So we here at the ID Tech Act show here in Berlin and who are you? Hi, I'm Inge Wirt from Fraunhofer Institute in Bremen and I am a project manager and responsible for integration of functions in parts and components. And who are you? Hi, my name is Volker Zellmer. I'm also from Fraunhofer Eiferm in Bremen and I'm responsible for the department of smart systems and we work on printed electronics and 3d printing. So there's a lot of different Fraunhofer's, right? Which one is the Eiferm? Well, Eiferm is the Institute for Manufacturing, Technology and Advanced Materials. We are located in Bremen in the north and west of Germany and you're absolutely right. There are also lots of other colleagues here from the Fraunhofer Society. But is this the one that's the most like printed electronics kind of or there's other also? Well, each Fraunhofer Institute has a special core competence. Our core competence are materials and process development and other Institute focus a bit more on product development, for example, or on electronic devices and therefore we have different institutes here. So what are you showing here, for example? What is this? Yeah, you see this is a carbon reinfest structure. You see this is printed here. This is a silver conductive line and it's integrated here in the part and you can see that the electrical current is going here and you see the lamp is online and it's integrated in the structure. This is very cool for bicycles, but also for airplanes or everything. Yeah, you want to integrate the cables. Is it a big deal? It is not not not only for bicycles. This is only to show it that this is possible for bicycles, but we can integrate structures in any components and parts. For example, most in automotive and also for for airplanes, aircrafts, a lot. I think there was a keynote. They were talking about this, right? The airbus. Exactly. They want to reduce the cables. Yes. How much is it? 10% of the airplane is cables? Well, I think if we integrate this technology in the plane manufacturer, you will be able to save much more weight. But it's not only to reduce the weight. It's also to reduce the maintenance working with wires and integrating wires in an airplane. It could be much easier to use printed electronics. And that's the reason why we integrate sensors in the airplane. For example, here we see this is a drastic sensor and you see when I move my hand in different positions and you see a signal here and this can be translated into a signal. For example, moving something up or moving something down. So this is this printed electronics sensor here? Yes. On glass or what? What do you do here? On plastic? Yes. Yeah, this is here on plastic, but it can be also on glass. It is flexible on this. So this whole pattern here, is that what makes the sensor? Yes. Yeah, we have this is a silver structure. This is a kind of capacitive sensor and so the sensor detects where my hand is and then the signal is detected here. Is this a very big deal? Like nobody's doing this? Or are you the cutting edge of this technology? Yes, we get last year we got the ID TechEx award for this technology here. So is it mass production? It is individual production. Individual production.  Is it how you work also? Yeah, that is exactly what we do at Fraunhofer in special, that we develop basic new technologies that are later on transferred to industry parties for lab-scale productions for product development and at the end of the day to earn money. And what is this one here? Yeah, here you can see this is an RFID structure and you can measure here the signal and there's a ship here and you can ride on the ship and you can also read the signal out of the ship. This is kind of NFC communication. So is this a special way to do it? Or there's a lot of RFID tags, right? So what's special about this one? This is, we can adapt it to a specific application. This is a very very small structure and yeah, the antenna structure is here printed, but we can also This is almost a material. On what? It's a kind of special material, kind of almost a material. It's a Fraunhofer material. And what is this? Well, this is a typical 3D printable filament. Whenever you read something about 3D printing, you will often find the FDM printing technology. This is a plastic-based material, a thermoplastic-based material and we developed a special process to fill thermoplastic materials with carbon fillers. So at the end of the day here, we have a very flexible 3D printable material, having a very high electrical and also having a very high conductive conductivity. And what we can do with this kind of material, we can 3D print heat exchanger, for example, and we can print 3D parts to be used for electromagnetic shielding as another application. So you can 3D print something that's conductive? Yes. And is this a big deal?  So we have a lot of requests from very different branches, very different industries to that kind of material, because actually you can print, on the one hand, thermoplastic materials or you can print full metal materials and now we have the possibility to print composite materials, combining the best properties of both worlds. So you could, in one go, you can print the stuff that's conductive and the stuff that's anticonductive, right? Exactly. So then you print the whole thing. Yes, that's our aim. But how far is this? Well, it's not, as you can see here, from our very first demonstrator. This is two different prints, right? These are two different prints? Yes, that's right. But you will find today on the market already printing solutions, being able to print several materials in one of the same step. So with our materials, you can really create new products based on technologies that are already established on the market. But what's the resolution and how long times it takes? Because if it takes like five hours to make a little thing, it would be an issue, right? You want to make it fast or? Yeah, we would like to enhance the speed of the process, also by enhancing our material and for sure it's always important to print as fast as possible. Nice. And what is it? What are you talking about here on the screen? Is this showing some processes you have? Yes, we show here different processes. What you see here, this is inkjet printing process. Yeah, this is a gestic sensor structure, which is printed here on the printer. And then you have different demos here. You have 3D screen printing, direct write. Yes, correct. So you do a lot of 3D printing. Yes, we have nearly every technology available at our institute, which is common. We have aerosoljet printing, we have inkjet printing, we have dispensing technology, screen printing, pad printing, and we can also combine these technologies to each other. And what is also possible that we can use a robot system to print on larger parts and components. Is this what it is? There's a robot there. This is also a robot. What you see here at the moment is that these structures are transferred into different printing stations, because each technology has advantages and disadvantages. And to combine the advantages of the printing technologies, we can transfer parts. And we can make a kind of small production. And what is this? Is this showing something? Yes, you see here there are printed conductive lines. You see here this is a little LED, and you see there are the signal lines, the smaller one, and these are the power lines. And these are also printed. These are by dispensing and aerosoljet printing. And conductivity is exactly the same as any other cable? Nearly the same. It depends on the process and on the filling weight of the material. But normally it is not so good as a cable, but in the range. You show some 3D printing stuff here. A couple other examples, right? Some different things here. Just to demonstrate your skills, like precision and stuff. Yes, we are showing what is possible and what products we can print and where we can integrate sensors. For example we integrate temperature sensors in parts, we integrate strain gauges, humidity sensors, pressure sensors. So there are lots of possibilities to integrate sensors in parts and components. Is EFAM connected with the specific university or is it just a separate institute? We are separate, but we are in close cooperation with the University of Boehmann because the head of our institute, Professor Matthias Busse, is also at the University of Boehmann. Is there a lot of students working on this or a lot of people? How big is this? Yes, our institute is a larger institute from the front of our society. And we are about 700 employees and we also have a lot of students working at our institute to make a PhD or make a bachelor and master. What do you think about the IDTech action? It's fascinating and it's very good to come in close contact to the other people dealing with printed electronics and to talk to our customers. This is your field, right? Yes, it is indeed. This is my field. Cool, thanks a lot. Thank you. You're welcome.


All right, it's Python on hardware time. Mm, blinka, blinka, blinka. And a special shout out to Catny, who's been running the newsletter, and is back next week. And we're doing so many GitHub things, and helping out with products, really helping out. Thank you so much. Next week, there'll be Catny's newsletter, and then Ann's back, and I'll be doing the next one after that. So big highlights I'll talk about in a second. So I'm going to skip to 200 board thing. So we have 15 different available languages. We reached 100 boards in January, 2020 at the Open Hardware Summit. And over a year later, we reached 200 boards. So I'll just talk about it now. 200 boards. So we did it. 200. It is the most, what's the right word for it? It's a menagerie of fantastic electronics. It has every chipset. It has every shape size. It's got a diversity of options. It's really like it's not Adafruit-only board. Yeah, we have a bunch of boards in there, because we make stuff we make at CircuitPython. But we're like half of it, at the most. Yeah, so Adafruit boards are only half. If that. The number one download is not an Adafruit board. No. And if you look, and depending on who thinks the competitor of ours, those boards are all in it. Wait, and then how much do we charge people? Nine, of course. Nothing. So it's free. It's open source. Free, free, free, free. And the reason we do this is because the bigger goal is to get as many people programming in Python and doing electronics as possible. Yes. It's free. It's OK if you want to support us with a board. That's fine. But the best thing to do, too, is just learn some Python. So in the newsletter. And submit your boards, too. We have guides on how to do it. So in the newsletter, you can check out links to Scott's presentation at the Open Hardware Summit 2021. Scott presented Interface Design Open Source Hardware. And all the broadcasts are posted on YouTube. There's a new version of MicroPython 1.15. I want to mention we recently, like today, merged in a pull request to Bump Circuit Python up to MicroPython 1.10. So we're going to be slowly trying to catch up and merge in all of the language changes. So I know people have been waiting, and we're doing it now. OK. Check out Scott's Deep Dive tomorrow. And you can also check out all the news. So many projects. So many encoders. There's a bunch. Sony, shout out to Sony, had a program microtron that was used in Circuit Python. This is a Sony's presence. And they have two videos. And you can check out not only what Sony is doing, but the videos that they posted and what some of the projects that the people made. Make did a really neat series of, they think they could call it plan B. It's like, how to cope with maker technologies for what's been going on in the last year. So they did an interview with Carter. And it's our public CO2 display. We use these on every fluorinated fruit to see how much CO2 is around. That lets us know the air quality. That lets us know if the ventilation is good enough to continue to stay safe as possible, all masked all the time, of course. OK. And so the other thing I wanted to mention is two things. We are a participating sponsor for the Python Software Foundation, which is Python 2021 in May. It's a virtual event and we're happy we can do it. I wish we can do more. This year, of course, is a little harder to do as much as we would like to do. Or what we did last year, or sorry, the year before, is because it was a physical device that's a little hard to do right now. But we'll get back to that. We'll get back to that. And don't worry, there'll be Adafruit and Python hardware. And we came up with what we could do. They were like, thank you so much. This is great. And I said, here's some graphics that I'm participating sponsor at PyCon. The other thing that was in the newsletter that I thought was neat is Seed has their Shell expansion board. And what is the selling feature that you put on Amazon to make sure people want to use this? Ding dong. Circuit Python supported. Heck yeah. So there's indicators that it's like, all right. That's going to cool. We did something kind of cool. There's all these projects. There's all that code. There's all those boards. There's all these people. There's this community. And people want it. And people want it. And they're sharing it. And now it's becoming a selling feature for a board when people are deciding what board is right for them. So anyway, check it out. That's all the news. Oh, one other thing that I just put in here is there was a more advanced rendering or graphic of the Nano RP2040 Connect from Arduino. That'll run Circuit Python as soon as we get one. And if not already. And so check that out. So that's all in the newsletter. You can check that out at AdafruitDaily.com. And you sign up. It's not connected to your store account or anything. It's just all good all the time. Thank you, Blinka.


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about Still I'll Rise, a poem by Maya Angelou. Now I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as it appears in the Pearson International GCSE anthology and I'd highlight the literary and language devices as well as contextual factors that you should be aware of when studying this poem. So let's get started. Now before I read into the poem it's really important to understand the contextual factors that influenced Maya Angelou when writing this poem. So Maya Angelou was an African-American poet as well as a civil rights activist and she lived between 1928 and passed away sadly in 2014. Now this is a really important period because she actually lived through the Jim Crow era. These were the worst excesses of US history whereby there were several laws that were passed especially under the Jim Crow era which legalized racial segregation, in other words racial separation in the US. It denied many African Americans things like the right to vote, hold certain job positions, these tended to be higher paying jobs, as well as the right to get a higher education in some prestigious universities. So these were known as the Jim Crow era and this area effectively stopped when the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964. Of course there was a lot of pain, a lot of bloodshed, a lot of activism that had to go into this. Of course the figure that is embodied in this activism is that of Martin Luther King. So African Americans finally achieved equal rights in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. However this is equal rights on paper. Even to this day there's still a lot of unequal treatment and brutality directed towards the African-American community. So this poem really touches on that and it was published in the 1970s. So what I'll do is I'll read through select stanzas in this poem and then pause every so often and explain especially literary techniques that you need to be aware of. You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why you beset with gloom? Because I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns with a certainty of tides just like hope springing high still I'll rise. Now these first three verses or stanzas are really intriguing because it shows how defiant she feels but also by extension how defiant she feels African American community has been in the US in spite of the oppression that they have experienced through the years and through the centuries. Now the poem begins with this juxtaposition of pronouns. So you've got the second person pronoun you and this is contrasted with the first person pronoun me and of course already there's this combative experience as highlighted. Furthermore she mentions you may write me down in history and this declarative statement shows some people have the power to define and write her history. Also the reference to the abstract noun history shows the misrepresentation of African Americans historically and this is in textbooks but also the justification that went into justifying holding African Americans as slaves initially. Moreover in the second line she refers to the bitter twisted lies and these remodifiers show how historically people have mistreated African Americans in the US and again there's this repetition of the second person pronoun you and this adds a really bitter edge to the tone. She's addressing these oppressors these people who feel like African Americans and essentially black people are inferior to other races. She says that you may trod me and this is a metaphor for the historical oppression that a lot of African American surfaced. As I've mentioned not only did they come to America as slaves they also were oppressed even after slavery was abolished under the Jim Crow laws and the segregation that followed with that so of course this is all trodding them into the very dirt. However she shows that the African American community cannot be oppressed like Darstle Rise and this similarly emphasizes both her strength but also her community's strength, resilience and self-assurance. Now the second verse begins by asking this rhetorical question does my sassiness upset you and it's interesting because it's quite playful and sarcastic. She's really being sarcastic towards the person who's really upset that she's happy and joyful in the color of her skin and joyful in herself and she also uses a colloquial term sassiness to show that she really doesn't care about these people who are angered that she's so happy and then she asked another rhetorical question why you beset with gloom and this rhetorical question shows some people are so hateful especially when they see how happy she is. Moreover she talks about like I've got oil wells and this similarly shows her bold gate how boldly she carries herself she's extremely confident and this is a direct reference to the wealth of oil tycoons so she feels like just like them how they would be very bold very self assured she feels the same even if she doesn't have that kind of wealth. Also in the third verse she refers to the moons and the suns and this is celestial imagery which shows her love for herself her heritage as well as her skin color this is all natural this is all part of nature and all African Americans should be proud of who they are. Also she says just like hope's ringing high and the personification and alliteration here the hopes are springing shows she is persistent her hopes can never be taken away from her her aspiration can never be taken away from her she's not internalizing the negativity that goes when African Americans are represented both in history and in the news sometimes the news portrays them in a negative way as people who are violent but she doesn't accept that she sees herself as being part of a very beautiful culture. She then mentions and repeats the title still all rise and this repetition shows she repeats this as a mantra to herself to remind herself that she has the power to rise above all of this negativity.   Moreover, the simile like teardrops, preferences, dejection and hopelessness that a lot of people would feel if they were in the same circumstances but she rejects this. Furthermore, she uses language related to the semantic field of sadness, teardrops, cries but she rejects having to go through this. She is happy and she owns her heritage. Furthermore, the possessive pronoun my to refer to her haughtiness shows that she really owns her happiness and she owns herself a sense of self esteem. Moreover, the mention of haughtiness shows that she's quite selfish and quite proud of who she is. She then uses the imperative sentence. Don't you take it awful hard and she orders her oppressor not to be angry. She's taking back her power using this language. Moreover, the simile and alliteration like I've got goldmines shows she feels really wealthy. Her heritage is rich and she feels really blessed to be African-American. In line 20 she uses a colloquialism dig in again here she shows that she doesn't take herself too seriously and she's quite playful. Now in the following verse she refers to very violent activity. The semantic field of violence is used when she refers to shoot, cut and kill and this is a reference to systemic racist oppression and if you even think about what's happened in America with regards to police brutality towards African-American community this is still sadly an ongoing issue and she refers to this and she says they may shoot, cut or kill her however she will refuse to be bowed she refused to be subservient. Moreover she uses a rule of three to talk about words eyes and hatefulness and this shows how society is trying to ostracize her. Society is trying to make her feel uncomfortable in her skin and she faces continuous discrimination living in America. However she shows in spite of this like air are rising the simile again emphasizes her resilience and adaptability. Also in line 25 the possessive pronoun which again is repeated my sexiness shows that she still is very proud of who she is and she owns her own attributes and her reference to sexiness shows that she really takes charge of sexuality and she sees herself as quite beautiful. Also she uses simile and alliteration referring to I dance like I've got diamonds and this shows her unbrindled and joyful energy and she refers also to her dancing like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs. Now this alliteration meeting and my refers to the fuller African figures of course African Americans are descendants of Africans and historically especially when you're thinking about western ideals of beauty the African body which is fuller which is a little bit larger than say the Caucasian body shape is historically and even perhaps arguably today seen as repulsive as a little bit too large however she says that she takes ownership of her body and she's proud of her fuller African American figure. So let's carry on. Out of the huts of history's shame are rise up from a past that's rooted in pain are rise on a black ocean leaping and wide we welling and swelling are bare in the tide leaving behind nights of terror and fear are rise into a daybreak that's wondrously clear are rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the dream and the hope of the slave our rise our rise our rise now the last two verses end in a very very powerful way now the second to last verse refers to the hearts of histories and the alliteration is a reference to the slave trade also she uses on John once speed up the pace of the poem and this is of course a dramatic monologue furthermore she repeats the term I rise and this shows that she as I've mentioned before she's repeating this like a mantra to herself furthermore she repeats the term I rise and this is almost a repetition which is like a mantra to herself she says that in spite of all of this she's going to keep on rising against all of this systemic oppression furthermore when she refers to the past that rooted in pain this metaphor refers to the trauma and suffering of the transatlantic slave trade as well as the slavery and segregation that she's faced as an African American in the U.S. Moreover she says I'm a black ocean and this metaphor represents the color of her skin as well as her vast history and the present continuous verbs welling and swelling show she has a lot of energy and vitality now in line 35 she talks about the nights of terror and fear now this metaphor is a reference to segregation and also to the racist groups that sprang up especially during the Jim Crow era such as the Klu Kloss clan known as the KKK who actually attacked lynched hung African Americans and of course also the terror and fears referring to the biased justice system which is biased against heavily punishing African Americans so it shows the real challenges that African Americans face within America also this is oxymoron knights versus day and she ends with this promise of the future now in line 39 she talks about the gifts that my ancestors gave and this is a reference to the fact that USA has historically largely relied on its slave labor to build the country so these are gifts that her slave ancestors have given she also uses the rhyming couplet gave and slave to reinforce this idea that even if her history is quite dark she's rising like a phoenix out of these ashes also in line 40 this reference to the dream it has a double meaning on the one hand of course as i've mentioned Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist and campaigner for equal rights of African Americans so this is a reference actually to Martin Luther King his speech i have a dream which of course was part of the movement for African Americans to get equal rights and led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act so actually this first meaning is that she's fulfilled the vision that Martin Luther King had about African Americans being equal seeing themselves as equal among along other races in the US however the second meaning to the dream is living the American dream and how it's defined by her so of course there's this idea of the American dream work really hard you have equal opportunities when they're in the US however of course this equality is dispelled when we perhaps see how different communities are treated however actually what Maya Angelou is trying to say here is that she's living a very specific and unique type of American dream which is defined solely by her owning herself owning her history and being really proud of who she is so that's all if you found this video useful we have a course covering all the IGCSE anthology texts as well as model answers for past papers so make sure you head over to our course and sign up for it but also check out our website www.firstreadcheaters.com where you can find lots of English worksheets courses as well as materials to help you in this and other areas of English thank you so much for listening


It's time for a tome! Welcome to Church of the Chair where we celebrate all the things we do while seated. I'm your host, E, and today we are talking about the last chairlift by John Irving. It's been a long time. I shouldn't have left you without a review to step two. Step two. How y'all doing? So I recently finished the last chairlift by John Irving. Every first thing I'll say is this is a mammoth monster of a book, and it is supposed to be Irving's final tome. The final book of this length that he will be publishing. Not the final book he'll be publishing, but the final tome. This one clocks in at a, just a sicken, just a thicken. It clocks in at 889 pages. Just shy of 900 pages, but y'all can do math, y'all can count, so I didn't have to tell you that. This one revolves around a young man, well I shouldn't say young man. He grows up, it's all throughout his life, from early childhood all the way until he's an older gentleman. It's a many decades worth of story, a saga if you will. His name is Adam, and Adam has a very unique family, a very unique living situation, just all around unique. What I appreciated the most about this book is the diverse cast of characters. Everyone feels real, everyone feels fleshed out. There's not a single person in this book that I did not enjoy, that I didn't enjoy reading about. Especially Adam's mother. Pardon me, as far as the characters names are concerned, there were quite a bit of them, and I don't want to get anything wrong. This is of course quite a long book, so remembering the full cast of characters, especially when I've read several books since then, is going to be difficult. I like the aunt, the aunt character, the two was it, okay, it's a slur coming up in a couple of words, a slur to some people. Two Dykes, one who talks is a show, a stage play that the two of the characters put on, which ends up leading to a very tragic incident later on in the book. There is a lot of tragedy in this book, there is a lot of beauty in this book, especially with regards to Adam and how he interacts with the varying people in his life. The character of the, I believe it was the professor, this is also, I'm pretty sure, the only John Irving novel with a supernatural element. Now it's not to say this is a horror novel, but there are some scenes that could lean in that direction. The ghosts are used more to a comedy point, especially the professor. The professor emeritus, or whatever, that's not his name, of course, but that's what he's called in various different ways. Another thing that I liked about the book was all the crazy ways that John Irving not reacted, but had the characters thinking about that character, various different nicknames. He was rarely ever called the same thing, which I thought was hilarious. About the book I kept expecting something that did not happen. I don't want to spoil it for you, but after reading John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, where there is a spoiler alert for the hotel New Hampshire in 3, 2, 1, there is a consensual incestual relationship between a brother and sister. They end up having sex toward the end of the book and they are both adults. Think of that, what you will. There was a little bit of that aspect in this one too, I don't want to spoil it for those of you that want to read it, but there was a bit of that aspect early on, hinting, foreshadowing, and I think Irving did that on purpose, is like, okay, let's boost this point and make people feel uncomfortable. And then nothing ever comes of it, which I also appreciated because I didn't want these two characters to get together whatsoever, and they didn't. Another thing is, John Irving does a very good job with trans representation in this book. If you don't know, John Irving has been writing about trans people ever since The World According to Garp. The movie version of that starring Robin Williams had John Lithgow playing a trans woman. Would I have preferred a trans woman playing that part? Of course. Suffice to say, John Lithgow did a fine job. Now, with here, for the longest time, I had no idea that John Irving's daughter is trans. I had no idea about that. I found out afterward, watching an interview with him, the fact that he was writing about trans characters before this child was even born really stuck with me. It wasn't a matter of him trying to gain credit or trying to boost himself up with the queer community. It was more about a father's love for their child and wanting to be inclusive, at least for this book. Now, back in the 70s, when The World According to Garp came out, it wasn't unheard of, but that was far more controversial than it'll be nowadays. I know there are going to be people saying, it's still controversial, either I don't like it or he got it wrong or whatever, I'm just giving you my point of view. You can do with that what you will. There is a whole gambit of LGBTQIA representation in this book from asexual to bisexual to, I guess you'd either say pan or demi to lesbian relationship. There's so much in here. And I found that absolutely fantastic. Now, as far as the title is concerned, the part that broke my heart the most in this book has to do with The Last Chairlet. It really struck me. It hit a chord and I was a crying mess. On to a little bit more about John Irving himself. Irving has always pushed the boundaries of what is, I guess, acceptable in literature.  This is not a thriller. This is not horror. This is not plot heavy. This is a saga that happens over many decades, but the pacing is off the charts. I really enjoyed that. The only part of the book that I did not enjoy was this reading the scripts that are throughout the book. There are several hundred page scripts. I believe it's three of them in a almost 900 page book where I saw the point of those scripts. I don't like reading them. I don't enjoy reading them. I have no problem writing them, any of that, but I just do not enjoy the reading of a script and there were numerous ones in here. Could I have done without it? Yes, but I don't see any other way that he could have done the book, so congratulations to him. I never go into an Irving novel with expectations because they never pan out anyways. With the same with the Hotel New Hampshire that I talked about earlier, I never would have thought that he would have carried through with it. In this one, I was sure he was going to carry through with the consensual, ancestral relationship. But he did not. It ended up becoming a deeper love than just a physical love that these two characters possess. But if you have not read Irving at all, I do not suggest starting here. This is like a culmination of all of his ideas, all in one book. Much like Horuky Minakami's Killing Commendator or Commendatore, I'm not sure on the pronunciation of that. I apologize. I found one specific source that says 100% it's one way or the other. But I wouldn't suggest starting here. If you are an Irving fan, you're going to absolutely love this book. It is 889 pages of pure Irving, and I loved every minute of it. Even the scripts, I did not enjoy reading them, but I did enjoy their relevance to the story at hand. My final note here is if you want to start with Irving, I suggest you start with something like the £145 marriage, setting free the bears, something on the smaller side, or if you are one of those people who love a tome, that's what this series is all about, time for a tome, then definitely check out The World According to Garp or, let's see here, Owen Meanie. A song for Owen Meanie? I can't remember the title up top of my head, but it's Owen Meanie. All you gotta do is google that. But this one, if you want to start with this one, just know that when you go back and read those other books that I mentioned, you are going to find hella similarities between those books and this one, because this one feels like a culmination of all the things he's been saying all of these years. That's all the time I have for you today. If you are curious as to where the old stuff went to, if you know, you know, there is a link down there in the description that says exactly where it went. There is no explanation available for why. I've already discussed this multiple times, gave you guys six months worth of heads up. And still, the number one comment I've been getting is, hey, where's all the old stuff? But there is a link down there in the description you can go to. You do have to join the Discord, then you can save the links and go on about your business. You can leave if you want to. But anyways, like I said, that's all the time I have for today, but until next time, I'll hail the chair!


What's up everybody it's Jason here with jaspyscasebrakes.com. We just filled up a little pack break 2020 Balmain Jumbo one pack break number five where we're giving away teams that help fill up jumbo picketing number six and seven on our website. So again the way this works guys we have 30 total spots to randomize customer names and teams. We open up the one pack of jumbo and then of course distribute the hits out of there and then at the end of the break we will randomize the customer names again in a separate dice for the randomizer and then of course number one's gonna get the Rangers in six number two gets the Rangers in seven and numbers three gets the Tigers in six number four gets the Tigers in seven so let's do the break first guys this randomizer customer names and teams six and a one seven times good luck one two three four five six and seven seven times Matthew down to Matthew S put the teams here for now let's go seven times here teams one two three four five six and seven seven times blue jays down to the Yankees all right I'm not gonna go through all the list right here but I'll just show you guys that they're Matthew the blue jays all the way down in here to Matthew S with the Yankees. I'll make an outfit size of my customer name really quick just to see how your two teams are Jameson Jeremy Tillman Jonathan Luke Matthew D Matthew S Mitch Pete with your couple teams there Rad Rick Scott Steven H and then Steven S so you can see there is everybody all right and again I'm gonna close the trade window this is just for a quick pack break separate dice for the randomizer you can see here for the customer names to see who wins those teams in the next upcoming jumbo case breaks let's quickly do this pack break and again no paper-based ships just the chrome whoa looks like we got an auto and there is an autograph here it is Delgado atomic four out of 100 the Chicago White Sox which we went to PA there you go you got an autograph out of here now let's switch scenes and let's see who gets those teams in the break so let's switch it over here and I copy and pasted the team name all the customer names here good luck after one and a six same thing just different dice for this time one six seven times top for you to team in the breaks one two three four five six and seven seven times six and a one seven times good luck to and congratulations to red Jeremy Matthew and Pete look at that nice seven times top four what's actually just put your whole list in here but top four are gonna be in the break so P you're gonna get the Rangers in number six Matthew you're gonna get the Rangers in seven Jeremy to me you're gonna get the Tigers in six and red you're gonna get the Tigers in seven so they go coming up next guys is a pic of scene number six and seven of Bowman jumbo appreciate it


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. As you guys know, I am a Canadian reseller. I sell on Facebook Marketplace, Kajiji and eBay. And it's a lot of fun. Definitely flipping for profit is definitely a lot of fun. And I love sharing all of that with you guys. Today is gonna be a mix of different sales that I've had in the past little while. A little bit on Facebook Marketplace. Most of it actually is on Facebook Marketplace, but there is a couple eBay sales here or there that I'm gonna be talking about in this video as well. Let's get straight into it. Some of the stuff is stuff that honestly I've been sitting for a couple months. And I'm just glad to finally see it going. And I did make profit on a lot of these items, which I'm definitely happy for.  Usually you can buy them. Any kid's books usually at a thrift store around a dollar to a dollar 50 each, which is a great deal. So if you pick out a lot of the Disney or a lot of the great characters that kids love, usually you can get a lot of sales. The problem here in Canada for me is shipping these books. Some of them can be heavy. Shipping is usually $20 to $25 for a single book. That is a lot of money for somebody. If they're paying $20 to $25 for the book, they don't wanna pay the same amount for shipping and pay a total of $50 for that book when they can buy it for around $25. So that does make it harder here in Canada to sell books on eBay, which is why honestly I'm getting out of it. I only have a couple left and after that, I'm not even gonna be trying to look for them when I'm at thrift stores unless I see something that I think I'll definitely be able to flip on Facebook Marketplace or something like that. These kids' books, there's a lot of Disney ones, cars, characters, Monsters, Inc. They're basically storybooks so they had a lot of different stories in them. I bought the, I think there was six of them. So six of them at a dollar each, that's about six dollars. Five or six of them actually, I can't remember. I think there might have been five or six. Still, let's say that it was six dollars. I sold all of them for $15 so I did make a little bit of profit. I at least doubled my money but honestly whenever I picked them up, I'd seen sold comps for around $20 to $30 but the shipping is definitely what kills and made them almost impossible to sell on eBay. These were sold on Facebook Marketplace.  Both of them are Optimus Prime. Picked them up from a thrift store. Both for $4, usually toys and things like that. They do have really cheap at thrift stores because they get so much of it in. So I think it was $4 for both of them. That's $2 each. I sold both for $15 which is me tripling my money which was great. I honestly knew nothing about them. I seen them. I knew kids love Transformers. Kids love Optimus Prime. I picked them up. Couldn't find sold comps on them. There's so many figures out there. I just couldn't even figure out which ones they were. One of them was a cheap one. The other one I just knew nothing about. So I sold them for $15 and still tripled my money. I sold them on Facebook Marketplace. Next is an Xbox 360 bundle that I had. I think I lost the footage of when I found it, whenever I like making videos like that. I lost the footage unfortunately but I did sell this bundle for $80. Usually my bundles include when it's Xbox or PS3, five to seven games, one to two controllers and the console itself. Sometimes extra accessories if I do get them whenever I purchase them to flip. But they also purchased 20 Xbox 360 games. Now these games, I just purchased the day before. I didn't even list them yet. When they asked they said they were interested in the bundle, they wanted to pick it up or meet for it. I also said, hey, I have 20 Xbox 360 games if interested. They asked how much? I said $40. They took them. I purchased those games a day before for $20. I also got some Skylander figures which I'm also gonna be mentioning because I did already sell those. So I've already doubled my money on those Xbox 360 games and they bought the console from me as well. So that's $120 sale that I made off of these people and I upsold. I sold them extra games, 20 extra games for $40. Then the Skylander figures. There was actually 40 plus Skylander figures. It included the Skylanders game for the Xbox 360 and if I remember correctly, three portals. That sold for $50. They didn't even try to talk me down. I thought honestly I'd only get 25. I listed it for 50 and somebody did come and pick it up for $50. So I already made $70 on that lot, the 20 Xbox 360 games and the Skylanders. $70 profit already and I have one game left. It's a Spider-Man game. I haven't sold it yet. I have that one listed on eBay right now. So I'm hoping for in total $100 profit on a $20 investment. That would be pretty nice. Next is a PS3 bundle that I had. I sold it. It was a PS3 super slim, 500 gigabytes. It had seven games, two controllers. Everything tested. I think this one had an HDMI cord. I listed it for $150. I was gonna go and re-list it for 125 just to get it gone. Somebody messaged they were coming from over an hour away and they paid $150 for this. Now since I like upselling at times, I did have 17 PS3 games left. Those are the ones that I was trying to sell for $5 in each. It's been extremely hard to sell those games lately. A lot of people, if they buy one and I have to drive 20 minutes to deliver it to them, that is not the greatest for me. It makes no sense to drive 20 minutes there and 20 minutes back for $5. So they were buying the bundle for $150. I said I also had 17 PS3 games, sent them pictures. They asked how much. I said $25 for all 17. They took it. That is $175 from one person that I made. That is an amazing sale in my opinion now. For those games, obviously I could have gotten more. That is about $1.50 to $1.60 per game or even less, I can't even remember. But still, that's all profit. In total, with all my PS3s I bought a while back, I already made $300 profit and I'm completely sold out of all PS3 right now. So to me, to get them gone, he was already buying something worth $150, sold the rest for $25, got them gone, $175. All profit, that is amazing. I also sold Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 Combo Pack for the Xbox 360 or Xbox One. This one here, I actually sold on eBay so I did have to ship it and it sold for $35. I did have it listed for $40. They sent me an offer of $35. I'll take $5 less for it and get it sold. I've been sitting on it for maybe a month now. Wanted to get it sold, finally did. Now for shipping, it was staying in Canada. It was going to Alberta. Problem was, I charged them for tracking. When anything that's to me over $25, an individual game that I sell that's over $25, I'm going to put tracking on it just to feel safe. That way I'm covered on eBay as well. If it shows it's delivered, they can't say it wasn't and I'll be covered in some way. So tracking on this, since it's a single game, it usually costs $14. It only cost me $12 because it didn't weigh more than 100 kilograms, I think. So I think that was a great deal for me. $35, that one there was all profit as well. After fees, I think is about $27 to $30, but still that is a great sale. And then the final thing, which is something that I just sold yesterday, and that is a Anne of Green Gables, eight book sets. It is brand new. I picked it up from a thrift store for $10. I've been sitting on it for a while. I had it listed on eBay. I had it listed on Facebook Marketplace. Sold comps for it, said it was about $50. Each book has a price tag of about $6 on it at least. So the whole set was worth about $50. Haven't been able to sell it for a while. I wanted inventory to go. It was something that was kind of bulky. I didn't really have a spot for it, so I listed it for $20. Somebody picked it up. Again, I purchased it from a thrift store for $10. Sold it for 20, I'm still doubling my money. It's not the money I thought I was gonna get. I thought I was gonna be able to sell it for around $50 on eBay and have to deal with shipping. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with shipping for it, but still, I doubled my money. That to me is amazing, and I finally have it gone. So now, I will pick up a few more things if I go to thrift stores, but honestly, right now, I'm almost completely sold out of video games. I have to find some more lots, but a lot of people are asking way too much in my area, and I can't pay outstanding prices because I'm not gonna be able to sell it for a lot more than that. I definitely need stuff that I'm gonna get profit from, so I still have a ton of comic books. I'm gonna be making a video soon where I talk about my comic book sales, but these are my other sales. Recently, video games, other things I picked up from flea markets, thrift stores, things that I've been sitting on for a while, so I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Mostly, everything that I talked about and shared in this video was all profit, which in my opinion is amazing. So I hope you guys enjoy, and I hope you guys enjoy me sharing all of this stuff that I buy and resell, all of my profit, all my eBay videos, all of my Facebook Marketplace videos because I love doing this. This is a side income for me, and it is a lot of fun. So I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care, peace.


Cymarion Renewable Energy has become quite a diverse organisation in the last few years. We started out as a group of volunteers trying to find out what renewable energy to community scale might look like and how it can be owned by the community. In the last three or four years we've offered a lot of sustainability support to other groups and individuals in our local area. I'm working with land owners to do more hedgerow planting, supporting woodland, opening footpaths, looking at how we can protect rivers from pollution, working with groups of community members to teach them rural skills. We are looking at how you use waste products from land to turn it into, for example, compost or biochar and we've built wonderful building in which I'm sitting now, a studio which is an arts and sustainability hub for anything to do with crafts and learning how to fix your bike or your clothes or build a wind turbine. Cymarion is in a real time of growth at the moment. We've offered a lot more employment locally. We've really expanded the range of projects that we can offer. I'm pretty confident that the energy advice service will be more and more needed as this energy crisis isn't going to go away and similarly the cost of living crisis I think is something that we can really help to support people through. We're so chaffed to be nominated for St David's Awards. We know that there's so much amazing work going on in Wales so we're really proud to be finalists.


nk I think but I feel like Reggie Millers' trash talk was always somewhat it wasn't like KG trash talk Kevin Garnett trash talking I think is legendarily like oh my god like almost usually inappropriate you know but Reggie Miller did not work blue I think Reggie Miller could still could still trash talk and still keep it friendly and I think in that you know the art of the trash talk requires a bit of bit of wit which is I consider funny Taysom Hill might be funny says Nancy is Taysom Hill funny I think there is something something to what you said earlier Nancy you know there's a always for the old southern gentleman always seems to be they always seem to be good it's been a good yarn they can tell a good story and a lot of times pretty funny not like those not like those stiff New Yorkers stiff Northerners they're just mean New Yorkers just mean but couldn't you couldn't you see couldn't you like go to dinner at the Manning house in Nolans Nancy in New Orleans couldn't you just sit and hear stories from Archie Manning for hours at the dinner table probably the rest of the Mannings too like Cooper Manning might be the might be the funniest I'm in the public eye I hear many Ramirez has to be pretty funny Yogi Berra unintentionally funny right I but I guess funny still funny that's still funny right like Yogi Berra you know I think might not be the the brightest bulb right but he's he's like he's kind of like like force gum funny where it's just like what that doesn't but somehow it's strikingly poignant you're like alright yo you know what I do like that I like that was he a good speaker I imagine he was yeah I'll bet the Manning family is legend out there right and like you know and who knows who knows what the truth really is you know with these with these families but like you don't really hear anything bad about the Mannings right you know like you don't really hear anything bad about the Mannings you know no no DUIs no like you know sexual harassment cases I think there was one thing with Peyton in college which hasn't really I don't feel like it hasn't had a lot of legs and there was like a weird PED thing that some there was some report about that but that just that implicated other people too and that never really took off either but you know there's no domestic violence stuff you know all third party accounts indicate that they're pretty genuine people you know what I mean you know I mean I've heard people say Peyton didn't sign an autograph for me or something like that but that I feel like is more like Peyton would be signing for for hours in Vegas or wherever he's at if he's just walking through the room like at some point he just has to like he can't you know he's probably got a zillion things going on so I don't know maybe when Peyton slows down maybe an older more grandfatherly Peyton Manning will will engage the autograph line but uh but yeah for the most part you know like obviously I don't know the family I don't know what their deep dark secrets are deep dark Manning family secrets it could be a Southern Gothic book it could be a Faulkner book or something like that but but like I wonder you know I wonder you know there could be some deep dark secrets but for the most part everything seems to be it seems to think that they're great they're very open with the generous with their time they do television shows and interviews all the time they're just good showmen I think you know I think they're just natural I mean that's what's the worst you can say about them that they're attention whores and that they want to be on TV all the time but they're funny they people people like them so they keep giving them commercial money I was getting all that commercial time and money I'll do it yeah Comic Hunter I think we're kind of pretty much getting to the end of the night unless unless you want to close this out but I'm going to give it about 10 I'll give it to the top of the hour and I haven't seen any order since James's order about half an hour ago so I think the writing is on the wall but if you want to sell that out I'll do the playbook tonight who's the biggest D I appreciate you abbreviating that Rex it's a family show although kids should be in bed by now especially on a school night right Oliver kids are supposed to be in bed by now right or anyone else who has kids they're supposed to be in bed by now on a Sunday night but um they're supposed to be in sports yeah Jordan but see I don't yeah no no no Nancy you've done enough you got multiple spots in the previous number you have multiple spots in this number blog oh your kids have vacation this week so are they up do they get to stay up late even on vacation days east coast that is pretty late but um like I wonder who's like actually a D right because is Jordan a D to the general public simply because he has to be because other you know everyone wants a piece of Michael Jordan everyone wants a time from Michael Jordan wherever he goes I need a picture can you get me an order can you do this can you do that now does that turn you into an intensely private person you know so I don't know yeah Rizzo I don't know how much I don't know but then you hear stories of Anthony Rizzo giving a giving a bottle of wine to all of his teammates before the start of the season because he learned that from Jason Hayward who did that and Jason Hayward gave a bottle of wine to everybody on his team and the Dodgers who made the who made the opening day roster that doesn't sound like D behavior do we say he's a he's a bad person just because didn't sign an autograph maybe depends on how I guess how he does it Tio Torello and Terralones Torell or Terral Terralones yeah I mean there are a number of breaks that are close to filling comic-hunter but I think I think we're pretty I mean I think we're gonna call it really haven't seen an order in a while and listen I'll be I'll be back tomorrow three o'clock Pacific six o'clock Eastern that still has 22 spots in the filler to go you know I mean we can do impeccable that's a one-box break you know that immaculate's a one-boxer we don't have time for prism we don't have time for contenders that has a filler you know mosaic that still has two fillers I can do I can do cup hockey that's a quick little one-box break we do have like four spots left in that playbook that's only a it's a half I even brought this out to it's only a half case break it's about 15 minutes oh in terms of Rizzo I could see that I mean I don't know it's it's it's hard to it's hard to put yourself into it's hard to put yourself into a position of where you're a public figure and you know how much you know that people handle that differently my opinion of Raleigh my nemesis my nemesis I feel like he should have signed my autograph he was up there signing autographs anyway alright folks I'm gonna start tidying up here once and I'll check back in in a few minutes in like five minutes and if nothing's really moving by then then we'll call it which is our usual time for calling it anyway well we had a pretty solid night though so I appreciate everybody getting into all of the action I'll be back a three o'clock pacific six o'clock eastern so we I mean go to bed and wake up and I'll be back on air before you know it ladies and gentlemen have it your way have it your way you you you you you you you oh we're actually past 11 and no other orders last order was 45 minutes ago alright guys we're gonna officially call it comic hunter oliver Mike Rex Nancy Jason and anyone else Mike tower and anyone else is still working and listening in the background thanks for hanging out with us really appreciate it thanks for breaking with us I appreciate that as well and just thanks for spending some of your Sunday night with me I enjoy talking with you guys conversing with you guys and talking about all the goofy silly stuff that we do and shoot the breeze which I which is also enjoyable so thank you I appreciate it I'm back tomorrow three o'clock pacific six o'clock eastern we have plenty of bounty breaks to I don't know how many more Nick is planning to do so I don't know how many more they're there they're gonna be so just keep keep joining them until uh until we stop doing it I guess whenever that may be but keep it up we only gave away one we want to give away more at least one of each before we before we before we you know close down the promo and look to do something else so keep working on it jasmiescasebrakes.com remember we don't stream 24 hours a day but guess what the website is open 24 hours a day if you buy your spots now that'll help the the east coasters that wake up they're gonna start buying spots and the west coasters will wake up they'll start buying next thing you know I'm on air I got a kind of orders and we're ready to hit the ground running so keep that up all right so thanks everybody have a great night thanks Nancy good night thanks Rex have a good rest of your shift as well see you later alligator


Good morning. Happy Saturday, everybody. Question of the week. What has researching and family history made you thankful for? Oh, the pro cause of the week. Just as Max has already alluded to, the Mayflower. The first Thanksgiving, the Mayflower passengers, and the first Thanksgiving attendees. Which ones are those? Are you most closely connected to? The tip of the week. So this is a collaborative effort with Murray Maloney. Go over to GDG and see what's happening around Wikitree, the big events that we showed last week. You can check that out. The 17 Challenge, the Week Challenge 17, is the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society National. And what's happening around Wikitree in November.