel like I saw this oh freedom seven two What is that? Oh, this is this is this is what live looks like Huh an unflown mercury that would make sense so freedom seven of course being Al Shepard's mercury spacecraft is I believe I saw it at the What's that that museum the Naval Naval the Naval Academy Museum because Shepard was a Navy man So yeah, and it's of course in the plastic that horrible plastic that Preserves the capsules very nicely, but also makes it so that all you can really see is the reflection of lights So yes, this makes sense at this one I will turn the camera round is not protected But it's kind of nice because you can actually see all of the details on the skin and you can see I don't know if you guys can see in there. There is some some detail of the control panel Wiring and stuff through the window. It's really really tiny every time I see one of these it kind of like shocks me that it's Absolutely this tiny. Okay, let's continue walking and I'll I'll I'll narrate for you guys. It's not it's not very exciting narration Oh, wow, I don't know what that is, but I'm gonna go over there next I just want to show you guys the other half of this little exhibit Has heat shields, which are so super cool. Oh, it's Glen's seat. I wonder if this is Yeah, John Glenn's training couch. Here you go. That's kind of fun. That's the size John Glenn looks sitting down in a space suit So yeah the other half of this Oh, no way. Okay. See fun. Okay. This I wrote about this This this is horrible lighting. I don't know if you guys can see this, but this is the um The articulated motorized dummy that they use to train To test space suits that they wouldn't have to risk astronauts hurting joints and stuff I wrote about this one not too too long ago again link in description Um When uh one of the other ones there's two of these were built and the other one was recently auctioned off And I don't actually know if it was sold. I'm sure it did. I'm not sure for how much I'm sure it was a lot But I did not I knew that the other one was owned by the Smithsonian I didn't know it was here. So I'll try to try to get a better picture Um, I mentioned that it's got it's it's all pneumatically operated with this like Aluminum skin over top of it and then rubber pants and a rubber jacket to make it look humanoid I can't totally get the face. It's too bright with discovery behind it, but it's creepy. I'll take pictures It's creepy. This is awesome. I did not know this is here. This is cool. Okay, so here here is um Gemini heat shield again the plastic means that it's exceptionally hard to actually See the details especially in a video, but I hope this is doing a little bit of something. Um Yeah, it's it's awesome. I don't know. I don't only have much else to say about it and I think I think over here um Cameras just oh wow that lit up. I wonder why the dummy didn't light up another gemini heat shield just for uh for funsies Yeah Oh, and the mobile quarantine facility is here. That's also kind of fun I let's see if I can get a shot. Oh inside it. Yeah, like kind of can okay here. Can you guys see that? I I I ask the non-existent live stream. Um, that's tiny. I always find it really interesting I mean, you know like intellectually that these things are all really small But then to actually see just how tiny they are Is is just like uh wow all of this stuff was very much not as big and glamorous as you would think it is um So that let's see. I don't know. Oh Here's armstrong's visor. Why don't these things light up? I want them to light up so I can show you guys Here's here's neil armstrong's eva visor apparently I just learned that because you know, I've never oh, sorry. That was a finger shot. Um, yeah So there's my little Oh, and I'll show you guys this too. It's got the hornet plus three. So okay. This is a much better view Sorry, I showed you the wrong the wrong angle before but hornet plus three, which is of course, um the hornet uss hornet Oh look recovery team The uss hornet was of course the ship that recovered apollo 11 and I think apollo 12 too I'd have to double check that to be honest off the top of my head But um, yeah, so hornet plus three was hornet plus the three astronauts I'm pretty sure it did apollo 12 as well. Um, and I I can't get a good shot from here But I'll show you anyways. It's the paris of I love this thing. Oh my god. This is the Uh, I don't know which one I'd have to go up to the balcony up there to check but um, this is what neil armstrong and milk thompson started building and ended up making into a little test program at, uh The the high speed flight station, which is then then dried in now armstrong to test control of the regalo wing This was the vehicle that was towed behind a muscle car and then ultimately air towed by a small plane So that pilots can get a sense of what it was like to actually control the vehicle in flight And there's a dummy up there and I can't wait to get a good picture to see just how small it is So yeah Okay, so that's for 10 minutes. Um It's it's very awkward to do a live stream when you're talking to yourself talking to your phone in public So I'm gonna stop now, but um, I thought you guys would kind of enjoy seeing a little bit of this Actually, there's one more thing here. Oops, sorry son that I'm gonna show you before I shut this off Um, the apollo. Oops, sorry fingers. I'm not good at this, but the apollo 11 flotation collar. So Yeah I assume. Yeah, this is a boilerplate command module Um, I have never seen one with the flotation collar and stuff attached Because you don't see that very often because you usually see them under plexiglass to preserve them And there's the balloons up top to keep it up in the the stable one position Um, so yeah, that's also kind of cool. This is this is awesome And let's just do one more one more shot of the test tow vehicle there because it's the greatest. All right Oh, try and turn that around. Okay, there we go. All right. So I'll do this Uh, let me know what you guys think of a live stream like this in the comments Because I've never done this before but I think it could be kind of fun I admittedly don't go to super exciting places like this All the time but when I do it would be really fun to be able to share it with you guys And if I didn't have a video up today, I would have done it live Although the the internet in here is not very good. So I don't know if I'd even be able to do it live Which is why I'm hoping that holding it until today whatever day this is that I decided to post it Actually gives it a better quality So let me know if you guys have questions or comments about anything that I very briefly showed you I will again have links to past blogs and past videos and the description and stuff To give you guys a bit more information, but I'm happy to answer questions And let me know what you think about live streaming and whether I should do more of it And also maybe invest in one of those things that keeps your camera steady So that it doesn't give you guys motion sickness when I walk with the camera All right, as always be sure to follow me on twitter and on instagram afd vintage space for daily content Facebook as well by by name you can find me there and of course new videos going up every week right here on vintage space So be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. All right. Thanks guys


Hello, welcome everybody. Thank you for coming here. I know we're the last talk on the last day and people are kind of tired. So we're going to have a lot of fun in this talk. We're going to have some energy. I'm not going to dance or sing. Neither. Those things aren't going to happen. I'll do some quick introductions. I'll start with myself. My name is Paula Kennedy. I am the director for the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions Team Pivotal based in London. There's lots of my team here, which is nice to see. I'll let the panelists introduce themselves and I'll start with Deborah. Thank you. Howdy. So hi, I am Deborah Wood. I am the product manager for the cloud operations team in Dublin. We run the platform for Pivotal Tracker in production. And for the support relief campaign, we supplied the platform for the donations web application that receives all the donations. Hi, everyone. I'm Jane Houston, engineering manager with Pivotal. Also on the cloud ops team in Dublin. Cool. I'm Xenon Hannick. I work for Armacuni, where I offer consultancy specializing cloud native transformation. And I'm the COO.  And I'm Caroline Rennie. I'm the product lead at Comic Relief. So we're sort of the client of all these great people. Okay. Thank you, everybody. So I'm going to start with a question for Caroline. You mentioned you work for Comic Relief. Could you tell us a little bit about what Comic Relief is and really just give us a bit of a detail on the problem statement that you were trying to solve for? Yeah. So Comic Relief is a major UK charity. We raise money and then distribute it around the world to different projects primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, but in other places too. We use the learnings from these different projects that we fund because a girl in the gang in London has very similar experiences to people in a similar situation in South Africa. So we're able to spread the learnings that we get from giving this money out across the world. But first we have to give them the money. So we have a major fundraising event every year. It's either Sport Relief or Red Nose Day and that's broadcast from BBC One. It's seven hours and it raises about 90% of our public donations. So we have quite a high risk appetite Comic Relief because even if you've got a provider who's promising you the five nines, if we have five minutes of outage after a really effective appeal film then that loses us millions of pounds. So that was our problem is that we need a really highly resilient platform which is capable of taking huge amounts of traffic. So usually up to about, I think we do capability up to about 500 donations per second and it needs to work within the seven hour period and if it doesn't then we will not be able to fund fantastic projects around the world. So obviously as a good product and development team we outsourced it for a while. So that's where we got our McUnion. Yeah, so we originally rewrote the platform seven years ago. It's a microservices based architecture, 26 different microservices. It uses kind of a stateless pattern and it's a eventually consistent pattern so we can take the money even if certain elements of the platform fail and we've been doing it for a number of years and so originally we built it on the open source cloud foundry and ran across a private vSphere environment and AWS, ran it across just AWS for a couple of years then did and then partnered with Pivotal over the last couple of years and be running it across PCF and made some changes this year. So you mentioned you made some changes, Shane do you want to talk a little bit about kind of what the actual implementation this year looked like? Sure, so as Inon said last year the applications were hosted across a mixture of AWS and GCP and this year we decided to focus totally on GCP for the night of TV. This was partially because we'd built up a lot of experience between last year's Comerical Leaf event and also migrating Pivotal Tracker onto GCP in the previous year before that. So for this year we actually had three foundations running across two regions on GCP. One of those foundations was a pre-prod environment where we could test a few things out before pushing to production and then we had shared under ZNR production environments. Okay and what else was kind of different this year because you've done it a few times right? We have yeah so we used it as an opportunity to allow it was a bit of an experiment for us as operations. We wanted to allow internal Pivotal teams to directly interact with the users of their products. So typically feedback going into Pivotal products like Redis or in this instance PKS actually which was one of our newly released products. We wanted to allow our product teams to talk directly to app developers who are the users to build empathy and to understand the use cases. So typically there would not be a direct relationship. So we allowed our Makuni engineers direct access to the teams and they were also involved in like FIDALs just to practice incident management. So that was different. Okay so you mentioned PKS which is new for Pivotal and something I want to hear a bit more about so Shane do you want to tell us a little bit more about that? Sure so I'm sure by now probably everyone is familiar with the concept of PKS but it's the Pivotal container service which provides Kubernetes run by Bosch in the system. At the time of the sport relief event PKS was a fairly new product. We were actually as far as I'm aware we were the first place using it in production for the sport relief event. We were using it for this event to host instances of MongoDB. These instances were something that had existed previously. They were used last year as well but there was a difference in the setup between last year and this year in that regard. We were using a Bosch deployment for Mongo previously but we needed to tweak it in a number of ways in order to use it across multiple AZs and also when we came back to it this year we find that the deployment hadn't been updated in a very long time and we weren't so confident in using it so PKS provided us a very good use case for hosting this new workflow. Okay and so Caroline you're obviously a customer of all of this development effort how did it go? Yeah so we got all the money which is great. It's also that we had the confidence that and so we don't just receive online donations we also get text donations and people calling up still and we just had the confidence that if something changed in the system we knew that the teams had worked really closely together to make sure that monitoring was coming back you know if it's a two minute gap that's a problem and we knew that the communications between Armacuni and Pivotal was just great to make sure that if there was a problem it was fixed super quick and there wasn't a problem but we were very very comfortable. I know that Xenon keeps using the term that he was really bored but as it's an entertainment show he was very entertained. I'm not having to think about work how we'd be phrased. I actually got to watch a TV show which you don't usually get to watch in a high profile event like this so yeah so from our perspective it just worked so it's quite interesting because originally we had a single team that was developing the app also supported Cloud Foundry as well so supporting the platform and the app and that worked really well for us and then when we partnered with Pivotal that kind of changed so Pivotal with the platform support team we were kind of dev development team for the apps themselves and so that kind of created a kind of separation of duty and this year with having the CloudOps team in Dublin supporting the platform but also having the pks team involved it kind of created a kind of triangle that we needed to kind of cover across in terms of communications and fire drills and trying and just essentially building up trust between between the teams. It worked fine on the night we we believe greatly in our observability for all of our platforms for all of our apps and we managed to ensure by working really hard before the night that we all knew what was going on in the platform we all had really real clarity of what issues what they look like when they arise and what that might mean and then what actions we need to take off the back of that so it was yeah it was a very successful evening. So just taking a little bit more into the support that the CloudOps team provided and that platform I mean Shane described a bit about having pks and PAS both kind of combined together for that platform as the apps kind of team did you notice any difference could you see like that there was multiple pieces involved in the platform? No so it there was no difference really it was kind of like there's an endpoint that we call for our mongo calls and they just go through and so in the original setup when when we originally set out there was a some small configuration that needed to be done on the gcp load balancer to kind of enable traffic flow through a higher rate but that was picked up probably within the first kind of kind of first load test that we did together on that the change was made and then it was yeah it was completely transparent to us there was nothing there that we needed to know and that's really for me that's almost been it's sort of been the for us it's been the promise of cloud foundry that has been the same for you know we've hardly we've made one change in the in the seven years that we use cloud foundry and I think it was something to do with one year with her between when we went to cloud foundry 2.0 one of the namespaces changed or something we've changed aside from that it's just remained entirely consistent and you can just trust the platform will do what it wants to do and what was quite interesting for us is we expected it to be a much much more effort on our side we genuinely expected right so it's mongo but it's running on pks there's going to be something we're going to need to do differently we're going to have to route something differently we're going to have to mess around with some configuration on our side but we didn't it just worked so it was very interesting for us how low friction it was as a kind of development team to engineering team to support that kind of transition to pks and shane how was the experience of using pks because you mentioned you're one of the early kind of people to use it in production how was it it was very straightforward we did manage to parallel with the pks team in order to get some more experience because on cloud ops we had never used kubernetes before we never used pks before so we did get some information from from those folks um but it was it was very straightforward um and to to touch back on xenon's point it's very much the intention of pks that these things will be perfectly transparent to the end user and for for us in the pks team it was very validating to actually test that out in a production scenario and see that it was that that workflow was was working as expected okay so kamal on xenon said it went okay on the night how was it on the night for you two delightfully boring we we got there uh we they had it we had a war room kind of setup where it was monitors both of us monitoring direct uh our platforms behavior directly we used one of our products called health watch just out of curiosity value it's got all sorts of interesting graphs and it was also a new newish product at the time so we had amakuni's monitoring that was actually showing number of concurrent users at any particular time and you can see the number go up and down based on the videos that were being shown and then it was actually quite like out of curiosity value just to look at health watch and say oh yes they request they've gone up and they're okay but everything's still green so i'm happy um so yeah we were we were able to it was actually very very interesting to see how the two teams were monitoring everything but there was there was nothing dramatic there was no panic situations okay so that sounds good but it also sounds like a lot of sitting staring at monitors i mean is that that usual for your team it's definitely an anti-pattern i would say um we were more so doing it on the night out of curiosity especially to see these kind of peaks in usage of the apps and seeing that things are being handled correctly but in in general uh our approach on cloud ops is more so to have alerting based around this monitoring so that we can find out that there's a problem without having to stare at these screens exactly and it's actually um it's often very difficult to fight the temptation of like watching something like health watch and seeing the graph and wanting to dive in straight away like there's some interesting thing happening needs to know what what it was but actually if it doesn't affect the running apps it really isn't a lot a lot important i think also for sustainability of operations teams you don't want to be burning people out so it's very important to understand what the most important workflows are for your users so in terms of like slo eyes and slo so service level indicators which is your probe and service level objectives which is your um your required uh performance and you don't like you don't write you don't do alerting on a cpu bump or a cpu you do alerting on we could not serve the donations for them so you you alert on the thing that needs a human to interact with to address and to fix so one of the things that we care about what quite deeply in my team is that the the the human ops aspect of operations you don't want to be burning people out so yes hanging out with hannah fox well yeah absolutely so you don't want someone to talk in the morning having to stare at a dashboard stare at health watch um if you don't need my attention i'd rather be sleeping so if you do need my attention you can page me so that's kind of how we try and monitor the attention and the the energy of our our well stuff okay interesting um i'd just like to add that comic relief did supply snacks so that people had to stare at their screens for seven hours didn't go crazy but yeah i think it was you know there was a point where like you can probably stop looking now it feels so staring at the bbc screen as well yeah entertained by that yeah okay so i want to maybe open it up to the audience if there's any questions you talked about wanting to be highly available uh but you also talked about you'd previously worked across two cloud providers and then moved to just one yes cloud providers wondering what was your motivation behind that and how did you ensure that you you kept that high availability but just the one provider do you want me to take that one i think it's just that a sort of logistical idea around cost uh was whilst high availability is obviously super important to comic relief after five years of seeing us you know we're doing multi region as well so realistically we sort of had multi region multi cloud and you're thinking to know what if at the moment if this platform's gone down it's because the entire internet is broken um and so just in a feasibility and you know maintaining a platform across to you know it was just making the platform itself a bit too complicated for what was now becoming our emerging needs um so yeah i think it was also you know finding great tech partners to work with and being able to go and say yep we're happy with all the eggs being in this basket yeah i think it comes down to a risk assessment each year so originally one of the main aims of the platform was to be to not have dependency on a particular technology provider so the old platform like eight plus years ago was built with kind of 12 13 different technology partners i could probably reel off to names but you probably know them all the big players came together used to get kit kit from hp stick it in a data center all kind of get about 35 40 people together and build this build this kind of snowflake of an app and hope that it works um and then every year we had to make an assessment as to what the risks were so when we first did it six seven years ago you know aws was well established but it still was something that was you know there weren't that many regions we had to do us east uh and and us west west coast for the first the first time and so as time went on and then we did eight across aws and gcp and we just found that gcp was was was really solid and every year that exactly that kind of extra cost of running up uh you know a different environment and with a different cloud provider and having to you know low test that monitor that make sure that's okay we just made a decision that practically the risk was such that we could we could work with a single provider i think as well from pivotal's perspective we'd had a year's experience of running track our pivotal tracker on top of gcp and we were very confident in the setup for that for tracker in particular we only have a single foundation on gcp and we've been working very well and as expected with that so from our perspective having these three foundations was already adding a lot of redundancy to this setup for the night of tv and on top of that i mentioned that there was one pre-prod environment and two production environments but we had the pre-prod environment set up exactly like one of the production environments so if there was any kind of outage for one of those or if there was some sudden peak in demand we could very easily read traffic to the the pre-prod set up as well hello i wanted to see if anyone else i don't know you um and so then and you may have explained this but it was a bit fast the the mongo running in pks did so was that just still connecting to the applications through standard service broker interface um just want to make sure that there wasn't anything unusual there is that a fair description uh yeah so it just connected normally like as it did as it did before so it was just a same interface as it would be if it was on pcf so really that's not a lot of change yeah any change from our side okay yeah so zero change the application zero change the application yeah just checking hello howdy hey josh i had a question then again about mongo you mentioned that the the bush deployed mongo hadn't been updated so maybe there was an implicit thing that the kubernetes mongo was more up to date i don't know maybe if that's true or not it would be interesting to know but what what else changed for like monitoring your mongo like uh i'm guessing you know did you have to change anything around how you made sure that service was running um when it was running on different infrastructure uh in terms of the kubernetes side uh i i believe that the the mongo db palm charts were more up to date than the bus deployment um partially because there's so much attention focusing on kubernetes right now and it is a a good solution for these like third party uh data providers that aren't necessarily cloud native by design um we didn't do any additional monitoring from the the cloud ops of us i'm not sure if there was anything it was the same monitoring it has been the year before in terms of that we had the same kind of graphs i said like grafana graphs were kind of reading you know the amount of throughput going in you know cues and all that kind of stuff so but like i said for us in terms of a risk perspective the mongo db can can go away and would still be collecting all of the money it would just fall into the reddest cues and then the cues would just build up and then what we can do is we can we can rerun the whole night again and repopulate the mongo db so you can get the state of time at any at any point so we've never had to do that thankfully but um but that is something that we have in our kind of back pocket it makes reporting much much harder because the reporting comes off the mongo db so we send uh every minute we're sending uh uh we're calling a dashboard that that we have that the people who are monitoring the people who are watching the tv show and the finance team are monitoring the dashboard that's telling them how much money's come in so then because you have to when we're giving out totals on the bbc tv show they have to be validated and complied by our finance team so we have to have numerous checks that we're not we're not giving the wrong number to the to the bbc because that causes them a massive massive compliance problem i think there's some certain levels of sort of assumed failure rates as well just like that because you then say whilst all of our systems are saying yeah this money definitely exists you don't want somebody to turn around in two weeks time and say credit card forward or i'd only meant to put one zero um when they put three um so there's um there's a few other things just to make sure that we because yeah we've got very tight compliance rules with bbc which is great fun to work with technology i have another question um um on when you were doing the risk assessment and you were looking at the solution for this year can i ask why pks was it just because it was shiny and new and you wanted to try it out was it to solve a particular thing that was new like what was the motivation for thinking you'd add pks into the mix i think from pivotal's perspective we were certainly interested in uh testing it out it'd be something that had been worked on for quite some time and this was a kind of perfect scenario where it's a workload that would fit very nicely into that picture for pks i'm not sure if there was more i mean i mean for us um a big part of the journey that comic relief has made is to become a technology destination you know they want that you got their hiring oh yeah they've got a great team they've got they're really making a real difference in the world doing some really really cool stuff though you know they're um doing some really interesting stuff in serverless and all this kind of thing and so for us part of it is always looking at what's out there and what we could potentially use now um for us it comes down to a conversation that we had with pivotal and people saying this is this is kind of ga now we've got great confidence in it we'd like to use it assessing what the risks are within that and trialing it by getting it up early by working really closely with pivotal then we can try and load test it and see if it works if it didn't work then we could go back to you know spinning up in in open source cf spinning up in in pcf and and working through the problems of that but early fast feedback to validate the question really really starts giving me assurance it's kind of something that the project has had all the way through so when we originally did it two weeks after we agreed with our contracts comic relief that we're going to build the platform we presented the first journey and it was just the three pages didn't look very nice but it was actually money flying into comic release bank and the directors at the time the board have gone really for that point we'll make it use a massive risk for them for them to be able to see progress within two weeks be able to see money flowing in was very reassuring so that's something that there's an ethos that we've carried on all the way through you know testing and validating as quickly as possible and that just fits in with all the kind of pivotal practices and xp etc so it's worked really well how did you do um scaling did you plan for the maximum expected load and just scaled statically or was there auto scaling involved we uh we can't auto scale and it's something that's had even from the first solution um the spikes are so spiky so we have the seven hour tv show we show um we show uh films that show the impact of the money and literally the you can see from the second you know the second the second the film finishes and they ask people to donate it just it just spikes and so with you know with you can't really use elbs because then you know the first one will say oh i'm running out of things let me get another one that say oh i'm running out of things i'm getting the other one and suddenly you're waiting and waiting and waiting so we have to pre scale and pre and pre warm stuff yeah that's another nice thing about working with partners who are bought into the cause because you know obviously it's um it's more expensive to do that but it's also worth it and your risk and reward because uh yeah and so it's also very difficult for us to say you're going to have this much traffic because it's just literally like it's broadcast so it's you don't know how many people watching you don't know which films will end so we often will over we're very very much on the cautious side because yeah it's it's mission critical for us hi um seems it was a pretty successful night uh last time round what's going to change for the next time round um we are actually taking um the donation platform in house and we are building it using aws lambda serverless um which was this is our breakup with our mcuny on stage i'm sorry it's not you it's us from my perspective i think it's really amazing because ultimately what we try to do i think what pivotal tries to do as as kind of responsible technical partners is you want to engage with your client and get them up to speed as quickly as possible so a lot of the patterns that we have in the in the application you know the the queuing the eventual consistency the kind of stateless nature of of each of the each of the um of the calls they've taken that on they've taken that learning and now they're building it in house and it's just a nature of of of kind of technology that things move on and things change and for us to be able to you know and we we recently went to comic relief and spent a couple of days with them to help them validate the the application the new application and that was just it was just great being part of that and seeing a team really taking taking that on yeah and it's also sort of because of the annual cycle of its once a year um we said sort of working away where for six months or four or six months of the year you're working on it and then you sort of retire it and then things can get out of date so that's sort of how probably how the mongo problem existed and she says confidently um so the difference now is that we're actually changing our business model as on the hold to try and do more year-round activity and for us to be able to have a platform which can scale when it needs to scale and shrink back down when it needs to shrink back down again very technical terms um that's perfect for us and and it's just been a great experience for our development team and to take all these learnings which have been you know seven years worth of learnings and then go and do this chaos testing day with with you guys and you've been like yeah you've covered off most of things which means that we're we're significantly our team I think we've not had the horror horror experience that Xenon had in 2011 so we've never seen their platform fail so we're like well the platform's always fine so we can do this so I think that we're very much now being like we must make sure that ours doesn't so we're about to get a lot more um I'm sure anyone who's been an engineer has a some scar tissue that kind of reminds them of some lessons they need to keep in their mind so I've got one question then just it sounds like you get to a lot of experimenting and kind of pushing the boundaries on the technology front have you had a chance to kind of I guess give back to the community as far as like lessons learned or tips or tricks or even maybe there's other um you know agencies out there that could use the same technology is that kind of something you you think about um so we've we use Drupal for our main CMS so we give back to that community currently um there's other platforms that we have got out in the open so for example our gift aid claims um are also on AWS Lambda and so we like so when you text donate you need to click a link and give us details so we can gift aid it we're like that's only useful for charities and let's share that out so it's accessible it's out there github.com forward slash comic relief you can go and look at our work you can contribute to our work if you really want to um but yeah so we try and give back to the community a lot and I think from the time that the platform's been in development these comic relief have been represented at probably every cloud foundry um talk so there's a lot of feeding back into the community definitely and I'd say part of our learnings was there was understandable reluctance just with the distributed nature of what we were doing so we had three very specialized teams we had Armacuni specializing in using MongoDB we had my team cloud operations specialized in running a pcf stably and that's that's our domain and we know it inside out and then we had pks with their speciality of running Kubernetes and the one of the one of the earlier talks today was around given that there were three very specialist teams working together to provide this platform there's there's reluctance for any one of those teams to hold the hot potato of support for that thing so there was reluctance just in terms of who can adequately take operational responsibility for MongoDB on the night of tv understandably because while Armacuni was on top of their MongoDB game the fact that we were running it on pks um meant that while they know how to fix MongoDB they might not be able to get there they might not be able to find uh so one of the lessons that we learned that was actually very very helpful was that we decided to share operational responsibility across the three teams and we practiced that so for us to get uh aligned on who handles an incident on night of tv we set up fire drills so we practiced uh let's get everybody on the same zoom call everybody on the same slack channel and we just practice access region one of production get the last line on the log file of MongoDB give me a number of records in this db all that kind of stuff just to build confidence between the three teams and that was a very simple but very pragmatic way to make teams feel less afraid on something as high profile as a night of tv i think in the in the it world that we live in with so many very different specialist niche areas like a microservices world where you have to collaborate with teams that you might not know practicing incident management uh in in in the line of something like fire drills can just help um alleviate the fear factor in operations teams and we learned that and we were trying to spread the gospel of fire drills in pivotal um and anyone who will listen but um it actually worked very well and it wasn't it wasn't a super technical solution it was just um let people practice logging into the right thing and getting a simple thing so they're not terrified awesome so we're just about out of time i'd like to thank all of our panelists thank you very much thank you thank you


I'm going to show you a really cool website that can take your students' drawings and animate them. And then what we're going to do is make a little video of your students' characters that they drew and make an animated GIF out of it so they can put it into a document, a slide deck, any project that they're working on, all for free. This is very cool.  And as long as you have a drawing like this one that has a white background so it doesn't have anything drawn in the background and then has their character drawn, you can use it. So I'm going to click the get started button. And right over here is the checklist of things that you have to have. Basically a background that's white, a drawing that's clear. So I'm going to go ahead and upload a drawing that I have from my device. And then there's my critter that I've drawn. I'm going to make sure it looks like the right one. Yep, it does. I'm going to click the next button. It's going to scan it. Now you can help this website do research, but with your kiddos, I would just say disagree. Just get right past that. And now you're going to pick the canvas. So you want to make sure that your guy, your little drawing is completely within this border. So like I can see his toes over here a little close. I'm going to drag that down just a little bit. He's inside here. Everything looks good. I'm going to click the next button. And then it's going to say, did we draw the outlines? Correct. So you kind of follow along your little critter here. Yep, everything's good. The black is the background. I can see all of the parts of my character. If you need to redo it, you can edit with a pen and retry again. But mine came out perfectly. Most of them will. They'll come out just fine. Click the next button. And now you're going to put in where all of the joints are, where the movement's going to happen. So you make sure the eyes here are where they need to be. And then here's the right ear, the left ear, the nose, the head center. And then right here is a right shoulder. Well, you can see I need to bring my shoulder up and bring this shoulder up. And this guy doesn't have a second arm here. But this elbow right here maybe needs to go a little bit. And that's the wrist I'm going to put right about there. Here's a knee. Move that a little bit. And this knee a little bit. Here's the hip.  Here's the ankle. I need to move that over a little bit so it's on the ankles. So everything looks good there. You might have to move some of those dots around, make sure it looks good. Hit the next button. And it's going to make your animated character. How cool is that? It just took my drawing and made it do these actions. So over on the left hand side, you have all of these to choose from. So maybe I want mine to just run across the screen or do these little jumping jacks. Whatever it is you choose, that's great. You make your decision. So I think everything looks good. Now here's where you have to use a second tool, because you can share this and what it ends up being is just a web link. You can't really put it into a document. You just get a link to do it. I want to be able to put my little character in something, in a slide deck or something like that. So you're going to have to use a second tool. Some kind of video recording tool and ScreenCastify is totally free. So I'm going to open up my ScreenCastify. I'm going to make sure my microphone and my webcam are turned off. And I'm going to hit record. Make sure my mouse is off of the screen where my character's at. And I'm just going to let this record a loop for a little while, like 15 seconds or so. It doesn't matter about sound because gifs don't have any sound. So I'm just going to let them do a little thing for a minute. And then I'm going to stop it. ScreenCastify will open up. Now I have a video but I have this whole screen now and that kind of defeats the purpose. I don't want to share this character, this really cool character, with all of this stuff on the side. So if I open the editor right up here at the top, select my video right down here at the bottom and I go to the crop button over here on the left. What that's going to let me do is cut away all of the stuff that I don't want. So I don't need all of this extra video stuff. I just want to see my little character here move. That's perfect. Make sure if your character's running across the screen, you may need to do the whole screen this way. Now mine's just going to kind of do a little shake here in the middle. So I'm just going to make it just big enough so that he's in there. But like I said, if he's running across the screen or doing a lot more movement, you're going to want to check to make sure he's in there.  I'm going to go up here to the right where it says export, click the export and I'm going to export it back to screencastify. Now if I just wanted a video, I can just hit export MP4. That's fine, you get a video. But I want to make a GIF and screencastify lets me do that. So I'm going to go down here where it says export to screencastify. I'm going to click on it.  Click the save button. It's going to open back up in screencastify. So here's my video and remember this is a video. I can't put this in a document. I could put it in a slide. I could share it with a web link. I could play it as a video, but remember I wanted a GIF so I can put it in a slide deck or anything and it doesn't have any audio, it just plays. So now all I have to do is go down to this bottom section in screencastify where it says export video. Do the drop down. You have other options, but I want to put, click on export as a GIF. So export GIF. I can choose the size. Now the resolution size will also make it bigger and it gets harder to put places. Remember a GIF is just an animated picture. You don't want it too big because then it's a huge file to put into a document. So I'm just going to let it pick its normal size, what it chose. I'm going to hit export. It'll just take a minute down here in the right. When it's done, it says download GIF. When I click that download, it'll download to my device and I can, here's the best part about using a GIF like this. I can open up a document. Remember you can't put a video in a document. Here's the story about Ralph, my monster, Ralphie. I can take that GIF, drag it right into my document and it's now a playable image. So after they read all about Ralphie, they get to the bottom and they can see him as an animated GIF. You can also put that in a slide, in a Google drawing, in any kind of project you're doing. Videos are limited to certain file types. GIFs will go into anything. So this is a really, really simple way to make these student drawings or your drawings, your hand drawings, into a movable, almost lifelike image. All using a free tool. Get creative.


The Halo Bassinet is 250 brand new. We purchased this, well, well, six months ago when Michael was just about to be born for $125 off of Facebook Marketplace. Anyway, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, one of those, and now Michael has outgrown it, and so it's time to move this Halo Bassinet on to the next baby, for $120, which means we spent $5 over the last five months of Michael's life for him to have a great bed in our room, but now he's in the crib in his own room. So Minimalism and Memories is the title of today's vlog, but Minimalism, question of the day, is Minimalism even on your radar, like living minimally, which we're not, you know, perfectionists at Minimalism, but we do strive to sell things, move things on if we're not using them. And that comes up quite often, like this Halo Bassinet. So the lady's coming over right now to buy it. We're excited, 120 bucks in our pocket, cash, money, pulling out the Parakeet. Let's go. Drone comes out in the neighborhood. Everyone comes out of the woodworks, Bayada, the Mormons, the neighbors, the boys on their bikes. Oh, I'm from Cooke Saki, famous National Geographic magazine. Basically my favorite runner, Haley Gebbersalasi, when he broke the 204 marathon, photo keys, Yankees, Yankees running, Minimalism versus Memories. We all have memories. Sometimes they're memories stored on a, you know, in a photo. Sometimes it's memories in a VHS tape. Sometimes it's memories in a computer hard drive. You know, we store memories in different ways. Well, this is my trunk. This is my trunk. I opened it for you. I've been meaning to open this for a long time, actually, but time moves on and it gets buried away in the house somewhere. Well, I pulled it out of the house, Michael's room. And basically I love history. I love stories. I love storytelling. And this chest is a collection of items that I have kept over the years. I have not thrown away. I have not minimized or reduced my trunk of stuff. And it is a lot of stuff, mostly photos from the last 30 years of life, a lot of photo albums. And even I've, you know, inherited a lot of Bridget's old photos into this trunk now that we are one, one family. And gosh, it's hard. It's hard. For example, this is my original running log from 1999. Like this was an old, I don't even know, it was like a, it was a notebook that I put electric tape around. I taped a USA Track and Field sticker, a Foot Locker sticker, and then a Pikes Peak Roadrunner sticker from 1999. Now I had started running a couple years before that, but like this was the beginning of starting to take my running serious because I was writing down my workouts. The first one, June 8, 1999. Oh, that was, oh, it was the turquoise lake, half marathon in Leadville, Colorado. It was a rough race. I ran it in two hours and four minutes, 13 miles at 10,000 feet. I think I almost died. I remember that race being very hard. The next day, actually on my birthday, June 10, 1999, I ran 20 minutes, two and a half miles on a treadmill, I guess. I don't know where that was. Anyway, it's interesting to collect memories, hold on to them, and I like to clear out, we like to clear out our stuff. And so all I'm saying folks is we have to discern and think, think long-term in 30 years, in 50 years, will the things in this trunk be of value and of, frankly, I would just say like entertainment value down the road. And I will, I would say yes, I just look through some of the photos and listen, we may not open this trunk for another 10 years. I don't know, but there were some objects and some photos and some memories in here that are irreplaceable. And it will be, it will be not, maybe not now, but it will be fun way down the road to open this up and look through it and just see what we find. It just kind of have a good laugh and a good, you know, walk down memory lane. And so all I'm saying is minimalism versus memories, memories versus minimalism. You know, we all have to discern in our own way how we're going to store our memories. And maybe it's right up here. And that's it. And you know, you don't have photo albums and that's just fine. For me, I like the trunk for now, you know, it's like I like it. I like having it and pulling it out, you know, once every 10 years. And, you know, we'll see when we pull it out again to reflect back on life and on the blessings that we all have. And we all have our own little blessings in different ways. And that's the question of the day, of course, how do you remember your memories? What do you do? What do you do? Maybe it's a song, maybe it's a VHS tape, maybe it's a walk around a park, and that's like your walk down, literally your walk down memory lane. I don't know. Love you guys. It was fun to open this trunk with you. That said, seek beauty, work hard, love each other. Thanks for stopping by.


What is going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today of another Destiny video and today we're going to check out what Zers brought on the 6th of January 2017. Now I apologise about my voice, I'm still suffering with a flu, did that dude just disappear then?  But let's check out what Zers has, he's located in the Reef by the way if you can't find him in the tower. A way I always check as well, I fly down to the tower, you look at that first left pillar at the bottom of the steps. If that blue logo ain't there then it means he isn't in the tower, it's as simple as that. But yes he's in the Reef, let's see what he has this week. Oh so we've got three of the coins back, so the things that were mysteriously missing for the past two weeks bugged somehow. I don't know how, they were bugged but they were bugged. Last week it was funny though because these disappeared and mysteriously we had an exotic, yet no one was at office at Bungie. But still we've got an exotic, was that bugged as well, who knows. But yeah, three of the coins is back now. You know what I think it was, I don't think it was a bug, I think Bungie were testing us. I think they were testing the community to see how we would react if these things were taken away. There was an uproar about it and back, they mysteriously back, they returned. Was it a plan by Bungie to eventually remove them from the game? Who knows, I still am not going to waste my strange coins. Well not all of them anyway, I'm going to buy a few, don't get it twisted. I like to have about 200 on each character. I've got about 150 on each character at the moment, probably a little bit less. I'll probably buff it up a bit, but yes I've got every exotic in the game anyway, I don't really need anything else. But let's just get into the loot he's brought. So we have a legacy engram, this is heavy, this is not year two and three weapons. So you won't get anything great out of this from year two or three. Costing 31 strange coins, Jesus! Okay for the title we have the helm in most light. Offering 95 intellect, 350 defense. Costing 13 strange coins. Gain death from above and head strong. For the Hunter we have the young Ahamkara's spine gauntlets. 350 defense, 13 strange coins. Offering 92 discipline. Increased tripmine grenade duration. Gain an additional tripmine grenade charge. For the Warlock we have the light beyond nemesis. Also costing 13 strange coins. Offering 94 intellect. Super generate an extra orb and revive and be revived faster. Okay weapon of the week we have the Monty Morfokin Carlo. Actually a weapon you don't hear most, well a lot of people are talking about. It's actually quite decent for PVP. It's actually quite decent. If you don't have this I suggest spending 23 coins on this Morfokin because it's a beast and that's basically it. We've got heavy ammo simps. Costing 1 strange coin for three or 3 strange coins for 10 and not bad.  I don't think anybody buys these. But yes we also got mozzolites and exotic shards costing 7.  You're better off buying 3 of coins. And testing your chance. If you have a luck of getting an exotic drop.  I'm sure you could do something where you could buy the truth out of the vaults and dismantle it and you get a shard or two. Yeah so I wouldn't spend your strange coins on that to be honest. But yes guys that is there's a loot for the 6th of January 2007 Morfokin team. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Let me know what you think about Bungie's true intention with the 3 of coins down below in that comment section. I personally think it was a test.  That's what I think this Morfokin thing is. They plan on taking it away. They wanted to test the community by removing them. See how we would react. To be honest I don't think that many people would piss off about it. I saw a lot of people were angry about it. It's the only way to gain exotics easily which is true. But exotics shouldn't drop easily. Exotics should be exotic then. Exotic no more. Legendaries in this game are more exotic than exotics. Which doesn't make sense and shouldn't be the case. Yeah one grind for exotics was the true... That feeling when you had an exotic drop. That element of surprise when the exotic drop is missing from Destiny now. One of the main things that got me addicted to the game in the first place. Do I think 3 of coins should be removed? I don't know. I don't know. I understand a lot of everybody plays this every single day like me and a lot of you guys watching and can't afford to grind it every day in search of grind rates, in search of exotics. So 3 of coins helps them out. But yes guys. Let me know what you think about it down below in that comment section. Fans have always thought of stopping by. Again I apologise about my voice and I will catch you on that next one. Peace out till next time. Peace!


the tiger financial news network update afternoon everyone bowser champion on this 20 monday the 24th of april dowel at 2 p.m. is up 24 30 833 it's remarkable how just one indicator can keep that strength going for a little while longer look at all these little doji candles one two three four five six so far today could change by the end of the day but so far look at there tiny little cans very narrow trading range that's also telling us that there could be some form of distribution here if in fact the dowel by within another few days is at 32,832 if it takes out the 30,500 is 500s as support that's going to be a negative the s and p right now has come back a little bit it is up one at 41 34 also look at this that nine-speed moving average is keeping the price intact so far so it's it's it's good action all the other technical indicators are starting to weaken some but a 4088 82 that's key key area support this week that can both of these could easily test their recent highs because there's still some residual strength qqq is a little different in that it's gone sideways it says that the trading range could be even narrower and that's at 315 I'd say 319 is kind of resistance and really has to hold 312 it goes to 311 that's a bit of a problem IWM is the Russell 2000 just going sideways now gold and that's the interest I want you to do gold and during Larry's never chance gold is just inner trading band itself it has come back and keeps having a big green candle followed by big red candle then they small but they're red green red green green Friday was red today is green just watch 19 19 I'd say 65 is key support in the short term for for gold the dollar is not very strong as it's actually weak today is down point 30 now it's down point 42 it's really not showing strength at all and you've got crude oil I didn't even go through that in Larry show which I know is our I should I can't do his show this hour uh crude oil is up 96 cents to 71.83 and bonds didn't have to look at bonds bonds are just in a trading band narrow band so yields are just stuck stay tuned great program coming up and of course that's all at three o'clock before Tom and Brian wraps it up I'll be back tomorrow check up opening call I've got a webinar coming up for subscribers Wednesday we hope to see you tomorrow for my show target this is our attempt the reality is that navigating


Okay, this is Melissa with the stocks question. I'm here today with Phillip to review how the day went overall the day was I Would say long it's 330 Phillip just got out of his trade and warning started early today The bullish gap in bank did work today as long, but it was wild. It was a wild wild whippy white ride Some people made money in this today because they didn't put it in a stop Philip took a stop in it Because it did stop out and it collapsed for the stop. So let's just look at what happened So this lifted boom, you're actually up in here probably never saw it. Luckily you did have a stop in collapse Somebody in the room didn't have a stop in he made money in it She if I didn't have a stop in I would have added here in this because right away as I was like oh gosh darn it It's gonna work, but then I definitely would have been out up into here and 55 was a target It was tough to do all morning then all morning It was hard and then it set up again and it did have another move, but it was very very late Let's see exactly what time did this set up? Wow, this was really tough today You wouldn't have bought it in here would have been too sketchy You could have bought it in here when one o'clock with bad timing again with the market with the yelling talking You don't know this was the entry though that took it back up and went back over 55 It was very hard to trade today, and it's a long and we don't do long that often some people made money in this Philip took a loss Costco was a quick quick quick trade That I moved right off on top of after the big stopped out Fast thinking I was this morning Dropped you're up right a ways a couple hundred bucks retested almost stopped out Never saw this number the rest of the day Headed off it just took forever to go forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever And ever here's all of it all of it all of it all of it This is all look how weak it is now. You can see it now really how beautiful it looks So in here you could have gotten out You could have gotten out in here you got a compromise with yourself So Philip got out in this area here lower the stop this could have pushed back here and held and broke again You'd look beautiful a broke 170, but the time of the day is so late got 20 minutes left It's not going to keep going today, but it looks it looks good for a short end of Monday. Maybe it depends on the market does That's really and then the last one is target Philip added to his target option today It broke actually went to 5709 hit broke on through broke the low of the gap that happened back in here on 228 it looks great So here's where it was at today Here's the next area here the 5650 it's in sight So how many shares do you have with this now? 40 contractors just 4,000 shares and this could go straight down. I Mean this could really looks good again.  I mean, there's There's so many Things now you got to watch because I mean this market gap down today and then rally it again It's I'm glad to get out of the Costco where you did All right, so that is the roundup for today's trades all in all It was not an easy day, but I think you did good You did the best that you could have and you're gonna hold this into next week if you had Actually, if you had gotten out of this, what was the high of this 600? If you had exited this today when it was down to the low, we got 500 or 600 And if you had gotten out with 1100 you would have made 1650 yes, I wanted you to accept I want you to look at it all I think this is fine. You're holding it, but you know, you really did do well today And when you gave cost go a little more room. Yes, I think that was fine. Yeah, it Did pay off. Yes. Yeah, or could have if I had gone down to 169, but it was a nice trade This is Melissa with the stocks wish email me. I'm less at the stocks wish calm for more information This is just the review of today's trades Friday March 3rd. Have a good weekend everyone


on your desk every day are new deals, 50 a week. Are you seeing any old concepts that are being repackaged specifically for your lending mechanism? Oh, sure. I mean, at the end of the day, if you're in alternative lending and people know that you have capital to deploy in the hundreds of millions, you get everything across your desk. I see everything from please finance my condo minion to please finance my icebreaker to please finance my helicopter, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's certainly no shortage of people who are looking for money. The issue, honestly, is to start sorting through the weed from the chaff, and especially on the resource side, I think that what's old is the way that people are presenting their pitches. A PowerPoint presentation reduced to PDF. Oh, horrendous, honestly, horrendous. And I think in our office, anyway, we have, as I was saying to you when we were having our coffee, I think we play mining bingo. And the square in the middle is, it's close to the surface. Everything is close to the surface. Low cost of production, infrastructure. And there's no information in the pitch. And at the end of the day, it just simply won't cut it anymore. I mean, people are much more sophisticated today, I think, than they were 15 years ago. If you want to get funding, you really have to change the pitch from the 1985 version of the deck. And I have not seen that. And I find that interesting because literally every other sector except for this one, it's gotten a lot better. So what are you seeing in other sectors then that we can learn? I honestly believe that it's the quality of consultants in this space that's a bit lacking. I think that if your resource focus is in your management focus, then you simply don't have the time or the expertise to be able to do this for yourself. The smaller firms, I think, don't necessarily have access to the investment banking who can put together their pitch books for them. But they certainly do have access to consultants who should be able to steal from the majors and bring that information down into decks that can be presented to alternative lenders. I think it's a question of recognizing what doesn't work. If you take in the same pitch book around to 20 odd people and everybody's jerking down, there's probably a reason for it. Maybe you should go back and retool your presentation. Because I agree, there is no pitch that comes across my desk that isn't, this is the better most track. And this is going to revolutionize XYZ. And the things that I'm interested in are the meat and the potatoes. How much does it cost you to extract? Do you have an off-take contract? If not, why not? Where's it coming from? If you're located in provinces because we're very Canadian focused that tend to have heavy investment from the province, why aren't you getting provincial funding? The obvious question is, make it easier for me and then I can make it easy for you. But honestly, in many cases, I see a pitch come across my desk and it's so horrendous, it's simply not worth my time to look at it.