What's going on everyone? JJ Zachary is in here. I am the editor in chief over at Fandal and at numberfire.com. I like to analyze fantasy football. I've got a podcast, a late round podcast, which you guys should subscribe to. I'm on Twitter at late round QB. How's it going, everyone? Let's talk some fantasy football today. I'm here to answer any and all fantasy football questions. Hopefully we get some some trickling in. I feel like this week I've been so focused on this ambiguous RB one theory that I that I wrote about and that I talked about on my podcast on Monday, essentially looking at running backs in the middle rounds and trying to find ways to increase our probability of hitting on those running backs. And, you know, what I found was that mid range RB ones mid range running backs were the RB ones on their own team who also have a teammate drafted after them or soon after them, I should say. They hit at a higher rate than RB ones that have teammates drafted way, way after them. It was kind of interesting. So if you're, you know, taking that and looking at this 2021 season, guys that I'm just generally a little bit higher on as a result of that chase Edmonds, you know, you have Edmonds being drafted, usually like round seven, let's say, and then James Conner like round nine. You know, you can go go after Edmonds in that scenario because he's the higher running back in terms of ADP. You know, you could look over at the Denver situation. It's a little bit more fringe, but, you know, Givante Williams being the RB one there. I prefer Givante Williams over Melvin Gordon. Of course, everyone does. But Givante Williams fits the mold a lot more to be a breakout than to exceed expectation versus a lot of other players around there. So it's just a there's also Trey Sermon with San Francisco. And then who's the last one? Travis Etienne for Jacksonville. I got a question. We got some questions trickling in now. This is from ZZ God speed. Hey, JJ, I'm in a super flex league. Should I take CMC or a quarterback at one on one?  And I actually drew the one on one. I was randomized today. The order was we're not drafting until August 5th, but I'm going with CMC in that one on one spot. Hopefully I can get a quarterback, you know, decent stable of quarterbacks, if you will. But the competitive edge and the edge that you'll get if CMC does what we think you will do, is more significant, I think, than what you'll get out of Patrick Mahomes, who, you know, yeah, I mean, I think that Patrick Mahomes is the most likely to be the QB one this season, which is why he's ranked as the QB one. But there are a lot of other options. A quarterback who could realistically get to that point, reach that point, whereas at the running back position, you know, it just it just drops off. You know, I think that there's six reasonable players, six or seven reasonable players who could be that, whereas it might be a little bit more at the quarterback position. And then running back just matters a little bit more inherently. Let's go to Joel. Any league-wide trends we should look for this season with the extra game, running back by committee, et cetera. Yeah, I mean, we don't really know, right? I build projections and this season, you know, I was a little bit more conservative with how aggressive I was getting with the running back rush share numbers and the rush share numbers for running backs, because I do think that we're going to see running backs maybe not carry as big of a workload. Now, across the season with an extra game, their overall rushing volume numbers might look a little bit better than what we've seen in the 16 game season, but their overall rushing share might not look as good. The problem is we don't have enough of a sample to really base this off of. It's all speculation. It's all based on what, you know, what we just generally think might happen. And so I wouldn't really overstate that then because that can get you into trouble. You know, anytime that we take some sort of idea or notion that's not backed by real logic and real substance and we implement it into our process, it's very easy for that to be sort of over influenced within our process. And then all of a sudden we're saying, no, I'm fading Derek Henry this year for sure because there's one extra game that Derek Henry would be playing. So, you know, I think it might be a thing. Sure. Once the season's over, we might look back and say, oh, well, you know, rush shares were a little bit lower among elite running backs. Is it going to really change fantasy football? I would say probably not. Let's see. This is from Francis. Sorry if repost app closed. Dynasty, Superflex, Dalvin, Carr and Galladay or Etn, Tua and Visca. Man, that's a really tough one.  I, you know, I would take Dalvin over Etn and then I'd probably lean Galladay over Visca. I'm probably going to take the former there, but it's pretty close. If I'm in a situation where I'm rebuilding, I would probably be fine with taking the latter because there's a lot more upside there and they're younger. But that's a pretty close one. You know, Dalvin being the differentiator, just because he could have that league winning potential, you know, this year and next year. Let's go to Michael Bauer. He says, listen to that podcast, great, great work as always. How does that theory work if, say, Connors ADP rises above Edmunds? Yeah, I mean, so this is obviously a hypothetical that I don't think is going to happen. But the ADP that I use and source from is from August drafts. So, you know, anything can happen between now and August, which is why I'm not really planning my flag on a running back in the Tampa Bay backfield because the ADP with Ronald Jones and Leonard Fornette is fairly close right now. You could even make the argument to a degree about San Francisco, but we're seeing that widen a little bit more. Whereas Arizona, I mean, there's such a pretty decent gap between Chase Edmunds and James Conner, you know, with the restrictions in place between round six and nine. There's still a significant gap between those two guys that would be kind of shocking if we see their ADPs flip. But yeah, I mean, based on the study, if they did flip, then all of a sudden you would favor James Conner because what that's telling you is that the market is adjusting and the market is saying, no, James Conner is the RB one. And while we're sitting here and saying that's an overreaction or that's this or that's that, I mean, historically, what we found is that the market has been right on who the team RB ones are in those middle rounds. So you would have to adjust with what the market is saying. Let's go to Joel Young. Best hold off and wait on quarterback and redraft. I think that you either go middle round quarterback and get one of those elite rushers like a Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson, Kyler Murray, whenever he's there. Lamar Jackson, if he drops, you know, I'm not really going after Patrick Mahomes per se or Josh Allen as much. I think the next tier, if you will, I mean, I would consider them even the same tier. I'm more aggressive with that tier. But I will say, you know, I wrote an article all about this. I don't want to reiterate the entire article because there's a lot of data involved with it. I don't think the the late round quarterback strategy is completely dead. You guys can can look up that that article over on Number Fire. It's just is the late round quarterback strategy dead or approach or something. I can't remember what I titled it. But because I do think that there are some rushing quarterbacks or have the quarterbacks have that upside, you can get late this year. Mostly I think this could be the year of the rookie quarterback. If we get Justin Fields and Trey Lance on the field, I expect them to put up QB one number similar to what we saw Jalen Hurts last year, but with more passing upside than what Jalen Hurts had. So, you know, if I'm not getting those players, I'm going to the next tier. Jalen Hurts is a guy that I think you can target. Ryan Tannehill, a guy that you can target then after that, and then after that, if you really missed out on all three of those tiers, you can go after some of those rookies, whether it's Trey Lance or Justin Fields. Let's go to Matt Egan. How can we best apply finding breakout running Max to a dynasty league? I haven't studied it, honestly. I mean, I think that that you can understand what's going to happen in a particular year that's upcoming like with Chase Edmonds. And if you're in a win now season and your team is in win now mode, you could go and try to trade for Edmonds or a player like that. I'm not saying that it's a lock that Chase Edmonds is going to work out. But you could trade for a player like that, knowing that, you know, he's probably going to have a decent enough season.  So I haven't studied this. I don't know the answer to this, but you know, you can take in one of your increments and sort of, you know, use it to your advantage as much as possible. Let's see. The sex was from Srikanth. It says, can you name a few deep, wide receiver sleepers for redrafts? Brian Edwards is a pretty deep sleeper. You know, I think that he has, he was a really good prospect, a young prospect coming out. He had really good production. He had a good production profile, like I said, fairly athletic. He just didn't have a good year one, which is not a good sign for what's to come. Usually, you know, good wide receivers, good running backs are good during their rookie seasons. But, you know, he was banged up and we do see guys pan out even though they didn't do much their rookie season. And it's not like you're paying a lot to get them. So Brian Edwards, who should be on the field, you know, for the Raiders in their base package on offense, I think is a decent dart throw. And I don't mind Michael Pittman as much. I'm kind of kind of getting warmer and warmer with him. You know, he's an alpha. Another guy who had a pretty good production profile, but he's built like an alpha, like I said. And I don't think that there's that much competition in terms of talent on that team that we should be worried about. So I think Michael Pittman is kind of intriguing as well. Let's go to Brian. Brian says thoughts on Echler and Michael Thomas and PPR this year. Yeah, I like them both a lot. Echler, someone who I hadn't really bought into in the past that much. You know, last year, I think he was fortunate that Justin Herbert ended up hitting. But this year, you know, the big question mark with Echler is obviously not his past catching ability. It's what's going to happen at the goal line because he's not seen a lot of goal line rushes over his career and over in recent memory. But the thing is that we know that, you know, he has a low end RB one time or he should get low end RB one type production in PPR. Even if he's not seeing that goal line work and then what if he does see that goal line work? It's sort of like Chase Edmonds, right? Chase Edmonds, as long as he were to be guaranteed, you know, that Austin Echler type role, which we think he will. You know, the downside with Edmonds is he's only seen two goal line rushes his entire career. We don't know if they're going to utilize him by the goal line and that's big from a ceiling perspective, right? So, you know, I think Echler is in that tier with Cam Makers and Joe Mixon. He's a lot safer of an option than those two guys. So I can understand if you want to go him over those players. Michael Thomas, I really, really like, you know, a lot of people will look at last season, didn't perform very well, didn't find the end zone at all last season, actually. And, you know, the positives here are that when Michael Thomas was active last year, he was still seeing like a 30 percent target share in that Saints offense per game. And so, you know, I understand Drew Brees isn't there anymore. He's going to he's not going to put up a season like he did in 2019, where he had like the 35 percent target share and he was catching everything. But I think Michael Thomas, regardless of who the quarterback is, should be fine. And I think he's a top 10 wide receiver this year, actually. I'm very, very high on Michael Thomas. I think he's a great value. And yeah, so I would be attacking both of these guys. I think they're both good, good players. Let's go to Francis says, which late round tight ends are you betting on for breakouts slash far exceeding ADP? I'll do an episode. So I'm doing a wide receiver episode on Tuesday. Let's say it'll come out. It might be out of Monday. It depends on how much I can get done. And then the week after that, I will do the tight end episode. Three tight ends jump to mind when I'm thinking late round tight ends this year, who could far exceed ADP. One of them is Blake Jarwin, who, yes, he's like the fourth or the fifth option in that Dallas offense, but the Dallas offense should have a lot of passing. And he's a decent. He's a decently athletic tight end who could who could do some work in that offense. I don't like him as much as I like Adam Troutman, who could be the de facto number two option outside. Well, number three, if you count Camara in that Saints offense, really productive tight end in college, decent enough athleticism, measurables. And I care about athleticism at tight end far more than I do wide receiver running back because a lot more correlation between that athleticism to being successful at the NFL level than there is at the running back and wide receiver position. So Troutman, someone I'm definitely interested in. And then Gerald Everett. I feel like I'm into Gerald Everett all the time, but now you have him on a team where he could be the third option in that's Seattle offense. He's he's with an offensive coordinator, Shane Waldron, who was his coach in LA. And then they went out and got him. I think that they they like Gerald Everett and they should. He's athletic, he's very versatile. And again, there's not a lot of options outside those two wide receivers in that offense. And who knows, maybe it's a more pass heavy offense than we expected what we're projecting. I think it will be. And so I'm I'm fairly bullish on the Seattle passing attack. And Gerald Everett is definitely part of that. Let's go to Danny Frey. Who's the top fantasy player for 2021 in your opinion? It depends on how you're defining top fantasy player. I mean, if you're looking at at it from the perspective of who scores the most points at the skill positions, I'm going to say Christian McCaffrey. If you're looking at who's going to be the best value, it's hard to be a great, great value in the early rounds, just inherently. And so I'm going to go and just pinpoint and go back to the study that I did on Monday on the late round podcast. You guys should listen to that because it gives a lot of detail as to why I feel this way. But I think that that Javante Williams is someone who I just continue to be gravitating towards, you know, that offense, you know, the quarterback is a question mark for sure. Offensive line should be fine. Defense is really, really strong. We could see some some positive game scripts for them. But then also, you know, you don't trade up generally, you know, with a day to pick and take a running back and not utilize them. We do see a little bit of of substance there in terms of those backs seeing a little bit more work in year one. And Javante Williams is just a really good running back. So I'm kind of intrigued by him. That's just a random player who popped into my head as a value right now because of what I've been talking about this week. But sure, we'll go with that right now. Let's go to David Carlson, who says, what do we think or what do we do with the Tampa Bay backfield? Is is Rojo? Is it Rojo? I'm assuming you mean. Yeah, so so it's difficult. I'll go back to that running back study that I keep referencing where if there are two middle round running backs, like we're seeing in Tampa Bay, generally speaking, the RB one, so the one that's being drafted first is the one that you want to target. There's a much more significantly higher hit rate for that player. Typically, we want to see a little bit bigger of a gap between those two players because it depends on ADP source, really. You know, like some ADP sources are going to say the Leonard Fournets, the RB one, some will say that it's Rojo. I lean Leonard Fournets a little bit more than Rojo right now just because the pass catching is there, more so. And that's something that generally happens with late round running or sorry, breakout running backs is that, you know, when you're getting them in the middle and late rounds, the guys who break out or ones who are catching passes and Rojo has not been that guy throughout his career. Leonard Fournets has at times. I mean, I don't think that he's a spectacular pass catcher, but I do think he's a better pass catcher than Ronald Jones is. So I'm leaning I'm leaning Leonard Fournets. We also, you know, from a recency bias standpoint, you know, we saw Leonard Fournets carry the load down the stretch last year during the Super Bowl run. So, you know, there's a little bit more, I think, to his potential than we're seeing with Ronald Jones. I don't think we have any more questions waiting. So if you guys have any more, definitely, definitely hit me up. There might be one that I skipped. Let's see. I'll go back. Um, let's go to Strykant, the thing I skipped this one. Eighth pick in a 12 team Superflex, who would you who would you take an elite quarterback like Kyler or Lamar and elite running back like Camara, Saquon or Zeke? So if it's a redraft league, I'm cool with going with one of the running backs only because you could usually swing around and still get someone in that quarterback tier, whereas the running back tier would dry up. Right. So if you can get I'm really high on Zeke this year. So if you get Zeke there, I'm cool with getting Zeke there and then hoping that like a Russell Wilson is there in the second round and still getting someone who I think has just as high of upside as like Kyler Murray does, you know, in round two and still in that tier or DAC or something like that in round two. And then that way you're sort of having the best of both worlds because you're able to get one of the elite running backs and then you're able to still get one of those quarterbacks who has a ton of upside. Let's go over to Danny. He says, will Joe Burrow be a top five fantasy quarterback with the adding of Jamar Chase? It's tough to see top five in his range of outcomes coming off that injury.  You know, there's some athleticism there. So I do think that he should get some sort of a floor slash ceiling from his legs. You know, we've seen in the past from like Andrew Luck or what we're probably going to see from Trevor Lawrence. I don't think he has that much rushing upside is like Trevor Lawrence. But I think it's there to some degree. So usually with like more pocket passers, they need to have some sort of outlier season in terms of touchdown rate to really be in the top five, especially in today's NFL, where there are so many rushing quarterbacks. So will Joe Burrow be a top five fantasy quarterback? I'm going to say no. Can he be a top 10? Yes, absolutely. So I'm much more bullish on him exceeding exceeding ADP, but not far exceeding ADP. I think he's a very safe pick this year. I think he's a good pick for a two quarterback league. You know, injury aside. Let's go to Brian. He says, can you see a scenario where Edmunds outscores Jacobs this year thinking about moving Jacobs for Edmunds? Plus, yeah, absolutely, especially in a PPR format. You know, Josh Jacobs, someone who profiles to be an early downback, especially with Kenyon Drake there. But, you know, over the last over the two years he's been in the NFL, he hasn't been someone who's got a lot of love through the air to begin with. So with Kenyon Drake there, that's just reemphasized. I am not very high on Josh Jacobs in an offense that probably going to be pretty mediocre, whereas Chase Edmunds is in an offense that has a lot of firepower, could march down the field every drive. And really, you know, I mentioned this earlier, what we need from Chase Edmunds is for him to be the goal line guy. You know, Kenyon Drake saw a ton of goal line work last year. If that if that even gets split in half and half that goes to Chase Edmunds, half that goes to James Conner, then Chase Edmunds is in really good shape because he's going to see a double digit percentage target share he did last year. He's going to see that again this year, especially because there's, you know, Kenyon Drake is not or Kenyon Drake is a better running back just generally than James Conner is, in my opinion. So yeah, I would I would do that if you can move Chase Edmunds and get or if you can move Josh Jacobs and get Chase Edmunds plus from a redraft standpoint, this is or you know, this is sort of what you're asking because it's this year, even though this might be a dynasty question. But yes, from this year's standpoint, yeah, I could see a scenario where Edmunds outscores Jacobs. Let's go to Patrick. What will be the best quarterback wide receiver connection this season? Mahomes Hill, Rogers Adams, Herbert Allen. I'm not that high on Justin Herbert this year. You know, down the stretch, he wasn't that great of a fantasy asset. And again, I'm looking for guys who, you know, aren't necessarily just pocket passers. I think I mean, I think I think Herbert. I think Justin Herbert has the ability to escape the pocket like a Josh Allen, but he just didn't last year. And I don't think we can just bank on that. I think the upside might be there, but I don't think we can bank on it. Mahomes and Hill is the go to. I mean, they're both they're actually my QB one of my wide receiver one. So I'm going to go with Mahomes and Hill here. We don't know if Aaron Rogers is even going to play for Green Bay. And Aaron Rogers has a lot of touchdown regression coming his way. He had the second highest touchdown rate in NFL history last year. That's a number that regresses. You had a very, very high pass rate at the goal line last season. A lot of short touchdowns. That's something that doesn't doesn't correlate strongly year over year. So I'm not very high on Aaron Rogers, regardless.  I just don't think he's a high end QB one. Let's see, let's go to Francis. Who will it be when Moster gets hurt? Sermon, Gaulman, Mitchell or Wilson, one and if he returns. Let's just say that Trey Sermon could just be it to begin with. Is that is that helpful? I Trey Sermon is the guy that I'm targeting in this backfield most. No pun intended. But Moster is is not. I mean, Moster is fine. You know, obviously he's a guy who can take it to the house on any play. A lot of speed there. But I am much higher on Trey Sermon as a player and his fit just generally speaking to be a true workhorse back in that offense. Let's go to Michael Bauer. Any player right now that you have no shares of based on ADP? I'd say it's very rare for me to have zero shares of a player. But yeah, I mean, let's look at it. Let's look at it from a me projecting in August when I'm drafting the majority of my managed season long leagues. Patrick Mahomes probably won't have much Patrick Mahomes because I'm not going that early with a quarterback pick. Josh Allen probably won't have much Josh Allen. I will have some of those guys in that next year of quarterbacks. But but if you're looking at it from that perspective, it's it's just I'm just being realistic. You know, I don't want to spend a third round pick in what will probably be what you'll need to spend in a managed league to get Patrick Mahomes. So he's one I think that's really like the one that stands out the most to me. Josh Jacobs, I'm not very high on right now. And then there's a lot of the the RB twos that I've been talking about on my podcast with this study.  But a lot of the RB twos on those teams like James Robinson, James Connor, basically, if a running back is named James, I'm not drafting them this year. But that's not as fun of an answer because they're not being drafted early. But I'm sure I have some sort of answer. I just can't think of it right now. Let's see. This is from Jose. How do you feel about the Titans offensive players this year? You got to be pretty high on them. The one thing that I feel like people aren't talking enough about with this tennis offense is that they could be more past heavy, right? We've seen them be a very run heavy team under my my variable. But you have no Arthur Smith now. The defense is suspect or has holes.   And that will definitely benefit a guy like AJ Brown, benefit Julio Jones, and most importantly, benefit someone like Ryan Tannehill, who I think is one of the better values of quarterback this year. This next one is from Joseph. Thoughts on Miles Gaskin. He's being drafted in the dead in the dead zone range. Miami signed Malcolm Brown and still have Savon Ahmed. But his expected fantasy points last year was elite. Yeah. So the thing with Gaskin is why not just get Chase Edmonds? Why not get Chase Edmonds a round or two later than Gaskin when they do the same thing? They're both past catching backs on their team. Yes, Gaskin was seeing more red zone work and goal line work, but Arizona is a better offense naturally in general. So I don't think there's that big of a difference between Gaskin and Edmonds.  And historically, you know, this is just based on ADP trends, but historically guys like Miles Gaskin have been bus. And so I'm not super, super high on him. And to that question earlier of who I'm avoiding, here's a name, Mike Davis. I look, I understand his situation is perfect. I understand it is great. There's no one behind him on that depth chart that we should be worried about. You know, Atlanta is not a bad offense, not a bad situation. It's just very, very hard for me to in the in those early to mid rounds pick a 28 year old journeyman running back who has one season under his belt of being a workhorse. And it wasn't even a full season. I know that we don't know who that running back would be who steps in and takes over that backfield. But look at what happened last year. You know, it was Todd Gurley for a lot of the year. He was very touched on dependent. He was fine enough, but he definitely wasn't winning you leagues. And then what happened on the stretch is they just had a committee.  I mean, I'm not saying anything bad about these guys. They're way better at football than I am. But the replacement level running backs that stepped in there like an Edo Smith, they step in and and, you know, they get production from the running back position, but there are no fantasy relevant assets in that backfield. I just can't get behind Mike Davis this year. Let's go to Joseph again. Will you be drafting much of Deandre Swift this year, given where his ADP is right now, bad offense in Jamal Williams there with rumblings of Gurley coming. I still think Deandre Swift is a good pick. Great pick. No, good pick. Yeah, he's fine. I have met RB 14, I think, in full PPR. The one thing I will say is, yeah, we want running backs in good situations, but if they're in a bad situation, it's good that they went when they are pass catchers. That's usually where they can still thrive. Deandre Swift could see a really high target share in the offense and catch a lot of passes. I'm not overly concerned with Swift this season. I'm more concerned, sure, about his ceiling. So if you're getting him as your RB two, you might want a little bit more of a ceiling there than what Deandre Swift will offer. But he's fine. I mean, guys in that round all have question marks in one way or another. So they're in that area of the draft. So, yeah, I'm fine with Swift. I think that he's a decent enough pick. Next one's Danny. Do you think Najee Harris would be a first round pick in the first round for a wait, do you think Najee Harris would be a first round pick in the first round for a running back one? I don't know what that means. I'm assuming you're saying, do you think Najee Harris will be a first rounder? I don't know. I'm going to skip this one because I don't really understand what you're saying. Let's go back to Shriekant. Who scares you the most from Henry, Zeke, Saquon, or Camara to your this season? It's a good question. I would say of those guys, the two that scare me the most are Saquon and Camara. Saquon scares me from an injury perspective and then he might not be ready to start the year or as healthy as we want him to be. Camara scares me from the perspective that his target share did dip with Taysom Hill last year, with Algerubri's in that lineup and how would that carry over into the season? And look, Alvin Camara has crazy touchdown regression that's going to hit. He still comes out looking pretty good in my projections. I still have him as a top five, six running back but I might lean Camara with this answer just because there's so much ambiguity with how that offense is going to look and who's going to be under center for them. Saquon, though, has that injury concern. I'm not concerned about Zeke at all. Everyone loves Tony Pollard and I like Tony Pollard as a player coming out. I like all Memphis running backs basically over the last few years who have come out but Tony Pollard's numbers have not been very good. This idea that Tony Pollard is a better running back than Ezekiel Elliott, just get out of here with that. It's there's nothing that really backs that up. I mean, Zeke, we can talk about his inefficiency especially last year but there's still something to be said with a running back who can carry a full workload the way that Zeke can carry it. And we saw when Dak Prescott was healthy last year Zeke was a very, very good fantasy running back and I think that's going to continue here in 2021. Let's go to Michael Gorman as the last question this week or this week today. He says, Jonathan Taylor chances of being a top five running back. I think that he has a better probability than most running backs but his ADP is reflected there. The issue I have with Jonathan Taylor is the issue that everyone has with Jonathan Taylor. Definitely not the talent. I love Jonathan Taylor as a prospect, loved him. And so I have no issues with him as a player. My issue is more so, is he going to see enough volume through the air in that offense with Naheem Hines there? You know, if I were running the Colts I would not take Jonathan Taylor off the field. He was a great pass catcher last year too. So I'm not saying that he can't catch passes. I'm not saying that he's not capable of doing that. I'm more so saying that from a target share projection standpoint, you know, we don't have Phillip Rivers there who tends to dump off the ball more than other quarterbacks. Now we have Carson Wentz. What's that going to look like? But then on top of that, he's not the primary pass catching back on that team right now. And what's that going to look like from a season long perspective in terms of ceiling? I don't know. I mean, I think that it's there. I think if Jonathan Taylor starts to see that crazy high target share, if he takes on more of that Naheem Hines role, yeah, his ceiling is insane. And that's the reason why you would be drafting him in the first round. I just don't know if that's going to hit this year, which is why I'm a little bit nervous about Taylor as around one pick. But that's going to do it for me today, everyone. I really appreciate you stopping by and asking some questions. I'm just pumped that fantasy football season is here and we're about to be drafting some teams in our managed leagues. You can follow me on Twitter at late round QB. All my work is over on numberfire.com. And then also search for my podcast, the late round podcast. Anywhere podcast can be found. Hopefully I get to do this again soon. I'll talk to you guys then.


Item Number – SCP-367 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – SCP-367's containment area is to be checked daily for damage done by SCP-367. Any and all damage to containment area is to be repaired immediately. Should damage exceed that which can be repaired in a 12 hour period, SCP-367 is to be moved to a temporary containment area and kept under constant observation while repairs are made. Any attempts by SCP-367 to damage or escape containment are to immediately be met with chemical suppression tactic A11. Every two hours, SCP-367 is to be provided with 1 kg of feed which may be composed of any available biomatter. In the event that no suitable biomass is available, other items may be provided for consumption and CST A11 is to be placed on standby in case of rejection behavior by SCP-367. SCP-367 is to be weighed after each feeding period to monitor weight and density increase leading up to division. Additional instances of SCP-367 forming in containment are to be disposed of. No unprotected interaction with SCP-367 is to be undertaken unless it is within 30 minutes of a feeding period. SCP-367 may not be removed from the containment area without approval by site command. No instances of SCP-367 are to be released to staff for any purpose other than testing. Description SCP-367 appears to be a small dog of variable breed, most often appearing as a small brown puppy. SCP-367 exhibits a slightly elevated appetite in activity level for a dog of its apparent age and size and does not sleep but otherwise behaves as expected for a dog. SCP-367 is a massive single-celled organism composed of what appears to be a mass of yellow slime with several white threads suspended in it with a semi-solid sphere of grey material in the center deemed the nucleus. It is unknown what SCP-367 is made of or why its outer shell appears to be a juvenile dog. However, testing data expunged further investigation. The strings appear to function as the muscular skeletal system and under most circumstances the movement and general behavior of SCP-367 are indistinguishable from a normal dog. SCP-367 is capable of feeding on any solid matter and has shown the ability to dissolve and digest concrete, steel, titanium, carbon fiber, bone, wood, data expunged. When presented with an item that cannot fit into the external shell's mouth or be broken down with the teeth SCP-367 will project pseudopodia from its internal mass and break down the matter into a consumable form. It is unknown how this occurs as no acid is used but it appears to be a disruption of the basic atomic bonds of the matter which is still under investigation. SCP-367 does not increase in size when consuming items but does increase in density. In addition, SCP-367 does not produce any waste. After consuming enough material to double its starting mass, SCP-367 will find an isolated location such as in a cabinet or under furniture and liquefy its outer shell. It will then divide into two equal masses and reform its outer shell creating two instances of SCP-367. If SCP-367 is left without food for more than three hours, the internal strings will project from the eyes and mouth areas of SCP-367, an attempt to bore into and break down all nearby matter. In this state, SCP-367 is highly aggressive and has been observed to data expunged. Notes on recovery SCP-367 was recovered from the residential home of Miss Myra Bancroft in Ireland. Mrs. Bancroft was reported missing several days before and Foundation staff established containment of her residence when it was reported that she had over 80 small dogs in her home which had consumed her corpse and most of the home. A single instance of SCP-367 was recovered with all other instances eliminated via CST-A11. Monitoring is in effect to isolate any remaining SCP-367 outside of containment. Lesson complete, if you missed the previous orientation go watch SCP-366 Carriage Grubs right now or for the complete course watch this playlist.


So if you're looking for an easy and cost-efficient way to help kickstart your seedlings this season Then I highly suggest investing in one of these seedling heat mats. So hi there and welcome to the channel So in today's video, we're going to talk about these seedling heat mats and why I love using them for starting my indoor seedlings every year and Talk about the benefits of maybe why you should start using them as well So the number one reason for using a heat mat like this is faster germination So these heated mats provide consistent and controlled temperature that'll warm up the soil and help speed up that germination process This is especially good for those warm soil loving seeds such as the tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers So another benefit is increased germination rate. The warmth provided by these mats can help the seed sprout more readily And lead to a higher germination rate Meaning that you're going to have more seedlings successfully emerging So for many of us who live in cool climates such as I do here in Zone 3, Saskatchewan We need to start our seeds indoors to help extend that season because our outdoor growing season is so short and Having when these heating mats will help with that season extension It enables us to get a head start on gardening and help extend that growing season So another benefit of the mat here is optimal root development So by maintaining a warm consistent temperature here, they promote healthy root development in the young seedlings sets them up for stronger growth and better resilience as they mature So I just had to move my camera around. It's we got a lot of beautiful sunlight coming in today So it was kind of messing up my camera. So sorry about that So another thing about these mats, they're very energy efficient So they're you know the modern heated mats such as these are designed to be you know low energy They don't use a lot of power So that is a great, you know another feature about these as well and these come in various sizes depending on your needs I prefer this size here because it fits well with my seedling trays here such as this one It sits on there pretty much fits it perfectly and Heats up, you know all your seeds very uniformly So I think one of the really great benefits of the heated mat that people don't think about is they help with that Prevention of damping off So what can happen sometimes with your seedlings if that soil is too cool and too moist That's a real Breeding ground for that damping off fungus that can kind of form on the top of your soil and kill off your seedlings So the heated mat will help, you know elevate the temperature of the soil which helps promote, you know Good air circulation and hopefully Limit that chance of damping off in your seedlings So for things like lettuces spinach and leeks onions. Those are kind of the cool Soil loving seeds that don't really need to have a heated soil to germinate So I wouldn't recommend using a seed heating mat like this for those kind of seeds But you know if you are starting your seeds in a very cool spot like in a garage or a basement where there isn't a lot of heat You could still benefit From using this mat obviously for those warm soil loving seeds But also for those cool ones it might be a good idea if you have, you know A real cool environment that you're trying to start your seeds in. So besides vegetables Some of the favorite things that I like to use my heated mat for is starting flowers And that's something that I will probably be doing first usually you try to get my petunias, pansies, colysis started about 12 weeks before our last frost date and Flowers can be pretty finicky. They're a little hard to get going. So that's why I think the the heated mat helps a lot with that success with germination I like to try and get as many flowers started myself because I like to spread them throughout the yard and in the garden and They're getting really expensive at greenhouses. So if I can get a whole bunch of petunias going which, you know Are great hearty flowers for my zone here in zone three and I love colysis or one of my favorite Plants to have in plots around my yard So if I can you know save a little money by getting them going that is you know a bonus So when you get your seedlings set up, I also like to use a humidity dome as well Plug in your heated mat and keep it going 24 hours a day So this will go under my grow lights and I will just keep an eye on it Those heat mats will of course dry out your soil quicker So you want to make sure you keep that soil, you know moist and I like to bottom water, of course Which also helps prevent that damping off issue So it can vary anywhere from three days to 14 days depending on what you're planting for them to germinate and once you see those Little seedlings sprouting and they get to probably like that two leaf stage That's when you want to shut off your heating mat and remove either your plants from it or Take the heating mat out from underneath You don't want to leave your heated mat underneath here going too long after they've germinated and sprouted because that could cause them to get leggy So once I have a good batch of flowers sprouted and going then I can use my heat mat for other things that I need to start around you know that Six to eight weeks from last frost such as my tomatoes and peppers and Whatever else I decide I want to get going So I have a couple of these going at all times So not only are these great for the seed starting, but they also could use these for getting your cuttings rooted or for doing microgreens So as I mentioned you can get these in a variety of different sizes depending on your needs I will leave a link in the description box below for this particular one so you can check it out So if you are a gardener that likes to start your seedlings indoors you want to grow some microgreens Maybe get some cuttings rooted then I highly recommend getting one of these seedling heat mats So hope you found learning about the benefits of one of these seedling heat mats was helpful to you If you are a gardener who likes to get your seeds going indoors I highly recommend it and if you haven't already done so and you want to follow me along on my seed starting process this season Please hit that Subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos smash that like button I always love it when people leave me a comment and I hope we will see you on the next video


The final Grand Slam of the year, almost upon us, the US Open of 2023, coming up in a week's time, with some big names that are not playing in this event, and also some big names that are actually injured as of last week in Cincinnati. So let's go have a look at the withdrawal list for the ladies. So we have a couple of players not playing on the WTA side. Shelby Rogers, she's pulled out, Krunic, Zong, McNally, and Simona Halop have all pulled out of the US Open. Of course, Simona Halop's still waiting on her trial whether or not she'll be able to play tennis in the near future. She's still waiting for the verdict. Over on the men's side, there's a lot more injuries to bigger names. Starting with Ima, who's out suspended, Struff. He's struggling still with injury since the Claycourt season. Nick Kirios still troubled by injuries this year. Karina Buster, Opelka, Chilich, Shapovalov, and Batistra Gu all out of this one. There's some big names there, and also some fan favorites not going to be playing at this year's US Open. Now going over to the injury concerns, because there are some big names and serious contenders at the US Open that have got some injury problems.  So we'll see whether or not he gets to the US Open. Of course, he's the fourth seed as well. So one of the serious contenders, Alina Rabakina, she's been troubled by a shoulder the last couple of tournaments and had to withdraw last week. And when she's healthy, we know that she could definitely win the US Open. So another player in contention in trouble, Fakina. He had to pull out of his match against Djokovic, also with a back problem, and can be a dangerous player as we've seen over the years. Onsterberg also injured with a foot problem. She got through a match against Sabalenka last week, but wasn't the same player once the foot was hurt. So we're keeping on her. Hashinov, he had to pull out of Wimbledon and hasn't played since the French Open due to injury, which seems to be a hip problem. Of course, made the semi-finals here last year. Polar Betosa, she's had a back problem for the majority of the year and still hasn't been able to play much tennis. So some big names there and some serious contenders at this year's US Open under a big injury cloud. There it is, the players that are not playing the US Open and the players to maybe keep an eye on this week, because I'm sure one or two of those players will withdraw over the next couple of days. Hopefully not the big, big names, but you know, someone like a Podosa, even Hashinov, they could pull out next week because they haven't played much tennis over the last couple of months. But let me know down in the comments below. Who are you going to miss the most out of the US Open? Of course, Rafa's not playing. He's not on the list because we all know that he's not playing for probably the rest of the year. So I didn't put him on the list. But who are you going to miss from the US Open this year? There's some big names. Of course, Nick Curios, he was so exciting last year's US Open. He beat Medvedev at the US Open. So let me know down in the comments below. Who are you going to miss the most at this year's US Open?


So guys, it's goodbye for now. You actually won't believe this, we booked and paid for a family holiday last year in the hopes that there wouldn't be any games I'd want to cover releasing at that specific period, that time period I went on holiday. How long I was? So the holiday is booked where I leave this Friday and do not return until the 8th of September. Yes, this means I will miss the release of a game I've waited years to cover, Starfield. And well it's just impossible guys to create that daily content on a family holiday, so the only thing I could do is get cover for my channel to cover Starfield for me on my channel while I'm away. So what I've done is either walking the demon in easy now, who, well back in the day one days, we covered and played Destiny together for quite a few years, and well is the only person I legit trust in real life and can reach if anything goes wrong to bury alive. So yes, Starfield will be covered right here on my channel, I will still be working with easy now to bring you guys videos, it's just the editing and stuff will be done by him.  So yes, Starfield will be covered right here on my channel, but within the early days it will be covered by easy now 1-3-3-7, but I expect those daily guides as always, everything you need to know and absolutely more. And when I arrive back, I will continue the trend and more likely stream Starfield, as it's that kind of single player chill game I can sit there for hours and play. So yes guys, I'm off to catch some sun and I will see you guys when I get back, for now I hope you can pop with easy now 1-3-3-7.


So, I've taken a look at Peppermint OS before, but I don't really remember much about it. And I think that most people are probably the same. Peppermint OS is one of those distributions that is just kind of there and has been for a very long time, but what do you really know about it? Well, we're going to take a look at Peppermint OS today again, it has just recently been released with a brand new back end of Debian 12, so it should be fairly interesting. I haven't been playing around with it for a little while and I have to say it's weird. It's not the weirdest distribution I've ever seen, but they've made some very, shall we say, interesting decisions over the things that are included in the distribution. So, we're going to go ahead and talk about Peppermint OS today and before we do, if you would be so kind as to leave a little thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. It really does help the channel. So, what is Peppermint OS? Well, at its base, it is a Debian-based distribution that is focused on minimalism. And when I say minimalism, I mean not extreme minimalism, like there is a desktop environment here that uses XFCE, but minimalism in the sense that they've very blatantly chosen not to include a lot of the things that you'd expect inside of a distribution. So, we're going to talk about some of that here in a few minutes. So, just know, going in, that this is a very opinionated distribution when it comes to the packages that are installed. That being said, I will say this. They have done some really nice work with the design of XFCE, which actually makes it very nice to use if you're interested in a very minimal XFCE setup. And going into it, and I'll actually show you this now, you can see right out of the bat that there is just a very calming, I would say, it's just a very nice aesthetic to the entire system. There's nothing too crazy here. There's no odd cursors. There's no crazy bars along the top or widgets all over the place. It's just a bar along the bottom, a menu along the side, and a task bar on the other side. That's really all there is. There's not even multiple workspaces other than like the two that are included. So, obviously, it's XFCE, so you can change any of the things that you don't like about this. But out of the box, I really do like the aesthetic. But before we talk any more about that, let's talk a little bit about the installation because one of the things that we talk about when it comes to Debian is the pain of installation sometimes. I talked about this in my last Debian video is that Debian is as hard to install as you want it to be. So, there are situations where Debian is easy to install. There are Calamari's installer for proper Debian, but you have to go hunting for those things. Their website is a mess as everyone seems to be figuring out lately and trying to find those easy installers in terms of the Calamari's installers can be kind of painful. If you're using the regular installer, the live version is also not the easiest to use, and then there's the expert installer, which is actually much harder to use, right? So the range of easiness when it comes to Debian is all over the place. With Peppermint, it's a Calamari's installer, and I'll show some of the B-roll of the installation right here. Then it is a standard Calamari's installer. The only thing that I will say about this particular install process is that the little selector that you can use to change the file system seems to be broken, and by broken I just mean that they've truncated the options, and there's one option there that you just can't read. It just has the first letter and the last letter, and you kind of have to guess what it is. I'm not sure what that is. I still don't know. The options seem to be, outside of the one that I can't read, EXT4 and XFS, I think. I do like that they have this drop-down menu that gives you an option to choose a file system. That is very nice because proper Debian will allow you to choose other operating systems doesn't make it easy to do so. Now I will say this though. I wish that Peppermint had given you the option of ButterFS because ButterFS is the superior file system, but that's not an option. It doesn't mean you can't use it. It just means that it's not automated like you would see in something like Endeavor or Manjar or something like that. So the installation is a proper Calamari's installer. There's nothing really all that special there, but it does just kind of show you that they've tried it to make Debian very easy to install. And here's another thing is if you go to their website, there's a download link right there. It just downloads the ISO. That's all you have to do. You don't have to go searching for the ISO. Now they do have a different version that is based on Devuan, but Devuan is basically Debian but without system D. So if you'd rather use Devuan or a proper version of Devuan, you can do that. This one here is the regular system D sporting version. So that is the installation. Let's go ahead then and talk about the system itself. So when I do these types of first looks, reviews, whatever you wanted to call them, I don't really, this is not a review, so we won't call it that. But when I do these type of things, I try to answer a couple questions. Is it good? Who's it for? And why did they create it? Well, we can start with the why they created it for in the first place. As far as I can tell, basically what they wanted to do is to create a Debian installed that is as minimal as possible without being so minimal that you basically end up in a TTY to begin with. So you have the very bare minimum stuff here in order to create a desktop environment and a distro. Right? Other than that, there's nothing out here. Now, I'm going to put a revised on that and say that they did include some things that are a little weird. And they also didn't include some things that are a little weird. And we'll talk about that here in a minute. The idea is to create a very bare minimum install of Debian, but call it peppermint OS and then kind of design it so that it looks and feels and functions very nicely. That's the whole purpose. And that's the reason why they've created it now to move on to what is it. We'll have to get into the things that are included. Now, usually the idea behind a distribution can be very summed up into two different areas. Look and feel and applications that are included. Those are the two things that really do make up a distribution that is based on something else. So, well, we can talk about the package manager and all that stuff. All that stuff is going to be the same as on Debian, right? In terms of package availability and all that stuff, it's Debian underneath hood. So if you're familiar with Debian, the package availability and the package manager, all that stuff is going to be exactly the same. What makes peppermint peppermint is going to be the choices that they've made in terms of look and feel and packages that are included on the ISO and then installed once you installed it. So in terms of look and feel, I've already talked about that a little bit. It just looks really nice. There's a very understated minimalism that they've got going on here. There's no over-the-top shadows or animations or anything like that. It just looks nice. So the look and feel is what it is. And then we need to talk about the applications that they've included. So when I was looking at this last night, I was convinced that they did not include a browser. Now, the thing is, is that I'm still pretty sure that they didn't include a browser even though, as you can see, I haven't advocated to a web page here. I would challenge you to tell me what this browser is, okay? So I had no clue what this browser is. Now I thought maybe it was V, but I thought maybe it was Q-Browser. There are several other very interesting browsers that are very keyboard-centric out there that I've used in the past. I thought maybe it was one of those. It's not one of those. And the thing is, is that if I go to this, I cannot scroll. You cannot use your mouse to do anything other than clicking this. You can't scroll. You have to use the Vim keys, which is perfectly fine by me, but it's definitely not something that I'd consider user-friendly out of the box because how are you supposed to know? Because you have to know the key. Like if you wanted to open up a new tab, you could do so by using the key binding and then you can use the Vim keys to navigate around, but it's not something that regular Joe non-Vim user is going to know. So I've made this challenge. What do you think this browser actually is? I'm going to give you a second and then I'm going to tell you because it's interesting because I want to talk about it for a minute. So this browser, if you were to do an exprop, so I did an exprop here, basically this will just allow me to tell you what the class is. The class tells you that it is LuaKit. Now, when I saw that, I was like, yo, well, that's going to be Veeb because I'm pretty sure Veeb is written in Lua. I might be wrong about that. Maybe I'm misremembering. So I just thought that maybe that was what it was and but it's not Veeb. So because if you go to the menu and you just search for browser, you're going to get something that's called web browser. Now that's just going to be a sim link to whatever that is because that's an XFCE feature. The idea behind it is you can just kind of click on web browser inside the menu and it'll take you to whatever the default browser is. So if you have Firefox and Firefox is set as the default browser, you click on web browser, it opens up Firefox, right? That's an XFCE thing. It does not actually list what this browser is. What is this browser? It drives me nuts, right? So I spent some time trying to figure out how do I figure out what browser is because it's not called LuaKit. It's not called, it's not Q browser because if you search for like Q browser QUT or if you want to search for Veeb like so maybe it's maybe I spelled it wrong. I don't know if you know it's either way it's not there. What's the browser? Right? I know it was driving me insane. So I figured out a way that I could figure it out. So if I'd search for default applications, it shows you that it's the Debian sensible browser. Now what though is the Debian sensible browser? I've never heard of such a thing. Have you ever heard of such a thing? I'm sure there's probably like four people in the comments section below. Oh, I've used the Debian sensible browser for years. It's fantastic. You should definitely try it out. I've never heard of this thing before and it kind of freaked me out because I thought I had heard of all the browsers. Now that may sound a little bit arrogant, but I guess it kind of is, but I've used many, many browsers over the course of my lifetime and I've never, I've even used Debian many times. I've never heard of the Debian sensible browser before. And well, there you go. I can't say that anymore because that is the Debian sensible browser. And I know I've kind of gone on about this for a while, but that's just one of the weird kind of choices that they've made, right? There's no Firefox. There's no Chromium like that. Now I wouldn't expect that Google Chrome to be here. You know, this is very much a very free and open source project. They're not going to have anything that's going to be proprietary here for you to use. You can download those things obviously, but by default it's very, very free. And maybe that's the reason why they have included Firefox. I don't know. It's very rare for a distribution to not include some major browser, whether that's Firefox or Chrome or whatever. Usually the distribution includes some kind of browser. And this one here includes the Debian sensible browser, such as it is. Not sure that I know anybody who uses it. If you use the Debian sensible browser, leave a comment in the comment section below. Tell me why you use it. I don't know anything about it. I had no clue that it existed until today. So I would very much like to know. If it's good, maybe I should definitely give it a try. I don't know. Anyways, so that's one choice that they've made. Another choice that they've made, if you go through some of this stuff, is that they've installed some things that are very popular, but also makes you question if they didn't include a regular browser, why they've included things. Things like image magic is here. Now, a lot of distributions include image magic. It just kind of stands out as one of the options that they've made here. They have something called Kumo, which is a SSB, which is a, I'm pretty sure that's SAMBA, so that's remote access to different folders on remote servers or clients or whatever. That's the only thing in the internet category, by the way. In terms of multimedia, you get the Pado control, which is to control the volume. That's it. There's no media player here whatsoever. In terms of office, you get things like orange calendar and all orange global time, which is a world clock. Really weird choice, right? You've included those things. This is a minimal thing that you have created. You didn't include a browser, but you've included a calendar. That makes sense. Right now, they didn't include a browser. When I made my notes last night, I had no clue that Debbie and Sensible Browser was even on here. The only reason I found out was that I was here in the welcome portal and clicked on one of their links. And it was like, wait a minute. I thought that there was an actual browser here, but it opened up a browser. What is this thing? Then I freaked out for a little while. I'm much better now. Anyways, if we go back here, there's no multimedia. The office is those really weird calendar and clock things. And then it just is a whole bunch of settings for XFC. That's basically all there is to it. Now, I'm not sure whether or not XFC normally comes with A-rander or not. I don't think that it does, because why would it need to? Because the XFC has its own display settings section of its settings panel. So I don't know why A-rander was installed explicitly. But that seems to be the only other thing that they've chosen to install. So the choices that they've made here are a little weird, given that they've chose to go super minimal, right? If they were not going to include Firefox in an actual browser. I'm not going to, I don't consider Debbie a simple browser, sensible browser, an actual browser. If they're not going to include an actual browser, they've made the decision to go that minimal. Why also include a calendar and a world clock, right? And those are things that they explicitly install. Now, here's the thing is that I talk about this a lot when I do these district things, is that the choices that the developer of the distribution makes usually is decisions that they're making for themselves that just kind of get passed on to the rest of us. Maybe that's the situation here, and that's fine. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. That's basically every distribution, the developers make it for themselves and then share it with everybody else. And those kind of decisions just kind of get made for us, which is the way of a distribution, right? Maybe that's what it is here. It just stands out to me that they've installed those two applications and not, you know, a regular browser. So in terms of actual overall things that are installed, I will say this, it is very, very minimal. You know, it's probably one of the most minimal distributions that I've seen that actually has a desktop environment on top of it. Now, you can obviously install a Debian as a server distro, you can install Fedora, and then you just boot into a TTY, and then you have to install everything from the ground up. That's not this, it's taking it a step further, where Xorg is actually still here or actually is here. You can use XFC. It has all the stuff that you need in order to get there to have a more functional system without being so super minimal as like a server distro. So if we take a look at NeoFetch here, one of the things that I will say is that it includes NeoFetch out of the box. Like NeoFetch, you've made a minimal distribution, but you have included some things, and NeoFetch is one of them. They've also installed them, which I think is fantastic. Them should be a default everywhere. But if we take a look at this, we'll see that it's using Bash 5.2, the kernel 6.1. These are all Debian bookworm numbers, by the way. It's using XFC 4.18, and then it has some of the information there based on the theme and the icons that it's using as well. Now, the memory here is misleading because I've opened up some stuff. And it turns out that if we look at top here, the thing that's using the most memory does seem to be Xorg and WebKit. So the Debian-sensible browser uses just as much memory and stuff as any other browser. So it's not spectacular in that. It's not different in that aspect. So the last thing that we want to talk about is the peppermint hub. Now, the peppermint hub is weird. I'm just going to go out and say that it's weird, because it is a place where you can access some of the settings of your distribution. So things like network printers, disk utilities, Hblock, which is an ad blocker, pulse audio, and things like that. So on the left-hand side, you have general system options. That part there is superfluous. It's definitely unnecessary because XFC actually has its own settings manager. It looks like this. If you've never seen this before, this is the settings manager. So the peppermint hub doesn't really need to have links to all that, but it's fine. It doesn't have access to everything, so there's still good chances you're going to have to come in here anyways and know if you want to change the settings. The part that interests me here instead is the software tools. So if we select the suggested packages, you can click on these and install packages that are suggested for you.  You can install TimeShift, which is going to be an R-sync front-end in this case. It's not because they don't have ButterFS, so you'd be using the R-sync backup in TimeShift. You can do that. Installing the browser, or the Conquer. I'm not sure why they recommend Conquer as one of the browsers, but OK. GNOME Web is here as an option, so that gives you those. Tor, Qt browser, Chromium, Falcon is another browser that hardly anybody uses. So they've recommended some things that you should install here as suggested packages. Now, when you click on App Image Hub, that's just going to be a link to the website for App Image Hub. There's not an actual launcher here associated with it. That's basically FlatHub, but for App Images. Synaptic is installed, so I didn't actually show you this. So if you're familiar with anything Debian, Synaptic Package Manager isn't oldy, but a goodie, and allows you to basically install anything that is associated with your repositories. So that's Synaptic Package Manager. And then it's just, these here just link again to the website. So if you want to actually do anything, I mean, to me here, this seems, these are completely unnecessary. Now all those do is just provide you information on the stores themselves. If you wanted to go to FlatHub, it does show you the website and all the packages that are available through FlatHub, but you're not going to be able to install them until you click on the suggested one. Now, here's the thing. In the Peppermint Welcome thing, they do have a link to that thing that we just saw. So if you are not like me and you actually read these things and you talk, you look at the Peppermint Hub and you look at the documentation and all that stuff, if you actually pay attention to the welcome screen, you're going to see this right out of the box that, you know, oh well, obviously it doesn't have Firefox installed if it's going to give you a link to install it. So let's actually just go ahead and do that. It's going to open up a terminal. It will install Firefox ESR, which again Firefox ESR is a Debian default. So they've taken that out and required you to make the choice of installing it, which is fine. It's a minimal distribution. It's supposed to be a user created post install.  So if you are to the normal person and you read the welcome page, you would see this here and you know that there are certain things that you need to make a choice on, right? If you want to use FlatPacks, you have to, you know, you have to install FlatPack and then do that. And then what I'm unsure about, and I'm actually going to find out right now is FlatHub FlatPack install, let's just say Audacity. No, actually I gotta, you gotta actually spell things correctly, Matt. So it does not enable FlatHub once you click that button. It feels like that's a missed opportunity. If you're going to have a button here to install FlatPack, you should also have a button here to enable FlatHub. Snap wouldn't have that problem because once you install Snap, it has access to the Snap Store because there's only one Snap Store, right? FlatHub FlatPack is a little bit different in that aspect. So like I said at the beginning, Peppermint OS is a very interesting distro with some interesting choices. It is a very, very, it's very, very minimal, okay? So I don't think that I can emphasize that enough. It is very, very, very minimal. They've made some weird choices with things that they have included. Weird as in they stand out because nothing else is included, I should say. Like Neofetch and them aren't weird choices, but usually when you're creating a minimal distribution and you've made it so minimal that Firefox isn't installed, you wouldn't also include those things, right? Those things seem weird because they stand out as installed when nothing else is, if that makes any sense. So Peppermint OS is a very interesting distribution, I think. If you're looking for a Debian-based distribution that is super minimal, I'd say definitely give it a try. It does enable quite a few Debian repositories. So like the Debian stable repositories are there. The backcourt repository is enabled by default. So you can go into the sources that listen and see that those are enabled by default, which is a good choice, I feel, but it's definitely something that you kind of have to keep in mind if you're going to want to deal with where your software comes from. So that is Peppermint OS. I really like the layout of it. I like the, if it weren't so minimal, I'd say it would be a very good beginner's distra, but because it has no Firefox out of the box and it has some really weird choices when it comes to installing third-party package management systems like Snap and Flatpak, and you kind of have to know how to set those things up, it's not that great of a beginner's distro, but not everything has to be a beginner's distro so that I can't really judge it for that. So that is Peppermint OS. If you have thoughts on Peppermint OS, you can leave those in the comments section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast. Links for PayPal and YouTube will be in the video description as well. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube.  Without you, the challenges would not be anywhere near where it is right now. 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Mountaintop Sports made its way to the Hawks Nest on Monday night for 60th District Volleyball Action between Host, Pike Central and Phelps. The Lady Hawks rallied from a two set to one deficit to beat the Lady Hornets 3-2, winning 15-25, 25-19, 22-25, 25-17, and 15-12 in the tie breaking fifth set. Gracie Chapman, Destiny Fleming, and McKenna Varney led the way for Central. Lorraine DeFrancis, Casey Dawson, Kailin Lane, and Amelia Casey had big sets for Phelps. In other Volleyball Action Monday, East Ridge Blanked Shelby Valley 3-0, winning 25-13, 25-22, and 25-18. Pikes for Shunout Betsy Lane 3-0, the Lady Tigers rolled 25-11, 25-17, 25-16, and Pikeville Beatletcher Central 3-0, winning 25-12, 25-11, and 25-10. Mountaintop Sports will live stream coverage of tonight's matchup between Pikeville and East Ridge at the TW Oliver Memorial Gymnasium. Visit mountaintopsports.com and click the icon at the top of the page to subscribe.


I now also want to welcome Kristian Fris back to the stage and you would like to stay with him? Yes. Now when you are so used to each other. Because it's actually Kristian that said I'm coming to Recom, aren't you? And I said, well, I don't know. So it's thanks to him that I'm here. You're most welcome. Thank you very much. Well, I'm really pleased to be here. I feel at home in a kind of research academia, community here, having spent 10 years of my own life in that exact position. I feel really at home here with good friends, Tom and Janning, who told me everything about GD modeling and Finn, who told me very much about development, having worked with all of you. It's really a pleasure to be here, so thank you for that. It's also good to be part of the Recom exercise. I did write together with Janning one paper into the Recom research body and when I became a minister, I obviously panicked immediately and said, what did I write? Because suddenly, of course, now I have quite different opinions about a lot of things. So I never said that, just from the outset. But this issue, aid in a changing environment and aid in climate change, I think is absolutely crucial. And it's something we did it wrong in the 90s. We ran climate change into something that had to do with obstacles and constraints and quotas and binding agreements. And it did not at all inspire anybody, especially not in the developing world, because they saw it as an obstacle to growth. And they said rightly with an equity perspective that this is not fair. You caused it. We take most of the burden and then you try to force us to stop our growth path in order to solve it. It's not fair, which it wasn't. And it didn't inspire anybody. I think we've learned a lot from that. And today we have turned it around. And from talking about the climate agenda as a stumbling stone on a pathway to growth, we try now to create the building blocks that can take us there instead. And I think sustainable energy for all is probably the best example. The global initiative where I am probably part of the advisory board is an example of how you can turn it around and turn it into something aspirational. Sustainable energy for all has the three strong goals. We must get modern energy to everybody, every single woman standing in a smoke filled hut, every single child who cannot learn to read and write because they don't have light. We have to get them energy and modern energy and electricity. That's inspirational. That brings people together. That's a task to work on. And then we need to double our energy efficiency. That's also inspirational because that's a free lunch. Because doing that, you know, it creates jobs as well. Those who are insulating their houses or to improve the cook stoves with poor families. That's growth as well. And it's free lunch. It's good economy as well. And then we need to double the share of renewables. That's inspirational. That's about investments in solar panels and in biofuels and in biogas and all of it. And it could be done. Just a few months back, I visited a small village in Nepal that I have the Danish would know. I've talked a little bit about it. But in Nepal they actually did it right. And I visited the small village, you know, where they now have solar panels and they have micro hydro and they have biogas and improved cook stoves and all of it. And it's about growth and jobs and everything. And the tailor was tailoring away during the night because he had the electric light, you know, and the kids were getting their schoolwork done, you know, and as I said, the chicken were eating more and growing faster because they had light throughout the night as well and thereby of course dying earlier. But that's part of the game and that's part of growth. And so it was really inspirational. And building this from the bottom up, you know, that's where climate change, mitigation, adaptation and development partnerships comes together. I agree with Channing. He said prices. Prices are crucial. Prices are absolutely crucial. And we've underestimated it as well. And with local sustainable energy fall, if you want to get energy, electricity to everybody, prices need to be low. If you want the energy efficiency to go up, prices must be high. And if you want renewables to come in big time, prices must be right. And it's about feed-in tariffs and all of it. So that's a very complicated issue to solve and here Development Aid can come in again as one of the catalyzing effects of getting prices right. I think one of the new World Bank initiatives is fascinating because the quick win here is fossil fuel subsidies, getting rid of those. That's, it must, should be easy. But it's not. If we do it, it is a win-win-win-win-win-win, you can go on for an hour situation because that's really good economics. It's good climate. It goes development because fossil fuel subsidies do not reach the poor. They don't. Primarily, they go to the rich, getting rid of them. We can, and using the revenue, we can get much larger impact on poverty by using the money more smartly at social safety nets, for instance. So what the World Bank says now to a country like Egypt, they say, okay, you can't get rid of your fossil fuel subsidies because people will turn, go to the streets and triple or try to topple your government if you do so. So what we will offer you is a social safety net in return for cutting fossil fuel subsidies. That's really, really a good deal. And that way of catalyzing economic policy, prices, renewables, energy efficiency and taking care of the social concerns and fighting poverty at the same time is what those situations we should look for. And that's where we can get a double bang for all the box that we have. And increasingly, that's how we need to work. We need thereby also to be much more innovative in raising money and financing. And we are so. I often brag about the Danish Climate Investment Fund. Whenever I take two Kroners and put into the Climate Investment Funds, then our pension funds and our, the pension funds and corporate investors, they come with three, four times as much. And that gives me 10 from two, then I have 10. And then we can invest together with companies. And then they say they can triple, four-double, ten-double perhaps even, the investments. So by means of a few Kroners, I can perhaps get 20, 30, 40 Kroners of climate investments out of it. Now, that's really smart and we need to do much more of that. And we are doing much more of that, blending, leveraging investments and using it to mobilize investments in climate change and or in climate mitigation and adaptation at the same time. It's a really good investment and we haven't done it enough. And finally, my last point, we need to be much better at measuring, of course. We need to be able, therefore, also to measure our success. Now, in Sustainable Energy for All, they've already done the first global tracking framework. Mentally important. Now you have a baseline for the three targets in Sustainable Energy for All. And now we know where to invest. Then we get policies and prices right. We mobilize innovative financing and then we need to measure whether it actually works in the right way for our economy. GDP is not enough. We need a green GDP. We need new ways of measuring growth and wealth. And we are supporting heavily the Waves Initiative in the World Bank and other initiatives trying to be better at measuring how to promote change and combine the climate and development agenda in new innovative ways. So that's what's in front of us. And at the same time, of course, and we can get back to the discussion on that, we have a humongous challenge in front of us on mobilizing the overall financing for both those important agendas. But yes, thank you very much. Thank you, Christian.


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Welcome folks, we at the Dow Industries finished up 34 and Aztec up 100, S&Ps up 13, Gold contract up $1.90, trading out here at a price point of $17.86 an ounce. We had silver down 4 cents, $22.44 an ounce, light sweet crude, up $0.50, $72.55 a barrel and notes and bonds. The 10-year down 6 ticks, trading $130.04, the 30-year up a full point plus $12.6 at $160.17 and $Kingdala. $Kingdala down 471 ticks, trading at $95.898, Euro at $113, yen at $113.67, the British pound at $132 to $1.00 USD. We get over and take a look at the SPY, can't wait to see how this is going to shake out folks. Bottom line, the SPY, look at this contraction, it's a big one, got a higher price, those buy one's highs. Yesterday we had a contraction of volume, check it out, contraction yesterday was $95 million, $65 million today folks, closer you get to the high, more you have the contraction. We're in the bar though, the top of the bar is $473.53, the bottom of the bar from the last high is $467.35, so we're $2 into the bar, you get $2 into the bar, you can get to the top of that bar particularly on Wednesday, you get Thursday, Friday and the X100. Let's go take a look at the NDX, the 3Qs, 3Qs, $399.61 and the low of the high is $391.19, so that also is now is digging into it. That being said, monster contraction of volume, yesterday we did volume which is low of $56 million, you did $38 today, the high out here is generating with $61.00, bottom line, you want to see it go to the high, you want to see it go as high as it can go folks, you know, when I'm saying that, I'm looking that it's going to go high and the contraction of volume is still going to happen, the reason that I'm saying it that way is that my take is that we're in this consolidation that the Qs want to go to $350 and my probability we go up dramatically if that's what we get, that's how this counter trend bounces move. You know, the move yesterday was extraordinary, there's no doubt about it, but that to me is a bare counter trend move, because that's what you see in bare counter trend moves. Have a great night, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kick us off 9 in the morning, we do appreciate your growling and prowling with us out here. Have a great one folks, have a safe one, thank you.


Mika Mika Mika Python on hardware time Okay, so This week, let's go right to the newsletter Version 150 has been released of the official C++ Raspberry Pi Pico software development kit. Yes. This is Bluetooth related so why is this a big deal because People want to know your opinion about this. That's right Well, the Pico W which is an RP2040 chip that comes with this Cypress like 4349 chip or something part number and that module it can do Wi-Fi and we've added Wi-Fi support to circuit Python. There's some Wi-Fi now in the SDK in Arduino Micro-Python circuit Python, which is great and people are like, hey, this chip can also do Bluetooth classic and Bluetooth more energy and they're like, yeah, it's coming. It's coming. So the Raspberry Pi team Finally picked the stack and implemented C++ SDK low-level support for the chip They're using a stack that is not open software But they do have a license so much like Wi-Fi. It's licensed as long as you're using it with an RP2040 chip So Although I don't count me on that for the Bluetooth. I know for Wi-Fi it is Bluetooth I don't know if they released an official license yet And I saw there's a pull request for Micro-Python as well And then I saw Pimaroni did a little demo where it acts as an A2DP endpoint Which is actually interesting because it's Bluetooth classic not Bluetooth energy So we have to dig in to see, you know, what is the support when is it gonna come to circuit Python? I really don't know This is really really new we have to investigate it and the other thing is we already have Bluetooth support And we would want to have it be Like cross compatible so like all the Nordic stuff that you would do I want to make sure that as much as possible you could do the same things But we're also pretty much going to be not stack, but we'll have to use the stack that they used To make it work Because porting our own stack I think is is going to be a ton of work So, you know, we don't even know what the scope of the work is yet But it looks like it's coming to Micro-Python soon, which is great. We love supporting Micro-Python And I hope to all have it come to Python And someone mentioned this in the chat and that was a surprising thing. So it's it can do Bluetooth classic A2DP is classic not um, I mean unless I misunderstood the demo Um, I I don't I believe that it's it's using. Yeah, so it's classic Yeah, we're gonna double check this and look at it because that's kind of cool if it's true. Yes hid classic is um is uh Is more common for like keyboards. So I think that could be very powerful And also h classic bluetooth tends to use a standard Uh transport um cause hci. Well, we'll see. I don't know yet. We haven't even look again. This is like Dazzled not even hours um and then uh Before I go to the the project I wanted you to talk about um, a lot of things been going on in the world of open source Python circuit python micro python But wanted to call attention to key cad 7o releases out. There's some neat stuff that you can do with uh fonts now I said that yeah, this is separate. This is the unit code converter, which I found Yeah, which is cool. And I think it's hilarious. Um, and then uh, check out the rest of the newsletter because there there's too much to go over In our ask engineer show, which we're doing right now each week Um, but it's chock full of everything answering a fantastic job with it. Uh, Liz has interviewed There's talks from some Events with python on hardware. Um, there's some really neat python resources Whether you're doing desktop python or web python or embedded python But the project of the week out of the newsletter that uh, you found that you were looking at is this a really neat Computer, it's a complete computer running micro python. Yeah, this is from brian, uh, whitman. Who's um, Awesome, and I don't know if you remember we met him. He's in new york and he's done a lot of cool audio stuff Um, he sold a company to spotify that does um audio classifications And he's he's always been doing like really cool, um hardware stuff and audio stuff I think we met him at um dorkbot, which I don't even know if it's dorkbot I think dorkbot is a mailing list. I don't know if it's a physical event. I don't think it's a physical event We should bring it back. dorkbots were really cool. Um, and uh, so he built this computer based on the esp32 s3 I think it's an eight megabyte flash or 16 megabyte flash eight megabytes ps ram. So it's like a maxed out module um And the s3 has this ability to drive a ttl display so you don't get a lot of Colors, I think you get a 16 bit color maybe eight bit color 12 bit color Um, but it's good enough for this and I like that he just sort of made it into like an all-in-one computer using the usb Capability of teeny usb to have it connected to a keyboard You know from battery and it's just like it's an adorable little you know kind of Commodore 64 slash z80 slash action free. Yeah, it's just like it's like an all-in-one little mini computer And I just think um, he did a really cute job with it. So check it out Uh, the files are all public And posted and it has a lot of audio interfaces because of course brand women loves audio stuff Certified thong is delivered every single week to your inbox. 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When recording the journal entries for the purchase of inventory, an invoice has all of the pertinent information, including the total amount purchased, the shipping terms, and the payment terms. So let's learn how to record inventory transactions for a perpetual buyer using the invoice. Championship vinyl, a perpetual inventory tracker, purchases $3,800 of vinyl records on account. So we would debit inventory and credit accounts payable for $3,800. That's pretty straightforward, so let's complicate it a bit by introducing the shipping terms. The shipping terms are negotiated between buyers and sellers. The two most common terms are FOB shipping point and FOB destination. In addition to these terms being important for accounting purposes, they are also legal terms involved in contracts that require delivery. FOB means free on board. For FOB shipping point, a seller delivers the goods to a common carrier, like UPS or FedEx, at the seller's shipping dock. Inventory transfers to the buyer at this point and the buyer pays the freight cost directly to the common carrier. Finally, the seller records the revenue at this point. For FOB destination, a seller delivers goods to a common carrier, again like UPS or FedEx, at the seller's shipping dock. However, inventory doesn't transfer to the buyer until it is received by the buyer. In this case, the seller pays the freight cost directly to the common carrier. The seller does not record the revenue until it is received by the buyer. So in our case, the terms are FOB shipping point. So who pays the freight? That's right, it's championship vinyl, the buyer. The journal entry to record the payment of $150 of freight charges is a debit to inventory and a credit to cash. Sometimes our students are confused as to why inventory is increasing when we pay for freight. In this case, the quantity of records isn't increasing, but the cost of the records is increasing because of the shipping costs. Let's look at this example of a tie I recently bought. By definition, all the costs incurred to get an asset ready for its intended purpose are included in the cost of the asset. Now that's a definition thing you might want to keep track of. Those costs would include the cost to ship the tie to me as well as the taxes I have to pay. So in this case, how much did the tie cost me? Was it $59.99? The cost of the tie? Or was it $69.10? The cost of the tie plus shipping plus sales tax. Well, according to my credit card statement, it was $69.10. And that's the amount that I would record as the cost of the tie. So the cost of our records, back in our example, should include the $3,800 that we paid for the records. But also the $150 of shipping and that's why we debited inventory. A buyer may be dissatisfied with a purchase because the goods are damaged or defective or of inferior quality or just the wrong ones were sent. Most of you are probably familiar with the concept of a purchase return. When this happens, the buyer sends the goods back for a refund. In the case of a business-to-business sale, often only some of the merchandise is returned and the amount owed is just reduced. You're probably less familiar with a purchase allowance. When an allowance is granted by a seller to a buyer, the goods are not physically returned. This is fairly common with damaged goods. The seller doesn't want them back, but the buyer doesn't want to pay full price for damaged goods. So the seller offers an allowance, which is a deduction in the cost of the inventory, rather than a reduction in the amount of physical inventory. Have any of you ever shopped at a scratch and dent section of a furniture store? This section is a result of purchase allowances. The cost of goods was reduced because they were damaged or some reason that caused that to happen. And therefore the price to the customer has been reduced in order to sell the goods. In this example, let's assume that Taylor Swift records were shipped in correctly and Championship Vinyl returns them. Basically, this is just a reversal of our purchase journal entry. We debit accounts payable and credit inventory for the amount of the records, which was $500. Since we are returning the goods, we are reducing the inventory with the credit and the amount we owe is also decreasing. This would be the same journal entry if this were just an allowance. Purchased discounts are credit terms that may permit buyers to claim a cash discount for prompt payment. The benefit to the buyer is obvious. They get to pay less for their goods. However, there are important benefits to the seller as well. You recall learning about the operating cycle. When buyers take advantage of payment discounts, this accelerates the operating cycle and the seller collects the cash quicker and that's a big benefit to them. Here you can see some common types of payment terms. We read these like this. 210 net 30. 315 net 45. 17 net 15. So 210 net 30 means a 2% discount if the payment is made within 10 days. Otherwise, the net amount is due in 30 days. So let's assume Championship Vinyl pays the invoice on January 12th within the 10-day discount period. How much do they have to pay? Well, let's answer that question by figuring out how much they owe. To do this, I like to look at the T account for accounts payable. Initially, we credited the account for the purchase amount of $3,800. However, we also debited this account when we returned the Taylor Swift records. So the balance is $3,300. I can't tell you how many times students miss the return so make sure to reference the T account so that you end up getting the right amount that is owed. So here we owe $3,300. But we don't have to pay that much because we're paying within the discount period. So a 2% reduction is a $66 discount, meaning we only have to pay $3,234. Notice, though, that accounts payable needs to be debited for $3,300. If we were to debit the cash amount for accounts payable, then our records would show that we still owe $66 when we do not. So this journal entry here is out of balance. We need a credit of $66 to make it balance. Here you can see that that credit is to the inventory account. Now, again, it's not because physical units were reduced, but the cost of inventory was reduced because we took the discount and that lowered our overall cost. So are discounts worth the hassle? In our example, the discount saved us $66 by paying 20 days earlier. Had we invested the $3,300 at 5% annually for the 20 days, we would have earned about $9 in interest. So taking the discount saved us an additional $57. Another way to think about discounts is the following. It costs us 2% to keep our cash for about an extra 20 days. There are approximately 18 20-day periods in the year. So 2 times 18 is the equivalent of 36% interest, which is high by any standards, including the Sopranos. Because of this, most companies will take the payment discount. In fact, most companies will borrow money from a bank if they're short on cash just to take the discount because the bank terms are likely better than 36% interest.