One way that multiculturalism shows itself in my curriculum is by presenting diversity as the norm, and that happens through a subtle process of normalization instead of focusing on the typical categorization of difference that we're used to in diversity and awareness trainings, and instead of focusing on what separates us, we identify what commonalities we have and we don't elevate the differences between us. They are all seen as having relevance at our table. For my students, the benefit of removing the categorization, that process of checking what box you belong to and elevating it to a position where we're exploring not only the boxes that they can belong in but the experiences that they have and how that expands those boxes beyond classes of race, age, ability, etc. It fosters a community where we start to develop those empathy skills because we come to understand the value that is inherent in each of those starting spaces in each of those experiences that we come to the table with. When we can see the difference as a benefit and not just as a separation, then we can begin to dissolve those barriers and come together to be something stronger.


We begin with the thanks and the praises of Allah SWT, the one who has specifically chosen every single one of us by name to be here on this blessed day of Juma'ah in the month of Ramadan. Allah SWT in his pre-eternal knowledge knew every single individual that would make it here today and so he has chosen you specifically to receive this specific mercy and forgiveness and for this being chosen we should be immensely grateful to him SWT. Allah SWT opens this month of Ramadan for us as an opportunity for us to rush towards his forgiveness. Allah SWT says in the Qur'an rush and race one another to the forgiveness of your Lord. He's opening this invitation for us. Who amongst us is going to be the first to receive the forgiveness of Allah SWT? Who is going to be the first amongst us to receive the forgiveness of Allah? He promises for those who are Muttaqeen, for those who have this true awareness and fear of Allah, that he promises them Jannah. He encompasses the entire heavens and the earth within Jannah. And so what are these qualities of a Muttaqi of a person who possesses Taqwa? Allah SWT gives us two examples that allows us to understand our nature. With these two examples a person can tell where they stand. The first example is this person's relationship with money. Whether this person is in a time of prosperity or adversity, this person continuously remembers Allah and spends in the sake of Allah SWT. Because in adversity someone can forget Allah, because they think about how am I going to provide for this, how am I going to pay for that, how am I going to plan for this. And so that occupies them and they forget Allah. And in a time of prosperity the person is occupied with knowing how much money they have. How much money did this store make? How much up did this store go versus down? And they're occupied with this. So the person who is constantly spending in the path of Allah SWT, this is the first quality. Then the second quality is this person's relationship to anger. What is this person's relationship to anger? The person who is able to control themselves and forgive people, that if someone offends you and someone hurts you, the response of the Muttaqi should be that I forgive this person and I do better for this person. Zain al-Aabideen, the great grandson of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, was making wudu. And the maid who was pouring water for him dropped the pot and the pot shattered. Upon this his face became red with anger. And so quickly she recited the verse, his anger quickly went away. And he said, how can I repay her such that I do good for her? So he sets her free. Upon setting her free she recites the verse, والله يحب المحسينين. So the person who when they remember Allah they're able to control their anger and do good to the person who did harm to them. والذين إذا فعلوا فاحشة ظلموا أنفسهم. And then the person who does some sort of evil act transgresses against Allah or transgresses against themselves. Especially in our culture it's very easy to bring curse words and profanity out at that time. It was a time of anger I spoke in a manner of anger. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes the muttiqi in a different way. والذين إذا فعلوا فاحشة ظلموا أنفسهم ذكروا الله. This person remembers Allah. فستغفروا لذنوبهم. And they seek forgiveness from Allah from what they did that was wrong. ومن يغفر الظنوبة And who is going to grant forgiveness except Allah. So these are a few qualities that describe the state of a muttiqi, of a person who possesses taqwa. If we can build a relationship with ourselves so that we can control how generous we are. So that we can control ourselves in a time of anger. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promises us, promises us his forgiveness. And this is the month in which to seek forgiveness. So with these two advices from the Quran to spend for the sake of Allah. Especially those who need it most. Your friends and families, the elderly and the children. If you know a family doesn't have suhur and iftar. If you know that kids in a household won't have gifts and money for aid. Spend on those people first who are closest to you. Your neighbors who are in need. People who need suhur and iftar. That they're experiencing Ramadan throughout the year because they don't have food throughout the year. So Ramadan, the fasting doesn't change for them. Go and spend money on them. And to work with our relationship with anger. In this culture where everyone, the impact matters more than the intention. The muttaqi is the person who must stand beyond that and say no. I'm going to forgive regardless of your intention and regardless of your impact. So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us of the muttaqeen. To act upon the Quran Al-Kareem. And to continue to enter us into the people who are going to be with the Nabiyeen and the Salihin and the Shuhada. Maulana Muhammad kama ba'aratta ala Sayyidina Ibrahim wa ala ala aali Sayyidina Ibrahim fil aalamina innaka hamidun majeed. Rabbana aatina fil dunya hasanatun wa fil aakilat hasanatun wa qina aadab al-naar. Rabbir ham huma kama rabbayani saqeera. Rabbir ham huma kama rabbayani saqeera. Rabbir ham huma kama rabbayani saqeera. Rabbana hablana min azwajina wa dhurriyatina kura ta'ayun wa jaalna lal muttaqeen imama. Ibad Allah rahimakum Allah. Inna Allah ya'muru bil adli wal ihsan. Wa isa'idil kurba wa yinha'n al fahshayi wal munkari wal baghi. Ya'idhukum la'alakum tazakkarun. Uzhkur Allah ya'zkorkum. Wa du'uhu ya'stajab lakum. Wa la'zhkur Allah ta'ala. A'la wa awla wa akbar. Wa aqeem al-salah.


President Mohammad Iboharian Saturday led Nigerians in honoring the memory of falling heroes during the 2022 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Abuja. During Saturday's ceremony, which took place at the National Arcade opposite the Eagle Square in the Three Arms Zone, the president inspected a guard of honor mounted by the detachment of the Nigerian Army, the Navy, the Armed Forces, and the Nigerian Legion. He also laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier as a mark of last respect to the falling heroes who paid the supreme price to keep global peace and the nation's territorial integrity. Others who laid wreaths were Vice President Yemio Simbacho, Senate President Amela Wan, and Speaker Femi Badabi Amela. Others were the chief of defense staff General Loki Irabo, service chiefs of the Nigerian Legion, among others. President Iboharian thereafter released white pigeons to indicate the harmony at the venue and the nation.


Hey what's up guys welcome to your training reviews. So if you saw my previous video I reviewed this Tamron lens It's the 17 by 28 millimeter zoom lens for Sony E-mount cameras It's a full-frame lens if you want to check out the full review Then click on the link in the description below or click on the card icon here on the top corner of your screen and Today I'm going to be reviewing taking this out in nighttime conditions So I wanted to see the capability of this lens in very low lighting So I've asked one of my friends to come out with me and take some pictures around my area And I wanted to give you guys a highlight of how good this is in those types of conditions And I've tested a little bit about the video quality and a bit about the autofocus as well So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a series of pictures And I want you guys to have a look at how good it performs check out the lighting how dark the subject is how Colorful the backgrounds are all this kind of stuff and let me know what you think and then at the end I'll give you my review and I'll give you some voiceover of some of the other videos. I've taken as well So let's just get straight into it All right guys So I just wanted to start off talking a little bit about the depth of field So when you do take pictures of the subjects close up Then you do get a good blur in the backgrounds and you got the bokeh effect of lighting in the background as well But I've noticed that in very low lighting conditions The subjects is not as sharp as most of the lenses I've used in the past You do get a good image But the more closer you get you start to get a distortion and a bit of blurriness of the actual person itself So as you can see here, it's not the sharpest one But it does do a good enough job if you wanted to use this lens Now if you do look at this picture here If you are going to be using this lens for portrait photography Then you have to make sure that especially when you're using this on auto To make sure the subject has a bit of brighter lighting on either side of the body or the faces Just so that you can get a clearer image coming through if it is quite dark And the lighting is not picked up correctly by the lens itself Then you'll have to make a lot of adjustments and you'll probably lose a bit of the Sharpness in the colors in the depth of field behind the subject as well Now if you take a look at this picture, my friend is a little bit blurry And the focus of the lens has moved to the trees in the background And it's probably picked that up based on the lighting that's coming from this tunnel as well And the people walking behind But I've tried to focus as much as I can on my friend here But you can see even then with the lighting coming from the tunnel He hasn't been lit up that very well And you can see it's very dark in terms of getting any type of sharpness coming through So I wanted to check to see how the quality of the lenses for moving objects So I took a picture of this water fountain and you can see my friend in the background as well Now there's a variation of lighting effects here So the water fountain as well It obviously wasn't taken on any fast shutter speeds Or any specific modes to capture fast movement Because this was also taken on auto like all the other pictures in this video And as you can see the fountain is a little bit blurry And the light coming from it has washed it out a little bit But the darkness of my friend in the background is not as clear as I like it to be But at the same time it's not as bad as I thought it would be as well But the trees in the background with the lights on them Then they've actually come out very well And I was quite impressed with that So one thing I also wanted to try with the lens Is also take pictures of food at restaurants When you're in very low lit restaurants So it was very dark in here And I've taken a picture here of the food And it wasn't as bright as I'd like it to be It didn't come out so strong But I can still see the quality in the picture It did create that little bit of depth of field But there's no specific food mode that I actually selected the lens on Or any other specific modes to sharpen the images and adjust it manually So as I mentioned in my previous review video This lens does not have any stabilisation inbuilt So as you can see from this clip I'm just walking with the lens and it is quite shaky Next I wanted to check the autofocus speeds So when I'm really close up to an object like this branch Then I wanted to pan away, get as close as I can Pan away and the autofocus is quite well But when I go back It didn't pick up the autofocus So I had to move back slightly And then sometimes I had to move backwards and forwards Just to get the autofocus to automatically get back into place And then I can move away and get the focus off of the subject as well So it wasn't the greatest speeds But nonetheless it did do a job when it did work well Now I tried the same thing again But with my friend So panning between his face and away from his body You can see that the autofocus it struggled a little bit At one point here you can see that it just kept it blurry And it took a while for it to pick up But if I pick up speed and do it a little bit faster Then you can see it still takes a couple of seconds to get focus back on his face But it's a little bit quicker to pick up the focus of the background in the distance So overall I would say in conclusion I wouldn't use this lens specifically to do nighttime photography I can see that there will be very much a lot of dark areas Especially when it comes to taking pictures of people Or if you're out and you want to take pictures in restaurants I would definitely recommend a different lens to this one As you can see in this picture The colours are not as vibrant as they are in real life But you can see the dark areas on the ground And the two bushes on the right hand side I think there's not enough definition there And you can see from the pillars on the right hand side as well The darkness just sort of fades into it And from when I was looking at this When I was standing there in real life It looked a lot different to as you can see in this picture So I wasn't super impressed from the low light photography capability Of this lens But I will use this going forward for wide angle videos And also for portrait photography in daylight conditions And also for various other architecture and landscape photos Alright guys, so thanks for watching I hope you found that review very useful If you did have any other questions about the Tamron 17-28 Then drop a comment below Otherwise I'll put some more pictures up Of the capabilities of this lens on my Instagram So do check it out at Trending Reviews And if there's any other lenses that you want me to try For Sony E-mount cameras, then do let me know Otherwise I hope you like this video I hope you subscribe And I will catch you guys at the next one Take care


Hi guys, my name is Daniel Rosel, welcome back to my YouTube channel, youtubemediumanddanielrosel.com. So what I wanted to do in today's video is to demonstrate something a little bit scary. This is living on the edge you could say. As you can see I am recording my desktop with a camcorder, that's because what I'm going to demonstrate and test is doing a clonezilla disk image restore here. So let me just explain firstly what I have going on in this computer. Now I've talked about this in a couple of videos before, I've shown a restore using timeshift which is a much more, you could say a gentler restore option that I've used plenty of times. Clonezilla I haven't yet, you're actually used but I have gone through this test process a few times. It's always a little bit nerve wracking, this isn't a virtual machine, this is like my real desktop that you're looking at here. So the first thing that I want to do before touching anything is to just verify. So yeah in terms of the setup, this is SDA which is the first SSD on the computer, there is another drive called STB and that's where I put the clonezilla images, there's a third drive called SDC, that's where I put the timeshift snapshots and there's a fourth drive called SDD which is Windows on it so I actually have four drives in this computer. But the ones that are relevant for this exercise are SDA and SDB, we're going to tamper with SDA a bit and we're going to then roll back to the clonezilla backup on SDB. So the first thing I'm going to do is to just bring this guy over here and you can see this is the, firstly I'm just making sure that the backup exists before I go ahead and destroy my own data intentionally. So I took this, it says all the time, looking at the timestamps about 12, 12 and the current time is around 5pm, 5 or 6pm, let me just check, it doesn't really matter for this video, 8, 6pm so there's been about 6 hours since I took this backup and I backed up onto SDB so we're going to be restoring from SDB so it should be relatively quick given that it's running just between two disks that are both connected to the motherboard on SATA so it's not even an SSH restore. Now I have done obviously a bit of work on the computer in the intervening period. This folder, wedding photos is new but this guy's been sitting on my desktop for the last few days. It's a video that I made for one of these YouTube channels, not this one, Daniel Roso but my business one DSR Ghostwriting. So that's a good thing to test. Now let me just test a few things because let's not go, let's do this properly. This is my home music directory and I'm just going to delete a couple of folders. Let's pick something with not much in it just in case this does actually fail and I'm screwed and the rest of my day would be completely ruined if this fails in some way. Let's go for telegram desktop, that's not super important to me and this onion share thing I just installed it to test out sharing a website on the dark web, I don't actually care about it anymore so I can just get rid of that anyway. I'm just going to delete two folders so let's just make, I'm going to make a mental note of those, the onion share folder and the telegram desktop folder and let's also just nuke this video so I'm not going crazy, crazy here, I'm just deleting one file and two folders, one file on the desktop, two folders in the root user directory so that's that and now I'm going to go ahead and try to do a restore in order to get that data back. Okay guys welcome back to part two of the video so it's time to do the actual restore here. So I've just gone ahead, I have my clonezilla connected over live USB over here and my computer screen active here, now a couple of things to say firstly about this so the restore process is I think it's fair to say your average backup user whether that's a professional or an amateur like me, you're going to be doing probably 20 to 30 times the backups as you do the restores, you hope really not to use the restores but you do need to test them so this is probably a less familiar process for most clonezilla users so it really pays to do two things, firstly to read the documentation, they have good restore documentation, there are also a couple of videos on YouTube, I found a couple of Linux ones on virtual machines which is partially why I made this to show it on the real thing on bare metal but firstly just read those resources because they will help you out. So I'm just going through the first thing here and basically we're going to be doing device image, now if that confuses you just remember when we backed up we backed up device image so therefore we're doing device image again as just the polarities as such are reversed instead of backing up from our device from our computer to image to a clonezilla image we're going to be taking the clonezilla image and putting that onto the computer so it is device image just in the different directions so that's what we'll go for, as we said in the first part of this video we're simply backing up from one hard drive on the computer or it should be more accurate one SSD to another SSD so this is a local device restore, we're not, I mean you could if I had backed up to the SSH to my NAS there's no reason why we couldn't restore directly from the NAS over SSH but this is just a local device one for speed and for ease of demonstration purposes okay now clonezilla goes through, it does its thing of finding the drives on the computer so far so good it's found that I have four drives connected as I mentioned SSD, A, B, C and D that's great and the next thing it does is it maps out all the partition so that's what that's what it is doing now at the bottom of the screen okay so it's finished that process and here's where again we need to slow down and just make sure that we don't screw up because the consequences of screwing up a clonezilla backup or restore restore are prodigious if you get the source and destination wrong you will simply overwrite the you know if you let's just take an example that if you put the target as as the source in other words you're trying to back up a hard drive and you accidentally set that as target and you accidentally set your empty SSD a source or what's going to happen is you will completely overwrite your hard drive with nothing there'll be no information you'll wipe out the hard drive unless you have a backup you're absolutely screwed on the other scenario let you know let's not go into what could go wrong here essentially would be a situation in which I would put the wrong I would restore this I mean if I if I restored this system onto the onto the backup containing drive that may not seem like such a bad thing but that would mean we'd wipe out the backup and we've just broken the system a bit so we'd not be able to recover that data so that would be pretty bad as well so you need now we need to mount a device as home part image clonzil image repository so that we can read and I'm emphasizing the word read here so that we can read or save the image in home part image so read is what we're going to be doing here we're going to we this is where the where we backed up to uh where I backed up to the first partition of sdb I can see here it's a 223 gigabyte ssd yes that's sdb is my clonzilla backup drive and it's in the first and only partition so that is where we're going to read from not save to sdb one um and it's found that I have the backup created there it's it's found one folder in that in that entire um in that entire partition and there's only one partition in the drive so in that whole drive there is one folder and that is the backup so um now I tried before to click into you do now want to click into the image um and you'll see just in a bit this is where the first few times I tried to do a test restore I screwed up I tried to click into the sub folder and then it'll tell you um you you know we can't mount this uh as a repoint and you'll see why in just a second so just one good thing about clonzilla is um before you go ahead and do the fatal option it does give you a cut it does give you a couple of chances to uh abort basically so we haven't committed anything yet so if you're not sure if you're if you're not 100 sure just basically turn off the computer you can't actually abort a backup without adverse consequence but once it started writing on a restore it's much more dangerous so if you're not sure turn it off and have a breather that's my advice I'm going to actually go for beginner mode because um I looked at the the backup that we talk and nothing nothing special should be required to restore us um now here's where again it gets different let me just zoom up a small bit over here usually we're doing save uh disk or save partition to either save the whole disk or just save partition on it as a backup so we did save disk we save the local disk as an image and because again there's there's just this uh that image actually contains the entire disk not just not just sd a one it contains everything on sd a so if you do restore disk go for rest save disk restore disk save parts restore parts and if you do the restore partitions it'll give you an option so I'm going to go be going for restore disk because I'm going to have everything that everything in that image folder now choose image file to restore remember what I said a few minutes ago um it'll identify clone zilla is a smart program I mean it's brilliant in its simplicity in how low level it is uh but it's able to see if you if I had one two three four um backup image folders there it you know we'd be able to scroll through and say the second one is what I want for this computer so this is the only one so it makes life easy for us and restore disk here and again it's it's clone zilla I can't say enough good things about clone zilla every time you're maybe in danger it does stuff like you can see the uh uh upper upper caps here choose the target disk be over it and all data on the entire disk will be lost and replaced so do not get this wrong um so the target's fine sd a is my um primary that's where my linux lives um and that is yes going to be our target um I'm going to go for it no actually I'm not going to check the image before restoring because I checked it in the backer process which was about six hours ago so I don't think there's been any real risk of data degradation in the period uh since that so I'm going to click on okay now um I'll just do shutdown once we have run through it yeah it does a double thing there you go are you sure you want to continue um the program is not started by clone zilla server so we haven't done anything yet so basically the last thing to do here is just to make sure um warning warning warning the existing data will be overwritten all existing data will be lost the follow so let me ask you again and it's worth reading this I'm going to read it out to you let me ask you again the following step is to restore an image to the hard disk slash partition on this machine and that's given that provides the path to the uh it's mounted my backup um as home part image so uh this now this is really final stage it does not it asks you two times not three so I'm going to click on why for yes and uh I'm going to hope that I've just not ruined my day and now the restore is in progress so I'm basically going to go ahead and uh just turn off the video now and hopefully I will be resuming the screencast when we have a good um so you can just see in terms of what's actually happening so basically it's uh overriding uh sda and it's you can see the rate here is about 14 gigs a second remember I said that the um that the speed here will be quick now uh important thing that I should have said if you're doing this on a desktop I would recommend doing what I'm doing and uh having that desktop on a UPS you do not want to have a power failure while this restore process is happening it's really really dangerous um now in terms of what's in the speed about this 11 it's going down a bit to 10 gigs a second this is going to be about a uh you can see remaining clock is at 12 minutes so about a 12 I would estimate probably a 15 minute job it takes a few minutes to estimate the time correctly um and what's happening is it's restoring so you can see the device size is approximately 400 and 80 gigabytes that's what we're storing onto um there's 124 gigs in use and uh it's basically now just copying the data blocks from sdb onto sda restore the video in a few minutes um and what I hope to see is that we have done a done a restore everything's fine boot into the computer and ideally on my desktop I mean that that would be uh that would be good to know for me to enjoy the rest of my evening and then on the desktop we want to see that video that I'd leave it in those two folders and if all those things are in place then we can say that this has been a successful test restore hey guys welcome back to video and very pleased report that the restore has been successful so uh as you can see here this is my desktop um I can pause video myself and just see what's moved but I can see uh I obviously cleaned up my desktop some point this afternoon and we have our video of myself is back the one that we deleted that's back on the desktop and also going back to my home directory we can see that the couple of test folders the onion share folder and telegram desktop both of which we deleted as a test have been restored so that was it that was a test restore from a clone zella image uh I've done that a couple of times on to test mediums and on test and on an old laptop I've never done that um on my live computer so I'm glad to say that my computer uh has not been destroyed by that test and it's working so clone zella really really great tool for uh doing disk imaging free tool powerful tool you do need to take your time reading the documentation uh but uh just just to demonstrate that uh it really can guess um a computer back uh just at that deep low level so very useful thing to have in your backup strategy thanks for watching uh any questions as usual I'm available at danielrosil.co.io thanks for watching


Good morning to CMC Espresso, your daily news update from the Frankfurt Office of CMC Markets. Yesterday the energy department in the United States reported the second biggest weekly draw in U.K. and U.S. gasoline this summer, which fits into the summer driving season, where there is a higher demand for gasoline, but that was counted by an unseasoned growth in crude stockpiles. So crude went down yesterday and that was also driven by the news that Saudi Arabia is pumping oil at Reketai volumes in July and that added to worries about a global crude clot. The Bank of Japan meanwhile tries to identify why they haven't been successful with their monetary policy attempts. They just published a draft of what they found out and there are three reasons or three main reasons the Bank of Japan sees as the root causes for why their monetary policy didn't work. First is the fall, a sharp fall in the price of oil. Second is a prolonged hit to growth from the sales tax hike in 2014 and third is Japan's inability to shake off its deflationary mindset. Some see that as the precursor for helicopter money. So the results of that review or root cause analysis could be taken as some sort of excuse and to tell the people okay hey we've done everything by now, but now we have to do helicopter money because everything else didn't work. The Bank of England yesterday said that they will catch up their lost government bond buys in the second half of the year so they will take time or the next months. They do not want to catch up on those on those buys on the on the gap actually in the QE program. They do not want to do that tomorrow or today but they will take that time. The problem was that they have started a QE bond buying program but the problem was that on the secondary market the supply has not been sufficient because investors hold on to their government bonds because unlike the Japanese and German counterparts no benchmark UK bond yields have fallen below zero yet so there are still there's the money to make some investors do not want to sell right away. Then there was a study from the Bank of America and they found out that German invest or German companies do not like to invest because they actually have to build up large pension liabilities. Bank of America found out that those saving that savings of companies are a function of pension reserves and aging of the employees. So they found out that companies with an older employee or older employees actually are building up more reserves for pensions and they will automatically invest less. So that could be one reason for why there is deflation in the whole of in the whole euro zone that's the interpretation of Bank of America. If you look at the population in Germany it's not getting younger but it's aging and so this trend should Bank of America be right should just or would just continue to intensify.


if I could have gotten out of my own way and not slowed my progress to the point where I thought that so much had to be in place before I could really start out of stardom much earlier and for folks who haven't started who are waiting till they get the logo, the branding colors, the hardware infrastructure, the pitch down, the niche down. Some of those things you need to have obviously up front because you want to tell your story and you want it to resonate with the particular community but don't worry about all of that ancillary stuff. Go at your own pace, appreciate and understand the process and the journey. Start with what you have. Everyone's walking around with one of these and man I don't have an iPhone but you got a martin day smartphone that can shoot in 4k resolution. Start there. The content is what matters the most. You bring quality content, the community will come so get out of your own way, don't pause, don't hesitate just go out there and do because you've got a story and the world is waiting for you to tell that story.


Hello there and welcome. My name is Melissa Armo. Welcome to Melissa Talks Money. I'm going to talk today about something that you probably think is not related to money and yet it is. I'm going to talk about leap year. So right now 2020 is a leap year. This is something that comes about every four years. So what does that mean? It means there's one extra day in the month of February and the significance of that is one, it's very early in the year and two, it's happening in 2020 and 2020 alone is a very significant year.  Money is about numbers okay one plus one equals two, two plus two equals four. So you cannot ignore numbers or numerology when it comes to money and finance. Very, very, very important and there is a spiritual aspect to that. So this year particularly I think is a year of growth for many, many people not only because it's 2020 but also because it happens to be a leap year and in a few days it's going to be leap day which is February 29th which is Saturday and again I think there's significance to that as well because it's on a weekend. I'm going to read something to you here if you just want to listen to this for a moment. Many numerologists also believe that because the 29th of February is such a rare vibration it causes a type of ripple effect within us. This ripple almost creates an opportunity, that's a very good word, for us to leap forward in this moment in time and play catch up in our own lives. Wow that is unbelievably true. What do I mean by that?  I have like, I love those stickies like those little yellow stickies, like I have a million of them. All over there was a bunch of sticky this thing, this thing. Today, tomorrow, the weekend, this is you know, this is about playing catch up exactly what that just said. Gosh is that for real? Okay let me get back to this here. A leap day allows us extra time which is so important. What is money and time? They're so intertwined. A leap day allows us extra time to get things done and this creates a vibrational impact on the dimension of time in the universe of which we're a part of. Before the clock was invented, a long, long, long, long time ago by the way, the ancients not only looked to the sun and the stars for guidance but they also viewed synchronistic events as the way the universe communicated movements in time. These synchronistic events included seeing messages in nature and the behavior of animals, all the animals, in the tides of the ocean and also in the wind. With this leap in time that is given to us this year in February, it is important to observe any synchronicities that occur and whether they can provide to you clues about your own path of awakening and purpose. This is especially important if you are trying to make sense of what energy February 29th has in store for you. As nature and the world around us are always, always a mirror to our own experiences. Boy, is that true? And that gets back to the topic of manifestation which we'll talk about another time. Walking through February 29th is almost like walking through a rare portal. It is only accessible to us every four years. Why? Because each of our lives are unique. Each of our lives experiences are unique and different. Okay, that's what makes us great to be alive. To most it may just feel like an extra day, but if you challenge yourself to open your awareness and think about the deeper rhythm and flow of time in this universe, you may just be able to tap into a new energy within your own soul. From an astrological perspective, it is interesting that the leap day falls in the sign of the Pisces. Now, I don't know how many of you are Pisces or born of Pisces and again, I don't follow all that astrological stuff, but sometimes it can be interesting, quite frankly. The energy and essence of Pisces is truly about connecting with a deeper consciousness, emotions and spirituality. Love my consciousness, love my emotions, love my own spirituality. I tap into that every single day in reference to the market. Having another day to enjoy and the vibration of Pisces almost seems like the universe's way of reminding us about the importance of consciousness and our own spiritual advancement. And that's where the thing about 2020, that is exactly what I'm talking about 2020. It's moving forward in your own consciousness. It's moving forward physically in your own lives, but first in your mind and in your spirit.  And it's sometimes it's hard for people to keep up with me or relate to me or even understand what I'm talking about, because my spirit is so far ahead of like my physical reality, but that's what moves your physical reality ahead. So actually, it's a good thing, but sometimes it can really make me exhausted quite frankly. To make best use of the energy of a leap day, try bringing awareness to something that you wish to live for in your own life. And that could be your finances. That could be moving to a different home, a different location, a different city, a different state, a different country. It could be getting involved in a new relationship, meeting new people, it could be a new job. And it definitely, definitely could be making more money in 2020.  I can't believe how, how small people think. I, people don't have big dreams anymore. I don't know why, but 2020 and specifically a leap year and specifically Saturday, all day Saturday, you should be thinking big things. In fact, this is my challenge to you. This is a leap year challenge all day from the time you wake up in the morning, whatever that is, wherever you live in the planet on Saturday, until the time you go to bed on Saturday night, I want you to think completely unrealistic.  I want you to think and believe that things are possible that are positive, wonderful, fabulous things for you that you might normally think are unrealistic or impossible or crazy. I want you to leap into your future as if it's there as if the only effort that it takes for you to go to that place is you thinking it and imagining it and feeling it and living it for one whole day.  Don't think realistically, don't think about blah, blah, blah, blah, think from the time you wake up in the morning on that specific day, February 29 until you time you put your head in the pillow. I want you to think of everything you've ever dreamed and everything you've ever wanted in the greatest things in the world and things that seem impossible are going to happen to you this year.  They are coming your way right now any second on that day on Saturday, February 29th for 2020. Not after 2020, 2020. Okay, let's get back to this Pisces thing. The energy and essence of Pisces is truly about connecting with our deeper consciousness emotions and spirituality, having another day to enjoy the vibration of Pisces almost seems like the universe's way of remining us about the importance of consciousness and our own spiritual advancement. To make Pisces the energy of a leap day, try bringing awareness to something that you wish to leap forward with in your life. Oh my God, I didn't even read that there. I just said it. That is funny. Well, that then you then exactly what I said, but you have to live in all day on the 29 on the leap day, assess where you would like to create more time and energy of something and setting your intentions out into the universe. It's more than setting your intentions is actually feeling it as if it's already occurred. Those who are sensitive to the energy of a leap day should do grounding rituals, which which is important to it to do every day. So we're going to do we're going to do a I'm going to I'm going to actually go get this bowl here. I think this will be good to do at the end of every podcast just just just for grounding about what I said. So for those of you that don't know, this is a shocker bowl. Let's just take a couple seconds here right now while you're listening to this and let's think of three things. I know it's not Saturday yet, but let's let's start thinking about it. And by Saturday, you should have 30 things. But let's just think of three things here right at the top of our heads that we want to manifest for ourselves for 2020 to leap into from Saturday. We're going to leap right into it Saturday. Let's just take a moment of silence here and think of three things. I'm going to do what you're going to do it right now. All right, that's it. I got three things. I'm sure I'll come up with more by Saturday. So let's ring the ball. Wonderful. Leap day.


Oh, room, room for my birthday. Yee, yee, yee. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for Gran Turismo, a film that I went and saw on my birthday. And despite the fact that I haven't played up Gran Turismo games since the PlayStation 1, I was interested in seeing this because of the story that it's based on and the fact that Neil Blumkamp finally gets to direct a full-length video game-based movie. A stretch at that, but still a video game-based movie. The fact that he was coming in to do this movie, I still surprises me because I swear I thought I read an article, something back after Elysium, that he would refuse to work for Sony. I don't know if something happened with Elysium because I was trying to find it, but I swear I thought it was Sony that he would never come back and work with them again. I don't know, he worked for them on this one and, yeah. The movie follows this kid who is one of the best sim racers in the world in terms of Gran Turismo and he's given this opportunity by Nissan to come into this camp and try and learn and become an actual race car driver. And for the most part, this is true. The movie does take a lot of liberties of which I have not been able to discern them all yet. I've just been told to take kind of a lot of the bits of this movie on surface level. And for one thing, especially with how the movie ends in terms of showing the credits, they do show that he is in fact a racer. He did his own stunt work in this movie for the actor who's playing him. His dad did in fact actually play for a soccer team.  While you are somewhat invested in the kid's journey and wanting to become something, someone said this is like the Rocky for Racing movies and a little bit, yes, on that level. David Harbour is the reason why you want to watch it because he has been a person who had an opportunity but it slipped through his fingers and he's getting to get that second chance to this kid by helping him navigate those troubles, those issues and reaching those goals that he wasn't able to do when he was in his prime. His involvement in the movie is definitely the center, the heart of this film because every time he's on screen with the kid, there's just this really decent chemistry between the two of them and the banter and the kind of ying and yang between the two is very commendable. The other part I should talk about is just the video game elements between the CG of the kid coming in and out of a car the virtual, the kind of the place settings, showing the lines for someone who has played racing games, I got all of the terminology I don't know if people who haven't played video games will kind of be like what's going on but it wasn't over the top, it wasn't out of place it felt like considering what it is, it is based on a video game it is about a video game so I did think those parts were added into the film well and also the time of this film it's 2 hours and 17 minutes long and admittedly going in I thought wow that's way too long I couldn't tell what could be cut if anything there might have been more left on the cutting room floor especially with how the climax kind of comes about but every part of the movie is decently paced and I actually like the editing, there is technically speaking quick editing but there is a difference between the Taken bullshit of showing the same thing 13 times and the editing that's in this movie it's like Fast and the Furious of showing different elements the cars, turbines, the gears shift the wheels, the effects on the ground the car in motion, the atmosphere around it but it's done cohesively in part as well with the VFX that we've seen Neil Blumkamp knows how to use VFX especially when he doesn't even have any fucking money he knows how to do it are there maybe a couple shots here and there that might be a little bit there's one in particular during a Le Mans race where a car just it looked really bad in the trailer and it looks better in the movie admittedly that's kind of like my only complaint about the VFX there are moments of the film where you are generally shocked there are incidents that happened that I still have to figure out if they actually did but I don't think they would bullshit on certain things that do happen in this movie I kind of actually had a bit of Top Gun vibes like the first Top Gun movie I had a little bit of that in the lighter half of the movie Overall Gran Turismo is definitely a movie that's made for people who are fans of car racing games and the story of the kid becoming this racer and having David Arbor be his mentor give you the general audience that center that you would need for a IPA kind of story like this if there's any faults I feel that there's too much that's left out of the movie there's some acting in this movie that's a bit and there's some story elements some story beats that are like straight up copy and paste bullshit from other kind of run the mill underdog sort of sports stories but I still like it I actually left the theater with a grin on my face I thought that the race scenes were really well done for the most part respectful maybe the end climax is a bit like okay I think this was the only thing you could get in to have him be as like oh come on one last round sort of idea if anything it's definitely not for everyone like I think if my dad watched it he'd probably be like I mean he's the one who introduced me to Gran Turismo but overall I thought that the movie was commendable I think it did a decent job I'm happy to see Neil Blumkamp make a movie again and from what I've heard this movie is not doing too bad either so hopefully he can make movies again because it's been a while if any of you saw Oats and you know that none of those movies got the financing to become actual movies it's a fucking crime because some of those are the best dark dystopia sci-fi stories I've seen in a little while my rating for Gran Turismo is a 4 out of 7 I would suggest it I would recommend it I had a good time I left the theater and I had no regrets anyways guys those are my thoughts about the movie what did you think about it let me know in the comments below just a little bit of an update about myself apologies for taking so long to get things done there was this thing where Mark and I were going to review all of the SAW movies it was all anticipation for SAW X coming out in September however when we saw the trailer for SAW X and it's like SAW 1.2 in the timeline it was like okay if they are not going to put any fucking effort into this sequel why should we so it has killed my drive to want to do any videos halfway through editing our review SAW 3 when I saw the trailer and like fuck this anyways guys the camera just died but hopefully you liked the video if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe until then I'll see you guys next time


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Sam here with late sports cards ripping 22 at top's Allen and Ginter chrome baseball hobby 12 box full case break number two random team style there's a look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the Lincoln chat price is high wow same return that Hammonec got wow good luck here guys I remember I took Travis Hammonec in my what's it called in my I made like an expansion team and in chel and I took Travis Hammonec in the expansion draft I had some legends on that team Matt Duchain was my starting center I had Jack Hughes because I traded for the first pick in that year it was like NHL 20 he's like my one of my captains Brett Burns nuts dude it's so good it's in my opinion I don't have the new one I have last years my opinion it's the best sports game of all the big like the main five I would say because I'd probably include FIFA on the same tier as the other like main four major sports yeah FIFA's good I don't like I just I'm not the biggest soccer fan in the world inside the park is Denali base and base would have gotten two first yeah I thought he was gonna get two firsts as well Jose Miranda I mean that's what they were preparing for on the mini refractor rookie I'm scouting 10th graders now there's a green at 74 of 99 Stephen Dubner yeah Stephen Dubner on the green mini nice one there for the non MLB Vladigrero Jr green Salvi Perez to 99 25 of 99 for the Royals Adrian Beltre and Tyler O'Neill yeah true JP true there's uh Shenandoah National Park base and base yeah you can just do the same thing we did last time just golden under you think that's good right uh hunter green refractor rookie for the Reds Teddy Ball games mini and Mookie Betts and there's a frozen rope Max Muncie and Yuli Guerrillo Shane Boz refractor rookie for the Rays uh it's Jason Ellis and Hideki Matsui the Chanagir refractor National Parks is Mount Rainier Brian Hayes whoa now you're gonna do that that was on me Lucius Fox Davey cuts O'Neill Cruz base rookie for the Pirates DJ Friedel refractor rookie for the Reds Reese Hoskins Danny Glover mini hunter green rookie and Neil Moore explorer ducks on the pond lexicon is Emmanuel Rivera refractor rookie for the Diamondbacks Aaron Ashby mini rookie and Lou Bob Riley there's a orange Josiah Gray six out of 25 for the Nats nice one there James of the Nationals yeah they're printed in Europe I believe Chris sales so the stocks a little bit different because I believe they're printed overseas yeah the stocks really nice really really nice true blue Will Smith that is 45 out of 150 at Lopez Christian Yelich I know what you're saying Shane I know what you're saying 100% know what you're saying Jared Walsh and Eric Bobo let me drop you guys the link to Dynasty again down still it's six to go Dynasty Chad taking two spots and one of the mixers thank you buddy box two sup I L yeah it's a fun product then some really fun product overall Tom Siever National Park is Rocky Mountain National Park Loco Locain Rachel Balkovet uh Joshua Tree National Park TJ Friedel Max Muncie Seth beer rookie Johan Durand there's a Nick Allen gold 22 out of 50 nice one there fair manny fair fair true blue is field Yates that is 141 out of 150 oh yeah can of corn we're hoping we hit you a sprinkle tonight for sure Pawn did you hit one you were in the PYT stay with the Jags right you're having Jags brain close or no uh Tim House CJ Abrams rookie and Tony Oliva that is John Osborne baby cuts and Brandon Marsh rookie uh Alec Thomas mini rookie for the Diamondbacks Josh Winder Rachel Balkovet that was insane that was nuts nuts JP Rob Riggle Steven Kwan mini we're talking about it today too and then I had a personal after like later in the day like later in the night for personals and then I hit a we hit a Mac Jones tide IRPA Jake Croninworth and Hunter Green rookie it's unbelievable dude unbelievable say hey kid yeah it's just a night of math last night I guess J rod mini rookie yeah literally and see you man we're going base and base Kyle Schwab you Darvish and Bob Feller Buster Posey many uh Jose Ramirez rookie in Barron's Brandon Marsh for fracky rookie frozen rope my bad my bad why what's up manny there's a gold say a Suzuki 50 of 50 go to the Cubs nice one there Chicago James A there you go buddy this one say Andrew Benentendi Ramirez Pedro Martinez was overnighted J.J. Matt Tavich there is a Kaniyia Fjord's national park Barron Buxton I'll do it for box two box two is done a bunch more spots coming in guys thank you thank you again still need to fill up that dynasty third dynasty break of the night third and final dynasty break of the night still with uh six spots to go again every spot you buy gets you a random left side serial number one through 10 say you get the number five we pull it pull a card numbered five of five it's yours so you have a chance at multiple which is always nice labor that's hard father and Joe Mallory Kirby Puckett that is Kings Canyon National Park Joe West yeah I did Jeremiah surprise didn't get two firsts that's what everybody was saying I'm surprised the uh uh Matt Hamilton that is on the mini rhino Matt Manning yeah that's a little annoying that's a little annoying for sure manny yeah it's uh there's Cycle Lexicon Rice and Stop Westman there's a Grand Saint Great Sand dunes national park Larry Dovey yeah I saw that Chad thank you man Dave Winfield Miggy thank you Chad I appreciate you buddy 2023 rookie so far what do you mean like who are the big guys you're chasing after Javi Baez Aronola Roger Clemens thanks Chad appreciate your buddy as always like Allen mini rookie performance so far um I haven't really kept up a ton with like you have to kind of take uh spring training with a grain of salt um John Durant's very similar like pre-season NFL obviously uh East I mean the big guys you're looking for the two uh Orioles prospects which is going to be uh I mean the two Orioles rookies uh Conor Henderson and uh Adley then Michael Harris is another one the few others that's just to name a couple hey Susie Lizardo that is to 150 for the Marlins and Green Clayton Kershaw to 99 yeah Jordan Walker is a good one did he make his debut last year he did right nice there you go manny smart move no he hasn't been up yet my bad I'm I was I think I got him confused with Hunter Green Anthony Rizzo there's a Jared Hart Paul Canarka I was gonna say he's wicked young I know that he had his bowman first like super super early on uh is Petrified Forest for Volpe and Dominguez Dominguez had a moonshot a couple days ago bomb MJ Melendez mini rookie MJ Melendez Field Yeats McCutcheon 66 230 I know he's a giant dude uh Diego Castillo that is 38 out of 199 for the Pirates on the pink O'Neill Cruz I think it's possible I'd be surprised if it's the same MVP voting for either league this year Brendan Donovan pink nice one there to 199 for the Cardinals Gratz on that St. Louis Freddie Freeman and Ichiro yeah Wander's having a really good spring training Wander's having a really good spring training and another pink Randy Johnson nice one there 181 out of 199 the big unit for the Diamondbacks JD and Jose Berrios hunting up Berrios I think that's it I think Aronado has a shot his I mean his defense is just so good our tiered spots another tiered spot that'd be sold out on tiered now check that really quick one to go on tiered uh no Dylan Dylan today Higley no no no I don't even get fired no your Spencer Torcal said no he's doing like daytime stuff no Chris Sale he'll be in every now and then he'll like top load at night but he's mainly sticking to daytime for now old Royce Lewis nice one there for the twins 42 out of 50 that's Minnesota James again the doll Bruhan mini rookie uh Luke Westman tattoo artist there's a blue JD to 150 got a green Mel Ott it's going to be numbered 83 of 99 Whitmerfield you got to know this Dylan character trust me you don't want to Spencer send rookie Marcus Simeon uh National Park Yosemite yeah Mike we hit last case we hit a uh Juan Soto on card and a Randy Johnson Super Fracturato so pretty solid pretty solid uh cards there for sure Stephen Kwanmini that is Brendan Donovan yeah one of one Randy Johnson which is pretty nasty yeah big time super big time super Tony Oliva uh Jay Rodney mini rookie yeah it's a solid it's a solid product you got a lot of numbered stuff in the box too which is good plus you got all your minis and stuff worm burner this is what you need the super of Tom Seaver Ron Santo I'm gonna freak out Dylan if you pull the worm burner super I'm gonna lose my mind I want that so bad there's we got a red of Jackie Robinson on the mini going to the Dodgers heck yeah James congrats man two of five Jackie Robinson wow that's so awesome we'll get that mag for you that's really that's a fantastic card right there uh Louis seal mini rookie Charlie Sheen I don't think it's sandwich cards right here anymore right no I don't think they are I don't think they're in the chrome now I know that is inside the park uh North Cascades is Redwood Harmon killer group look at me is JD Martinez Frank Robinson right no Brooks Robinson Brooks Robinson whoops it's here it's sold out thank you guys wow that's awesome that's Angie it's just it's Alan Ginter they just put random stuff in all the time there's a pink Jeremy Pena now nice 164 out of 199 for Houston that's on that James again that is that door Chris Bryant Corbin Burns Osborne Duke Snyder I think just the there's I don't think there's any SP's in there it's just the minis have short prints they got bought by Fanatics JP so they're not technically stopping that's gonna be Rad Lopez to 99 no one Ryan and north so they'll have they'll be in 2025 they'll be printing uh football baseball and basketball yeah hell yeah Ramos rookie refractor Bryson Stott like this is one of the variations right here technically Anthony Rendon yeah the auto checklist is pretty big in this actually like if there's not really any bad players there's uh Ken Jin Rai you Luis Castillo it's a very like pool hauls is in here Jay Rod all the big rookies like big stuff for sure Ryan Reynolds Spencer Torvalson rookie DJ mugs dinosaur relic the fossils the fossils were crazy when those were in there that was an actual thing yeah they're like legitimate fossils that's so sick yeah check guys the link to dynasty again all right let's keep moving I don't know to be honest uh Manny I don't think they're as big as you'd think because they're like little they're very tiny like the fossils are very small so it's probably like a 180 would be my guess maybe a little thicker 240 something like that yeah they're not like they're not like legitimate like giant fossils they're just like little pieces Cornish Wagner there's a wander base rookie mini not base but uh mini rookie refractor there we go geez a brood refractor Juan Yepes mini rookie Morgan Murphy uh chin music with all Bruhan there's a Robbie Ray mini for the Mariners Sammy it's Sosa protection for the full t-rex display uh gold Matt Chapman 31 out of 50 for the uh Blue Jays trade turner oh off the top my head Yachty Molina um I think we use a local place to do it honestly uh golden I I don't know I'll prop my head I apologize on that rather than India Roger Maris or like Go Signs something like that need more though yeah running well yeah Brandon Marsh rookie maybe I'll try it's crazy how quickly we go through those like we had a stack when I first started it was like that thing really yeah I was just like take like all the stacks we got and we're like out of them now Johnny Bench Austin Riley Cody Bellinger obviously pulled big cards uh Korean Sharon Durand uh 49 of 99 it is inside the park olympic I did no I say it depends on the player I say it depends on the player yeah I think we probably get ours from a local print shop that'd be my guess blue Chris Sale to 150 Mel Ahulio your eyes Wanda Franco Jim Tomey to 150 for the Phillies nice one there you're at Philadelphia national park is Arches Larry Walker I've been boozled John Carlos Stanton pink to 199 nice one there that is on deck uh they're one a case generally John one or two a case for the autos so one out of every 12 boxes or so Bobby Whit rookie Andre Dawson is inside the park zero seconds a winning bed was 368 good god Bob Feller Dubner Tony Gwyn I don't remember off top of my head with the big chase out of Allen like regular Allen and Gunther was synagogue Wagner and Austin all right again guys we've got six to go on dynasty again that it's going to be a fun break full five box case of dynasty full five box case of dynasty you get one random serial number big stuff came out of it today and pulled a couple of Hamilton autos for sapping auto uh dual of Russell and Hamilton so yeah there's a good stuff in there for sure Joe gwan you to five Rafi diver's Kirby Puckett gold CJ chrome that is 47 out of 50 for the Rockies got mini Wanda Franco random March rookie Stremski Winder Balkevac yeah that's wild honestly it happens though man that's what's the good thing about it you have a shot at getting multiple stuff golden Zimbrero Dylan wears a golden Zimbrero to work every day every day everyone's like dude doesn't that distract you nope nope nope doesn't distract them apparently allegedly Ernie Clement whatever story that's spared there's uh Jack Sawinsky uh to 199 nice one there Derek Jeter true blue labor torres nice one there it's you 150 for the Yanks uh Sendog and Mariana National Park is Hawaii Volcano Joe Honduran National Park is Death Valley did you see how the gaming shop's coming along looks good dude I haven't been there either I just follow my Instagram for like all their updates and everything it looks good Erin judge that looks really cool I like pretty much sold out almost everything to around nine and thirteen we only have four group breaks for spots left tiered sold out fairings there's uh Zion Johnny Bench Matt Olson gold to 50 uh 33 of 50 for the Braves Brabos Matt Veerling and Ernie Clement Swinsky Adam House Johan Moncato Robbie Gray Green Cody Belinger to 99 that is 17 of 99 for the Dodgers uh hot corner Kenzie Gork Bradley Beal Monty Irvin Monty Irvin a couple of Monty Irvins in there there's Minnie Cowbrook and Junior and Jay Rod rookie for the Mariners CJ Abrams Minnie Cindi Gark and Corbin Burns all right halfway through the case everybody again here comes your link it's going to keep bugging you about it uh we have the non MLB spot T Dancin non MLB spot um yeah we have because there's so many non MLB spots there's so many non MLB cards it's just easier to make it an actual spot itself at Don Russ basketball and Bowman's best oh man dude that's gonna be nuts yep yep they get the parks they get uh all the celebrities sending celebrity auto all that kind of stuff yeah it's usually the most expensive spot in PYT so the non is a non MLB spot or at least one of uh park is Great Smoky Mountains Thurman Munson yeah that's the one everybody really likes that one always goes pretty much right away there's Steven Strasberg yeah Bowman's best is fun it's always it's always good like the two boxes they have really good inserts I love the uh the heat waves those are really cool when they have them in their Glacier Bay National Park Yogi Berra Tre Mancini many David Ortiz Tops isn't losing the MLB license Ernie Banks uh they got uh Fanatics took over there's taking over the licenses in 2025 and they bought Tops so there'll still be Tops products but it'll just be Fanatics licensed as well uh that is Chris Bryant to 199 uh we got Green Larry Doby nice one there too at 99 Malika Andrews Jeremy Pena refractor really nice one there Walker Bueller and Eddie Matthews DJ Mugs Matt Hamilton Royce Lewis rookie man ran best card one of one Super Fractor Randy Johnson Otto Pedro that is green light yeah I mean it is going to be a little different that's true got a oh gold Bobby Whit jr auto go into the Royals congrats Casey heck yeah man that's going to James hey let's go 43 up 50 big time hit right there congrats James with the Royals got that mag for you James that's awesome uh Katai National Park JD Martinez Brooks Robinson yeah it is definitely it is paul it definitely is bit on the phoenix impactful mixer manny chipper jones i'm telling your fiance favorite emote right there that we have Elliott Robles that was so funny to me sasa suki jake of the ground there's honus Wagner nice one there too 199 Steve at Carlton and Roberto Clemente your base errone oh gosh check on spots again you guys this link again to f1 dynasty still six to go on that one again breaks relatively soon it's going to be the third dynasty break the first two are sold out so if you want to get into dynasty tonight that is your only chance currently we down to on spots now we got to be under 10 probably on each yeah well under 10 on 1 7 and 12 to go on the phoenix impeccables pudger Rodriguez pink to 199 for the Rangers and a inside the park randon donovan thom glavin reggie jackson really solid overall paul we hit him for staffing two of two uh dual george russell lewis hamilton auto we had a jokwon u patch auto to five hit a lewis hamilton auto to 10 reese hoskins uh green two at 99 nice one there for the philis trevor story buster posie land steiner there's a yellowstone national park erinole a high chiefs land in donovan yeah drew rosenhouse sports agent base and base yeah i know manny we're talking about it earlier louise castillo to 199 and the pink for the mariners nicoladolo mini rookie lorenzo kane orange you darvish 25 of 25 for the padres nice you grads on that just got his extension over the off season right now right good lord uh inside the park is uh voyagers oh yeah tax oh yeah willy mccovey mini louis castillo who else is like big on the block in the nhl trade deadline ronnie chang like who else i know everybody who's expected to like all of the big names i know that were expected to be moved like like chicken was the last one baren buxton there's yordan alvarez not necessarily ken i mean you have there there's a chance that five people hit there's a chance that one person gets all the cards there's a chance one person gets two and three get one that's kind of how it works oh experiment bob feller yeah five cards per case so generally i mean statistically five people would hit but pickle sometimes it just isn't the case hard to green yeah serial number can double up yeah because you could hit one card that's 10 of 10 and then you get another different card that's also 10 of 10 eddie murray seth bier tj free to like theoretically you could hit uh five of 10 patch auto of max first happen and a five of 10 patch auto of like louis hamilton yeah just it just varies on the drivers and stuff uh that is a blue uh 2150 is brandon crawford last pack of box uh eight brandy la cruz rookie refractor green walker bueller to 99 and base oh yeah hitless packs are always fun i've gotten plenty of hitless packs from here so yeah yeah we never stop into two uh we hit a dual louis hamilton george russell uh number to 10 we hit a louis hamilton number to 10 a joe guan you to five uh pretty big valteri boat toss there's been a lot of big cards that have come out of that dynasty christine elch yeah a lot of big cards what's up smack good day mate leo radriguez yeah first happen had like half the bull on it too yeah i was a sick part orange charles correa for the twins nice one there that is 14 of 25 popfeller brandon woodruff there's a mesa verde mesa verde bank kim wexler attorney at law but it pissed me off curses zuki i think land stroll pisses like everybody off hi cheese like land stroll because i like acid mark it's my that's my f1 team ricky henderson yeah i'm doing well doing well smack how are you there's a joshua tree national park base and base probably wait junior mini rookie cast i think for right now they're just in the brakes can i don't know if we have any allocated the personals currently uh rois louis because we've been using them in the mixers to welker and tyler o'neill blue ryan mount castle uh is two 150 charlie sheen super green jome hour five of 99 that'd be wild charlie sheen super auto ejiro refractor there's uh inside the park uh wranglesaint elias to follow their onshore hey what's up onshore tony oliva what's up what's up drink two a day sugar free i'm a big red bull fan too i love me some red bull bae bruce you're a red bull guy or no oh no there's no drink energy drinks as much yeah i like celsius i like celsius what i've been buying or like you can get the little packets of uh um like a little flavor like powders and i pour it in yeah so i have them i just keep them in my car because i use them here all the time uh morgan murphy three of 99 on the green non mlb there's web gem super fracture yellowstone i don't know if you can get color on those doesn't look like it that olson nick ledolo mini yeah i like i i tried one of the fast switch gate raids recently actually they're pretty solid steven kwan steven kwan again neil more yeah i like the fast yeah it's kind of like a gatorade that just has caffeine in it basically that's going moncada cow raleigh and uh wilson trez did i i can't drink white cherry gatorade anymore it just tastes like soap at this point i used to love it too and i just i cannot do it anymore alex thomas that used to be like my favorite flavor too i love cherry flavored stuff it tastes like medicine yeah no i see that too oh yeah i've had the energy choose before and i was like 14 i ate an entire pack of them in one day like i just ate them all in one sitting it's not a good idea no uh the autographs in the super like low numbered super fractures tussle i would say yeah i like the strawberry modern watermelon that's the fast twitch that i got i generally like that flavor strawberry guys link again to dynasty full five box case random left side serial number style roberts base base i like celsius my only issue with the celsius that you get in a can is curvy pocket sammi so said they kind of all taste the same like outside of like the orange and like the peach they're like you could give me like five celsius flavors and i probably couldn't tell you which flavor it is that's my only issue i've been noticing with celsius recently brandon marsh i think it's more like sparkling yeah it's more like natural yeah i mean it's definitely it's definitely better like it's not good for you but it's better yeah for sure uh jonathan taylor pink to 199 i do like celsius so uh grand canyon national park celsius would still be my like energy drink of choice uh it's basically like an energy drink it's more of like a sparkling seltzer energy drink kind of smack to get healthier roy campanella yeah it's like a zero calorie like healthy alternative healthier alternative show hey otoni got a uh sequoia it's white the energy basically pretty much i mean that's not necessarily wrong vertical menta there's a glacier national park the packets are really good the packets i've been having is really good i've been really really solid yeah i've seen the mandarin melt marshmallow one yeah there's willy macabi that is 23 of 25 nice one there for the giants robin yelk and uh puppy rocky yeah i usually just drink one before work there's uh whit marifield to 150 stop jay blazing east green adolis garcia to 99 green tray meant a bunch of greens in here green tray man cd 99 mini and a green tray man cd 99 mini see if those are back-to-back serial numbers nope 13 of 99 and three of 99 interesting by the artificial flavoring that deteriorates my insides dude i can't ever since i saw what happened with bang i can't drink him anymore there there's chris sale yeah i just need 97 more exactly pizza man todd father kreatin yeah okay there's uh cycle i used to love him so i used to drink him like every day basically when i was working yeah when i was working my old job it was like i was working in sales so i was like six a.m i was drinking diet cokes dude oh yeah there's jeremy fainia i would walk in and i'm like still pretty good friends with my boss because he was like three years older than me there and he was like you are a psychopath original todd father spencer original todd father to walk in with like a cherry coke zero at seven yeah like 7 30 a.m he's like what is wrong with you way too early it's like drew elis there's gabriel rise there's like barstool posted something it was like the biggest menaces to society and like it's like you know they do i've ever seen barstool there's like the brackets yeah there's one it was like um helo metas it was like metas is the society and like number 15 with people who drink soda in the morning he sent me guys like that one's you definitely yeah shore bear that's a truck nasty nice one there for the rockies anthony rendon as well all right see how spots look now really six six to go still six to go only dynasty break the break yeah dean yeah you did actually this guy i told this guy at red vader he still won't leave me alone did everything i possibly coded my power to get him to leave me alone he's still long yeah that's dean's vader gold is it's your oh nice one there that is eight of 50 for the mirrors that is many badlands national park oh yeah for sure dean that was a lot of fun dude here called davie cuts and awesome at us brice and stock there's uh brice brice ganyan national park new jared heart to 150 let's cross korea mini lube up jambulok bashee jambulok bashee unique new york unique new york thurmond munson gold mini eight out of 50 nice one there i've gotten very good at jambulok bashee bass and bass jahan derav was a deravala he's the hard one he's the one i still can't get because i've like trained myself to say it at this point and i just i didn't learn it right apparently around the horn uh johan diran mini rookie are these good so just put the base in chain boss refractor rookie would you be down to order something like yeah that is rocky mountain and i think brice is here too you can see if you want to do anything auto lopez refractor refractor mini rookie one is donny's not here ordering matt manning rookie that is uh broken ladder steven strawsburg derawalla what's up don't ask me to get the rain to you now now you're no chance that is jack so winsky mini rookie wilson contras again guys still six to go in that third dynasty will amaze say hey kid pink air pink is austin riley 45 out of 199 nice one there for the braves the bravos alec thomas mini eric bobo chair is here it's up donar that is matt shatman uh grand titan chain balls landing donovan pink nice one there for the non mlb to 199 landing donovan tj fredel mini refractor rookie base there's jaren diran refractor rookie salvia perez hunter green rookie refractor mini touch was that yanni hernan does mini rookie for the diamond backs hunting up barrios one second again guys all right that's good rest spots as well yeah very few to go and football as well really just four group breaks with spots left tonight guys one dynasty two football mixers and one imac wwe random hit style so only and it's about to be just two group breaks with spots left potentially just one group break with spots spots left green jared walsh to 99 for the angels mini bobechette and honus wagner there's hosay siri mini refractor rookie falconerca got a inside the park rocky mountain national park hobby bias katalanzo reynolds and man ran blue ron santo to 150 36 out of 150 for the cubs color match it's uh shoestring catch mini kronenworth get some last box mojo here again because i think we had the the randy on the last box of the last one uh can i fjords national park erin ashby veerling refractor rookie loco flaherty pudra drigas and ricky palacios frank robinson went down for the uh reds padro and nick alan mini or not base base uh rookie not many lands mccollars jr jd martinez i think dany took a spot and richard took two spots we down to just three now on f1 dynasty bro we're down to just three to go on f1 dynasty thank you there dany and richard you guys are the best joey vato to 199 heck yeah we're down to just three spots to go guys mj melendez let me drop you that link one more time for the end of this break again just three spots to go now left side serial number style i think nelson as well for taking some spots in the football mixers all right let's get on with the rest of this uh break green is randy rosarana to 99 that is 33 of 99 for the race a alex rodriguez and a julio rodriguez both the americans rodriguez reception rodception and sound right okay it's getting kershaw uh it's gonna be a base base blue wander franco rookie there's a green chipper to 99 thurman munson my trout refractor nice one there that is why um volcanoes or volcanoes it's an extra action and that doesn't need to happen there's a uh herman marquette how about a ryan sandberg auto nice congrats on that chicago going to james not numbered rhino nice auto got everything's on card in this too so far nice rhino mitch hanager and we got our x-fractor is tom glavin case hit x-fractor going to the braves james a grads buddy nice x-fractor heck yeah we'll take it we'll take it oh neil cruise rookie corbin burns you can talk to him yeah i love i love tom glavin i love that entire braze rotation bobby white rookie especially because the yanks beat him in the world series uh clean up jeremy panion and adrian feltrey that'll do it for the break guys let me do a quick recap here thanks sir we had gold stuff 50 is what we're gonna start with uh we had a uh nick allen thurman munson matt wilson matt chapman cj crone each hero royce lewis uh oranges the 25 would be joceia gred ewe darvish willy mccovey carlos korea case hit x-fractor uh tom glavin for the braves ryan sandberg base auto a refractor auto for the cubs we had our mag cards were a gold sayasizuki nice one there uh that is again 50 of 50 for the cubs we had a jackie robinson red number two of five on the mini very cool right there and a gold bobby wit 43 of 50 for the royals that'll do it for the break guys thanks again for the fill next up f1 dynasty


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, the Vice President, and David Packard. Thank you very much. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, during the past four years, we have made great progress in rebuilding our national defense and in confronting the challenge of offensive or effective defense management. Credit rightly goes to our civilian defense leadership, particularly Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger. It also goes to our men and women in uniform and to the American people for their support in our efforts. We've accomplished a great deal, and we have much to be proud of, but there's still a great deal left to do. When our administration began its activities, the problem of defense management we knew would be demanding and difficult, almost as difficult as I had gotten that sentence out. There were various barriers to efficient management, including legislative barriers that stubbornly defied our efforts to remove them. And that's why I appointed an individual with unmatched management credentials when I appointed Cap Weinberger. And while overseeing our much needed buildup of our defensive strength, Cap has done a tremendous job at ferreting out waste and fraud. That's one of the reasons why you hear about it in the news. But a public misconception has developed from all of this. A misconception born at least in part of a drumbeat of propaganda and demagoguery that denies the real accomplishment of these last four years. The situation reminds me of the old saying, don't clean the skeletons out of the closet. They'll accuse you of murder. Well, we've ignored that advice in this administration. When Secretary Weinberger came to the Defense Department, he pledged with my full and continuing support to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of defense management. And he went straight for the skeletons in the closet, and there were many. Cap has put in place many management reforms, and more proposals are being considered both by the Department and Congress. I think all of the reforms and all of the new proposals should at this time be evaluated and reviewed. And so today, I've decided that the recommendation of Secretary Weinberger and in consultations with Congress to appoint an independent bipartisan Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management. They will review the progress already made in improving management and procurement. And we've also asked them to look at the organization and decision-making procedures at defense and give us their recommendations. In addition, the commission will study and report on the congressional oversight process as it relates to the Defense Department. It's my expectation that the commission will send us an eventual blueprint for action that will provide for continuing improvement in the Department of Defense's peacetime and combat effectiveness. This is an important task, and so I have asked David Packard to serve as chairman of the commission. He is a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, as you know with an impeccable record that includes wide experience in and knowledge of our defense system, the defense industry, and government. I will soon ask a number of other leaders in the business, legal, and academic communities to join us in this effort. And may I point out here that few things are more important to me than the work that this commission will do. Waste and fraud by corporate contractors are more than a rip-off of the taxpayer. They're a blow to the security of our nation. And this the American people cannot and should not tolerate. I want to thank Bill Dickinson of Alabama and Bill Roth of Delaware, who've been working on this issue in the House and Senate. They and many other members of the Congress have given us sound advice on the creation of this commission. I hope that Congress as a whole will support this effort and that together all of us, the administration, the commission, the Congress, will be able to establish the bipartisan support needed to ensure a strong defense for America and its allies. And I thank you, and now, Mr. Packard. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I'm very honored by your comments. And I am also honored by the trust you have shown me by giving me a chance to undertake this assignment. And you may be certain that all of the commission members and I who give this challenging task, you have assigned to us on defense procurement, on defense organization, on defense command and control, our very best effort. And I'm pleased also that you want us to do our job on a completely independent, nonpartisan basis. And that's exactly what we are going to try to do. The charter you have given us will make possible a top to bottom review and a tough review. Because of the importance of this assignment, we will do everything we can to meet the timetable you have set for us. I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to work with you, Secretary Weinberger, the military services, and the armed services, and the appropriation committees of the Congress to help carry forward the outstanding work that has been done during the four and a half years of your administration. Despite the controversy that has blown up over the defense establishment, I am quite sure that all of the people in your administration, all of the people in the Congress, and indeed all of the people across this great country of ours, share your goal. The United States should be second to none in military strength and in military capability. Secretary Weinberger has done a dedicated job in uncovering some of the problems in the management of our defense establishment. It is his strong resolution to go after these problems that has brought out a good many of these horror stories before the public. Weapons that don't work, consorbent prices for spare parts, illegal payments, illegal charges, and other evidences of a troubled situation. I know, as well as anyone, I think that these problems did not begin during your administration, Mr. President. I had to deal with the same problems when I was in Pentagon 15 years ago. But I want to say also that it's a nil win that blows no good. I think the public disclosure of these problems has produced a call for action by the administration, including the Defense Department, by the Congress, by the defense industry, and indeed from all of the people all across our country. Everyone agrees now that these problems that have been going on for too long, they've become too serious. And it's time we all join together to take some corrective action. I believe we can and will develop a real non-partisan team effort. The Defense Department, the National Security Council, the Congress, and the defense industry working together with a firm resolve to finally do something about these serious problems. And I'm convinced that we can with a real team effort improve the management of our defense establishment and assure the people of our country that they will get better value for the billions of dollars that are being spent.  And our commission will take a comprehensive and an independent approach. And we will not hesitate to recommend some tough action. And I know this job can be done, Mr. President. I hope that our commission, working with members of the Congress, many of whom are here today, and with the civilian and military people of the Department of Defense, and with many other groups from all walks of American life, will be able to do something more than just produce another report. I hope we can recommend to you, Mr. President, specific actions that will enhance our defense effort. Mr. President, I will do my very best to live up to the trust you have given me to serve you and the people of our country. Thank you very much. Thank you, all, ladies and gentlemen, and now you ought to get in the shade. We're doing everything that can be done, and I have no further comments that I'm going to make at this time. I'm not going to comment on anything other than to tell you. We're doing everything that can be done. They're off the plane, sir. Are they safe or not? They're off the plane? I'm not going to comment. Are they off the plane? I'm afraid so they're going to have a candy on them. Who's Frank? Who are you? Can it? I'm going to raise a hand. I'm going to raise my hand. I'm going to raise my hand. I'm going to raise my hand. I'm going to raise my hand. Mr. McFarlane, do you have anything to add to the President's comments?


Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday. I recently found myself at an airport, as I often do, sitting at the gate waiting for my flight to board, and I couldn't stop thinking about how everyone in the airport would, within a century or so, be dead. Which, in and of itself, isn't that worrisome to me. Like, I think about that a lot when I'm in a room full of strangers. Look at all of these people gathered together at gate A7 by a shared desire to go to Detroit on a Wednesday afternoon. And I think about how one day soon this moment will feel distant, and we'll find it odd that in 2019 people worried about X or believed Y or wore clothing item Z. And this present moment will feel fixed and distant, like an old picture does, like history. And then eventually this moment will be entirely forgotten, because all of the people who shared it will be gone. And isn't it kind of absurd how temporary we are despite all our efforts to feel permanent? The pictures we save, the emails we archive, the luggage we buy with a lifetime guarantee, as if a lifetime is a long time. All of which I would argue is totally normal and healthy stuff to think about when you are alone in an airport and the Wi-Fi is very slow. But then I started to think some more. And I started to feel really nihilistic and angry and kind of disgusted by everything. Like, in a century we'll all be dead, including this guy sitting three seats away from me talking on his Bluetooth headset about supply chains. And I cannot believe how loudly that guy is talking and also just how much stuff everyone has. Phones and luggage and highly stylized clothing. And then I start thinking about how this is the hunger games and I am a resident of the capital and how all this stuff we've acquired and cared about will end up in landfills and how our air travel is adding so much carbon to the atmosphere and not for any good reason in the end?  We will be nothing but an odd brief blip on the radar of this planet's story, which itself is an odd brief blip in the larger cosmic story and nothing matters and people who believe otherwise are mindless idiots. It is astonishing to me how quickly my mind can journey from, I bet, people of the future will feel like our clothes looked weird, to all effort is meaningless because nothing matters. Like, I'm never more than a couple minutes of thinking away from abject nihilistic despair, but then when I go to the airport with a friend or something I'll eat a soft pretzel and chat amably about the travails of AFC Wimbledon and feel like the human enterprise is good and noble and beautiful. Brains are so weird. The thing is, I think both these worldviews are correct, like human life is beautiful and also we are all going to die and much of what we cared about will be rendered irrelevant by the inrushing tide of time. The question for me is not so much which of these ways of looking at the world is true, it's which of these ways of looking at the world is productive. And if despair actually decreased my carbon emissions I'd be all for it, but mostly it just kind of renders me empty and inert. I work when I feel hope when I am able, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once put it, to hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle. Ultimately, I believe that effort is never futile so long as there are people to share in that effort and people who might benefit from it. In the grand scheme of things, maybe nothing will matter, but we don't live in the grand scheme of things. We live here, in the day to day, at Gate A7 on an early Wednesday afternoon. And we struggle on together not because humans are great and eternal, but because we are vulnerable and weak. We need each other. We struggle on in the hopes of the lives to come and of the worlds to come, but also in the hope of the lives we are sharing now. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.