The Board of Directors of Community Television of Santa Cruz County Organizing Meeting of November 26th, 2018. Would the Secretary please call the roll? Director Mizzier. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Rand. Here. Director Wade. Director Mannheim. Here. Director Laurent. Here. Director O'Driscoll. Here. Director Ellen. Here. Thank you very much. Item number two on the agenda is Oral Communications. Would either of you like to address us today? Seeing none, we can move on to consideration of late additions to the agenda. And any additions or deletions to the consent and regular agendas. Would any of the directors like to pull anything from consent or add anything last minute to the agenda? Seeing none, we can move on to the consent agenda, which is comprised of three items to approve the minutes of the Board meeting of October 22nd, 2018. Accept the Finance Committee minutes of November 20th, 2018, and approve the recommendations of the Finance Committee to accept the October 2018 financial reports. Would anybody like to comment on this? Perhaps the Chair of the Finance Committee? No. One thing is, it's in our Executive Director's report, and I'll let her give some of the good news on that. Excellent. Excellent. So I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move the consent agenda. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, indicate by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed or abstentions? None. Seeing none, okay. That item carries. We can move on to the regular agenda. Item number seven is the election of a Board member for a seat expiring November 2018. That was held by Adam Wade, who is our K-12 representative. We just received word that he's not going to be able to attend tonight, and there should be a new representative of K-12 to be announced this coming Thursday, if I understood correctly. So we will table that item for now. And move on to item eight, which is the election of officers for the coming year. Would any of the directors like to propose a... A slate. I would. Director Rannheim. I would propose nominating for Board Chair, Mitreia Maseris, for Vice Chair Matilda Hall. Matilda Rand. It's okay. Put Matilda Rand. I apologize. I'm not going to do it's Richard at all at the same time. I'm on the other side of the table. For Secretary Larry Laurent and for Treasurer Joe Paul. All right. Do we need a second for that? Who's our parliamentarian? That's a motion to appoint those officers. Is there a second? I'll second. Thank you. Director Lujisco. Any discussion? Any counter-proposals? It's not too late. Anybody want to withdraw before we... Anybody want to sit here? Okay. Anybody in the audience like to comment on this item? No. Seeing none, I will call the vote. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Abstentions? I vote against myself. All right. That carries unanimously. All right. So now that we've gotten that out of the way, we have item number nine, which is appointment to committees. And I think there is a list of the standing committee roster that is in the full agenda packet. Executive committee, finance and budget committee, personnel committee, governance committee, the fund development committee, youth grant committee, and the volunteer advisory committee. And I think that's it for current standing committees, right? Do we have a motion or do we need a motion? Do we have a motion to maintain the current committees? Are all the current members willing to continue to serve on those committees? Yeah. Okay. Then I will entertain a motion to approve the committee membership for the coming year. So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. All right. So now we can move on to item 10, which promises to be a very contentious item. It's the approval of the 2019 board calendar. And the big change is former chair Gudger has asked us to consider in consideration of another commitment of director Matt Himes that we move the meetings to 5pm from 5.30. I know it's a radical concept. Can I comment? Please do. If that's a problem for anybody, I can keep making it at 5.30. It's just I have a standing commitment on Monday evenings that I'm always late to after this. So if we can move it up, it would be great. And if not, It's nothing to do with that time. No. So any further discussion on this? Will this work for everybody? I see a quizzical look. Secretary? I'll make it work. I just have to make sure I adjust my calendar. So it reminds me. I will take over the duties of sending out the ICS file with the coming years. I'll adjust it. So any further discussion on that item? Not as contentious as I feared. So I'll call the vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Seeing none, alright. Thank you all. No problem. Means that I can get to bed early. So now we move on to, which often is the most exciting part of the evening, the oral report of the executive director. And back to would you kindly entertain us? I will. All the good news. I hope you brought popcorn. I have water. Next time. Okay. And water. Okay. So the most exciting part is that we are doing really well in the co-working center. We have been in profit for nine months. Three months. And it's really exciting because there was a time where we were thinking, how can we back out of this? But it's working. And we don't have like tons of money, but we're stable, which is good. So now we can start thinking about other kinds of things, like how we can make tons of money. But we're good. We're not worrying about paying the rent. So everything's okay. And we continue to have a lot more activity in the cafe area. And that's a wonderful thing. And it's just really nice to see. It's kind of exciting. We've got a new, we've got our new coordinator and he's doing some interesting things. We're having a Christmas tree this year with the tags on it from Salvation Army where our members can buy presents for kids. And we're doing a lot of little extra things. There are going to be cookies. I'll let you know when. And you can come over and have cookies with us. I think it's the 15th. And we're going to do first Fridays. We're going to do some movies in the studio. There's a lot of interesting, there's some really, I was really surprised at how many good movies are public domain. So we're going to be showing some of those in here and that should be a fun time. So that's great. And we've been renting the studio, which is good. And last month I reported to you that we had $1,500 in equipment rentals that were from outside people, not our own members. And this month we have $18.97. So we made a little more. So we're not like a hockey stick, but we're trending up. And under paid services, we did about 18 meetings this month in November. I haven't got an exact number for you because Victor's on vacation. And he knows the number. But that's about where we usually are. We usually do between 17 and 20, sometimes 24 in the planning months. But I think we've probably done about 18. We are, Victor is continuing to manage the programming and the government meetings for CMAP. And he's done a really good job of straightening that out and making it more predictable and kind of getting his team on a stable footing. And so he's done a great job. And as always. A question about that. Is that a long-term arrangement or is that temporary? Well, it's long-term, I think, because there are not a lot of people who can do what Victor does. There are not a lot of people out there. What we did for Victor was we took a different thing off his plate. He really doesn't enjoy, he's been a very good sport and he was getting for the challenge. But he doesn't really like doing the documentation and the field projects that we do. And so the person that I have at CMAP is really good at that. So he's going to do those for us and Victor's going to do this for CMAP. And so we'll kind of trade. And so it should work out great. Victor will be happier and we'll be happy and we'll be able to I think CMAP is actually going to make some money at this. So it's a good thing. I mean not CMAP, but CTV. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Just a minute. This doesn't sound good to me. And since last month before we approved the Independent Media Initiative I've been working hard to get that thing rolling and I've been working with a local attorney to do an agreement for us and he should have that done by the end of the week and putting together some guidelines for future applicants and looking at just some different ways to handle it and so by the time I'll present what I have to the finance committee first and then let you guys tweak it and give info and then we'll take it to the board retreat, a strategic plan and we can tweak it for the event and by then I'll have tons of information so that should be... I think it could be really even bigger and more interesting than I thought originally. I found out more information and some new options I didn't know were available and so I think it looks like it could open up to be a really cool thing for us. So I think it's already cool now but I think it could be way cooler and bigger. I think there's a lot of room for growth in it to set this up so we can grow. I don't want to box us into a thing that we have to stick with so not that our contract is big or anything but we just want to leave it open for Tweakage later. Tweakage? Technical term. Some media term. Tweakage? Tweakage? So under coming to facilities of sad news about the internet I thought when I wrote this as recent as when I wrote this note it would be done by the end of January but something has gone wrong and the cable company sent a note that I received today saying they don't know when it will be installed so they have some kind of something that it's overloaded lines there's not enough capacity and so they have to figure out how to go around the overloaded ones who knows what that means and then we'll get it but in the meantime we'll just be waiting and I'm sorry about that we're doing the best we can we have a pretty good connection we have the business class but it's just not big enough for the kinds of things we'd like to be doing and under advertising I mentioned Ian's promotion of movie nights and I'm just about in a couple of weeks I'll be ready to start back up on our internet website project I had to put it on hold a little while outside a couple other things going on but I'm going to get back to that and our Google ads are appearing and sadly I haven't been able to get analytics from them but I hope to have them for you next month but we're feeling it I mean there's more people in our cafe and we are running more gear so we notice the difference we just don't have any actual numbers from them so I will get on them about that and we should have some happy news at the end of December so that's my report for November the question the gear that was rented was a similar type of gear well no I was just curious is what's being attractive from outside the membership yeah oh yes well no it's usually different stuff from outside the membership so it's more of the up level pro stuff okay is that sort of yeah it's different cameras and it's higher in mics and that kind of stuff our members generally take kits out that they're used to using and they've had for a long time but we've had the the studio has been rented by outside people and also some of our kinaflow lights and things like that the kinaflows are really popular in fact we have a company from Scotland that wants to run our kinaflow lights and a whole bunch of other stuff so is that what a lot of this Scottish Christmas? no that's not it yeah we haven't rented it until then we have a reservation and that's for I'm not sure I think that's for next month we've got an interesting question today Ian asked me and I've been knowing the answer are Aurelites are they tungsten and daylight? I think they're only tungsten are Aurelites or tungsten that's what I thought yeah so when we looked at it and I showed him that we have actually a whole kit with three Aurelites that's what I want good good I told him it's all ready to roll and so but he has to tell them and I showed him other light bulbs sorry but he needs to tell them no it's not daylight because they came from our studio so they're tungsten yeah they're tungsten lights they're not daylight and then that was the odd thing I thought we probably shouldn't digress too much into this but they wanted kinoflow and the Aurelites so I'm not sure they might be doing something outside because kinoflows you can use them outside to light up a person and they work pretty well they're the other option is the HDMI and that's just blinding it's like having the sun on you so I use kinoflows and the I think they want to feel for that we have three we have others hanging in the woods that's the whole thing so you work on it but it was interesting you know all the way from Scotland I know it's very cool they went to our website yeah yeah thank you very much Becca so as with any good story there's some twists and turns some plot twists there they're mostly good news so I think all very happy great so moving on we have item number 12 which is a presentation regarding the fiscal sponsorship project and I understand we have a video introduction which is that currently it's kind of blocking the yeah I've been in an introduction for me okay and then a video okay all right very well so we'll pass it back over to you back okay so I am asked our first participant in the independent media initiative to come in and show us what he's working on and the program he has a he's in process on a movie already but we'll be doing stuff here in the studio hopefully in March and I thought it would be interesting for you guys to meet him and see what kind of movie he's making so he's kindly brought the trailer and his name is Brian Cerenova and he's a producer of a number of films and I will let him take it away with Brian welcome thank you for coming thank you there's a mic right there I just want to thank you again for letting me and Trinity Cinema Productions participate in your fiscal sponsorship program as we raise funds in the continuation of the film I've been in filmmaking for the last 10 years in theater for the last 25 so this is something that actually came from New Mexico I currently moved out here about four years ago to take this film it was actually a short film and the script was rewritten to a feature film so now what we're doing is going to be utilizing the studio and the local areas for a location and here shortly we'll be sending out a cast and crew call and internship call for the film and without further ado I'd like to introduce the film this is a teaser trailer from footage that we shot into Mexico for this push in the completion of the film so Ademas are you sure about that? you saw what happened in subjects we used total memory loss Ademas you aren't really serious about this when we plug in in five days to that massive supercomputer ester something's going to happen distract ladies and gentlemen now as we see the auricloud visible in the daytime sky we watched the final exodus leaving from mascarus's space traveling to the way station on the moon for there they will wait out the four year passing of the auricloud meteor storm they will be integrated into the mind of the supercomputer allowing for the elevation of the auricloud without T.C. technology earth's protection would be impossible I'm Nicholas Ademas a presence a consciousness in it as if there's an instant to live if you stay tuned on ademasthemovie.com we'll be posting updates and there's more behind the scenes stuff on there and information about the cast and crew and we'll be posting the crew call on the site as well as Facebook and Instagram fantastic well thank you again for allowing me this opportunity how exciting thanks very much you're very welcome thank you was there anything further? no, that's it I think that looks like a wonderful way to start this new program I'm very impressed this is about production values beyond anything I've seen on the community television I have a quick question how do you raise money for the film so you can produce the rest of it there's several different tears of fundraising Kickstarter program and just the people that we know people that will contact us there's different entry levels of that kind of thing great any other questions or comments from the board alright seeing none we'll happily accept that presentation and look forward to watching the progress of this project and projects to come as part of the fiscal sponsorship program so we can move on now to item 13 which is to consider creating the ad hoc strategic planning committee which sounds like a great idea do we have any sort of presentation on that we made the decision at the last time when we met oh ok and that we since we're doing so well right now and that we don't have to kind of run after struggle day to day just to survive so we can now actually look ahead and then from there fill everything in and make strategic steps to really make community TV what really the seats are here so that's what we said we're going to do and I think we want to get people on I have a list here that has been provided by my predecessor with yourself at the top of the list director ran ok in no particular order in no particular order director ran director oan and director manheim from the board and then from the community our former board member nathan benjamin has graciously agreed to serve on the committee and former chair keith gudger will happily join that endeavor to forge a plan to go forward and expand and grow and see where we can use our resources to serve our mission so would anybody like to would any board member like to put forth that motion? motion yes I hope that we establish this committee with the names that you provided in no particular order do I have a second? second alright any further discussion? ok all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed or abstentions? seeing none we have a new committee I'd like to just wish you good luck because the last time keith did one of these committees it was in a whole another world of a world of a different climate I was trying to think of the right word it wasn't an Alan Maguardo like the movie we just saw but it would make a good film probably so I think that's a good building point for this and it's really exciting because they are the group that came up with the idea of this joint venture we're in now so it does show that thinking ahead sometimes really pays off so good luck to all of you so they actually started this new climate change at CTV which is a positive climate change so thank you fantastic alright well with that out of the way we can move on to I think it is item number 14 which is to consider the approval of our contract with CMAP which if I understand correctly is what allows us the services of our illustrious executive director so did anybody have any questions or comments on that agreement that is included in the board packet I just like to have Becca run over anything that she's I know there were some discussions on this a few little things I wonder if you could just highlight them for you know the record and then we can just go from there it looks fine to me but I just thought it is an important document and it is an important document I am not really involved in creating it what are you going to say it would be hard for me to do because I just like to be for you and I like to be for CMAP and I don't if I had if I did this contract I would feel like it's a CMAP contract and I'd be I'd be thinking of you different who where you're loyal so I just don't like to think about it but I can tell you it's the same as was last year the only thing changed is the numbers it's just a 3% larger now than it was before which is the usual kind of living sort of go up thing actually I had a question on that I was trying to figure out where the I didn't have the previous one but it's crossed out a much larger number I'm like man that's that was quite a I have to I have the same reaction 4 billion 25 million and $560 we're getting quite a deal this year I hope you get some of that I'm not sure how that happened I don't know what the original but I could go back from the 9th so I think it's in the $3,000 that sounds right I think the most important thing is that we both worked on it both CMAP and we did and there has been extensive communication between some members of our board and some of our board and I think that in itself is very important that is a very positive collaboration that for how many years we've had this now? 5 years? 6 years? I started in December of 14 but then of course we already had you had it going the year before before so I think it's about 6 years so that again is a very positive it's stable and we like that so that was just to make sure you paid attention so I assume there is a standard copy somewhere that has the actual numbers with no strike before the signature that will be taken so if there are no further comments I will I will entertain a motion to approve that contract with CMAP I will move I just have to make one comment the other change that we haven't talked about which I'd like all through here is we've changed this using the best efforts to seek sponsorship grants off such revenue fundraisers to achieve self sustainability self sustainability has been changed to that's nice to be able to say so with that I will move approval and I'll second that we have a motion and a second any further discussion I'll call the question then all in favor please indicate by saying aye aye any opposed or abstention seeing none carry unanimously so now we can move on to item 15 we're adopting more resolution 001-2018 this is our first resolution approval of authorized signatures for bank accounts which is to remove Mr. Dodger and myself and with any other changes are you on there Matilda? Janice are you on there? no I don't think so okay the officers it's the officers and the executive director and I will move approval motion to second all in favor any opposed carry unanimously moving on we have item number 16 which is the summaries from the subcommittees that were formed at the board of retreat so do we have a hot studio update? looks like citizen pleasure so the committee is myself and Adam Wade and Becca Becca indicated that this is a really busy time of year over the holidays so Adam and I got together to review some of the equipment that's been proposed for the hot studio we looked at the lights that we currently own and they are halogen lights we turn them on in the space we discovered that they're too hot it smelled like ozone when we were done we did not think that's appropriate so we will be suggesting LED lights for that space we used the software that my trainer has recommended we brought up a PowerPoint presentation and switched the camera back and forth we discovered an issue with how that worked and thanks to my trainer's advice we now have a solution so I'm proposing that we will put together an equipment list I think it's going to be small enough it won't require board approval but we'll probably the January Board meeting let you know where we are on that and I and probably Adam and Becca will meet between now and then to move forward fantastic any questions on any of this I had a question so I was watching earlier today the last board meeting which I was absent from and I saw the little PSA you made for the station it looked great the sound I was curious what microphone you used for it the sound was not the best quality what microphone were you using for I was using one of our checkout shotgun microphones I think it's Phantom only because that's not in our current checkout because people are expecting to be able to use a battery with them and that one's Phantom only and I used the USB preamp with it and a standard computer I might go back and listen to it again because that sounds like a recipe for good quality sound it's a very expensive mic is it? oh yeah it's like $700 I just had it sitting somewhere so it may have picked up computer noise it may have heard a cat meowing or something but overall I was very impressed with the results of that the way that one was done is I used the internal graphics for that program and I set it up to automatically switch from slide to slide so that it ran exactly 30 seconds which is a really nice feature that one offered in the hot studio because we're going to have to standardize on a simple set of directions that someone could come in and just use it and I don't know if any other board members have talked to other people but I've talked to a number of members in the community and there seems to be some excitement about the idea especially if it's reasonably priced because it's something simple to walk into walk away with something just as another note this board has asked for the strategic planning that we consider how we might support future elections because I believe we consider that part of our mission it was seen to me that the studio would be great for collecting statements from people who are running for office these are hours you can come in and just sit down and make whatever a statement maybe have a list of standardized questions depending on the office so it seems like it might fit well with that as well so that's something we can consider strategically as we move forward with the plan that even if it's not a big money maker it might be something that fits well with our mission thank you Keith any other directors have any questions or comments thank you I guess I am officially the venues chair of that subcommittee and has been very kind and taking a lot of initiative and moving that forward and I have been dragging my heels unfortunately with the idea that we may not get too many shots to talk to these people so it's probably good to be very well prepared because there's a limited number of venues in the county so I would like to go there feeling very well prepared and Becca had given me the blessing to come up with some sample equipment packages but it sounds like at the Coomba they might have some idea of what they want to meet with us at the beginning of December so I'll work with the three of us and set up a meeting sounds great, alright I'll look forward to meeting with them I was at a concert the other night at the 1440 in the new facility there and they have a beautiful hall and I got a bit of inspiration as far as another selling point for this service is the term in the industry is IMAG which I think stands for image magnification so in live concerts often especially in a large venue there will be a camera on performer and they'll have on a large screen so the people in the city in the back can actually see the face of the performer so I was thinking what we could offer a place like the Rio for instance where there are seats at the back you can hardly see the performer is this sort of system that we could at least to them could be used to project an image of the performer up on their big screen there and you know they won't have as many of the cool psychedelic colors of lights but it's another selling point so I definitely want to work that into our pitch maybe a place like the Kumbo which is very intimate might not be as big of a selling point but for the larger venues for sure I think that will be hopefully compelling okay and what were they playing at 1440 what shows oh, it was Krzysztof who was familiar with the Kirtan genre so it's chant interesting guy, to me he sounds like Wolford Brimley, you know, doing an oatmeal commercial but he's very popular actually just sold out but he wears his plaid shirts and it's very down to earth and funny and so but yeah, they had one camera on him and big screens and light bulbs went off in my head yeah just a comment on that, I wouldn't write off the Kumbo for that kind of thing as well not for magnification so much but if you think about depending on where you are in the venue you can't see the keyboard those kinds of things where if you get a nice close up of the keyboard player's hands that's where the speakers are you sometimes can't see the guy on the right exactly so one more thing to add to our thank you, I'm running out of words now I'm not used to talking this much at the board meetings so I think that's it for now for the subcommittees from the board retreat and we can move on to the oral report from the VAC the voluntary advisory committee Matilda would you please well the VAC has started up the orientation and we did already a field camera class which was extremely nice as you know Rusty, Becca's husband does it as his community give back to the community and he does such a wonderful job it just pulls people in and with the stories and people tell stories and so I felt a little bit more enthusiasm from people to possibly go out because really what we want is use that class to train people to use our equipment to go out in the community and then eventually have our members learn better editing skills because the community always ask us can you come and tape our programs in the past when we didn't have DIFCA that was done for a minimum fee it takes a long time at that time it was such an incredible class so we also did the studio camera class same thing actually some of the people from the field camera class came also to the studio camera class and to the orientation now Keith is going to do in December an audio class and I hope the same enthusiasm will happen there and we did a studio supervisor training because we realized that we were wearing our studio supervisors off you know those are the people that set up everything the producer comes in they do the thing and they make sure everything is studio neutral when they leave so we trained 5 people and this Sunday I'm going to our satellite community what's his title? coordinator right? I'm going to give him his test, his practical test we also give them a written test and Keith and I are working on that together and that was great and David who's here and Steve organized it and we're helping with that so we're going to hopefully certify some more studio supervisors so that means that people in the community can come in, get trained and get skills and then can do more programming and we don't wear out our studio supervisors and our studio supervisors also have been helping with some of the paid programming so that's very important when producers come in from out of town somebody needs to help and watch and make sure everything goes well in here so we're kind of changing our direction a little bit and I hope that's going to bring in more people and get more certified people and better trained people so that's all I have for right now great thank you very much any questions, comments on that oh and any board member is welcome to come to our orientation and our classes and you should just come in and even if you just want to see it you do crazy things with people they stand on their head and everything trust exercises, falling backwards with a camera in your hand exactly all of that and the lights shining hazing all of that great I may take you up on that invitation I've been wanting to update my skills and knowledge about since I go back to the old analog days of SBHS right that was before my time well thank you very much for that so we can move on to the all report of the board chair my report is that I've almost successfully conducted one meeting so thank you I did want to I've been assured it's been stressed to me repeatedly repeatedly and again Chair Emeritus Gudger would definitely not want a big fuss made over the completion of his term here on the board and we're going to do our best to honor that but I do feel and I think other board members would agree that we'd be gravely remiss if we did not acknowledge in some way Keith's innumerable contributions to this institution in some modest fashion at least so but to protect my shins from being gravely damaged we're going to forgo the planned Broadway style musical number and though I would have loved to see director Mannheim in top hat and tails maybe another time another time and I'm going to skip the rest of these comments that I prepared and just say a big heartfelt thank you Keith from myself and from the board and we look forward to seeing you on the other side of the camera as we pass changing light bulbs going back to being volunteer of the year decade and the century and we really appreciate all the efforts that you have done on behalf of community television in your previous role here here and there will be I don't know is that a secret there will be appropriate refreshments suitable for the occasion of the meeting at a location undisclosed so just speaking for myself I got to say that I'm very humbled there might not be refreshments that's what I said undisclosed there's tea next meeting there's been a mix up you'll have to settle for our thanks at this point speaking for myself I'm very humbled and honored to be entrusted with this task you're doing a great job thank you I know there's no way that I can possibly match I wasn't going to say anything more about it okay stop it then I will say though as Becca acknowledged me before the meeting that the only way I can do this is with me here and of course the people behind the cameras we have a board an excellent board of people who are experienced in many aspects of life some have been on the board for a long time I'll be asking lots of questions and certainly relying on everybody's counsel advice and so on and so forth and with that that's my report and here's to many more years of community discussions continued growth and delighting and let's move on to item number 19 which is board member staff request for specific items to appear on the next meeting agenda any nope seeing none we can move on to number 20 which is announcements and I would like to thank our volunteers who made tonight's cable cast possible Linda Karen Scott Rob Gray Jim Russo and David Goldman thank you all very much and with that I will entertain a motion for adjournment I move to adjourn second we have a motion in the second all in favor aye with that we will call the meeting adjourned thank you very much


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Not too surprisingly, it's also starting to be marketed towards athletes as a performance and recovery aid. For those of you that don't know, CBD or cannabidiol is a chemical compound found in cannabis. Interestingly, marijuana, natural and synthetic THC, and synthetic cannabinoids that mimic the effects of THC are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. However, WADA has made an exception for CBD in or out of competition since 2018. Unlike THC, CBD is non-intoxicating, meaning that you won't get high from taking CBD. Wow, why am I not surprised? Of course, this nerd would do a video on the lame part of weed. However, as it turns out, a lot of these products are mislabeled and don't contain the amount of CBD that they claim or even contain more THC than you might think. This article on cannabinoid labeling accuracy found that of 75 products purchased from 47 different brands, only 17% were accurately labeled with some products containing significantly more THC than labeled. This study on labeling accuracy of CBD extracts sold online found that with respect to CBD, 42% of products were under-labeled, 26% were over-labeled, and 30% were labeled accurately. THC was detected in 18 of the 84 samples. For anyone who's racing and has the potential to get drug tested, this is a huge problem. This article on CBD use in professional and amateur athletes takes a strong stance stating that the content of commercial CBD often contains banned substances such as THC, a problem which should present risks that far outweigh any benefit for athletes and their support staff. Therefore, the most appropriate risk minimization strategy is to avoid all CBD products to prevent inadvertent doping from these often contaminated products. Getting your CBD from a reputable source is extremely important and may just flat out not be worth the risk if you are a racer. I went on the website of a popular CBD company that I won't name here and on their own website, they had this FDA disclosure. Be advised, studies have shown that consuming hemp foods or oils can cause a positive result when screening urine and blood specimens. Therefore, if you are subject to any form of drug testing or screening, we recommend that you do not ingest CBD or hemp oil. All right, exciting announcement, guys. Cupcake-flavored hypergain beast mode mass gain or raw addition now comes with CBD infusion so you can further maximize those gains. Now, there's no way of telling how much CBD is actually in here or how much THC for that matter, but given how good I felt after taking it the other day, it may be a little bit over the legal limit. With that important disclaimer out of the way, if you're so curious about whether or not CBD will improve your cycling performance and recovery like many companies and athletes alike have been claiming, then stick around. Cannabis affects the endocannabinoid system which is thought to be responsible for the runner's high or that good feeling that you get when you do endurance exercise. Many believe that this is due to endorphins, but research suggests otherwise. According to this review on endocannabinoids in exercise, endorphins are too large to cross the blood-brain barrier. The endocannabinoid system, on the other hand, has a close interaction with dopamine that has a function in the brain's reward system. The endocannabinoid system is also implicated in the control of motor activity and mediates peripheral effects such as vasodilation and bronchodilation that may play a contributory role in the body's response to exercise. Given the link between the endocannabinoid system and exercise, is it possible that CBD could have a positive effect on exercise performance? Well, research on CBD is still new, so there's a lot of work to be done, but modulating the activity of the endocannabinoid system with CBD may offer tremendous therapeutic promises for a diverse scope of diseases, ranging from mental health disorders, neurological and movement disorders, pain, autoimmune disease, spinal cord injury, cancer, cardiometabolic disease, stroke, TBI, osteoporosis, and others. Let's take a look at CBD's effects on anxiety since reducing anxiety is one of CBD's biggest supposed benefits. This study tested the effects of CBD on anxiety associated with public speaking. In a double-blind, randomized trial, subjects received either a placebo or CBD before a public speaking test. What they found was that pretreatment with CBD significantly reduced anxiety, cognitive impairment, and discomfort in their speech performance, and significantly decreased alert in their anticipatory speech. This review on CBD as a potential treatment for anxiety disorders, stated that overall current evidence indicates CBD has considerable potential as a treatment for multiple anxiety disorders, although they emphasize the need for further study in this area. Certainly some promising results, and even if CBD has no effect on performance and recovery, reducing anxiety associated with racing could have huge benefits. Many have pre-race nerves for days before the event and have trouble sleeping because of it. If this is a problem for you, then maybe giving CBD a try could be worth it. One of the other big reported benefits of CBD is that it may help in reducing inflammation. If this is true, then this could also be of value to athletes. To be fair though, most of the research done in this area has been on animals, not humans. Like this rat study that induced osteoarthritis in rats. They found that joint inflammation was reduced by local CBD treatment and prevented the development of joint pain at later time points. This review on cannabinoids as an anti-inflammatory drug came to the conclusion that cannabinoids suppress inflammatory response and subsequently attenuate disease symptoms. Those marketing CBD as a recovery aid for athletes are often citing studies like this. And it does seem plausible that if CBD can help reduce inflammation, that it may also be able to reduce post-exercise inflammation leading to aided recovery for athletes. The thing is, there simply aren't any studies that test the effects of CBD on athlete recovery, at least not right now. Another important thing to note is that sometimes you actually want inflammation after exercise in order to make necessary adaptations. This is a problem often cited with supplemental antioxidants. In a review on vitamin C supplements that affects on performance, the authors found that vitamin C supplements actually impaired performance in three human studies. The authors went on to say that large doses of vitamin C appear to reduce the training-induced adaptation. This review on the impact of dietary antioxidants on sports performance found that vitamin E supplements may improve altitude performance but impair sea level performance. The review concluded that acute antioxidant intake is probably beneficial while chronic intake likely impairs performance. Similar results have also been seen in ice bath studies which is another common recovery method amongst athletes. These two studies on the use of cold water immersion after lifting both found that subjects actually gained more strength in the control group that didn't use cold water immersion. This is because cold water immersion appears to attenuate acute changes in cells that regulate muscle growth and this means less muscle and strength gains. Things are not always black and white when it comes to recovery. A substance may reduce inflammation leading to aided recovery but then you might not get as many adaptations which means that you're not getting as much out of the hard work that you're doing which we definitely don't want.  Many studies have been done on real food that contains high amounts of antioxidants like fruits and vegetables and they all come to the same conclusion. Antioxidants from fruits and vegetables reduce cellular oxidative damage without attenuating the cellular adaptive response so basically it's the best of both worlds. Could CBD act similar to this improving recovery after exercise without hindering adaptation or could taking CBD regularly slow your progression? We simply don't have the answer because the research hasn't been done. In fact, the research on CBD and athletics in general at this point is severely lacking just because it's so new. This article on cannabinoids and sports nutrition stated that the evidence is overwhelming that products are being marketed without being regulatory compliant and more centric to sports nutrition that there are tens of CBD marketed sports nutrition products. However, there appears to be zero actual scientific evidence to directly support the products and claim in the intended population at this time. It is clear that safety and efficacy studies of CBD applicable to sports nutrition are needed. There's probably enough data right now for CBD companies to claim that their products help with anxiety and inflammation. However, CBD companies that market specifically towards athletes that make claims of improved recovery or athletic performance simply don't have a leg to stand on. This does not mean that CBD doesn't work. It just means that we don't currently have the data available to say that it does. If you try CBD and it works for you, then that's great. Even if it didn't do anything, sometimes the placebo effect is powerful enough to make it so. What I will say though is that sometimes actually taking a look at the research can completely change your opinion on a topic. If you want an example of this, check out my stretching video. While some of the research on CBD does seem promising, the research on CBD's effects on athletics simply isn't there so we can't make a conclusion at this time. Okay, so basically what I'm hearing is that CBD is in weed and CBD could make you faster. Therefore, smoke weed to get faster. Cool, sounds like a plan. Thanks for watching. I hope you guys found this information helpful. If you did, be sure to give the video a like, subscribe, and share it with your cycling friends. I'll see you in the next one.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime and you didn't think I forgot about you, did you? I know my framing's a little off right now. We, let's just say there's been a lot of recording done today that you will see in the next handful of days, but we have three big stories to bring to you but before we do, I wanna remind you, we are still giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED. All you need to do is subscribe. I mean, this thing right here. This, you see this? We're giving away this. This white Switch OLED, we're giving one away. All you have to do is be subscribed to the channel. And yeah, that's really it. Otherwise, we have a live stream going on tomorrow where we're gonna announce the winner. So today and tomorrow are the last two days to enter. Now I mentioned we have three stories for you and the very first one deals with the game awards. That's right, Jeff Keely has announced the date of the game awards that's happening December 9th and it will be back to being in person. He hasn't said if vaccinations are gonna be required to attend, but it will be in person and that's really exciting. Not really surprising since Summer Game Fest was mostly in person as well. So this should be a pretty good event. The game awards is always exciting. Band-Aid 3 was announced there. We've had trailers for Breath of the Wild in the past there. So who really knows? Nintendo usually brings something to the game awards every single year and we'll have to see what that something is this year. And obviously, what awards are up for and what other companies have going on. You know, what's Sony and Microsoft and Ubisoft and all these other companies that have going on heading into 2022, I guess we'll find out at the game awards. Speaking of third party companies, remember that old rumor? It's not really that old at this point, but remember Kotaku told us that Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Remastered was coming to Switch. Never announced, wasn't at the Nintendo Direct. Some people thought maybe it just wasn't a real thing. Well, in Korea, it has now been rated by their ratings board, which means anytime a game is rated for a platform by a ratings board means the game was submitted to that ratings board to be rated for the platform. So yeah, this is essentially confirmation that Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Remastered is coming to Nintendo Switch. So yeah, that's really good. I know a lot of people were hoping this was gonna be confirmed as the Nintendo Direct, it wasn't. Now we have it confirmed through a ratings board. I honestly don't know how these companies submit games to the rating boards before they even officially announced versions of games for certain platforms. I don't even know how that happens. It kind of takes some of the luster out of the announcement. It's one thing to have Kotaku rumor it. It's another thing to actually have something more official like a ratings board. So it is what it is. It's pretty exciting. I'm not a big Grand Theft Auto guy myself, but I know a lot of you guys are. So this is really great news since we don't have any Grand Theft Auto games right now on Switch. Our last story is really the main reason we made this video. There was a Monster Hunter stuff happen today and we could talk about that. Basically some Sonic content and other things are coming. They didn't talk as much about some break for next summer as I wanted them to. But still, there's some cool stuff happening there. But we're not gonna focus on that because we have a developing story. And this developing story is about the Switch Pro. Yes, folks, the Switch Pro. I already have a Switch sitting back here that none of you guys have. And now we're talking about a new one before this one's even officially released. Yesterday, we broke a story from Bloomberg where Takahashi Mashizuki came out and basically said he knows 11 different studios that are right now working on Nintendo Switch 4K games and have Nintendo Switch 4K dev kits. Nintendo almost immediately after publication, on that quite immediately, but within the hour, we recorded our video about 10 minutes after publication, Nintendo had a tweet out an hour later. And this was Nintendo's corporate account, came out and literally denied the entire Bloomberg report. Here's what they said. A news report on September 30th, 2021 falsely claims that Nintendo is supplying tools to drive game development for a Nintendo Switch with 4K support. To ensure correct understanding among our investors and customers, we want to clarify that this report is not true. We also want to restate that as we announced in July, we have no plans for any new model other than the Nintendo Switch OLED model, which will launch on October 8th. So again, there was a, ooh, we have this thing. And also, by the way, no, we don't. So Bloomberg and Takahashi, who was blasted by Nintendo this last summer, came out, defended himself, and he even named Zynga. And Nintendo say, nope, you're wrong. You're just wrong. It is what it is. Then the story didn't stop there. Game Reactor today came out and was talking about Bloomberg's article, and in an article on the Bloomberg piece and Nintendo's response, they said they have their own independent source at a AAA studio that claims to be building a 4K Switch game right now. Right after that came out within an hour, Zynga, corporate Zynga, releases an official statement to Kotaku and entirely denies having any sort of Nintendo Switch 4K dev units. Cause that was obviously something that Bloomberg claimed and they literally came out and said, nope, no, we don't. Now, was this at the behest of Nintendo? Was this them responding to rumors? Most companies don't respond to rumors. I'm guessing Nintendo in a nudge-nudge, you need to, you need to, you know, deny or whatever. We don't know, that's all behind the scene stuff. But, okay, fine.  Nate the hate, Nate Drake said that they've been, they've had them since early last year, so has Imran Khan. There's been a number of people who have said this, but again, a lot of you out there are ready to just say, Nate, screw you, I'm never watching a video again. But then Nintendo did a noopsy, right after Zynga denied having these dev kits. Remember the order, Bloomberg, 11 companies making Switch 4K games have access to 4K dev kits, Nintendo denies, Game Reactor throws more wood on the fire and says we also know a developer that has a 4K dev kit, Zynga denies. So again, Switch Pro is real, Switch Pro is fake, Switch Pro is real, Switch Pro is fake, and then Nintendo did noopsies. One of the big rumors surrounding Switch Pro and that 4K support had nothing to do with native 4K support. Yes, there'll be a 4K output to a TV, but it's not native. No one's around here thinking that there's a portable switch coming, whether it's next gen or even a pro model that is going to have 4K native support. And it was always attached with DLSS, which is Deep Learning Super Sampling, AKA a way to upscale games through AI. And guess what Nintendo patented today, right after Zynga denied. Two separate patents have been filed by Nintendo for AI upscaling to 4K. Now, the image I'm gonna show you here is an example they give of it upscaling from 540p to 1080p, but in the actual documentation in both of them, it mentions upscaling to 4K. And how it describes the subscaling done is essentially exactly how DLSS does it. Now, these patents are supposedly, these technologies being worked on in France. I don't know if it's Nvidia and Nintendo working on it together there, or what's happening with it, but what is clear in these patents is that they've been working on this technology since 2019. This dates back to before the pandemic. Remember when all the Switch programmers started going around? Seems like this kind of all lines up. This is official. These are real patents filed by Nintendo. Now, patents don't necessarily become real products, but I'm just pointing out that Nintendo denied something and then confirmed something literally within 24 hours. And that confirmation was that they are working on 4K DLSS type upscaling or a device that at least in the actual stuff appears to be a Switch device, but yeah. Let's just say, whoops, and to everyone out there that keeps telling me such a device doesn't exist. Look, it could be a next-gen device. It could be a device that did exist, but will never come out. I don't know.  It's almost as if Zynga, Nintendo, and others have reasons to deny that help their pocketbooks. And it's almost like it's hard to believe corporate overlords. I think it's quite obvious that no matter how much we love certain companies, when it comes to the corporate level, they're always watching out for the bottom line, and anything they say needs to be taken in that context. That being said, give me your thoughts on all this new information. I have all the sources for all this stuff linked down in the description. You can go verify this all yourself. You guys have a lovely day. Personally, I'm getting back to playing on OLED. I know there's gonna be some quick thoughts that people might want on this at the end of the video. Here's what I'll say about Switch OLED right now. I have a very hard time after playing this going back to the other switches. It almost hurts my eyes. So maybe don't get an OLED if you are happy with your current Switch, because this will make you feel like you've been missing out. Let's just say that OLED panel difference is real. Like, this is maybe the most worthy Excel version of a Nintendo platform I have seen today. That's what I could tell you right now. Tune in tomorrow. We have a much more in-depth video coming tomorrow. We literally took this thing apart. We actually broke part of it. We'll get into that tomorrow. Almost broke the dock too, but then we didn't. I don't know. We have a lot more on the Switch OLED coming tomorrow. There's a huge video in the works right now, in editing. It has 1.2 terabytes worth of footage going into it. It's a lot. It's a lot. I'll catch you guys in the next video.


Okay, so now looking at the side of the skull. So again frontal bone up front here parietal bone Temporal bone you can see kind of the spinole bone right here as well and the lacrimal bone is Right here inside just inside the nose Okay, and the zygomatic bone now our zygomatic bone has three Processes so you can think of these processes is named after what they touch not what bone they're on So this projection here. Okay, this is the temporal process because it touches the temporal bone This projection off to this side. Okay, this is my maxillary process. It touches the maxillary bone Then you have your orbital process up on top. So this projection touches right here where the orbital is So it's your orbital process on the temporal bone You have this process here touches the zygomatic bone. So it makes it our zygomatic process Okay, you can see down here this large protrusion here. That's the mastoid process You have a large hole here where your ear would be This is your external auditory meatus Okay, so along our mandible Okay, so the mandible again, you can see that mental form in right up there in the front You can see the ramus, which is kind of this whole region right here okay the mandibular Condyle So that's what comes back here Connects to the back of the jaw The mandibular angle is down here. The cornoid process Is this front projection. So you have cornoid and mandibular condyle


I think they're doing critical thinking because this articles we pick as instructors are challenging enough that we're asking them to make connections. We're asking them to question. So one thing we've done, we've, we've teamed up with the philosophy program here. And they have a, so, so Gary Comstock is a professor here. And along with a researcher at Harvard, Nate Odi, they've developed how we argue and how we evaluate and how we evaluate or how we argue, how we argue is available online as a module. And for that 200 level class, we have students as an experiment, we had students do how we argue. First, that six hour online class, and then annotate or then and critically read and some of the questions that came up about arguments about connections. We see them in there, going back to metacognition in their reflections, we see it in their annotations. So I think it's there, even without us having a specific question like, how many genomes did they find or why is electronic waste an issue. They've made the connections, they are critically, not all, but they are critically reflecting on why is this, what's behind the author's use of words here. Is it something I can judge or is it supported by other evidence.


Here in the past few weeks, I've had a couple of people ask me questions about how to escape certain Emacs buffers. I've done my configuring Emacs series here over the past few months, so I've spent a lot of time configuring my own Emacs, if you will. I know a lot of you guys have been following along creating your own custom Emacs configurations, and sometimes you guys are complaining that you find yourself trapped in a certain Emacs program, an Emacs buffer, where your typical ways of exiting out of things, your typical key bindings to exit out of a particular buffer, is just not working for you. And this is a normal kind of problem with Emacs, because honestly there's several ways that you can get out of some of these situations. I'm going to cover those on camera right now. So let me switch over to my desktop, and I'll go ahead and launch Emacs, and let me jump into my Emacs config, because we need to talk about a few things. Those of you that followed along with the configuring Emacs series, one of the very first things we did was set up some key bindings using the general.el program, that's the general key bindings. And one of the things we did here at the top is we set two prefixes. So we set a prefix of space. So space is our leader key. So when we're setting key bindings later on, like this here, this key binding bb, switch to buffer, that's actually space, bb is the key binding for switching to another buffer. So the space is the leader key, but you can't always have space as a leader key, because if you're using evil mode within Emacs, obviously sometimes you're going to be in insert mode. And when you're in insert mode, a space is not a leader key. A space is actually a space. It's going to type a space right inside insert mode in evil. So you have to have a backup leader key. And that's where we set this prefix called the global prefix, and that is set to meta space, which is alt plus space. And that way you can still use your space related key bindings inside insert mode in evil. And I can show you this in action if I hit I on the keyboard to get into insert mode. Now let's imagine I want to switch to a buffer. Well, I can't type space bb for the switch buffer command because space inside insert mode is just going to be a space, right? So what I have to do is I need to do the meta space global prefix. I'm going to do alt space bb, and now you can see in the echo area, I'm running the switch to buffer command and I could give it a buffer to go to from that point. So that's always the first thing I would try if I'm in a buffer and for whatever reason my space related key bindings are not working, my space bk for space buffer kill, right? If it's not working in a particular buffer, try alt space bk for buffer kill, right? So always try the global prefix if your standard leader key is not working. Of course, sometimes you will encounter special buffers that really don't seem to respect either your standard prefix key or the global prefix key that will happen on occasion. I've noticed this especially with the documentation related key bindings for emacs or the documentation related programs such as all the described commands. For example, if I do space hv for described variable, I'll just pick any random variable to take a look at right here in the documentation. Let me get over into the split, well j and k work, so it does look like evil mode is working as far as j and k, but would space bk for buffer kill work? Space bk for buffer kill, it does work, but let's imagine that it didn't work. Let me do space hv and once again, I'll take a look at the documentation for a particular variable. Let's imagine this buffer didn't work with my evil related key bindings. Well, there is a standard key binding to get out of any kind of documentation or help related information and that is simply typing q on the keyboard, q for quit. A single q will actually get you out of that buffer and it will actually close the split that opens.  I know that's kind of confusing because not every buffer works like that, but a lot of times anything that opens up especially in its own split typically just type q on the keyboard to get out of it.  So I use evil mode in Emacs. Evil mode does present some real issues in the terminals inside Emacs. So I'm going to do space TV to toggle the term. So this is the term down here in this horizontal split. I'll make the split a little bigger. Now, let's imagine you're running a command line program or in curses program such as htop, htop standard in curses program. Now, how do you escape out of htop? Well, the good thing htop just needs q to quit. But some programs need you to type escape to quit. You often run into this with run launchers. I do a dm hub and give it the dash f flag. So dm hub is part of my dm scripts program. The dash f says run dm hub with fuzzy finder in the terminal rather than launching d menu. So this is the dm hub program in fuzzy finder. But let's imagine I don't want to actually select one of these options from the menu. You run into this all the time with d menu, rophy, fuzzy finder, any kind of run launcher. A lot of times you simply don't want to launch a program or choose something from a menu that you've launched. Sometimes you just want to escape out of it. Well, let me hit escape. Escape doesn't work. Now, in my case, I have configured my Emacs in a way to get around this problem if I hit escape again. It will get me out of that particular program. But that is not how Emacs is out of the box. Out of the box, you could hit escape a million times and you are stuck in that fuzzy finder script. Because by default, escape in evil mode, what does escape do? It gets you into normal mode, right? So escape is already binded to something. So what escape actually does in the program itself no longer works.  So if you have a serious need to use the escape key to actually escape a program, you can't actually do it. Now, I will show you my hack to get around the escape problem. One thing you could do if you run into this problem on a standard installation of Emacs where you've installed evil mode, but you haven't really configured it. If you run into this problem where you can't hit escape to get out of something, you can always Control C in a terminal to get out of something. Well, not necessarily in Emacs because Control C is a prefix for a lot of other commands. So it's the same problem. Except just remember this, Control C twice will always work. If I do Control C and then Control C again, it will always quit out of that terminal application. And what I've ended up doing, let me escape to get into normal mode, space BK to kill this buffer type yes for confirmation to get rid of the V term. In my config, what I've done, let me go to the top. And what I've done is it might be under the V term section where I added the escape key bindings or maybe it was under the actual key binding section itself, the general key binding section. And actually it's under the V term toggle section of my config. I have redefined the escape key. I've done a evil define key. So inside normal state in evil mode in a V term, because I'm using V term mode map, V term mode is the standard mode inside V term, obviously. And I'm rebinding escape, the simple one press of the escape key to run the command V term dash dash self dash insert. What that does, it tells V term to actually do a self insert of a particular key. And essentially what this does is when I hit escape twice now, it actually registers escape to actually do what escape should do in that particular fuzzy finder script or incurses program or whatever it happens to be, it'll actually register escape as an actual escape in that program rather than escape being standard escape in normal mode, which again really won't do me anything for us. One last key binding I would suggest always trying is if you're in a situation where some of your escape key bindings are not working by default, Emacs typically uses control G to kill a process to get out of a running process. So if I do meta X to get into basically our command here, right meta X, so we could launch some command, but imagine, you know what, I hit meta X, but I really don't want to run a program. Let me just get out of it while escape actually does work in meta X. But let's imagine it didn't. I could always use control G. So control G is just another key binding to try. So you've got a lot of ways to get out of things in Emacs evil mode. So remember, try your space related key bindings assuming you use space as a leader key and then try the alt space related key binding. So try your prefix leader key, try your global prefix leader key, or simply type Q on the keyboard to quit that works in a lot of Emacs programs or if you've done the escape trick where I've rebinded escape and something like vterm, if it's a terminal program, try escape twice or try control C twice or try control G. That often works as well. And finally, as the absolute nuclear option, if you find yourself in a buffer, you just can't get out of no matter where you're at in Emacs, meta X always works.   You can just kill that buffer through eye buffer. And oh, and that's it. You can just meta X is always available for you. I know that's kind of a clunky way to do things. Typically though, at least one of those five or six key bindings will work to get you out of that Emacs program. 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The Florengoura of Gil there are first of the age of Pacific cars, of course international rally queens as well as APRC as well as the East Coast Bullbars Championship. Day one, first of our endurance series so it's about making sure the points count for Saturday and Sunday. After a dramatic win, Slippery very close, STP and Armoral Powerstays, the Evans Brothers separated by 0.2 of a second. Very spectacular in slippery conditions, it's dried out through here. A couple of five kilometre or there about stages here, we'll chat to them at the end of SS2 where we're standing now before they do another 30 Ks in our first service. It is very much about endurance this weekend. We're in a really great stage one, I think we were third fast in the APRC so that's really pleasing. A bit of a moment right at the finish line where we nearly rolled it so I cut over Crest and bit of a wake up call, got away with it so just pulled it back a little bit for this one and you can see on the times we're a little bit slower. Obviously the S2000s are really fast but we'll see. Full or dry power stage winner mate, how's the opening couple of stages going though? Terrible mate, the thing we just can't control the back of the car so it's quite scary to drive so I'm not sure what has happened between the power stage and here but we've got to do something because we just can't keep it on the road. The first one doesn't suit the way I got the car set up and I'd forgotten all about that stage until we got out there. It was a bit tentative through it and this one I sort of knew roughly the flow of this thing. It's still a bit tentative, there's more in it I'm sure. You do like playing with set ups on these cars don't you, you've always been like that and if you can get it right it really does help you get on the money and be confident with your car doesn't it? Yep, it's not right yet but I think it might come as the road comes to me in the afternoon. Long way to go yet, just trying to settle in but the time's clearly not there but we've just got to sort of get into a routine, it's a long way to go yet. I've probably been a bit too easy on the car trying to make sure we get through so I don't know. The car feels absolutely amazing, got over a bit of nervous energy on the jump start on the power stage yesterday, had a cracker of a sleet this morning and woke up and said let's go rallying in the sunshine. Yeah, good conditions considering the lead up and the sloppiness of the other stages I mean there's still some longer ones to go in the shade but these ones have been pretty good off the cuff. Yeah really good actually, yeah I mean the always better to wrecky in the wet and then have a dry rally than the other way around but yeah look Queensland's generically like that, rain's sort of during the week and drys up after it but yeah we're just going to do our thing and get to the end. This is an endurance rally, got to change that mindset, too many blokes already got smashed bumpers and radiated coolant leaks already so long way to go. Mate I reckon the time loss on stage one you've got back on this one I reckon so it's already happening. Yeah it's good, I'm really happy. Now the car's mint and that stage run was pretty tricky and we've gone out on 900s so the idea is to have good tyres for this long stage and that's why we're very ready. Is that causing you any problems, any year selection problems or just at the end here? No not in the stage but I think you know there's just a few really rough compressions and it just is not very happy it's not wanting to select years so in the stage it was fine hopefully we've got a gear now so we'll keep going while we've got a gear. Major amount of damage under there mate was that one or two? Stage one probably around 400m in, just dip, kick the car on its nose and yeah it's made a mess of the front so we went limp through that one, I'll see what the guys reckon when we get back to refuel whether we try and limp it through the 30k or just take a penalty.


I've got to tell you, the longer that I'm in the crypto market, things just never seem to surprise me. And today, we're going to talk about yet another custody custodian company that is insolvent, allegedly. And when I talk about this, you have to just remind yourself that they've really just had one job and they couldn't even get that right. And the question really then becomes, what the heck happened? So what I'm talking about is there's been a story that's been, it's old. It's actually two or three days old now, and this is about prime trust. And the whole thing that this came about is because Bitco came out and said, we're going to help prime trust and we're going to buy it, and they did their due diligence and they found out that this is not a good buy. So they let it languish and now what is coming out, allegedly, that everything is insolvent. So this is what's happening. Prime trust can't honor customer withdrawals, says the Nevada regulator. I am a proponent of regulation, but I have to tell you, the regulators, it seems like maybe they're missing on their job, not for sure. A little dig at Gary Gensler. So this is what we got. June 21st, there was a cease and desist order from Nevada's Department of Business and Industry claim prime trust financial condition had considerably deteriorated. And the firm is now in an unsafe or unsound condition. This is what they state. On June 21st, respondents, prime trust, was unable to honor customer withdrawals. I think we're all aware of those and we've all felt those Celsius, Voyager, FTX, list goes on. Due to a shortfall of customer funds caused by a significant liability on the respondents balance sheet owed to customers, the order added prime trust has materially and willfully breaches fiduciary duties to its customers by failing to safeguard assets under its custody. And the thing that kept coming to mind is like, how does this happen? Because again, you have just one thing to do, custody. And then on their website itself, prime trust, it says very clearly, prime trust is a Nevada registered trust company regulated by the financial institutions, division of the Department of Business and Industry. We are required to maintain regulatory compliance with Nevada revised statutes, chapter 669. And if you are interested in that, there is a great website. You can pour through this and it's a multitude of pages. I've linked that in the description. But this is where it gets interested. Because again, very simple thing to do. And what I'm going to talk about is what's happening there. I don't want to say the F word, but it might be fraud. Because prime trust assets and its customers assets are kept separate. If that was the case and there was no coming of funds, there shouldn't be an issue with withdrawals. Additionally, our customers assets are either kept separate from the assets of other customers or otherwise specifically identified as belonging to a particular customer pursuant to NRS 669. Again, you can check it out right there. So if this is the case and they can't do withdrawals, really what it should be is that the company itself, if it goes through bankruptcy, it's because they did something. They overpaid for, they had too many employees, they overextended on their marketing budget. They did something where they just did poor business practice as far as due diligence and where they were set up. Whatever it is, but the customer's funds should have been safe and apparently they are not. And I thought to myself, this was like, well, maybe this is like a fly by night place because I've really honestly never, I've heard of prime trust in passing, but never really paid too much attention to it. Prime trust has been around for quite some time. It was founded in 2016. 2016, let me do some quick math. It's like seven years. So what happened to where it just all of a sudden had this issue? Because we've already gone through a brutal bear market in 2022. That's when everything was exposed. So what happened from then until now? Well, I think what it comes down to is, first of all, they actually did some pretty good things. Prime trust cut ties with crypto lender Celsius. They did this on June 24th, 2021. This was at the height or near the height of the bull market. And that was when everything was going crazy. And then when people saw this, they'd say, that's fud. You shouldn't spread fud. That's fud. And you know what, in all honesty, from now on moving forward, I don't care about whoever says you're spreading fud, Rob. My job is to inform everybody.  This is why this is fud. Here's the data. Here's the information. So when I see stuff like this, I'm like, you know, we should have really talked more about this. That's what we're going to do moving forward. However, they did the right thing. And it was unremarkable. Didn't really make too many waves. So then I thought to myself, well, what happened? What happened from 2021 till June 24, 22nd, 2023? What happened in that short amount of time? Because it seemed like things were doing pretty well. This might be a possibility. The founder and former CEO, Scott Purcell, says his old firm is in receivership, incredibly sad to see. This is on June 22nd, 2023. In 2021, Purcell exited Prime Trust to launch a new firm called Fortress. That's going to be a big play in a second. Just hold on. So again, if we're taking a look at it, 2016 to 2021, looks like Purcell was there. He stepped down. And after that, something happened along the way that got Prime Trust in trouble. This was a statement, and he states that Fortress has no exposure to Prime Trust. He says, while George, Kevin, Amanda, Bruce, and I did work, did used to work there two and a half years ago, we left when the company was profitable and doing well. Ancient history with a subsequent management team did with the company is incredibly sad, heart wrenching. Prime Trust raised over $180 million since I exited as CEO. And how they could screw it up is beyond me. But it was after we left. So that is just one person's statement. And this all came about, there was a great video. Scott Melker, Wolf of All Streets, he's on this really good show called DCA. You should check that out. Really good, much better without me. And he had this great video. It was about 15 minutes. I put the link in the description and he took a look. I don't know if he used Wayback Time Machine, but he could see all the different clients or customers for Prime Trust. And a year ago, just a year ago, they had some pretty big clients, Binance US, gone. Swan, good one, OKCoin, Dapper Labs, Kraken, Strike, Ave, Republic, Abra, Bitrex, T-Zero, Securitize. And then moving forward, just a couple of days ago, this is their client list, very small. And there was one that was crossed out and Scott said that Swan was not involved. I'd take a look at that. And this is Corey Clipston. Good guys, he was a good guy. There's a link in the description. You can follow him on Twitter. And he said this, this was on June 22nd. All Swan Bitcoin customer funds were transferred from Prime Trust to Fortress and Bitco. Again, Fortress. Who's Fortress? Again, old CEO, Scott Purcell from Prime Trust. He says, unlike the unsecured creditors of Celsius and FTX, Swan client assets have always been held with qualified custodians. Separation of Baroque and Custody as per financial industry best practices, client assets are required by state and federal law to be segregated from business operations. So again, I don't know what happened here and why they weren't separated and why they're being used and why they can't do withdrawals. To me, it just kind of makes no sense. And then lastly, Corey gives stage advice, always take self custody if you can. So this is the thing. I started to think about this. Fortress, can we trust them? Well, we really shouldn't trust anybody, right? We should verify a little bit. And they have got the same stuff on their website as did Prime Trust. It's true. They are a qualified custodian, which is exactly what Prime Trust says. Which even though you're a qualified custodian, it just means that you kind of went to the legal rigmarole to kind of say that, yeah, okay, I'm a custodian. Regulatory security, and it says here again, assets are not on balance sheet, assets are held FBO. Same thing that Prime Trust said. I'll be honest with you. They said it right here. Prime Trust assets and his customers are kept separate. Saying that here. There is a difference though. And I couldn't find this over on Prime Trust. Sock 2, type 2 certified. What the heck is that? To me, it was just a bunch of jumbly words. Sock 2, type 2 certified. Sock 1, Sock 2. Sock 1 versus Sock 2. There's a difference in how this is audited. And the Sock 2 is this part, security control focus. There's a type 1 and type 2. This is organization system and controls. They're both the same. Type 1 is at a specific time point, which you could say, you know, Bions could say, hey, audit us on January 12, 2021. Tell us if we're good. Okay, you're good. And that's it. And for type 2, it's a period of time. So a period of time they could do that. This is focused on security. This is the opinion on design and operating effectiveness of controls. Again, for security, all for security. So they do that. You know who else does that? It's Coinbase. You know who else trusts Coinbase for custodial services? Couple of different people that are out there. BlackRock being one of them. Hopefully that Bitcoin ETF comes through. Also a small little company you might know called MicroStrategy. They do the same thing. They complete initial prime broker, Sock 1 and Sock 2, type 2 reports. Who does it though? That's the question. Who does these reports? Sock reports are industry standard certifications governed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. So it's an outside organization. They come in certified, say, this is good. This is bad. This is what you guys should do to fix it. So what does this all come down to? Well, it kind of comes out of this. I trust. Now, as you may know, got this thing right above my head. Open a crypto IRA. You have to understand, they are an affiliate of this show. I have affiliate links down there. I have affiliate links for AliPals which is gonna come through. I have affiliate links for a ton of things. So when I talk about these things, I wanna make sure that we're doing the right thing. Here's all, here's what I know. I trust capital, use a little bit of coin-based custody, type one, type two. They also use Fireblocks. They also use, like we just talked about, Fortress. Fortress and Fireblocks. Fireblocks has a couple of different individuals who they work with or institutions. 4 trillion transaction security, 130 million watts, blah, blah, blah. Revolute, BNY, Melanie, Toro, GCK Capital, MoonPay, Vanaq, Avaleps. And they're using them for custodial services on top of Swan Bitcoin as well. So this all leads down to this. I cannot beat this in everybody's head as much as I possibly can. I'm not your dad.  This is what I'm doing. And I preached about this for quite some time. You don't have to diversify. You can put everything in a Pepe coin and write it all out and be a Pepe coin billionaire by 2032. I don't think it's gonna happen, but maybe. So when I talk about diversification, I'm not gonna move my money out of I-Trust. I'm not gonna go to another different organization. From what we just talked about, probabilities. I'm not gonna move too much out of crypto. I'm gonna stick pretty heavy into Bitcoin, 75% of my portfolio is Bitcoin. Of the crypto portfolio. 15, 10 to 15% is Ethereum and the rest are alts. Now, overall, my portfolio is this. 5% are in stocks. I got a bunch of cash sitting around just waiting to be deployed because I'm waiting for me personally. I think there's gonna be a commercial collapse of real estate. Not retail, but commercial. I got 1% in stables, 5% in some D-Gen plays, 4% in master books. In the bulk, roughly 40% is in real estate. Short-term, long-term rentals, 35% but five, which is land, 35% will we have. Amazon is the, my drop shipping business, which does pretty okay. And the sports facility which we have here in El Paso, Texas, 15% are in crypto and 1%, 1% is in I-Trust. Now, people are gonna say this, but why would you just take it all out and put it into a cold storage and go from that? There's multiple reasons for that. But I will say this, can we trust anything? Seriously, it kind of feels like we're playing whack-a-mole. Remember this whole charade that we came through with Ledger? That's right now is Charles Guime. I think I said it right. He's a nice guy. He's the CTO of Ledger. And he came out and said, look, we're gonna do this part with Ledger at $9.95 a month and we're gonna be able to store your private keys for you. And he said, don't worry, trust us, bro. He's gonna be on the show July 4th. So if you got questions for him, put them in the comments below. I personally don't have a problem with this. If they would have separated it and put it into different devices, like a Ledger baby for like the new people and a Ledger OG, which is just what we have right now. That'd be great. And before you say, well, Ledger is the greatest thing and cold storage is the greatest thing. It's been like that for a long time, but don't forget this. Ledger on November 15, 2022 said this, high your private keys never leave the secure element chip, which has never been hacked, which is true. Ledger has never been hacked. Now they have been hacked for your personal information, but not your private keys. There's a big difference. The secure element is third party certified and is the same tech as used in passports and credit cards. A firmware update cannot extract the private keys from the secure element. Let me read that one more time. A firmware update cannot extract the private keys from the secure element. November 15, 2022. Then in an AMA, on May 17th, they said technically speaking, it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware, whether you knew it or not. That's a good way to put it. So again, diversify. You can do whatever you want to do. And I will just say this lastly, Elipal, thank you for sending a cold storage device. I'll be reviewing this and make a video later. I think it should even diversify in your cold storage devices, but that's it for today. So look, if you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing. I don't care who you subscribe to, just get your news from somebody that you like and trust may not be me, maybe it's Tom Crown or some other people that are out there. That'd be great, but that concludes everything for the news today.


Tom here from Orange Systems and there's nothing quite as aggravating as packet loss. Well, lag is probably up there with it, but the two are kind of related because packet loss can also really ruin your day the same way lag will. And for the same reason, you have lost packets somewhere. The connection is unstable. Now I'm going to show you how to track this in PF sense. And I'm going to show you how to set up the gateway monitor IP and the default might be fine for you, but it's not always fine in every scenario. So we'll talk about when you should look at changing that and what other factors you should track and how you can track that over time and then present and download the data out of PF sense and hopefully get the problem resolved or at least have a lot more data to understand the problem better. Now, my preference is always to monitor any of these type of problems from within PF sense because anytime you put another tool behind it, you now have more factors. You have more layers in between. So my personal preference is always to monitor all of this from PF sense. It's really easy to do, but before we dive into the details of the video to how to set this up, let's first. Are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering storage or virtualization project? Is your company or internal IT team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system security or offer strategic guidance to keep your IT systems operating smoothly? Not only would we love to help consulting your project, we also offer fully managed or co-managed IT service plans for businesses in need of IT administration or IT teams in need of additional support. With our expert install team, we can also assist you with all of your structure, cabling and Wi-Fi planning projects. If any of this piques your interest, fill out our Hire Us form at laurancesystems.com so we can start crafting a solution that works for you. If you're not interested in hiring us, but you're looking for other ways you want to support this channel, there's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel. And now back to our content. Now by default, PF sense is already doing the monitoring, but we have to make sure it's monitoring the right thing. So here is my WAN DHCP. I have Wide Open West as my internet cable writer. They provide me a cable modem that's in bridge mode, and it's set up to DHCP on my PF sense WAN. So this is the DHCP first hop or default gateway, the default route by which the PF sense sends all the traffic until it gets to the next router. Now you have to make sure you're monitoring the right IP address. So we're over here to system and then routing. And here's my WAN DHCP. And you can see the gateway address and the monitor IP address are the same. If we don't want them the same, we can click on the edit and then we can change and put a different monitor IP in here. The important part is that the IP or monitoring should be an off-prem piece of equipment. And what I mean by that, you should monitor something that is pingable, that is within your internet provider's network operation center, not necessarily on-prem. The example would be, and this is common with some fiber equipment, the fiber equipment may have a default gateway that's assigned to the fiber device that bridges over to the PF sense. And if you just ping that, well, you're not really that accurate in terms of whether or not you're down when it comes to the internet, because if it's only pinging the local device before it goes down the fiber and over to the provider, well, you've only managed to confirm that there's a connection between that short distance. So you want the monitor IP to be something within their network operation center for the most part of your using cable motor minutes in bridge mode. That's perfectly fine to use the default gateway. But if you don't have it in bridge mode and your PF sense has a private IP address, it will default to pinging the local device. Well, if the internet goes out coming to the local device, once again, you won't have any information to go on. So yes, this will work, even if it's not in bridge mode. But those are the factors you have to think about as to what you're monitoring. Now, if you scroll down, there's under display advanced, you can also fine tune if you need to, the latency thresholds, packet loss thresholds, what you find acceptable. If you're on a high latency connection, you may be getting errors from this particular connection, because well, it's always high latency, such as Starlink is going to be a higher latency than fiber versus a capable. Each one of these has different profiles of performance. So depending on what your use case is, think about that. If you need to tune these, I find for most connections, though, the default works perfectly fine. It's tolerant and losing a few packets here and there does happen, it will log that, but it's just a matter of whether or not it does any triggering these other options, such as monitoring a gateway or the gateway action are more related to if you have failover scenarios where you want the action to be stopped using this gateway, use the other gateway, that's also where this fine tuning may come into play. Now, once you've got this configured, we're going to go to status and we're going to go over to monitoring. This is the default monitoring that's in here and we click the wrench icon and this is where we can start making changes. We can change it to quality and we can pick which thing we want to measure the quality of which different gateway way and DHCP and we're going to head and hit display advanced and we'll hit save view. All that does is save this to be the default view anytime we go here and then we can click on these delay average or delay standard deviation because I want to focus on packet loss or maybe I don't and I only want to see the standard deviation for when there's, you know, different high pings and right here, it looks like around 1031. There were some high pings at 2345. So it got all the way up to 13. So you can see is your latency changing over time with the pings or are you experiencing any packet loss like we did right here on 1031. This is pretty simple, but let's go a little bit more advanced and go here, click this icon and let's create some extra views. So we can actually add a view here and we're going to call this 30 day view. So we'll name it that names are arbitrary on this. Click the icon and we're going to change it to one month. The resolution will make it pretty fine here at one hour. We'll leave quality. We'll keep it WAND, we can then hit display advance. We're just going to save the view right here. So now this one is a 30 day look and wow, we definitely had some loss back on a 1012. It looks like we had an outage for a little while. So there's minor loss here and there. Let's go ahead and create another one and we can go ahead and go display advance or add a view one day view. Then we'll edit this one to be one day. So we change this to a day, five minute resolution sounds good. Display advance and hit save. Now this is our one day view. Now there may be other data you want to add on top of this. Like we have this spike right here, but I wonder what that spike might have been caused by. So we can actually edit this and set another piece of information in this, like what was the system load? What was the memory or the processor on there? So if we update the graph, well, it looks like the processor didn't really change much with that. So a little bit of some user going on here. Probably that was a VPN transfers because it I'm using wire garden that operates in a way that may have spiked the system a little bit. So maybe that's why that happened. Let's look at maybe a traffic and we'll put the traffic down here to the wire guard VPN and we'll update the graphs. Ah, there we go. So if we start looking at the wire guard VPN overlaid with this, we can correlate some of this data to say, all right, maybe this VPN was causing this, but actually I don't see a packet loss related to it, but it does obviously change some of the deviation that's going on here. And we can uncheck these different boxes to just compare the in or out traffic and overlay only pieces at a time. Now let's switch over to my office one where you can see what the differences are. For example, when you have VPN users. So here's my Comcast connection, which actually is experiencing a lot of packet loss. I know they've been servicing it today. There's a technician there now and it's definitely down. We have a secondary backup connection is how I'm connected to our firewall at the office, but this is where you may want to overlay data such as VPN users. So let's look at my open VPN LTS users, people remoting in, update the graph and you can see if those users cause any change in maybe traffic patterns actually updated this way. These are ways you can look at traffic or even go over here and look at the processor, update graphs. Is there a big change in processor when these users log in? So these users are logged in, several users logged in here at 10 o'clock when some of the people started working remotely. And there's really not a big change in processors. So if we focus just on users and process. Yeah, there's some processes running, but it didn't really overload the system. This is another way you can look at this to try to start troubleshooting PF sense and understand if these other things have an effect on things like packet loss. So you're correlating two pieces of data. Of course, ultimately, once you have any of this data, you want to look at it over time and maybe even say, you know, you go back to like your month view, update the graph. Well, this one hasn't been on for a month. So maybe go to the month view of the Comcast changes to three months of Comcast. And then we want to export that data. It creates a CSV file. There's packet loss, delay average, standard delay average, and you can import this to make your own assessments and make your own graphs. And maybe you want to pivot the data a little bit differently. But as I said, this has been doing this since you set up PF sense. Once you load it, it automatically starts monitoring all this data. It's just a matter of going to status monitoring and building the different pivots on here. So you can help use it to understand what problems you're trying to troubleshoot or use it as that correlation data to get you pointed in the right direction. And that's it for status monitoring. It's really easy to use. I highly recommend looking at it once in a while and going back in history. It's kind of fun just to think about how things are being done or if you're looking at, hey, why didn't my transfer seem to slow down when I do this? Hey, jump over there and take a look at the history of it and whether or not it's using a lot more processor power. If it's because there's a lot of VPN users logged in at the same time, you know, that different correlation data can send you down the right path to getting your problem solved. Leave your thoughts and comments down below or head over to my forums for a more in-depth discussion. And thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video. If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up. 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