This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Betting player props during the NFL playoffs is an absolute delight We've got role changes that guys undergo as a result of the fact that they've got nothing to lose at this point We have got a everything on the line and it makes the player prop market for Fandall sportsbook A lot of fun and all the props are up Unlike the way we usually see things for this time of the week We're gonna talk to JJ Zachary's and pick his brain Auditorial player props he likes for wild car weekend at Fandall sportsbook Then later on Austin Castle join us to get us ready for this weekend in the EPL Welcome on into covering the spread. That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for Fandall research Joined here as I am every Friday by JJ Zachary's and check him out on Twitter at late round QB Find his work at late round comm and the late round fantasy football podcast and JJ we match today If you're watching on TV plus in the family YouTube page We are both wearing orange burnt orange shirts and hats.  Probably not but okay good, but I will say I think burnt orange is one of the most underrated colors on earth I'll go with that. Yeah, I love I love that like, you know, that's sort of that combo So no, I mean am I am I rooting for The problem is I really like CJ Stroud too like just as a player and like that story and everything I mean both teams I wish they weren't facing each other because I would love for them to have a shot to like make runs In the middle. Yeah, I I the Texans plus two and a half So I'm rooting actively against Joe flacko for this week I'm curious though because you've been told a lot of times you look like Joe flacko Does that make you rude against him or form because I think it could go either way, you know It's really funny.  It's fun. It's a fun story I like and he also boosted of our Cooper where I traded to you in our dynasty league last year Oh, whatever you won the dynasty league this year Jim, you know That it was for a shot Bateman I'm sorry, I can be that about that like just doesn't matter if I Locked my way into a win because a bunch of volatile wide receivers hit there like 95th percentile outcome in three consecutive weeks Well, look we're right now people don't realize this but right now on this podcast where you people are listening to the last two winners of the That's true. It's a Cooper. I don't know if he helped you last time I don't want to say he helped you win it last year, but you know He was on your roster at least could help me this year But I got I had a really really rough opening week and then he went bananas the week after that And he's actually facing the exact same team that he did that against this week So we'll talk about that game talk about some props potentially for Texans versus Browns where JJ is finding values We can some general process tweaks as well We talked about the wild card round of the playoffs But first a reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast You can find us on the Fandal YouTube page and Fandal TV plus if you like what you hear on the podcast side of things Leave us a five star rating on Apple podcast or Spotify also a thumbs up on YouTube is always appreciated too our week Wild card weekend full preview with dr. Ed Feng is up on all those feats as well And of course I gave my read on the slate back on Monday in the first look podcast Which also in your podcast feed now JJ Let's start things off here by talking about things more holistically because we can sometimes in the playoffs see teams Make tweaks because they don't need to conserve that you know really good running back for later on this year Are there any players you would pinpoint as being? Potential benefactors with an expanded role in these high-level spots this weekend Yeah, I mean you could you can make the argument for a couple of running backs I think like a James Cook is a good example where you know You have these backfields that are split and there's a clear cut Talents at RB one who's in that sort of like 1a spot. Yeah, I should say RB 1a Because obviously Buffalo still splits that backfield. They have more of the grinder and some of their other players there So like a player like games cook. I wouldn't be surprised seeing a little bit more work in the playoffs You know John Ray swifts another one I'll get to him in a second to but John Ray Swiss another one where you know I think that Swift is the most talented back in that backfield still And you know again like I said, I'm gonna talk about him in just a second But you know, we could see hypothetically an uptick there if they're gonna be smart with it and really just ride out These guys because there's nothing that we have to worry about you know with with saving these players Later on and then you know also the other thing to keep in mind, you know We're talking about rushing a little bit here a little bit anecdotal But I feel like we've taken advantage of this over the last handful of years quarterbacks Yeah, quarterbacks are a lot more aggressive during the playoffs and they are during the regular season This is another teaser if you will for in about, you know 10 minutes Remember we're talking about some other player prop and stuff But quarterbacks are definitely and this is a little bit anecdotal but quarterback You know are more aggressive and you might be able to hit some more overs than normal with their rushing props I've already benefited from some late game Flukiness with those at a Josh Allen 60 plus last week in an alt market And he got that on that third and 13 carry where he just like bulldoze like 13 dudes And then also JJ McCarthy in the semi-finals had like a late 15-yard run to hit his over huge. It was a huge run by McCarthy to that wasn't the semi-final the one that I had him I 22 and a half for the championship game And I said no shot then he got like 22 a half on that one run, right? Because he's weirdly athletic But yeah, I wish I would use it more. I wish I would use it a bit more But yeah, absolutely now you may have alluded to some of these But there are also fluid situations that are potentially in flux for this weekend beyond just the guys who may get bumps in their role Because of the playoffs which other situations do you have your eye on? Whether or not props are posted at right right now at the annual sports book. Yeah So I'll go to Deandre Swift who I just talked about I do think they will and should use him more than the way they've used him down the stretch But I think we have to be cognizant of how they've used him down the stretch His target ship per game over his final six games was 5.4 percent Which is kind of absurd for a guy like Swift when that number was not not only is a good pass catcher But that number was well over 12 percent, you know across the first 10 games or so of the season And then that coincided with a row of participation That dropped about 10 percentage points in the split down to about 37 percent when he was only seeing this 5.4 percent target Here so, you know I think that there is a case to be made that they're gonna ride Deandre Swift more But you have to be cognizant of this You also have to be cognizant of the fact that Tampa Bay is pretty good against running backs at least versus how they are Against pass catchers and they're actually pretty good at limiting targets to running backs, which could just be You know the result of them being bad against wide receivers and tight ends But they're adjusted target share allowed. It's actually second highest second lowest in the league to running backs So I'm not really touching Deandre Swift props this week per se But I do think this is at least a situation to monitor if they do win and then we can see what's going on next week with him a couple more, you know Gabe Davis right now his status is up in the air and You know Stefan Diggs came out and he said that they're playing this game for Gabe That was a quote that he that he had talked about so I don't think you say something like that If the guy's gonna play It was something along those lines We need to get a Gabe Davis statue so if you can pull like stuff stuff around like they did they did the Nick Saban statue Like that's what I need next right, right, right exactly I don't think you say something like that though if the guys likely to play I mean he might play but it's something to at least monitor If he doesn't go I do think Khalil Shakir is pretty Important in this game could see a lot more work because he's usually an 11 personnel type guy slot player for them You know, I've talked about the Steelers and their slot struggles for years, you know on this show So not only would he be on the field in three wide sets probably in the slot But now you're gonna see him in two wide sets as well And they might run a lot more 12 personnel Without Gabe Davis which they did earlier this season It was just that Khalil Shakir wasn't seeing the field as much and so if they run a lot more 12 personnel That could also help Dawson ox and Dalton concave a little bit So keep that in mind if Davis is out that does have sort of this domino effect I'd say more so than other teams because we sort of know where the targets would be going if Davis is indeed out And the last one another guy whose health is up in the air is AJ Dylan And I actually think this is pretty important because AJ Dylan missed week 15 and week 18 this year and those are both games that the Packers were playing at full strength and needed to win Aaron Jones was healthy for those games and in those contests He had running back rushers of 87 percent and 100 percent when AJ Dylan's active that number drops to like 60 65 Percent there's a pretty big Delta in the way that they use Aaron Jones on the ground And then in both those games he also hit at least an 11 percent target share So if AJ Dylan's out I think Aaron Jones especially everything that we just talked about with teams using the running backs a little bit Aaron Jones is probably gonna be just a straight-up bell cow in that game against Alice He's the reason that I always ask that question is because there was a couple years ago where it was I think it was him and Jamal Williams back that at that time And they gave Aaron Jones like a 90% snap rate in the postseason where he had been around 60% during the regular season and like They've done that before they haven't done that with with Dylan as much because Dylan's been like I guess a somewhat contributor to that backfield, but like they've done that with him before and they did it last weekend I think his snap rate was around like 88 percent or so. It was really really high for Aaron Jones going back to the Buffalo Bills Watching that game on Sunday night. I was worried about Cleal Shaqir You know whether he'd get out there and two receiver sets but they did put him out wide a bit in that game and like if you think about the bills like You could try to keep Shaqir in the slot only and keep him only for three receiver sets but at some point I think they're kind of star for playmakers and He's proven to be that guy. So I had some concerns initially But like if your option is in two receiver sets Trent Scherfield who did run a lot outside or Cleal Shaqir I think you're preparing Cleal Shaqir to run outside So I'd agree that he is probably gonna be a benefactor of Dave Davis this weekend All right, let's take in some props over at Fandal Sportsbook JJ beginning with the yardage markets where you see in value for this week Yeah, this is always tough because it's arguably the greatest young quarter It probably is the greatest young quarterback of all time and Patrick Mahomes But I'm hitting his under right now in his passing yardage. It's at two fifty two and a half He's hit this mark in half of his games this year But half of his games weren't in freezing temperatures and potential high winds, right? Like this I don't think we can overstate the game environment here The the coldness doesn't necessarily, you know scare me off completely But there's also some win concerns and I think the combination of the two could and then you look at the game total, too It's not super super high.  It's really the defense that's been, you know Taking them, you know into the playoffs and such Miami's been at least a fringe or or a top 10 Team and an EPA per drop back allowed this year I just think at the end of the day from a Holmes to hit this mark He's gonna need chunk plays and I don't think that this Chiefs team is capable of doing that at least You know from a probability standpoint consistently, right? It can happen, of course, but I'm gonna go with the under there I think this number should be closer to like two forty two then then two fifty two So I'm gonna go under with Patrick Mahomes and the other one's a little bit funky because I like to get weird But I'm gonna go Trey Palmer over 24 and a half receiving yards against Philadelphia Palmer's run 57% of his routes from the slot this year Philadelphia has been by far the worst team against slot receivers in 2023 and then I mean I'm assuming in a 2024 too It's gonna be the same thing because it's the same team, but they've allowed the both yards receptions touchdowns second highest slot target share to you know that area of the field Palmer also over his last three has seen target shares of 17 percent 15 percent and 19 percent So you're looking at a situation where I think he can hit this mark even in a neutral game script, which is possible I mean, I wouldn't be shocked even I don't think anyone would be shocked if the Buccaneers just win this game because Philadelphia has been playing so poorly But at the same time if Philadelphia is like oh by the way, we're the Eagles and we're we're better than what we've How we've been playing then you all of a sudden hit a negative game script for Tampa Bay And that's more passing and and hypothetically more yards for those receivers So the match up there is just very very good and Palmer is seeing more work In this offense, and that's what we generally see from rookie wide receivers too. So I like Palmer and that over there Yeah, 24 and a half the number on a Trey Palmer for this weekend in that game against the Eagles on Monday I think it's he gets some deep targets to which can allow you to get to an over there pretty quickly back to the Mahomes one briefly I took the under in that game when it got to 44 and a half It was 44 most spots Fandle had a 44 and a half for a bit. It's back down to 43 and a half that wind matters It's at 14 miles per hour right now. I do not have temperature in my model Maybe I should but I don't because I don't care frankly. I care about the wind though and the wind tells me That's more of an under game versus an over game. So yeah Big Pacheco spot personally. Yeah. Yeah, and I think though too like with this temperature thing I think that if you're because I look at this stuff too in terms of just like, you know How how much the larger sample really impacts these games all this kind of stuff and I doubt you'll get Significant signal with any sort of temperature, you know evaluation or what what have you but this is like just so everyone knows Like we're talking historically low temperatures here Like I saw one tweet where it's like I think potentially the third coldest playoff game ever like in history And I don't know if I don't know if you've ever watched those old NFL films Videos of like like some of those playoff games in the 60s. Yeah, like the ice bulls up I mean like I I think that there could at least be subjectively subjectively Something to the cold temperatures. Yeah, and this is as extreme as it gets Pacheco's rushing plus receiving number 86 and a half I took that earlier on this week as well because I think that they're gonna be able to run the football here and With no McKinnon Pacheco tends to have a very very good role any touchdown bets you're eyeing for this weekend JJ Yeah, you know, it's kind of strange David and Joku has scored an average of one touchdown per game over his last four and you would assume You know, this is what we generally see with books is that that number then gets inflated and you don't really want to attack it But he's still plus 200 right now over on Fandals and any time touchdown score and this matchups really good Houston allows the third highest adjusted Target share to tight ends and David and Joku has seen a 25% target share per game rate over his last 11 And that's been consistent also with Joe Faco under center So I like and Joku at that plus 200 mark and then again going back to what we talked about earlier I like Patrick Mahomes as an anytime touchdown at plus 440 this week I'm probably gonna bet Patrick Mahomes as an anytime touchdown score as long as Kansas City is alive in the playoffs It's just I think generally I mean as long as you're getting this kind of juice Obviously, you're not gonna bet it like a like a two-to-one or something but um, you know If you look at Mahomes, he's been in the playoffs five times He's beat his season-long average in rushing yards and rush attempts in three of those five playoffs But when he's beaten it when it when he's not beaten it, it's not been by much when he's beaten it It's by a very very significant margin It's a small sample size But I do think it's interesting because of what we've talked about like the the narrative around that and the story that you can Build around that he's averaged about a rush attempt per game More in playoff games than in regular season games across his career and he's averaged almost three times the number of rushing touchdowns per game He averages about point one two per game in the regular season That's point three six in the playoffs, which is not insignificant and that's coming from a player who doesn't take goal line rushes In his offense because of what we saw against Denver, you know, a handful of years ago with his like kneecap And so I like this number period I mean, I think that you should just be betting Patrick Mahomes Overs for the most part within the rushing department and the touchdowns to me has the best juice this week Yeah, Mahomes plus 440 right now for a touchdown. He was running last year when he had one leg Like in the Super Bowl, he was running a bit and like that should tell you all you need to know as far as his Aggressiveness his mindset in these spots, especially when the offense is not as efficient as it has been the past They might have to tap that button a bit more going back to in joku That number is short into plus 180 implied odds. They're thirty five point seven percent They were thirty three point three percent of that two to one That's still okay to you or is that short into the point where a bit more wary? I'm okay with I'm okay with that You might be able to shop it to just to be clear. You should have everything. Yeah. Yeah, yeah But but I think I yes, I would still I would still bet that I'd be okay with all right So David and joku plus 180 for a touchdown has always shop around for the best number there Mahomes plus 440 for a touchdown as well That is JJ Zacharyson make sure you check him out on Twitter at late round QB find his work at late round calm and the late round a fantasy Football podcast and JJ enjoy the wild card round. We'll talk to you once again next week for the divisional round. Thanks, Jim Alrighty big. Thank you once again to JJ as always find his stuff on Twitter at late round QB coming up next We're gonna talk some APL with Austin cast getting his read on favorite bets across match week 21 We'll also talk some futures with Austin as well But first when it comes to the NFL playoffs You've got to win one game at a time when you bet the NFL playoffs one game can win a lot can mean a lot of wins Fan duel America's number one sportsbook has all your favorite bets like the money line and the spread and all sorts of props like Quarterback passing yards or who will score the first touchdown plus every day There's an NFL playoff game Fandula's gift for giving all customers a no sweat same game parlay That means if you combine your bets for a chance at a bigger payday You'll get bonus bets back if your SGP does not win Make every moment more with Fandula an official sportsbook partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and present in select states Minimum three leg parlay required refund issued is novel trouble bonus bets Which expire seven days after receipt max refund $5 unless otherwise specified Restricted supply state terms at sportsbook dot Fandula calm Fandula is offering online sports waging in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino LLC gambling problem call 1-800 gambler Over the Fandula comm slash RG in Colorado, Iowa Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia and Vermont Call 1-800 next step or text next step to 533 for two in Arizona 1-88-789-7777 Or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut 1-800-9 with it in Indiana 1-800-522-4700 visit ksgaminghealth.com in Kansas 1-877-770 stop in Louisiana Visit mdgaminghealth.org in Maryland 1-800-gambler.net in West Virginia or 1-800-522 4700 in Wyoming Let's talk now about the EPL we got to bring Austin cast back on the show and it's been a while Austin because we had The holiday layout so Austin welcome back in how you doing today? I'm doing well Jim. How are you? I'm good I'm upset that you did not get the memo about the burnt orange shirts for today You're going with a very classy sweater So I appreciate that at least from a fashion perspective, but JJ and I both on bird origin You kind of you didn't even get the memo so next time. I'm sorry Yeah, I got some new Christmas gear from in-law. So I'm just trying to get that on I love it You're a smart man I love that. Those are my favorite gifts are like the comfy sweaters big fan of those as always So I'll allow it just for this one time now. Let's dig in and talk about the first FVPL match week 21 that is also match week 21 next week Let's begin things by talking futures because we haven't gotten a chat about those in a while So they want to do a quick check in here as we come out of the holiday break It seems like there's a pretty fun race going on right now for the four spot in the EPL table Aston Villa is minus 170 Tottenham is minus 105 Of course with Man City Liverpool and Arsenal all ahead of them new cast late to one after that When you look at this market Austin, which seems pretty undecided right now any value in either of the Shorter teams or one of the long shots here So as you said, it's pretty much a two-team race for that four spot between Aston Villa and Tottenham It's hard to see anyone else really getting back into it unless Villa and Tottenham both struggle Which is a possibility But there's a reason nobody else is shorter than plus 800 between Bill and Tottenham Both teams have flaws and you can make a case for either squad to finish on the top four Tottenham have been a real treat to watch this season under their manager, Ange Pusticago They're not in a European competition either, which gives them the advantage of not having many mid-week matches Aston Villa is in the Europa Conference League and they probably will make a deep run in that which could end up hurting them here in the top four Race but with that said I'm still back in Villa and I am recite They're currently second in the league table three points clear of Tottenham But once you pop the hood and look at expected goal metrics, Villa have certainly been the better side They're XG differentials plus 10.3 per FB rush expected goal model and Tottenham's is only plus 0.4, which is just 10th in the league Of course, that's factored in the market It's probably the main reason why Villa are minus 170 despite being only three points ahead But I think that price is more than fair between the two Villa society. I want them back So Villa right now has the edge and they've had the better underlying numbers. It sounds like they're the implied odds of minus 170 63% but as always value is value So if you think the odds of them claiming one of the top four spots are better than 63% does make a lot of sense to Turn that direction. We do have four matches coming up this weekend There's one Friday, but kind of a quick turnaround for that one So let's talk about the four matches across this weekend Austin Where you seen value when you're looking at the more traditional markets for this weekend So I really like Chelsea and their money line. It's minus 170 against Fulham minus 170 isn't super fun, but It's this is a little bit lower than I think it should be I Tried really hard to talk myself into a few other markets to try to get closer to Chelsea in another way And I just couldn't really get into it So I'm just gonna keep it simple and take the money line by expected goals Chelsea have been the most unlucky team in the league this year Their expected goal difference is plus 10.6, which was actually the fourth best mark in the league Yet they're 10th in the table. So they're basically the opposite of Tottenham Some of it can be blamed on poor finishing But there's definitely some bad luck at play as well I think they're being slept on a little bit at this minus 170 number They're at home against the Fulham side who's actually differential ranks fourth worst in the league in addition to that Chelsea also have a rest advantage Both of these teams played a midweek match in the Carabao Cup semi-finals Fulham's was on Wednesday and Chelsea's was on Tuesday So Fulham are gonna have two road games in four days here Especially with this Saturday being an early kickoff and that's a really tough ask for Fulham Especially a smaller club like them who doesn't have a squad depth that someone like Chelsea does So all in all I think Chelsea are the better side. They're at home. They have the rest advantage They've been really difficult to feel good about backing all season long But the underlying data says we should feel pretty good about it I want to go back to one thing you mentioned there You were talking about how you could potentially blame They're bad XG number or good as XG numbers relative to their record on in an inability to finish How much of determining for you whether that's a spot that's due for regression versus a legitimate like flaw in their team is like Knowing the players like do you think do you have a good enough grasp of their strikers and stuff like that to say? Okay, this is kind of flukey. It will regress. Do you think that they've got the kind of team that can overcome? Maybe not being great in that department Yeah, I do. I think Nicholas Jackson their striker. He's in his first year there is a pretty good player Sample size obviously matters the longer this stretches on the more it seems like maybe it's not it's bad luck. Sure They're also getting Christopher and Kanku back He's a really really good player who's got a proven track record in the Bundesliga of Producing goals and that's gonna be a huge addition for them and he can really feel a need But in general if a team's just creating this many chances Just odds are they're gonna start cashing in on those chances at some point, right? so I think we we kind of ran into this a little bit last year with Newcastle and Yeah, but it's a fair question because it's starting to get to that point in a year where we're halfway through this season And it feels like maybe this is just who Chelsea are and they need a new striker, but I'm still buying into them just because of how many good changes they're creating, right? They can underperform XG while still being better than what they've done so far And I think that's kind of the key thing is like even if they're not perfect there You know, they can get better and they're they're getting better talent to it sounds like so I think though both those things beneficial Chelsea money line right now Minus 170 again implied odds that are 63 percent any other more traditional bets you're eyeing for this week Austin Yeah, so if if you didn't feel good about back in Chelsea And I have Manchester United for you probably the other most disappointing team in the league I like them to go over one and a half goals in their match against Tottenham Well, yeah, you know, we're exactly where to find these markets. It was it was a lucky guess. Believe me Kind of scroll down a little bit team goals, right? Oh, baby. I'm cooking now. We're cooking. I wish they just listed the team name instead of home team, but right So, yeah, I think that we're gonna get a lot of goals in this game It's minus 233 to go over two and a half goals and I'm particularly interested in the United side This is really mostly a bet against Tottenham's defense as much as it is me believing in United As I said earlier Tottenham have been really fun to watch the very open attack minded all the time But it's also resulted in them conceding a ton of chances through 20 league matches They've allowed 34.7 expected goals, which is the fourth most in the league They played four away matches versus teams currently in the top 11 of the table They've allowed 11 goals and 9.7 XG across those fixtures including at least two goals on every match As I said United are it's really tough to stomach back in them It's hard to feel good about it But we aren't leaning on their shoddy defense and we don't even need them to win We just need them to score two goals They racked up 2.1 XG and the match at Tottenham earlier this year Although they didn't convert their chances into a goal But I think they're gonna find a lot of joy and create plenty of chances in this home match against Tottenham And it should be a really fun match to watch as a neutral So yeah, I like their chances and at this minus 158 number Yeah, that is for them to go over one and half goals in this game against Tottenham You get to both fade the Tottenham defense and you don't have to worry about the Man United defense on their end So two two things that are pretty helpful there as far as the rooting interest in this game What about player props? Were you seeing value there across this first half of match week 21 Austin? So I'm gonna go back to the Chelsea match It's a player we've gone to a couple times last time I was on here is we backed Cole Palmer to score or assist in the Canes, but he actually scored and assisted just pretty sweet. We're gonna go back to him again As we already talked about I like Chelsea a lot on Saturday versus Portland They're minus 175 to go over one and a half goals. So odds makers like him To Palmer he really just checked so many boxes for this market For one, he's been really good this season. He's got eight goals and four assists and 12 starts He's also been their first choice penalty taker and he handles some corner duties, too So that gives him a handful of ways to not to go or assist In a match where Chelsea is probably gonna create a lot of chances. I'm jumping at Palmer to score at plus 120 This is actually my favorite bet of the weekend Unfortunately as we've talked about before I Would like to wait and to see that he's in the parting lineup this matches at 7 30 on Saturday morning Eastern time So that will be the lineup will be out at 6 30 Eastern time I think it's pretty likely that he starts so you can roll the dice on it if you want But I've got two young kids. I'm gonna be up. So You'll be up with like three hours before a line even out. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, so That's that's the big negative with this, but like I said, I think he's probably gonna start So I think it's it would I would be willing to roll the dice on it If there's just no way you can be up at 6 30 Yeah, that number is plus 120 for Cole Palmer to score assist going back to the Chelsea money line You discussed you mentioned in cunku as being a guy who would like Potentially be a catalyst for the regression on their other the gap between their production and xg and cunku is minus 150 To score or assist in this game. I think that kind of also backs up your previous point But Palmer's the guy Austin was eyeing to score or assist in that game. Alrighty That is Austin cast make sure you check him out on Twitter at Austin cast find his work at Fandall research Where he is an editor for us there Austin appreciates you as always good luck this weekend We'll talk to you once again next week for the other half of match week 21 sounds good. Thank you very much Alrighty big. 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Hey stampers!  Yes, welcome to Stampin' Jill with Stampin' Jill. And Aubrey. We've done filming a lot of videos this morning so we're a little punchy, right? When you said yes. Punchy's good. Punchy is entertaining. And this stamp set called Crafting with You.  Not just the stamps. Yes, this is a fun one. Crafting with You is the stamp set and there is a die set that coordinates it's called the Crafting with You bundle. We'll show them like this way. I know I'm kind of wondering if, can I use that catalog right there Beth? You might be able to see the dies a little better in there. Should we switch the camera so they can see a little bit? All right, so here is the Crafting with You bundle. You can see it has like this cute easel. It has a sewing machine. There's a die cutting machine. Scissors. There's all, oh this is a stamp and trimmer. There's all sorts of little things that you can use for netting and for art and different crafting. Yeah. And some of them coordinate with the stamps in the set but some of them are separate like the um the little stamp and trimmer. It's cute. Actually, I cut one here. I'll show you. Oh my gosh it's got the little thing. Super cute. It even has like a little cutting blade and everything. So it's just it's really cute. We, like Jill said, we haven't really had a chance to play with it. So you're really getting. Well, show them the one that you kind of worked on before just for fun. Okay, so I was playing with this one the other day. I did the easel and just stamped those flowers using markers and then I put some Winkistella on it. I don't know if you can see on the flowers on the flowers and I haven't finished this one up but I was thinking something like that and then life is better when you're crafting. I just don't know how I'm finishing it up yet but that's cute. That's a cute one and what are you thinking you're playing with? I am already cut this designer series paper out and I've cut it two different ways. I kind of want to make a scalloped like tablecloth kind of a look and so I haven't decided which way I'm having the tablecloth if I'm going to have it this way or that way and then I'm going to stamp this probably in the smoky slate and make this more like a sewing card kind of monochromatic and I've got the the little thread dies out here and also some buttons so when I've got this strip here hopefully do a saying on to pop up so or do it right on the card so that one and then this one I'm using this as the inspiration this paper right here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this somewhere but it's going to look like the flower right there it's going to look like they're painting the field of flowers so cute so that's kind of where I'm at on this stamp set so these this particular one is not simple because I'm not just using the stamp set but it can be simple yeah I think so you can do it yeah I'm excited to kind of play and see where it leads us but we do have some friends with us we have let's see Margaret and Leanne and Mary Ellen hello ladies good too I'm glad you all commented and said that you're hearing glad to see you so I am doing I I really love this cute little um trimmer so I was going to use that and then I also have I like how your scissors are covered yeah I'm gonna so I'm gonna I cut them out with the two different colors so I'm gonna stack them and so the blades are gonna be the gray and then the handle will be blue so I'm gonna work on that but my guess is that we probably won't completely finish these cards because they're a little more I don't know it's not we'll see but we'll we always post the pictures that we oh I didn't mean to cut them that's okay it's gonna all work out um we always post our pictures of what we create over on our Facebook VIP page so make sure to go and see that after the video's over and you're probably wondering why I'm already cutting these out before and then stamping them part of it is because I don't know what I'm gonna use just to if I'm just gonna stamp it down or if I'm gonna pop it up so it's kind of like I'm just trying to create on the fly and I do that sometimes when I'm creating because I'm not sure that's what's nice about the photopolymer ones though is that since you can see through them easier yes you can step them down and have the edges around them you know especially if you have a contrast between the white and stuff so that's good there's my little sewing machine so cute it's so cute so cute I can't you know I think I'm so funny so funny so funny okay now I'm thinking maybe it would have made more sense to do the gray and then put the handles on I mean I might just have to re-cut all of these out and just do the handles sending you a handmade hug I do like that too I grab that I might do that one I love this blueberry bushel well my shirt isn't quite blueberry bushel but I love that blue I think I love blue and black I don't know a lot of and red I just have a lot of those colors in my so sending you a hand handmade hug I'm just so excited okay so okay you did the bigger tablecloth and then I might do some of these cute little I've got the pieces but I'm not sure what I'm using so I'll just cut a bunch out in the blueberry bushel of the threads and you know some of this stuff is kind of fussy I'm usually not a fussy stamper but I can surprise myself this so far what I'm doing is not that hard to do as far as just the monochromatic and let's see if I want to go ahead another way you can do this with the threads is just take your marker and make slash marks too on your threads if you wanted to so that's that cute maybe I'll just do these little buttons on the bottom too that'd be kind of cute or here on the side there's so many opportunities there's so many options with this particular stamp set I think because everybody crafts differently where it has the sewing and it has it looks like even um what is this little um what are these called I'm like I'm losing my the loom um it's a oh Beth says embroidery hoop yeah it is an embroidery hoop she knows what she's talking about yeah it is an embroidery hoop but I love how it has the paint brushes you know it has the stuff for our stamping stuff but it's it's got like a lot of different options yeah it it really is crafting just like something for everyone in it yeah so I'm just kind of just trying to decide which way I want to go I think actually I think that that's simple is good what do you think I think so I think that was okay really cute the only other thing I could do is put a little piece of fabric in there like if oh like a little bunched up piece yeah or just kind of random yeah if I wanted to let's see I don't know how that's gonna look right or kind of weird like it's coming down off we can put a smaller piece with the opposite of that this doesn't have to be a piece that's kind of showing that you're making something I need a hey or nay about the fabric everyone or does it look like it's still a bit and now I think it's cute okay I think it's cute on there all right I will go ahead and do that so I'm gonna glue that on and then I'll pop that little machine up I think I think I'm gonna just use my tablecloth flat is there a little there's a little heart in this isn't there yeah there's two one two oh you mean sound yes right there let me grab that maybe I'll do that I just need something in my background here that would be cute do a little heart I think I have it oh I do flirty flamingo do you mind giving me a flirty flamingo pad thank you stole one for our videoing and didn't put it back yet I do quilting so this is kind of fun because it doesn't matter what kind of sewing you are with this one you just have a piece on there and just pop that up that actually is pretty simple card you can even make it more simple if you just wanted to stamp that right there and not die cut it out but it's actually super easy to line this up so I don't look like I don't think it's a bad idea to just do it with the pop up and these little um buttons they come in a set of two two sets of two so you can cut four out at one time I think that's cool they are cute the buttons oh fun okay I've got to put those buttons on trying to think um I think I'll use my small dimensionals my mini dimensionals just to kind of be fun with those because I'm just showing the little dots through anyway on the white so I mean you could really get fussy and tie these with you know trim I don't think I'm going to do that so these will be kind of fun just every other one how's everybody liking this the sewing card the idea of just using just a little bit oh Aubrey that's so cute so there is a slit in there right you can just put your you can put your paper in I like it how the same is on there oh my goodness that would be I saw I kind of just looked on Pinterest and just saw an idea that had that look with the with the paper through the cutter like that oh I like that idea that is really cute so I think I'll do that and I might have to I'll add the scissors back in later I have to recut those okay I'm liking the way that this is turning out I don't know what I got on that white I've got that little what is that that little eraser to race maybe I got don't you get a little I got a little something on there smudge on there okay that really helped usually I get blue all over my fingers so that's not that's usually a pretty common my inky fingers anyway off center okay there we go we've got there's that one I'm doing an edge on it thank you gene is it gene thank you oh and Margaret says it's her first time seeing us live oh awesome that's I'm so glad you could join us that's great I know Aubrey's gonna read because I'm farther away and I've got my read so even even the little twine would be cute with this too it would be it would be really cute I think I have some of my sewing buddies I need to make them this card I mean it's simple that's a good idea it's a simple card yeah but simple is good okay now I'm gonna start my other card I've got those markers and I've got the designer series paper the fresh frija which is such a pretty color and I think I'm just gonna use the markers for the flower part okay gee gee and I love that very cute gee and from Oregon oh great that's awesome awesome we're glad to have you here with us that is a part of the country I've never actually been to but I want to get up there it's so beautiful it's like a different kind of beach up there that's what I is that what you hear yes I think it's beautiful up there sending you homemade hugs I think there's something isn't there a saying that has to do with art or create let's see it's I know there's one you inspire me crafting okay life is better when you're crafting okay are you inspired me is good too it's hard to know which one I guess what I'll do is I'll go ahead and stamp our easel first and what do you think this color is right there I just kind of a blend I think which one is the new one maybe it's the copper clay right there but I think I'm just gonna use copper clay okay for my easel do you already have that out yes you do thanks you're certainly welcome so my scissors will be down here aren't put together something like this oh that's cute I think I'm gonna put this on the contrast because it's easier to line them up when you've got the contrast of the light the dark something like that I think that'll be fun oh cute and then I'll add some accessories too but yeah I'll have to finish it and then we can take pictures this one I maybe I need some help with this copper clay let's see gee and yes our coast is very rugged and beautiful that's what I hear it's not like like California beaches but just such different beauty and I I think it's a kind of beach that I might prefer to California beaches actually because those are the closest ones to where we live what do I do here what do I do here Jill I think you do you have any of this color ribbon because you could kind of wrap the ribbon around by you know and put a little knot right here underneath it and that's giving it's pulling out the color in that yeah I think that would be cute I'll have to like have bring this up a little bit and maybe go like this all right oh yeah do it like that that's awesome but then I would I would put the ribbon either you know yeah okay so or even do a knot with the ties going just okay so you can color the ribbon you want to show me how you do that I'll have me to grab one sure oh I know will you grab that um white one with the glit glittery oh do you know what I'm talking about yes this right yes okay and because it's got the shimmer you can't see it but it's got shimmer already on it yeah there's this one but then maybe that's too big yeah I think that would be too big but I'm gonna use isn't that clips of coral maybe it is clips of coral I don't remember what I used I did this a minute ago you can you can just mark it buy it and you can see nope no I think it's maybe it's flamingo do you guys ever do that where you stamped something a while ago and then you totally forget what it was yeah that's it that happens to me all the time all right I'm just custom coloring this in fresh Frisia and I think I'm going to use the pink melon mambo and maybe crush curry but I don't know um Beth can you see if there's a crush curry marker on the other side just regular marker and then I'm going to use pretty peacock there's a couple different greens in here I think I'm gonna use pretty pretty pretty peacock all right so a lot of times when we do our live we don't always like play with the stamp set so you're kind of getting it really raw from us and kind of like we're just I know let's see experimenting Gian says this is this bundle is one of the first bundles from the catalog she got the cutest dies ever I agree they are really I know a lot of people they're a lot of people have done a lot of cool stuff and I just haven't had a chance to do it oh we have this is oh our maiden voyage this is um I'm wondering I'm wondering if I should put the saying with the flowers like it's working on it and then the same's right there that's a cute idea so like I'm starting a painting kind of thing I think that that's what I'm going to do so it's kind of watercolor ish and it's got the inspiration of some of the colors in there okay now you inspire me I think that's in here I think I will do that one yes thank you and I think I will do that in black just because it will kind of pop out okay oh I put that away I don't know what do you know that just will always happen just a lot of different and you can even you know do the um little paint brushes like right next to here too I like the paint brushes I kind of wish they were just a little bit bigger but you can use them as an accent yeah they they will be cute with this easel too you inspire me so I kind of did it on top of it and then I'm going to pop the easel up I think oh that's cute so did you decide what to do with the ribbon oh did everybody see how she did that yeah took her alcohol marker and made it you can make with alcohol markers ribbon any color yeah right and they actually dry super fast too so it doesn't get on all your fingers like it used to when we did this kind of stuff yeah yeah super nice I think I'm just gonna make a I cut off the edges of my dimensionals how many people do that and use them as strips so we also have strips though but Jill likes to use every part I know I'm one of those people all right those people there we go yeah that works out too yeah I just popped a little bit of color right there super cute any other questions about the stamp set that we can answer right while we're on live well maybe we will finish finish up here we'll post like I said before we'll post all of our creations on our Facebook our VIP group on Facebook it's Stampin Jill's VIP oh that says the link is in the description of the live so yeah we will um finish up here but I'm so glad so many of you are able to join us it's always fun to play with the new stamp set and yes get some fun creative ideas flowing but we will post our ideas so make sure to go over and find them there that will be


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we have two kinds of cardiac muscle cells. We have contractile cells and auto-rhythmic cells. 99% of all cardiac muscle cells are contractile. And here's the deal with contractile cells. They receive action potentials from someone else. So the action potential actually passes into the contractile cell, enters via... Does anybody want to guess? I bet I can hear you if you yell really loud. The action potential enters via the gap junctions in the intercalated discs. Yeah. So there is no threshold when you think about a contractile, a contractile cardiac muscle cell.  But what I want you to remember is that down here, while we're waiting for an action potential to arrive or the message to let's go, we're hanging out at resting membrane potential, which in a contractile cell is negative 90 millivolts. That's different than my chilling somatic motor neuron, which is, you know, negative 70. So there are some things that are different, but there's no stimulus. The action potential is already happening and it enters through the gap junctions in the intercalated discs. Okay. As soon as the action potential enters the cytoplasm in my contractile cell, automatically, we'll see what I can do down here, action potential enters and who's going to open makes perfect sense, voltage-gated sodium channels open. Voltage-gated sodium channels open, sodium rushes out, zoom orama, we bust a move and depolarize to about 20 millivolts. I'm doing an action potential graph. Don't be disturbed or confused by the fact that we did, we just did graphs of skeletal muscle contraction. We did tension graphs, we did some action potential graphs of our skeletal muscle. This is different. What would you expect to happen next? I mean, everything that we've dealt with so far says that as soon as the action potential, as soon as the voltage-gated sodium channels open, then we're going to get voltage-gated potassium channels opening. And that's actually true. Voltage-gated potassium channels open. And what are we going to expect to happen when voltage-gated potassium channels open? We're totally going to expect a repolarization as potassium rushes out of the cell. But this is where the plot gets even crazier because guess what? Something happens in the contractile muscle cell that is unusual cardiac muscle cell. Stage three, we have calcium channels that open. What? Seriously? Now think about this. Calcium channels open. Calcium rushes in. Positive charges are rushing in. We would have thought, here, we would have thought potassium is going to leave, but now we have, sure, potassium is leaving, but calcium is also coming in. And what's that going to do to my action potential? It's going to create a plateau because the potassium that's leaving is being balanced by the calcium that's coming in. The calcium coming in plays a role in maintaining this plateau. And think about this. What does this plateau do? My friend, the contractile cell cannot be re-stimulated during this time. This is a refractory period. Why? Because we're already fully depolarized. How can we depolarize more? It doesn't matter if another action potential comes in. I am not going to contract during this time. Eventually, the calcium came in. Eventually, now this is really cool. We have fast potassium channels. These guys opened slower than the sodium channels, but still faster than these guys. Slow potassium channels open. Now our calcium has equilibrated, our calcium channels closed, and these slow potassium channels open. Now we are going to repolarize and go back to where we started. Once we've repolarized, that means that we're ready to fire again. That means that the message can come in through the gap junction and say, okay, you can go ahead and do it again now. During this refractory period, this is 0.25 to 0.3 seconds long. Think about that. So how long was the... I mean, even our skeletal muscle contraction was 100 milliseconds. This is 300 milliseconds. So it was 0.1 seconds for skeletal muscle. And it's 0.3 seconds. Like, from start to finish, you can't beat your heart faster than one contraction every 0.3 seconds. And if you do the math, that if we go with this one right here, we could get our heart rate up to 240 beats per minute. And I went online to see, okay, what is the highest heart rate that you could possibly have? And everything that I saw went to 220. That if you go higher than 220, now think about this. Then go back to your little heart, the pump. If you're pumping faster than 240 beats per minute or 220 beats per minute, you're pumping so fast that is there any room for blood to come in, so you're pumping nothing. Your heart is beating so fast that it can no longer do its job. It's almost like it's in a giant cramp, which is, you can imagine, terribly unproductive. And any critter that had a heart that beat like that is probably going to be a done deal, sorry for your luck, man, and not pass on their genes, so it makes sense that we wouldn't have that phenomenon happening. Okay, so contractile cells are awesome. You can think about this. If we increase the permeability to calcium, we make more calcium come in. We can actually change the force that we can generate with this muscle tissue. This is just the action potential. This is just the action potential that sends the message to the rest of the muscle cell to go ahead and activate our sarcomeres and shorten myosin heads, grab and are acting and shortening the muscle tissue. So that whole process is happening during this period of time, during the refractory period, that whole process is happening. What doesn't happen, and this is wild, too, what doesn't happen is our contractile cells can't say, hey, fire again, folks. We must relax the cardiac muscle tissue before firing another action potential. What happens in skeletal muscle when we fire a whole bunch of times? We get tetanus. This is sustained, constant, smooth contraction. And just go ahead and think about that for a second. What would happen if you ended up with tetanus in your heart muscle? Yeah, that's not going to be evolutionarily sound. How does the contractile muscle get the action potential in the first place? Because we've already established that it doesn't come from the nervous system. So where does it come from? Where is this right here? Where is this? Oh, I'm going to mark it in orange. Where does that come from? Where does the action potential come from? Seriously? Could it possibly be the amazing auto-rhythmic cells? Stay tuned.


Welcome to our talk, an introduction to magma. My name is Phil Ritter and I'm a consultant working with Facebook on the magma project. You probably heard during today's keynote that the open infrastructure foundation is collaborating with tips open core network project group and the open air interface software alliance to bring magma to an independent open source project and foster its development. As the leading open source wireless data core. Today's talk is intended to be a high level introduction to the magma project. It is not a technical presentation. We will be doing a technical deep dive session on magma at a later date. Before I start to discuss the magma project itself. We need to talk about the drive behind magma's development. Magma's mission is to bring more people online by enabling service providers with open, flexible and extensible carrier grade networks. The internet has become a crucial tool for improving livelihoods and magma strives to facilitate bringing connectivity to places where it has not generally been available. Magma exists to enable operators who are creating and extending wireless networks to simplify their deployments and their life cycle management, while providing software that operates with a high degree of assurance. The magma project strives to speed innovation and build strong support networks through a vibrant community led project. So what is magma magma is a distributed and scalable wireless data core. It delivers converged core supporting the major elements of a 4G EPC and managed Wi-Fi service. Support for 5G using the services based architecture is currently in development. The magma core is centered around an access gateway, which delivers the EPC and 5G managed Wi-Fi and 5G services. The access gateway is constructed to support a wide variety of deployment models, including bare metal deployments at the service provider edge, in private clouds, and in public clouds. The access gateway can even be deployed co-hosted with cell site equipment in an embedded configuration. The access gateway is intended to be deployed in a distributed fashion with each access gateway instance supporting a small number of radio sites. Magma also includes an orchestration and management function to configure, monitor and manage a collection of access gateways. The magma orchestrator is a central control and lifecycle management function that provides a set of REST APIs that allow integration with a wide variety of operating support systems and more global orchestration systems. It collects performance data and statistics from the access gateways and makes that data available through a web interface, as well as via APIs to upstream systems. The orchestrator is typically deployed in more central locations, often hosted in public cloud. Finally, magma provides a federation gateway that provides 3GPP compliant interfaces that allow magma to be integrated into a mobile network operators larger network. These interfaces include the S6A interface to subscriber data management and the GX and GY interfaces to online charging systems. The federation gateway also provides interfaces required to support roaming. This federation gateway is easily extensible to expose other standard and proprietary interfaces as required based on a deployment's needs. All of this is delivered as open source software and is licensed under the BSD-3 clause license, a license structure that encourages use of magma in a wide variety of deployment and support models. Magma software has been developed with open and extensible cloud native principles in mind. Magma's design is modular and modern. Each of the components of magma are reasonably self-contained and easy to extend. Magma is not burdened by the technical debt of older telco systems. Magma's design is centered around a declarative state encapsulation model with internal interfaces specifying a desired state to achieve rather than specific actions to achieve that state. This facilitates simplified scaling models, reliability, and in-service upgrade and restoration. Magma was designed from day one as a converged core. Today we support 4G and Wi-Fi and are developing 5G access, but the design is extensible to support any RAP type or even wired access methods. Magma's central controller, the magma orchestrator, offers centralized management of a magma deployment. REST APIs facilitate programmability and integration into a wide variety of operator environments. This central controller also serves as a repository for state information that can be referenced for innovative future services or to facilitate rapid restoration of service after faults in a gateway node. Finally, magma was designed from the start with continuous software delivery models in mind. I know I said this is not a technical presentation, but I'd like to look just slightly deeper at one aspect of magma's design. I noted several times that magma provides a distributed wireless core. This approach was informed by the architecture of modern data center networking and SDNs. A modern data center is constructed using a mesh fabric that provides fast, high capacity traffic distribution throughout the data center. Services are deployed on server pods with horizontal replication used for adding capacity, distributing traffic throughout the data center on the mesh network. Fault domains are limited by keeping each service instance small and adding capacity through replication. This has proven to be a highly efficient and highly effective approach for achieving massive scale reliably. While not necessarily deployed in this type of data center, magma is likewise designed to keep each access gateway small and add capacity by adding additional instances of the access gateway. Each access gateway is independently responsible for policy enforcement and connection to the data network. By doing this, we keep fault domain small and have potentially limitless scaling possibilities. By having each access gateway replicate critical state information to the centralized orchestration system. We also provide an opportunity for rapid fault recovery. Should an access gateway node fail, we can restart a new instance of that access gateway and session state information is recovered from the orchestrator will allow preservation of operating state. This facilitates rapid software upgrade opportunities. When coupled with continuous software delivery, upgrades can be test loaded on one or a small number of gateway nodes in a canary test upgrade model before being rolled out to the rest of the network. This distributed model provides significant advantages over the monolithic deployments found in traditional implementations of 3GPP systems. It avoids the traffic concentration that leads to very large network elements that are too big to fail and difficult to upgrade without impacting large numbers of radio sites and subscribers. It allows deployment of more rationally sized platforms with confidence that growth can be achieved smoothly. And it limits the exposure to the inevitable faults that occur in any computer or communication system. With contributions from Facebook connectivity and the open air interface software alliance, as well as leadership from TIP, OIF and OSA, the independent magma project starts out as a very active and dynamic software project. Over the last four months, it has averaged over 250 commits a month from more than 45 authors. More recently, contributions have started coming from authors affiliated with other organizations, including significant contributions from authors affiliated with ACL digital, FreedomFly, WaveLabs, and Rattasis. With the migration to an independent project and support from OIF, OSA and TIP, we're looking forward to growing this community and seeing significant contribution from additional authors. Magma's development has been guided by a deployment bias. This means that features and functionality that have immediate deployment opportunities are done first. Rather than focusing on a list of features that define some abstract notion of being complete, magma's mission is to bring more people online. And that has caused us to prioritize real use cases where service can be delivered to people not well served by the existing marketplace of wireless products. This has resulted in prioritizing fixed wireless access and supporting deployments with network operators in rural and developing locations around the world. Working with traditional MNOs as well as Wisps and other more innovative leaders or providers has allowed magma to focus on the basics of wireless connectivity, really, and doing them really well, concentrating on ease of deployment, reliability, upgradeability, and the distributed core. Magma has also developed a robust managed Wi-Fi service that allows network operators to better integrate Wi-Fi with their existing core. We believe that converged multi-access core is the best way to support a reliable broadband connectivity and facilitates bringing people online more quickly. Currently, we're focusing on the development of features supporting private LTE and 5G services. The magma's distributed AGW approach is ideal for the small islands of coverage and local breakout required by private LTE and private 5G deployments. Magma's small footprint provides an opportunity to embed the core functions into radio nodes, while the centralized management function and open APIs permit integration into the operation and management systems of the private network operator. Looking forward to increasing features and capabilities in magma, we see opportunities to provide network expansion to existing mobile network operator networks, and ultimately to be able to offer a rich set of services that can support a full broadband deployment with magma. Over the last few years, we've seen many open source projects come and go. What does it take to be a successful open source infrastructure project? Recent examples of projects that have come to dominate their problem domain are OpenStack and Kubernetes. Both projects launched with significant competition, OpenStack with CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula, and Kubernetes against Swarm, Mesos, and Nomad. What is it that ultimately made them successful? We believe the key characteristics of these successful projects are their API-centric. They're built on a set of open and extensible APIs that allow third parties to add value with both open and proprietary components. The purposeful cultivation of an active developer and user community with transparent governance. And each project had a strong, benevolent leader, one with staying power, who would support the project for the long haul. We believe magma has all of these same characteristics. Magma is a modern software project free of legacy telecom code. It's designed around open APIs both at its edge through the orchestrator and in its internal interfaces. Its internal state management approach supports ease of extension and innovation. And we have intentionally chosen the rather permissive BSD3 clause license framework to encourage adoption by both open source and proprietary users. The migration of magma to an open source project with open governance and open contribution guidelines creates an environment to grow the development community. Magma is already very active for a project of its youth and size. Over the last 90 days, seeing over 600 commits from 46 authors representing five different organizations. In an early September, the Open Air Interface Software Alliance announced that they were freezing development of their own MME platform and would be using magma software for their platform. Finally, magma has commitment from Facebook connectivity to continue their contributions to magma. The initial maintainers curating contributions to the project are Facebook connectivity and OSA engineers. And the OIF tip and OSA have together agreed to lead the independent software project. We believe this creates an ideal environment for magma to thrive and fulfill its mission of bringing more people online to a connected world. I wanted to finish up today with a call to join us to become part of the magma community. We welcome people to download magma and try it out to raise issues and offer contributions. We also welcome partners who want to engage deployments of magma or provide services to users of magma. Simple ways to join us are listed here. You can visit our website and explore our documentation and other information about magma. You can find our code on github at github.com slash magma. You can join the discussion on our Slack channel at the link shown here or find the link on the community page of magmacore.org since this link would be rather difficult to copy. Or you can participate in our first magma developers conference to be held in late January 21. Details are yet to be announced. Please watch the blog section of our website for an announcement soon. Thank you for your time today. I'm going to switch to a live Q&A session where I'll be joined by one of the key contributors and maintainers of magma, Mr. Ulos Kozot of Facebook Connectivity.


We all want to be great players. We want to have fancy skills, but you need to start somewhere. In this video, I'm going to show you soccer drills for beginners. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide, and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. They're easy to get started with. They'll help you build a little bit of confidence on the ball. Number one is footwork drills. So you've all seen this a hundred times, but start here, build confidence using both feet. Next, I would move into a little more advanced. These are still drills that I do all the time. And in reality, a lot of advanced players, they get away from fundamentals, or they think they're too good for fundamentals, and they're really missing out on some valuable development. Their technical skills could be a lot better if they didn't think that they needed complex advanced drills. Do the basics, do them very well. So coming back to footwork, doing some of these. Inside-outside touches, bending knees getting lower to the ground, working with both feet. So let's talk about that for a second. Don't wait until you've played 10 years to start working on your weak foot. Work on both feet. Use both feet from the very beginning. You will thank yourself that you did this. And whatever point in your career that you're at right now, adopt the mentality. If I do 10 shots with my right, I'm going to do 10 shots with my left. So fundamentals, we're doing footwork. Next I would do is some dribbling drills. Basic turning, dribbling with the ball, turning, focus on getting lower to the ground. Nice touches. You can use inside the foot, outside the foot. That's where I would start. And again, with both feet, focusing on the touches, but also movement of the body. And everyone makes mistakes. If you do, especially as a beginner, just go again. Okay, but getting lower to the ground. Inside touches, outside, focusing on turning inside and outside the foot. The next soccer drill I would have you practice is juggling. So obviously this is the goal. Nice, comfortable, confident in juggling. But realistically, if you just started, that is a struggle. So what you want to do is start kick and catch. Focus on getting good backspin on the ball. Focus on getting a nice, strong touch. Probably struggling to get enough power on the ball. It's probably dying down here. So in the beginning, it's better for you to have a touch that's way too heavy than a touch that's not strong enough. So focus on flexing that foot, curling your toes, getting under the ball, creating good backspin on the ball. You don't want it to go to the side. You don't want it to go forward. If anything, have it come into yourself so at least you can control it. Okay, but start with the kick and catch. Once you're comfortable in that, you developed confidence in actually flexing your foot and getting a good, strong touch. You can do a double. You can do a left-right or a right-left. But then you want to move into actually juggling, trying to keep the ball up as many times as you can. And maybe today, your record is four. But that's where you start. Tomorrow, you want to make it five. The next day, if you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the online soccer. Okay, you want to do six or beat your record every single day.  So don't get frustrated if you make a mistake. I know it can be very frustrating as a beginner when you see other people juggling in the ball and it looks so easy for them. But realistically, you don't deserve to have those skills yet because you haven't put in the time. They have, but you will get the skills. Just put in the practice. If you make mistakes, don't get frustrated. Just pick the ball up again. Go again, think about what you're doing wrong, what you can do better next time. The next fundamental skill that you need to practice as a beginner is ball striking. So ball striking can be shooting and it can also mean passing. You need to practice both and you need to practice with both feet from the beginning. Now, getting a ball and shooting it into a net is fantastic. But I want to show you a better way to practice as a beginner. Shooting into a net. It feels really good. It sounds good. It feels good. And it's easy to practice. What? As a beginner, as any player realistically, the way you're going to improve faster is with more repetitions. Obviously, you have to analyze those repetitions. But if I can pick a ball against a wall, it passes it back to me and I have a wall. Every time I'm practicing on the field, if I have one ball, I kick it into the net, then I run and go get it. Then I run back and then I go again to take another shot. You're getting two shots in the time that you would get 20 shots with a wall. So I really recommend practicing with a wall. For practicing shooting, serve basic technique. Take your touch. Focus on making good contact. As a beginner, you're not trying to blast the ball as hard as you can. What you're focusing on is good technique. Focus on the mix, push contact. Don't worry about it when you hit it hard. Just hit the wall. Hit the spot. When you hit it, your active scene is the beginning. And right right, you push that way. It's a wall event. It's a great way to improve your skills. So shooting is one. You can practice passing the ball. Take a touch. Best friend when you want to get better as a beginner.


Sit down and welcome back to my channel. Okay, so I know I've been a little incognito It's because I've been like busy busy doing various different things. My husband was making a new movie So I'll talk to you guys about that in the future, but lots of stuff going on Exciting stuff, but still busy stuff, but I wanted to come to talk to you guys today about international opportunities for PAs And so I got a question asked about are there any international opportunities for PAs? And yes, there are there quite a few Specifically obviously if you want to go to like Europe and stuff there is a big PA kind of pushed there and There are PAs in Australia, PAs all across Africa, the Netherlands And so like the nuances behind like how do you become a PA in terms of like if you're already a PA here How do you like become a PA that's eligible to work there kind of have to look into that on your own? But for the most part since the PA profession was really started in America There's kind of like just like a seamless crossover to these places I know this because when I went on my vacation like a couple years back And I was in Dubai. I'm like man, this is nice. It'd be nice to like live and work here You know, this seems like cool. Are there any opportunities for PAs and I looked it up and there were There were jobs for PAs They weren't quite making as much as like, you know, I was making here in the States And I wasn't really sure like with respect to like cost of living and stuff how that would translate But those are all things that you can look at and try to see I know also with respect to scope of practice You have to look into that because there are some countries where you're not able to do Like like prescriptive stuff like you can't prescribe like, you know, like imaging and things like that Because you're a PA, but you know, we're able to do all of that and more here in the States. So There are opportunities, you know, Canada, Europe All all over the world for PAs It's just a matter of looking into what exactly you want to do as a PA What do you want your scope of practice to be? How much autonomy do you want? And then kind of where you want to live, right? Because you know, you you want to look at all of those places in terms of like cost of living and stuff But that is my simple quick and dirty answer for you I wanted to really put a video out and answer that question for you guys because you know It's something that I've looked into and I think that if you are young and you know, you have really no attachments like that Definitely definitely definitely look into traveling and becoming either a travel PA or going overseas going Internationally and working as a PA and getting that experience for a little bit All right, if you guys have any other questions for me, you already know what to do leave them in the comment section below Don't forget to like this video and subscribe follow me on Instagram at it on PA and on Instagram at get that see University Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye