My name is Michael Greer, executive director here at Portland Ballet. We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to some of our dancers and give you an inside look into some of the people that make up Portland Ballet. Morgan, first how old are you and how long have you been performing the Victorian Nutcracker? I just turned 16 years old. I've been dancing since I was two and a half. I started Portland Ballet in 2013 so this is going to be my third year performing in the Victorian Nutcracker. I am 14 years old and I've been performing the Victorian Nutcracker for three years. You're dancing with your sister in this performance. What's that like? It's very nice to be able to dance with someone I know. It's very helpful because I can talk to them about where I need to be and what I can do to help them. It's really fun getting to dance with my brother because we get to play brother and sister on stage as well so it makes the acting easier and I've always wanted to play Olivia and the Nutcracker and I've always thought it would be funny to get to play brother and sister with my brother and now I finally get to do it so I'm really excited. Is this the first time that you've been performing together on stage? We've performed in the same shows before but this is the first time we've ever been in the same scene together and got to really interact on stage. And what's your favorite part about dancing in the Victorian Nutcracker? My favorite part with the dancing in the Victorian Nutcracker is that you feel like you're in the scene. It's very alive. I just love that I get to be part of something that's so many people's holiday tradition and it's the first time that some people are even seeing the Nutcracker and it can start their traditions.


If you're ever watching one of these videos and you're like why are Dylan's hands covered in chalk sometimes, it's because I'm in the middle of a lift out here.  So I'm a big fan of the rat boots, by the way. I did a review on them before. You should buy a pair. I love them, okay? They're heavy, but they're great. So my original pair, if you can see this here, were Danners, okay? So these are my original pair. I bought them off Amazon. I'll leave a link here. Again, fit great, 10.5 wide. I love these things. I've worn them a ton, big fan.  And these are the Wellco's, which, you know, different company. Supposed to be the same spec and everything, but these are the Wellco brand. Again, they're they're built the spec. They look the same. I mean, when you look at these, like you really can't tell a difference. The stitching is the same. You know, everything is, from the outside, I don't think you'd ever be able to tell which is which brand. But I will say, for whatever reason, these at 10.5 wide, the Wellco's do not fit. They run about, at least for me, a full size smaller. It's pretty significant. Now my buddy also has a pair of the Danners and a pair of the Wellco's and he doesn't have any issues. I don't know what size he wears specifically, but he told me he didn't have any issues at all. But I can barely get these Wellco's on my feet. And even then, like my foot is compressed. They feel like a nine and a half narrow, you know, not a 10 and a half wide. So I don't know if any of you have encountered that. Like I said, I have a buddy who has the same boots, the same brands, no issues. I have an issue sample size of two. So, you know, take that for what it's worth. But that is an issue that I ran into. So for whatever it's worth, I would tell you if you can find out, you know, get the Danners, because at least for me, I've had better success with them fitting to what I would say is the proper size. And if you do get a pair of Wellco's, I would probably order a size up, at least again, just from based on my experience. Now, this was a no final sale, no return, no nothing item. So I'll probably see if I can get these in one of my buddies, maybe they'll fit him. But, you know, that's where they come out for sizing maybe. So if you have experience with that, if you've had issues, or you've had a sizing differentiations, let us know, because you guys might know more than I do. And maybe we can crowdsource this a little bit. Do brave deeds and endure.


Couple of other calls came out one today, one, I think it was yesterday, the day before, one by David Henderson, a libertarian economist, and then today by Don Watkins, my friend and co-author, that suggests that it's time, maybe it's always been time, to reopen the economy. And let me just say absolutely, I never thought the economy should be shut down, it's about time. We need more voices. So it's time unequivocally to open the economy. And it's not about opening the economy, because I think particularly the left likes to focus this on economics and present this health versus economics, dead people versus economics. But I think Alex Epstein made a good point on this show, I don't know, a month ago, over a month ago. This is about values. This is about individual values. This is about individual life. This is about opening up your life, returning you to a state of freedom to make choices about your life, about your values, about the pursuit of your happiness. And the economy is a big part of that, because we know that our lives work and, you know, all the values that come from work are an incredibly important part of our pursuit of happiness and our pursuit of life, in our ability to pursue all our values. And that the lockdowns have basically made us all, not all of us, but many of us, wards of the state. They've created massive unemployment, which is then the pain of that is mitigated by the fact that we just get a check in a bank account automatically without even knowing, fund the government with money so we can live as if all that's necessary is the money, as if there's an end to supply of the stuff so they can keep paying us, as if it's a substitute for freedom. And indeed, one of my biggest concerns about something like UBI is that once the government is paying our bills, once the government is sending us checks every month, well the government owns us, controls us. Why can't it tell us what we can and cannot do, how we live, what values we pursue, how we use the money and everything else? So it's time to liberate us, to leave us alone, to free us. Now that has risk involved with it. Some people at the margin are going to die. Some hospitals might get overloaded, they wouldn't get overloaded if we have these lockdowns in place. That is the price we pay. And I think it's a legitimate price because it's a price that we're paying not for freedoms, not for liberty. It's a price that we pay for having a mixed economy. It's the price that we pay for having the government involved in healthcare, because a capitalist economy wouldn't result, I don't believe, in significant hospital overloads, wouldn't involve shortages. We'll talk about shortages in a minute and how even today there's no reason, zero reason for shortages. But if there are hospital overloads, if more people die than necessary, the blame, the more responsibility of that is that anybody who advocates for a mixed economy, anybody who advocates for more government intervention in healthcare, or for the existing level of government intervention in healthcare, a free market healthcare system, would handle what is thrown at it. And again, okay, we might need in certain places where the level of emergency is so extreme, short-term lockups so that hospitals can catch up, given that the government is already involved in hospitals. But 90% of this country is not there. 90% of country is not in an emergency situation that requires lockdowns the last two months. We do not sacrifice as those who stand for individualism, those who stand for individual freedom and individual liberty, and individual rights at the core of all that. We are not proponents of sacrificing the majority or sacrificing anybody for the sake of somebody else. But in this case, sacrificing the majority for the sake of less hospital stress and fewer deaths. People are going to die. People are going to die because we have an FDA. People are going to die because we have a CDC. People, you know, in the CDC might exist in a free market, but in a completely different structure. People are going to die because we have Medicare and Medicaid. And we have certificates of need that determine how many beds hospitals can have. And we have government involvement in healthcare up the kazoo. So that's why they're going to die. Not because lockdowns are eliminated. Not because individual Americans are free to live their lives as the founders intended them. So I think that lockdowns need to be eliminated tomorrow in 95% of this country. There's some hot spots that one would have to think about how to do it in a way that didn't create complete havoc. Maybe sections of New York, New Jersey, Detroit, New Orleans. I don't know. You'd have to get a complete update on these places, but everybody else should be freed. Now I'm going to say something. Whoops, I'm going to say something I don't usually say. The Trump administration today, I think it was or maybe it was yesterday. Their proposal to open up the economy is actually pretty good. Wow. I said it. I said something good about the Trump administration. Now I'll caveat that, of course, by saying that they only want to implement this opening up the economy under certain conditions, 14 days of downward trajectory and down the trajectory of syndrome cases and on and on and on all these conditions placed on when to open up the economy. But if we just took their plan and I'm going to read you parts of this plan and just implement it tomorrow, I'd give it a thumbs up. I would be absolutely supportive of that. What would it evolve? So here is, oops, so here is what they write, right? Phase one, right? This is the phase one. You could do all these phases at once, phase one. And notice, notice the extreme similarity, funnily enough, weirdly enough, maybe somebody in the White House is listening to this podcast. Notice the stunning similarity between this proposal and what I have been saying for six to eight weeks. Phase one, what do individuals do? One, all vulnerable individuals, i.e., old and with pre-existing conditions, they can't say that. It's not politically correct to call people old and to treat people differently. But all vulnerable individuals, old people and people with pre-existing conditions should continue to shelter in place. So if you're 65 and over, suddenly if you're 70 and older, don't leave the house. And if you value your life and if you live in a crowded place, this might evolve a long time of staying at home because until we have a vaccine or until there's some kind of herd immunity. But number one, on Trump's plan, he's basically quoting me. I'm shocked. All vulnerable individuals should continue to shelter in place. Members of households with vulnerable residents should be aware that by returning to work or other environments where distancing is not practical, they could carry the values back home. Absolutely true. But causes should be taken to isolate from vulnerable residents. I've been saying this for weeks. Either move them out into a hotel room or something or lock them up in a room in the house or make or wear masks, wear gloves, isolate the people who are vulnerable within the household from the people who are out working and out about. So, I mean finally some common sense. I'm copying the super chat questions onto a different board because otherwise they disappear on me. Second, all individuals when in public, parks, outdoor recreation areas, shopping areas, should maximize physical distance from others. Social settings are more than 10 people where appropriate distancing may not be practical, should be avoided and less precautionary embarrasses observed. Wow! How reasonable is that? Just stay away from people when you're in public. Social distancing. We can all do that voluntarily.  They're not trying to tell you how much. They're not trying to force it on you.  Point number three, avoid socializing groups of more than 10 people in circumstances that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing. Very reasonable. Again, I don't think this needs to be entrenched in law, but only enforced by the police, but just follow common sense within this pandemic. Don't hang out with 10 people in close contact. Minimize non-essential travel. Don't zero out out and adhere to the CDC guidelines regarding isolation following travel. So just, you know, travel cautiously, particularly in the beginning. I mean, wow. And then for employers, it says, number one, continue to encourage telework whenever possible and feasible with business operations. Makes sense.  You don't want your employees causing you to get sick. It's better if it's possible to telework, then let's do it. It might be even a solution for after the pandemic is gone. Maybe productivity is even higher with telework. Who knows? If possible, they write, return to work in phases. Again, a recommendation, not a bad one. You don't want to crowd the office all at once. Close common areas where personnel are likely to congregate and interact. Okay? Again, reasonable. Minimize non-essential travel and adhere, you know, the same thing. And then strongly consider special accommodations for personnel who are members of a vulnerable population. In other words, if they're older 65 or have heart disease or diabetes or obese, then, you know, find ways to isolate them more or, you know, they don't return to work. And Jonathan asked a question of how does egalitarianism play into this hugely, because the idea of discrimination, the idea of treating your vulnerable employees differently than your regular employees, your non-volatile, is unacceptable to the egalitarians. Everybody must be treated the same, even if that means sacrificing millions and millions of people to the few who are vulnerable. And in this case, the not-so-few who are vulnerable. So that's employers, reasonable accommodations. I can't think of any other way to add. What about specific types of employers? So here they're saying schools and organized youth activities, they should stay closed if they're already closed. I don't agree with this. I think they should open immediately. I don't think children are a problem. Children at issue don't hire to take care of those children, people who are members of vulnerable populations. So if a teacher is obese, has diabetes or has heart disease, she should probably stay home. If the teacher is young and healthy, what's the problem? So open up schools, open up camps, open up kindergartens, open them up now. Here's one, visits to senior living facilities and hospitals should be prohibited. I agree completely, not by law, but by the senior living facility and by the hospital. Now again, I've been recommending this in the beginning. Let's isolate the vulnerable, primarily those above 870. Keep them in isolation.  Those who do interact with residents and patients must adhere to strict protocols regarding hygiene. Absolutely. I mean, look at the catastrophes that have happened in our senior facilities and senior living facilities all across the country. Easy. Just lock them down. Large venues should operate under strict physical distancing protocols. Fine. Shouldn't be that hard. Let the venues figure it out. After all, remember it was the NBA that suspended the season before the lockdowns even started. So you'd think that NBA stadiums, football stadiums, baseball stadiums, configure our mechanisms. Maybe, maybe they can even test. Maybe they can test in advance.  Who knows what the market will come up with? Just be safe. And if you're not safe, people won't come. So you as a owner of a venue have a strong incentive to be safe. Elective surgeries should resume. Now here they say they can resume, but only in outpatient facilities. I think that's too broad. I think in places where the hospitals are overcrowded, like in New York, they should only resume in outpatient facilities, but places where their hospitals are still doing fine or not overcrowded, just maybe stressed a little. There's no reason not to start elective surgeries in hospitals for now, until there's signs of real stress. Gyms can open if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitary protocols. Absolutely. Bars should remain closed. Why? Well, maybe because people when they drink a knot don't use their common sense. I'd say open restaurants, open bars, and just have those businesses use their self-interested motivation to socially distance people, spread out the tables more, only take on fewer guests, make sure that the tables are distant from one another. By the way, in phase two of Trump's recommendation, again, all vulnerable individuals should continue to shelter in place. Absolutely. And the same stuff about members of the household. Absolutely. All individuals running public should maximize physical distance, right? And here they say, non-essential travel can resume. And I agree. But this should be tomorrow, not in phase two. And then they say, let's see, they said something about restaurants. Yeah, bars. Bars may operate with diminished standing room occupancy. We're applicable and appropriate. But again, that should be left to the bar to figure out what's the best way, the same as they leave it to a gym to figure out what's the best way. So I, I like, I like this. I like this protocol. I just think it should be implemented now, immediately. Open up the restaurants. Just, I think it makes common sense for the restaurants to voluntarily take on fewer clients. Now that means higher prices probably, because otherwise the restaurants couldn't survive. But that's fine. That's part of how you limit the demand. One way, if a restaurant usually takes 100 customers a night to only have 50 customers a night is to double the price or to raise the price by 25%. And fewer people want to come and then use socially distance through the pricing mechanism. Isn't price mechanism a beautiful, beautiful thing? So from a rights perspective, from an economics perspective, from an individual liberties perspective, it is time to open up. It was always time to open up this economy, to stop this ridiculous shutdown and to let individuals make choices, make individuals make decisions for themselves while focusing on a robust educational effort around vulnerable populations, how to protect them, how to shield them, how to isolate them, and how to prevent young people who are now going out from infecting them. I've been suggesting this from day one. Now, in addition, what we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations, any man or woman who values his life, and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. Well, using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity, go to Iranbrookshow.com slash support or go to subscribestar.com, Iranbrookshow, and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going. I'm not showing the next...


In the last video, we have seen the architecture of OpenShift version 3. Now we'll look at an example of an application that runs on OpenShift version 3. Here, we are looking at an application that uses a database. So what you're seeing here is on the right side, you are looking at a database, a MySQL database running in its own part. This is a MySQL container running in MySQL part, frontended by a service that exposes port 3306. Now, the application code that accesses this database is PHP code running in a separate part, and this PHP source depends on this database exposed at port 3306. So this part expects the parameters such as where the database is running, the IP address of the part in which the database is running, the port number, the database name, username, password, etc. Those are configured in this part. And this part is available over port 80 for access outside by the client over HTTP or HTTPS. In this example, we are going to create a Docker image outside of OpenShift and use it with an OpenShift. So there are three different types of builds that you can do in OpenShift version 3. A Docker build, a source to image kind of build and a custom build. But I'm addressing a very simple example here. We are going to use a MySQL image from Docker hub here for deploying the MySQL service. And for the source code, we'll have our own source code, create a Docker image outside of OpenShift and use that with an OpenShift, deploy it with an OpenShift and use it to access this MySQL service. That's a common question a lot of people ask on can I create a Docker image, a pre-created Docker image and then use it with an OpenShift. And the answer is yes. I am now logged on to Docker hub. And since we need a MySQL database, let us search for it. Let's use this first MySQL image. It's a plain MySQL. So I'm also logged on on the other side to my OpenShift version 3 environment as user Joe. Now in OpenShift version 3 in the current beta that we have, the way to create an application, it would require a JSON file. And this might look a little tedious at this point of time. There will be an easier way of creating applications very soon. Let's look at the JSON file that's there right now. You can see here, this JSON file is going to use a container and it's pointing to an image called MySQL. As you can see, this is going to be using the MySQL from Docker hub. And at the same time, when this container gets created, we are telling this container to initiate itself by creating a database with the name sample, provide a root password of super secret and things like that. This container would expose port 3306 as we talked before. Now at the same time, we are also creating a service that would look for a label MySQL label on all the containers. So when you go back and see here, this container would have a MySQL label and this is what the service looks for. So the service will again expose a port 3306 and that's it. That's the content of this JSON file. I'll quit and let's create a pod by using this MySQL JSON. So all I'm going to do is see create from the file. Now this creates two different things. One is the pod itself which runs the MySQL container and it also creates a service with this name MySQL service. So let's look at what pods are running and what services are running. Now you have a pod called MySQL pod that is in the running status and you have a service called MySQL service that's running at this particular IP address and at port 3306. Now at the same time, I'm also logged on to this OpenShift environment as an administrator here on the other side. Now let's look at what Docker containers are running here. If you see there is the MySQL is running here and here is the name of my Docker container. We take a copy of that. Let's try to log on to this Docker container. Now I'm inside the container now and at the same time, I'll try to get on to the database to see what is inside. So let me pick up the host name. This is the IP address of the service and the port number is 3306. I'm going to log in as a root user and with the password Supersecret. Now I'm logged on to the MySQL client. Now let's see what databases are in here. As you can see, we wanted it to create a sample database and it's there. So let's use that database. Now that I'm using the sample database, it won't have any tables because we didn't do anything with it. Let me create a table. Let me insert some values into it. So I added two rows. Now I'll exit from this container. So I have a database. I have a table in the database and I have some values in the database.


Activity for using movies in the ESL classroom, guess my movie. For this activity you should divide the class into pairs. Each student chooses a movie they know, and then they write down a basic outline of it. Details should contain things such as where it is set, the main plot, the character names etc. The next stage of the activity is to describe the movie to their partner using the written language. Points can be awarded to anyone who guesses the movie correctly. For this activity to work well, the teacher may need to pre-teach some relevant vocabulary, and you should ensure the students choose movies that are widely known.


Hi, I'm Forest Moons. I'm at Forest Moons cards on Instagram and I am a breaker manager at Layton Sports Cards. I first heard about Layton Sports Cards when I was applying for jobs kind of mid-pandemic, honestly. So the progression of being here at Layton Sports Cards, I started as a sorter shipper and did that for a few months and started top-loading at night for Brad and Rich, actually. So I did that for a little while and the goal was to learn as much as I could and see if, you know, you can do enough to become a breaker and just immerse yourself in products and knowledge and streaming online. I started top-loading at night, gripping personals and, you know, just work your way up to being able to do group breaks and multiple streams a week and knowing every product that comes out and so on and so forth. Some of the more challenging things I had to overcome in becoming a breaker was no prior knowledge in sports cards really at all before starting a Layton Sports Cards. So there was, on a daily basis of being at the shop, it was learning as much as I possibly could about different products, different athletes, different manufacturers, different styles of breaking, other breakers, just everything about the hobby really is, like I said, not knowing anything. It's kind of a tough hill to climb. I've always been enjoying sports so that sort of was the first ring on the ladder, so to say, and it was really a help in, you know, because there is definitely a lot of crossover between what we're looking for in cards and what we like to watch on TV as far as like, you know, the best athletes typically sell the best, typically. So I'd say that was probably the most difficult thing was learning all of that where a lot of, I think most breakers would say they'd been in the hobby before. They had collected things before they started breaking or I was like, I did the reverse. I started breaking and then I started collecting. I love to collect a lot of different things but I like to collect Star Wars cards. I've been a Star Wars fan for a long time and it's just, it's a different vibe than sports, I think. It's supposed to be fun. You play the video games, you watch the movies, you watch Mandalorian, so definitely Star Wars. Memorable moments would be, honestly, meeting people and friends that I would see at a show or the national or we talk on Instagram, pulling cards for great customers, pulling really cool things like an Abraham Lincoln cut auto. There's just a few things that are really fun. My favorite sports teams are the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, Orlando Magic, and the Boston Bruins. I collect Rafael Devers, David Ortiz, the rest of the teams, it's kind of a mix. There's a few guys, it's kind of just an in general collect those teams. Some crazy memories of Rich since knowing him, since starting working here. Any time we just be breaking into be late at night, it's pretty rare nowadays but the Super Bowl Mixer was one time, you know, you just get, you've been working, you know, 12 hours and everything's funny and Chad's just loving every bit of it and you're cutting up with your friends. But honestly, just learning from him and breaking and seeing his reactions to certain things and kind of what makes him tick is always fun. Some of my favorite things about the industry as a whole is a pretty strong sense of community, at least, you know, at shows and in our chat rooms and on social media with our customers and friends and there's always like a help each other out sort of thing, a communal thing. There's a lot of, at least as far as I know it, you know, gift giving and just finding places for cards, essentially. If there's something that I have that I'd consider selling maybe, I'd usually try to find out if I can find someone to give it to first, honestly. One of my favorite products to break and something that I'm always excited to see is really anything under the Topps Chrome, I guess umbrella or brand. So Topps Chrome Baseball, Topps Chrome Merlin Soccer, Topps Star Wars Chrome Galaxy, you know, Topps Chrome F1, really anything Topps Chrome. If I were to put an average number on cards that I flip through in one night of breaking, the answer is, the easy answer is thousands. But that's hard to quantify, right? You're looking at what you're ripping, you know, if we're ripping a flawless release day, it's quite a bit less. But on like a Bowman release day, God, I don't want to know.