Hi everyone, thanks for coming to the last session. I am Alan. I'm a site reliability engineer at Bloomberg. I Don't run cloud foundry. I used to run it in a previous job V1, but now I'm a Hadoop engineer Today I'll be talking about Autoscaler and some math behind it to develop some intuition this was originally Kubernetes talk. It's a more of a personal research project of mine on autoscaling and auto configuration in general So about me, I wrote some a few books and courses in Docker two years ago, so they're very outdated now That's just the way it is And so let's let's go to Our the distributed systems we run in general like whether you're using cloud foundry or Kubernetes so basically you have an application and It has a certain number of instances in your server farm it receives traffic and then as it receives traffic to process a request it consumes the CPU of that server farm and then that CPU usage gets registered in your monitoring system and Then depending on the thresholds you set the goals you said let's say I want CPU to be less than 70% You initiate an event you page your operations person They wake up at 2 a.m. They log into their boss jump box and then they run CF scale and then they go back to sleep Okay, and then let's move to the air conditioner So just from an overview the architecture looks similar, right? so an air conditioner basically releases coolant to the environment and the and then when when the weather Let's say the weather becomes hotter like the sun rises The the temperature in the room decreases no increases. Yeah, and then the sensor in your air conditioner gets registered with that temperature and then the thermostat sets compares the actual temperature with the temperature you set And then since it's too high it will Configure the coolant valve to release more coolant thereby lowering the temperature So the the difference is is that the air conditioner doesn't have a temperature reliability engineer that gets woken up at 2 a.m. So that your Room gets cooler, right? So you use It's all automated in the thermostat so we have this in most Cloud services Kubernetes and cloud foundry. They have you so you have your CF auto scaler So it's basically the same you have your number of instances and then it and Then it you you get your CP utilization from the it's a slash stats endpoint and then CF auto scaler or Whatever you have well CF auto scaler doesn't work that way but It gets it compares the two the actual value and then the target value and then it adjusts the number of instances accordingly according to your rules Engine so in a sense, it's similar to an air conditioner in that it's autonomous self-correcting and self-regulating But we can learn from the math in an air conditioner that has been around for a hundred plus years on What makes an effective auto scaler and how do you know if you need to override your auto scaler and step in and stop it, right? so the math behind an air conditioner is called control theory and the textbook definition is Basically it shows How you can take advantage of the dynamics in the system and by dynamics we mean How is the input related to the output? So in terms of our Application the how is the input the number of instances affecting the CPU given a certain load so control theory is also used in other areas in automation like your car screws control your power adapter and events and We can use the dynamics of these and the math to develop the auto scaler, right and We can use the models as well to identify if we have a good auto scaler so the history of control theory started during the start of the industrial revolution, so this is a figure Of what they call? centrifugal governor it Basically regulates the speed of a steam engine so basically your steam engine is connected to the flywheel and then the flywheel turns and then these two weights will go up and when it goes up It adjusts the valve so when your engine is too fast the the the balls go up And then the valve gets shut so you have less steam in your steam engine and it will slow down So this made The machines reliable in terms of our performance So these mechanization and optimization led to the industrial revolution and made things more efficient and had Innovations like you can dig gold more efficiently and you can have trains with constant speeds So you can have a proper train schedule So looking at the history it actually took a hundred years before Maxwell wrote a paper on how it works So basically in during the start of the industrial revolution for the next hundred years People were basically cargo-culting the centrifugal governor Technology so in the sense in the technology community were doing much better Okay So so it so here's the textbook definition of control theory and Basically, it's the same architecture as the auto-scaler I showed earlier, but you can model it in the following Normally a textbook introductory textbook will show the three Components so you have the target input or your reference value. So here it's our So in in our auto-scaler that would be the target CP utilization Let's say within 70 percent or something and Then you have the actual utilization the output called why and then you get the difference of that and then you get the Error so based on that error you put it in your auto-scaler or your controller and then it gives you the input value you Which in our auto-scaler is the number of instances and then we use that number to run CF scale basically So for our application in an auto-scaler the fourth component that we you will add in These systems is called a disturbance. So Web traffic is actually modeled as noise. Basically, it's noise that changes your output the RCP utilization that So here is an example Auto-scaler so basically you have your sensor that gets your CPU utilization And so that's your output and then you put that in your controller and you get the number of instances and then In control theory in design Textbook they call it an actuator. Basically the thing that runs CF scale and then I add some monitoring to graphite and then I added an interval on when to run the auto-scaling Loop so here's the example output. So the green one is the number of instances and the Blue one is utilization. So if you double the traffic utilization increases, and so they use it that you Double the number of instances and then when you have the traffic you have the utilization. So you have the number of instances So These simple auto-scaler works because you can model the relationship of CPU and your number of instances in a linear model, but not all the time but you can get a lot bang for the using a linear model so With a linear model, you can basically model the dynamics as the relationship between the The input U and then the output T.  So U and Y are like standard variables when you look at Textbooks. So first you have your input U is dependent on your output so your the number of instances is dependent on the CPU and Then here is the derivative of the CPU. So the change in the CPU. So how fast or how slow is it changing in response to the environment and Then the next equation to model is the output It's dependent on the previous output. So You can see that the system has a memory effect. So the CPU utilization now is affected by the CPU utilization Previously and then it's also affected by the number of instances which makes sense so any feedback loop system in control theory has these four desirable properties I Will explain the intuition In a linear system and the math behind it in each of them So first is stability. So to begin explaining stability, I'll explain it starting with an unstable systems So here the dashed line is the the target Utilization and then the the solid line is the actual utilization. So here We see that the CPU utilization is above the threshold. We add more instances but then the Utilization goes down too much. So we over provisioned. So we go back to Removing instances, but then we remove too much. So utilization spikes up again and so on and so forth you go to this packing force Oscillation and it never ends basically and then here's another Unstable system. So in this case no matter how many instances you put in your application It just doesn't improve at all. So the problem is somewhere else like your storage or database or Network and then here's another unstable one, but it goes back and forth, but it doesn't Explode but it's still just a spad so a stable system is those a system that settles to the target value. So in this case our system should Converge to the target CPU utilization. So here we're still doing Overprovisioning and under provisioning, but at some point we we get it right and This is the behavior that you typically want in your system You gradually add instances and then the performance gradually improve and Then the obvious another obvious property you want in your autoscaler is the accuracy how well Within the bounds are you reaching your target? And then if you reach your target, it also matters how fast you reach your target So you can think of it like in operations the meantime to recovery So depending on your business case you may be able to afford to scale out slower, but in case you want to recover faster you can Explicitly design an overshoot where you over provision at first, but then you gradually Settle down to your value. So that's when you want Overcorrection, so it's a design trade-off so building simple controllers so going back to this Architecture and we know what makes a good controller. We can use a few Controllers with the linear model, so we will design basically the component C here so the first one is Proportional control basically the difference between the You take the difference between the actual CPU usage and your target usage and just multiply it by a Certain number and then that would be your number of instances so this control is inherently inaccurate because you're just multiplying by a Dumb constant and the higher your Factor the longer it takes for your system to settle down and you'll have a lot of overshoots So to improve the accuracy you you try to average Your errors over time so you use some form of integral control so basically an integral basically takes the previous state and then adds the Factor of the error so You can also write this recursive equation as an integral and you'll get the same thing but then an integral controller takes much time to settle down so You want you can add a controller part where you use the derivative or the rate of change to make it more Sensitive, but since you're more sensitive you're also more sensitive to noise in the system So typically in practice people combine the integral and the derivative part to have a smooth behavior but but have the system respond in a timely manner so Even though these linear models are useful. It's important to note that our systems are not linear. There's like a serial component in our Applications, there's communication overhead between other dependencies like database or other micro services So here I just showed that even though there's a linear relation sort of linear relationship between The utilization and number of instances. There's still non linear components that can be attributed to like startup time or warm-up time and other overhead in the system so control theory can It's not only applicable to auto scalers, but to anything you want to be auto tuned and Auto configured for example you want to get the Set your applications keep alive timeouts. Let's say in engine X and See how it affects the response time or your number of connections and your memory in your Machine so the nice thing about linear models is that you can combine these variables And instead of having just a line showing the relationship between one input and one output you can do multiple Inputs and multiple outputs so you'll have either a plane or a 3d blob of End-dimensional linear models but You can start at a small scale. So in summary Control theory allows us to have an architecture of a self-regulating system which basically iterates on feedback and Since we're using linear models that can go a long way the math behind it can show us what is an effective feedback mechanism But then in the end our models are not Completely non-linear because they represent the real world. So it's important to reevaluate your models So if you want to get started on how it works the O'Reilly book on the right is A good introduction it has Python code that simulates like real distribute Simulates distributed systems and then you can play with it And then the the other one on the left is made by some researchers in IBM many years ago And they do a real case studies of like auto-configuring Apache and other things and I have a demo so here. I have the example node.js app in CF. I I add Squared calls several times to make it slow So that we can see the changes and And then I will show the different components in In a control theory feedback loop setup in making an auto-scaler. So first is the sensor Which basically does CF curl in the stats endpoint and I get the average and Then I have the actuator which basically runs CF scale. So it's pretty hackish and Then the meat is in the controller the one I showed earlier And here I'm using a plain Proportional controller so the integral part is zero so basically I multiply the Random factor with the difference in utilization So I have it running here okay, and I send the metrics to Stackdriver so here we have the number of instances here So it's auto-scaling between 20 and 21 and then the CPU average is hovering around 10% and I'm generating a thousand QPS of load So here's my load generator in Kubernetes, which is Just one load one load generator and then so I'll try to quadruple the traffic just refresh until Everything is running and then we can refresh it. So you see the CPU is starting to Pick up and then the auto-scaler is starting to add Instances already can refresh the graph So let's wait until the metrics get loaded in I forgot to show earlier that Like to show my sleeves are empty So I have a plain CF deployment. I don't have CF auto-scaler Deployed so I'm just using this simple auto-scaling shell script. Okay, so the CPU It already added and then CPU increase I think the stack driver load balancer is a bit delayed but We can Wait a bit in the meantime, I can answer some questions if anyone if you have Yes. Ah, yes. So the question was if I have repo for the code. So it's in my personal github page and slash control theory Okay, we're looking for SREs in Bloomberg if anyone's interested Yeah, so I got that out now Let's go back here. Okay. Yeah, so the traffic increased and It shows that I added instances so I can scale it back now So that we can see that We're responding to a spike. So after a while it will go down so Yep, that's it any more questions. Thank you


Alright, now look, this video is all about Nintendo Switch games that I cannot stop playing lately. And I am really excited to make this video because there is a lot of really cool Switch games that just released and I haven't been able to put them down. And as a special treat, if you want to call it that, I do have a really good friend of mine joining this video to give his input on a couple of games I'm talking about today. With all that said, I'm really excited for this video. Let's talk about a bunch of really cool Switch games. If you like this video or you learn a little something, make sure you smash that like button and please, have a flip on that subscribe button with notifications turned on. Alright, I think I'm going to save my absolute favorite game until last, which I think is what you're supposed to do in these kind of videos. And first up, talk about a game I have a lot of opinions on, Team Sonic Racing. I have a love-hate relationship with this game. There's a lot I really love about it and then there's a lot I really despise about it, if I'm being honest. However, it wouldn't be on this list if I wasn't having a lot of fun with it and playing it a lot. Let's start with the positives. It's called Team Sonic Racing because it incorporates a Team Racing mode in a way like I've never really seen before. My phone just fell down. Sure, there's been racing games in the past where you race as a team, but typically, you're still kind of just flying solo doing your own thing and racking up points for your team as you play. But in Team Sonic Racing, there's actually a lot of ways to help out your allies as you race. If you see a fellow teammate spinning out of control because he's been hit with the green shell equivalent of whatever is in this game, you can actually give them a little nudge as you drive past and it will give them an acceleration boost and they can get back on their way. It's kind of like playing a shooter game and one of your teammates go down and you stab them in the heart with a syringe of adrenaline so they can get back into the game. And I really like that mechanic and it only starts there. Obviously in this kind of racing game, i.e. a Mario Kart style racing game, you drive through item pickups which will randomize an ability that you can utilize. However, if you get something you don't want, you can actually offer it to your other teammates and they have the choice of accepting that item. And maybe they're in a position where they could actually use the item that you don't want. And on top of that, if you successfully make a trade, you actually build up some of the bar towards your ultimate move thing, which lets you Sonic Speed, Gotta Go Fast, Blast Pass, or the other drivers. Past. I am becoming way too American. Actually, honestly, I'm not even upset about it. God bless America. I love this country.  Rather than in other racing games where you just kind of hope that your allies are doing well in the race and there's not much you can do about it other than that. And the racing as a whole is really fun. It's a good solid racing game. It runs at 30 frames on the Switch, 60 frames everywhere else. That kind of sucks, not gonna lie, but other than that, it's a very fluid and fast-paced racing game, which is solid. However, I wouldn't say it's the best racing game I've ever played and it's honestly nowhere near as good as Sonic Racing Transform. I loved the Sonic Racing Transform games. It actually took the Mario Kart formula and in a way, improved on it. And sure, maybe if you're just hardcore into kart racers, car racing games, and you don't care much about boats and planes and that, it might not be for you, but they actually took the base of Mario Kart and in their own way, improved on it in another direction and created something new and unique, which was just really fluid, fast and intense fun and I loved it. And then they made another one and just stripped out that whole side of it and it became a Mario Kart clone again. That is disappointing and I don't like that. But the team mechanics did add in something else that was unique and fun, but anything other than the team mode just feels like a very basic carbon copy of a Mario Kart game that's not as good. So for me, if I'm playing Team Sonic Racing and I have been a lot, it's in the team mode and nothing else. Oh yeah, it can be addicting and I do recommend the game. Next we have For the King and I'll be honest, before this game actually released, I knew nothing about it, but I saw this in my local GameStop and it caught my eye immediately. I really love the cover art and the graphical style of the game, both from the front and back cover, I was very intrigued. I thought, screw it, I'll take the risk and see if I enjoy it. And obviously I did, otherwise I wouldn't be talking about it right now. It's kind of like Dungeons & Dragons come to life on a board game. You play with three characters, either on your own or you can also play co-op or online, so you have a lot of options. Honestly, kicking off this game, I was very overwhelmed and didn't know if I was going to be able to stick it out. There was just so much going on, there's a lot of depth to this game and it kind of throws it all at you right from the start. In fact, the game even kind of sets you up for that.  It's pretty easy to have all three of your characters wiped out and then have to start again. And I came pretty close to that a bunch of times, but fortunately on my first playthrough, I made it pretty far through the game. As long as you only have one or two players knocked out, you can revive them pretty easily. So I just always tried to avoid all of them being dead. I ran away at the last second if I needed to. But again, once you get stuck into the game and really get a feel for all of it, it becomes addictive fast, just like any good board game. And I mentioned D&D earlier and that's because everything you do in the game is decided by essentially a roll of the dice, whether it's moving across the board or attacking an enemy. Depending on the weapon, you'll have to get X amount of positive rolls or slots or whatever you want to call them to do good damage or do any damage or not miss.  It's kind of like that. But you can cheat it a little bit. You have what the game called focus points and you can actually use those at any point for anything that involves a roll of the die or chance to kind of just go, oh, yeah, that one's fine. But you don't get many of these focus points and it does take a lot of effort to recharge them so you have to use them sparingly and in the right place. If I was down to one character, I would use all my focus points to make sure my attacks were going to land. Obviously, the cooler and stronger weapons that have more effects to them, you're going to need better chances and more rolls to actually land the hit. And the entire game, in my opinion, is gorgeous. I don't know what you call this art style. It kind of looks like everything is made out of muddle clay. I'm sure there's an actual term for this look and I'll try and find it. But all I know is it really worked for this board game aesthetic. It's definitely a very slow paced game, but that's what works so well for the Switch.   And then as you're playing, it continues to throw more things at you too, like different enemies randomly pop up or shrines where you can take your chance to earn experience or gold, dungeons in different places, the dungeon crawling was actually pretty fun. You go to the nearest town first, stock up on items, abilities and weapons, whatever it is you need for this crawl, and then you go and throw yourself into this dungeon and just wave and wave and wave after enemies until you get to the boss. You always get really cool drops and good loot. Go back to the town, heal up, get another mission to go and complete somewhere in the world and keep following along the main story as you go. It's so easy to sink a lot of time into this game as you build your own adventure. And again, just because of the nature of the game, it's easy to knock out a bunch of turns and then put the game away for a few days while you play something else and then pick it back up again. So games that are addictive, ones that you can't stop playing, they're usually games like the ones I've talked about so far that don't really have an ending to them. But that doesn't mean that you can't get addicted to games that do end. And the next couple are those kind of games, story-driven games on the Switch that as soon as I started playing, I needed to hit those end credits before I played anything else because I was just so invested. And I'm gonna be talking about Resident Evil 4 because I finally, for the first time ever, played through that game and I have, oh, some things to say about it. And then the next one is Assassin's Creed 3. And again, while I have it on Switch, I've been really enjoying it. I wouldn't say that I was addicted to it. But my friend, RGT85, was. He even made a video about it, which you can go and watch. Or if you're too lazy, let's just hear what he has to say about it right now. When you ask most people what the worst Assassin's Creed game is, usually they say Assassin's Creed 3.  I didn't play Assassin's Creed 3 until the Remastered Edition came out on the Nintendo Switch. And I ended up being absolutely blown away by this game. I made a video saying that I was addicted to it and I meant it. That game is absolutely fantastic once it starts to get into motion. You see, the problem with Assassin's Creed 3, I feel, is the first few acts of the game can definitely be a bit off-putting. The character you play as isn't really all that interesting and it doesn't really seem that much different than the first two Assassin's Creed games just in a different setting. But once you start to play as the main character in the game which happens around Act 5 of the game, the game really starts to open up. You're doing a whole bunch of different stuff that you did not do in its previous Assassin's Creed games. There's things like hunting. There's things like crossing over areas in horseback. A lot of different vision types and varieties out there. I think this game really stands out. It's not the most technically impressive game on the Switch. There is instances of slowdown. Sometimes characters will just pop up out of nowhere as well. But really, it's just such a fun game at its core once it finally starts to open up. Considering the fact it also includes a PSP exclusive Assassin's Creed game on this cartridge as well, there's a lot of value to be had here. I've been having a blast with Assassin's Creed 3 and I'll continue to have the blast with Assassin's Creed 3. Definitely a highly recommended game and a game that I've been playing a lot and really enjoying. But I want to talk about Resident Evil 4. And I've been pumped to talk about this game because again, it was my first ever playthrough from start to finish. And yeah, this game's really good. Everyone was right. It's literally been ported to every single system since the GameCube. And I've never really given it a chance since then. I played it initially back when it came out on the GameCube and I went, this isn't Resident Evil. I had just come from the first game and the second game. Admittedly, I did skip the third game and I went to the fourth game and I just, I couldn't get into it. I never even got to actually saving actually the first time which is only a couple hours into the game which just goes to show that I, yeah, I didn't really give this game a chance. Everyone was talking about how terrible it controlled and I downloaded it because of that. I wanted to play it for myself, see how bad it was. And if it was that bad, it would have been a real easy video to make. This game is terrible on Switch. You know, those videos always do well. But as I played it, I didn't see the issue. They didn't implement motion controls. What have been nice? The Wii U had them and I do agree the Switch should have had them too. But I mean, playing this game like you would play any other game on the Switch without motion controls, I did not have an issue. It's not a good control scheme. That's why they fixed it. But I'm used to it and I liked it. This is a fantastic Resident Evil game. No, it's not like the earlier ones. It is more action. It didn't go all the way action like Resident Evil 5 did. There were some creepy moments spliced into it like near the end with those zombies where you had to shoot little squid things off their bodies. I hated the sound they made. As soon as I walked into a room and I heard them grunting down a hallway, I felt tense and uneasy on edge. I didn't want to walk down that hallway and find that creepy thing down there. But yeah, for the most part, it was an action game and nowhere near as creepy as the previous titles. But the action was packed. There was something new happening behind every door. Some kind of new enemy or challenge or boss or puzzle to figure out.  He lost her like seven times throughout the playthrough. But it always added to the intensity of the story and needing to get back to her to save her once again. Thought it was hilarious that at the end of the game after going through all of this, Ashley tries to hit on Leon and then Leon hardcore shots her down. So after you take me back to my place, how about we do some overtime? Sorry. And yeah, it was a really fun game that I couldn't put down for like a week straight. Every time I had time to play a game, I was really excited to pick up my switch and progress more through Resident Evil 4. And what I just really appreciated about my time playing this game is that usually when you go back and you play these retro classics, you kind of get the feeling for what it would have been like playing it at the time. And you can see, oh yeah, this would have been epic at the time. But Res 4, I enjoyed today. I enjoyed now in 2019. A lot of people call this game a timeless classic and I absolutely agree because I played it now in 2019 and it is a classic. I loved it. I highly recommend picking this one up and don't be deterred just because everyone said it was terrible. Yeah, there's no motion controls but other than that, it plays the same as anywhere else. Okay, my favorite game on this list is by far well and truly really easily Cadence of Hyrule and I'm sure you saw this coming because I'm sure I stuck it into the thumbnail. Love this freaking game. The developers behind Crypt of the Necro Dancer they did a fantastic job at taking their game and just reskinning it. You know what? No, I'm not even going to say the words reskinning because it was its own thing. Like, I don't think Nintendo themselves could have done an any better job at taking the Zelda franchise and developing a game in that universe that you played to music. Other than that one mechanic, this game felt like a brand new Zelda game. That's something that I never knew I wanted, a rogue-like Zelda game. In fact, you could even turn off the playing to music side of this game and play the game like a rogue-like Zelda link to the past. I mean, I love Link to the Past because in my opinion, it is a near-perfect game that is structured in just the right way to give you a tailored Zelda experience that is perfect from start to finish. However, I would also like the ability to turn on a rogue-like mode for Zelda Link to the past and every time I started the game all the dungeons all the items all the abilities were in different places so it felt fresh every time and that is what Cadence of Hyrule is just played to music unless you turn off the music but I don't know why you would because that gameplay mechanic itself is not only very addicting but the music all my word, the music is gorgeous. It's that original Zelda music we already know and love but played with some badass electric guitar. So if you haven't played this game or you haven't played Crypt of the Necro Dancer, let me explain it. I've already kind of talked about the Zelda side of it. Imagine, again, Link to the Past where every time you play everything's in different locations and every action you make has to be in tune with the beat. So every time you take a step every time you pick up an item every time you attack an enemy it all has to be on the beat and it's really cool. You get into a rhythm. You get into a flow. Every enemy has their own distinct attack pattern and even when you have a ton of enemies on the screen that would otherwise be very overwhelming in any other game you can really move around this board like you're reading the Matrix and kill everything without taking a hit of damage. Or if you're like me you end up getting hit a lot anyway but I still managed to make it out of most fights okay. And it's so addictive because of the replay value. Actually speaking of the reason why I finished it so many times other than I was just really enjoying it is because the first time I finished it I blitzed through it in like five hours and I was like, oh, it's kind of a short game.  Everything was probably put in awkward places and it just took him a lot longer to solve the puzzles because of the order the puzzles were given to him in. Maybe I just got lucky and everything fell into place perfectly and I just hit everything in the right order. So I tried again to see if I did it around the same time less more and my second playthrough I shaved off two hours of my time and finished it in three. And at that point I felt like I could do it even quicker than that. So I livestreamed my own challenge of can I beat it in three hours? And with the help of some of you I finished it in just over two hours. I was really happy with that. But at that point I had developed a bunch of strategies. I knew the game pretty well inside and out. I wasn't worried too much about clearing the screens of enemies. I was just kind of blitzing through and looking for certain things that I knew I needed. And I would say an average playthrough is probably around 8 to 10 hours unless again you either get lucky or you've had experience with Crypt of the Necromancer because that did help for me. And I'm absolutely not done with this one. I finished it three times already and I'm sure I'll finish it three times more and then some. It feels like a long time since I actually got to stand here and talk about a bunch of really cool Switch games I've been playing. I hope you found a bunch of games that you can't wait to go and buy and play. Let me know which ones you liked below or even what games you can stop playing down below. Huge thank you to Sean for helping out in this video and a huge thank you to you guys for putting up with Sean. I know it's not easy. 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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World Alive where we are in the precipice of greatness and we have a lot to talk about in today's video as well as level up and well, you'll see, you'll see because it's a goodin' and it feels like we're getting closer to this new update that's coming out that's gonna showcase those new dinosaurs and before we get into this, you know, all the stuff we're gonna do with my dinosaurs I want to take a quick look at a little post by Jurassic World Alive themselves they put this in their newsletter the Patrano-Curry is it Prano-Trano-Kairi? Trano-Kairi design released! so this is I think gonna be, I mean I don't know what kind of, I mean a Pteranodon and I don't know, I don't know what that is but it looks like a completely new dinosaur, new hybrid I don't know what kind of, I think we've seen it leaked actually I think we've seen the silhouette of this and I think it's gonna be an apex because I don't know, it's some sort of group of people who always leak everything and even I've like kind of seen that like I think it's an apex so yeah, we got a new apex it's the first ever fly I think we've got as an apex so that's quite nice always nice to have something different isn't it dear, yes so it looks kind of okay I mean it's a Pteranodon, it doesn't look really too different it looks like seromagnus, you know it's a serotopsian except for it's got like a bigger crest or sorry, frill I always get that wrong a bigger frill, yes that's it also I realise I've got the light on there we go, there we go that looks way better right, okay so what do we have going on in the game because like yesterday they put in of course the classic they put in their £89.99 Rexy incubators which gives you 400 Rexy and of course that's what we did we've got it so if you look at that team now we've, oh are you excited are you freaking excited we have a level 30 referendum to make a level 28 imperative sutures and a bunch of the gigachad to make as well I've got like 2000 an odd giga DNA so we could get, if we got very unlucky we get 100 but if we get lucky it could be 200 I mean I'd say that's lucky really it's probably lucky but before we do that we've also finally finished the giga gigantic pass or something, well either way that one so we now have the besieger skin for the tricosal and the citadel skin for the gigachad as well as some incubators we've got 16 days to get those so do we really need to worry about it no really so I've never, the only thing I did with this we've got 16 days left so that's everyone who hasn't done the 30 999 pass or whatever it is basically I haven't paid to go further that's just me doing the missions and stuff so it just shows that you really don't need to do a great deal once you've done that to unlock the rest of them not that I'm saying Ludi makes it harder god no so you have these incubators I hate looking at these I look at them and say please no rexie please no rexie but now they've also released this one so we've got five pops of 25,000 bucks and luckily we've got like almost 50,000 each one gives you a 28% chance of a rexie now every time I open this I am lucky to even get one out of five I usually get the ankle of molok or the dreadactylus that's what I normally get but if we get rexie here we can get a thousand rexie DNA that's like over a 200 pound worth this is horrendous but we've also got another huge announcement once we open up you know these things as well there's also more boosts that we could than our books on which to be fair is probably better than chanceing it in this I'd rather save the books get the boosts and just wait for like another 89.99 rexie incubator I mean this is what we're doing we've got watch it sticky molok I swear it's rigged I swear it's rigged not to give you rexie you bugger you as soon as I say it it shuts me up okay that's okay that's average I'd say I get one one rexie maybe this time come on rexie well ankle of molok I told you it was going to be there we've got two more left to get it's such a waste of buckling on it it's such a waste and really I shouldn't really be doing this oh maybe I should be I've just saved myself 80 quits and the final one okay okay baby we should be doing this the very lucky don't don't get it misconstrued this is luck and this is the luck of a that's the look that's the look of somebody who's that freaking nublar shores can we get him yeah that's right I'm a nublar shores baby actually I just got in and last night I was like oh man I need to get an incubator to risk it and lose and drop down a gyrosphere and you know what it is guys I won I freaking won so we've actually got two for six hundred extra rexie so oh my god if we get another two of those 80 incubators come out that's it level 30 rexie done my guys done but before we yes am I in the nublar shores now because I've done this pay to win maybe maybe it is but I feel now that I I feel like within the last month I got heavily into drassid world of life like heavily and I now know like all of my team and what they can do what they come up against and how to work it out if there's something that my team's not good against I will like use like find a way just to grind it down to a point where it can be killed and that's like Sarah Magnus is great for that so here we go a level 30 rexie with 125 extra attack naughty naughty but now I have an extra booster put on it so we've got tier five for health honestly you hit by what 3000 usually with another ref or something else and then I don't think another hundred or difference is going to really 7000 to 8000 is where you could survive two big hits 6000 is not really going to die into we could do it that or we could add an extra speed boost to it do we want to add an extra speed boost to it I don't think so I'm probably going to go for you know what health seeming quite nice but we'll go for a little bit of extra attack just a little wow that is so loud okay well there you go referendum fully maxed done and done also the games been very nice and given us octotops or what it is for the paratops hybrid just on the map which has been really nice for many of them because I find that this game on mobile data outside is so slow like in comparison to pokemon go where I load it up but I'm there like dressable lives like oh my god it takes a lifetime and it burns your phone up as well because the graphics and the demand on your computer on your mobile is just too heavy so here we go another level taking us to 7000 oh another 90 attack on an imperative sutures that incubator came out for 15 grand you know what was going to get it man two of them so we've got an extra boost to put on it the thing is with this guy it's mainly just like the counter and a bleed that's what I find it so I don't think I mean I've got 11 attack and I've got 16 health I don't need speed maybe a good mix of the two but I think if I get 2000 health oh sorry 2000 attack and I'm gonna get what I'm gonna get that by the time I level up and I mean if I level up one more time I could get 8000 health and I think for an imperative sutures that's pretty good because you're gonna get your basket off and that's gonna heal a lot but it's gonna don't refund oh that was lucky oh it almost refunded it but it didn't count thank you there's more health on it Jesus right so there we go two creatures leveled up and almost rexied to level 30 we've almost done it and then we'll figure out how much it actually spent on it because remember I've got it actually by you know other incubators to get the books in order to get domestic incubators so we can do 5 we can't do 20 no we can't do 20 we can do 5 or we can do 1 by 1 we'll do 5s because we can do 3 5s so it's 15 minimum we get from this is 150 DNA let's see what we get oh that's it that's the minimum right there oh damn I mean if we got that again that's for 5, 6 that takes almost to maxing this thing up so we'll do another one that was very lucky 50, 40 and a 30 whoa I mean not as lucky for a hard game when you could get 50 120 and 170 whoa this is so good okay and the final one that's more like it 100 so you know we've got a very lucky average of 20s and we've almost got a level 30 giga chart oh I'm excited and we might as well put their skin on it yes now it has like blue eyes now which one do I prefer that one or this one I guess the regular is a bit dull this one I guess is also a bit dull I wish they'd done a bit more with it but we'll use it we'll use it anyway because it's a you know it's a pain to win one basically right okay are we ready to do freaking new Blash Shores the only problem with this is right new Blash Shores sucks for the way it looks it's so dull they had this address at world we'll get on with it here we are new Blash Shores they said it wasn't possible that I was a noob and stupid but here we are yeah the only thing with this is that the lighting is not good everything looks orange and it's like oh for god's sake whereas gyrosphere depo looks nice you get to see everything but this nah boring if it was the other way around I'd love that oh that's bad for him oh death fire I think we should just go for a bleed go for a faster and he's probably gonna swap out if I was him I'd swap out he doesn't swap out what are you doing oh no Ankylosolux is just not a good thing to start with Imperitus Uches oh gigachat they're the best ones to start with yeah you could go for a hostile glow sure sure but I'm gonna get the counter off bleed you and then I'm gonna go for a bask and if you swap you're dead yeah and you basically what I do now is swap out knowing that I get the free swap but I'd rather just go for a free health I'll happily do that he could always stunned as well I was gonna say he might be able to go for a rampage and run and he could have but unfortunately I got the stun because it has no resistance to it and now what I can do is possibly swap into a gigachat predicting his swap he'll probably try and stun me though and actually which he does it kind of works for me because he does a little bit of damage and it goes more towards my what to call it it goes more towards getting my bask back so if I survive one more hit and as long as you don't have a priority I can get bask so there you go Angler's Lux is not good against the Tarver can nap this is also not good against this thing either I don't think I have anything that hits majority but I can get the bleed like what's he gonna go for surge or he'll go for the armor hitting one yeah he'll go for the armor hitting one he doesn't get the crit it would have been very lucky but now what he's gonna do ooh ooh am I gonna put him below half health because one of them is a cooldown oh no it doesn't matter how much damage is he gonna put him below half health so we can do his thing no I don't think that is 3600 and yeah he's not below half health so he's probably gonna go for his instant alert I'd say I didn't go for the surge oh my god I'm faster I didn't realize I was faster than I was cause I slowed it down of course damn okay but now he's gonna go for his oh it's a cooldown of two if you used it I don't think he did I think now he's gonna he's gonna cleanse get one back but I'm gonna hit him on the counter and then he's gonna bleed out again and he's gonna be slower oh he's is he giving up what's going on unless oh right yes it's not a priority you'll do it this time you'll do it this time he did it oh we got a crit though hey there we go right so we can't swap out now and as long as something has a priority we can't do any damage oh this is nasty level 29 rexie wait did we oh we did put an extra boost on the and parity suit oh oh guys this one's about fun this is what it's been about and I've played this thing since 2018 four years ago and now we're in new blush or safely I'd say we might dip down to just fear if I have a bad day but I think now where we're we're just gonna be a new blush I was unless well the update will come out and I'm sure it'll change some things around interesting interesting I mean is it quicker than me he's not at the moment I may as well go for it he's gonna try he's gonna try his luck he tried it he's gonna right what do we do here guys oh we're gonna get through oh we don't get through but we're gonna get a lot of help back from this we do resist it money oh I should've done the rexie when rexie comes out you gotta put the cup gotta put the cup so I'm thinking I'm gonna swap out because rexie's dead and I'd rather keep rexie and then we'll swap rexie back in or we could put giga chat out we could put giga chat depends if we get lucky actually well it doesn't matter I think the safest option now is just to put rexie back in because when he swaps out oh he shouldn't have his does he still have his cloak yes he still has his cloak oh no this is no good okay oh god oh god no no this went from not good I should've just swapped into this oh no I should've swapped into giga chat we had this in the bag and I was an idiot okay well we do that much does he have armor he doesn't have any armor I may as well go for this we're gonna do right we basically have to get through here yeah let's see if I get a crit I think we may have killed him no ah there it is you hate to see it we actually lost oh if I didn't do that giga chat if I just put the giga chat in wow well done well done don't ever shame you for the crying laughing emoji but uh yeah that was my fault I lost because of me not him you're welcome you're welcome okay let's see what we get this time come on we gotta get a win a new block I've already done it we've got to get a win right right right oh in paradise ooh yeah it's a decent team it's a decent team we've got ref there I think there was Sarah Magnus as well which is not really the best of creatures but you know what it's not bad it's not bad we'll see oh he's got the giga emblem and I've got the rexy emblem ooh a scorpious rex interesting interesting I mean of course you'll go for the toxic quills weird that he opened with that that's not really a strong one to open with I wouldn't have thought but I don't know maybe also I hope you guys enjoyed the last video where we put the t-rex like moving head I like that day man because I put my laptop power saver like the gamecaps are cut out and then my pace cam was screwed it's hooked oh my god it was terrible does he cleanse himself with this? I don't think he does I may as well go for it he's gonna go for like a really big hit I could have swapped out if I wanted to maybe that would have been better he probably would have done less damage to me actually I think I've lost more damage having this done to me oh my 4000 yeah a bask okay okay I only lost like a thousand that's okay oh did he get the oh oh well then oh should I just take the hit? should I just take the loss? on imperator sutures? but then he gets to swap it nah nah I'll keep imperator sutures because I think the bask is not a single cooldown I'll have to have a look at that might as well saver mine but saver mine this can get a good hit off on like anything it doesn't matter what it is gonna oh andro tops okay okay it's gonna be faster it gets oh it's revenge is nasty the piercing rampage yeah let's go oh never mind delayed revenge okay okay yeah not bad not bad oh of course that is well oh naughty does he have a priority? does he have any priority? um I may as well do it then may as well get some damage off yeah I'll have a look at imperator sutures because imperator sutures has that bask I may as well go for it does he go for delay or does he go for regular hit? you might go yes he pretty well does make a difference does it? ah he's got everything ready cool nice game don't even get to see what he went for is it any delay? no it's not could be nasty could be nasty um piercing revenge could be a way to kill him quite quickly with the enclosed looks yeah sure he's gonna do a big hit to me but then again once he does that big hit to me um oh because that doesn't go through armor though ah I was hoping he'd get me below half health and that way I could just swap in and have invincibility right so what would be a good counter for this? I've got a shield up like doing some damage and swapping to paratops is probably the best or having a molten wrecks ah nice oh kid oh kid um hum de hum de hum hum hum hum hum hum I'll think I'll go for this we might as well swap out now just so he you know at this point if I swap out there's no problem with it because he heals and he's already got myself he gets a little bit of speed but I'm still gonna be faster with the ref and I'm predicting him to go for his shield I'm predicting that he probably will do it right yeah also don't know if it's a cleanse is it a cleanse? he increases his attack but I don't think it makes much of a difference we could nullify him completely um and I might be tempted to do that yeah I'm gonna do that just so he's no speed no attack and no shield and we go down to like some some health there he's probably gonna ooh yep yep yep I think I'm playing this the best I can here and then this time we get the counter off because that's gonna lap over for the next turn and we also get to do our bleed we are vulnerable however so if he did have a paratops now would have been the time to switch in and kill me but he didn't go for it which is very interesting to see um he's probably gonna go for his biggest hit just to kill me but we'll see actually I mean even if he did he might be able to kill me he might be able let's see let's see because I'm uh oh I'm not okay okay now a paratops get that paratops in let's see let's see what you've got if he does have a paratops what do I what can I do against the paratops well I can't swap out because if I do I give him health oh no I think I might have won this one yeah I've won I think well we'll see we'll see I think I have because I'm gonna do I'm level 30 that's a lot of damage okay so he's gonna go for his biggest hit um he can't stun and game well done well done because I think he's not gonna kill me because I'm gonna get a shield up unless I stun him there we go didn't want to stun him didn't want that to happen and oh bless them you're gonna win for the biggest hit dude and there's a 3-1 big I should have won the last one if only I wasn't stoop oh we killed Wallace I got 40 cups so even more high school alright we'll do one more just to see we want to see us lose finally right we want to see that happen whoop whoop noob large shores here we go what we got what we got oh ho ho well we gotta start with the new 29 giga chat I think a pair of sutures was there oh look at that skin you can barely see it right okay so we are going first so I may as well hit him right may as well oh lord lord lord oh lord he coming oh well he got a crit as well 15 and a 25% here comes the death rule right what are you gonna do son you bleed me a tiny bit but now I'm gonna go for a refresh you can go for a bask I'll tell you what I'll heal and you heal that will be nice we both heal together aww now actually I might be stunned here oh well I do have a good resistance 75% chance it's basically 100% and if I do get stunned it feels bad here's the speed and the health here it comes and we go for the biggest hit because why not are we swapping wait a dawn minute do I hit everybody with this I don't think I do actually that was a good move there yeah I didn't think I did is there any passive god knows okay well that'll do I guess I'm in here now I should have went for my cleanse actually but oh he gets the crit oh that is nasty that is nasty ah oh he went for his what's it called he went for the big one and ooh ooh if he gets the crit cool down cool down I mean if I swap out I think I'm dead 3800 yeah so I may as well just go for it and there it is well done well done so now we need something that's faster than it and has priority well I mean we could be hit by alert surge here but I'm happy just having I'm happy putting a pair of the sutures out if I'm gonna be honest I don't think he can go for his heal at this point no he can't and if he swaps out he's dead so he has to hit me he has to hit me yeah he's dead I'm gonna get a counter off I'm gonna get the bleed off and then I have to hit him yeah oh he's hoping to to survive here interesting I mean you're gonna bleed out right so I didn't go I didn't get through it and he also I also bleed him so there was no point in going for Habermock he might as well have done some damage I thought oh it's sleeping oh it's a Mortar Rex let's go for a big hit boys oh he got the crit dang I saw a lot of damage right boom right I think we had Sarah Magnus I hope we did I hope we have something that can swap in and do damage and just kill it right so what we're gonna go for here we have Anglosaur Lux which isn't the best we do have Hyderaboa though yeah well we've got Hyderaboa and Hyderaboa is not too bad against Imperator Sutures Angloslux we do have a we've got to swap into Angloslux there's no point swapping in at this point because it would be dead now he's lost his priority if he swaps out he dies so he's just gonna fodder off his Mortar Rex I think nothing he can do it's like a careful game of chess like you take that and I take that and unfortunately I'm on the back foot here so I really need to like pick up the pace so actually this is really good because I can go for the bleed and just get out he's kind of locked in here which is interesting um I mean yeah right because I I mean if he swaps I heal and do a big chunk of damage to him oh wait never mind oh I think he might have killed me oh hate to see it yeah hate to see it right it's Angloslux against whatever he swaps in at this point um yeah does he swap out though it's the question does he swap out or does he just bleed oh this is gonna be interesting if I get the stun well if he swaps out that's it if he swaps out does he swap out that's it game well done oh he's on the back foot there oh he's on the back foot oh it's your heart are going and the bleed should kill him right it couldn't survive in a second he seems to be well played oh oh I am the top player in the game hahaha rank 500 wow damn ok guys we're gonna wrap it up there I hope you've enjoyed that buddy we did it we're on new blood shores could it have something to do with rexy yes or no like until rexy got to level 28 and 29 it wasn't very good like it did not get used and if I did use it it was for rex to death uh whereas now I'm at a point where it's good and also I guess because of all the books I've got from it I've also been able to level up in parody suit cheers ref I've done normally like I've maxed that out now just all through doing the raids so it'd be interesting how far we can go actually if you enjoyed this video leave a like and until next time I'll see you later bye bye


Yeah you know I'm just trying to be consistent you know that's the biggest thing for me just show that I can go out and play and I can play multiple positions and and do it well so a lot of the quarterbacks have hit me with a lot of trust throws which is a compliment those guys are throwing it to me and really tight windows it seems and they seem to be getting tighter and tighter but from last year this year I mean it's been I've grown a lot you know I kind of bounced around last year for a little while and being able to come in and learn the playbook again and learn how we're gonna run things and re-identify this team this year I've grown a lot but it's been exciting man it's been everything I've dreamed of I love this place I love this team so it's been really fun yeah it was exciting first thing I could think of was my mom and you know I did a little celebration but I realized that I spun the ball and I didn't want the ref to get it so you kind of see me switch back and like where's the ball at kind of panic so first thing I thought of was my mom though I got to get my mom the ball because that's something I've always told her I was gonna do whenever I score is I'm gonna give you the ball I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna give it to you so it was awesome yeah I came from a high school that won three games in four years I went three and 37 in high school I actually was committed to play D1AA at a D1AA school I got my offer pulled from me with two games left in my senior year so kind of I was already committed so I kind of wrote everybody else off visited some D2 schools some NAI schools and Barry College hit me up I wanted me to come on a visit and I wasn't so sure me being a night naive 17 year old kid was like I had a D1 offer on the table I don't want to go D3 but my next door neighbor actually played softball at Barry so we ended up going on the visit I loved it got put on a work scholarship program there so I worked a full-time job I was at Barry to pay for my school because I don't offer athletic scholarships and we we had a lot of fun we won a lot of games they just won their fifth straight conference championship and I think I lost one game at home the four years I was there so it was awesome but I believe God's plan is perfect and I ended up where I was supposed to be I worked in the athletic department so my boss was Derek Taylor he's the assistant athletic director I was kind of just his assistant whatever he needed I had to do whether it was working in the fitness center whether it was campus scheduling whether it was you know it's kind of all over the place Jack of all trades I guess I think you just have to dominate whenever you go to a to a small school you have to pop out on film just show why you don't necessarily belong in that division or in that league so the biggest thing for me was just trying to show consistency and show that I can dominate and play at a really high level and then the stats kind of just spoke for themselves the the stats kind of popped off the sheet and then my junior year is when scouts started kind of coming by the school and talking to me well it's it's kind of crazy it's always been my dream since I was seven years old I told my mom I wanted to play in NFL so and I never really lost focus I knew I was at a D3 school and I knew that it was gonna take a lot and I just stayed laser focused on that I knew what it was gonna take and I knew how I had to kind of approach it and that was my mindset so I just tried to do everything that I could to put myself in the best situation and it and it all played out


Mae IID's work in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity has focused on Article 8J, which deals with the protection of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities. So, the key focus of our work has been on how to protect traditional knowledge in accordance with customary laws, rather than in accordance with Western intellectual property models such as patents. We wanted to find alternative ways which are in line with the customary laws of Indigenous and local communities. So, our research was conducted in five countries in 11 different ethnic groups and based on that, we were able to inform the Convention's guidance for parties on how to protect traditional knowledge based on customary laws. That work has also led us to develop a new concept, a concept of biocultural heritage, which essentially focuses on the links between traditional knowledge, biodiversity, landscapes, cultural and spiritual values and customary laws. These linkages come from the Indigenous world view, but through our research we found that they're also there in practice. The problem with the CBD policy arena is that it separates traditional knowledge, which is owned by communities, and the genetic resources are national sovereignty, so governments really tend to appropriate them as national ownership. For communities, genetic resources like crops and medicinal plants are really important for survival and they've developed them and improved them over generations. So, the lack of ownership over these resources is a problem for them. So, through the concept of biocultural heritage, we are trying to get governments to recognise the rights of Indigenous and local communities over not just traditional knowledge but the associated genetic resources and biodiversity.


Welcome, guys, to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okutaya here live broadcasting from ITW 2022, and what a year, guys. It's the 15th anniversary for ITW, and we're all back together again after a two-year hiatus, and it is so great to see friends and colleagues here, again, face-to-face. I will tell you that. So here joining me today with breaking news, I'm so excited to introduce you to Greg Elliott, the vice president of business development, and Todd Cushing, the president of 1623 Farnum. Gentlemen, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks for having us. Appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, Jamie. We are honored. We are honored. And so let's just start by table-setting, if you will. Todd, for those who are maybe new to JSA TV, might just not know, can you give us a little information on who 1623 Farnum is? So 1623 Farnum is an interconnection facility in the middle of the United States. It's also freshly remodeled with new power and new cooling, so it's a nine-story building about 76,000 feet. The Omaha Metro is under siege by a hyperscale. So we've got lots of activity, lots of new carriers, a lot of interconnection happening. More and more eyeballs, more interconnection for every client cabinets in the facility. So it's just a lot of excitement, a lot of growth. We're really happy about it. And it's such an exciting time, besides all of this growth and this interest, so much capacity needs right now. Here at ITW, you can hear the buzz. Our industry is excited. So what does an organization like 1623 Farnum, Greg, bring to an international telecom conference? Yeah, thanks, Jamie. So a lot of things, I mean, we're just happy to be here, having these face-to-face conversations, schedule meetings, but also the unintended collisions that we're having, just running into people, connecting the dots. And so for a company that's in the middle of the US, it's important for us to get out and have those conversations. So let's say an international carrier or content providers, you know, they're East Coast, West Coast, we're a great spot right in the middle to interconnect. So those kinds of things are, we're just having a blast being here live. And yeah, you're so strategically positioned and a great place to meet, meet in the middle, if you will. Yes, we'll talk about meet in the middle. Sure, so this fall we'll have a meet in the middle event and it's been on a inaugural or an annual deal. It's been going on for a while, so we'll have a scavenger hunt and lots of golf and a lot of social time the night before and the day of. So we'll be hosting it at the site and the date for that event's gonna be on. September 22nd. So we're looking forward to having people come to Omaha and meet in the middle. And we created the meet in the middle event, mainly because, you know, once our customers came in and set their router switches in the racks we never saw them again, we didn't like that. So this meet in the middle, customers, potential customers is just a great networking event that we put on. We're also hosting the first ever Midwest peering exchange. So that'll be in July and Des Moines. So a lot of the Midwest US peering exchanges are getting together and just gonna get together on peering. Oh, I love it. I love it. And again, it's like we're coming back to our in-person connectivity, right? What you guys are specializing in but bringing it face to face back guys, it feels great, it really does. Tell me, what do you see on the horizon for 2022 and beyond? Todd, I'll start with you. We are seeing a lot of interconnection continuing. So there's gonna be more builds in Omaha. We've had an announcement of another Google facility. We're super excited about that which is driving more connectivity to our facility, more connectivity to Omaha Metro, more, again, eyeballs more peering to the Metro area. So really, I think it's been a playoff of other partners for those hyperscalers to come to the area. They've looked at maybe the Omaha area for a long time and it's really gonna drive more of that partnership to happen. Yeah. And so how we've been successful is to continually grow that ecosystem. So in the last year, we've added packet fabric, subspace, mega ports, been there for a while. And then we're also gonna operate the Omaha X2. So we're growing that. So that's exciting. And just the simple locations creating a lot of great opportunities. So reach out if you ever wanna, if you're through the area or you wanna come by, just let us know. And to that point, where can our viewers go if they wanna learn more? I'm sure. So www.1623farnum.com, JSA helped us with the site. It's amazing. 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morning, Mike Ford was one of the Yankees who met the media and Meredith asked forward if he and his fellow hitters are feeling a bit more comfortable now that they've been back in camp for a little while. I think that happens every year in every spring. Um, these guys are so talented now that, uh, you know, sometimes during the year, it even feels like that and stretches. Um, but yeah, for, for having three months off and not seeing a live pitch, I feel like I'm in a pretty good spot. Uh, I think a lot of other guys are in pretty good spot. Surprisingly, I think we only have probably about eight at bats. So I think everyone's doing a great job and, and, you know, a lot of, a lot of machine work for guys just to get the timing back and that will be key. Do you worry that timing is going to be difficult to get back in such a short period of time? Uh, it's all dependent on hitter each hitter.  Some guys take some time, but, uh, you know, luckily we have a pretty awesome lineup. So, uh, you know, I think if, uh, one guy might be a little bit behind the rest of the lineup, we'll pick him up. Thanks, Meredith. Our next question comes from Brendan Cuddy. Brendan, please unmute your line. Mike, thanks for taking the time. I hope you're well. Can you hear me? Yeah. Awesome. Your parents are doctors. Uh, what did they tell you about coming here, doing all this and trying to stay safe, uh, among the, you know, amidst the coronavirus? Yeah. I mean, that's a really interesting question. Uh, you know, a lot of, a lot of my family members, uh, brother and his wife included are, are practicing physicians now and, and they've been, you know, on the front lines of this thing the whole time and my parents are luckily retired because, you know, they're, they're a little bit at, uh, at risk age. So, I mean, uh, you know, honestly, just take some precautions, uh, but at the end of the day, it's, it's our job and, um, uh, you know, not, not comparing it to the flu, but, uh, we've had a lot of circumstances where guys get the flu throughout the year and, and it's kind of how it's, it's handled very differently, obviously, because it has to be. But, um, you know, if we're taking the precautions in the clubhouse, uh, and just kind of doing our part at home, um, you know, maybe not going into crowded areas, not getting into more interactions with people, that was mainly their advice.  So, I, I think we'll be okay, um, especially if everyone does their part and, uh, just take some precautions here and there. You mentioned how they're kind of at a risk age. Have you had to stay away from them? Uh, I actually spent the time in Florida, um, for a while, yeah, and then once I had a negative test, I went up to see them, uh, for a little bit. Um, uh, not, you know, they, they probably wanted to see me more, more than anything, so, so they were willing to take that risk. But yeah, I, I was doing my part in Florida and, uh, you know, hanging out with a small group of friends, uh, at most and, and limiting my contact with other people. Like Meredith said, you know, it's been interesting to see you guys facing each other on these some games. What is it like kind of seeing what your teammates scouting reports are on you? Is it like, does it give you a different perspective to, you know, face guys who then can kind of tell you later, you know, what they were looking for and kind of how it was, um, maybe a little bit more feedback that way? Yeah, I think that's actually a really interesting point because it's happened a bunch. Um, you know, they all get a sheet every day and it's kind of interesting to see, uh, maybe after the game, see how what their plan was to attack you, uh, you know, from, from the Yankees perspective, if it was another team. So it definitely is helpful for guys that like to look at that, me being, uh, someone that does like the game plan a lot. I, I like to see what the other side's going to do to me. So that's been interesting and, you know, just from facing our team, I'm very glad that I don't play for another team. So is there anything that, you know, it's kind of come to your attention that's been a surprise to you? Um, not, not really.  Um, you know, our coaching staff is great here and they've highlighted it from an opposing standpoint of what they're going to try to do. Um, I think it will be a little bit of an adjustment, but you know, hopefully we make that adjustment so that, uh, an opponent has to re reevaluate and readjust to you and you kind of have your opponent on the ropes. You did say you do everything you can, uh, to protect yourself and your teammates, but are you worried about this spreading even further? Um, given that or all this was negative on the intake last week and somehow he's, uh, he's contracted the virus since he got here. So what, what can you do to redouble your efforts and are you worried about, um, for the positive tests? Uh, I think personally I'm more worried about positive tests and all stars being out for two weeks. Uh, to be totally honest with you, we, you know, we have such a talented lineup in there that we all have to do our part. You know, like I said here, end at home to, to keep that lineup in play, uh, for as long as we can and keep guys like, you know, chappy here and get DJ back and, you know, kind of not have those breakdowns. I think that will be one of the bigger, uh, I guess advantages to teams that do it, do it better than others this year. Um, so I think that's, that's very important. Uh, I mean on the spread in the clubhouse, we're doing everything we can. Uh, we, we really are. We're taking it very seriously and so is the staff and, uh, you know, support staff, clubhouse, uh, to food room, to everything. So, you know, if we, if we can limit interactions, uh, and contact trace, uh, to who kind of was around, you know, the person that might have gotten sick that day, you know, you can, you can limit your exposure a little bit, but, you know, it's a chance, it's a chance and it's a risk that we're taking to, to play, uh, just like a lot of other jobs did throughout this whole quarantine and, and, and, you know, very thankful for all those people that, that, that work throughout this provided, you know, food for everyone, doctors, nurses, um, you know, can't, can't thank those people that were working the front line the whole time, but I think it's time to get going and, um, I think we're ready to, honestly.


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