Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a two box break of 2021 Panini Spectra football This is our last two box break of that case we popped open last week There's a break credit promo as well if you bought a team straight up the random number block does not count But if you bought a team straight up if you bought two straight up you follow those instructions right there You've got a chance at some break credit We'll do that randomizer at the end a very big thanks to this group right here for getting their spots straight up So for the people who bought their team straight up Yes, you will have a chance at that break credit And Stephen K ended up with the last spot mojo's before we ended up pulling the teams for those random number blocks now Thanks to the people who got to the random number block good set of teams right here The video itself of the randomizer is in a separate video, but the results are right here Thanks for that. Remember we marked those pick your team eight last night. So we know they're from the same case With all that being said Let's see what we got. Good luck. I think if you get a spot, we can't help fill the break track We need the closers to come and finish those off We're almost there. There's Tom Brady. I think if you buy spot that'll help fill the break Just one off the jersey number 13 out of 25 and happy new year to you too It'll happen. We just need people to make it happen right now For Danny and Tomlinson and we are running out of time boys and girls remember we started early today because the New Year's Eve holiday That means we're ending a little early today With some of the breaks that are on the cusp of filling we are We are reaching the towards the getting close to the end of the night already 31 out of 60 Najee Harris triple relic building blocks. That'll be for the Steelers Steelers are a number block team Steelers one It'll be for David And then we got Jamar Chase nice three color patch Neon purple autograph nice one for the bangles Terry picked up the bangles straight up It's got a got an outside chance. It may be a Offensive rookie of the year 13 out of 30 nice low number. We got Emmett Smith out of 149 That'll be for Dallas Rise above Devonta Smith. Jay dog. What time are you going to it's on the schedule? But a brown six o'clock Pacific nine o'clock Eastern four out of 60 Devonta Smith So I would encourage everyone to just get spots now just to help fill up these breaks before I run out of time Devonta Smith is a number block team Phillies Phillies Philadelphia Eagles that is four out of 60 So Philadelphia four will be Robert Ronkel and And a four out of five Quinn and Williams the vested veterans Three color patch and autograph another four for Robert Ronkel nice And of course out of fives and under train whistle All aboard the Big Hit Express All right another two packs Jalen Darden four out of 30 and a say Juan Barclay 68 out of 99 and we got a Justin Jefferson five out of eight Brilliance two color patch nice Vikings Patrick Davis Patrick Surtain 18 out of 35 Patrick Surtain the second That'll be for Patrick Davis and Denver. There's Terrell Davis to 35 Big Ben to 60 49 out of 60 And we got TJ Hawkins in 28 out of 35 brilliance relic for Detroit. It'll be for Riley And Tony was Sally Four out of 15 offensive tackle for the Jaguars. Remember him. I feel like he was one of the first Feel like he was one among the first of those modern offensive tackles Right if I'm not mistaken. Hey, I might be maybe there's some others.  That's another one for Robert Runkel last Bob Mocher. I think he was one of the first to be able to Be one of those big guys They were able to have like a sub 540 time like was was able to To have a lot of speed and power All right, we got a few orders coming in We got seven left in that immaculate basketball We still have one left in Bowman Draft and we've got two left and that flawless the last flawless number block We still haven't done the randomizer for the first one yet, but we'll do that shortly But let's do that one. Let's get the other one done that knocks out flawless. Then we can do immaculate Maybe some fast break and probably close out with Bowman Draft Usually not this pushy about about getting breaks done. There's a night three out of five Aaron Rodgers But just because we're running out of time You're not gonna see us again until Monday Or Sunday that is you're gonna you're gonna miss us tomorrow for New Year's Day So that's what I'm trying to encourage everybody to just don't worry about what everyone else is doing just buy spots get into the action and We'll get everything full as much full as possible All right, another train whistle Steven Kay all aboard the Big Hit Express Packers last spot mojo We got a rise above Kyle Pitts 918 out of 99 for Riley and the Falcons We got high voltage 13 out of 60 Adam Thielen piece of his jersey for Patrick and the Vikings Then we got Michael Vick four out of four Neon pink hyperparallel Riley and the Falcons and another train whistle nice one All aboard the Big Hit Express Next one Aaron Donald 46 out of 60 for the Rams Patrick Ian book 26 out of 75 for the Saints We got a nice Jalen waddle 20 out of 99 next era relic Playing some pretty good football Miami is a number-block team, so that'll be Dolphins zero And that'll be for Adam We got Najee Harris nice two-color patch and autograph. That's a great-looking card Pittsburgh is a number-block team So let's see the number on the back That is 43 out of 75 That's Mark Rao with Pittsburgh three nice Najee Harris Final two packs. Good luck And balls is gone nice See I knew it was gonna happen. Just kind of buy spot players. Oh, there's Darren Waller for my Raiders Two out of 25 Raiders got it out. I think they control their own destiny They went out there in the playoffs. Miami Brown Nine out of 50. I don't know how well they're gonna do if they get to the playoffs, but It'd be fun to see Darren wall needs to be healthy though. Miami Brown for Washington. We've got Sunday Spectacle TJ Hawkinson for Riley and the Lions 50 out of 50 We got Daryl Johnson two out of 20 For Dallas, that's gonna go to Terry and the Cowboys Old old Daryl Johnson Moose Johnson, right the final set of cards here. There's Derek Carr 96 out of 99 Barry Roberts with the Raiders There's Tua to 149 for the Dolphins. It's a number-block team that'll go to number seven Your final two hits we got Kellan Mon four out of ten Monumental memorabilia. Is he getting the start? I think her cousins is on this in the COVID protocol So it might be Kellan Mudd or Sean Mannion, maybe Patrick Davis with the Vikings And the last one here is Tyson Campbell 45 out of 50 Jaguars five that's gonna go to the number block and that's Gale with Jaguars five There you have it ladies and gentlemen, that was 2021 Panini Spectra football two box pick your team number eight from jaskiescasebreaks.com We don't have any more in the store So that it that is it for for spectra, but keep your eye out on Jasper's case breaks outcome in case we get more now. Let's give away some money Let's go back to the screen here Let's sort everybody's names alphabetically If you bought at least two teams you get an entry Anthony bought two that's an entry Barry bought two that's an entry Brody bought two that's an entry Nate bought two. That's an entry Patrick bought four. That's two entries Raymond bought two. That's an entry Riley bought four. That's two entries Stephen K. Bought two. That's an entry and Terry bought two. That's an entry The rest of those were number blocks, right? So it's a total of 11 entries An Anthony Barry Brody Nathan Patrick Raymond Riley just making sure all right. So that's pretty good odds to win some break credits. It's gonna be the top Top five get $200 of break credit to jaskiescasebreaks.com top five after seven three and a four seven times Good luck one two three four five six And once more, right? Yep, seventh and final time. Good luck After seven Riley Riley Anthony Patrick Nathan congrats to the top five 200 bucks of break credit each Going your way Riley. We're gonna send you $400 just in one break credit code. Check your email They'll arrive if you have a gift card code. Thanks for watching. Thanks for rigging with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


Tony gets open, gets to his spot, gets hit right in the hands, right through his hands. Just too odd for him, I guess. God, what the hell, man?  I think that's what it is.   What's he supposed to do? He's cold. Get him a jacket. Get this man a jacket, okay? Okay, perfect. Fucking, what am I supposed to do?  I don't worry about it, man. We still got a big lead. It's all good. Pat's thinking, no, it's not. I'm not thinking any of those things. I'm mad.


What's up guys got a new toy here. It's called the porta blaster just got this not too long ago They sent it to me cuz kind of curious this thing is pretty light. I mean, it's like two fingers Everything's tucked inside of it. Now as you guys know, I have a Milwaukee transfer pump Well, guess what it's already leaking out of the seal already and I haven't even done nothing It would have caused that so I'm kind of looking forward to using this one because it's got a few features on it That should protect the seals Unlike my Milwaukee that wasn't really built for what I was using it for this right here It's pretty simple as you see and I just put it together and then you got your water line here Got a quick disconnect on there. You've got your outlet so hooks right on to there It's got a little screen on the bottom of it to protect you from sucking things up This is gonna come in handy for today's cleaning cuz I'm doing evaporators inside I don't want to run a hose all the way through the building. This does not run on batteries But I've got the battery pack here from Milwaukee that gives me 120 volts here This thing is so efficient. It can actually run it low power High power this thing only pulls 80 watts and I believe this does a hundred and eighty We're gonna be good to go there So I can carry this thing inside the store and I have to run no extension cord or you can always use your you know Cheaters or whatever it is you've got to do.  So when you want to spray it There's a hundred and hundred and fifty pounds of pressure Drops down to about a hundred and five hundred and ten once running. That's on high. Here's low low drops down to about 70 we've got a adjustable spray pattern if you want to just rent something off that'll work out good there and If you want to go higher pressure, you can go there. This is two coils thick. You got to remember to So I mean it's it's it's making its way through it and then depending on what you're doing like me I'm going to clean off the evaporators inside on the walking cooler Now it gives you a heck of a lot of hose here That's I don't know I'd have to look it up, but I would say it's probably over a bit of 15 foot It's great to talk about things, but I'd rather see things being used. I'm going to run it on low at first So here we are back and come in here with this real fine mist We're not coming in really hard so we're not going to overfill the can. Let's go ahead and do high now We're able to knock those All that crud off with a no problem at all I think the only thing I'm going to change on this I'm gonna get my bending tool out and we'll see if I can't bend this into a 90 because for me I need that that angle so that I can get in there So that would be the only thing I would change on this is put a 90 on it So I can get in there like this because I don't have the room to go at an angle like this very easily Normally these are right up against the wall and you're never going to get into them like this That piece right there is a little too short to be able to bend it there So I'm probably got to bend it an inch down from there All right I do not recommend trying to bend this with your bending tool because it will kink the stainless steel here It's not gonna hurt anything, but it's gonna give me a better 90 if I was really worried about it I could always cut it here here and put a 90 on it and just solder onto it. Not a big deal That's what they did here. You can see that's been soldered on Hey, we got some really misty ice machine here, and I've been scrubbing at it. I've done giving up We're gonna just trash the ice so we put it on low back all over the place It's all that throughout already we're making some progress It's making this a lot easier just by using soapy water and running it right through the machine So it's doing really good job All right.   I mean time will tell I've only had it for a short duration of time, but as of right now, it seems to be working really good I ran this thing for probably 25 gallons 30 gallons in my Milwaukee Power supply there still has one bar left. I think I was at three when I started Otherwise you can get the extension cord out. I just didn't want to mess with it hands. I'm out here in a dining room area So guys make sure you check out stuff code tools and until next time we'll catch you on the next one


Hello, my name is Balaji, I work for the Common Wealth of Learning. I'm happy to be able to present to you some of my ideas on the advancement of open educational resource publishing in the developing world and how partners associated with the Linked-Up Project can contribute to its further advancement. The Common Wealth of Learning, where I work, is an intergovernmental agency which was founded by the Prime Ministers of the Common Wealth in 1987 and our broad objective is to advance access to affordable and quality education at all levels and we work with every common wealth country and we are supported by at any given time by 45 governments of the Common Wealth and we report to the Prime Ministers and the Education Ministers of the Common Wealth. I'm very happy to be associated with the Linked-Up Project, which we cherish and I want to thank America Guy for giving me this opportunity. Now what is my very brief view of where we are on this subject, that when you look at it from way above, you find that developing countries today are major producers of open educational resources and most of this work occurs in large institutions rather than in small ones and the most important development that we find is that there is a significant need for value addition to this effort, value addition can be in many ways but from my point of view it should take place in terms of building new educational employability ontologies and to do everything possible to assure quality. In order to give you a picture, I want to make use of one of our projects that we are connected with. This is our own directory for open educational resources and we started to work on open educational resources directory after we concluded the World Open Education Resources Congress along with UNESCO almost exactly two years back. This in a sense you could also say a kind of stock taking of all those developments after the two years. We are making, we are constructing this, we are maintaining this directory a very simple directory for open educational resources of the commonwealth and we are looking primarily at resources in English although commonwealth has many, many languages because of this particular focus we are living out one very large producer in fact a super large producer in English namely the United States of America. We are also living out producers in other languages such as China, France, Brazil, etc. But don't mistake us, this filter is mainly to give you a flavor of where developing countries stand. Now doing a very close analysis of do it through a lot of analytics that my colleagues Michelle Gruda and Panis Parish and several others have been able to bring forward. What we find is that there is a lot of protection taking place from the developing world in terms of higher education and calls very important areas namely open schooling which allows people who have dropped out of school at the school going age to return to school when they are at work as semi-skilled or non-skilled workers. It's a very, very important area and we find that a lot of open education resources are getting published there. Teacher education is very, very important because in the continent of Africa alone there is a need for over 1.4 million teachers in the next few years even to reach the essential levels of literacy and most of these teachers, available teachers do not have the requisite training. So teacher education is very important. We find that a lot of open education resources are getting produced there. The other important area that has emerged rapidly even in the developed world is the skills development area. The skills development sector for various reasons is linked with employability, income generation, etc. even in developed countries and you would note that developing countries are already producing quite an amount of material in this particular area and a lot more can be done with your partnership. Now again going to further on this picture you find that who are the top producing countries in this slide. You find that United Kingdom among Commonwealth countries of course leads the whole show because of their historical investment and very strong interest of the academia in this particular topic and are rapidly emerging actors are India, Nigeria, South Africa and Pakistan. These are emerging as large producers in a relatively short span of time and you also find that even countries such as Ghana are coming forward with publication of open educational resources. Remember that we are still talking only about OER in English and who are the top publishers. You find that the National Open University of Nigeria is a major publisher as is the national program on technology enhanced learning in India. Of course the Open University of UK which inspired the founding of the Commonwealth of Learning is a major, major publisher. There are several others which have emerged almost entirely in the span of about three years time. And what do they work on? I mean if you look at the subject tags you find that most of the OER publishing relates to STEM topics. Mathematics is a big topic. Science and technology broadly is a big topic. Physics is a big one. You find that engineering sciences, especially mechanical engineering, computer sciences are very big topics. This is quite in a sense in stance and sharp relief. If you looked at the fact that when distance education was emerging as a major paradigm, the topics covered primarily were language teaching, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, et cetera. And engineering and sciences came much, much later. Whereas in the area of open educational resources publishing where the same or similar actors are involved, you find that the subjects are very different. That probably reflects the priorities of the milieu we are living in today. And we follow a very broad based descriptor system called A2 tags. And A2 tags are included in our online directory service. And you find that when going by the frequency of occurrence of these tags, you find that most resources produced by English use in commonwealth are in the area of higher education and undergraduate area, especially focusing on the undergraduate area. Although as we said, teacher education, et cetera, are important, they are still classed mostly with post-secondary undergraduate area. This also shows the emerging emphasis on post-secondary college education when it comes to educational publishing in these countries. Now looking at all this, where do we stand? One is that there was a view. And at the time when UNESCO coined the term open education resources in 2002, the broad belief was that the developed countries would be major producers of open educational resources. And the rest of the world, including developed countries, would be consuming them. Now this view was kind of challenged in 2007 during the Cape Town Declaration meeting on OER. And since then, it has rapidly emerged that developing countries are producing OER in large quantities, as it just happened to see. And it's more appropriate to say that developing countries are both good producers and therefore are likely to be good consumers as well. And while looking at it, let's look at some of the typical OERs that some of these institutions are able to publish. For example, here we are looking at a product, an OER from the Open Education, from the National Open University of Nigeria, which relates broadly to teacher education. And you find that it's essentially course material presented as somewhat like a textbook in PDF form. This is one of the most popular forms with many of these institutions. And here is another example from India where they use online video in a big way. Here is one course in YouTube. They've placed close to about 6,000 hours of video on YouTube, which have received a combined view of over 100 million. And there are many other formats possible, but these two seem to be very, very popular with developing country OER publishers. What are the three key areas that are emerging from this large-scale publishing? Find that one concern or one interest is on reuse and adaptation because a lot of this OER is produced with public money, with tax money. And therefore it should lead to an impact that socially and economically meaningful. In order to do so, the call and the Inesco have been advocating that reuse and adaptation should be encouraged on a very large scale. That's one value addition we should be able to do. The other is improving the discoverability of OER because OER is still not easily discovered in popular search engines and through available techniques, even advanced ones are not good enough. And therefore, linked data must be used in a more extensive way to improve discoverability of OER and link the project is already making a big contribution here. The other very important concern is quality of OER. In fact, quality of OER is so, and OER and quality can be said to be almost synonymous from the eyes of a developing country teacher because they look for OER largely because they cannot find quality stuff in their own milieu. Now, how do you assure quality of OER? One trend, one thought trend we advocate is that socializing is the best route to understand and assess the quality of OER. And we need to look at all these three in a way that linked up project partners can contribute to. We'll go into these details now. Looking at reuse and adaptation, we know from our experience and the number of studies that we have published via call and through with our partners, Atabaskar University and Vavasan Open University, that this process proceeds well when users really know the values. They are looking for educational value of a resource, especially things like a level of attainment, maturity capability, prior learning, pre-rex, et cetera. These are not readily available with the OER and therefore we need to find ways through which this data can be made easily available and accessible. The other very important and are rapidly emerging requirement is to assess the employability skills development values of OER. In fact, this point was stressed at the time of launch of linked up project by Professor Dragan Kasevich from Atabaskar University. Subsequently, Professor David Porter at BC Campus Canada has also been talking about it. We need to go into this in very great detail and with a sense of urgency. Socializing OER is of course a very, very important one. It's already taking place on a very large scale in online spaces such as YouTube or Facebook. In fact, going back to this particular OER, what you find is that there is a lot of commentary already taking place here and many students would derive a great deal of value if there is a way to pass them, generate meaningful inferences from them and make them available in some, in a way that a teacher or a learner can take advantage of that. This is one challenge I thought we all could collectively address. Skills development, as I said, is a very, very important one and the employability considerations are also becoming very, very important and there is a need for some kind of a new ontology in this. You know, in terms of educational value, the very large LRMI project operating primarily from United States is coming out with a number of ideas, although a lot more could be done has come out with a number of new ideas, but in terms of employability, we need to really go into an ontology type of approach and this is very, very urgently required and this is one area where, you know, by giving this description to a reasonable volume of OER, we will find that we are generating a huge following among developing countries for all our projects. Here, for example, you know, skills development is such a priority as you can see here, like hundreds of millions of dollars are being borrowed by poor countries in order to build skills and they believe ICT as you can see here. Everyone says that ICT is going to play a very, very critical role in all these things. Information technology is going to play a very critical role and here is our opportunity to build a system by which skills development and related data and data sets can be made available to learners and teachers and here is another example. Using the OER already published by NPTEL, they are offering a course which is meant for skills enhancement of students as well as practicing young professionals in the area of IT and very large-scale certification, et cetera, have been planned with industry associations. From the organizer of this course, I understood that there are 55,000 registrants in this course currently of which 10,000 have paid up in order to undergo the testing. So that's a major advancement in deployment of OER for a socially useful purpose and we need to do more of that. The last but not the least is that all developing country students do not have the level of internet access that a developed country student or learner can take for granted. In fact, 80% of them will have extremely limited access. In that condition, you know, there is a need for off-lining OER. In fact, we have been talking about this in LinkedUp data project that off-lining need not mean loss of data. In fact, even in offline situations, the LinkedUp data can be extremely useful. And to test some of these ideas in call, we have built a prototype. We call it APTES, which allows a complete off-lining of variety of educational resources, open educational resources for this, for example, using this small device here. And we have deployed it in circumstances like what you see here in 15 countries in 20 locations. And our results are coming in and here is a very, you know, I won't go into this detail except to show that this very small device costs about $100 and can host a server. It runs on Ubuntu Linux and it's able to host Moodle such that 20 to 25 people can access it easily. It also allows access to Khan Academy videos and part of Wikipedia, et cetera. And it's working successfully in the field. So off-lining is possible in a very, very meaningful way and the LinkedData could also be made available in that circumstance. We need to explore this as well. Now going back to my slides, I'm coming to my conclusion. So what should we be looking forward to from the point of view of the common wealth of learning? One is that this group can help us understand discoverability better and help us identify improvements in discoverability so that people from developing world are in an even better position to make use of OER or as they design and publish them, they make them more discoverable. The other is creation of new ontologies for skills development and employability, which as I repeatedly said is an absolute must and this is a matter of urgency as well. The last but not the least is improving, further improving data on educational value. The other one aspect I would stress once again on is use of social media, the commentary available in social media and socializing processes in order to improve assessment of the educational value quality of OER. We look forward to hearing from you about your deliberations and personally sorry that I'm not able to be present for various reasons. I once again want to thank the organizer of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Marika Gai for this opportunity.


China's currency struggles spell trouble across emerging markets. Just months ago, the Chinese Yuan was reigning supreme as emerging markets own haven asset, shielding investors from the turbulence of war and runaway inflation. Today, it's turning into a threat. As growth sputters in the world's second biggest economy, its currency has tumbled to a two-year low in looks set for further losses. That's pushing Goldman Sachs Group incorporated to Sebab to predict shock waves not just in China's neighborhood but as far away as Africa and Latin America, with the cheaper Yuan hitting other nations' export appeal and sparking competitive devaluations. With the Yuan set to weaken further, other emerging markets will face downward pressure on their currencies, said Perhamerland, the chief emerging market strategist at Scandinaviska and skilled a bankinab. The impact will be felt the most by nations which compete directly with China on exports. The Yuan declined for a sixth consecutive month in August, capping the longest-losing streak since the height of the U.S.-led trade war in October 2018. It will fall even more and cross the psychological mark of $7 per dollar this year, banks including Sausage General ASA, Nomura Holdings Incorporated and Bank of America Corporation say. It's a stunning reversal for a currency that stood out for its resilience at the outbreak of Russia's war in Ukraine. In the days following the February 24 invasion, the Yuan was the only emerging market exchange rate to avoid a decline, trading at an almost four-year high against MSCI Incorporated's benchmark index. Global demand for it deepened, from countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia looking to reduce their reliance on the dollar to U.S.-pond investors seeking new havens. But in the past month, sentiment has reversed. China's zero COVID policy, ballooning property crisis and growth slow down are fueling an exodus of foreign capital, even as domestic inflationary expectations surge. China's central bank has sought to push back against the depreciation. It set the Yuan fixing at a stronger than expected level for the ninth straight session, however the dollar's strength is undermining such defensive tactics. Data releases scheduled for this week don't look promising either. They may show declines in China's foreign reserves and export growth, besides a deceleration in services. Joined at the hip. A weaker Yuan has wider repercussions for emerging markets, which have endured two years of elevated inflation, jitters over the Federal Reserve's monetary tightening and the prospect of recession in key Western markets. The Chinese currency, with its 30% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Currency Index, is pushing the gauge to the worst year since 2015. In fact, the offshore Yuan's 120-day rolling correlation with the emerging world hovers near the highest level in two years, underscoring its impact. Goldman and Sao Xia-tae-generalay say the weaker Yuan could pull the South Korean one, Taiwanese dollar, Thai bot, Malaysian ringgit and South African ran down with it. Seb sees the Mexican pace so, Hungarian foreign, Romanian-Lehuan-Turkish lira as the most vulnerable. Trade and financial linkages have significantly strengthened between China and other emerging markets, prominently over the past decade, said Phoenix Kalin, the head of research at Sao Xia-tae-generalay. These deeply embedded relationships render the situation much more difficult for global emerging market currencies to decouple from China. What to watch this week? China will report data for August that may show a drop in foreign exchange reserves, slow down in exports and a softer factory gate inflation print. Data may show that government stimulus helped fuel a credit rebound. China's services activity growth held firm in August and expanded for a third straight month, a private survey showed Monday. Global banks in Malaysia, Poland, Chile and Peru are expected to raise interest rates. Turkey, Hungary, Thailand, Philippines, Mexico and Colombia are set to report inflation figures.


What's better one takedown here back with another pet peeve video. If you guys didn't know, I used to work automotive parts and service. I worked that for five years. And honestly, working the service counter was the most stressful position I have ever been in. So today I decided I'm going to be sharing some of my pet peeves from back whenever I used to work automotive service. Let's get right into this. So the first one here, when a vehicle would get towed into the shop and the owner of the vehicle was not with them, it did not call and did not let us know what was going on, then the customer would come back in later and expect their vehicle to be finished. So one thing at my location, our service shop, when a vehicle would get towed in, if the customer was not with them, if the tow truck driver didn't know where they were and if they didn't leave the tow truck driver with contact information, we weren't able to do anything to the customer's vehicle. No matter how simple of a job it is or something that is really obvious, like a flat tire, obviously you can check that from being outside of the vehicle. You'd be able to tell if it has a flat tire. But if we never were, if we're not able to talk to the customer, if we can't get a hold of the customer or the customer is not with the vehicle, then we cannot do anything to the vehicle. And then customers used to always come back in later, pissed off that it's not done, especially whenever we would tell them that we didn't do anything to it. It's not our fault. And the reason for that is if we don't have your vehicle, if we don't have your, for example, if we don't have your information, we can't talk to you, we can't go ahead and do anything to your vehicle because you could simply turn around, lie and say that that's not what you wanted done. Then you just got all of that work done on your vehicle for free. So just one thing that we do to avoid that is we don't do anything to your vehicle unless we're able to contact the customer. The next one here is since we were near the highway, when travelers would have a problem with their vehicle and come in to see us, they would think they would be top priority and all other work in the shop would stop, just so we can get their vehicle done. So for me, that is just not the case.  If you're not in our system, we don't consider you top priority. Our regular customers that live in the area that come to us quite frequently, they are top priority. So if you come in, if your vehicle broke down or anything like that, we would try to get to you as fast as we could, but we can't stop any work that is in the shop and we can't stop any progress for scheduled appointments or anything like that. In between jobs and in between scheduled appointments, if mechanic has free time, they will go and do a little bit to your vehicle, try to do as fast as they can to get you out of here. Because the last thing we want is you waiting around for hours to get your vehicle back. But sometimes we couldn't avoid that. And a lot of time these travelers, people that their vehicles break down when they're traveling on the highway, they wouldn't understand and they'd get really pissed off and very vocal to us. And it's not our problem.  So that is the major thing that used to piss me off the most working the service counter and being in charge of service. The next thing is when a customer would drop off their vehicle, but forget to bring us the keys, meaning we can't do anything to the vehicle. This used to happen a lot of time when people would drop off their vehicle and go to work. They would take their keys to work with them. And then we sometimes weren't able to call them, especially if we're not able to reach them when they're at work.  But our mechanics sometimes would be a little bit frustrated and try to take it out on us. And it's like, hey, it's not our faults. They left the vehicle, they took the keys with them. It's not the service person's faults. The next ones here would be when a customer would come in for safety, but they don't pass. They fail the safety.   I really need my vehicle or something as small as that. You guys can't pass me for the safety. No, we can't. We have to do a specific way. We have to follow standards. We have the book in front of us of everything that gets checked. Everything has to be checked by the mechanic, the one that is doing the safety. He has to sign off on it and I have to sign off on it. So if there's something that we say is okay, if we fake a safety, if you get stopped by MTO, Ministry of Transportation, that falls back on us because our signatures are on it. So not only would the mechanic that did the safety get in trouble, but I would get in trouble too. And I'm not risking a huge fine just to get your vehicle back on the road, even if it's unsafe. So I'm definitely not going to do that.  The next one is when a customer would come in for tire repair, but their tire is beyond repair. And they should be replaced, but they just want it repaired. Some of the time customers would be understanding and would just go ahead and replace that one tire or sometimes two if it, depending on the vehicle and what their situation is. But a lot of time the customer would just demand their tire repaired. At that point, we would turn them away. We wouldn't even do anything to the vehicle because if we attempted to repair something that is unreparable, and if they were to go down the road and it blow out, cause an accident, something like that, that could fall back on us as well. I just got that tire replaced. Where did you get it done? Or I just got that tire repaired. Where did you get it done? He tells them that you got it done at our place.  So that's one thing we would just never do.  But once the job is done, complain on the price. This used to be the most frustrating thing for me. It's because I would be sure, especially if it's a big job. For example, if we're doing a full exhaust system or something like that, a full brake job maybe even. I would break down every single thing that we are going to do, put it on the work order. Every single thing at every small little thing that costs money. I would share the total amount with the customer so they know they're not going to be going over that price point. So if there is some things that we didn't use for the job or some things that turned out we didn't need for the job, I would take it off their bill, but I would always do a max amount for them and tell them this is the max that you'd have to pay. So if they did end up saying complaining on the price, then I'd be able to pull this out and say, this is what I showed you. And if they called over a manager, I'd be able to show the manager and say, this is what they agreed to get done. So it used to happen quite a bit, but it's usually the ones that would try to scam us. They knew that they were doing it, but they just wanted to get something free or at least a little cheaper, and it never worked out for them. Next is when management would yell at us if something in the shop would get done wrong or if something in the shop went wrong. It's not the service employee's fault. And a lot of times it's not even the mechanic's fault. If something goes wrong, it could have just been something else happened on the vehicle or something like that, or if something didn't get done right, there's usually a reason behind it. Management shouldn't really be taking it out on us or the mechanics for the most part, but I used to always hate that about the job because it used to always fall down on us all the time we were the ones to blame, which in my opinion I completely disagree with. Next is when a customer would drop off their vehicle and expect us to drive them home or to work. Now that was just never the case. We never usually did that. Some of the times manager would get involved and manager would force somebody to go and drive them home or that, but my opinion is we're an automotive shop. We're here to fix your vehicle. We are not a taxi service. We can't take you home. Some customers would live really close and within a less than five minute walking distance, but a lot of the time they would still demand to ride home. I understand more for elder customers giving them a ride home so it's safer for them, but some of the other ones, especially if you need to ride to work, you should have planned that. You knew you were bringing your vehicle to us. We can't drop everything and take you to work because then our vehicle, the vehicle you brought in to get repaired, it's going to be there a little bit longer and that might make us have to push back other customers' vehicles and we honestly hate doing that to other customers. It is not something that we enjoy doing. The next is when a customer would get mad because we charge to install batteries. Now the one thing I will say is some batteries are really easy. Some batteries take 10 minutes to change, especially if they're an easy, you disconnect the battery, pull it out, put the new one in and connect it. Some batteries you have to take apart a lot of the engine bay, which sucks. Some batteries are underneath the floor of the seats, preferably SUVs are like that, where you have to disassemble some of the trim or take apart some of the seats to be able to take out the battery, which takes a lot more work.   So some vehicles take a lot longer to do the battery than others. If you know your vehicle is one of the challenging ones, you know you have to pay. Regardless, you will have to pay, but usually we will tell you what you have to pay before we do it. That saves the headache, and then if the customer doesn't want us to do it, they are going to go do it themselves. They have the right to go and do that. So that's one thing we used to always get as a complaint is, why do you charge to do batteries? Some jobs take a lot longer to do. The next is, when a customer would walk out into our automotive shop and watch the mechanics work on their vehicle. That was the major thing that was a no-no. I used to always kick out customers, and I enjoyed kicking out customers whenever they would attempt to do this, because our automotive shop is employees only, and that is the safety reason, because we're not ensured if a customer is into the shop, if they get injured, we're not ensured, and they can sue us for getting in a lot of trouble and possibly shut down. To avoid this, we kick them out of the shop whenever they go into the shop. They're not allowed in the shop. There's big signs that we ended up having to put up saying employees only, which seemed to never work, so I used to always enjoy kicking them out of our shop. The next is, when a customer would come before the store had opened, and instead of waiting by the customer entrance, they would see the employee door and they would walk through the employee door and go into the store. I used to hate that, but even more, if they're dropping off their vehicle, they used to go in there because they think, because they're in the shop, they can just go through the employees, go into the mechanics area, and be able to give somebody the keys, which never was the case, because we'd always have a store meeting up front, a pretty much morning huddle, and I would always have to miss part of that if customers would come in the door, because I'd have to go and deal with them, and I'd be really pissed off. I used to always be like, well, the store's not open for another couple of minutes. You might have to wait. And I used to always kick people out, and if they're dropping off their vehicle, I'd say, sorry, you're gonna have to wait till the store opens. We have things up front that we have to do. We have our morning meeting in that. It used to be really frustrating for me. And the last one here is, when a customer calls needing something done to their vehicle, we can't get them in right away because we have schedules, and our location's scheduled appointments are number one priority. Walk-ins are secondary because we only had two mechanics, so we couldn't do walk-ins as often, and especially during tire season that, when we're extremely busy. But then the customer that wants to bring their vehicle in would respond saying it only takes 10 minutes. Now that saying right there, that it only takes 10 minutes, I have heard that so many times over the five years that I've worked automotive parts and service, customers would think small things like getting your tires taken off. If you're changing all four tires, that would only take 10 minutes, or something like an oil change, that would only take 10 minutes, where an oil change can be really quick if you go to one of the places that do a quick oil change. At our shop, we have to do an inspection of everything. We inspect the brakes, the suspension. We basically check everything, test your batteries, we inspect everything. We do a full-on inspection. Our oil changes take up to an hour. Tires to usually take up to an hour because we don't do tires all the time. We don't have that many mechanics, so we can't have three people doing it at once and get you out of there in 10 minutes. So it does take a lot longer to do things, and even batteries, people come in saying it only takes 10 minutes. If they have a vehicle that's batteries in a hidden spot, it could take an hour. So most of the time, we would always tell these people we can't get it done until such and such time, or if you bring the vehicle now, you might have to wait a little bit for us to do it, and they'd always be pissed off and say they'll do it themselves or take it somewhere because it only takes 10 minutes. Usually it does not. Usually it takes, like I said, usually an hour. Usually whenever we book anything, it's one hour in the shop, typically, but.  These are my top pet peeves. Anybody that works automotive parts and service might agree with these. If you do work automotive parts or service, comment down below which one of these you agree with, or if there's any that you disagree with, let me know as well. And if there's any that I missed that are major pet peeves that you believe I should have added to this list, maybe I forgot about them. Let me know down below as well. I'm going to leave this video here. In my opinion, automotive service is a really stressful job because you always have customers yelling at you because one of their biggest investments that anybody can own is a vehicle. So that's one of the reasons why they yell at us a lot more than any other position in the auto, any other position in the retail store. Would be us that would get yelled at. So I am going to leave this video here. I'm going to continue doing pet peeves in the future, but I'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace.


Thank you, thank you everyone for having me here today. I will be talking a little bit about basics of cleaning and sanitizing. This is webinar for fresh produce growers. I'll be brief, because I could talk here for over a week about cleaning and sanitizing programs for farm, for a packing house. So let's start with why it is important because cross contamination is a serious concern for produce growers because oftentimes, what are initially small amounts of contamination can spread to equipment, water, and produce and then can result in a widespread contamination events and outbreaks of foodborne disease. So growers can reduce their risks both in the field and after harvesting by limiting the opportunity for pathogens spread via cross contamination. And by doing that, growers following good agriculture practices can increasingly improve their produce quality and safety and protect their own businesses. So producers can use the standards cleaning and sanitizing practices to reduce source of microbial contamination through cross contamination on their produce. So cleaning and sanitizing programs, you have to think about when you were in a packing house or even in your field, we have those, what we call four zones of contact, four zones. So the zone one is the food contact surfaces. So this is where the produce contact directly. It is more the more critical one. So we can say there are harvest beans, there are roller brushes, containers, worker's hands and harvesting tools and everything that directly contact produce. So, and then cleaning and sanitizing is extremely important on this zone one. Zone two and three are adjacent to food contact surfaces. They are also important to pay attention. But in zone four, it's outside the packing house, let's say, but it's also important to maintain and cleaning and sanitizing program through all these four zones. So you limiting or reducing cross contamination and contamination of produce. So basically cleaning and sanitizing program are followed by four to five steps. Basically it's four steps. So first of all, we are going for physical removal of residues. When we are washing produce, whether it cares a lot of soil or a lot of residues, they can be cleaned out with a brush, removed manually with a brush, or you can just do a water rinse to remove the excess. And again, this water needs to be portable, safe to drink. It needs to be following the safe standards. And after that, then you will find the cleaning solution, what we call detergents. Then it's appropriated cleaning agents that will clean the soils or residues that you have in there.  You can use a acid rinse if you have a lot of mineral buildup, especially if you have heavy water on your facility. But mostly after this applying detergent, you do a final rinse with clean water that could be warm or cold water to remove all the excess of cleaner. And then you will apply the sanitizer. Sanitizers can be most soft sanitizers you don't need to rinse it out. You just apply the sanitize and let it dry. And then cleaning and sanitizing programs. I always like to say that it's unique to your facility, your practices and the commodities that you're washing. For example, root vegetables often require initial rinse scrubbing followed by one or two additional rinses to remove the soil residues. While fruits and vegetables that grow all above the ground might be brushed and wiped with other any kind of residue. So we can see the difference here based on your commodity and based on your practices. Some other commodities that are more delicate and more perishable products like strawberries, blueberries, the growers don't normally wash them with water. So all the processing, the sorting and the packing is in a dry facility, which is every time you're adding water to your processing, you're adding another point of contamination. Even though you're adding sanitizer to the water, even though it is still adding another source of contamination. But again, some produce cannot be dry washed or dry processed. They need to be washed with water, but then some other they don't need. So in this case, when you're washing small, when you're processing small fruits, you don't need to use, it is a dry facility. So you don't use water. So when you're cleaning and sanitizing your equipment, it is, it tends to be all dry cleaning. Unless you have equipment that it can be disassembled and then it can move to other areas that it can wash and clean and dry that is fine, but in the physical, the cleaning place, equipments, they're normally washed dry. So you don't add more contamination, more opportunities to grow bacteria on those areas. And you're choosing cleaning and sanitizers. Let's talk about cleaning. The cleaners normally for produce washing, you're gonna use alkaline detergents that are more likely to wash carbohydrates, which is the source that we are bringing from the field and then fruits and vegetables. And for any routine environmental cleaning, we are talking about equipment, we are talking about floors, we are talking about tools and we're talking about beans. Keep in mind that you're always using low water pressure because let's say if you're washing your floor and you have high pressure, it can splash to your everywhere and even to your packing line equipment and it can also contaminate if you have something in the floor, which is normally the dirtier players. When you're choosing the sanitizer, keep in mind that it needs to be EPA registered sanitizers. The most used ones are chlorine and peroxacetic acid based sanitizers and they need to be approved for food contact surfaces or produce washing when you are adding to the wash water. And be careful when you're using lubricants to you, the lubricants also need to be food grade so you don't have the chemical hazard introduced to your produce. So again, when you're talking about sanitizers, we are looking for the EPA registration number. So when you're looking at the label of your sanitizer, you look for this EPA registration number that is on the label of your sanitizer, but most of those sanitizers, they don't come with this nice looking for food and vegetable washing. They normally come this way. So they come with the EPA registration number and that's all. And you have to go to the EPA website and look for this number and look for the whole label, all the whole description of the product and see if it is intended for washing fruits and vegetables or food contact surfaces. There are some that are very similar that are not intended for washing fruit and vegetables such as florax that has a scented added to it. And then if you look at the label, it doesn't even have an EPA registration number. But again, some of those, they might have it but they might not intended for washing fruit and vegetables. So every time you have to go to the EPA registration number, the website, look for pesticide product and label system and you're gonna type this number in and you're just gonna open up a series of files. You're gonna click on the list updated one. You're gonna open up a PDF file with more than five pages. You're just gonna search for fruit and vegetable washing or food contact surfaces. And then it will tell you how to prepare and what concentration you should be using as well. So every time you're getting a new sanitizer, look at the label and look at the registration number and how to prepare and how to use it. And also in the current vegetable, a Southeast vegetable handbook, we have a list of sanitizers that can be used in wash water, dump tank or vegetable wash water. They're specified by the use, whether it's for using the wash dump tank or equipment, some concentration range, some use. But again, this is just to give you an idea and an overview of what sanitizers can be used. But again, every time you get a new one, go to the website and look at the label and read the label for the product. Some suppliers can provide a manual that you can read it through and then it has the specifications for it. But oftentimes you'll have to go online and look for the fact sheet and then the description of it. So and then important things to keep in mind about cleaning and sanitizing programs on your facilities is that you need to set up a cleaning and sanitizing schedule that can be determined by based on your volume of product, time interval or between individual lots of products. So it is your cleaning schedule. So you have to set it up so it has to be effective. It needs to make sense to the practices that are part of a normal operation.  So you need to follow that. And you also have to have easy to clean equipment on your facility. So if you can see this picture here, it shows a table that is definitely not easy to clean and any pathogen as microorganisms can hide with these crevices. So you have to be careful when you, with the type of equipment that you have. Sometimes retrofitting might not work, you need to get a new equipment. It doesn't mean that you have an old equipment, it cannot be cleaned or sanitized. So just keep that in mind. Segregate cleaning tools, you can use color-coded tools. It's very useful. So tools that equipment that you use to clean the bathrooms and you put in one color or you segregate them or brushes that you use on a packing line or a food contact surface that are different than you use to clean the floor or other adjacent areas. Keep pests and animals away from your processing area. So they all oftentimes bring pathogens. So you just wanna make sure that you have a pest control system and for everything you're doing on your packing house or in a processing or harvesting, you need to have detailed standard operating procedures and document everything you're doing based on your cleaning and on your practices. And lastly, workers' training is extremely important. They need to understand why cleaning and sanitizing is important and how to properly perform those practices. So that's why this is one of the most important concepts and key points, workers' training. They need to know what to do and properly how to do it. So to wrap up, I'm just gonna promote one of our programs that it's recently launched. It's called the AgWater Safety Program. It is a program that will provide educational support to growers and navigate through the new requirements related to the AgWater proposed rule for the produce safety rule. And you're also offering microbial water testing for you for free. So if you're interested in participating, you can access this link here and fill it up a pre-screening survey or you can use the key art code here and open the survey link. Or if you have any questions, you can reach out to me and I'll be happy to give you more information about this program. And questions, I'm open to question and thank you all for being here today.


Today's the big day today not tomorrow today not the day after tomorrow today Britt has already left the house with Theo and the dogs it is just me left waiting for the movers Let's get some light in here Theo must have sensed that we were Tense and excited and he didn't want to sleep through the whole night. So It is what it is We're doing good the TV down Everything is ready to go There's so much stuff so much stuff got the dog beds in there yet The bed in here already for them to take apart Theo's room in here that coach will be fun getting out of here. I Want them to take all the heavy stuff? We have them for four hours the movers So I want them to make sure well we can get all this stuff out of here and then plus the heavy stuff from the shop as well And I have that U-Haul trailer if I need to finish up anything apparently We just have them for four hours They have another job this afternoon. So that's okay. Apparently they're cool. They're really fast. So let's see What a whirlwind of a day a whirlwind of a day the majority of the moving is done We've got a few more little things to pick up at the house. And of course, we've got to say our Our goodbyes to the old house, which won't take very long. Let me tell you quick little see ya Never again We got all of our stuff out of here mostly the movers were able to pick up all of the heavy stuff for me Me my dad and my father-in-law we came here later on with the U-Haul trailer picked up the rest of it It's still a little bit of a chaotic mess here right now Organization is approaching we will be organizing this place soon. There's all blue so I am Leaving on old blue with old blue on a trip if they have one available for me next week I'm still waiting for our fence guy to come. I have an appointment with him in a few days To measure out the backyard fence at our new place There's a fence that goes around three-quarters of the property the back section isn't fenced You'll see why when I show you He's coming to give us a quote for that and and we'll set up a date next spring of when we can get it done In the meantime my dad and I are going to close up that back part just with a cheap Plywood fence four-foot plywood fence for now just to keep the dogs in the yard Just that we can let them run around have their fun and not worry about them chasing a bunny into the bush, you know So the plan for today Unpack everything So I didn't film anything during the actual actual move. This is the next day now I'm trying not to make this too confusing for the vlog The move in was yesterday today our furniture that we ordered for upstairs arrives and I've just got Aaron's drawn lots of Aaron's runs. We're here at the shop I need my charger for my drill really looking forward to giving us a little tour of the home. Oh It feels It's just it's it's a feeling that I can't express really I've never been this excited for a move before because usually like before I met Britt. It was just me I Moved many times is I move myself here move myself there. I am bored of over here I move over there. This isn't moving because we were bored of that place or Moving because you know, we had to move because of finances. No, this was us actually well It was a bit of an upgrade as well. So that feels good And it was moving to make room for our family and our kid that we have now That's a factor in our lives that we didn't have before So we were looking for a place to truly dig in our roots and settle down and we took our time looking And it came around actually a little quicker than we thought because we thought we'd be moving next year If we found something but the the perfect place that we fell in love with It's just so happened to pop up and all the stars aligned and we had some help from our family to make it happen, which we're so thankful for and And we made it happen. So it does feel really good. So now there's lots of work to do no time to sit around and chit-chat Blue don't get jealous on me. Don't get jealous Okay, I'm coming here to visit. Have you been I?  You miss me too. What was that? Something fell over Are you angry? I think all blue might be angry Is that you you're not angry at me, aren't you? You're not angry at me. I've kept you nice and tucked away inside a nice shop You're doing okay, right? I Do need to get a new took from you because while we were moving stuff over I lost my took Yeah, I don't it'll show up, but I need to Grab a different one here. I have them up here. Look at my house hat Right here One second, I don't find it here found it Also got to bring my shaver home I need a haircut. Look at this. It's getting out of control All right Shaver turn the lights off Okay, is that now I need my charger Where's my charger? You're in here, aren't you? There you are. Oh, there you are. Yep Why aren't you rolled up properly? So much organization is needed so much I keep saying that And I keep meaning it every time I say it more and more each time promise So, uh, that's all we got left back here of all this We took that bigger couch to the house that's going to be our garage couch Yep I think that's all I needed. Okay Now I've got to go buy the lumber needed to build that temporary fence It's just got to last until like next spring through the winter So we're just going to make it out of two by fours two by sixes and some Aspenite plywood or something I don't know. We'll figure it out. We'll uh, we'll throw it all together Make it look half decent and it'll do its job. It's just got to keep the dogs in the yard through the winter All right, old blue Okay Enjoy your vacation I got work to do No vacation for me E.G. Panner building center E.G. Panner. I need five sheets of four by eight Aspenite plywood three eights Instructions from my dad. He used to build houses. So I trust him When he says stuff about building stuff I would have built this myself It's probably gonna look a lot better and be a lot stronger now that he's helped me. Thanks dad for your help I I could have done it myself just saying but It probably would have fallen over $110 for five sheets of 716th OSB I don't buy a lot of OSB. Is that a lot? Are you what 22 bucks a sheet? I mean, it doesn't sound too bad to me, but I don't know what regular prices are everyone's always talking about how expensive everything is Was that expensive? I don't know 110 bucks And dad's got all the lumber to uh For all the the 2x6s. He ended up having enough for the frame So we can build the frame with the wood. He has already So this is 110 dollar fence It's not bad, eh? As long as it holds through the winter we get our money's worth The fence we're building there though the actual fence It'll probably be closer to between five and eight thousand dollars It's gonna be about What did I say about 50 feet or about 50 to 60 feet? Uh six by six posts six foot high wooden fence with uh 12 foot rolling gate in the center That's getting done in spring though And here it is This is our backyard Theo's got a little playhouse right over there And dad's here hard at work already Oh, yeah, let's give it a go already So we got the fence that goes all the way around the property Except for right here since there's no neighbors behind us They didn't close off the fence Because why would they now they have a bigger bigger yard right because we can use that no one else uses it They take care of it But this is where our property line is and we need to keep our dogs in the yard So this is where we're going to be building the fence It's 36 and a half feet from that lower section there that lower section there So we're just going to close the rest of that off And then our fence guy is going to come and finish the rest off in spring And make it matching to that six foot fencing there with those six by sixes For now we're just gonna close this up the best we can Yeah close it up for now make it safe dogs come play here Kids come play here if need be Yeah, so I'll show you more inside the house a little later So we've got this nice big deck out behind the house And that's what it looks like that's our view Much better, right? Nice and quiet Diesel you want to come see the yard? Chevy What you're gonna get stuck you're gonna get stuck let me open the door first diesel You let me open the door first Okay in patient There they go Oh, and we got another one Okay much more space for them to stretch their legs and run around So they're the reason why we got to close up that back there That they can't just go taking off All right, it's a few hours later or a couple hours later We've made a lot of progress. Let me show you Chevy's already out here enjoying the yard Watching my move Oh You got a yard you can run in again man. You like it?  It does the trick Dad's even sporting the trucker josh vlogs jacket or sweater. I haven't made these in a long time your hood's covenant I don't know if I sell those anymore. I'm gonna have to check the store I do have a store where you can buy stuff like that. It's down below every video. Have you noticed it yet? One more section right there and we're done and then probably tomorrow I just got to figure out we got a whole bunch of plywood That we're just gonna use to plug up the bottom of the fence Like along the sides here. You can see behind the the playhouse You see there's just a little bit of a gap underneath the fence there. I can't leave it like that because uh Weiner he's gonna get under there All right, here we go. I'm chasing her chasing rabbits I'm actually standing in a sandbox right now Theo has a sandbox I don't know if he'll use it or not because the dogs will be also using it but It's there. Maybe we'll put a little fence around it with a little gate for Theo to use so you can the dog stay out of it And that they don't you know pee in it This is his little playhouse And on this side there's a swing set for him and that beam runs right through I'll show you Just go inside here It's a little whiteboard here for him to scribble on And the windows Let me give you a wider angle Here we go.  So you You know what? I'm gonna be swinging on these things too Chevy, what do you think? Do you think this is your house? You can have it too Sure, you can share it with Theo. I'm sure he won't mind Pretty nice, see Yeah That was a bonus of the place. It's got a little front porch here Covered porch That was a bonus that was in the backyard. Now it's pretty cool Got a nice fire pit area back here That's nicely landscaped with limestone The grass here whoever the guys who lived here before us were just Grass wizards, I guess. I hope I can Keep that up We got this barn-like shed A little lean to to cover our firewood. They left us firewood too. Nice In here, there's just That padlock on the night yet. This will be where like the lawnmower and stuff is Kept There we go Be able to see better in the morning. I'm gonna do an official house tour You may have seen it already because I'll probably release it before I show you this video So if you've already seen the house tour You've already seen all this if you haven't seen it yet Go down to my playlist go down to my channel. Click my name down below go to my channel. You'll be able to see the The full house tour. I'm sure it'll be up and done before this video gets released But I'm not too sure in what order I'm gonna Put all the videos this week. We'll see. What do you think diesel? Is the backyard big enough for you?  So I wanted to Wrap it all up here for you because it's been chaos But uh, yeah, this is the basement Got the the couches that we had in our old place down here We've got a new coffee table well not new but we got a coffee table an end table and also a matching buffet table Over here That came from brit's mom's house Back here turn on the lights. I've got to put his uh light switch cover on his sesame street light switch cover it matches all of this And he's got his playroom back here It works out really good. I think This is where he'll be spending a lot of time. I'm sure I think while I spend a lot of time over here Much better a diesel carpet. That's something different I've never had carpet in a house before we're gonna see how this goes with dogs Because it traps in a lot of the dust mites and allergens, right? I'm not allergic or anything, but you know if the carpet gets dirty and dusty it plugs me up So we got to Stay on top of these keeping these things clean. I guess we're planning on getting a robot vacuum That'll keep most of the house clear uh During the day And then it's not such a big job at the end of the day But we'll probably have to vacuum pretty much every day just to keep this keep this clean The dogs aren't downstairs all the time diesel's a little bit older now He's having a little bit of a hard time getting up the stairs I always just give him a little helping hand on the way up just pushing him He can do it on his own, but you can tell his his back hips aren't working like they used to he's 12 years old now, so That's what it is. He can still do it though And Chevy's down here somewhere too. Chevy, where'd you go? He's probably sitting up here. There he is Hey, chef Is that your spot? So we got that fence all done.  Yeah, I'm good. I just be here You all good Theo I got his monitor up here I'll show you the fence in the back that we got done There it is So close up that area just nicely and today when I'm filming this end of day uh The fence guy actually came to measure everything out and give us a actor quote He gave us a quote before but now we can measure it out. We came up with a plan We're going to put a nice rolling gate in the back there as well so we can get through there with a vehicle if we need to And it's going to be six feet high. That's just four feet for now Which does the trick it's kind of nice because it lets us Have that view out the back, right? But we're going to replace it with a six foot fence across the back Just to close it up nice and We're going to be here forever and uh, you know in the future We'll probably have more dogs and you know how young dogs are and puppies Four foot fence is not going to keep them in And I also want the privacy as well when I'm playing in the backyard or when my kids are playing in the backyard I just want total privacy. Uh, so we can just do our own thing and not have to worry about people peering in and Whatever good fences make good neighbors, right? I got actually really good neighbors on both sides of me I've met them both already and I'm very happy very happy to say that we've got some great neighbors, so That was the only thing I was really worried about because I knew that the house was great, right? I knew I was very happy with the house That was always from what if we got bad neighbors that would ruin it all but nope turns out they're Great people. So that's where we're gonna end today's video guys. We've got the fence installed. We got moved in Uh, I'm gonna be oh, yeah, we got a new dining room set here. You've probably seen already Now we got new furniture up here for this area I still got to set everything up I'm gonna film the house tour shortly.  You're good. You're not gonna bark, right? You're gonna be good. Okay. I trust you There's so much more room in here. So nice Oh It's like a house on top of another house.  My parents house had a basement But the houses I've owned since I've moved out 2006 till now. I've never had a basement. I've just had crawl spaces Huh, look at this. I got a basement my very own basement Well, I share it with my wife and my son and my dogs But this is my room This is my office That's where all the vlog and the vlog making happens Vlog making editing as some people call it So I'm gonna sit down right there and wrap this up for you and get it on the internet so you can watch it So thanks for hanging out with me everybody I'm gonna get back on the road soon. There's a few more videos Uh about the house here surrounding the move and then we'll be back to work So stay safe out there and remember when you're behind the wheel Keep your eyes on the road. Keep your stick on the ice And drive safe


I actually get to introduce our next speaker, to get our next speaker, Donald Patrick Bradley Jr., you have to understand the Flynn effect, the steady rise of human intelligence across generations. What you're about to see coupled with his brother Nicholas, who easily whomps me at chess, is one of the two ways I obtained my personal testimony of the Flynn effect. Near the start of high school, Donnie delved into philosophy, deconstructionism, and critical theory, and then began relating these to relativity into such arcane fields as category theory, paraconsistent logic, and in oppositional geometry, with which I'm sure you're all familiar. I was planning to tell you how old he is now, but Donnie doesn't want anyone to focus on that. But in the true spirit of scholarship, he wants the focus to be on his thought. So with Donnie, as with all Bradleys, it's necessary to look past the precocious youth, the devilish good looks, and the hair to grasp the innovative and powerful ideas he brings. And to make no mistake, he will present powerful ideas. Donnie's paper, actually what is the title of Donnie's paper? It's exact as mathematics the formal potential of religious thought. So without further ado, I present to you Don Bradley 2.0, the upgrade. You know, earlier last night, apparently the parking garage was vandalized, and it kind of makes me wonder whether we're at war with some kind of like Mormon Luddite association or something. But anyway, I'll just start my talk. What is artificial intelligence? At some level, the model is our own intelligence. The Turing test itself is a test of a machine's ability to replicate human thought, and its goals, fluidity, creativity, and self-awareness are abstractions of our own strengths. And so the basic principles of different fields of human thought are often replicated in computer science. As in Hilary Putham's inferential scheme based on trial and error predicates, which makes use of the basic empirical trial and error self-adjustment that has the mechanism of both opera and conditioning and science. But in these efforts to make computers capable of sapient thought, a primordial part of our intelligence is routinely ignored, that of religious cognition. If we truly want to replicate human intelligence, then we must look at it in all of its manifestations, including especially those which, whether hyperbolic or not, humans have used to separate themselves from animals. Indeed, religion, through its foundational thinkers, is sometimes well aware of its potential for formalization. Speaking of his abilities as a prophet, Joseph Smith wrote in 1843, I cut the Gordian out of powers and I solved the mathematical problems of universities. And in a similar vein, Smith's claimed prophetic successor, James J. Strings, spoke of a generation that would, quote, make religion a science to be studied by laws as exact as mathematics. Objections will of course be raised that simulating religious thought would only create artificial stupidity or replicate magical thinking. But religious thought, however imperfect, can be fruitful when refined. For instance, the potential has for informing the allocation of computational resources, which will be mentioned later. And it is worth remembering the deep irony in science's rejection of religion. When Francis Bacon set out to reform the natural philosophy of his time, he did not look to the hegemonic epistemology of natural philosophy. Rather, he took inspiration from cold traditions, which although deeply flawed, he saw as an alternative to the natural philosophy that emphasized theory over experiment. Oh, shoot. Bacon explained, I understand magic as the science, which applies the knowledge of hidden forms to the production of wonderful operations. And by uniting, as they say, actives with passives reveals the wonderful operations of nature. Adopting for his new epistemology the methods and goals of natural magic, he added to the magical framework criteria such as replicability. And thus, the scientific method was born out of the very magical thinking we now use as a byword for irrationality. Science is vast. It looks to the farthest depths of our cosmos and the very infinitesimal scintilla of our existence and sees an overarching pattern connecting them. It has as its base the simplest mode of cognition for most animals. The same method by which a child learns not to touch a hot stove or learns to navigate a maze. Oh. Yeah, it took us 2.2 million years of our existence and 3.3 billion years of evolution to refine it to the rigor of what we now call science. If religion is yet rougher and more chaotic than science, perhaps it is because it is more ambitious and its mechanism is not so simple. In its crude form, it contains something greater like the rat whose clumsy mode of navigation contains the root of the empirical method. This calls to mind Strings' vision of a religion that will be a science, studied by rules as exact as those of mathematics. Perhaps religion is only an embryo of what it will become. Religion may become more formalized by and diversified, more formalized by mathematics, and mathematics may be informed by and diversified through religion. In this talk, I would like to carry forth this ambition. Attempting to explicate a formal system would require its own paper, so I will focus here on a few principles basic to religious thought that have the potential to expand the formal systems of mathematics and logic. Perhaps the reason why the formal potential of religion has been ignored is because parts of it can be hard, even impossible to axiomize. By this, I don't mean they can't be formalized, but rather that they topple an assumption running all the way through Plato to David Hilber, the assumption that a language must be composed of axioms and derivation rules. One of the few articles on the subject of formal systems in the field of religious discourses is Andrew Schumann's Poiroua Amur in the Theory of Massive Parallel Proves. Schumann describes here how Talmudic scholars countered Plainianism, which established itself on first principles from which all else was derived by creating a rule they called Poiroua Amur. The hermeneutic of Poiroua Amur, literally light and heavy, judged propositions only relative to each other. This directly opposes not only Plainianism, but the common present-day view of formal languages in which only what can be derived from a set of axioms and derivation rules is valid in a language. Despite Poiroua Amur's striking departure from the familiar languages constructed in both classical and non-classical logic, it can be given a mathematically formal definition. As Schumann observes, this formal theory could be realized by a cellular automaton, which will be called a proof-theoretic cellular automaton, whose self-states are regarded as well-formed formulas of a logical language. As a result, in deduction, we do not obtain derivation trees, and instead of the latter, we find derivation traces, i.e. the linear evolution of each singular premise. Schumann models Talmudic logic as a consistent formal system in the language of mathematics, which possesses such functions as modus ponens and synchro improves despite lacking axioms and other idols in the theater of traditional logic. The example of Poiroua Amur is important because it demonstrates one of the strong points of religious thought, its ability to deal with concurrency. The emerging field of concurrent computation deals with every program as a package of interacting computational processes that may, if necessary, be run in parallel. Schumann takes as his model for transitions in an automata the idea of parallel computation, a subfold of concurrent computation. In such a formal theory, he explains, the conclusion will be understood as a mass of parallel computing, i.e. the deduction will be considered as a transition in an automaton. Concurrent computation deals with every element as a process in and of itself and looks at how these processes can be effectively organized and integrated. It has proven highly useful in some of its implications, such as unbounded non-determinism, augure the possibility of hyper-turing machines that would transcend the normal limits of computation. More than any other enduring field of human thought, religion has thought to unify the disparate elements of human thought, and thus has the greatest potential to inform our thinking on concurrent processes. The role of religion in promoting the cohesion of groups has been noted by the researchers on the subject of adaptationary and evolutionary aspects of religion. Beyond social solidarity, there is a religion. There is also a more game-theoretic underpinning for the solidarity promoting strategies of religion. This demonstrates the unifying role of religion in the social sphere. One of the key problems used to illustrate the basics of concurrent computation is called the dining philosophers' problem. It goes like this. Five silent philosophers sit at a table around a bowl of spaghetti. A fork is placed between each pair of adjacent philosophers. Each philosopher must, must, much, oh my gosh, must alternately think and eat. However, a philosopher can only eat spaghetti when he has both left and right forks. Each fork can be held by only one philosopher, and so a philosopher can use the fork only if it is not being used by another philosopher. After he finishes eating, he needs to put down both forks available to the others. A philosopher can grab a fork on his right or the one on his left as they become available, but can't start eating before getting both of them. The problem is to find a concurrent algorithm such that no philosopher will starve. The immediate solution of telling each philosopher to look out for himself fouls. If each looks out for himself, he will think until the left fork is available, then pick it up, think until the right fork is available, pick it up, put the right fork down, put the left fork down and repeat indefinitely. This would cause them to mutually starve one another by creating a dialogue in which each philosopher has picked up the fork to the left and is waiting for the fork to the right to be put down, which never happens because A, each fork, each right fork is another philosopher's left fork, and no philosopher will put down the fork until he eats. And B, no philosopher can eat until he acquires the fork to his right, which has already been picked up by the philosopher to his right. This demonstrates how processes running on a machine naturally hog out resources such as processing power. Any solution must involve coordination between these different processes, our philosophers representing concurrent algorithms in order to avoid being starved of resources. It is not a zero sum game. This demonstrates the deep similarity between this and religious morality lies in the fact that both have a unifying role. As noted by researchers on the evolution of religion, it has as one of its adaptive roles the harmonizing of competitors. Instead of pitting them against each other, it coordinates them to promote optimal allocation of resources. It is not unreasonable to think that religion with its millennia of experience in doing this has developed interesting strategies for doing with concurrent interacting processes. And religion across cultures aspires to unification, not only in the social sphere, but also in that of metaphysics. Think of the concepts of unity and duality within Taoism, Pantheism among the Hindus, the Oneness of God in the Baha'i Faith, the Triune God of traditional Christianity, and Hermann Hesse's principle of the unity of the world, the coherence of all events. Here religion dovetails with the values of mathematics. The unifying role of religion evident across cultures resembles the mathematical concept of beauty and death, a key aesthetic by which mathematicians judge the value of results. An example of mathematical death is Euler's formula, which in a pool of mathematicians was named the most beautiful formula in mathematics. Stanford mathematics professor Keith Dalvin described it this way, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence. What made Euler's construction so shockingly profound is that he unites all the major constants of mathematics, additive identity, multiplicative identity, imaginary unit pi, and the logarithmic base into a single equation. In mathematics, as in religious morals and metaphysics, the guiding aesthetic is that of harmonious unity. Both religion and mathematics are driven by the goal of unifying the disperse realms of logic. It is thus not only possible to unite mathematics and religion, it is also necessary on the values and aesthetics of both. Neither mathematics nor religion has truly completed its program of unification until each has circumscribed the other. In conclusion, or rather in prelude to the future, as we seek to unite the realms of fact and meaning, of is and awe, of science and the sublime, we would do well to remember the words of Francis Bacon. If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must employ methods never before attempted. You said you must use methods not before attempted. Do you know of any examples of that? Any examples of that? Well, actually, it's a weird coincidence, but there is a conference of a universal logic that happened two days ago, and at it, I want to have known about this when I wrote the paper, but someone presented on using kind of the types of thinking used in the Baha'i faith to inspire non-traditional forms of logic. So I think necessarily, I don't know of all the methods, but I think necessarily because religion is so different, it has to be represented by different modes of thinking than we normally use. And I think using religion itself, like modeling it, is already a new method.


My fellow Americans, I'm speaking to you today from our ranch in California, and I'm happy to report that in keeping with the spirit of Passover in Easter, this week is ending on a very hopeful note. We've received encouraging reaction to our peace proposal for Nicaragua, and we've reached an immensely important budget agreement that can help keep America's economic engines running full speed ahead for years to come. Let me speak first about that budget agreement. For months, the voices of conventional wisdom told us government deficits are too high and must be brought down, but when asked how, they inevitably answered slash defense and raise taxes. Well, as I've said many times, we don't have a deficit problem because you're not taxed enough. In the last ten years, revenues to government increased by over $400 billion, but spending by government went up over $600 billion. Nor do we have a deficit problem because of military spending. We're spending $16 billion less in this fiscal year than Mr. Carter's last budget had projected would be spent. As a matter of fact, as a percentage of the federal budget, we spent more on defense 15 years ago, and the world was a lot less dangerous than. This week, the Senate Republican leadership agreed with us on the most far-reaching spending reduction plan in post-war history. If approved by the full Congress, almost $300 billion in red ink will be eliminated over the next three years. This agreement provides the foundation for historic progress because those deficits will be wiped out without raising taxes a nickel, without jeopardizing vital defense programs or any essential services. What the Senate Republicans have done is bite the bullet on spending, and I believe they deserve your support and that of the other members of Congress. Some 17 programs will be terminated, others will be thoroughly reformed, and spending on scores of other programs, including pay for government workers, will be frozen. The Defense Department budget will increase by only 3% in real terms. We'll have to squeeze costs everywhere if our build-up is to go forward. But Secretary Weinberger assures me that our men and women in uniform can get this job done. You've been reading and hearing about $400 hammers and $700 wrenches and such. Well, these figures, where do you think they're getting them? They're getting them from us. That's what has been going on, and we've discovered it, and we're stopping it. Now we're guaranteeing Social Security recipients an increase of at least 2% each year over the next three years. If inflation ends up less than 3% this year over last, then under present law, Social Security recipients would not be entitled to any increase. Under this new proposal, they'll be guaranteed a 2% increase, even if there is no inflation. And if Congress cooperates on spending, we can keep bringing inflation down until it is zero. Courage and leadership are crucial if we expect to bring deficits down in a manner that protects our security and permits continued strong economic growth. And that's what we'll be asking for in the days ahead when the Congress returns from recess. Now let me give you the encouraging news about our proposal for peace and democracy in Nicaragua. As you know, we've asked both sides, the Communists and the Democratic Resistance, to lay down their arms. We've endorsed the proposal made by the Democratic Resistance, the Contras, that the Catholic Church serve as mediator to restore freedom and ensure internationally supervised elections. And we've asked Congress to release $14 million for those freedom fighters, aid that will go immediately for medicines, food and clothing and other support to help these men and their families survive. We have made this proposal in a sincere effort to start a dialogue aimed at true internal reconciliation, which can bring peace and liberty to Nicaragua. You know, the federal government these days spends $14 million every few minutes. So we're asking Congress for just a few minutes' worth of help for the Democratic forces of Nicaragua. $14 million means very little to us, but it's a whole world to them. President Betancourt of Columbia has called our proposal positive and constructive. More than a dozen countries, including Nicaragua's neighbors, have already expressed their support. And President Duarte wrote me yesterday to say that we're taking, quote, the right step at the right time. And he added, your initiative and approach have my complete support, and I strongly urge all the friends of Central America in your Congress to give it their full support. In this season of peace, we have put forth an olive branch. We've sought to make a new beginning in a time of hope for all who yearn for freedom. And around the world, those who support democracy are rallying to support our proposal. I ask only that the members of our own Congress do the same. I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter and Passover. Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.