everyone needs to know this about the narcissist you want to help the narcissist you want to save them you showed compassion towards them and they took advantage of that they will leech off you they will drain you and then they will break you down and it is often our lack of awareness and experience that enables this to happen that is how they are able to get in and deceive us which is why this video is about spreading awareness of what they do so that we can better protect ourselves because you're investing your time energy and money into the narcissist you're losing things that hold great value and you're hoping to receive something in return to replenish yourself to sustain the relationship because if you're rowing a boat in one direction and they're rowing the opposite way you're not going to get anywhere you're not going to achieve anything there's not going to be a positive outcome or results but a relationship is meant to be reciprocal there's meant to be an equal exchange but when you're involved with a narcissist and you're expecting something in return you end up feeling selfish and as though something is wrong with you you assume that you haven't done enough of them so you do more and more because it makes you feel worthless you feel like you've been treated unfairly like you've been forced to accept something you don't like because you're expecting something in return from the narcissist you're expecting them to love you and be a supporting partner which is something they're never going to do because they don't care about you they see you as an object that exists to meet their needs they see it as though they're meant to consume from you not the other way around and you may want to help them you may want to teach them the value of giving and being there for someone so that they can experience the same warmth and joy that you experience from giving to them but you cannot save them you cannot get them to see the errors of their ways because they don't believe anything is wrong with them or their outlook on life they believe they've got it all figured out and you're just meant to do what they need you to do and not have any needs of your own they don't think things need to change because they're quite comfortable with how things are they're getting what they need from you and as long as you keep quiet about your needs everything will be okay that's how they see it they don't want your help they don't want to change anything about themselves they don't want to fix anything and you can't make them you can't force someone to do something that they don't want to do and you shouldn't see it as your problem they have to figure things out on their own they don't think how normal people think they're not going to do what most people would do they're very unpredictable which means that anything could happen there's no foreseeable outcome or result it's just their magical thinking they feel superior they act arrogant and entitled so they believe that they're always going to get what they want actions and decisions are based on the benefits and conveniences that they can receive which is why they're always looking for the bigger better deal they're always looking for the next shiny new toy but it's all a fantasy thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you please like comment share and subscribe if you would like to donate my paypal link is in a video description coaching queries you can email me at coaching at naksafiver.co.uk thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


The safety and quality of the final juice sold at the consumer ultimately depends on the safety and quality of the raw material. The raw materials include the fruit and or vegetable, water, and any additives used at any point in the process. In addition, the environment in and around the growing fields and the packing house can affect the safety and quality of the raw material. Microbial contamination of produce can occur at any point. One of the keys to reducing microbial risks on the farm is the commitment of the farmer and all farm workers. The raw materials used to make fruit and vegetable juices are grown and produced in many different geographical areas. Examples range from oranges grown in Florida to apples from Washington to carrots grown in California to cranberries from the bogs of Massachusetts. In addition to materials grown in the United States, raw material is produced in many countries throughout the world. This material comes in all shapes and sizes. The processor may receive this material as whole fruits and vegetables, purees, or single strength juices and juice concentrates. Containers used to shift this material can be as varied as a small wood basket to a very large stainless steel tank. No matter what the source of the raw material or the manner in which it arrives at the processing plant, the processor should be concerned with the controls used to minimize the potential contamination of the juice components at all stages of growth, storage, processing, and transportation. Resources available to food companies and growers include the guide to minimize microbial food safety hazards for fresh fruits and vegetables, published in October 1998 by the Food and Drug Administration, and food production and environmental stewardship, examples of how food companies work with growers, published by the Environmental Protection Agency. These documents provide examples of how a processor can interact with a grower to ensure the safety of the raw material and may be used to construct grower agreements, which could include water quality issues, chemicals used, commodity or variety grown, minimum grades or standards, and other areas as deemed appropriate. Growers should be aware of the microbiological problems that can occur and need to take steps to help protect the public health. There's no way to guarantee that everything grown on the farm is free from harmful microorganisms, but by taking some preventive measures during all phases of production, these risks can be reduced. In this module, we will be discussing the basic principles and recommended good agricultural and manufacturing practices for field and packing house operators to minimize microbial food safety hazards in the production, packing and transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables. Analyzing the risk of microbial contamination includes several major areas of concern. Soil, water quality and cooling, field, packing facility sanitation and transportation, worker hygiene and pest control. Each operator should decide which combination of proper agricultural and manufacturing practices are most appropriate for them. By identifying basic principles of microbial food safety within the processes of growing, harvesting, packing and transporting fresh produce, you will be better prepared to recognize and address the principal elements known to cause concern to microbial food safety. These include principle one, prevention of microbial contamination of fresh produce is favored over reliance on corrective actions once contamination has occurred. Principle two, to minimize microbial food safety hazards in fresh produce, growers, packers or shippers should use good agricultural and manufacturing practices in those areas over which they have control. Principle three, fresh produce can become microbiologically contaminated at any point along the farm to table food chain. The major source of microbial contamination with fresh produce is associated with human or animal feces. Principle four, whenever water comes in contact with produce, its source and quality dictates the potential for contamination. Minimize the potential of microbial contamination from water used with fresh fruits and vegetables. Principle five, practices using animal manure or municipal biosolid wastes should be managed closely to minimize the potential for microbial contamination of fresh produce. Principle six, worker hygiene and sanitation practices during production, harvesting, sorting, packing and transport play a critical role in minimizing the potential for microbial contamination of fresh produce. Principle seven, follow all applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations or corresponding or similar laws, regulations or standards for operators outside the U.S. for agricultural practices. Principle eight, accountability at all levels of the agricultural environment including the farm, packing facility, distribution center and transport operation is important to a successful food safety program. There should be qualified personnel and effective monitoring to ensure that all elements of the program function correctly and to help track produce back through the distribution channels to the producer. There are many possible ways for produce to become contaminated by harmful microorganisms during production, harvest and handling. These may include soil, irrigation water, animal manure, inadequately composted manure, wild and domestic animals, inadequate worker hygiene, harvesting equipment, transport containers, field to packing facility, wash and rinse water, unsanitary handling during sorting, equipment used to soak, pack or cut produce, ice, cooling units, transport vehicles, improper storage conditions and cross contamination. Biological hazards can stem from the use of manure as a fertilizer, improper storage of manure, agricultural chemicals, animal waste and unclean irrigation water. Fertilizing with manure can cause cases of foodborne illness. If manure is used for fertilization and soil building, only well composted manure should be used. Also the time between the application of manure to production areas and the harvesting of crops should be maximized. Raw or inadequately treated manure should not be applied to a vegetable crop during the growing season. While manure is stored or treated, it is important to prevent contamination of fields or water caused by runoff or wind blown particles from the manure. It's also important to keep the manure area far from vegetable fields and packing houses. To minimize exposure to animal waste, livestock should not be allowed to roam near the production fields. Growers should determine whether surrounding fields and farms are used for animal production. Growers should ensure that animal waste from adjacent fields or waste storage facilities does not contaminate the produce production areas during heavy rains, especially if fresh produce is grown in low-lying fields or orchards. Measures might include physical barriers such as ditches, mounds, grass sod waterways, diversion berms and vegetable buffer areas. In addition, high concentrations of wildlife such as deer or water fowl in a field may increase the potential for microbial contamination. Control of wild animal populations in the field may be difficult, especially where crop production areas are adjacent to wooded areas, open meadows and waterways. Federal, state or local animal protection requirements should also be considered. However, to the extent possible, where high concentrations of wildlife are a concern, growers should consider establishing good agricultural practices to deter or redirect wildlife to areas with crops that are not destined for the fresh produce market. Agricultural production chemicals should only be used according to the label, which includes the application rate, reentry date and safe harvest date. The prescribed use of these chemicals will prevent any pesticide or chemical residues that pose a chemical hazard. Water used in crop production involves numerous field operations including irrigation, applications of pesticides, growth regulators and fertilizers, and frost control. Post-harvest uses include produce rinsing, cooling, washing, waxing and transport. Water can also be a carrier of many microorganisms. Wherever water comes into contact with fresh produce, its quality dictates the potential for pathogen contamination. The quality of water, how and when it is used and the characteristics of the crop influence the potential for water to contaminate produce. In general, the quality of water in direct contact with the edible portion of produce may need to be of better quality compared to uses where there is minimal contact. Other factors that influence the potential for contact with water-borne pathogens and their likelihood of causing foodborne illness include the condition and type of crop, the amount of time between contact and harvest, and post-harvest handling practices. Produce that has a large surface area such as leafy vegetables and that with topographical features such as rough surfaces that foster attachment or entrapment may be at greater risk from pathogens if they are present, especially if contact occurs close to harvest or during post-harvest handling. Testing agricultural water for the presence of indicator organisms such as total coliforms or fecal coliforms allows a grower to build a history and knowledge of the quality of their water. It may also provide a grower with information to use when planning and implementing a corrective action plan should high levels of indicator organisms occur. The best quality water should be used for crop protection sprays and other water uses that contact the edible portion of the crop, especially close to harvest. Water quality is even more important when water contacts produce after harvest, such as for cooling or washing operations. Water should be safe and sanitary for its intended use, both at the start of and throughout all processes. Not only is high quality water important for safety reasons, but it also increases the post-harvest quality of produce by decreasing spoilage. Various methods are available for cooling produce, including water, ice and forced air. The method used depends on the fruit or vegetable and the resources of the operator. In most instances, cooling with air such as vacuum coolers or fans will pose the lowest risk. Water and ice used in cooling operations should be considered a potential source of pathogenic contamination. Further, reuse or recycling of water to cool continuous loads of produce increases the risk of cross-contamination. Contaminated produce from a single container going through a cooling process may result in the buildup of pathogens in the cooling water supply. Operators should follow good manufacturing practices to ensure that chilling does not introduce food safety hazards. Practices may include the following. Maintain temperatures that promote optimum produce quality. Maintain air cooling equipment and cooling areas. Air cooling equipment and cooling areas should be periodically cleaned and inspected. Potential sources of contamination should not be located near air intakes. Consider the use of antimicrobial chemicals in cooling water when appropriate. Keep water and ice clean and sanitary. Consider periodic microbial testing of chilling water and water used to make ice. Operators should contact ice suppliers for information about the source and quality of their ice. Water and hydrocoolers should be changed as often as needed. Manufacture, transport and store ice under sanitary conditions. Chilling equipment such as hydrocoolers and containers holding produce during chilling operations should be clean and sanitary. Field soil should be removed as much as possible from produce and containers prior to chilling. Interiors of hydrocoolers should routinely be cleaned and sanitized. If antimicrobial such as chlorine or ozone are used to maintain water quality, their concentration and any other factors such as pH and temperature that impact the effectiveness of the antimicrobial should be actively monitored and managed. Microbial contamination or cross-contamination of fresh produce during pre-harvest and harvest activities may result from contact with soils, fertilizers, water, workers and harvesting equipment such as harvesting machinery, knives, containers, tables, baskets, packaging materials, brushes and buckets. Any of these may be a source of pathogenic microorganisms. Growers should consider the following. Facilities used to store fresh produce should be cleaned and as necessary disinfected prior to harvest. These facilities should also be inspected for evidence of pests such as rodents, birds and insects. Discard damaged containers that are no longer cleanable in an effort to reduce possible microbial contamination of fresh produce. Clean containers or bins before using to transport fresh produce. Ensure that produce that is washed, cooled or packaged in the field is not contaminated in the process. Contact with manure or biosolids, poor quality water, workers with poor hygiene and unclean packaging or packing boxes greatly increases the risk of microbial contamination. Remove as much dirt and mud as possible from the produce before it leaves the field. Operations with poor sanitation in the packing environment can also significantly increase the risk of contaminating fresh produce. Pathogenic microorganisms may be found on the floors and in the drains in the packing facility and on the surfaces of sorting, grading and packing equipment. Without good sanitary practices, any of these surfaces that come in contact with fresh produce could be a potential source of microbial contamination. The design, construction, use and general cleanliness of the facility and equipment can help reduce the risk of cross-contamination of produce. The proper transport of fresh produce helps reduce the potential for microbial contamination. Microbial cross-contamination from other foods and non-food sources and contaminated surfaces may occur during loading, unloading, storage and transportation operations. Wherever produce is transported and handled, the sanitation condition should be evaluated. As previously mentioned, many pathogens can be transferred to fresh fruit and vegetables by ill workers who pick, package or handle the produce. Common sense and training can reduce contamination from humans. Frequent proper hand-washing is the most important strategy to prevent foodborne illness outbreaks. The importance of food workers' understanding and practicing proper hygiene cannot be overemphasized and are discussed in Module 3. Many insect pests can be controlled through integrated pest management, IPM, which combines biological control with chemical control. Multiple controls may be integrated for maximum effect. Insects by themselves can cause a great deal of damage to any commodity if left uncontrolled. In addition, secondary damage to the commodity caused by associated organisms can be of great concern. One of the primary pests for apples is the codling moth. The larva burrows into the flesh, leaving an open wound on the fruit. This wound can then be infected with bacteria, molds and fungi. Patchelin, a toxic product of mold growth, can then be formed in the wound. Patchelin is heat-stable and will not be removed or inactivated by intervention techniques applied to the final juice. Reducing or eliminating the amount of insect damage to the apple in the field will reduce or eliminate the amount of patchelin found in the final juice. Therefore, appropriate levels of insect control on the farm can help ensure a safe and consumable product. Pest can also be a source of and a means for spreading microbial pathogens in the field and packing facility. Pest control management is discussed in detail in Module 4. The ability to identify the source of a product can serve as an important complement to good agricultural and manufacturing practices intended to minimize liability and prevent the occurrence of food safety problems. The source of all raw materials should be well documented in case a traceback is needed. In addition, documentation on any water or additive testing, certificates of analysis, minimum grades and or standards met, lot identification, date received or shipped, agreements and processing documentation will help investigators in the event of a problem and may limit your liability. Documentation of date of harvest, farm identification and who handled the product from grower to receiver should be part of the shipping manifest. Information that needs to be a part of the manifest can be specified in the agreement between the supplier and the processor. Traceback is further discussed in Module 6. Thank you.


This is a familiar scene, tourists who have lost their way. At one time or another, most of us have found ourselves in this predicament, and like these men, probably stopped at a service station to ask directions. Generally, such directions are given by reference to a roadmap. This is what is known as a planometric map and shows only the horizontal features. Like all other maps, this is a drawing to scale of a portion of the Earth's surface on which natural and man-made features are depicted by symbols, lines, and colors. If you select a map which covers the area of your travels and know how to interpret the information it contains, the planometric map will guide you to your destination. This is the purpose of any map. For these travelers, the relatively simple roadmap serves this purpose, enabling them to visualize the route they must travel to reach their destination. In other situations, this type of map would be of no value at all. Here, a soldier's mission takes him miles from the nearest improved road to make his way across country by referring to natural signposts such as hills, mountains, or streams, or man-made features like houses, schools, or water towers. There are no road signs here, and to plan and complete a trip for patrol requires much more information than would be found on a simple roadmap. So the soldier is issued a topographic map which shows both relief and horizontal position of features, natural and man-made, in measurable form. However, no map is of value unless it is properly understood and used. At first glance, it may appear confusing with all sorts of lines and symbols you have never before encountered. All have a purpose, and it becomes obvious that the first step in learning to read a map lies in discovering what these various symbols, lines, and colors represent. First, let us note what might be called the operating instructions. These are placed around the map edges and termed marginal information. This contains such essential information as the scale to which the map is drawn. Graphic or bar scales to be used in translating map distances into actual ground distances and the contour interval or vertical distance represented by contour lines on the map. The lower left-hand corner contains the legend which illustrates and identifies the symbols used on the map. It might be possible to interpret the information found on a military map by continually referring to the legend for the meaning of the map's symbols. But this is awkward, so for speed and efficiency in map reading, the first requirement is to learn and memorize the more common symbols. Let us begin with the symbols printed in black and identify what is called cultural detail or man-made objects. These resemble, in so far as possible, the actual object's features as viewed from above. In almost any area, the most conspicuous man-made objects are highways. They come in various widths. If classed as hard surface, heavy-duty roads like these, they are represented on the military map by parallel lines. This is the basic symbol for a road, two parallel lines. A hard surface, heavy-duty road is indicated by coloring the space between the lines solid red. If the road is more than two lanes wide, its width is printed on the map above it. Where the road changes in width, a tick mark is placed at the point of change and the variation is noted. Reading this symbol then, we see a road indicated by parallel lines. We also note that it is classed as hard surface, heavy-duty by the red marking. Here it is four lanes, but at this point it widens to six. Other types of roads are shown by varying this basic symbol. For example, this is a hard surface, medium-duty road, as is this and this. These roads, like the ones we saw before, may vary in width, but their map symbol is the same, parallel lines. A hard surface, medium-duty road is depicted by alternating red and white sections between the parallel lines. Its width and variations are marked in the same manner as the heavy-duty road. Military maps also include streets like this one, as well as improved light-duty roads. The symbol for improved light-duty roads and streets is again parallel lines. But for this classification, only the two parallel lines are used. No color code is added. Unimproved dirt roads are indicated by parallel broken lines on the military map. Important trails, footpaths, or packed trails are shown by a single broken line. Thus it is evident that five different types of roads are depicted on military maps by distinctive individual symbols.  The width of hard surface roads, if more than two lanes, is indicated above them, like this, and all five symbols stand out clearly and distinctly. Another feature commonly seen is the overpass or bridge. This symbol is used with the symbols for railroads, highways, and streams. Still another transportation facility found on most military maps is the railroad. Its symbol is simple and logical. For a single track, one line is used, with cross marks suggesting railroad ties. For more than one track, the symbol is two parallel lines with the same crossbars. The difference between the single track and the multiple track symbols is obvious, and both are designed to stand out clearly from other map details. The next symbols we shall learn represent buildings, not to scale, but rather to suggest their shapes as viewed from above. For example, a house is represented by a solid black square, which is centered on the map on its actual location, as are all map symbols. A barn or similar outbuilding is depicted by an open square. The symbol for a school derives from the flag, which is flown on school property.  The church symbol is similar, except that a cross is placed on the black square instead of a flag. Larger buildings are usually depicted on maps by symbols which suggest their actual shape from above. They are placed on the map in proper relationship to their surroundings. A storage tank is frequently marked on military maps. The symbol representing it is a solid black circle. Contents of such tanks are always indicated adjacent to the symbols. Finally, remember that whenever man-made features such as airports are large enough, they are represented on maps in their proper scale. The symbols we have seen thus far represent man-made features which physically occupy space within a mapped area. But there is another man-made feature which normally is not physically apparent, yet must be depicted on the military map. This is the boundary line. The symbols representing boundary lines are varied to distinguish the areas which they enclose. A national boundary is depicted in this way. This is a state border and this a county line. Military reservations are outlined by this symbol and other reservations like this. You will notice that the national and state boundaries are at first glance confusingly similar. Thus to distinguish it, the national boundary is edged with red dots along its entire length. The same possibility of confusion exists between military and other reservation borders. So the boundary symbol for the military reservation is also edged with small red dots. And a printed identification is included on the reservation side of the line. These then are representative samples of the symbols used to identify cultural or man-made features on the military map. Let us now consider how natural features are depicted. The color blue on a map indicates water. Thus large bodies of water such as rivers and bays are drawn on the map to scale and color blue. Their shorelines whether rocky, smooth, sandy, swampy or overgrown with vegetation are always indicated by a blue line. Streams which are not wide enough to be drawn to the map scale whether fast and deep or slow and shallow are symbolized on the military map by a blue line. If the stream is constant, the blue line is solid. If it is intermittent, flowing only during wet weather, a broken line is used. Swamps or marshes no matter where located within the mapped area are indicated by blue symbols resembling vegetation growing in water. While lakes or ponds are drawn on the map in blue to reproduce their aerial outline in so far as possible. From these examples, it can be seen that the map symbols for water features are easily interpreted and readily identifiable because of their blue coloration. Another natural element of great importance to the soldier is vegetation. This is indicated on the military map in green. Areas which are covered with natural woods or brushwood from thick forests to scrub brush are shown by a solid shading of light green while white indicates areas which have been cleared. Orchards are symbolized on military maps by a green pattern like this. Suggesting rows of trees with their normal coloration. This then is the meaning of green on your map, vegetation. As we noted earlier, a topographic map contains information about the relief features of the area it depicts. This is expressed in brown contour lines which represent the relative height of the terrain over which they pass and spot elevations which give the elevations at the point where they are found. Note that they are used here to indicate a depression as a closed loop with tick marks always on the downhill side. Contour lines will also depict a cut through hills or ridges dug to accommodate man-made features like roads or railroads. Note the straight and parallel contour lines adjacent to this road and passing through the hill. This symbolizes a cut. When an area has been filled to allow a man-made feature to pass over small streams, gullies or depressions, the fill is indicated by straight and parallel contour lines adjacent to the road or railroad and running over the features filled in. When tick marks are used to indicate the downside of the fill, they always point away from the road or railroad. The interpretation of contour lines will be explained more fully in another film. This completes our survey of the more common map symbols found on military maps. The complete map will have names of features such as towns, highways and railroads printed on it to further aid in identifying the symbols it contains. It will also carry a military grid of numbered horizontal and vertical lines to provide a uniform means of locating points on the map. The manner in which the grid is used will also be covered in another film. Finally, of course, a map always has its legend. Remember it is there to illustrate and identify the symbols used, so before undertaking to read a map, first read its legend for proper guidance. This then is the military map. Like other maps, it is a drawing to scale of a portion of the Earth's surface on which natural and man-made features are depicted by symbols, lines and colors. The marginal information of this map is essential to its proper understanding and use, while its legend is the key to the symbols it contains. Of these symbols, those printed in black denote what is called cultural detail or man-made objects such as roads of various types and classifications. Railroads, buildings, including schools and churches, storage tanks and other man-made features, large enough to be represented on the map in their proper scale. Boundaries are also printed in black with those representing national borders or the limits of military reservations being edged with small red dots. All water features are indicated in blue, including bays and rivers, shorelines, streams and lakes or ponds. Vegetation is depicted by the color green. White shows areas which have been cleared. Finally, facts pertaining to relief features of the area are expressed on the map by brown contour lines and spot elevations. The military map contains a wealth of vital information for the soldier to use. Its value will depend on you and your knowledge of its elements. With a little effort and practice, you can master its symbols and usage. And once mastered, you can count on the military map to guide you on your missions in training or in combat, surely, swiftly and safely.


Hey everyone, Shaburn1000 here today I'm going I want to get something running so let's say that at too easy we know it runs we had it running not too long ago let's see what else we got here that batteries are bad takes eight batteries cost about a thousand dollars put batteries in it and it's got electrical issues so that's gonna be another video let me see here got this thing motors off of it got a balloon engine nope this thing we had running three or four years ago it's not locked up maybe this thing all right got this a couple years ago actually forgot I had it for over a year I remember getting us now hmm okay well I know it needs a blade it shouldn't stop us from starting it trying to supposedly it ran of course when it was put up in a garage but it had issues and I can't remember what they were well let's go get okay well let's go get the John Deere in the trailer let's pull this around front and see what we can do with it well I have to blow some of that off first and see what's going on with it itself propelled I don't think I even knew about that if I did it was at the time but not now because I couldn't even remember I had it all right I'm gonna get a balloon off best I can then let's see what we can do with this old thing okay guys so the first thing we need to do is assess this thing first thing we're gonna do that's got on on it now I know the first thing I got to do is find my cable for the engine brake that you pull that lever up here and it pulls this back I have it I don't know where it is oh that's a worm thought it was a stick scared me I was gonna put it on another one but it wouldn't work so I know I have it in the garage there yeah in there somewhere okay it's got some oil in it be enough to try to start it brings in strength and it is a Troy built there we go 21 inch cut what's it say and we put my glasses on here 6.75 series 190 cc let's see what's going on in here hopefully there's nothing in it a little bit of condensation but no gas that's good so maybe the carburetor will be okay like I said it is it is a self propelled and it's been slow I don't know if this hasn't unlocked on it to where you can push it because right now it does not want to push that wheels locked up but let me get you on the stand let me try to find that cable then I guess our first thing will be is to try to find spark well I'll see if it's got spark and then if it don't we'll try to find it okay so this thing's cool kind of locked on there but it's probably rusted on that one's got one right here this is what it's supposed to do supposed to pop off like that so then you hook your garden hose up to that click that on there start it up and kick your mother blades in and it'll clean that out from under there I figure this would have been a pretty easy fix when I first got it but I forgot I had it for every year so I don't know guys this handle will pull out I don't even know if I I can't remember if I had those or not I'd have to look at the video but let me get you on the stand first thing we'll do put that cable on then we'll check it for spark great news I found it all right so first thing all right I'm gonna put this in here first it's got this little little thing on there there's a little hole right in here just goes in like that that's it in this it's got an ass turn let me raise you up here just got this little ass turn here put that in there that's that now down here on the bottom it's pretty simple to let me get you down here now this is fairly simple to just got one of these little ass turns like up on top that's gonna go in this hole down here right there just like that now you're gonna pull this pull this back and shove it in there and that's that now there good hey it's that simple still pulling that that it's not only a brake that stops the flywheel from turning it there's also a kill switch so when it's in back when it's back in this position when you let go the handle it hits a kill switch then the brake helps stop the mower a lot of guys will do that and sometimes it's just like hitting a stump but there's that let's see let's see if the engine will pull over I don't even know if it's locked up and it's not but but we'll have to do some work on this thing that might have been the issue he was talking about I do know it needs a blade though a couple Phillips screwdriver let's take this top off of here and get down inside here and see if we can't fix that recoil okay we've got our little driver here okay so what I'm looking at here this is all got to be blown out anyhow I'm probably gonna have to take this whole top off of here as I can see right now this recoil starter is riveting on I don't know though I might be able to shoot some paint penetrating oil in there and mess around with it but as a quicker just to pull the part probably so let me mess around with that it's this plastic okay so sometimes if you tap them I can see it moving so I'm gonna try to put some penetrating oil in there and see what happens first and I'll blow it out some more alright guys I think I messed up gonna be one of them days already I went over to footage I set them screws right down here I went ahead and blew this out you guessed it I didn't move the screws here's one but that's alright I'll find it later in the tractor tire I'm sure alright back to business I'm just gonna go ahead and pull this I'm just gonna pull this off and do it so that way I can make sure there's no mice nest or what not up in there if there is that's what that fan inside here when it's running blows air out and blows it inside of here your shroud and it blows down across these fins to keep it cool if that gets plugged up it'll run hot you'll have big problems okay guys to pull this off what I'm gonna do there's three five sixteenths or eight millimeter either one will work on them to take this this fuel tank off because there's a screw or a bolt down here it's just 10 millimeter there's a bolt here a bolt here and then there's two on the back I'll show them to you here in just a second but let's go ahead and let's get this tank out of our way I hope I don't have to blow anything out again because that was a rookie mistake not actually because I've been doing this stuff for 43 years and I never not do that well I can't say never but it still happens you know what I mean okay so what's on the bottom of this here get the screw right here before we lose that one alright there is a there's a bolt underneath I think it's 10 millimeter so let's go ahead and take it off it's down under here I think it just went good now it's got one bar this would only be like third time ever charged this thing maybe fourth shoot that to you shoulder bolt that's what these are called to shoulder bolt see they got a shoulder on them all right now I can sit down here in the back got that one straight down and this one that's straight down 10 millimeter same with the two up front here so let's go ahead see if I got enough juice to do this probably not all right I'm gonna have charges battery but in the meantime we'll do it the old-fashioned way with wrenches let me go get a 10 millimeter wrench okay guys so that my I put it on the charger it's on a delay hot cold delay so I'm guessing it was cold because it got down no kidding 38 degrees last night 38 guys I'm a Florida all right so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go and take these out I'll take the back ones back out so I don't bore you with it and I'll kick you back on when I'm getting ready pull the top off here so stick around like I said just two bolts in the back just those two straight down I want to get an extension so sit tight let's have fun and I forgot to tell you there's another eight millimeter up here that holds your dipstick tube in you can pull this off and leave the dipstick tube on it but I don't like to do that because there's more of a chance of getting dirt down into your crankcase which is never a good thing you can if you want it's just something I don't do because there's especially something's been sent like it's all that dirt just a just a piece of dirt or a piece of sand you know the size of a of a grain of salt can hurt your engine okay so I've got all these bolts out now let's go ahead and lift this up off of here there we go set up kind of like at the comp see so the spring is up inside of here so I may have to loosen that and get up in the spring but I'm gonna try to spray some penetrating fluid down in there first see if we can get that string or that spring loosened up so that's supposed to these are called dogs these plastic things they pull out when you start it to just and they engage inside this cup here then then as they go as the rope goes back in they these go back in so that's my guess it's just gonna need hopefully the spring is not broke that could be the issue but I can't remember what issue he said it had maybe he didn't even remember so let me spray that around and mess with it a little bit if we got to take it apart then I'll I'll kick you back on oh gotta be very careful when you take them apart but and I gotta blow some of this out too throttle's not stuck but I need to blow all this out so I gotta get all my screws up out of the way get all this stuff out of here so it doesn't come out if it starts it doesn't come flying out at me okay just to clarify something real quick when I was moving this and I said the throttle's not stuck I wasn't meaning this this is the governor I was looking right down here's the throttle right in here that's a throttle right there that's what I was technically talking about I should have should have said something but I didn't think about it till just now so all right back to business okay you see it's all wet in there well all I did was spray some of this stuff down in there super tech and pulled it like three times and check it out so you can see them dogs come out and then when you let go they go back in all right I got here's the magnets I was talking about let me get you I want to show you something here so here's the magnets I don't know if I was yeah anyway there's the magnets for the coil okay so I'm gonna clean them up and I know on Terrell fixes all he he said that they they stated in an old update thing that they send out on you know motors and stuff that it didn't matter if he cleaned them or not but I mean I look highly I look up highly to this guys very very good small inch mechanic so I'm not really contradicting them but I can tell you for a fact that they said a bulletin came out said that rust there will not cause these things not to start but I have on many a more than one occasion I have taken these apart that didn't have spark and just cleaned them just the magnets never even touch that just clean the magnets and it gave it spark because rust number of that gap is very very tiny see there's there's actually gap in there sit and if you get rust build up on that it's going to hit that which is not going to give it spark it's not going to you know it has to have an air gap there well if that's the case it won't have spark right so you know but anyway yeah Terrell fixes all check him out he's awesome now here's that break I was telling you about right there let me see if I can squeeze the handle here and you should see I pull away from sit so when you shut this off here's the switch right here right there's that little it's not really a switch it just grounds out and grounds out the coil and shuts the spark off I'll see when I pull that away it'll run but as soon as I let go of that this grounds out kills power to the coil shuts it off and this just keeps it from running you know well they don't run but you know how when you shut it shut them over all sometimes they do do do do that's that's that pretty much stops it immediately so also if you don't have one that's shutting off which yes that'll happen you start it and you know you try to release the break and it doesn't want to shut off check this thing right here now some of these have a band that gets clear around but this one that's all this brings in stratton has here also what this does this is this is your governor so when this is running and these are this is like the fan I was telling you about shoots air across the the head this blows this out okay so when it's running and it's like this it'll actually be like I done and then as this needs more power so if this slows down it's not blowing this out as much so it lets it come back which in turn gives it throttle that's how these work and they work very well I mean when you hear them just I mean it's amazing how how sensitive these things are and how good they are so all right let me what's it gonna do we'll check that filter see if it needs blown out then I'm gonna get a piece of sandpaper I'm gonna clean the magnets off I'll squeeze a handle and put something up there and then I'll give this a spin and see if I got a little bit of spark there before I put that back on this does not have points it's electronic ignition okay so I just pulled this off I didn't actually it was loose I just took this off on my fingers check that out that's pretty nasty that's gonna need to be blown out and it's real nasty down inside that's not reusable anymore and now it'll run without these but sometimes they don't run right sometimes you know it has to have it has to feel that you know it's kind of like giving it a little bit of choke but we're gonna see if we can get it running without it see how good it runs I don't know how much money I want to put in this monkey's been on me for like the last year that I didn't know after I found out I had it to she remembered I had it because she was driving down the road and she said well you got that push riding more and I was like what the hell are you talking about I don't know if she meant that it was a because I looked at her so would you just say to me I don't know if she meant that it was self-propelled or what but anyway that's what she said and I forgot I had it and then ever since then she's like well you need to get that running I don't know if she wants me to sell it or what but I'm gonna have to buy a blade I'm gonna have to buy the keeper for the blade the bolt for the blade because I don't I don't have any of that I've got a blade in there but I don't think it's it's not gonna work on this so you know that's what I'm gonna have to do and like that filter you know I have to get you know I have to take care of that filter so you got to watch how much money you put in these things you know if it ran great it is a bagger and I don't have the bag for it but it does have a chute here but you know I'd probably get 50 bucks out of this if it was running perfect that one tires you know bald over there on the other side so I don't know we just would just have to see because these these filters are expensive man I've paid you know $15 $17 for one of these now I can probably get them online you get them online you can get two of them really cheap now they don't last for a long but you get two of them so we'll just have to see you know how much I got in this I don't think I've got much in this because I bought a bunch of stuff off of a guy his name is Dave and I just gave him one money for a whole bunch of stuff so you know let's say I got 20 bucks in this if I if I can put 20 in it and it's running fine and so for 50 I'm making 10 but I'd really like to double my money you know what I mean so I'd have to have 80 bucks out of I don't know if it's worth 80 bucks because that you know that front tire being bald really makes it look bad we just have to see what I can get the parts for if I can stay under 30 bucks on this thing then I will sell it I can put 50 on it I'm not you know really doubling my money but it's close enough so and her John Deere the mother belt's ready to break it's not going to cut the grass again so all right let me get this cleaned off here I'm gonna blow this out move my bolts again I'm gonna blow this out and wait no I was wrong about that this is not the governor guys I want to this is important what I showed you now a lot of the vain governors do work that way but this is actually the choke here's the governor right here it's got an internal governor right here's the governor and right down there's the throttle so disregard what I said this is the choke now I've never I don't know why it would need to choke like that that I don't know that that doesn't make sense to me I've never seen one like that I don't think but there's a governor that's the governor arm so all right anyway guys like I said let me get the magnets cleaned off on this side and I'll check and see if it's got sparking and I'll blow this carburetor out I don't know how much carburetor cleaner I got but we'll get this blown out the best we can so it's not sucking any of that up in there cuz that looks bad all right hang tight guys I'm just gonna do those quick little things so you don't get bored of watching me clean stuff let's move on okay guys so I got the magnet cleaned up on the flywheel and what I did was I stuck the end of this into the spark plug wire and I turned the flywheel back and forth and I could feel spark so while my my impact driver's charging I'll just use this mr. handy-dandy thing from Dennis thank you Dennis and all better set this thing to ratchet then I'll check them with my ratchet so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put all this stuff back together and I'll keep it back on when we're getting ready to try something I'm not even gonna pull that plug out out of there yet it might be all right just clean this end off here sometimes that'll cause you an issue on an intermittent spark that looks like the original plug all right no I'm just gonna put this back on just reverse process nothing special you have to do so I'm gonna save you that okay guys we're gonna put some fuel in here I just got some mixed fuel now this is not what's in here this is what came out of the boat but the boats 50 to 141 may smoke a little bit it's not gonna hurt it if anything it's been sitting a long time it will help it you know so let's put this how many you guys seen that and didn't tell me there's the other one whoo all right gonna be a good day also right down in the comments below right now how many cranks you think there's no primer on this thing so but some birds and stratton it's my favorite small engine birds and stratton like I said there's a little condensation in here but there's not enough I'm gonna I'm gonna worry about there's no dirt of course there's no rust it's a plastic tank that should be enough we guys think I'm gonna hold hog I'm going one pool okay so let me move you over here out the way I'll stand you up a little bit higher we don't know I know I felt spark but I don't know if it's got good spark I don't know if that plugs any good I'm gonna hold hog I'm gonna say one crank it'll fire up so hang tight let me get you up here out of the way all right guys what's your guesses I'm gonna say one crank I put the carburetor cover back on but I left there clean her out right there right on Briggs and start and died could be a carburetor issue I'm gonna take a little break and we'll we'll see if the carburetor is getting enough fuel okay guys so let's pull this carburetor off real quick there's two bolts here they should go all the way through this charged up believe it or not in about a half an hour a rapid charge and the fuel line feels pliable so okay maybe these don't go all the way through all right so get these off set them there for now let me move over see what we got up here on top trick me there we go okay I'm gonna pull this line off I need to get a pair of pliers I'll pull this line off see if it's getting enough fuel and maybe I didn't put enough in it I don't know looks pretty dirty I don't have any carb cleaner they do have some starting fluid somewhere but I didn't want to spray it on there earlier because I didn't want some to go inside and us get a false reading on that start I have a lot of what the hell I have a lot of faith I have a lot of faith in these Briggs and Stratton's so let me get a pair of pliers and I'm gonna pull this line off and I'll see if it's getting fuel okay guys just show you it is getting it is getting fuel but it looks like there may be some water in that it looks real cloudy so I'm gonna let that drain itself out I got a cap here real hard to tell in a black cap but let me see if I got something clear we'll say how much water is in there maybe there's some water I couldn't see I did find a little bit of water in there more than what I thought was and there's some dirt in there so what I'm gonna do is I fill my can up over there with fuel from the from the John Deere I'm gonna put that line back on and I'm gonna put a bunch of fresh fuel in there now it'll take it a little bit of starting and quitting because that bowls probably got water in it hopefully it's just condensation or what was in the tank we'll have to see I really don't want to take that carburetor that bowl off that carburetor if I don't have to because if I break that seal I don't have another one to put on it so let me get that line put back on and we'll fill it up with fuel fresh fuel and also blew the tank out with compressed air so hopefully this thing will run and hopefully it's just a little water in that carburetor that hasn't been in there for three years but you know we'll see I'm gonna put this back on they all the same yeah they look to be and yeah we'll see if we can start this thing up and keep it running I'll have to see how much a blade is and the attachment for the blade and a lot of times too guys these some of these things won't even run without the help from the blade you know it acts like a big giant flywheel well they called a momentum wheel over any UK or wherever but anyway maybe Australia but I'm gonna put this on like I said for a little bit of a choke now let's pour a fuel in I don't want you guys are seeing I don't have a screen turned around here okay now we'll put the fuel in whoops or on whatever and I'll put a good bit in all right it's got about three fours of a tank of gas so what I did with the gas cap probably blew it away like I did them screws but that would be easier to find although we didn't find them screws pretty quick didn't we okay let me find my gas cap and then we'll try to start this up again okay hope the sun's not too bright for you let's uh let's fire this up again if it will and I found my cap it was over there must have rolled around when I when I tilted it up to blow the tank out that's a sign of a fuel delivery problem or water in it my guess is probably water but I'm gonna keep doing that and when it's getting close I'll kick you back on there's the problem water dirt gelatin gel all right let me try to get that cleaned out of there all right guys let's try it again this time that was a lot of gunk in there but everything's fresh now it could still be a passageway blocked I don't know let's pull it and see one crank let's do it again okay guys so I need to change your battery out and burning some of that dirt off of there and and I'm gonna fire this up let it run five or ten minutes I don't know what's going on with this thing it's got something weird a person a sunshine I don't know I don't know what that's doing intelligent auto okay I don't know it's gone now okay guys so I guess I'm gonna start this up let run a little bit I'm gonna figure out what's going on with that right front wheel left front as you guys were looking at it but the right front wheel don't want to turn the left one is this one I can turn it if I put pressure on it so I'm gonna see what's going on with that that's probably why that other wheel wore out so that other tire wore out so quick but you know I don't know we may just keep it for ourselves who knows so I'm gonna check that out but first I'm gonna let it run a little while let it burn all that dirt out of it I don't see any leaks on the carburetor that seal is a little bit dry so it could start leaking later on if I'm gonna sell it I'll have to put a new o-ring on that on that bowl so like I said let me get you charged up let me fire this up again I'm gonna let it sit and run a little bit and then I'll be back with you guys let you know how it's going so stick around got them old old man glasses on whoa whoops I got a 38 minutes on this battery 16 minutes on the car so I'm gonna make some room on the car or two so stick around guys more to come also I was gonna mention this earlier and I for the life I can't remember if I did or not Brian and Marla sent me Christmas cord I appreciate it guys Merry Christmas to you guys as well hope all was well there I hope you guys are safe and have fun guys so anyway thanks again Brian Marlin I appreciate it those are my cousins guys they sent me a Christmas cord they sent me they sent me a walk they sent me all kinds of stuff they're great people so anyway thanks again guys let's talk about it for a second okay guys so I couldn't help it that was bugging me that wheel wouldn't turn it was just full dirt and the there's a plastic wheels but they have a metal insert or the metal insert was kind of stuck on the shaft so I pulled the wheel off and the metal insert stayed so I got it to come off cleaned it all out lubed it up or a good check this out there we go okay guys so it's no longer a one wheel peel it's a posi track yeah okay it seems like they're a little loose I don't know if I can tighten them up some way or if I can do some welding you know to fill in a gap or something but yeah that's why that one was all worn out that wheel wasn't working and they just kept mowing with it so I'll see how much a blade costs and the keeper that I need for that I'll put it bottom of the screen here I don't know if we're going to keep it or sell it would be nice to have a backup since I got rid of my my simplicity because it would have carburetor issues but it'd run long enough to cut the grass at least until I get mine going I don't know we'll have to see I'm guessing I would say I don't know I gave him like $50 for a whole bunch of just I bought cameras I think that weed eater didn't come from in the state sale that weed eater we fixed excuse me the other day came from there I got some stove pipe I got all kinds of stuff off of him I think I gave him fifty fifty dollars I think fifty bucks it was one money for a whole bunch of stuff this thing I got this and he's a blade it is missing a blade and he said there was something else some kind of issue but he said it will run so let's say I got 20 bucks in it if I'm gonna have 20 in a blade and stuff that's 40 bucks I'm not gonna put a tire on it those are expensive too but I don't know you know maybe I'll put it off for sale for 80 bucks come down to 75 you know then I'm almost doubling my money we'll just have to see I'll get it cleaned up and we'll go from there it's still kind of running a little funny but remember that blade helps it run right too and also you know we didn't pull the plug I don't know what it you you've probably seen it though it looks like it's original to me so it could probably use a new plug it's got fresh fuel in it I don't see anything wrong with the carburetor not bad for sent in a couple years I know it's been two years we've had it sitting and like I said for like a year year and a half I forgot I even had it and you know it wasn't covered up you saw it that's where I dug it out from you know once I about four squirrels over there across the street chasing each other making a hell of a racket but you know I had it before we built the shed I do believe and we just put it beside the shed and I just never like I said I parked it back there and forgot I had it so I don't know what the issue was he said it had issues I can't remember if he told me it had issues or if he told me it had issues and told me what they were I don't know because I think he got it at an estate sale but I do remember him saying you know it's got issues maybe it was because the blade was missing who knows but I'm guessing if I would have because see it came out of a garage when he got it and it went back into a garage and then I got it out of the garage he had it in so I'm betting I probably could have put some gas in it and fire it up back then I wouldn't had to do this you're taking a part and cleaning it and stuff but it does seem like it runs good it doesn't I don't hear any knocking in it you know of course I've changed the oil that sounds good so I don't know there it is guys will it run yes it will all right stay tuned for more videos I really appreciate you guys watching and I hope your week goes great and or is going great you're not going to see this video today so you'll probably see it tomorrow which will be Tuesday but anyway I really appreciate appreciate all you guys the support and comments love the comments I really like when you guys get to talking to each other in the comments that's awesome you know we're a community let's stick together let's uh let's make YouTube the way it's supposed to be again supposed to be you know about us not about this you know yeah a little of this is nice but that's not you know horror our channels out just to make some money you know all right guys she barely meant the man legend gone for now again thanks for watching I really appreciate it and guys stay safe we'll see you soon bye bye guys and take care


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Each and every week here on Fantasy Sports Today, we love to present winners to you here. And our winner of the Million Dollars on FanDuel last week is our new friend, Mike Stauffer. You can follow him on Twitter at 2kstauff.  Mike, thank you so much for coming on Fantasy Sports Today. It is great to see you. How are you? How are you feeling? I'm feeling great. Thanks for having me. I'm just super excited. The past couple of days feel so surreal, unbelievable. I feel so lucky. And just still kind of in shock about everything that happened. I bet, you know, sometimes, Mike, we have people on who play a lot on FanDuel and who win a lot on FanDuel. But your story is really great because you don't win a lot, as you said.  So I suppose before we catch up to now, let's go back to it. You're building a lineup, I'm assuming, on Saturday and you hit the submit button on Sunday. What goes into the thought process for you? Well, so this week was such a weird week for me because normally I do spend the whole week thinking about my lineups. But unfortunately, with all the positive COVID testing this week, I was purposely waiting a little bit closer to kick off to kind of get a better idea of what the ownership percentages might be this week and to really have as much information as I possibly could. So Sunday morning was a bit stressful, trying to get as much research done as I could before the games, but it was exciting to be able to submit a lineup that ended up being so great. Yeah, no, and definitely was the case. I mean, if a Dallas Cowboys quarterback is gonna throw for 500 yards, I guess that gets you off to a good start, right? Let me know. Once you see that, you know, you got a good shot at winning some money. But again, you got to build it with other players and who are some of the other players that you built it with? Well, I'm actually a Browns fan. So it was kind of interesting. It was a game I was really heavy on just as a fan. And I felt with the Browns scoring so many points the past couple of weeks against a couple suspect defenses, it felt like a game that just really stood out to me. So I had multiple lineups with that stack in there with a double stack on the Cowboys and Odell running it back. And then I just kind of stuck with something that I do a lot and just went with some home running backs, some games that I liked. I liked Dalvin Cook, even though that was a road game against the Texans, they've been struggling to stop the run. So the lineup just came together very well.  There were no like big touchdown scoring defenses.   Lamb had a great game. Beckham we're gonna get to here in a second. Amari Cooper, Andrews, Dalvin Cook, and of course you stacked it with the Minnesota Vikings.  And look, let's be honest, Mike, no one could ever predict that even with, I'm sorry, even with Cleveland going up against Dallas that Beckham would have done what he did. I gotta tell you, he has been a, I'm sure you know too, he's been a massive disappointment, both in fantasy and reality. But if this guy could just do half of this every week in DFS, people would be very happy. Well, you know, as a Browns fan, you always have to be optimistic. So I just, I'm just so ecstatic with the three and one start and seeing them kind of put things together this year that I believe that they're gonna be great again. Every week they, every time there's a game like this, they just get all of Cleveland so excited and seeing that on Sunday was great. I mean, there were points during the game, during this late where I'm so used to losing, I didn't think there was really a chance I was ever gonna win the million dollars that I was kind of, I was kind of rooting against that and rooting against my lineup because I just want to see the Browns win. So, and then Odell hit that reverse for a touchdown. I was like, wait a minute, this is getting kind of serious now. I might actually be onto something with this lineup. So it was a roller coaster of emotions when that game was going back and forth. I'll tell you that.  Am I sure? Like, are you sure there wasn't a glitch? Like, am I really a millionaire here? Like, what were the emotions like in the last couple of minutes? Well, I mean, you know, the whole, I was, luckily I was in the lead after the 1pm game. So the 4pm games where I actually like left my house, I went for a walk. I had no players in the 4pm, the slate of games at all. So had to get away, stop watching Red Zone for a little bit, take a couple of deep breaths, went for a walk with my wife and daughter. And then I, the person in second place said he was tight on my tail with Darren Waller. So I was watching Darren Waller every play. It was the weirdest way I've ever watched a football game. I focused on one player, just watched every rowdy ran. Couldn't believe Derek Carden throwing the ball more, but I'm super thankful for that. Might have to buy Derek Carder's with some of the money. It was a crazy Sunday. And everybody I know is reaching out to me, like all my family and friends, it was crazy. It was one of the coolest days of my life, that's for sure. Oh, I'm sure.   I have two kids and, you know, when I throw money at different things, the great thing is, you know, I'm sure like you have a great relationship with my wife. So it's not like I'm getting questioned or anything like that.   Yeah, to be honest with you, I'm not sure if she had any idea that I was playing Fandall like this. Obviously. She watches me watching sports and she's a trooper. She tuffs it out with me, watches the game. She loves the Browns too. And I didn't really say much, you know, during the 1 PM games, I took a screenshot that I was in first and sent it to my buddies, thinking, oh, this is cool. I'll brag that I was in first place at the million dollar contest for a little bit. And then as things started getting serious, she knew who she had a root against in the 4 PM games. All of a sudden, it became a little bit more serious and it was a really fun day for both of us. It was exciting. I don't think she even believed it after it happened. I don't think she, even to this day, I don't think she really believes any of this happened, but it's real. It's crazy. Yeah, and I think your story is so great, Mike, because for some people who play a lot on DFS, certainly it is a big deal and it's like pseudo life changing. But I'm guessing for you, this is like really life changing. Like this is going to alter. It probably won't alter who you are.  And certainly, you live your life the way you're going to live. But anybody that wins a million dollars doing anything, definitely has a change in their life in some way. And I'm guessing that's going to be like that for you. Oh, for sure. I mean, I still wake up and it's only been a couple of days, but I pinch myself thinking that I'll be able to pay for my daughter's college without having to stress and just things like that as things go forward. And it's very surreal. It's hard to believe, but it's definitely going to be life changing, like you said. It's just, it's good.  You are in charge of player ratings at NBA 2K. And I'm guessing, given what we talked about before the show, you absolutely love working for NBA 2K and doing that.  You're not doing the LeBron show about free agency. You're staying with NBA 2K. And I know that you've said so much how thankful you were to have and still to have that job with them. It's great, right? Oh, yeah. I'm honestly living the dream in more than one way right now. It was a dream job of mine forever. And nothing's changed in that regard. I'm so happy to have my job and to be working hard to make fun video games for people. So life's great. I'm so blessed to have won this contest. I feel very blessed to be able to continue working at my job. And yeah, have fun watching sports. And yeah, life couldn't be much better in this moment, that's for sure. Well, congratulations, Mike. We love to hear these great stories about winners, especially those who have it unexpected. And Mike is super transparent with this saying he's lost a lot through the years, just playing as a regular dude on Fandall. And now he's a winner of a million dollars. And certainly when the Miami Heat season starts up next year and I'm disappointed with the rankings, I know where to go to complain about it on NBA 2K. Mike, thank you so much for coming on Fantasy Sports Today. Again, congratulations. Thank you so much for telling your story to us. And best of luck on Fandall the rest of the season. Well, thank you so much. I do have to add one thing. My wife did want me to say that we do a family and friends Fandall, Fantasy League that season long and she wanted me to let you guys know that she beat me this week. So congratulations to Stoffer. All in all, you're the big winner regardless of this. You've had him twice. I have to shout out my cousins and family that beat me and Fandall this week in other contests. So I just had to make sure that they got it out there. They got a shout out. All right, Mike, thanks for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right, Mike Stoffer with us will be back with more Fantasy Sports Today. Don't go away.


Hi students, we are talking about performance management in the international context. In the previous topics, we have discussed about the constraints that are on performance management process of an international organization. And in this topic, we are going to start talking about the actual performance management aspect of people that are working in international organizations. The type of people who are working in international organizations, they are three types of people. And one are the expatriates. The second one are the non-standard assignment holders. And the third one, they are the non-expatriates. This is something that we have discussed in detail in previous topics. But just to remind you, just going through it briefly. A major chunk of assignments which are given to people in the international context are those that are given to the expatriates. Those people are who actually relocate to a foreign location from the home country to a foreign country. And those people, they are called the expatriates. The expatriates are then of three types. One are the parent country nationals, those who move from the parent country of the company to other foreign locations. Then there are third country nationals who move from some other country than the parent country to another foreign country, which is not a country of their own nationality. And then there are home country nationals which are relocated to the headquarters. So home country nationals in which the subsidiary is working, people from that country they are sent from the home country to the parent country for some assignments in the headquarters. So these are the three types of people who are then called expatriates, people who relocate from one location from their home country to a foreign country. These are the basic and major chunk of employees for which we will be concerned about talking about whose performance management has to be managed. But however, there are other types of employees in the international context as well. We discussed about the non-standard assignments in which a person is an international traveler. The person is a commuter who the person could be a virtual assignee. So these are the ones who are which are given these non-standard assignments. And then there are non expatriates who are working in the international context, but they are not relocating from the home country to the foreign country. So they are the non expatriates. However, we will be more concerned about and discussing about the performance management of people who are expatriates because that is a traditional form of international employment and holds the major chunk of employment in the international arena. Now, coming to discuss the aspect of expatriate performance management, in this topic we will particularly talk about the various aspects or factors that affect the performance of a person who is an expatriate. So there are five factors, five important factors which affect the performance of an expatriate working on an international assignment. So what can be the things that will affect someone's performance? Why would a person be ready to perform? Why a person would be motivated to perform? First thing is the compensation package. So the compensation package we have talked in detail about international compensation and what are the various pros and cons of different compensation packages. So if the right compensation package is provided to the employee, then it is more possible that the employee is going to perform better. But if the employee thinks that the compensation package is not fair enough, it is not good enough, then the performance of the employee is going to decline. So this is the first and major aspect which affects performance management of an expatriate. The second aspect which affect the performance of an expatriate is the task itself. Because no matter how much you are being paid for, it is the job which makes you motivated to work. And the job, it involves number of aspects. The job involves the tasks which have to be performed. The job involves the roles which have to be played. The job involves the types of assignments which have to be conducted. So if the tasks, the roles and assignments which are given to the person in that particular job, they are not compatible with the knowledge, skills and abilities as well as the motivation level of that person, then the performance of that person is going to be affected. We are going to discuss the tasks, roles and a type of assignments in detail in the coming topics. Then a very important factor which affects your performance is the support that you get from the headquarters. And the support from the headquarters starts from pre-departure training, pre-departure negotiations. So if the headquarter is involved in the expatriate program, in expatriate management, if they are concerned about people who are going on international assignments and they start providing them support starting from the process of relocation starting from the pre-departure training. And we have discussed in detail that that support has to extend up to the process of relocation when the person is repatriated. So it starts from the process of expatriation and it keeps going on until after the process of repatriation. And the headquarter has to be involved in keeping the motivation level of the person high. It has to be involved in keeping the person comfortable enough to manage the process of the transfer, the adjustment. We have discussed all these things, the culture shock and the culture reshock and all these things which affect a person in the entire process. So performance is something which is going to be affected at various different stages of this process of expatriation. And the headquarter needs to be vigilant and it needs to be involved in order to keep the performance at the satisfactory level. Then another very important aspect which affects performance is the environment in which the person, in which the performance occurs. So no matter how much the compensation is right, the task is described accurately. The headquarter is giving the support. But if the environment in which the person is working in the foreign country, if that is not supportive, if that is not congenial, if that is very much different in terms of culture, in terms of that person's personality, then it would be difficult for that person to maintain performance. So the environment at the subsidiary or the foreign location that also plays a very important role in determining how well that person will be able to perform. So it is the job of the multinational organization to make sure that the right kind of environment is provided for performance in the foreign location. That is something which can be taken an example from the colonial rule. You would see that in the subcontinent, people who were sent from UK, from Britain to work in the subcontinent with all these, with the very warm weather, with all the conditions which were not compatible with people who were living in the Britain, what the British Empire did, they provided, they developed the infrastructure, they developed the architecture, they made buildings, they made educational institutions, they made the railway network, the irrigation network, all these things were done, they were not done for the people of the subcontinent. They were done for the people who were coming from Britain to rule over here in the subcontinent to make the environment good enough for those people who were coming to work over here and coming to rule over here to make it congenial enough to make it comfortable enough for those people. So we also, the people who were being ruled, they also got the benefit of it and we are still getting the benefit of it. But the intention of doing that was to make it a comfortable environment for the British people. So this is an example of how you make the environment comfortable for people that you are sending to work in other countries and now multinationals are the new rulers of the world. So you need to make your rulers more comfortable. That was on the lighter note. And finally is the cultural adjustment. That is also very important for the employee to be culturally adjusted in the environment. So the cultural adjustment is not that of the person only, it is that of the individual as well as the family. So we have also discussed the aspects of cultural adjustment in quite detail. So all those factors which affect cultural adjustment and adjustment of the families, spouse and children, all those affect the performance of the person. If the person is not at peace, if he is worried about his children, worried about their education, worried about their security, then all these things are part of cultural adjustment. And if the multinationals don't make the cultural adjustment, then that is something which is going to affect the performance of the person who is taking up the international assignment. So that is something which needs to be taken care of. So all these five factors, they have to be aligned, they have to be provided for, and they have to be kept in mind by the human resource managers who are taking care of these international employees.


I came to the ATM conference and I was a little bit skeptical of how it might pan out. But it must have been, it's been thoroughly inspiring and I've come away really really excited about maths. So it's a wonderful bunch of people. I do, but I've also come to, I don't know, broaden my horizons I suppose, talk to people that I wouldn't normally talk to. And the fact that it's the spacing between the sessions, the people you talk to in between the sessions, trying to make sense of what you both got out of that, that is as powerful if not more so than what you actually did. I came to the ATM conference because I had such a good time last year and I was worried it wasn't going to live up to that experience, but it did. And I'm taking away loads of ideas and I'm just working out how to share them all with my colleagues. I came to the ATM because I'd heard from a friend how good it was when they'd come last year and I wanted to get some new ideas to take into my teaching next year, if I'm currently training. I'm taking away loads of resources, loads of good ideas and new thoughts about maths. I enjoy working on mathematics with other people who are on the same wavelength as I am. I'm going to take away a huge raft of problems. I came to the ATM because I came last year for a day with the metcalls that I was on and so I decided to come again this year, the whole week, and I'm taking away loads of new ideas and lots of different experiences and new friendships. I came to the conference hoping that I would get lots of interesting resources and ideas and what's amazing is that the mathematics is often so challenging for me and yet still ideas that I can take back to the classroom. Coming to the conference was a tricky choice for me. It's my Easter holidays so do I spend it relaxing or come into the conference? Luckily it was a relaxing break meeting with other people and I'm now actually really excited about going back into the classroom and let's try it.


e average carbon intensity of their product below the standard annual limits. And they generate credits based on being below that standard and there's a market to sell those credits. Importantly, the fuels are evaluated on the lifecycle emissions of each fuel, not on the location the fuel comes from. So that program was challenged in mid-2000s. The 1954 of appeals upheld the program in 2013 and they found that it did not unreasonably discriminate, did not discriminate against out of state interest because the program was designed to distinguish between different fuel products based on their carbon intensity, not on their area of production or where they come from. And that is a proper exercise of state regulatory authority to address and recognize environmental concern. It was not an extraterritorial application. The court here made a clear distinction that California can regulate within the state to address local harms and structure, I want to emphasize this, structure its internal markets in a way that incentivizes firms to produce less harmful products in the state. So just because out of state actors may need to comply with an in-state requirement does not mean it's unconstitutional. Similarly, Oregon has a clean fuels program which you may have heard about, very similar design to California's program. That was also challenged and the Ninth Circuit upheld that program in 2018 on similar grounds. Again, it doesn't discriminate on the basis of origin. There's no discriminatory purpose found if the program is simply to reduce Oregon's contribution to global levels of greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of those emissions in Oregon. And I think it's worth pointing out that one of the things the court looked at in that case is the underlying justification for the program. Is it really about addressing environmental concerns? Is it some sort of hidden protectionist program? And they may look at including things like what legislators are saying about the program. How am I talking about justifying this program to my constituents? I think it's important when this body is considering the program to be very clear as the statute is about what the purpose is for this program. Finally, in a slightly different context, there was a challenge to Connecticut's renewable portfolio standard. So as the committee may be aware, many states, including Vermont, have renewable portfolio standards which require certain levels of renewable production on the electric side. This program in Connecticut was challenged by a developer who was developing a solar project outside of Connecticut and was arguing that he should be allowed to participate in Connecticut's program even though his project didn't meet the standard for participation. And the court in that case upheld the program, founded the geographic limitation imposed in that program for generating those credits for activities where they were being produced was appropriate and that states can design these programs to meet their specific needs. So I want to stop there on the Commerce Clause. I'm going to turn the preemption doctor and make sure it's a much quicker presentation to see if there are any questions high-level on these issues. Representative Pat? On the California and Oregon programs, that is, that's, is that, when you say fuels, is that transportation? Transportation fuels, that's the focus of the program. Thank you. Yes. So the other federal principle, I think it's important for this committee and the legislature to have in mind is the preemption doctrine. This stems from the supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution and essentially says federal law is the supreme law of the land. And when you look at this doctrine and apply it to state laws, you're looking at whether a state law is preempted by a federal program that's operating in the same area, either expressly or implied. And that can occur express preemption is where Congress says we are implementing this program and states may not act in this area. It's very clear. Implied preemption can be several different things. We often refer to this field preemption where the, where the federal government has acted so pervasively in one area on a specific issue. There's really no room for the state to act and not be in conflict with that. So one of the things we wanted to look at is in the design of the Affordable Heat Act. Are there any concerns with respect to preemption and related federal statutory programs? So we looked at a number of these in our in our memo and a quick summary of the important ones to keep in mind. The Federal Natural Gas Act provides FERC, the authority over intra, sorry, interstate natural gas transportation and wholesale gas transactions, but it leaves to the states the regulation of the production and retail distribution of natural gas. Because natural gas, particularly through a natural gas utilities included in this program, we want to make sure that we're right, that the program is only regulating at the distribution level, which it is not at the wholesale. So with that caveat, we don't see any concerns with respect to preemption. Clean Air Act also acts in the space to regulate air pollution from emissions from both stationary and mobile sources. But like the Natural Gas Act, it relies on both state and federal actions. It's not complete preemption. And it's very clear that states have substantial flexibility to regulate stationary sources more stringently than a federal baseline. So I'm not a concern with acting in this manner to regulate CO2 emissions from thermal sector heating fuels, I'm sorry, from heating fuels. EPA's renewable fuel standard, this applies to some domestically produced renewable fuels, think biofuels, and and acts to reduce emissions and limit oil imports and requires blending a certain volume of renewable fuel. Again, courts have held that stricter state renewable fuel limits that are complementary to this program are permissible. So we don't, in reviewing how biofuels are incorporated into this program as proposed in the Affordable Lead Act, we don't see any concerns there. And the last one is the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Think of that as the energy star program essentially. Is there any action been taken in the energy area that would preempt Vermont from taking more specific actions to require more efficient use in those appliances? And there's nothing there that we could erase this for the levels of the cream cheap concern. So I want to turn now just to sort of get this without a couple of thoughts in the time for some questions. We should be sure that the program that's being designed is not discriminating based on origin. Here, as similar to California and Oregon, the program is designed so that the evaluation of each clean keep measure is based on life cycle emissions, considering the fuel pathways that are required to get those products to the state. And it's not based on the origin of the alternative. That seems to check that box. Another topic that I know has been discussed is the scope of jurisdiction. Where do we attach this obligation? And in our view, that obligated party, you should focus on jurisdictional transactions that are as far up the chain as possible, given the constitutional limitations. And there's a tension here. How far can we go up the chain of commerce from the retail distributor to the wholesaler to the producer without running afoul of any constitutional questions? The way the language is written in the statute right now, there's no 100% guarantee for you to definitely pass muster and any of these things. But this is written in a way that is very protective of those concerns. And it's modeled on California and Oregon's language, as well as language reviews in the state of Vermont and other similar programs. So right now, the obligated party is defined as a regulated natural gas utility serving customers in Vermont. Or for other heating fuels, the entity that imports heating fuel for the ultimate consumption within the state, or the entity that produces, refines, manufacturers or compounds heating fuel within the state for ultimate consumption within the state. And for purposes of that section, to be very clear, the entity that imports heating fuel is the entity that has ownership to the title when the fuel is brought into the state. So that language is very similar to what they use in California and Oregon. They talk about the first fuel reporting entity, their obligated entity for liquid fuels as the producer or the importer of the fuel. And they have similar language about the title requirement in terms of having title defining the importer. Oregon uses a very similar structure. And I did want to point out in Vermont in our gas tax, motor vehicle tax provisions, we use language that's almost identical to define the scope of the state's jurisdiction over fuels coming into the state. So they talk about a distributor, but that means a person who imports or causes to be imported gasoline or other motor fuel for use distribution or sale within the state, or any person who produces, refines, manufacturers, compounds, gasoline or other motor fuel within the state for use distribution or sale. So the way the obligated party language is structured, I think both is consistent with what's been used in the past and upheld and appropriately draws the line between where we can regulate and passing that as far up the chain as possible, given those limitations. Let me pause there. I know that was a lot, but I'm happy to take any questions. Yes. Thank you for writing us today and for your testimony. Yes. Representative Sebelia. Yes, thank you very much. Great resource for us as we're moving forward. Just wanting to clarify and be sure that you've reviewed the language as passed by the Senate. Yes. Yes. Other questions? Thank you for, thank you again for joining us. Yes, thank you very much. Members, we will adjourn for the morning.


What's going on guys? This is Ryan Hammer and I'm going to be giving you my three best Cinderella teams for March Madness that I'll be betting on in a tournament. The first one is going to be the Murray State Racers. They are the 7th seed in the East region and I know the East region is tough. In my opinion, it's the toughest region of all. They're going to have to play San Francisco and then Kentucky if they want to get to the Sweet 16. Kentucky is literally their big brother in-state Kentucky rivalry but I think that the Racers are poised for a run. They're top 40 in offensive and defensive efficiency in the Kempom rankings. They have experience. They hold opponents to 30% from 3. Back to that experience, KJ Williams and Tevin Brown are one of the best inside-out duos and honestly one of the best duos in general in all of college basketball and they poise a threat to any level of team because they play so well off each other. This team is built just like they were when they had JAW a couple years ago. Low in turnovers, higher in field goal percentage and they could get that match up against their big brother in-state rival Kentucky in the second round what they want just like Loyola did last year with Illinois and I think it's going to be tough but Murray State could be dancing to the Sweet 16 and possibly further. Another really experienced team we go to the eight seed in the Midwest region that's this San Diego State Aztecs out of the Mountain West. They just lost to Boise in the Mountain West finals. They are on a hot streak very underratedly because they didn't win their conference final. They won 11 out of the last 13. They're gonna have to play Creighton who just went to the Big East final in the first round and then if they win that the big 12 champions and one of the title favorites Kansas J-Hawks which will be tough but Kansas has struggled at times just here most notably versus disciplined really athletic defenses like Baylor and Texas Tech. Texas Tech has the number one defense in the all of Kemphom in the country who has number two the San Diego State Aztecs they let up 58 points per game 38% from the field and their opponents 30% from three which is absolutely mind-boggling. The offense is what holds them back but they've been kicking up a little bit in the second half of the season and I think Matt Bradley averaging 17 points per game senior guard is good enough their offense is not great it's good enough like I said to go far and I think they could be Kansas and possibly go beyond that because the Midwest region as John Ralston says is the region of vulnerability and I think anyone and I mean anyone even eight-seated San Diego State could come out of that and go dancing to New Orleans. For the third potential Cinderella team we are going to stay in the Midwest region with the South Dakota State Jack rabbits the 13 seed. They have a favorable match up against Providence in the first round Providence holds their opponents to 31% from three on the year except for in their five losses which they faced Marquette Villanova twice Creighton and Virginia those teams shot 50% 44 48 47 and 40% from three much better than teams have against Providence all year and South Dakota State is the best three point shooting team in the entire country at 45% from three they're unconscious they have three 15 plus point scores on their team they are the only team in the country with that they score 87 points per game second to only Gonzaga in the entire country and if they win that game they'll play Iowa in the second round most likely who is the hottest team in the country but that team is not a great defensive team either so it will be a shootout and I think South Dakota State's offense is just as good as Iowa if not better so they will be able to keep up with them and hopefully run them out of the building. What's up guys this is Jordan Spieth if you're watching this video please like and subscribe to the FanDuel YouTube channel