Friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. You are in store for another what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW Freestyle. We have some halls, we have quite a few halls because I am redoing a room in my home from an exercise room into an office and I am so incredibly excited about it. I have my food for the day. We have a little diesel in Lola. I'm taking you to an open house and we are just going to have an overall fun day. Plus, you'll get to see my brand new espresso machine. You guys, I am in love. So if you want to see what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW Freestyle and a little fun along the way, just stay tuned. I want to show you what I picked up at Ross. So I mentioned that I'm redoing my exercise room into an office and I cannot wait, I cannot wait. I've already started picking up all the fun things for my new office. So let me show you what I picked up at Ross. So first I found this super cute curtain rod. This is so cute with this kind of diamond silver. The color scheme that I'm going with is gray, white, black, kind of that farmhouse vibe. So I love, love, love this curtain rod. So I had to pick that up. And speaking of curtain rod, I found these super cute curtains. These are shears. I love that. Look at that. But they're gray and they have this kind of texture to them. I just absolutely love them. The curtains were $12.99 and the curtain rod was $11.99. So that's a steal and this is two panels and these nice like rivets to put it through the rod. I love these curtains so much. So that's my new curtains and my new curtain rod. And then I just picked up this pack of gift bags just for real estate. I give gifts to my clients. So when they buy a house or sell a house, so I picked up those for that and they were super inexpensive, $3.99. I love this sign. It was on clearance for $8.99.  Love it. And it's the gray, the white, the black. Couldn't beat it for nine bucks. I also found this super cute clock. Same kind of color scheme. It's got these little mirrors and it's white, kind of that distressed white. I just love it. And it was only $10. I know this isn't for my office but these are pastry bags with decorating tips. Couldn't pass those up. $1.99 perfect for the upcoming holidays. And you guys, look at my lamp. So it is this super cute black, silver, gray cheetah print. And then look at the base. This thing is so adorable. I love it. So that's my new lamp for my office. So that's everything that I picked up at Ross. So here is my breakfast. So let me show you my sandwich here. So I have two slices of the Trader Joe's sprouted sourdough bread. I have my eggs with my melted cheese and then my one ounce of avocado. Basically, we're just gonna flip that over, make it into a sandwich. And then I'm gonna be pairing that with one serving of blueberries. So this is what I'll be having for breakfast each day for this week. So my sandwich is a total of six smart points. Hi buddy. Oh yeah, you're cozy as always, huh bud? He went to the vet like I mentioned for his ear and his ear is so much better. He may have to be on a permanent allergy medicine called apaquil. We were just a little leery because it can lower their immune system and lead them into possibly, not guaranteed, but the option of maybe developing cancer down the road. So we've been really careful with that, but he's doing much better and not to mention for his weight, it's about $150 a month. So it is quite the expense, but we'll do whatever we have to do for this guy, but his ear is definitely better. And then his sister. Did you make a fort? Did you? You got blankies on you, baby. Yeah, you made a fort. You're cozy. Yeah, he is so cute. She does this where she digs out the covers as you can see. And then today she's even made herself a little fort. Oh, he's a good doggy, huh, babes? So these two pervy usual cozies can be, right? All right, it is morning, a snack time. It's about 9.45. I ate pretty early this morning, about 6.30. So I'm gonna be having one of the peanut butter built bars. This is one of my very, very favorite flavors. It has little chunks of real peanuts in it. It is made with organic peanut butter. I prefer them cold, so I actually just pulled this one out of my freezer, or I'm sorry, refrigerator. Let me show you the macros. So there are your calories, 170, 20 grams of protein. I find that this built bar keeps me the fullest, the longest, seven grams of fiber, three sugar, and seven grams of fat. So between the fiber, the protein, and that little extra bit of fat, this bar keeps me nice and full, and it will last me absolutely for sure until lunch. So this particular built bar is for smart points. In my opinion, it tastes very reminiscent of a cross between a Butterfinger and a Reese's. I love it. It's one of my favorite flavors. All of the other flavors of built bar are only three points. This is the only one that falls to the four point category because it is made with real peanut butter. But in my opinion, I will give up one smart point every day of every week for peanut butter without even hesitation. So I highly recommend the peanut butter built bar. It is delicious. So this is my four point snack. If you are interested in picking up built bar, my discount code is here on the screen. It will give you 10% off and free shipping on anything on the built bar website, including the new built boost vitamin water enhancer, which you'll be seeing a little bit later because I'm gonna be taking that with me when I leave a little later for my open house. So four smart point snack, head over to built bar, pick some up, you won't be sorry. In my opinion, I would not do this journey without the built bar. Here's my little TJ Max Hall. I actually went to get pet wipes. And then just to find a few other fun things for myself and then my clients that were closing on their house. So I found this cute little galvanized pot with this artificial plant. I really like how the leaves have that grayish white tone.  I did find my pet wipes. Oh, prices. I was like to tell you guys prices, $6.99 for the plant. Pet wipes, which is what I went there for. These are $3.99. These are amazing.   And if you just cleaner, it seems to really help alleviate those little allergy bumps. So pick those up. I found this nice folding steamer basket. So I don't have a steamer and I like this because it pulls out to steam your veggies, but then it closes up really nicely for storage. So I went ahead and picked that up and it was $4.99. So that's a great deal. Again, I just like how it's compact for storage. Of course, some more sweet potatoes. I got the fries this time for my dogs. These were only $3.99. Great deal. The only thing in this is sweet potatoes. So can't pass that up. And then I saw this. This is authentic real vanilla extract, not the artificial. Look at the price on this, you guys, $4.99. That is a steal for real vanilla extract and this is 100 milliliters. So it's quite a large glass bottle for $5.  She really likes the gray in the farmhouse, kind of like I do.   And this is a total of $7.99. So that's my little TJ Max Hall. Here is my lunch today. I am excited. So what I have here is two of the veggie spring rolls that I made in meal prep for two of the veggie rolls. It is three smart points. The only thing you have to count points for is the wrap of the roll. So that is three smart points. In my little bowl here, I have one tablespoon of the Trader Joe's Island Soiyaki. I'm going to be dipping my spring rolls into that. That is one smart point. I have one serving of the Tyson Blackened Chicken. I just cooked it in the oven with my spring rolls. The Tyson Blackened Chicken is zero smart points. However, I had eggs for breakfast and I am having chicken for dinner. So I'm actually going to count this as two smart points because I limit myself to two zero point proteins per day. So it is two smart points for me for the Tyson Blackened Chicken and then for dessert. I am having one of the smart baking, pumpkin spice smart muffins, you guys. These are my favorite thing in the entire world. This huge ginormous muffin is two smart points. It is soft and it is moist and it is cinnamony and pumpkin-y and it is two smart points too. Isn't that crazy?  I warm it up in the microwave for about 10 seconds. It is so good and that huge muffin, two points. They are gluten-free. Here are your nutritional information. They are keto. So good. My code is here on the screen.  This is the same company that makes the smart cakes and the smart buns. So you can just load up on your favorite smart baking company products but I highly recommend the muffin. So good. So that is two smart points. So two for the muffin. Three for the rolls is five. One for the sauce is six and then I'm counting two for the chicken. That's eight. So this, you guys, is my eight smart point lunch. I did some shopping. I also have a Hobby Lobby haul for you. So we've got Christmas. We've got my new office. So let's look at what I picked up. So first I grabbed this sign. I love this embossed metal frame and it says kindness is always beautiful and it is kind of black, white and silver. As you know, that's my decor theme for my office. Had to pick that up. It was, I'm sorry, 1999, but then I had a 40% off coupon. So I think it made it like $11. So not bad at all. And then I saw this and I had to get it flawless in fears and it has this cute kind of Hawaiian border. Love this in the black and white. And this was $8.99, but it was half off.  So 50% off of that. So it made it like $4.50. And then hello, I had to get this. Hi friends, because you know I say that every time I start out my videos. Also 50% off. So normally a $5.99. So literally you guys, I paid $3 for this sign. Love it. And then I really wanted a hook that I could put up by the door that I could hang my laptop bag on.  I love it. And this was $11.99, but was half off. So $6. And then I have a sensey oil diffuser that I'm gonna be putting in my office just to give it that comforting vibe when I'm in there working. And I found this uplift essential oil at Hobby Lobby. And this is bergamot and lemon peel. And this was $6.99, but half off. So you can't beat that. It smells amazing. So I picked that up. And then I had to get this. I absolutely love this. It hangs on the wall. It's just a metal basket. And it says stuff. So I'm going to put this on the wall by my desk and I can put my papers and things in there. I just think it is absolutely adorable. It was $15.99, but was also half off. So you can't beat that. So I got all of those things for my new office. And then as I was walking out, I saw these. You guys, these are so cute. So this is a set of measuring spoons. They are ceramic. They are black and white with that speckled pattern.  Six bucks. You can't beat it. You know, I love my cooking things. So I had to, had to pick those up. The rest of what I got is Christmas. So all their Christmas was half off. So this was $6. So I paid $3. And this is a set of 20 Christmas thank you cards. There is a reason that I picked these up. So stay tuned on my Facebook group for that reason. So I did pick up the pack of thank you cards. All their gift tags were also half off. So these were a dollar a pack and there is 10 gift tags. So I love these little Merry Christmas Santas and this cute little Merry Christmas tag. So I picked up those for a dollar a piece. I had to get this signed. I don't know what it is about it, but I love the wood. I love the Merry Christmas with the traditional colors. I definitely go the traditional color vibe in my house. So this is going to blend right in. Oh, there's one more thing in the back I forgot about. Okay, so this is $9.99. So basically I got it for $5.  These fell out of the back. These are cute little Merry Christmas envelope seals for $2.99. Those are for the thank you cards, Christmas cards, that type of thing, couldn't pass them up. Okay, now this sign. The jolliest bunch of elves this side of the nut house. So elves is a much nicer word than what is used in the Christmas vacation movie. But as soon as I saw this, I had to have it because that is mine and my husband's movie. We watch it every Christmas. You guys, it's our favorite movie ever. And this was $10, but it was half off. So five bucks had to have it. I literally saw it grabbed it, put it in my car. There wasn't even a second thought about it. Had to have it. And then I've been looking for a countdown and I thought that this was so cute. So you just change out the blocks on this super duper cute Santa. He was $20, but then he was half off. So he was 10 bucks. And I love him. I think he is adorable. So I picked that up. And then I had to get this. I just think this is so cute. These are individual little blocks. Again, that distress, traditional colors. We wish you a Merry Christmas. And these were $11.99, but then half off. So again, you know, $6, you can't beat it. And it is so adorable. And then lastly, you know me and my mugs. Okay, you guys, isn't this the cutest thing you've ever seen? Merry and bright. It has the black rim. It's a tin mug. I absolutely love this mug. It was $8 and half off, so four bucks. You guys, I couldn't pass it up. It's so cute. So my household is ready for Christmas and my office is ready as well. So that is my Hobby Lobby haul. So I'm gonna take some snacks with me to my open house. I probably will eat the pear after I get home about 3.30 or so, but I'm gonna have a red pear. I didn't have a fruit with lunch because I wanted to save it for part of my afternoon snack. I'm also going to have one serving of my very favorite veggie straws. These are the salt and vinegar. Oh my gosh, these are so good. I got these at TJ Maxx. I literally wish you guys I would have bought like 10 bags. They are so good. They are better than salt and vinegar potato chips. And you can have an entire serving, which is all of these for four smart points. So this is the main portion of my snack with a pear. And then I'm taking a bottle of water and with my water, I'm gonna take a packet of the built boo. So I mentioned that earlier when I showed you my built bar. This is the newest product from Built Bar. It has 100% of your daily vitamins, natural energy, which means there's no caffeine, zero calories. It has 10,000% of your B12, 18, 50% of your B6, three super plants, and again, no caffeine. You have tons of great flavors, blackberry lemonade, peach mango, pina colada, strawberry banana, fruit punch, and pineapple strawberry. I love every flavor to be completely honest. They're all delicious. So you can purchase this pack of 30 of these off of the Built Bar website. Again, my code is here on the screen. It'll give you 10% off in free shipping. So check out the Built Boost. I love it. I have one usually in the afternoon or I will have it as a pre-workout because it just gives you that little burst of energy that you need to make it through either your day or your workout. So you just pop open a bottle of water and this is what the packet looks like. So you're just going to put the packet into the bottle of water. So this is the mango tangerine. So this is the one that I'm gonna take with me today. Super easy. Put it in your water bottle, shake it up. So that is what I'm having for my afternoon snack. Hey guys, I'm at my open house. I've done this house a few times. Generally there's really good turnout. It's a beautiful, beautiful home. One of the prettiest that I've ever seen in this price range where it's about the $475,000 price range which for where I live is a little bit high. A lot of you have asked me what is the average price range here? Is it like California? Is it like New York? What is it? We have an average home price in this area, Spokane, Washington between $280 and $300,000. So this is definitely on the high end as far as prices of homes go but it is beautiful. It is custom. It is really, truly an absolutely beautiful home. So hopefully we get some good traffic. I am hoping to meet at least one new solid follow through client. That would be amazing. And hopefully we can get this house sold because the owners are so nice. The agent is so nice. So hopefully cost your fingers for us we can get this house sold. So I went to HomeGoods and you guys know I have to stay away from that place because you guys I spend so much money at HomeGoods. So the only thing not shown is I got some veggie straws some salt and vinegar veggie straw chips that I munched on I was starving. So I didn't show those but most of what I got here is for my new office. So let me show you what I picked up when I hit up HomeGoods. So first I found this gorgeous picture. It is a wooden kind of de-stressed rustic looking backdrop with this gray wooden medallion. I love this. This is huge. It is going to look so good in my new office. I can't wait to share it to you or with you guys when it's done. But this was on clearance for $29. So I thought that was a really good deal. It's very, very large. I would say at least like three feet by three feet. So I think it's gonna look really nice on the wall in my office. We are also redoing some decor in a couple of our bedrooms in our house and while our bedroom in our bathroom and we're gonna make it lodgy. So I thought this was so cute. I don't know that I'm a big fan of these fake tea lights. I might just put real tea lights in there but it's on this like birch log and I thought it was really cute and it was $7.99. So this will either go in the bedroom or the bathroom. I don't know what I'm going to do with this yet but I just thought it was so cute. It was $3.99. And it's just this cute little galvanized metal tray. And I don't know if I'll put like notepads or what I'm gonna do exactly with it but I couldn't pass it up for $4. Couldn't pass it up. And then I got this for my office. Coffee and Friends, a perfect blend. I loved that. And that was $4.99. You know I like these little sayings. You saw all the ones that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. So yeah, I love these types of things and the black, white, gray, rustic-y that's kind of what I'm going for. So I grabbed that. Also I don't know what I'm gonna do with this either but I had to pick it up.  It was $5.99. I think what I'm going to end up doing with it honestly is using it for pens and things. I just think it's cute and it's gonna go really well with my office decor. I had to get this, you guys. It's Ray Dunn and it's this cute galvanized metal with this wood trim that says Boss Lady. I always say that. My employees at my last job always called me Boss Lady so I thought this was perfect. I feel like I am a little bit of a female boss. Like I run my own businesses between YouTube and real estate. I don't know, I just liked it and I thought that it fit and this was $7.99 which is not bad for a Ray Dunn piece. And then I did get something for Christmas. I've been looking for a new table runner and you guys, how cute is this? So it has the same design on both sides. It says Happy Holidays with that cute little buffalo checked truck and a snowman. I loved it. It was $16.99. So I picked this up to put on my kitchen table. I have one. It's just old and ugly. It's ugly. You guys, it's ugly. So I thought this was really cute. That kind of traditional Christmas colors which is what I like. Grab that. And then I saw this and I've been looking for some extra greenery pieces for my office. So this has the artificial flowers and this cute little gray and white container. And this was only $10 which is actually a really good price. So I picked that up for one of the shelves or something in my office. I also found this picture frame and I thought it was so cute. It is gray, like de-stressed wood.  And then I saw this and I almost didn't get it just because it was $15 but I had to get it. It has a cute little galvanized metal top to it. It's a lantern with one of those faux pillars. The battery operated which I love. You can turn that on, get that nice kind of ambiance in my office. And it's gray and white de-stressed so I got it. I decided to stick up the $15 and pick it up so I grabbed that. And then of course I can never go to one of these stores without bringing the dogs home something. So I found these Turduckie Twizy Bites, all natural dog twos. These are grain free and 100% digestible and they do not have any chicken in them. They're actually made with turkey and duck. So got that for my dogs. That was a steal for $3.99 because there's 40 pieces in there. And then you guys look at how cute this cart is. This is so adorable. It is gray and basically a white kind of de-stressed with a metal you can see here on the handles of it. Oh, it is so cute.  It matches the desk I ordered perfectly. And it is on wheels so I thought that it would be great to put in my office just next to my desk. So $180 later I'm out of home goods. So again, next time I get the bright idea to go there, message me and tell me not to. So here's my dinner for tonight. You'll see this recipe in the upcoming air fryer video. Stay tuned because yum. So I made chicken fajita roll ups. These are zero smart points. So that is great that the protein is zero. That is partially why I did count my lunch chicken as well because I knew that I'd be having chicken again for dinner and I try not to overeat the zero point foods. And I did decide just because I had so many points left that I was gonna have five points worth of the roasted potatoes. So my dinner is a total of six smart points. I wanted to show you guys the sunset. Look at how beautiful it is. Let's pan down here and look who is outside waiting. This is right where he lays because it is the only spot in the yard that he can see the road. He's waiting for his dad to come home from work. He should be home any minute. He will lay out there and wait until he pulls into the driveway. So here's my dessert for tonight. I'm gonna have one of the light and fit Greek yogurts in pumpkin pie.  So that is two points. And then I'm going to have a Trader Joe's vanilla meringue. These are huge and you can have one meringue for only one smart point. So I'm gonna have one of those meringues and my little yogurt. So this is my three smart point dessert. Thank you for joining me on another what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW freestyle. I hope you enjoyed the haul, the new espresso machine, the dogs coming to the open house and all of the food that I ate today. I hope it also gave you some great ideas of some recipes that you can incorporate into your WW lifestyle. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you're new, please take a moment and hit that red subscribe button and that little bell so you're notified whenever I upload a new video. That way you're not missing a single one. Thumbs up this video and comment down below. Let me know what you guys thought of this what I eat in a day. I wanna know too, what was your very favorite part? Check out the description box for any recipes, discount codes, links, happy mail, and of course my Facebook group. You guys, we are under 100 people short of 10,000. 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Redundant array of inexpensive drives, very literally in this case, so in an effort to do some more free NAS torture testing and some longer term stuff, so we have the video which you can link below where we ripped the memory out of a live free NAS machine, we did it till we got bored and we're never able to corrupt ZFS on there, not because we didn't try even with high voltage, we only managed to destroy the equipment but the hard drives lived on. So I thought why not grab a bunch of really used hard drives. So we refurbished a lot of laptops and laptop drives are very inexpensive. So when laptops come in, we get rid of the old hard drives, there's not really much value to them. So I went and picked up some of these which are 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch adapters that would fit in our NAS box and since we have so many drive bays that we're just not using, we decided to pop 4 drives in for random laptop drives that all had some higher hours on them. I did check them for bad sectors because I know it'll, you know, it'll skip over the bad sectors but they are fairly used drives and they're not all the same. They are for, well two of them do happen to be Western Digitals but you know, there's a variety of hard drives in here and they're not even the same exact model Western Digital. They're similar, they're all 500 gig drives and they're all 5400 RPM drives. So this has actually been running for a while and I'm just now getting around to the video because we wanted to see how they worked over time. And yes, I did just pull this out of a live running free NAS box and this is where free NAS is really impressive of how it handles these. So despite these drives all being not exactly the same brand at all, they're certainly not enterprise drives and it's funny because, you know, RAID is redundant RAID of inexpensive drives and but I would never recommend building something like that for production. It's fun for testing but for production due by some NAS drives they definitely last a lot longer. But we're going to do some more durability testing on these, I mean it really takes a lot of time. They've been running for a while as in weeks but we've just been loading data up on them, pulling data off, loading data. They haven't had a single error and it's been kind of uneventful. That's the downside about some of the testing is the level of testing you have to do to try to get a failure on these is kind of, you know, it's impressive. But I just wanted to do this quick video to show you what happens for one when you remove a running drive out of there and pop it back in and how free NAS handles that and the fact that we're just doing a bunch of testing with non-critical data of course on these drives because we want to do some more free NAS resiliency testing and see how it works. We have been blessed to have extremely few failures in the entirety of free NAS. We had one drive go bad and we had the Toshiba's that gave errors for no particular reason in the mirror and pulled them out to the drives work fine. We think it's some weird incompatibility with the controller. But as far as what we've deployed to clients because pretty much we're using WD Reds at all of our clients or occasionally some of the Seagate ones, we really haven't seen this at any of the client deployments we have, any of these type of problems. But we wanted to do some more testing because it's always interesting to see, you know, if there's a failure caused by using odd drives or by using a bunch of old used laptop drives of not the same type and certainly not enterprise re-write grade. I know it'll take maybe years before they truly degrade but these already have years of use so we're just trying to see what would happen if we plugged them into free NAS and I'm pretty impressed. It seems to work perfectly fine. I don't have any stats, I didn't do an entire write performance test because I already know they're not going to be all that fast. We just have them configured in a RAID-Z configuration and they're not super fast drives to begin with. I think you gain a little bit of performance by having them in RAID-Z but just not a lot. That's not the nature of these drives but it does work. These trays are pretty cheap and so they are truly an array of inexpensive drives here. So that's it. Just wanted to show you how that worked and what happens when you pull the drive out and put it back in and how free NAS handles that as well. And thanks for watching. If you like the content here, like and subscribe.


Well here we are at the end of May at Irrowl Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park where we go climb the Dragon Tail Kular which is right there and the weather forecast they call it for clear skies and no snow, a little breezy so it's pretty good they got one out of three of us, right? What do you think Barry? Perfect. All right. Climb on.


So, Mr Trump is on a tour of the Middle East. Poor man. He's got such a hard time in his own country, because what would one do in a similar situation? I know what I would do. I would go on a nice long holiday, which is perhaps what he's intending to do. And of course, what country would one go to to have a well-deserved rest from all the furory which is risen in the United States? Naturally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This paradise of democracy, of human rights, of religious fervor and so on and so forth. Yes, what a pleasant change to step down the steps of the airplane together with his beautiful wife, and to be welcomed by these paragons of virtue, these holy men of the royal house of Saud. Wonderful. The embraces, the love, the adoration, the unity.  What a pleasant change from the kind of disagreeable public. That he's had to put up the poor man in the United States. Yes, isn't it noticeable how not just President Trump, but all the leaders of the Western world are very fond of this regime in Saudi Arabia? It really is a wonderful regime. A regime, of course, which has got not a single trace of democracy about it. A regime which specialises in trampling underfoot human rights, not just in Saudi Arabia, but also in Yemen, where they're engaged in a criminal war about which very little is said, by the way, in the Western media. They're conveniently hushed up. This criminal genocidal war in Yemen, I can't describe it any other way, where this wonderful Saudi regime is systematically murdering with the active support of American imperialism and British imperialism and French imperialism and all the rest. They're condemning millions of people to a terrible death. Men, women and children, oh yes, every day.  Well, this so-called coalition of the Saudis is systematically bombing what? Warehouses where grain is stored and ports, because Yemen has got to import all its food practically. Systematically bombing, they put it on the television. They systematically target the cranes which are used to unload ships. How can a crane unloading grain from ships be considered to be a terrorist target or a military target? But that's what's taking place. It's taking place with the active support of officers, of military specialists from America and from Britain. Wonderful democratic Britain. Theresa May, this wonderful woman, yes, strong and stable. Strong and stable support for the Saudi gangsters who are systematically murdering millions of people in Yemen with the active support of London, of the military, of course. There's a principle involved, isn't there? I forgot to mention cholerae, which the United Nations has just explained that there's another epidemic of cholerae taking place.  Well, these gangsters are systematically preventing, deliberately preventing the shipment of food and medicines to the Yemen. That's the kind of activities engaged by these wonderful holy men in Saudi Arabia. Oh, yes. Inside Saudi Arabia itself, they're engaged in charming activities like mass executions, floggings for minor trivial offences, cutting off of hands of thieves for stealing. This is the kind of regime. Crucifixion, yes, that's a charming device. The Romans used to do that a long time ago. The Saudis are doing it today. And of course, the agents in Syria, because they're behind the mad dogs, the jihadi monsters in Syria are doing the same things. Torturing, killing people, whipping people, raping young girls and so on and so forth. Crucifying all with the active support of these Wahabi gangsters exported, deliberately exported by Saudi Arabia. That's the kind of company which Donald Trump and Theresa May delight in keeping. Of course, there's a principle involved. Is there not? Of course, Trump announced this great principle. What's the great principle? Which attracts them to Saudi Arabia, to Riyadh, as flies are attracted by, I could say an unpleasant word, attracted by a honeypot, shall we say. Yes, a honeypot would be more appropriate. What's the principle? Well, Mr Trump said it. In front of all the television cameras, didn't he say it? What's the principle? Not democracy, not religion. Oh no, not peace, nothing like that. Nothing so mundane as that. It's money, my friends. Money, money, money, yes. A big contract. 100 billion was it? Yes, I think it was. 100 billion dollars worth of arms, an arms deal. Wonderful. So more bombs will rain down on the defenseless people of the Yemen. And of course, the money will be made by American arms manufacturers and British and French and German arms manufacturers. That's a wonderful symbiosis, which really sums up, completely sums up, accurately sums up the real nature of Western civilization, Western democracy, Western values, Western humanitarianism. There you have it in a nutshell. By the way, the same Trump that tried to exclude Muslims from America. Oh, not Saudis, however. Saudis were mysteriously excluded as if they weren't part of the Muslim world. They're not included in this. But he wanted to ban.  Now it's the same. Trump stands up in front of all these gangsters.  Not just the Saudis, of course, the biggest monsters of all. And praises, oh, it's good, it's monster. Islam is OK. We're all friends. We're all against terrorism. Of course, your tax. Iran. As if Iran was responsible for these monsters, jihadi monsters running amok in Syria and Iraq, which Trump says, says anyway that he's going to fight against. I don't see much evidence of it. He's mainly interested in fighting Iran and bombing Iranian militia, which he did the other day in Syria. So the whole thing, frankly, is a repulsive spectacle which would fill any normal mortal with a sense of absolute disgust from start to finish. But of course, Mr Trump's holiday is not finished, is it? He's now taken to play the first time. Imagine it. Imagine. That's a real gesture of peace, isn't it? The first time that a direct fight was staged from Saudi Arabia to where? To Israel, of course. That other bastion of human rights and religious rectitude and so on and so forth. And there, of course, he had an even more enthusiastic welcome, if that were possible, from Netanyahu, BB, as he called him.  I don't know how many miles that carpet extended for. It seemed a pretty long one to me, with the military band, with the feasting, with the welcome that one would expect as a normal American tourist visiting a country in the Middle East. Oh, yes. And of course, in present, BB era, Netanyahu, I actually said, we love you. Of course, why shouldn't they love him? When he's leaning over backwards to support the monstrous actions of the Israeli gang in Palestine.  But no, this is a monstrous charade. I was watching the other day Al Jazeera's coverage, the person responsible for the Palestinian coverage of Algeria. He's actually said to the cameras, he's, look, all this talk about peace. Oh, yes, he's going to solve the Arab Israeli conflict, the Palestinian conflict. He's going to solve all this, the Palestinian problem. How he's going to solve it, we don't really know. But he assures us anyway that he is going to solve it, without any bother whatsoever. Of course, exactly the same promises were made in the past by other American presence, by Bill Clinton, by Obama, by Reagan, but they all made the same, exactly the same speech. So what's changed? Well, nothing whatsoever. The spokesman for Al Jazeera, I thought, put it rather well. He said, this speech of Trump concerning solving the Palestinian problem is so empty of content that it does not really admit of any political analysis. It can't be analyzed because it's nothing to analyze. It is a PR stunt. Yes, and that's just what it is. That's typical of Trump, isn't it, you know? This TV celebrity, which has become now the president of the most powerful country on earth. Beware of TV celebrities, my friends.  It's going to be said. Yes, PR, and that's all this is. All this is. This entire charade, this pantomine, this circus of Trump's visit to the Middle East, of course, it has no content whatsoever except one thing. And that is a desperate attempt to prop up Trump's position in America itself. In relation to that, by the way, I mean, I don't know. I don't know who's worse. Trump or the other gang, the Democrats, the so-called Democrats, the so-called liberals. I've grown to detest the liberals, the so-called liberals, more every day that I see them in action. You know, I ask myself very often, what would have happened, for instance, if Bernie Sanders could have won the election, if he'd have had the courage of his convictions, he could have won. If he hadn't been bumped by Hillary Clinton in the most monstrous fashion, by the way, they're on about wiki-wiki leaks and Russian interference in elections. It wasn't the Russians that determined the elections in the election. That's just utter nonsense. How anyone in the right mind, you've got to be feeble-minded to believe this stuff about the Russians, the Russians, the Russians. It seems now that if you've got bad weather, it's caused by the Russians.  It's monstrous nonsense. Actually, it was on Russia today, the interview, actually, a former editor or a spokesman of the Spectator magazine, which is a right-wing conservative magazine, by the way, and he was questioning about this business of Russian interference in the American elections. He says, look, this is all nonsense. It's quite right. It is nonsense. And what it shows, the only thing it shows to me is this, the stupidity of the American Democrats who to this day have not understood why Trump won the election. That's a fact. The main reason he won the election is simple, that the American people in general are fed up of both the Republicans and the Democrats. And Trump apparently suggested, represented something new. That's all. Which he doesn't, of course. He doesn't, as they will soon find out. But nevertheless, Bernie Sanders also got considerable support and could have won, except that he was deliberately removed and excluded by undemocratic means, by dirty means, by Hillary Clinton and the gang that is in charge of the Democrat Party. And this was revealed in WikiLeaks. Now, what astonishes me is this. All this fuss about the Russians were responsible for the leaks. Well, I don't know if they were or they weren't. But one thing is clear. Nobody now is talking about the content of these emails, the content of the stuff that was, and that's the purpose of it.  That's a fact. And of Hillary Clinton. That's a simple fact. Nobody talks about that anymore. Oh, it's the Russians, the Russians, you know. There was a spokesman from WikiLeaks who now is in hiding in Brazil, because if he was here, he'd be arrested. In Democratic Britain, he'd be arrested. And in jail.  That shows the vindictiveness and the cruelty of the Western so-called democracies. America and Britain, if it comes to that. Yes, this spokesman, speaking from Brazil, he said the following in relation to this business of the Russians. He said, now look, if emails or whatever information is put on my desk, I don't ask where it comes from. What I ask is two questions. A, is it true? And B, is it in the public interest to publish? And if the answer is affirmative on both those questions, then of course I will publish. And they did publish. So did the Washington Post, another thing. Publish this stuff in relation to Hillary Clinton. Now it's all been forgotten. Never mind about the content. It's the Russians, the Russians. By the way, there isn't a shred of evidence. Not a shred of evidence that the Russians were behind this. But even if they were, what difference does it make, it's the actual content of the thing that one has to look at. No, no, they've ganged up on, the whole of the establishment has ganged up on Trump because he's a maverick, because he can't be trusted to do as he's told, as Hillary Clinton undoubtedly. She's an agent. She's a direct puppet of Wall Street. She can be relied upon. Trump cannot. That's where they ganged up on him in the way that they have, including all of the intelligence services and the FBI and so on. So what position should we take in relation to this conflict? Well, it's an interesting conflict. It's an unprecedented conflict. I can't think of anything like this in history. Where an elected president is in conflict with all of the intelligence services and with the FBI and so on, and all of the media who've ganged up on him in quite a monstrous way as a matter of fact, irrespective of what you think of Trump. The way they've conducted themselves is completely monstrous. There is not a shred of evidence for this, but they've built a massive case in order to discredit him and, if possible, get rid of him. I don't know that they can get rid of him very easily because it's not simple. In order to impeach him, are they shouting and bawling about an impeachment? That's nonsense. They can't impeach him.  They've got a majority. They can't impeach him. But they're doing their damnedest to do so. There's a lesson here, you see. There's an importance. First of all, what side do we take? It's snakes against crocodiles, isn't it? Poisonous snakes against crocodiles. We don't take any side of this. We watch with some degree of pleasure. I must confess with some degree of amusement. We watch this open public conflict, an open split in the ruling class of the United States of America. That itself, by the way, is a forerunner and a warning of a profound social and political crisis in America, which is preparing the way for revolutionary developments in the future. You better not doubt this because it's a fact. No, we can't support either side, obviously, in this, but we should use this to explain to American workers and to explain to the young people in America in particular the rottenness of so-called, the falsity of so-called democracy in the United States, which is just run by a gang, run by Wall Street, by bankers and by capitalists. That's the point. The reason they want to get rid of it, they don't like Trump.  They like to control people. And therefore the whole thing is a charade, is a circus, which shows the complete hollowness of so-called democracy, which they always talk about, democracy this, democracy that. Well, the rotten nature of so-called bourgeois democracy is there for all to see now. So please take note and please draw all the necessary conclusions.


My name is Yoshi.  So before I start my speech, I just want to understand who are the audience. So please raise your hand if you are working for some corporations or companies now. All right, please raise your hand if you are running companies like SME or like startup companies. Good. And please raise your hand if you want to start some your own business or startup company or thinking something. All right, great. So in my presentation, I actually don't have any takeaway today.  Good. Oops.  So just quick intro. I am a global business leader and a marketer. So I previously worked in kind of top Japanese corporation in Tokyo and I moved to Singapore in 2011 to join PNG and I was doing global marketing. So my basic strength is in the marketing and also internet businesses. And in 2013, when I was age 33, I wanted to start something new because I actually tried my startup in age of 25. It didn't work well. And I also did lots of business incubation in a couple of corporations. So at age 33, I learned like how to expand the business globally with multinational background teams. So in terms of ability or skill set, I had a confident that I could do something. And then I wanted to challenge it. But it's very, very scary because as you can see, I have some good job. I mean I earn certain money. And my social status was also very good. But I need to put everything, I need to bet everything on myself into something maybe resulting in nothing, right? So I was super, super scary. But I still remember the one day in November 2013, I was watching a video that I loved very much. Stephen Jobs, the Stanford commencement speech. So he said that if you believe in something, you should do. So I was super scary. But actually I was crying when I decided to start my startup. But I wanted to fight with the fairness and then decided to leave the company. Then my journey started. So in January 2014, I started a startup called Job Forward, which is an online based recruiting platform utilizing the social media to connect with the people. Because we know the best talent around us, right? So by using the power of social media, I thought we can create something more powerful, recruiting platform, probably the more powerful than like Monster or Job Street. And probably by utilizing multiple social media, it could be more powerful than LinkedIn. That was the initial concept. The journey was certainly going well. So in April 2014, we actually won the startup competition called Echelon in Singapore. And then we were selected top 62 startup company among 400 company from around Asia. So we had some recognition and the idea was certainly accepted by like audiences as well. And then in August 2014, we actually got the funding from a venture capital institute called Coined Venture Partners, a couple of hundred, a couple of hundred thousand bucks, which is good numbers to start the journey. So we expanded our teams and did lots of experiment to make the concept happen. And we realized that through the journey, we realized that probably the environment of the social network may not suit for the original idea. So we tested in eight markets with some prototype model. And then we found that Indonesia has the best fit for our idea. So we quickly shifted our market, core market from Singapore to Indonesia. I actually physically moved to Indonesia about eight months in 2015. And we hired the sales team, customer support team, and then we maximized all of the marketing activities. But it didn't work. So we tested a lot of methodologies, growth hacking techniques, and then utilizing lots of sales strategies. But the basic concept is basically the base business model didn't work. We struggled to acquire the talent through social traffic. That's why it's difficult to compete with competitors like Job Street, Job TV. They have strong pricing strategy and sales strategy, which I didn't recognize before I started. And by considering this situation, the capital strategy also very tough because to compete with the competitors, I need to convince the following investors to believe us and then put on us the million dollars. So through the experience, through the experiment in 2015, I realized that this model doesn't work. And I also didn't have the confidence to convince the coming investors to believe on us. Sorry, we're closed. So the end of November of last year, it was a very, very tough decision.  So I tried to maintain my core teams because the idea didn't work. But I believe in probably our core team member has certain capability to make the next challenge. But it's also tough to maintain the basic members to continuously picking up some project or consulting jobs. So I also decided to release all team members by end of, I mean, actually yesterday. That's why it's very life. It was very pretty decision, very tough decision. But I decided to going back to nothing. So this is failure. I have lost a small saving of my money that I have earned in my corporate job. I have almost zero savings at this moment. I have no hours, no recognition, no success. Just a real entrepreneur who made some challenges but didn't success. This is my mind. It's very chaotic. I lost everything. I had a strong mission of myself, becoming a global business leader, to contribute eliminating the world problems. That's the vision that I have in the past 10 or 12 years. But actually I'm losing now. I don't understand why I was pursuing that vision. I have had the strong vision for 12 years but somehow it disappeared from my brain. I don't know, I don't feel anything from this world. It's very strange. So I'm losing my mission. I don't understand what the definition of success probably depends on you. I don't have my vision. I can't imagine my future. And yeah, what the greatness is. So it's, my brain is crushed, very chaotic and confused. This is my current brain. But imagine that if Elon Musk or Steve Jobs asked me or if I say I had to make some failure to Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, probably they may laugh. I usually think this is a failure. It isn't. If we ask Steve Jobs or Elon Musk because it's so tiny. So I even think that I might make some failure or mistake because my challenge was so small compared to these great guys. So I'm currently thinking about what I should do in my future or in my next couple of years. So I'm thinking about the universe. I'm thinking about the world. I'm thinking about my society, community, my family, and myself. What I can do? What I should do? I let the book, the secret for my first time. Probably I should apply the law of attraction, maybe. Or I started to do some small meditation. Yeah, I'm Japanese. I have some zen mentality. But I've never tried meditation seriously. But it may help. Of course, the money is important in certain amount. I mean, in certain extent.  And also, I'm thinking about if I should commit into the startup or another small business or probably big cooperation because startup, like getting some big money, becoming like Mark Zuckerberg, is not a single success or happiness for you, right? So very chaotic. I'm starting from scratch. Or probably I may overwrite myself to version 2, 2.0 of Yoshi or something. But I don't have answer at this moment. That's why I said I don't have any takeaway from my speech. But I'm just showing how the chaotic or how the emotion of the fact-up entrepreneur is. But when I created this slide last night, I came up with one message for me. So I'm showing the world to the end of my speech.  Thank you. Questions for Yoshi. Hi. It's a two-part question. First is that could you share a bit of when did you realize that okay, it's time for me to close off to give up. And the second question is what, with the benefit of hindsight, do you think that you should have given up 30 years? The first question was coming from, I mean, it's coming from very reality. We're running out of cash. So we couldn't sustain the team like 10 months. So at the time, I realized that we have the money to sustain the team for four months. I decided to not shut down the company, but give up the idea and then shrink the team. So the coming from external pressure. Just for your information, I tried to raise the kind of bridge, it's sort of called the bridge funding to a couple of months. But I realized that our traction isn't strong enough. So I also gave up the idea, the direction to get additional funding. So the first question comes from the cash limitation. Second question, it's actually tough to say that because we conclude that the idea didn't work after we did, so we actually raised a couple of hypotheses. If they are true, the model works. So within the time, we tried a couple of approaches to validate the question is yes or no. So at the end of November, we found that most of the questions and hypotheses say no. So we decided to give up. So in this sense, if I stick with the first big point, if the social network benefit us to make a traffic, and then if I stick with the first, if the question was actually no, at the very beginning stage, and then if I could decide my decision, okay, I'll give you all idea at that moment, maybe the answer was true, but it's actually very tough to stick with a single question to bet on everything. And go back to 2004, we should embark on this project. And yes, what would you do different? If no, final. I'm a person who usually didn't look back myself because I believe that I made the best decision, I have made the best decision that I could do at that moment, but it doesn't answer your question. So let's say it's the condition that I know that everything's future, every future that happens in the time in 2014, then no, obviously no, because I know the project will fail, right? Probably I do Uber in Singapore, or Grab Taxi. I started from Singapore because I stayed here for like three years already, and I had network, and then starting companies in Singapore is much easier compared to Singapore. So I took Singapore as a bet market, like a test market. But from the beginning, I aim to expand to across the Southeast Asia regions. Because that's getting funding in the middle of that being an important part of your decision to move forward or not. So looking back, I guess, do you think it would have been possible to figure out if your model worked without that funding on a smaller scale trying to first build an audience? Or do you think that figuring out whether or not the model worked would not have been possible without some funding? Because I guess it's going to that question when you're in a new company, do you get funding to try to scale it or build it out to figure out if it works? Or are there so many ways to try to do it before you hire people and take investors' money and try to move forward, but then figure out if it works? To clarify, when we say we hire the teams, meaning it's a very minimal team, and the monthly burn rate was very reasonable to proceed with journey. And we have talked with the investment, like a spending plan, including investors. So the plan was all agreed with every stakeholder. And the question was if I have more money, I had a more chance to validate my ideas, right? Opposite. Your idea without the money.  The money was necessary because our plan was on kind of typical start-up, start-up journey, which means that we pursue to continue the equity funding to increase the corporate values, which means that we give up all the short income, but seek the scalability without earning any money. So the truth is in the past two years, we didn't earn any single money, but we bet on the time and effort to seek out or mine the golden ideas. So, yeah, if we didn't have the money, the time to mine the idea will become like probably four times five times longer. Same question. I have a question. How was it for you to tell your investor that you had to go shop? The communication was very smooth because... On a free basis, I communicated all my business plan and the progress to the investors. And as I said, we all have the hypothesis, if this is true, it works. If this is untruth, it doesn't work. So we communicate those, the measurement and benchmark with numbers. So when I decided to shut down, the investor was, yeah, with this result, yeah, the decision was necessary. Thank you very much.


Hey everybody, it's Brian and welcome to the 111th Qt tutorial with C++ and GUI programming. We are continuing our series on zip files and Qt. If you're just tuning in, go ahead and watch video 110 where I kind of explained, you know, the zip file format a little bit and some of the research that I've done, this really awesome blog I found, some little gotchas about using Qt with zip, and the libraries we're going to be using. Q UA zip, is it Q UA zip or QA zip? I don't know, I keep going back and forth. And the trustee is Zlib. Alright, so today what we're going to be doing is actually building Zlib and building Q UA zip or QA zip. Somebody tell me how you actually pronounce that. Some of these names are kind of cool, but so before we really begin, somebody's probably going to ask, why are you using Zlib? Why are you using Q UA zip? Well, we're using Zlib because it's free, it's open source, and it's one of the better libraries out there. A lot of programs actually use this under the hood, they just don't tell you. We're using Q UA zip or QA zip because it's a wrapper around Zlib. Now when I say a wrapper, what does that mean? It means somebody went out, I shouldn't say somebody, this gentleman went out, and he wrote the code to actually wrap around that Zlib library so you don't have to interact with pointers or screw around with C code or any of that nonsense. You just deal with Q to objects. Simple, easy to use. Alright, well if it was that easy, these tutorials wouldn't exist. That being said, let's get right to the heart of the matter here. Alright, if you've been following along, you should have a directory structure similar to this where you have a Libs folder, an original folder which just contains files we're going to compress in future tutorials, and three or actually two zip files I should say. You're going to have the Q UA zip source and the Zlib source. Now remember, if you're on Windows, you can download the pre-compiled DLL. He made your life a little easier. If you're not on Windows, we're going to have to do some like little extra legwork. Man, cannot talk today. And this is the actual source code for Zlib. So all we're going to do is we're just going to extract. And I'm going to extract. Let's see, where is it? This guy. So now you should have four folders. Two of which, one is the QA zip and one is Zlib. The first thing we need to do, if you're on not Windows, aka Mac, Unix, Linux, BSD, one of those derivatives, we need to actually build Zlib. Now if you're on Windows, your life's a little easier. You can just go in and take Zlib 1 DLL, put it in this lib folder, take Zlib DLL dot lib and Zlib dot def and also put those in the lib folder. Go back, take the include files, Zlib H and Z config and throw those in Q UA zip, which we're going to do also for Linux. So just follow along. All right. So we're going to copy this. We're going to bring open the trustee command prompt here. And if you're following along, this is only if you are not on Windows. You will need to compile Zlib yourself. If you're on Windows and you just feel like doing it, you can go ahead and give it a shot. We're going to change directory into the Zlib directory. Going to configure. Now if you see anything other than this, like if you see access denied or something like that, make sure that config file is actually writable. I should say this guy right here, not writable. Sorry executable. If it's not executable, you're going to get an error message. All right. Now that we've configured it, we just simply type make and it'll start grinding away doing its thing. All right, it's done. Now, if you do not get to this point, if you get some horrendous error and it just crashes and burns, well, you're going to need to figure that out. I'm probably going to get a metric ton of email saying, hey, Zlib wouldn't compile, blah, blah, blah. Unfortunately, I can't really help you out with that. It's going to be something specific to your operating system. Maybe you've got a file you don't have access to or a crop file you need to redownload the zip, but it's really simple. You just do configure and then you do make and it builds it. Once it's built, you can sort by type and you see all these lovely objects out here. Now, take Zlib, or I'm sorry, libz.a and then grab these SO files. Copy those. Put them in your lib folder like I've done here. See, you just paste and we're just going to replace, replace, and replace. So what are these? Well, a .so is very similar to a DLL in Windows. A .so.1 I think is very similar to a definition file and a .a, that's what you're actually going to be linking to. Now, if you're going to be doing the Windows version, let's actually just extract this here. There's our DLL. The DLL's already compiled, so we're going to grab that, throw that in here. I'm going to actually make a subfolder called Windows. So there's your DLL. And then you're going to need the library files, these guys. Whoops. So you will have Zlib, I'm sorry, Zdll.lib, Clib.def, and Zlib1.dll. That's for your Windows. If you're in Linux, you're going to have these guys. The libz.a, libz.so, libz.so.1. I shouldn't say if you're in Linux, even if you're in not Windows. This includes Mac, Unix, blah, blah, blah. All right. Now that we've got all that, let me do some little housekeeping here. What we're going to do is actually open up QUA-zip and play around with that. We're going to compile that. So let's go File. Actually, I've already got it in here. Configure Project. Now I'm only opening QUA-zip, meaning if you go in here, you're going to see there is a project file here, which is just quite simply a template sub-durs, meaning it just has directories in there. And it's quite literally just opening up these two directories. The QZ test has a bunch of test functionalities in there. I should say test functions. I did not get these to work out of the box. They did not compile. There's an incompatibility between the version he wrote for Qt and the version I'm writing for Qt. I suspect he did 4.7. I'm doing 5.2. Yeah, I could not get them to work. So, without further ado, you just open this up. Here's the actual source, but we're going to look at it in Q. One thing you need to do, let's back out here. Let's go into Zlib. And you need to grab Zlib.h and Zconf.c. You need to do that for any operating system you're on. You need to copy these into the QAZip folder. That way we can actually chit chat with Zlib. You notice how they're not in the headers? So, we need to add existing files. Now they're in there. This is the header for Zlib. This is the actual C header. This is what he's interacting with. All right? And all these other headers are for QAZip. And there's the source for QAZip. And you can go in here. And if you wanted to browse around and read it and it gets quite confusing if you're not an expert in Zip files. But we want something simple, easy to use. Now, this comes with a very big disclaimer. This may compile on some operating systems as we have it right now. It may not on others. We're going to fix that. So, what we're going to do is we're going to say enter. And we're going to give it the actual path to our libraries here. We're going to say include path. Ooh, we're already spotted in there. Here we go. And then we should say unix. What we're doing here is making a conditional saying if we're on unix, do this. And I'm going to explain this here in a second. I just want to type it out. And then we're going to copy this because I'm a huge fan of copy and paste. And we're going to say Zdll. Whoops. It came up called dll today. Save that. Wait for it to do its evaluating and parsing. If you don't see this green run button, then you've done something wrong. If that's grayed out, that means it can't parse it correctly now. Let's explain what we've done here. We're saying we're making a variable here called libdir. And we're giving the path to our libraries right here. This is where if you're in Windows, you're going to have your dll and your a file and your def file on Linux, unix, et cetera.  We're including that. We're adding it to the include path, telling Qt to go ahead and search that path. Then we're using that variable. That's how you use a variable. You use dollar sign, dollar sign. And then what are those called again? They're not parentheses. I forget. Anyways, you know what it is. Then we have conditional. If we're on unix, include that library. Now what we're saying here is the lib plus equals, meaning we're saying to the libraries add and then the capital L dash capital L is the path. The dash lowercase L is the actual library name. You could do the just full path, but it's easier if you do this. If we're on Windows, same deal, but we're including zdll. All right. Now if we try to compile this, this may work. It may not. We're going to tweak around with it a little bit. That's the official term. So we're going to rebuild it. And if you're so inclined, you can watch the compile output. Sometimes it's just hypnotizing to watch that and it built. If you run into a problem, I will warn you right now. Try deleting that. If you're not on Windows, if you are on Windows, you're going to need to actually link to the Zlib library right here using that code. If you're on Mac, unix, et cetera, et cetera, it may work. It may not. Just give it a good rebuild just in case. Tick tock, tick tock. All right. Two warnings. No issues. We're golden.  That means it can actually find the DLL. If you get a symbol redefined or some error message like that, that means try deleting this chunk right here if you're not in Windows. Because what is happening is he's actually linking directly to Qt. And we're saying no, link directly to Zlib. And sometimes there'll be a conflict there. So those are some gotchas you need to be aware of. All right. Now if we go out here and to our build directory, you should see there's our lovely. If you're on Windows, you're going to see a DLL. Libqazip. And either SO for system object or DLL if you're in Windows. That's all for this tutorial. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this educational entertaining. And stay tuned because we're going to be working with these in future tutorials.


There is no more talking to be done.  Oh My god, it feels different. It's different. It hits different when it's race day.  It's 6 30 in the morning guys. I've just woken up. I've just had a quick shower I've just had a quick coffee and Well the plan is to Yeah, this is my true color guys, this is my true color not gonna lie so What I'm gonna do now is is pack up my hotel room. I'm gonna have a second coffee I'm gonna Reduce my anxiety because yesterday guys. I'm sorry. I actually um, I didn't even finish the video clip off I didn't finish the vlog the last thing you saw of me was going to get some lunch I came back here ate the lunch before I even got the camera out and Then to be honest man, I struggled with extreme anxiety yesterday I don't know if any of you guys out there that are getting ready for your first marathons have experienced that But that only came on last night. That's it It did not come on before that and that is simply because the fact that I know I realized That I had literally one more sleep and I needed to make it a good one which I have and I'm happy about that so As far as fueling up yesterday, I ate two burgers. I ate a bowl of Oats I ate one banana. I ate a bowl of rice with baked beans and I had a quite a bit of water so that is my fueling that is my carbohydrate sources for this race I'm not gonna take in any carbohydrates now. I'm gonna stick to my my guns stick to my my Stick to my ways of doing things which is basically fuel up the night before get up make sure you go to the toilet which has been done a Little bit too much information, but it's fucking important if you're gonna go around 40 case have my coffee have some water and We'll see how we're feeling so It's it's nearly 6 30 the race begins at 8 20 The first shuttle bus leaves Queenstown at 6 45 the last shuttle bus leaves Queenstown at 7 25 so at this very moment. I have around about an hour Which includes a 15 to 20 minute drive into Queenstown so at this very moment I've got 40 minutes until the last shuttle bus leaves including my drive there So I think I've got you know a good 20 minutes to get ready and get out of the house And that's what we're gonna do 20 minutes no stress Get everything packed up nicely because after today. I'm actually not gonna have a bed. I'm not gonna have any accommodation I'm gonna be sleeping in my van tonight wherever that may be and that's that's exciting But it's quite daunting and at the end of the day. I've got money. So if I do need somewhere to stay I can pay for it Okay, guys, here we go November the 21st 6 30 in the morning Welcome back to my channel Welcome to the video series seven days out from my very first marathon today is D day I'm about to run. I'm guys. I'm about to run 16 kilometers further. God my hands are shaking.  I just need to finish I want to finish not under four hours anymore because I did suss out some of the course yesterday and it is quite hilly My goal my goal guys. I'm gonna say it right now is to finish The 2020 Queenstown marathon in five hours or under. I've said it now. That's my goal. I gotta show you this so This is my lumber 1702 fitting you could say MKP singlet then I'm gonna stick That on the front of with my four green safety pins. I am wearing my ends that I use shorts and I'm wearing My favorite I've got to say my favorite thermal long sleeve so We've got shorts on the bottom. We've got a long sleeve top on the on the top I do have to remember to put sunscreen on But this is gonna make sure that I don't burn my my body or my arms or my shoulders or anything like that Final decision, which I honestly had severe anxiety about last night. In fact, the one thing I cannot fucking Decide whether to do or not is to use my music to take my music with me to take my headphones I actually had to confirm last night because I started looking at a few marathons and I saw race rules and some race rules said they actually can't use headphones due to you know Safety reasons and I thought about it for a while and it's true. If your headphones are too high You cannot hear anything. You've got no no awareness of your surroundings So so in a race like a marathon you could definitely see why headphones are probably not the best thing But I am gonna take them down anyway, so Holy shit, I'm running out of time. I've got to get my number on And actually I'll show you this one thing too This is pretty cool. So This is on the back of the number which is some form of barcode. It's a timing chip timing chip So for anyone following along at home, I know this is going to be after the fact But you could actually follow along my race my whole race They've got apps for these things now. They're absolutely epic. Anyways guys. I'll see you at the start line Right guys Guys Slight change of plan.   They call this the most beautiful Marathon in the world and it most probably is so guys. I'm gonna put my camera down now I'll pick you back up when we finish And I'm gonna let you guys know It's 747 in the morning November the 21st. I've done 1,058 steps and I've burnt 749 calories. So let's see. Let's see what those numbers are like at the end of this race We're looking forward to this for a long time this last week has been enjoyable I hope you guys have enjoyed it as much as I have and I'll see you guys at the end Let's do this Right you guys What is going on welcome back welcome back to a another clip not another video This is the day. This is the race day video man race day vlog. We did it. Okay, as you can see still got my number on But I'm happy to say regardless of what the time is because I don't actually know what the time was yet. I'll check that But regardless of the time I did finish I Got myself a medal and I'm proud of myself I had to push through man.  I got hit with the worst cramps. I've ever had in my life And I spent the last 12 kilometers of the race Trying to push through that I'll tell you right now the most frustrating thing One of the most frustrating things I've ever felt actually was on that race that very race the fact that my lungs and My legs felt fine to continue running even after three hours of it But the cramp did not allow me to do that.   It was actually embarrassing And at the end of the day, I walked for five kilometers Because I thought that I couldn't push through Then I went through another aid station. I took in some electrolytes. I took in some more water and I tried to test the cramp Over the last over the last seven k's of the race. I tried to test it I did manage to you know, get the feet taken over If the cramp came on I honestly just pushed through I pushed through the pain guys I pushed through the risk of injury because I wanted to finish and I wanted to finish in under five hours And I think we fucking did that so I Can see my car now, thankfully And See there you go, that's what it's all about man. That is what it's all about.  It's been awesome, man. It has been absolutely awesome This is exactly where I left you guys before we started At at about 8 10 a.m. This morning. It's now 3 o'clock. I've done 50,000 601 steps I've burnt six thousand calories It's been quite the day, but it's been an enjoyable day So I'm gonna put the camera away and I'll see you guys at the car Where I charge my phone for one and check on the app Check on the marathon app exactly what my time was because because I'll tell you what guys if If with all those problems I had with the cramp.  I need to push.   I'll tell you what happened Okay, so we started from like 800 meters in there came all the way out around this corner and down here and That's my car just there so five minutes into the race I Was passing my own car that I just parked and I thought that was quite a buzzy thought and then Look, I don't know if you guys watched yesterday's video Where I tried to suss out the course? It's not flat It's not flat whatsoever. I Surprised myself with how I motored up some hills the hills were subtle in fact. I asked a very experienced marathon runner How would you describe those hills that we did and? She said subtle in a word, so we had some subtle inclines Which I fucking killed until that 30 kilometer mark, so Anyways guys, we're back at the van three o'clock in the afternoon 6,000 calories burnt and Think it's just time to sit down and reflect sit down and relax get this time and I'm gonna share my time with you guys and And that'll be it for today's video my very first marathon What an experience All right, oh I don't know where my car charger is in fact, I don't think I bought it with me, so I can't charge my phone Which is kind of annoying But I've just laid down here in my van and Well, it's not bad It's really not You know What do we need in life not much not much at all just a few goals a few challenges to keep us keep us busy and Family friends and there really is only one one thing missing from my life right now guys one thing That I know is missing it's been missing for a long time and that is a loving partner That is a loving supporting partner that that is on my level on my vibe and We compliment each other the last few years, you know I've thought it's gonna happen, but it just hasn't for whatever reason I've got my two girls in Australia, but I'm not with the mother. I'm single and all these challenges All these things that I achieve, you know, they're all good, but only to a certain extent, you know Only to a certain extent and I'll say that again Because when you've got a partner to share things with the highs are doubled and The lows are halved right so happiness is doubled and grief is halved With a real supportive partner and to be honest guys, I think I'm talking shit now I feel like I should probably put the camera down and see you guys Whenever I see you because I can't look my phone right now, so I don't know exactly what the time was yet But when I do I'll let you guys know okay. Bye I think I've I think I've just I think I've just Just realized what's what I've actually just done Fucking random marathon today The only time man the only time throughout the whole entire race that I ever actually got out of breath Was when I jacked my own heart rate up by accident because I started crying I got really emotional at certain times throughout that race And I'm sure a lot of these races do if I've got reasons that they're racing for and when they're reminded of that For whatever reason throughout the race, you know these tears come and my reason for racing guys was for my kids My two children and for a friend of mine that passed away earlier this year Alex Payne He was 34 years of age. He passed away due to brain cancer And he was always one of the biggest supporters of me and everything I did everything I did Whether it was bodybuilding rugby Major key physiques YouTube He was on my vibe man, and he lost his life far too early And I haven't had to deal with friends of one losing their lives Until Alex did he's the only one that I've I've lost And he was a great friend, and I dedicated this run my very first marathon to Alex I Hope you're proud up there, mate Alright last thing. I'm showing you a promise, but have a look at this.  It was it was pretty terrible. What's this one like? Oh? No, I've just gone and done it. I've just gone.  I actually can't move Not sure what's happened I've lost the ability to stand Guys you know what you know what I thought one of the thought Just why I'm lying here one other thought was I wish this was called the major key physics Queenstown marathon Just a thought That is one That is one shredded fucking car for give I'll give myself that I will give myself that That's one shredded car And that is one cramping car I don't actually want to move. I really don't want to move because this is what I'm surrounded with Like I could I literally well I could I mean effectively I could If I wanted to I could camp right here, but I'm not going to This is real as it gets man. Mm-hmm as real as it gets I'm on my way home. I decided to jet out of Queenstown no pun intended as there are lots of jet boats around Queenstown decided to leave I'm going to drive back to Christchurch today. There's plenty of daylight. So, you know, if it was a couple hours later I probably would have stayed in Queenstown for one more night, but Yeah, it's all good. I've driven long distances Many times before and I do feel capable even though I've run a marathon this morning But I I've I've shed a tear. I have shed a tear I've just put up my post on Instagram and Facebook about the race and You know, thank God.   I stopped on the way here. Okay, so basically I looked at my time. I Ran just under five hours.  So I'm stoked with that What can I say? What can I say? It's been a journey. It's been a journey the last week It's only been seven days since I started this vlog series. It seems crazy But for anyone who has followed along the whole entire thing for anyone who is looking at doing their first marathon For anyone that competed in this marathon for anyone that's competed in any marathons in the past for anyone That's one for anyone that wants to Stick around this community for anyone that wants to stick around my channel for any length of time, please do I urge you to subscribe There's always new content on this channel If you didn't notice I'm wearing major-key physics mkp.    It's an internal thing It's a challenge and I thrive on challenges and we just did another one I ran my very first marathon in just under five hours and I'm proud of myself. I'm gonna take you inside Because I'm not I'm still not sure what the capabilities of the Microphone are on this Canon g7x mark 3 that I just got but Guys, I'm gonna go now. Honestly. I don't know what I don't know how long this this vlog is gonna be these last few days You know, I've definitely filmed a lot. I felt you know, I felt inspired to film and it's a good feeling. It really is I Don't know what the next challenge is gonna be but I feel like it's gonna be around something to do with martial arts and Just leave it with me. I'll let you guys know as soon as I do Peace out guys. Thank you so much for all your support. This was Jacob McDonald signing out from just outside Cromwell in the South Island of New Zealand Peace out guys.


We have a little time for questions. I'm going to start with one question. I have like one course of cognitive neuroscience, and my recollections of it are wobbly. But I do remember reading Legofren Johnson and Metaphors We Live By, and it being pointed out to me in class over and over that it would seem, I'm not sure if we know this yet, but it would seem that abstract thought is in fact using the same parts of the brain and the same systems, partly of the brain, as physical motion. So these are also in some, probably on an evolutionary level, these are somehow connected. So the idea of grasping a thought and a thing do have a physical reality in our minds. Am I right about this so far? Yeah, I mean, Legofren Johnson, the core idea is that we understand complicated abstract stuff like love through physical metaphors. Like love is a journey, is one example. And then the language, like, look how far we have come together, our ways separate here, and so on. That's the thing, and yeah, we do that. And when I said before, when I was presenting you, I realized I did this before, because before isn't the past, right? So I think this is, then it seems that this is something that fundamentally might be quite cultural as well, but some bits of this are seem to be connected to our physical bodies. So okay, that's the baseline for what happens now, which is I'm going to ask one question and then you're going to ask one questions. So my question is, are the right people working on the problems together? Here we have somebody with a medical and physical background, we have an engineer and, like, I don't even know what this is called that you do now, interaction researcher. So are there contexts where the three of you would be solving the same problems? And if not, why not? We are working in teams. These kinds of systems aren't built by one person. This is why you need something like the bits. You need to come together and share the material, because you need understanding of the human body. You need cognitive understanding. You need understanding of the side and engineering. So no one is really building anything like this on their own. Do you feel that you have access in your daily jobs to everything you, to all the knowledge that you need? No. Well, what helps is maybe a prototype, because a prototype is something you can take to somebody who is an expert in the hand, for example, and, hey, what does it work like this and so on? So that's, I think a prototype is a great communication object between disciplines. It would be really interesting to take your little device into the fMRI camera with the person who is using it, if it would be possible, because of the magnetic fields and all that. Interesting. Okay, let's have some questions or reactions from the room. If your reaction is not a question, please keep it brief. We have all of, like, at least three minutes to do this, so you can't be all too Scandinavian about it. You really do have to spit it out. Is it possible that you have no questions at all? Then I'm going to say, when you were listening to each other, did you have any immediate reactions? Would you like to ask each other something? Sorry for putting you on the spot like this. No, but we connect so, so well. It's like, you need that understanding of the hand being in the stump in order to build something for it and where to connect and how to connect, then you need to understand what materials to use and so it connects so, so well. And of course, a forum like this is excellent to meet people and to hear about people who is working with the technologies that we don't have access to in the hospital. Of course, we work together with the Technical University in Lund and the Cognitive Department at Lund University, but also the way things work when you apply for fundings and things like that are not extremely flexible. Could be better. That was an incredibly polite way of saying that that if you do cross-disciplinary research, it needs to be incredibly fashionable and buzzword-filled to be funded. I think you should use the right words. That's a question of the day. Fantastic. There's a microphone as well. Hi, so for the three of you, how far away do you think that haptic devices and mobile phones are away from the everyday consumers? Do you see that big consumer companies are starting to heavily invest in this so that we'll have them in two, five, ten years? Haptic devices, if somebody is not familiar, that would be the sense. Like, you all have haptics already. You all have a vibrator in your phone. Yeah, it's shape-changing. We can feel textures, for example, and stuff like that. It's about sort of engineers and designers coming together realizing that you can change the vibration pattern on that and use that for some system in your phone. So I'd say technically, it would be possible tomorrow, but we have all these structures of people coming together and then business structures, of course. And so in research, like gesture phones and haptics, it's there. I mean, when it comes to prosthesis, sorry. It's a very small group. I mean, there are a lot of people that lose their hands and legs in the world, but it is a small group in the bigger picture. And it is very few, very big companies in the world that are sort of ruling the market. And we have to remember that in the markets where the need is the greatest, the money just is not there. They are not financially interesting to these groups, unfortunately. And also batteries in prosthesis. If you need electronics, we use a very simple technical solution. But if you need batteries, that's a problem because you can't carry in the lab. It's easy. You can have huge machines behind you. But the person that has to wear this, it must be easy, robust and simple. Fabian. Yeah, I was thinking that if you look at today's mobile phones, they all look the same and it's really hard for manufacturers to distinguish their device from the other device because they all look the same. Haptics would be one wow thing. This is totally different. At the same time, it's a leap of faith. If it doesn't work, it's a big investment. But that depends what model, what cognitive model you build into the system. We can allow users better to understand how the phone works and thereby understand better when it doesn't work. So if we build for technology being something that works properly all the time, then we build for the wrong expectations. We should build systems so that users are with us in the development and can work with us and help the phone to work better. There's a question in the back. It would be nice with smartphones where you can use the full capacity of your hand, not only the index finger. Then we end up in 50 years with huge index fingers. Nothing else. I think on this one, the shaking when you're frustrated, when you want to shake to undo is a very intelligent thing. Then unfortunately not all applications use shake to undo. But when you get frustrated, do you want to change your mind? Yes, please. I'm working it up with distributed teams. I think we all agree on that the physical meeting beats everything. Will Haptics solve this since if we could get a bit further, it could mean a lot for the environment. If we could for instance do handshakes with people in Tokyo. I'd say again we need to understand what we're working with and not try to mimic the human body all the time and mimic human meetings because technical tools and materials allow for something different. So we should search for what that cool different is rather than trying to mimic how we normally do it because we will fail all the time because technologies aren't as smart as the human body. So we should go another direction. I think that will be the last words. I shall now remind you that the last keynote session is starting in the theatre in just a little while so you should go there directly unless you have some kind of personal emergency to take care of, in which case be brief. Give a great big hand to Birgitta Noseen, Petra Sundström and Fabian Hemberg.


Welcome to the Argos Toy Unboxing. Today we're looking at Hero Mashes from the Marvel Superheroes range. Each figure has 7 connection points, allowing you to swap parts with any other figure from the entire Hero Mashes line-up. Giving you the freedom to create your own battle-ready mash-up hero to take over the world. These are from the 5 pack of Marvel Superhero Mashes. In here you get Captain America, Hulk, Thor and Iron Man figures, with their signature costumes and weapons to fight Vision. You can create your ultimate superhero for an epic mash-up adventure to fight crime and save the planet. Can Vision defeat Captain America with Hulk's arms, Iron Man's helmet and Thor's hammer? Or maybe Vision is a good guy and is helping the Avengers. We need Captain America's shield and Thor's helmet and Iron Man's legs for protection. We hope you've loved this Argos unboxing with Hero Mashes. No one knows exactly how it began. Some say Captain America needed a little extra oomph during battle and Hulk volunteered to lend a hand, literally. Others say Ultron created Vision. He unleashed a mega power to mash up. However it started, everyone agrees only one question really matters now.


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