Gonna be a little bit of a different video today. I'm gonna talk out some market related stuff and then I wanna use the rest of the video as a Q&A from the viewers. So let's start with a couple of house cleaning things. Number one is we are actually running a sale. This is gonna be for a limited amount of days and a limited amount of spaces. We are discounting our annual membership by $300 to $1590. It's the lowest it's ever been ever and we are discounting our lifetime membership by $1,000. So if you are interested in upgrading or signing up, you can hit up Tosh or you can sign up with the link that I'm gonna put in the bottom of this video. Now is actually the right time to start learning because when the stock market is taking, when the media is freaking out, when everyone's going crazy, you really have no idea what to do, right?  Well at MIC, we're still making money, right? We're trading, we're shorting, we're betting against companies, we're making money when stocks go down. So now is actually the perfect time to start investing in your education because with the quarantine, with everyone staying at home, you have some extra time to study and learn and while everyone is freaking out about the markets, while everyone has no idea what to do, you should learn how to take advantage of this opportunity in the markets because you have to learn how to maintain the gains you have, make sure that you don't lose the gains that you already have and learn new strategies, man, like shorting. So we're running the sale for a couple days only with a couple spaces only. So if you are interested, you can hit up Tosh whose number is<PHONE_NUMBER> or you could click the link on the bottom side up. All right, so a couple other things. Let's talk about the market right now, right? So I mean, everyone knows that the market is tanking. I have all my friends and all my family hitting me up, asking me if it's the right time to invest. Everyone is apparently a virus expert now. Everyone is an expert on interest rates. Everyone thinks they know everything. But the truth of the matter is this, the market hates uncertainty, right? The reality is that we have no idea what's really going on, at least I have no idea what's really going on, right? So because of that, because of that, businesses are closing down, right? So let's, let's kind of go through it, right? Airlines are not getting people to come fly. A flight from New York to Miami is usually three to $400. It's $30 now. No one is flying restaurants. No one is going to the stores and eating because they're afraid of getting the virus.  So this is actually real.  So we don't know, we don't know the actual outcome of how much, how long this is going to last. Is it going to last a couple of weeks? Is it going to last a couple of months? Is it going to last a couple of years, right? When are people going to feel comfortable to leave the house again? My parents do not want to leave the house, right? My mom is stocking up on hand sanitizer. She's stocking up on food. She's stocking up on toilet paper because she doesn't know when this is going to end. And that's how most Americans are. They're hearing all this stuff. The media is scaring them. They're all selling their stocks. They're going to the banks. They're withdrawing cash. Everyone's just having a mass, mass panic, right? And until that kind of subsides, the market is going to continue lower, right? So the tips that we could kind of use to stay safe in this market is to rather than look for the bounce on these names, we should start betting on some of these names to go down when the bounces fail, right? So for example, a lot of people don't know what shorting is. A lot of people think shorting is illegal. They have no idea how it works, but basically you bet against these companies and you make money when the stocks go down. So when you have this mass pandemonium, like the airlines, the cruise lines, the restaurants, Nike said they're closing their stores in the United States. Well, rather than just sitting there and waiting for a bounce, you could take advantage of these opportunities and short them. That's where Brian, that's where Joe, that's where Sam comes in. They run the large cap room and they make sure that they kind of educate everyone on the best strategies there. So when people think MIC is just for small caps, we actually have a very active large cap and options room as well. So again, this market is scary. This market moves on headlines. The market was up 1,000 points on Friday and down 2,000 points today. Every single day, there's new cases are coming out. So you have to be educated.  If you hold overnight, you're dead. I suggest not holding stocks overnight.  There's the Federal Reserve made interest rates as zero and that tanked the market when it should have saved the market.  So there's so much uncertainty out there. So there's no reason to look for the bottom in this market. Instead, learn new ways how to make money. So that's kind of what I want to talk about at the bear market. I know that a lot of viewers have a lot of questions as well. If you have a question, I'm sure someone else has a similar question. So please post it in the chat and we'll start getting on it now. Again, this is kind of going to be something new. I want to do a viewer's Q&A because I talk about a bunch of stuff every single day, but I want to kind of see what the common questions you guys have. Or are you guys feeling safe? Are you guys buying long term? Are you guys learning how to do new things? This is really the perfect time to learn, man. This is really, really, if you've been on the fence or you have no idea what you're doing, now is the time to learn because when people are panicking, that creates opportunity for us traders. So any questions, guys? Put it in the chat and we will go over it together.  But yeah, guys, do you guys have any questions about trading the market overall? What do you guys think? How hard is it to locate shares to short? Well, it depends on the broker. If you're using a TD Ameritrade or an E-Trade, chances are you're not going to get shares to short. But if you're using a specialized broker, like the ones we recommend like Cobra, not only are you getting a commission discount of 25%, you are also getting the best locates and sometimes for free. Can you talk more about options closes? I mean, we have a whole series on options called Options Basics. It's free for our members. So if you have any questions about options, you can look at that. Been in MIC for a while, feels super lost. What would you suggest to study on? So if you're a brand new trader and you just joined MIC, what you should do is start with the trading basics videos and then work your ways into bowels daily recaps and the trading fish academy. And the way that I explained to people is just like watching a good movie. The first time you watch it, you're going to miss a bunch of the details, but the more you watch it, the more you're going to see the small Easter eggs in there. What is the limit up? Is this new? First bounce play less likely to happen because the markets are so bearish. Yeah, actually. So let me actually mention one more thing about these bear markets, right? So the way that what happens during a bear market is that in a bull market, we have a lot of stocks that gap up every day on news. Stocks are gaping up 30, 40, 50%, three, four, five of them a day. But in a bear market, you are getting less stocks than are ramping up because people are afraid to be buying in markets like this. And I have not traded in a bear market bow has and I've learned a lot from him between the stories that he's been saying. So I actually understand that the key to these markets, again, is to nail and bail. There's not going to be much opportunity out there. And rather than looking for more long opportunities, I'm going to be looking for more short opportunities adding against companies because that's kind of an edge right now that not a lot of people know about, right? A lot of people in the market right now, a lot of people are CNBC are talking about buying the dip, buying the dip, buying dip, whereas the smarter people are looking to short the bounce. And that's where the opportunity is and that's what you need to learn about. Questions, guys? Again, these are really, really crazy times at the market right now. We've had three halts on the spy in the past, I think week and a half, right? So these are really crazy times.  The market might go green today and might tank again. So I mean, at the end of the day, our goal is to wait for these stocks to tank and short the bounce. So the same thing with spy, wait for it to tank and short the bounce. The zombie rules apply for bear market. Yeah, look at OPGM today. You can see the zombie rule worked perfectly. With a low hanging fruit, ideally we want to see a gap down from previous closest short to the resistance, right? So what we want to do on a low hanging fruit is on day one, the stock has tanked, right? Let's say the stock went from $3 to $2 on day one. What we want on day two is for the stock to have a dead cap bounce and us to short that dead cap bounce because people from day one are still stuck as one of my favorite setups, the low hanging fruit. And it's a setup that Bow actually kills it on. How do you choose your trade? Do you often trade pre-market or wait for a perfect setup? So, I mean, I talk about my process in literally, literally every single video. This is probably the only video that I haven't talked about it in it. But basically what my process is, I wake up early in the morning, I look at which stocks are gapping up and which stocks are gapping down. I look at the news, I look at the filings, I look at the chart, plot my entries, plot my exits, get my fantasy orders ready, place them right before the market open, wait for them to execute and then take it from there. That is the safest, cleanest way to do all this stuff. But I never just wing it. I never say I'm gonna short here and buy here because that's my target. My short is always at the resistance level. My cover is always at the support level and I just keep it simple like that. I don't create arbitrary numbers, where to cover, where to do this, where to do that, because that doesn't make any sense. A lot of people are fearful in these markets, guys. A lot of people don't know what to do. You have to ask yourself, did you lose more than $180 today? Did you lose more than $1,000 today in trading? If the answer is yes, it's probably time to invest in your education and give yourself a shot. Because again, the price of the MIC will not be this cheap ever again. But keep in mind that while everyone is panicking, while everyone is quarantined, while everyone has no idea what to do, it's your time to take advantage. And again, if you have any questions, you could text Tosh<PHONE_NUMBER>. Is it worth getting into trading at this specific time?  I love when people panic, man.  It's all the people that don't know what they're doing, right? More questions, guys. Again, you have me right here waiting to answer your questions. Don't be shy because if someone has a question, they probably have, if you have a question, someone else probably has the same question. Do you open a position without big volume confirmation? Well, it all depends, right? So OPGN this morning, I put in my watch list that 370 was the resistance level that I want to short out. The stock went to 375 or 380 and then pulled back down to like 320. Now that was the trade.  If you get greedy, if you over trade, if you trade past 1030, you see that the stock is zombied up and limited up to the upside. So the plans that we give every day, so let me actually talk about that as well. So if you don't know what we do at MIC is I post my daily watch list every single day. We give you my plan, my strategy, everything that we could to kind of help accelerate your learning curve. So every single morning I go and I do the research. Every single morning I do the technical analysis. Every single day I put my plan out there. So there's a lot of people that kind of just join and use the plan that I lay out because at the end of the day, I am doing all the work for you in the morning so you don't have to do it yourself. What most people do is they create their own plan, they compare it to my plan in the morning, they adjust, they fix until they become self-sufficient enough to make the exact same plans as me. Is during the day, but your Slack chat is on, you have the setup and it appears you're afraid of hitting the trigger and any tips for overcoming this. Probably means that you are in too big. It also means that you probably don't have a plan in case things go wrong. Oftentimes people are afraid to pull the trigger because they are in too big or they have not planned it properly. So ask yourself if you have a plan for an entry, exit, and a stop and your size is appropriate, then that's just you being trigger shy. You have to overcome that by using small size and being used to seeing that same price tag. Gustavo, first day in chat and now time to study, they are for real. Yeah, man, thank you. Again guys, remember, Bao is one of the few people that has traded through a bear market.  So during these times of uncertainty, during these times and no one knows what's going on, it's probably good to have a mentor that traded during these times as well. I don't feel as lost. I don't feel as worried. I just know that every day is business as usual.  Any other questions guys? I like keeping these videos short and sweet because the shorter I keep them, the more people watch them. I kind of do my videos a little bit shorter whereas Bao does his a little bit longer. But yeah guys, give me some more questions. What's your thoughts on the line to try and strategy the MYC teachers and does it work well with large caps? Actually, believe it or not, it works better on large caps because these algos are programmed to conform to these pivots. So once you have these lines on your chart, the algos actually follow them to the T most of the time. So on large caps, it actually works better and that's where Joe and Brian and Sam are making a killing. So we are not just focused on small caps. We are not just focused on options. We do a little bit of everything. One of our members, AK Wildlife, created an options basic series free for our members. For those of you that don't know, we have four free trading DVDs, 650 videos, one-on-one phone calls. And if that's not enough, we have I think it's 595 free videos on YouTube to cut down your learning curve even more so. I think that's it guys. So give me a couple more questions. If not, I'm going to wrap this up and go back into quarantine. Oh, so we're working on two new DVDs, by the way. One of them is a live trading DVD where I'm recording my live trades. That's I'm still working on that. Number two is we are working on an accelerated basics course. This is basically gonna be how to go from not knowing anything about trading to placing your first trade in about six hours. So we're still working on a bunch of educational content for our members. But yeah guys, like I said in the beginning of this video, we're running a sale for St. Patrick's Day. Again, annual is discounted $300. It'll never be that cheap again. Annual is discounted a thousand. And yeah, that's basically it. Most of those educational things will be free for annuals. If the monthly is wanted, it'll be like a small upcharge. I'm gonna put the link to the sale in the description or you could hit up Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I think that's it guys. If you guys have any other questions you could add me on Instagram. My DMs are always open. I get at least five or 10 DMs a day on Instagram. So please be patient with me. My Instagram is alex underscore temiz, T-E-M-I-Z. I'll answer any questions you have guys. And if you found this video helpful, please leave a comment. I'm actually the one that goes and replies to all the comments. If you guys have topics that you want me to talk about in the next video, let me know. But if we're actually on quarantine, I'm thinking about doing more than one video a week just to see if I can help you guys more. So let me know what you guys think about that. Maybe I'll do like a Monday and a Friday video or something like that. So thanks guys for watching. I will see you guys back in the room at MIC.


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Hey, this is Broughton. This 2021 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Big Horn Level B is stock number 13886Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 Ram 2500 has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. It is paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck can tow 19,956 pounds and has a max payload of 2,197 pounds. Found those on Ram's tow guide website. I'll link that in the description below. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation possible.  If you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash summit auto. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of video or vehicle and truck walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with 20 inch fuel painted and polished aluminum wheels and it has some really nice nitto ridge grappler LT28560R20 tires on here. These tires have right around 50 to 60% of the tread left on them. It has a thyrin leveling kit on it with fox shocks frame and underbody is an excellent chip. Those are TF 350G springs from thyrin on there and you can see you get that leveling brace there. This is a one owner clean title history clean car facts out of Michigan. You get the aftermarket Rex LED headlamps and running lights as well as LED fog lamps. We'll turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how nice and bright they all are. You get the front bumper parking sensors and the painted bumper group on this one. Gloss black and chrome grille. The hood is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there and you do get the cab lights up top. Passengers side front fender is in excellent condition and the passengers side wheel no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Check out this diamond black pearl coat. One of my favorite blacks on the market. It's got a lot of gold flake in it so as the light hits it it really sparkles gold. It's really a cool color. As you go down this side of this 2021 Ram 2500 take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back wheels in excellent shape as well and the back tires look like they have just a little bit more tread than the front tires. Maybe 60-65% of the tread left back here. Once again frame and underbody is exceptionally clean. You get the foc shocks in the back as well as all the remaining factory exhausts. It hasn't been altered in any way and the lower rockers and cab corners are in great shape. Comes with factory or I'm sorry lund painted step bars not factory. This one does have the 4x4 factory off-road package and LED tail lamps. That 4x4 off-road decal is just a sticker so if you didn't like it you could always take it off. Rear bumper is in great shape as well. You do get the full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and that tailgate is in fantastic condition as well. 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Smells very clean inside this truck I don't think it's ever been smoked in. Power driver's seat, factory, all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks, mirrors, cloth bolsters, wood grain trim and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power slide and rear window with the built-in rear to frost. Seats are in really nice condition.  You get storage under there you get the all-weather floor mat back here. You also get in-floor storage which is really nice. You got put ice and drinks in here these things come out also has a receiver hitch reducer in there which you can put ice and drinks in there.  Two USBs, two USB-C's and 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. 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Comes with the leather wrapped heated steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Comes with the six speed 68 rfe automatic transmission and you get these sync 8 inch 8.4 inch radio AMFM and Sirius XM radio capabilities.  You have also your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls and you can check out that backup cam though they've made those backup cams HD so really nice and crystal clear and then you can zoom in on your receiver hitch to get hooked up to your bulk camper or trailer. The first time every time you get all your different apps on here this one does have android auto apple carplay so you can project your cell phone to the screen which is really nice because this one doesn't have the nav system but you can project your phone up there and if you've got ways or google maps you can use that right on the screen. We actually did a demo on android auto on an 8.4 if you want to check that out that's in the upper right hand part of the screen so really a nice system up there push button four wheel drive, more tactile volume tune and climate controls factory brake control.  Two usb's two usb c's in an aux jack 115 volt 400 watt plug-in and you get the keyless entry with remote start right there which is a nice shape. You also get the sliding coin holder and cup holders and the dual gloveboxes right there passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition no rips or tears on there and the headliner is in fantastic condition as well map lights power sign rear window button and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems auto dimmy mirror and we'll start it up take a look under the hood. This thing's got a lot of options on it um starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this hd video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside note. You can see those recs headlights are really good looking nice and bright and they are all working fantastically. Under the hood we have a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. Engine bay is very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe to add inspector by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and tapped off there's the emission sticker and this truck is 100 ready to go. 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So we have Doug Wood coming up. Doug is Mr. VNXE, if you recall, VNXE is the super-simple kindergarten proof box that Jeremy Burton's kid demonstrated at the Megalons, John, we had him on. So that was pretty fun. Doug, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Doug, this is my partner, co-host John Furrier. Yes, that's right. So, let's see, Jeremy's son was, how old was he, John? Edward, he was in fifth grade. Fifth grader? So easy a fifth grader could do it. I think he was fifth grader, yeah. No training. He had his iPad and he was going crazy, and it was fun. We had him on in London and VNXE. It's a great new product. We want to hear all about how it's going, but let me start with it. So, why did you guys do VNXE? Where did that come from? Well, there was really a couple of different reasons to look at VNXE. The bottom line was we had a number of assets that we needed to converge into more cost-effective packages, even to go mid-tier and up. And then we had the combination of incredible growth in markets we weren't serving adequately. So we needed to combine the technology and the packaging and go after the markets where we saw the strongest growth. Yeah, you really didn't think of VMC as the company with simple storage, did you? Prior to VNXE, and of course you see in the consumerization of IT, we've got iPads and iPods and iPod touches and everything else, and it's really simplified. So, are you seeing new distribution channels for these products and how are you dealing with that as a company that's known for selling big mainframe class iron? Yeah, and I like the fact that you connect simplicity into the channel because the solution couldn't just be that we designed product for the IT generalist and it would show up. We had to go out and create a channel for the M&SMB and that same kind of simplicity would serve the needs of that channel. Simplicity that would range across the selling process, the training and certification process. Every aspect of what we could do to reduce the effort for our new partners so that they could make more money and work with EMC in a cost effective way. So it's soup to nuts simplicity. I think one of the things that was exciting about our trip to the mega launch besides the analyst event where Dave cornered Joe Tucci in the hallway and asked him what big data was, was that VNX, EMC is a big iron like company. They've been servicing storage at a high end, real complex system software, solutions, great sales force. Now they come in with Pat Gelsinger and they got this, I don't want to say low end because it's not low end, it's good product, entry level products that's very channel friendly. So this is a new area for EMC going into this channel. So that's a small medium sized business where cloud and virtualization actually is compelling. So think about like those solution partners we're talking to and the theme seems to, for me this show is that solution providers are as the big meat on the bone. Sexy sizzle is, you know, flash and Hadoop and big data. But cloud is ultimately an SMB value proposition in a big way. Can you talk about the things you're doing around channel? How's that changing your partnerships and what's the outlook? Sure, and just to connect to what you say, you know, it's one thing to talk about cloud infrastructure. It's another thing to take cloud based services and add value to small business. So I think we have an active and rich opportunity for a cloud strategy even at the low end. I mean consumerization of IT, I mean think about Google Gmail for example, people, our small business we use Gmail and other consumer cloud services. So you've got to be services with consumer-like features. So can you elaborate on that? And the business model obviously is channel based. What are you guys doing there? Yeah, absolutely. We're excited about Unisphere and its role in this overall process. Unisphere as a portal knows a lot about the needs of the storage array interfaces as well. And Unisphere can do a lot to add service, value to know the services that would best apply to your array. And those could be SaaS environments for example. I just want to say welcome back to the Justin.TV and our other syndicators out there. We have 1,700 people watching now. So you're going to hear about EMC Corporation in the channel business, which means small, medium sized business to start up entrepreneurs. Dave, we're seeing this massive change from EMC growing from the storage company to this information infrastructure coming with channel strategy, entry level products to cloud and big data. I mean it's changing the impact to the consumer side of the business. Yeah, I mean we were talking about Jeremy Burton's son using an iPad to provision a VNXE. I would imagine too, Doug, that the servicing of VNXE and the channel and the customers is different. I mean people coming in, they might want to use different touch points to interact with EMC, again known for a very high touch services culture. Can you talk a little bit about that? I mean things like chat and other innovations. How is that going? What changes have you guys made in that regard? Well we had a couple of different, I think it's driving our strategy. For one thing, this audience expected instantaneous response to service and help. They're quite capable on their own and they're as savvy as can be. So they expected our service offerings to reflect that. Secondly, in order to make sense out of a volume based product you have to take cost out of everything that would get in the way of margin and profitability. And frankly we set a goal of pulling 90% of the service costs out of that service activities around VNXE. Our early data suggests early products you consume a bit more time but we're well on track to reduce that. And that doesn't just benefit EMC, it benefits our partners. More and more of them are becoming service enabled. They make products there and make it compelling for our partners to take service as an expansion to their business and do it profitably. John had Tony Kholishan from the customer support side of EMC on. What was that John, maybe a month or two ago? He was great. He was very candid about recognizing the delivery and value proposition to the businesses has to be in these new channels. He talked about social media, he talked about the new level of transparency is emerging. These new channels, new channels being distribution channels and new channels for services. He really has a good vision of the future. I really like him. He's solid. I think that's a bright spot because you guys are, as a company, moving in, look at the message Joe Tucci is putting out there. EMC is cloud and big data and they have a lot of muscle. So now they've got good products. They keep running at the pace of change and we're seeing a massive amount of innovation. Even at the entrepreneur level but more importantly at the consultants as well. I'm seeing more new consultancies emerging that are specialists and are having specialism. I think, yeah, go ahead. I was going to say working with Tony was a pleasure. He's been involved in the process from the start and in the way I would describe the problem is from big data to small customers EMC's got your size that's what we really have to pull off. There's similarities and there's a lot of specialization in there and Tony and his team helped us understand that environment, where the cost was where the delays on service were and how we could address them aggressively. Yeah, it's interesting to watch the VNXC.  You hear a lot of talk about unified storage and simplifying IT portfolios are becoming more complex. They have in the last 20 years become more complex. I don't necessarily see that changing, although maybe people talk about well VNXC could scale in theory, maybe slap a fiber channel interface on that someday, maybe not, I don't know. But what's your take on that? Clearly the architecture can go up market and gobble more of that. I guess I'd like that as a customer. More simple, that's goodness, but what's your lens tell you there? So the reality is, if you look at Rich Napolitano's business and how it segments today from the under 75k USD sort of space that I focus on and the 75k in up that can first and focus on, these businesses are healthy, they're growing. There's a lot of opportunity to innovate but one of the things we hear loud from our customers is let's draw value up and down between both, not just from the new business that my team and I created, drive up the value of app awareness for example, but drive down the enterprise sophistication and provide it at the cost and complexity of a VNXC. So I think what you will see is a great deal of incremental commonality between VNX and VNXC and you'll still see value in the architectures that they represent today, whether it be a unified integrated model that VNXC is built on and it will drive up and down but also the VNX in its unified modular approach which offers uncommon scale and availability. So I would think about the two as architectural choices over time for the same software with a lot of commonality. Well I think the two key is I mean as I say, storage portfolios are getting more granular, more complex but at the same time the challenge is and you'll hear there's John from chat is to make storage invisible and make it so that we don't have to worry about what's underneath and then people like us can debate people in the storage industry can debate well is my product more unified at the end of the day the customer wants simplicity, they want that storage to be hidden essentially, don't they? Yes, absolutely and we did a lot of research on that, we focused in that area and we heard a lot about what causes a server based small business for example where it needs to make decisions that are disruptive to their overall thought process even their knowledge base and a lot of times it was scale or it was the need to virtualize or is the need to consolidate and in all those different cases VNXE through Unisphere sought to take storage out of the equation what if that step, that tipping point wasn't so disruptive and they could continue in natural language or in the language of their applications to bring on board the capacity and the solutions they need so instead of becoming a DBA or a storage administrator they could remain an IT generalist and be quite competent to manage and leverage enterprise class solutions We're talking to Doug Wood VP of Entry Systems of EMC Entry Systems of EMC used to be a $90,000 Clarion and now it's a VNXE and great Doug having you on the Cube and talking to you really appreciate your insights Thank you so much


Thank you. You can call me Crystorella. It's okay. I will respond to that So, I don't know if you remember the default WordPress tagline just another WordPress site. So this kind of is just another rest API talk But I thought that sounded lame so it's not just another rest API talk I Am Kristen Simons At Crystorella on Twitter The real Crystorella on Instagram because I held out and then I lost my name I am a happiness engineer working for automatic mainly supporting WordPress.com Yes, thank you. There are a few automaticians here this weekend. It's great. I Am one of two automaticians currently living in Sydney Sadly, you can't see the other ones avatar. It's like stuck behind me there and So just an overview of where we're going today So I'm going to talk a bit about what a rest API is so WordPress isn't the only thing that has a rest API it's a More specific thing and then what is the WordPress rest API a bit of history about it who is currently using it? How you can use it? Some ideas and a couple of examples So what is a rest API? It's not about resting or napping or anything like that And API is an application programming interface So it's a way for different applications different websites to talk to each other and It the phrase rest was coined by Roy Roy Fielding in his dissertation in 2000 It stands for representational state transfer so basically, you've got a text representation of something information and You can transfer that You can get the information You can manipulate manipulate the information through the API So what makes a API restful as opposed to not restful six specific things One is that it needs to be stateless So that kind of means that it doesn't matter if it's your first request or your fifth request That API doesn't care it also doesn't rely on previous information So an example of a not stateless task is like a form or a survey where you You know, you have to go through each page in turn The statelessness of the rest API means that you don't do that You send all the information in one go and you get information back It should be cacheable That's kind of self-explanatory You guys don't need to worry about that Ryan needs to worry about that when he's making the API It should have a uniform interface So that means that a URI or a URL Identifies the thing the resource that you want to get or perform an action on and Generally the operation that you want to perform should be implicit in the URL, but as you'll see later It might not be so in this example You've got your website and then delete is the method or the operation product is the Sort of the type product coffee is the type of resource But sometimes your method will go in another part of your code So The rest a rest API should have a separation of client and server so The server doesn't really care who the client is And the client doesn't need to store information that's kind of similar to the statelessness in that It doesn't matter if the client has made ten or twenty requests It should be layered so or it should be able to be layered so it doesn't matter if You're accessing the original source of the information. You could be accessing through an intermediary server so It could be a CDN or something like your information could be stored multiple levels down on multiple locations and API doesn't care about that and The response This one's kind of optional But be in a hypermedia format so hypermedia meaning that it should have a Sort of a semantic sense of what the information is within it So XML is a hypermedia format because it conveys the meaning of the information within it Jason is the format that there were a lot of rest API's return and It is sometimes hypermedia. So it's up to the author of the API to make The Jason that's returned Makes sense so instead of saying here's my resource and then just saying and value one is blah and value two is Something else you would say here's my resource and its ID is and its link is So you wouldn't assign, you know actual value one because that doesn't convey any meaning So that's what makes an API restful What is the WordPress rest API? So WordPress has lots of API's or like not heaps, but it has multiple So it has the theme API and the plug-in API But none of those are restful. They're all dependent on You interacting with them via PHP So I Like the way that Topha de Rossia said it The rest the WordPress rest API immediately turns your website into an application That can serve data to any kind of application or language so the WordPress rest API breaks down barriers between languages and servers to Provide information from one WordPress installation to another or to Change your WordPress the information stored in your WordPress install from another location It's a bit of a timeline of how the WordPress rest API came about so in back in 2009 this isn't exactly or Necessarily part of the current rest API's process, but it's just interesting that in 2009 the Museum of Modern Art in New York They wanted to use WordPress To manage their website content, but they wanted to build a front-end in Ruby Each to their own So they made a Jason API plug-in for Developing their website So that's not I don't believe that's what actually evolved into the current rest API, but back then Somebody was thinking that hey, it'd be good if WordPress had an API that output information in Jason So then in 2013 Ryan McHugh who's here this weekend he committed the first code in GitHub for the WordPress rest API and then he continued working on that as a Google Summer of Code project in 2014 the first Version of the WordPress API API was done It was quite stable and robust, but there were a bunch of things preventing it from being included in the WordPress core Such as it not having its own internal API and being difficult to extend but it was good for Getting and manipulating posts and pages media terms so taxonomies and users So then in 2015 Version 2 was started So the main people working on that were Ryan and Rachel Joe and Daniel and they've been the main contributors to the WordPress rest API they added schemas which are essentially like documentation within the API, but they can also be used for other things like validating Information that you're trying to post to your site And then later in the beta one a controller class Was added which the controller class can be extended. So that's how you add add-on to the rest API to make Custom get get custom information back So if you say for WooCommerce they would have There they would extend the controller to add Products to the rest API so that you can not only get posts and pages but products too And then the server Was added which knows about all of the endpoints that have been added. So an endpoint is Essentially the end part of the URL that's how you get How you tell it what information that you want. We'll see more of that later and in so 2015 Development continued and through 2016 and finally in December 2016 the API was merged into core. So that was very exciting. Oh in 2015 the infrastructure was merged in which meant that It was getting ready to use it, but there weren't actually any end points So they still needed to be required a plug-in to To use them But now the full API is integrated. So it was very cool So who is using it a Bunch of plug-ins are already using it some of them previously required The rest API plug-in to be enabled, but now they don't so search wp is a plug-in that Fetches the information from your website onto their servers and processes it indexes it makes it a way better search Search information then WordPress has by default WordPress search mainly just Looks at the content and the title so Yeah, search wp And then so WordPress search returns The newest post first or the newest page first Whereas search wp has relevance and all of that sort of thing in it Tabulate is another plug-in. It's not dependent on the API, but it uses it for Enhanced navigation. So previously if you optionally installed the rest API plug-in then tabulate would enhance its navigation WooCommerce is Fully integrated with the API since version version 2.6. So that's pretty cool easy digital downloads another e-commerce plug-in actually has its own rest API but Maybe they will port over to the WordPress rest API who knows and then Advanced custom fields can also integrate With an extra plug-in There are a bunch of websites that are already using the rest API so We've got Us to Who make the game Monument Valley and there are Design development agency for games and such I believe they're using react to power their site on the front end Modern tribe are also using react to power the front end of their site. Also Guggenheim is Yeah, using the rest API to power some of their site but There's also custom Admin interfaces being built So on wordpress.com We're using What's what we call Calypso? And it's built with react and it's a totally new admin interface different to your regular WP admin and happy tables is a app for restaurants and it is Using the rest API also It's being used in mobile applications. So the main one is the official WordPress mobile app But Joe started to write Vienna using react native It's not anywhere near done, but if you are interested in being involved with Developing a mobile app for WordPress then That's a really good place to start. It also has some code Relating well, it's a good example of using the rest API with react native if you're interested in building your own apps for that Okay, so how do you use it? The first step is that you're going to need to find the uniform resource Location so there's a discovery URL that is now in the head of your WordPress site So if you look at the HTML of your site, you'll find it there But generally it's just your domain Slash WP dash Jason and then You need to construct the URL with the Endpoint that you want so to find the resource that you are looking for so most of the or all of the Built-in or default endpoints Located at WP slash V2 and then the one you're looking for so posts pages Taxonomies I'll show you them later and then so once if you say get That URL it's going to return Adjacent response with your posts and then you can use that information however you like So this is an example response So there's all you can also use query strings or provide More information in Jason format In your request So and you can also just put these URLs in your browser if you want to see the Jason that's returned So this is an example of me searching for CSS using the rest API on my website so you can see that the This is the first part of the response And the first post you can see ID date link title So that's returned Some examples of what you could do with the rest API So you could suggest search terms for your visitors. So they start typing in a search box And you could have a script that like starts Searching the site already for likely Ends of their searches kind of like what Google does You could use pagination so you could get the next set of posts Without having to reload the page you could Do an archive or portfolio filter so you could have an archive page and like, you know Just have buttons that say click on the year or click on the category and show those posts without having to reload the page You can pretty much replace your admin dash Ajax dot PHP tasks with the rest API So yeah, if you're writing plugins that use admin Ajax you can Stop because admin Ajax is kind of slow and resource intensive So Those are things on your site things that you can do in other applications you could search a site from anywhere So I use this to streamline my customer support workflow. So I will show you my Search script that I wrote in Alfred to be able to search our documentation and provide a link To a user really quickly In theory you could Make a quick post tool to your site. So I was thinking of writing Another script like if I have an idea for a post just Real quickly type in the title or the or a short description and it would create a draft on my site You can pass information into other APIs in Whatever other language you need. So stuff you could do is like integrate sign-ups on your website with sales force or MailChimp or something like that you could display real-time sales data or Real-time any data from your website if you had an event. So say you You know you're having a fundraiser and you were using WooCommerce or something like that to take donations you could Have on your screen the like real-time raising money so this is One example that I am working on using AngularJS and What I'm doing is building a website so people can order drinks at my house That might sound weird, but I have many many varieties of tea and I thought how awesome would it be if somebody can pull up on their phone My tea menu and Order tea and then it could come like the order could come directly to my phone and that would be awesome fun So this is the main part of the code that is using the rest API So I'm basically so I'm using the Angular the Angular method HTTP I am getting so Fetching information you can use post to post information, but then you need to authenticate so You need to basically log in to your site. There's various authentication methods Yep, so I am getting this is the development URL of my website Getting posts I've put in per page a hundred. That's the maximum that you can fetch at a time And I want to get all of them and I want to order by title because ordering by date makes no sense with tea and then this Adds all of the returned data to a variable Called drinks and I'll show you how it works If I can figure out This one on hello. Yep. Yeah, if I can figure out How to get out out of here and show you my browser Nope whoopsies Okay, so this is very much a work in progress It's ugly and There are some formatting issues that I am yet to address but but basically I Have the list of the drinks that are available at my house If somebody wants I don't have any hot chocolate listed right now I only have one kind of coffee right now But I have tea so if you want tea you can filter if you want a black tea or a green tea Or maybe you are feeling like something minty Organic peppermint sounds good. You can tap to get more information which is Still a work in progress and then you can add that drink to your order If you're ordering for multiple people Apparently no chai somebody white with rose sounds very floral and then yeah you pop in your name and Order so all of this information These are all posts in a WordPress install These are all custom taxonomies. So these ones are tags These ones are cat categories These are a custom taxonomy for variety And they're all fetched with Code like the one that I just showed you. I will put these this on github when it's More refined and has less errors But yeah, so you can see the example if you want to Where's my mouse? Okay, and so my search from anywhere is Currently a script workflow in Alfred. If you're not familiar with Alfred It is like an app launcher for the Mac, but way more than an app launcher. It's a Custom search engine you can like do calculations in it So you just have a shortcode you pull it up and it does magic things. So building a workflow in Alfred is like just dragging and dropping and connecting Operations together so in Alfred if I type sp And then something after that It is going to run my script and Then I can open the URL for that gets returned or I can Press shift to just copy that URL to my clipboard Here is the code. Oh, that's not very visible. Sorry about that I'll Definitely make this available as well but basically My rest API URL is Up there. I've got a bunch of like order by title Per get a certain number of results per page And my search term and then so this is a PHP script But you could do it in any language that you're familiar with Python is seems like a popular choice, but I don't know how to write that So curl fetches the URL and then this is XML that Alfred uses to list the results So I'll show you how that works. I think I'm actually gonna need to un-mirror for this. Hang on a sec or mirror Okay, so that's my Alfred shortcut is just Control space and I pull it up. And so if I type SP it Has a bunch of options so I could launch any of these other apps if I wanted to but what I actually want to do is search so I'm going to search for custom menu and It is Searching our support site on webpress.com In real time and returning that stuff through the rest API And yeah, as I said I can open the page Well, that's a bit unfortunate No, it's like the crazy whatever I did with the browser Did it again? That's the one that I wanted Let's search for something. I will search for menus again because menus are cool And then if I just wanted to copy something like Telling something about galleries. I don't need to open the page because I already know what it says But I can just copy that by pressing shift and enter So Yeah, if there's something that you repeatedly do Interacting with a WordPress site on a day-to-day basis you can make a custom script in Alfred or you could run that you could run that from anywhere You'd run it from the command line if you like, okay That is the couple of images that I Creative comments images that I took and Thanks, are there any questions


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Hi everybody it's Sam at mixedupcraft so for this week's what did I get? I have a few bits and pieces so I've been to Bastins which is again I think they're online I've mentioned them before this is from the one in Brixton so and then I got these as well along with double-sided tape now I've opened one up I'll show you my kind of ideas behind all this so this is this craft brand this is stocked in the range and lots of independent craft places and stuff like that so this is quite readily available anyway I always use this tape or the one from the pound shop it's just the foam adhesive it's nice and cheap and it does the job like any any other ones so that's fine for me I picked up these embellishments the reason again for these ones is I like the size they're really thick really large quite raised ones but this kind of I guess well yeah it's a silvery kind of metal gun metal looking one again it's perfect for more masculine cards I am trying to build up that kind of you know craft supplies really because I don't have a great deal of stuff for guys I'm just trying to get some yeah for those things so I've got them and then I picked up that pack there just because there's lots of different colors and again I'm making so many cards I make a lot of cards that I don't share with you guys because they're for magazine commissions so a lot of these things get used you know in other parts of you know things I do so then I picked up these bits here now these ones here I take them out they are this here I thought they looked really nice but I don't like all this I don't like all the plastic but it easily comes off so you just take that off and then all these bits can come out and they look to me personally they look loads better without all this plus they will fit perfectly onto your cards and they won't you know you won't have any bulk so if you take get all you know take all that off keep it all because it is handy if you do want to you know make up different flowers you might you can add paper flowers to this hole punch the middle and you've got all you know your gubbins there to kind of put it all together so I will keep all those but the idea is is that just off of that one flower I've now got all of these pieces and you could probably just get away with two of them on top of each other like so let's do three pop that one in there as well but you could mix up as well but then so if I just pop those on like that and then if I use this one here which kind of goes pop that in the middle and that's just one example but you've got a really nice very flat flower these are super soft so yeah but you could always just use one in that color and then if I get the white so I'd already taken the white part to test it but I could put a white in there and then put another yellow on the top and you can see you get the you know the mix of it there so there's loads so I'm actually going to take all of these apart keep all them in a bag and I'll just put them away somewhere but I also got the pink and the purple bag there but for £1.35 you actually get a heck of a lot of flowers so yeah and the nice thing is you can really scrunch them up as well so you know you might want to do something like that and if you make like the teacups and things you could really kind of you know wedge those into little spaces and just have this little spray kind of poking out the top so yeah I liked them more for the fact that they're fabric and I think I can get a lot more use out of them so I'll leave that one on there anyway I'll probably make that up I'll just put some hot glue in between because it is fabric but yeah I thought they were quite good so anyway that's why I brought them so you know when you see stuff and you just think oh I won't use that because that is really bulky I wouldn't put that on a card but it's perfect for gift boxes that way all the teacups and stuff because you could just cut that piece off and see if it cuts okay it should do because it's only plastic yes it cuts right off so you could just add some hot glue and then again that looks really really nice you could also put it on a long straw or a stem and actually make them up as flowers so there's loads of uses for them but that's what I will be doing so yeah two bags there loads of flowers and a bargain price and then I picked up these I think I shared the other colors before the green I think I shared the green so the thing the only thing I annoys me sometimes with the packaging is you have to take it off and then it's all open so I have to put this now I mean I've got lots of storage but I'll put in something else but look here so £1.35 you get absolutely tons not sure what that is in there and there is loads here absolutely tons and tons and tons and what you do or what I'm going to do is make up my own flowers so these are all little individual petals you just put some glue in the middle let's make one up okay and then I'm just going to add this purple one on here just fold those bits of the sticky bit in pop that right over the middle this glue all all dry nice and clear anyway but there you have another really pretty flower again you can just stress them up a bit you can obviously make them up just a quick one to show you guys you can mess you know change up the petals and stuff but it looks really pretty and you put some green leaves behind it I've got a few left over here from I mean I wouldn't put those leaves exactly but you get the idea although they don't look too bad you imagine that just on the card there we go so yeah I like things like this when you get so much of them I mean there is loads there for the price that's going to last ages so I have got the green this is the purple yellow I think there was a pink but I don't know for some reason I didn't pick it up but anyway so I might go back and get that another day but and again they will get used I'm just pushing that all out the way and then I picked up these feathers here you get so many here some of them are a bit that one's not really going to make it onto a card but how pretty would these be you know just behind some flowers on a card or you've got a nice sentiment you have a couple of feathers hanging out there are really pretty kind of pinkie pinkie movie they're not over they well you can see what color they are anyway very nice deep pink so yeah just thought they were nice they did have another color but I don't think I liked it too much but I'm always looking for nice you know more kind of different embellishments to add to cards to gift boxes nice on a gift tag kind of you know again layered up you know you can imagine again you popped a flower there as well you get the you get the idea just trying to layer up bits and pieces there and stuff so yeah so I grabbed all of those then I picked up this one it's already been used it's from a charity shop it's only 50p but there's still plenty of ease left I've still got yeah they've only used one of the f's there they've used an M so I've only got the one M and I think they've used P there so if I want to write a happy that's kind of gone out the window but anyway I've got three S's still got a couple of T's and they've used one of the Y's there but again good for you know my scrapbooking and stuff so they're just these kind of shiny oh look listen ice cream van if you're wondering if you're in other parts of the world and you don't have that that's our ice cream van coming around mmm maybe I should go and get an ice cream okay so yeah 50p so just grab those then so I'm not a stamp collector but if you followed me for some time you will know that I do like to kind of stock up on used stamps because I put them on my envelopes so if I'm not posting a card and I'm hand delivering it I will put my own stamps on so these all need to be sorted but these are just little bags so you got here 50 world stamps they were a pound there's 50 in there but I sort them all out I have all my floral stamps I've got all animal themed I've got sports related Christmas Easter Thanksgiving all the different seasons and they are just a really nice addition to finish off your card so if you are making somebody a card like for Christmas for example it's nice I think to just put some Christmas stamps on it even if it's been hand delivered so those are going to be sorted out this one here is 50 Australian stamps they've all been franked as well I like that they've been franked because again I just think it gives a bit more of an authentic feel when you're giving it to that person but straight away I haven't opened these yet but look you've got the beautiful little koalas on there so some of them are really old but these are the two books which I love now these are old this is somebody's collection there isn't a huge amount of value to this it's just someone's personal collection there was loads there actually but I'm gonna actually keep using these stamp albums to keep filtering in so I will be adding these into here but I'm gonna sort this out even more so I have with all my other ones all flowers together and so on so I can just go and grab the book when I want to add some flower stamps rather than me still kind of having to sort through it but I'm not gonna go through all of this but there are all over the world stamps in here got Botswana I've got the Republic of Indonesia Trinidad and Tobago Christmas Island these are brilliant so these got Australia on them and they are like a sand dune with Santa Claus and craps you've got the presents on the bottom of the ocean floor this one here is like a seaweed Christmas tree Gibraltar Ecuador but the the nice thing is is there's like you know you've got the what's that one there people in the Atlantic Antarctic territory so again if I've got someone I don't know who's going somewhere where there's the snow you know what there's a stamp that's themed to it so I hope you kind of get what I'm saying here the Philippines these ones I really liked here these are again you got all these animals Nigeria look at the you know the wonderful cheetahs there and on these ones here this is all Taurus so this is all the Republic of the Maldives but it's all Taurus on them so I'm sure they will come in handy at some point got some sports related ones here Cyprus got the hair got some fish got the plane so again I've got like ones with trains and planes and automobiles that all that kind of thing and I do I really like it isn't like I said it is just a nice way to just finish off your cards that was that one and then there was this one which has got 500 over 500 in here but this one had a lot more floral so it's these are in bit more of an order so they've got the UK Jersey we've got Guernsey look at this one here that's really cute it's a Christmas old Christmas one there got some more flowers here another Father Christmas one that's the Isle of Man again Isle of Man there with the I want to say it's a form of Daisy but I don't yeah it is Daisy okay so really perfect for this you know these months now so we've got a nice you know spring summer birthday card then that Daisy stamp would go on the front for example so look at these South Africa you got the Rhino there beautiful so nice again South Africa there these are brilliant all the African ones because there's just so many really lovely animal ones and they're just really different that's a good one there Zimbabwe and you've got the like the trains and so the buses there's the motorbike in the plane so got quite a few got any fishing fans you know you've got more fish here you've got guinea fowl and they're perfect as well if you've done if I've done a card that's just got lots of purple in it then it's really nice to add these purple flowers for example so yeah it's something I've done for a long time and I really do like to just kind of add that where I feel I need to so what I plan to do is I'm actually going to decorate these books as well I'm going to not decorate the sides because I like that that's you know that's got that kind of old stamp album on the side but I do want to just do something I think with this or at least kind of cover this in some way I guess that's quite nice all the embossed stamp album there or maybe I might do something with my cricket and do a nice font in gold and stick it over and yeah because I mean the albums themselves I know they're old but they're only they're just made in China so and that one there as well but we'll see we'll see what I do with those but they need to all be sorted along with my other ones then our taser very kindly sent me some more products so they've sent me the fine line pens so I will I will share these in a video I don't know if I'm going to do a separate actual review of them because they're a fine line pen so it's not really there isn't really anything to review I guess apart from the fact that there is a lot of colors and stuff here so I they will be shared at some point again but if you are looking for some fine liners in a real nice mix of colors these are brilliant and again the price point is great but what I tend to use and find these handy for is if you've stamped an image maybe you haven't used your stamp platform because I don't use it for everything if I've stamped a little sentiment and I might have missed a bit and say it's in a blue or something it's quite handy to be able to pick up your fine liners and you can just go in you can see the nib these are really really nice nibs and they've got triangle barrel on them as well so they're really comfortable to hold but they're just perfect for just kind of filling in any bits you might have missed and you've got the the black so this would be the most common one to use is the black and they're lovely to write with as well so along with my glitter gel pens and these is what I'd use to also you know write in my cards so yeah really really nice so thank you Arteza you will see them pop up and as always I will share all the links below and if you are limited with space they always come in these really nice tins so these are very thin like I said they you know you can store them away easily but again if you've seen me sharing stuff over on Facebook for the last few weeks you would have seen that I purchased a ton of those wine plastic wine racks or wine kind of cases from the Pound Shop these are going to be going straight in there and then finally after waiting for a month which is just ridiculous but it wasn't well anyway I brought them from Hoshanda and basically they didn't have the stock when they sell it so they had to wait for all the stock to come over from America anyway it's here so this was an absolute bargain I put I shared this over on Facebook when I purchased it and I know a few of you have got yours or you ordered it as well and hopefully you've all got yours now as well but this was for both of these was 20 pound was it just under 1999-19 something like that and that is a steal and it is still being sold on Hoshanda but it is not at this price anymore I think you pay normal so basically here you get both sizes so this is the five what size is this oh no this is the 7 by 9 with the lid closed so and it's your hinged stamping platform so I've got my magnets on the bottom and so you've got your foam so if you're using a photopolymer stamp you'd keep the foam in and you've got your magnet there to hold it in place which I will put some washi tape on if you are using cling mount or red mount stamps then you would remove the foam and you have the depth there which will allow that stamp to be able to you know cling onto here and then stamp down so it is literally the same well there's two magnets I knew there was don't let them snap together because they are likely to snap in half so when you get them I need to put some washi tape on them and then straight away they will be safe to use and they won't pinch your skin and stuff but yeah they're just really really handy I know I've got my Tim Holtz one this is a bit smaller so it's just handy to kind of sit on my desk so yes that's that size and then I've well you get this one here which is the 10 by 10 with the lid closed it's 8.3 by 8.3 in the actual stamping area so my Tim Holtz let's just get into this one I just want to compare it next to my Tim Holtz one so again there's your magnets on the back just take them off they're very very strong just make sure and they will hold through the foam or obviously not on the foam so you can see there sorry you get a lot of glare from this but that's obviously I can't be can't be helped because of the material it is all these feathers are going everywhere now as well I've got so much on my desk I need to clear away so here's my Tim Holtz one this straight away I can see this is heavy not so heavy that it's you know because I've never taken any notice before but now I'm comparing it next to this this is really quite light but in terms of size let's just pop let's pop this foam they're going to just go on together but should be okay you slide as well if they do go together slide them off each other it's much much easier so yeah it's the same area that the difference with the Tim Holtz that I like and that's why I will still continue to use this as you can put any size cardstock in here because you don't have any kind of wall around here whereas with this one here you can only have paper that's within this this square okay so you know kind of think about that when you go to I guess buy these kind of things but I don't think this is going to be around forever because I don't think they're allowed to well they're certainly not allowed to sell it in the US anymore so whether they're going to produce it over here I don't know if that's even allowed but it's the same for the Tim Holtz as well I don't think he can sell this anymore in the US I think it's only in the UK so I could be wrong I don't want to start any massive debate or anything it's you know I only go by what I read in here so that's what I believe to be true so yeah I still love my Tim Holtz because you can use any size paper in this and all you do is just flip that around you know to change whether you want to use a clear stamp or photopolymer or a cling or red foam stamp so yeah so I've got enough stamp in platforms but I think things like this are a bit like your bread and butter now for me they are anyway with crafting so if this was to break I know I've got one straight away to be able to to use but this is lightweight and it's a little bit more streamlined so you can see here that's it there's nothing kind of sticking out so that can slide in with like my files and things quite nicely whereas the Tim Holtz one is very bulky you know it's got a different raised level here this all lifts up here because obviously this is the other side so you can't really put stuff on top of this it kind of I always find things kind of slide off of it but I still love it I'm not you know it's not that that's just me kind of you know being critical when I go to store it away but yeah this one you can kind of see the difference and then if you just do small cars and that's all you are as a card maker and you always stick within this size this one's perfect very very lightweight so there is everything guys once you take the packaging off of most of this stuff you end up with very little to be honest there's so much packaging so I do recycle wherever possible so yeah that's what I've got any questions you've got just pop them in the comments box and I will get to them as soon as possible I will share links for these because I do believe like I said they're still available share links for the fine liners because they are good and things like this it's hard to really share links because yeah the stocks are very different in stores to what they are online and yeah you might not be able to get it all but just pop into any of your local range stores or pound shop the works they stock a lot of this craft brand here and they should do these I think these are relatively new so you should find these around but they have a guy so I will be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


Now we've returned to ancient war and we're looking at an excavation plan of the city and also a satellite view with my little thumbtack that I put in Google Earth. The areas that are particularly recognizable are the ziggurat, which we're not going to talk about and the area of the Royal Graves, which I'm pointing out here with my second green arrow. On the left, what I'm showing you is a plan that depicts most of the major tombs in the Royal Graves at war and here on that plan is what we're seeing in the detail on the right, the so-called Great Death Pit and what I want you to notice also is that the grave of Lady or Queen Puabi, whose cylinder seal we looked at earlier, is located just right by the Great Death Pit. This Great Pit was filled with a number of servants, including musicians, who apparently were meant to accompany a very important personage into the afterlife. There were 73 people discovered here in all, five men and 68 women, all of them richly dressed and ornamented with jewelry and there were also two harps or liars and as well as what appears to be a highly decorated table and we'll talk about that more in a moment. Here's that Great Death Pit diagram again and I want to zoom in on this area right here. You can see that there are two liars or harps drawn and then what appear to be sort of two goat-like bodies and those belong to some sort of a support for the ornamental table. One of those goats is now in the British Museum in London and the other one is in Philadelphia and likewise, these two liars were divided between the two museums and we're going to be looking at the one that is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. So these are both of our liars here, just in case you couldn't make them out before. Before we move to the piece that is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, I want to show you the other liar because it's actually in a better state of repair and you can see that it still includes a number of its original tuning pins. So what I'm showing you on the right is the original excavation photograph that was taken back in the 20s when these royal graves were excavated and then in the detail on the left, you can see a close-up of the bull head decorating the the sound box and then some of the inlay worked down below and this is the the liar that's in the British Museum. Now we're looking at the the liar that is in the University of Pennsylvania Archaeological Museum in Philadelphia and as you can see, we don't have quite as good of a survival as we did with the silver liar that is now in London. We know we don't have the entire body of the liar, but rather a reconstruction of the sound box and then some inlay from the front of the sound box and this wonderful bull's head that decorated the liar originally and of course that has been restored as well. The the wood core for the bull's head is I believe modern wood at this point, but everything else is original. The this bull is truly extraordinary and I want you to notice just the incredible workmanship on the beard which is made of lapis lazuli. Bulls are very important in the Sumerian tradition. The the moon god sin or nana depending on which version you're reading, he has one name or the other, had the symbol of a bull and that was because the the horns of a bull resemble a crescent moon. There were also other gods that were associated with bulls like Marduk in Babylon, had some association with bulls and of course Adod, the storm god, had association with bulls as well and bulls were also traditionally associated with power in the ancient world. Egyptian rulers would wear symbolic bull's tail around their waist in order to show the power that they had and similarly in the ancient Near East rulers would often have bull horns decorating their headdresses and their crowns as a sign of their earthly power. Beards too were also an important symbol of power and so here we have the power symbol of this bull and this this symbol that also is associated with royalty in this incredibly expensive difficult to work lapis lazuli stone and if you look at the detail on the right, I want you to notice just how beautifully this is done with these wonderful incised parallel wavy lines that come down into three-dimensional spirals that curl upwards. This is a tremendous amount of work put into this amazing wire. Here's an even closer view and you can see first of all if we look at the eye the inlay of the eye is really skillfully done with the shell and the lapis meeting up just perfectly. And then if you look at where the the silver framework is to hold that beard, it looks like bitumen, which is basically like a petroleum tar was used to sort of stick all of this together and to mount those pieces of the beard inside of this metal framework so that it would hold down. We'll finish now with just a few final views of this bull. I wanted you to look at the hair, the shaggy hair in between the horns and you can see that just like the hair on the beard, we have this wonderful intricate work with three-dimensional spiraling curls emerging from these wavy parallel lines incised on the lapis. And just the tremendous lifelike quality of these ears and eyes and kind of wonderful facial expression on this bull.  And of course, this would also have been made for a very important personage, whoever it was whose grave near the Great Death Pit meant that 75 retainers, including musicians, had to accompany them into the afterlife. There's also close to this same death pit another corridor that includes an entire chariot with horses and drivers and a bunch of other goods and these are all very close to Puabi's tomb so it's possible that this was all done when she passed away.


Given your years of experience with mental health, what do you know now that you didn't know before? What I know now is that there's a huge misunderstanding of what mental health is. And it's been promoted around the world. Now people think that they can't get upset, that people shouldn't use certain words around them, that people should change in order for them to be happy. That's a mistake.   You know what I mean? That's true mental health. The ability to have it together, to be your own self, to be mature within, comfortable within your own skin, regardless of what's happening around you.


Look at this, look at this, look, what are you doing, what the f***, what are you doing? A father from upstate New York being forcibly tossed from a school board meeting this week after he refused to wear a mask. Joining us once again, the founder and CEO of Stock Swoosh and a resident of New York Melissa Armo. Thank you for sticking around. So what are your thoughts on New York as we see other states, Democratic primarily states follow suit and get rid of their mask mandates, but kind of leaving it up to the school boards to make a decision there? I think it's problematic, but I think that people have had COVID exhaustion, particularly in New York City and New York State for a long, long time now. Again, if taking the vaccine or wearing masks would have stopped COVID altogether, I think people would be happy to continue wearing masks. But the problem is that it hasn't stopped the spread of COVID and we have a variant that's still at now and we're going to have other variants. And I think it's up to people, their individual choice if they want to wear the mask or not. I think what we've done to kids is really terrible because now we've actually scared kids.  And that's terrible. And I think that we've got to just move on from this and find a way to just survive. I mean, there's a lot of deadlier diseases out there. Cancer is deadly.  I think more people die every year from cancer than anything else. And we still somehow find a way to continue as a society. While I think it's horrible, the number of people that died, particularly in New York State, most of them were the elderly and in the nursing homes. And those people can continue to mask up or they could continue to mask up in the nursing homes, but not the rest of society. Well, speaking of kids, kids may be afraid of not having friends. Some may be afraid of not having friends if they don't get the vax. So a New York middle school put on a holiday play in which fifth through eighth graders saying it's safe to vax. And if your friends don't vax, then they ain't no friends of mine. Kind of reminiscent of that 80s song that we were playing, Safety Dance. But all jokes aside, a mother who attended this clearly upset, shared some recordings with our news partners at Just The News. And I encourage our viewers to check that out at JustTheNews.com. But do you think plays with messages like these are appropriate for school children? I don't think a lot of things that the school boards have done are appropriate across the country in the last two years, but that's a different story. I think that children, unfortunately, sometimes can be very mean. And they're going through a growing process. And people are developing at different rates and at different ages. And it's been a tough year or tough two years, I should say, for children. And not only that for parents, because they really don't know everything that's going on during the day at school. Plus, remember, they've had this remote learning that was a huge part of the last two years of their learning. So I don't think that these things are a good idea.  You're seeing them speaking up. Well, we just spoke about New York's mask mandates. Now get this. According to a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists have found a new COVID variant, they say, believed to have originated in New York City's sewage last year from rats. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron refusing to take a Russian COVID test at the request of the Kremlin upon his arrival earlier this week to see Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Reuters, he didn't want to take it because he didn't want Russia to have possession of his DNA. And speaking of COVID shock and outrage after this viral video shows a nearly 80-year-old grandpa, great grandpa, in fact, being arrested. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Hey, hey, that's assault. I've got it all on video. What's wrong with you? He failed to ID. Yeah, he failed to ID. You're back. Hey. You're back. You're back. We're back. We're filming. We're doing our part. So what you just saw there was him getting arrested by Canadian police for failing to show an ID. But initially, he was pulled over for simply honking his car horn and giving the thumbs up and support of the Freedom Convoy. Also joining us in addition to Melissa, we want to welcome in Mike Murphy. He is a gubernatorial candidate for Minnesota. Thank you for joining us here on News On. Pleasure to have you. It's heartbreaking to see.  You know, hey, Canada has a right to have its own laws. But what is your reaction to this? We're living in some very, very scary times right now. Not just in America, but the world. I mean, we've seen what the country of Australia has done to its citizens the last few months. And of course, America is no better and especially Canada. And I feel terribly sorry for what everybody's going through right now. We have all become just paranoid with COVID in these mandates and following the rules of the government. And I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said, when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. And that's where we're at right now. I'm the mayor of the city of Lexington here in Minnesota, but also running for governor. But we have crazy mandates here in Minnesota. And the Democrats aren't actually looking at the COVID numbers. They're looking at their polling numbers. And that's why they're starting to drop all these mandates. But Minneapolis and St. Paul instituted vaccine mandates and mask requirements to do business in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The two biggest cities in the entire state. So that's why I made my city a health freedom sanctuary city to let my city employees, my businesses know the restaurants and everybody that lives in my community, that we're not going to do that to you.  And that's unconstitutional for these people to do this. And I stand with the people of Canada. I believe in the trucker convoy and what they're doing. And you see Justin Trudeau, he's doing everything he can by stealing the GoFundMe money and even threatening to use military force to bring in these citizens up there. And it would never fly here in America. And that's why we have our second amendment rights to protect ourselves from tyrannical government. Well, speaking of America and the convoy, word is, it's coming. Take a look at what our panelists had to say the other day. Ted, what do you think about the likelihood of this actually happening there? There are Facebook pages, as I mentioned, talks about it happening in California. Do you think it's going to come here? Without a doubt. And I've been in contact with them that are organizing it. They will be coming through my hometown of Denver, Colorado, here probably the middle of March. And they've asked me to be one of the speakers at the event. I think this is a huge message to the politicians that work for us, not the other way around, that these mask mandates, these vaccine mandates, these vaccine passports are out of control. So there was just a rumor that they may come here. Now you just heard Ted Harvey there in Colorado saying, no, he's invited. So there's talk that we could see some action here in the United States protests, very similar to the ones that we've been following there in Canada as soon as this Sunday. Melissa, what do you anticipate to happen? I hope that they do do it. I've been watching what's been happening and following some of the media organizations in Canada which have never done before in my life, just to see what's really happening there. And I think that it's going to have to happen here in order for some change, some real serious change to take place, because Dr. Fauci all along the way from day one has continued to change the goalpost when we're ever going to be able to get back to normal. And then you have states like New York, while they've lifted the mask mandate, who's to say they wouldn't put it on again in two months? They haven't lifted the vaccine passport. You can't go anywhere in New York City without proof of vaccination, and you need two shots, and you need an ID. It has devastated New York City's economy, and it's never going to get back to normal unless they stop it. Tourists aren't coming here, people have had enough. While the rental markets have gone up and people have come back, they're not really going out in their homes. So something drastic needs to happen because the administration doesn't get it. One plus one equals two, and they just don't get it. People have had enough of this, and if people can't get their goods, if they go into the grocery store and there's nothing there, it's really going to affect the administration. They're going to have to answer for that. They're going to have to say why. And the problem is, are they going to shut down their Facebook pages? Are they going to shut down the funding? Are they going to arrest people? I mean, that is what is a concern. What could happen to these truckers if they go out there and take a stand? But I think if they don't do this, we'll never see the end of this. Well, speaking of shutting down websites, Republican lawmakers are now taking matters into their own hands by writing to go fund me executives this week expressing their concerns over what they call the crowdfunding platform silencing of the Canadian protests and its contributions who they say are quote, peacefully challenging the science and merits of some of these COVID mandates. We're going to ask both of you to weigh in on that when news on returns. We'll be right back.