Hau hyn, yna'r ddweud yn y bwysig. Mae'n rhan o'r deli, ac yn ddod o'r ddweud. Mae'r ddweud yn Ni'n Mwydoogol, ym Eichor Cocks. Mae'n ddweud yn Sousa. Mae'n ddweud o Stratos. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Yn y ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Ac mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Yn ddweud, mae'n ddweud o Stratos. sins yma. Dyna'r ddweud o nations wedi'i carpenter. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, mae'n byw o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Mae'n ydych yn ei gwasanaeth sydd angen wir. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gyngor o'r cwerthau â'r ddweud. Mae'n tynnu yn y bydd ymhywgol yn ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Dyna'r cyfrannu cyfnodau cyfrannu i'r unidol iawn i ddwylo'r unidol. Mae'r ddwylo wedi cyfrannu eich cyfrannu Cfyrsch, mae'n ddulltyniad o'r Cyfrannu, mae'n ddulltyniad o'r Cfyrsch, mae'n ddwylo i'r ddaeth oherwydd o'r cyfrannu cwmparu o'r ddwylo. Mae'n ddwylo i'n ddwylo i'r ddwylo i'r ddwylo i'r ddwylo i'r ddwylo. Maelinewch chi, wrth gwrs ymweld hyd yn ymweld, arwad iddo gwrs, chyfnod i gyrwm yma, neu sgwp yn ddim yn perwyddo a bod yn ddim yn ddim yn digwydd. Rwy'n ddim yn gweld darthwyd. Rwy'n ddim yn ddim yn dwi gyrwm bod sydd fyddwn iawn, ond dyna fyddwn ni'n meddwl. Mae yna'r wathabill gyda wedi'u cyfrifiad, gallwch yn ymarfer y cerdd, efallai maen nhw'n gyflym ar y llai, ond gallwch yn ychydig i'r chancell, Features that you would like or even you know code itself then let's have them Okay, here we go. So we're gonna I'm gonna whistle stop back about a year ago and take you through where we've been over that year And then I'm gonna give Richard as much time as possible to give you a demo of how it is today And then I'll wrap up with where we're going next Okay, so this time last year Strattles kind of new I was here in buzzle. I did a very short lightning talk on the last day There was less people than this It looked a bit like this. It was in the Suza github repo There was some talk that's not to max mentioned about maybe up streaming it And at that time, it's only really Suza that was using it roll-on sort of January this year It'd been a proposed and acceptors an extension project. We've moved into the github repo We've got a slack channel starting to see more people use it Suza itself released a 1.0 version We decided to drop the UI suffix so you may see that still from time to time But we we affectionately just call it stratos now and then we started working on version two, which is what we'll show you today In April I'm with through this. So we were at the US summit. There was an on stage demo We started to switch to things like Travis so that we're developing more in the open so people can see CICD pipelines monthly meeting and then somewhere along the line. We managed to pick up an official logo I don't quite know that happened, but that's it there Everlong to July. This is the first to a release This is a big refactor I'll talk about on the second that was the focus of work for quite some time But we did also make a number of improvements, which Richard will show So one of those big refactors was switching from angular JS or version one to version two As I said, this was a big piece of work We also did sort of technology refresh using you know stuff You'd expect to see type script, you know RxJS and that kind of stuff But this was was a month multi month effort So for a while we kind of backed off features and we spent more time just to read in the technology platform We also switched the front end to using material design If you're familiar with that and leverage more sort of standard widget libraries and less of our own So hopefully it'll be more familiar to people. So it looks a bit more like this now and less like what I showed before More visual cues. So we did spend some time trying to improve UX as we went along so more UX Visual cues more card layouts trying to really surface some of the things you might care about The 2.1.0 release which we've just done last month One of the main things was support for SSO login So if you had seen it before you'll notice you could only log in via stratos a zone username password But obviously many people have UAA doing multi-factor or Various custom authentication mechanisms So now you can log in to stratos via SSO and that's what our friends at IBM demonstrated this morning There's been various restructuring in the code to make it easier to develop with Um, let's see performance improvements when you push it and a bunch of other features which I'll let Rich talk about I'll mention last month. We also did a community survey So we're keen to get as much input from people as possible find out how you're using it what you'd like to see some of the Key takeaways 17 responses. Maybe doesn't sound many, but for us that was quite good from 14 different Organisations lots of people are actually using it to manage multiple cloud foundries Which was good to hear back because that's something where suzer kind of asserted was important So it's good to hear that back from other people and Maybe a bit of surprise People are actually it was at least managing thousands of apps across hundreds orgs and spaces So the scale that we were seeing from our users was probably bigger than we'd we'd appreciated And we're starting to see some good uptake on v2 These slides will be out there so you can still go in and add to the survey If you want to see more detail and results the links in those A growing user base, so I've only mentioned four companies These are the people that are happy for me to stick their logo up. I know there's a lot more than this And these are also happened to be the companies and organisations that have actually contributed code to the project So we're very grateful for that and for their support And now I'm going to hand over to Richard who will show you 210 or 212 I think it is and some of the stuff we've added more recently So I'm going to take you through some of the new v2 features some of the new new v2 features and Some of the features that we've brought across and it's not going to be exhausted because I don't have time to show you everything One thing I want to note as we come into this this this front end has been configured to use sso As was kind of demonstrated this morning. I can click on login We get taken through to the well-known cloud foundry ua sso login so I will Do that now I'm sure not to typo So once you've logged in you get taken to the application wall Here you can see all of the applications in your cloud any cloud foundry that you've connected So that can be one that could be many And you can filter by organizations in space and do other lists Faced things you can see here that each application has some kind of color color status to it So again, you've been drawn into places where you might need to do something So the billing server the staging has failed. So as a user of the system you might need to sort that out What I'm going to do now is deploy an application Which is going to go perfectly So I'm going to select the organization in space that I wish to to deploy in And then I'm going to deploy from a public public it have repo Get the name right There we go finally Finally we're there. So in version one this is where basically your your deploy experience would almost end You would hit the deploy ban and then you get taken through to A stream of your app being deployed in version two We can now select the commit which is kind of important. So we're not just deploying from head And we can add some overrides So previously if you try to deploy the same manifest twice you would obviously in the second deploy Just overwrite the first deploy. So now we can do things like supply a custom name You can tell it not to start Change the stack memory, disquote it, number of instances Things to do with the route. We're going to create a random route And now we're going to hit deploy and here we should start seeing the stream Okay, it's a rather interesting because it was working 10 minutes before but as it's a live demo Obviously it's not working now. So in classic Here's one I've created earlier So this is a this is the go environment Once you finish deploy you will get taken to this screen where you can see various things about the application We've got summary screen All very self-evident we've kind of brought up the concept of instances to the summary screen so you can see if If an instance is down We've also brought out beforehand I think instances and routes were pegged on to the bottom of the screen and often they were up the scroll bar So you wouldn't actually see them. So we brought those up into tabs So they're more obvious and we've expanded on the instance at screen You can see some various stats You can scale an instance So I wasn't planning to use this one interestingly. Yeah, we've exceeded the memory limit on this one But I can scale down Which is less impressive But you can manage you can manage instances through this screen We've also brought out the routes to a top level And there's no roots in this one because I wasn't planning to demo it But if I were to create a route I could do that here and I could bind to it here I could also bind to an existing route and I could also see all of those or unbind here or delete those routes Okay, I'm going to do the old refresh Okay, it could be that my back end has gone down So I'll discover that in a bit Also things you could do on the application is look at the services The same kind of thing is route you can create those bind to bind them to your application You could unbind them We also have a variables tab which is kind of all my self-evident and the list of events Uh also what we used to show on this screen is there's a lot more to do with the services We actually had the service marketplace hidden in this screen now we put it out to the top level Um so here we can only see we can see we've got four services in the cloud foundry that's connected What I'm going to do now is connect a new cloud foundry Back to the marketplace, um we're going to refresh that list And we're going to see lots of new interesting services that we could create instances of Oh, yes, sorry. I probably yeah, probably the wrong one. Sorry. That's a good point. Um So yes, so here we can see all the new services in the cloud foundry. We've just connected Um if we want to Play some sequel we could If we wanted to see some service instances that we previously created Um this is the wall. This is the place we could do it again. We brought up to the top level We can filter we can filter by cloud Cloud foundry or by space Um I'm going to briefly go through the cloud foundry section because a lot of that is just kind of we've ported over Um here you can see some basic stats at the number of applications in your cloud foundry the all users Remember you see there's a list of recently updated apps Uh go and visit the top there because we've recently updated it Um you can see a list of organisations Uh users and their roles we do do rural management. I'm not going to go into that now Um because I don't really have time We can see the fire we should be able to see the fire Obviously something's not quite right uh feature flags build packs stacks and security groups Um so one of the big things we've working on recently is metrics Um so I'm going to demo one part of that today, which is sell metrics Uh to do so I'm going to connect Uh I'll start us metrics endpoint Which is thankfully successfully connected and we can see If we go to an application We have a new tab Where you can see uh cpu usage memory usage And disk usage overtime And we can do things like uh have a look in the past five minutes Or we can set a custom time window One of the other things we can do is we can go into the instances tab we can see We can see uh which cell your instance is on at the moment this cloud foundry has one cell So they're all going to be uh cell i t zero We can drill down into that cell We can see some more information that um in terms of current usage the memory out of the total available Disk and containers and if it's been healthy over time Um We also see some kind of similar metrics for this Uh the amount of containers remaining So you can see here kind of it It changed because we uh decreased our go in vat by one instance It's gone to 242 to 243 The amount of memory remaining disk remaining We can also see what app instances is on this cell Uh Okay so that's the end of the upstream part What I'm going to go through now Oh there's one part I missed sorry Uh we ported this feature over I think it's quite snazzy Uh you can ssh ssh into an instance or you can't Um you've got a web socket problem That your web socket is uh Yeah it's not working So I will skip over that Um what a uh so so uh this is upstream we have a downstream product Um Which is our Susan Stratos cloud um console You can see here we've customized it it's got a new um login screen This is using the old login method of just using a password rather than SQL sign-on A lot of things like the copyright there So I'm going to log into this And here we are at the app wall again You can see it's a little bit visually different We've changed the or with uh with Stratos you can customize things like the accent colours You can also add things like the um the copyright there at the bottom again And if we go to the about page We can see the lovely geeker there in the Susan logo Uh you can add things like the euler Um and one of the things also we're working on is plugins So one of the plugins we've been working on is Kubernetes integration with the Stratos console I'm going to briefly touch on this So we've gone to the Kubernetes and we can see lists of names, namespaces, pods, applications And also we can drill down into things like nodes Um and team metrics for that node Um and that's the end of the demo So I'll hand back over to Neil Awesome so the point of showing that last stuff I'll come on to the second is Is that one of the things we're working on is to make it easy for people to take Stratos And customize it for their own company's needs So I'll mention it in a second but the kind of things we should show there I'll talk about as extension points we're trying to enable So hopefully that whetted your appetite If you've not seen it before give you an idea of what's in there now I wanted to talk about a few other things before I talk about roadmap Um kind of other stuff that we've been working on that we kind of felt was important Um is around qualities of test and test automation This is stuff that you maybe you don't see Stuff as a team what we're doing but there's a kind of no visible kind of aspect to it We're trying to work hard to spend a lot of time in the last couple of months So I'm particularly working on this side of things So you know we're trying to get to releasing more frequently I'll come on to that but you know we're trying to get to a monthly release schedule at the moment Maybe we'll go to every two weeks soon but a monthly release to start with And so we want to make sure that you know we have automated tests And automated test deployment that's working reliably So we've always had you know some aspects of this but we really want to ramp up our efforts As I mentioned at the start there are many ways of deploying Stratos So you can push it to Cloud Foundry You can push it to Cloud Foundry with single sign on enabled You can push it to Cloud Foundry with backed by a MySQL database Or a Postgres database So we want to make sure all those different deployment That make tricks deployment approaches is all tested So we you know we're leveraging Travis for our CI pipeline You can if you submit a PR that will run against it And you can you see it yourself it's running the E2E tests You know we now have those that are capturing videos of the screens As those tests run so if there are problems we can diagnose where the problems are We see a lot of issues with reliability If things run a little bit slower in Travis Some of the test might start failing So we've been fixing those holes to make them more resilient to timing issues We've extended the E2E test suite So we've got roughly four or five times as many tests as we had in V1 So we're testing much more of Stratos from an end-to-end perspective And we're trying to leverage more open source tools So you'll see us use things like code, climate, Gover Report Recently we've integrated browser stacks so that we can start to run our end-to-end tests Against Firefox, Safari, more browsers and more devices basically So all this is just saying you know we are working hard to kind of make sure that We have automated systems in place to kind of make sure the quality is still there Stuff doesn't break and we can have good confidence when we release As I said going forward we do want to release monthly So we took a bit of a hit this year as I mentioned with the tour release Where that was a major refactor We're at the stage now that we want to release monthly So there was a release in September There will be a release in October this month, next week or the week after Whenever October ends And we're very community driven So we rely on our users Obviously Suza has things it would like to see in the UI But we rely on you guys to help us to prioritise The features you'd like to see in Stratos Bugs, improvements, and tiny features Please submit issues into GitHub Get us on Slack Help us understand your needs And where we see the community wanting Where there's stuff that clearly many people want We can prioritise that higher up the backlog And across releases this is maybe basic stuff But we try and blend a mix of working on things Like improving test coverage And test automation Paying down technical debt As well as bug fixes and improvements to new features So across any particular release you'll see a mix of those So if some releases may not seem to have many new features in And that will be because we're working on some of this other stuff Stuff is coming up Not a whole lot of detail here at the moment But October extensions I'll mention this in a sec Is maybe the big thing we're putting in You saw Richard demonstrate the kind of stuff that we're adding in From Suza's ability We want to make sure that other people can do the same thing So we're going to have some extensions points in there The metrics which are talked about will be in this release I think coming up in November the plan is to support GitLab as an application deployment mechanism And that's really a forerunner to kind of refactoring that a little bit So it's easier to add any source code repository in there Scalability improvements So again from the survey it was clear people are Using quite a large scale in some places Somebody was using 20,000 apps for the service they were running And they wondered whether they could use Stratos And the kind of answer there was no But there are things we can do to make Stratos Not degrade but work well when you have a large amount of scale And some of this is due to the way we use the V2 API And limits of having multiple cloud boundaries Jason's scheme of support, so our friends in Orange Have done some work and submitted a PR That we're trying to get through And get into the system So there's a lot of stuff around the open service broker That we want to track Being able to use the Jason scheme And have a UI that presents itself A form based on the scheme for that service Is something that we're going to add And then December, December we're kind of Christmas month I guess So we all do a bit of a blitz So whether those bugs minor issues we'll get those out of the way We're going to update to Angular 7 Which should be out by then Which should give us some performance improvements And we're going to look at the private source repository support So briefly on extensions which is coming this month So the current approach is You take Stratos, you fork it And you can apply your customisations In a way that means That when we make changes upstream You can just rebase those And hopefully have no conflicts That's the intent It's not currently anything around dynamic plugins We may go down the line The intent currently is to allow people to take Stratos Customise it for their organisation And these are the kind of things you can do You already go beyond what you can do in v1 We're particularly on the front end trying to do it In a way that makes it very easy for people To develop extensions so if you're familiar with Angular There's the notion of components So we want, this is how we actually do it If you have an Angular component So if you're using the Angular CLI You can do ng generate component To give you a simple component You can then simply apply an annotation Or a decorator around that component That says I want this to be a tab I want it to be an application tab Here's my label and here's the link I want you to use in the route And so then if you can cast back To Richard's demo where he went into an application You'll suddenly get a new tab up here When you click on that your component will fill that page And so we can use the same thing For adding to the side nav We can use the same thing for adding actions In the top bar and we'll be using the same approach To let you replace tiles in many of the card views So very quickly roadmap So some of these I mentioned Are coming releases but other stuff That we've kind of got on the roadmap That we'd like your help to prioritise More around application deployment So we talked about GitLab and maybe Bitbucket Other providers being able to Talk not only to public GitHub And enterprise GitHub and to be able to use your own tokens To talk to private repositories The scalability we talked about finding ways To make sure we can handle large orgs And spaces and users and apps Kind of a new aspect that's been floated Is to start to bring out The ability to manage users in the UAA And also maybe clients Our friends at cloud.gov Raise the next one which is the ability To kind of invite users into the organisation So they have this call way that As a user you can kind of Or an org manager, you can go into an org And you can click invite, enter emails Uses the UAA API to kind of send them An invite link to create the account But also in the background They can then already give that user permissions For that org so once they've logged in It's set to go Internationalisation is something we're waiting for Angular 7 so as soon as that's out We'll get that in there And then more on the service enhancement So clearly services is an area where A lot of people have a lot of interest It's what we have is a big improvement On what we had in v1 But there's things like service plans And service keys that we want to be able to manage Within the UI as well Bringing all some spaces views to the top level So with our refactor The hierarchy is kind of within the cloud foundry I think there's something we can do from a UX point of view To improve the ability to kind of navigate And browse your way around orgs and spaces And get a kind of quick view Maybe a biggie is v3 API support So we're aware there's lots going on there I think we're keen at this conference To try and hook up with those guys And make our use cases Kind of known to them We're quite different to the CLI in terms of use cases We have much more complex use cases Richard's written a document here That kind of maybe helps you understand How we use the API and some of the challenges we have there Again, particularly working with multiple cloud foundries We have some issues And so we're hoping that we can get some of this address So we can improve the Responsiveness of the UI When it makes API calls And then there's other things that have been floated like You know SNIC integration It'd be great to go to your app and get that in Kind of in-page I don't know if we're necessarily going to do that ourselves But we want to make sure that we have the right extension points That people can do those kind of integrations And we'd love to see other people in the community Starting to use the customization mechanism To kind of build those sorts of things And then feed those upstream into the core product And then lastly another one from the cloud GovGuys is being able to have more visual Representations of orgs and spaces Applications And services and how those relate to each other So Finishing up kind of we need your help So help us improve Stratos please Start it out by saying Help us kind of prioritize and use those features If you've never used it, take it for a spin If you are using it Please let us know because that's It's always great to know we've actually got users out there Your contributions could be anything We're happy to take bug fixes or bug reports Feature requests Just ideas, it'd be great to do this Or the UX for this isn't great If you've got it, can you think of a way of improving it I find it quite hard Or even code Fixes all that kind of stuff And then lastly we have a monthly call So up until now Every month we kind of do a project update We've tried to talk a bit about what we've been doing We've had some success in terms of people Tuning into that What we're going to do with our monthly release process Is we will do our release And then later on in that month We will have this call And we'll use it to go over that release What's in it, hear from our community What they would like to see So hopefully it'll be a more useful call for people So we encourage you to attend that Details of that will be on our Slack channel So that's it from me and from Richard I hope you enjoyed the talk We do have an office hours session later on today So if you have any other questions That we can't answer now Or you'd like to come and talk to us In more depth then we'll be there for half an hour Get our repos there So take a look, fork it Report issues, find us on Slack Thank you I don't know if your mind is that blown But mine is, and I've seen this multiple times These guys are amazing Hopefully you have some more questions You have some questions for them Let's see, no All right, up, okay, perfect You show some app metrics there Do you show your metrics and service instances as well? We do not yet, no So we just have our metrics At the moment we've done the sell metrics as well That's the new stuff we currently have We don't have service stuff at the moment But now that we've got the core framework in place We can start to add more metrics in We want to tie them into the Cloud Foundry Kind of model So that would be a good one to add in I can add that to the roadmap Any other questions? I was wondering if you could share some details Or elaborate on the customization How it's going to take place in terms of the skinning Is it styling or is it some approach For doing that customization The skinning? Yes I can say a little bit now Maybe if you're interested you can come along to the office hours I can go into more depth So the skinning because we switched over to material design They have quite a nice theming Mechanism that's well documented So we've adopted their theming approach So they have The ability to specify various pallets So you can go down several layers of theming So to start with you can say Here are my colors or my color scheme My primary kind of palette And that will do the core of the UI We've had to introduce a few other pallets So you can change the pallets for like the status colors For example a couple of the nav areas So to kind of do the core color stuff You just have to declare maybe two or three pallets Really you only need to do one And then you can kind of choose So if you do the other ones then we'll pick those up Otherwise you'll get defaults That's kind of the core In terms of logo then there are particular files That you can replace So you have a separate customization folder If certain resources are there They will be used in preference to the defaults Essentially so that gets you most of the Replacement of logos And the colors If you want to do things like swap out the login screen For example like we've done at SUSE Then again there's a way of using a decorator To say use this as my login screen And so you then just have to create Your own login components Obviously with Angular you can extend the default one So you can do that Say this is the one to use And then just change the HTML page basically Font customization as well Fonts Fonts is A way of doing that with material design as well Which I can't remember But it's easy to swap out the fonts Thank you, great presentation Thank you Anything else? So I'll finish up One question What kind of roles does Stratos support I mean you have this model like org roles And you have like space roles But I read there's also like a global role So when you connect your Cloud Foundry As Richard did with IBM When you come back We go out to Cloud Foundry And we make a number of calls to figure out what your permissions are So we're bound by your permissions With Cloud Foundry Against the API we can't do anything As you that you're not allowed to do But we obviously try and read the permissions Of what you're allowed to do In terms of applications obviously That will depend on your roles When you dive into a Cloud Foundry It will obviously depend on your roles So if you have Cloud Controller Read or Write You're an admin, you'll see everything So you'll see the bill packs You'll be able to manage users If you're an org manager Or a space manager You'll only be able to have permissions within the part of the system You're allowed to administer And you'll only see those Thank you Can you touch on a bit more On submitting feedback Or submitting suggestions on that So just to be back on it I'm an IBMer, we use this And our customers really like it Personally as a developer I love it so far So great work But giving more feedback And also especially on the functionality Additions on the UI itself Is it only GitHub or are you planning to have this Integrated within the platform And submit suggestions or feedback? Yeah, that's a great question So we don't have it integrated within the app yet That's something we certainly could do I think somebody, maybe our friends at Orange Had suggested Integrating some analytics as well So we can see where people are using the app Probably some issues around that But it's something that we could also look at doing again We could put the feedback in, that would be great In terms of so that people using it Would be able to say this is not great Click and fill out a box In terms of direct feedback from yourself As somebody that maybe has heard from users Then, you know, ping us on Slack Submit issues, we're happy to have You know, phone calls or virtual meetings with anybody Come along to the monthly meeting We've already set up meetings with Orange and cloud.gov guys For example, to get their input directly So if you've got stuff you want to discuss Then you'd rather do it kind of directly Then just ping us and we'll make time for that I'm telling you a one minute story About Stratos, about myself And using it So last year in Boston they didn't come And I was doing this overview Of all the extensions And then I wanted to show Stratos But the IBM integration wasn't quite ready So of course he's in the UK, Neil And I sent him a stack message Dude, I need any environment Can you send it to me so I can try it And demo it, and then he's like, okay, yeah, yeah And then very quickly he responded Of course I don't know what time it was So it was crazy, so that's testament to And the team And then of course I'm now On my Uber to The conference And I'm using my phone Which he didn't talk about So this thing works also on your phone And I'm essentially connecting To using Stratos Connecting to an environment on IBM Deploying and seeing the deployment On my phone and then getting Into my session and demoing That is Stratos, that is And that is Neil and his team So Thank you Dr Max Thank you everyone, enjoy the conference There's lunch now and then the next session Is up 2.30 And don't forget office hours if you want to come and talk to us And hear more


Welcome into another quick hitter edition of the OG podcast original gangsters podcast. I am your host Scott Bernstein I'm gonna be doing these, you know, 10 to 20 minute quick hitter episodes. I'm trying to be I'm gonna try to do them weekly and today I want to talk about the Elmwood Park crew in the Chicago Mafia and some court filings this spring related to a case out of Elmwood Park that has unearthed the fact that right now There are up to a half dozen informants confidential informants operating within the Elmwood Elmwood Park regime according to some court filings from the spring of 2023 related to reputed Elmwood Park figure, I don't know what rank he holds. His name is Michael Frontier. He is an underling of a reputed power player in that family right now or in that crew right now, mean Jean Casano who's facing an extortion case in federal court right now and according to Michael Frontier's extortion case, which is separate from Jean Casano's the government put forth some records that told the judge that a big chunk of the information or most of the information that had come in that led to Frontier's indictment a couple years ago was related to these six six confidential informants. So I kind of want to break that down and I also just want to kind of give an update on where Elmwood Park stands right now. Elmwood Park has always been kind of a family within the family of the Chicago outfit. I think now it's it's more literal than figurative. I mean before that was the base of power and the outfit for a long time when the Defranzo brothers were around Marco D'Amico. They've passed in the last couple years and the power has moved back to Cicero but from my reporting and my researching and reaching out to sources that are on the street in that part of Chicago right now Elmwood Park is kind of Rudy Frato's own fiefdom. It kind of operates in some ways insulated from the rest of the outfit. I've been told that, you know, Solidi Larentis and guys like Albi Vena who are the top shot callers right now, Sammy Cattadella out of Cicero, have kind of let Rudy Frato give him some level of autonomy over in Elmwood Park and he has a group of a lot of younger guys that are loyal to him that that he's brought in or that he helped bring into the outfit over the last 10 to 15 years a group that hangs out a lot in Burridge at a restaurant called Capri and Rudy is like the godfather of that that region of the outfit and he's treated accordingly and whether he's close to the area right now or he's just a copo whatever it is, he is treated as a boss in in that Elmwood Park region and I think how the outfit's evolving right now is that at least when it comes to Elmwood Park and Cicero you have a group of younger generation guys that have come in to the outfit over the last 15 years or so that I'm told are kind of more loyal to the crew and the guys that are sponsoring them within that crew than they are to the outfit as a you know as an overall organization and I think that's what's happening in Elmwood Park right now the the money-making machine that was the de Fronzo brothers you know they're off the map now Marco D'Amico is off the map he was their their main counselor and Rui Frato is kind of the last man standing you got a handful of other guys that are alleged to be soldiers guys that had different roles over the years in Elmwood Park Bobby Abinadi Tony Dottie or Dodie Al Mitria a couple a couple names that that come to mind Jean Casano and His his brother and father before him who are now gone Angelo Casano and Vito Casano but A lot of younger guys, but just to kind of give a quick deep dive into what these court filings say Six confidential informants with half dozen confidential informants operating in Elmwood Park two of these guys have been Opened as CIs for three decades 30 years one began in 1994. I believe one began in 1991 The guy that was open these are all you know just Referred to as numbers. We don't know who these people are But but the one that that was open in 1994 has been giving information on the Casano family for 30 years Um, and I would guess is there is a reason that that Jean Casano is facing an extortion case right now um, or played a role in it and uh Then you have another four guys that have started cooperating between around 2010 and 2017 18 Uh, the cooperation has involved Jean Casano It has also involved marker D'Amico who passed, um about two years ago and He never faced any cases for that from that cooperation, but uh, he was The outfit conciliary. He was the defranzos kind of main advisor um He he's gone now, but he one of these informants was giving information on him and Tony D who was a right hand of of um Of Marco they called him the mover because he was a mover and shaker a guy that liked to party But also was very connected and could move around to you know different crews pretty seamlessly and and and help and hold respect Um, Rudy fratto on the other hand, you know, he was a he's a lightning rod A guy that's very polarizing you either love him or or can't stand him. He's very unapologetic Uh about being a gangster and wanting to be a a shot caller in the outfit uh got his button according to federal records uh in a ceremony in in 1988 and uh, there are informants that have tied into some of the Murders, uh that were taking place in the in the mid 80s that that rudia allegedly made his bones on a chunky chucky, uh Chucky English and uh little linearus so You know, the the court findings don't have anyone directly giving information on Rudy fratto, but a lot of Uh people in fratto's orbit you have one of these Cis was giving information on on john pudgey matassa jr Another you know high ranking figure for years at one time was a couple What was the north a north side crew was conciliary at some point in? the last 10 20 years he's dealt with some minor legal problems the last couple years related to some fraud and the social security filings But one of these guys was giving information on him. He dates all the way back Through his dad to sam g and kana and cicero a guy that in pudgy has moved around to a bunch of different crews and uh Then you also had Gary gagliana who another legacy in the outfit His dad joe gags was a was a big-time enforcer died pretty early Pretty young rather in in the 70s but gary gags in these court filings related to michael frontier Is alleged to be running prostitution rings uh in elmore park one of these Cis appears to be one of the women that he that he had or has uh Running some of these call girl operations Um just reading between the lines. I don't have any factual basis for that other than making some well educated well educated assumptions from from the language in the paperwork uh so You got a lot of Rats running around The elmwood park ship Um, it should be interesting to see how That plays out will there be more cases that come against elmwood park guys? Like I said, there was nothing mentioning rudy fratto in in those court filings related to mic frontier and gene kasano but I have it on really good authority that uh Rudy is is now top dog in elmwood park and uh, you know anything that's going on in elmwood park is going through rudy again, he's a guy that's He's og man, you know, he he's pushing 80 right now But uh, you know conducts himself more like a guy in his 40s or 50s Has a you know a wicked pedigree, you know his his dad and his uncles were were all big time outfit guys he is Did some prison time uh from from the uh higher truck mccormick play stuff um 10 plus years ago Came out of prison and and was pretty vocal that he You know wanted that to get back into a leadership role and uh according to court records fbi intelligence reports and and sources that I talked to he is also a guy that for the last 20 plus years has been a Representario or a liaison for uh outfit bosses to other crime families in the midwest specifically Cleveland chicago, kansas city. I mean sorry representing chicago in cleveland, kansas city um detroit He his family has has run Whatever rackets are are in the uh in the state of iowa dating back 50 60 70 years so um It will be interesting to see if this ever but if it ever turns out to bite rudy um could this affect tony d who who is named in in this uh uh in this filing as one of the confidential informants giving Information on tony d who was one of marco's main guys went to prison with marco uh in the 90s Gagliano, I don't know. You know, I'd be a little worried about if I was reading those findings if I was him So, you know only time will tell but it's very Enlightening, I think uh you we I always say that just assume when you're in that world just assume There are there are rats all around you But to see it in black and white in paperwork saying that at least Six confidential informants operating within elmwood park right now It's it's pretty sobering. I think if if you're someone that Is looking at it from a from the perspective of being you know Affiliated to elmwood park or in in the elmwood park outfit crew But for someone who studies it I felt like it was noteworthy and I wanted to bring to everybody's attention The future of elmwood park. I think is up in the air. There's a lot of rumors that when rudy fratto eventually Heads to that big social club in the sky at any point in the next 10 15 years That elmwood park would be rolled in to the Cicero crew and there'd just be three crews left south side Cicero and In grand avenue, but right now elmwood park is a is a its own crew although like I said it's kind of Separate but the same from the outfit That And I think this is by design and in some ways it's been like this in the outfit for a long time But now it's it's even more accelerated or amplified where I don't know how much the right hand knows what the left hand's doing There is crossover between Cicero and elmwood park a lot of those younger guys know each other, but Everybody's You know razor focused and and incredibly loyal to Who's ever leading that crew more it's more so than solid d or Albie over in grand avenue to its crew so in in the south side Or you know, jimmy. I who passed this year So, uh, you know keep an eye out for what's going on elmwood park We don't know what's you know, the frontier case is still being Adjudicated same with the gene casino case Which dates back to a 2000 alleged 2016 juice loan So we'll keep we'll keep updating you with what's going on the outfit, but I wanted to just Give you guys a little uh Some nuggets of of information about what's filtering out, you know in the court system about what's going on present day in elmwood park Again six six rats that are that are running loose So if you're if you're a part of the elmwood park crew Watch your back, and I guess only time will tell how this will play out in the court system Or if it will I mean with these these two guys that have been given information for for 30 plus years There's there's been a couple uh big busts out of the elmwood park, but you know nothing that uh Was that earthshattering obviously, you know the defranzos Skated from from a lot of stuff I have No problem going on record at this point in time saying that uh No, no, it's defranzo the godfather of the outfit for You know a good 25 years 30 years Whether it be acting or or or actual boss or Street boss under boss under carlesi You know, I believe he was a confidential informant and that's how we say it at a prison, you know the end So I don't know It's interesting to see that these guys have been getting information for 30 years and a marco demico took uh a big case Rudy took a case You know, tony tony d uh and bobby abinadi went down with marco in the 90s, but nothing that major so You know who knows but it's interesting to to note that these guys have been informing since the early 90s So that's it for this quick hitting episode Of the og podcast. I'm scott burnstein. We will see you on a full-length episode coming up soon for jimmy buchelato My uh co-host for ben my producer. I will see you later on the og podcast. I'm out


Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. So this is my what's in the box which means it's my latest design team package from Trimcraft and this is my Christmas package. So this is my first year with Trimcraft on the design team. So this is my first time receiving the Christmas package and my word, they have not disappointed I'm completely blown away. Now I did get to play with a lot of this product back in July on a very, very hot day in head office. So I made some really nice projects and you'll see them over the coming months but now we've got it for ourselves and we get to create with it. So let me get into this box and show you what they have sent because it's amazing. Okay so first of all I'm going to start off with a simply creative range. So I'm super excited. I didn't actually see these. They didn't have these when we went up for our crafting. We went up it was kind of like over two days and these are the advent numbers and it's perfect. So I have a really nice advent tutorial coming and I hadn't done the numbers yet. I hadn't really thought about that so now I've got these. I say it's perfect so that that tutorial in my head now is complete so I can start putting it together and that one will be out in not too long because I want you to be able to have time to do it ready for the first December. So those are really, really nice. Everything as always I will link as much as I can in the description box below because this is what I'm going to be crafting with this Christmas. There are a few other little bits that I believe may well be sent out to us and there's another lovely collection which I'll talk about later. So then we've got here these adhesive snowflake pearls. Bring them up there you can see. Really, really sweet.  Then I've got the Christmas twine. So you get three and there's 10 meters on each. You've got 30 meters in total there. We've got this gingerbread man sticker. I've got the fairy one which I put on a gift tag for a friend's birthday and this is this lovely gingerbread man here so he's going to look lovely on a gift tag, hanging off a lovely gift bag. So you'll see him appear at some point and I know that there are some other ones as well. So yeah look out for those. Then we've got some candy cane pipe cleaners. It was funny actually. Sorry off the top of my head I forgot who it was that emailed me about pipe cleaners. It's one of those things. I've got a ton of them and they get used when I make like rosettes and things like that but these ones are going to work really great for candy cane and these will feature in some of my yeah that's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to say anything more because there's quite a lot there so I know got an idea now what I'm going to do with them. Then we've got metallic pompoms and pom-pom trim. This looks lovely around the side of your cards, gift boxes, things like that so it's really really sweet and I use that again on a project that I done and the metallic ones are just really nice. Then we've got some little jingle bells. You've got a variety of colors and sizes there so you've got the larger gold, you've got the smaller gold, you've got the green, silver and red so they're lovely to have as little dangles on gift bags and things like that. Then we've got these. These are really lovely. I like the shape of these. These are similar ones that I had before from another brand which are really lovely. Again I've already got two things. One project I've already done and these will now just complete it so that's exciting. Then we've got some wooden shapes so these are great. You can color these with your alcohol markers. You can paint them. You can also heat emboss on them as well so you can keep them as they are and just stress them just with your inks if you want to but they are nice if you imagine you've got some nice green embossing powder and then you can add some little ball balls or something so they're really fun. There's lots you can do with them and again I will include all of this in tutorials over the coming months. Then we've got these toppers. I think we are all not fighting but these were like one of the popular toppers that we're getting used a lot when we were crafting. So you've got the happy Christmas in the silver and the merry Christmas in the gold and these are wooden and they're really really nice. Then we've got here we've got some faux berries so that's going to work great for my wreath this year. We have these here which are mini envelopes so the gold and there are silver as well and then you've got the little foam dots on the back there but you can pop a little note in there you could have deer santa on here. There's so many nice ways to obviously add to it. These are super cute and I've got a card idea for these so these are your felt wreaths and you get six of them and they look like they're self-adhesive actually as well those ones.  Then I've got the skinny tinsel. There are other colors in this one as well I believe.  You get three meters there that's already been planned to be used. Then we've got glitter pots this year with my glitter I've got something very different planned so again watch this space because I will be sharing it and it's going to be part of my Christmas gifts to people this year as well so yeah they're really really handy and the pots are nice to use afterwards as well if you're creating like little shadow boxes and you do a lot of mixed media the little glass jars are really nice to keep. Then we've got decorative clear tape take that one out the packaging it's a bit easier so the top one says Merry Christmas you can see they have it there and the bottom one's got the snowflakes this is great to just use as normal clear tape when you're wrapping presents but it does look good over colored cardstock as well because you really see that white image pop and you get five meters per roll there. Then we've got the snow I use this on a project as did many of us on the day it's one of those things it's a bit like gilding flakes like as soon as you kind of breathe or sneeze it just kind of goes everywhere it's so soft to touch it's like one of those stress balls and so I'm so excited about this and it will be used probably on everything this Christmas and yeah it's just really good to get 100 grams artificial snow so that's going to be really handy. Then we've got these lovely snowflake sequins so that just screamshaker card to me and they're great as little embellishments as well so 20 grams and you get a mix of the gold and the silver. Then we've got these which are yeah they're just back to I don't know that is the back or the that bit's been put in the wrong way let's just twist that around there we go it bugged me otherwise so you get eight of these they're almost like a little bit more of a rose kind of gold and those are eight glittered wooden stars how nice is that going to look above a Christmas tree and I already have something in mind. Then we've got these glitter felt eight four glitter felt multi-pack so you get five of these so we've got oh yeah they're nice so it's just like the felt that you used to use in school or you know you can buy those those toys where you create little scenes you've got two of that kind of yellow gold it's a real rich gold and then three of the silver okay so again they're really handy these die cut lovely you can die cut felt I showed that with them that Arteza felt that I had but because this has got more of a I guess a firmer rigid kind of feel to it that's going to cut beautifully so I look forward to using that and then we've got some chunky tinsel yarn you can see there how it looks but again this is going to be great to decorate gift bags boxes it's that'd be nice as a handle you could plait that and have a really nice fun handle on a gift bag so yeah and again I imagine this will come I'm trying to remember on the day but I think I want to say that there's a green silver and a gold as well in this one they're kind of the colors that run through it I think these are the the four colors that kind of go through the whole of the simply creative Christmas range this year so then I've got these five Deku page papers it's Deku Mash and it's Fest Edition and a real nice variety there because you've got your traditional with those kind of well three even and then these ones here are a little bit more you know fun and I guess more kid orientated so saying that though this one I really really love I've got some ideas for these I have used Deku Paj in Deku Paj papers in the past so yeah it's quite nice to have them here because it kind of encourages you forces you in a way to use them so I've got them here and I definitely want to do that so yeah look out for those tutorials I think they're going to be quite fun and then I was really excited that they've given us one of the digital die cuts so this is the buildable Christmas scenes there are more to the collection I'll link them all below so if you are someone that you know loves doing your more digital cutting crafting then these are going to be really handy so we've got the snowman the great thing about these you can make them as big and as small as you want we've got that lovely nativity scene we've got the father Christmas there and his sleigh is like the silhouette got the Robin and the wreath we've got the merry Christmas also these are used with your cricket silhouette or brother machines love this scene here with the fireplace and the surround I think I've got something in mind now an idea that I've had before but I think I could make it work with this one and then on the back we've got this lovely door so that's going to work really well with those wreaths the little ones that I shared earlier you've got your cracker the stockings those stockings you could have as large as 12 by 12 you could do a really lovely garland above your fireplace like the the possibilities are endless when you've got digital die cuts which I'm slowly starting to you know use more and more you've got another scene here so you can fill all this and add more color you can you can just do so much with them love the penguin I think that's really cute and then you've got your three snow globes so if none of you have seen how these come open this one up already so just tells you a little bit there about it and then inside here you also have all of them there so it shows you all the svgs so it's a bit easier to kind of I guess decide how you're going to use them and then you've got your usb now the nice thing about these is they are a key ring style to remove the plastic there on the back it tells you what it is nice and clear buildable Christmas and you've got your key ring loop so I will add that to my other key ring of my files and it just hangs on my pegboard so it's really easy to use and they're ready to go so yeah thank you for sending that because I wasn't yeah I wasn't expecting it so that's a really nice extra nice package lovely gift as well you know these are nice if you're you know somebody's getting a digital machine a friend or someone you know or even you're giving them that these are nice little editions they've got all the other collections as well that I've shared before because they launched a few months ago and there's so many now to choose from so yeah I'm going to enjoy using them okay so then I've got a selection of Christmas ribbons so these are all no they're not all some of them are the grass grain so we've got those there we just put actually you can see which ones are grass grain because they've got a different packaging so there we go so that's those ones I'll just bring them up you can see we've got just lots of love but in a Christmas red then you've got Merry Christmas you've got your holly berries there holly and berries there Noel we've got that just checkered print these are going to be great for handles on most things to be honest that's probably what I end up using a lot of these fort and bows that one's a nice one 25th of December that's them and then these here are your cotton and you get two meters on all of them so this one here we've got happy Christmas and we've got Merry Christmas in the grave with the snowflake we've got dear Santa I like that one got just the plain snowflakes then we have stars so again that star as you can use for birthdays and stuff and then you got ho ho ho I really like that one as well so yeah two four six eight ten twelve so there's 12 ribbons there which should keep me going okay then we also got this is more simply creative so what I started showing you these are some of the stamps and dies I know there are more but the dies you've got the mitten and these are lovely to die cut a few times and then paper piece back together they make lovely little like dangles you can have a couple of mittens like hanging down the side of a card I like that all to have again on the gift bag gift box things like that so they're cute that one there says with love and you've got the holly little holly leaf there and these are always inexpensive these these are I want to say they're like 99p I'm sure in the range and stuff there they are very good value this is nice it's like a little almost like a memory dex roller dex kind of style like you turn it over like a per no is it perennial yeah that kind of thing I think I'm saying it right December the 25th moving on then we've got the Christmas one or Xmas some people don't like Xmas my mum hates Xmas she can't stand it she really does not she's like it's Christmas so I don't mind it to be honest but anyway I know some people don't then you've got this one here really cute again if you paper piece that I've actually already worked with this one and I die cut it a few times then paper pieced it back together so I die cut it I think it was in I want to say silver no it must have been white and then I done the car in red black wheels green Christmas tree and then I done the silver around it something like that it looked really lovely and then let it snow thought that was really nice and then these are cute these are the stamps so you've got look at him that's your Christmas bear he's going to be so nice to color love that one and then we've got cozy Christmas wishes that'd be nice just in silver just use your heat embossing that'd be really nice that's a good one all I want for Christmas is you that's going to look lovely inside you know stamped inside of a card or on a gift tag then the car again I've actually already used this one and it was nice to color I'd done a real nice red car green Christmas tree and then done the black wheels with little bits of silver for like the metal work and that came out really nice love that one that's your hot chocolate it's like a Christmas jumper knitted effect only the cup it's really cool and you got deck the holes like the almost like the mistletoe around it that's another nice seam there like that one again I would just stamp that in a block color probably again heat emboss it all in gold or something put on a gift tag and then talking about tags there is one there so you can stamp that you could actually have that on one side you could stamp that on a piece of card and then cut around it and then you know probably get away with that on the inside so yep they are lovely got some more washi tape I know a lot of you like the washi tapes you brought the ones that I shared before and I do use them a lot I use them a lot on my envelopes when I'm sealing them I put a little bit of washi tape across and things like that so let's get into this one just bring up a bit closer here you can see so you've got mary xmas you've got love joy piece and then love joy piece you've got the arrows you've got that's kind of more Scandinavian kind of print the holly that one says seasons greetings you've got the bells you've got music notes happy Christmas and your Christmas hat and then here you've got the stripes Christmas trees festive wishes you've got that kind of again almost like tartan checkered kind of look with love and merry Christmas or xmas joy piece and love so that's the same as that one but in the green they look nice together though on the card you've got your pensettia you've got the red with the stars snowflakes and then a noel all it loves together and you can just make cards just by putting loads of strips of the washi tape together and it's great for doing the herringbone technique okay and then I've got the first edition paper pads so these are the eight by eight I know they come in 12 by 12 and I believe six by six and I think there's a couple more as well but this is white Christmas really really lovely one let me just open this up okay so just give you a quick flick through of this one so at the back you have your double-sided papers and you always get three of each so you've got this one here with the fairy and that kind of circle print and we've got this one here so these are your background papers they're great I love that one there it's like the glistening lights like in the distance and blurred it's really nice you've got those three then we've got this one which has got that lovely festive detail there and that's the back and then this one that's lots of Christmas trees and then you've got like the swirls and then this one here says a very merry everything and then it's got merry Christmas seasons greetings I like that a very merry everything that's really cool then you've got that one on the back and you've got this one with the snowflake sorry and then you've got that one there with it's almost like just like a Christmas decoration we've got some music notes or sheet paper and that pattern and then you go on to your more designer papers like your UV spots things like that so we've got this one here is just the snowflake these are single-sided you've got that one there which is just a nice almost like a little bit of a tartan kind of look to it and that one there's like the berries white berries and you've got this one here which is textured so that's the spot UV and that says I'm dreaming of a white Christmas I love that one I don't know if it's catching but there is a shine to that then you've got the stag's head there or the reindeer it's a stag's head I think that one this one here look at this one gorgeous that glitter the snow then this one love that one and this one look at that foiling there you're two foil sheets at the top so that's white Christmas then we've got winter rose okay so again starting from the back you've got lovely deep wine colors there and the snowflakes you've got that green and then that nice pattern there you've got the stars and then Christmas trees then we've got that's nice with the pine cones do like that it's like a little bouquet really pretty and that I mean they look lovely together on a card that's going to be a really nice looking card then you've got a more decorative stag head although that does look more like a reindeer on that one I really like that and then you've got that it's almost like the snowfall then you've got that looks like mistletoe sprigs and you've got the Christmas tree with star on top again they look lovely together really nice and we've got again the plain again like a nice tartan style and we've got the stripes oh that's nice we've got the stock in actually that's like a traditional knitted sock and then it's got that lovely like floral flourish coming out the top and then you're onto your single side so this one's it's got the wreath with noel and obviously the 12 by 12 these will be blown up bigger and the six by six it'd just be smaller that one there that's pretty and now that's really nice like all the darlings and then you've got the holly that's all got the glitter on it it's really pretty this one here you got the pheasant that's nice a Christmas pheasant look how pretty that is the detail in him it's like he's got a little bit of it's like he's off to make his nest where he's got some mistletoe and we've got this one here which has got a texture on it and then you've got your these are your pearlescent designs you get two at the front so this one's got like the shooting stars and then this one here that gorgeous and it's all pearl pearl on the back pearlized paper really really lovely and you get that lovely overview on the front as well winter rose and then this is my favorite so here you've got your Christmas robin you've got penguins and just really nice colors you've got the polar bear so let's get into this one okay so again from the back got this kind of like snowflake ombre effect with the pinks and the reds and then you've got that one some of you might recognize that print because it's a very similar print from the celebrate let's celebrate but they've just made it more festive than that one really like it and then look at that one there the lovely reindeer and the Christmas trees and all kinds of lovely imagery going on there really like that one and on the opposite side you've got this one and then love gingham that is just that works so well with so many things whether it be Christmas birthdays just a gingham background is just really really nice so they won't last long and then you have the polar bear on that side and it's got a little scarf on that cute and then got the Christmas trees just love the colors love the um the palette that they've chose and then that one there it's like it's like a little yeah it's almost like a little decoration but then on there you've got a little robin he's got his little hat on so cute um then we've got this one here this is nice it's like a nice little scene that'd be lovely to fussy cut out you've got to have a happy Christmas and you've got mr polar bear you've got the robin you've got the presents you've got that bike with the presents on it it's really really sweet do you like that one and then and then that one there all the lovely it's like berries pine cones just modern eyes just in a different like I said the color palette just gives it that real modern look all the Christmas trees there you've got the fox that's a nice addition quite like that one again that doesn't necessarily have to be Christmasy that's quite an autumnal look as well to it so you know things like this you can use all year round then look isn't that lovely little family of penguins really really sweet I love that how many times do I say I love that and then you've got them all there on like a little washing line of socks or a garland of socks it looks sweet with a little scarf on them super cute and then we've got this one here with again like shooting stars and this is now we're on to the so the robin is the star of the single-sided so then we've got those there that's nice the back of them it's like mum and dad there with the scarf around the both of them and then the little like little baby kind of looking on that's sweet and this one here says peace and love and that's the spot UV you can see there how it catches that's nice sparkle and it has got lots of glitter on it trying to catch the light maybe if I move you can just see it there starting to pick it up and it's textured you can feel it as well it's nice and then we've got this one here it is the season to sparkle it's a really lovely image and that little wreath effect and that one there again spot UV you can see there the snowflakes and then that one there which has got all the stripes again stripes are really really good so yeah how lovely is that one believe in magic believe in magic yeah believe in magic so I was checking there wasn't a the believe in the magic but it's believe in magic and then winter rose and white christmas so that's those three okay and then this is one of the dovecraft collections so dovecraft when they do their collection they have everything to go with it so it's like the secret garden which I know many of you had and also the happy you there's there's obviously loads more before that but the most recent ones and you just get everything to go with it so I don't know if this is everything I can't remember off the top of my head but anyway I'll show the links to it all but you've got twilight wishes this is called so you've got your gold buttons these are nice these are your metal star charms and then we've got 16 mini bows we have got these are different these are really nice so these are baubles and they've got holes in them they're wood as well let me take them out so these on a card you thread them through with some ribbon you can have them along the top of a card how nice they look but I'm going to probably have them as little dangles again on gift bags have one one on each one with a bow and have that mixed with it and do a nice little dangle I think they look really nice but you get six wooden shapes then you've got a mix of pegs there so you've got the gold glitter and then you've got purple like a deeper purple and the green and then you've got these stickers here so these are your snowflakes yeah they all look like there's no flakes you get 24 glittered stickers there and then you've got your paper packs so I've been sent the six by six and the 12 by 12 I'm going to open up the six by six because the 12 by 12 is the same it's just blown up okay so the first one you get the overview sheet I always say make sure you keep this because that is a card already for you that's done and then you could use one of these toppers in the middle and you have a beautiful card so always keep that one and then we'll start from the back again so with these ones here you get two glitter papers two gold foil papers and then the rest are just you know normal in terms of pattern papers so we've got this one here get three again of each we've got that one there just like your Christmas tree kind of twigs or sprigs sorry that's the word I'm looking for then we've got that one there it's nice it's all glittered garlands and then you've got your Christmas decorations there very very like luxurious looking decorations there hanging off the tree and then we've got this one here which says merry and bright noel seasons greetings Christmas wishes yeah I think that's it so it's a nice one another really lovely glittered one with all the snowflakes this one's got a real rich palette of colors it's lovely and then you've got that one there it's your peacock feather which is I think really nice but again not Christmasy you could use that all year round that's a similar one to in that other paper packs it's like the glistening lights but really blurred but you could also use that as a water background you could get away with that so you've got this one here it's almost got that 1920s kind of look about it and then that one there it's like glitter look at that oh beautiful and that one there again gorgeous and then the top shape so that is twilight wishes the other one is Christmas tales OMG oh it's so so cute so um again I'll share that one in due course but how lovely is twilight wishes then I've got to send some more of the permafix tape I love this stuff I've gone through this is my fourth roll now so you get five meters I don't use it like as a normal kind of double-sided tape it's for when I've got you know a large surface area to cover and I want to do some thick strips around the edge or just something that's maybe quite heavy this is so so strong and again all the links will be shared I'm going to hang that one straight up so it's ready to use and then we've got one two three four five six 12 by 12 paper addicts so the last lot of paper addicts papers I've loved them all I think it was the tropical one which I probably used the most and also the retro days I'm down to just literally fragments of all of those paper packs because I've used them there's a few other projects to come but I've used them so much they've just been really really nice so here we have Christmas bell oh so if you've got you know any children that you know your own children grandchildren friends or anything that love just real that soft beautiful pink color and fairies ballerinas bows all that kind of thing then Christmas bell I think is going to be a winner for you so here you have these bows then this one here says Christmas magical Christmas with the little fairy you get two of each on the paper addicts but it's really good quality I see a lot of you comment you say that you've got the paper addicts and you just love the quality of the paper and the great thing is is the price point of the paper addicts as well so you get this is the ones that this range comes in you get small little 10 centimeter by 10 centimeter I'm sure it is then you also get the then 12 by 12 I want to say there's a size in between again it will all be linked but they are they're really really good value so I think the small ones are as cheap as $1.99 something like that anyway look at that lovely ball ball with the bow on top really really pretty nice background one there and then look at the Christmas lights that's sweet you got this one here which again is like your Christmas tree sprigs you got that swirly print there but again you can use those all year round these will make great birthday cards the fairy there you know you put a happy birthday with that doesn't have to be Christmas polka dots but then you have the really girly snowflake so the snowflake's done with flowers as well as like the the snow or the look of a snowflake it's just I like it it's really really cool a bit different and you got this one here so you got the fairy holding the the bobble which is sweet again that's kind of a bit of a theme I think is this kind of blurred almost like bokeh kind of print look you know that blurred blurred effect then you've got your fairy in the little kind of like mason jar like holding your wishes you've got the lovely subtle stars there that's nice look at that one there in the snow globe you've got the stripes stars you've got Mary Christmas that one there says Mary and bright that's nice with the bells all on the garland there lovely and then you've got snowflakes another nice kind of like glittery ombre it's not really picking up but it is there it's lovely it's very very subtle like I said this is very soft it's just yeah very very delicate and you've got your pink I guess kind of like Ponsetta flowers there and look at the Christmas tree with all the snow on them bring that up there you see really really nice so yeah so that's Christmas bell very very pretty then you got your traditional red green and white so red green and gold red green silver this is me I'm I am quite traditional with my Christmas colours but I am venturing into other colours and since joining TrimCraft it's kind of encouraged me to I guess get out of that that kind of colour set that I've always had and when you see the bottom one of this which is my favourite one it's completely away from this so but I do still love this red green yeah it's lovely so this is festive folly and you can already see there you get a lovely overview this is I'd say a great one for fussy cutting you've got lots of elements in this paper pad so you've got these presents here all easy to cut out and then you've got that one there so it's quite easy for me I know I would just use these ones for fussy cutting and there's you know that's not too precious to cut into these ones here you've got your mitten your hot chocolate presents the bells a little candy cane again very easy to cut out you got that lovely checked and this one here really nice these are great for masculine cards as well so I'd say it's a good one for that and you can like I said get the smaller ones you've got Santa there Merry Christmas or Father Christmas just for you again great to cut you know if you've got a rectangle die you've got nice little toppers there to go you got this one here polka dots and then you've got your three different mugs of hot chocolate there you've got cookies cream little candy canes really lovely and then this is great for advent so again if you're making your own see I forgot about this one so now I'm seeing this one I could do a bit of a mix with these and that's it all matches so well together so yeah in fact actually all of the simply creative would match perfectly you know just bringing bits here it all works so well with this so if you want accessories to match this paper pad then go for the simply creative because it's all going to work even down to let your little envelopes and things so that's a good one but yeah they're all there one to 25 perfect easy to cut just run them through your cutting machine or cut them by hand or even if you can find a die that would would work as well but I really like that so I need to need to have a little think because I think the size of these might work a bit better I don't know we just and if you want to make them for more than you know more than the one you've got two sheets so which is always good then you got your candy cane really lovely they're just really bold clean limes just yeah I really like it Christmas tree you've got some stripes that's nice again with your pine cone and then more stripes they're nice they're really nice to cut as well love them love love love I hope you're enjoying this as well got holly polka dots or like snow that one is actually isn't it that's like a golf print to me like the Pringle brand my dad was a golfer so years ago I'd remember him wearing shirts and stuff like this and my godfather as well um that's really sweet love the little reindeer in the Christmas trees and you got that one there that's got a name that print I can't think what it is you look closely I might do something and then that's nice that's like a traditional looking that's like a Christmas jumper kind of effect as well on it that one this one but yeah it screams again mail cards as well to me so I think that's going to be a win I think that's going to be one of the the most popular from the collection festive fully then we've got your sleigh ride so this one here is like your Scandinavian style it's almost a little bit like cross stitch as well so again working from the back so you've got this one here and then that one so it's that real ice kind of blue it makes me feel cold looking at it it's that kind of yeah effect I swear some of you must listen to me and think she's really quite odd anyway then we have see what I mean the cross stitch it's like it's like a pattern which is obviously quite a Scandinavian style so you've got your mittens there and snowflakes bigger snowflakes they are nice they're making my eyes go funny actually that's cool I like the little jumper in the presence that's cute see that looks like a sampler it's that kind of style in fact you could have that as a card and then die cut nice thick letters with this and have it over the top that would look nice more prints merry Christmas it makes me want to stitch it does make me want to stitch over the top of it this one here happy Christmas merry and bright joy that's nice I like that one that's cool again Christmas jumper definitely nice gift bag that looked lovely with nice gift tag hanging down all backgrounds you've got one with the hearts yeah that's it there so that is sleigh ride really like it different that's what I like then we've got magical stories this is another favourite because you know I like bright some wacky kind of colours as well but this is great for fussy cutting and again I would say if you've got more of a girly girl and someone that does love all of the pinks and sparkles and stuff this one along with the Christmas bell I think would work well together because you have your fairies and things like that so you've got your overview again here and then stuff in the back you've got your polka dots look at the Christmas tree how fun is that it's just going to honestly I think you're going to be bombarded it's going to be like a tutorial every day I'm thinking because I've got to get you know I've got to get this stuff out to you lot so and I've got too many ideas I need to do it all so these are definitely going to get a fussy cut love those images love that but again the good thing about this is is birthdays this is going to carry on through the year so okay that's not so much but I could certainly use that on a card so if I did have any leftover but that is just so cool look at that I forgot about this one you've got here the sugar plum fairy you've got the ballerina you've got the nutcracker Christmas decorations holly you've got this little mouse with his little crown on and his sword you've got the rocking horse the crown it's like the more you look at it king wrapped always a rat not a mouse you probably saw that before I did the drums it's just really really fun nutcracker I don't know if I said him or not ballerina and the fairy yeah it's one of those ones you keep looking at you see something else really really fun I don't think I took that I did see it but I don't think I didn't work with this one on the day I don't believe anyway love it look at that lovely aren't they gorgeous again you could actually hang them you could really cut them out that hole's big enough to put your hole punch through thread some ribbon put it on a card have it dangling over a bag just too many ideas really is love that with the pink berries instead of the red but with the red background I think that's nice and then here again that's cool a little candle candle light no it's not candle lava isn't it it's just a candle stick holder stand anyway then we've got this one here oh they're great toppers again so easy to cut around that lovely image of the stocking really really sweet you've got your crown there yeah I don't I didn't look at this closely when I was up there because I would have remembered this how it calls that king rat there's not many paper pads that have a rat is there so I like it that's why I like trim craft and then we've got that lovely pink and then on the other side you have magical Christmas with the fairy or the sugar plum fairy that's really cute put it that way you can see it better love that one and then the stars and the drums but oh but again that can easily be used for birthday along with the stars so it's nice to be able to have paper packs that you're not just stuck with and there's lots of papers that can definitely be used not just for Christmas that's got merry Christmas all over and then here is the ballerina and she looks like she's going to kiss the nutcracker just really fun images just really different and again I've just said it that's that's why I love the trim craft brand because they do just do things a little bit different they don't follow everybody else because always the same old stuff that comes out with a lot of brands this is always just so different lovely different coloured rocking horses there and then more of the snowflakes and stars and then look he's got a whole sheet dedicated to himself that lovely nutcracker my mum's got lots of nutcrackers some very large ones and some smaller ones that my dad collected for her when he was when he was in the navy and he used to travel abroad so he's got some original really lovely german ones and we've got some beautiful really is quite nice I thought I always say to make sure you leave that to me because I want it all we've got the ballerina like I said that's I know it's got the snowflake there but you could still use that for for birthdays especially Christmas birthdays and then we've got fa la la la la that's nice easy to cut out and that's it my tops come off of that one but yeah I think that's really fun then we've got paper addicts world winter this is a great one for your masculine cards and gift bags and boxes I've done a nice I guess more home decor piece with this one when I was at head office and I've actually done a magazine commission with this so I use this a couple of months ago and made some cards which I believe are out today in a magazine if I'm right anyway I will link and share all that as I do so this is wild winter so here we've got winter wishes warm and cozy and snuggle up so again great to cut out separately but also have as a nice background paper you've got the bows and then you've got here like your kind of log cabin house in the woods with the little stag there this one's got let it snow yep let it snow and then the bigger one there there we go with the snowman that's really nice I like that one a lot and then you've got the christmas trees you've got that modern style christmas tree there love that background like I said I've used all of these just to kind of showcase the the paper collection the wreath there and then you've got the bear and the reindeer and they've got little hearts and sprigs and things that background again lots of the background pieces that can be used all year around snowflakes more of the the woodland there you've got the bear love that one because I can mix that in with lots of the other paper pads again that's just the sprigs from the tree and again with that one really nice you can see as well it'll work with the wood effect so lots of stuff to mix and match those two look really nice together I mean more of the the stag that's lovely more sprigs there's lots of nice background papers for this one and then you've got elements of all of them really together that one there and then you've got mr fox all on that one so yeah there we go wild winter really nice and then this is my favorite out of all of the paper addicts this is the one I love I have made at the minute my favorite christmas project for this year although I haven't actually put together many more but I just I fell in love with it it came about very quickly and it didn't take long to do at all but I just I love it and I actually said to the girls that head off is I said can I take this one I don't want to leave it so I'm going to make it again I'm going to do a full tutorial because it was all made from this paper pack there are so many nice elements to fussy cut I added a few extra bits for example the artificial snow and I think this time I'm going to add in maybe the pipe cleaners might put them in with it as well but you will definitely see that one pretty soon so this is cosy christmas so we have first of all we've got the rose kind of sprayer flowers there and then that nice background this one here this was lovely I fussy cut this one and the presence and the rose there really really pretty and those ones there they were nice to cut out again more with the presence with like the mistletoe on the top and then you've got the hearts little mittens there with the hearts on them really sweet nice little kind of star background love that one it's really really nice and again can be used not just for Christmas with love and for you that's a great one for valentines this would work really quite well with the valentines as you know projects as well and then these here lovely tags sending love at Christmas have a lovely Christmas and especially for you nice sizes as well and then here you've got your heart shaped wreath so you've got your mistletoe and the star and then the roses very very sweet nice you could cut right down the middle there and have that as a banner along a card or have it as it is you know for a nice gift box and then we've got these squares here which again very easy to cut out more kind of trims if you want them or as one and then this one here little Christmas wishes and the hearts and the mittens there's a little bit of everything all on that piece the snowflakes and then the hearts and this one here the fussy cut these they were really pretty I love that one getting that nice kind of border there that trim how lovely is that you cut that out there like a long easy you know to take that piece out you've got these kind of swirls little doodles then the heart lights I love they've got like a little halo of light around them so they do actually really look like they're glowing really really sweet and then these ones here with the candle with that lovely spray I just love it I just really really like everything about it okay so I've got most of it in shot still some of the bigger paper pads that I can't but I'm just blown away and overwhelmed but I can't wait to get crafting like I said my list is there it's ready to go a lot of the templates and the kind of my test runs have been done so I can just start now recording and get a lot of these Christmas tutorials out to you guys they will be earlier this year than last year because obviously last year I wasn't with trim craft so I need to yeah start sharing this product with you all so I hope you like the what's in the box I'm yeah got a huge smile on my face right now so as always thank you so much trim craft love you guys so much and I can't wait to get crafting so let me know what you think of this lovely collection of Christmas product let me know if you've already got some of it in the comments below and yeah I'll start doing the tutorials soon okay thanks for watching bye


Tuza mwiri tini na mwa mwiri yu tini. Kwa na mwa mwa mwa mwiri loko, mwiri mwa mwiri katia nwa mwiri maqilita jini. Ya, mwiri tini na mwa mwa mwiri, yu tini nmwiri, dmwiri mwa kwa mwa BA. Kwenisha jini mwa dmwiri mwiri. Hipapata nmwiri kwa shaw meetami nmwiri kwa kwa kwa mwiri. PRO of the former company and the PRO of the current company. Most of the times or at most of the times these are very two important people that also have to initiate or have to facilitate your transfer from one company to another very fast. Most of you got into what you call crushing that you find that your transfer has been delayed in one or the other. It's just because the PRO has not yet initiated for your transfer. Hope I've tried to share something for you. Thank you so much. See you again in next video.


Juna lanku naitua Agnes Rehema Chisiwa, nimi ni kulema, nimi kajiwa pajunjuwad, leo nimi furahi, kutembe lewa nani wageni kutoga kwafao. Her smile leaves no doubt over pride. Agnes is etya person of the Juhudi Farmer Field School in Kilifi, South Kenya.  Agnes trades women and men on agricultural business development. At the same time, she also prepares them to overcome local traditions and customs that hinder women like herself from progressing. Mama ni kama wana beba mzigotu wajami. Kwanti aile chai mua miamka, baka kufiki asa yaku lalatena. Mama mifanya vitu vengi kabisa. Until a few years ago, Agnes had difficult to discuss openly with her husband about money matters and they never consulted with each other in making decisions. This happens in many families. Things started to change in 2020 when Agnes was trained on the women's empowerment farmer business and an innovative approach that promotes participatory decision making and applies gender lens to business skills development in family farming. She was among the 100 facilitators from Kilifi County who participated in the WFBS training organized by FAO in partnership with the county government of Kilifi. Mama mugu aile kwa akita kpata pesa. Ti licenses ungei, iaimi kata zake na mime kata z영. T Richards regression went from one community into the other, even in the asika has IIF-1, Kama ni school uniform ni mimi ni menunua shati huku. Usigena shati yad yosefu, nunua suru wale. Mas isa ii mambu ni mansuri kat misa le mafunsua me tu sayi. Mi yambu katamina furaia. Olem bradi tu li fundishwa kule mambu ya gender, tu kafundishwa mambu ya visioning, visioning journey, tu kafundishwa mambu ya marketing, tu kafundishwa kufumuizo committees, market survey, group dynamics. Kufundishwa mambu ya inki. Tenakabda tu produce do uta peta pesoko. Sayi hatu produce kama vile moansu, eti tunahenda tunatengeneza mi zigo hatu du tutu zianana. Olem bradi li tufunguwa machu okabisa. Sayi tunahenda ku market survey, tunahangalia products zeneziku kule tunahangalia wale wa uzaji we ni wakukule kwa soko. Nini ni kizuru mngependa, nunua kutuka kwa wakulima. Na kwa wakatigani ikuna beigani. Konfano stasa iwi nyanya. Nyanya tunawaliza, mngependa nyanya aina gani. Varaia tigani na mngependa ziki wa kupua, ama ziki wa ndogo. Namuna tukua kiasi gani. Tunataka tujua. Ndosa tuku kidi ahuku. Tunanjua wakatule wa tomatu hakuna ni kidogo kule soko ni. Na sisi gama wakulima we ni tunafanyu ni zadi. Bahasi tunazalisha wakatihua. Na tukua tunawa target wale wa nunuzi. Wow. I remember Agnes very well. I was one of our trainers in 2020. Listening to her words really makes me proud because I see how knowledgeable she has become. She is also very charismatic. Don't you think? My name is Queenika Tembu and I coordinate the WFBS activities in Faw Kenya. Thanks to funding from Flexible Mount Partner Mechanism, we are helping transform the lives of rural women farmers and their families. In partnership with World Vision International, there's a program trained 15 master trainers, built the capacities of 257 farmer facilitators who have in turn transferred the WFBS skills to 2,678 farmers. We expect to have reached 5,200 female and 1,300 male farmers with these skills by the end of 2022. Our representative in Faw Kenya can tell you more about this program. Over to you, Madam Kala. Thank you, Queen. I am happy to see how the life of Agnes and others are changing for the better. By involving both men and women, the WFBS approaches give space for unpacking gender norms while strengthening entrepreneurial skills and the capacity to improve their farm business activities, engage in lucrative value chains and pursue market opportunities. Thanks to FMM funds, our efforts are transforming women's lives by strengthening their capacity to do farming as a business, to network, develop a vision plan for their families and define concrete steps for achieving it. We are also sharing our lessons and experiences on the WFBS with other countries such as Cambodia, Senegal and Uganda. We are targeting a vision plan for the future of our land and for the future of our land. We are working together. We are working together to create a vision plan for the future of our land. We are working together to create vision plan for the future of our land and for the future of WFBS. Thank you. Thank you.


The circle is complete at least for clone Wars fans. I bet they were squeeing the whole time doing this episode Star Wars Hey guys, this is my review for Mandalorian season 2 episode 5 This was the return of Dave Ioni in the director's chair and I can definitely say he did a much better job with this episode Well, it also helped that the episode was a lot more interesting than the episode He directed in the first season the first season his was the one with that bounty hunter kid Honestly, it was kind of a very boring episode I thought it was actually the dullest episode of that entire season this one However, it was much much better because he got to do a live-action interpretation of a character that he had a hand in and Guided for over a decade from the clone Wars Ahsoka it was really cool to see this character in a real form with Rosie O'Dawson Doing the role apologize if I said that wrong. I'm always very terrible at saying name. She was great to see as his character I thought that she did a good job as a mature version of this character I thought that the fight choreography with her character was pretty good And I did enjoy the connection that she had with Mandalorian as well as the child There was one kind of weird thing about this episode though is that Kyle Reese is here and he's kind of just here for all the big names that have been in this show so far Even John LeWizamo had kind of a cool character but of course in Weird alien makeup in the first episode, but every single big name that's been dropped in this season has been a cool character Michael beans just He's just here and before you know it Kyle Reese is out just fast I did enjoy the art aesthetic of this episode I did enjoy that the Soka still has that lone wanderer kind of feel that she is This rogue agent. She's doing the right thing, but she's not following the Jedi creed And that's why even after we find out that the little child's name is Groku Groku No, he's not Goku when we find out that she can't help him She tells him to go to another Jedi to continue his quest. I thought that this was a pretty solid episode I thought the action was really fun I did like the dynamic of the two of them fighting with each other It felt like the shortest episode though out of all of the episodes of this season so far So that might have been one kind of negative to it But it was really good to see Fiona really improve with his directing style and with the action pieces of it and just the general entertainment of this episode was far better great lore and legends Love and appreciation and respect which is a kind of a given for Fiona But is it been philoni? I've been saying philoni this whole time. So before I butcher anyone else's names I'm just gonna give the rating for it. I'm gonna give this episode five out of seven I thought it was a solid episode. It's not the best one of the season so far, but it's continuing this Very very solid Damn good feeling that we've been having for all of these episodes I cannot wait to watch tonight's episode whenever I get home from work And I will have a review for that for you either tonight or tomorrow morning, but either way guys I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I hope you guys are enjoying the mando season 2 Tell me what you guys think about it in the comments below And if you liked it leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe. Otherwise. See you guys next time Thanks for watching the video My name is Nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show undergrads It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign But we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie Be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads Facebook page and with any luck. We'll see you guys soon