The best thing about DIY music is we've democratized music so that now many of the best artists rise to the top instead of just the ones that gatekeeper dweebs think are good. But one of the only things I see as a flaw in this democratization of music has been that there's very little mentorship in music now and this leads to a lot of pain in artists' lives. And what I mean by this is so many musicians get depressed over things that are just everyday natural occurrences in the music business. In this video I'm going to discuss how you should view the opportunities that come about for your music, whether you should be bummed out or excited about your progress. Hi, I'm Jesse Kennan and this is Muse Formation. I do a lot of meetings with DIY artists and one of the things they always do is they talk about what's going on with them and what opportunities they've recently had. I see two different things happen. Some artists are so excited that they got an opportunity one time and feel like they're killing it. Other artists get a bunch of opportunities and fixate on the one they lost and are in a bad mental health place over it and totally depressed and devastated that it didn't come through. So I want to impart some wisdom. For every five promises or opportunities you receive usually only one of them is going to come through and actually happen. We all know the famous saying don't put all your eggs in one basket. As well, everyone knows the music business is cutthroat and filled with tons of people who are scheming and lying but there's also a lot of people who are just trying to do good. The business is loaded with ego bruises and disappointment around every turn. When you're a musician that's really starting to pop off you'll be proud of opportunities that will get your hopes up time and time again. Over the years I've watched many close friends get their hearts broken when a powerful member of the music business guaranteed them an opportunity that didn't end up happening. I can tell you one concept that will ring true though whether you're Madonna or a local band whether you have 20 fans or 20 million. For every five opportunities you're offered usually only one will come to fruition. Here's a scenario. It happens all the time. Someone tells you an A&R person is going to listen to your song and you're going to get put on a tour. Maybe some musician is going to do a song with you. The music world abounds with promises that never come true.  It's usually good natured and motivated by doing the same thing you're trying to do. Make smart decisions that work for you that help build the fanbase. The usual scenario is someone who likes your music kind of knows an A&R person who's labeled you'd love to be on. The person wants to help you out of the kindness of their heart and the support of your music and odds are they want to be cool just like you. They want to make progress happen for the music they love just like you do. For some reason though it doesn't work out. Maybe the A&R person doesn't think you're the right fit and now you're left disappointed. The person trying to help you had great intentions but like many opportunities in this business it didn't shape out the way you imagined. There's no reason to be mad at the person who was going to try to help you or that A&R person. In fact you should be mad at yourself for putting all your eggs in one basket. What the reality is is you need a deck of cards full of options to make it in this business. If you're waiting on one person to give you a big break you're going to be waiting for a long time. You have to make so many different opportunities happen because most of them are never going to come through. It's so many bands will wear their expectations and bank on this one thing and then they lose momentum to this depression. There are far too many variables that play to guarantee that any signal opportunity will ever pan out. Even if you have a song that would blow away a talent scout at a huge label there's simply no way to know if it's going to connect with that person. There's just too much that can go wrong waiting for one or two opportunities to come through. But what about when someone calls you up and says they can get your band on a cool tour and they end up bailing on you for another act?  You can't be angry if someone decides that they may have more success without your band involved at that specific moment. Eventually if you're successful your group will probably disappoint someone the same way when you make a choice about which bands to bring on tour. It's not about how good you are it's about this person trying to do right by the act they represent and make the right decision for themselves. In fact it happens to popular musicians so many times it no longer even phases them. I've been in the dressing room of huge bands like The Killers getting turned down for tours and you know what it just bounces off of them because it's happened so much because that's what you have to do is get hardened to this music business. By the time you're the biggest musician in the world you've been passed over for so many tours, commercials, festivals that will be second nature to doubt every offer you get. Expand your options never wait on anyone to give you a break and you'll be five steps ahead of the rest of the game. You know there's a reason that whenever you listen to managers or A&R types get interviewed they say the hardest part of all of this is managing expectations.  By the way if you want to hear some of those interviews with music business professionals I just launched a new podcast called Landed through Jefferson Studios that you should totally subscribe to. Link below. But as I was saying these expectations often depress people so much and this is why you lose momentum or people leave a project because they didn't have their expectations managed and they should know that they're not going to get every opportunity that comes them and that's okay. That's it am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments. I hope you liked this video and if you did please like and subscribe and get notified for my future videos since I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with tons of others on promoting your music and how to make music you're more happy with. As well I have a Facebook group that's linked below that has only helpful information no one tried to sell you anything playlist or con artist only helpful information for musicians looking to be better themselves. If you want to learn more about me make a record with me or check out any of my books podcasts or anything else I do head to jessecanon.com or at jessecanon on any of the socials. Thanks for watching. That's it am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments. I hope you liked this video and if you did please like and subscribe and get notified for my future videos since I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with tons of others on promoting your music and how to make music you're more happy with. As well I have a Facebook group that's linked below that has only helpful information no one tried to sell you anything playlist or con artist only helpful information for musicians looking to be better themselves. If you want to learn more about me make a record with me or check out any of my books podcasts or anything else I do head to jessecanon.com or at jessecanon.com on any of the socials. Thanks for watching.


We are going to start our discussion with Mr. Leung Chung-ying. I hope you understand my pronunciation of your name. Mr. Leung Chung-ying is very distinguished, inhabitant, if I may say so, from Hong Kong. And as you will see, maybe many of you know him already because I think this is the third time you are attending the World Policy Conference. But as you will see, he speaks English with the Oxfordian accent, which is quite impressive. You are not yet Sir Chung-ying, you know? Not yet. You are not Sir. You were not knighted. No, we are not part of the UK now. No, but you could have been before knighted. But anyway, so we have half an hour for the conversation. We will speak a little bit of Hong Kong, of course. But I think Mr. Leung would be also pleased to say a few words about China itself. But let me start with Hong Kong because after all, you were the chief executive of Hong Kong relatively recently. I mean, since you, there were two more. And the coming one, Mr. John Lee Kattu, is the successor of the successor. So let me start by asking you what there were strange declarations in the past few months about Hong Kong. For instance, your current chief executive said recently that the exiled, I quote, exiled dissidents should live in fear, he said. I told you. So you have never heard? No.  But even if you don't know this word of your successor, it seems that the since especially the last four or five years, Hong Kong has changed a lot and probably much faster than anyone abroad expected. So could you comment on those changes as if the slogan, you know, one country, two systems was already finished, left aside. So is there a future in Hong Kong for the concept of one party, two systems? One country, two systems. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The first recommendation that I always make to our friends in the international community who cares about Hong Kong, China, one country, two systems is that please come and see us. See it for yourself. You walk the streets in Hong Kong and talk to shopkeepers and taxi drivers and whatnot and sort of find out your own view on things in Hong Kong. One country, two systems is no longer a broad concept. Ever since 1990, when the basic law was promulgated, we had five years of drafting. Since China and the UK signed the joint declaration on the question of future of Hong Kong. And in that five years, I was Secretary General of the Basic Law, a constitutive committee and we had 180 members from all walks of life including British civil servants. So anyone who's interested in the actual implementation of one country, two systems, people ruling Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy and a promise of 50 years of no change should actually get a copy of the Basic Law. And one could very easily with your handphone now when you could sort of Google it. Is that the Chinese version, English version and read the Basic Law from Article 1 to Article 160. So whenever foreign governments including British government claim that China is going back on the promise of one country, two systems, etc. I would say and openly say, tell me which article, which article you think the Chinese government and the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong SNL government are not sort of implementing. I should also mention that the Basic Law, which is the constitution of Hong Kong is subject to and has been subjected to judicial review in the course of Hong Kong. And the course of Hong Kong have handed down decisions against in some cases the Hong Kong government. So I don't think it's a question of anyone's interpretation of these broad words and one country, two systems. It's a question of whether the law has been followed and the law was promulgated 23 years ago, 33 years ago. Thank you very much. But on this question, one country, two systems, of course it used to be mentioned for Hong Kong and for Taiwan. A big issue now on the international scene is Taiwan. And many commentators from China consider that the evolution in Hong Kong, the repression of the political movements of the last few years, would be a very bad example from their viewpoint about the possible evolution of Taiwan. So could you comment a little bit on your own interpretation, your own view of Taiwan as compared to Hong Kong? So of course you will start by saying, I suppose, that it is a totally different situation. So could you elaborate further on that? Yes, I will. Thank you very much for bringing up Taiwan, which is an important subject. So far this morning, we had very little discussions on the changing world order, world economic order, Sino-U.S. relations. But so far until now, Taiwan has not been mentioned. Taiwan is important because China has been saying this all along that Taiwan is a core of core Chinese national interest. And that's what the Chinese side said in the Bali Accord, which the Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. Wang Yi, made reference to. When he met, I believe it was last week, 27th of October, President Biden. So no one should ignore Taiwan. Anyone who's interested in the current order, the new world order, should ignore Taiwan. It is a crucial issue for China and therefore in any bilateral or multilateral relations where you find China. The history of Taiwan, of course, is different from the history of Hong Kong. Taiwan was ceded under the Treaty of Shumotaseki. Hong Kong was ceded to the British under the Treaty of Nanking and Taiwan to the Japanese in 1894. And China was made to pay 7.5 million kilograms, 20 million tails of silver as well as reparation to Japan. And Taiwan was ceded to Japan. And no one has ever disputed that Taiwan was part of China. Alongside Taiwan, a learning peninsula was also ceded to Japan. And a learning peninsula is now part of China. So why is it in Taiwan? A learning peninsula is now a learning province of China. China took Hong Kong back from British, under the Sino-British John Declaration in 1984. Japan lost the Second World War. The Kuomintang Party lost the Civil War with the communists and retreated to Taiwan. So there's no question of anyone in China is not just the ruling party of China ever allowing Taiwan to go independent. Much in the same way as Deng Xiaoping said to Margaret Thatcher in 1982, that the people of China will not allow China to agree the ongoing rule of Hong Kong by the British. Equally today, as ever, the 1.4 billion people in China will never allow the ruling party, the Chinese government, to let go of Taiwan. So it is an important issue for the international community to understand. And China should not be out of Taiwan, should not be encouraged in any way to ever think about independence. Now that's a very important part of any equation in the world order involving China. And I haven't answered the question about one country, two systems. I say the same thing to our friends in Taiwan. Now take out a copy of the Hong Kong Basic Law and again go from Article 1 to Article 160. And let's go through these articles one by one and listen to the time of these people, which article is not acceptable and which article is acceptable. For example, Hong Kong is allowed to remain as a member of WHO, which Taiwan wants to be. Hong Kong is allowed by Beijing to be a member of WTO, which Taiwan wants to be. Would they object to these clauses? Probably no. Hong Kong under the Basic Law has its own passports. We have our own currency which is really convertible for the Hong Kong dollar. Would the Taiwanese disagree with this? I don't think so. So let's find out what articles they are in the Hong Kong Basic Law that the Taiwanese find not acceptable. Let's talk about them. Let us remain a few more minutes on Taiwan. Don't you think that everything would be much simpler if the population of Taiwan was massively in favor of quick reunification with mainland China? But this is not the case. So how do you explain that and how do you in China, if I take your mainland China hat, how do you see the legal principle of self-determination? Because after all, from a classical democratic standpoint, if population in a certain territory wants to become independent, after all, it is up to the population to make up its mind to decide. So obviously this is not the point of view of China. So what is your argument about that? To your last point, my experience is that that point has not been allowed to the people in Northern Ireland nor in the Scottish devolution process. So it isn't just the people in one part of the country saying, hey, we have voted. There's a referendum or pen and poll. We want to be independent and bye-bye. I don't think it ever works like that. I've been reading two Taiwanese daily newspapers every day for 30-something years. It is important for the two sides to communicate and for the Taiwanese people, the 26 million people who live on the island to understand the mainland's position, the Chinese government's position, and real life on the mainland. And I think we could use a lot more people-to-people dialogue between the two sides, which is something that I've been facilitating myself. Again, people need to see for themselves what lives about political, social, economic lives about on the mainland. And that's something that I think we're not doing enough. But if we stay one minute at the example of Scotland, in the case of Scotland, there was a referendum a few years ago that was authorised by London. And of course the Independent Party lost the referendum. But there never was any action from London to suppress opposition to independence in Scotland. Whereas in the case of if we go back to Hong Kong, our understanding, we may be wrong, but if we are wrong, please correct, is that it's extremely difficult today in Hong Kong to demonstrate or to develop an opposition party. As you said, the referendum on Scotland was authorised by London. Beijing is not authorising a referendum on Taiwan. Secondly, Scotland has a very different history compared to Taiwan. The United Kingdom is called the United Kingdom for good reason, for historical reason. So I don't think it was a direct comparison between the two. But anyway, I think the world agrees that Taiwan is part of China. Interestingly, or revealingly, the official airline of Taiwan is called, surprise, surprise, China Airlines. So there's no question of independence. There's no question of self-determination. And I think the townspeople should know and the international community should know the determination of China to keep Taiwan as part of China. So my last question on this issue, but you understand very well that it is an extremely important issue for China, of course. But it's also an extremely important issue for the future of international relations. In our understanding, when I say our understanding, I think from outside, is that President Xi Jinping, in various declarations over time, has given the impression that he would like the issue to be resolved sooner rather than later. And perhaps as early or at the latest, maybe, in 2049, that is the 30th, the 100th anniversary of Mao's victory. 2049 is tomorrow, politically speaking. It is 25 years from now. So how should we understand that there is a time limit for the ultimate solution of the problem? Or could we interpret the situation as possibly lasting for another 50 years or so? The ruling party in Taiwan may not have that patience. The inclination to declare independence has become more and more obvious. Now, saying that Taiwan is part of China and at the same time dragging one's feet, trying to maintain the status quo for another decade, for another two decades, and more or less forever, is basically committing a contradiction in terms. So the two sides have to come together. And to your earlier question, the central government of China has always paid a great deal of attention to public opinion on Taiwan, much in the same way as they paid importance to, or pay attention to public opinion in Hong Kong when we drafted the Hong Kong Basic Law. It took five years. It was a big committee of 180 of a secretary of a 30-something people worked on it for five years. So I think these are the processes that will probably take place. And obviously China has never given up the option of using force to reunify the country if necessary. Well, you know, the WPC, which now you know a little bit is a place where we can discuss friendly issues which are complicated and where it's not always easy to agree. So in that spirit, I would like to ask you the following question. Clearly, the regime in China has become more and more authoritarian since President Xi Jinping came in power, and he seems now to concentrate all powers in an unprecedented way since Mao Zedong, and perhaps even more successfully than Mao because Mao was in serious domestic difficulties during part of his term. So I have a simple question because you deal a lot also with economic issue yourself, you know, in the Hong Kong area and beyond. My question is the following. So it seems to somebody like me that part of the economic success of China has been related to the relatively liberal approach of Presidency's predecessors. Now the regime is more and more authoritarian. So this authoritarianism is also expressed vis-à-vis business people.  So our perception is that it may create some serious difficulties for the future of Chinese capitalism. So the question is don't you believe, or some people believe, even the good loyal Communist members with the Communist Party that excessive political pressure on the business community could be detrimental to the future of economic growth. And if such is the case that in the competition between China and the United States and more generally with the West, this tendency could slow down the pace of economic development in China with some very serious consequences. I've been reading reports and commentaries that are very similar to what I just mentioned in Western media and also in Japanese media too. But that's not my experience. In the past six years since I left the position of Chief Secretary of Hong Kong as our government, I spent more time on the mainland of China, not just as some promises but also outlying regions, promises such as Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Ningqia and so on. I spent more time on the mainland than in Hong Kong. And that's not my experience. That's not what I see and that's not what I hear. I'm one of the vice-chairmen of the National Committee of the CPPCC. It's quite multiple. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which is one of four organs in the Chinese political structure. You have the Communist Party, you have the government, you have the National People's Congress which is a legislature and then you have the CPPCC. The composition of the Chinese political structure in this way is very different from anyone else you can find in the world in other governments. In my position as one of the vice-chairmen of the CPPCC National Committee, I do not feel that the last ten years has been more authoritarian. I just came down from Beijing arriving early in the morning today in Abu Dhabi. And in Beijing we had two and a half days of very full and very intensive discussion on green development. The government people were there, they were asked questions. We had 300 people at the plane recessions and then we had nine subgroup discussions. I think it's a manifestation of retinineism at all. And in terms of business investments, we're still seeing a thriving private sector. The private sector now comes for more than half of the country's GDP. Okay, you're big state-owned enterprises that have been partially privatised by listing on the Shanghai exchange, the Shenzhen exchange and Hong Kong exchange. You also see a lot of Hong Kong money going into the mainland China, particularly the Greater Bay Area which covers nine cities in the Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau. Thank you very much. Last question. What lessons do China take from the Ukraine war? Of course my question is related to the strategic thinking about Taiwan. China is not Russia, Taiwan is not Ukraine. China's position on this conflict has been clearly spelled out. I don't even think the ruling party which is pro-independence in Taiwan would themselves compare the cross-strait relations and the possibility of an armed conflict if it happens to the situation in Europe between Russia and Ukraine. I don't think they would ever think it in those terms themselves. So we have 58 seconds left. If someone would like to ask one concise question, I was absolutely sure that there would be, well, I take the question from an expert of the region, Mr Cabestan. Well, good morning. I'm maybe the only one in the room who share with you the fact that I'm a permanent resident of Hong Kong. I've been in Hong Kong for 25 years. And I have a very simple question. After the protest movement of 2019, don't you think that the Hong Kong government has not made enough effort to foster reconciliation within the society? I feel that the Hong Kong community is very divided today. So do you think the Hong Kong government could have done more to foster reconciliation among the various segments of the Hong Kong society? There were protests, but there were very serious riots as well, inflicting bodily harm on fellow civilian citizens and, of course, policemen. These people were apprehended, they were brought to justice, and they were sentenced by the law courts. There was no question of the administration saying that we could turn a blind eye to people who broke the law under those circumstances, and they were very, as we could all see on TV footage, very serious offenses, maiming and killing, and destruction of properties. Oh no, one sentence, one sentence, big role, are we? So my question, sir, in one sentence is that why China, which is so willing to preserve the international order and the international institutions like UMWU and so on, or the international institutions, why China does not recognize the authority of the permanent arbitrary criminal of the egg, which is, as you know, older than the United Nations, from the 19th century, which said that the separation of the islands in the South China Sea between China and Filipinos. So how is it that a government which wants to protect international order and international institutions does not recognize the ruling of the permanent arbitrary criminal of leg? China did not take part in the arbitration. Okay, so that was a long question of the short answer. Okay, so thank you very much, Mr. Long. I think the conclusion of this relatively short discussion is that next year also we should take six hours discussion to cover all the facets of that most important issue for the future of the world. Thank you very much, and it's now a time, I think, for lunch. Thank you.


Welcome back to JSA TV Live. We are the live streaming news source for Data Cloud USA here in Austin, Texas. And it's been a wonderful day two of the conference. We're just about to wrap things up, but before we do, we wanted to sit down and have a conversation with Jose Guillema with Data Center Directors with Collier. Thank you so much for joining us on JSA TV Live. Thank you, thank you so much for inviting me. So how has your Data Cloud conference been as we're wrapping things up and things are starting to wind down? I think it's been excellent. It's a great opportunity for us. We come far away in Spain and it's been a pleasure spending the event. And I think that we've learned lots of things and it's been a real pleasure attending the event. Absolutely. So Collier is for those who don't know is one of the leading data center operators in Spain in that market. So can you just offer some insight into what you guys do and then why that geographic location is so enticing? Yeah, actually, we are a real estate advisory company and what we provide is a complete and exhaustive advisory throughout the publishing of the data center from the data, from the land acquisition to the development of the facility. And also we got a good resource regarding corporate transactions and so on. And let's say that our footprint is limited to Spain and Portugal. Despite we have strong operations in the UK, Italy and obviously in the US with our teammates. But yes, I think that Spain has gained a lot of momentum to say in the last years because of the constraints that US operators and the other operators in the European countries are facing in the flat market in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris. And geographically, Spain is ideal. It's an excellent landing station for subsequent cables. Fabric connectivity is top class and we have plenty of supply and capacities in terms of renewable energy. So I think it's a great place to launch your investments in the data set space. Absolutely. Investments, not operators, I apologize for that. So let's talk about fiber connectivity though. As you just mentioned, the fiber connectivity is strong there. So how does the fiber connectivity in Spain compare to the other parts of Europe? I think it's the class for the last decade, I think there has been a great investment in terms of fiber and dark fiber in the whole Igarian Peninsula. And we are taking advantage of it. I mean, that doesn't operate us from Spain if you take into account standard applications, requirements of 65 milliseconds latency, you can reach North America, South America through Brazil, you can reach North Africa, you know, Middle East and then Central Europe. In fact, only 35% of the data managed by the Dutch Central Operators, Dutch Central facilities that are in Spain are managed and are consumed by the Spanish market. The rest is we are providing services to the rest of Europe and North Africa and so on. Definitely an emerging market and something to keep an eye on. We're here at the conference, we're talking a lot about sustainability and greening that data center space. Spain has been making some pretty good strides with renewable energy. So can you just talk to us a little bit about what you're seeing and how that's benefiting the industry as a whole? I mean, the Spanish market is really, they know in fact that being as you're complying and getting the energy from, you know, and green resources is a must. Not just regulatory, but also from the commercial side. I mean, customers require that and you have to comply with it. And I think that Spain is really very good positioned in terms of renewable energy. We are great, there's a lot of solar farms, windmills and so on. And I think that hybridization in that regard would be a very good solution for, you know, reaching this green data center, let's say ideal framework. And in fact, we announced back in May a project in Huésca just beside EWS campus in Spain. And we are very fond of it and we'll see, we'll see. It's very exciting, the excellence and a lot of challenges. That is exciting. So congratulations, definitely something to be celebrated. Can we talk real quickly about Madrid and what's the role of that city as the market continues to emerge? Madrid has a bandage that is in a 600 kilometers radius from any point of the coast of Spain. So that in terms of connectivity, it's a very good interconnection point. There's plenty of sources to provide that connectivity. And the fact is that 90% of the current install capacity of data centers in Spain is already installed in Madrid. Barcelona is just behind, you know, maybe a couple of years before, but they are still announcing big projects there. So I think most of the requirements in different areas is related to Madrid. And Madrid is, you know, nowadays it has 100 megawatts install capacity and they're going to reach 600 in the next four years. So I think they're going to, you know, catch the flat market very recently. So that's the target. So five to 10 years down the line, what do you see for the overall data center market in Spain? I'm certain that we will be the southern Europe hub for data centers. We will take advantage of the, you know, African market growth. We'll see. I think that's plenty of opportunities. We have a lot of generation possibilities in terms of energy. And I think that in the end, we will become very relevant in the European market. Very good. Lots of exciting things to come for sure. Where can we go to just keep an eye on all of the things that you guys have coming and what you're seeing? Sure, thank you. Can you tell our viewers where they can go to learn more about your company? You can go to Colors.com. I think that you can find our contacts and also in Colors Spain. And we're happy to have you in any of your requests. Fantastic. Thank you so much for joining us here on JSA TV Live. And thanks to our viewers for tuning in and happy networking.


Cowabunga dude! Today we're going to take you a look at the sewer samurai Leonardo from the original Ninja Turtles toy line. Stay tuned. Hey guys welcome back to Comic-Gun TV the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. As I said earlier this is Leonardo the Sewer Samurai. Leonardo the Sewer Samurai came out during playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 year toy line. I believe it was the third series of Ninja Turtles figures to be released by playmates. Of course they began producing Ninja Turtles figures in 1988 to coincide with the animated series. They continued into 1989 and then all the way up until 1992. As you can see here Leonardo does come with a number of accessories. Apologize for that guys I had to move my light my arm was getting in the way of blocking it so he does come with a number of accessories. The first being his shield which is all green in paint and does slightly resemble a turtle shield or a turtle shell. Up next is his sword as well as his sheath. The sword does slide right into the sheath just like that very nice. I think it I think it was made in two parts and then it was just kind of pegged together. Then up next is his Sewer Samurai flag. As you can see a Japanese son there on the flag Sewer Samurai very nice. I was very lucky to find this Leonardo. I had him as a kid over the years I lost him. I was at Primary Colors Retro Relics in Lincoln Illinois one day and came across him uh Mickey over there had quite a few of them but he only had maybe a couple that were complete with all the accessories. Now aside from the accessories one of the main things that always came up missing with these samurai figures like Leonardo and Usagi O'Gimbo and Pandacon were these pads on his shoulders and thighs. Those always came up missing along with the belt. The belt does snap in place by peg but it's very difficult. I'm not going to take it off because it is very difficult to put back together. The paint job on this guy is pretty pristine with the exception of the horns on the helmet. Those have kind of worn over the years other than that not a bad job. I really like these samurai Ninja Turtle figures. I didn't like the ones from Ninja Turtles 3 even though they were similar style. They just weren't as bright and vibrant. They weren't along the same TMNT playmate style that we had come grown used to. They're okay but again they weren't along the main toy line that we became used to. As you can see here very nice bright blue along with the black bright blue on the edges and decor on his armor got the red pads gold chest plate and gold helmet very very nice. Again the samurai figures were always my favorite of the Ninja Turtles toy line. Samurai Leonardo, Pandacon, Usagi O'Gimbo. I'm not sure what it was I just think I like the design for the most part of those figures. And as you can see he's wearing standard samurai sandals I guess you would call them. I wouldn't say they were slippers. I wouldn't say they were flip flops because most of time they were kind of made out of wood. But yeah love the detail on this figure. I was very lucky to find such a pristine figure at the store.  It is a little loose at top but you had that with the Ninja Turtle figures back in the day and it should also fit in the other hand. Yeah pretty loose though. Something else that happened a lot with the Playmates Ninja Turtles figures were at the joints. They were just pegs. See just pegs a lot of times kids would end up stressing them too much. Pop the arms off or whatever. Just right here at the forearms though. The rest of them were locked pretty good in place but at the forearms very easy to disconnect and oftentimes lose their hands or whatever. But still not bad, not bad at all. Really like these Ninja Turtle figures. Let's go ahead and in his belt loop just like that we'll go ahead put a shield in his left hand. Even though samurai swords were meant to be held with both hands we'll just put it in his right with the shield and then put the sheath draped over his arm just like that. Again a very nice figure from the Playmates 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toyline. Yeah I highly recommend these. I mean they still have great play features. A few years ago I had ordered a bunch of Ninja Turtle and He-Man figures for my son for a second or third birthday off of eBay and I think they got misdelivered by the post office because I never received them. eBay said they shipped and that they were delivered. I never got them. We had a substitute mail delivery person that day so I think they were misdelivered and of course the post office wasn't going to reimburse me for them.  Had a lot of great figures in there but you know it is what it is. I'm just glad there's a store relatively close to me about 45 minutes away like Retro Relics which carries these vintage action figures from my childhood. Hey guys if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that subscribe button right there so you can stay up to date on all things geek culture. Also you can check out one of these two playlists right here on the side for more videos just like the one you just watched.


session. So I hope you're all here to sort of get a sense of how diverse the kinds are here. So who here has a Drupal setup module? It's already started operating pretty much everyone. Has a Drupal setup module that maybe had, I don't know, six people. So before I start, just want to mention, and so my name's Alex Bronstein. So also where we are in the process right now, so you just start by taking a Drupal A alpha one that was released. We'll see how reality turns out, but those are sort of our work. So one question that comes up is when, you know, why should you update a module? And the answer is it depends. For example, before, you know, at the code spread, for example, we still haven't sold data, so we still have a month, which things can still change quite a bit. The APIs are not yet frozen. So even in the process of updating a module, you'll see something like that. So that's the advantage of starting now. The disadvantage of starting an alias is that we haven't frozen APIs yet. So whatever you do now might not work in a month or two. So some of you might want to wait until beta one. These means, you know, we don't change APIs anymore if we don't have to, but if we have to, to fix a critical issue. So some of you might want to wait until the police can't do it, or until 8.0 releases. So it's just, you know, to make the sooner you start, the more influence you have. You're familiar with the payouts module. You've seen this presentation online, or a version of this presentation online. Okay. So this is actually a presentation, an update to the presentation that web show Kenji Byron gave at Sydney a few months ago, but the content topic has changed quite a bit because... So what I'm going to show is something called the payouts module. This is a module that's sort of been made for a similar purpose like seven, eight years ago to demonstrate how to update from like 4.5 to 4.6, and sort of reuse of these sessions ever since. The branch that I'm showing is called 8.x-courtland. So this has a commit history, so later after the session you can find 8.x-courtland as all the code that I'm showing you. You can type the commit history, but it does. Obviously, it's not going to touch on everything that's changed. This is a fresh install of a triple set of seven. So I'm just going to sort of show you what the module does on triple seven. It's having a standard program configuration page. Okay. So that's a site-wide configuration. So I have a site-wide configuration form. You can see their path status. The module also comes with a block. Two blocks in fact. And a changed path block. My changed path block sort of gives me a way to just, through 8.x, I can just click change. My path's off, and I can click change again. The recent path block tells me the reason I did it. So that's pretty much it. That's the functionality that I love. So I'm now going to show some of the code. But before I show the code from the module, I actually want to show you the code through the text. Because actually the first step, the best step to take, start telling you, as you start trying to care, I see how many of you have written tests. So there's credit, create, update, delete, is to make sure that I can call the basic, you know, payouts get, payoutfigurationtest, which basically tests my configuration form, to make sure that I can't go to the configuration URL that I expect. As far as days, I can test, and I can get to the user profile page. I want to want the user profile page that I have my status, and then I can go to set testing the block by 100% or maybe even 100% test coverage. So where's the module? The module has permissions sort of function, that's a, you know, combination of permissions. I either have permission, limitation, which defines my two URLs. So I have my one URL for being able to change it, and my configuration URL. The practice in Drupal 7 is for, is to put page callbacks in separate files, right? Because most of this just sort of allows the implementation of those functions exist, the status. Similarly, the other one, the configuration form, I can put it in my own Drupal 7. You put your modules in, like, site-told modules. In Drupal 7, modules was all, so this, right here, version of the module, you know what I do is I want to enable this module, so I go to my, does the modules page know where something is? It's in the dieting profile. So I go to my dieting profile, and I think, oh, well, maybe, my core version is right, except I have to know, you know, if I have to type experience Drupal 7, I know that, just because I got my core version wrong here doesn't mean it shouldn't show up in the modules page. It should, the behavior should be like, this shows up in the modules page, and this shows any resource on Drupal.org, slash list changes. So this just was, this just renamed the file, and the animal extension, but you'll notice this isn't actually an dieting platform, so there was an entry in the dieting profile that pointed me to my test, and things you could do here, right? So from here, I could enable it. So one path you could take is you could actually try it, like you could go to, like, the configuration page, see if it works, you can try to go to the user profile and see if it works. I'm lazy. I think I have all these automated tests that spent all this time right across the change record. It mentioned something about removing files entries, right? So the way, the weight test that we're talking about in Drupal 7 is that so basically, one changes in tests are basic classes. Okay, so one difference in Drupal 8 is whatever we have classes, instead of them being, and actually, I guess, not quite the same as they were before. In Drupal 7, you could just have PSRZO standard is also, and every class doesn't just leave them in some direction, but it leaves curves. It'll start telling you that, well, oh, because I changed my test, and it tests its classes. Well, if there's this new PSRZO standard where I have to, you know, change my test, probably the basic classes also have to be put into it, but I happen to know, because this is my module, I happen to know that, like, CRUD should be, like, the first thing I do when it comes to less useful objects. Basically, it goes with the database API. Configuration forms is basically telling you something quite wrong with the configuration form, like a function that doesn't exist, a system setting. So the purpose is, very much said, you sort of get a configuration object, and that a big change is that in Drupal 7, what system settings form, you know, it's a big function because Drupal 7 just assumes, like, anything's a big function. Just in case, like, you just need to make your config object to get set the, you know, basically set the thing, you know, set the pin step within the configuration object to the same as what the form submission is that's saying it. So it's a little annoying that being able to be explicit. I've been safer because in Drupal 7, you know, when I did a, like, saving all sorts of things to the test, we'd start getting into blocked records for how blocks have changed, you know, you'll find instructions on how these classes, we put them in the right folder, you sort of get to the class, the system automatically finds it, and there's various functions that you can call, and then there's a specifically special function to get info that tells you the information. So that's a pattern that exists in Drupal 7 for tests, of saying, instead of having an info, there's other sort of random public location, and the special location is blocked in block. Other systems, other than block, would have a different location. You return the same thing that in Drupal 7, you would information goes into the annotations. Why annotations? Why not? I get info method, like we did around. The reason it is, because it's just a really unfortunate limitation of PHP, the class has to be loaded into PHP right now. So for tests, we sort of accept that because we could just say, if you want to run tests, the web UI, but to run Drupal itself, we don't want to, you know, say that, you know, you need this, and say no, and the alternative, the only alternative that we really came up with to that was, was annotations, because annotations can be sort of used to do a lot, and the change records go into this, so the question is, how do we run tests, and all of the tests that are running here are functional tests. They're not unit tests, so they're still running in PHP, and it allows you to unit test it, which has a lot of benefits, and so one of the things you can start doing is if you have tests that are, if you actually have real unit tests running in functional tests, then I would do just testing specific API functions around that, like, visit this URL and see if the response has, working on Drupal 8 Alpha 1 isn't really enough, right? You kind of want it working on Drupal 8 and this is, this is the Drupal 7 way of declaring that unit, so this is actually that within a hook menu there's two different kind, you can categorize the information that's in here in broadly into two different ways. Some of the information that's here relates to essentially configuring that in particular that each callback is part of that, right? It's like, okay, when someone visits this, you don't know what is, what is the function that we need to run in order to return the right stuff. I'll see a couple of things. I'll see title and description. So this one actually has a, the VHX one has a title as well, but in a way that you actually want to do, there's title and description because this link isn't just, it's not just telling me, so the idea is there's sort of many routing, what should the server do, and then there's like information about links which says, you know, how do I build up menus. So the Drupal 8 we're splitting those two but that actually had no menu that moved elsewhere, no option where it was the configuration one. All of the routing stuff moved, so that's a menu that reduced to just a couple places. So one is there's a routing dynamic file. A few things here I defined by two ranks, and it's changing and settings. I specified a permission in this case. What I'll notice is there's a distinction now between the sort of identifier in Drupal 7 and the key was also the URL pattern. Here, those are two separate things. One of the ways in which that's useful is web services to work. You'll also notice that like in Drupal 7, you can use a few menus per cent or slash per cent user based on some thing. Instead of doing per cent user, you sort of put users in these user braces where you can put per cent users. So it's a class. So essentially what I've done is that it took what used to be at my pages.inq ans.scoreChange function and I can just make it a method and it's actually the same code that's in the end. In the case of forms that you're converting forms over, then again there's a change record on this if you look for like a system config form base or if you look on the change record for the and it sort of talks about having two forms so I have two forms of by the way if you go to the repository if you are removed and see the github each of the github message has a link to the change record to sort of took my form. Yes, exactly. So here we don't in the case of a symbol if you look at how you have your logic it's a very simple page call button. That doesn't require any fancy objects or any features. Then yes, if you want to take advantage of sort of many features then you can start converting from some multiple space classes in order to get that and it's very likely to happen. So we don't know yet what's happening. So just a change starts up in the handle from tpl.php to twig it's essentially where you used to have use the sort of twig syntax which is curly brace, curly brace and then there's stuff to be taken out as far as I know those are at least with the path module but that's all that's necessary to do to get their stuff working wonderfully. I mean there's the path module a symbol if you have more complicated modules you might run into a cave in APIs you might run into is not having to do with APIs are actually still in flux. There are four hundred two different some of these changes so you can encounter what I'll mention is I sort of ran out of time to show this here but if you look at the get history of the path module it demonstrates some of the cool necessary something to show what's necessary to do if you think stuff with dependency injection like you can take so for example here so you have a custom module on the website that uses relational database features you can take advantage of in tpl.php for web services it's more like code services as methods and is that then some other module so you can still some other module comes to the service declaration it just means that someone who for example they can just override your implementation of the path's current service with implementation that works for a month can be a feature you can take advantage of and moving to sort of more object orientation but you don't have to base it right in the act procedurally or some relational take closer to sort of tpl.php because if there's you can either raise your hand or go the question is what's the status of that compatibility so specifically with the writing system so we still have you know we still have the test worked and the reason we still allow these ways to work is because it's a huge effort to get all of our modules something like 80 modules to get all of the important to using the system there's lots of problems where you're trying to get all of that so some shipping jubilee with both in place would be of course converted to not be so the question is in jupil 7 if you're wildcard path smart percent you know if you have like percent node and the path percent user and the path that wasn't just you weren't just defining the type of your argument so what it would pass to the function would be a user object not just the string that came through this magic naming it's a city types so in user node it's possible that we will remove sort of the need to do that magic name and that it if out of this this user outcasting has happened imagine there's a debate of the issue of attacks like this so it's you know it's four lines the arrow code which you didn't otherwise need and this is just a way to identify that user seven you could do percent user slash percent user and the races are correspond to the name so there's sort of two things you're naming something because that's the name of the argument and you also want to identify what type of conceptually there are two different things and force them to be two different things though there's still some debate on it so yes the question is that somebody has the synthetic graphic system and some of the other things like that and the observation was that interesting features had a straight balance to this and others so can you repeat that so I guess the question is for people who are familiar with procedure code every type of interpretation in general are behaviors in this particular sample so I guess one answer is we will need to have an example with you know blocks so understanding like block base because you don't necessarily need to understand how it works you just need to understand that it's there and you can extend it so for example there's controllers and then there's base forms so I'd say at a very high level controllers and specifically for to also address the education question that is a question that becomes so much communication with your coworkers various different communities on Facebook and Google plus I'd say that the answer is that purple seven and purple eight thank you that's excellent point and that reminds me of you know how did we all learn about the modules are available how do we all learn about views and all the cool stuff you can do with behaviors and all the cool stuff you can do with rules there's a flag module


This year's ball-top experimentation is the largest that we've had in ball-tops past Incorporating numerous DOD institutions and civilians institutions of people coming from across the United States and Navier To come together for their various objectives and testing out of their sensors to aid in MCM clearance objectives So this year's ball-top MCM experimentation focusing focuses on Decreasing the detect and engage sequence for more efficient minefield clearance So we're doing that via the use of unmanned surface systems under water systems and air systems Those systems are all using different type of sensors incorporated and Conglomerated into one common tactical picture to now allow units to real-time see the sensor footage for more efficient minefield clearance Going from detection of mine mine and mine like contacts to its reacquisition identification and neutralization For this year's ball-tops MCM experimentation We have three separate and distinct lines of effort the first is the employment of six fleet unmanned underwater Vehicles the mark 18 mod twos as well as the Remus 600 from the Office of Naval Research Those unmanned underwater vehicles are embarked on the FDS Helmsen out of WTD 71 German naval maritime experimentation unit What the UVs are doing is collaborative autonomy to allow for more efficient minefield clearance The unmanned underwater vehicles that we have operating out here in shown Hagan interact with the greater exercise of ball-tops 2021 we were given a simulated minefield and what we're doing here is sending in UVs to the area to dynamically look at the bottom Determine if there are contacts go and reacquire those contacts and then send that data Via iridium back to the command operation center centered in Pueblos That data is being pushed up to ATAC giving everybody a better understanding of the threat area on a much more global scale So we interact with the Marine Corps by the vehicle is generating Acoustic communications back to our Gateway buoys which are stationed outside of the minefield From there the data is sent via iridium up and over to our shore side of monitoring station And that data is being pushed through the new software IS-2 ops Which is being proofed out here and then into ATAC ATAC is that Marine Corps component for C2 The second line of effort is for unmanned sensors employed here locally MCM ashore at Pueblos That is with the coordination of ground vehicles surface vehicles and other unmanned underwater vehicles That are employed with their various sensor nodes to do bottom hunting and mapping for a more efficient minefield contact localization So with the experimental equipment that we are using the Marine Corps has never dealt with any with the underwater domain We've done everything surface where the cataphan cliff handed off now within GPC That there's a there's a zone that's not a defined line So we needed to find something to do that and it's unmanned systems and unmanned systems that we are currently Investigating using some program of record working towards our vision is that gap to take the man out of the minefield So to speak and if we can take the man out of the minefield and automate it and feed a common operating picture Efficiently it's going to the collective is just going to be able to think faster mosaic warfare specifically for ball tops the Continued integration with this and expanding upon that especially in the underwater domain is going to be critical for the future The third line of effort is for the incorporation of these various sensor nodes into one common tactical picture That is done via the ATAC Android tactical assault kit as well as the Information systems to operations a project run by NRL for the compilation of the various sensor data into one readable Common tactical picture that can be read by tactical units employed ashore here at Putlos as well as the flu


We're here with coach Ed Hotto after the 26-23 victory against Albright and Coach I mean when you look at some of the stats I mean when each team has over 300 yards total offense in a game You wouldn't think that it would be a defensive struggle But I mean your your defense not just in that final drive But all game really played outstanding today against a team that had a great quarterback and a great set of receivers as well Yeah, you know hats off to Albright You know we look at the history between these two programs and five of the last six games have come down to one possession So we didn't expect anything different today. We expected it to be the same way and it was and You know our kids, you know a little bit of adversity last week losing late You know came out really worked hard this week And I'm really really proud of the effort that we put in today and you know These games can go so quickly in the other direction But you know fortunately today we were able to affect the outcome in our favor one And when you look at a 26-23 game you look at some of the stats You wouldn't think that there wasn't any scoring until the second quarter and then when you had it It was in the form of safety. Yeah, that's always the way it is. You know, it's just You know you look at last week's numbers, too, you know and to only put up 27th is the same kind of thing. So It is a surprise Statistically but looking at in the history between both teams not not a big surprise really if you know in the story And you guys Coming into this at the final three of your four games here at home Is that important going down the stretch as you guys try to make that push for the postseason?   I mean what? What was going on down here? Yeah, you know The cool thing about our program is the kids that are playing are so supportive of the kids that are playing And you know, we've had to coach them on that a little bit You know Which what is your role if you're not actually in the game and it's to bring that juice and bring some of that Momentum and as our team matures and grows We're starting to see more and more of that and that as a coach is it's really really exciting for me to watch because they're listening to What we're telling them, you know, they're growing up right in front of us and It's pandemonium when those guys are all jumping and waving towels It's really really exciting and it really helps to sustain momentum We've been such a momentum team this fall that you know We've been it we've had to manufacture our own momentum to a degree and so far it's it's going very well All right, who do we have here? This is my youngest son Tucker hoddle. How you doing Tucker? Good. Is that a good game today? Yes. Yeah, are we gonna get wins the rest of the year on out? Yeah, all right now it doesn't get any easier next week with Weidner. No, no, there's there's no easy games in the Mac I mean, you know, you look at the history of the conference and you know It's so easy to fall into the looking at scores and who did this to who and it really is in every week league And and things can change on the dime and you know, our guys are like, well, we're not going to play I'm like, well, you don't know that yet You know, you've got to be able to go out and play at a very high level every Saturday And you know, you really don't know what's happening till the season's over. Excellent. Well, coach Thanks for joining us and we'll we'll see you next week against Weidner. Thank you very much