I think half of the United States is unemployed at this point. Half of the world is unemployed at this point. One pathetic stimulus check pales in comparison to the trillions of dollars these corporate crooks have printed for themselves. The same happened with small businesses. A few thousand dollars here, a few thousand dollars there, compared to big businesses cashing out trillions and bailouts.   You think things are going back to normal? Look at the claims for unemployment insurance compared to the great recession back in 2008. It's like comparing an anthill to a mountain. People are still losing their jobs by the millions every week. The bleeding hasn't stopped yet the media is acting like the wound is almost healed. We know at this point to do the exact opposite of what the media is telling us. If they're trying to paint the picture that things are getting better, prepare for the worst. Like this article, total of those receiving unemployment benefits falls below 20 million. Still, their assigned growth has been parking up. Housing and manufacturing numbers have been showing a rebound. New orders for durable goods in May leave to 15.8% the government reported Thursday, a number that was well above the expected 9.8% increase. Let me get this straight buddy, 1.5 million people are losing their jobs every week in the United States and you're trying to paint the picture that everything is getting better, that everything is okay. The news went from throwing around 15 to 20 million jobs lost up to 40 million.  I would bargain that well over 60, 70 million people are unemployed right now, perhaps even over 100 million in the United States. That's over half of the working population. This is comical. You're saying, oh, well, less people are applying for unemployment so things are getting better. Yeah, it's because most people already lost their jobs and they're already receiving unemployment. The people in control know exactly what they're doing. It's insane that people aren't writing and protesting.  People lose their jobs and just get depressed and sad. No, you didn't lose your job. It was intentionally taken from you by these pricks in control to make you desperate. And when people are desperate, they will do anything for money, such as getting an injection or maybe forcing other people to get an injection. Look, you have 20 million people that are hypothetically on unemployment. That doesn't include the dozens of millions that aren't counted on that list. And whether they're trying to skew these statistics or people weren't eligible for unemployment when they lost their job. The point is these people that aren't getting unemployment will have no problem getting injected or giving up more freedoms to collect their check, to get their universal basic income, to participate in society and be able to make a living. The government is putting over half of Americans in a position where they have to take anything, whatever is on the table, whatever the government wants them to do to participate in society and get paid. They have the sheeple in a corner. So these corporations in power have cashed out and on top of that, they're slashing their workforces. Not only did these multi-billion dollar companies get dozens of millions of dollars to help them stay afloat, they didn't even use it for what it was promised for. The loans were given to companies based on their employees hypothetically to keep said employees employed. So they took the check, but then fired half their workforce. We know how evil and selfish these corporations are, but people still support them. They still shop in Macy's. One thing to certainly note is that a lot of these businesses weren't doing so well before the crisis happened. So they possibly used it as a way to cash out. Now imagine your Chuck E. Cheese and you get a couple mill, file for bankruptcy, dozens of famous restaurants in New York City closed. I'm sure those people were just waiting to cash out, get their check and close the business. At the end of the day, it's the small businesses that suffer. Something like Macy's is able to say, okay, we have 499 employees here, 499 employees there. Macy's itself, despite having thousands and thousands of employees, can divide their stores into separate entities and get loans in exorbitant amounts. That's why these corporations were able to fudge paperwork and get millions and millions of dollars, while small businesses like my own, Frankie's, Syrians, Mead, were only able to get a few thousand dollars and a few thousand dollars is not going to keep your business afloat if you even got the loan. Most people didn't get loans because the corporations got to them first and the loans ran out. The stimulus in general for 2.2 trillion, less than 10% of that went to the public. Someone left a comment on my video earlier over $350 billion has been transferred from the 99% to the 1% over the last several months. But how fake are these numbers? They probably printed well over 2.2 trillion at this point and I wouldn't be surprised if less than 2% of the total stimulus money actually went to the suffering American public. I'm sure they've printed, you know, 7, 8, 9, 10 trillion dollars already. Who knows? We need to re-emphasize the point that the bleeding is nowhere near over. They say 140,000 businesses are closed, many of them permanently, a realistic number is probably in the millions. Many more corporations are going to go bankrupt, firing thousands and thousands of more people, more and more small businesses are going to lose their jobs. We still have millions and millions of people that are going to lose their jobs. The worst is yet to come and as soon as they hit that switch in the fall and children start dropping, the real chaos will happen.  I really don't get it. Everyone is acting as if they lost their jobs and things will hopefully get better soon. They want to stay in their delusional mindset so they don't have to do anything difficult. You didn't lose your job. It was taken from you at the hands of both the elite in control as well as your fellow peers, your fellow that are telling you to not open your business, not support small businesses, buying stuff on Amazon, cooped up in their homes. It's really simple. They drag as many people down to poverty as possible and as a result large scale problems require large scale solutions. If everyone is poor and desperate, we need to fix it and since they plan on doing this on a worldwide scale, global problems require global solutions. It's still crazy to me that no one is suspicious about every world government suddenly cooperating and shutting down. The illusion of choice, the illusion that the country you're in is different. How to conquer all of these tactics and this programming and all of this nonsense is seen in pretty much every aspect of what they're doing. So thank you guys for joining me today. Definitely check out yesterday's video if you want an update on the current events, what's going on in the world right now, what my current thoughts are. But hey, just try to send videos to as many people as possible. Try to open up more minds to what's really going on and hopefully something positive can come out of this. If you guys know how to support me down in the description below, I'll see you guys for tomorrow's video as well as the Tuesday night live stream.


Proud parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, relatives, and friends of our graduates, welcome to the University of California at Berkeley. Welcome too to the many faculty, staff, alumni, community members, and other honored guests who are joining us today. And welcome especially to those we have gathered this morning to celebrate, the members of the remarkable, the amazing, the marvelous, the extraordinary UC Berkeley graduating class of 2019. And truly those words fit. Among you are students like Puyah Amin, an immigrant from Tehran who had trouble adjusting to life in American schools and yet today is graduating summa cum laude with a triple major. And Thomas Manglonia, a budding reporter so passionate about journalism that he's produced a story every week since sixth grade and was just awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship for Public Service. And Beatriz Hernandez, an actress and writer who created an organization called Colors of Theater to look how artists of color navigate the entertainment industry. And Christine Anigwe, a gifted student of sociology who is writing papers about the bonds that form between college athletes just a week or two before she was chosen as a first round draft pick in the 2019 WNBA draft. As Berkeley's 11th Chancellor it's my distinct honor and pleasure to preside over today's ceremony as we send these and so many other brilliant young scholars off into the world. I'm sorry that the weather has not been as accommodating as we might have hoped. California was especially declared drought free a few months ago but evidently the rain gods thought it was wise to be extra cautious and give us a few more showers. Still rain or no rain this is a day of joy and celebration, a friends and family of achievements and high hopes of powerful endings and beautiful new beginnings. Graduates you are no doubt experiencing relief, elation, wonder and apprehension but in addition to all that I hope you also hold a keen sense of accomplishment. You've completed a demanding course of study at the nation's best public university. Today you join today you join the long line of alumni reaching back 151 years whose lives are forever intertwined with this great institution. Today you become one of nearly 500,000 living alumni worldwide who can proudly call themselves UC Berkeley graduates. While today we honor you and your achievements we can't let this occasion pass without also recognizing the family members and friends whose devotion and support have contributed mightily to your success. Please join me in thanking everyone who has helped you reach one of life's great milestones. For those here who like me have been immersed in the seasonal rhythms of higher education for a long time there's a pleasing familiarity in the customs and traditions of today's ceremony.  They're all points of connection you share with Cal's students of years past. But for all the similarity that this gives your college experience to that of previous students your Berkeley is also colored by the particular set of events that took place here and in the world during your time on campus. Events that guided your class discussions that you and your friends debated till late in the night that may have shaped the decisions you made with regard to coursework internships or even your major. Indeed your Berkeley the time that you've been on campus has been marked by an absolute litany of historic events. Your class saw the rise of the strongest woman candidate for president that the U.S. has ever known ultimately delivered a stunning defeat in an election that upended American politics. You bore witness to the most pitched political battles in decades over taxes, the economy, Supreme Court nominees, election meddling, trade deals and a border wall and even saw the government sputter to a halt during the longest shutdown in our country's history. You spent your days in study at an institution committed to knowledge and truth amidst a climate in which alternative facts became acceptable in public discourse and post-truth was the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year. You've been at Berkeley at a time when the national conversation has been framed by urgent and probing issues of race, class, justice and equality. As the Black Lives Matter movement challenged institutional racism in law enforcement and as the Me Too movement toppled abusive men in positions of power and looked to right historical wrongs. You saw people and nations jump into action to respond to the humanitarian crises in Syria and Venezuela and Yemen. Yet also saw disdain for immigrants and refugees take hold here and around the world as fear and hatred of the other became a dominant theme in many countries' national politics. In your time catastrophic national disasters from monsoons in South Asia to a hurricane in Puerto Rico to wildfires up and down the California coast have motivated national discussions about wealth and power and our responsibility to aid victims and help rebuild their communities. Not to mention debates about, I'm sorry to say, the veracity of climate change. A host of man-made disasters too including racially and ethnically motivated acts of terror and mass shootings have heightened tensions between communities, renewed disputes about gun rights and seen thousands take to the streets in protest. Many of these events and the intense discussion about responsibilities and privileges that come with them have directly touched our campus or had analogues here and that is why I know your class is ready to take on the challenges facing the world because you have already have. You've embraced opportunities to stand up, to speak out, to advocate, to lean in to controversial issues, to participate in public life, to ensure that you leave this place, a world and miniature better than you found it. It was your classmates in the Black Student Union who were behind the creation of the Fannie Lou Hamer Resource Center and the ones who helped craft the African American Initiative which is now working to improve our campus climate for Black students on campus. It was the work of survivors and student advocates among you who in 2016 and 17 helped this university critically examine its policies and procedures for handling cases of sexual assault and harassment and take up the process of improving them. You modeled strength and resolve in support of our undocumented students even as these students were villainized by the leaders of our country and threatened by anonymous chalkings and posters on campus. You pushed our campus to put sustainability at the fore, making us the largest university to commit to 100% clean energy and winning us an award for the coolest UC campus. Your advocacy in Sacramento helped legislators better understand the profound importance of higher education in creating a more just society. Your work through Bridges Retention and Recruitment Centers helped bring in and bring up students from backgrounds historically underrepresented on college campuses. Your organizing helped create the Berkeley Basic Needs Center, a hub of resources for students with food housing and financial insecurity. You helped us learn how we might reconcile a commitment to community alongside a belief in the university's role as a public forum, open even to viewpoints we might find abhorrent. And you joined us in efforts last year to use dialogue, not violence, to bridge the partisan divide. Now you enter the world at large and it's rife with even more intractable problems. Problems that are pervasive that have many dimensions that span national borders that don't care about partisan lines. Problems like the need for teachers and under-resourced public school districts, one that today's commencement speaker Wendy Kopp took on just a year out of college. I hope that you will not retreat from these challenges. Even when things seem hopeless or pointless, you must not abandon civic life and a commitment to the public good. Stay aware, stay woke even, engaged with the world, and it's going on. Take action, organize, volunteer, advocate, campaign, or enter public service yourselves, dissent, protest when it is needed. It will take a firm commitment to civic life to bring grace, justice, and beauty to this world. Let me close by sharing just a few lines from a speech that Robert Kennedy gave at the Greek Theater here back in 1966. He said, all of us have the right to dissipate our energies and talents in any way that we wish, but those who are serious about the future have the obligation to direct their energies and their talents toward concrete objectives consistent with the ideals that they profess. You are the most privileged citizens of a privileged nation, for you have been given the opportunity to study and learn here. You can use your enormous privilege and opportunity to seek purely private gain, but history will judge you and as years pass, ultimately, you will judge yourself on the ways in which you have used your gifts. In your hands, not with presidents or other leaders, is the future of your world and the best fulfillment of the qualities of your own spirit. Thank you. May the education you have received here serve not just your lives, but your society as well. May your years ahead be richly rewarding and fulfilling, and may you enjoy much happiness. Though I will not say that this is your world to save, it is yours to shape alongside many others in this long but persistent march toward progress. Congratulations, good luck, and Go Bears!


1994 was obviously the crucial turning point in South Africa and the Constitution had rewritten what the welfare task was going to be. I had been very involved in pension reform for elderly people and for people with disabilities. There had been a maintenance grant for children, but it had gone largely not to African people in rural areas and the Constitution was clearly insisting on a massive sway of services and delivery towards the poorest people who are by and large African people in South Africa. So on the one hand it was about shifting services so that they could reach many, many more people, albeit at probably a lower rate. And that was the second thing that constrained the principles was that the new more conservative macroeconomic and economic policy came down the tubes towards us very fast, much faster than anyone could have expected. And so you were having to spread services broader but with a fiscal constraint that was being tightened all the time with the new economic policy. What was helpful was that Nelson Mandela had his first call for children as it was called. He was completely committed to the cause of child development, the nurturing of children, special places in society for children. And so the fact that we were doing in a sense a near universal reform towards poorer children got a lot of backing from with inside cabinet who were of course former president Mandela was revered and I think his authentic love for children was something that was a basis of a new kind of solidarity in South Africa. We already knew that the pension for elderly people and for people with disabilities was incredibly important in strengthening women's financial position within the households that they were in and that where pensions went to women they had a large impact on the household because so many poorer people live in extended families and we knew even by 1994 that pensions that went to grannies in households rather than grandfathers in households was spent better on good household goods. The child support grant then came in for the first time going to many, many more poorer families although the previous grant I must insist had been going largely to so called colored and Indian families who were poor and some of them were going to lose the grant. The evidence came in quickly that the child support grant was making a difference specifically on child's enrollment in schools and on nutritional status of children. I don't think we were sure early on that the general impact of the child support grant on women was so marked partly because the child support grant was so small relative to the pension for elderly people and for people with disabilities. What we are increasingly seeing is that we have evidence that the pension for elderly grannies enables younger women with young children to leave the rural home and go to town probably largely to seek work. We don't know convincingly yet how the child support grant is impacting on women. What we do know is that the so many researchers from inside the country and outside come in trying to prove that the child support grant causes younger teenagers to get pregnant or causes decreases in agricultural production. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for this despite the fact that some very, very, very clever people have been trying to find exactly that evidence. I think with the child support grant that is a particularly important question. The child support grant was never intended to be a standalone thing that would solve monetary problems in the family or which would have huge effects on child nutrition. It was meant to be one of a set of components of support for children and families which should work synergistically together. I think it is one of the most intractable problems of development that in fact you can make your policies as interactive as you like. But in fact policies are delivered on the ground in segments with no necessarily well coordinated overall plan and I think this is the big problem. The cash transfers undoubtedly work positively. The future trajectory for the better quality of life of children and pathways out of poverty depends critically on other things such as in South Africa the education system. We know that the child support grant gets children into school earlier and it makes them stay for longer and that's particularly the case with regard to girl children. We don't know what the outcome of that is. Education has probably been the most botched part of policy reform in South Africa and until that gets right you can put the money in it first but you're not going to get the outcomes that would come from radically improved schooling which need not cost a lot. It's got to be a change in mindset. It's got to be a more coordinated set of thoughts coming from the government departments about how the different bits, grades and education interlink with each other and how to teach them within the limits of the teacher workforce in South Africa.


Big thank you to Tom Vecchio and Austin Swain for filling in for me for the past couple of days. Much appreciated on their part and a no thank you to the Major League Baseball scheduling overlords who decided to thank me or welcome me back as with a just brutal slate because yeah it's a 14 game slate and there are a lot of good pitchers on the mound for tonight but pretty much every single one of them is in a difficult situation for one reason or another whether it be a repeat match of whether it be coming off of the covid list or facing just a tough team in general maybe checking all three box at the exact same time it's not ideal there are no clear cut no thought about it pitchers for today except for maybe potentially one and it's tough so our job is to sift through those flaws decide which ones we can tolerate which ones we might not be able to tolerate and decide who grades up best for MLB DFS so let's dive on it and get you set for this Friday night slate welcome on into the heat check fantasy podcast powered by number fire that's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire dot com my name is Jim Sonos I am a senior writer and analyst for a number fire dot com here to break down Friday's 14 game main slate will accept for 705 p.m. Eastern for today and somehow despite this being a 14 game slate we've got no weather to discuss it's pretty good out there for the most part it is a bit warmer than usual in Atlanta 90 degrees at first pitch for today there so bump up bats there hopefully not too much depending on uh we'll talk about some pitchers later on but overall pretty low key slate in terms of weather so hopefully that does stick for later on for today now before we dive into the pitching preview for today quick reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast because the next half week or so pretty big week here on the feed we of course have the NASCAR podcast for Atlanta coming up later on today Austin swimming as you covered with usc each and every week and on Monday we'll have our preview of the open 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paul blackburn tyler wells zack gallin hosier keady and jt brubaker the others at $8,000 are higher so yeah a lot of names a lot of dudes at $8,000 are higher but a lot of flaws within those guys and i can nitpick every single one of those guys except for potentially one that one guy is charlie morton he will be our top pitcher of the day and it's definitely a hot streak here from morton and hot streaks don't always last and we don't want to buy into them at all times but i will buy into it here morton is the top pitcher today he has hit 10 plus strikeout from three of his past five starts he had nine in another and he had eight the start before that five game streak began now that could just be cherry picking because you know we play with stats all the time but there was a change in approach for more than six starts ago that's when he had been throwing he started throwing his foreseen fastball last before that starts the usage on the pitch was 37 percent it is 29 percent since then and it hit a season low of 19 percent in his most recent start that foreseen fastball was getting rocked he had a 504 expected second percentage allowed to it according to baseball survived so it's good to cut back on a pitch like that and he has and it seems to be helping it has been aided by a good schedule here because morton faced the reds the pirates and the rockies in that time but he also had 11 strikeouts against the giants that was not a super easy spot and plus the giants are a you know a good team whereas the nationals are not they have a 98 wrc plus against varieties with a 136 iso not a big strikeout team i think if you were to find a flaw with morton it would be that they're not a high strikeout team but morton is in a groove i think he can get strikeouts even against a lower strikeout opponent so yeah it's a heater and heaters can sometimes lead us down the wrong path but there is an explanation for it given morton's change in his approach and he's in a decent spot here so i will put morton as my number one pitcher for today i think kind of by himself as the one guy without any major major flaws so charlie morton to me is the number one guy of the night now we talked a while ago about lucas gilito and his velocity had been dipping which meant i couldn't consider him despite a low salary and that is still true it's velocity has been down his past couple starts as well but the results and the peripherals have both been better so we get gilito the question marks are there the flaws are there as with every guy in the slate but the path upside is still there and i think that i want to put him number two for today he gets the tigers at home tonight and it looks like gilito is at least adjusting to the reduced velocity he's cut back on his fastball usage in his past couple of starts using more change ups and more sliders instead and that does seem to be helping a bit he had a 15.6 swing and strike rate against the angels now the angels are a high strikeout offense but that game was on the road despite striking out a lot they are a good offense as well he's out facing the tigers at home and they're definitely improving the tigers now in july are different than the tigers we had in may but still a 73 w r c plus on the current act of roster against righties that is the lowest in the slate by 10 percentage points 24 strikeout rates minimal walks so we bumped them up because they've been better and that's i think probably what i would expect going forward is to then be better but it's still a good bounce back spot here for gilito despite considering that i'm not sure if he's fully healthy based on you know the velo dips those are a concern but he might be able to be okay here even with the velocity being down not fully convinced which is why i prefer morton which is why i think that there is a legitimate red flag tied to gilito's name for today that's why i would lower gilito if you think that he will be super super popular for the slate which i think there's a decent chance that he is but just straight up i would say all things considered gilito to me is the number two pitcher behind charlie morton for today so to me it's morton one gilito two but i think there is a gap between those two guys at the top of the slate now with gilito being the value play the board is open here for our third pitcher of the night and i'm gonna go zack wheeler in the situation it's a really difficult spot because it's a tough matchup facing the cardinals on the road and it's a repeat matchup he just saw them last week that's brutal i hate that combination i hate it i hate it i hate it but i think all things considered even with everyone else having somebody flaws wheeler does belong in the third slot for today the cardinals have a 116 wrc plus against righties with a 20 strikeout right that is not an ideal spot at all but wheeler is a very good pitcher we're up to 11 starts since his velocity stabilized he has a 2.76 skill interactive er right his strikeout rate is 30 with a 4 walk rate he's also a great bad at ball data in that time as well a lot of things are working in this favor you know in terms of what he does as a pitcher and that helps a lot in the tough matchups he's faced these cardinals already in this stretch is mentioned it's repeat matchup uh in the same situation the same 11 start sample he's also faced the dodgers once the braves twice in the angels so five tough matchups he has a 2.87 er right in those five specific games but there is one big issue again the cardinals just saw him last week and he didn't shut them down he threw seven shut out innings against them but he had just five strikeouts now they're seeing him again this time in st louis it is very much in wheeler's range of outcomes to struggle tonight with all those things considered but it's also possible that he is the highest scoring pitcher on the slate so there's a lot a lot of risk here there's a lot of downsides in using zack wheeler but the ceiling is there too and i like ceiling plays especially when they're not my primary pitcher of the night so i think that the upside is worth the gamble here for wheeler i would make sure you have less of him than morton and gilito because they are in better situations all things considered but behind them i'm probably going zack wheeler as my third highest exposure pitcher of the night let's move now to stacking we're talking about the yankees facing connor siebold uh we've seen two stars for siebold so far and gotten some strikeouts in those but the results have been really bad and i think we should stack the yankees here those starts came against the jays and the cubs for siebold the jays game understandable uh the cubs game he did pitch pretty well limited hard contact you know didn't go deep in the game but did pitch pretty well but the yankees they're better than the cubs that's the they're more on the jays side of things on this scale down in triple a siebold had a 2.09 er a but he wasn't overpowering a lot of people but let up a lot of fly balls they 45 fly ball right in triple a which implies that he's gotten some weak contact which is good we saw that in the cubs game as well they made almost no hard contact that entire game but when he didn't get that weak contact against the jays things got out of hand in a pretty major way so basically siebold is dependent on inducing weak contact which could happen against the yankees but they have a ton of guys who can hurt you here so i think they're in a good spot to do well here i would downgrade the yankees if erin judge can't play if anthony rizzo can't play if they're both out especially then you know maybe you're looking at like a john carl astanton one-off type situation but um overall i think that the yankees if we assume judge is back in there for today are going to be a high quality stack for tonight one guy worth mentioning here is erin hicks um he was abysmal to start the year but from the middle of june on he has a 48 hard hit rate it's 64 played appearances 48 percent hard hit rates a 13 percent barrel rates with a 286 iso he has homers and back to back games i'm not sure if it'll stick because hicks was so bad at the start of the year but he's low salary to 2600 there is data to back it up given the the hard contact and the barrel rate so i'm okay using him i think josh donaldson is worth the look as well but you know i think there is enough there to buy in so if you need someone to help offset the salaries of judge something he plays uh stanton rizzo etc i do think that hicks works and donaldson would work as well now i mentioned morten i mentioned the weather in atlanta it is very hot that is good for offense bad for charlie morten if you want to hedge and take advantage of that weather while um still dabbling in that game i would say let's stack atlanta i think the braids are a good stack for tonight they're facing eric fetty who's had some decent starts recently he's had two quality starts in his past three outings but the schedule there has been super super soft and the peripherals are not great the most relevant sample on fetty is his past six starts he's been throwing more stinkers and fewer cutters in that time his eray is 3.86 but his skill interactive eray is 4.92 and it gets there thanks to some poor plate discipline numbers but he's also letting up a lot of hard contact a 43 percent rate there in this six start sample we've seen him uh we've seen some of these issues in the tougher matchups he has had in this time we did see fetty faced these same braids in washington let it three runs across five and a third innings let a couple barrels in that game he had a uh let up a 50 percent hard hit rate and now the braids get to see him again it's not super recent that uh matchup was about a month ago but you know it doesn't hurt to have seen him about about the go they're in atlanta tonight 90 degrees for this late i think there's a lot to like with the braids in the situation now it's going to be tough to stack the braids with morton given the salaries and their hitters the salary at morton but i think you can make it work i'd at least give it a shot uh but if not if you're going like g alito or something the braids very very easy to stack for today now do you think we can feel good within those braids stacks about viewing ronald the kunya jr as being mostly what he is at his peak obviously he missed time due to his foot injury again uh but he's had just one extra base hit since he came back that's a concern injuries are an issue in mlb dfs even guys are playing they're playing hurts they might not be at full strength but a kunya has four stolen bases in this time he has a couple barrels he's not striking out at all so i think he's fine i'm gonna treat him as close to his usual self even if he hasn't shown all that upside recently i think that we'll see that eventually just because he is hitting the ball hard he's still in bases which to me is an indicator of health so a kunya hasn't popped off since he came back but i think he probably will soon so a kunya to me really not quite back to full health but like a guy i'm okay viewing as being a superstar level talent when i'm assembling my braids stacks for tonight now for a third stack we'll find some value here i said a couple months ago that i liked stacking the diamond backs i thought they were pretty fun for dfs and pretty much right when i said that the offense hit the tank they became real bad real quick so i jinxed them if you're arizona fan i'm sorry that's my bad but they're facing chat cool tonight i think they could do pretty well here and i think that we should stack them in this spot they just saw cool at cores over the weekend and they scored five runs in five innings so you know we could toss it out because it's coarse field but now they get to see him again and cool has been pretty good at cores overall this year he just blanked the dodgers in the start before that the air the diamond backs had a 50 fly ball right against him in that game they had barely any whiffs in that game most of cool's raw first darts have come on the road he's led up four plus runs and five separate games this year and three of those five starts came on the road we also saw cool last is three innings the last time he had a repeat matchup so teams saw him again they were not fooled that second time around led up five runs with no strikeouts or sorry two strikeouts the first time he faced arizona in this two in this back to back stint he has a 5.24 skill interactive era has passed eight starts more sinkers vila's been down in that time it's been rough for cool 46 fly ball rate 41 hard hit rate so yeah that dodgers game is there and it does matter he had that nice start there but the overall numbers say we can stack against an especially when you consider that this arizona offense did just see cool it is most recent start so I will do that here even with the roof being closed at chase field for tonight you can find that by searching for diamond backs roof information chase field roof is closed for tonight but still I think it's a good stack here to go with arizona if you want some value the other plus here is a cool does struggle a lot with lefties the slugging percentage for lefties is about a hundred points higher than that of righties so christian walker's good um I'll still be high on him but if I'm ranking out the guys with to prioritize it in this stack I would say David peralta aria thomas dolphin varsho maybe catel marté question mark on that one but those three guys for sure above walker with any prioritization ladder of our diamond back stacks due to cool's platoon splits and the fact that they're probably just as good as walker against righties anyway let's go now to things to watch here I'm not sure what to think of chris bassett tonight he is at home he's in a good spot against the marlins but he's also coming off the covid list he hasn't started since june 25th which seems like it was yesterday but also was kind of a long time ago now I do have a lower pitch count for basset for tonight as a result of this it's still pretty high because he basically just missed one trip to the rotation but even in 90 pitches it's enough to push basset out of the top three for me so if you believe he'll go deeper in the game maybe consider it there but for me personally I'm okay being lower on basset here I think the angels are worth a look they're facing tyler wells who's done a good job of suppressing hard contact this year that's why both his era and his expected era are very good but wealth lots of a lot of awesome play angels are at their feistiest against a lower strikeout pitcher and they get that here so I think they could be a little fun it might not work but because wells does have good results for a reason he's a good pitcher he's pitching pretty well but I think that the angels are fun as a tournament option for tonight I also am okay with the other side of that game that's the Orioles against Reed Dettmers he looked awesome in his one start back in AAA and maybe found something there maybe worked with a new pitching coach new voice in his ear helped him unlock some of that early season stuff he was doing but the numbers before the demotion even including the hitter were pretty rough the Orioles do have some guys who can pound lefties so I think that the Orioles and the angels both in that game of Baltimore might define plays for tournaments for tonight let's finish up with some dinger calls here for today the boring one I do want to go with Ronald the cunea junior I know it's not boring based on the 2022 numbers but the pedigree says there should be a boring home run call and I like what I've seen again he's getting some barrels he's running which says to me he's healthy and if he's healthy he's probably going to be good so ron the cunea junior the boring home run call for today the fun one let's go David Peralta again the swing changes had so far this year with more fly balls a lot of hard contact good iso against righties face and chat cool cool letting up a lot of hard contact a lot of fly balls I think that does bode well for Peralta did consider guys like Dalton Varshow here I put him above out Thomas in terms of just pure home run potential but we'll go David Peralta along with the cunea as our home run calls for today that is all that we have here for today on the solo shot but as mentioned we do have NASCAR UFC coming up later on the open championship next week on a monday all right here on the number fire daily fantasy podcast so fun weekend for some sports the next couple of weeks make sure you are subscribed if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review as well if you've got any questions for me I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s you can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big thank you to everyone for tuning in for today good luck to you with your mlb dfs lineups have a fantastic weekend we'll talk to you once again on monday for another slate of mlb dfs this has been the solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network


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JSON Web Tokens or JWTs for short are all over the web. Wait, JWT or JOT? Well, you decide. In this video, you'll learn what JSON Web Tokens are, how to create JWTs in Python using the most popular JWT library by JWT. Let's get started. I'm going to go over a brief introduction on what JWTs are, so if you're already familiar, you can skip ahead to the coding. JSON Web Tokens are a very compact way to carry information, and they are defined as a three-part structure consisting of a header, a payload, and a signature. The header and the payload both carry what we call claims. In the header, we find claims about the token itself, like what algorithm was used for signing that token, while the payload or the body carries information about a given asset. In a login scenario, this would be information about a user. Claims follow the standard key value pairing, and most of the claims commonly used in JWTs have a standardized naming defined in the RFC 7519. Finally, the signature. This is the part that helps you make sure that a given token was in temper with. Because signing JWTs requires either a secret or a public-private key pair agreed on previously. The signature itself is based off the header and the payload in combination with a secret or private public key pair, depending on what algorithm was used. If you want to know more about JWTs, you can read the JWT Handbook linked in the description below. But enough about the theoretical part. Let's see some code. First, I'm going to create a Python environment in my working folder. The way I like to do this is using python3-m-m. And keep in mind that I'm using Python version 3.8 here. Once that gets created, I can activate my MF. Now note that the comment for activating your environment may vary. Especially according to your operating system. And you can find a link in the description that lists all the ways you can activate an environment. So you can find a way that works best for your OS in there. Okay, cool. Disclaimer done. Now I need to update my PIP version. And now I need to install pyjwt with the cryptography dependency. And I'm doing this because you need the cryptography library if you want to use asymmetrical algorithms in the future. I'm also going to install iPython, which is an alternative Python console. Because personally, I like it better than the standard Python console. It has code completion and is overall nicer to the eyes. But feel free to choose whichever interface or console that you may prefer to follow along. Now I have everything I need. So I'm going to open my console here by calling iPython. I'm going to clean my screen. And what I want to do is import the jwt object from the pyjwt library. The next step is to prepare some data so I can pass it on the body of my jwt. So let's create a dictionary to hold some user data. And this payload data have three claims. Sub, which is the user identifier or subject of this token. Name, which is the user full name. And nickname, which is the user, well, nickname. Keep in mind that I'm using some dummy data, which tells you who my user is in this example. And now the work is pretty much done. You can call the anchor method from the jwt package, pass the dictionary I just created, and let that method do its magic for us. And by this, I mean that the anchor method takes care of creating a standard header for my token. Now, before I print out this token, I like to point out three things. First is that the key parameter actually works for either a key or a secret. In this case, I'm using a secret because the default algorithm only requires a secret. Which brings me to my second point, that in real life, you have an actual secret being used instead of this dummy string that I got here. And third is that if you were using an asymmetric algorithm for signing, like IS256, you would need to use the private key for signing your token. Don't worry, I'm going to show you how to do that in just a bit. Now, if I print out this token by calling it, you see this huge string over here. And you can copy this string and use it wherever you want. In this case, I'm going to copy it and paste it on jwt.io. And jwt.io is a pretty useful tool because you can use it anywhere as long as you have internet connection. So you can actually verify the signature of a token in your web browser. Here, I already got an example token, but let's paste the token I just created. So if I scroll down here and paste my token, you'll see that my token signature is invalid. But that's because I need to fix the secret in this little field here. And if I copy my secret and paste that here, you can see that the tokens get a signature verified. Yay! You can see here also the header of my token in this section that I got. I had two claims that pyjwt actually added for us. The first one is type, which is used to say which type of token this is. And the second one is ALG, which says which algorithm was used for signing this jwt. In the payload, you can see the data that we created. And one thing that you might not know is that jwt can be used to actually generate a token. So if you change any of the values I got, either in the header or in the payload, you see that my token actually changes. And that's it. You just generated and verified a token in a few easy steps. Now, before you go, I want to show you an example on how to create a token using an asymmetrical algorithm. In this case, I'm going to use RS256. This time is where the cryptography package comes into play. Because the RS256 uses a private and public keys, we need to load the private key for signing the token. And to do this, I need to import the serialization module from the cryptography package. So let's go back to my console. Let me clean this up a little bit and let's import my serialization module. And I already got my public private key pair inside my .sh folder in my local directory here. And you can see that if I list the contents of my folder, .sh. And because this key pair was created using the SSH key gen2, I need to use a SSH method to load it. So first things first, I need to read this private key file and save it into a variable. So the way I do this is like this, using the open method and the read method. And this will store my private key into the private key variable as a string. Then I need to pass the string as a bytes object to the load SSH private key method from the serialization module. So I'm going to do this by creating a new key and encode the private key variable. Oh, it's missing encode. Let me add that. Okay, no more error. Now, keep in mind that for this example, this key doesn't have a password or a press phrase. But remember that securing keys is very important, so always generate the keys with the press phrases. And the have lifting is mostly done. You can now call the encode method once again, pass the key and choose the RS256 algorithm. And finally generate your token again. So I'm going to start that in a new variable. And if I print out this new token by calling it and you're done. Now I can copy paste this into jwt.io once again, just to check it. And you can see here that I now have a different header, even though the content of the payload is the same. Now you know all about JWTs and how to create them in Python. If you have any questions and want to see more videos like this here in the channel, leave a comment below. Also, remember to subscribe to the channel and check out the link session in the description of the video to find more information on JWTs. Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon.


of them going for touchdowns. He made his mark on special teams as he gets started for the club. But in this week's epic Western genuine Titan segment, Amy Wells takes us through the story of NWI on the field and the special guy that he's always been off the field. You see the plays on Sundays. Receivers to the right, going to give Henry a turn. He pitches it back to Tannehill. He throws deep right side there. Westbrook Akinae 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, and so. Touchdown! Tight! And sometimes it's easy to forget that before the bright lights in the packed stadiums of the National Football League, before the roaring fans and tradition of the Indiana Hoosiers, Nick Westbrook Akinae was just Nick, a wide receiver for the Lake Mary Rams. The tall kid from central Florida made an impression early in his career. Really early. Well, it's funny because Nick came to one of our youth camps as a little kid. So we saw him like in third grade and he stood out then even. It's, you know, he's a tall kid, had good hands, and we're like, okay, we can't wait for this guy to get here. So he got as a freshman, he came out and just was a great receiver for the freshman team. And then at the end of the freshman season, he's one of the kids brought up to the varsity level.  Probably his sophomore year. You know, he started to stand out. He started for us as a sophomore. And there were times it was just, you know, whenever we needed a first down, it's throw it to Nick. Throw it to Nick at third and long, throw it up to Nick and he'll make it happen. And we had a quarterback who was pretty good at the time, who could buy him some time and run around with his feet a little bit and get on the edge and allow Nick to go deep and just gloss it up there to him. There's some times one play in particular stands out. We're in a game against Ovito and Nick Westbrook was right down there in the middle of the end zone. And Ovito had a guy on each side and a guy in front. And Nick just goes up between all three of them and grabs the ball.  So, I'd say that point was the 10th grade we knew. It wasn't just his athleticism that stood out. Nick Westbrook Kine was as good a person as he was an athlete. And that's saying something because NWI was a great athlete. In his time at Lake Mary High School, he set school records for career, single season and single game receiving yards. He also holds the school's touchdown record. As a senior, he caught 84 passes for 1,853 yards and 21 touchdowns. It always feels good to win. It always feels good to win. Records are broken and stats come and go. He's just such a good kid. He was just so nice to everybody. He was in the Best Buddy program that helped kids that were special needs kids. And he, AP class is smart and yes sir kid. All his teachers loved him. I mean, he was a leader in the labor room and had tremendous work ethic. The stats will be broken. You know, eventually someone's gonna come along and break some of those records. But what stands out is just the quality of person that he is. He was such a high quality person that he was recently inducted into the Lake Mary Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes alumni who have achieved greatness and who represent the values of a Lake Mary student. That is Nick Westbrook Kine. Now as a Titan, he has continued down the same path. After being brought in as a rookie free agent, he earned a starting role in just two years. He has become a leader within the receivers room. Nick is every year he's consistently grown in one area or another. Smart football player, really disciplined, fundamentals. You know, when you can have a poster child or somebody who does everything right, that's who it would be. And he has still found time to invest in the Nashville community, continuing the tradition that he started as a kid at Lake Mary High School. We, of course, we always, you know, with social media now, we can always find a highlight of him doing something. And especially when he was in Indiana, we always found highlights and linked them to him and said, hey, watch this. And that's the type of kid, type of play we want you to make. And that's the type of person we want you to be. We always talk about it. He is a favorite around Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park. And you see that in his high school Hall of Fame already in Lake Mary, Florida, a graduate of the Kellogg School of Business at Indiana University. A guy that sort of fits the bill of what we call a genuine Titan. Yeah, I mean, I think I'd be echoing a lot of things that was said there about him. He's been consistent ever since he came here as a rookie free agent. There's been no job that's too big for Nick to take on. There's been no task that's asked of him that's too small for him to say, let me do that, whether it's be a gunner on the punt team, whether it's run down on kickoff, line up in the slot, line up at outside block, catch run.  And I know the guys really look up to him in the way that he approaches his job on a day in and day out basis.