I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, and we're here with Torsten Stefan, who is involved in the mobile applications business with SAP. Welcome. That's great. Thank you very much. Yeah, so talk about your role a little bit. I mean, mobile, we're hearing a lot about mobile. You guys are into mobile, I'm guessing. That's correct. That's the theme that I'm hearing very strongly. And it's coming through loud and clear, so you're in a good place. Not only from the market standpoint, but from SAP's perspective. So talk about your role and we'll get into it. Yeah, absolutely. So I mean, from an application perspective, SAP, we want to provide to all customers really best of class mobile applications, right? But from a design perspective, it's for us very important to be very user-centric. So that means it needs to be very designed to the user needs, it needs to fit to the different mobile capabilities or actually application need to be enriched with the device capabilities via location-based services, those kind of things that you can link in the applications into the devices. And you have the great user experience provided to the mobile user. And we talk about a glass of devices and I'm sure you have one of a few of those, I guess. Several, yeah. Dozens. Yeah, that's right. And smartphones compared to the early days of mobility where you had rather very specialized mobile devices. But the world has changed a lot. So we are well on track on that. We have a wonderful underlying mobile platform that supports all the different needs for us from an application perspective. So we can focus on the application development and have quite some application shipped already and we have happy customers using them and we of course are developing more and more. So how long have you been with SAP? With SAP, I would say almost now 15 years. Okay, so plenty to answer this question. So take us back to the point at which SAP realized that companies have this epiphany.  Take us back to the point at which you had the epiphany on mobile. Yeah, I mean for us it was very clear, I mean many years back with it that way we had dedicated mobile roles, right, where you had the sales reps going out of the service, technicians after sales services, but those were special environments where they were and but for us it was very important on where do the users go and what environment do users work and for us it was very clear a few years back when you have seen the impact of the iPhone and then on the iPad and the other smartphones appearing in the market you could really recognize the world, the consumption of data has changed a lot and that was for us very clear because we want to provide the front end and mobile application to the mobile user so we don't basically want to lose the mobile user, either the user in that sense, the mobile user and for us so it's just a natural next thing to do. So on the apps obviously mobile is hot, we all know that, app store is hot, but Schnappi talks about this business social network as the intelligence and great vision, we buy it and do it 100% by the way, we love it. But talk about the verticals now because in the enterprise certain verticals pop relative to adoption, what are you seeing for verticals now so we heard about the definition of oil and gas, are you seeing trends around certain verticals where the uptake of the mobile apps are off the charts? Yeah, I mean we have some classical verticals in the areas of utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, so those are the areas where you can benefit a lot from those kind of mobile applications and what we obviously do is we have also our applications built in the way that they work across industries and have certain industry enhancements, also partners can pick up the mobile applications and enhance them to the dedicated industry needs, so we are very flexible, we are putting a lot of effort and view on the ecosystem, so we invite our partners to participate in the show, we offer them certification, we offer them visibility, and so you guys have done a good job, I will say on the ecosystem, you have a nice developing ecosystem around mobile, which is great, and those verticals are pretty obvious, utilities, etc, people are on the mobile, they are on the mobile, but if you want to get more of those Facebook developer-like guys out there building for the other products, what would you share with them with the hot verticals, give some insight into the developers out there, what they should be working on, what would you say to them? Yeah, on the one hand, since you mentioned, let's say developers that are not usually working in the classical SAP space, so on the one hand side, also need to mention that from a platform perspective, so we are opening up the industry standards, that means the development protocols are basically industry standard like open data protocol, so that you as a mobile developer can really understand the language, the kind of how to build mobile applications, we have blocked in addition partnerships on top of the platform, so that you can really easy build mobile applications on top of the SAP systems. For the what kind to focus on, so that is also very clear, wherever you can enrich kind of the natural processes that we do, you talked about social media, so wherever you are focusing on HR applications, wherever you have content you want to share with others, and that is obviously something in general I would tell developers, take something like that we do from a classical business process perspective and offer and try to enrich it with very mobile specific announcements and always bringing the picture like the personalization of the application with the support of the mobile device like where and when, like also the timing at the end, you end up then in the situation in which the mobile user is using the application, and if you can enrich with the skill set of a mobile developer, these kind of prepackage applications that we do, then this is just a classical area where you can bring a lot of value. So just to be clear on following up on John's question, so you are specific strategies to enable application developers to develop mobile apps on the SAP platform. And what kind of timeframe do you expect that adoption to occur? Is that a this year? Is that more of a five-year vision? Yeah, I mean we have this year just recently announced new partnerships like Accenture, PhoneGap, Accelerator, and all of those have already a certain developer in a community out there. So that means those tools are known on how to do mobile apps. Now we bring them in into our platform environment so that they can build a mobile apps on top of SAP. And with that, we see already an increase on the adoption of new developers, so to speak on that. But this is it is something we need to continue to push further. Where's the friction when you talk to customers in terms of their, what are they afraid of in terms of adopting mobile? What's the barrier? Well, the barrier, I mean, it's obviously also the freedom of choice, right? So on the one hand side, you have plenty of mobile devices that you actually need to, from a corporate perspective, you need to look into, are they secure enough? Are they fulfilling my needs? On the other side, the end users are pushing hard to IT already and say, I want to have this device, you know, bring your own device point of view. I want to use my private device in the corporate environment and want to have some business applications on that, not just mobile email, but more like also employee services, manager services, those kind of things. Yeah, exactly. You want to use it because you don't want to have a second device, right? So those are the kind of, let's say, the flexible areas where they're just asking for guidance. So is it sort of the fear of having to support so many opening Pandora's box, if you will? Or maybe not being able to clearly understand the business case? I would say on the one hand side, it's like, you know, you need to open up your security environment, right? That is always something very critical. You're hesitant doing that. And you are allowing someone from a personally equipped device to connect to your internet. That is always like a security question. And that is definitely something where we provide a great solution for, and they are asking for guidance. On the other side, obviously, also, we give them the chance for very obvious, let's say, rather simple mobile applications to start with, be like in the employee environment, on from a time entry perspective, from an absence management, those kind of things, or travel expense management, very natural things that the end users will also adopt. So I heard you guys had a lot of downloads this week, 800 downloads from the app store this week, around the software. What's your expectation for the application store in the app? Yeah, I think for us, it's important that, you know, we provide the end-to-end story to our customers. And therefore an application store has to be part of the story. And what we provide with our SAP store is also, A, the customer to have a single point to go to, to browse through all the offerings that we are doing, and also to the certified partners that we are offering. So for him, the customer is not getting lost, so to speak, on iTunes or somewhere trying to find, like, which applications would be running on the SAP system. And therefore, the SAP stores was an essential step to really complete the service basically we want to offer to them. Okay. All right, great. Now, final question before we end the segment is, share with the folks something in the future. Five years from now, what's going to be like? What's our world going to be like relative to mobile? I think we arrow forward and try to give a prediction. Yeah, I think it's, it's pretty simple.  From that device, all the whatever kind of friends, business is all coming together. It's like consumer and business in one thing, and it will not take five years. Okay. Mobile everywhere, cloud everywhere, Dave. Torsten Stefan, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was great to meet you and good luck with everything. I think you guys are picking the right spot and we'll be watching. We've got more guests coming up. We're waiting on a couple of key highlights here. Reggie Jackson is coming, Schnaube is coming, CEO of SAP.  So great lineup coming up in the afternoon and also the founder of SAP is coming on. So if you're an SAP fan, stay with us and we're going to have some great guests. And again, this independent CUBE would not be possible without the generous support of SAP and EMC. We'll be right back.


Hi, I'm Joe Moore. I'm Alderman of the 49th Ward in Chicago. And I was the sponsor of the resolution that the Chicago City Council passed in the days leading up to George Bush's invasion of Iraq, opposing a preemptive attack on the nation of Iraq. I did that at the prompting of a number of anti-war activists who knew me and we were friends. And they asked me to sponsor this resolution. And I was absolutely committed to doing so. Now, there were some criticism of me for doing it because they thought, well, as a member of the Chicago City Council, you should spend all your time worrying about filling potholes and making sure the garbage is picked up and the street lights are turned on. But I had a much broader view. I think I thought that this was of critical importance, not only to federal officials, but to us local officials as well, because it was going to be our sons and daughters that were going to be called upon to fight this war. It threatened to divert billions of dollars from much-needed projects and programs and infrastructure improvements here in my district and throughout the city of Chicago and cities across the nation. So I felt it was not only appropriate, but our duty to speak out on this important national issue. And so I was able to convince my mayor and 48 out of my 49 colleagues to sponsor the resolution and to get it passed through the City Council, putting Chicago on the map as being against a preemptive invasion of the nation of Iraq. At the time, Chicago was the first large city to do so. And I think it was because of our leadership here in Chicago that convinced other large cities across the nation, and small and medium cities as well, to also join the Cities for Peace movement and speak out against Bush's invasion of Iraq. Tragically, we were ignored by the White House and the consequences of that ill-advised military adventure live with us to this day. But again, we were on the right side of history and I'm glad you have been a part of it.


Well folks, an end of an era is upon us. One of the most, I don't know, infamous Nintendo leakers of the last handful of years, Zippo, is no more, at least no more at the time of making this video.  He had something on the 24th and on Christmas itself on the 25th, a couple really big leaks. We're gonna be talking about those and why his blog could be gone and does this start to add a lot of credence to all these things he's been saying in December if now is the time the Nintendo ninjas decided to take action. Oh folks, buckle up, it's gonna be a bit of a bumpy ride as we dive into the most recent rumors and leaks from the man formerly known as Zippo. So, let's get to the new rumors he did first. On December 24th, he put up a post for a new Knights game coming from Sega. Now we don't have a ton of details on this because unfortunately, I didn't get to look at this post before it went down and all we have is the intro paragraph captured by around the clock. In fact, when we talk about the next rumor after this it was also captured by around the clock. So I wanna make sure we give that YouTuber some credit. We'll link to his videos down below and even his theories on what has happened to Zippo himself. But I find this to be quite fascinating. The Knights series to me is a really, really good one and if you look at what Sega is doing bringing back all these other old games that they announced like Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage. This sort of falls in with that initiative. So it's perfectly believable that Knights would also be coming back if these other old Sega IP are also returning. So not a crazy out there rumor and since we don't have the additional details of the post to know if he was suggesting when it was gonna come out, this is something that could be years and years and years away. Don't think that's what got his channel taken down though he's talked about Sega stuff here and there and this is such a vague reference. He even says the game with the Jester so what I do think is quite interesting though is on Christmas Day itself, he dropped another rumor about Xenoblade Chronicles X and again, everything you're about to see on screen was captured by around the clock. But let's go and read what he put on his blog post. Monolith Soft is one of Nintendo's most talented, reliable and consistent developers. I know this, you know this. Everyone knows this at this point. What we haven't known for a while is what the studio is up to post Xenoblade 3 and Tears of the Kingdom. That is until now. I have a little more insight into that quandary. Boom, surprise number two, that's right. I'm hearing from sources familiar with the situation that Monolith Soft is developing a full remake of their underrated Wii U title Xenoblade Chronicles X. Released in 2015, this title came at a time where the Wii U was already unfortunately winding down after two consecutive years of poor sales. So many missed out on the game, including myself. From all accounts, the game is excellent and is in actuality the first Nintendo game of the modern day to go open world even before Breath of the Wild. Monolith has numerous titles in development for Nintendo's next system and this is just scratching the surface of that. Now the exciting stuff and the thing is, the reason this may be the end of these rumors is his blog has been deleted. We don't know if he did it or someone else did it and I wanna give full credit to it around the clock for capturing those rumors again. But naturally we had no idea why his blog is gone and it's, is it a typical deletion? I believe if it's a full deletion by the user, the URL itself gets reopened for others to use. But that's not what happened here. The URL is not available.  That or maybe Zippo himself took it down temporarily instead of a full deletion. And this is just how that looks publicly. We really don't know as there's no way to contact Zippo after he's been banned at multiple other social media platforms and internet forums. So at this point, it's just completely left at the speculation on why this is gone. Is it an intentional deletion to make him look legit and then he comes back later? That's not something that Zippo's ever really done in the past. So I don't really think that would fit his MO. But it's quite fascinating to me that his blog is gone considering that it didn't seem to break any of the terms of service at Blogger based on what I was able to read. So look, I'm just gonna sit back and ponder on this for a while because there's so many rumors he has going on at the moment that potentially Nintendo, if the stuff is true, could be wrong about or like mad about anyways. I'll give you an example. Ocarina of Time, he basically said a remake or remaster is in the works and coming. He said that this month. Yeah, Nintendo might be pretty pissed about that if he's revealing it. Is it a way Chronicles X being completely remade from the ground up for Nintendo Switch 2? Yeah, they're gonna be pretty mad if that's like an actual leak. So if this stuff is true, then Nintendo is gonna take him down. And if Nintendo took him down, now we have to start looking at everything he's posted over the last six months and go, damn, is all of this true? And it just took this long for Nintendo Ninjas to finally take him out. Find hard to believe. It's not hard to hear Zippo references in various YouTube channels and major websites talking about his rumors. So I can't believe it would take that long for Nintendo Ninjas to catch wind. But maybe he finally started hitting too close to home and Nintendo's like, okay, this has gone from like some wild speculation stuff to now you're just hitting too exact on info. So it's time to take him down. And that is absolutely a reasonable thing to think. I don't know what to think in cases like this because it's rare. It's rare that people just vanish like this. If you guys remember, Samus Hunter vanished as well, but Samus Hunter didn't have their account deleted. They just stopped posting, right? That was the end of it. There were just no more posts. That Twitter account still exists. This is a complete deletion of everything Zippo's ever put out there on his blog. I find that quite fascinating to at least consider. And now we look at what posted right before the night stuff from Sega. You had the Xenobre Chronicle X remake. We had the Ocarina of Time remake stuff as well. Maybe he's just hitting on too much too quickly and Zippus was really his undoing because he was unveiling too much too fast.  All I know is if that is the case, I apologize Zippo and I guess we'll find out in the coming years how many of these rumors pan out and how legit all this was. Or none of it happens. And we're just sitting here spending a video talking about a person who was just making stuff up that decided to stop doing it and deleted his own stuff. I don't know, man. At the end of the day, this is all just about good fun and I hope you enjoyed the combos. We have many more of the rumors leaks and other stuff coming including a video on a research program being done that has concluded that Super Mario Odyssey might in fact be a treatment for depression. Stay tuned. See, not everything they research about video games is focused on the negative.


Life isn't meant to be easy, but surely it doesn't have to get any harder. The challenges we face in life can sometimes feel grueling and impossible to overcome, but perhaps there are some changes we can make to lessen the blow. To explore this, we will look at seven psychological tricks to make life easier in this video. Number one, positive day dreaming. An article from Psychology Today talks about the concept of positive day dreaming. You've likely been in a situation before where you have an event coming up that stresses you out, like a speech, and all you do is get wrapped up in all the things that could go wrong as you approach the date. With positive day dreaming, you focus on what could go right instead, and then celebrate your achievements after the fact. Dr. Nick Morgan, PhD, the author of the article states that creating space in your brain for positive outcomes is a very good way of making it likely that you'll have such positive outcomes in the future. Next time you have a big project coming up, try to imagine yourself doing well at it. Number two, attach goals to a value and use them for learning. We rely on goals for a lot of things. They can keep us going and give us something to look forward to, which is a great thing. However, sometimes they can also be discouraging. When we think of all the goals we've forgotten, fallen short on, or are just too high to reach, one trick suggested by psychologist Dr. Jade Wu is to attach your goals to a life value and to focus more on learning than performance. Having goals that support a life value is like following the North Star. You're working towards something that will improve your life and in turn benefit those around you. As you're pursuing one big goal, say improving your social life. You may find smaller supportive ones like reaching out to older connections or getting involved in an organization that brings you closer to your main goal. The other part of this is focusing more on learning versus the results. Rather than setting a specific number to shoot for, improving your knowledge in a specific area could help you get closer to your desired results, which will feel less daunting if you fall short on them. Number three, get an accountability buddy. We've all set goals before, but sometimes they can fall by the wayside. It's easy to do, especially if no one else knows what you were intending to do, right? Research from Ball State University looked at using health contracts to help motivate older adults to exercise more. They found that when being held accountable, in this case, having the contract, many of the adults achieved their goals with only a few who didn't show much improvement. When you're trying to achieve something, having someone else know about it allows them to get involved. If you don't follow through with it, you are not just letting yourself down, and you're also letting your friend down too. For many, this is a powerful motivator to follow through with what you say. Number four, focus on your emotional intelligence. When you think of intelligence, you likely think of your ability to solve problems, get creative, and do complex tasks. While this is a type of intelligence, there are many more that come into play. One of these is emotional intelligence, EQ. Your EQ is your ability to empathize with others, as well as process and understand your own emotions. While this sounds difficult, fortunately, this type of intelligence is extremely fluid and can be improved upon, think, growth mindset. Having a handle on your feelings and being able to understand and relate to others is important. Not only does it help you understand yourself and how to best work with your emotions, but it can also help with boosting the quality of your relationships. Number five, find the humor. Humor makes things easier. When things are going wrong, you may find that even the slightest chuckle makes the situation a tiny bit more tolerable. Research from the Mayo Clinic suggests that laughter has so many benefits from relieving pain, soothing your fight or flight response, and increasing the amount of endorphins in your body. The Mayo Clinic also suggests over the long term that people who frequently laugh show improvements in their immune function, experience less pain, and have an overall brighter mood. While sometimes you can find humor in a situation that's bad, other times a sappy comedy after a long day may be all that you need. Number six, develop a growth mindset. It's easy to look at someone else's many achievements and feel that they have something that you simply don't. While it's easy to fall into this way of thinking known as a fixed mindset, it's important to know that there is more to achieving excellence and natural talent. A growth mindset is the belief that your intelligence or abilities are not fixed and that you can improve upon them over time. It's believing that people who do excellent work can combine their talents with hard work and dedication to get there. And number seven, future thinking. Psychology Compass, a research and consultation company, talks about a concept called delay discounting. This refers to the idea that people will go for short-term satisfaction despite knowing there's a bigger benefit from waiting longer. The future is uncertain, so why wait, right? Their solution is to be mindful of the future and work towards achieving goals that will benefit you down the road. The key, however, is to keep being motivated, which can easily fall away. The same article suggests episodic future thinking where in order to maintain focus, imagine yourself in vivid detail, having achieved your goal and all the benefits that surround us. When you start to feel that you're losing focus, use this technique to remind yourself what the goal is and what you'll hope to get out of achieving it. While life has its way of being difficult, fortunately there are some small things you can try that will make big differences. What are some ways you can use some of these psychology tricks to make your life easier? Let us know in the comment section.  Get your very own sigh. The lovable plushie is here to brighten your days. It embodies the spirit of Psych2Go and it serves as a reminder to prioritize your mental well-being. Its green leaf symbolizes growth, renewal, and the importance of self-care, whether it's for yourself or as a thoughtful gift for a loved one. Sai is ready to be your smugly friend through all of life's ups and downs. Buy your Sai plushie today. Link is listed in the description box. Remember to subscribe to Psych2Go to keep up with our uploads. 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Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby-cheating video and today it's time to talk all about speed paint 2.0 metallics Let's get into it. The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style long time fans the channel will know that I am an elitist One might even call me a snob when it comes to metallic paints. I wear that badge proudly I've used basically every metallic paint that's on the market and frankly most of them just don't live up to Well actually looking like metal and that's a real problem for me when I saw these new speed paint 2.0 metallics the idea of sort of contrast metallics I was pretty fascinated because as I looked at them and started experimenting with them. They were quite liquidy They actually came together pretty well And so this led me to say all right there might be something here So today we're gonna put speed paint 2.0 metallics through the paces Do some comparisons and see exactly if these things are a new tool in our arsenal when painting metallic paints So let's head over to the desk. Let's start experimenting All right, we're gonna be using five metallic paints today There are more in this range the range is bigger, but I thought I'd test with five So two different steels a sort of dark steel and a bright silver a Sort of coppery color and then two golds one that's sort of supposed to be kind of a mid-tone gold and one that's supposed to be a Bright gold. I thought that would be a reasonable test, but do keep in mind. There are More in this range. The first thing you'll notice is that they are quite liquid Which is great. They're not gummy like we get with some bad metallics I've prepped up 20 different little gut plate shield type things here And I've primed them all in different ways and I want to see how the paints react over the different surfaces Or over the different under shade colors One thing to note right out of the gate is the side of the bottle does quite specifically say use over a bright white or a gray So I know I'm actively going against the recommendations But what interested me about that was Normally with especially steel metallics you want them to go over a sort of glossy black So it's actually a bit unusual that you would want them to go over something bright Normally that quite diminishes the effect of most metallic paints Here what I'm noticing as I'm applying these over the black is that despite having a really nice metal sheen They are still quite Translucent and showing a fair amount of the under shade underneath So when going over sort of straight black, you're really not getting the effect you get something pretty muted pretty dull As far as the color goes Which actually could be an advantage in certain cases If you're looking for sort of a necro gold a dead gold something like that running it straight over black You actually get that effect pretty cleanly and concisely When I moved on to the brighter colors here, so this is basically been primed in sort of an ivory color now the metallics came through really bright and strong and shiny and Even the steel colors and the interesting part here about this one was the darker steel Over the very bright white color I actually did see the contrast effect kind of happening and you'll you'll see that as we go on as The sort of flow improvers or other chemicals in here did pull away from the very edges and sort of gather some in the recesses so although the Quote-unquote sort of one coat contrast effect whatever like you would get with the matte paints is It's not really there with most of these metallics. It is there a little with the darker steel, which I did appreciate As I said before in videos metallics are rarely ever and I don't I don't expect them to be one coat done So I thought this was it was still nice to see that that effect actually was present to some degree Looking at these though what I like is over the brighter colors They go over in one coat very clean very shiny high reflectivity high opacity While still also Allowing some of that translucent through I it's very hard to explain because I'm kind of mystified That I'm both getting a good shine and a good opacity but also it's still clearly being influenced by what's underneath and you'll really see that here in the Xenothal item so this was just a standard these were all just Xenothal black to white and I actually really like the effect that came out of this. I think for a lot of tabletop type Jobs for people who don't want to go and you know waste a lot of their life frankly on You know doing NMM techniques on on metallics Stuff like how the middle copper came out over the black looks really good really natural You get some of that black blue infused tones down in the shadows The gold is the same way it turns a little more Turned a little more blue green than I wanted but that's gonna prompt something later So you'll see how this kind of moves my thinking as we as we move through the testing Then finally I wanted to try it over brown So this was one of those things traditionally a lot of people have been like well with your gold paint You just got to undercoat the entire area and brown first I'm not doing that ever. I refuse to do that. That is stupid I'm not painting something twice just because it needs to be because I'm dealing with bad metallics What an awful waste of time in your life that is But I thought how do these things do is there a sort of noticeable different if they're over a kind of mid-tone brown And what I'll say is I think the results are at best average Where it worked best was in fact exactly as what the side of the bottle says so Hey truth in advertising I suppose or whatever They worked best over a you know mid-tone to bright color and so you can see them all here and You can see over the black how they look kind of dead you move to the white You get really bright intense ones the zenithal you get to preserve that nice transmission of color and then the brown They do get a little warmer So there is some variation there that is pulling through from all of the different elements As you saw in the first test these things do actually have some amount of Contrasting nature to them. It's not very strong to be honest, but I don't really care I find the idea of doing like the one coat thing with this pretty pointless What I mean is like can I get a highlight and a shade out of one application with a metallic paint? That's never going to be true I always feel you need to apply additional tones treating your true metallic metals like non-metallic metals, so I didn't expect this to be magic But what fascinated me was actually to shine the finish in the opacity Part of that certainly comes from the suspension here and part of it comes from the fact that these Much like the Vallejo metal color. I love uses aluminum powder Aluminum pigment pigment basically very finely ground aluminum So most metallic paints use mica flakes ground down and frankly mica just doesn't look like actual steel or gold or things like that The normally everything starts from a mica and then it's anodized into these different colors Here we're starting from aluminum powder, which is more expensive Admittedly but produces a much much higher quality metallic because a it's real metal B It has a much more natural shine when applied as long as you get your suspension, right? And I'm happy to see in my application so far that it looks like they very much did However, I've noticed that you have to apply it over lighter colors.  So interesting change for my normal expectations, but honestly some pretty great results But of course, we don't paint tiny little gut plates We paint models and so here is some old rat cast I had converted more than I ended up needing to paint and I thought these would be great since they're storm cast and have a lot of metal and armor And it led to my unusual zenithal priming So what I did was instead of a standard zenithal of black to white I zenithal primed it in brown to white using a sort of deep or mid-tone to deep brown as an under shade And then a brighter white as the top level And I thought that would be a really interesting test because in you know as I worked with the shields What occurred to me and what it what it really seemed was that the the warm brown tones did give a nice rich color Especially to the gold But also they they got really shiny and reflective when they were over white So I thought let's put the best of both worlds together This will prevent the shadows from going blue and turning kind of green when you get yellow plus blue Hey, that makes green And I found that I really liked how this came out and you can be the judge if you you think this is on the level But you know overall I just kind of turned all the gold parts gold for the steel I noticed it had a lot less variation Over the the individual elements like the steel was pretty true to its color Regardless of What it was happened to be over it just kind of always looked like steel My thought here was that if you you know dark steel if you put it over the black It looks like pretty dark steel if you put it over the white it looks like pretty bright steel. So okay The next test was can you paint over top of it if you do want to execute those sort of non-metallic strategies so I thinned down a little rhinox hide and See if we can get some some shadows built in here And I'm happy to say this sort of thin glazes of this rhinox hide actually worked really well So layers of paint lay over the top of this without issue Despite how really smooth it lays down So that was a good test and then I thought okay, let's do some highlighting so I grabbed some of the silver color and Worked it as the highlights on these the various elements of the the armor and once again had no issues here The metals can all go on top of each other and lay on top of each other There was no Reactivation no nothing like that no no negative issues for painting on top of these either with standard acrylic paints or additional Speed paint 2.0's in all cases. I was able to structure and create my non-metallic infused highlights Exactly the same as I would with my Vallejo metal color And you can see I just kind of work my way around the figure both hitting some of the edges as well as you know Creating some small highlights on the gold Next up, let's put it to the test. So if we like this stuff, how does it compare against my gold recipe? So this was from a previous video. You can find that linked up above But this is my complicated gold recipe That's meant to mimic what real 24 karat gold looks like And so I'm going to paint this figure literally half and half So right now I'm just painting my gold recipe This is my mix of everything Vallejo metal color and the pigment and all of that right on one side and then I did the Bright glittering gold on the other side And the first thing that I noticed here is that This gold like many golds that are out there on the market for miniature paints is much much much more yellow than actual 24 karat gold Uh, so you know real sort of traditional 24 karat gold is not actually very yellow But I suppose golden armors don't necessarily have to be that way So really this comes down to taste as to what tone or hue you like in your gold And I will say there are multiple different uh hues including a very green gold in the speed paint range So you you do have your choice as to what you're doing there Next up, I wanted to compare a little bit of the the two steel colors. So here I'm using the dark steel And we're gonna this is this is actually Vallejo metal color steel first the first thing I apply in all of these comparisons will be the Vallejo metal color and then on the other side We will the second paint will be the the new one so Now we're we're Going to go ahead and apply the darker steel and this as well as really showed the difference I like the the dark steel from speed paint, but it is much more blue and fused now They actually have an enchanted steel that's even more blue But this one that one's really blue Then I wanted to compare the silvers So this is just the Vallejo metal color silver we're applying first very bright One of my favorite metal paints of all time as it's so intense and really really bright And you notice that the silver here from Army painter honestly when held up to the reflection Looks almost identical And that's great. What that means is where we've got the light hitting We're getting the same intensity the same shine the same true metallic reflection So so that's really great I thought I'd do a little comparison on the flat of the shield just to see if it looked any different there Again starting with the Vallejo metal color silver and then we'll do the brighter silver Next now with the side by side when they're right there You'll notice when they're outside of the lights reflection The silver from army painter isn't quite as intense. It's a little more muted But when put under the direct reflection what I liked is it does have that nice true shine And here then you can see the figure nice and half and half everything is truly half and happy split right down the middle And you know, you can see a little bit of a difference in the shield again as I sort of rotate it between the light though It looks pretty darn similar Maybe a little more bluey the golds are a little more yellow as I mentioned, but they still have a really high shine They still look really really nice They've got that reflectivity that you really that you really want to see The final test for these is can they airbrush? Because obviously Vallejo metal color is an airbrush metallic paint and it's my go-to right now And oftentimes you want to put your metals through an airbrush for doing things like tanks or You know vehicles or walkers or stuff like that Or anything and so This i'm using a 0.2 needle. I wanted to give it that the hardest test possible A very very small needle. This is a this is a 0.2. I thinned this down with my standard Mix of flow improver and thinner 80 20 thinner to flow improver I thinned this three drops of paint to or sorry three drops of thinner to five drops of paint and So about a little less than a 1 to 2 ratio And it came out really really great it airbrush without a problem I never had any dry tipping nor clogging or anything like that. I was able to Work my way around the model. I'm working fairly thin as I always do But as you can see I got a really nice final shine everything applied very very cleanly very easily Then I go ahead and i'm going to try some of the gold here Yet again Just doing it over the top I thought it might be an interesting transition to see how they all kind of look on top of each other And sure enough, but you know looked great nice rich tone came out without an issue yet again All i'm doing is my my simple quick fast airbrush cleaning just rinsing it out with water Takes like 20 seconds in between each color change And i'm not getting any kind of clogging or build up or anything like that And you can see I really like the gold over top of that copper really provides a nice rich tone Finally, I thought I'd lay some silver over the top just you know very very lightly and sure enough again, no problem at all All of these different paints airbrushed really really simply and easily So to me they passed every test I could throw in front of them And here's how he looks all told with all of those colors airbrushed on him overall A really great response from the army painter metals So there you go overall I have to say I'm pretty impressed by these It was a real interesting learning to see how much different they looked working over the different under shades And oftentimes most of us I if you're a fan of this channel if you're like me You're probably zenithaling a lot of your miniatures. You're not working over straight black So I think in most of those cases this is going to work really well Over things like a value sketch or a zenithal or a slap chop These are honestly going to actually provide real contrast That's what I ended up seeing when the figure itself has some kind of zenithal transition to it because the metallics have that Uh that translucent to them you not only get the metallic shine But you also do get a real change in the tone And so I'm interested to continue experimenting with these and see what we can do But I have to say these are a new part of my rotation I don't know if it'll replace my ultimate gold recipe But what I will say is certainly for things like the coppers and the bronzes. I am all in on those These are the nicest tones I have found of these and they are absolutely going to be part of my regular rotation Anytime I'm looking in that copper bronze brass area. I think these are perfect I would encourage you to give them a try out yourself Just because I think they're actually pretty good So with that, I'll say if you liked this, hey, give it a like subscribe for additional hobby cheating We have new videos here every Saturday. If you've got any questions I didn't answer feel free to drop those down in the comments below As always though, if you want to support this channel You can do so through the merch store below through any of the links below to purchase stuff or by joining our patreon Patreon is our patreon is focused on review and feedback and taking your next step on your hobby journey We'd love to have you as part of the community Thank you so much for watching this one. I really appreciate it. And we'll see you next time


Okay, thank you so, yeah, we we started this analysis from a Mediterranean angle to a regional perspective, but it became quite sort of immediately clear that the implications of this investigation had a sort of much wider sort of relevance also for the you know the North Atlantic domain, so I'm gonna use this kind of The the Mediterranean of the sort of Trojan horse to get into the Atlantic domain, so to say This is not surprising because we know that the Mediterranean Multidicada variability is sort of enslave it to what happens in the neighbor Atlantic domain And so there is a vast body of literature showing how I mean correlated is the low frequency fluctuations in the Mediterranean area with the Atlantic Multidicada variability particularly showing for the sea surface temperature evaporation fields and also temperature of the air temperature over land So that this evidence somehow points to the predictability of the signal We I mean is this that the question is is this really predictable and how I mean if we look at the When we try to establish how predictable is this sea surface temperature variability By using for example, see me five decade of predictions This is a picture from a work by Virginie Gemma and the recent recent work showing What is the added value of initialized versus non-initialized, you know Simulations and there's our differences in the anomaly correlation and Telling you what is the advantage of in, you know climate predictions with respect to most standard historical sort of uninitialized Simulations and you see there are some differences the yellow patches show where there is this added value But this is relatively small is significant is there you can see it's quite confine it to some sub areas of the med-sea and in particular in the Levantine Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean Basin But to some extent this is also telling us that most of the Skill the predictive skill is already in the uninitialized simulation So we can get a lot of predictability even without an initialization. So it's telling us that That there's some important role not only from the you know internal variability of the system the uninitialized component, but there's also Some important role potentially for the four things And so this led us to the major question of what is the role of the forcing by forcing I mean I'm meaning here nature and anthropogenic force things and then what is the role of the forcing on the overall predictability We see in the in the med-sea region in the Mediterranean area So to tackle this issue we decided to use a sort of hierarchy of different historical integrations Ranging from more standard historical ones that we know of very familiar with the The ones which include the whole set of four things nature are plus anthropogenic and but we also try to decided to use another typology of historical simulations using the so-called heist Michelin heist misc Sort of integration. This is a type of a subset of semi five historical integrations where Specific forcing had been used like either using individual anthropogenic for things or specific, you know natural forcing such as solar Or volcanic and so forth and I need to give credit for collecting this interesting set of Simulation to the NASA group in particular who made a lot of work to collect this in from this kind of coordinating this sort of Me in the semi five and so we're going to use also this historical Michelin is with either Anthropogenic only just to I mean a disentangle. What is the relative role of anthropogenic versus, you know, natural and anthropogenics together and and finally in order to further narrow down our attention to Which particular anthropogenic might be we also used another subset even narrower subset of models where Exit essentially all of four things are there natural plus anthropogenic except for the anthropogenic aerosol the so-called no a Simulations and just to remind us that we know very well. What do we mean by natural? Do what do we mean by anthropogenic natural here include no canals plus solar variability and anthropogenic is a blend of different Four things going from greenhouse gases anthropogenic aerosols land use changes And Okay, so this is the size of the ensembles that we've been using and so as I say historical simulations Provide quite a large body of simulations in here We decided to stick to those models which had provided Ensembles of a historical simulation not just one individual single realization by the number of it And we decided to stick to those which had provided a minimum set of three members And so this led us to select only 13 models there are many more But of course at the models which had provided the ensembles had them a lot and a smaller set of the whole set and this Amounts to about 69 different Historical realizations the his misc with only anthropogenic four things is a still I mean quite large to some extent It's 53 different ensembles Sorry ensemble members overall Divided by 10 different models and finally this is a much smaller set unfortunately of a historical Michelin use Four things without anthropogenic aerosols, which is an ounce to 14 only three models did that But and that and that is the sort of sites that we had to deal with but as for a historical and Anthropogenic only it was quite a reasonably large set of integrations Now if we look at the other historical simulation, this is This is the sea surface temperature record for the 20th century actually it goes from 1870 up to 2010 and the black curve is the observations and the gray cloud is the whole set of historical integrations This and the red curve is the multimodal ensemble average made across the whole set of you know The grand ensemble of all the force all all the force of simulations and what do you see here? Well, first of all, you can see that the cloud is encompassing the observations so that when you you Did the models are somehow able to capture? I mean the variability of the real variability of several variability is included in the cloud But most interestingly that the red curve is the multimodal ensemble mean and after you average over such a large number of Simulation you expect this signal to be essentially the force of component But averaging out the internal variability of individual models And so the interesting point that you can see here is that After averaging over such a large ensemble of integration You see that you see that it's quite a good particular for the second half of the 20th century there's a reasonably good correlation with the observations and Particularly if you look at this sort of a worm to call transition occur from the 50s to the middle 70s There is this declining trend which is still there after such large ensemble average But you can also notice that there is a sort of mismatch in the face and the models in a rather systematic way tend to anticipate this minimum by a Few years with respect to the seven ones Whereas not such good agreement is in the in the in the first part of the record actually there is some good agreement in the late 19th century, but then it becomes a bit more elusive during the early part of the 20th century So when we try to establish what is this partial structure Associated in particular to this particular cycle we decided to focus on on this specific a semi cycle of the all and you know AMV like Variability and in you see if you compost it, you know across the worm face Sorry, I can't see okay if I compost it across the worm face about 20 years from 1930 to 1950s minus the cold face of this semi cycle and the the multimodal ensemble mean sort of composite is a pattern which shows of quite a familiar structure with this comma-shaped Structure as a polar Basin amplified response and the Atlantic is clearly part of it and it's eastward On the on the European African seaboard we have this sort of comma shape And as a cold lobe over the subtropics if you do the same exercise for the ops You see a sort of a grossly Consistent pattern again. We need to bear in mind that this is not the whole AMO This is not the AMV pattern as we are used to see it because it's only about one specific semi cycle of it So there's a lot of also noise and noise. It's not noise. This is I mean since this is the reality in a way We cannot filter out the internal variability from the first one but this is only the first component and Even after removing so the internal variability the first component bear some good consistency with the observed pattern So okay, so the question is that I mean having said that of course historical Forcings include both natural and anthropogenic Forcings and the question is to what extent is this that give due to the some natural forcings or due to some anthropogenic Forcings and so in order to address this question, of course We moved through through the hierarchy of models from purely historical to sort of idealized Anthropogenic only for things so this is the so I'm invoking here the historical MISC a set of simulations With only anthropogenic for since so everything which is anthropogenic is there basically greenest gas aerosols So it's on land use and so forth and Well now the issue here is the following we we can clearly see each of these two curves And the blue one and the green one are Multimodal ensemble mean themselves and they have been obtained from a fairly 50 50 partition in this Population of models about 27 model not there are 27 models in the blue one and 26 in the green one And what is the difference between these two clusters? So clearly this is a clusterization of the behavior of the models under anthropogenic conditions And and the clusterization is such that the green one clearly reproduces this SSD dip this minimum during the middle 70s and then the temperature after that grow again and Whereas the so-called anthropogenic a is at the blue curve the temperature just monotonically increase Although there's a clear change in the pace of the growth as the trend changes and in the in the latest part of record Accelerates quite consistent with the other ensemble But it is clear that we have an issue here as not all the model Despite the fact that all the models have been forced presumably in the same way in the consistent way This is a protocol Then yet there is a large model to model uncertainty But I can anticipate that this comparison is only partly fair because actually the blue curve is strongly biased by one specific model There are in terms of the model Interdependence this population are quite diverse in that the blue one is quite Affected by one specific model which has been run under very different configurations But the model interdependence in the blue one is strongly biased one specific model I'm not going to say which one is not interesting or if you want I can tell you but I mean this is just to say that the green Curve is somehow representative of more diverse zoology of models Right so and if we overlap the historical forcing some of this one So did this is the red curve that we were looking at before in the early earlier slides? And you can clearly see that the historical and this particular subset of anthropogenic for things Quite overlap quite well. Thanks for the in the second half of the century and you can see that Also another feature that you will notice only once you have a lot of observations as well as that under anthropogenic You still don't reconcile this mismatch in the phasing of the minimum of this particular warm to cool transition So anthropogenic and the historical are quite consistent over there And this is suggesting that is this actually I mean aside from this consideration in the model uncertainty There's a quite a good. I mean agreement between One particular subset of anthropogenic simulations and historical ones that which lead us to believe this is According to this picture. This seems to be really anthropogenic early driven at least this particular Part of the cycle we cannot say we cannot make such a good attribution for the earlier part of the record And we see not obviously the anthropogenic and don't seem to be playing any role as expected in the earlier part of the They say the earlier part of the record But not even the historical ones are capable to do that Except that you can see that there is some influence in the volcanic From you do the volcanoes in the historical which is absent of course by definition in the anthropogenic ones because the novel canals are there by construction So right and then we look at the spatial structure of this and again of this Warm to cool transition we show again the composite for all set of models that we've been looking at so far And you see the the green frame at the Plot is the one referring to the so-called anthropogenic be the one show in the cooling and the Anthropogenic a is the one of the models that just the temperature keep on increasing and you can see is that the green models Yeah, I'm coming the the green models Patterns sure is a it's again is the comma-shaped Pattern comes out again with a subpolar amplified response and the Atlantic part of this Large-scale structure and the negative lobe of this are tropics whereas anthropogenic a is the models Which do not show any such as the cooling and that the temperature just keep on increasing and that of course the pattern is totally different So, okay, if it were anthropogenic what kind of anthropogenic would that be and then I'll pay on a very purely intuitive basis You wouldn't think that the greenhouse gas could determine such Let's say how high at use of the middle 20th century and to make a fair comparison We find we decided to use this and no anthropogenic aerosols those models that we could rely upon and Compare those to the historical ones But only to those models corresponding exactly to exactly to the no a ensemble So that we just stick to those three models and we confront to the historical versus no anthropogenic aerosol And you see that after you remove anthropogenic aerosol. This is the green The green belt of the mop In the in the picture the the temperature increase and that don't show any higher to us anymore So it looks like the effectively the anthropogenic aerosol have played a role in this sort of inversion in the in the trends of the temperature Finally, I will skip conclusion. This is just kind of summary I mean we that the emerging picture is okay This is this nice cycle is the a and v like cycle appears to be somehow as a Fertuse not fortuitous, but it looks like more a patchwork of different. I mean sources of variability and predictability and If we cannot attribute the earlier part of the record to any force of response that clearly internal variability is playing a role There there's also concur from the volcanoes So I would say but the second cycle of it the second part of it seems to be much related to the anthropogenic aerosol and this lead us to the kind of Frankenstein a and v like structure were different You know, we're merging together different things, but overall contribute to Create this is nice sinusoidal like picture and I will stop here. Thank you


Our judiciary workers in River State are expected to resume work soon after several weeks of strike action called by the national leadership of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, Jusun. This follows a meeting between members of the River State Chapter of Jusun and the newest one chief judge of the state, Justice Simon Amadi. The state leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association was also part of the meeting which was held on Wednesday in Portaqot, the state capital. Shortly after the meeting, the branch chairman of the NBA Prince Oye Query released a statement disclosing that the deliberations during the meeting were cordial leading to a fruitful outcome. According to Oye Query, the Jusun members agreed to call off the strike which had been for about two months and had paralysed court activities in the state. At the time of this report, a circular from the leadership of Jusun directing its members to resume work was still being awaited.


Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a coke and now Claudia the alarm clock It's too early The room's still dark. That's because the blinds are down. Oh nonsense We haven't got any blinds on our windows yet, right? These are not our blinds. They're not our windows They're not no close your mouth and open your eyes and you'll see what Santa Claus has. Oh, nothing doing if I open my eyes I'll wake up you tell me what he has for me Good morning, David. Good morning You know, I was dreaming. We were asleep on the farm Sun was shining in the window and when the alarm clock rang I dreamt it was a rooster I'm going back to sleep. Good. Give my love to the rooster David, why don't you reset the alarm for 10 minutes from now? It's still early. What's the use of 10 more minutes? Oh lots of use Anyway, it won't take you as long to get to the office from here is from Eastbrook. Oh Go on David indulge yourself Let's sleep another 10 minutes. Yeah, all right. Just 10 minutes though and to make sure it's no more than 10 minutes I'm going to reset the alarm clock. That's all I want 10 minutes there Except I don't think I can and what go back to sleep You know, the trouble with me is that once I'm awake. I'm not asleep anymore Come again. I don't overlap once. I'm awake that is that then tell me How do you like waking up in New York? I love it. I think don't you miss Eastbrook? Only when I'm asleep. Oh Actually, my worst suspicions about myself have been confirmed. They have I have a horrible confession to make there I hear you have every right to know I am a lazy good for nothing David I love staying here at Julian Hartley's with butlers and maids and all the rest No, you'd be a fool if you didn't you don't mind. I'm delighted. I bet you knew it about me all the time Sure, that's why I married you. I love lazy good for nothing David Do you miss Eastbrook me? Oh, I should say not you don't. Ah, this is the life for me I even get 10 more minutes in bed in the morning. Now. What more could anybody ask? You're not fooling You're really enjoying this to the hilt I feel like out of vacation. Well, that's the way you're supposed to be away from Housekeeping cleaning cooking carpenters from all the knits as bad as it sounds darling It's wonderful most of the time and the rest of the time Your home Come here Well, I guess I better get up David. I've been trying to tell you darling. You can't get up I can't know since when since last night, but I have to get breakfast. That's just it. What is? You don't have to get breakfast Claudia you didn't not not not David now. Listen. Don't get excited. You'll love it for a change really you will go on Go on say it. I'm not ashamed. I told Suzanne We would have breakfast in bed there. You're kidding of course. Why should I be kidding me breakfast in bed? We're on a vacation aren't we you just said so now don't darling I have to get up and shower and get to the office. I haven't got time You're on a vacation till after breakfast you said so so you will eat in bed and like it now Just bring that little bell over there in your night table. Suzanne will know what it means. I Am hen pecked of course you are the bell has been rung the rest is silence Mmm Breakfast on a silver tray with a lacy napkin fine bone China and coddled eggs. I Love coddled eggs. Would it be all right for me to coddle over and brush my teeth? Go right ahead. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You're very very welcome Look, I'm all up and awake. Can I have my breakfast sitting up at the desk? You cannot you get right back into bed this minute Hen pecked. Hey, where are you going?  I'm going to brush my teeth Do you mind?  That's for me. What are you trying to do psychoanalyze? Answer me. Are you afraid you might enjoy breakfast and burn? All right. All right. You win. I am afraid huh That is exactly what I suspected and I am beginning to suspect that I married a woman You've just missed a deathless remark. What tell me quickly. I said I'm beginning to suspect that I married a woman with female Forbal female foibles. Well, well, well, I am disillusioned These beds are You said that already doesn't cost anything to say it again. Oh There's breakfast. Yes. Well, you don't have to sound like the voice of doom about it. I'll smile. How's this awful? Come in, please smile coming up. Oh, it's beautiful Good morning. We throw me the Northman. Good morning, Suzanne. I bring you breakfast lovely trays. Oh, here. I'll take mine Coffee smells marvelous. Yeah, wait a minute. Sit up. Yes. It is better to see that. Oh All right. Now I give the other tray with the Northman if you will also sit up Very comfortable. Oh, look at those muffins.  I love Anything I can bring more for you. Mrs. Northman another thing. Well, thank you, sir Just drink when you are ready. I call all right This life delightful My legs will fall asleep. Oh, they can't why not? Because mine won't mine have a tray on them, too Well, your legs are smaller that has nothing to do with it. It's the size of the tray that matters Well, the fact remains I already can't feel the big toe on my left foot. I don't believe you Well, can you feel it? What my big toe? Of course, I can't feel your big toe.  I Don't care what you think this is nice David Hey, listen, would you mind holding my tray a minute put on earth for I want to Move my leg a little. Oh, I see. It's not that I'm uncomfortable or anything I just think I can balance it better. No, no, it's explanations necessary now If you oh, I know if you put your tray on the floor all you have to do is just reach over and maybe I can hold yours and Balance mine at the same time. Be careful. All right. Now. Now hand me. Hand me your Baby, listen, you'll have to be very careful. I poured my candy already hand it over. I said all right there Yeah, my tray is balancing. I don't breathe or anything Here we are Better what's better? Is it by any chance waking up? I'm still holding the tray Then you admit it admit what it was asleep. I didn't say it No, no, no, no here. Are you ready for your tray back? Oh, just one second more David I just want to push this pillow up ready or not Here it comes Oh, you gave me a scare. I think nothing of it when I was a lad I I juggled seven loaded trays at one time Now my egg oh David see if you can push my pillow just a little more to the right there goes my right leg Where'd it go sound asleep? Oh nonsense. Just wiggle a little my cat with this tray on my left Don't worry about it. It's only for another five or ten minutes, but that's awful. I have decided to be philosophical about it If I am to enjoy breakfast in bed, I'm just not going to complain about it. That's all you're right That's the only way that's right, and I am enjoying it. I can tell very much good. I'm glad you are You better drink your coffee darling, it'll be cold Julia says she has breakfast in bed every day. Well bully for Julia. I didn't realize she had so strong a Constitution and Hartley too. He has to every morning in spite of his gallbladder the joys of the rich Darling, were you serious? How are your legs petrified? So who cares me? I care Would you like to get up eat breakfast comfortably at a table and I can have it in bed why I should say not oh This is so so relaxing I'll be exhausted all day Upside that that goes your pillow. I can't put your tray David listen darling. I wouldn't think you were a quitter if you drank your coffee at the desk Darling Deep down. I know you you are a country girl at heart just because I can't balance a breakfast tray That doesn't prove anything. You know, it's funny But I keep wishing we were back in Connecticut And I had a small idea that you did too Back in Connecticut and our lovely farm right left barking Shakespeare meowing Where the sun shines early into the bedroom because there aren't any blinds on the window exactly right where breakfast is in spite of electricians and carpenters and trains to cat Where water runs cold the lights go out Where it rains and rains Rains and rains you're right. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't prefer it to all this.   I would Well, I wish I were as sure as you seem to be You know You seem to love all of this Anybody rich can have all this. I Just like it because it's here Darling, I've learned that it's a very special gift To wake up with a rooster instead of an alarm clock Now do you believe me? Believe you Come here. Come here farmer's wife. I'm here I'll give you a kiss That'll last as long as that rooster grows Mention the word entertaining to some women and they utter a weary sigh They figure you have to go to a lot of trouble whenever you have a few people in Other women have open house all the time their families never hesitate to ask friends over without advanced warning In such homes you'll usually find the refrigerator well stocked with coca-cola Then all that's needed to make guests welcome is a bottle opener ice cold coke does the rest If you want to enjoy a reputation for hospitality easily Order a case of coke and keep a supply on hand the family will thank you and so will your guests Mr. King, maybe you tell me was breakfast all right for the North and it was fine when they finally ate it at the desk And they are a sweet couple.  Well, that's what they planned But come tomorrow night. I have an idea they may change their minds and where will they go to the most logical place in New York? And you'll find out where it is tomorrow Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or a bar and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola


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So if you want to stick around, we'll go over the Q&A. I'll answer all your questions, the best of my abilities. Also want to talk about a Voyager update in that 50 million, I think that was wrong, but we'll go over that in the Q&A.  Thanks for coming by. If not, stick around, we'll do a little Q&A. Also before you go, like and subscribe, a lot of good stuff. And Q&A, look at this banner out of here. Whew, what I miss, laser disk. Yeah, sometimes, guess what? The best technology doesn't win. Laser disk was ahead of its time. And what went out? VHS, if you're old, you remember that. Yeah, look at that. David Allen, my ex's parents are in their 90s. They live in Puerto Rico with no power. Very common. There's a lot of problems in Puerto Rico. Just between us, there is some corruption. It's government. There's always gonna be some corruption. But it just astounds me that in 2000, was it 17?  It's really bad. Like I think it's even worse than it was before. So I'm like, I don't get it. Five years, lots of money, nothing really changed there. So that's why I'm like, don't give to the government. Just give to the local agencies like that, you know. World, what was it called? World Central Kitchen and Protechos. Cause at least, you know that the local people will help the local people. All the ones kind of suck. So yeah. Chewy says, been through two tornadoes, lots of destruction. Yes, I've been through one myself. Pretty awful. One Game Boy. One VHS player. Well, Mr. Wolf, we know. Imagine if a judge showed the Fed and produced a documentary of what his back in Newest that's the beauty of it, right? It says right there. It's backed by the full faith and trust of the US government. That's what backs it and that's it. The thing is though, is that behind the scenes, there's a little backing of the US government and our GDP and how we do world trade. So like if you do, well, what is Luna backed by? Well, Luna was backed by an algorithm stablecoin. So yes, the dollar could crash and it can go to zero and it can go away. I get all that stuff, right? But what's more likely?  Go take a look at the Dixie right now. Tell me how weak the dollar is. All right. Interesting theory. Luna failed because the hedge funds that had their hands on everything wanted it to. They'll want nothing to do with it. I know a couple of the hedge funds that were involved and they were pretty happy with the gains that they were getting. And they did not, I will, not all of them wanted to fail and a lot of them lost a lot of money. Just saying. Dez, we're waiting for a session. Pepperings where it's at, Cardano haters. Everybody look, nobody likes, very few people like, that's not true.  It's like, I don't know, it's dumb. I like both of them. I don't understand the problem. When capitulation, that's the question. When pivot is the bigger question. Oh, so the thing I was gonna talk to you guys about, about the Voyager, that bid process that came through. There was Binance and FTX, apparently they're leading the way. And when it came out, it was just, first of all, there's been no official announcement. We will know exactly what it is until October 19th or the 13th. I can't remember the dates exactly. It was supposed to be September 27th, but they pushed that back to October to the official announcement. And from what I understand, I was in Twitter Spaces. It was with Simon Dixon talking about how we could do better. And then somebody who was in there that follows the case closely, said he looked through all the documents and they said that the $50 million that was there. First of all, we don't know if that's actually true. And second of all, that could be 50 million over what they actually had to do to pay for everything. So I don't, because when I looked at it, I'm like, if it's 50 million for all the assets, and we took a look at the assets, we just, we broke it all down. There was over, it was $1.2 billion with the loans that were covered, excluding three arrows capital. So like it had 648 billion in crypto. It had 270 in loans out and some other different parts of where their assets were. So I'm like 50 million. I think that was what they were talking about as far as like, it was over the asking amount. But again, these are all just hearsay. Nobody really knows the exact stipulations of what's going on. And we'll wait for the right information moving forward. I can't wait to take profits 100K and thank my financial dad, Rob. And see him in the pool. I'll jump in the pool. Anchor protocol. Giovanni, I don't trust Charles. You're smart to not to. Don't trust anybody. Everything's a scam until pre-otherwise. Don't trust anybody to be a lot better. Novogratz with his tattoo again. Hey, I'll give it to him. You know, when Novogratz, he had that nice, the Luna wolf howling at the moon, whatever. At least he came out and he said, look, this was a huge mistake on my part and the people that took a look at this. And he goes, I'm gonna remember this day and I got a nice tattoo to remind me every single day of the things that I should and shouldn't do. Got to tip your hat to somebody who can come up and say that. Good question. Mike says, why did Jamie Dimon say that all crypto was a scam? Because that's what he believes it is. It's very interesting though. There was, it was a hearing and they had all the different bank representatives in there and they went down the line and Jamie Dimon, they were asking him some pretty deep questions. I was listening to it this morning. Very boring, don't listen to it. But they asked him, they said, what do you think about as far as crypto? And he did talk about it. He goes, look, he goes right now, he goes, some people believe that China is in the forefront and they're beating us. He goes, in all honesty with crypto, he goes, we need to be ahead of that, ahead of them to keep everything in line.  How many rug pulls that we gotta go through? How many things that we have to, and then people will say, well, Rob, if you don't like it, get out of crypto. Look, I'm just telling you, there's a lot of scams out there. There's a lot of rug pulls, especially in DeFi. And we just talked over one yesterday, 2. something, $4 billion of the last couple of years have been lost, people lost their money just because of these scams. So when he talks about it's full of scams, he's not far off, must be honest. But they talked about JP, JP coin, JP Morgan coin, and about how it's progressing. And so you have to understand that he has his own vested interests. So he's like, yeah, crypto, this crypto sucks, but the crypto that we're making, it's pretty awesome. Classic, classic. Swing in both ways, something like that. Excited for gonna summits, bullish on TGA Fridays, who isn't, go down as a futures, it will be, I think there's a room for many of players, Chili's, perhaps, who knows. Charles said he would love to see someone become a side champ, I'm not sure if that's true, but it was interesting. Yeah, Jamie Deming called crypto a policy scheme. Let's be honest, there has been some Ponzi's going around, has there not? But however, let's not let the banks off without a free hook.  How many times are they gonna open up bank accounts and for Wells Fargo to do that and move there? And then how many times are they going to actually, I don't know, wander money, look at credit Swiss?  It's called deflection and it works out pretty well. That pangolin, where's my wrench? Next time, so close. In the bear market, my Chili's went six, that's pretty good, that's pretty good. Hi, Robert, you dare jump in the swimming pool of Bitcoin? No, no, I do jump in every day though, no matter what the temperature is. That's a good point. Corporate Crypto says, die is the original TUSD and has never de-pegged so far. The original over-collateralized and battle tested stable, USDT and USDC are backed by debt. So with USDC, if you wanna say the dollar is equating to debt, then you can make a case there. But a layer of the CEO came in before Congress and said, look, here's all the financials that you wanna see. You can see how much we're actually that are pegged to different assets and you can take a look. And the same thing with the finance stablecoin. So you can say it, but again, there's a law that's not passed yet or a bill that's coming through that wants to see everything backed by something. I won't go there. And you can use the argument, but it's backed. You know, we can use it, but it's backed by debt just like the US dollars as we can print freely. The difference is that there's no crypto that has the reserve currency yet. And if people say, but brah, Bitcoin will be the reserve currency of the world. Sure, maybe, but then XRP says will be the reserve currency, maybe.  I don't know, but all fiat currency has gone to zero. It's a fact just throughout the whole history. The question is, will the dollar collapse tomorrow or in a thousand years? I have no idea. I like Logan. He says, you invest in Cardona because they take the slow calculated approach. That's kind of true, but it seems Charles is kind of lame and so are the daps on Cardona. Hope I'm wrong though, because I'm invested in that peer review. So I don't know.  But then when I'd see all the rug pulls and different things that were going on, I'm like, it's not so bad of an idea. And just takes a long time. So I kind of see it as like building a foundation, but it will be nice for a little adoption. And that's the whole point of Basel, to make things a little bit easier for those daps developers to actually build on top and make those killer apps. Because it doesn't matter how great it is and all these things, it really just comes down to use cases and adoption. Can they get that? I sure hope so. Let's see. Probably many hours before Basel complete. So it starts in three hours, but remember it also, it's supposed to end on the 27th. It's a five day process. So just be aware. David says a good point. I'll reload up on Aida when it hits 20 cents again. Probably it's gonna happen. Rug pulls are killing Bitcoin. Rug pulls are pilling everything. And also the lies and the schemes and the scams really hurt this whole industry. It's very hard to get large institutions and sovereign nations and pensions to come in here when things just are like, whoops, we lost all your money or sorry, we're insolvent. I know people, some people don't care. Like we don't care. We don't want that in there. I want people in there. I want that to happen. I want that to come in because I think it's good for mass adoption. Now, having said that, remember this, institutions aren't here to change the world. They're here to change their bank accounts. So we love them when they come in, but remember they'll sell. They all sell. How many? Yeah, that's right. That's right, crypto keeper. How many fines has JP Morgan chased racked up over the years? Never mind if I, exactly. But you have to understand it's just the cost of doing business. If you make 10 billion and you get charged a billion, hey, still got nine billion, I'd do that all day long. BitBoy said that Sam Bakeman Freed is working with the regulators to do something to ruin crypto for the rest of the market. Well, I mean, if he did do that, but I heard his business in the short term, but maybe the longterm, he could be like the Amazon and be like, oh, you failed?  I'll buy you for pennies in the dollar. Who knows? Free market, right? Look, we all like freedom. That's why we like Bitcoin. And if that is what it is, even though it's straight up manipulation, that's the free market. Sad, but true. I'm just a realist. That's just what it is. Yeah, that was chewy. Jupiter Mojo, one new pure green screen October. Tober going back, can't wait. Might even donate my time back into the medical field. Who knows? Did you know? This is more for like beardy in me. I was, we're watching a, it was a CNBC or ABC Morning Review, whatever it was, but they talked about salaries in Puerto Rico. One of the ladies who was a registered nurse at one of the clinics, a registered nurse is making $800 every two weeks as a salary. That was blown away. A friend of mine works in the pharmaceutical companies. He makes roughly $10 an hour. And it's like a pretty like high up job. I'm like, what the? That is, there's a reason, like if you look at all the states in the US, the poverty lines, and we cover this in the Puerto Rico video, the poorest, if you, it's not a state, I get it, but out of all the ones, I think one of the poorest is Louisiana or Kentucky, as far as the poverty line. And it's, you know, whatever the rate is, I want to say 12, 13%, but in Puerto Rico, you're looking at almost 30% poverty. It's, I don't know how people make it over there because it's expensive to live there. Any ounce of tangent, something's got to be done. Thanks, Pokey. I stick my aided with Rob, has been this plan. Fantastic. Link in the description. Grandpa Rock, DCA hodl in the stick. Not the wrong of that. Yeah. And Nick's got a good point. He says, Rob, I stopped DCing. We'll follow Ben Cowell for now. Cash is king. There's two, there's like, you know that the DCA show we do with, it's me, James and Ben, we're like in the spectrum. And Ben is like, I'm not buying anything. I'm just waiting for this inevitable crash to come. And James is like, it's going to be good. I'm going to back up the truck and buy some things. He's more of a trader though. And I'm kind of like right in the middle. I'm like, I don't know if it's going to crash, crash, or if it's just going to move sideways forever. So I just, I continue a dollar cost average, but a lesser amount than what I would usually do. And then I wait for things to go down. If Bitcoin goes on to 15K, then I double up what I'm dollar cost averaging for everything. And if the alt coins drop by another, you know, 50%, then I increase it. It's just called dynamic DCing. I'm not for sure. I'm not smart enough to figure it out. I just know that over time, the crypto market's not going to zero. That is one thing I'm pretty sure about. But who knows, maybe good, but there's just so much money in there. I mean, we just took a look at BlackRock and Fidelity and Charles Schwab and somebody else, which is like, it equals like $22 trillion assets under management and they're all getting into crypto. Isn't it amazing how they get into crypto right now when the market is sucking? Smart money, or big money, whatever you want to call it. She says, they won't sell before me. Yes, what's a trillion among friends? Still waiting for my t-shirt, Ben. And that, that, that, uh, Thoughts on Gemini stablecoin? Nope, none. Yeah, Poki, Poc Nachos, speaking of pennies and dollars, both CZ and Sambit, 50 million from Voyager. Again, I don't think it's 50 million for the 1.2 billion assets. That doesn't make any sense. And nobody really knows. We won't know until the official announcement October 13th or 19th, that was getting wrong. Please remember the U.S. does not own crypto regular as much as you want. The rest of the world doesn't care. That's true. And that's why, like in other parts of the world, you can still get XRP. You can still do whatever you want to. It's just that, unfortunately, America's a big, big piece of the puzzle, right? Not big piece of the pie as far as global economy. So you'd want them to be involved even just a little bit because that's where a lot of money is. Just the truth. Do you think this is the bottom? I don't. But even if I, because I don't believe this is the bottom, I don't dollar cost average as much as I used to. I still think we've got a ways to go to go lower, but I could be wrong. We could be chopping sideways for a bit.  We've already gone through these Fed rate hikes. We've already gone through the automotive industry kind of a little bit pullbacks and then the housing market pullback. So what else is left? And I gotta tell you, a lot's left. There's a lot of different, there's a lot of more pain that we can see. You've never seen pain when people start defaulting on their homes and they have no place to go. And then of course, I mean, the one saving grace though is that there's a lot of job opportunities out there. But I think that'll start to evaporate at some point.  So if they keep raising the rates, then everything else goes up, more difficult to afford. And then we have a risk of stagflation or deflation. So, and there's a lot of problems up on the horizon. I just don't see how the macro supports it. And remember, the Fed still has yet to really tighten. Quantity of tightening. What goes down must come up. Oh yeah, tomorrow's DCA. Time again, I'm in, Kyrgyzstan recently invaded by Tijakstan. Okay. Yeah, being a European, we have some of this up to engage. I feel sorry for all Europeans, especially with the electricity prices going up so high. It's ridiculous, ridiculously high. I think that's it. Hawaii also says in Puerto Rican, I don't need to people how my family, I left in 2011 after massive re-empowerment thesis was about the decay of the Puerto Rican economy. And that's the truth. That's it. The sweat coin, ah, sweat coin question. Thank God. Just kidding. Sweat coming up in finance, I don't know. And with that, that is it for today. So look, going up on 40 minutes, so that will conclude the Q&A. So look, everybody, thanks again for stopping by and hanging out with me for 40 minutes or so. I do appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing. And that's it for today. Tomorrow, there will be no video on this channel. We'll be doing the DCA show. I gotta check with Ben and James, maybe, unless somebody's traveling. But usually when I do DCA someplace else, I don't do a show here. But that's it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by. I do appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one. The Oaks.