What's up everybody? Jay's here for Jaspyscasebrakes.com. Jaspys 19 bucks last dance week three basketball mixer just sold out Radham teams where we're giving away to Jordan Again some high-end boxes like choice optic prism and much more chase all these different rookie years And at the end of the break, Radham eyes all 30 customer names top name on Wendy 11 2012 a productive squeeze a shadow box Which is right here These tend to get a little scratched up But doesn't mean the card is not in mint condition, but Plus the case is a little scratched up. It's pretty cool Dimensions very nice As it says here, we just have it right there Again, Radham teams, so we'll do the randomizer for the Jordan at the end of the break Let's roll the dice We got a four and a three seven times Getting customer names from Jeffrey down to Christopher who just won that in sell a pack 16 Good luck, uh seven times a nick's already ripping some of these boxes one two four five six And double checks seven John down a carol. Are you going seven times now? teams one two three four five six Charlotte Hornets down to Orlando Magic All right, John, you have the Hornets Kevin with the Bucks John last one module Blazers Ryan you have the Cavaliers Connor with the T-wolves Arthur with the Celtics Kevin you have the Lakers from sell a pack 14 And Jeff with the bases Richard. You have the bulls Jeffrey P with the nicks C with the our side sorry with the Utah Jazz Ryan Harold from sell a pack 14 getting the Memphis Grizzlies Matthew the Clippers Anthony with the 76ers Curley the Suns Diane with the Haas Chow the Nets James with the Nuggets Derek you have the Kings Gary with the rockets Scott with the Dallas Mavericks Christopher with the Warriors Christopher you have the Raptors and sell a pack 16 William with the Pistons and Jamie from sell a pack 15 getting the Pelicans There you go. Aisa You have the thunder Jonathan with the heat Josh with the wizards and sell a pack 16 Mike you have the spurs and Carol with the Orlando magic So again, if anybody wants to trade This is the time If I don't see any trade activity, I'm going to close it up pretty quick I know I know I was like I was looking forward to hopefully doing a couple of this but maybe Maybe after all this Yeah, has it been pretty cool Really, oh my god Chromes Oh, yeah, I look like a gold though. Yeah That'd be crazy Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right Yeah, I was telling the Dave Bowman releases. I'll when is the latest we could break that six. Yeah I'll come in at six Joe go out and then you probably I know I wonder if we could start breaking at like two a.m. I mean, could to Yeah Yeah All right, Jay, anybody want the nuggets James the same guess not no All right, I'm gonna close it then guys And I thought this last month was crazy I know right That day, yeah Yeah All right guys, I'm close the trade window took what you got Okay, and everybody's still gonna have a shot at that Jordan at the end of the break And this was actually a little bit more. We've been usually doing 12 13 boxes. This is 19 boxes so From choice to a lead to select to cornerstones optic fast break paramount innovations fleer hot shots As far back as 2000 and 2003 So a lot of different years worth of basketball here Elite Yeah, what is that? That's megabox, right? Yeah, there's that year was so yeah, but that year was so weird 58 card one where it's all rupees pretty much with the shimmer Yeah, this one they called then there's a 42 with more packs Yeah, because I'm just like this one. I remember it just all the same so you're guaranteed everything guaranteed. Yeah It's like a set. Yeah, but they also have the 42 card megabox normal Again, these are all It was a shock and you're guaranteed like all these rookies including of course luka donchich and tre young So automatically for sure, you know Dallas is gonna get something at least here. Is it ever working? I believe every rookie's in there. I did these in I did these on ebay. Yeah, I remember doing them And they were all in there. So the guy who got the Dallas maverick got like five Yeah, but I don't think they were selling for as much as they do now that probably bargain back then So there's tre young. Yeah, you get the whole set. So dianne There's some I like those. They won't take gram. We'll kind of sleep all these bigger rookies Michael Porter jr Dexton And there's luka and then you got Aaron holiday I think they did that this year. Yeah, I don't think so. There's two different megaboxes this year Yeah, they have The pink ones right with the pink facts and then I was actually watching like Mike the classic I really wanted to beat him when I was a little kid from stewart little kids Gordon No, it's the other guy he's coming on a lot of movies too. I don't really really work his real name. Yeah Yeah, he's the main guy there No, it's just so funny that I was like, I bet either Jordan didn't want to do it or they didn't have the rights to him to do it Yeah, but um, I mean only I remember iverson came out and A couple players chasing kid dirk and he tells like it's for my niece. What's your name? Uh, dirk Anthony davis to 85. So this is 1718. I believe Fast break the von reed Johnson disco The champ is here and you got a redemption 155 The rookies lonzo ball All right, and your redemption is bam Wow, it's a coby bryant I know it's Inspired, but again, you can put that you got this in a group break And hopefully they can still honor these fast break signatures, but maybe they'll give you something something different That's a coby bryant fast break signatures I know when they say you get it from a group break. It's a little bit easier process Right you remember reading about that nick that if you get it from a group break, it's a little easier process Yeah, but now they're doing I just don't know obviously it's kind of tough, but Hopefully kevin now um, you can get it if you uh If you type in the code they'll give you the card exactly if they still have it Yeah, or else they'll replace it with points if they don't have it like half the value Yeah, that's what I was reading about but as long as it's I mean they might have those Yeah, they might have code because I feel like you're not gonna get rid of those Having the code though and get it Yeah, I mean I I feel like coby's I mean, I don't know I get it with other players Why they wouldn't happen a couple years and it didn't really this break wasn't it just expired last year Yeah, so it's not like 12 13. Yeah, exactly the older one If you can get the that'll be awesome All right penny hardaway Is this 13 fortune elite? So I'm gonna be I think Davis was 2012 13 now Uh, yeah, Davis, Lillard, Montialis It's a double working class kind of that's right Play Thompson, Draymond Green Pelican, Jeff Whithay Whithay All right, there you go, Jamie not a Zion, but Got a Jeff 99 and Jim are for that All right, we have a lot more left and rights too guys. We'll just randomize left or right Bill Walton made some plumly I got a redemption. Wow. It's another coby brine autograph. Oh my god Jesus coby Two coby redemptions. Oh my god This one's might be a little bit more tough though. This one's from 2012 13 Yeah, and some good amount of points too probably Well Lakers turn of the century signatures card number 25 coby brine from 1314 panini elite Two coby redemptions Well, I think it's very right. They might have already had coby signs. They really made they like they said they had released that They did have a session with him recently before he passed away So he could have been signing a lot of older redemptions from 2019 This year before he passed not to know about the older ones. Those that might be more tough to get I know it is right, but um Obviously with him passing it's going to get more complicated and on the coby night in the jordan's line That's today too, isn't it out there? What a coincidence not a coincidence actually I have to get coby's. Yeah Yeah, I mean he might have not signed this older one, but again, you're going to get a good amount of points at least which is I mean better than nothing at the end of the day androbinum Lakers coby still somehow comes out on Jordan's I documentary I mean, yeah, that's true No, that was just straight up, uh, you know In the pack. Yeah. Oh, sure. This is actually different in elite. Yeah, I was an elite So my thing is that do they do they really not make enough enough cards Or do they just give them to other people? Crazy, I would I would want them to at least Save your like if there's 25 of them supposedly you have to save those first. Yeah, until you're well I think they have to save some because like if a card gets damaged, right? Because I bet you they feel like, you know what not all of them are going to get redeemed right because they make so much Yeah, Oscar Robinson. No, it's not well to 75 But those are gonna be a coby wouldn't have been crazy. Anthony brown For what? Lakers. Oh, okay. This is a lockdown. That's what makes it but a lot of Lakers and coby's coming out Joe young Avery Bradley had like all-time grades Like now it's impossible to find that. I know and Gary was buying those like every day He honestly got like one Jordan autograph in every box Yeah, we broke a lot of those Brennan Jennings to 99 Now if this if this Anthony Brown autograph was a coby live, that would have been crazy Langston Galloway Yeah, Rashad Vaughn Dude, they're so sick, right? You're cutting my fingers here. Oh, yeah, I'll take some right now. So many times these I want to see if we can get that Do autograph That'd be a good one to end with Oh, like check this out too He's like, no, this is what he hit and he bought some he bought some off of somebody I told I told about he goes, it's funny. We both did one. All right, so there you go optic There's the old 20 uh 202 or 20. I'm sorry, 2002 Oh Some status Paramount I do not even remember this Aaron Gordon Actually really high end It looks really high. It looks like levine rookie autograph Hope over there. Well, they way they can't even do PMG's anymore. They probably can right? I forget if they did that T-wolves going to Connor Past and present that's a Brennan Knight Bucks pistons like how origin football looks exactly like top Yeah, it's like what it's exactly the same. I love you round of minds guys I was wondering if they can bring PMG's back up. You're awesome. They could Spencer did with you Yeah, that's good one. It's 99 Up and I get the college license. They could do yeah and do all the college stuff Joe Harris why why they don't make more products like hard sports dirty rules Yeah, they shouldn't do some more of those and ricky davis Flip show All right. Oh two oh three. I have no idea Some of these cards are getting a little stuck though guys, so I'll try my best to Next hour or so I said 637 were closing. Oh, these are not all rookie cards Oh, wait, they don't tell me right now No, this was I feel like it's not gonna tell me if it's a rookie or not players Well, I just seen like Tony Parker. I know he came in around this time Like he wasn't part of the first championship or first two KG Oh Garnett's in there. That means He's not a rookie today. No, I know but um Tony Parker I don't I don't know if he is like a hot shots rookie that's uh Wagner all stars in fuego Hot shots rookies drew Antoine Walker Celtics out of 350. I mean, there's still a lot to that is close to selling out too, right? I feel you though We're gonna be pretty busy all night And if you're just if you guys are just tuning in too, let me show you guys the break schedule Just so that way you guys have it What is that? Like the break schedule above Oh, that's right and created a little schedule thing. Yeah, I think bowman There's a lot of bowman really this is the $50 pack. Is it prism or optic did he buy? Yeah, that's it So Mars daughter Mars a rookie here y'all man Yeah And then the bowman crawl make sure you get the hobby Carlos boozers a rookie in here That boozer was 0304 because we have bow What don't want to damage these cards. So I'm just trying to Let me see take it a little slow Yeah Yeah, that's it Mars daughter mark, um if it hasn't sold out Uh, then it breaks when it fills if it did sell out And it's not a part of that break schedule that I have above you Paul Then it will be added as soon as we go through orders They're so far. That's all I have Up until once I get done with this or nick does orders Then we'll see When it'll be next Basically, we're booked up until about like 745 or so 8 o'clock. So we start about two more hours after that Maybe if that didn't sell out I mean if it didn't sell out then it's when it does if it did sell out then Probably are on there. So 11 eastern. Yeah So yeah, it sold out. So probably around 8 o'clock. Yeah, 11 eastern Do you want to check back in a few hours? Qui-Gon's about to get killed. We got a relic here of rookie hats off Juan Dixon and wow, look, we've got a young main jersey. That's a rookie jersey player warm jersey for the Rockets Number to 350 That's pretty cool. Who has the Rockets? Gary and uh, this Juan Dixon's going to the washington wizards and then we got Woods This is event worn shooting shirt But y'all means actually is a player worn shirt player game worn We've got frank williams for the nicks All-stars Kobe Bryant Mars. I'm my rookie Relic here for the Suns. Is that the greatest line for this product? All right, again, I took it just a little extra longer just had a one damage of cards We'll ship out all the rookie's inserts All right, let's move on over here to uh Status And then the remaining boxes are all a little quick box break. So Kobe status quote one for an antij leaf I to 149 Indiana basers to 97 Ricky Rubio Monzo ball TJ leaf Little relic here for the Pacers I had a one two ninety nine. Sorry for the Celtics for Parker two ninety nine Kakuzma rookie Box, I believe an 1819 mega box Well, I'm Frasier jr. Lebron James Lakers and a michael porter jr. Very nice Denver nuggets James Very nice All right, sweet So here's the boxes here This one that's one box. It looks like this is two This is three four Five Six Seven Eight This prestige and then we'll leave uh corkeens and then that's the pack breaker here of a Choice let's go with the prestige tj leaf rookie And west lead Tobias Harris to one ninety nine Johnson autograph there bonus shots To the thunder we've got a donovan michael chris middleton marco folds So rookie there to one ninety nine Dylan brooks tj leaf Tony bradley Amy and dotson Lonzo ball. Wow. Look at that's a bonus shots autograph Lakers have yourself a break kevin There you go a couple kobi autos. Hopefully can redeem those honest under the kumpo let's go with some crown royale Derek favors to ninety nine jazz co islanders first Darren collison to ninety nine and a tj leaf Which is a one out of five the rookie jerseys sites 58 Pacers Jeff with that one and malik cliber to 25 Dallas mavericks Scott with that one totally certified Carmelo relic my connolly to one ninety nine there for the pacers doing wave wesley donovan michael anthony davis and matthew deladova autographs to the Milwaukee bucks also going to kevin. All right, let's go with some optic jordan clarkson to 149 once you're a little can reddish ocular for takeoff to 49 rosa westbrook i just put the last two spots in the hank erin mixer so we just have to do that's it right so just that one okay All right, so so we don't have to do two more flash breaks guys just let off why for the hank erin mixer if you guys just sell out the last two spots for flash And the remaining spots in the hank erin mixer were sold out guys Ty Jerome is the autograph So we still have time to do that later tonight rj tim harterwood jr to 99 paul george ocular for takeoff victor lo depo and rj barrett hollow nix went to jeffrey how's song whitesa all right, we got colby pacs all to go to the lakers it looks like it's limited steve curry to 199 we got yamon shumper and we got evan fornie rookies from limited 2012-13 Gotta look that one up really quick, but we'll do that a little bit later throw here for the randomizing ones might be magic though. I don't really know 2012-13 limited evan fornie Not be magic. Okay. All right carol. So you'll get that one. I'll write it down right now Yeah, I thought it would be magic too, but should be I don't know He could james says he thinks is damper chi singler I'll look at him. Yeah I'll try to go to panini.net Oh, they do under drum and rookie Nuggets, okay And then clay thompson rookie autographs redemption from innovation. Nice golden state warriors going to christopher. All right, they confirmed nuggets But this one would be golden state warriors. Oh, yeah, someone was wondering about mosaic hobbies. Like, yeah, it's gonna be five six hundred bucks So megas and hangers will be a good price Of course hobby guarantees certain things but I'm sure all the prices will go up eventually gay hairs Troy brown jr start-ups We actually just did some of this cornerstone earlier today guys We got Serranias Pacers We got davante gram And we got mo bomba rookies here 9 out of 10 for the orlando magic How would happen a mo bomba? 79 jimmy butler I mean, he's not really talked about no more. Yeah, so sad It's like his song is more famous Yeah, I remember you telling me it was right? Yeah Michael ray richardson Oh, look at that from a hanger. We got a hanger autograph Uh orange cracked ice And that is new york nicks Jeffrey with that one That was the matthews vince carter aldridge carrier ving Got coby white silver emergence and a chumo kiki ricky Appendacy of all these cracked ice I'll be playing the last dance guys, but I gotta watch it later with the wife and sister so Can't spoil it All right Last two boxes the choice pack And then we got court kings We got the marcus cousins sergio vacca rookie chris dun jaylon brown kawalari to one 40 or 175 I believe At a rally like Isaiah whitehead and an autograph here for the members grizzly's wade and balt Is it a little Honda? And a wiggins oversized Last box of the mixer Choice Kimmel asron victor ladipo We got a board in hayward tiger strive Boston Celtics going to arthur The autograph Is for the Lakers danny green And have yourself a break lakers It's supposed to be all about jordan and the bulls Dwight poil And we got chris and thompson Myers Leonard and There you go guys empty So that was the last box and the last Uh, that was the last box actually for the last dance mixer So there you go guys a lot of hits to be painted sleeves We do have one randomizer here Between the pistons and bucks And then we'll randomize the customer names to see who gets the jordan shadow box From exquisite So there you go. So let's get a new dice roll This randomizer a list randomizer and then This is for the last dance This is for the card dual relic pistons and bucks And we use the same dice roll five and a four nine times One two three four five six seven eight and nine Going to the pistons. There you go So that's going to with him All right, I have to go nine times now for the jordan auto. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight and nine nine times Scott Claremont There you go who you had The Dallas Mavericks congratulations. You just wanted the Michael Jordan shadow box autograph from exquisite 1112 Appreciate you guys. This is the last dance week three mixer on jasmizcasebreaks.com


This study aims to create a cloud-based learning environment for the subdivision of a university. It will analyze existing approaches to constructing cloud-based learning environments, form requirements for cloud-based learning tools, select the most suitable tools from these requirements and then apply them to build a cloud-based learning environment for the subdivision of the university. This environment will be used to conduct experiments with cloud-based ICT training in the university's simulation and software department. The results of the experiments will be analyzed and used to develop recommendations for the design of a general cloud-based university environment. This article was authored by A. M. Straik and M. V. Rasevitzka.


Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as many eagerly await the announcement of our second calling for the application for our MSME loan grant facility, I wish to present a brief but timely update to the Parliament of Centrucia about our flagship project. As you all know, the MSME loan grant facility is an EC $10 million facility aimed at providing post COVID-19 relief to registered businesses. It is a combination of 40% loan and 70% grant funding at an attractive interest rate of 3% with no collateral requirements. Since the program's launch on March 16, 2023, we've witnessed an influx of new business registrations, a marked increase in the number of signups for our online business training sessions, and various attempts by business owners to formalize their operations. We applaud this attitudinal shift in the right direction. Remaining through to its intention, the MSME loan grant facility continues to inspire prospective entrepreneurs and change lives. Only last month, I along with a technical team from the Ministry of Commerce visited some of our successful applicants. They were selected at random to ensure proof of concept. Most of these applicants were able to provide us with tangible evidence of the injection of funds being used as intended to purchase new equipment, augment stock, or improve their business premises. All aimed at building capacity, optimizing efficiency, and expanding the market-rich and consumer-based. We are proud to report that out of the 514 applications received, all have been reviewed by the dedicated members of our Evaluation Committee. I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank them for their contribution to nation building. Up to January 31, 2024, some 3,384,266 loan and grant funding was approved. Of this amount, 2.8 million has been disbursed. This represents a total of 193 loan grants approved and 172 disbursed. As of yesterday, February 12, 333 of the 514 applications submitted were approved for funding. An approval rate of 65 percent. 112 applications were not approved, which is a denial rate of 22 percent. 61 applications were deferred on account of missing information. And seven applications are pending credit checks. Our team at the Small Business Development Center is in the process of following up with clients to ensure all outstanding documentation is submitted. We want to inform the general public that we are currently collaborating with the OAS to assist potential applicants in preparing the business plans for the second call. Additionally, for those who applied but were unsuccessful in the first call, we want to ensure that to ensure you that all is not lost. There would be an opportunity for you to make a revised submission under the second call. Mr. Speaker, as such, I am pleased to announce that the open date for the second calling for the MSME loan grant facility will be the 2nd of April, 2024. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Minister for Commerce charged with the responsibility for supplying the nation with certain essential staples, bulk rice, flour and sugar. I wish to draw attention to what has so far been a vaccine issue for many. In an effort to maintain transparency, I would like to dispel the recent misinformation circulating in the public domain and provide a clear and comprehensive update concerning the availability of sugar on island. Mr. Speaker, not only will I provide insight into the procurement process, but I will also explain the relevant timelines and the supply chain disruptions experience. This, I believe, will allow for a better understanding of the challenges that we face. Mr. Speaker, to meet the annual demands of our consumers, the Ministry of Commerce secured a contract with a Guyana supplier to supply St. Lucia with 80,000 bags of 4,000 metric tons of brown sugar. Mr. Speaker, the following points are worth noting. Several discussions were held with company executives as they were a few challenges and timelines of supplies in the past. Mr. Speaker, St. Lucia is a signatory to the curriculum single market economy, the CSME, and given our commitment to the objectives of the regional integration and intra-curriculum trade as exposed by the CSME, Guyana as a regional supplier was again contracted with effect from 1 November 2023. Contracts with suppliers are for a 12-month period. As early as November the 2nd, 2023, prompted by my own contingency planning concerns, within my ministry, I wrote a letter to the curriculum secretariat. I indicated as a matter of good governance and prudent procedural procurement practice that it is preferred and recommended that sugar required by St. Lucia during any procurement cycle not be dependent upon one single source. Consequently, given the assurances provided to supply the required quantum of demand, the Guyana based company was selected as St. Lucia's sole supplier of brown sugar for a period of one year. Given these circumstances and in the event that the supplier was unable to consistently meet our demand for the commodity on the contract, as has been the case in previous years, we felt it necessary to request from the curriculum secretariat a suspension of curriculum external tariff to import sugar from outside the curriculum region. Less than one month from the start date of the contract on November 29th, 2023, the Ministry of Commerce was informed by our supply of sugar from Guyana of its inability to meet our usual demands for the commodity due to poor crop quality and recommended assistance from a neighboring island, one of its customers, to supply St. Lucia with 3,000 bags of sugar with the assurance that specialists were assessing the situation and should there be any change, six containers will be shipped to us immediately. Mr. Speaker, initially the Ministry of Commerce was informed that the shipment would not be possible due to the unavailability of 20-foot containers. After the containers were secured by the Ministry of Commerce from a local shipping company, the reason shifted to unfavorable weather patterns which the company claimed to have adversely affected the sugar cane yield and quality. In a prompt response issued that same day, my ministry expresses disappointment despite several discussions with the team at the ministry and various company executives who assured the ministry that the company had the capacity to deliver the stipulated quantities on time. The permanent secretary also made it clear that this supplemental quantity of 3,000 bags would fall well below our usual monthly consumption of 4,500 bags of brown sugar and for December that consumption is 5,000 bags. Mr. Speaker, our monthly request was forwarded to the supplier for approximately 5,000 bags of brown sugar per month. For the three months November 2023 to January 2024, the Ministry of Commerce have received only 5,000 bags of sugar from the supplier which is one food of our contractual obligation. Mr. Speaker, it's important to highlight that the tendering process issuance of annual contracts to supply those large volumes has existed for many years and is a means of securing the best price for our consumers. Mr. Speaker, I wish to assure the general public that while the detractors were up to the usual mischief, we at the Ministry of Commerce were exploring every feasible option to bring sugar to our shores. It included the approval to procure sugar by direct awards from another supplier for the next six months which was approved without delay by the Honourable Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance and the Central Public Procurement Board to quickly bring a solution to the problem. As a result, the Ministry was able to receive four containers in January which is about 2,000 bags and an additional eight containers were received last week, 4,000 bags. Today we are in the process of clearing another 10 containers which is 5,000 bags, 5,000 bags of brown sugar as well as five, sorry, five containers of brown sugar and five containers of white sugar. An additional three containers which is 1,500 bags are expected to arrive this evening and another six containers which is 3,000 bags next week. From January 2024 to the shipment day due next week, Mr. Speaker, that is a total of 15,500 bags of sugar, 13,000 bags of brown sugar and 2,500 bags of white sugar. Mr. Speaker, the Ministry of Commerce as part of addressing these issues have met with the manufacturing sector who consume large amounts of the white sugar as part of the manufacturing process and we have agreed and given them permission to order the sugar directly. Also we are making a request to CARICOM for suspension of the CET to allow Sinclutia to order sugar from outside the CARICOM region. I want to note Mr. Speaker, I want the public to note that this process may result in government having to pay a lot more for sugar. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to assure the general public that the Ministry of Commerce has been working tirelessly to eliminate the delays and meet the demands of sugar and by extension all commodities supplied by the government supply warehouse. I take this opportunity to thank our partners, the distributors, wholesalers and retailers who assisted with even with the distribution of the limited supply over the past few months. I would like to thank my team at the Ministry especially the staff of the supply warehouse who had to handle huge quantities in less time to satisfy the urgent demands. Last but not least I would like to thank our valued customers for their patience and understanding and look forward to continue serving them. I thank you Mr. Speaker.


For nearly six weeks this past fall, Pike County government employees were without coverage, insurance coverage. According to documents obtained through an open records request submitted by EKB News, the county's insurance coverage for employees was terminated December 8th after the county missed his November policy payment to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The documents show Anthem contacted the county several times between November 16th and the date of termination in an attempt to collect payment and keep the coverage active, but the $5,195 payment was not made and the contract for insurance coverage was terminated December 8th with an effective date of October 31st. That means any insurance claims submitted after October 31st for medical, dental, liability and anything else covered under the current contract would not be covered. And the reason for non-payment, of course, money. It's just a juggling act at this point. County Treasurer John DeBilliter said the payment for insurance, which was a major part of the county's budget discussions last year, was missed because there simply wasn't enough money to pay the county's insurance premium and make the payroll for county employees. Sort of like you do at home whenever you open the mail and we'll wait the next month on this or we'll do this and we can put this towards it. It has been a juggling act since this physical year started. But the happy ending to the situation was that thanks to a clause in the county's contract with Anthem, the county had a grace period of sorts to pay its late payment and to have its contract reinstated. And that's what happened. The county employee's insurance coverage was reinstated on December 29th with a backdated effective date of October 31st. I had to make sure I had enough with the payroll, the Anthem, and I knew that there was, I could get it reinstated. Unfortunately, it got to the point that they did terminate us as of 1031, but I do have a letter that states we are back as of 1031 active with November and December both being paid because of the nice collections that the sheriff had for the 15 days in November. Builder said with this latest situation, the county has now used up its two chances per its contract with Anthem to miss a payment and have its contract terminated and then have it reinstated. Meaning this situation has happened previously over the past 12 months. And Builder said even with a good tax collection period by the sheriff's department, financial strains caused largely by declining coal and mineral severance funds are sure to continue. We got used to something and whenever it's no longer coming in, you know, you got to tighten your belt and pull everything back. So we were used to running with a lot more people. We just need to make sure we've got money in the bank. I may need to be a little more proactive with making sure the insurance gets paid. Some other things may have to go by the wayside. It's just a juggling act at this point. I try to keep everybody happy and sometimes you can't keep everybody happy by trying to do that. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.


Just three games on the main slate for tonight and daily fantasy baseball is they're kind of clearing path for college football Which has a lot of games going on a fortune night And that means we had to do a kind of a fun format once again Where I get to go through every pitcher on the slate and outline how well whether I want to use them for DFS What a whether I want to stack against them if they're in between and purgatory there and kind of sell on my thoughts and all These guys that's where I do once again for today Go picture by picture break down my thoughts in them and let you know where my heads up on each and every starter on tonight's slate Welcome on into the solo shot. That's right here on the fendal podcast network and fendal research My name is Jim Sonis. I am a managing editor of digital media for fendal research here to break down Thursday nights three game main slate with locks out for 7 0 5 p.m. Eastern for tonight locks at 7 0 5, but The second game does not begin until 940. So a lot of time to late swap in there depending on how things go in that first game Which is always fun. So big be sure to take full advantage of the things afforded to you with the schedule for tonight No weather notes for tonight And I think that's actually pertinent the fact there are there are no weather notes because the Temperature gap between all three stadiums is basically non-existent So you can kind of treat things pretty close to straight up where you can just kind of go with your favorite offenses and not Fret as much as you typically would about things such as park factor highest temperature 76 lowest temperature 71 So kind of a nice relief tonight to have one less thing to think long and hard about For tonight we'll dive on into what that means and more and go through my favorite pitchers and all the pitchers in Just one second the first a reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed wherever you get Your podcast the solo shot is continuing throughout September during NFL season to the end of the regular season So we will be here with you on the solo shot each and every weekday Through the end of the regular season in addition to our NFL podcast Daily ISO it's on Becky. 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It's a 111 WRC plus for the opponent for Strider 121 for Lynn and a much higher ISO as well Both strikeout rates are pretty low here. The Dodgers are a 21% in that regard But Strider has been on a tear in that department recently He's come back on his change of usage over his past nine starts now And he has a 37% strikeout rate in that time and he's letting up just a 29% hard hit rate So again, trying to counteract a very good offense Getting strikeouts and suppressing our contact is the best formula you could ask for I had Strider projected for 8.9 strikeouts here That is lower than his typical mark, but it's still pretty high So I think the Strider is worth the $12,000 and a guy I am very willing to be on for tonight As for Lynn, you likely remember that I was pretty high on him for a long stretch He was bathing and strikeouts, but he was also letting up a lot of runs So it was not to my benefit that I was on Lynn for a lot of this I don't think the Dodgers wanted the latter part letting up a lot of runs to continue So when Lynn came to LA They had him cut back on his cutter usage and I get that because the cutter gets whiffs But it also does let up a lot of loud contact The expected slugging percentage against that slider is 498 or that cutter is 498 according to baseball savant So this move to have Lynn throw fewer sliders or the more selectively Is probably a good move by the Dodgers to cut back on the hard contact and the homers It's just eaten into Lynn's strikeout rate quite a bit because his strikeout rate is 21% across five starts with the Dodgers Some of that's because he has faced low strikeout teams, but he did have one dud in the mix too But that was also his most recent start. He is at home tonight And if Strider does slip, it's pretty likely that Lynn is a guy who benefits as the second best option for tonight So I'm gonna rank Lynn second, but I do think there is a pretty significant gap between him and Strider So to me as far as guys, I actually feel good about using a pitcher. It really is those two I know the matchups are tough, but I feel like that's the way we'd want to go Let's talk now about Braxton Garrett because you may be a bit confused as to why I'm not itchy To put Garrett above Lynn Lynn given their respective matchups because Garrett is facing the nationals and He's a good pitcher But it's not a high strikeout spot The nationals have an 18 strikeout rate against lefties which is the lowest on the slate by a good amount Garrett has gone back to throwing more forcing fastballs recently and It's cut back on his strikeouts a bit and the marlins also are not letting Garrett go super deep in games yet He has not thrown more than 90 pitches across his past four stars Now he could buck that here because the marlins need wins and it's a good matchup for him But it's not a guarantee Plus the nationals just saw Garrett last week and he went six innings there let him three or runs with three strikeouts So not the best showing he now gets to face him again and he has to go on the road So that's why to me if I could put Garrett in purgatory and not use him as a pitcher or stack against him I really would like to do so the problem is i'm not sure I can Given both strider and lynn are in such difficult matchups. There is downside potential there and although the nationals are a low strikeout team They're not a great team either better against lefties for sure than they are overall But still not a big power team Don't put the ball in the air a bunch and they don't walk either so If if the braves dodgers game just shoots out there's the potential for Garrett to be the highest scoring guy in the slate but You know, I'm not super enthusiastic about it. So I'd like to put in purgatory So I'm sure if I realistically can do that The one team with an unlisted starter for tonight is the Giants It seems likely that'll be alex wood in a long relief behind an opener Which would make the Padre is pretty interesting. We just don't know if that'll be the case yet But wood has struggled even in his new role He has eight outings with reduced pitch counts and He has a 4.8. Oh skill interactive era in that time with just a 14 strikeout rate His bad at ball data is better. So that's why is era at 3.1 5 and that's part of why the Padres are lower on this list The bad at ball data specifically in addition to the fact that I don't actually know it will be lin or wood for sure and wood Did hold some really tough teams at bay in this time face the face the braves Braves twice will even face the the Rangers in there as well. So You know, he pitched pretty well But the lack of strikeouts could haunt him eventually Sean mania could also be an option here He last pitched on saturday in relief But he's also lefty and the Padres have a 133 wrc plus against lefties on the current active roster That's the best mark on the slate. They have a 199 iso. So I think that the Padres work despite the ambiguity But I had to rank them behind my top two stacks of the night and by process of elimination The top two stacks are going to be the marlins and the marlins and the giants Well, certain things off here the marlins. They're going to be the number two stack Just behind the giants. They're facing you on adon serve for the nationals and adon's doing some things better than what he did last year But there are still some issues in his profile. The big thing is hard contact across four stars this year Adon has led up a 47 hard hit rate with a 44 fly ball rate now that Bad bad at ball data hasn't always heard a don. He actually held this exact offense the marlins scoreless for six innings last week But he did let up six runs to the fillies He had a short start against the a's before that as well. And now the marlins get to see him again That's a benefit. I also think that some of the plate discipline numbers for adon could regress a bit He wasn't necessarily thriving in that department down in triple a So yes adon was awesome against the marlins last week But i'm not sure that'll carry over It makes the marlins least in my eyes one of the better stacks of the night And it does help too that they've got some guys We actually want to use here more than they did earlier on this year jazz chism being healthy Jake burger brings a bit of juice to this offense as well. Now these you know getting full playing time He's maintained the good numbers again even against righties this year batting in the middle part of the order Uh, so that's that's beneficial too We haven't gone to the marlins very often but on this side I think we do need to go that way and they're very worthy of our attention Finally let's finish things up here with the giants They're facing paedra avila and avila struggled in triple a pretty badly his zra down there was 8.57 His exit was 6.42 now avila goes to the majors and he's pitched well so far He's getting whiffs and he's getting ground balls. I just don't know Whether that's sticky yet across 27 and one-third innings avila has a 3.40 skill interactive ERA with a 3.69 expected ERA But he's still letting up hard contact. He has let up a 42 hard hit rate It was 42 triple a as well If avila keeps getting ground balls He can live with that You can let a more hard contact if it's on the ground because it's going to be a single effectively at worst But the ground ball rate for avila and triple a was 42 so The tldr here is that i'm skeptical that he maintains the numbers that have allowed him to pitch well In a small sample so so far in the majors He's facing the giants his offense has definitely fallen off from where they were earlier on this year But they're still not terrible So i'm on board with stacking them here and feel like the giants are a quality stack for tonight My favorite stack that i like among all the options for tonight It also does help we got mike yestremsky back from the il yestremsky probably gonna bat a bit lower in the order Not a ton of confidence from them in him yet But he has a 222 iso against righties went healthy this year So it's not been a great year for yestremsky at all. It's been I would say kind of a lost year honestly, but I do think that There's been power there and power is what we want from a dfs perspective It also does help that this giants team does not have high salaries nor do the marlins So if you want to get to strider you stack the giants stack the marlins log out It's a pretty easy slate in that regard which is why I feel good Putting strider above lin as my top pitcher of the night So again top pitcher is going to be sensor strider fall by lance lin and then maybe braxon garret top stacks in order Are going to be the giants one marlins two padres three That's it. That is every pitcher and every offense on tonight's slate for mlb dfs Tomorrow should be a more robust slate once again back once again Here on the same feed to break down that one So make sure you're subscribed to the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed to get that one right as it is posted If you got any questions for me. 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Friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. It is what I eat Wednesday and I have an entire full day of eating for you. Everything that I ate today, a little day in the life, lots of hauls, some dogs, just a good time overall. I even went to the WW workshop this morning. It is Sunday actually when I'm filming and learn all about the new program. If you have not seen that video, it is up on my YouTube channel. Definitely check it out. I go into detail about the new programs. So, if you want to see what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW, freestyle, the blue plan, for now, stay tuned. Oh, Nespresso machine. You saw me make my coffee in it. You guys, I'm so incredibly excited about this. I have wanted one of these for so long but I just didn't want to spend the money. So I kept himming and hawing. I love my Nespresso virtual but the pods get pretty pricey. So I figured I am going to buy this Nespresso machine with some of the money from my closing of my home that I sold because it's a little reward for myself for my hard work and I'll be saving money in the long run with Nespresso beans versus pods. So I picked up the Bravil Barista Express. It comes in chrome or this black in chrome. It is about $600.  So I wanna show it to you guys kind of up close and personal. I am gonna link it in my Amazon store if you're interested. I'll link the chrome and the black. I bought the black just because it goes a little bit better with my kitchen decor but let's take a look at it. So it comes with the hopper where you add your beans.  It has this nice tray on top if you wanna put your coffee cups. Here's all your buttons, your power. You can do a single or a double shot. You can adjust the grind. This measures the pump pressure. And then over here, you can program it. You can do a single and a double shot. You clean it of course. You can pull just hot water if you wanted to make tea. So that's amazing. On the back here, here is the water holder and there is a filter in there as well. I always only use bottled water in mine anyways. But still, I put the filter in. You can adjust your grind, coarser or finer based on how your shots of espresso are pulling. So those of you that may not know, I owned coffee shops for about 12 years. So I'm really excited to have a home espresso machine. I'm very familiar with the grind and what it should look like. The amount of crema that should be on your shot. So this thing makes a beautiful shot of espresso. And then of course you have your portafilter and then this is where you pull your coffee. So you just push and it automatically freshly grinds your coffee from your hopper. So that is awesome. And then this is where you put the portafilter to actually pull your shot of espresso or shots of espresso. So you can do a singles, this is to clean it. And then that is a single shot and a double shot. And I currently have a double shot in my filter here. It came with the tamp. You always wanna push down on your grinds and flatten those out, make them nice and even.  There is a wand here to steam milk so you can make a hot latte. And it even came with a cute little Bravill pitcher to steam your milk. So you guys, I'm literally in love, love, love, love. I sold my virtual machine and that just kinda helped pay for this one. But if you're looking for a great home espresso machine, highly recommend. So here is my breakfast for this morning. So I went ahead and made my breakfast sandwich that I made last weekend meal prep. I'm obsessed with this, you guys, it's so good. It is so filling. So I have two slices of the Trader Joe's sprouted wheat sourdough bread. I have two eggs with one smart point of the Trader Joe's light shredded mozzarella or I'm light shredded Mexican blend. And then under there, I have one smart point worth of avocado. Then I make this into a delicious kind of grilled cheese textured breakfast sandwich. So good, so filling, one of my very favorite things. And then I'm also having one of my red pears. I'm almost out, I think I have one left from Costco. So the breakfast sandwich is only six smart points. So it's four points for the two slices of the Trader Joe's bread. One point for the cheese and one point for the avocado. So this is my six smart point breakfast and I cannot wait. I wanted to show you just a couple of things I picked up at home. I don't care for that store as much as home goods, CJ Max, Ross, but I did find a couple of cute things. So first I got this really cute things to do. And it is glass, but you can write on it. So there is all seven days of the week on there and a little notes tab. I just thought that it was really cute. I'm gonna hang it on the wall in my office and it was 29.99 and it's pretty darn good sized. I also got this cute little place mat. It was in the Halloween section, so it was only $1.99. I use these a lot when I'm filming. Sometimes I'll use it as like a base for decor. So I may use it in my office, I'm not sure yet. And then I got a new garbage can as well for my office. I love this kind of burlap sparkly black and silver garbage can and it's just plastic. And it was $7.99. So those are just the few things I picked up at at home. So here is my haul from Ross. I actually just went to look for a couple of things for my office and some new silverware. So here's what I picked up. These were on clearance for $2.50. This is the best glass cleaner. Hands down, the best glass cleaner. They had two of them, so I picked them up. It is Hope's Perfect Glass. Literally, you guys, it does not streak at all and $2.50 is a fabulous price. So I grabbed the two that they had on hand. Also I found this organic agave five. So it's only five calories and it had really good ingredients. So it's water, organic agave, xanthan gum, organic CBS citric acid and monk fruit. So I thought this would be a good sweetener alternative if you're looking for something like honey or maple syrup. So it was a pretty good price for $4.49. So I picked that up just to have it on hand. It's baking season. So I'm sure that I will be using this quite regularly. And I did find some new silverware. I don't really care about the tray. The only thing I was thinking for the tray is it would be great to use it on the holidays just to put the silverware in there rather than just kind of laying them out on the counter or the table. So it came with it and this is some really nice stainless steel silverware. It is a 60 piece set and it was $39.99. So not a bad price. Mine are just old.  They're scratched. They're just icky. So it was time for some new flatware. So I picked up this really cute set at Ross. And then I got these candle holders and these you guys are so pretty. So they were all on clearance for $5.49, both the candle holders. And it's this really pretty silvery black glass and it just matches so perfectly with the decor in my office. So then I found these cute fresh linen white candles to go with them. And the candles were on sale for $3.50. So each one of these glass holders was $5.50 and then the candles were $3.50. So I just thought this will be really, really cute in my office. Totally goes with the decor. And then of course I saw these. These are really cute Christmas gift bags. Thought that they were absolutely adorable. So I had to pick those up and it was a set of four for $2.99. You can't beat that. Basically 50 cents a gift bag. Cheaper than even the Dollar Tree. So that's everything that I picked up at Ross. So I'm going to be having my normal snack which is a peanut butter built bar. I love the built bar as you know and I have been loving the peanut butter. So let me tell you a little bit about built bars. These are not your everyday mama's protein bar.  There's no protein after taste, no chalkiness, nothing. It is just absolute delight. It is literally like a candy bar. The peanut butter one is four smart points. All of the rest of the built bar flavors are three smart points. The peanut butter is made with organic peanut butter and also has little chips of peanuts. So that is why it is one smart point more. But I am a big advocate of I will pay one smart point any day of the week for extra peanuts and peanut butter. So I'm okay with the four smart points but just remember every other built bar flavor is only three. Here are your nutritional information. So the peanut butter is 170 calories, 20 grams of protein, seven fiber, three sugar and seven fat.  So this is my four smart point snack. If you're interested in built bar my code is here on the screen. It will give you 10% off and free shipping. Also down in the description box is a link. If you click the link, it will automatically apply the free shipping and 10% off but save the code because you can use it over and over again. It is a reusable code. So when you run out, you can stock up and save the 10% and free shipping. So this my friends is my morning snack. Well, hi. Did you get all cozy to daddy get you cozy this morning? He says you haven't moved for a long time.  Aren't you, baby? Hey, what you doing? So, look at mama. Hey, huh? Oh yes, a good boy, he gets scratches. Yeah, you get scratches. Get your baby, show mommy. Show me. Oh yeah, look, get the baby. Now you don't want it. Oh, diesel. Woo, you're vicious today. Get it. So here is my lunch for today. I am so excited. So I have one of my California turkey wraps that I made in meal prep. This is a total of four smart points. It is made on a tomato basil, Olay Extreme Wellness Wrap with two slices of center cut bacon, mayo, avocado, tomato and lettuce. This deliciousness is only four points. I also have some raspberries for zero and then I'm going to have one of these little bags. These are from Halloween. This is the hip peas and this is the white cheddar and these are two smart points. So this entire lunch, six smart points. So here is my haul from TJ Mack. So I went for a few more things for the office as well as the redecorating of the bathroom and the spare bedroom. I found quite a few fun things this trip.  Now you can put a candle in there. It has this cute little handle that looks like sticks. I thought it was really, really cute. So I don't know if it'll go in the spare bedroom or in the bathroom, but it was only 4.99. So I just couldn't pass it up. I just think it's adorable. You could even fill it with pine cones, flowers. It's super, super cute. And I also found this birch bark candle and I thought that again, this was super cute. I don't know which room we will put this in but it'll be a nice decor piece for one of the rooms. And it was 6.99. So I couldn't pass that up. And then this I thought was adorable. It just has some trees with a cute little wooden base on it. I don't know if it's four candles or what exactly it's four, but it was super cute and it was 4.99. So that will be used in one of the rooms. And then also I found this artificial plant in this kind of rustic wood container. I love these just for some greenery. And this was 4.99. So all four of these things will be used in either the spare room or bathroom that we're kind of redecorating in a lodge style. So I'll do some before and after video and show you guys kind of what we had before and what we moved into. And then for my office, I found this cute little handcrafted in India. It's just a galvanized metal container with a lid. I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do with it. I don't know if I'll just have it on display or if I'll put something in there, store something in there like my business cards. I'm not 100% sure yet but it is so cute and it was 6.99 and it just really goes with the aesthetic of my new office. And then I also found this really cute little basket and it's just a gray metal with a kind of cream colored liner with these cute little chrome buttons. I just thought that it was really, really cute and it was really inexpensive. Also, it was, oh, 5.99. And so it's either gonna go on my bookshelf or on one of the shelves in my office. I have that scarf wine night at my real estate office coming up. So I grabbed this cute little gift bag and it even came with the tissue paper and it says you're gonna love it and I just thought that would be cute since it's not really a Christmas event. I didn't wanna go with a Christmas gift bag and this was $1.49 including the tissue. I got these great little clips. They are magnetic but I won't put them on my fridge. I'm just gonna throw them in my drawer but this is just a clip closed bag. So I really liked these and these were only 2.99. They're nice, good quality. They're from CORE Cookware and I just thought that that was a great deal for that. And then I found this cute little shirt. It has kind of a bell sleeve with these cute little buttons, kind of open buttons down the side. It was on clearance for $12 and it is long sleeved so it'll be really cute with some leggings and boots for winter. And then this was also on clearance. It is a junk drawer organizer. I need this. My junk drawer is a huge mess. I think it's on clearance because it's a little bit bubbled out and damaged right there but I didn't care. It was on clearance for $5.50. So basically it's a made smart junk drawer organizer. So I'm just gonna use this in the drawer in my kitchen because it is literally full of junk. So this will make it a little bit more nice looking. And then lastly I had to pick this up because this is my all-time favorite skinny syrup. I love this flavor so much. This is the glazed donut. It is so good, so good. So I had to pick that up and that was $3.99. So that's everything that I picked up on this trip to TJ Maxx. So here is my afternoon snack. I'm going to have my Siggy's vanilla yogurt. I really like this yogurt. It is so good. And this yogurt, if it'll focus, there we go, is three smart points. So I'm going to have that and I'm just going to pair that with a light string cheese. So this is going to be my four smart point snack. I have a little Ross haul and then two things I got at Trader Joe's. So first I'm gonna show you my little Ross haul. I went there primarily to buy a set of sheets for our spare bedroom. I will show you what that looks like once it is done but we are changing it from the decor that it currently has into more of a logi style. So I wanted black sheets that matched the comforter. So it's got four pillowcases, a flat and a fitted sheet and it was $17.99. I also needed a candle for that cute little lantern that I picked up at HomeGoods. And this smells amazing by the way. And it was $3.99. Clementine spice, yeah, yum. And then you guys look at these cute little Christmas things that I found. So this is an easel. It is so cute. One side says cookies with Santa. And then the other side says Christmas blend hot cocoa served here and it has this cute little string that attaches the two pieces of the easel. I'm in love. It was $7.99. I had to get it. I'm gonna be putting it into my office. And then I also had to pick this up. It says Merry Christmas with the red truck and I don't know if you can see but these are actual lights. So it just needs a battery and those will actually light up. So it'll look like a lighted Christmas tree on top of the red truck. And this was $4.99. So I couldn't pass it up. It's so cute. It's got that farmhouse rustic look that I wanted in my office. And then also for my office, I picked this up and it is gorgeous. It is two metal bins. So I want this for paper. I'm gonna hang this by my desk in my office. I love it. It has that rustic look to it. It's got the burlap strings and it was $22.99. So that's everything that I actually picked up at Ross. Ross is right next door to Trader Joe's. So I ran over because I saw these on Katie Hesby's channel. She does a lot of Trader Joe's hauls. So I always watch them.  This is the Trader Joe's advent calendar for dogs, salmon and sweet potato dog treats and they get a new treat every day throughout the month of December and they are all salmon and sweet potato. I'm so excited. How fun is that? And it was $5.99. It's great. It doesn't have any chicken or grain. So it's awesome for my dogs. I couldn't pass it up. So I picked up two, one for Diesel and one for Lola. So they are going to get in the Christmas spirit as well. So that's my little bit from Trader Joe's and my little haul from Ross. It's gonna be my dessert tonight. I decided to have one of these smart bakingco's smart muffins and pumpkin spice. You guys, these are outstanding. These are from the same company that makes the smart cake and the smart bun and these are literally to die for. I love the pumpkin spice.  And you guys, this entire muffin is only two smart points. I keep these in the freezer and then I just warm them up in the microwave for about a minute or so just to get them nice and warm and they are soft and delicious. So this is what I'm gonna be having for my dessert. If you're interested in ordering the smart muffins, smart cakes or smart buns, you can use my code here on the screen. It'll give you 10% off of your order. So definitely go check out smart baking company. There's a link down in the description box as well. So I'm gonna have the pumpkin spice muffin for two smart points. Thank you for joining me on this what I eat in a day to lose weight on WW. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the halls. I am having so much fun redecorating my home. I'm gonna be doing a home and office tour once everything is done. So definitely stay tuned for that. Everything is down in the description box including any recipes, discount codes, links. Everything for today's video is down in the description box. So definitely check that out. If you're new, welcome over to Jen's WW journey. I have a fantastic community and we would love to have you be part of it. So hit that subscribe button and the bell so you're notified whenever I upload. Thumbs up this video. It matters a ton to my channel and I really appreciate it. And of course, leave a comment down below and let me know what you thought of this what I eat in a day. Thank you guys for coming along with me today and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


Hey guys, welcome to sunny and sort of chilly, but actually really nice at Washington DC So I am here because NASA is here and I'm actually here for a few days doing some research in the NASA archives For the book, which I'll tell you about later But in the meantime, I wanted to share some really cool space history and just cool history stuff about DC Well, I'm here and we are don't worry. Oh, there's a truck home by We are also going to be going into the air and space museum So we've got a little bit of NASA history and then also the air and space museum So come with me and I will take you along on my space history tour of DC All right, so I should say I should narrate this a bit more This is day three of my four days in DC and I've been in the archives for three or two days already And I've got everything I need Amazingly, I just took photographs of everything guys. It's it's almost a thousand pages. It's awesome But I didn't think to take any pictures of the inside of NASA which in retrospect. Honestly, it's it's an office building It's not super exciting, but I thought I'd show you the outside of the building.  I've been really excited to do so for reference I am in Lafayette Square. So if we turn over this way, the White House is right behind me But the house that I am interested in right now is this yellow house on the corner that's behind me right there So this is the Dolly Madison house. This house actually has an incredible history for American history But the reason we are interested in it It's because this was actually NASA's original headquarters whenever we think about NASA We might think of the big building that I showed you guys earlier on East Street this little yellow house It's a three-story house has been added to and everything over the years since it was built But NASA moved in right after it was formed in 1958 and moved out Who will have to double-check the date on that one insert correct date here So when we think about the Mercury astronauts press conference, right? We've all seen the footage or more likely remember the footage of the scene in the right stuff when they're in that Ballroom this is where that actually happened. This was where the space task group met This is where everything at NASA started for like the first three years So I tried to get inside apparently now it is part of the federal court system So you're not allowed to wander in and take pictures of the inside of the ballroom So that's super neat. I'm really sad it couldn't go inside But I really wanted to share this little nugget of history next time you're in DC Lafayette Square And you come to see the White House because that's a thing people do come to the Dolly Madison house and where NASA started All right guys, so Clearly you can tell from different clothes and slightly different hair It's day two of my Space Nerd tour of Washington and as you can tell from the lunar module behind me I am at everybody's favorite go-to place for Space Nerdery in DC, which is the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum There is tons here. There's like aviation history war history like so much cool stuff It's worth getting to if you ever have the chance but for those of you who haven't been or maybe can't make it yet I'm gonna try to give you the the nuts and bolts of the best stuff You can possibly see and we're also going to be negotiating with a lot of school groups, but hopefully we can make this work Well, it obviously wouldn't be an air and space museum without a lot of space stuff and in this case Of course, this is the lunar module that you see behind me So this is LM2 this lunar module was actually built as a backup for LM1 LM1 was the lunar module flown on Apollo 5 without any legs as a sort of shakedown cruise of the lunar module So this was actually the backup for that mission and because Apollo 5 was so successful NASA didn't ever do another unmanned test of the lunar module It flew on Apollo 5 and then it flew on Apollo 9 with astronauts on board and they basically did a Lunar mission, but in Earth orbit. Apollo 9 severely underrated mission. So this lunar module has been Retrofitted to look like Apollo 11's lunar module So this was actually a training mock-up used and then in the 70s It was kind of tweaked to look like Apollo 11's lunar module So it isn't what it looks like when the astronauts used it, but it does look a lot like it did when it landed on the moon So this is super neat and it's honestly guys. It's amazing like I'm sort of here for scale But you can't totally tell you can see there is an astronaut there for scale sort of but it's so much bigger than you Think it's going to be but also so much more flimsy looking than you expect it to be Okay, so as many of you who've been here know or have heard about it would also know Apollo 11 it usually lives here of you as you would expect the main air and space museum in the country would have Apollo 11 Well, unfortunately, it is actually on loan right now I think it is currently in Houston and it's heading up to Seattle from what I've heard So we don't actually have a flown Apollo spacecraft here But we do have behind me and I will spin around to show you guys these we do have a flown Mercury and Gemini Mercury and Gemini. So let's look at what these are in detail. I'm gonna spin the camera around All right, so mercury we have friendship seven. We have John Glenn's flown capsule You guys can sort of see the wear and tear on the outside of it a little bit But it's the thing that always gets me with these and I'm gonna see if I can actually zoom in a tiny bit and show you the control panel Sort of there we go This thing is so teeny tiny I can't imagine putting this thing on as they said and actually getting into it and going into space Let's see if we can actually look at the heat shield of it We can kind of see the heat shield. It's hard because it's under glass So you can kind of see the heat shield where it was you know protecting him through the atmosphere And Gemini guys we have Gemini 4 the real Gemini 4 is flown I love this so again This is another one that every time I see them in person just shocks me how absolutely tiny they were so this one Of course was flown by Ed White on America's first EVA or spacewalk and Jim McDivitt in 1965 so you can see inside as well I'm trying to get some kind of shot on the inside for you guys we can see just how tiny it really is This is two guys so think about it. Okay, this spacecraft obviously this one was Gemini 4 It was not a super long mission, but imagine Gemini 7 That was the two-week endurance test to test the batteries and all the you know the fuel cells and stuff that they would need on Apollo That's two guys in here for two weeks So it's pretty pretty incredible and we're gonna walk around and I'm gonna try to show you guys because you can see it The where on the heat shield from reentry like that is Pretty great looking it kind of looks like a model of the moon Okay, a couple of other really neat things are on the ceiling behind me So I'm gonna attempt to show you guys well.  Nope wrong way Okay, you're gonna see them the reveal the reveal Full-scale model. Oh, I don't you point out that much full-scale model of Sputnik and Explorer 1 So of course as we all know Sputnik was the first ever satellite launched in 57 October 4th 57 It's not very big. I mean it looks big because I'm so far away from it But it's an epic size bigger than a basketball, but it weighed 184 pounds and just has these big long antenna So as you can imagine right you always hear people saying that they could see Sputnik as it passed overhead Well, let's look again at how absolutely tiny this thing is you're not seeing this from the earth Okay, what you're actually seeing oops, or there's my finger. Nope. Oh, you can't zoom on the front camera What you're actually seeing is the roof is the the light hitting the upper stage of the rocket that followed Sputnik into orbit So then over here on this side, we have Explorer 1 which as we know is America's first satellite You can kind of see they're both really small They're both really really small compared to things that we launched after that But that was of course the one that Warner from Brown and his team helped to get into space This was the one that was launched on behalf of the Army Vanguard 1 it was the one that was launched on behalf of the Navy and guys I didn't know this was here But we're gonna go find it next so that I can show you guys this because I I've never seen it But they have the TV 3 Vanguard 1 satellite here, and I'm super excited because it doesn't look good All right, so these were one more shot one more shot history's first two satellites And now let's go look at the first public failure of the American space age All right, I promised you guys America's failed for a satellite and here's America's failed for a satellite So the story we all know of the TV 3 Vanguard launch. This was never actually supposed to be a Space shop, but Eisenhower actually got this mixed up in a Briefing from one of his advisors and assumed that it was the launch the launch was broadcast live This is the and this was supposed to be a test fairing mine supposed to be a test So this was never supposed to actually be televised as like the first official space shot But it ended up as the first official space shot And of course the rocket raised off the launch pad a few inches and then lost thrust and then tumbled back on itself and exploded into a lovely poof of fire But the satellite this satellite that we're looking at right now Felt the loss of thrust and assumed that it was in space and separated from the launch vehicle And it ended up in a nearby puddle and it started broadcasting its beep for everyone to hear super proud Like it was in space only it was actually in a puddle and then they recovered it And this is actually what it looks like I have never seen this and this see if I can zoom in to some of the Cracked features on it and you could actually see the inside of it. This is super neat. So Vanguard TV 3 America Failed nationally and internationally on television All right, so we've got John Glenn's mercury space suit and unfortunately being under glass it's really hard to get a clean reflection, but I'm trying for you guys and Yeah, it's all in its beautiful silver glory and right next to it similarly under a reflective glass We have Yuri Gagarin's space suit, which is super neat and also kind of emphasizes Gary wasn't super tall. He actually wasn't much taller than me So here it is in all its orange glory Another super cool suit that is in this museum is Alexei Leonov's EVA suit. So here it is on a dummy, which I'm not actually sure I kind of feel like I heard at one point that this dummy is actually Ivan Ivanovich But here it is shown as it looked getting out of the airlock on Voskhod 2 So this is and you got to remember this is attached to a massive spacecraft and for good measure We of course have some moon suits. This is Dave Scott's EVA suit From Apollo 15. I love that you can still see the dust and grime on it. I mean, this is a worn-in Lunar EVA suit. It looks so good. I don't know. I love it And because we are not leaving out the Soviets This is a Soviet EVA suit. So instead of having the separate backpack It was actually built into the suit and kind of see that it's like, oh, it's reflective It's really really hard to show you guys, but basically there's a cavity where you'd put the suit on Oh, you can sort of see it there You put the suit on and then close it up with all the electronics against I guess you're sort of the inner suit Um, and this one. Yeah, it's a little bit harder looking than the Apollo suits But there you go. This was what the Soviets were planning to use when their cosmonauts walked on the moon All right, it is basically impossible to get this whole thing in a frame at all, but I'm gonna do my darndest We have a full-scale mock-up So here's the Soyuz side And over here we have the Apollo side. So this is obviously not flown. These are training mock-ups The flown stuff is obviously, you know, didn't quite make it back through the atmosphere But um, yeah, this is full-scale and it's just kind of amazing to see this up close and personal And I have told this story before but just in case you've forgotten it This is the docking module between the two spacecraft that there's this weird story here I'll bring it back down to me There's a weird story that it had to be a common docking module because neither the Americans nor the Soviets Were willing to be the female half of a male female docking mechanism Which is absolutely untrue. The two spacecrafts just had different atmospheres The the Soviets used a an oxygen nitrogen mixed gas environment with equivalent pressure atmospheric pressure to sea level and the Americans as we knew on Apollo used a Five psi of pure oxygen So you can't go between these two spacecraft without having a way to equalize the gases So this wasn't because no one wanted to be the female half of a docking unit This is because this was the only way to actually have the atmosphere pressurized between the two vehicles So the cosmonauts would go into this and and depressurize that and bleed it into the American side So they could go visit that and vice versa You couldn't actually have the two spacecraft open to one another because their oxygen systems were completely separate So this is another one behind me that's always impressive to see The last time I saw one was at the Kansas Cosmosphere and it was lying down. It's more impressive standing up So we have a v2 So as we know the v2 was the first uh, one of the first rockets the one that uh, Werner von Braun and dorm burger developed for the german army in the second world war that the united states then um Brought over or recovered and brought back to work on in white sands Now you see this little rocket in front of it this one right here This is the gpl designed WAP corporal, right? So they're it's much tinier than the uh, than the the v2 So you put these two things together and you get the bumper WAP. That's the first two-stage rocket Was the WAP corporal on top of the v2 Apparently there is a flown Apollo command module here. This is the command module from skylab 4 I love you can see how worn it is from re-entry Of course one of the coolest pieces in this museum would have to be The glamorous glinnis This is jager's bell x1 aircraft in which he broke the sand barrier in 1947 And every time I see this plane or even a mock-up or a model it blows my mind that it is so small All right guys hands down my favorite aircraft, you know is the x15. Oh my god. I am in love with this airplane Every time I see this it's so small It's just so small considering they went up to over 380,000 feet in this thing.  It's just nuts All right, so I am going to go ahead and say that my favorite thing in this museum this time around Might actually be the spirit of st. Louis for some reason or I guess st. Louis because I always pronounce that like a non-american So when you think about transatlantic flight like yes, okay Anyone who's been in an airplane and cross the atlantic ocean or any big body of water It's big these planes are big the last time I personally flew overseas Was in an airbus a380 the double decker massive jet and it was insane Can you imagine crossing the atlantic alone in this thing? I like I've always been a bit of a lindberg I mean, I've always been a lindberg fan who anyone who loves aviation and space history can't not be a lindberg fan I feel like I just have a new appreciation for just everything that he did seeing how small this thing is 33 hours from From brucevelt field in long islands in new york to paris france in that thing alone over the ocean All right guys. Thus ends my lightning fast tour of the air and space museum I've run out of time and I was also asked to please stop filming And to stop running around the outside of cases that are apparently beyond the velvet rope because I was looking for Very specific people who are honored in this museum, but oh well That is kind of the the highlights from the vintage space Perspective of course, there is world war one aviation golden age of aviation stuff Airmail stuff airline piloting history so much amazing stuff if you guys can make it Please do if you can't and find yourself in washington or near washington It's worth the day trip um and give yourselves plenty of time to see the museum. It is honestly incredible as always guys Okay, so uh, this is a one-off right you guys know I normally do straight up education videos if you do like that kind of stuff Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode and of course consider sponsoring vintage space You can do that there is a video right up here that tells you all about sponsorships So that I can continue making the content that you guys love and of course You can always follow me across social media on facebook twitter and instagram for daily vintage space content. All right Thank you so much guys. Thanks for watching


Study Macbeth or William Shakespeare? Let's do some word-level analysis on the relationship between Macbeth and Banquo. In Act 1, scene 3, after they receive the witch's prophecy, Macbeth says your children shall be king, and the pronoun your shows his growing jealousy of Banquo. Yet Banquo responds with a declarative sentence, you shall be king, echoing Macbeth's words. However, we can see that he is not jealous at all of his friend. Macbeth's growing jealousy is shown even more when he asks the rhetorical question, do you not hope your children shall be kings? Yet Banquo remains loyal to his friend. He says the instruments of darkness tell us truths and win us with honest trifles, and the metaphor instruments of darkness show he does not trust the witches or the supernatural elements. The alliteration in Tell and Truths show Banquo does not trust the supernatural. He does not trust the intentions of the witches. He's simply saying that the witches will tell you a small truth so that they can win your trust, but once they win your trust, they will then betray you.


Velocity Conference, this is O'Reilly Media's premier show around web performance, mobile performance, web ops, dev ops, and user experience design, kind of all holistically under one. This is the modern architecture that people, the top leaders are using. And this is innovation, and this is theCUBE, this is siliconangle.com's exclusive coverage of O'Reilly Media Velocity Conference. theCUBE is our flagship program, we've got the advanced instructor soon from the noise we're talking to the Alpha Geeks, the tech athletes, CEOs, presidents, and startups. And our next guest is James Siegel, the president of Edgecast, edgecast.com is your site. Great entrepreneurial story in your company. You guys six years ago started your company and grew it, and now on an amazing ramp, all because of software, all because of some intellectual property and some smart founders and a great team. James, welcome to theCUBE. John, it's great to be here, thanks. It's nice to hear somebody call me smart. Yeah.  Our co-host, Jeff Frick, went to Wharton, so we know he's not dumb, so we got to be smart to get into those schools. But in all seriousness, the modern era is something that we've been talking about here inside theCUBE with a variety of events, whether it's VMworld or it's whether an IBM show or here at Velocity or Strata, and everyone is now realizing pretty clearly there's pretty much a mandate, there's not even prescriptive at this point that the cloud, mobile, and this new environment of real time is a future. We're here now and they're building out, right? So there's a lot of pressure on folks to really kind of rethink and re-architect their businesses, changing their value changes, changing their infrastructure, changing their applications, and ultimately driving business value. What I find interesting though is your company is that an area that has to innovate or die because you're in the networking business, content delivery, application delivery, CDN, some call it, but that market is under a lot of pressure to be high performance. In a way, there is no SLAs because it's 100% available or you don't have customers. That's right, yeah, we're their insurance policy, right? So that's kind of the standard table stakes, 100% uptime, which is great, unlike the cloud, which is now getting to an SLA kind of discussion. But let's talk about what that means right now in the content delivery business, because when you have applications, Facebook just launched their Instagram video today. We had coverage there at the Facebook headquarters with SiliconANGLE, but this is the new normal. Applications, I need deliveries, not just hosting images on the network. This is about a new way to think about it. So you guys are powering applications and companies. You guys built a system that's modern and innovative. Talk about what you guys have done as a company and the product that you have that's so successful. Sure, and thanks for that intro. Edgecast is an interesting animal. We are both a software company, a SaaS platform that runs in the cloud, and we're a network. So we provide a huge amount of infrastructure, bandwidth, and delivery for all kinds of websites. More than 6,000 customers use us today. We power about 5% of the internet. And what's most interesting about how this works is you have to be able to support every single format of file, every piece of content, every kind of scripting paradigm, every kind of website innovation that's running out there, and then support it on every driver device, PC, mobile device, IPTV, IP-enabled device anywhere. And so that means that we have to be incredibly cutting edge. What we've done is we've distributed our servers in a very logical way that's relevant to today's internet. So a lot of the legacy CDNs have a highly distributed server infrastructure, maybe, I don't know, 130,000 servers, some massive waste of infrastructure deployed very inefficiently. And that worked fine during the days of EarthLink and AOL and Prodigy when you're having to dial up and access the internet. But in today's centralized internet where peering fabrics and interconnect exists, you want to be at the main aggregation points and you want to have massive storage compute capacity in a real sort of agile, scalable cloud infrastructure. And that's what Edgecast has built. So we have these large superpops and each of these have massive cloud storage and cloud caching software that we built. We call it Sailfish that runs a very centrally but nonetheless distributed cloud and that's what powers the websites for our customers. So we cash content, proximate to end users and deliver it low latency to end users. We accelerate dynamic websites and we do so with our application delivery network and that allows us to take any kind of dynamic request and make it go fast. And that gives the performance benefit to these websites and performance is everything. You mentioned uptime and availability. We can't go down. We're the insurance policy for these big websites. You know, a lot of the traffic has been around. A lot of companies grow with their legacy providers but one of the interesting things is with all the security concerns right now, I don't want my traffic on this network that's peering with that network or I got this service provider and that service provider. I got a lot of cost routing decisions, a lot of costs and a lot of, you know, that's a normal networking stuff. Okay, let's take it to another level of the business value now. The business value is, okay, I'm a company. I don't necessarily want to have protections just against security. I don't want to run my traffic with everybody else. I want private networking but I want all the benefits of the CDN. How is that trend evolving with you guys? Do you solve that problem? Do you have a solution there? Because people don't mind paying for value but so they think here's your public option, here's your private option. What are you guys doing in that area? So we've addressed that problem pretty head on. We have a new solution called Transact. It is our dedicated e-commerce network. What we've done is we've built a custom network specifically for internet retailers and it is completely segregated so that if other customers are social media customers like Twitter or big banking customers or large political customers or high profile websites are on this and they might get attacked or they might have big spikes that have to do with maybe sort of a Twitter bomb or something like that going off, we don't have to worry about that affecting our e-commerce customers.  You want to de-risk every element of your delivery to make sure it's rock solid and up and available. So being on a shared network that has everybody and their mother running traffic is just a risk you don't need to take. We've carved out this dedicated e-commerce network and we've even locked it down so that during the holiday season we freeze it.  They're not sitting there trying to say hey we'll give it for free and find some way to monetize this later. These guys figured it out so they need to protect their traffic. So a lot of the storage paradigms are now creeping into networking. Software-defined data center is a big hyped up worry we've been covering, software-defined networking, a lot of virtualization, a lot of tech involved. You guys have a software's key part of your platform and key part of your development but what did you guys do specifically that's just not just caching? What did you guys do to modernize, create that innovation?  There's probably three things that we really focus on as main technology differentiators. Number one is Sailfish. It's the name of our software that runs at the edge. It's a combination of a distributed file system and a really intelligent caching platform built together. And this gives all the features and capabilities that our customers enjoy with self-service, APIs and all the great configurations makes it available at the edge and does it very efficiently. We actually, we have our own cloud running at the edge on Sailfish and it is a highly distributed infrastructure in the software and data center that allows us to have commodity hardware running on smart technology and makes us very capital efficient. The next thing we did is a network topology that is relevant to today's internet. You know, we talked about the highly distributed model that doesn't really work anymore so we have these large centralized pops that give us tremendous capital efficiency. And then finally we use a load balancing technology that's IP based. So we can pinpoint where an end user is based on where their IP address is as compared to based on where their DNS server is for their ISP. And that means our service is a lot more accurate. So James, you're the co-founder and talk about on a personal level, you know, how you feel right now. As you started out six years ago, you got over 200 employees, 250 employees and growing, get some great revenue growth. What's up with the company? How do you feel and what's the next step for you guys? Well, personally, I feel like I'm a thoroughbred running the triple crown. Like I'm sitting here in the middle of the preakness having the best time of my life. This is what I trained on my life to do. My partners and I, this is the third business that we've built together. We've been in the web space in web hosting and app hosting and now in CDN. And we like to solve problems. We like to deliver value and we figured out a way to address a real sort of problem in the marketplace. There was a gap that weren't enough providers solving this problem for customers. And so we're really excited. It's been phenomenal growth to your point. You know, we've grown from 20 million to 40 million to 70 million to 100 million and we keep growing. And the fact that our business is profitable in a space where you never find profitable companies. I mean, basically fourth year of profitability it's unheard of. We're just excited. The potential is there. We clearly are committed to making this one of the biggest companies in the space. And we're just really excited about what we're doing. Great entrepreneurial story here at Velocity Conference. Again, you get the founders kind of run their company which I always say keep the founders around. They're in charge. But really the software and the architecture you guys put real modern innovative. Congratulations, James Siegel, the president and co-founder of Edgecast. This is theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We'll go out to the advanced district to see them from the noise. We'll be right back with our next guest after this short break.