With implementability we mean that the NDC can actually be achieved, that it's clear what are the roles and responsibilities of the various actors within a country, that there's also financial support in the case of developing countries that supports the implementation of an NDC. But it also means that there is broad ownership of the NDC, that it's not just a responsibility of for example an environment ministry to implement the NDC, but that the responsibility is widely shared among all different sectors within a country.


Welcome. This is Melissa. I'm with the stocks. We're taking a look at Apple. Is there any stuff tonight? I just want to I just want to kind of just look at this with a real open mind here Not in anything with this don't even know what I think of this until right now. I Think this needs to have a significant significant significant gap up a big one Big gap up on this would be the best case scenario for this to go immediately long and that will really lift the market Probably if it would occur like that. So a huge gap up an apple would be the best case scenario for this I was like to look at it and what I think in an ideal world And then if it sets up exactly the way that I know ideal it has to set up then there's no hesitation in my part I'm thinking where I know it needs to rate well So a huge gap up an apple to the upside would be a great long and we will do it No, what about a gap down in this? Oh Gosh, it's weird that has to be big as well This has to do something significant That that's all that I know now that I looked at this a big gap up on this and go a big gap down in this and sell it Like hot cakes. That's what I want to see either way It'll be playable anything whimpering a little bit baby gap up or a baby gap down isn't gonna work right in this This means I miss needs to have a significant significant significant move in the earnings or I may not do anything with it at all Quite frankly because I don't think a baby gap up in this is gonna move the market And this has been rallying for this isn't an uptrend quite frankly So I mean this has been lifting some days certain days I think the cues and the cues are in an uptrend and so is this And Amazon's out tonight, too, but I will say this one stop specifically alone again does not just move the market. So You know If this has a huge gap up it will move the market because it's gonna move the whole sector then I think it'll lift Facebook and Microsoft Which failed today to go higher so glad we didn't go long this but today Tonight will know less than an hour to go and we'll see but I think either direction. It's got to be big on this And it could be it might I'll be watching. Good luck everyone


TikTok is spying on you and in this video here, I'm gonna show you how to take advantage of it so you can blow your profile up. All right, so the first thing that you have to understand is TikTok thinks completely differently than any social media platform you've experienced prior. So many of these social media platforms are all about who are you around, who are your friends and trying to connect you to other friends, through friends. That's how they were built algorithmically from the beginning, right? TikTok is like knob up all of that because some people, they wouldn't even be friends with their friends if they weren't in the same vicinity. They wouldn't even be family with some of their same family members, right? If they could choose to. So how do I wanna pair people not by who they happen to already be connected to but their own natural interest? It's matchmaking. TikTok is that friend that's trying to say, oh gosh, she likes dogs and she's vegan and she hates cigarettes and cigarette smokers. Let me introduce her to Johnny because Johnny loves dogs. He actually has two of them and he just went vegan and he doesn't smoke. Let's pair these people to each other. That's the way TikTok is thinking. And what does that look like from an algorithm standpoint and how they're spying on you? I'll get into how you take advantage of it, the steps, but think of it this way. TikTok is reading your profile as a whole, right? You might be Susie and then looking for all the Johnny's on the platform to show your content, right? To the Johnny's. And of course, how are you represented? You are represented by your content. That's how TikTok learns about you, right? Cause they don't know who you are truly, but your content is giving them a sense of who you are.  You have to put out content that speaks to TikTok and lets them know who you want to be shown to. So how does TikTok spy on you and find out who you are and what your content's about? One word, keywords. That's the primary way that all this is going down. And if you think about keywords, you're familiar with them because so many people use Google, right? And what happens on Google? If you're looking for restaurants in Atlanta, you type that in and what's gonna pop up? Restaurants in Atlanta. But how do they know to show you these restaurants in Atlanta? Google's not magic. What's happening is there's restaurants, right? That are looking for a business and they will put themselves on a website, right? And provide keywords on their website and other metadata that lets people know that they're in Atlanta and they're a restaurant. So when that keyword search happens, bam, they pop up, right? They have to put them in position to be found when someone types restaurants in Atlanta. And Google, got that? With keywords on TikTok, it looks like four different places. First, you have hashtags and second, you have captions. See, a lot of people think that you have to hashtag just to tell TikTok what your video's about, right? Oh, it's about dogs, so I gotta put dogs in the hashtag. It's about music, so I have to put music in the hashtag. That's not true at all, right? They're actually reading your caption in general and taking all those words into account to signify what this video is about. That's why it's a waste of time to use irrelevant hashtags, but we can get to that in the moment. Now there's proof that TikTok is reading the text as a whole, not just taking in hashtags solely. For instance, if you type in dogs in the search bar, I'm just staying with dogs for the sake of consistency, you'll see plenty of posts pop up with hashtag dogs, but eventually you'll also see some posts that actually do not have dogs in the hashtag directly. It might have dog as a part of it. For example, just typing that in, I found this post and it doesn't actually say hashtag dogs anywhere. It does include the word dogs in hashtag funny dogs of TikTok, but if TikTok wasn't reading the text as a whole, as opposed to just putting hashtags that are exactly the same in the same place, they wouldn't know to put this same video that's relevant to anyone who's looking under dogs. But I can simplify that even more. When you're on TikTok, you go in the search bar, you don't have to type in hashtag dogs, you just have to type in dogs because the hashtag is relevant, but it's not the end all be all. Now let's talk about the third way that TikTok is researching your content for keywords, the text in your video, right? You type that text on the screen. TikTok knows what you're saying, right? They know when you're sleeping and know when you're awake. You know that story and the fourth way is actually related to that because TikTok is also transcribing the audio in your videos and looking for those keywords as well. Think about it. There's a voice to text feature on TikTok where you can literally have all the words that you're saying pop up on the screen and it'll be pretty accurate without you actually having to type it out. Well, TikTok is doing that whether you ask for the words to pop up on the screen or not. You're just choosing whether you want it to be seen but the TikTok is taking that text and analyzing it regardless. So if those four primary ways that TikTok is analyzing all the keywords in your video in mind, here's how to take advantage of it. Number one, don't use irrelevant texts, especially irrelevant hashtags. Most people think, hey, I'm just gonna try to use a trending hashtag so I can blow my stuff up because that's the type of stuff that people use to do on Instagram. What do I say all the time?   You might even be able to lie a little bit but we know how that goes. And secondly, leverage all four places that TikTok is looking for keywords and try to make it as parallel as possible. You don't wanna kill your content by forcing it but when it's possible, you can have dogs in your hashtag, dogs in your caption or some version of dogs. You can have dogs in your actual on text video and you can show a dog and maybe even mention dogs in the audio. That's extremely parallel but again, you don't wanna force it and don't wanna kill your content. Just know that when possible, use as many of them as possible for whatever the primary keywords or niches that make sense for your video. And then third, be consistent with this as a whole because remember, TikTok is trying to figure out who you are, one piece of content that's completely aligned where you mentioned dog in all four primary places for your keywords doesn't really add up great with another post that everything is about, I don't know, sharks. And then another post is about rock bands and then another post is all about whatever random thing because TikTok is now confused and even if the content specifically is done great, it's amazing to format things off the chain, the keywords are placed right, it doesn't know where to place you because your profile as a whole reads weird. And now let's end this video with some hashtag that makes using all of this information easy going forward. Number one, use four niche specific hashtags. Now, y'all know, if y'all know me in general, I'm a huge proponent of using four hashtags. TikTok likes you to use about four hashtags, not going in all the reasoning here, but you wanna use four niche specific hashtags. Why? Because you're really telling TikTok, this is who I am, this is who I wanna be shown to. Secondly, you wanna use four broad hashtags. Now, there's a back and forth that goes between these spaces. I'm not gonna go into all the details here, but you don't wanna get too, too, too hyper focused on TikTok sometimes because TikTok's algorithm is so sensitive it can become too specific on who it's showing you to sometimes and eliminate all of the potential reach on the platform. So you want to ebb and flow at times going back and forth between specificity and using broad hashtags. Now, when you use broad hashtags, don't use irrelevant broad hashtags. Like, this is one of the times that hashtag FYP actually comes into play, right? It's broad, but it doesn't really have to do anything really in particular. So you're not necessarily hurting yourself in terms of your relevance within the algorithm, right? An example is saying, I make rock music and then also just hashtag music because there's so much type of music in general, right? Or a songwriter, I'm a songwriter and then the music is more broad. Then you can go even more broad using the term like pop or songs. Thirdly, mix it up. You can use two niche hashtags and two broad hashtags or you can use three niche hashtags and one broad hashtags, but mix that puppy up. This hybrid hashtag strategy allows you to play both sides. And last but not least, you can use no hashtags at all. I know, that sounds risky. I am not gonna use hashtags. How am I gonna get my video seen? Well, that's a great way to see that you don't need hashtags to get seen on TikTok. TikTok's always gonna try to show your content to somebody. It's just that hashtags help inform who it should show it to. But you can do no hashtags at all and still have your keywords and everything else completely aligned in your caption. You can be aligned in the content in the video, the audio and what do you know? It'll show it to the right person. But so give that a try because if anything, it'll at least burst that bubble and take some of the pressure you may feel to use hashtags all the time.  But if you don't know who you are yet or you're lying about who you are, how is that friend gonna do a good job at showing you to someone who's going to love you for you? And by the way, if you're interested in more content on how to take advantage of TikTok, especially for music artists, we have an entire playlist of videos breaking down how the platform actually works and how you can make it work for you. Check out this clip I'll add above and check out the playlist. See you in the next video.


Ladies and gentlemen, let me first introduce myself. I'm Dramigo Salazar, Director of the San Antonio Public Library. We have all of our partners for this wonderful initiative, the Holocaust Learning Remembrance, I'd like to extend to all of you a very warm welcome. This is our seventh annual commemoration of the Holocaust Learning Remembrance. We're so proud that we're already on seven years and it's been made possible to the many partners that have participated, which I will identify shortly. We'd like to acknowledge the Mayor, thank you for being here and helping us launch this year's Learning Remembrance. We also have a special welcome to Ms. Varda Ratner, who will be speaking about her story as a second-generation Holocaust survivor. She will be introduced shortly. And again, I mentioned about the different partners at the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, one of our major partners, but of course the Holocaust Memorial Museum under the directorship of Ellen Olavipis, I whispered it with that one, Ellen, have been a great partner working together to pick up and to make available to the learners to remember and make it possible quite frankly. So, I do have a couple of individuals that I'd like to recognize. We have a special guest, Judge Nelson Wolfe. Thank you so much, Judge, for being here. We appreciate your presence, but your continued support for the San Antonio Public Library and for the community in general. Thank you so much for being here. We also have a member of the Library Board of Trustees, Marcy Inns, representing District 9. Thank you, Marcy, for being here. Ambassador Sieg, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, we appreciate your support. The story behind how this initiative got started and there's a kind of partnering prime, if I can say that, who's my good friend, Howard Nestle, he will tell you the story behind it of how this initiative came to be and the purpose of using this initiative to teach tolerance, especially in these times, where there's so much to the advice of them. So, he'll tell you that and then he'll introduce the mayor for some remarks. Howard? Thank you, Ramil. Good morning, everybody, I'm Howard Nestle. And as Ramil have said, this initiative started seven years ago and with the auspices that there is no more powerful tool than education to be able to change the world. And so what started off as a casual breakfast conversation and an innocent question by Ramil asking me, is there any kind of program, city-wide program about Holocaust education here in San Antonio that you know about? And I said, well, the Jewish community puts one on every year, it's more of a memorial service and a commemoration. And he said, well, why don't we do one? What would that look like? So, we did one and I remember, one member was a councilman back then we had Mayor Julian Castro, we invited him to the first one. And I don't know if I subconsciously said it but I introduced the mayor and I said, welcome to the first annual Holocaust, remember? And then it kept going that way and then afterwards Ramil said, I guess we're gonna do this every year and I guess we are. So now here we are seven years later. So what the Holocaust learner remember has become is an annual city-wide free educational program of speakers, storytelling, audio, video presentations, art, exhibits, you name it, at branch libraries across the city, at Central Library and here at the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio. Over the past six years and now this is the seventh year, we've had thousands of San Antonio citizens, children, parents, grandparents all listening to fascinating stories, first-hand experiences and also knowledge by college professors about topics related to the Holocaust. We've covered survivors, liberators, we've covered art, we've covered refugee in the Americas and this year's theme resistance. For all of the exhibits and programs and speakers, I encourage you to go to learnandremember.org. We have them all listed there. The San Antonio Public Library has listings on their website. I believe the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio has listings there and I encourage you all to get involved. These are all free and open to the public events at branch libraries all over the city and you will be fascinated by what you hear. I have them, I put them all on my schedule and I try to get around the city to get to as many as I can and I highly encourage you all to do the same. Share it with your friends and encourage them to come. I want to stay up here and talk too long so I want to introduce somebody who helped us get this program started back when he was a city councilman for district eight which is this district right here and now the mayor of San Antonio and hopefully our next mayor of San Antonio, Mr. Ron Nervar. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. It's an honor to join you. We're not in a library right now but I have to think that all those years ago that Nelson and Tracy were working hard to fund and to bring vision to our library system. You was thinking about partnerships just like this and it's a great time to reflect on where we are as a community because I think a few weeks ago you may have seen some news where someone, we don't know who, posted a sign outside the door that said fake news pointing over here. If there was ever an indication that we need facilities and we need opportunities like this to remind ourselves not only of the persecution of Jews and others around the world but also the responsibility that we have to educate our young people, to educate our neighbors, to educate our friends and family about the suffering and the incredible danger that lurks without proper tolerance and education it is these times we're living in right now that best illustrates that. This is a facility that I hope every San Antonio gets to see at one point during their residence here. As you can see that some of the images are not easy to look at. The stories behind them are even harder to hear but you have to also realize that this is modern day Europe. Imagine that. In our lifetime this occurred and without the incredible leadership of people during that time and now in our time to pull us through to focus on compassion and tolerance and diversity we maybe would have seen dark times like that persist. And it's true, we don't live in a perfect world. There are justices in justices even today which makes these remembrances so incredibly important. I'm honored to be here. Howie, I'm truly grateful for the work that you and Romino and all of your supporters do to put on the Learn and Remember series every year. It is one of the things that I hope you take a lot of pride in about our library system here in San Antonio. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for carrying the message of the Holocaust Memorial Museum out into our community every single day. And thank you Ms. Radner for being with us today. The stories that you hear during the Learn and Remember series are probably the most powerful part of the entire initiative. And it's because of your bravery and the folks that have spoken to us before that we get to not only see this as something that took place in our world but also see ourselves in it and the responsibility that we have to make sure that it happens never again. So thank you very much. Thank you again, Mayor, for being here. For this launching of this year's Learn and Remember. So with any great initiative and successful initiative it takes a collective effort. Different partners coming together. A key partner for the Learn and Remember is the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the support of the Jewish Community Center. And so it's my pleasure to invite you to the podium. Alonso Colnevere, who is the director and the leader of the museum and a dynamic leader that has worked very closely with the library and the library staff, both of our staff work very well together, very effectively and so I'm very proud to invite Alonso to the podium and she will introduce our special guest today, Alonso. Thank you. Thank you and welcome. My name is Alonso Avidas and I serve as the director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio. And it is my pleasure to introduce you to a dear friend of the museum and a tireless advocate for Holocaust education, Barton Ratner. Varda is a second generation survivor and a senior docent here at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please help me welcome Barton Ratner. My name is Varda. My understanding here before you today, thanks to three Holocaust resistors. One of them was my mother, Alona Handel. Another was a Hungarian Righteous Gentile, Amch Oros. And the other was Carl Lutz, a little known Swiss diplomat. If it weren't for their bravery and morality, my mother would not have survived and therefore I would never have existed, neither with my brothers, my children, their children, all of their children, nor any of the generations to come. My mother resisted in a few ways. She escaped capture in a roundup of her section of the ghetto in Budapest. After being caught during a later one, she escaped again. She snuck out of the ghetto repeatedly without wearing a yellow scarf, pretending to be a non-Jew in order to get protective papers. She took part in the forgery of those protective papers that saved over 100 Jews herself. After moving out of the ghetto into a building under Swiss protection and eventually being captured and taken away on a death march, she escaped again. She hid in the apartment of a Gentile for the rest of the war. Amch Oros was that righteous Gentile. Amch had been the housekeeper for my mother's family back when Jews were still allowed to employ non-Jews. When my mother escaped the death march, along with my grandmother, she, well, they, looked at each other and said, now what? They decided to go to the home of a World War I comrade of my grandfather to see if he would help. Upon arrival at his home and at his wife's home, they initially were accepted in. A few hours later, though, my mother overheard them talking, saying that they were going to turn them in. As soon as feasible, my mother and grandmother snuck out of that house and headed to Anusha's apartment, unable to think of any other possible refuge. Anusha and her mother were very happy to see that my mother and grandmother were actually still alive. And they ushered them quickly inside. Anusha and her mother lived in a two-room apartment. They gave my mother and grandmother their room to sleep in and took to sleeping on the kitchen floor themselves. My mother and grandmother remained there for the rest of the war. Carl Lutz was vice consul to the Swiss consulate general in Palestine in the early 1940s. My mother's brother had already emigrated there from Budapest. He heard that Lutz was going to be reassigned to Budapest and would be giving out papers of Swiss protection to Jews in Hungary. My uncle sent my mother and grandmother a letter encouraging them to try to get these papers of Swiss protection. The Hungarian government and the Nazis had authorized Carl Lutz to give the papers of protection to 9,000 Jews who were under Nazi threat in Hungary. Instead, he ended up deliberately using this permission for 9,000 as applying to families rather than individuals, thus issuing tens of thousands of additional protective letters. My mother, not knowing this, thought she needed to flirt with the clerk at the consulate to get the papers. She snuck out of the ghetto and dodged falling bombs to get to the Swiss consulate to ask for papers for herself and her mother. That night, after having gotten those papers, she couldn't sleep because she realized she should have gotten them for her aunt and cousin, too. Those were her closest relatives. The next day, she went back, flirted with the clerk again, and told him that she needed two more for other family members. Well, that night, she couldn't sleep again because she was thinking about more of her family members from whom she hadn't gotten papers. So she went back and saw the same clerk yet again. When she begged him to give her more, he asked her if she had a typewriter. She did. He then put the official stamp and seal on over 100 papers of Swiss protection and told her to fill in whatever names she wanted and give them out to whomever she wanted. Which this she did with her typewriter, and then she gave them to every family member and friend who needed them. Little did my mother know that the vice consul was Carl Lutz. Nor did she know that he was allowing all of his clerks to give out these protective papers so generously. In fact, Carl Lutz had been authorized, as I said before, to give out approximately 9,000 papers of Swiss protection. But he and his staff actually provided over 62,000 of these papers in an effort to save as many Jews as possible. He was a hero to so many, resisting the Nazis in order to do what was right and humane. This year's learning remember allows us to learn about resistors and to remember that we should make the kind of choices that they did when faced with brutal and unconscionable treatment of fellow human beings, to act with bravery and morality. Thank you. Thank you so much. So in closing, I want to again thank you all for being here. A special thanks to one near and dear, our mayor. I'm not closing yet. I'll bring my closer remarks after that. Is there ever a time to remain silent, unmoved, dispassionate, indifferent? Is there ever a time when we collectively think what is, at the very least, humane? Learning remember 2019 focused the attention on resistance during the Holocaust. What did it look like? Who can we thank for showing us away? What consequences emerged? What lingering effects did it have? Through the lens of resistance, we remember the ways in which human beings came to the aid and rescue of other human beings. We can examine the brightest moments in a dark history. I'm reminded of a story about a French village, Le Chameau. You see, the people of this village came together to determine the best possible outcome for all. And an all or nothing conclusion was drawn. They were all in or were all out. These villagers took a tremendous risk and expressed their great humanity by choosing to hide some 5,000 refugees, including several thousand Jews, therefore escaping nonce persecution. This community in this village had experienced persecution in the past and understood. And the collective memory of their own suffering as a religious minority created strong suspicion of authoritarian government. They remembered and they acted. While reading the classic novel entitled Bless Me Ultima, I found a passage so thoughtful, so thoughtful I have found it unforgettable. It was written, every generation, every man is a part of this past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old material and make something new. Let us together resist the trend in forgetting our past and let us shape a better future with this history and mind. A very special thank you to the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, and to the amazing staff members of the Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and to the many performers and presenters who have so eagerly accepted our invitation to teach. Following Romero's remarks, please stay. We invite you to stay, enjoy refreshments, meet new friends, greet old friends, and we look forward to seeing you at the Learning Member event. So in closing, again, thank you all for being here. Thank you, Mayor, for being here. Thank you, Judge Wolfe, for being here and joining us in this event. And thank you to my special partner, Hawi, and of course, Alan, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum. I want to invite you all to attend and participate in the many events that we will be having throughout the month of January and part of February. You can visit several websites, mysatl.org, or hnmsa.org, or learnandremember.org, for additional information regarding the different events that we will be having. I believe we have cards available for distribution. So please take one with you. I, too, want to join Alan and acknowledge the staff who work very hard behind the scenes to make this happen. Dr. Haley Holmes and our part is our lead in this initiative, so I wanted to recognize her. But again, thank you so much for being here. And your words, Ms. Ratner, certainly resonate. And it reminds us to stand up and take action when we see injustice. So thank you so much for sharing your personal story. It was very inspirational. Again, thank you all. Please stay for refreshments. And again, thank you.


Alright, so we have a new event called fantasy hockey plus one overall for every goal scored player or win goalie Synergy points double of player reaches 95 overall maximum upgrade level 99 only regular season game counts NHL SHL League of Games Okay, so fantasy hockey event. Yeah, exactly.  So if he says 73 it makes sense So what players we have out any Leafs? Yeah, James Neil Chris LaTang You know Hanson Weber Howard Jones Barbyshev my TV screen turned off Craycheech Tara Vining Barbyshev, I think I said Lou Cheech and Taylor Hall decent We got more of the Dina to live. Okay, so oh Alex me like that's gonna be a sick card All right, we loaded some points up on the account To get this fantasy hockey ultra pack 25 items including at least 10 player items with at least six gold players 100% of 74 plus 73 and 80 plus 33 and 82 3.6 and 85 and You know icons and golds 2% and a master items 1% so that we pull that so here we go No, the math is I got them from that 30k pack. Are you fucking? Must be nice. Okay, here we go Decent Josie, I guess this is a big boy pack by the way. Hello All right, surely we're gonna pull something good Zodora. Perfect. This is these are great pulls These are great pulls. We love it Okay Yeah, are we gonna get something over? Is it gonna I don't think we're gonna pull anything over in 88, but it is on Xbox Okay, dude, what is this pack? Did I just waste money for no reason? Oh, okay, at least I got 500 coins.  I feel like I did Okay Yes, this is this is this is okay gold collectible. Hey, okay. I wanted this card I wanted this Alexander Nylander. He has axe which is good. I need that synergy now score goals this season Thank you. Okay Okay, so not the greatest starter pack or whatever. Yeah, we're not gonna pull anything from this. So here we are. Oh That's her. Hello. I hope my game capture card isn't too loud by the way That's gonna. Oh, that's not good. That might be overpowering over my voice. Let's leave it at that Okay, that's her and Kincaid. Not bad. Okay premium pack. Let's go Love my premium packs. Am I just spending money on the game? I love this game for now Corpus allo Panthers. Oh, uh, I think my other OEL is tradable too. He probably goes for nothing We'll take it though. That's our best pull so far. So We'll take it. All right. One more premium pack. Come on Like show me a purple tint or an icon an icon would be sick. Wait. What am I saying the 86 Matthews? Hello? Parlin home. Perfect. Yes, exactly. Oh my these packs are so good All right, we'll do the premium packs first and the mages and then the players pack So here we go. These are big boy packs to here Marco dano Contracts Bruins Braden Shen, I mean not bad, but could be better Could be better One of our best pulls so far to be fair so oh My goodness low and contoured can we get something higher than an 82 though, please? I don't think we are gonna get one this pack So we haven't put something higher than an 82. I have a feeling this pack We're gonna pull something higher than an 82. So here we go contracts contracts Healing Contracts perfect, you know, it's perfect. I needed contracts because I'm running out But okay bowmeister Nice Scott Wedgewood. Who's he playing for now? I don't know. Okay, I haven't okay sick Dude, there's no way we won't get an 80 overall or higher here. There's no way. There's no way. No, it's good I've got a Brent Seabrick at least so onto the mega packs. These are the big boy packs I've gotten great pulls from these mega packs. So I Have high expectations for them to say the least Ryan suitor we started out for the Ryan suitor and that's decent What's so funny and I don't get it What's so funny Dude these these packs are actually they've been brutal 2.5k coins. That's nice. Let's go. Okay. He's got to go for something because down.  That's our best pull so far I'm telling you these mega packs. Maybe the this in the players pack Maybe the best packs to open when they're out Krishna or Krishna Jack yaikel, but yo Jack I call Johnny hockey in one pack. These two got to go for something So that's gonna get the coin total up. Let's go. We'll take a yak yaikel. We got a Schneider He's a team of the week that I already pulled it though. So we don't need it these Jersey Okay, where's my team of the week Matthews Dylan Strom Ron Haynes you leaf legend.  Oh my goodness. Okay. I'm saying. Oh my goodness. I can with a bad pack This is a great pack next mega pack Can we top a Johnny hockey and a Jack Ikel? Give me that team of the week Matthews man I pulled his base the other night.  I mean nice Jake Gardner welcome Duncan Keith. Just great.  That's that's okay Interesting can we get one more gold tint at least and that's my gold tint Sick.  That's Ikel Goudreau and Ben and Jvr beautiful. We'll take a Jamie Ben. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go Can we top an 84? I'm getting greedy now Another pasta he goes for nothing.  He's gonna make the team. He's going to make the team Oh my goodness. These packs are so good That's 484 is in three of them because Ikel Goudreau Ben Dowdy, that's insane Tori Krugray next to him. Nice. These packs are actually sick.  Nick Bonino These packs are playing with a silver team by the way, so it's very easy to get packs this year Jonathan quick. Nice One more good player in this pack, please One more good player Josh Morrissey, okay Bo Horvat, okay Another Duncan Keith. I pulled Keith. I've pulled Keith so many times this year. It's insane, but we'll take a Drew Dowdy That's sick man. Big NHL players pack here These have been good for me too, so This is where I get my team of the week Matthews. Here we go. TJ OSHI nice Noah Hannafin nice. Peck are you gonna put all the good cards at the front of the pack here?  There's my Okay Okay, I won't use him. He probably goes for nothing too. So that's good Show check And that's it. Okay, so decent pack opening though like we can't complain


This is a video on using the normal distribution probabilities to find data values. There's a particular fruit that weighs 509 grams as the mean and the standard deviation is 35 grams. The weights are normally distributed. The heaviest 15% of fruits weigh more than how many grams. Give your answer to the nearest gram. You have a mean of 509 and the standard deviation of 35. So that means on my bell curve it is always helpful to draw a bell curve for these types of questions. I have a mean of 509. And I want to know the heaviest 15% of fruits weigh more than how many grams. So my heavier fruits will be over here on the right side of the distribution. I want the heaviest 15%. So the 15% of fruits that are the heaviest will weigh more than how much. They'll weigh more than what data value. So the area to the right of my data value is 0.15. I'm looking for my data value now. To use my technology here though, I need to know my area to the left. Well, if the entire area under my curve adds up to one that means the area to the left of my data value I'm trying to find and then the area to the right will add up the one. So to find my missing piece, my left hand area here, all I have to do is one minus the right hand piece, one minus 0.15 area to the left is 0.85. This is what we need to plug into Google Sheets. In Google Sheets, make sure you're in the compute tab. Under normal, you'll write a mean of 509, a standard deviation of 35. And then the area to the left in this case is 0.85, which gives me an answer of 545, since I'm rounding to the nearest whole number or nearest gram. So my answer in this case will be 545 grams. The heaviest 15% of fruits weigh more than 5.


But we're starting off with a really extraordinary human being who I think is going to set us up beautifully to talk about the multi-layered aspects of leadership. And we've got Sabana Bazagi is a Zen Buddhist Roshi, an insight meditation teacher, a resident teacher of the Sydney Zen Center, an experienced psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and trainer, and she leads professional workshops in cultivating the boundless heart of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. As a director and trainer for the Insight Meditation Institute, she co-leads a two-year professional mindfulness and compassion teacher training course. She takes joy in mentoring, supporting and training other Buddhist leaders along the spiritual path. Welcome her this evening. Thank you Kylie and the team for Mad Monday. It's an honor and a privilege to be invited to speak about leadership this evening. Tonight, I would like to share more of a personal reflection about leadership. I was invited to be an insight meditation teacher and a Zen teacher in 1990. It was primarily an apprenticeship model of training where I was mentored and supervised by my senior Buddhist teachers. I was given transmission that is full authority as an independent teacher in 1996. Initially when I was invited to teach, I was thrust into this role very unexpectedly. It was a baptism by fire. I was definitely not prepared for that role. It was not something that I desired or tried to achieve. I wasn't driven by ambition or obtaining some position of power. There were many challenges to overcome. Because I was the first female Zen Buddhist teacher in the Diamond Sangha in our lineage worldwide, there were no female role models that I could look up to. Women historically were either glorified, deified in iconography and statues of goddesses, but culturally, women were dismissed, devalued and certainly not given positions of power in patriarchal, hierarchical, religious institutions and organizations. Over the last 40 years, I am happy to report that there's been a shift in this dynamic. It's more like 50-50 male, female gender balance now in teachers in contemporary Western meditation centers. While it was an honor to be invited to be a teacher at the age of 32, it was nevertheless daunting. I thought my teachers had made a terrible mistake. Why me? In addition to the lack of female teachers as role models, when I compared myself to my three senior male teachers, they were all very articulate, gifted, knowledgeable, wise masters, scholars, successful published writers and poets. I always ended up feeling never good enough. Despite the fact that my teachers were very supportive and encouraging, particularly of women to step into leadership roles and break down those sexist barriers, still I felt inadequate that I didn't measure up. And stepping into a teaching and leadership role for me also became an inner journey, one of facing my anxieties, releasing those crippling messages of self-doubt that had plagued me. Gradually I learnt to trust and believe in myself that I have something to offer in my own unique way. It was about finding my authentic voice and my style. There were poignant and treasured moments that were helpful along the journey. Robert Aitken Roshi, my senior Zen teacher, wrote a simple but potent inscription in his seminal book, The Gateless Barrier. It said, to Sabana, I have faith in you. Roshi was a man of few words, but those few words I savoured and they carried me across the threshold of uncertainty and self-doubt. I did have one grandmotherly figure, a beautiful older woman. Her name was Anne Aitken, who was Aitken Roshi's wife. She was a wise elder in her own right and much loved in the community, although she wasn't formally an authorized teacher. There was a particular incident where we sat huddled at the end of the table at a restaurant in Honolulu. The men down at the other end of the table were debating philosophically with each other. I had shared with Anne in private that I did not feel part of the boys' club and very anxious about being a teacher. I was at the International Zen Teacher's Meeting and the only woman present at that time. Anne had been a successful actress in her day. She shared how she had suffered from performance anxiety. Before a show and before stepping on stage, she would say to herself, I can do it. I can do it. That was her mantra. And at that moment she turned towards me, reached out, held my hand and looked me straight in the eye and said, you can do it. You can do it. And in that moment I felt this incredible support and transference of confidence and it still touches me today. Every time I became anxious, I called upon that memory and there was Anne holding my hand, walking me up to that platform. When I first started teaching, it was really the students that made me a teacher. I learned so much from them and I agree with Kali's comments. It was simply about also getting out of my own way. It's an incredible privilege to be a spiritual teacher. Students open up their hearts to me. They share their vulnerable feelings. There is so much trust given to me in that space. That is very precious and also deeply humbling. Over the last 20 years I have trained and mentored 10 Zen teachers and six insight meditation teachers in Australia and New Zealand. I set up a collegiate model for teachers at the Sydney Zen Center. This collaborative model is very different from the traditional hierarchical single Abbot head teacher model who is invested with a lot of power and authority. A collegiate model of leadership is based on equal respect, is consultative and supportive. There are many benefits of working as a team. If people are part of that decision making process, then they are more involved, feel connected, take more ownership and responsibility for that decision and that situation. It's more like a teaching faculty of sharing power and a shared purpose. I really enjoy mentoring and supporting other teachers. It gives me great pleasure to see them grow and actualize their fullest potential in their own unique way. Some of the leadership qualities that I think are important is to speak with authenticity, to trust oneself, to stand with integrity, to really show up and be present, to lead with heart, offer compassion and encouragement, hold up the mirror and challenge fearlessly at times when necessary, be grounded, have a strong back and open chest. I feel one has to walk the talk really, live and embody these qualities in order to inspire others to creatively, innovative, genuine change and help others to really shine and find that shared purpose and connect with each other deeply. So thank you for listening.


So I think there's a component of critical reflection on folks who are working in the food movement to look at how both personally and organizationally the ways that we behave, the ways we operate, the attitudes that we hold may carry hallmarks of repression that we're not aware of. So that's really one of the first steps. And then the second step I think is around committing vocally, boldly to the kind of principles that food sovereignty organizations advocate, which really are systems challenging principles and cause discomfort. They cause discomfort for those of us who are benefiting from the current way that the system works. And if we want to change that system so that it is actually equitable, we have to be able to profess those principles and then figure out how we act on them in both individual and corporate ways. We have to begin the practice of critically examining how systems of power and oppression work in our society, on both interpersonal and cultural institutional levels, and owning the ways that we participate in that. It's a hard thing to do. Again, it's uncomfortable, can bring up all sorts of feelings of guilt, and it's the foundation of systems change. We can't do that without really looking at the values and principles and assumptions that are operative in our world and changing it from the roots in order to create a different kind of system.


Thank you for keeping us company and if you just tuned in, this is why 254 discussion Monday where tonight we are focusing on the office of the Inspector General of Police and we remember just last week we saw President Uhuru Kenyatta appoint Hilary Mutyambay to the office of Inspector of General of Police and now we want to see what will this man be doing once in office with me in studio is Anaklet Don and Gonjiri Karyuki both are political analysts we will be having a quite a nosome discussion tonight and just to bring to your attention or to acknowledge the office of the IG is established under article 254 of the Kenya's constitution and section 8 of the National Police Act number 11 of 2011 and constitutionally the IG holds the overall and independent command of the entire National Police Service and now my first question gentleman is do you support the appointment of Hilary Mutyambay to the office of the IG? Karyuki Hilary thank you and good evening to the viewers of course the appointment of let me begin by first congratulating the former Inspector General Jay Boynett and the Inspector General has served his statutory roles and leadership roles to the best of his ability and I think as a nation we have been able to see changes in the wake of what has been happening in the country we have had so many threats we have also heard the reforms in the National Police Service which we'll be looking at actually yes then let me anchor also the unveiling of Mr Hilary Mutyambay as of advantage to Kenyans because he brings a lot of expertise in areas of antterrorism as well as what is called security management and operational management which have been able to see he acquired in the United Kingdom so that one tells you that he is fit for the job so all right I would precisely affirm the president's choice and as you can see it seems that the president has a lot of confidence in people from the National Intelligence Service of course citing examples like the Director of Public Prosecutions Nudin Haji the ASCC CEO Mr Tualib Mbarak so that one gives you an idea that the president has a lot of faith in the National Intelligence Service so I support all right don't you support briefly to begin with I think I'd want to first start by congratulating Hilary before I even talk about the Homa Haji I really think that Hilary brings a lot of experience it's part of the I just say the position but again I'm also taking of the opportunity to really wish well they would go in Haji Mr Boynett also congratulating him for your current appointment but I really think that President Kenyatta the appointment of Hilary by the president could not have come at a better time we know that the nation just came over last in this January from the district attacks and actually we really still the nation is still shaking in terms of the information with terror and whatever so I really think that yeah the president really taken away from all right so the objectives of the National Police Service one of them is to strive for the highest standards of professionalism among its members now would you say for the last four years when we had Joseph Boynett they are going would you say the police forces have displayed the professionalism in them and say yes but with the pinch of salt when we have seen a lot of action from the police to begin with the positives we've seen the actions even when we had terrorism activities in 2013 just this year is still fresh in our minds the police took an active stage they really did a good amount of work but actually I would also wish to question my thoughts on the same going by a lot of complaints on police brutality harassment of the general public and the runaway corruption especially when it comes to traffic police I really think that if I was to rate and say Mr Boynett's work is at 40 percent all right gojiri what would you say about the office of the IG for the last four years in terms of professionalism and discipline among the members of the forces to begin with Hilary Lemmy start from where we began and the establishment of the national police service you remember that under the new constitution the past the past IG was Mr David Kimayu who later resigned and to answer your question while we hail and acknowledge and appreciate the efforts that have been made by the inspector general of police former we cannot ignore the challenges that have been there in the police service yes the inspector general of police has been able to trickle his authority down and trying to compel discipline among the police force and I hope now it is going to change to a police service as it has always been dreamed but again this is not to mean that the national police service has not had its own challenges you have had cases of the police service being accused of extra judicial killings you have had cases of the police service being accused of corruption so we acknowledge that yes the IG has been able to move the national police service from where it was formally when IG came I resigned I agree that to move forward and now with the incoming Mr Hilalemutiyabai he will be able to take over and as we said issues of community policing issues of border patrol issues of administrative functions and etc etc all right now another objective of the police national police service that is is to prevent corruption and promote and practice transparency and accountability we have had issues and stories of how police especially the traffic and even the crime unit where you talk to Kedogama when the station and the other one is Utalalandani these things have continued now do you think the incoming IG will make sure there will not be such cases and if there is because this will not change overnight there there has to be some transition now don't you think the incoming will be able to trim down this thing uh yes I I think I really want to take a key note when Mr Hilalemutiyabai prerends himself before the parliament approval committee I really wish to listen to how it want to tackle especially the issue of discipline when it comes to corruption by the forces themselves it's going to be a challenge we have to admit that it's going to be a very huge challenge for Mr Hilalemutiyabai but I also still believe that if we can instill integrity uh when once we do the recruitment during the trainings and I'm I'm still very confident in Mr Hilalemutiyabai going by the work he has done as the deputy director the counterterrorism unit going by the numerous trainings the guy has I really trust that he is able his ability in dealing with the forces cannot be matched but again we need to admit the fact that uh when it comes to matters to do with the corruption matters to do in self integrity this trickles down to an individual and generally not the forces as per se so I really believe that we need to instill this discipline starting from when we recruit the forces we need to tell them what to do and again we need to speed up prostitution and civil administration of cases that we have in court spending especially when it comes to administrative police all right we will look at the police reforms but before then gonduri another objective of the police national police service is to train their staff to the highest possible standards of competence and integrity and most of all respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms we have seen how our police behaved during the election that is 2017 and even before then we have seen how they behave with uh the public during demonstrations and we've we're talking about the police brutality uh we have had cases of murder abduction and murder which you actually mentioned uh earlier as we began our in discussion tonight and then we have had cases when they go to court there we hear there was no evidence so we are wondering what is happening to uh our DCI unit or why would they prosecute someone if they don't have enough evidence so would you say the police or the office of the IG the incoming IG will ensure the integrity and the competence that has been laid will be seen to the letter well one of the efforts that has been made by the outgoing IG Mr Jay Boynett is to restructure the training and educational let me call it educational in this context the training architecture of the police remember he has tried to reform that and as you alluded competence is of importance even with the with the rise of new laws in the country so the police must cease to be looked at as a liability to Muwananchi and that one comes brings to the fore the issues of the police being trained to be uh pro friendly to the to the to the general public Gen Mr Mutiyabai the already appointed IG has a lot of tasks to do right in fact as he takes over from Boynett one of the issues that I expect him to make sure is implemented is the issue of community policing a situation whereby a citizen will be comfortable to share information with the police and even the the the the issue of taking police to estates is also of great importance because that is where now we start uh conversing between citizens and the police so I believe Mr Hilali Mutiyabai having gotten a lot of training from Israel and the United Kingdom in operational and security management as well as and terrorism education I believe that he will bring his knowledge and he'll be able to coordinate all this just to complement this we don't really need to forget that they are the structural and organizational reforms that were announced by President Kenyatta just last year so as Hilali gets into office he really needs to start by implementing the structural and organizational reforms we just saw the abolition of the OCPD the OCS from the the stations we we had I think the AP is merged with the police system so I really think that before we even magnify the the the task of the job that he has at hand we need to start by looking at the structural reforms even before we go deep into the integrity issues with the police I really think that the reforms that are coming in are really coming in at the very right time especially for the police force when it comes to police brutality do you think the I poor and the the office of the IG for the last maybe four years do you think they have been working in a good relation because we have seen police being protected and also the public us being saved you were on the wrong yeah let's be honest because this is a honest conversation well we have seen efforts even from I poor to make independent investigations sometimes and this is of human nature we see people trying to protect their own I would not uh and the right to the fact that the police service the national police service has at times claimed that the police are never involved in what we accused of yes they deny and deny and deny and so we have seen efforts yes but again let us be honest the I poor has and and you know the police has all the mechanisms to either hide evidence or be open right so I poor has tried to do their job but we have had some cover up in the police service without even mentioning cases so we must have an honest we have we must have an honest conversation and agree that human beings sometimes tend to be dishonest and this is a they are not justified to do so but they do it but they do it all right let's finalize with the police reforms that were mentioned towards the last the last days of last year and now for the last four years the national police service has been on trajectory reforms and has undergone tremendous changes in improving service delivery to Kenyans and one of them was equipping the police unit with vehicles and equipment that they need to ensure they deal with the modern crimes one the other thing was about them now the health insurance we had the housing allowances commuter allowances among others now these goodies that have been brought brought to the police unit or the service do you think it one it's one of the things that you make our police now be reformed and ensure if assuming if they are getting 50,000 and you go with them with a package of 20 trying to corrupt them they will be honest enough and say no you are in the wrong and I'm booking you do you think we will have a unit that will be so sure that no corruption will take place because I have money I'm being paid well by my government should I be corrupt to begin with I'll still go back to the original statement I began this discussion with I really think that when it comes to integrity corruption matters this are normally based on somebody's psychology what the level of discipline within which you want to treat as a human being secondly I'd wish to say that with the reforms that the structure the both the structure and the organizational reforms that are coming up with the police service soon if well implemented they'll bring one thing they'll boost the morale of the officers this guy is undergo a lot of issues out here even before we come back to what happens with them within the trainings they get a lot of issues and normally every human being needs to be motivated so I think that when it comes to the welfare of the police it would be great that their welfare is well taken care of all right yeah so the reforms are good and I think they'll at least add some value in service you respond to that because it is said they will be coming to stay with us in our estates it's a proposal how do you feel living with the police officer next door yeah of course I would be very comfortable because I know that I'm secure in my area of residence but again let's tackle it from the perspective that they are going to be facilitated and you know in the estates the kind of livelihood that is there would not allow them to live to the standards of a human being comparing their salaries to the demands of making a livelihood that is indeed human are you think they are paid poorly yeah yeah right now yeah sure yeah of course right now they are they are paid poorly yeah yeah the police and that really brought the corruption is on the road yeah yeah and again I would wish that the incoming inspector general of police Mr. Hirali would start a conversation and ignite a renewed effort to make sure that they begin with SRC because this is where the problem is if a policeman is getting 20,000 for example or 30,000 that is just a constant way let them be given house allowances right that can be able and you remember these people also have families so I tend to imagine those ones that will come and live in towns right the kind of livelihood that they are subjected to community policing will be of great importance and I would I would actually support it because that one will bring the issue of cohesion between Kenyans and the police and this one now will bring the issue of citizens being comfortable to share any information that is of threat to the national security so I think that it is a good thing and the police ought to be motivated in a very nice way because they are the ones who protect us they should I would have loved us to continue the conversation but unfortunately we are out of time many things for coming gentlemen and sharing your opinion coming up next is Waimasha Riki and you want to stay tuned and know who will be their host tonight they have been my guest Donna Nakulit and Karyuki Ngunjuri I will be seeing you on sports of Friday so keep it why to fight for my name is Dereva Hillary have a good night thank you so much


Thanks to Flash cartridges, we can enjoy pretty much any Super Nintendo game on the original hardware. But some of us still enjoy having the games. Nothing wrong with that. The only problem is, a lot of them are really freaking expensive. So I thought I'd put together a video of games that are $10 or less. The resource I'm using is the video game's price charting website, which tracks how much the games go for on eBay. There's a link in the video description. I realize it's not a perfect resource because some of the data gets skewed thanks to lots being sold and shipping costs, but it's really all I have to go by. Well, that and first-hand experience of looking for games myself. Bear in mind these games aren't all exactly the greatest, like you'll never see lagoon in a top 20 games list for example, or a top 50 list for that matter, but it's still decent enough especially for its price. I'll start with platformers. TinyToon Adventures is a perfectly solid game from Konami, so you know it's decently put together. I've seen this game for as cheap as $5, which would normally imply that it sucks, right? Especially since it's based off a TV show, and those games are almost never good. The TinyToon Adventures bucks the trend, with solid mechanics, and some little gameplay innovations here and there. Next, there's PLOCK, a very bright and colorful platformer featuring a thing with disembodied fists and feet that he throws at things. He looks kind of spastic, but the controls are actually very precise, which makes this game fun. Phantom 2040 is a nice contrast to PLOCK, much darker looking and more of an emphasis on exploration and movement. If you like the super Metroid style of gameplay, then you'd like this game. The only crappy thing about Phantom 2040 is there's no battery save, only a password, which is 48 characters long. Krusty Super Funhouse is a simple puzzle platformer, the idea is to lure mice out of Krusty's house into a trap. Okay, the platforming aspect is pretty uninspired, but I did enjoy the puzzle solving. True Lies. Yeah, that's right, based off the Arnold movie, it's rare when you see a movie based game that's actually decent, especially in the 90s, but this one is shockingly decent. The gameplay is simple as you can see from the footage here, you make your way around and just blow stuff up, with a variety of weapons and power-ups. Last but not least, there are the Super Star Wars games. All three are solid, playable and cheap, but Jesus, they are hard as hell. I've never actually beaten any of these games, and I doubt I ever will. Still, they do a great job representing the Star Wars universe, and it's always fun to shoot stuff with a blaster like Han, or use the spinning lightsaber attack with Luke. For shoot'em ups, Gradius III is always cheap, yeah, it's got some bad slow down problems, but it's fundamentally sound otherwise and the power-up system is fun. The Super Earth Defense Force is another perfectly decent shoot'em up. Eight different weapons to choose from is a fun feature. The drawback with this game is the lack of checkpoints, making the game annoyingly difficult, but still, for the money, it's perfectly okay. For beat'em ups, I'm always going to be partial to Final Fight. I did a review of this one a long while back. It's always super cheap, and it's got such great sound, you want to play it just for the satisfying sound of smashing someone with a huge pipe. X-Men Mutant Apocalypse is another solid beat'em up game made by Capcom. I really have no idea why this game is so cheap because it's very good. I like the Mega Man-styled aspect of having a different mutant for each stage, and I like the implementation of street-fire-styled controls for each mutant power. Definitely check this one out. Fighting games are always super cheap, so you can afford to stick with the classics like Street Fighter II Turbo and Killer Instinct. Simple enough. Same philosophy applies to strategy games as well. Stick with the classics like SimCity and Pilot Wings, but if you're feeling adventurous, check out Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV, Wall of Fire. It's a turn-based strategy game where you apply RPG-styled stats to your officers, ranging from diplomacy to, uh, lightning bolts. There's six scenarios you can play through with tons of customization. Really it's probably the best turn-based strategy game on the Super Nintendo, and it's super cheap. Puzzle games are always cheap as well. Really you can't ever go wrong with Tetris Attack, which is a neat twist on the usual Tetris formula, having to rearrange sequences into threes as they scroll up instead of fall down.  This function has fun multiplayer games as well. And obviously sports games are always, always cheap. And there's always about 80 gazillion of them available at any retro gaming store. So I'm just gonna mention the same four games that I always do. Ken Griffey Jr. presents Major League Baseball, NHL 94, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, and Tecmo Super Bowl. You can't go wrong with these four. For typical arcade-style racing, there's Top Gear, which is sharp and colorful and does an impressive job of conveying a sense of speed. For combat racing, if you don't want to dole out the money from Mario Kart, then I'd recommend Battle Racers for the Super Famicom. It reminds me a bit of F-Zero, but with power-ups. Granted, it takes a while to actually identify which power-up is which, but it's still a cheap alternative to stuff like Mario Kart. Keep in mind this is a different game from Muddy Morphin Power Rangers, Battle Racers. This is simply Battle Racers for the Super Famicom. Now for adventure games under $10. You gotta venture into some murky territory here. These games are extremely hit and miss. And a good example is Lagoon. Good graphics and good artwork, and the music is nice, but the story is extremely cliched and pretty boring, and some of the bosses are impossible, especially since the game doesn't let you use magic against them. What? What is that? You have a frustratingly short attack range too, but the game really isn't that terrible. It's average. And for the purposes of this list, I'll recommend it. If you want to do better than average, you're gonna have to raise your threshold to at least $15 or $20, so you can include games like Equinox, also known as Solstice 2, if you remember Solstice for the NES. It's a perfectly solid game, albeit a difficult one that's hard to get into at first, but it's your typical adventure fare. Walk around and fight stuff, solve puzzles, beat the boss, and rescue whoever. It's got its flaws, like the shaky hit detection, but it's pretty good for the price. Similarly with RPGs, all the cheap ones pretty much suck. Your best bet under $10 is gonna be Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, but then that game was designed for people who are brand new to the RPG genre, so it's kind of lacking to say the least. The cheapest of the more classic style Super Nintendo RPGs is probably Breath of Fire. That usually goes between $25 and $30. The game is a bit outdated with a crazy amount of random battles, but it's a beautiful-looking game, and the battle system is pretty typical for the time, which is a good thing. It's a solid representation of the early 90s RPG, if that's what you're looking for. All right, there you go. That's about 25 decent Super Nintendo games under $10, and a few more if you're willing to spend a bit more. Thanks for watching. As always, I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Hello and good evening. Welcome to Adafruit Show and Tell. I'm Liz and I will be hosting tonight. If you would like to join the stream to show up your projects, you can find a link in the live broadcast channel in our Discord server, which is available at adafruit.it-slash-discord. First, we're going to kick things off with my friends at Adafruit, and then we will hear from folks from the community. So first, let's hear from Jeff. Hello. So it's going well. I picked up some Z80 computers last month. This is a Xerox 810 motherboard. And up here are two chips. The capacity of each of those chips is two kilobytes of flash storage. And that's like the only storage built into this thing. And it's enough to like boot the operating system. But this was designed to work with a dedicated CRT monitor, of which I only have one and I've got three of these boards. So I'm like, I want to change it so that I can use it just with the serial ports, of which it has two on the back and then a keyboard connector. So I made a circuit Python EEPROM programmer with a Raspberry Pi Pico, and it can program those 2K chips that this board requires. And it's actually a pretty simple process. The original version of EEPROMs had to be erased by a UV light. And then you had to hook them up with not only 5 volts, but like a 12 volt or 16 volt supply. And then with the 2816s, the electrically erasable ones, all you need is 5 volts. And so this is powered off of 5 volts. And then because it's a parallel EEPROM, there's like 12 address lines and 8 data lines and 4 control lines. And the circuit Python program just, you know, puts out a byte and issues the puts out a byte and an address and says right. And does that 2048 times. And you pop the chip out. Whoops, that will go back together. You pop the chip out and put it in the board and see if it works. And you repeat that until your program does something. And that's what I'm doing right now. Very cool. But anyway, I will put a link to the gist with the code for that in the Discord if anybody's interested in programming EEPROMs with circuit Python. Excellent. Thanks so much, Jeff. I'm sure a lot of people will find that to be really handy. All right. Well, that's what I'm up to. Nice. All right. Have a good night. You as well. Next, we're going to go to John. Hey. Hey. So great. I'm so excited about what Jeff was just showing because I have this game on NES. It was written for NES. And I bought it. It was written recently. I bought it just as a ROM. And I really want to play it on an actual NES. And I've been looking into like EEPROM programmers for Nintendo cartridges. And maybe Jeff's thing will be the secret. Yeah. Because they can usually be these really specialized things. Right. There's these $200 gizmos. And I'm not like going into the cloning business. So I just want to do it once. So this, this, this could be a fortuitous. So excited about that. Speaking of gaming stuff, the thing I've been working on a little bit has been progressing. And it is this switch cameras here. It is this wild and wacky controller, which is a PlayStation one controller. And from kind of here down, it looks an awful lot like PlayStation except flattened out into kind of neat form factor. And then from here up is the very familiar wheel from the game of life. If you're familiar with the game of life board game. So this was made in Japan only. There was a game of life game and there were a few sequels to it. And Takara, the manufacturer who also does a lot of like physical toys and board games, they decided to make a specialized controller for it, which is wild. It is a rotary encoder, optical encoder. So this just spins and then there's a little light transmitter receiver package there. And I've been working on figuring out the best way to basically find the right library in the right language to be able to use this as a really rapid clicker. So I've got a wacky little PlayStation circuit Python controller library sort of working. It has some issues, but the most important thing is I've got it working with USB HD now to send mouse clicks every time it registers the dial spinning.  I'm playing some clicker game. There's a billion of these things out there. This one's on itch.io. I don't even know what its name is. No title. Simple game for Game Jam. Smash the red button. And you're supposed to actually press it at a particular moment, but I don't care about that. What I really just care about right now is super rapid clicking. So when I spin the wheel, I get bazillions of clicks. I get something like 16 per second or something like that. I'm not going to win this game because I don't really know how it works. It'll go either direction because this is just the same. It doesn't have two encoders or different shapes marking so it doesn't know which way you're going. So you couldn't use it for Pong or anything like that, but it is a lot of fun for super rapid clicking and that's the progress on that. So if that's useful to someone, anyone, I will probably put this up in a quick guide. It is running on a Pico, Raspberry Pi Pico here with CircuitPython. It is also a general purpose library for these controls. So any of these controls will do things. I just have them sending HID letters right now. I suspect this could also be useful, however, for the turbo button that some third party controllers have because being able to grab those super fast messages of clicks is beyond what a person could press with their finger is sort of what we're dealing with here. So that's the weird and wild thing I'm up to. Excellent. You always have the funky interfaces. This was Phil Theron. Phil Theron was like, hey, look at this weird thing I found online. Get one, see if you can use it. So I love weird controllers. That's great. Well, thanks so much, JP. Have a good one. Okay, next we'll hear from Scott. Hey, Scott, how's it going? Hello. I'm pretty good. I'm in the middle of debugging. Can you tell from my face? A little bit. But I'm not debugging what I wanted to show. So Jeff and I had this back and forth. I had this idea that I wanted like a mounting plate for STEMI QT and feather boards. And I did this grid pattern where it's just 0.1 inch holes that are like 0.2 inches apart. That's great, except that some of them are some of the holes on the boards are even are an odd number of 0.1 distances away. Yeah. And that's why you can see here that like the feathers only on two sides. And then Jeff came up with this really cool kind of swirl pattern that basically connects some holes together that gives you some flexibility to like adjust them. So what I have here on my screen share is a 3D view of KeyCAD. So this is KeyCAD's rendering of this board. And the more is going to order a prototype. But Jeff came up with this little bit of a swirl pattern. It gives you more flexibility on how you place everything on there. And I was very excited about it. It looks really cool. And I wrote a generator today to do this board generation. So you can do, you can tell it like it's five high and ten wide. And this board ends up being the same size as the one I showed, which is three inches by six inches. Okay. But this version, the version, the future version will be a lot more flexible in terms of positioning. Now it's not going to obviously give you a full 0.1 inch grid, but it will give you ejected the numbers. And you can at least put some feathers on it. And you can get a little creative if you need to too. So wrote the generator here. The pattern repeats every 0.6 inches. So that's kind of what these, the silk screen is showing. And I've actually added coordinates is here as well. So if we ever have like learn guides that people are talking about, like where does it go? Like here we've got coordinates for it. And the back sides also got the same coordinates on it as well. That's really cool. The first thing I thought of when you and Jeff were showing the stuff is I'm constantly having to design like mounting plates for the project guys. I do. So if we had something like this, like I could save so much time just being like, I can just attach with these screws here and not have to worry about the layout or anything. So that's, yeah, totally. And especially for me where I'm like very not mechanical, having like a generic mounting board, it will be really helpful as well. The reason I was thinking about this, I had this vision of making a, like Euro rack like modular thing based on symbiote. So you would have a control surface that was built on top of a board like this that then would control symbiote under the hood. So you'd have the same interactions you would have with a regular Euro rack, but it wouldn't be doing audio. It would just be detecting like how things are plugged in and what the settings are and stuff like that. And this is kind of like the base plate for, for building the spoke interfaces. And that's something that search Python is really good for. So I'm excited to see what people make with it. Excellent. Well, thanks so much Scott. And I look forward to hopefully using this grid in the future. I know me too. Yeah. Thanks Liz. All right. Have a good one. All right. Next we are going to hear from Eva. Hey Eva. Hey. How are you? Good, how are you? Good. Good. Let's see. I'm going to try to set my screen share up. Okay. Yeah. So I have been working on this. During this project for the last few weeks, it is a Laura messenger that integrates the signal. Excellent. And it has the option to be encrypted. Obviously I would never encrypt that because I'd be breaking the law and. Yes. Yeah. So you can do a few things with it. So first I'll explain like what's kind of going on here. We have these two UIs on the left and this on the right is my signal window. This one is the, this is just a, one of the RFM RP2040s that is, it's just connected to my computer. Okay. This is one that is connected to my computer and I have both of these. And this one is also connected with signal. So what I can do is I can just right here. I can write that I'm sending that from signal and it'll, it'll take a few seconds. I'll see it. Yeah. Yeah. So then it gets this here and it sends it here and these are both two separate, two separate microcontrollers. And then if I want to go here, I can send it again. And I can send this to signal. And after, after a few seconds, sometimes it likes me to resend it. Yep. And it should be sending just now. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. So that's about it. That's super cool. That's going to be so handy for folks. Yeah. Thanks. And this is going to be a guide coming up soon. Yeah. I should have, I'm hopefully going to try to get the guide done by the end this week. Excellent. Thanks. Cool. All right. Well, thanks so much for coming by and have a good night. You too. Bye. Bye. All right. And that looks like it's going to do it for show and tell tonight. Thanks everyone for coming by with your projects in about 18 minutes. Right here is going to be Ask Engineer with PT and LeMore. So stay tuned for that. And until next time, keep working on your projects. Bye.