Welcome to this lecture on digital communication using GNU radio. My name is Kumar Appaya and I belong to the department of electrical engineering IIT Bombay. This lecture will be a continuation of our delay estimation using GNU radio. In the previous lecture we essentially confirmed what we discussed in the lectures earlier that is the maximum likelihood estimate of delay under the presence of a single s of t can essentially be obtained by just maximizing the location or rather finding the location of the maximum peak when you perform match filtering. However in the presence of multiple symbols or multiple signals there is now a combination effect that you get. For example if you send a root trace cosine shape pulse then the same analysis that we did in class will not work and you have to make some adjustments. So using some simple template functions such as a ramp and some root trace cosine based examples we will see how we can measure the measure the delay and we will then link this to what we have seen in the previous class as well as the theoretical discussion that we had and these adjustments will allow you to make delay estimates in the presence of noise even for more complicated modulation systems. Let us now embark upon our second delay estimation related exercise. In this case we will be going with the same approach which we have been used to where we actually send an 8k kind of 8 kilo symbols per second data stream and then see what happens when you have delays. So let's first change this sampling rate to a convenient 192 triple zero then let us begin. We will first grab our random source so control F R N D O M will grab a random source random source we will change it to byte and we will make the maximum is 4. Next we will get the control F and we will get our constellation encoder. So constellation encoder of course the constellation encoder needs a constellation so we will do that momentarily control F for command F C O N S T so we will get this constellation object which by default has a nice QPSK constellation so we will say my const and that's fine and this will be my const M Y C O N S T. So we have our constellation ready let's add a throttle so control F for command F we'll say throttle next let us actually introduce over sampling but we will do that in a systematic way so let's actually define our parameters I like I mentioned we want 8000 samples per second so control F for command F let me say variable so I'll grab this variable I double click it I will call it S P S which is samples per symbol and since I want 8000 I'll say Sam rate double divide integer divide 8000 so this makes it 24 next I'm going to create a variable called my pulse because that I want the pulse which we used to be generic so we can keep swap keep swapping it control F for command F variable we already have a variable here double click it and I'm going to call it my pulse right so now we are going to create my pulse of course needs some value over here so let's actually do do one thing let's actually choose some pulse such as let's say we use an RRC pulse I'll call it RRC underscore tabs then let's actually create the RRC tabs so control F for command F we'll say RRC RRC filter tabs so I'm going to call this RRC tabs the gain I'm going to set the gain to actually root of SPS that is root 24 which is around 4.89 and the symbol rate is 8000 and my RRC tabs are ready I'm next going to add an interpolating FIR filter control F for command F interpolating FIR filter and the interpolating FIR filter essentially uses an interpolation of SPS that is sample symbol and uses my pulse as the pulse shaper and we are now set we can now view this in a GUI time seeing control F for command F we'll say time and to grab a QT GUI time sink and place it over here if you know execute this flow graph you can see that there is this moving thing but I want this to actually match I want it to be like a static image because I want this to match this thousand samples so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just set the number of points to something like 1000 times length of my let's do this times SPS and let's see whether I get a nice plot yes I get a nice static plot and these are the indeed the up sampled kind of symbols let's also set give a get the auto let's get a grid actually the grid is very useful now we want to now just do the decimating FIR filter of course after noise so let's actually do that let's actually add noise over here so control F for command F and say add and I'm going to double-click on this this is fine sorry what is a control F for command F and say noise and I get a noise source control F for command F I'm going to also get a range to set the noise way it's noise standard deviation so I'll call this N O N O I S E STD for noise standard deviation default value point zero one start at zero stop it let's say three step 0.01 that should be good enough so now I have the noise STD I will set the amplitude of my Gaussian noise to noise STD I'm adding them at the baseband I'm not doing the FC conversion here to avoid any you know too much of complexity so now I have this interpolating FIR filter followed by noise source now I'm going to add a delay in between here but let's add that later this should be followed by a decimating FIR filter and the decimating FIR filter should essentially take the reverse of my pulse and sample at the right location so let's actually just take a decimating FIR filter so control F for command F is a decimating FIR filter and for convenience you can use the arrow keys to rotate this in this way so now we have the decimating FIR filter and the decimation will be S B S tabs will be my pulse square bracket colon colon minus one to flip it okay so now I'm going to add a QT GUI time sink let's say I'm just going to do control C control V so I have this I'll use right arrow twice to rotate it connect it over here and I think the number of points here can just be a thousand which should be good enough let's execute this flow graph okay so now you have this oops you have this because it's slightly shaking because of the noise if you remove the noise there is no shaking okay and if you want to make sure that your constellation is right let's remove this and add a constellation sink control F for command F C O N S T and you'll grab a QT GUI constellation sink right arrow right arrow to rotate it connect it over here run your flow graph and you get this nice QPSK constellation points with a little bit of noise so there is no problem there's no delay related issues here now the question is when you have a delay what should you do now over here I have decimated it but what you should actually do is you should actually take a decimating F or a filter which does not do decimation and then find out where the take the absolute value and find out where the peak is if you recall from the slide you have to convolve with the matched filter and find the location of the peak of the magnitude so let us actually do that I'm gonna just to copy and control C and control V of this filter and going to remove the decimation so that I actually have the delay so now I'm and I'm going to add a compensated delay here let's do some let's make some changes okay let's do control F or command F let's say I grab a range and QT GUI range I'm going to add I'm going to actually add this and call it comp underscore delay this is the compensatory delay okay which I need to provide and this compensatory delay is what I'm going to this is basically to compensate for the delay which I encounter this is going to be a number between 0 and SPS and will be an integer so this compensatory delay is going to be here so I'm going to see control F or command F delay grab a delay block and connect it over here and call it comp actually I should be SPS minus comp delay so there is a reason why I'm actually doing this the reason is because when I measure the delay the delay is essentially going to be a number between 0 and SPS now to undo that delay I'm going to have to do negative of that since I cannot do negative delay I'm just going to go from the next symbol onwards and come back by that amount the second thing I'm going to do is I'm actually going to add a delay over here so let me just bring this down and let me rotate this by turning it right a little bit okay I'm now going to add a delay so control F for command F or let's just to control C control V over here get this delay rotate it to the left like this and this delay is going to be a random delay so I'm going to call this r a n d o m underscore delay which is fine and this random delay I'm going to make it a random number just take last time so control it for command F I'll say import I'm going to grab this import block and say import num pi as NP which is very convenient and now I'm going to add a control for command I'm going to say I'm going to add a variable and this variable is going to be random delay and I'm going to call it NP dot random dot rand int 0 SPS so I can it's enough to consider delays of up to SPS because SPS plus 1 is the same as 1 SPS the same as 0 delay because we are not going to consider one symbol of offset as any delay because we can always just get back the symbols by synchronizing properly so now I have a random delay which is included over here this one should be a random delay now if I double click this say okay you get random delays and this is matched to that I'm going to connect it over here I'm going to connect it over here and I'm also going to view the random delay by adding a GUI number sync so control F for command F QT GUI number sync and I'm going to create a constant source to connect this number sync so control F for command F C O N S T and this constant source is going to be a float double click a float which has the value random delay now we are going to connect this I think we are set let us just check what we are missing yeah filter so this this filter we have to just visualize it after taking the absolute value so let's just grab a control control F or command F let's say complex abs to complex to mag complex to mag square I think complex to mag is enough and we'll add a time sync control F for command F I will grab a time sync QT GUI time sync connect connect this over here and I think this can be let me just look at this I think this can be the same I just do thousand times SPS and check whether that works and let's execute this this should be a float now we are ready to execute this flow graph okay so let's now first check one thing they say that this delay is seven which means if I add a compensatory delay of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I get back my constellation point so this part is clear if there is a delay of 7 I'm going to delay my I'm going to advance by 7 I cannot advance by 7 so I'm advancing by SPS minus 7 so that's how this comp delay minus thing work if you don't believe me if you just reduce this you get a nice constellation now let us look at these this is the original waveform this is what you get by doing the abs okay you have these kinds of things now it is not it is instructive to look at these in the same and figure this figure them out first but I want to actually do something a little more simple before going to this so I'm going to increase the number of inputs in my time sink to three then I want to view the real and imaginary parts of the in of the received inputs directly here so for example if you look over here this is the delayed let's say this is the delayed output right so I want to split this into the real and imaginary parts and view them let's maybe put this in the third and then controller for command F complex to float and let's rotate this complex to float like so connect it over here connect the real part here imaginary part here okay so now if you visualize this right and let's also make one more change rather than use the RRC let's use something simpler I'm going to use something very simple I'm just going to use NP dot a range let's say SPS divided by SPS I'm going to use a ramp okay I'm just going to use the simple ramp and now if you execute the flow graph you get these nice peaks if you remember what we saw in the if you remember what we saw in the slides we are looking for these peaks and if you something like a ramp these peaks are very distinctive let's actually do one thing let's actually perform a calibration let us suppose that there is no delay so let's actually do one thing let's remove this random delay by just multiplying it by zero so there is no random delay let us now look for the peaks there is a peak at the beginning at zero and the next peak occurs at 0.1195 milliseconds then the next peak occurs at 0.2456 milliseconds and so on so this actually is very simple to understand if you remember we chose 8000 symbols per second as the transmission rate so the zero and this is point this must be close to 0.125 fact 0.125 occurs here the point it's actually because this and this are included and then this must be close to 0.24 0.25 that is because 0.125 milliseconds is the gap between two symbols therefore let us now just check this out so you have the first let's say first peak we will assume is over here and if you look carefully let's remove the noise as well and let's add a grid let's reset this the first peak is around 0.12 milliseconds now if we add a random delay let's add a random delay and execute it the first peak actually occurs let's say at 0.1471 let's say okay or you know let's we can take this one or this one I'm just going to take this one let's say this is at 0.156 and without the delay say that you know let's first do it without the delay once again so without the delay our peak occurs at around 0.12 milliseconds so and then with the with the delay so it will be 0.12 is our reference so with the delay we're going to check for our peak any peak is good enough because we can do a modulo let's choose this peak it's at 0.116 so let's now see what this peak means yeah so 0.16 minus 0.12 this is a millisecond so divide by thousand times 1920000 gives us about 7.68 that means it's about seven or eight samples of delay let's check it says data 0 is 8 which makes sense because if I now do press 8 here and set the 8 as the compensated delay I get my constellation back let's do this one more time if I execute the flow graph and go to the beginning let's look for my this peak over here this peak is 0.1562 562 6.95 so seven that means eight because it's seven from the beginning so eight samples so if I choose eight samples I get my constellation back close yeah it's seven okay seven or a big I think I might have just rounded it off incorrectly and the data this random is also seven let's try it one more time and I'll tell you carefully what I'm doing I'm again going to the very beginning and I'm finding this peak I'm you can choose this one I'm always choosing the second one this peak is let's do it very accurately close to a 0.151 0.151 milliseconds so that is 0.151 minus 0.12 upon a thousand it's a 5.952 that means the delay should be six if I set this to six I get my constellation so in this manner I can figure out the precise delay by just looking at the absolute value as was predicted in the slides that is if I take the absolute value and find the location of the peak I am able to identify the precise location of the delay and then I am able to compensate for the delay that is remember this is SPS minus compensated delay because I'm advancing it I cannot advance it so I'm essentially going one symbol ahead and a few samples back to align the constellation now let's go back to our RRC by just changing to RRC taps now with RRC taps things become a little tricky okay they become a little tricky because essentially your peaks are not looking alike now before we go further let us actually just ensure that we see the same delay over here so we remove this connection and connect this over here so that we essentially end up seeing the same delay we can actually rotate this in this manner and make this more neat so that we see the same signal so let me move things around to make some space for you so that the flow graph is clear yeah should be clearer now now if you execute this flow graph yeah you will see that things are much clearer now in this case also there are some peaks and you know you can actually try to figure it out so in a sense what is happening is that there are these peaks which are a little strange now to actually comprehend the delay from here if you remember what we did in class the peak detector like the absolute value maximization works for a single s of t but when you have a combination like this you have to be more careful so let's actually use a grid now this is a qpsk constellation that has some properties for example 1 plus 1j and so on but let me make a small change and move to a more simple qpsk constellation that is 1j minus 1 minus 1j this is a simpler qpsk constellation because if you execute it you will see that you know let me just you he says the delay is 10 so let me just says set the delay to 10 you will see that this constellation is more easy to reason out because in this constellation whenever the i part is plus 1 the j bar the q part is 0 when the i part is plus 0 minus 1 the j part is 0 whenever the j q part is plus 1 minus 1 the i part is 0 so then it's very easy to reason for example let's identify the location of the symbols here let's remove noise temporarily over here you can see that the red line which is the q is 0 so the i is minus 1 similar over here the i is 0 the q is minus 1 over here the q is 0 the i is plus 1 so this makes things easier to reason now in this situation what happens is that whenever the i or q is exactly 1 that means that the magnitude essentially has you know the magnitude essentially is exactly 1 when you're at any of these points the magnitude is exactly 1 so if you look at the zero crossings of this green line that is enough for you to figure out where the peaks are so let's use that approach now to figure things out so I'm going to execute this flow graph and I'm going to identify one of the zero crossings so let's say I identify I am going to add a grid and I'm going to remove noise temporarily so this looks like let's say this looks like a good place so the zero crossing occurs at around 0.204 milliseconds so that's our reference 204 milliseconds and now we should actually calibrate without any delay apologies so let's make sure that our random delay is removed so the random delay is this times zero if you execute our flow graph now let's calibrate our system yeah so now let's add a grid okay so now let's say that 0.12 milliseconds is where we get a zero crossing so 0.12 milliseconds is going to be our reference let us now add back the random delay 0.12 being our reference now let's check where the zero crossing is add a grid so 0.12 was our you know reference now we get this crossing the one exactly crossing the one happens around 0.12 which 0.12 yeah is over here let's let's let's repeat it again without let's just do it once more so let's not add the have a delay so there's no random delay now let's again do our calibration where is the first crossing of the one by the magnitude let's say we add the grid over here in fact let's add the grid in our sync anyway so we just double click this we just say grid yes we don't want autoscale because we'll zoom now we have the grid let's actually look at the crossing of the one so actually it crosses the one at the right at the beginning and then it crosses once again around let's let's get this accurately let's remove the noise around 0.125 milliseconds which makes complete sense because it's 8000 samples per second now let's add back the random delay with the random delay now let's see where it crosses one and again let's temporarily remove noise so that we get an accurate value so it's they say at 0.1826 1825 let's see what this translates to 0.1825 minus 0.125 milliseconds so convert it to seconds times 192 triple 0 about 11 samples is the prediction let's see what we get 11 so let's put 11 here I got my constellation back let's do it once again but this time let's do it blind let's not actually guess the delay so I'm going to do one thing I'm just going to right click this and say disable and right click this and say disable so that we don't see the actual delay okay so now let's execute the slow graph we can't see the delay here so it's our challenge we have to figure it out let's see the one crossing is at around let's say let's we can use this one we can use the any of the one crossings because if we can always take a modulo later so it's about 0.396 let's say 0.396 okay so 0.396 this is 52 and 52 modulo SPS so our SPS if you remember is 24 about four samples let's check 1 2 3 4 you understand why it was 4 because I just took modulo SPS because the number of symbols sorry the number of samples for each symbol is exactly 24 so if I get 52 I just keep subtracting 24 till I get a number less than 24 let's play the game one more time okay in this case I'm going to choose this point because it's very clear crossing of the peak crossing of one rather 0.3 triple 2 is what I get 0.3 triple 2 about 14 let's check with 14 and I got my constellation back so in this manner by appropriately observing the properties of the constellation you can get back the you can get back the exact delay and by the way this approach which we used was actually did not depend on the exact data we just use the properties of the constellation in summary we use an approach like this we'll correctly can enable this you can always just try to find the correct way to find the delay and calibrate your system of course more sophisticated methods are available but this gives you an example of how practically you can extract the delays for various kinds of modulations and pulses and these some of these ideas are what go into practical system implementations as well in this lecture we have seen a slightly more complicated example of delay estimation wherein unlike the previous case where we had a single s of t we have a sequence of modulated symbols that is summation b k g of t minus k t in this case also however a careful understanding of the structure of the waveforms allows you to find the delay accurately one point that you must note is that we did this visually in the presence of noise a visual inspection is insufficient so you would essentially build a system that takes into account the crossings of the ones in a more systematic manner and average to obtain a more accurate value of the delay and this is something that can be built quite easily as a system we will continue this discussion from the next class onwards with other aspects of receiver impairments such as you know frequency offsets and several others and put things together to come up with a practical receiver adjustment system thank you


Hi, this is George Cao. An insight came to me recently that's been helping me to overcome procrastination. And the insight I'd like to share with you today is very simply three words, discipline, discomfort, and discovery. The next time you find yourself procrastinating, maybe you're feeling lazy, lethargic, but you want to get some work done. Bring this mantra to mind and try it out. Discipline, discomfort, discovery. What that means is discipline means you do get moving knowing that there is going to be some discomfort attached to the initial movement because the natural way of being when you're procrastinating or lazy is just to sit back and do nothing and to keep the status quo. But remember, discipline, discomfort, discovery. So start moving so that you are activating your discipline, knowing that there's some discomfort that rises right away. But if you move through that discomfort just a little bit, you come to the next stage, which is discovery. You discover a new level of willpower and oftentimes you keep going. Sometimes you need to bring to mind again, discipline, discomfort, discovery. You keep going and soon enough you will be in a flow of doing the thing that you wanted to do because typically the hardest part of getting going is the first step, the first step or two, right? Discipline, discomfort, discovery. So I invite you to bring that to mind next time. You're procrastinating, wanting to get going. Know that there's some discomfort just based on the inertia, but then you'll soon reach a new level of discovery of your willpower. And really what's going on is you're reaching a new level of self-empowerment because the discovery is, oh wow, I can move through some discomfort, some inertia, and I'm okay. I'm going to keep going. And what's interesting is I've also been applying this to stemming some bad behavior that I don't want to engage with. So let's say I'm tempted to do something I don't want to do. I say, discipline, discomfort, discovery. If I don't do it, that's a decision to not do it, it's self-self-discipline, the choice of self-discipline. And then there's some discomfort because I'm used to doing that thing that I don't want to do. But if I sit with it, move through that discomfort just a little bit, I reach a new stage of discovery that, hey, I'm actually going to be okay, I'm going to be okay. So I invite you to try that next time. And if you find some success with it, feel free to comment below. I always love hearing from you when you apply these ideas and I'd love to hear how it goes for you. So until the next video, I wish you well and I wish you discipline, discomfort, and discovery. And I'll show you my little sweet dog buddy if you can see him, he's right there. He's coming over here. All right, be well.


Hey, it's eight o'clock, so we're gonna go ahead and get started I'd like to go ahead and introduce the folks on stage and we'll have one more joining us this morning I have a Kirk Johnson He sits on the hospital and voluntary services committee with me Jim Shuey Wanda Janice and Katie Gepinger Katie Gepinger is the supervisor of voluntary services. She works with me every day I don't know how she puts up with me, but she does so I'll give her credit for that And then we're gonna have Bill Ballman joining us and everybody in here probably knows what Bill Ballman All right, so this morning. We'll talk about voluntary services and we're constrained to an hour and I know at the end of my seminars I normally kind of flock up here and ask a lot of questions There's another seminar that comes on right after me at 9 15 So we're gonna have to get out of here so they can get in and get set up. Okay, and I do have to leave this the site today For a little bit to go make a special presentation to a local person here in Atlanta So if I don't answer your questions right after this seminar, please get with me throughout the convention You know, I'm always out and about and I'd be glad to answer your questions All right our voluntary services staff consistent myself Katie Gepinger who I just introduced to you Brady Griffin many of you have talked to she was a correspondent But recently was promoted to be my assistant and so we're glad to have Brady Brady is a breath of fresh air in our department We have Odie Hall who a lot of you have also dealt with she's been in our department for quite some time Connie Kenny Who does our transportation network and then Nicole Inzweiler and Kristen Rittburger Hardy, they're two new ones to our team So they're learning from Brady and Odie and Connie so bear with it with them as a transition into their new roles voluntary services is I Like the joke around I call us a spinal cord of DAV because we do everything there. All right Membership supposedly the new lifeblood. Don't worry about all that. All right, but anyways We do a lot we have our hands at a little bit of everything everything that you do in your community Everything is due at the VA Medical Center. It all just results to the figure you see on stage I mean we devoted almost 45 million dollars to voluntary services I mean that's a that's a huge number and it's all thanks to each and every one of you in this room and everybody who couldn't make it here today and You as volunteers obviously know how important it is to recruit and attain new volunteers and all I asked of each of you is to try to bring one person on and Whether they can do it one day a month Two days a week whatever whatever their schedule fits So I really need your help to encourage somebody to come in and volunteer their time most people are scared because When we make a commitment we think we have to do it every day And if they have the time to do it every day, that's great But I know each and every one of you really loves volunteering. I see some very dedicated volunteers in here But I need your help. We need more volunteers. Okay, so go back go back to your homes and encourage someone to join up Some of our programs consist of what's on the board here, and I'm gonna talk about them all Local Veterans Assistance Program LVAP. I know each and every one of you hear me talking about it talking about it talking about it That's that little prize jewel that Every one of you is doing something you're not reporting it and we're working to try to make that easier for you so what you're doing in the communities is Great start tracking that stuff and carry a little binder and make a note on your smart phone You got a flip phone get rid of the flip phone get a smart phone. All right VAVS Opposite LVAP basically anything that you do at a VA medical center is VAVS everything you do outside of communities Can probably be covered under LVAP? VAVS consists of driving a vehicle Being an information desk clerk helping people around transporting people from A to B at the VA medical centers Or just being a greeter walking around doing you know stuffing bags for patients those type of things are VAVS Our transportation network. That's the backbone right there guys since 1987 we've done so much Again, we need your help to recruit people to drive vehicles And I know I'm gonna get a question today about the onboarding of volunteer drivers We're working on it. All right The Jesse Brown Youth Memorial Scholarship each and every one of you back in your communities has a youth volunteering at the medical center Guarantee it because most of these kids nowadays have to volunteer so many hours to graduate high school Encouraging to sign up at DAV. I mean we have a robust scholarship program. We give out seventy five thousand dollars a year That's a lot of money Our celebrity entertainment program y'all saw Larry yesterday. He's been doing it for more than 40 years When we're working on bringing on new people as well But Jerry Lane Larry Barnett still traveled all the VA medical centers across the country and visit with patients They do a wonderful job and I tell you what I've been with them both walking the room patients really light up and a lot of times They're the only people that are Larry and Jerry the only ones they see for the day And then of course DAV's best-kept secret the National Disabled Veterans Winner Sports Clank Very proud to co-host that event with the Department of Veterans Affairs and my counterpart Teresa Parks over there It's a wonderful event This year we had almost 340 participants at the event It's a worthwhile endeavor and if you don't know about it ask me about it because I can talk to you about it Till I'm blue in the face wonderful event All right L that Well since 2007 we've had more than 7,100 volunteers donate 2.7 million hours of their time It is a very worthwhile event that number ought to be So huge my abacus has to get replaced with a calculator so I can tally that stuff up You're each and every one of you again is doing something in your community said is LVAP. All right a little bit more about that some of the Categories that fall under that you're how many chapter service officers are in here All right. All right another quick stress quick quick Trick question. How many of you reporting those under LVAP? About half of you right? Those are all things that you can can track How many of you don't forget me not drives? All right, it's early y'all wake How many of you reporting them as LVAP? All right again same number Anytime you're out promoting the organization. I know we have a new drive for your community at Ford event How many of you have had one of those this year? Did you report it as LVAP? That's an opportunity. That's a missed opportunity.  We have the same levels. We want to recognize you for your volunteer opportunities Again more examples. There's five case coming up around the country. How many of you got a 5k coming to your neck of the woods? That's an opportunity for you to capture every volunteer and report that under LVAP and we do recognize you as a division leader We want to bring you up on stage in us. Who's in here from Virginia? We want to knock Virginia off of that right guys Where's California at come on California y'all got to get it together, right? All right, Oklahoma. We got Oklahoma in here Oklahoma they really turn it up a notch Nebraska And your guys y'all stepped it up a bit South Dakota All right Missouri I Recognize everybody. All right good Boston you got a 5k coming you ready to you ready to do it to it. All right guys No, I like it. There you go. He's aggressive. We'll see what they do next year All right, Vavs, you know, I talk a little bit about all this earlier It's anything you're doing in the VA medical center. You don't have to be a driver You can go in one day a week hand out magazines again stuff bags That's all it's all relative if you get your time in there I'm a registered volunteer at the Cincinnati VA medical center. I I go over and visit with patients as much as possible All right, George eight seal award This is something I really struggle with every year. Yes, sir Absolutely, absolutely. If you when you leave your house, you're gonna start volunteering by me and start tracking your house Okay. Well, then if you didn't put it under the LVAP program, you're setting out the volunteer for the day, right? boom work All right The George eight seal award. I mean we recognize The DAV in the DA VA top volunteer of the year. I struggle Every year to get people to be nominated for that and that award So if you could work with your program managers If you can work with your department leaders about people who are doing things recognize somebody for that award There's almost 200 facilities across the country. I got 28 applications for that this year 28 and for the auxiliary I got three That's the best bad, right? I mean I Need your help. So if you can take that back Help your program managers out. That'd be great. Yes, ma'am All right. Well, first of all, I don't need your last four on any of our forms. Okay? I know it's on there. I'm gonna change that we're gonna talk a little bit about a program that's coming out the DAB 360 project I Don't need anybody's last four on their social security of their social security number. Okay? It's I'm concerned about your safety as well as mine. I know identity theft is happening day in day out. Don't worry about that Skip over it. It's your last four Yeah, she's taught us you talk about the LVAP form. Yeah, well, I don't need that on the LVAP form Okay, that's it. That's a DAV form. That's not a VA form. Okay. Yes It's coming off It's not Talking to the microphone Jim All it is required is that it be populated it doesn't have to be correct So you can put in what I've done is put it zero zero zero zero when I pull it up I immediately know that that person is you know You know, I set up in my case in Nebraska. I went into Gmail and Set up a Gmail account LVAP Nebraska at Gmail calm There you go put that in there that satisfies the system It satisfies the LVAP system until we get to 360 so right those are those are workarounds Once we get to DAV 360 it will require a unique email address You will not be able to do that any longer. You will have to have a Different email address for each person because eventually with DAV 360 the volunteers will actually be able to log in They won't be able to report their own hours But they will be able to see what their hours are change their own addresses email addresses things like that So they will have to have your hours because the system I will make a note of that and I'll talk to our the folks who are actually implementing the system and see what we can do About that. I'm not sure it's it's a valid concern, but How many of you still actually get a newspaper at home how many of you I'm actually surprised how I can't believe newspapers are still in production if you want the truth to be matter, so but a truth be told I'll ever read the newspaper to but Eventually Everybody's going to transition into an email. How many of you're on Facebook?  All right, so you have the technology I mean, it's it's there and the capability to do it So we're gonna have to evolve with the times I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean we get technology It's a way we can reach out and tell you things as a volunteer I want to make this more personal You have an anniversary date of birthday. I want to I want to shoot an email to you.  Thanks for volunteering. I'm serious. I want to do those types of things Oh got a question For all that it's calendar year. So January January 1 to December 31 Okay All right back to the George H. Seal. Yes, Marianne. I understand. We'll take this We'll take that back and take a look at it. Yes, Chris Well, you would have already registered as a volunteer at VA that have all your information So when you turn that into your your HSC your program manager, that's a different animal. Okay? Correct we're we're getting away from that. We're trying to again. We're evolving with the times, right? I understand identity thing What's that? For the riders if that that's an internal process. You're using it VA. I'm not affiliated with that. Okay? But back to George H. Seal. I need your help If you're volunteering and don't be afraid to ask them to nominate you if you're doing something that I want to recognize you So I'd love to get more than 28 applications is what I'm getting at. I really need your help with that, okay? Transportation Network program again. I love talking about this You know last year we provided more than a 711,000 rides to veterans To and from their appointments. We've had some complications in the past where VA or DAV transportation at work in the VA transportation service VTN VTS Those programs were designed to complement each other They should work hand-in-hand if you have a veteran who is non transferable That means they cannot get in and out of the vehicle with minimal assistance They should be eligible for the VTS And we've had some problems in Florida that we worked out and I think things are getting much better down in Florida. Am I right? All right, so So if you're having problems in your community, please reach out and let me know and I think you can attest to this I Will make a phone call and we can get it resolved relatively quick. Am I right? All right Some more statistics there. I just talked about the number of veterans we provided a transportation to The Jesse Brown Youth Memorial Scholarship, I love this program. We're working hard to Promote it. I have a poster if you're interested in getting a poster to take out to your facility Shoot me an email. Give me a phone call. Talk to Brady. She doesn't do anything on the day anyway So she'd be glad to talk with you There's a really nice poster that we put out it's in it's in It really promotes our scholarship and it promotes volunteerism as a whole it's it doesn't focus on one thing But these these young young men and women at the hospital don't realize that we have this this money to give Um, I've asked for your help each and every year to get more applications and this year I'm proud to say we received over 50 applications We went from 25 the year before to over 50. So we doubled our efforts. I need you help again Again, there's almost 200 medical facilities across the country And not counting everything that they can do under the LVAP program that makes them eligible for the scholarship Uh encourage volunteerism Get these kids signed up as volunteers so they can get eligible for the scholarship Mary Ann Well, that's really where I want you as a va vs rep or depth to talk to these kids walk around promoting our scholarship program But also like Mary Ann said work with your chief tell your chief there that Or the program manager whoever's doing the orientation about the scholarship so they can talk about it At Cincinnati when a kid walks in and they want to volunteer That program manager says you need to sign up for DAV. They have a scholarship program. That's phenomenal. So That's happening at a lot of those facilities at Nebraska had uh in Lincoln. They had two siblings that won the scholarship Uh a year apart And the top recipient this year sister won it two years ago So that those are kids that are really given back. Yes, Lenny Absolutely absolutely Okay, we talked a little bit about the celebrity entertainment program and Jerry and Larry I'm not going to talk about that much more, but it's a wonderful program. Hopefully you've had the opportunity to a visit with them Or meet with them All right, the prize jewel of DAV the national disabled veterans winter sports clinic This event happens every year. We've been this last year was our 30th year three decades. We've done this event with the va It is a wonderful worthwhile endeavor. Do I have anybody in here who's participated in the winter sports clinic? It's changed your life, didn't it?  Did I see another one back there? Yep, that Jim Sersley Yeah Good to see you Jim It is a wonderful event that one of the winter sports clinic really changes people's lives Um on the first day they roll in they're real timid and reluctant to get involved in it pretty down and out I mean, that's what I see Uh about day three They're up at five o'clock in the morning to get breakfast and they're ready to get them on the mountain so it's a it's a wonderful event and I just like to say to everybody in here if you're if your chapter your department Supported it at DAV. Thank you so much. It's it's it's greatly appreciated and we continue to find new ways to promote this event Where we at? Yes, sir. Thanks Um, again, this event is put together with us in the va and we're very proud to to boast our relationship The va has six of these types of events The winter sports clinic is just one that DAV co-host and i'm not going to talk about any of the others because this one is the best All right Again, I talked a little bit about five k's earlier And you got a five k's coming to your community It's a great opportunity for you to track LVAP I There's multiple departments in here. I need your support. I need you to get involved with the LVAP program Start tracking those hours and reporting them


In the south of Slovakia, it looks like in the Netherlands, there are many, many channels that were built during communism when they built the Melioration channels, so you dig a small channel deeper than around and then you take all the water from there, which is really funny because they are taking the water there to this channel and then they are pumping this water to the fields, which doesn't make sense for me. The wetland there is rain and if there was a wetland before you destroy it, the soil, it's somehow different, it will not soak that fast. It's like there are some specific type of soils which then you still have the wetland there and you are pushing so much money to change it.


It took a while for me to focus in on it but I finally got it. There you are. Isn't that amazing? Zoom in and I'm drifting off a little there. You know what? I'm just going to let it be. Got everything centered. It's about 805 Eastern time in the United States. This is being taken right off the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota, Florida. Today is October 17th and it is 8.07 p.m. And be sure to check out n5d.com for more pictures and videos of this UFO. Isn't that amazing? I got to adjust it a little. Now in one of the still shots I had, you can clearly see what looks like a tetrahedron or metatron's cube. You know what's happening right now? As the Earth spins this object appears to be setting but it's just really the way the Earth is revolving and I have to adjust the camera so let's hope that we can keep the image. Thank you universe. So once again I'm using a cannon power shot. This UFO is if you're looking at the sky it's going to be to the left of Arcturus to the right of Mercury and Saturn and Mars and way off to this UFO to the left which would be south would be Venus and I'm looking over at Venus and it's shining brightly. It's beautiful tonight. Well there you have it folks. What you just saw is not being shown on either Stellarium or the cell phone app Sky. I filmed this around 8 p.m. Eastern time in Sarasota, Florida near the Gulf of Mexico with a cannon power shot camera. According to these different star maps you will find Arcturus slightly to the north of this UFO while Mercury, Saturn and Mars are to the south of this anomaly. Venus which is the brightest star shining tonight was even further south from this UFO sighting and along with Venus you'll have Antares. So we've ruled out all of these planets and star systems. What do you think it is? Leave a comment below this video. That's it for now. This is Greg from n5d.com.


I don't even know how to do this anymore My name is Brent and today we're episode 334 I can't remember when we last streamed this so it's been a while I can't remember what we did so if you haven't seen it you should go and watch it after this But yeah, hi Rose. Hi River welcome. How's it going? How are you all today? Hope you're doing well. Hi Dylan. Oh my gosh.  Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh I apologize that I've been away for so long, but man. I've been busy Hi everybody. Hi, Vesti. Welcome. How are you? Hope you're doing well today I see your thread in twines with ours again Or whatever such nonsense. Are you here about the Manticore squad? They're named after their leader the Manticore. Nobody knows much about him or her They just sent their servants to help me enlist tongue-ock and booth But we do know the Manticore was one of the bosses opposed to the old moon summit on caramel I even thought they might be behind the cavities He or she is a purest a true believer in Reunifying the first world their followers say life is false and incomplete Though never what that means Oh We know as they came here on their own They agreed to help get rid of folks, but what they want with this place That's anyone's guess and they're not your only threat Design itself is steal the enemy. No matter what you may feel this world will bring you nothing but trouble That's not for sure. Definitely. They know what they're talking about a hundred percent But yeah, welcome. Welcome. Welcome back everybody. Hope you're doing well. Sorry. I have been away for way too long Honestly, I've one. I've been busy to I just have not felt like playing was at all I haven't even gone on a test run. So we're waiting for that when it comes live And then I'll I'll go through this new new gauntlet New housing gauntlet thingy mboppy. So that'll be cool. We'll craft that up when it comes to live rum Yeah Cooperation to negotiate a trade deals between our sediments, but this is an outrage What else rage? This is no outrage. It is not as though. We are stealing Valencian snapper We have simply found a cheaper supplier.  Talk to the Valencians Do not fret of a manticore. He is but empty words in the wind. We will deal with him Now useless one go to the frame of mind ask for Valencian yam. Yes, that is sure to calm things down Neutral party. Yep last time we went in there. I don't think we were particularly seen as neutral, but that's fine. Um, yeah Um What's I'm missing chat so many things so many things Um, I did again. I got to Lemuria on another character and lost motivation to quest. Yep fair enough fair enough Fair enough it'd be like that sometimes I'm doing the nightmares one gauntlet on test drum and checking out the new strict trading event Yeah, the strict trading seems quite cool. It seems very cool Where's Mario over here over here? Hello Mario. Hi And the penguins will pay for this you just These are penguins and I say I've only seen a pair and it just Appears and this will destroy the fish market. It will destroy every market So this world this design it will create for us anything we ask intriguing if you will excuse me This corn founded a place in it's an endless a generosity will I mean the end of a trade the end of a commerce the end of a valencia I'm a familiar merchant a house of Mario. We will be ruined What will a mama say? Sire, if the penguins can ask this world to give them a valencian snapper, could we not ask it to stop? Yes Are you are this a dazza in the friend and the monkeys say you were talking to him do it? Tell him to a take away the ping-a-wings a fish I will come with you wizard. I cannot wait to see the adventures that lie ahead of us Follow me This is gonna go down so well so well. Oh my gosh This is a small spring update. It's not too small The world can somehow hear us shard. You must awaken it first a frame of mind I was never one for meditation What must we do focus on anger? Peace in this picture frame Where is it? Of course is hidden The prize is always hidden Perhaps this said spoken to you before Okie-dokie, maybe it will um yeah spring updates usually quite small this one They actually came up surprisingly early. I thought it would be quite late like last year But yeah, they also I think today this afternoon Earlier this afternoon they released like a refresh of the bank, which looks kind of cool Yeah What happened to my? Well, I mean you're here the blessed one returns praise be the sacred tree They said you're a false planter, but only you can deliver us Renounced these heresy wizard blessed one or not. You helped us before the walking bananas They have gone mad. They scream and howl about market share e greedy Polaris when Donald's honor came They attacked us. We cannot get the bananas. We cannot work We cannot even tend to the sacred grow Sight of your miracle do not encourage them wizard for their sake. They dance on the edge of heresy Please drive back the rapid bananas so we can escape this place Okie-dokie um my what what happened to your full immunity ice for when you were in the dorm room I don't have a full immunity ice for I never have I don't think I'm slightly confused by that. I don't think I've ever had a full immunity ice-balled Yeah Yeah, but the suit training looks really cool. I think that's gonna be fun nice and fun almost makes your balance Let's go nice. Congratulations. Congratulations. Very exciting very very very exciting Ka-blam Boom 614 not much damage not much damage there is good Right blade and Does this kill? Does this kill? We'll try we'll try it's been so long since I played on this character I don't even know what my what I'm good at anymore. I don't even know these things What am I good at?  Let's find out You would think I would be able to I can cool epic Epic actually one of them may not have died. Oh, no, they would have don't worry that is 5000. I'm smart I'm smart. I can I can math I can math cool Cool no nothing at all. I really hate how you don't get like anything not even like trash gear That would feel so much better than just like gold and treasure cards Because treasure cards don't really use gold Yeah, and then like all of the music things they call once but once you've got them you don't need them anymore So do you reckon I finish novice on all your characters or get them to max? I would say both personally, but that's up to you That's up to you because I mean to get most of the gear you would have to have at least I would say one character up to finishing novice. So Otherwise in my mind, there's no real much points and maxing if you can't even get all the gear That's just me though, but Yeah Yeah, you have to finish novice fair fair enough Fair enough. That's better than me. I've only got one so far and I was planning on having this guy finish novice Way before now, but that's fine Sometimes that doesn't happen Sometimes that doesn't happen Right Lovely Do What happens if she had already explored it would she be like nah nothing there fam Sorry, no point going there. Yes. It's another one that doesn't exist Do you think that would happen? Cuz I'm starting to think maybe maybe that's what she would say Who knows who knows you have four that's finished novice. Oh my gosh so many so many geez I'm so far behind So far behind that's okay. I don't mind being behind. I've got a whole year I've got a whole year to quest up all of my characters There's no stress at all polygons Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme Yummy, just one. That's but that's a bit sucky That's pretty bad. There's pretty bad This didn't move in test run my swear That didn't move in test run my swear Um bomb bomb I have five max and to finish nervous. I want to get it all done No, this cuz wiki says only way to get pins is design jeweless. Yeah That's probably true. That is probably true. I don't know what I'd go for pin wise. I Don't quite because they seem to be very like jewel school focus. I don't know what I would go for Cuz I am I don't know if I'm don't think I'm gonna focus on like another school match Let alone storm because it seems to be what it is like incline to want apparently Incredible it is a frame But where is the picture wizard say venuto be in the needle That's what the pictures. This is such a good picture Honestly the best one Unicorns the unicorns want fish as well. I can give them oh the fish I made even though I made it Somehow belongs to the unicorns and they feel the pink ween stole it. I don't Uh-huh, uh, and this is called gross domestic product. Why is it unpleasant? I see supply and demand complex spiral political tensions Is there any way you could make a chart or What if I just change the Valencian fish into something native to Polaris does that solve the problem? That way the pink ween still have food but can pay the unicorns if they want Valencian snappers specifically See okay, then done and in the future I will strive to remember to make only Polarian things for Polaris Valencian things for Valencia and So on one question though What is a manticore? Oh, I see never mind a politics wizard.   That's what he is. Sad little man. That's what he is More to be got here Wait, the Valencians did the unicorns seek to deprive us and you have been their instrument This is not maintaining peace.  We will not start a war. We will negotiate Wizard you will stand in for the Valencian government since you are so close To the negotiation chamber with you say by the best deal Oh You know this fish look kind of cool though, like you know just Just just just eat them and the penguins were so picky about their fish But strange that's strange not gonna lie Mario Polygons got to get them polygons How many three yeah three nice Mario to Mario probably looks out the window of his merchant house making fun of other classes a hundred percent a hundred percent He does he does that is just a hundred percent what he would do all the time All the time Friendship, let the negotiations begin return our bill for the person fight I Choose fight How does that sound? How do you how do you how do you bleed? Fitee or fighter. I love this combat music so much so good so good Right. What is this blade? Oh my gosh. No way. No way Another black. Oh my gosh They're they're gonna go for a one in a million or something. This is so scary This is so scary. Whatever shall I do? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I can do this I don't I don't know if I can do this these guys are these guys are too tough for me way too tough They're bracing now as well. Oh my gosh. They're just copying each other. I'm just kidding. He's healing They're copying each other Well, they're copying me they see what I'm doing and they're like this is how I'm going to this is how I'm gonna do Something like that Right, this Should kill if it doesn't will go for a ship of force his plan will be get stopped bracing You don't need to brace that many times. Okay at last for four.  It's not that hard. It's not that hard Right go Yeah I Will negotiate you with a second time a third time a fourth time a sixth time and I will still win every single time Sorry, not sorry deadly little penguins silly little penguins Let's go back to conscious Back to corn it is Slightly further away than I thought I would be but that's when I love the skybox here. It's so good so cool So cool, right what don't know of all Here we go Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum mario is not gonna be happy Wiggly this is a time So what did the opinion wins a say where is your sketch? So this is what I call negotiation in a balleris We'll remember this the next time they look to set the price of olives in a valencia Meanwhile my celebrations are ruined the monokistons are refused to my invitation to the side of being on a party I thought that we were such a good friends our supposed allies a master be up to something a Luckily we have a spy in the room meets That is another suspicious not suspicious at all if the Monkistons have another to hide Why should there be afraid of a spies? Go to the jungles. She will reach out to you find out what she knows You know what? I feel like they could have done a lot to like make Valencia the good guys. I Guess Valencia is just always always the bad guys, you know, just just always. There's just no redeeming them They're just all terrible all unicorns are terrible The only thing we're learning here the only thing we're learning don't trust Valencia ever Even if they say they've changed they have not changed. They're still the same Still the same doesn't matter if it's clockworks or unicorns both just as bad as each other. Oh Look, no, do not look at me come up close What a great costume I'm a very glad you've come a lot has been happening But it is now too dangerous to report to back in as you can see the Monkistons have a cut down the banana trees They have taken the fruit and the wood to that large structure over there. Go ahead and investigate I will make them away. They're very slowly Like a tree trees move 100% You think Mario gives Valencia a bad name. I think they deserve it Liquid strawberries. What are these strange insulting creatures? I it is a wizard. They must have summoned them It's a cute though kind of cute kind of cute Right 4,100 Not too bad. Not too bad Blam blade. What is this a weakness? Fun. Oh, no hex just as bad. This will be also a hex Yeah, I feel like these guys just like to copy each other a Little bit strange not gonna lie. I enchanted the wrong thing with the wrong thing. That's fine. We'll just do this We'll do this it'll be fine. We got this we got this you're back with food Congratulations Congratulations Congrats on being back. Very cool. We didn't kill. This is so sad. This is so sad. No. Oh my gosh, oh Well It's fine.  That's definitely how it works I hate this spell. It's just so odd Just so odd and weird Just weird Honestly, just so weird Strange and weird right ship of force. Hello Hello Kaplamo You saved us!  No wait This may be a trick. The wizard may have summoned the creatures then driven them away to lure us into a false sense of security The monsters are not theory doing we are being punished for cutting down the banana trees The wizard will lead us back to the light the month senior told us the wizard is not the blessed one Do you call him a liar? That is heresy Our ball meal. What are we to do? Please we said We must debate the theological implications of this battle Missing support a grant us wisdom monkeys Never change never change was debating Um, man trees really move fast. No, don't look at me. I remember I am only a tree The banana trees they grew back in an instant. I haven't ever seen the like the priest over there The trees grew back after he led some monkeys tons in prayer Perhaps he knows what is going on. I cannot talk to him because I am only a tree Only a tree only a tree. Do you see any unicorn there? No, all I see a tree all all all they are just a tree Just a tree We can cut down all the trees and harvest the fruit and lumber for they simply regrow a St. Capuchin wrote Lucky to the blessed ones who shall lead the children of the supreme primate to the grove of good and plenty That's you. It was dad. I'm who spoke to you not the supreme primate This that I'm is but an instrument of the divine and you are that I'm chosen I have sent a legate to the Grand Cuba and expect the question of your sainthood to be revoked within a week Your humanity is forgiven It's anything behind you. That's the first thing Right, where's the valencian they should just say the banana tree. It's not a spy. It's a tree Where is she? Oh, she's she's really on the move really on the move It is a worse than I thought the monarch distance have an unlimited supply of a banana than a lumber Things they are once a boat from us Princess Mario must learn of these tell him at the ones. It would ago myself, but I am only a tree Very slowly so slowly some would say they don't move that's how slow they move, but you know they move just really slush There's no wooden chest behind the waterfall there needs to be a Cantrip's chest behind the waterfall that no one would ever open because no one would find it And then even if you do find it you need like three people to cast it on it and no one uses cantrips So yeah, that's what they need to do That's just my idea my fun wee little idea The monarchy border through the market. It'll be destroyed. Oh, what the next Something even worse is happening when you spoke to your designer friend the holes open in the sky That was a bit on a settling but No big deal right an Argento. He will explain I feel like Mario is just making mountains out of molehills Like not even that big of a deal just shoot them That's what the armada did.  These are winged things They look like flaming mustaches most Unsettling they came from the holes in the sky and are ruining everything They are attacking our cargo ships all the silver we've harvested here is at risk the violent things are chewing up the Siles as soon as they appeared the mustache birds began a building nest high up the cliff a wall I think that gave leads to them. Please stop them Hey, if you insist if you answer so I can try and stop them.  Okay seems fine Seems easy enough Just shoot them. Yeah That's a um Interesting noise to say the least Right Vexor Yeah, the valencian's these days just so weak so weak they need to be stronger Just like just like they used to that's all I'm saying all I'm saying That is all I am saying Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum It's not the American solution.  Goodbye. Get out of my sight.  Oh, no. Oh, no, whatever shall we do? We're gonna die now.  We don't have skipper Skipper who this kill probably most likely most likely would kill kablam bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum cool GG Right one more fight I believe Valencia Cain theme See look Canes Cain is the best he even shows up in Valencia It's just how it works slightly creepy noise slightly creepy noise only slightly though We do this we do this and then we get next hopefully as long as we get a Scarecrow which they're ready to play we should I'd be very surprised if we didn't get a scarecrow kablam bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum We did get a scarecrow, but I want a bitter enchant bitter enchants of bitter What's actually funny is that my mom has a gun and rifle store near her work That's very American Very American so American Blam Dragon oh my gosh.  I'm not worried. I'm not worried. I am strong. I Am so strong This one however, this is this is even more terrifying because it's got one whole blade and That's that's pretty scary. That's pretty terrifying actually like a hundred and eighty four man How am I ever meant to deal with that type of damage? Man this is this game wants me to die or something jeez Joy is right crit blade blade. Goodbye. This is gonna be way overkill way overkill That's fun You need his valid ID into the 18 plus Sounds legit Level up. Oh my gosh level 157 so cool Right back to the captain. Just have to go down all the way All the way down and out the cave bum bum bum Right haha, I cannot believe we're level a hundred fifty seven already That's crazy. He's crazy. You have a safe just again wizard report to principi Mario that he died is turning Okie-dokie Back to Mario Maybe he's stopped crying about Warm milk or something. I don't know what the saying is but something like that Something like that and that's what he needs to stop doing personally I quite like the way little Images in the sky. They're quite cool.  Well done. You must be able to jump a very high I'm quite a jump on myself But the problem she remains But Anna's when the hairy primates a found skull island it hurt the banana market, but we endured This although this much worse. Who has exclusive rights to ship a fruit to Monquista? Valencia who has exclusive rights to ship a timber to Monquista? Valencia whose economy will be a destroyed if this continues Valencia What do you think we find a goal of coins just a floating around spinning? We are a print ship. I have an idea if we were to ask a design Perhaps there could be spinning floating coins. They could be as big as you Not a bad idea But I know No, such a thing. I wouldn't make it even a gold worthless No, this is a design given a prosto parody master stop. You are a right to contest We must talk to design You will lead me to him with it. I must take a matter to hand it down Wait, no the other way Anyway, the last time you spoke at the design must dash is a flu out of the sky I will do this myself now. Let us go This is gonna in so well just just so well. There's gonna be no problems ever None at all.  Just just simply resolve the situation Problem solved then we can go home be a level 160. All is good Definitely what's gonna happen right now. So this frame connects directly to the world spirit. That's what the master says Why are we so interested in all this? Didn't say we're just to study these things and keep everyone away for a while What are you? Who is it? Do you know these are kids these are fiends? If you can Okay More fights. Oh my gosh Imagine him having a fancy or fancy rich person vehicle and it's called the Mario Kart Imagine bold of you to face the servants of the Manticore We are destined to cleanse the spiral of false life starting with you Know you know you I'll start with you I'll cleanse you of your false life because if I'm false then so are you that's how it works So we're really doing each other a good service. I will cleanse you and I remain problem solved Problem solved Ka-Blam Blade. Oh, so scary. Oh, I'm crying. Oh, no. Oh, no I've got a die or something Just kidding. I'm not afraid. I'm not even scared. Not even scared Not even scared. This probably make ill. I Didn't see how much health they had so may not kill. I will say probably will probably make ill Right Didn't kill one of them. That's for sure Yeah, one's still alive, but that's fine.  He's so strong. He's so strong and powerful. I'm so scared. Oh my gosh. I'm crying Shaking and crying. This is actually terrible 100% about to die. He's gonna go for one in a million I'm gonna just capoof into non-existence. He's gonna pierce as well. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh scary Scary scary scary scary Random 2k bolt out of nowhere exactly You know, it just it just makes sense. It just makes sense to do that But don't worry. He actually blocked me. What the heck? What the heck? Whoa, dude, he's got a high block man First home was it you quite defensive? cheese The man to core rises the man to core claws the spiral will burn in our fiery jaws Did you just make that up? Yeah, what would you think?  We're good. Oh, we are done here I have a spoken to a designer while you were busy Stranger fellow this design of yours he kept Changing his shape into all the men of our people Found the chicken particularly a disturbing. He lacked even the most basic understanding of economics He could not grasp that giving the monkeys to the bananas for nothing was a bad thing He on the other hand, I thought I was a strange because I do not simply give everything to everyone Such an alien of viewpoint a steal we managed to make a compromise I asked for something on my own Valencian steel not iron but a refined steel And now all that remains is for us to something is happening in the Monquist and valley the banana grove It is a fall of a metal of veins What is it this to go see as I said You know this just solves everything, you know getting Valencian steel here just solves all of the problems You know, there's no more problems nothing no no problems at all It just solves everything You know basically Basically just solve the world economic of nervous It just happens just happens Mario did such a good job look look at all this steel. It's great. It's so great for Monquista Vices of our friendship stand down Oh, we will be a foster duel Dueling is your way ours is the way of the banana and you have slipped up guards Seize him a way to what? Armies will respond you will feel the wrath of Valencia Valencia's army is not the only one on this shard Do not feel so sure of your victory The principal while I'm reading with the valencian As I said all of the problems completely solved it. There's no more issues here. Honestly, we can just go home They've done this to themselves This tree is a fast-moving tree man Man she was just just just over with us over over there earlier man She's sprinting. Holy moly.  Do not forget You made a fortune selling Valencian steel to Monquista You arrogant unicorns are about to see the weapons we made from it. I know to reject your plan No, that sign rejects conflict Soon there will not be any conflict at all wizard leave this place And forget all you have seen or be removed Leave now or you will join printchepe Mario in the chains. I Take it that's a no. We're not leaving silly quest arrow. Oh We could have just left Sometimes I feel like maybe maybe maybe these guys should just fight on their own terms Why do we need to be dragged into this conflict like we've done nothing this was not our doing this one specifically here Not our doing. Okay fish. Sure may have been us. Okay, but this definitely not us Definitely not us. I would have left him in chair. He says he's a good jumper let it out exactly exactly Exactly Um Right one more one more let's not fight the elite guys As easy as they are just don't feel like it honestly Just simply don't feel like it maybe we can get these guys defeated before another one comes That would be pretty good if we could if we quickly click on scarecrow No one else can come in because we've killed easy clap gg We got this we got this GG easy clap The last time your cause was just this time it is not the greed of Valencia must be punished Perhaps I am wrong proceed one polygon Okey-dokey, okay, okay, then I guess I Guess Right Let's do this. I wonder who's in here. I wonder who is in here He can just jump over he said he was a good jumper didn't he a little unicorn. I don't even know why we're saving him Honestly, he's not a save worthy character like Just just not he's just simply not I want him to rot in prison. I said is a hundred percent what he deserves I'm with the monkeys on this one. I side with the monkeys on here at least this time Bum bum bum bum bum crit and Block get wrecked get absolutely destroyed loser Boom a nice wee little bubble fun Let's see if this kills it may not May not because they do have a shield we will find out though we will find out great blade and 8% okay, not too bad Not too bad. They do ever is this though. Okay, one of them is down Other one is not down Fun fun fun. It's the warden. Yeah Warden is still here. That's fine there Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom Right, we go for this Bom-bom-bom-bom and oh my gosh. Oh My gosh this spell. No way. No way No way Bom-bom-bom-bom right. Hopefully this goes Probably should Kaplan Crit and no block lovely lovely lovely lovely Goodbye little monkey.  I really do. He's so hateable. He's so hateable So hateable so hateable, right? Let us head back to the pavilion Which is five million years away five million years away Bom-bom-bom, right? Oh Up the stairs And over here, there's the pavilion A good start Very good start indeed And Mario. Hello Round one to Valencia. Have I missed? Dona Manzana came to invade our valley with a cadre of Monquistadores They ran right into our troops. It was a great Valencia Gracious to our ally Who is there to go to the holding tent?  Polaro sucks We're kind of just like NPCs That's what I feel like I feel like we're just NPCs in their world You know We're solving problems, but it's not even our problems It's their problems Seems a bit weird But that's fun. I guess We learned quite a lesson Free Dona Manzana The real prince ship it would never release an enemy without a fool on a condition of surrender Soldati What does he do? captain Arigindo He cheats slightly He cheats slightly um Wind damage he'll cost minus 75 shield Of the matching school So we just need a one shot him It's 15,000 health Okay, if we need to one shot him That's fine.  This one isn't too bad This cheat here not too bad We'll do this plate first.  That's fine We'll deal with it. I guess Right kibble arm Storm Zilla doesn't do much, which is good Very good We'll play again Bryce played no way no way We will enchant this we will pass real quick Cheeky pass cheeky pass Um, we will play it again We wait for a shed 100% just need to wait for a shed Then we should be able to just destroy him real quick Bum bum bum bum we should hopefully be at 50% hit yourself, please Please hit yourself. Thank you Hit yourself three times. I don't want to I don't want to deal with you brother Don't hit me again. Hey, I'll take one. I'll take one. That's fine. I'll take one. That's not too bad Uh 68 Freeze ray fun Bum bum bum bum bum Ouch That did a lot of damage Wait, when did that do that?  We're gonna fizzle the frenzy Just kidding. We're too good. We're too good Too good Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum stunned. Yay lovely Love to see it It's one of the past for freeze ray spell on upgrades really That's crazy That's actually crazy I see One side is Um mental and the other side is just damage fun room reader Good room reader. Here we go. Hi senior space. They welcome. How are you? How's it going? Bum bum bum bum bum bum one two three blades frenzy Let's see. Does this do enough damage to one shot him? We will find out in right now No, not even close not even close. That was so weak So weak.  Uh, okay. That's why that's why plus brace which is Um, 25 his brace is 25 And he also had a 45 shield So, yeah, that was fun.  How's it a 75 shield? If we also pierce through it, but the wiki says it's just 75. How does that work? How does that work? We don't pierce through that shield What What We can't pierce through that shield. I guess Actually insane I should have switched to balance pips. Oh well You'd have really switched to balance pips The game works in mysterious ways. Yeah, apparently. Why can't you pierce through that shield? I wouldn't have that time because it was a second shield, but It's in 75, but pierce still I swear. Oh, unless it pierced through the it must go through the Brace first That'll be it. It goes through the brace first Welcome to I will not finish this fight because we do not have enough hits It's a it's a fun.  Finally his brace is gone Thank goodness We're not stunned though. How much pierce do I have? um three 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Okay, we must have about we must have about 35 then Makes sense. I would just switch back to death real quick Really quick In the previous update they made pierce go through auras first. I didn't think it was first through auras that makes sense That makes sense I guess that kind of makes sense because I guess that's kind of like the first point of goal I guess So it kind of makes sense And then shields Stop mentally me Stop it Stop it you We'll do this. We probably won't fizzle Right Right, we wouldn't fizzle no never Never imagine if we could remove that shield I was thinking of carrying pierce Like this spell pierce But I decided not to because I think I have quite a few of those TC's Probably would have been a good idea I just really hope he doesn't fortify again or brace I should say Because that's terrible. It's such a terrible brace And by terrible, I mean really good But in like a bad way in a way that's like negatively negative for me Yeah Stop shielding Stop it Stop it if how I shield now. Oh my gosh I needed to carry um infall or flawless or something Would have been such a good idea Friendsly not quite as good as the idea We're gonna fizzle the grim reader now, which is great. It's gonna happen trust Trust me. Trust me. Trust me Trust me Trust me. Trust me Honestly Honestly, if we don't do too well, we might have to carry flawless Wouldn't be surprised We didn't fizzle which is a surprise Um Absolute surprise Right, correct. Boom boom boom This is not gonna do much because he's got like 50 something resist as well 2000 that's actually not too bad not too bad Not too bad through all of those shields. I'll take it I'll take it. I don't know if we can actually win this fight with the stuff we have left which is uh shipper falls in a scarecrow we'll go for a um scarecrow next And then finish off with the shipper falls if we can We actually will be able to just use We should be able to just use shipper falls. Oh, no, we won't be because this is too round So we need one more. Yeah, it'll finish the round before we can shipper falls Which is unfortunate 1300. Yeah, we can't kill No way we can kill. Absolutely. No way No way Myth perps and tc shatter. Yeah, that would be a good idea as well He's got like 4000 health still Yeah, 5000 health. Okay Okay, it's fine Okay Okay, okay. Goodbye cleanse Goodbye cleanse What do we have myth wise? What do we have myth wise? So many ps so many ps's Do have shatter as well two Used to be three man crazy. Um We will also Um, we don't have anything that removes shields unfortunately I kind of like this. Oh, no they showed on ourselves Um, we don't have anything that removes shields There's stuff that give weaknesses Infections. Yeah, it doesn't really have much to counter shields Unfortunately Um, yeah, okay Okay Okay, okay, then What we could do Is possibly Just pack some more hits I guess we could go for a scion maybe Honestly, just more blades. More blades is always a solution Always a solution Always always a solution When in doubt just blade it out Do you think it's still worth making a new whiz account in 2023? It depends I guess It depends on Your play style Um, we're gonna keep another one of those just in case Just in case Just cut one of the reshuffles Okay, that's fine. It's fine. Well, it's gonna go for a grim reader first We're gonna clear all of the shields off. We go first, which is great. Um Don't stun me after that. Oh my gosh.  It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. We're allowed to be stunned. I guess Okay, and chant that we blade with this just kidding. We're stunned I was gonna say if this is shield goodbye, goodbye. We're removing it instantly Instantly hit yourself, please Please hit yourself at least once at least once at least once Yes, thank you Thank you. It does more damage on him than it does on me. So it's worth it for me It's actually worth it for me. I think that was one of these blades. So We're gonna go for this Kaplan Stormzilla, okay, we'll do about 800 damage If he crits slightly more did not crit around 800 900 damage. I would say I didn't see the traps. So yeah Okay, 1100 trap really makes a difference apparently Shoosh We enchant this we go for a blade Go for a blade Okay, that should it's going That shield is getting deleted You're not allowed to shield in this fight. Sorry It may be your cheat, but I will cheat it off Goodbye No shields No shields not today. Sorry Not today, sir Not today. I should have carried flawless as well oopsies oopsies Because he still has a lot of resist 54 resist to be exact 54 Actually kind of insane Right, we'll do this We'll do this blade Um, right Blam freeze ray, of course. Of course the freeze ray flawless or strike No, I don't want to strike. I get sheds too slow Also, it's way too dangerous Way too dangerous Should have carried flawless though. That would have been a better option We'll do this Hopefully we don't fizzle Hey Thank you for fizzling. I appreciate it Appreciate it. I should know what fizzling on a balance looks like by now You that should be something that I just know Unfortunately is not That's fine though. No fizzle this time. Love to see it He's got a brace up which is really unfortunate Really really unfortunate shield.  Just remove both of your shields, please It would be so much better if you could just remove your shields Just remove that other shield, please. I believe in you. I believe in you game You did flawless and strike me to this right fair enough fair enough Uh, we'll draw this Goodbye. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Bye shield. No more shield. No. No shielding. You're not allowed. Sorry Sorry. No shields allowed here Not today Right This should hopefully be the last blade.  I would never die. I would never die. I was i'm ignoring about bringing a scion Honestly, you feel like I should have got a scion Would have probably been at 33 percent health because i'm basically out there now So Maybe that would have been a good idea three rounds No shield Thank you Two rounds Don't shield Mother he shielded Oh, well It's fine It's fine Crypt blocked. Wow. I'm so good. So good at the game. So good. Amazing Amazing Amazing amazing amazing. This is what one round left. So really I wanted to frenzy right now But i'll get this off. We're gonna fizzle anyway. Yeah. Oh, no. No fizzle good Good good good good Right Do you think I should just go for The grim reader right now or should I frenzy first Is he gonna cast a brace He's not gonna cast a brace. He would never cast a brace. He would never do that. He would never ever ever cast a brace ever Yes, he didn't cast a brace. We're good. We're good. Right. Let's see how much this does Let's see how much this does Grim reader Let's go And if not, he will be doing less damage next round in the round after probably so it's fine We can also like immediately follow up with the scarecrow probably. Yeah, we can Which is good Let's see How much does this do Easy easy clap Lawless shrike who needs that who needs that honestly honestly who needs that not me Not me What are those spells? I don't know them. I don't know those spells. They don't exist They don't exist Did that kill? Don't think that killed That did cool Gg and we put conserved Our conflict is causing that horrifying noise very well in in the name of a peace and a geologic stability I release the dome You will pay dilly for this. Huh? You're letting me go on the mario's orders Very well. I accept this apology Right Oh, we go back to conscience Honestly Not the worst because there's actually quicker that way So that's fine I was slightly confused for a second there not gonna lie To see your face and I find you in a good help Please dear friend Let us all reason together. How has it come to this? For decades valencian monquista prospered under mutual trade agreements But now you abandon us. It wounds us And I suppose my equally dear friend arresting you was perhaps presumptuous In the glory of the miraculous grove. We lost sight I guess even I must confess to being a mesmerized about a notion of a giant spinning coins Neither of us to blame. I think for this Mr. Adventure But I know who is to blame Marliabon No I blame a design Do you not see it? He gave the penguins our tasty valencian snapper He gave you your endless bananas Okay, okay. This is a good spot to end off. So um, that is all for today. Um, I Hopefully will be maybe streaming tomorrow. Um, we'll see But yeah, thank you for watching. Hope you enjoyed smash like subscribe And as always remember to craft outside the box


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