okay guys just give me another one minute it's an echo right for you yeah for me yeah so let me just start it now i think it's a zoom issue so i'm gonna close it now and then we'll come in just now um so what are you are you closing the zoom and then coming back yes yes okay so we just wait and we'll bring us back in yeah and welcome to episode 384 of the private property podcast i'm your host was a man don't walk home alone it's the monday edition of the private property podcast in vietnam for the first time welcome to the family you're tuned into the leading property podcast in south africa catering to your property needs remember to go to our facebook or youtube page to catch up all the great episodes that you've already missed out on and all our regular viewers at home whether you're watching us on facebook on youtube or on instagram welcome to it you know how we do every single weekday you're now having an appointment uh at seven p.m where of course i'm always in conversation with 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cash every single evening and all you have to do to send a chance of walking away with that cash prize is to share with us some of the great property knowledge and advice that you've picked up while watching the show and you have to make sure that if you've entered you're watching us live so that when we call your name you can certainly uh you know drop us a text in order to claim your prize if i remember the prize money should be sitting uh what is it sitting at the other my colleague's gonna bring it up not sure we're sitting at a 1500 i kind of remember from friday uh we got our winner but he'll certainly bring it up and that's of course what you can look forward to later on on the show so do make sure that you stay tuned you can find myself at zumba linova underscore on twitter as well as on instagram well we're kicking off monday looking at why agents should insist on a written mandate so you're probably wondering okay why what is a mandate uh and this is something that's very applicable especially to people who are looking to sell their property you want to make sure that you have a full understanding of what mandates are the benefits of you know a mandate and why an agent that you approach may want you to have one in place and to help us get a good sense of what this is all about i'm joined this evening by danielle krill who's a senior associate at km from odike and associates danielle good evening and thank you so much for joining us on the show hi good evening thank you so much for having me it's such a pleasure and i think you know let's start with what is a mandate right because i think this is one of those things that uh oftentimes people just wouldn't know uh i mean i was really saying to you of it because so many of us don't sell our properties as often as we typically buy a property so when we talk about a mandate what exactly are we talking about so in as simple terms as possible a mandate is a direction from one party to another party to attend to something on maybe half so in the in the property space um the mandate is between the seller and the agent for the agent to sell the property on behalf of the seller so it's a written it should be a written agreement between the parties and it should stipulate a few things and one being the length of the of the contract so generally it's 90 days because that's about the time that it takes to to fairly market a property and then it would include the selling price and it would also include the commission rate and then it would include any other relevant terms that are required between the parties so the mandate is the direction from me to you do what i needed to do which is sell my property i do want to say to our viewers at home i know that you seem to be having a bit of a technical um you know challenge behind the scenes i see some people struggling to reach us on all his struggle rather initially to reach us on facebook but we're now on we do apologize for that there's something about monday and you know the tech remnants but we are indeed now live across all the platforms thank you so much for your patience and of course dropping us the text to say hey and it's morning where are we we certainly are here and of course kick starting our monday edition of that property conversation now daniel i think when we look at um you know a perspective seller who is in the market for an estate agent before they sign a mandate with somebody perhaps also just explain the different kinds of mandates because you know sometimes you get to your sole mandate or use of mandate perhaps just take us through some of the different kinds of mandates and what do they effectively mean and so you get four types of mandates the first is an open mandate which is a listing of the property with multiple agents and any one of them could sell the property and the one who gets the buyer first is the one who gets paid the commission so that's an open mandate then you get a dual mandate where you've got two agents working on the property to sell it and they split the commission then you get a sole mandate which is one agent only and they are the only ones then who has the right to market and sell the property something to remember with the sole mandate though is that you as the owner potentially could sell the property yourself but you need to be mindful of the wording of the agreement because if it has anything that says that the agent has a sole right or a sole mandate and it specifically has those words in it then it's not a sole mandate it's a sole and exclusive mandate which means they are exclusively allowed to market and sell that property so those are the four types open dual sole and sole and exclusive and I mean I think Daniel when we look at those four different types of mandates and we've got a seller who you know has never sold their property how can they best kind of determine what kind of mandate would best suit their needs what kind of things today prospective seller be thinking through before deciding on the kind of mandate that they want to sign with either you know one agent or of course multiple ones in the event of an open mandate yeah so in the industry it's widely regarded as the best option to go with a sole mandate the reason for that is often with a dual mandate or a open mandate you've got more than one agent working on the property so they're not potentially putting in as much effort as they could or spending as much of their marketing budget or advertising budget as they could because they're not the sole agent so generally it is accepted or it's advised that you should go with a sole mandate you're going to have a more effective effort and attempts at selling the property you are going to pay commission only once there is a possibility with other with the other types of mandates where they could be commissioned paid to more than one agent plus with a sole mandate you've got a fixed rate yeah you'll get a competitive comprehensive and good quality service from a sole mandate versus a open mandate and there's most importantly with a sole mandate there's a lot of accountability and safety in that you've got an agreement with one person you know what to expect they know what to expect from you everything is in writing because sole mandates must be in writing whereas other types of mandates don't have to be and you've got that safety net like you do with any contract this is a real contractual relationship a serious one because you're selling a property and you want to have that safety net in place so advisable would be a sole or a sole and exclusive mandate I am this evening in conversation with Danielle Creel who's a senior associate at KM Ramudiki and associates looking at why agents should insist on a written mandate and I can already see some of the love that we're getting on our Facebook page from our viewers at HomeMinsibleTelesi watching Kosofumelo, Abeta Albertine, Happiness Manulega, Farana Siddiqui I see you watching and dropping those screen hearts who absolutely do love the love keep it coming I want to so go for a quick break and see who the lucky winner of that cash prize I see my colleague that put up it's a thousand five hundred rands if I saw properly on the screen that is up for grabs remember if you call your name you have to drop us a message in order to claim your prize let's see who this evening's lucky winner is and the lucky winner this evening is Utabo Pala Tabo Pala congratulations to you walking away with that one thousand five hundred rands in our daily competition right here on the private property podcast with myself as we continue our conversation with Danielle Creel but I want to go through some comments as we run this competition of some of the entrants that some of you at home already sent to remember to go to the pinned post on our Facebook page and share with us some of the great property insight and knowledge that you've picked up and that's how you set a chance of walking away with that cash prize we've got Urus and Tuan and saying I just love the home shopper show every time I watch the show I remember MTV Cribs Chad is doing an awesome job hashtag your spacey rules thank you so much to the chat um uh Rose I know that Chad certainly does appreciate that and of course you can catch a measure on this evening at 8 p.m and we've also got oh Cosmos Nubin who says investing in property is a wise move in one's lifetime going for such needs uh professional advice and that free or that's free of charge and thank you to private property and Unolevo Guinina says that property is the best investment and when buying a property must not deposit the money into the seller's account you must involve lawyers of course that's a very big one never never never uh you put money during the middle of a property transaction uh to even the agents account or the sellers account there are transferring attorneys that are there and they've got uh you know a trust account that is of course got fidelity cover so it's surely going to happen you know that you're not going to lose out on your money I've got a comment here coming through from um Teartu Munya saying according to the code of conduct of the state agency a Facebook uh uh board and open can be verbal and I think that's what Danielle had said that uh you know typically the sole mandate is one that's written uh the sole and excuse me that's the one that you write down but an open mandate certainly can be verbal and Danielle I mean when we look at um you highlighted earlier on that oftentimes you know a mandate would typically last about 90 days what happens in the event way you've given an exclusive and sole mandate to an agent and you as a seller and and the wording of it is such that really whoever becomes um or whoever finds the property the agent is going to get commissioned from it so really as the as the seller you shouldn't be trying to solicit you know a buyer by yourself but what happens if in that 90 day period you as a as a seller you somehow find your own um you know buyer and somehow want to uh no longer honor the you know the contract that you essentially entered into and what what kind of steps or what would typically happen in situations like that okay so in a situation like that um the seller is essentially revoking a mandate so they've given you this sole mandate to solve my property and now they've either found their own buyer with a sole mandate remember I said you that is an option as long as the wording of the of the mandate allows that um in which case the the the finding of a new buyer would terminate that agreement um if for example the the agent isn't doing their job or that they're unhappy with the type of buyers that they're bringing you the it's too low the selling prices that all the the offers are too low then you can revoke your mandate and you can say I no longer want you to sell this property for me but you must bear in mind that the contract that you've signed the mandate is king as with any other contract so if there are clauses there with really with regards to terminating and there may be some kind of damages payable you need to just bear that in mind but it is possible to do and it's not an unusual thing and I think wouldn't I mean do you find that sometimes sellers want to even backtrack for instance uh when it comes to the commission because what I've what I've found what I've seen and it's not as common because I mean we know that by the time uh an agent has found you know the potential buyer uh conventions have already gotten um you know in place they would have seen the contract that she signed so they know how much provision to make for the estate agent in terms of the proceeds of the sale of that particular property but have there been instances where sometimes a seller then wants to let's say the the the rate where the commission rate was you know sitting at 7% and they suddenly want to decrease it to you know less than that are there instances where sellers have wanted to do something like that look I'm sure they want to but once you sign that mandate and that's one of the benefits of a sole mandate or a solid exclusive mandate is the commission is fixed if it's if you've agreed to 5% or 7% or whatever it is that is what this agent is going to make out of the sale if you want to adjust that or change that in any way you have two options the one is that you if you can get the agency to read to it you can obviously have that changed from the original main registry agreement in the the other way is to reach the agreement basically and with that which is not advisable you open yourself up to damages and the agreement is there for a reason and you need to stick to it so if you want to make a change it's either by agreement or you're going to reach that agreement and then you open yourself up to damages and you know one of the things that we need to always be mindful of is you don't want to you know backtrack on your contractual obligations at all I mean even paid from you know when you sign an offer to purchase that you don't want to find yourself changing your mind and so as much as we emphasize from the you know purchase aside that by the time you sign that OTP need to be very clear that this is indeed a property that you you know you want to you're not going to simply trying to backtrack similarly to you know the seller you can't want to change the terms of you know a contract that you've now entered into because as you say they certainly are repercussions and and I think it's also just a bit poor form as as a you know as a as a as a seller to be doing such because you pretend to find that by then an agent has actually put in the work it has already listed your property and so you wanted to kind of backtrack if anything is can often be you know to almost the agent working backwards I want to come back with a comment here coming through from a tiang to me I say if the seller decides not to sell the property can he cancel the sole mandate without having to pay damage so you put it on the market and you as the seller decide actually I don't I'm not actually don't want to sell anymore and are there any you know monies that the seller would well form a seller in this context would have to pay so the seller can revoke that mandate at any time and decide I don't want to sell property and they would probably be most likely to be some sort of clause in the mandate is if you do that then you may be able for some of the advertising costs the marketing costs that have already gone into it so it will depend where in the process you have decided to work for example the seller as an agent is about to buy them a seller then they mark it with their advertiser and had an open house they put a lot of effort into it then obviously there is some financial issues you know I'm sorry to interrupt you the sound that we're getting from your side is very distorted for some reason towards the still end of the conversation I know that I am slightly struggling to to hear you and I know that the viewers will probably also be struggling to hear you I want to see if we're able to get just a last comment from you in terms of the last tip for our sellers in particular because I think agents know what they're doing this is their day to day you know role just one final tip for the viewers at home when it comes to mandates and working with their agents I'm actually back into you as well but what I was saying is that if you're going to revoke your mandate just bear in mind that there may be some costs that will be involved with that depending on when in the process you decide to revoke and unfortunately we're going to have to do today I'm so glad that that last sentence we actually were able to get it in but really having a bit of a bad connection day with Danielle at the tail end of our conversation but I know we'll definitely have a back on the show in the future Danielle thank you so much for joining us this evening on the private property podcast and that is Danielle Creel who's a senior associate at APN from Decay and Associates wrapping up the Monday edition tech gremlins and all of the private property podcast with myself as I'm doing my kumaila that's how we started right so many of us in Jobe this morning woke up with no water I'm very lucky we actually still have water but I know that many people unfortunately did not have water I remember to turn off your Giza don't use the water in the Giza and then leave your Giza on that's a very very very big help has that you're also going to probably burn your Giza when the water comes back so do make sure that you do that and we're going to wrap this up I'll be back on your screens tomorrow you may hopefully the tech gods are going to be on our side and I'm going to have any issues but I leave you the capable hands of Chad with the home shopper store at 8 p.m for myself as I'm doing my kumaila I'll be back tomorrow and my colleague has just alerted me we unfortunately do not have a claim of the 1500 rand meaning that we've got a roll over and 2000 rands is up for grabs tomorrow well that's it for myself as I'm going to walk my long I'm back again tomorrow and of course do you have yourselves a great evening so hope you're staying home and staying safe


I can't help but notice the resurgency and popularity of DWM, and the last couple years, a lot of people are giving DWM a serious try. DWM is a very old tiling window manager. It's been around forever. And really, a couple of years ago, two and a half years ago, I started giving DWM a little bit of love on my YouTube channel, giving it some coverage. I'm starting to see a lot more Linux YouTubers also giving DWM a serious try. And now that we have all these people getting into DWM, all these new users trying it out for the very first time, some of them are having problems configuring it to their liking. I'm getting support questions. Here lately, I've been getting a lot of questions about the panel within DWM, because by default, it's a very plain panel. You can't do a lot with it. There's no real configuration options, at least not in the standard DWM config file, which is the config.h But what I do for my panel in DWM is I use a third party program called DWM blocks. Let me show you. So I'm going to pull up a VM here. This is a VM of ArchBang Linux, which is an ArchBase Linux distribution. And all I did was I went and grabbed the source code for DWM from suckless.org, the website for all the suckless software. I did a quick get clone of the DWM source code and a pseudo make install. And this is unpatched vanilla DWM. And by default, the alt key is the modifier in DWM. I did change it. So the super key is my modifier key and super shift enter should bring up a terminal. So super shift enter a couple of times. You see we have the default master and stack layout. If I do super shift C, that closes the window with focus. And I could close all those windows. Super shift enter one more time will bring up a terminal. And you see the panel is very plain. It doesn't give you a whole lot of information, but it gives you what you need, which is what workspace you're currently on, whether there's a window open on it or not. We have our current layout. The symbols here tell you that you're in the master and stack layout. If I click on it, now we would be in floating layout. I'm going to click back off of that to get back into master and stack. Then the highlighted portion here is letting us know what the title of the window with focus currently is. And the title is fish because we're in the fish shill in the terminal. And then at the far right, we have the version of DWM, which is DWM dash six dot two. Now this area here is actually the part of the panel that we can configure. So we can actually overwrite this here and we can set that to be any text we want. And it can be difficult to do this because how do you do this? Well, really, for what most people want to do, you're going to have to use a little bit of shell scripting. You're going to have to write a shell script that replaces this text here with whatever output that you want to be displayed in that section. So let me zoom in here in the ST terminal unless you've changed the key bindings. Control shift page up and control shift page down for zoom in and out. So control shift page up will zoom me way in here because I want you guys to see the commands I'm going to run. I may do some scripting here as well. So I'm in the fish shell right now. I actually should switch over to bash if I want to do some scripting because fish has some different syntax.  And what this command does it changes the name of the X 11 root window. So if you're inside a X display environment, imagine everything you're seeing on the screen is inside a window and that is the X root window. You can actually use this command here to set a name for that root window that X root window. I don't know like a real world example of why you would ever need this, but the fact that this command and this flag exists, the suckless guys have that actually output to this top right corner. That's how you overwrite what's going on here with DWM dash six dot two. You run this command and it will overwrite that and whatever we set the X 11 root window name to that's what will appear. So let's do exit root space dash name space and then going to wrap this in quotes hello comma world exclamation. And then in the quotes there and you see we now have hello world being displayed in the panel. Now of course, you don't have to just type plain text like that you could actually run a command and have the output from that command set the root window name.  This is how long the computer has been running since the last reboot or the last restart it didn't like that because I think I also needed to wrap this in double quotes and there and now we have the output from the uptime command which is uptime the number of users and the load average of our computer. Now you can see how this starts getting complicated because the more information you want to put in this the more you really you have to write a lengthy script for this because you probably didn't want all of this information from uptime and it's going to be the same for most commands you don't want all of the output typically you just want certain pieces of it for example maybe I didn't want all of this you know maybe I don't want the uptime maybe I only wanted the load average maybe I only wanted the last part of the load average well to accomplish that I mean we have to start you know using things like said I'm going to have to pipe this through said and then I'm going to do some single quotes inside the single quotes I'm going to do a s really I just want to grab that very last field so I'm going to do s slash and then I'm going to do a period asterix comma and then two more slashes too many slashes there I only need to at the end let's hit enter yeah and then now I just get the last field of that load average zero dot zero now imagine that I had about eight or ten things I wanted to display here and they all involved you know me taking output of a command and maybe piping them through grep said all maybe multiple instances of grep said or all you know you really end up writing a proper shell script to just display a little bit of text here and by default you can only display plain text in DWM's panel you're not going to have any kind of unicode glyphs you can't have colored emojis or anything like that without jumping through some hoops doing some patching and installing some extra packages on your machine those of you running an arch base system which is why I'm using this arch bang vm there is a package available in the a u r that will help you get those colored emojis and unicode characters to properly display in your supless programs and typically what you want to do you don't want to have to open a terminal and type stuff to actually have it output in your panel right you just want all that to be done auto magically and how you do that is with a auto start script of some kind maybe you add what you want here with the x set root dash name command to your ex init rc file those of you that use start x to log into DWM there's some creative methods to get this to work right but what makes this a bit easier is just use a third-party program called DWM blocks it makes all of this so much easier so let me pull up DWM blocks here in a web browser here so I'm gonna just search for DWM blocks and I don't think there's like one standard DWM blocks version anywhere a lot of people have taken it and modified it and done their own thing but this one here by toran fail I believe this is the one that I initially downloaded myself and I modified to my particular needs and just grab this particular guy's version of DWM blocks so I could do a quick get clone and I could actually install this really fast here let me get back into the terminal here I'm gonna run a get clone and we're gonna run that URL behind it and this will clone that particular DWM blocks repository and then let's cd into the DWM blocks directory there and do an ls you guys can see there's really not much to it there's really two files there's the DWM blocks dot c file and then there's blocks dot def dot h which is your configuration file and I'm just going to leave it as is by default so I'm going to do a pseudo make clean install assuming I can type install correctly and there we go and now let's run DWM blocks from the terminal here and that is the output from this particular program if you wanted to see the configuration file let me do vmblocks.def.h and it's set up in a very easy to use format he's got these comments here he's telling you wrap everything in the curly braces here and then he has mim colon as the first field you see mim colon and basically think of that as a label or he's saying it could be icon you could add a unicode glyph or a colored emoji here if you had DWM patched to accept such a thing and then the next section is the command and he's running the free command which is letting us know how much free memory is available on the system he's piping that through awk because he just wants certain fields printed out he wants field three followed by a slash followed by field two and then he's piping all of that through sed and doing a substitution command in sed and then he's also running the date command down here to get the date and time and he formatted it exactly the way he wanted it there are two other columns to talk about here as well there's update interval and update signal and that's these numbers here so update interval obviously is how often these commands are ran again to be updated so he's running the free command for the memory command every 30 seconds he's running the date command every five seconds it's very easy to configure this thing i mean i could go in here if i wanted to and you know paste a new line and i could edit this maybe i wanted to do uptime so in this particular field for icon or label i could do something like upt colon kind of like what he did with milm colon for the other command here and then what i could do is he delete all of that i don't need any of that and then in quotes here run the uptime command again maybe i wanted to pipe it through sed for some reason maybe i i only wanted the load average maybe i only wanted the uptime but for now let's just run the standard uptime command and of course in that with a comma and then we needed another field we needed the update interval for uptime i don't really need that to run that often that's every 60 seconds you know every minute is probably fine and then finally we needed to end that with some curly braces and a comma one more time and then if i write and quit and once again do a pseudo make it clean install let's rerun the dwm blocks command and see if that actually updates and it's actually the same thing so what is the problem here because i have blocks dot def and blocks dot h we need to remove blocks dot h typically when you run pseudo make install on these suckless programs remove the config dot h file and just leave config dot def dot h which in dwm blocks here it's blocks dot def dot h and blocks dot h so let me remove that and then run the pseudo make install one more time and we have an error and it looks like i forgot the comma between the 60 and the zero there my bad on that so let me get back into this fall and it's very easy to correct that and that comma colon wq to write and quit pseudo make clean install but we have to remove the blocks dot h file again pseudo make clean install finally and now let's run dwm blocks and it updates but we have two of them running we have this one but just for a second you saw the longer one that included the uptime also flash on the screen that is one of the things you can't just override the exit root name without you having multiple instances of them running without a reboot of the machine just logging out of dwm actually won't fix the problem i'd actually have to reboot the machine to actually change this stuff but before i reboot what i really want to show you guys is you guys go over to my get lab and those of you trying out dwm and if you want a panel with dwm blocks and it's already patch for emojis and cliffs and everything go to my get lab at getlab.com slash dwt one and go to the projects link here and choose all of my projects because i have like 12 or 15 repositories and by default it's just going to show you a few of them but you want to take a look at all of my repositories and i have builds of a lot of the suckless programs including my own build of dwm and my build of dwm blocks what all you need to do is just get clone these on any linux distribution run a sudo make install and you've got my builds of this thing those of you that are on arch or an arch based linux distribution it's even easier than that because i have these packaged up in the a u r the arch user repository so you can install them using yay so if i go over here to the desktop and let me launch a terminal here and this is the st terminal here and in my build of st i use control shift j and k for zooming in and out and what i want to do is just show you guys yay space dash capital s and then let's install some stuff how about dwm dash distro tube dash get and then dwm blocks dash distro tube let me just do a tab complete there dash get and then if you want my build of st which you probably do st dash distro tube dash get and you probably also want my d menu d menu dash distro tube dash get and if you want the colorful shell scripts that appear at random in my terminal make sure you grab shell dash color dash scripts let's install those and i'm kind of curious to see if they all build correctly i've actually haven't installed some of them in a while as far as from the a u r now one of the things that makes the emoji support and the the unicode glyph support work is i have a hard dependency for dwm and dwm blocks for libxft bg r a that is a a u r package and that is what you need to install to make sure that you get the support for the glyphs that you need i didn't type my password correctly all right and it looks like all five or six of those programs actually installed correctly so let me close that terminal and i actually logged into my version of dwm so this is my dwm and this is my dwm blocks here uh my st terminal and of course we got the random shell color scripts uh that's very easy to get that up and running i do super shift enter here is my d menu that's got some kind of cool colorations and patches and everything so that is an easy way for you guys to get up and running with dwm and dwm blocks now if you use my dwm you will find the configuration files for all of my suckless builds if you installed them through the a u r you will find them in the slash opt directory so cd into slash opt by doing ls you see have all of those programs that's where they store their source code after installation so if i cd into dwm blocks dash distro tube dash get doing ls you will see there's the config file blocks dot def dot h let's do vim and you see there it is it is setting these icons which are just unicode characters and then it's running these commands which are shell scripts that are in the dwm blocks directory that's in the slash opt directory and they're updating however many seconds i felt like they needed to update like the the script here which just tells me what the kernel version is i don't need that to run every second right every 360 seconds is perfectly fine same thing with the pack update this just tells me how many updates are available on my system right now only two updates are available so i've done a recent update uh other things i have i have the uptime i have uh how much ram is being used versus how much ram is available on the system i also have my current volume percentage and the date and time so if you wanted to edit this you just edit this to whatever it is you want and then do a you know write and quit out of vim you're going to need root privileges of course since this is in the slash opt directory so you'd have to do sudo name of editor name a file then after all that's done in this directory run a sudo make install boom you're done now before i go i want to thank a few special people i want to thank the producers of the show devon fran gabe corbinian michael lakami r6530 chris chuck donnie dylan greggory lewis paul pic dm scott and willy they are the producers of the show they are my highest tier patrons over on patreon without these guys this quick look at dwm blocks would not have been possible the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these names you're seeing on the screen these are all my supporters over on patreon because this channel would not be possible without you guys the community 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Hi everyone, Shawn with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 1718 UPDEC the Cup Hockey 1 Box Break Random Number Block number 14 where we're going to take all 10 customers names in this and randomize them with the numbers 0 through 9, whoever you end up with, whether it's number 3 for example, anybody that ends up with number 3 gets the card 243 out of 299, 13 out of 99, 3 out of 25, 43 out of 49, 93 out of 99, so on and so forth where the 3 is the last number next to the left of the slash. So whatever it may be, exception in this, the spot 0 gets any and all redemptions. Since the redemption card is not numbered, it goes to spot 0 on any and all redemptions. Even if the redemption is a known 1 of 1 redemption, first example an NHL shield in this case. If there was an NHL shield, it would obviously be a 1 of 1 card, but if it's a redemption it would go to the 0 spot. Any 1 of 1 in person cards will go to the 1 spot obviously. So let's do the randomizer first. Here is the list of customers from Scott down to Colin Sullivan in last spot mojo and the list of numbers from 0 down to 9. Dice roll for both lists, 2 and a 4, 6 times on each. Good luck everyone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in final time from Scott down to Matt and 6 times on the numbers. Good luck everyone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in final time from 5 down to 2. Don't really do a trade window for numbers, but you can gladly do it. I've been the customer in regards to when there was a trade window for numbers and I traded away the 1 spot. I regretted it, but it kind of didn't, it worked out and it didn't work out for me. So Scott Freeman with the 5, Ryan Redmond with the 8, Joel Lala with the 9, Ryan Redmond with the 7, Joseph Weymiller with the 1 spot, Ryan Redmond with the 0, Colin Sullivan with the 3, Joseph Weymiller with the 4, Ryan Redmond with the 6 and Matt McLaughlin with the 2. Organize it by numbers, Ryan Redmond gets 0 spot any and all redemptions while even known 1 of 1 redemptions while Joseph Weymiller will get any and all in person 1 of 1. Yeah, Trim, honestly, I mean when I was the customer, obviously it doesn't look like there's any talk of trade, so we'll go ahead and print and rip. Yeah I had ended up with the number 1 spot back when I was on the other side of the computer as a customer and somebody really wanted the 1 spot and they traded me like 2 or 3 numbers for my 1 number. So to me I was like, same cost but now I get 3 numbers, it was a no brainer for me, right? Even though it was the number 1 spot and it was in a, I think a National Treasures Break or something like that, I still ended up doing well but still. So here's the final list everybody, 2 boxes here, so we're gonna go ahead and throw a dice to see which box we're gonna do, 1, 2, 3 is gonna be for the box on the left, 4, 5, 6 is gonna be for the box on the right, break number 15 will be for whatever box is not used here, good luck and it's a 4, so we're gonna go box on the right. This box here will be for the next break, which is box, sorry break number 15, random number block most likely. Good luck everyone, hockey's highest end set here guys, nice stuff you can get, nice little tin, nice box inside the tin, a little platform, so I think, there we go, okay so starting off with Sergei Bobrowski for the Columbus Blue Jackets, numbered 67 out of 249, going to the 7 spot and Ryan Redman, very nice rookie patch Michael Amadio, the L.A. Kings, numbered 134 out of 249, 4 spot Joseph Weymiller, nice colors there, monumental rookie patch booklets, look at the patch on that, for the Ottawa Senators, Colin White, 1 out of 6, how cool is that, that is awesome, spot 1, Joseph Weymiller, isn't that cool, I think Joey you might have to try to find the other five of this and make the entire Senator Shield, that's super cool, I'm gonna get a sleeve for the actual booklet, whatever it's called, I'm gonna stop trying right now, you've got a autographed rookie master print, master pieces, printing plate, black plate, Anders Bjork, for the Boston Bruins, 1 of 1, Joseph Weymiller, we've got a redemption, so we're gonna save that for last and last card is Brett Hull, 138 of 249 for the St. Louis Blues, spot 8, Ryan Redman and our redemption is 1718 NHL the Cup, base set rookie auto patch, card number 140, numbered to 249, J-O-N-N-Y, Johnny Brzezinski, anybody, Johnny Brzezinski, let's look it up real quick, spot zero obviously on the redemption, Ryan Redman, does it really, that does, there you go, no the cut, come on, why are you being like this, I'm gonna have you guys join in on my pain here, so we just got to find out who this goes to, 1718 more, 18 the Cup Hockey, there you go, it's LA Ryan, well I mean it's going to the spot zero anyway, so it's yours, so I guess we don't really need this all on the video right, but I feel like we've already done it, so, Brzezinski, Johnny Brzezinski, LA Kings, yeah, there you go, so spot zero anyways, let's go on to Ryan Redman and guys that was 2017-18 upper deck of the Cup Hockey, one box, random number block break, number 14, I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com, next box up would be for a random number block number 15 should be in the store coming up shortly, so jaspyscasebreaks.com, we'll see you next time.


Hello everyone, this is Sensei Rokas and today I'd like to talk to you about the importance and at the same time the questioning of Aikido exams and everything related to them. So exams and martial arts is common, in my understanding it's a way of gamification, we can talk more about what that means in other videos but just to make it short to putting elements of game design or game elements into various activities not related to games which make the person strive for more achievements since they are rewarded so it's kind of a reward system you know the color belts or the exams itself the black belt but we can talk about it more in another video but the exams themselves first of all I'd like to say they are important there's more and more I keep hearing various instructors or senses or just people questioning whether exams are necessary and some of the people or some of the senses they actually want to remove exams entirely but for me I experience them that they're beneficial that they're that they give that they have an important point during my career of Aikido including learning and teaching I've met various people who would refuse to take exams they would just resist and not do it and I would later on I would discover that it's a big mistake if you would ask me why because those people who refuse to take exams they do not progress up to after a certain level because when you take an exam you are in a good way forced to to digest and categorize your new knowledge your experience you have to learn the names you have to systemize them in your mind you have to memorize the beginning the end and make a whole connection of these points so if we don't do this those students who didn't take exams in my experience they would never end up learning really well the names they would never really end up systemizing the whole material the whole techniques because they would simply they would simply just keep on coming they would train train train but they would they wouldn't have that extra step that extra mile that would summarize it all they would never have to put that extra effort and they wouldn't do it and when a person takes an exam he's encouraged and he does because of the stress that the exam gives and we'll talk about that too the person makes sure that he knows his stuff and that kind of finalizes the kind of sums up the experience you already had and then that gives a jumping step to the next step then you feel okay you're not perfect at these things but you're aware of what they mean you can share it with others and and so there's a sense that you're progressing if you don't take exams there's just too much space to get stuck in this gray zone which doesn't really end up summer specific at the same time I'd have to say there is a light side and the dark side of exams and the light side is that but the dark side is exams how the exams are presented how they are seen by the dojo by the community and by the mainly by the instructor who leads them so the dark side for me of the exams is when an exam is almost an experience of torture on one side of it it can be a commercial step a smart commercial step so you know you make a very difficult exam and I heard about this happening more than once you make a very hard exam and you put a big price on it and then when the person takes it even if he fails he still has to pay for the exam so that's one way to support the dojo or just in general you know you do a lot of exams and you allow people to easily go through the exams you don't care about it but you make a big price for it so you would get your money which is dark this this is called a Mac dojo so dark dark side of exams another dark side is when there is a super amount of pressure for the exams so that when there's that big distance between the senseis and the student and understand that that does give a sense of importance to the students he becomes very he tries to become very perfectionist about the exam not to fail the instructor but when there's that big distance you know there's rock faced senseis free of them sitting and just writing down the mistakes and shouting at the student and saying you know you're wrong and you suck and go sit down that kind of gives that all that feeling of tension and stress which in my experience I always try to ask what do we want to bring back from the dojo to our home and if we if we get used to being very very much in stress being very much about criticism criticizing being being criticized we started criticizing others we started to expect that from others and we started to encourage that kind of stressful situation which I think is not really healthy because then the student seems that he learns not really to learn but he he learns to satisfy the instructor he learns to to show it that one time so that so that nobody would you know kick his ass and but then the tendency is that after the exam the student doesn't really memorize it so well it was more a one time thing to to kind of pass through that difficult experience and so in the end the exams become this scary thing that you need to become mentally ready for and you know you're going to go through a certain torture and you're not looking forward for it and as I said there's pluses and minuses here but but I would consider this to be on the dark side of Aikido now on the bright side of Aikido which also has minuses but on the bright side of Aikido an exam is a celebration which is much more rare to see that there is a there is a danger that if it's a celebration it can be too easy but you make it but if you make it hard enough a lot of times the student himself the the sense it doesn't really need to put so much pressure on the student already the fact the student knows already the fact that there are other students are going to look at him and if he respects the sense he he wants to to show something he knows he wants to show good stuff and and a lot of times they put that pressure on themselves because the person is not doing that you can always just add a bit of spice to him you don't have to always make it you know always cook them on on a high fire but when it's a celebration what I mean by that is that the student celebrates his achievements it's not to prove someone that it's not to prove whether you're good enough or not bad enough but if he's passing the exam that most likely means that he's ready for it the sense he allows him to to pass that means he's pretty much past it now he just needs to share and say everyone look I learned this because of your help thank you very much everyone this is a communal sharing experience where we can all be happy about it and say wow look you know this guy really learned his stuff he's so much better than he was he changed so much and then there's a sense of happiness and the person himself can also get reassured about his knowledge and he can feel a sense of achievement he can feel better about himself and as I said again he can share with others and say thanks everyone because of you I am here so it's kind of a celebration when you put it out that way exams is a wonderful wonderful thing it does give that sense of stress so which is important for martial arts to be able to act in a stressful situation and exams it's one way to put a person into that stressful situation but it doesn't need to be a torture it can be it can be a place a moment of growth of appreciation of sharing and when it's that way as I said it's something everyone looks forward it's something everyone celebrates afterwards and and it's noticeably easier than for the student not to also bring back that mentality home you know not to be so hard on your kids anymore not to be so hard on yourself anymore not to be so hard on others but to still not not become lazy either to still learn to still develop to still share to still feel a responsibility for your for your growth and your in your role in whatever you do so having exams as a bright side of Aikido does not kill it so what I so it's what I want to say in the end exams are important I'm all up for exams and there's a dark side and a bright side to exams and I think it's important to ask yourself what do you want to get out of exams when you teach them or when you go to them and how you want to present them what what what why you want to create and bring back home and the third one is it's still important to question the exams themselves it's I'm always up for not taking everything for granted and not saying saying okay if sensei says so that means it's true but actually asking as sensei's and as students asking okay why is this the best way isn't there a better way to do this isn't there a way to improve this so this is my take on Aikido exams there's more we could talk about and we will talk about a lot of different things there so ready a few different videos out there you can check them in the links in the description as always I'm happy to talk to you I'm looking forward for your comments let me know what's your experience I'm definitely gonna write back and all in all this sensei orcas and I'm looking forward to see you in the next video so one thing we oftentimes like to forget is a very simple fact that we are all connected and as you know as you know I'm an Aikido instructor and as most of you know and sometimes when people look into Aikido and people think about Aikido they they have a hard time to understand the whole essence of I could say the life protecting sword


There we go, there he goes, that Mongolian barbecue action here at Royal Hibachi. Buffet, Route 46 West, out of Brooklyn, Jersey. I'm gonna do it, Jeff Sambello, the Vapors of Life. Look at that, look at that beef. Spices, the aroma. Here we go, the Dundee. You know, we got a little lo mein over there, I think. I think I see some shrimp, I don't know. Maybe I'm seeing a mirage from the heat and vapors. Even though it's freezing out here on Black Friday, 2018, the people out in this small area are insane.   So there we go, I just arrived here, actually. I can always come back later. Oh, we got, hey, wait a minute, we got new, we got new, oh, look at all that succulent shrimp, man. King Kong Cameroons. Oh, look at that. Jeff Sambello. Look at that, look at that. The Vapors of Life indeed. It's very crowded here. Black Friday? Very crowded, look at that. I'm sure there will be lots of Mongolian barbecue action here. Let me see what they have here. Oh my God, look at that. We got the cock dribble special over there. One big whiting one. We got clams, I guess, mussels, shrimp, calamari, marinara. What's this, beef stew? You know what, let me get a plate. Let's see if I get, I don't think I'll get yelled at because there's a big spoon in here, Commodore. Oh, look at this, Toyki. Toyki without, you know what? Toyki without the Lexus. Without the Lexus from relatives. I think the Toyki without the Lexus. There we go. I don't know if it's going to be dry, but I'll give it a shot. I'm going to have to, you got gravy here? No. I'm going to have to put, I'm going to have to put the drippings on there. I don't see any spoon. I don't see no damn spoon here. Oh, forget it. It's like trying to break apart a dinosaur. Pterodactyl. It's a pterodactyl from the Flintstones. You know what? Considering I had to listen to obnoxious relatives yesterday. I'm in peace now. I'm in peace. And the turkey is in pieces. I'm going to need a steak knife though. What do we got here? Smash potatoes. Mac and cheese. Two kinds of mac and cheese. I don't know. Maybe I'll get some spinach. Spinach or gratin. All right, so, that's good. Let me look around and see if there's any gravy. I just have, look at the size of that calamari. A Jeff Sand fellow. I can always come back to the fish. Oh, look at this. What it is. Onions and potatoes left and all the beef is gone. And the beef stew. How about that? I saw some unsupervised young children by the ice cream station. Yes, indeed. Unsupervised. Unstupervised. Not now, but before I saw it. Ice cream. All right, let me see if there's any kind of gravy here. Maybe I'm missing something. No. I don't know. You know what? I'm going to need moisture. Look at what I'm doing. Look what I'm using for a spoon. I'm using tongs. Because I got no choice, man. I have no, I have no stinking choice. Look at that. Look at that Commodore. Look at that. No one here will antagonize me. Get under my skin, push my buttons, try to start political arguments with me. I am in peace. And this is James P. Madonna's Progressive. Discussions, Thanksgiving. Well, the day after Black Friday Thanksgiving, didn't it? And I just wish I had a, had some kind of a spoon. But, damn. I'm going to scoop up these drippings. Because you know how, you know how dry turkey breasts can be. You know what? So losing, you know what I should do? I got an idea. Why am I killing myself?  And then, over by the ice cream. Get a dessert spoon. And then, I'll scoop my drippings. I'll take the spoon back to the table. And that's it. It'll be a done deal. Ah, there's a party going on in there. Hold on. Hold on. You got a party going on in there and a party. Isn't that something? The Turkish lamps. Murphy's... Hold on. There you go. This is the only way to fly. Get the nice strippings going there. Alright, back to the table. Back to the table. I'm all set. I just need a steak knife. Hey, what happened? No steak knives? I'm in trouble now. I need a steak knife. I'm going to have to ask somebody for a steak knife. How am I going to cut this? How am I going to cut this? I'm going to have to get a steak knife. There you go, Commodore Jeff Zambello. Lots of unsupervised young children at the ice cream station. Of course, just like I predicted. Got some real busy Mongolian barbecue action going on here. Look at all this. Oh my God. This is like a carnival. It's a gastronomic carnival. Wow.  All those spices. Beautiful. You got every kind of food you can think of. Vegetables, shrimp, beef. I don't think that's lamb. I wish they had lamb. I think that's beef. Maybe there's chicken there also. Hey, we got a finished product right there. The king of Mongolian barbecue, Commodore Jeff Zambello. On this Black Friday, 2018, Royal Hibachi Buffet, 346 West, South of Brooklyn, Georgia. We're on the right hook. We left out the shrimp. We got to fill up these dishes. I got gipped out of the shrimp. Don't crimp the shrimp, Commodore Jeff Zambello. Don't crimp it. I got that from Sanford and Son. Don't crimp. Don't you crimp that shrimp. Oh, the shrimp got thrown out. I wouldn't have done that. There's nothing wrong with that shrimp. Look at all this action, man.  This guy's all over the place. Look at this. Oh, look at that. Beautiful. Beautiful. There come the sauce. I wonder what that is. It's got an orangey look to it, but I guess it's an oil blend of some kind. I don't know. The bottle is yellow. Of the show, aside from me having my turkey dinner in peace, is Mongolian barbecue. Black Friday, Mongolian barbecue action. Circus Maximus. This is heavenly. This is heavenly. This is the ultimate Mongolian barbecue video. Not just because James B. Madonna is filming it, but it's Black Friday, Mongolian barbecue, high intensity action. Second to none. Second to none. Oh, here we go. Where's the finished product? There he is more. Another finished product. This guy doesn't miss a trick. Look at that. He's great. Look at him. He knows what... Look, everybody's got... Look at this. There's new raw plates ready to be cooked. Unbelievable. I can't even keep up with all this action. Beautiful. Look at this. Look, look, look, look, look. Oh, this is great. Okay, now it's time to take care of myself. Hopefully the beef is tender in the beef stew. It's kind of well done, but the gravy, hopefully the gravy will make up for it. But I don't know that. I don't know if those are onions or potatoes. I don't want... I don't want any white potatoes, man. That's peasant food.  It's okay for the for the Irish when they were starving over there. In England, I mean in Ireland, under British rule, but it's not good for old James P. Madan. That's for damn short.  Got some calamari. Calamari and shrimp and marinara. I know what's going to happen. I'm going to take the clam. The clam shells are going to take up all the space of my plate. Because I got... What do you call it? I got the... Let me grab some of the black mussels. Let me get some of the black mussels. You know what this is. What I had last time. This will be my surf and turf. Even though the brown gravy will be commingling with the marinara sauce. Unfortunately. I have no... I have no choice in that. Maybe on my next trip I'll grab a whiting. I mean... No, you know what?  Whiting's not bad. Especially if they're fresh whiting. Salmon... Salmon steaks usually are much moister with higher fat in omega-3 than the salmon fillets. So what's really a torso? Do I want the white fish of whiting? The white supremacist whiting fish? Or do I want to go with healthy... What I mean, heart healthy omega-3s with the salmon fillet? But all the seafood here is fresh. Alright. So we'll head back to the table. Oh. The crowd is clearing up. May I squeeze my limes in a drink already? There we go. It's a very... very soppy dish, but it should do. Young children completely out of control in a restaurant. No discipline. Probably spoiled and coddled. WC Fields, where are you when we need you? Also crampus. I just got off my seat and I'm walking by the ice cream station and look what I find. The young mothers with the young children, look what they did. They left the door of the ice cream station wide open. Commodore Jeff Sanbello, this is no exaggeration. Here you have the trickle-dickle of the cock dribble, right? Look at this. They left it wide open. Unbelievable. I will do my good deed. Unbelievable. I can't believe it. I can't believe America's modern-day parenting nowadays. You know? Nothing does surprise me, to be honest with you. Oh, wow. The salmon sure disappeared, but I can always have salmon. Um... The whiting... Not really in a whiting mode. I don't know. Let's see what's over here. Tater soup? Nah, peasant food. Peasant, peasants. They had Mongolian barbecue actions, oil, a bachi, buffet, root 46 West, out of Brooklyn, Jersey. It's not a taper down here. It's not as busy as it was before. It's been going nonstop. This guy's doing a great job. He's doing a great job. We got a new plate of lo mein waiting to be cooked up. Scraping the grill, of course. Trying to get it set up for a new plate. Some lo mein noodles. There we got lo mein noodles in. I'm not sure what that is. A pork chop? I don't know. It's hard to say. A piece of meat next to the lo mein noodles. They look like a pork chop, but I could be wrong. Hard to say. Maybe it's beef. I know it's not chicken. It's not lamb. It might be pork. See, when they're frozen, it's hard for me to tell. It could be either beef or pork. They just walked away. Everybody walked away. What's going on here? What do they do? They left. They leave the food. You're working hard. Don't stop. Don't stop. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And they just walk away. What's going on here? Where's that? Pork or beef? It's beef. Oh, beef. Okay. They don't have no lechon or carnitas or chicharon or nothing. No pal? No pal. You know no pal? The cactus? I like that. Yeah? Yeah. And a lot of Suiza with tomatillo. Look at that. Look at what I found. They left the scooper in the chocolate chip mint. Look at that mess. And they actually left the door open before, but I already got that on video. I'm waiting for the spoons. Actually, hold on. Before I get my hands all messed up. Oh, dear. Let me just get my ice cream. It's not too hard. It's not too soft. I'm just in a mood for chocolate. That's it. Get some chocolate. I scream before I get it, so I don't get a belly ache. It's a conservative portion.


Good morning, John. President Trump suggested a budget to the American people yesterday. Let's try and understand that budget quickly and simply. First, there are a bunch of programs like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, and Social Security that would require much more work to change, and those are left untouched. Those things, and some other stuff called mandatory spending, takes up 73% of the U.S. budget. These blocks here represent the $1 trillion 64 billion that is discretionary spending in the U.S. Every block is a billion dollars, so there's 1,064 blocks on this page. Let's look at how things stand today, keeping in mind that this is just the 27% of the budget that is discretionary. About 590 blocks are the military, more than half the total. Health and human services is 84 blocks. Veterans Affairs is another 75. Education, 68 blocks. Housing and Urban Development, 47. Homeland Security, 41. State Department and International Aid, 38. Energy, 30. Agriculture, 23 blocks. NASA, 20. Transportation, 18. Labor, 12. Treasury, which is like the IRS, and some other stuff, 12 blocks. Commerce, 9 blocks. The EPA is 8 blocks.  So keeping in mind that this is a suggested budget that will change a great deal as it is turned into law by Congress, what do we see changing? The Trump budget increases the military by 52 blocks, a 10% increase, enough to pay for the entire current budget of the EPA, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Transportation Department, and NASA with some leftover. That money is slated to increase the number of people serving in the Army and the Marines, and increase the number of jet fighters and warships we have, and broadly to, quote, accelerate the war against ISIS. Four and a half blocks go to Veterans Affairs, earmarked for healthcare programs. Also increasing by about three blocks is Homeland Security, which will be dedicated largely to border control. A full block and a half going to detention and removal of undocumented immigrants. Two and a half blocks going to the down payment to build a big, beautiful wall. You might have noticed that that added up to more than three blocks. There are also some cuts within Homeland Security, mostly counterterrorism stuff. And that's it for the increases. Now let's go through how those things are paid for without dramatically increasing the budget. Thirteen blocks are going to come out of Health and Human Services, including the low income home energy assistance program, which basically helps poor people stay warm in the winter. But it also includes cutting six blocks out of the National Institutes of Health for Biomedical Research, one of the largest sources of research funding in the world. Eleven blocks are to be eliminated from the State Department. International aid would be largely gone, climate change initiatives at the UN would lose all their funding, and U.S. contributions to UN peacekeeping would be reduced. The Department of Education loses more than nine blocks, which will eliminate college scholarship programs for the poor, federal work-study programs, and before and after school programs for low income kids. An increase of $1.5 billion within education would go to a private school voucher program.  More than four blocks are eliminated from Housing and Urban Development, which includes funding for Meals on Wheels, Affordable Housing, and Antipoverty programs. 2.5 blocks come out of the EPA, a total of 30% of its budget, the hardest hit of any agency by percent. 3,200 jobs and 50 agencies would go, as well as funding for the Clean Power Plan, regulations designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Two and a half blocks come out of the Labor Department, mostly by eliminating job programs for seniors, poor young people, and the unemployed. $1.7 billion is taken out of the Department of Energy. The $1.4 billion of DOE funding will also be moved internally and put toward increasing management of our nuclear weapons arsenal. Decreases come out of programs supporting development of advanced and future clean energy technology. The Department of the Interior loses a block and a half, funding that supports wildlife refuges and national heritage areas, and the acquisition of new federally protected land. One block comes out of the Department of Justice, mostly because of decreasing prison populations, which is actually good news all around, and NASA gets a small cut which comes almost entirely out of the parts that study the Earth's climate. Oh, what's that little block over there? That's probably not important, right? Just one block? That contains, oh yeah, the entire National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the entire budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public TV and radio. All those things, all together, one block under Trump's budget, they don't exist anymore. That is basically, very basically, because there are thousands of programs within these departments and knowing which ones do what is not going to fit into a fun little YouTube video, but basically, what this budget asks for. And now it goes off to the House and Senate to get argued about tirelessly. There is a lot in here that many, or even most, think is worth fighting for, an enormous amount of lost funding for scientific research, both in clean energy and medicine, a lot of lost funding for resources for the elderly and disadvantaged populations, an almost wholesale elimination of international aid, and pretty much anything to do with climate science is just gone. In reality, Congress is going to have huge problems with this budget, and if Trump's tax cuts are taken seriously, even with these budget cuts, it will be an extremely unbalanced budget. That's all I got. I counted to a thousand a lot today. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.