Good morning, everybody. It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in this morning's video, we're going to be talking about a couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade here on the 1st of May and heading on to the rest of this week. And we're also going to be taking a looking at what is the stock market? What are the futures looking like right now on the 1st of May to kick off this May month? What are we looking like? Because we saw Apple recorded their earnings yesterday. The market took that very positively. So let's see how that is transitioning to this morning's pre-market session. So at the time that I'm recording this video, we have about 45-ish minutes left to the market open. We can see here natural gas is one of the futures that I'm watching because we trade. I personally trade a bunch of other people trade U-gas and D-gas, which are two ETFs that trade based on natural gas. But we'll talk about that here in a couple of minutes. Let's hop over here to my Safari tab and let's talk about the stock market futures, right? This is the CNN business. This is typically sometimes where I'm looking at the futures every morning. We can see if we do a quick refresh here. The S&P's up about $10 right now, up about 0.34%. NASDAQ's up 54 points here, pretty solid morning, up nearly 0.7%. And the Dow's up almost 100 points, up 94 to be exact, up 0.35%. And another thing I want to mention here is the Fed meeting is today. So if we click this little article here very quickly, I'm sure it'll tell us a time here. Yup, Fed guidance, the Federal Reserve will announce its latest interest rate decision and policy update at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today. So keep an eye on that, guys. We all know when the Fed meets, if they hike the interest rates, if they lower them, if they keep them the same. Sometimes this does fluctuate and impact the market negatively or positively depending on the overall sentiment of the Fed meeting. So keep an eye on that today. Very, very important. That's definitely one of the key takeaways from this morning's video. So we saw the markets, the futures are up a significant, not a crazy amount, but a pretty decent, significant amount here this morning. If we're hopping over here to the NQ to see what the NASDAQ's doing, we talked about this little downward trending kind of a pennant channel here in yesterday's video. It seems like we're breaking out of there, especially with the strong earnings from Apple. Right, NASDAQ is doing well. It did very well after market hours yesterday. Seems like we're popping out, holding that as a support. We could be pushing to an all-time high today, watching that for the NASDAQ, hopping over here to the SPI, which is an ETF that tracks the S&P 500. On the one day, one minute, we can see, you know, we pulled back yesterday, the kind of an aggressive sell-off we reversed and we've been uptrending ever since then on an intraday basis here. Well, kind of a two-day basis and we can see that uptrend is still intact heading into the pre-market session today. We're maintaining the 180 S&P. We see the little bullish cross, the 50 S&P crossing above the 180 S&P. Very good sign there for the SPI. So needless to say, guys, the markets are looking green. They are looking strong this morning. So let's talk about very quickly a couple that I'm keeping my eyes on, couple of ETFs, couple of stocks that I'm keeping my eyes on this morning. So in terms of ETFs, guys, the number one that I am watching is crude oil and the UWT ETF that trades based upon crude oil. So crude oil, whenever it's going up in price, UWT is going up in price as well and whenever it's going down, obviously UWT is going down as well. So we initially saw, I initially saw interest in crude oil a couple of days ago because we maintained the 180 S&P support over the past couple of months, which has been a support over the past couple of months, right? Very good sign that crude oil wanted to continue this upwards push. We saw a pop up to 64.60, very quick pop up. I think that was literally a day or two times where it went from 62.60 to 64.60. We got the rejection at the resistance from back towards the beginning of April. We see this very strong resistance and it just happened to be right under the 50 S&A, right? So we got rejected at two separate points there. And from there, it seems like we've been really just reversing to the downside, right? But the one positive thing that I'm seeing here on the 20-day one hour, it seems like very, very close that we are maintaining this little trend here, but we do seem to be breaking that. But let's just say, you know, if we just clear this, remove drawing very quickly. Technically, we're still maintaining it, right? Just keep an eye if we're going to bounce at the 63-ish level, 63.20 to continue to trend back up. That's the ideal situation here for UWT and what I'm personally waiting for this morning. Let's say we do end up holding there. And the key, the next level, the next key level from there would be breaking out of 63.65, which was a resistance in the this morning's earlier this morning session, right? We hit 63.65, got rejected, pushed down, and we hit that level on the 29th of April. We obviously hit that level, popped up, broke below it, making it a new resistance. So that is a place where we need to get back. And if we break above those levels and we head into the $64 level, that's going to be very attractive for crude oil, right? And especially UWT, which is what I'm looking to trade today. So you guys saw natural gas in the beginning of this video. This one's slowly starting to break out on a bullish pattern here. So on the 20-day one hour, we can see what was happening, right? The 50 SMA crossed below the 180 SMA, that's a bearish pattern. We saw some bearish action over the past couple of weeks. Now we're finally breaking out of that 50 SMA resistance. We're seeing a bullish cross of the 50 SMA crossing above the 180 SMA. We broke out of the 180 SMA resistance. Everything is pointing to a little bit of a reversal here on natural gas, right? And if we go to the 184 hour, we can see that on a bit of a better basis. So what I'm looking for here is are we going to end up crushing into the 260s again? Maybe we start to pop out of the 180 SMA resistance on the 260 level. There's a couple of different things that can happen here, right? We can play you guys on the potential upside here that natural gas has up to the 180 SMA. Let's say we start to see some resistance there. At that point, you know, it's going to be pretty overbought, right? The R side is going to be overbought. We might see a little bit of a retracement there. Then we can play the flip side, which is D gas, which is an ETF that's going up whenever natural gas is selling off. So I think this could be a good possibility. You know, if we break, let's say, 260, which seems to be a resistance right now on natural gas. If we break that, we can ride it up to the 265 resistance here. That would be a nice margin on you guys. And if we get rejected again, if big if here, we could play D gas on the downside. But if we break out, that can be even more upside for you guys. So those are two ETF plays for today, guys. Let's talk about some stocks. I kind of covered these in yesterday's video. If you missed that part of the video or if you didn't watch the video at all, the couple of stocks were Google, Apple and AMD. So we saw AMD. Let's talk about Apple first. We saw Apple reported earnings, right? They beat on EPS. They beat on revenue. And the earnings report was taken pretty positively by the market, although China was very weak. The iPhone sales are weak in China. But Tim Cook said that they are stabilizing a bit because they did cut prices, you know, in China. But still, nonetheless, the iPhone sales and the whole iPhone business in general, not even just in China, were weak, right? The business is just weak. This is not news to us. But the stock still ended up popping up, right? It seems like we're breaking out of the 210 resistance here this morning, right? We did after hours yesterday as well. And it seems like, honestly, guys, we're maintaining that level as a new support here. So what I'm looking for is I want to see, right? Are we going to end up maintaining this level and then maybe slowly starting to break up to the 220 level? Because again, guys, we traded out of the horizontal channel from 200 to 210. It seems like we broke out of there on this positive, pretty decent positive earnings report, right? We broke out of there. So the next spot we could be headed to now, if we do confirm the push up. And by that, I mean, if we get into the 2-11s, 2-12s, 2-13s, this could be the next hike up to about $220, which would be the next resistance, excuse me, that I'm seeing here on Apple. So that's what I'm watching this morning. I'm probably not going to hop into Apple, guys, to be completely honest with you. I want to see how the market reacts to this. And I don't want to just hop in and then the stock starts to sell off. I want to probably give it a day or two. See, if something similar happens to Facebook where Facebook popped up aggressively, then they sold off aggressively the next couple of days, right? If that happens to Apple, I'm probably going to take a position. But at these levels, I'm being a bit cautious, right? Because I'm in Apple in my long-term portfolio, right? I'm enjoying the gains there. So I don't want to just hop in and get too greedy and hope it does get to 220. You know, I think it probably can maybe in a couple of weeks, months over time. But I'm just being a bit cautious on that right now. So AMD is another one that reported earnings yesterday. The market took it pretty well. The stock went up nearly to $30 per share after market hours. And now we're seeing a bit of a pullback on AMD, which is very ideal for an entry point in my personal opinion. So we're pulling down. Let's see on the 21 hour, we'll see a bit better. We're pulling down and we're looking to retest this level of resistance, old resistance, which is now a new support at around $28.75. So we popped up to $30. We're pulling back now to roughly the old resistance, new support. And if we maintain this level, which it seems like we are doing pre-market hours here, I think this is a very good trade, potential trade on AMD from $28.75 up to $30. And if we get our handy-dandy little trend line tool out, we can see exactly how much that has to offer, right? That's about 3%, 4% margin of profit. And a lot of analysts think AMD is going to all-time highs. I'm not going to say that myself, right? You've got to do your own research on that. But all I'm saying is analysts think they're going to all-time highs, right? Analysts think that, or rather they did raise the price targets on AMD. So take that for what you want to, right? If you think that's positive news, bad news, whatever, take it how you want to, right? But me personally, I think from here up to $30 is a very good trade. But if we break back down to the $28 level, especially if we break $28.75 and we start to break into the lower $28 level, that's going to be worrisome in my opinion on AMD. So let's hop over here to Google stock. And Google, we all know reported earnings a couple of days ago. The stock tank, I believe it was about 10%. We can see exactly here roughly 10%, more like 8.5% from about $1,300 all the way down to $11.75. So Google, this is one that's maintaining its trend over the 184 hour, which I think is very attractive, right? This is something that if we start to reverse back into the $1,200 level, this can be a very strong swing trade kind of as the dust settles from this whole earnings debacle that Google just had, right? So this in my opinion, once it confirms that it's pushing up, it's going to be one of the best swing trades out there. And again, don't just trade this on my opinion, guys, you have to understand the risk involved, you have to understand and really just formulate your own plan regarding what you are trading. So Google, AMD, Apple, top three for today, Procter and Gamble as well, of course, I've been in that one for about a week now. That's one that I'm watching and potentially looking to add more to. UGAS, DGAS, CL, right? UWT, those are a couple that I'm watching today. So I hope you guys enjoyed this morning's video. If you did, feel free to go down below, hit that like button. Really supports me, supports the channel. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think about the market, the Fed meeting, Apple AMD, where are we going? Is the stock market about to retrace 5-10%? I would love to know what you guys have to think. And of course, if you're new to the channel, feel free to subscribe, hit that notification bell so you're notified every time that I do make a video. I'll catch you all in the next video. Have a good one. Good luck today. Have a great day. Peace out.


Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So today I have a really, really fun no sew project for you guys, which everyone's know why I like to bring to the channel because at heart I am really just a maker of all kinds. Happens to come through in my sewing a lot but I really love crafting too. And the lovely wonderful people at Cricut have come out with a brand new product that they sent to me so that I could make a couple projects and show you guys what it's all about. The product is the Mighty But Mini Cricut Easy Press Mini, which it is so cute. I mean look this is the product box so you can tell how many it really is going to be. Here she is. Seriously it's so cute. So the easy press, if you're not familiar, is Cricut's solution for at home iron on vinyl transfer, iron on paper transfer, the convenience of an iron, but it is a power house in terms of a heat source. No matter what size easy press you get, the plate is always super super hot and the heat is evenly distributed. For those of us that have really nice at home irons for our garment sewing, the other really great thing about the easy press is that there is no chance of any steam coming out at all. So as you know our garment irons have a steam function. You can turn that steam function off but sometimes it likes to just kind of steam up a little bit. Just can't help it. This runs no risk of that. There's no water here. There's no steam vents at all. So I really like to use this for my transferring. You cannot have any moisture at all whenever you're transferring. So that's why I just trust the easy press suite, the easy press family, to always make sure to get that done. It comes with this really cool silicone base. Has little breathable vents, fits right in. Super super cute. Okay so now you're wondering what did I make with all of this? Well I was talking to you in my September plans video about how I had plans to make something for NFL game days. I'm in an NFL city now. The Carolina Panthers go team. And I want to go to a couple games but I want to go like as a fan and kind of look the part. So I got some NFL licensed fabric. I'm going to be making a top out of that but I wanted some accessories to go with it as well. So using the easy press mini I came up with this cute little wristlet and shoes. Custom shoes which is super super cool. So neither of these projects would have been possible without the easy press mini. You really need a heat source that is super small and super hot so that it can get around all of these little nooks and crannies and curbs and just fiddly bits of stuff like shoes and a little itty bitty bag. So I'm going to show you just how easy it is to use the easy press mini. I'm also going to show you some things not to do. I had a test run with the bag. I'm sorry I have like a there we go. And I melted it so it is possible. That's just a testament to how hot this gets and how you have to kind of really be careful. So yeah I'm going to show you what not to do and then I'm going to show you how I got these super cute results. But I just wanted to show you the easy press mini and how great she was and how awesome the projects and how easy the projects are that you can make with this lovely new little product from Cricut. Alright so before I show you how I did it let me show you how not to do it. I was really kind of just playing around and experimenting and seeing what I could get away with in terms of where I could place all of these little decals. So it went on this part really well but as you can see I burnt a hole or melted the plastic of the bag whenever I tried to apply one to the um I don't know the plastic part the vinyl part.  So I'm going to do it again just using the top band here and going to try and avoid these like bulky sides. This is where this part got all kind of messed up as well. So this was a fun little like test just to see you know what it would look like and what I shouldn't do. However the shoe the test shoe came out really great. I am in love with how cute they are. I mean obviously they're very specific to just one thing but that's okay it'll be fun to wear them. So let me show you just how I did it. Let's start with the shoe itself.  It's on right now so I'm trying to be very careful of where I touch it but it comes with this little base and for reference this is how big it is. It is teeny tiny. I'm measuring maybe two inches long and at the at the widest the heel is another two inches and then it comes into a beautiful little teardrop shape. So you can use this point here to get very accurate get up in the corners up in the grooves and really press your iron on vinyl or your iron on transfer paper whatever it is that you are using.  I took some muslin or any scrap fabric and I just started stuffing it into the shoe like so nothing precise or pretty you just want to get a lot of it far far up into that toe box so that this is now all nice and stable and then you can just keep stuffing it into the back side. I have a lot of it so the whole thing is not going to be full but let me try and pull this away from the tripod so it's not so shaky on you guys as I'm pressing on the table. Is that better? Oh yeah a lot better.  Anyways all right you can tell I've got it really pressed up in there nice and good so that the sides are nice and sturdy the toe box is nice and sturdy and when we get to the heel part we'll stuff it really good into the heel. So for the toe box on this one I have decided on this little decal here that says Carolina Panthers so I'm just going to turn it upside down and kind of eyeball wherever the center is. This doesn't have to be perfect. That should do it. I've got my Cricut mini press set to the highest heat setting. You push this little thermostat button and that'll turn it off and then you've got one, two, three heat settings to choose from and then you just wait for them all to turn green and your mini press is ready to go. So this particular heat transfer paper requires three minutes of heat so I am going to constantly move the mini press all over this for two and a half or three minutes just to make sure it's on there really really well. All right and after you've pressed it that ended up being a little more than two minutes. You want to let it cool for at least one minute before you start to peel the paper back. You can tell this side of the paper is already peeling up a little bit on its own. That's totally fine. You just want to give it a second to like really soak into the fabric and I wanted to say also the shoe that I'm using is a canvas shoe so it's basically really thick cotton so I don't have to use a pressing cloth because I run no risk of this cotton melting but if you are using a fabric that is sensitive to high heat you would want to use a lower heat setting on the easy press and use a pressing cloth and do it a little bit at a time like 10 seconds on 10 seconds off 10 seconds on 10 seconds off just to prevent any melting at all. All right so we're about at a minute and we can peel it back very slowly and voila we have tagged our little shoe. Isn't that so cute? Again it's not perfect and I'm okay with that. I'm not looking for like NFL licensed shoes here. You can definitely tell what it is so I'm okay with that. So now I'm going to put something on the outside of the shoe here the outside while I'm walking and I think I'm going to use this Panthers. It's more like their logo and it's kind of small so it should fit in here pretty well and comparing it to the other one yeah I kind of want it to be up and at an angle a little bit. So same thing again apply the heat for two to three minutes. All right there we go I've had it on there for a little while and we're going to let it cool off for a minute. Perfection look how cute that one turned out. So you can tell the even heat over a long period of time is what is going to create the most perfect transfer. So let's see what we can do for the heel. I'm thinking for the heel that we're going to put our little Panther on the back heel like so. Isn't he cute? Although he's not supposed to be cute he's supposed to be ferocious so isn't he ferocious. Okay let's turn him upside down and get him somewhat centered. Again not really looking for perfection here. Yeah and then apply the heat again. This was such a fun project to kind of dream up being in an NFL city now. You know I have to really up my game. No pun intended. All right ready for the reveal. Peel him back and voila we've got our little Panther on the heel of our shoe. So cute. Okay so now you can remove all of your stuffing and I went ahead and got these super cute teal shoestrings from Amazon of course and we'll just lace them up and I will be ready to hit the streets on game day. Our cute little Carolina Panthers or whatever team you support uh custom shoes. I mean how cool is that? All right now let me show you what to do on the bag really quickly. So if you go to NFL games you know that you have to have one of these clear bags and it has to be a certain size and it's virtually impossible to find ones that are cute so we are going to make our own. I got this one from Amazon it was super affordable obviously I had no problem um pretty much wasting one of them but it was like you know trial and error I had to figure it out. Okay so the first thing you want to do is put your muslin or your scrap fabric whatever it is inside and you want it to extend past the um little band a little bit so that if any heat gets to this um uh vinyl part it won't mess that up either and then you flip it around and then you want to apply the muslin almost as a um pressing cloth over the vinyl part as well so we're going to be decorating this and no matter if the easy press gets on any of this vinyl it is not going to melt it or have it stick to itself at all. So the first thing I'm going to put on is our Carolina Panthers. All right there we go on that guy and I'm going to leave the paper backing on this while I apply the other ones. I am going to put on our hmm maybe this Carolina Panthers one right there and I mean I do like this and it's very kind of common but I'm afraid it won't show up so well so should we do the helmet or the paw print? Hmm paw prints too big so that's an easy no the helmet might be too big too. The helmet is just big enough okay this is what I'm going to go with let me make sure this is right side up Carolina Panthers okay and then I will be going over the stitching but according to my test that wasn't a problem before so let's get into it. Decorated you can see though what I was saying about this stupid vinyl it's very sensitive and it does melt it's not on the easy press though it melted actually through my pressing cloth so you just have to be super super careful with all of this area up here and maybe like I didn't have it doubled up enough I'm not exactly sure what happened but I'm going to just patch that up and it should be fine it's a very small hole like smaller than my pinky um okay so this thing also comes with a cross body strap and a little wristlet so you have a couple of options here you can obviously take um your decals and you can iron one on let me make sure I don't melt my cutting mat so you can take your little decal and place it on there and then just easy peasy press that on for three minutes just like we've been doing with all of the other stuff or you can take some licensed fabric like the one that I'm using to make my shirt and you can make your own straps you just kind of cut away the hardware and then make you know one big giant strap and then reapply the hardware like you would for any other cross body bag maybe you've made them in the past um so it's up to you how much like work and sewing you want to do but you can tell this one is literally just a strip of fabric uh fed through this little d-ring and then sewn on the back it's super super easy to do it's no reason why you couldn't do that at home and do it out of cute fabric but if you wanted to do it on this as well you can also see kind of what that would look like like so so now you have one that's kind of like cool and decorated um without doing any sewing at all so completely up to you how you want to do it where's our bag okay the bag is here and then you put all your stuff in hook it and now you've got your fun little bag and don't forget the shoes okay so super fun right i told you it was super simple to do i um have a link in the description box that will take you directly to where you can purchase your own easy press mini but if you're into crafting if you're into transferring um images whether it's through iron on paper or iron on vinyl or whatever i encourage you to check out the easy press mini um there's a ton of really great stuff that you can do with it i have a lot of other projects in my head um for how i can use this for stuff that isn't so like gimmicky and kitschy i think that you can do a really fun project and make it look like you bought it in a store like that so um that's where my mind is at next obviously the holidays are around the corner so this would be great for lots of little projects a little gifts if you wanted to monogram things little itty bitty things little coin purses little clutch bags you know whatever you wanted to do this little guy is great um so that's gonna do it for me today thank you so much for watching and i will see you all very soon bye


We are opening Yu-Gi-Oh! mega packs until I pull the card that I'm looking for. What's up guys we're back with another epic video and the reason for today's video is I need two Nadir servants for my dark magician deck. You're like what that doesn't go in dark magician you'll see when the video comes out but I only have one I sold all my other ones because I didn't realize I needed them and then when I did realize it I had sold all of them except one so I need two more and we opened an entire case the other day while we were playing dual links on the stream you can go check that out if you want to see the opening zero Nadir servant. We will be opening until we get two of them I don't care how many cases we have to open we're going to keep well on the f4 more but we do have a quick giveaway I'll be giving away this gore's the emissary darkness from our 100k opening all you have to do is like this video be subscribed and let me know how many packs will it take to pull two Nadir servants we got zero out of a case last time so I don't know how many packs it'll be let's go into the first one we have 36 packs here that we will be opening unless we pull the two Nadir servants then it'll be uh it'll be over but I doubt that we're going to get two right off the bat after the other day soldier Gaia the phantom knights of strained greaves got the seeker ooh Ecclesia the virtuous that's oh both those cards those are both really good dogmatic what an amazing back oh my goodness that's like a 40 dollar card a 10 dollar card this thing is only like one or two dollars but still a pretty good card all right that's a start if I've ever seen one oh my goodness yeah we're back on mega tens I wasn't expecting to be open more of these but then when I needed those two cards some of the only cards I need left but some of them are taking forever to show up in the mail which is kind of annoying torpedo takedown super heavy and unfortunately a lot of the cards I bought try begin volt uh grave digger ghoul or uh trap hole ghoul one month isn't that a different card I don't know but uh yeah they just reprinted if you guys saw the battle selection replant prints which are very awesome by the way I'm not trying to say like I wish they didn't reprint cards but I bought those cards knowing that there was a good chance they were going to reprint it at some point red-eyes fusions were probably in the magician souls were big big L's for buying the originals for those go key but that's fine I'm there for the deck anyway penguin brave arc rebellion dragon heavy forward ooh malice lady of lament okay cross out wow what an amazing start cross out in a gear stew this is an amazing case so far but nothing that we actually need I mean I don't need these cards I have I have three copies of both of them I saved them for some reason I didn't say I looked into your server and I was like oh it's for dogmatica specifically I'm not playing that and then the deck I'm using has a dogmatic engine so naturally I need it but penguin brave our jet charge arc rebellion you see area oh parallel exceed it's a nice card virtual world and chaos ruler all right back to battles of legend if you guys have not seen that man there kinami is is printing some good sets I might make a video just talking about how good kinami has been doing like impressing me like they're doing they're knocking out of the park they've definitely stepped up their game the last few years rica queen we've got the adamantzer analyzer knock division ooh uriah man the lighting on these looks extra nice today for some reason peekaroo and chaos ruler yet again we've got a union driver melty rabbit okay well we know this isn't going to be a short video because we've already started this thing and we're a few packs in we still have not pulled one of the cards we need to pull it twice squeak knight deep sea sentry co-talker inverted art jet tie strike adamant spader analyzer knock division dragon mage shall true light oh true light actually need one of those because I think I someone messaged me on tcg but I'm like hey man big fan uh you accidentally sent me six true lights and I was like that's how I oversold because somebody they bought for me and I didn't have any left I'm like where did these go I know I used to have the right amount but apparently I accidentally sent them twice as many as they were so that was unfortunate got a gokey guts xc's import artillery catapult dogmatic punishment good one ooh a Zeus in a virtual world gg wow we are having some absolutely incredible luck so far incredible luck but the problem is we're not pulling the actual card that we need so hopefully that will change here maybe so I mean we've got I mean we've got a long way to go potentially because if it is not in this case like in the other one sky tracker rose and your suit I mean we've already pulled a cross out in a ttt which it seems like you pull either a lot of crossouts a lot of ttt's you know and the deer is kind of one of those that's it gets if you pull some other good ones you might not get it and hopefully that's not the case but if it is in this if that's not the case with this case I'm just kidding but uh then maybe it is who's we'll see we have more to go we don't we have more than just one case titanic lad and trius and union driver maybe we'll get some error packs we have not had any error packs yet so I'm kind of doubting it but also that was all first wave these are second wave packs there shouldn't be a difference but there probably is in terms of print run in term yeah like actual errors and stuff like that I bet those were all in the first one they probably yeah maybe not actually I don't know samurai wagon analyzer it's all conjecture oh the deer's servant let's go in a dark beckoning this all right you've officially pulled the nadir's servant okay this is starting man this case is really good like this case is insane all right we're halfway there I mean this might be a short video we're probably at like five minutes right now or something I don't know because the the time on here is going to be longer than that because of all the times where I'm just talking to myself and I cut it out and and then you know all that stuff try trying grandma we got the samurai wagon oh the aliba oh the rest of wait wasn't this the one that was after the deer's servant no it wasn't okay all right here you are the kai juker kai juker what am I saying it's still a long way to go in this case and we've pulled like all the good cards we've pulled zoos we've pulled cross out we've pulled ttt we've pulled the deer's servant we've literally pulled like I'm trying to think if there's anything we have not pulled a secret rare uh trap card whatever that guy's called what is it called again the good trap grab ravi el nice suggestion salvation and rush it all windy the good trap that's uh it like special summons one to each side of the field and you can like banish a specific type or whatever you know what i'm talking about what is that card I can't remember ice dragon's prison there we go oh we got double there the ruckson special obsessive uva loop the nergal jinn this card this card you guys don't understand it's a reference to the future should all skism that's very nice raptite and dogmatic a nexus we've got the brigade and rookie for hire all the fur hires are in here I didn't remember that another pack all right we got the squeak night we got the dog Madison dog mech cat I don't know well let's just pass red red rain rica queen infernoble warning point cross sheet okay fall of albas and leonite so that's the first time we've seen fall of albas cool quingalong let's continue on let's see if we can continue to pull fire curse of dragon the curse dragon not a mouthful at all dice dice dice dice during all seeker tribe gate ferrige it okay and odd eyes revolution dragon we just need one more in a dear servant we are one out of two so far not bad and much better than yesterday's case yesterday's case was actually really good it just didn't have a dear servant so that was why it was not good uh melphi caddy squeak night it wasn't yesterday whenever it was monday monday's case shine black sea make sure you guys go check it out for the opening fusion deployment area all piercing dark every time i see a magic card or a spell card i would say magic just because i'm old school i can't help it you can't get rid of the old school in the boomer you know okay rain bozi red rain rica queen buzzsaw shark inferno warms trap trick dogmatica asian burning draw and titanic clad okay okay they're slowing down definitely that the beginning of this case opening was absolutely crazy we're pulling every pack had like one of the best cards in it so it's probably it's hard to live up to that but we will continue with more opening here we go captain oliver proxy magician torpe torpedo tank down rica queen magical hound tribe again dry tronzeta i'll be here researcher and area i'm wondering will we go to a second case here it's definitely possible because zero in the last one we've got one here and one seems to be like pretty often you can only pull one so we will see if we go to second case a iq doyan ignister soldier gaia dark lord uprising goki the plunder a joker relief virtual world he may and gizmek oh another juice okay we'll take that still a pretty good case so far zoos is like 14 dollars now i think 1415 it's going up a little bit we still have a lot like we have i think we're this is only halfway through the case is that right i think it is because i did them in stacks of six which is two tins yeah we literally i took a couple of stops so maybe a little bit past half but that's pretty crazy dry tron dog matica a i contract all right okay redeem or redeemable oh my what is what is he doing that's i don't even want to know don't don't even tell me don't even tell me unless you want to mention the comments uh maybe you can all right cybers bellcat soldier gaia dark lord uprising goki infernoble relief cross sheep again arkasaur and true light okay pretty good pack there true light still holding a little bit of value arkasaur is definitely pretty decent and then cross sheave of course mega pack here we go infernoble knight oliver lantern shark magical broker feed ran buzz saw shark dice dice armory call melphie virtual world la la burning draw ignis stray island all right virtual world and raccoon raccoon next pack can we get the second nadir's servant we have gotten one we now have two out of three this is almost all the cards i need for my dark magician deck we are waiting on gold series to get here so that i can open my access co-talker that will be what i need burning draw okay those are always together for some reason so once i get that i'll have access code and then i will only need one card to arrive for my extra deck and it is not arrived yet it has just been in limbo for like three weeks so we will see if it arrives i'm trying not to bug the seller because i know it's annoying whenever you see a message in your tcg player you freak out because i'm like oh no does that mean they lost something does that mean they want to refund does that mean they're you know saying i sent them a damage card to i took aniklad and mohammed because occasionally they'll be like yeah there's a condition issue and you're like no it's like well you got to refund so that kind of stinks so it's always scary to see those messages so i try to keep that in mind whenever i'm messaging people that they might be freaking out it's always nice when you think it's something bad and then it's just like hey man big fan of the channel i'm like oh thank goodness thank goodness they're a big fan of the channel and they're not like uh mad about something all right rush it all in true light okay wow we might make it to another case honestly it's looking like maybe and then i saw i'll have all the extra deck except one that we're waiting on then i will need one more side deck card it's a second droplet so i'll probably just wait until brother's a legend and pull one but uh i do have one ultimate because we only pulled one unfortunately from our box i don't know it's better signs grave digger and researcher it's coming together i have basically all of it these two are the last two i need for the main deck so now we need one card because we pulled one of them and once we have the main deck we're just waiting on a couple cards and access code we're gonna get from gold assuming that we pull it also we're probably not gonna be doing a live stream this weekend because i don't think sassy has gotten his cases yet because okay we didn't get it because of all the gold series issues if you guys have heard about gold series delays they're crazy and so people are not getting their cases and stuff on time not everyone but a lot of people are not so that's what we're going to be asked i really hope that my locals gets their stuff tomorrow because they're supposed to be they usually give it out on wednesdays and i'm hoping that they have them so we can have a video tomorrow if not then you might be seeing this video or you'll see another video maybe a live stream i don't know what's what the deal is going to be but uh we'll make it work we'll make it work dice dice and i also have a plan for this weekend we're going to be something opening something epic which i will reveal at some point okay we got a uh fan of mine it's the first time i think this weekend we're gonna do a big opening it's gonna be pretty cool and speaking of big openings if you guys want to be in the box break we have ferrani guardian packs we still have a few packs we've been sitting at the same number for several days but we've sold like over two thirds of it so you guys are interested in that check it out this the one this weekend though will not be a box break i don't think i think i'm gonna just open it up and hope for the best tribe brigade fractal nexus and ariel so i'm pretty excited about it so keep an eye out saturday i think i think it's saturday unless something else comes up like we actually get our gold then maybe we'd probably do that instead but i don't think we're gonna get our gold unfortunately manual ai raiders disposable okay we i'm i thought we were gonna get it one case but it's not not looking like it should all nerval maximus still a few packs left still a few packs let's see we have five more five out of 36 left we pulled one nadir servant we pulled one ttt one crossout this is a very across the board case we pulled like one of every we didn't pull a nice dragon's present this is actually a bad case it started so good and now it's kind of falling apart fusion falling of all bows okay pretty good case crossout doesn't hear everybody got a second one we will take that they said oh this case sucks in the case like no you better take that back this is a good case four more packs i say four more packs but we will continue until we get the second one so there are more packs don't worry melphie mommy i'm i'm a little worried that we will have to open another case though battle survivor uprising ignore infernoble tritron malice kirsu and reese i feel like we pulled so many researchers all right this might not be a short video then i think if we pull it like right now it'll be a shortish video but that's about it resonator command we got a squeak knight deep sea goki guts infernoble i missed that like 10 times red rain delta turn invoked we got this guy a lot too and we pulled like four true light in the last case we pulled one it's very random with these ulcerers two more packs let's go come on give us nadir at the second to last pack we'll take a bellcat fighter arc jet tie strike gluttonous infernoble arms genator tribe we get fairer jet cast ruler peekaroo ignister okay i don't think i said that right but okay final pack pack number 36 36 packs will this so now i've opened 72 packs in a lot this week to get the two nadir's we've gotten one dark templar melphie playhouse despob the spousable learner goki guts deep sea mistral shiny black sea infernoble arms fusion deployment odd eyes revolution an area okay we got to crack open another one all right we're not going to open all of the case at once because you know we might pull it right off the bat and then we just have a bunch of open packs we're just going to go from here and see what we can pull melphie puppy we will if we don't pull it out of these six we'll put up some more tents super every samurai lingerie bow win ai triple tag first pack of both of me got a triple tag all right that's pretty good triple tactics talents we will take that i'm liking how this is going so we only got one triple attack in the last in the last case so we we're up to two now we've got two crossouts which is pretty good still the most expensive card even though it did come down a lot melphie puppy oh we got the uh super rare parallel exceed we got the grave digger and another researcher man and other friends wait i thought friend didn't we see a secret rare friends earlier maybe not i don't know maybe i'm going crazy it doesn't have two rarities right that wouldn't make any sense it's secret rare and rise of the duelist co-talker inverted arch yet obsessive we're obsessing over the near speed roid the block and roll i love that magical hound uriah cool area and gizmek kaku man i don't know this is like so we've opened three here we've opened 75 total packs will we get to 100 packs to get into to nadir servant that's pretty wild this is why you buy the singles ladies and gentlemen or you can just open a lot of packs and not pull what you want but it's fun it is fun tight tinnocider dogmatic punishment arsenal Zeus and chaos not bad we will take that two more packs until we open more tins unless we can pull the legendary nadir servant all right let's try and pull farfa servant here fiendish portrait chaos summoning virtual world roshi wendy and reptite very nice we've got another one mega tin battle co-talker inverted goki disposable learner goki guts deep street c melphi of the forest raviel lord of phantasm shimmering scraper and fallin of all that the shimmering scraper sounds like a wrestling like thing or something like that doesn't it oh and by the way guys if you do want to open some mega tins like this you know maybe not pull what you want hopefully you do pull what you want check out sassy out is listing down below he has cases up for 149 99 for 12 that's 12 tins and that's a pretty good price so if you guys want to go check that out and if you buy through that link it will actually support the channel which is great piercing darkness and a island so it's like a double whammy you get some tins for a pretty good price and you support the channel which is pretty cool so check out sassy out oh i think he didn't he said he had like a lot of tins but he thinks they're gonna go pretty quick at that price so uh check him out if they are still up by the time i post this i will post the link waking of the possessed learner device hem on tribe regain and chaos okay we're still going so this is that was 80 packs we now open 80 packs that's a lot of packs melphymommy but that's including monday so it's not just today but 80 packs and we pulled one to your servant tie strike rose we got the iron punch and opening the spirit gates we don't have two of every ultra but we have two of a lot of the ultras at this point let's go awakening learner device hide and seek ping and brave arch at light craft charge in the dark world hot clear trip star cross sheep rush it all windy and the dry guy man where is it two more packs here we go will it be inside or will we open more tins we've already opened four of the was it 12 tins in here yeah 12 tins that's right so one third of the case dice dice try tron super every samurai virtual world lao lao fault of albaz try brigade carous it just doesn't want to happen final pack of these and then we will have to open more if we do not get the second new dear servant all right why did i do this i should have just bought the bought the two cards but guess what it's more fun if you open the packs disposable learner captain rolling restaban dogmatic asian piercing darkness and an indoor dark store okay that's i might only be our second one of those we are halfway through this case after these so we are we'll be at two and a half cases total open for these two that's a lot buzz saw sharp jabbing pan i have a feeling it's coming up though i have a good feeling melphie tie strike oh there we go captain roland invoked dogmatica area okay area that's fine that's fine that's fine we got this we got this don't worry nothing to worry about we've only been going for like uh according to and my time 28 minutes but i did have to go get those tins open them all up so that's a little bit of time off i bet it's around probably not even 20 minutes yet but it feels long analyzer dragon shell schism pig room and cast ruler all right all right where are they have we pulled across on this we have not pulled across on this case either this case has been a little e it's got one triple tack that's about it i think one zoos red rain rica buzz saw shark xc's import artillery catapult else at all a mr ai dogmatica theo okay all right so what we will be at what's six 18 packs what is the total for two and a half cases it's 36 per so 72 and then it's half would be so we're at 90 packs after these arc rebellion what could we get will we get to 100 packs that's a lot magician salvation rookie for hire man i'm so excited about some of these reprints that's though they're really awesome i think they're absolutely killing it they're doing so well they're reprinting all the stuff that's super expensive which is very good for just post people to be able to afford it and i also i just don't want to have to pay you know a million dollars from personally to have to get the stuff you know which i did do for the dark magician deck but i wouldn't recommend it and i don't really want to do it for everything that i everything that i you know try and build for decks final pack here this is pack number 90 pack number 90 bus saw shark at the deep we got a little wrapper on the screen go key wrap little rapper torpedo take down shiny black okay i'm not gonna wrap gaya king mission all aerial okay over halfway through the second case third if you count monday so we have not had the best luck proxy of magician torpedo torpedo torpedo take down rickette queen torpedo take down wait same card two torpedo take down weird ping and brave we got the dry tron and area all right okay the area the nadeer sermon is not in our area where is it it's one single card we pulled that first one so early too we pulled in like the first 10 packs and we have not seen one since dark load uprising go key arc jet charge in the dark world virtual world divine arsenal okay it's pretty good we'll take it we'll take it four packs let's go and let's do this mutually a third melphi playhouse tight strike melphi obsessive dark lord feed ran drab gator volt magicians oh it was another magic but it wasn't it it wasn't it three packs we are 90 pack number 94 here we go a irish you will melphi mommy fury soldier gaya speed roid black and roll cold talker tie strike we've seen a lot of these comments dogmatic punishment chaos ruler a mystery island okay we still haven't seen an ice dragon's prison at all we've not seen a single one that's pretty great the secrets are a little bit harder to pull because there's only one per uh per pack instead of two curse dragon the curse dragon very nice tie strike gluttonous repetition disposable learner soldier gaya block and roll ice dragon's prison there it is and piercing the darkness okay that's a good one we finally got the ice dragons prison i think we've got like three of those in the case on monday and we have not gotten a single one until just now pack 96 we are almost to 100 imagine if it's at 100 that would be funny melphi puppy or it could be right now i'd be fine with that go key trapezoid fractal and adorn arkasaur and gravedigger trapple are we going to open four cases here and not get it is that going to happen we have officially gotten to 100 when we open through four of these packs so this is number 97 okay we got to take off 36 if you're just talking about this video though because monday we open 30 we open 36 packs but uh we're including it because it's this week you know we're searching for it seren glade and we didn't get anything there oh okay ghost mortal we haven't seen a lot of that one so that's that's pretty good pack number 98 wow wow this is uh unexpected i did not think we'd have to open this many packs to get the nadir sir i thought we might get in one case on monday but we obviously did not thunder hand we've got the dogmatic asheon piercing darkness and okay what are we on now 99 we're almost done with this second case i think we have two more tens after this melphi tag resonator command dark lord speed block and roll gokey destroy ogre red rain reek of queen get the lava odd eyes barbarous barbarous wow and there's no cross out in this in this case this is a bad one this is a really bad case this is the first bad case i think we've had from uh megatons one of eight bellcat fighter gokey guts oh there's a rex and special red rain we haven't done that too much we're okay morning point fergit oh g g that's what it's telling us all right was that 99 oh no that was 100 wasn't it yeah that was that was pack number 100 i i completely missed i was counting all the way up and we didn't get it all right 101 ignister melphi playhouse ignister mistral dragite portrait rasta bond win phantom knight oh and a chaos chaos whatever that is how are we not going to get in a deer servant or cross out we just have one triple tag that's it we have like two zoos i guess so that's not bad iron claw ai ritual melphi mommy knight's claw soldier gaya speedroyd a black and roll this is 102 samurai wagon analyzer true tribe brigade fractal dogmatica aerial wow wow this is the end this is the end of the second case we might actually have to open a third case wow okay that that'll be four cases total from uh from monday so that is insane lulu archosaur and true light i can't believe that we're gonna have to go three deep to get two of one guard it's an ultra rare too it's not even a secret rare and there's two ultras per pack like man dark lord uprising goki freed ran armory call melphi the forest malice burning draw anister ai land all right i thought that was it for a second but it was it wow four more packs four more packs you gotta believe hard of the cards don't make me open another case let's do this feed ran red rain buzz saw shark dice dice i'm waking up possessed oh we got a ruckson special come on oh yes nadir's servant and tribe again nervous we have officially done it right before the end of the second case we finally got there to nadir's servant we are gonna open these last four though because our last three because this is the end of the case we're gonna open these up real quick that is awesome we got the nadir's servants that we needed it took two cases let's let's kind of go quick because you guys have been watching for a while see signs is a secret it's a secret and a rare wait am i getting confused no friends friends i'm getting confused with friends that's what's going on yeah okay all right that's confusing two more packs completely different cards there yeah friends is really bad i think i think signs may be a little better but not really sure fusion deployment titanic lad what if there's another nadir servant this last pack there's two at the very end all right final pack of the video hope you guys have enjoyed if you had make sure to subscribe for more epic openings true light okay a lot of true lights today a lot of true lights hope you guys enjoyed that video shout out to tcg trusted cards toe and foe show tomato juice noa j hawaii and yugioh stanley mike nancy mimic gecko thank you guys for supporting the channel and i will see you guys later peace


I'm going to teach you how to meditate this morning for beginners even if you don't know anything about meditation so don't click away just yet I know I can see you there I can see you're trying to click away onto another video already don't worry this is the best video about meditation I'm going to teach you exactly how to meditate why you should learn the benefits the risks and basically all you need to know so if you've never meditated before here is how it works the the whole basis of it is to disconnect your awareness from your subconscious and from your mind chatter you'll notice that most of the time throughout the day we experience this sort of chatter where our mind is just constantly thinking thoughts we're thinking about all different types of things what we're going to have for lunch what the weather's like what we're going to text back to a friend or whatever these thoughts just bubble up seemingly out of nowhere okay but it's important to disconnect from them because when you're associated with and when you relate to these thoughts your awareness your awareness sort of diminishes and it's very important to get back into your awareness so the easiest way of doing this is just with a really simple meditation technique which I'm going to teach you right now so it's very simple you just count from one to ten when you get to ten you start again at one so you just breathe you count one with the in breath so just one two and then you just carry on like that three four until you get to ten don't rush the breath don't try and breathe at a certain speed don't try and force yourself to breathe because the more you try and force yourself to breathe the less likely you'll be able to it's kind of a weird paradox I know so just do it however it naturally happens don't try and time it or anything but what you should do is set a timer on your phone to go off after 10 minutes and just do that for 10 minutes now what's going to happen when you do this is probably that you're going to be constantly thinking of things if this is the first time that you've meditated you're going to be constantly thinking random thoughts okay and they could be anything they literally could be anything it could be like what you're going to have for dinner is this meditation working should it be feeling like this am i doing it right whatever now the key is as soon as you recognize yourself having those thoughts you instantly bring your attention back to the breathing to the counting of the breaths from one to ten some more things i need to mention okay and i'm going to explain also at the end the benefits of this and why you really need to do this if you want to live your best life feel good have more energy feel less depression whatever so a few tips with this first number one make sure you're sitting in upright position ideally with your back straight supported by a nice chair or a cushion and you're you're comfortable you don't want to be uncomfortable but at the same time you don't want to be so relaxed that you're just slouching in a sofa and it's easy to fall asleep because if you're doing this in the morning it's very easy to just lose track of time and essentially fall asleep which is quite embarrassing and annoying but it happens okay if you're new to meditation it's going to happen quite often especially if you're meditating either first thing in the morning or last thing at night which is the two best times to meditate the only exception the only the third best time would be if you're super stressed or if you need to reset yourself during the day two best times during the morning and the last thing before going to bed so make sure you're comfortable but you're not so comfortable that you could fall asleep make sure your breathing is easy and natural don't try and force anything don't try and exert effort into breathing just let it happen okay you know how to breathe you've been doing it for your whole life just let it happen naturally without trying to count your breaths in in the sense of timing them just count them as they happen don't try and count them as in like you're trying to get your breaths to stay consistent with your counting the camera died there for a second so you're going to be thinking random things but don't let that worry you okay it's natural it's part of the process and to be honest it happens to everyone you know you're going to constantly be having these random thoughts and the key to meditation and this is why by the way it's so important to do to practice this every day the key is just to stay consistent and just to keep building up that habit of when you notice yourself thinking about something bring your awareness back into just your breathing and there are many ways by the way you've probably heard of all types of meditation there's transcendent transcendental meditation there's you know mantra based meditation there's all sorts of meditations where the key is to focus on something whether it's your body you know your breathing a thought a mantra a statement or whatever or even if it's just nothing just just transcend beyond thoughts and beyond feelings the idea is always that you're focused on one thing and so the most common types of meditation are the ones where you focus on your body how you feel and if you've heard any of these guided meditations on youtube you know especially ones like for example headspace they focus on guiding you through different levels so you might start by thinking how do your feet feel and then how do you like how relax to your legs what's the sensation in your upper body your arms your neck and it's guiding you through focusing on something always one thing at a time it's always one thing at a time that you're focusing on but like I said the reason I'm teaching you this technique for beginners just to focus on the breathing is because that is something everyone can do a lot of people find it hard to focus on how their arms feel you know or if you're sitting there it's hard to focus on how your neck feels for example because you're not really aware of it most of the time but breathing is one of those things that you you do every day all day and it's quite easy to bring your focus to that when you really just take a moment and try and focus on your breath that's easier I find than focusing on how your back feels for example I mean I guess they're all kind of easy but the breathing one is just the easiest one to start with and it's also the easiest one to do in a short period of time in just five or ten minutes which I think is massively more important than meditating for an hour once a week you really need to get the benefits you really need to meditate for five minutes at least five minutes every single morning in order to get the best benefits if you just do it every now and then it's nice but it's not really going to give you it's not really going to make a difference to your life it's not really going to change how you feel and therefore how you act so really try and meditate every morning I hope you've enjoyed this video on how to meditate in the morning make sure to subscribe to the channel because I post weekly meditation lucid dreaming videos sleep tips that sort of thing and turn on notifications by the way if you leave a comment on this video if you've watched this far okay you're in one of the small you're in the minority of people who actually watched an entire video on youtube most people they watch 20 seconds and they go find something else and then keep flicking between videos until they inevitably go off youtube and do something else so if you're watching this thank you for watching this whole video I would love you to subscribe and also leave a comment letting me know if you even got this far I'm really curious to see how many people watch this far into the video so leave a comment good luck with the meditation and I'll see you in the next video


Good morning, John, Michael Beach. Michael. Hi, John, Bob Skelly. Hey, Bob. Pleased to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thanks for joining us here on theCUBE. Our pleasure. Thanks for having us. Thank you very much. Is this your first time on theCUBE? Yes, that is mine. So basically, we just want to learn more about what you're doing. We want to hear what's new and exciting for you. We want to talk a little bit about the integration and channel strategy. You guys were both involved in channel. Enabling a very loyal channel, as I understand it. Yeah, indeed. I think Phil said he was almost in tears talking about one of his channel partners this morning. So it sounds like Phil. So he's very touchy-feely.  So tell me your role and... Sure. So before the acquisition, I was vice president of sales and channel operations for Compellant. And since February 22nd, when Dell acquired Compellant, I've been working primarily on integration of our channel programs with Bob and some of the other folks in the GCC organization and continue to manage things for Dell for the Compellant business like order management and after-point-of-sales, support renewals, channel operations, deal registrations, things like that. Yeah, okay. And I joined Dell a little three and a half years ago, almost four years ago, as part of the Ecologic Acquisition. So I was running channels for Ecologic, came on to run the Global Certified Partner Program in channel at Dell. And Michael and I worked very closely together as we integrated the Compellant acquisition as well. So continue to run the Certified Partner Program, bringing in all of those Compellant resellers into our Stored Certified Program as preferred and premier partners and trying to bring some great programs up to that. What's it take to become a preferred, premier partner, certified partner, premier partner? Yeah, so we have multiple certification areas, storage, server, networking and security, systems management and managed services. And we ask a partner to invest in one of those competencies through sales and technical training and complete that training and that gets you to our preferred partner level.  Okay, okay. How many premier partners do you have today? We have 2,500 preferred partners or certified partners globally. And about 10% of those are premier. Right, all right. So what should we be paying attention to here at the show? What's, from your perspective, what's the biggest thing? There's an awful lot of buzz here at the show. I'm hearing from channel partners that are very excited now to have a full Dell storage platform to be able to sell. Partners who used to be just a compelling partner, partners who maybe were just an equal logic partner previously are learning a lot this week about the other product families and the enormous opportunity that's out there to solve more customer problems. And they're, I've had a couple of people today tell me about how evangelistic our customers are. Yeah. The equal logic customers and the Dell compelling customers are thrilled with the products and thrilled with the support that they're getting from the support organization. So there's a lot of buzz here at the show. Where does, where does compelling take Dell that they couldn't go before? So you said, talk about solving problems. What kind of problems can you solve today with compelling that you couldn't solve before? The thing that really differentiates the compelling product are a couple of things. One, it's a very scalable, very modular architecture so that you can have a multitude of choices in terms of the input and output on the front end of the storage area network. And you also have just as many choices in terms of the kinds of disk technologies you can use to store data in the arrays. And that's a unique thing that allows us to go further into the enterprise. I think that's probably a great way to position what compelling does is we can probably go further into the enterprise with the compelling product. There's a lot of investment in the equilogic platform as well that's going on. You can talk a little bit about that from your perspective and what that means to your channel partners. Yeah, absolutely. In fact, we've been doubling our engineering and R&D efforts around equilogic for some time now. We're doing the same type of investment around the compelling platform. And we're going to continue to innovate. And one of the themes here that you see throughout is this concept of fluid. And I think what you're going to see is more and more we're going to bring really a seamless storage portfolio to our customers and to our channel partners where they can engage with Dell across a broad line of storage products and that it'll be this fluid technology and these products will work together. And new innovation will work across all platforms. And that's pretty exciting. And so as we embark on this transformational mission of Dell to become a more thought leader and more innovative and really a stronger enterprise player, this is a core part of that whole strategy. What the server platform together with the storage makes a nice bundle to be able to go in and are most of your partners selling servers and stores today or some of the storage specific partners? We definitely have storage specific partners but a huge percentage of those storage partners that we brought over through the equilogic acquisition and I'll expect that we'll see the same with the compelling partners have now gone a lot wider across a broad range of Dell products. Server certainly is a natural next step but even into client products, desktops and laptops and networking and security products at Dell, certainly the storage server fit is really clean and we see a lot of partners doing both. Yeah, I would agree, I would echo what Bob just said. I've talked to a handful of partners that were only compelling partners maybe three or four months ago that are really excited now because they've now got a great storage platform to sell that's additional to the one they had before. Plus they've got servers and a whole host of other things like management software and you name it. It's really been one of the most exciting things for me at this event has been talking to the compelling partners and so many of them are coming up to me this week and saying, you know what? We came in here a little bit unsure and now I get it and now I see the opportunity. This is exciting. Mike Gluck, you guys know Mike Gluck? He came, so Mike came up to me. He told me he closed his first equal logic deal. He's been a talent partner for a while. Thanks Mike. Yeah, thank you Mike. It was an expansion of the opportunity. It wasn't over, it wasn't in lieu of, it was an expansion of the opportunity. So that's great. My sense was that a couple months ago when the deal was announced, a lot of our partners and probably a lot of the existing Dell partners heard about this new or bigger, better together opportunity and we're having a hard time putting tangible results to it. Now they're starting to see that it's a really big opportunity. Yeah, and I heard some concern around, you know, how much was, they're going to continue to invest in the equal logic platform, things like that. I think Laz has done a good job of dispelling some of that, is any of that concern? Yeah, Laz is a great man and that's a great engineering team up in Nashua, New Hampshire and we are investing a tremendous amount around innovation on our existing platforms and then through acquisition, we're bringing new IP in. Bringing in a scalable file system. Absolutely. That's already in that and the Power Vault line eventually going to be in the Compellent line maybe. That's right. Yeah. Data compression and deduplication with our Ocarina investment when that comes to fruition, there's so much more on the horizon. Are you seeing a lot of demand for deduplication that you'll be able to serve up with that? Is that? Absolutely. That comes up a lot. Yeah, very definitely. Yeah, very important. How soon do you want to see that come out? Yesterday. Tomorrow or yesterday, yeah. I'm sure it's a tough one to integrate but you did the acquisition, you did the Ocarina acquisition. I think that was maybe. 2010. Yeah. 2010 maybe around the wire or something like that. Yeah. You know, when you bring these intellectual properties, you have to do it right. Right. That's the most important thing. It's not a race to get the technology out there. It's a mission to get it out and get it right and bring incremental value to the products that we already have. And so that doesn't happen overnight and I think the team's making great progress and we look forward to the product innovation that comes out of it. Yeah, the startups don't always test all the edge conditions completely do that. So, but they do innovate faster, right? Absolutely. So I think some of the core competency of it. We've got some really exciting things about that Ocarina technology this morning in the keynote. Did you? I was really excited to hear that there are unique algorithms that are going to enable them to compress the data further than the run-of-the-mill algorithms that are on the market. So that'll help you in deals where data domains competing today or some of the others. It'll deliver a lot of efficiency to customers that are replicating across oceans and so forth. It'll really be a helpful technology. Yeah, we think there's characteristics about this technology that are very unique in terms of the data duplication and compression environment and we think that it could be a huge competitive advantage to Dell in the future. Remote replication. Do you have resellers that are really focused on delivering disaster recovery capabilities? Certainly, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. A lot of small data centers. A lot of resellers that are providing business continuity services maybe in their data center. They're doing disaster recovery, planning, business continuity, consulting and... Application hosting. Yeah. Hosting exchange for customers. You saw a lot of hosting providers. Absolutely. And they could be large hosting providers but very small boutique companies that might have a relatively small data center but with all the power and cooling and redundancy that you see in a big data center and they're going out to these small and mid-sized customers and they're providing hosting services and application hosting and disaster recovery and backup and a whole bunch of other remote redundant services to their customer base. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no. Those kind of services, John, I think are where our channel partners really shine. They've got the advantage of being able to look at all the technologies that are available in the marketplace and to deliver a unique approach to each customer that they talk to and now with Dell on this acquisition path acquiring all these great IP technologies, they've just got more and more things to bring to solve problems. So it's exciting. And they can specialize. Absolutely. We have a partner that we've been working with for a long time down in the Southeast that they understand the railroad industry. End to end. They understand all the problems that the railroad industry is up against. They understand managing data in the railroad industry. They understand that brick and mortar in the railroad industry isn't a common thing. And so they provide a whole bunch of hosting and data center services to that whole industry that are very unique and that you don't see a lot of companies doing. And that's what the channel community can bring is at level of specialization and intimacy in businesses. There are areas where Dell has a lot of competency in terms of some verticals. So you've been big in their government and education and health, right? You bet. Absolutely. But do you work through partners on that or do you work that direct? How is that? Both. Absolutely. Yep. Channel is involved across all segments, all market opportunities with Dell. Right. You know, I've talked about this this week several times but if you took our channel business and separated it from Dell as a standalone business, its own separate entity and its own company, it would be number 350 on the Fortune 500 list. And so, and that would be 100% channel company, 350 on the Fortune 500 list. So we're big in the channel and we're in a lot of places. There are a lot of conceptions around Dell and the channel. So, and we talked about Equalogic, we talked about Compellant, they were 100% channel, right? When they launched, that was from day one. I remember going to C3 and it was all about enabling the delivery of solutions through the channel. Have you educated Dell? Has Dell educated you? Yes, both. Absolutely. How's that? I've been pleasantly surprised. I mean, I joined Dell on February 23rd, the day after we were acquired. And you read a lot of things in the press that Dell's not that channel friendly. And frankly, I found the exact opposite to be true. This is a team that has deep talent, broad talent. There are people that have a tremendous amount of experience with channel programs, understand the unique dynamics of how to go to market with channel models. Bob and his team have created a stellar channel program that we rolled out on May 9th that I think is getting wide acclaimed. And we've learned a lot from our colleagues in the channel's organization at Dell. And hopefully we've brought a couple of pieces of value along the way. We were thrilled that Dell decided to embrace Compellant's registration program advantages. We've got a new policy that's been spread across all of Dell's storage called Extended Deal Registration Protection, which recognizes that a reseller really makes a pretty big investment in time and money to go after new business. And if all they get is that first deal, then they don't ever really get the full opportunity to get a return on investment. So what we've done together is we've made it across the storage platform, our policy that when you win business for Dell's storage, you're going to be put in an advantageous position to keep the registration for that opportunity for as long a time as you keep that customer satisfied so that you've got a great chance to get an ROI. Great. As a reseller. Mike, Bob, thank you for joining me on the queue. Thank you. Pleasure. I really appreciate it. I appreciate getting the perspective on the Dell channel and how you guys are pulling it together. Thanks very much. Take care. Take care.


Red Flag right now is as challenging as it's ever been. The reality is that the threats are growing in tremendous ways, and to keep up with those requires that we continue to accelerate change. Seeing it all for the first time, it really hit my heart. It's almost surreal getting here and I'm completely honored and grateful that I get to be a part of this mission. Red Flag came about to make sure that our fighter pilots survived their first 10 combat sorties. And they found over time that if we can have the most advanced, most complicated training and we can make those lessons and errors here in our training environment, then we're more survivable when we go to combat. So Red Flag is important for the Vermont team as this is our capstone event to sort of prove everything that we've been training for over the past couple years has taken effect the training, the flying and everything and we're good to go both on the off side as well as the maintenance side. And essentially we're ready to support the federal mission if we need to be deployed. So we're the only Air National Guard unit squadron out here at Red Flag in this 21-3 joint U.S. only flag and we are transitioning to fight to the peer adversary. So we're fighting against the best we can train out here. So we're fighting with F-22s with another F-35 squadron that's never been done before out of Red Flag. We're also fighting with our F-16s, combining that with the SEED mission. We're protecting with our escort role both B-2s and B-52s and also some strikers and some warrants out here for us. This is my first Red Flag so it's a bit unlike any other training that I've ever done. It's really helped me personally with my team and build relationships with each other. Not only relationships but it's enhanced our skills as maintainers as well. Well this whole exercise is perfect for me because I'm just getting out of tech school and I just finished up some training in Burlington and I'm actually lucky to be here today. This spot just happened to open up for me and it's nice being out here in a different environment, seeing other types of aircraft. I like the experience that we're getting here. Huge privilege to be out here and this is really our test to see how well we can do with these new F-35s and go out here we do our job but we enjoy doing it. And that's why I've loved every year that I've been in and I'm looking forward to the next 12 or however long that may be. The training is going great for both our fighter pilots and for the maintenance team. So we haven't lost any stories to maintenance, they've given us the jets we needed on time, every time. We're flying 10 of our 20 jets, we brought 14 out here but we're sending up 10 fronts. It's been spectacular that Vermont National Guard already for the first week has highlighted that we're there. We're ready, we're ready to be used to go to combat.


Zoro is one of the most badass characters in all of One Piece. And as one of the Straw Hats's main combatants, we have seen plenty of battles where he has gone toe-to-toe against some of the toughest foes in the series. And yet, despite the numerous Ws under his belt, our Straw Hats swordsman has also had his fair share of losses. But recent events have seen Zoro reach new heights after getting some very impressive power-ups, which begs the question, can current Zoro beat everyone he lost to in the past? How would Zoro fare against an admiral or a Yonko? Well, stay tuned, because in this video we're going to discuss what if current Zoro fought everyone he lost to in the past. First, to set some parameters. We're discussing current Zoro as he is now versus his opponents as they were in the past. This means no new power-ups that they've had since Zoro fought them last. Although we are counting all of Zoro's new power-ups, and we've recently witnessed Zoro reach new and unimaginable levels, placing him alongside some of the top combatants in the series. Not only has Zoro attained a new and powerful sword in Enmar, one of the rare 21 great, great swords, an unruly blade that we've also seen Zoro able to tame, being only one of the two people able to do so, the other being the legendary Kazuki Oden. But then on top of that, Zoro has also recently unlocked not only Conqueror's Haki, but also the advanced application of Conqueror's Haki to imbue it into his weapons. And these feats truly elevate Zoro's status to be one of the few characters in the series with all three types of Haki, and an even rarer group of people able to use advanced Conqueror's Haki. Add this to his already extreme levels of durability and endurance, and we have a very scary combatant in Zoro indeed. So, what does this mean about his matchups? Should this version of Zoro fight the opponents he lost to in the past? Let's jump straight into it. Starting with, how would Zoro fare against Kuina? Alright, it might almost be a blessing in disguise that Kuina already lost to some stairs, because current Zoro could beat Kuina even with their wooden swords. Although, unluckily for Zoro, he won't ever get the chance to prove himself against one of his greatest rivals. But luckily for you, you can prove yourself by clicking your greatest rival, the subscribe button.  Next up, Buggy. I'm a big Buggy enthusiast, but the bombastic clown is not known for his power.  But this fight is pretty easy and needs no explanation, because honestly, it doesn't matter what version of Buggy it is, Zoro is beating Buggy then, and beating Buggy now. And going from 0 to 100 real quick, next up is Dracula Mihawk. And well, didn't this get suddenly very interesting. Mihawk is prepared to wait as long as it takes for Zoro to surpass him. But is the current Zoro strong enough to beat Mihawk back at Baratier and claim the title of the world's strongest swordsman? We all know how the Baratier fight went. Mihawk toyed with Zoro who was giving it his all during the entire fight, using only a small knife and only eventually pulling out Yoru out of respect for Zoro's will. But if current Zoro were to fight against Mihawk, then it's guaranteed that Mihawk would have felt how much of a threat to Zoro is right away and wouldn't take him lightly, most definitely using Yoru from the get-go. I think this would be a very interesting fight and enough for Mihawk to not look as bored as he did in their original fight. Current Zoro is going to impress Mihawk, but ultimately, I think Mihawk still takes the win. But the question now is, would Mihawk have allowed Zoro to live? Because if you think about it, the gap at Baratier was so insurmountable that Zoro withdrew and sheathed his sword, accepting his defeat and offering his chest, which is what really impressed the warlord. But there's a chance that now, Mihawk might construe current Zoro to be at peak Zoro, although we know that another power-up is for sure coming down the road. Because with just how strong current Zoro is, I don't see Mihawk winning in the same way that he did at Baratier. Zoro might still not have a chance at taking the victory, but it would still take a good amount of effort from Mihawk to defeat the current Zoro and the fight could even get to a position where Zoro is threatening Mihawk's life. So I think if Mihawk lets Zoro live, it would likely be because of the sword that Zoro is using. If Zoro had been using Shusui, for example, Mihawk might assume that Zoro was strong enough to turn Shusui into a Blackblade himself, therefore assuming that Zoro truly had reached his peak. Although, of course, we know that Shusui was already a Blackblade when Zoro got it. Luckily, Zoro left Shusui behind at Wano, now fighting with Enma instead. And because Enma is not yet a Blackblade, Mihawk would likely be impressed by current Zoro's level of strength despite not even having a Blackblade and feeling Zoro's presence as a swordsman who could one day achieve this. Mihawk would likely get very excited at the prospect of fighting Zoro once he has his own Blackblade, therefore letting Zoro live. But as for the result of this battle itself, I'd still say that Mihawk wins after landing the final blow with his own Blackblade Yoru, allowing Zoro to live. But this time, not just a summon with good promise, but an actual fun, near equal rival that he would like to clash swords with once again. Next up, Arlong. This fight might not even count and may even be controversial to consider because Zoro versus Arlong was a brief clash and an unfair match while Zoro was heavily injured. And with Arlong even back then noting how dangerous Zoro was, it's no question that current Zoro would have no problem dealing with this fishman. I'd even wager that a healthy Zoro back then could have a fair shot at beating Arlong. So current Zoro definitely wins without any difficulty. Next up, Anel. I feel like this needs to be said as much as it does. No one was beating Anel back in SkyPR outside of Luffy and that was only because of the elemental mismatch. But Luffy beating Anel even back then is proof that if you can touch Anel, you have a chance at beating him. And so it goes without saying that anything pre-gear Luffy was able to do is nothing in comparison to what current Zoro can do. In fact, you could even argue that Zoro might have been a lot more trouble for Anel even back then in SkyPR if only he had Armourman Haki then. I don't necessarily believe he would win, but that will be mostly due to the fact that unlike Luffy, all of Anel's attack down to even his most basic ones will have an effect on Zoro. Because after all, as much durability as Zoro has, and boy, does he have plenty, he's not completely immune to lightning and Anel would just need to spam him enough until Zoro is completely defeated. Okay, I may have actually just lied because Zoro then had no chance of winning even beyond his durability because he also didn't have observation Haki. So catching Anel and matching his speed is something that Zoro back then wouldn't have been able to do. Current Zoro, however, shouldn't have any problems defeating Anel. First of all, Anel is probably the only matchup where I think Zoro would actually have a harder time than you would expect, but not because Anel is stronger. It's just because unlike Luffy or even Sanji, Zoro doesn't have a rubbery body nor an exoskeleton or a regenerative body. And so taking repeated attacks from Anel with his human body will gradually and compoundingly have an impact on his overall performance and it could get worse the longer the fight goes on. But in saying that with current Zoro, I don't really even see this matchup lasting all that long. And on top of that, we've seen Zoro has mastered armorman Haki thanks to Enmar. And King of Hell Santoryu might sound like an overkill to use pre-times skip, but it is just one of many attacks that Zoro could use to end this fight quite easily in his favor. And using this sort of technique, which increases his power output and range right from the get-go, might sound unfair, but it also makes this a very easy win for Zoro. Next, looking at Zoro versus Luchi. Back at water seven, Zoro was on the wrong end of an ass-kicking handed by Luchi alongside Luffy. Back then, Luchi's tech eye in zoan form was too much for Zoro's sword to overcome. But not only has Zoro acquired a new and mighty sword in Enmar since then, we've also seen what even a weakened Zoro can do against the toughest zoan of all, Kaido, once he's awakened his conqueror's Haki. And without even understanding the significance of this awakening, the weakened Zoro was still able to leave a scar on Kaido. So a full-powered, healthy Zoro, who was a better grasp of his Haki and even the ability to imbue his swords with conqueror's Haki, should have zero problems dealing with Luchi back in water seven. And just for the fun of it, I even think that Zoro beats current Luchi even with his awakened devil fruit form. But with a little more difficulty than what he would have done to Luchi if current Zoro was back there in water seven. So current Zoro versus Luchi back then should be a no-brainer victory for Zoro. Next up, Aokiji. Okay, first of all, the admirals are on another level. Even if we take into account the fact that King and Queen were both in a weakened state, they were still used to showcase Yokuugu's strength at Wano. It's really Oda's way of showcasing to us the hierarchy of fighters in one piece. And Yokuugu even said that he wouldn't be an admiral if he would lose to mere Yonko commanders. Meaning that it will take someone at least Yonko level to pose an actual threat. Not only a threat to him, but possibly any admiral. So is Zoro currently at that level yet? Well, let's take a look. We've seen Garp get out of Kuzan's ice attack, possibly due to his haki or maybe his plain brute strength. Either way, Zoro has enough of both to do the same thing. But okay, then Kuzan could probably repeatedly free Zoro or at least attempt to do so. So then who would be exhausted first? Kuzan, who can seamlessly use his devil fruit ability or Zoro, who will need to use his physical stamina. At the end of the day, Zoro still at the early stage of awakening his conqueror's haki, which we know requires a lot of stamina. So I'd say that the men with more experience wins this one, resulting in another win for Kuzan. Kuma is a character just so hard to power scale. And oops, I just used that forbidden word. But seriously, we just didn't get enough of a look into Kuma's ability because he was fighting people significantly weaker than he was and showed utter domination without doing all that much. And so even if current Zoro were to fight Kuma, the warlord blocking an attack with his paw might simply end up with his opponent being sent far, far away, ending the fight in an instant. But there's no fun in that scenario. So let's go with Kuma and Zoro dueling like they initially did at Thriller Bark. And Zoro back then was able to surprise Kuma with an attack enough to expose what Kuma's body is really made of.  I think as tough as Kuma's body is, he wouldn't be able to withstand a combination of these three. In fact, I would even argue that Zoro might only need to use one of these three power-ups and would just have to adjust the difficulty of this fight based on which one he chooses. For example, an attack with only coating his sword with armament Haki might end up in an extremely difficult fight, whereas a Conqueror's Haki-infused attack would end this matchup a lot earlier than expected. So we'll just have to go with an average and say that ultimately Zoro wins in a mid-difficulty match. Now this next admiral is a little different than the fight against our Kiji because being frozen and breaking out of it with your Haki is one thing. But against Kizaru, you would actually need to hit Kizaru.  But if the fight were to start on even ground between Zoro and Kizaru, this will prove very difficult for Zoro and that's not a knock on his abilities in any way. I just don't think that there's that many people in the series that I can see clearly beating Kizaru at all.  And even in the latter scenario, Kizaru got away and was able to attack anyway. But this man is never seen to lose his composure and the way that he was handing out beat downs with ease at Saobodi was enough to show that even a battalion of good warriors are not able to stand on even ground with Kizaru. The best we got was a quick clash of swords with Rayleigh and if Kizaru decides to turn this into a sword fight, then that could prove to be a disadvantage for the admiral since this will allow Zoro to look for more openings and should be able to land a hit or two with his attack power and the fact that he is now able to bypass Kizaru's low gear intangibility. In which case, yes, Zoro might have a chance but that's a big what if that assumes that Kizaru is dumb enough to agree to a swords fight with one of the best swordsmen in the series. But if we were to say that Kizaru decides to not play around and start shooting lasers, we saw in Zoro's recent fight against King that he only just managed to avoid King's laser-like attack Tempura Udon, let alone block it. Albeit this was before awakening his conqueror's haki but regardless, considering that Zoro would need to chase Kizaru while simultaneously avoiding or blocking the admiral's attacks, I think this will be a tough fight for Zoro and at the moment, I think he's just a future sight away from turning this battle into an extreme difficulty match that could go either way. But for now, I still give it to Admiral Kizaru. Zoro is a strong enough fighter for Kizaru to take seriously and show his own strength against. But before ultimately defeating the straw hat swordsmen, next up is a bonus because this is the admiral I want Zoro to fight the most, Fujitora. Okay, so out of technicality, this battle might not be considered a loss but Zoro was still overpowered by Fujitora so it's still a matchup I wanna discuss. And hey, if we counted Sanji's loss to Virgo, then we should do the same for this fight. Now, similar to how Sanji was able to kick even after feeling a crack in his leg, Zoro was able to still send an attack against Fujitora despite being pinned to the ground by the admiral's gravity. And mind you, this is just to provide some context and not meant to be a comparison between Zoro and Sanji's strength level so don't get your panties up in a bunch. But if we were to see a full on fight between Zoro and Fujitora, then from everything we've seen and admittedly we've seen very little of the admiral. But tell me how anyone's gonna be able to stop a meteor from coming down. If it was just a straight up swords fight, I'd be willing to put my money on Zoro in a showcase of the full extent of both their powers. Meteor Man takes this. And I just don't see a way to convince the argument in Zoro's favor. Again, I think if Zoro was to obtain Future Sight, then the fight could go differently.  But Fujitora still wins regardless. And next up, the strongest creature himself, Kaido. One of the things I would love to see is a fresh, full-powered Zoro after completely awakening his conqueror's haki versus Kaido. Because when we saw their clash, that was Zoro who had taken on a combined attack from two of the Yonko, which you could argue to have been the strongest attack seen to date and something that ended up breaking almost all of Zoro's bones. But Zoro still managed to leave a scar on Kaido, albeit this was somewhat of a surprise attack. But it was even before Zoro had learned how to imbue his swords with his conqueror's haki, being the first person to have scarred Kaido since Oden. To the point that even for the briefest moment, in that scene, it seemed like Zoro was the biggest threat to Kaido on the rooftop. So a full-powered Zoro, fresh, and with all of his new power-ups, would likely land an attack against the same Kaido. I can't speak for how well Zoro would do against an equally fresh Kaido who hasn't fought a gazillion warriors while carrying an entire island. But that goes the same for any of Kaido's opponents in that case. So only considering current Zoro in a one-on-one fight against Kaido may be very interesting. But I still have to say that the Yonko wins this easily. At that point in the battle, Kaido still wouldn't have been as tired as he was by the end of the Onigashima battle. And knowing Kaido's own mastery of conqueror's haki and advanced conqueror's haki plus his insane Zoro endure ability, we still have to give this to the Yonko. Meaning that Kaido would win in what I see as a mid-difficulty match. But still, overall, a very impressive resume. Zoro from here on would only lose to top tier characters as he enters the realm of the top class fighters in one piece. But what do you think? Do you agree with the outcomes of these matchups? Let me know by leaving a comment below. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Thanks for listening to another one of my ramblings. This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon.