Hello everyone and welcome to our talk trust the hamster That is such a weird title. Isn't it who came up with that title? No, do you know? Yes, I know but this guy has left the team for girl called Irene left the team I see for a girl. I Well, anyways, we'll be talking about the bid service today My name is Peter. This is Norman and Let's get the most important things out first What is the most important thing? We have a new logo and it's a hamster and the hamster says hello It's a hamster because the hamster eats your bits and nuts Eats them all and rum rum rum and it keeps them for you until you actually need them again We also have stickers. So if you want to come come to us after the talk We have lots of stickers also at the IBM booth. There is more Yeah, so whenever you see the hamster, you know, this is about the bit service and With that, let's talk about what the bit service actually is and get some recap Yeah, what is the bit service? So the bit service is a official cloud foundry Incubation project the functionality is an extraction from the cloud controller We built an cloud foundry come an API for object stores and what does it it does handle bits So what does it means it handles all the packages the build packs and the droplets? So build packs or the runtime packages. That is your code and the droplet is the Container representation for Diego So why do why do we do it? right What we want to achieve is separation of concern in two levels one one level is the organizational part We would ship this the responsibility for this bits handling domain to a separate team And on the other hand, we want to have this micro service approach that we can For example get load out of the load away from the from the cloud controller have independent scalability Get better maintenance With that we get a lot of flexibility hopefully and yeah, and one one thing one thing more is that we want to also have Independent deployments without rolling a cloud controller. That's one thing and performance improvements. So performance improvements Was already something There was actually something yes, so we this year we did a re-implementation of the bit service in Golang and Since that it has become lightning fast But that wasn't actually the original reason to rewrite the bit service in go So let me back off a little bit Originally the bit service was written in Ruby and it was simply because the bit service was an extraction from the cloud controller So far a cloud controller handled all the bits now its bit service and for that reason it was written in in Ruby and There is nothing wrong with that actually It's just that our code base didn't age quite well. So we saw actually several problems One problem was that we had a lot of code duplication now our code Another problem is that we noticed that with the framework that we used in Ruby in this case the Sinatra framework It's actually quite difficult to get proper dependency injection. It was kind of annoying We noticed that our log files were a complete mess So whenever you would get a bad request or a 404 not found And you look at the log file to understand what's going on. Why is it a bad request? You couldn't figure it out. There's there was a lot of noise in those log files, but they were not very helpful We also spent a lot of time configuring engine X which we use as a proxy for the bit service or which we used as a proxy for the bit service and That was really a huge time sink and might just be that we're not smart enough to understand this conflict But it just didn't work very well for us Another problem that we noticed with engine X was with monitoring So we were using stats D like most of the projects, but it seemed impossible to get stats D metrics for let's say request response times request sizes Status codes and so on out of the box and so there wasn't a very easy solution to do that With all of that, of course, you could still fix it in the old code base But that at that point we felt like it's marginally more effort to do a rewrite in Golang And so that's what we did and it actually came with some really really nice benefits that we didn't even expect at that point And that's the performance improvement. So let's talk about those Yeah, it was really a surprise. So what did we we did a test where we fired 10 concurrent request against a bit service with a local Blobster backend and We did no special tweaks. We just used the Golang implementation with a max library and review implementation with a Sinatra framework and Did this this simple test there when we look at the counts Forget requests. We are 200 times faster than the Ruby implementation sorry for that and for for put requests, it's it's around 50 50 times faster and would We just want to emphasize. I mean, this is not a specific Ruby problem very likely it's probably the combination of Ruby and Sinatra and potentially other things how we do it in the bit service, but yeah, this is simply what we saw Yeah, it's it's as you see as you thought this is only what we what we observed on the on the test So with all the with all this great news, I mean, when is when is this available, Peter? When is this available in fact the bit service when GA last week, so now it's available in CF deployment as an ops file so it's very easy easy actually to use the bit service in In Cloud Foundry that didn't render that well, sorry for that But so what you really do is just you do your usual Bosch deploy specify CF deployment YAML and then you add two additional ops files One is the one use bit service and the second one is config a configure a bit service with Your desired back-end we support support all the back ends that the cloud controller currently supports that is s3 GCP web dev local open stack and so on So it's really that simple Those two line add those two lines to your Bosch deploy and you'll have bit service in your deployment But I think there was another a major mile milestone that we hit this year Norm maybe you can tell us more about those Yes, I can for sure big milestone is we have running the bit service also in the IBM cloud public So and with this we get this cool thing Matrix so let me phrase you the comparison table a bit We know that cloud controller is not a not comparable with bit service But what we here compare is the bit service the bits handling the main, right? So only this is the comparison not anything else. So let me let me let me explain it. So What is if you have the cloud controller? He handles the bits for you, right? So if you enable the bit service nothing change, it still handles bits but what you get for free is this kind of matrix which is Ah, good good to know So you get response times you get response size and my personal favorite response status codes Okay, no Sorry, so now sorry that was a joke and that is how it looks like in our production system And so just to add to this I mean this has real Value in production systems because what we saw at least in bluemix is when it's unclear If there are issues like your your system degrades in performance For example a cloud controller returns slow responses, and you have no idea where it comes from Just knowing it's just from that separation Knowing that it's actually a blob star handling which is slow and which is not which you can now see from the bit service Actually makes it pretty clear where it comes from whereas if those metrics are actually fine Then you know it's something specific to cloud controller So we get a lot more transparency here when it comes to bits handling versus other API calls against the cloud controller Yes, indeed. All right. So with that I have another Another secret to share actually Norman. Oh secrets secrets are good We are getting married get what getting married. What yeah, we're getting married we the bit service. Yes We're At least we got engaged. Let's let's say we got engaged We got engaged with Irini or I should I should say Irini like we learned Yesterday, so who knows what Irini is who saw the talk yesterday Me too. Yeah, who saw that who saw the talk yesterday. Oh Okay, she watched them definitely on YouTube. So I'll I'll give you Irini in a nutshell it's cloud foundry coming together with Kubernetes and The demonstration that Jules gave yesterday was pretty impressive. So you could see how you can do your CF push and Your app actually gets run in Kubernetes there is one small thing missing actually in that whole chain and it's an OCI image registry and The bit service can actually fill that gap because the bit service is already the master of droplets and An image for Kubernetes is basically just your root of s plus a droplet on top of that That's more or less your image. And so the bit service is actually the perfect spot to provide such an image and with that The way it looks like when when you actually Push an app looks like this Cloud controller goes ahead and says hey stature. Can you stage this app for me? And then the stature says, okay? Hey bit service. I've just built this droplet from a package. Can you store it for me? I'm a bit server says sure done and then the cloud controller talks to Irini and says hey Irini Staging is done. Can you schedule a container for me? And then I Irini says sure I'll ask my friend Kubernetes to do it And then it says hey Kubernetes can you schedule a container for me? You can get the image from bit service Then bit Kubernetes just goes ahead and said sure thing says sure thing. Hey bit service. I need an OCI image From the droplet you start earlier and then the bit service just says here you go So that's the basic flow how it works between cloud controllers stature bit service Irini and Kubernetes and With that we'll show a quick demo of what this looks like. We actually wrote a little Proof of concept so it's not done yet, but the proof of concept already works so this Okay, and Really sorry for the for the bad rendering here couldn't figure out what the problem was here All right, so what I have here is a couple of windows on the top right I have are you usual CF apps in a watch command? So we see all the apps that are currently running in our cloud foundry Right below that I have all the Kubernetes pots that are running Which which were started by Irini, so that's in the Irini namespace and then on The bottom right I'll show the events that Kubernetes will show us which happen in Irini So we'll just watch that actually let me Clear that and do it again Here The focus yeah, it all yeah Really sorry for that. I don't know. I'll okay. Let's do the following. We'll just create another small window So we'll make them all gray So now you can read them at least as long as they're not focused so we also open a log file for the bit service and With that We I'm here in Dora and I'll do your typical CF push And we'll run that So now what you see is just the normal staging that's happening So you can already see that it it created the app in the cloud controller on the top right It's Sorry, let me show you here a little more. So here you can see the whole build pack thing and then staging it. Yeah now it's installing all the Ruby gems and As soon as the staging is done, we should see some interaction on the top left. I'm sorry The bottom left and the bottom right So now you can see it Here Kubernetes just told us that it pulled the image right here From something that is called registry dot some IP dot nip IO and this is actually just the bit service running there and serving the OCI image to Kubernetes and It's done. So now we can Curl Dora We can see that Dora is responding and that's it that's Bit service working together with Irini and of course just like we did with Kubernetes any scheduler that supports OCI images like mesos Knative obviously Doc a swarm it will just work with bit service as an OCI image image registry So everything what works with docker pool should we work with us exactly? Right and with that We have office hour this office hours this afternoon at 250 till 320 so please come as I said, we'll have more stickers. We'll have time to answer questions Yeah, that's it that's it wrap up Yeah, can you start again? Oh, yeah, sorry, right the last slide Okay, yeah, awesome stuff to share really really really cool But let me say this this this stuff we did it not alone. There's a lot of people involved There are people which bootstrap this project. They are named here. There was Stefan Ulick Simon Moser Steve Witzel, Thiago Scolari and Mark Chung and the current team setup is Peter Goetz to be as Zipful and myself Norman and We are still not at the end. We are happy to receive contribution feedback from you Also, if you want to work with us, you can join the team Talk to us on Slack. That's the Slack channel bit service and And yeah, I would say that's it bit service is ready for you. So thank you. Thank you And yes, we have enough time for questions. That's right. Oh, that's one idea far away Thanks. Thanks a lot for for this presentation and a demo. I was wondering now that the droplet can be saved as OCI image in their way that the user could Then we found that in their docker support in Cloud Foundry as to get reproducible parity from non-prone to prod Currently when using these packs, they had to download the droplet and then use the binary build back to run that again there thoughts with the The Digo team and the CAPI team to make a consistent experience that the user can do a safe push get the droplet saved into bit service and then reference this image on the next CF push using Docker support What you asked or should I say the question was is this OCI image what you get from bit service Has this the same state like the current droplet in in what would Jago represent? Is that the question? Can I use this OCI image as a source from doing my safe push with the minus docker option? Yeah, okay Good question. Yeah Since so we're very early in this process. I don't see why it would not work On the other hand, I'm not sure yet if if we'll make if we'll expose this image to to clients But it's certainly possible. I wouldn't yeah, I think it's possible I think we'll need to have more conversations how we want to do this But might be possible Thank you any more questions All right People in the back prepare your next question Fun run was not enough for you, right? That's what I just thought one question Can you elaborate a little bit about the scaling? So should I have one bit service VM pair 10 API nodes or something like that? so We don't have good experience with that yet The way we run it currently in IBM is that it's actually co-located on the API VMs So it's co-located with cloud controller and that was That's actually also for now our long-term plan because the feedback that we got from the rallying team is They want to reduce Vm footprint as much as possible right now when you use the F deployment it'll create a separate bits VM But the plan is to merge that back into the API VM and this is also our setup in in IBM currently That being said my hunch is that we can do with much less bit service VMs than cloud controllers, so For now where it's still a separate VM. Yeah, I think like you can probably go with Maybe just three depending on how big your environment is obviously But I think you can go with much less than cloud controller because it's there is as we showed the performance is extremely good And also for if it's a non local blob store We just provide a redirect on all get requests and so it's served from S3 for example anyways Yeah, but long-term it'll will merge it back into the API VM that at least is the current plan It's again, huh? Yeah Yeah, should I move back first? I Like the metric stuff. So I think it definitely helps for troubleshooting and we had our experience also there Question in the same direction. Do we also have tracing of the request that go to the back end like Be it Swift S3, whatever So it At least at the moment. It's not really transparent if something goes wrong in this place. Yeah We don't so for As three for example, we have kind of a low-level logging Something that is actually provided by the AWS Golang SDK and when you enable that you get like the specific request that was made against the back end for open Stack we don't have something like this at this point because if I remember correctly There there wasn't like something out of the box to use if there is actually That we'd be happy to integrate that because it's super helpful But yeah, so right now It's we have this kind of low-level tracing only in S3, but we'd be happy to add it. Yeah Any more questions? If not, I would have one but like you showed how to enable the bit service in via Bosch essentially and the ops file What if I already have my blob store set up cloud controller set up Etc. Etc. Can I just add that line and assume that like all the blobs Continue to exist. You can just add it. Yes, exactly. It's all compatible and the nice thing is even if something did go wrong You you can just remove those ops files and deploy again. In fact There is a little flag in the cloud controller a bit service enabled true or false You can just set this to false that will mean the bit service is still there running But it's not being used anymore, but we have hundred percent Compatibility between cloud control and bit service Awesome. Thanks Any last questions? If not, thank you very much. No questions. Thank you


I spoke to five guys in the afternoon, all guys trading at least 17 to 25 years. They said they wouldn't touch this thing. They wouldn't touch this thing because again, this is the widowmaker. This is gonna break up more marriages than Bernie made, right? This is that. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, good morning everybody and welcome to another edition of the AccessaTrader.com weekend update show. Hope everybody is doing well. First and foremost for all you guys who just watch our broadcast, especially on the weekends, I want to welcome you board number one, but I want to definitely wish you and your families health and happiness and lots of love again this holiday season. We are what, five days away, four days away from Christmas. The best part of the year, at least for me, it's all about the kids. It doesn't make a difference what I get, what I can, you know, it's all about the kids. And for all you guys, especially for parents, you really appreciate how the look of your children's faces come Christmas morning, how old they are, it doesn't make a difference. They could be one years old, they could be 30 years old. It's just all about the family unit, the love that we've tried to create year after year and hopefully everybody's around for a very long time. So let's talk about the market. So if you're a trader, okay, you can meet a young trader, right? A young trader in the 20s.  But it's very rare that you come across a trader that was once young and now they're old. And there's a big reason why, okay? The greatest gift you can give yourself is starting out as a young trader and then being called old, right? Being called old in this business is phenomenal. That means, again, you've withstand the time. You've withstand everything that the market threw you, okay?  We try to convey this message every single week because there's a lot of new traders that started watching this platform. And again, my consistent message throughout the years is, again, there's nothing that you're going through that nobody before or after is gonna go through as well. It's just a dynamic cycle of preparing for a trader. And when you're a new trader, you're trying to prove yourself, whether it's to yourself, your peers, unfortunately in this day and age, because of social media, to some random avatars that completely have no bearing on your life one way or another. But you're young, right? I get it. You're trying to prove yourself. So you're trying to show everybody how smart you are and your level of trading is exciting. You win big, you lose big, right? It's very exaggerated because again, it's all about the name. It's all about your ability to be known. I get that, right? We all have gone through that in the age of 23, 24, 25 years old.  You really do, okay? You don't care.  You don't care about opinions. You don't care about the noise. You don't care about anything. It's you versus the charts. It's you versus the market. It's your process versus somebody else. Again, we're not betting on stocks. I don't bet on stocks. I bet that my process is going to be more superior than the person on the other side of our trade. That's what we're betting on as we get older. And our trading, at least when you start hitting a certain age, once you're in 10, 15, 20 years plus in this business, it's boring, man. You want every day to be the same. It's boring. It's methodical, okay? It's non-invasive. It's everything that, everything that, everything that, everything that, everything that everybody's trying to do that it's only individual to you. And the problem with the exciting trading, okay? The sexy trading, the wanna be known trading, the telling everybody how smart you are, you can have a very loud and very sexy results both good and bad. And as everybody knows, I love Tesla, okay? I don't think anybody on the planet loves the stock more than I. I short the stock, I go long the stock. I love the stock. I love the company. The CEO of the company is one of a kind. What's not to like, right? There's a lot of people, there's a lot of hate, there's a lot of animosity on the other side of the equation. That's why the stock is so appealing, especially to a lot of seasoned traders and a lot of new traders as well. And the point is here, you know, I traded Tesla pretty much every day going into the rebalancing. Everybody knew the inclusion is because again, I don't want the circus. I don't want the noise. I don't want the algorithms dancing on my forehead. Okay, we don't want any of that. It's like picturing trading on a Fed Day. Like I hate trading after two o'clock on a Fed Day because it's very unpredictable. One headline can really take you out of the trade so I kinda stay away. The Tesla rebalancing on Friday was a Fed Day times a thousand, okay? And everything that I want in my day, boring, lethargic, predictable was not Tesla. So we stayed away. I had no interest in any of this stuff. And I logged off around 2.30, 2.45 on Friday because again, I didn't wanna sit there watching what was gonna happen at three o'clock because I knew, right? I kinda knew. Again, you watch the movie, the same movie over and over again, you know how it's gonna end. And I tweeted out, if you go on my regular Twitter, the Twitter account, I tweeted out in February of 1990, Mike Tyson fought Buster Douglas in Japan and all the retail money, all the retail money was saying he can't lose, he cannot lose. There is no way Mike Tyson is gonna lose to Buster Douglas. All the retail money, all the gamblers are on Mike Tyson. Yada, yada, yada, Mike Tyson gets knocked out. And the moral of the story is when everybody, especially retail, is going one way, usually bad things are going to happen. And when you look at Tesla, what happened, and again, I wasn't around to witness this and I wasn't around to witness this on purpose. I just didn't want to, I didn't want this to kinda mentally, you know, hang on my brain. Even though I wasn't allocating any capital, I didn't have an opinion on this thing, but I knew something, you know something bad's gonna happen because again, this is what the market is and this is what the most aggressive stock on the planet dictates it's gonna happen. And from what I saw after I logged back on, number one, there was a $50 pull on one sequence, right? $50 pull on one sequence and an $80 move back and this is on one bar and this was 71 million shares. Now, I don't know about the rest of you guys, right? When I'm trading Tesla, two, three bucks the wrong way for me is pretty, pretty considering. You know, it's a pretty, pretty good, pretty good hickey. I can't imagine, okay, what 50 points of 50 point pull in a matter of minutes. I couldn't even, I would be slicing my own throat so I don't get it. So the idea that you could stay in a trade like this knowing that the ramifications could be deadly, account tilt and you wanna do this for a living is mind blowing to me. It's absolutely mind blowing to me and I just don't understand why you would put yourself in a situation that you can potentially go on tilt. Now, again, if you are a more experienced trader and you were shorting the rebalance or buying it in the hole, but again, you kinda know what you're doing because again, there's a lot of people who trade rebalancing and they've been doing this for years.  Because again, there are casinos all over the world. Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Pennsylvania, all over the place. There's Monaco, there's millions of casinos around the world. This ladies and gentlemen, again, if you are serious about being a trader and you are really committed to kinda doing this on any level, whether it's part-time, semi-part-time, full-time, whatever the case may be, this has to be eliminated, okay? It doesn't make it, there's absolutely no reason why you put yourself in a situation that one trade could put you on tilt, okay? And I have to assume, cause none of my friends, I spoke to five guys in the afternoon, all guys trading at least 17 to 25 years. They said they wouldn't touch this thing. They wouldn't touch this thing because again, this is the widowmaker. This is gonna break up more marriages than Bernie made of, right? This is death. And if you made money on this thing, just understand that you didn't do anything right. You didn't. It's just, again, it's like betting. You have a slate of football games coming on. You have two today, you have a whole bunch tomorrow. It's like betting the game and winning. That's all it is. So if, and again, you don't have to listen to my advice, you know, again, that's cool. That's great. Everybody's adults, everybody has their own money on the line and you could do what you want. But again, it's much easier to listen to advice than the after fact of what happens if you don't. And again, it's just something that, if you're considering to be in this business for any type of longer term duration, again, we don't want sexy, okay? We don't want exciting. We don't want the hot stock. We don't wanna be anything where retail is touching. Again, if you believe in the theory that retail loses 90, 95% of the time, again, why would you wanna be in the same trade with them at the same time? It just doesn't make any sense. If you think about that statement, you really appreciate what I'm saying here. If you don't, that's cool. Again, we could always agree to disagree, but the moral of the story is if you get in, if you wanna stay in this business, do yourself a favor, find the process, and it could be anything. You know, it could be E-mini, small caps, mid caps, trading pivots like I do on beta. You could trade whatever you want, just make sure it's boring, okay? Make sure the whole recipe for your success is one step at a time, baby steps, longevity, okay? And keep it very simple that you can have control of the trade. This is not control. This is the opposite of control. So hopefully, if you guys did well with this thing, congratulations, if you got caught in this thing, hopefully it'll be a lesson that you can recover from, but the moral of the story is again, your goal every single day is stay in business and make it to the next day. So let's talk about quickly about the market. You know, markets, again, nothing materialistically has changed.  We got about what? Two weeks left, 11 days left in this year. Nothing is gonna be decided. Futures are very strong. You have the NASDAQ, up 3%, the Dow, it squeezed out a little bit of a gain, but again, the stock market is very, very strong. Small caps are going crazy. Random moves, you have your SPACs going nuts, your EVs going nuts, obviously Teslas all over the place. The one group, again, that's lagging has been beta. You know, for every one big move that we see, right? You know, for every one big move that we see, it doesn't follow through. You know, Apple, again, had a chance to really, really get exaggerated, didn't follow through. But again, they're still good, right? If you look at the macro view of these charts, they're still good. Netflix, again, looked great.  And again, if you look at the macro, again, macro big picture, they still look very, very good. But again, where the hell's the follow through? So maybe, maybe this year, or at least the year that's coming up, we finally get a more orderly market.  But maybe the market comes back to embrace orderly trade, right? The Amazons of the world, the Googles of the world, the Facebooks and the Apples and all that good stuff. Although again, they've had great runs, but they haven't had great runs in the last two, three months. And the mantra of these names have been one good day, sell off for two weeks, one good day, sell off for two weeks, sideways, sideways, sideways, sideways, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. So again, this is my bread and butter. Although again, of course I'll trade everything else because again, this market has taught us that there is speculation, money flow, with some good liquidity that you could still take advantage. We'll get the, get to Friday's pivots in a second. But the bread and butter are these pivots, right? The bread and, excuse me, the bread and butter are these beta names. And it would be nice, just asking the market gods, it would be nice that we can get more than one day every two weeks on every individual stock. Just saying, it would be nice. But like I said in the last week's video or maybe the previous week's video, I do believe just because the success of so many fund managers this year, their last raising of capital for the year, they have to allocate their money somewhere, okay?  If you again, like if you, if you are a technology based hedge fund, okay? Or an index fund, again, you're not gonna allocate your money, at least not here. You're not gonna allocate your money to Tesla up here, right? You're gonna allocate Apple, okay?  You're going to probably allocate your money to Amazon. Again, Amazon hasn't done anything, okay? Look at Google, right?  Again, it's not a runaway train, it's holding the bottom base, right? Facebook has done nothing. Look at this, Nvidia, oh my God. I mean, I mean guys, for all you guys who've been watching this video, look how long I've been talking about Nvidia, okay? Since it's gotten sideways, literally, since November, okay, or almost in January, hasn't done anything. But again, you could see the light in the tunnel, a 50-day moving average. You could see it, just has to get over it, right? So I think going into 2021, you're gonna hear a lot of opinions. You're gonna see a lot of people give their take of what they think is gonna happen. You show me one expert, you show me one fund manager, you show me anybody with any type of worth of credibility that could have predicted number one, and we're gonna be in the worst global pandemic since like the influenza, right? The Spanish flu for God's sake, right? Measles, smallpox, I don't remember, right? And the market will be at all time highs, okay? You show me that person, I will take every part of my possessions, liquidate them, and give them my money to manage, okay? Nobody knows, guys, nobody knows. That's why again, stop with the predictions, stop trying to figure out how you're going to beat the market. Take it day by day. The one thing that's taught me, and again, I'm like 21st year, the one thing that's taught me is again, we're not smart, we're idiots.   Again, I don't know how to change a tire. I never have, right? I've changed one light bulb, no, excuse me. I've hung up one sconce about a year and a half ago, first time ever, and I had my wife helping me, my wife's cousin helping me via FaceTime. I was on YouTube, right? 28 people helping me to fix one sconce.  But again, through repetition and screen time, right? And just over and over and over again, again, the movie doesn't end the different way. So we want to make sure that we're just taking it trade by trade. You understand the macro picture. And again, if you look at the macro picture, you can see the market's very, very good. Any way you look at it, the Russell, the Qs, the spot, everything's good, right? Everything's good, but just remember, everything is good until it's not. So before you start liquidating everything you have and going long January 1st for a mega 2021 run, understand that nothing is given to us, nothing is going to be guaranteed. At any given point, the market can completely implode and you're looking at a completely different 2021 than you are 2020. So to avoid any type of, any type of possible exposure, just limit yourself, right? Limit yourself, limit your opinion. Take a day by day, take an interval by interval, use data, use optional order flow to kind of give you a next opinion. And again, like I said when we started the video, stay in business. So let's talk about Fridays Pivots, very aggressive action, market still looks very, very good, a lot of good order flow and a lot of names. Again, maybe there will be a lot of rotation going back into technology, full strength technology, not one day at a time. We'll see, you know, we'll see again, we can't put the cart in front of the horse. But let's talk about it. So Sono, a really nice breakout on Friday, 23, 80, 24, needs to build, here is Sono, still looks higher. It looks really nice. Again, not a huge move, but still looks higher. Took out the 23, 80, 24 level, close at 24 and a half. Again, nice move, still looks a lot higher, slower mover name. Navidia, still waiting, right? Still waiting. Disney needs to build, got rejected off that 175 level three times, here is Disney, right? So it took out the 75 level. Not a big move, went to about 75, 84. You had some good call buying for a little bit further away, but again, it got pulled down with kind of everything else, with the Dow and everything else. Again, not everything is Tesla. Not everything is these SPAC names. When the Dow goes down 200 points, guess what, Dow stocks will get avoided. So again, only about an 80 cent move on Disney before everything got pulled in. FSOLI continues to be strong, choppy little sucker, but again, we are still seeing consistent order flow on FSOLI. It broke out on Thursday off of that 101 level, confirmed 103, so FSOLI is doing kind of well, but again, this name you really wanna be buying on dips into rising support. So here broke out on Thursday, 101. It took out 103, traded up to almost 106. Again, you wanna buy the stock into rising support. Again, if you see here on the five day moving average, you see that five day bounce, five day bounce, five day bounce. So the next entry you really wanna see, it's somewhere around that 97 for the bulls to hold for continuation, because again, if it's the longer it starts building above this channel, there's a lot of room assuming the market continues to be good. Amazon, still waiting, right? DraftKings had a big pop and then you had news come out of Ohio that they are not passing the gambling bill, which doesn't make any sense if your state has been really affected by COVID and you're lacking revenue. It doesn't make sense why you wouldn't acknowledge gambling and get tax benefits for your state, just doesn't make sense. But again, that's what Ohio did at least initially say. So it took out 55, 50, and it took out 55, 50 and it traded right to 56. And again, it obviously sold off on that news. Dropbox, I still like, didn't confirm. DDOG has been really, really strong name, very, very strong name on DDOG. So that 110 level I still like, it didn't get there, but I still really like that 110 level, really nice, tight little gap down. AMD's been a big runner, excuse me, 98 needs to build. Still, you can see this channel here. You see this whole channel here in 98? This is how tight this thing has never got there, but a cent alert on this thing guys, 98 on AMD. Should see that 100 level, we've been seeing a bunch of 100 and 105 January calls being traded. ZS broke out on Thursday off that 190, level 195 needs to build. Here was ZS continued, it's moved. You could see here just closed, went to 198, should get the 200, 201 on Friday. So nice little move there as well. Snow is a really big move out the gate. 339, 340 needs to build. Was a really aggressive channel. I caught a piece of this pivot here. Here's a 339, you can see the move right to 47, 48. And the reason why you see this candle here, 338, 69 was the five day supply. It took out that supply, 339, 340, and really put up a really good $7 candle. I got into it a little bit late, still took out some cash, I know a lot of you guys did a lot better than I did on it. But a really nice move, you got a $7, $8 move. Very, very quickly, FSOL. JMII absolutely exploded. And here's my point folks, kind of where we are on the new social media front. Technical analysis matters. I repeat this again. Technical analysis matters. But when you combine technical analysis and you get an influential social leverage, okay, personality, like a Motley Fool or Citron or anything, anything that has a monster following, you're going to get a move on steroids. And Motley Fool came out, they were positive in JMII. This is the Amazon of Africa of all things. Again, I still don't understand why they just don't use Amazon, okay? But anyway, 41 rejected two times. Motley Fool, how many readers do they have? God knows, right? 41 needs to build. This thing absolutely exploded, went all the way up to 43.70. So you're telling me those bets that we saw a couple of days ago on the weekly 45 calls, they didn't know that Motley Fool was coming out with this recommendation. Just saying, right? Just saying, so anyway, great move on JMII. Really big move there as well. NET, I really like. So I caught this trade pretty nicely and it stopped right at 84.20. Again, monster 90 call buyers. And unfortunately, I didn't check when I was doing my research, I didn't check where the stock, I didn't look where the stock was after hours. This thing actually gapped up almost two and change. There's a lot of upside still left on this thing, but this thing does look like it wants to take out the 52 week highs. Again, repeat 90 call buyers coming in for next week. We saw the previous week, 100s, 105s for January. So nice move there. Hopefully we could get a little bit more meat on this trade for the next week. But again, good stuff going on and that's it, right? And that's it. So look, I think you have to keep a bullish tone into this tape, going into the new week. Again, just don't anticipate trades. Just wait for them to play out.  Boring, old, methodical, predictable, right guys? High probability. Guys, have a great weekend for all you guys who are not with us. I wanna wish you guys once again, Merry Christmas. Am I still allowed to say that? Are we still allowed to wish each other Merry Christmas? Good Lord, man. Some of the people are so sensitive. It's happy holidays, Dan. It's not merry. Merry Christmas and a happy new year. God love. See you all next week.


What is going on guys welcome to a new video. So you've seen the title then 10 different product research methods in 10 minutes. So recently then I've been getting a bit conscious of how long my videos are getting. I'll be talking or recording a video for what feels like five to 10 minutes and then when I go to edit it it's like an hour long. So I thought I'd set myself a bit of a challenge to give you guys as much information as possible in as short a time as possible. So today what I'm going to do is give you 10 different ways to find winning products you can drop ship from AliExpress all in the space of 10 minutes or at least that's what I'm going to plan to do. So that being said then guys that's the topic thank you for tuning in I hope you enjoy the video and let's get straight into it. What is going on then guys welcome to my computer. So 10 different product research methods in 10 minutes. I've got my stop watch open here and I'm going to try and do this in one take as well just to keep it as legit as possible which is going to make it very very interesting because I'm not naturally very good at talking on camera and in videos usually take me anywhere between kind of 10 and 20 different takes. So to try and do this all in one take all in 10 minutes as well. It's going to be quite a challenge actually so it's going to be interesting. So I've got my stop watch open here I've got a stop watch on my phone as well just so I can kind of keep an eye on the time as we go along so I don't have to keep flicking back and forth between this one and then hopefully all going well we'll have 10 different research methods in 10 minutes. So that being said then guys let's get into the video and if you didn't already notice I've already had to come back and do another take purely because I go about halfway through the video realized I hadn't logged into one of my accounts and I couldn't remember my password so and it just put me back too much time and I didn't want to rush through the last few ones because there are some pretty good ones at the end and I didn't want to reduce like the like the quality of the information in this video so hopefully we'll have a bit more luck this time. So that being said then I'm going to start it on my phone let's start it on here as well and let's get straight to number one then which is actually using your own Facebook ad preferences. So the way you do this is if you just log into your Facebook account top right click on the arrow click on settings click on ads on the bottom left and this is going to take you to your ad preferences which basically shows you all the interests that you could possibly receive ads for so if you click on your interests it's going to give you all these different categories at the top if you click on more there's a few more different ones there and if we just click on let's go for technology say and if you just hover over the different interests can you see that it says see example ads if you click on that it's going to give you all the most popular ads for that interest and hopefully it will give you some pretty decent products you can go ahead and try and find an aliexpress so if you want to see the video just simply click on it open it up watch the ads see what you think of the product and if you look on the bottom left it's going to give you their actual ad copy and it's going to tell you how many views it's got as well so you can see kind of how much money that particular person is putting into those ads because if it's got million views then they're obviously going to pay that amount of money if the product isn't selling very well moving on to number two research method number two which is using a website called thieve.co all of these products on this site are on aliexpress and it's created by influencers bloggers photographers who find cool products on aliexpress they put them on here and then people can vote for their favorite ones as you can see this one's got 118 votes this has got 125 so if you filter it by the ones with the most votes or you can choose the different categories you can go on latest trending if i click on trending it's going to give us the best toys and it's just a great place to find product ideas you can click on men's but feel free to come across to this site i think you have to create an account for this one as well and you can just kind of funnel through look for the ones with the most upvotes and then if you just click on them you can click on them again and it will actually take you to aliexpress and the actual product page itself moving on to number three then which is one of my favorites which is using the exchange marketplace and this is where people come then to sell their Shopify stores which is great because you can see how much money they're doing go to their stores and see what their best selling products are so if you just click on browse up here browse all and most of the big ones will be private listings but if you just keep scrolling down then we should come across one that isn't so we've got the hoverboard that was pretty obvious what that is car rain that sounds a bit weird unique stock let's have a look at this one so they've got pretty decent monthly revenue if you just click on their store URL then it will take you to their store and you'll be able to get a feel then for kind of the kind of products they're selling so just looking at this and this just screams products from aliexpress it's obviously a general store and in the way we find their best selling products is we use a tool called commerce inspector feel free to go ahead and download it it's 100% free i'm not affiliated it does tell you the theme they're using as well and if you just click on best selling it will take you to their best selling products so that's number three moving on to number four again is another website called ecom hunt again 100% free to use there is a link down in the description and if you do pay for a paid plan then i will get an affiliate fee but to be honest with you guys there's no need for it it will it will do the job the free plan will do the job it will tell you what you need to know and it will give you product ideas which is essentially what we're trying to do here so as you can see there's kind of like a wide range of products here if we just simply click on one and then it's going to give us all this different information and again if we had a paid plan it would give us even more but like i said it's just a great place to come for different product ideas moving on to number four or five i'm not quite sure is the simple one that you might have seen before what you do is you just head over to google put your niche in followed by dot my Shopify dot com and it's going to give you all the Shopify stores in your niche keep opening up the the different links that come up until you come across one that you're pretty sure is a drop shipping store which i did so i'm just going to open this one up and show you and as you can see it looks like a print on demand store and again we can use this same method then they're finding their best selling products so we know which ones to to focus our attention on now what we do want to do is we don't want to copy if you do want to do a print on demand store you don't want to copy the exact same products you want to depending on what your own skills are you can create your own designs based on these or you can send them to a designer on fiverr.com and they'll be able to create you something similar moving on to the next one then is this website here which is lookup-id.com and it will take you to the homepage which looks if i scroll right to the top which looks like this but we want to scroll right to the bottom and in this box here we want to put something like get yours here which is going to find us posts with these keywords so this is obviously quite a strong call to action that you'll find a lot of drop shipping companies using so just click search it will open up facebook and hopefully it should give us some pretty good products and that we can go ahead and have a look at that so just have a look at this first one then let's open this up how cool is this mug so as you can see it's showing us exactly what the product is exactly what that ad is and what's good as well is it shows us how many views around how many comments and what we want to do is we want to open up the comments click click keep clicking view more comments and you want to try and find intent you want to try and find people commenting that they're actually buying this because then you know that it is a product that's actually selling and worthwhile you selling it yourself if that makes sense so moving swiftly on to the next one which is a website called shut up and take my money and again it's just a great place to come for these trending products that you might not seen might not have seen before they're usually not branded either which means you will be able to find something very similar if not the exact same product on aliexpress and you've got all these different categories then down on the left hand side depending on what niche you want to go into if you're not sure then just go through each one one by one have a look at them try and find them on aliexpress see what kind of order numbers they're getting my cat and I talk shit about you I can see that selling really well actually not quite sure if you'd be able to ship that from china without it breaking but a pretty good product you can see that being quite popular and just simply scroll through them until you find one that catches your eye if it catches your eye then the chances are it's going to catch somebody else's as well I'm getting out of breath talking this quickly so moving on to the eighth one I think is alibaba so alibaba is the same as aliexpress it's owned by the same person which is jack ma and typically then this is where people come to order products in bulk so if you just come on to their website and search for alibaba bestsellers it's going to give you their bestsellers and there's a reason they're the bestselling products is because they're popular so again just keep scrolling through wait until you find something that catches your eye and if it's caught your eye then the chances are it'll catch somebody else's I use this method quite a lot actually because there are some pretty cool products you can find like that's pretty cool I can see that working and it kind of opens itself up to who you would target on facebook as well you can target people who like traveling and people who like cats and then there's obviously a couple of other things you can look at as you go through as well so there's different power banks different cases different sports bowls etc let's just have a quick look in the time eight minutes and we've got a couple more left so moving on to the second but last one is wish.com great great place to find good products because all of these products are coming from china so the chances are you will find pretty much every single one of these on aliexpress as well and there's just endless options that you can filter by so you can click on things like popular which is going to show you all the popular products and it tells you how many people have bought that certain product so again it gives you an idea of how interested people are in that product you've got all these different categories at the top sports and outdoor if we just click on hobbies which is quite a general one it's going to give us a good range of products that that we can potentially look into and find on aliexpress so loads of different things we've just hit nine minutes moving on to the final one which is as seen on tvvideo.com which is typically again unbranded things or at least things that you'll be be able to find replicas of on aliexpress so as long as you don't sell it under the same brand name you should be all right obviously as long as there's no patent on it so just scroll through this looks pretty cool actually is some some sort of kid's toy and if you click on it there should be a video ad as well which there is and if we just let this play for a second you could download that and chop it up or at least base your own video on it you can potentially buy one of these yourself create your own video ad it'd be dead simple to do i've done plenty of videos in the past on video ads it doesn't have to be anything special as long as you show the product and what it does and if you can get somebody to use it and actually film somebody using it as well so that being said we are nine minutes 59 seconds and we've just about done it i'm actually out of breath trying to speak that quickly hopefully you guys have found some value in the video i know i've talked really quickly and i've probably skipped over quite a few things any questions on any of those methods whatsoever feel free to leave a comment down below i will get back to everybody in the comment section and i will go into a bit more detail as well so that means the thing guys thank you for tuning in i hope you enjoyed the video and i'll see you in the next one


Our enquiry focused on how Business Gateway fits into the range of support services available to Scottish businesses. The committee found a lack of alignment between local and national economic priorities, transparency and accountability issues in the delivery of Business Gateway services and also missed opportunities to make these more easily accessible to businesses. So the committee report recommends that Business Gateway's budgets and performance information should be published at a local level and also that the system in Ireland should be looked at to see what lessons could be learnt from there.


After Zoey 101 became one of Nickelodeon's highest-readed and most successful shows in the 2000s decade, after Zoey 101 went on twin three young artists awards, two kids choice awards and more, after Zoey 101 released a soundtrack album and two video games titled Zoey 101 and Zoey 101 Field Trip Fiasco for Game Boy Advance, Zoey 101 has been off air for almost 15 years now believe it or not. Beginning its run in 2005, the Nickelodeon series enjoyed four seasons of solid ratings and a loyal fan base before ending in 2008. With 61 episodes, the show has been labeled as one of Nickelodeon's most successful television series ever. Zoey 101 was also the most expensive production ever for Nickelodeon series as it was shot completely on location in Malibu, California. Zoey 101 was Nickelodeon's best performance for a series premiere in almost 8 years. The premiere of the episode Good by Zoey was the highest-rated live-action show ever on Nickelodeon with over 7.3 million viewers. The series finale chasing Zoey was the highest-rated show on all of television for all kid demos, including teens 12-17 beating out American Idol. The series officially ended production in August 2007 after the shooting of its final season which aired in 2008. Rumors began to circulate that the star of the series, Jamie Lynn Spears' unexpected pregnancy made the season controversial. After reuniting with many of her former castmates on All That, aired on July 11, 2020, Spears revealed that she was interested in developing a possible revival and that discussions had already been underway. Hey guys it's Care the Vampire Slayer and today we're doing a series titled Where Are They Now? We're taking a look at the star-studded cast of Zoey 101 and what they've all been up to these days. Personally, I was a huge fan of the show and was absolutely heartbroken when the series was done. I mean maybe some of us follow Jamie Lynn Spears and know what the real-life Zoey has been up to but what about the others like Chase? If you want to see more Where Are They Now's let us know down in the comments who you want us to document next. How about some more Nickelodeon shows, maybe The Amanda Show or all that? They have some crazy stories. Anyways, let's get into this video. We'll kick things off with the star of the series. Many fans speculated that Zoey 101 ended due to her pregnancy at 16 years old. However, Jamie Lynn Spears has cleared all that up. In an out-deleted Instagram post in 2019, the actress said that the show ended because her contract was finished, not because she was pregnant. In a 2020 cover story for Nylon, the actress said that she didn't become pregnant until probably six months after we wrapped her something like that. Jamie Lynn gave birth to her first child with ex-boyfriend Casey Aldridge, a daughter named Maddie Bryan in June 2008. Spears and Aldridge had an on-again-off-again relationship which included an engagement but eventually split for good in 2010. She went on to marry Jamie Watson in March 2014 in Louisiana and gave birth to a daughter named Ivy Joan four years later. Shortly after her time on Nickelodeon, Spears had switched her focus to singing much like her older sister Britney Spears. Instead, she went on to release country music, dropping an album in 2014 titled The Journey and collaborated with her sister for a track called Chillin' With You. The Zoey 101 alum also performed at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry and the 2017 CME Music Festival. In addition, Jamie Lynn participated in a tribute to Britney at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. Jamie Lynn had finally made her return to Nickelodeon in 2018 as a contestant on the show Double Dare. Most recently, Jamie Lynn starred in a Netflix series called Sweet Magnolias based on Cheryl Wood's book series. The show hit the streaming service in May of 2020 and just got renewed for a second season in July. In 2018, she appeared in an advertising campaign as well with her daughter Maddie for craft. Spears is quite the influencer on social media as well and endorses products such as beauty and wellness ones on Instagram. The past she has partnered with FabFitFun, KiwiCo and much more. So clearly Zoey's been busy but what about Zoey's little brother on the show played by Paul Butcher. He definitely stepped out of the spotlight after Zoey 101. When it came to acting, he had a few guests in other minor roles for a number of movies and TV shows. One of the most notable roles being a guest star in the season 5 premiere of Criminal Minds and a reoccurring role on My Music. In 2008, Butcher has made two cover versions of the songs Give Me That by Chris Brown and This Love by Maroon 5. Apparently, Paul has turned his focus into music and he has been releasing music since 2010. He released his debut single Don't Go in 2010 followed by releasing a song in January 15 called Stop Calling. More recently, Paul has covered tracks like Mercy from Shawn Mendes and Love Yourself from Justin Bieber. What have you been up to? Oh, just hanging out. No, no, look, for a while after I filmed that show I was very much into music and still passionate about music. I play guitar and I sing. It's something that I love to do. But yeah, I mean, I'm going to school right now actually. Zoey's best friend and love interest from the show Chase played by Shawn Flynn was yet another star to step out of the limelight after Zoey 101. He stayed pretty low-key, but reports claim that he appears to be based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he's working as a producer at an entertainment company called Donatello Arm. Shortly after Zoey 101, Flynn appeared in movies like The Last of Robin Hood and Return of the Killer Shrews. He also slipped back into his Nickelodeon character for the 2015 web short What Did Zoey Say? His name is Chase Matthews. And he's one of the funniest, coolest, nicest guys in the world. And sometimes I kind of think he has a little crush on me. Oh my God! She knew it! Shawn claimed after Zoey 101, he was very much into music, was studying math at Valley College and continued to act in television and plays. A former child actor was the hero of the day for coming to the rescue of a baby after the car it was riding in crashed. After Zoey 101, Matthew Underwood, who played the heartthrob and sometimes jerk, Logan, directed and starred in a bunch of shorts and TV movies like The Unicorn Sisters, The Alien, and The Golden Stars. His Zoey 101 co-star Flynn also started some of his projects, believe it or not. Sadly, Underwood also made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2012 when the actor was arrested on a charge of possession of drugs in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Police also found him in a bedroom with a 17-year-old girl. Months later, Underwood was charged with violating probation after being seen at a hookah lounge that he co-owned. Underwood made headlines again in 2017, this time after he rescued a baby that was found in a crashed car with two adults allegedly overdosed on heroin. Zoey 101 fans are usually creeping his page too because Underwood's Instagram is filled with photos of him on film sets and snaps of him and his former Zoey 101 co-stars. Now let's see what Christopher Massey is up to. After Zoey 101, Christopher Massey went on to produce a music career. He's released R&B tracks like Get a Bag, Bankhead Bounce Back, and dropped two albums in 2019. Massey also appeared on an episode of Celebrity Family Feud in 2017 with his famous brother Kyle Massey who played Corey on Disney Channel's That's So Rebent. In April 2016, in Las Vegas, Massey was arrested on charges of domestic violence and booked for misdemeanor domestic violence after he allegedly shoved his ex-girlfriend. But today, there's a happier ending. These days, he shares two children, a daughter named Bella and a son named Carter with Bria Miller. The actor also has a daughter named Mariah with his ex-girlfriend, Cassidy Jackson. After Zoey 101, Erin Sanders, who played Quinn, starred on another popular Nickelodeon show, Big Time Rush, where she played Camille Roberts, an inspiring actress and love interest of Logan. Sanders also had guest stars on shows such as Mad Men, Castle and CSI Miami. In 2014, Sanders portrayed Tracy Scott in the Lifetime movie Guilty at Seventeen. You may have also caught her on the miniseries of separation. Offscreen, Erin identifies as bisexual and also loves to teach yoga classes via live stream in her spare time. Alexa Nicholas, who played Nicole on the series, was yet another star from Zoey 101 to go quiet after the show wrapped. After leaving Zoey 101, the actress guest starred on shows like The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody, Supernatural and Criminal Minds. Her last rules were 2013 episodes of Mad Men and The Walking Dead. Nicholas was previously married to musician Mike Milosh, however now she's in a relationship with Michael Gray and the couple welcomed their first child together and named Nova in November 2020. On her Instagram, she just posted a trailer for her project Medinoya, which is coming out soon. I guess the perfect roommate has spoken. You might remember Kristen Herrera, who played Dana, who famously left the show after season one, ditching California so she could be part of an exchange student program in Paris. She went on to play Lourdes Del Toro on episodes that aired in 2008. However, Herrera joined her Zoey 101 co-stars for a reunion on all that. Based on her Instagram, which is now private, Herrera travels quite a bit these days and has recently visited destinations like Hawaii and Greece. Herrera revealed she's engaged to Daniel Nova. Do we know you? No. Well, then you want to tell us why you're sitting in the middle of our shh. I'm trying to talk to the dead. Finally, here's a star from the show you've probably seen more of than Zoey herself after the series ended. After Zoey 101, Victoria Justice, who played Lola, went on to do big things and got her own Nickelodeon show called Victorious. This show, which also starred Ariana Grande, lasted for four seasons between 2010 and 2013. Despite solid ratings, the show was canceled and many fans questioned why it ended in the first place. Fans blamed Ariana Grande to be the reason for the end of the show, while Ariana shifted the burden of getting the show canceled to Victoria Justice. But hey, I think that's a story for another Where Are They Now? What do you guys think? Victoria has gone on to do minimal guest appearances on a rural ad television and began recording solo music in 2020. Her comeback single Treat Myself was released in December 2020. Alright, I think I'll bring this Where Are They Now to an end right there. After checking out the cast members of Zoey 101, what did you guys think? If you'd like to see more of this series, be sure to let me know who's next. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I will see you all in the next video. Bye!


I'm obsessed with these curry nuggets that are now dripping on my clothes which is lovely and now I will need to go wash my hands. Hi, I'm Nisha and I'm a vegan food blogger. You can find my recipes at rainbowplantlife.com. I teach home cooks how to make really flavorful, delicious vegan food and I live in San Diego, California with my partner Max. This is my fridge story. What does my fridge say about me? I feel like it says that I'm an organized person which is somewhat true and also somewhat misleading. My bedroom doesn't look like that. My closet doesn't look like that but my like work planner does look nice and organized. So like I'm messy in some parts of my life and I'm very hyper-organized in other parts of my life. So condiments always go on the first shelf. Sometimes they sneak into the second shelf like right here. Lots of yogurt dips and things like that go in the second shelf. This is the shelf where things just kind of go if they have no place and this larger shelf usually has like leftovers and things I'm cooking. This is my vegan meats drawer, meats and cheeses, lots of stuff in there and then produce produce. I keep a lot of store-bought condiments on this side of the fridge. One of my favorites is the tomato etcher which is like an Indian kind of chili sauce. Another thing I have here is Thai soy sauce. So obviously you can get regular soy sauce at the grocery store but if you're cooking a Thai specific dish or a Chinese specific dish or Japanese specific dish I think it's really worth it to go visit a local store if you have one because they are different than your standard supermarket soy sauce. I've been vegan for over five years. My partner however is not but he does have a few non-vegan things peppered in here like there's some regular butter in here alongside my vegan butter but I do all the grocery shopping so he gets what he gets. What vegan food items are people sleeping on? A lot of them. Deep fried tofu puffs, tofu cakes sometimes they're called. These are really really good in noodle soup so like a pho or a Thai noodle soup a Malaysian noodle soup. I don't know if people are sleeping on these I feel like they're pretty popular but the hot Italian beyond sausage is so good. Follow your heart feta These are really a good substitute for feta cheese and super affordable full fat oat milk. There are lots of oat milks out there I know that like everybody probably has tried oat milk but the full fat stuff is just way way way better. This is one of my most used vegan ingredients Miso paste it's obviously used in non-vegan food as well but a lot of times in plant-based cooking you're missing the umami so you don't get that from the animal-based foods the cheese is the meats that really strong savory meaty quality and umami is found in Miso paste and that's why I use it a lot so I use it in all kinds of things soups stews even things like mashed potatoes just a little bit to bring in that savory rich mouthfeel that you often miss in plant-based foods. My favorite item in my fridge right now that's tough because there are probably several this which is a tofu tikka masala that I cooked yesterday that I'm testing out for my youtube channel and it's really really good I think when you're eating plant-based food it's often easy to get into a rut and I feel like a really good condiment can just like bring your whole meal together. All right first things first preserved lemons I like using them in all kinds of things salad dressings sauces condiments they had a really unique zing to your food so I always have them in my fridge also pickled onions they add it's really nice pop of freshness and they balance other flavors and I really like the crunch from the onions. Another thing I love to do for meal prep even if I don't do like a formal meal prep is to have one or two really good sauces I call them everything sauces so the two I have in my fridge this week are chipotle aioli and cilantro pesto you can just like put it on pasta or even beans or lentils and it just like makes everything super flavorful and this one has cilantro instead of basil and lime juice instead of lemon juice I really like making chipotle aioli so it's really creamy it's smoky it's spicy so it's really good for tacos burritos burritos things like that. What's your favorite vegan condiment? Let me know in the comments. It's not even really a food item it's uh well you eat it but it's a cultured coconut probiotic that's like really really good for your gut and that is definitely the most expensive item in my fridge because it has to be like shipped from Canada. Another fancy item I have in my fridge these are locally made vegan cheeses from a company called Scratch House they sell them at my favorite pizza restaurant here in San Diego called Donna Jean. It's never really fall in San Diego because currently it's 80 degrees but I do have a Fall inspired treat in my fridge it's pumpkin bread I mean you can't really get more fall inspired than pumpkin bread it's got a vegan cream cheese frosting and some pumpkin seeds on top. A few tips if you are trying to stock your fridge and you are new to plant-based cooking one is that there are so many great vegan substitutes on the market butter like earth-balanced butter you can find at most grocery stores it's affordable and it tastes pretty much just like regular dairy butter I've got like five different vegan yogurts in my fridge and sometimes you just kind of have to experiment but that's also why there are food vloggers who share that kind of stuff this one is like the best it is pricey but it is so good and I will just eat it plain or with fruit when you go plant-based you're gonna be eating a lot more vegetables so why not make it fun and find new ways to jazz up vegetables in a way that maybe you haven't tried before I used to think I hated eggplant because the only version I really had was like super greasy way down eggplant parmesan but then I started buying like skinny eggplants these are Chinese eggplants or Japanese eggplants or even ones from the farmer's market and they get really nice and jammy and tender when you cook them down I like to store my fresh herbs especially the soft ones wrapped in damp paper towels like this so this is cilantro I've had it for a week and it still looks pretty good and I do that for parsley as well I don't think I have anything scary in my freezer because I've only lived here for a year I do have a large collection of ice packs which is just an indication of how often I injure myself oops I try to save vegetable scraps that I'm not going to use and eventually make vegetable broth so this is fennel stalks this is my mushroom bag which sounds like something that it is not it's just the little bits and scraps from mushrooms that I cook all the time and don't want to use in the actual dish but I don't want to throw them away I save these to make mushroom broth frozen cauliflower I would probably put it in like a curry or something where I just like need to add a little more extra veg so that tofu tikka masala I was talking about I have a little bit of it frozen here just so I can test it because I'll get questions from readers and viewers all the time like can I freeze this dish I don't really like the term guilty pleasures I try not to think of anything that's plant-based as bad or as good and I try to eat what my body and what my mind tell me to and what they're in the mood for and I enjoy my desserts and my pizzas but I also enjoy lots of vegetables and whole grains and so I feel like it all just kind of bounces out in the end I do have some frozen cookies in here because sometimes I will bake like three dozen cookies and they can't all be eaten at once some things I store in my freezer instead of my fridge or my pantry are big quantities of nuts and seeds because they do go rancid fairly quickly so if you're brand new to cooking Indian food at home and you just want to get a little introduction into what it's like I would really try my red lentil curry it's wholesome but it's really indulgent it's great with rice or any sort of flatbread it's a complete dinner and everyone really loves it all this talking has made me hungry so it's time for some pumpkin bread if you like what you saw today be sure to follow my channel on youtube at rainbow plant life whose fridge do you want to tour next let me know in the comments below and subscribe to the spruce eats for more fridge stories


In this video about saving and loading settings for the inside the EcoTech environment, I'll take a look at how we can effectively set up your workspace to have an effective process of simulations for the inside EcoTech. I'm going to take a look at user preferences, libraries, setting up cameras, saving and loading panel settings, and setting up user scripts and user commands for your EcoTech environment. I have now opened the EcoTech environment and the first thing before starting any kind of project in the inside EcoTech, I want to go to files, user preference, go to general and make sure that all my directories are placed correctly. Please note that for radians it should be placed on the C, the C drive directly on the radians and for WinIR as well the C drive. You can also choose where to locate your global library, which is the library that EcoTech will use by default. You can use the modeling tab here to set up your sampling grid size and the default zone height and how rough your sketch accuracy will be and your selection highlight should look like and again how big your selection radius should be and to customize your canvas with the inside the 2D editor and the visualized. Go to localization and it's quite smart with inside EcoTech that you can load settings for a specific project working on millimeters or a Danish kroner or whatever kind of unit or cost you're working with or measuring dimensions as well as customizing the way that you look at volumes or temperature, energy, if you want to look watts per hour or whatever kind of unit you want to have your output in. Go to options and you can customize a lot of different things. For example, if you want to display your directional arrow when you select an object to see if it's orientated correct, as well as your snaps and how you can fix links within. The way that I want to look at this or fix links is by just hitting base plane equation and automatically fix links for alternative materials because if you select these two up here it will kind of merge a lot of geometry in your model. So the next thing I'll look at before starting any kind of project is to go to my element library and you'll see that with inside the model or project we have a lot of materials but if you have a library that you're using you can go to the model time and you can press this little arrow here and you can load element from another library into the model that you're working with to reuse some of the components that you set up already. So the next thing to understand that things like cameras are view or are materials as well that you can set up for different kind of visualizations and activate different kinds of functionality, your sun path, shadows or the way that you look at your geometry. So for example, if I'm working with inside a camera view and I'm activating transparency or cutaway section or whatever, I can always go back right click and say reset camera view and it will reset to original material settings here. So this is the way that you actually also if you want to make a cutaway section and then you can say right click and you can say update camera changes. So if you go to another view and you go back you'll see that it still keeps the same settings for the view. If you want to make a new material displaying this cutaway and this settings here right click and you can see this but go down to select camera and model and if you go to the material here you can see that it's deploying the material. Go to material properties and just write a new name here cutaway for example and apply changes so close and you'll see that it now if I go cutaway so apply change that will now give the view this new name okay. One other thing is you can do is you can for example if you go to your grid here and you want to look at your panel here in a different way for example looking at it without your grid lines you can go right click and say save load settings and you can save the panel data here to call this visualization grid okay and if you then put it back on and you want to see it from the same dimensions and settings you can load the panel later and you can go to visualization so okay and it will now set the view back to the same setting so that's quite effective way to make sure that your settings your minimum and maximum values are set up for the same values when you look at it or to make a cutoff to look at the daylight simulation on the ground plane or whatever. Next thing I've done is that you can catamage some user script so what you can do is you just say add edit toolbar button and you go in and you just link to the directory where these links are placed so let's go to go in on say for example animate shadows say okay and just say okay and you can load all of these save and load all of these settings again so now if you go back to say animate shadows you'll see that it's now animating the shadows from sunset to sunrise and you can do this with getting in or pulling in grid data or whatever kind of simulations that you want to have a look at so this is just a smart way to customize some of the functionality and speed up your process a bit thank you