Hey, this is Brett and this 2014 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie is stock number 13581Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used. Heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters this 2014 Ram 2500 has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the vehicle possible. Flame red over bright silver metallic is the color scheme. I show all my videos in 4K so if you have HD capabilities turn them on out because it is your best way to check out the quality condition options and cleanliness of the truck before seen in person. If you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto. Click the bell notification to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as access to one of the largest used vehicle and new vehicle catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube which is pretty sweet. It comes with the 18 inch polished aluminum wheels and it has Goodyear Wrangler all-terrain adventure tires. These are LT 275 70R 18s they have just about half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in really nice shape. This is a one owner clean title history clean car facts out of New York. Front fender is in great shape. Headlight lenses are nice and clear you get the projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights and the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in very nice condition didn't see any major dents or dings on there looks pretty good. The grille is in pretty nice shape you get the chrome trim grille there is one tiny little crack right there nothing too bad does not affect the performance of the truck. The hoods in really nice shape as well and the passenger side front fender is in fantastic condition too. Passenger side front wheel no major imperfections on there just a little bit of oxidizing. As you go down the passenger side take note of how clean that body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you are close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you are still interested in purchasing the truck you can see the truck here the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you are looking at before you even get here so when you do get here there is absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you are at. If this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesmen know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Pretty nice down that side his back wheel is in nice condition as well no major scuffs or scrapes on there and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires maybe even a hair bit more frame and under body is in pretty nice condition for a 2014 keep that in mind has all the remaining factory exhaust so it has not been altered in any way and the under body looks really good on this truck lower rockers and cab corners are in nice shape and you get the really nice wheel to wheel side steps. Only thing I saw is one little ding right there did want to point it out these are used vehicles they are not all going to be perfect but we try to get them as good as we can coming around to the back rear bumpers in nice shape does have the backup parking sensors full towing package of course with the receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring tailgate is in pretty nice condition as well once again did see one little ding right there but that's why we point them out that's why we do the videos undercover flex fold up tonneau cover that's in really nice shape and back here you get a very nice brand bed liner fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package as well as 7 pin wiring that bed liner goes on to the tailgate which is a really nice feature to have as well shots nice and solidly and coming around the driver side look how nice that paint is very reflective very shiny looks really good back wheels and excellent shape as well and down the rest of the side of the truck cab and doors all look pretty good this one does have the heated fold up tail mirrors built in directional signals they fold up like so they fold in like that inside the Laramie package gives you the tan leather interior you get the bucket seats in the front no major rips or tears on the seats smells very clean inside the truck get the Laramie embossed back rest power driver seat with lumbar and memory driver seat factory all weather floor mats auto headlamps power windows locks and mirrors you get the nice leather bolster and one great wood grain trim on there back seats are just as clean as front seats no rips or tears back here it does come with the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost these seats are heated on the outboard side they fold up like so you get a load floor which is nice you got muddy boots or tools put them on there you're not going to get your nice leather seats dirty or if you got pets put both sides down they got a nice flat place to lay and once again they're not going to get your seats dirty or wreck them get storage underneath there and you get in-floor storage on each side with removable containers for easy cleaning you can put ice and drinks in there and it's like you have too many coolers wherever you go or if you're not in Wisconsin just extra storage space there your heated seat buttons as well as a 12 volt power point and you also get the speakers in the ceiling which are part of that alpine premium sound system child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck as do the cab corners back here really a nice truck considering the age on it we'll hop inside check out the miles the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior you can see that this one has get the nice animation there sixty thousand eight hundred forty four miles to get the digital speedometer compass and outside temperatures play so it comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right bluetooth and information center controls on the left as well as audio controls in the back of the steering well comes with the six speed sixty eight RFE automatic transmission this one also has the eight point four three C radio you get your factory navigation system on there there's highway forty one so that is working perfectly AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities you have your heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your heated steering wheel button you also have a cargo cam here which is pretty sweet and for some reason you got to select that one to get the cargo cam to come up anyways the backup camera is in the rear view mirror so that is there and you get all your other different apps on here and yeah really nice system here down here you're more tactile climate and volume in tune controls turned out four wheel drive factory brake control you get your more tactile heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your stability control tow hull factory exhaust break in your backup parking sensors you can turn those off and on does have a hundred fifteen volt hundred fifty watt plug-in right there and your keyless entry as your remote start on there as well passive side format and seat are in excellent condition looks really good headliner is in a really nice shape as well and you get map lights power sign rear window button and your homelink buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems 911 assist buttons in the mirror I'm gonna start it up in just a second I wanted to show you the tire and loading information sticker before we do that and then the Vin sticker right here all right started up take a look under the hood starts right up no check engine lights or anything like of that I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside now see all those lights are working perfectly under the hood we have the six point seven liter common diesel engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by a service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids having checked and topped off and is 100% ready to go shocks are doing a nice job holding that hood up there is the emissions sticker and considering the age and miles on this truck I would highly recommend it from a quality and conditions standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of other 550 million use cars trucks scvs minivans wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you may we got to cover that website right there summit auto calm full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summit auto calm if you'd like to check out more hd videos if you go to youtube.com slash summit auto click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I reach another day as well as access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walkarounds on YouTube in fact today's second was the link to subscribe to my YouTube channel at the left link to more ram 25 and I truck videos I've done in the upper right only to this vehicle on our website and lower left any link to one of our latest YouTube videos and low right with those checks out we're super excited to help you with this ultra green 2014 ram 2500 through cab shortbox Laramie with in flame red over bright silver metal thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share on the YouTube channel I really appreciate it thanks again


Welcome to the Thargoid Report, I'm Commander Burr. This is a distillation of the excellent weekly thread from Burton Simmons on Reddit. For Vina details on the why and the what of the Thargoids activity then do give that poster look I've linked it below. If you find this information useful and enjoy our content then please consider giving the video a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button to make sure you see all our future videos. The following stations were attacked by Thargoids this week and are currently on fire and subject to ongoing rescue operations. Gunport in Dan, Irons Dock in Tammet, Kuchner Port in HIP 30045, Teller Horizons in Obasi O'Saw, Ziljack Hub in O'Pete's. As well as evacuating civilians from these stations you can also help delivering food, water, basic medicines and natural fabrics to the affected stations. If you are going into a burning station bring all the heatsinks, links to my previous videos on this subject are below. If you're looking to attack Thargoids then scout vessel infestations are being reported by the Eagle Eye Sensor Network in the following systems. Here we go. Goronxians, HIP 14997, O'Thirney, Koti Jenny, Goran Gathi, El Ornetti in your face frontier. If you are engaging in anti-thargoid scout combat operations you don't necessarily need specialised equipment but the entry level anti-zeno weaponry requires no unlocking and it really helps. The scout class vessels also count as elite ranked ships so this is an excellent way to level up your combat rank. For the more hardcore combat zone encounters the following systems are under Thargoid incursion right now and will have combat zones that offer both scouts and larger Thargoid vessels. Obasi O'Saw, Dan, O'Pete's, Tammet and HIP 30045. For the scouts and the death daisies I'd recommend decontamination limpets are added to your standard arsenal and you might want to think about taking shed loads of heat sinks as well. The cone sector critters will struggle to track you when you're cold. With the assistance of the AXI Discord all the systems I've listed this week are now presented in priority order. If you're looking to wing up with other commanders then there's links below to the AXI, the Hive, the Hand and the Squadrons of Humanity. Using them these organisations have all platforms covered and will help you find advice as well as comradeship wherever you go commanders remember pick your fights with care. Remember you can also get involved in Operation IDA to help get previously damaged stations back online please see the links in the description below IDA coordinate the rebuilding efforts for the wider galactic community and will have you covered on where to go and what to bring with you. All you need is a galactic map and a few cargo racks. That's it for now thank you so much for making it this far. You can also find us on Twitter, Patreon, Discord and Instagram links to all those are in the description below and we'll be back later this week with more videos. Until then, O7 commanders may all your hyperdictions be brief, don't let the peril plants give you nightmares. I very much look forward to seeing you next time.


I beseech, I beseech those who are really doing this demonstration at least to have mercy on this country and have mercy on the level of the economy where we are. We're trying to come up and you know with this demonstration we're seeing a lot of loss. Regarding the ongoing political tension in the country, how do you think it's affecting the tourism industry? Well it is really affecting the tourism sector and I actually guess this is the worst affected. As we can see we had quite a number of bookings in our tells across the country and they have already cancelled. I can say really I beseech, I beseech those who are really doing this demonstration at least to have mercy on this country and have mercy on the level of economy where we are. We're trying to come up and you know with this demonstration we're seeing a lot of loss with our businesses in the town and also with those of us who are running the hotels. We've seen a lot of cancellations and so as you heard our deputy president speak about it. We've lost billions of money in this town, Nairobi and most of other towns and we've seen massive you know destruction of property and I can tell you those whose property has been destroyed they're just out there and probably they could go even through the depression and we lose lives and therefore I want to beseech that we stop and really work together unite and work together to see our country prosper because the stage that Kenya is we are at a position that if we get it right at this moment Kenya will never be the same again. We're going to be actually the hub of Africa and we're going to share in so many things besides economy thank you. We contribute 10% of the GDP of this country and we employ one out of every new jobs in the globe is in the tourism. Well we're doing very well actually in domestic tourism because before we began we began our campaigns and actually we've seen the peak during the pandemic because you know the country was closed and there that's when Kenyans began traveling within the country and we contacted our campaign on the same and we have seen as you've heard we've seen improvement from 3 million bed nights to 5.5 million bed nights from the reports that I released just the other day in February so we've seen a lot of improvements and now I want to call on Kenyans actually during this festive the holiday that is coming and that when our children are at home let's take them and visit some of these parks I want to also announce to Kenya and the entire globe that we are going to receive within this week the last male northern white rhino and this is going to be sitting in our museums and we'll open our museums for viewing by public during the weekend therefore I ask all the Kenyans to come to our national museum and fill this last male northern white rhino that is going to be a savior if you are going to have another generation of it thank you very much ladies and gentlemen it's a great honor to be invited to join you today as we launch the holidays 2020 tourism fair at the Sarich center this venue has become an important exhibition center that has hosted some of the most significant tourism at all events in Kenya over the last that had years this makes it one of the longest running tourism fair not only in Kenya but in the region congratulations to the organizers congratulations to the organizers for making the holidays tourism fair and an important fixture in our tourism events calendar further the holidays tourism expo is one of the biggest private sector organized tourism expo in Kenya I take this opportunity to commend and appreciate the private sector for taking up a leading role in the growth of domestic tourism in Kenya the fair gets towards the safe of holiday packages to the domestic tourism market during the Easter break and the upcoming school holidays a low season is up to positions to pull large numbers of vacation shoppers who come together to seek new and diverse experiences in local tourism I invite Kenyans to visit the Sarich center between today and 26th of March to sum up the opportunities available at this tourism fair come and get to choose an Easter holiday package for yourself all for your family ladies and gentlemen domestic tourism is a key segment in domestic in our tourism strategy it has been instrumental in keeping the sector afloat during the two years of the copy pandemic my ministry through the Kenyan tourism board has also prioritized the marketing of domestic tourism we currently the fair you deserve a holiday campaign in partnership with the travel trade through the campaign we have been able to visit various destinations in our country including Machakos, Nakuru, Eldoret and Nyeri we also are going to be visiting Nanyuki and the coastal region the goal is to provide a platform for the sector to interact as well as to travel opportunities to Kenyans and at the same time highlights the attractions in these regions my ministry will continue to partner with the private sector in tourism marketing as well as in developing tourism experiences and products so that Magico Kenya can remain a competitive brand this destination globally my process during this opening event is a testimony to my ministry's desire to support the private sector learning initiatives such as this export as part of our continued efforts to export new markets for the growth and development of Kenyans tourism industry i believe that strategic partnerships with key stakeholders are crucial to competitive to complement government efforts in growing tourism sector to become bigger and better like to acknowledge the international exports of a larger including the just concluded itb baleen and how to vote travel march otm mobile trade trade fairs held earlier this year as well as our very own Magico Kenya expo travel expo said to be held later in the year i wish to assure the sector that we are currently doing well and future projections are posted accordingly to the latest data we released in February this year that six point six of the incoming visitors come for holiday in this country followed closely by those visiting friends and families at twenty seven point eight with those visiting their minds purposes following closely at that position at twenty seven point seven when it comes to revenue kenya bernard two eight point zero nine billion in 2022 as compared to kenya shillings 163 point five billion in 2019 even as the inbound tourists were slightly lower in 2022 when compared to 2019 this goes to show that it is all about quality and not quantity therefore product reinvention is key from the list of exhibitors i can see that they are always spread across our country and a few from our counties to maximize the potential of this country we must look at each other each county and the product they have to offer we have to we have to develop and showcase what each county and each sector has to offer and put them into blocks for instance the young generation is attracted in adventure sports tourism gastronomy and water sports we should therefore diversify our basket in terms of the products we offer accordingly to cater for the testings for the test of these generations finally ladies and gentlemen my ministry would like to express its gratitude to all of you here today for going the extra mile to ensure that you're surpassed the expectations of your clients i assure you that we are committed to working together with all of you and we are open to suggestions on how we can improve our cooperation to make our collective dream come true and become a reality it is now a simpler honor to declare that eight edition of holidays tourism fair 2023 officially open nervous thank you very much i'm really impressed between what i saw there and here exposed of this country and therefore i'm very grateful and thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here country especially with the recent demonstrations i want to assure you to ensure that the industry the travel and tourism industry profits prosperous in this country and therefore is my single country position as i can tell you the globe is watching at kenya let's maintain peace so that our businesses can grow so that our industry can grow thank you and god bless hi my name is Rachel of no crass hotels uh we are a brand of four hotels we have one hotel in muranga a town hotel with a capacity of 70 rooms uh in four conference halls the second one is no crass river in sargana with a capacity of 103 uh eight meeting halls the third one is the no crass and curry a very exclusive camp allocated along the nirini roby highway and the newest baby is no crass and curry sorry no crass silver oak embu with a capacity of 50 rooms and eight conference halls in all the hotels we do water sports that's rafting bungee jumping kayaking archery uh tour farms we as well organize for game drives that is all pajeta and uh we do team building we have very very spacious and huge grounds for wedding or any other celebratory event we are based in mount kenya that is muranga and sargana and we are here at sarit center for the 2023 our holidays expo karybuni hello viewers my name is uh george kamau from blue bay hotels zanzibar we are exhibiting at the sarit tourism fair we welcome you to come and see what we are offering we have two amazing properties in zanzibar we have blue bay beach resort and spa and sultan sands island resort they are based on the east coast of zanzibar two amazing facilities sharing a 500 meter beach front um we welcome you to come and give you more talk on a close up tell you more about the two properties we are organizing a flying package right now at the moment as a special for this um tourism expo um going at triple nine we would love to explain more to you we're organizing also discussions throughout zanzibar please come and experience we'll be here exhibiting from today 22nd up to 25th on sunday all our most welcome


Thank you very much. It's very interesting to be at the Naval War College. My wife was commissioned from the Newport Women's Officer School in 1973, and I was, as said, commissioned from Pensacola. We met in the Navy at the Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training Center in Denver. So the old story, if the Navy wanted you to have a wife, they would issue one. Well, they did. Okay, I'm going to talk a little bit about some background as to how the forest all class came about. At the end of World War II, the Navy had worked itself out of a job. America had a monopoly on atomic weapons in the Air Force, regarded other services as anachronisms. In the meantime, the Navy was stressing the need for balanced forces in the importance of sea power in a post-war world, but struggled at the same time to develop its own nuclear capability, because if you wanted to be funded, you had to be nuclear-capable. At this time, the Navy was coming out with its first guided missiles, and naval aviation was struggling with several issues, introducing jet aircraft to the fleet, and the development of heavy attack aircraft that were capable of dropping the atomic weapons at the time, which were quite heavy at the time. On the Navy's response to developing nuclear capability was the Supercarrier of the United States, and the idea was that it would operate a limited number of jet aircraft that were big enough to carry the atomic bombs of the era, which are about the same sizes were dropped by B-29s at the end of World War II. Now, the keel was laid at Newport News on 18 April 1949, but it was canceled by Secretary of Defense Johnson five days later, without even notifying the Navy. Now, the naval leaders saw this as a attempt to monopolize nuclear warfare on the part of the Air Force, and what's known as the revolt of the admirals, naval officers attacked Johnson's policies in general, and the Air Force claims that its strategic bomber, the B-36, was a billion-dollar blunder. Now, Johnson's cuts had not only affected the Navy, but they left all conventional forces short, and that includes Army, Navy, and tactical air, so they were ill-prepared to fight the limited wars that would come along in Korea. Now, in the meantime, while this controversy was being played out, other possibilities rose, and that's what became the forestall class. Now, the forestall class was based in a lot of ways on the canceled United States, and the early concepts were very similar. The two ships, you see the artist deception, the United States, the forestall was very similar, except that it had an enclosed bow, and it was somewhat smaller. Now, as atomic weapons became smaller in size, so did the aircraft needed to deliver them. And when the Navy adopted the A3D Sky Warrior at a 70,000-pound gross aircraft versus the 100,000-pound projected aircraft that the Navy thought it would need for the United States, it limited the size of the carrier needed to carry the aircraft. And Representative Carl Vinson suggested that the Navy a size limit a general of about 60,000 tons, and that's what became the forestall design. Carl Vinson was the long-time friend of the Navy as known as Uncle Carl within the Navy leadership. Now, the purpose of the forestall design had changed from pure nuclear strategic strike aircraft by a few aircraft to a general-purpose carrier with a larger air wing with smaller aircraft. But what saved the forestall design and made it really effective was three British innovations. That was the angle deck, the steam catapult, and the mirror landing system, which evolved into the optical landing system. Now, the original design was a flush deck, and both the forestall and the Saratoga were converted on the building ways to become angle deck carriers. And also, they decided to install an island. Now, when they adopted the island design, it solved a lot of their problems. The piping for the exhaust gases was solved, the location of antennas, the control of the ship, all kinds of things. Now, the electronics shown here, this is the forestall issue was commissioned, and that shows you later in her career. Now, the electronics on the first picture are the SPS-8 height finder radar atop the wheelhouse, and an SPS-12 air search radar on the pole mast. And then the after-mast carried the electronic connoisseurs. And at the top of the mast is that dome-shaped thing is the tactical air navigation beacon or TACN. Now, later view shows that rectangular radar, that is the SPS-48 medium-range three-dimensional air search radar. Now, the interesting thing about the design was that the mast folded down. At the time, it was a requirement for all major warships that their mast had to fold so they could fit underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, because the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is the New York Naval Shipyard, is commonly known, you had to fold down. So, the main mast folded down, and you can see the hinge at the bottom of the picture, folded down to port and laid pretty much on the flight deck, and then the after-ECM mast would fold aft. Now, the forestall had been ordered from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-Dot Company in Newport News, Virginia. And the Saratoga was built in the New York Naval Shipyard, which is, like I said, commonly called the Brooklyn Navy Yard. One of the major differences between the two ships is the forestall was originally completed with 600 pound per square inch boilers, which is the World War II era design. And the Saratoga was completed the 1200 PSI, which subsequent ships all were completed to. And they're very similar in appearance. There are some details between the two ships. And like I said, they were both laid on as flush deck, but converted during construction. Now, this view shows the intrepid, the Saratoga and the independence, and it illustrates the relative of size between the forestall class and the earlier World War II era Essex class. It also shows a penchant that the Navy has for spelling out things on the flight deck as photo opportunities. And in this case, it's the 50th anniversary of naval aviation in 1961. Now, Ranger and the follow-on independence were the same basic design. The most noticeable change, if you look at the stern, the stern is enclosed instead of the notched stern on the forestall in Saratoga. They also had different design for the forward gun spawnsons. They were different shaped than on the forestall in Saratoga. And this Ranger was unique in that she retained those spawnsons later on when the guns were removed. She also had an all welded aluminum elevator on the port side. And she was actually the first ship laid down as an angled deck carrier. Now, the Ranger was built at Newport News. The independence was built at New York Navy Art. Now, this view of the independence shows the taking during her April 1959 shakedown cruise. Now, it's an interim design on the flight deck pattern. And it's interesting, you can usually data photo of a carrier by the aircraft that she carries aboard. In this case, A3D Sky Warriors on the fantail there. A4D Skyhawks, little scooters. And F3H Demons, which is the ancestor of the famous Phantom. And F8U Crusaders. Now, the constellation was the follow on, excuse me, I think I'm going to skip today. Ah, this is the Kitty Hawk, excuse me. Okay. Now, the original design was based on the Flush Deck design. So, there's a number of features that they corrected on the following class, which is the Kitty Hawk class. The port side forward elevator was moved aft. And the island was also moved aft. So, you had two elevators in front of the island instead of two elevators aft. That improved the usable space on the flight deck. And it was a much better arrangement because the forward port side elevator interfered with both the landing area and the catapults on the port side, the wastecats. Also, it introduced the more powerful C-13 steam catapults. And it was armed with terrier missiles for surface to air defense. Now, one other thing is the island had become so crowded with antennas that they introduced a lattice mast after the island to carry all the electronic gear. And this is a feature of all the later classes of carriers. You'll see it in the Nimitz and the following classes. Excuse me. The constellation was laid down in the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. And it would be the last carrier built someplace other than Newport News. Now, while she was fitting out prior to commissioning, a fire broke out in December 1960. Firefighters extinguished the fire, but 50 shipyard workers were killed. And it delayed the completion of the ship by seven months. Now, this overhead view shows the constellation in December 1979 in South China Sea. And she's conducting underway replenishment with combat storeship Niagara. And on the other side is the guided missile cruiser Lehi. Now, following the constellation was the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered ship. But because of cost overruns with the Enterprise, she would be the only ship in her class. And she was originally supposed to be a leader of a class of six nuclear-powered carriers. But because of cost, they decided no more. And this was the McNamara era. So the next ship, the America, would be conventionally powered. Now, the changes from the Kitty Hog included a bow-mounted anchor and one a stern instead of the usual port and starboard. And the reason for that was that she was equipped with a sonar, the SQS-23. At the time, Soviet nuclear-powered submarines were, attack submarines were getting so fast that they figured they needed to provide some kind of self-defense capability so that she was equipped with sonar. Now, later on, the sonar was removed, but she was the only carrier that was completed with sonar. Other ships, when they were converted to anti-submarine warfare, were equipped with sonar. Now, she also had a different island configuration. And you notice the narrow smokestack compared to prior units. And those drum-shaped antennas just forwarded the stack there, or the SPG-55. That's the fire control radar associated with her terrier missile armament. Now, this is the Kennedy. And although she's similar to earlier ships, there were enough differences that she's often put in a class by herself. The most significant changes were the different internal design. She was originally conceived as a nuclear-powered carrier, but it was decided to make her a conventional carrier. But her internal arrangement of spaces was based on the nuclear version of the ship. She also was intended to carry a bow-mounted sonar and tartar missile system, but because the cost factors, these weren't installed. And Kennedy would wind up being the last conventionally-powered carrier built for the U.S. Navy. And another difference you'll notice is that the port side, the angle on the flight deck is less of an angle than on earlier ships, and that's something that you'll see on all leader classes of carriers, the nuclear carriers. Now, here is a picture of the Kennedy when she was going through her decommissioning ceremony in 2007. The top picture shows a bunch of blue-shirted plane handlers up in what's called Vulture's Row. That's an area on the island where people can watch flight operations. And in this case, they were trainees and they had to observe operations on the flight deck for a period of time before they were allowed to be on the flight deck. The flight deck on a carrier is called the most dangerous four-and-a-half acres on Earth, and that is not an exaggeration. Now, as far as the weapons for these ships, the original four-star class carriers had four Mark 42 5-inch 54 automatic dual-purpose mounts. And as the threat increased, jet aircraft, cruise missiles, guns just could no longer cut it. So, later ships of the Kitty Hawk class were equipped with a rim-to-terrier missile. That was part of the Navy's three T's. They had the Talos, which is the biggest, terrier medium range, and then the Tartar was a small. And they had to range out to about 40 miles. Later on, these weapons were removed and the ships were modernized. They had the NATO Seasparrow, which was adapted from name 7, air-to-air missile. The failings, close-in weapon system, 20 millimeter Gatling gun. That was also adapted from an airborne weapon, the Vulcan. And later on, they adapted something called the rolling air-faring missile, which is, it rolls like a rifle bullet in order to stabilize its flight. And that was a later weapon system that was only installed on two of these ships. All of the current ships in the inventory are equipped with rolling air-faring missiles, and they have been improved over years. Okay, now just as when you buy a DVD, you get the bonus features. These are your bonus features. One of my last active duty for trainings in the Naval Reserve was an operational orientation aboard the Saratoga in July of 1993. And it was as the Saratoga worked up for her last deployment before she got decommissioned. Now, I need to explain a little bit about the ship's logo. The ship's emblem is the Fighting Cock, and it was adapted to commemorate an event from the Battle of Link Champlain during the War of 1812. At a critical point in the battle, a British shot had burst open the rooster's cage, and the rooster got mad as hell and just crowed defiantly at the British for damaging its cage. So the crew was so heartened that they wound up defeating a larger British ship, so it's been part of their emblem ever since. Now, anyone who's ever seen a carrier in port is usually impressed by the size of the ship. That's me as a younger version, as a commander, before the beard. And the flight deck looks immense. When you're standing on the flight deck, it's amazing how big it seems. But what most people don't realize is that when you're at sea, and there are a lot of airplanes parked on it, it does not seem big enough. Now, the captain of the ship is responsible for the readiness of his ship and crew, and they designate duties through the executive officer, ex-O as he's known in the Navy, the department heads, and the officer of the deck. Now, within departments are divisions which could range from a few dozen sailors up to hundreds. And within the operations department is the intelligence division, the OZ division. So the ship's intelligence officer is also known as the Wizard of Oz. And these are our happy reservists. In the background, the two officers are the prospective ship's intelligence officer and the outgoing ship's intelligence officer. And the chicken is Bob. Bob was the mascot of the ship's intelligence division. And occasionally, the air wing would kidnap Bob and hold him for ransom. And they would send chicken wings to the OZ division and say, if our demands are not met, you know, this is what's going to happen to Bob. So he started out being an officer or chief. He had khakis. And then he reverted to enlisted ranks. So he's wearing dungleries. And the Saratoga was in poor material condition by that time. And these were my accommodations look like a board ship. Now, the birthing areas for enlisted personnel are even more daunting. Usually, they have like three to four lockers per tier. And the locker space is very limited. And also at sea, anybody's been at sea knows there's almost constant noise, either from the ventilation system or on a carrier. If you're below the flight deck, when the aircraft lands, you get a loud kaboom.  So it's a definite hazard to your drums. Here's some examples of some air operations with the Air Wing 17. In this case, it's an EA-6B from VAQ 132. And over on the top left, you'll see the optical landing system, which evolved from the original mirror landing system that the British invented. You'll also notice the life nets which go all around the carrier flight deck. You could get blown off the flight deck very easily. And those life nets have saved many a crewman because it's 60 feet to the water. And if you don't enter the water exactly right, it's like hitting concrete. And then that also shows the jet blast deflector. And this is what the view looks like from the catwalk. And those rubber bands that are along the catwalk, those are used to seal off the catapults when the catapults or air operations are not in use. Because they have a kind of peculiar waxy, greasy smell from the steam catapults. Now, another evolution before World War II, the Navy developed underway replenishment methods. And this gives the Navy great strategic mobility. Oddly enough, the one who pioneered this in World War I was the future Admiral Nimitz. And the British had a method where they would trail behind the oiler and they would pass a hose. That's a safer, but the transfer rates are not good enough. And so the Navy developed an alongside method. Now here the Saratoga is approaching the oiler Kalamazoo. Now, the way we do it is the replenishment ship sets the base course and the ship that's receiving forms on them. And it's about 12 to 16 knots speed because that's about the optimum for ship control. Now when the receiving ship is alongside, we have line guns that send messenger lines to the oiler, or from the oiler I should say. And they are used to transfer other lines like the communications lines and the fuel hoses and things like that. Now, this is not an easy evolution. The ships involved must hold the same course and speed.  Now, when the replenishment is complete, the receiving ship breaks off. And they also practice emergency breakaways in case they're surprised. Here's some more air operations. This is kind of a swan song not only for the Saratoga, but for a lot of the aircraft that are shown here. This is the F-14 from VF-103. And you'll also notice on the top left picture F-18s. And here is a, I was in an A-6 squadron, so I have a soft spot in my heart for A-6s. It's an airplane, as I used to say, that only a bomber navigator could love. And the top left hand side is the S-3B from VS-30. And that's equipped as a tanker. And you can see it in position on the catapult here. Now, that pretty much completes how I spent my summer vacation. Does anybody have any questions? Sir? Could you comment on the tool on carrier developments since this period? Do you feel a particular suggestion? Okay, the forestall, as originally conceived, would not have been successful, if not for those British innovations. But if you look at the succeeding classes of nuclear carriers, it turns out to be just about the right size because it had plenty of room for growth. And there was enough hull to adapt to other developments, other technologies. So only now are we seeing real changes in technology. If you look at the Nimitz class, they're about the same size. And they're the same configuration. So it was, the forestall class really laid the foundation for all the succeeding carriers. Now, with the Ford class and the new developments in technology, like the magnetic launching systems and other developments, we'll see how that works out. But the carriers that are in service now are all based on the success of the forestall class. Has the offensive armament changed much in the last event? What happens is it's, if you go back to World War II, the Navy and Kamikazes, they looked at the air defense issue and the saturation raids. Well, at the end of World War II, they realized, okay, now we're going to face similar situation only with cruise missiles and jet aircraft. So you see how they go from gun armament to missile armament and dedicated escort ships that are equipped with missiles and also the naval tactical data system to correlate all that raw information so that you could react in time. And the later weapon systems like the rolling airframe missile system and the Vulcan phalanx and the Seaspar are now integrated so that they cut down the reaction time in response to the growing threats. When they developed sea skimming cruise missiles, for example, that upped the game from the attack side. So there's a corresponding response on the defensive side. And it's always evolving because the critics of aircraft carriers say, oh, they're just big targets. They're not so easy to kill. And the Navy doesn't stand still waiting for a Russian cruise missile design to take it out. So there's been responses over time. So the Chinese have told us that the day of the carrier is time to leave. They can sink anything with their missile. What are your feelings on that? They're building carriers. They're building carriers, right? That hit that that exact same argument has been repeated since 1945 and around 1950 and into the 60s because, as I said, the threat evolves. And so the response has evolved. They've changed tactics. The Navy's tactic is to engage them as far out as possible and then also provide for that close in under the horizon attacks from sea skimmers and that sort of thing. So of the three native nations of the nations that have tried aircraft carriers, I'd say the three that really knew how to do it were the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the US Navy. Other people have tried to build carriers. Some of borrowed carriers, there's a lot of South American navies that have carriers. A lot of them regarded as sort of like a status symbol. But when it comes to something you could really use, I'd say the US Navy is it right now. They rely more on like a GS cruise missiles, frigates and that kind of thing. So cap instead of Tomcat was a much better plane than the water is, as far as putting a cap around me. Right. The Tomcat could stay a lot longer, carry a lot more, but I'll super want it. Well, the it was the I think the Navy's from what I've heard of people talk, it's the Navy's fighter community that wound up killing the Tomcat, because they didn't want to adapt it to other roles. What usually happens is you develop an air defense fighter, and it'll kill anything that flies.    So what's what's your next? And the folks that developed the Hornet were smart. They started with a lightweight. There was a design competition, the Air Force pick the F 16, the Navy chose what was the F 17 to develop into the F 18. And then they got smart. Let's just scale it up. It looks like the same airplane from the outside, but it's a different airframe. And it's got more capability. There is a tendency you go back to look at how air groups were configured. They go from a lot of the same type of airplane down to more and more what they call overhead specialized aircraft. And as things change, they go back and forth between one aircraft that's versatile and does pretty much everything down to same thing happened to the S three. It at the time, they were worried about submarines. So they came up with the S three. Well, we don't have to worry about submarine so much anymore. The Soviet Union is collapsed. So what are we going to do? We're going to be getting a tanker. We're going to make an electronic warfare and eventually just phase it out. Yeah. And now they taking the F a F a yes 18 growler. How many elevators are there on the cannon? Four? Yeah. Well, I was two forward of the island, one after the island, and one on the port side aft. And that's pretty much the configuration all the way through. How many aircraft of the F 35? I really don't know how many are actually going to show up. Like the F 22 and the F 35 are these wonder fighters that we go through an evolution in acquisition where we want to buy this new thing and it's got all the bells and whistles, but then we can't afford enough of them. So they project so many and it's going to cost so much per copy, but then budget crunch time comes and then they cut back on the number which dries up the unit cost. What's the range of that I don't know off the top of my head. Yes, sir. To see Hawkeye to airborne early morning and looking for seat spacers. Very. There's probably developed with the E two is interesting that they keep improving it. And I don't see the as an overhead aircraft in the air wing. I don't see them getting rid of the E two anytime soon because it's grown in capability over time. Right? The other question is, what do you think the drones are going to do now this time? They're having your own operational in carriers? Well, they have a similar issue between the like say the army and the Air Force with drones. It depends on whether you feel that manned aircraft still have a role in attacking surface targets. Because if your communications links are lost, you're out of luck. But if you've got a pilot in a cockpit, he can make decisions on the spot. So the jury's still out on how effective drones will be. I know the Air Force likes to have their drones controlled by rated pilots. But but that's a job security issue, not a strategic consideration. So any other question? What class of carriers are being deployed now? Well, the Nimitz class, the enterprise is now finally been decommissioned the Nimitz class and then the Ford class and there's going to be follow on and they'll the designs will evolve as they gain experience with the new technologies. They've got a lot of technologies they're trying out. Right now, the Nimitz and our follow on of the Ford class, I'm not sure. The first couple are in commission, but the succeeding Ford class are going to be they're going to evolve to have different technologies incorporated. I don't know the force levels right now. Sir, my understanding is that all all of your carrier classes now are nuclear power. Yes. Yes. That started in back and like said, the McNamara era, because at the time the enterprises conceived, they had no idea what the actual advantages were because they had no data. And so after the enterprise all cost overruns, let's go to conventional power. Well, the advantages of nuclear power only became evident after they gained actual operational experience with the enterprise. And so McNamara became a convert. And that's how the Nimitz class came about. How does that new carrier under construction in the Northrop area compare to these carriers? I'd say size wise and configuration very similar. But as far as the technologies, I would have to go specifically to like say Newport News and get some specifics on. They're introducing a whole bunch of new, like say the arresting gear has not changed since World War Two. It's essentially a hydraulic pulley system. Now the only big change with the catapults was going from hydraulic, which had limitations to steam. And now we're going to a magnetic system. So we'll have to see how that plays out because a lot of times the new technologies don't play out the way the artist concept they usually show it works perfectly in the artist concept. But in practice, we'll see how it actually plays out. I haven't gotten the particulars on that yet. I can tell you about steam catapults. Regen you're going to get all the business. Newport News is the only game in town right now. I mean, is that really true? When you talk about the size of an aircraft carrier, no, no, I'm talking about there's not that many places that can even dock a ship that size, let alone have the expertise to build it. So I don't own any stock in Newport News. But what has happened over time is that we used to have multiple sources for major warships. But now we don't. And it's a matter of the industrial base. So one well placed bomb down there in Newport, and you're out of business? Well, that could be said for a lot of things for infrastructure, not just shipbuilding. How many carriers are in that use today on various waters? The number the force level carriers is varied from like 10 to 15, depending on what Congress authorizes. And then the number of airwings associated with them is varied. And I don't have the current force levels off the top of my head either. Well, it depends. Because you have so many carriers that are deployed, they go through a cycle where it's like six months, getting worked up in the dock and then a workup cycle for so many months and then deployed for six months. And then they rotate out. And then occasionally you have major overhaul. So I would have to probably go to the latest version of Naval aviation news and look at the at sea with carriers with the carriers and see how many are actually out there right now. But we're gonna have a problem with naval aviators, we're gonna be able to build a little requirement. We'll be working at it. Well, I don't think there'll be an issue, this is a personal opinion. I don't think there'll be an issue with supply and demand.  That's a kind of a service cultural call. Right. Money on the payroll. Right. Well, a lot of times in history, you'll see they run short of pilots because of changes in the political climate or economics. Like say during the Vietnam War, they had a pilot shortage because guys were fighting an air war with one hand tied behind your back and airlines were hiring. So why should I get shot at for, you know, not very good results when I could get out of the Navy and make make good money as an airline pilot. And then when airlines are having trouble, you know, people would tend to stay in. You're not going to get drones for rescue like helicopter. Well, yeah. Well, okay, here's a joke that my Hilo friends say. How do most Hilo pilots view fighter pilots? Cold, wet and scared. Any other questions? When they when they phase out a particular group of planes, what decision do they make with the ones that are remaining recycling that sort of thing? Well, for the aircraft, they usually wind up at Davis, Monthan. And for the aviators enabled flight officers, a lot of times they transition to another community, or, you know, they put their time in and they retire. What happens with some of them? The Navy is unique in that naval flight officers are eligible to command units that will lead to flag rank.  Now they made it for naval aviators and what they call naval flight observers, and then became naval flight officers. So they get the ticket punches in the different billets so that they can command squadrons and airwings and that sort of stuff. So there is a career path for them. If your community gets eliminated, that tends to cut down your chances for transitioning to something else. What kind of horsepower would be required to bring a carrier up to 40 knots? Well, I think the forestall class was 280,000 horsepower. I'd have to look in my book. But you're talking 30 plus knots. You've got hydrodynamics involved, too. The enterprise originally there was, you know, kind of naval myth that the enterprise could really book. She had eight nuclear reactors. And there's all kinds of sea stories about she just takes off and rooster tail out the back. But I don't think a lot of that's either classified or sea story. Well, I know they overdesigned the enterprise because she had two reactors because they weren't sure how it would work out technology wise. All the newer ones have got improved reactors, but there's only two of them. So At what point in the construction of that carrier did they adopt those raw baby changes? They were laid down. And it was adopted before they got to the point where that the changes would have made your disruptions. There have been other conversions where they've had to cut back what they've done in order to do the monetization. But I don't know how far along they got when they made the decision to complete them as angle deck carriers. But what happened is some of the design features were just too hard to reconfigure like the elevator arrangement. And so that's why the forestall and class had the elevate arrangement it did because it was sort of based on the hull design for the flush deck carrier. You know, one thing you forgot when you're talking about the high line transfer movies. That's the most important thing that goes across. Okay, I have a see who's at the receiving and just sort of out. I have a sea story for you. I was a VA 115 as a squadron intelligence officer. And at one point, the squadrons mascot was Clyde the camel because when the squadron had translated the Suez canal back in the 50s, they adopted the call sign Arabs. And so Clyde the camel was of course our mascot. And when the squadron converted from a ones to a sixes, they got some 16 millimeter footage of Clyde the camel in the Seattle zoo, you know, camels are. And we were going to watch clute, which was the Jane Fonda, Donald Southern movie. And we had to first pick the movie. And they hadn't embarked staff, had no staff, they were just aboard for a short while. So they said, the Admiral wants to see clute. Well, I don't think the Admiral did. I think one of his aides did. So we were all grousing in the red room. And one of our officers said, you know, we ought to do we ought to splice him a Clyde right in the middle of the film. So we got Clyde, you know, 16, we pull out several feet of Clyde, and we got some one of the photo text to splice it into the middle of one of the reels from clute, we sent it up to the flag ranks. Never heard a word back. Next day, they had already, you know, come and gone. It was like one of those fly by night things. So, so when we got next movie night, ready room was packed. And we're watching clute. And it's a dramatic scene where someone is stalking, you know, her and and Donald Southern is like going up to the rooftop. And he opens the door and there's Clyde going. So that's my movie C story. Time for one last question. Anybody? All right.


Hi there, my name is Frank Sack, I'm a professor in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, and I'm the director of the Neutiform Institute for Irony Medicine here at Harvard Medical School. For the last 15 years or so, we've been extremely interested in studying the roles of microRNAs, these small known coding RNAs, and the control of key oncogenes in cancer. And one of the oncogenes that we've spent a lot of time studying over the past 10 years or so is the oncogene K-RAS. A few years back we showed that it looked like K-RAS had an extremely long 3-prime UTR relative to the rest of the coding sequence of the messenger RNA, suggesting that it was subjected to a lot of microRNA control, and we were able to show that certain microRNAs do indeed regulate the expression of K-RAS. In this new work, we took a reductionist approach and we deleted portions of the K-RAS 3-prime UTR and identified the key, or we thought are key negative and positive regulatory elements within the K-RAS 3-prime UTR. One of the major findings of this paper is that one of these regions that we deleted that looked like it was required for negative regulation of the K-RAS expression looks like it falls within a microRNA binding site to the microRNA MiR-185, and when we deliver MiR-185 to cells, we can repress the levels of K-RAS, we can also show that we can repress the levels of a reporter gene that's under the control of the K-RAS 3-prime UTR. So MiR-185 has emerged for us as an important new regulator of this extremely important oncogene. And that's our hope that we can take these basic science discoveries and translate them into potentially new methods for regulating K-RAS in cancer. So many people know that K-RAS is mutated in about a quarter of all lung cancers and many other types of cancer, including about 95% of pancreatic cancers. And we hope then that MiR-185 might emerge as a new potential therapeutic option when delivered into lung or pancreatic cancer patients that could suppress the levels of activated K-RAS and therefore be therapeutic in that disease.


The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has begun reviewing the existing licensing structure in the Nigerian telecoms industry. Executive Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Professor Umar Dhanbatah said this when he inaugurated an in-house standing committee to carry out the task. According to him, the current licensing structure is almost 20 years old, so it was important to review the existing licensing structure due to the wide range of technological advances and the convergence of technologies and services. Dhanbatah said the standing committee will review the terms and conditions of the various license categories including licensing fee and certain limits of various types.


The Marine Corps pistol team, what we do is we focus on the fundamentals as well as the practical application of pistol shooting and that is a huge range of pistol shooting. That goes, like I said, the bullseye where you're being very precise, very detailed, going into a perfect shot, working on 100% accuracy, as well as going and ticking all that useful skill and moving it to practical shooting where I'm moving through an environment engaging multiple different targets, deciding what targets to engage first and moving through a situation where needing accuracy but I need it quick, I need it on demand. So we teach both, you know, we teach the basic fundamentals as well as practical application of those fundamentals and bring that information to the Marine Corps. That's our job here.


Going on everyone, Sam here with late in sports cards, ripping at 2021, 22, Panini Immaculate Basketball Hobby, five box full case break, number 24, random teams, or pick your team style, excuse me. Can read off a list of our names and our teams. We've got M-O-D with the Bulls and Knicks, Ben-Y with the Nuggets, C-Cheng with the Hawks, Christopher C, Heat, Chun-Y-W with the Celtics, Clayton T with the Suns, David W, or David V, excuse me, with the Thunder, Dawson C with the Kings, F-V-O-S-K with the Bucks, we had Ezekiel M with the Rockets, the Cavs and the Warriors, thank you Ezekiel, Furhan A with the Spurs, we have Felix N with the Lakers and the Pistons, we had Harper B with the Timberwolves and the Grizzlies, Hang-Y with the Sixers, John P with the Hornets, Justin M with the Blazers, Kevin S with the Clippers and Magic, thank you Kevin, Logan P with the Pacers, that is Soren Vichon T with the Nets, Toshia K, Wizards, Vahiji with the Raptors, we had Brandon A with the Mabs and the Pelicans and UW with the Jazz. Good luck here everybody, let's do some iMac. Again guys, teams are heavily, heavily on sale for the next iMac PYT as well as all of your teams in Spectra, so definitely take a look, I believe we have 11 teams to go in the next one. So let's see what we've got coming in here. Yeah, no random to be had in the next four, which is good, but then you gotta do them all at the end with Finest. Let's do some iMac. We'll see some 75th anniversary. I know, let's see a logo man, dude, why not? Why not us, why not now? Marta Rosen to 49 for the Bulls. Nice one there. Nice one here, it's gonna be Halligod, Tyrese Halliburton going to the Pacers to 99, that's gonna be a game use jersey and he's a member of the Kings, obviously. The standard, that's where the purple's coming from. Nice one there, Indiana. Cool one here, we've got a rookie Jumbopatch, Keon Johnson, 44 out of 50 for the Trailblazers. Grats on that one there, Portland. We've got three out of 75, Victor Oladipa. That's gonna be going to the Heat. Grats on that Miami, that's Scorers Club on Carl Oladipa. Cool one here, it's gonna be four out of 49, that's going to the Heat again. Or 14 out of 49 is Duncan Robinson, three colored patch auto, that is gonna on-card acetate. And nice one here. We've got going to Clayton T with the Suns. How about last one, Sam, 49 to 49, three colored patch auto, Steve Nash. Boom, there we go, congrats on that one. There you go, Clayton, that's awesome buddy. Fantastic card right there, man. Fantastic, so cool. Can Magnet Nash, empty, empty. All right, Boxer Matisse, original point, God. Just look up LSE Baseball, Ken. Just look up LSE Baseball on YouTube. There's 21 out of 99, Luca on the base for the maps. This one there for Miami. Got a nice one here, the standard Jordan pool, 49 out of 99, that's going to the Warriors. Next up, we've got sick one here, 12 out of 30, Jeremy Grant. Congrats on that one for the Pistons. That is gonna be game worn slash used material. There you go, Felix, congrats buddy. That's so sick. Let me double check and make sure where this one goes. Pretty sure I'm pretty, yeah. Yep, this'll be going to the Wizards. How about A, Chris Hopsport-Zingis on the patch, autographs jersey number. So that'll probably be numbered to I think six, because I think that's what his jersey number is. This is like that jersey number variation. Nice one there, congrats Washington. Really cool one here, we've got vertical, our horizontal RPA is gonna be Brandon Williams, three out of 50 for Portland. It's gonna be three colored RPA. We've got numbered 88 of 99, Chris Duarte for the Pacers, nice one there on the true RPA. Congrats on that one, Indiana. There's a nice true right there, or 68 of 99, excuse me, 68 of 99. Very nice, that's empty, empty. All right, got that done. Dang man, it is, good call on that one. Can't see your name, but yeah, a little bit of a ding on the foil. Send an empty box and wrapper. An empty box and wrapper, what's up Josh? How you doing buddy? Yeah, Steelers go quickly, man. Steelers go quickly in the PYTs because of the class there. All right, empty box and wrapper coming to the Pacers, coming to the Pacers. Oh yeah, I try to remember everybody's name. Try to do my best at least, you know? You can still mag the Duarte though. Yeah, I'll get some 24. Let me double check really quick for ya. Denver. Ben, Ben why? Yeah, I got you for the nuggets and number 24. If that's Ben why? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Number 24 is you, Ben. Warrior's gone on the next one. Thank you there, JG. Down to just nine to go now. Nine to go on the next iMac. Team's heavily on sale. Okay, let's keep it moving. Got a Karis Leverte to 99 for the Cavaliers. Shoot us an email because I have Ben why for the nuggets in this one in 24. This is 24 right here as well. I have Ben why, just shoot us an email, Chia. We've got Greg Brown III to 99 for the Blazers. Damian Lillard going to the Blazers. Nice one there, that's 72 out of 99. Nice one here, four colored patch auto, two of 15. That is Pokhachevsky, let's see Pokhachevsky for the Thunder. That's gonna be game worn on that one too, game worn. Shoot us an email, drop the email for you. Next up we've got Tim Hardaway Jr., 16 out of 25 for the Mabs. There he is. Got going to Felix, 48 of 49, Cade Cunningham. There we go, on the Red RPA, excuse me, 40 out of 49. Big time hit for Felix in the Pistons. Gorgeous, gorgeous Cade right there, man. That is massive.  Congrats, Detroit. Is that the red foil too? Red foil, the up color match. There's like these smoothies. We'll get that, we'll get that magged right away, Felix. Thank you, buddy. Thanks for closing us out. There you go. Last spot mojo. Last spot mojo is right, it's a thing. It is a thing, thing redemption, okay. Kevin Porter Jr. to 99. It's gonna be a Tyler Hero, numbered nine of 99 for the Heat. Sick one here, 31 out of 75. How about a game used LeBron James for the Lakers? Game worn LeBron. There we go, congrats there. That's sick. Rookie Otto, that is 54 of 99 Quentin Grimes for the Knicks. Going to the Warriors. That's gonna be 73 out of 99 at Tim Hardaway. Ooh, that's sick. That's really sick. The Redemption. Yeah. Dude, this is not a great case right here. How about triple autographs? James Wiseman, Jonathan Kaminga, and Moses Moody. Boom, holy cow, man. Dude, that is so nasty. It's going to Ezekiel M. Congrats, buddy.  Wiseman, Kaminga, and Moody. Ah, it does not, no. Big time card right there. Heck yeah, dude. Good job, you guys. The link to the next iMac as well. I believe we're down to seven teams to go. Seven teams to go, heavily on sale. Would you get drafted in a pickup game of basketball? I would not. I can't ball. I mean, my strength is I'm a good perimeter defender. I love getting into people's heads on defense. See, I'm like Lance Stevenson. I would blow by you in a manner. You would not blow by me. Milisex. You would not blow by me. Absolutely not. Absolutely not blow by me. Absolutely not. You lose the ball. Hey, Kevin Porter Jr. to 49 for the Rockets. Hey, Jamerant. Nice one there. That's going to be number 35 of 99. There's a team logo. Nice one here is going to the Bulls. That's 16 of 25. Io to Soonmu. Nice, Io for the Bulls. Io to Soonmu. Going to Cavaliers. We've got, hey, Isaac Acoro, 16 of 25. Modern Marks. Another nice one here. This time going to the Hornets. Got 68 of 99. Rookie introduction. James Booknight. Nice on-card Hornets auto there. Grat Charlotte. And last card of the break. We've got, going to the Pelicans. Herbert Jones. 7 out of 99 on the Rookie inaugural Inc auto. Grat's on that one. Empty, empty. Let's do a quick recap here, everybody. We've got our jerseys. We had Io to Soonmu Bulls. Jean Morant for the Grizzlies. Lebron going to the Lakers. Tyler Hero Heat. Damian Lillard Trail Blazers. Greg Brown Trail Blazers. That's Jeremy Grant for the Pistons, game use. Jordan Pool Warriors. Keon Johnson Blazers. And Tyrese Halliburton Pacers. We've got autos. Tim Hardaway, Senior for the Warriors. Quentin Grimes for the Knicks. Tim Hardaway, Junior Mavs. Lexi Pokeshevsky for the Thunder. There's Chris Hopspore-Zingis going to the Wizards. Brandon Williams for the Trail Blazers. Duncan Robinson Heat. Victor Oladipo Heat. A couple more autos. We had Herbert Jones for the Pelicans. James Book Knight Hornets. Isaac Acoro Cavs. Then we had our Magd cards. Chris Duarte, a little bit of damage on the patch window. So getting an empty box and wrapper to the Pacers. Nice one there, the 99. Steve Nash, 49 of 49 for the Suns. We had Triple Auto, James Wiseman, John Linkominga, Moses Moody going to the Warriors. And Big Time, 40 of 49, Cade Cunningham on the RPA. The Pistons. That will do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got another IMAX.


And Watford New Manager has agreed to take charge of the relegation-threatened club until the end of the season. The 74-year-old will land a seven-figure bonus on the top of what is described as a modest salary if he can lead the club to Premier League safety. Herdisson entered Watford London base on Tuesday morning to complete the formalities of the six-month contract as he replaces Claudius, who was sacked on Monday after a dismal run clapped by a 3-0 home defeat by the relegation rival Norwich.


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Tuesday the 29th of April and the weekly market update. And it's a very big week for macroeconomic data this week. We've got a whole host of economic data to chew over from the first iterations of UK and US first quarter GDP. We've got unemployment data from across the Eurozone as well as the US economy as well. And we've also had a number of big earnings stories and M&A stories which are helping to underpin risk appetite and pushing equity markets back towards their recent range highs. However there still remain concerns about what's going on in the Ukraine and I think that to a certain extent is helping to limit I think some of the gains that we have been seeing because earlier this morning I was looking at the charts for equity markets and generally currencies and bond markets over the past four to five months. And really we're not that much different from where we started the year which basically means that we've been range trading for the best part of four or five months. You know when we're looking at that sort of scenario sometimes it's very very difficult to sort of predict where the markets are going to go next. So on that note I'm really going to be focusing on US treasuries because at the moment they're still compressing in a fairly tight range but there could be some opportunities there. I'll be looking at dollar yen, I'll be looking at Euro yen as well and rather than cable because I've been trying to pick the top-end cable for about the past three or four weeks without much luck having said that in the past two weeks has been trading in about an 80 point range which makes it rather difficult to really pick the direction with any degree of certainty. I'll actually be looking at Sterling Aussie because actually that does look fairly interesting. So let's start with the US economy and the US ten-year treasury and we can see from this chart in front of us that essentially price action has been compressing since the beginning of the year. You've got these two converging trend lines, you've got the latest Q1 GDP numbers out of the US economy which are expected to show growth of round about 1.2% and the expectation is from the markets is that we will see a bit of a pickup in economic activity as we head into Q2. Now I think really the key indicators with respect to that are going to be this week's ADP data, the non-farm payrolls data on Friday and the ISM manufacturing data as well. Now you may be wondering why I didn't mention the Federal Reserve rate decision which is due to come out on Wednesday evening. Well it's simply because I don't think there are really going to be any surprises from that. There's no press conference after the meeting, it's widely expected that another 10 billion will be shaved off the asset purchase program and the number will come in at $45 billion. I think it's widely expected that the Fed is an autopilot and I think that's largely being reflected in US 10 year bond prices. We can see on this chart that the prices are falling towards support and yields really need to push through the 2.82% level to suggest that we could get an increase in the value of the US dollar and that's certainly being reflected in the dolly end chart which is also undergoing significant range compression from the highs in 2014 at the beginning of this year and the lows at the end of January and the support line there comes in around about 101.20 the resistance level comes in around about 103.80 as you can see on both charts on the bond price chart the oscillator is looking oversold what we need to see there is a turnaround in sentiment as that price starts to tick up again and alternatively there's a good chance that dolly end could well start to head lower if we can't get through those highs around about 103.80, 104. Before I move on to the next chart I'm going to focus a little bit of what the markets are expecting for this week's US data. Now the ADP numbers for April we're expecting a number in a region of about 200,000 that's going to be an increase on the March number similar sort of increase is expected on the non-farm payrolls number on Friday around about 205 to 10 the unemployment rate is expected to drop back towards that 6.5% guidance threshold that the Fed is no longer following to around about 6.6% and the ISM manufacturing data is expected to improve from the 53.7 in March to the 254.2 and all of this data is expected to signal that the US economy is coming out of the slump that we saw in Q1 and is starting Q2 on the front foot. Any disappointment that the US economy is not coming out of the deep freeze that we saw in Q1 could well put a cap on the S&P 500 it also could put a cap on equity markets more broadly and I think that's really a key factor to keep an eye on. So I'll be covering the US employment report the non-farm payrolls data on Friday at 1.30 the webinar starts at 1.15 you can sign up along the bottom here and I look forward to seeing you then. On the subject of range compression let's look at this Euro Yen chart because this is a classic example of the price action slowly converging to potentially give us a breakout level. Now we've got a whole host of European economic data this week we've got PMIs from Italy, France and Germany. We've had Spanish unemployment that's starting to edge higher again we've got EU unemployment on Friday that's expected to remain at 11.9% Italian unemployment is expected to 13% but more than anything it's the inflation data later this week that it could well dictate where the euro goes to next. A weak inflation number is likely to prompt speculation about a cut in interest rates from the ECB next week so the key levels to watch out for on Euro Yen on this chart here are for 142.80 on the top side which is the upper trend line resistance and on the downside we've got 141 which links the lows from November last year so keep an eye on those levels a weak inflation number could well prompt speculation about easing from the ECB next week not quantitative easing though that remains a long way away with the only rates around about 0.33% we could on the very outside potentially see a rate cut from the ECB but I would be very surprised if we see anything more than that. Last but by no means least ladies and gentlemen I've been trying to pick the top in the pound against the dollar for about the past three or four weeks and let's just say that my success rate has been mixed at best because essentially the pounds been trading against the dollar in a very tight range found plenty of offers around about 168.50 168.60 and found plenty of support around about 167.50 however looking at this sterling Aussie chart might give us a potential short trade on the sterling against the Australian dollar if we look at the highs and draw a line through the highs from earlier this year we've got resistance at 182.60 now the Australian dollar has actually been gaining strength over the past few weeks and months so we could well see further Aussie strength and sterling weakness and that could push the sterling Aussie rate down towards the 178 level and the 200 day moving average and on that note thanks very much for listening this is Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.