Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. The craziness of the footballers promo and all the content we are getting right now in FIFA 23 continues, and so does the market crash. Prices continue to go down on a lot of areas of the market. But one specific area is losing people millions this weekend. I want to take a look at that and why that is happening. And also, we have to take a look at the content that could be coming out today on this game, because EA just doesn't stop. We had another campaign player pick released yesterday to go along with the already mixed campaign 85 plus upgrade pack that we have. Now we have a player pick, just in case you couldn't decide how many of these you want to do. Now you can do these. It's crazy, right? The content is like overwhelming almost. But with the content being as good as it is, we can still make a lot of coins with fodder. We're going to talk about that. And more in today's video. If you're excited for it, start off the week right. Hit the thumbs up. And of course, subscribe if you are new. Let's just do a quick content overview from yesterday on Sunday. Yesterday might have been the quietest day yet, but it was still a really good day of content because we had that campaign player pick, which we'll talk about, and the day on Kulusevsky SBC. It was an 83 rated. It was an 82 with an inform and a Spurs player requirement. But it didn't make Spurs cards go up like the Liverpool requirements did earlier on in the week, just because I think there's more Spurs players in that like 80 to 83 rating threshold. So it didn't make those go up as much in price. Now for the Kulusevsky upgraded card, it's only four star, four star. I was hoping for the five star skills that would have made this card super OP, but it looks really good, right? I love the dribbling stats once again. Pretty good looking card, not amazing, but pretty good. And today on Monday, we will be looking forward to the next player inside of the plate style. That is Oxlade Chamberlain backwards hat, AirPods in Oxlade Chamberlain dynamic image. So 95 dribbling stat, we can kind of guess how that's gonna look, but I'm very curious to see how EA makes this card different today because it looks the worst out of all of these cards, in my opinion, in terms of stats, but they've got to do something special to spice that up. So we'll see if they do anything different today with that, but with the mixed campaign player pick that we had dropping yesterday on the game, it's literally the same player pick that we had last weekend on Sunday that we were surprised to see. Right, it contains road to the final future stars and Centurion's players, 130,000 coins to do. It was cheaper last week when fodder wasn't so expensive. Now here we are at 130K and only a 19% upvote, but I think really the reason why this is not upvoted as much is because you already have the 85 plus mixed campaign upgrade, and that contains team of the year honorable mentions and fantasy cards. Sorry, yeah, fantasy foot players and winter wild cards, which of course, you do have the ones to watch in the out of position promo cards that are part of this. In my opinion, this being 58,000 coins is something that I would rather craft with the menu and fodder grind right now in this game instead of the player pick, especially knowing how the player pick was last week. It wasn't that amazing, of course, when it first dropped. We got to do it twice last week, but with that being said, not everybody agrees because people are doing this player pick. Guys, look at the 85 ratings, which are specifically required in the new player pick from 14,000 coins yesterday. We talked in yesterday's video about fodder going low with squad battle rewards, and that is exactly what happened. If you got on the bids or the snipes in the morning yesterday on Sunday, you had a great opportunity to pick up some really low prices on fodder, 82s all the way up to 85s, 86s, and these guys really spiked yesterday at content, right? 16, 17K for all these 85s, they're still maintaining a pretty high price. 84s, 83s, they're kind of back down low-ish again, but they did absolutely have their big spikes in price yesterday like we expected. You can see Mesa Mountain was almost 8,000 coins on Saturday night heading down into Sunday, down 6,000 coins below 7K with the squad battle rewards, boom, and then spiking back up again to 8,000 coins with the content drop, the same thing is gonna happen today. So these cards are not crashing on the market. Of course, these SBCs are not making too many cards crash. There are a few that are down in value. I mean, look at this Phil Foden, right? He was just 220,000 coins for this Phil Foden. If you take a look at graphs, you can see some extra drops yesterday after the 6 p.m. content. I do believe that a lot of that would have been caused by this new player pick SBC, especially if you take a look at like the Trent Centurions card. This is a card that I still have invested for the links to all the Liverpool players, and this might be a card to watch today with Oxlade Chamberlain coming out, but look at the drop this card had from 270K, boom, straight down at content yesterday, because this was one of the cards that was in the player pick and it's in the price range of people needed to sell a card from a team. Maybe they sold a card like this to go do a couple of the player picks yesterday to get the Kudusepsky done. So this just kind of got hit a little bit extra worse because it was in the player pick as well, right? With Centurions and Future Stars and Road to the Finals being inside that player pick. So people are still doing this, even though it says 19% upvote, there's still a lot of demand for this and still prices are dropping. Because of that, as the whole market seems to be dropping as a whole continually, where's our gold and Bapay at? We look at gold and Bapay almost every video during the market crash, because this is, like we've said, our barometer and Bapay is six no shot. Is he 600K or under 600K? He is almost under 600K right now in 606. So this stuff is, it's just down bad, right? And could it come back a little bit? We'll talk about the potential of that as a part of today's video as well, but speaking of cards that are down bad, people are losing millions on fantasy foot cards, guys, and when I mean millions, I mean, if you look at these card prices, I mean, we're talking drops of 20, 30. And I think Ube Makano at one point today was down 40% from the price that he was originally a couple of days ago. This guy now is 530,000 coins. He was 490 at his absolute lowest after Bayern lost. Why are these cards dropping so much? Because these clubs are not performing on the weekend. Okay, this first weekend before international break, which is now starting, they needed to perform to get upgrades in the short term before they go on this break and before these cards are still live, but they kind of go on like hiatus, if you will. And there's no games being played that can upgrade them for a couple of days. So the teams that lost and the players that were on those teams that lost or didn't perform well are absolutely in the mud. Ube Makano and Fabian are probably the best two examples from yesterday. Of course, we had Ben Acer and other cards on Saturday that dropped down a lot as well. Fabian is 260,000 coins after he was 380K yesterday before PSG lost to who did they lose to, like Stad Rene or something like that. I don't even remember who it was, but they lost 2-0 and this guy came crashing down in price. Same thing with Ed and Hazard, right? Real Madrid lost a classical yesterday. Hazard was down to 420K. He's now back up. I picked one up at 412K. So these cards are losing people millions of coins because if you invest that at Ube Makano in like 750 coins, 750,000 coins, you go play a week in league, kind of forget about the card and expect it to go up over time and then all of a sudden you come back to the game and this is his price. This is the unfortunate reality and the unfortunate truth with these live cards is that they're just so volatile. You can lose a lot of coins. Scrinny R actually was not even named in the squad yesterday for the inter-Uve game. So he started dropping off even before the game started. He's down to 150K. Like talk about a big drop off there. 200,000 coins to 150K. That's such a big percentage of his price just kind of gone in thin air. And really what this has caused by is so many people have invested in these cards hoping for a rise, but knowing that the international break is upcoming, the market is dropping as a whole right now. All of those things combined. Wow, Benocera is back to 300K. That's really, really cheap for him as well. He was 330, 340 for most of the day. But all those things combined, it's making these cards drop seriously like millions. Like look at Jota, 220,000 coins. It definitely doesn't help that we have had all of these Premier League attackers released this weekend, even with Luis Diaz coming out and Kulusevsky, but with Bamford specifically. And maybe Oxlade Chamberlain today can help this guy's price out a little bit because this is still a live card. This is going to be an insane investment at some point, just not yet because with international break upcoming, you know, some of these cards maybe you can look at as we head into foot birthday with all this panic that we have right now. When the international break comes back, it would probably be at like foot birthday week two at the end of the month when we're sitting here in a couple of weeks from now. You know, and a week and a half start to look at these cards again, maybe even next week because there might be opportunities for a longer term hold even here pretty soon, potentially with some of these, depending on how the panic goes because they've just dropped off so much in price. Even guys that haven't played any games, Rubin Diaz, like Citi haven't even played a game to account for any of his upgrades yet and he's still down. He was 1.1 mil. He's still down like 140,000 coins.  And we knew that with this kind of setup and with the long wait with the international break afterwards, these cards were not going to be a super duper long hold that's why we talked about selling in the hype, selling in the hype, selling in the hype. So I hope you guys did some of that and didn't get burned too much. Now there are some success stories from these cards as well. Alexis Sanchez, right? And Isak or the two cards that are due upgrades and not just the plus one, they are due a plus two. And that's what I wanna look through right now. We do have a lot of cards that are getting upgraded this week and a lot of prices have actually gone up as well for these cards and we'll talk later on in the week, maybe what you should do with these. I don't know when they're getting upgraded, right? EA have not told us when. Mondays have been days when they've upgraded cards before, like member wants to watch DiBala. Some of the price ranges were updated like last week or two weeks ago on a Monday. I would really be surprised if EA was this on top of it to have all of these upgrades programmed in to go live early today on a Monday. It's possible, but I do believe they would most likely upgrade these cards on Wednesday because that's, I believe when they upgraded in last year as well on a Wednesday, usually they do team of the week upgrades for wants to watch cards and stuff like that on Wednesday. So I would have to guess that these would go live then, but we will just have to see. So keep an eye on these because especially for Alexis Sanchez, I mean, this guy's getting a plus two, right? He's going from a 90 to a 92 since he scored two goals and they won yesterday. He's gonna be a team of the season level car. I literally tweeted out yesterday saying, Tots is coming early with this guy. I was able to pick one up for 629,000 coins after the game, after people saw them win the game. This price was up, but I went out and I picked one up because I was like, man, this guy is worth more than 629,000 coins with a double upgrade. It's literally the same situation that Esauq had earlier in the weekend. So that's why I went out and I picked him up because Esauq went up earlier and I was like, you know what, I think Alexis Sanchez is going to do the same thing and he has. He's 690K, probably gonna keep holding onto this card. For all the ones that are up, I think for all the cards you're getting upgrades, I would believe that they should probably continue to slowly rise into this week. Since the weekend is over, all the games are over. I have a Harry Cool like I've talked about. Wow, that's a really low price for Harry Cool. I mean, I bought this guy 960 and that's the only card that's below like 990K sitting right there. But you know, I think these cards are gonna slowly rise up into the upgrade timeframe this week, right? Emery Chan is another one that I'm holding onto because he's getting a plus one, even though he didn't even appear in the game this weekend, he sold 300,000 coins. He was 330 before the game. He's going to an 87. So I'm still holding some of these cards, but a lot of people have lost coins because the selling and the hype aspect is just so, so key with these cards. And yeah, I mean, they're also really good to trade with. Right? I bought a Celeba post Arsenal game yesterday. Arsenal won 4-1. Celeba didn't play because he was injured. This card dropped off over 120,000 coins post game. I bought this for 960. Right now he's about up about 100K from then. He's getting a plus one sometime this week when he gets upgraded. He's gonna go to a 90 for Arsenal getting that win. So that's why I picked his card up. So I am trading with a lot of these cards right now. It's been tough. I've lost coins on some of them too. Like Fabianne, I bought a couple at like 265 and then won at 280 earlier on when he was first dropping and now he's down to about 260K. So it's risky trading with these guys, but it also can be very big money. So just watch out for those upgrades this week and look to sell into the hype if their prices continue to rise there. But yeah, man, those cards are losing people millions, but that's how live cards work. It's all about timing and it's all about the hype with these cards, right? Because without the upgrades and without the hype of the upgrades, these cards are just kind of like normal promo cards and their prices drop off a lot. Case in point with some of the road to the finals that have dropped off in previous days as well. So be very careful with those cards, but for the market in general, like we looked at yesterday the way the market was impacted yesterday, you are still seeing prices kind of slowly going down. It's not panic selling all the time. It's not a huge percentage drops everywhere. It's just kind of like a slow drip, if you will. And these cards just kind of keep just going down in price little by little. Every single day it's a little bit more from most of them, especially some of the out of pack specials. Now, could today flip the script? I think there's a potential for today on a Monday to have a little bit of a market rise. But again, guys, here's what I would just try to tell you. I know that I'm trading with a few of these fantasy foot cards and a couple of these I'm talking about and buying and flipping. It is risky to be doing this stuff. The best way to be trying to make coins on the market right now is to not touch cards like this because there's not as much demand for them right now. All the demand right now is for the objectives, playing squad battles with whatever teams you need to get those assists, to get those goals. You know, draft. There's even objectives for that right now. So there's maybe not as much demand for the rivals or for the foot champ side of things right now. Maybe that could change later on this week. We'll have to see. But with all that objective grind and the menu grind for the upgrade packs that is happening, that is just hurting cards everywhere. And so if that's where the demand is, that's where you wanna be trading in as well. The market right now is just primed for fodder. And you guys know this, right? Fodder prices are crazy, crazy high. We've talked about this. What we talked about in yesterday's video about buying fodder and listing it for lazy. You saw my transfer list, right? I had a couple 84 rated cards that sold for 8.9K apiece. I bought those 84s yesterday, right around right here. I bought them right here. Like a couple hours before content, I was just getting on some bids, getting on some snipes. I was buying two of every card, putting one in the club, putting one on the transfer list. And then like, look at this, man. Like, yes, they had a spike yesterday at content, but they're back down again, guys. Weekend league rewards, a little bit of tradable supply yesterday from the packs inside of that mixed campaign player pick is bringing fodder back down again. 83s, 84s, 85s. If you get 85s at like 14K, I think that's baller. If you can get 82s at 1.2K, I think that's baller. 83s at three and under, 84s in the low sixes. I'll even pay six and a half K. I'm literally about to go through right now all these cards again and do a transfer list in a club stock because I used some fodder yesterday. I wanna be doing some SBCs today. And yes, I'm gonna spend coins on this because what you can do, and I hope it happens here on the video, but I've got a bunch of these cards that I have listed up on my fodder, right? You can see right here. I have a lot of them listed at like 8,000 to 9,000 coins at all different prices and they're expiring here in the next minute or two. So I'm very curious to see if any of these guys will, if I'll catch a lazy sale. But I'm gonna continue the club stock because again, all you have to do with these cards is buy them on a low point, which is where we are right now. List them up for lazies and you will be making coins later on. And this is what I do. I go through and buy two of them, right? Vlahovic, one goes in the transfer list and one goes into the club because I have not purchased him yet and boom, I'm gonna make a couple thousand coins on the Vlahovic that I put on the transfer list and you know what? I'll maybe use the one that I put in the club or sell that one as well. Chalhanoghuz, 6,500 coins, bang.  If you want to and you wanna go on a sign, that is fantastic. Informs as well, I believe all Informs right now are selling for like 14 or 15,000 coins. So this is something that, yeah, it's about 14K. If you have club stocked Informs during this entire year, it is a fantastic time to be listing those up. And I think when we talk about all Informs selling for like 14, 15K, all Informs regardless of rating are like selling within minutes for 13K, but really what you wanna look for are your Informs that are above like 83 to 84 rated because some of these SBCs have requirements in there for some higher rated Informs. So if you're getting on bids, maybe right now this might actually might be a good time to pick up a couple Pavards, probably a couple of Sergio Ascensios like 13K. These are current team of the wheat cards that are probably pretty good to pick up right now that we could sell for higher later on this week because a lot of these SBCs inside of here too have Inform requirements. Case in point is the SBC yesterday, the mixed campaign, you've got an Inform requirement in the 85 rated squad. So probably your 84, 85 rated Informs are moving a good bit in there. And it's just about buying those, getting those on bids, listing them for lazy sales, and their prices should creep up a little bit as we head throughout the week. And it's not really about investing at this point, right? It's about buying and just listing them up on the market because there is so much demand for that side of the game this week. But if you're just trading in general, whether it's with fodder, whether it's with icons, it's out of packs cards, just make sure you keep the flips really quick, right? Keep it to quick flips because I've gotten burned a couple times this weekend where I've held onto a card for too long thinking that Jota can go back up about 10, 20 more thousand coins from where I have him at because, you know, he links to Luis Diaz, right? He's gonna go up and what has this guy done? He has just dropped even further down, 220,000 coins. I had to take a 50,000 coin loss on one of the Jotas that I bought earlier today, or not earlier today, earlier this weekend. I could have sold it yesterday instead of losing 50K. I could have lost 10K, but here we are, I lost 50K and now I have to try to make that back up. So that's the kind of market that we're in right now. Don't hold cards for very long. Keep it to quick flips and we could see the market kind of flip a switch today. That's why I would say if there are any cards, like I pointed out that Ben Hasseir that is really low at the moment at 300,000 coins. If I had coins right now for 300K, I would probably go out and try to pick one of these up even though he's not getting an upgrade. The fact that he was holding at 340,000 coins after Milan lost over the weekend is a really good sign for me on this card. Emery Chan being the same price and he's getting an upgrade. There was even, oh, Papan. Some of these hero cards, I feel like these guys are sleepers because they're getting plus ones. Papan is getting a plus one and his price is literally the exact same for what it was. Let me double check this, but I'm pretty sure the exact same price that he was per game yesterday before Marseille won the game, right? He was 230s, right? He peaked up at 240 and he's getting a plus one guys. Like Papan is literally getting a plus one. You know, maybe all the SBC objective, the striker guys and the attackers right now are hurting Papan's value a little bit, but he's getting a plus one this week because they want, Morientes is 169 after the Madrid loss, he's down bad. Dina Talley is literally the same price that he was during the week. I know he dropped down really low on Saturday, went down to 1.9 and spiked to 2.2. He's getting an upgrade, right? Make sure, I'll put a link down below in the description to this tracker. If you don't know who's getting upgrades this week for a win, for a goal, Kuhl is getting an upgrade, right? Like we talked about. Angel Gomez, one of our SBC guys, is getting an upgrade. If I could find him, I might just have to control F. Angel Gomez, but he is getting an upgrade for the win. So that's a nice SBC upgrade there. Trimble, like there's so many guys, so many guys are getting upgrades. So I expected to see those on a Wednesday. Could they come earlier? They could, but I wouldn't expect it unless EA have a nice little surprise in there for us today as well.  Last week on Monday, we did have the 83 times 10. And we all did it like a couple times a day, and it was fun, right? Now I just don't know if we're gonna get an 83 times 10. We have an 83 double and 85 mixed, the 82 times 20. Another campaign player pick, the 75 times five, which by the way, I'm hearing reports that the 75 times five is very good. And that I am sleeping on the 75 times five. And one of my plans for this week is to take you, take through on the stream. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna rinse as many of my silver commons that I have into this pack. And I will be turning those in to get the common golds, which I will put into the 75 times five, which I'll hopefully turn into some fodder.  So I'm gonna take part in the menu grind this week as well and have some fun with that this week on the stream. But I just don't know if we're gonna get too much else besides Oxlade Chamberlain today. The only outside shot that we maybe have is Monday's Sometimes EA Start Swaps programs. So I'd say there's like just a minute chance that we could start learning about foot birthday swaps because that car design is in the code and we haven't seen too much of anything to do with it yet, but maybe that's gonna change soon. But that's gonna be the video for today, guys. Hopefully you enjoyed the video, start off the week. Happy Monday and I hope you have a great start to your week. But if you enjoyed today, again, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. I'll see you on the Twitch stream today. It's been Nathan with a count and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


Hey guys, Thundee here and welcome to the only gaming video on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra that you care to watch. I'm talking about right here at Board at Work. This is the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and this device is so cool. The bronze collar is really nice, the camera hump is quite massive especially when you compare it to the S10 Plus from last year. Side by side they're almost similar in height, the Note 20 Ultra is a little bit bigger, taller I mean. That camera hump also houses 108 megapixel camera. Now in terms of performance and processing we've got the Snapdragon 865 Plus processor, 12 gigs of RAM, 4500 mAh battery and of course that should give us some really good gaming performance. But when we talk about gaming we also talk about the display because that's really important now we've got a 120Hz display with a 240Hz touch sensing capability which means it should feel butter smooth, yes. But just to let you guys know it's an adaptive display which means it automatically detects what you're doing so while you're gaming it will vary between 48 and 120 depending on your game. So game developers please try and match up to higher refresh rates for screen. So we'll be checking out some games, Cod, PUBG Mobile, some Fortnite, Mix and Match Ways. We'll also be doing some gaming on DeX as well so you guys will get to see that. And we also might check out some Xbox Game Pass. So while we're spending more time let's check out some of that gameplay. So gaming looked pretty good, things ran relatively smooth and I'm sorry I can't give you temperatures, I can't give you benchmarks and I can't give you FPSs because we are waiting for an update so that will come in my review I'll give you all that breakdown there. But overall gameplay experience looked smooth and we ran everything at max spec so take it as you will. Now when it came to audio things sounded really good as well, audio was clean, crisp and clear but I'll give you a quick audio sample for you guys to listen as well. So audio seems good, gaming is pretty fluid but when it came to gaming with DeX Wireless I was truly impressed with that whole functionality. Not just with DeX Wireless but the fact that this device is pretty much like a portable Xbox right? The fact that you now can get Xbox Game Pass with it and please if you're pre-ordering your device make sure you get the controller bundle, you know it's free. Get that with it so you can actually game or like what I did I used the Razer Kishi. There's an Xbox Razer Kishi controller at least specific even though it's quite similar to the regular Razer Kishi just the buttons are changed in terms of the notations but I was able to use that to play Xbox Game Pass games directly on the device. That was cool to see playing you know Tekken 7, playing some Forza that was great that was good to see and also being able to cast that wirelessly with wireless DeX to a TV and still game. So I can travel I can go anywhere I can say for instance I go back to like you know you go back to your parents place there's nothing for you to do in terms of entertainment you want a game but you might want to extend it to a big screen TV or you might want to actually use it for two different things aka cast wirelessly so you can actually have YouTube playing or you know a streaming show and then you can game on your smartphone and you can connect to Xbox Game Pass. I cannot wait to try that out and I'm happy to see Microsoft and Samsung coming together and awesome integration. I think for gamers these are the kind of things that we love to see so I know you guys want to see more and I know there's more I can definitely tell you but I can't tell you more yet stay tuned for the full review. If there's anything specific you want to see me cover on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra let me know leave those comments down below ask your questions I definitely ask them as I always do don't forget to like share subscribe if you want to pick up your Note 20 Ultra link is going to be down there for you want to pick up the Razer Keyshia as well I'll have a link for you works well with Xbox Game Pass and works well also with a lot of Android games so that's something to take note anyway guys thank you very much don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.


Innovations and inventions are an everyday life experience for me. I think of new ideas all the time. And innovations that can change the lives of millions is the holy grail of everything. And one of my inventions and daily businesses is water filters and water coolers. I invented a number of interesting products. But recently, about a year and a half ago, I discovered someone sent me an email and said to me, do you know that contaminated water is the greatest reason of infant deaths in Africa? I said, it can't be. It must be malaria, it must be measles, it must be other diseases. Anyway, I went and researched it and I found out it is the case. And I started researching what was available that national government bodies had given to very poor people in rural areas. And I discovered that the designs were not designed taking into account the continent and the needs of the very, very poor people. And I said to myself, I can do better. I can make a difference. And if I can save one life, it's as good as I'll ever achieve in my entire business. Can you imagine if I can save 100,000 lives? So I put my mind to developing a water filter that will filter water. It will be very, very low cost and easily transportable. Currently what was available was these large units that cost $20, $30. They're very complicated to use and require fairly a large amount of education and training to use. So they're not very functional. So my unit is very, very compact. As you can see, I'm carrying it in my pocket. It will be manufactured for between $3 and $3.50. It is easy to use. It's a chance of cross-contamination. And one of the best things about it is it can use any bottle on the entire continent of Africa. Any Coke bottle. And if you don't like Coke, you can use Fanta. So thank you. So I'm going to show you how this works. It's as simple as it looks. It's very easily transported across the continent. And I must say that if we apply our minds, we can find solutions to today's problems. In the rural areas, poor people use large amounts of coal and charcoal to boil their water. This will reduce the carbon emissions and it will contribute to saving lives. And it may be a small device, but if you can save a life, I'm a winner. So I just want to show you this is hard works. And this is with innovation and invention. So we can all contribute to a better world. Thank you.


Nice greetings to everyone. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Emma. I come from Slovenia That is a tiny country in Europe with two million people with neighboring countries like Austria and Italy to name just a few Recently I have finished 120-hour course at International Tehol and the Soul Training Center and I must say that they did a pretty good job of combining Practical and theoretical aspects of vast world of teaching English a second language So if you take into account that as a teacher you need to put a lot of your own work I would recommend this course as a good starting point so That would be all from me now and I wish you all the best in all your endeavors. Take care


But we're moving today to make a business decision to strengthen our ties and raise our profile in Asia, something that will strengthen our economy and create jobs here at home, with the appointment of an investment and trade commissioner for Asia, Ben Stewart. This is consistent with the advice that I've received from our business community, from our trading partners, and from government officials. We need a representative in Asia who is known to have access to power and government here in British Columbia. That is a critical part of doing successful business in Asia. When I look at our British Columbia economy after deciding to run in provincial politics, I felt that it was really important that we do expand trade. And part of that is because of the experience I've had both in Europe and in Asia in the wine industry, and seeing how difficult it is to establish relationships from afar. And so, yes, I have had experience in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, where we currently and actively are working today. The BC Business Council is excited about the opportunity of the upcoming Premier's trade mission to Asia. It's also excited about today's announcement from the Premier and fully supports a move that will up our game in Asia, raise BC's profile, and help strengthen our relationship with our Asia Pacific trading partners. Ben is also a man whose counsel I value very highly, and someone in whom I have absolute trust. So I am delighted that Ben has agreed to continue his public service, and to work on behalf of all British Columbians, and businesses, and jobs here in our province.


Well, Launchpad Bemidji has been assisting the areas emerging entrepreneurs since 2015. Since then, the Launchpad's membership has grown so much that it has outgrown its current space and is ready to invest in its future. Launchpad Bemidji is expanding to the basement level of Bemidji's Mayflower building. The construction project is expected to begin later this month and finish within the next couple of months. The idea is to utilize this space to provide more amenities and workspace for entrepreneurs so that they can focus on their work in a professional setting. More flexible workspace, some other amenities like a kitchen, some recreational space, other meeting spaces. The meeting space is pretty huge because that seems to be an attractive feature of the space where people can come and gather, collaborate and meet with others and their clients or partners. So, we're going to add more space like that to the building. Launchpad Bemidji is currently accepting contributions to help fund the project. For more information or to contribute, you can visit LaunchpadBemidji.com. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


T. F. N. N. Headline News Update Good morning folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from blustery. Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 am update and currently have a sea of red out there. You've got the Dow off 302 points. The S&P's down 37. NASDAQ 135. Brussels down 26. That's nine tenths, one point, one and a quarter point, one and a half points to the downside. The Sunmars are down nearly 2%. That's 47 points. The pennies are off 91. That's six tenths percent. Gold's off 80 cents. So basically flat. Silver's off 14 pennies. Trading out at 2135. Light's recruit is back $2.19. 86.72 is the print there. Natural gas down 40 cents. She's trading at 573. And the 30 year treasury is up 13 ticks. Trading out at 1.2010. Let's go take a look at that nine panel. Market update chart. We begin with the E. S. Minning up in the upper left hand side. What's it doing? Consolidating certainly with inside its daily profile. Spotball of Tenix is trading a bit higher. Hasn't taken out yesterday's high. That's what I would be looking for. Price of the victory to take out yesterday's high. Yesterday's high, by the way, is $24.24. That would signal a move up to at least the 50-day exponents moving average. That would be $27.49. The NQ testing the support to the bottom of its daily profile. That's at 10.917. And below that we know it's got significant support at 10.734, the bottom of the weekly profile. US Dollar Index found support at its prior swing point. That swing point from the trading session of October 27th. Can't bust them down. Well, price may try to bust them to the upside. It's back inside its daily profile. The target could or should be 1.1204. Goldilocks is flat out here. Got a nice breakout yesterday. When I mean my breakout, its price did close above the top of its daily profile. The top of that profile is $16.82. Still trading above the top of the center of that profile as long as it closes Friday above $1,700.90. That's going to signal a move up to the 17.79 level. Silver, it's got that nice A to B equal CD pattern. Basically a flat move out here today. So no change in its target, next target, which would be 2,209 to the upside. Life Recruit is pulling back. It's got a new daily profile. Price is trading below that level, which is $86.99. The close below $86.99 could trigger a move down to the $85.62 or even $79.67 area. Natural gas right now testing the bottom of that new daily profile. That new daily profile supports at $571. Price right now trading out at $573. And the 30-year treasury, it is trading above yesterday's high. That's a suggestion that it should continue to rally in its target to the upside to be $121.25. Folks, stay tuned for the Traders End Show. But if you have to start your Wednesday, please have a wonderful one. And we look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care.


In 1981, Microsoft began development of a program called Interface Manager. Interface Manager perfectly described what Windows would become, but it sure wasn't the perfect name from a marketing standpoint. Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in 1985, and now everyone recognizes Windows. And millions of computers run on Windows today. And now you know.


Pancegam Active, a new tropic that fuses vitamin B5 and GABA. Is it good? Is it bad? Find out right now. Hey, what's up guys? This is Josh here. Today I'm going to do a little review on Pancegam Active. I got my Pancegam Active from this new tropics bundle from Cosmic Newtropics, which I do recommend. You want to try out some of the best, most hyped new tropics. This is a pretty good bundle. I think it's like 70 or 80 bucks, but it contains my favorite new tropic of all time, phenylpracetam, along with five other ones. I would say the most basic one on here is AlphaGPC. Back to Pancegam Active. So when you go on Cosmic Newtropics' website, there's only two people who have reviewed this compound, and I did lots of studying, lots of research, and I couldn't find much useful information about this compound. So they gave me 15 total pills. I went through all 15. And the first couple of times I took it, it was at night because I read that it fuses GABA with vitamin B5. So my initial thought was phenibit because phenibit is just a phenyl ring attached to GABA. So I'm thinking it's kind of a GABA derivative. I couldn't find much information on it. I'll take it at night. Took it at night. I think twice, didn't really like it. Did a little bit of research on it. Actually, looking at the comments on Cosmic Newtropics' website, like I said, there's only two people who commented. They gave me actually a lot of information and they also let me know that it's kind of a focus aid. It's something you use to increase your energy for alertness. It's something you should never take at night. So thankfully those two people commented on Cosmic Newtropics or else maybe I would have never figured it out. So I didn't have that many pills to begin with. And two of the times that I tried it were at night. So I only had maybe two to four days to really try this compound out. And I really, really, really want to try it more because from the initial testing that I've done, it definitely seems like one of the more useful new tropics for me personally. Something that I get a lot of benefits from. Not very many side effects. It's pretty much all good. So the effects on this stuff is kind of like anti-anxiety mixed with some awakening and alertness. Now it's not going to feel like DMAA. It's not going to feel like medaffinol. It's not going to feel like Adderall. It doesn't have that kind of effect. Although one of the commenters said that they use Pantergam Active to get off Adderall. I could kind of see that because it wakes you up but then it also relaxes you a little bit. There's kind of a little bit of anti-anxiety effect. I think people say they got a lot of energy from this compound and when it went away there's kind of like a relaxing effect. And I could kind of see that. To me, I would say Fendabit is kind of like 80% tiring, 20% awakening. And I would say this is about 20% tiring, 80% awakening. You could kind of take it alongside a lot of other compounds. You could take it alongside stimulants.  I don't really fully understand this but if you look at Medaffinol, there's Medaffinol and then there's Armadaffinol and Armadaffinol. It's like one half of Medaffinol. I don't really understand that fully. So, Pantergam Active is half of the original Pantergam but I think it is the more effective half. I really wish I had more time with Pantergam Active because there's a chance that it could be in my top five highest recommending Nutropix for you guys just because there was literally no side effects. It was very smooth. It was very natural. I just really, really liked it. The awakening effects weren't crazy strong. Like it's going to not be fun to take it at night like I did but it's also very smooth and very natural feeling and I really, really, really like it. So maybe I'll have to reorder another Nutropix bundle or just order the Pantergam Active by itself because honestly guys, I really, really, really liked it. For my dosage here, it says you could take up to eight pills in a day. I never did that much. I would say I would take about three-ish. Three seemed to be the sweet spot. I could probably handle four but if three's working, I have no problems with that. So from the limited testing that I've done, I really like Pantergam Active. There's almost no information online about it. I felt like it was very smooth, very safe and I also got effects at the same time. So it's hard for me not to recommend it and I do think I need to reorder some. Anyways guys, have you tried Pantergam Active? I highly doubt it because there's no information about this compound online but if you have tried it, I'll be very interested to see what you think down below. Definitely recommend this Nutropix bundle as well. Anyways guys, we're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of your guys' help. You guys are the best. Having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


James Cook has the right type of game to be a dynamic back in the NFL. Cook's profile was highlighted by a pretty strong receiving share despite being in a committee at a high profile school. He did weigh in at 199 pounds at the NFL Combine, which is a 13th percentile weight for running back prospects since 2005. The light frame and moderate workload does make comparisons a little tricky. There just aren't many running back prospects with a BMI that low. That said, Cook has a pretty close profile to Kenyon Drake, a back with change of pace potential, but taller Naeem Hines also works as a secondary comp. Cook with some more size could be a lead back in a committee, and if he stays the same size we're still looking at some highlight plays and some fantasy points out of the backfield from Cook in the NFL.


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For the last 25 years, when I've taught on a blackboard, a whiteboard, an OHP, a projector and an interactive whiteboard, of course I've considered seating plans, but I've rarely considered the impact of my seating plans versus the one tool at the front of the classroom, whether it's a blackboard or a projector such as I've got behind me. Of course, understanding and meeting your children will start to evolve and meet their needs, so Ross might have a visual impairment, he might have an hearing difficulty and you'd start to move these seats around your classroom where it's best place for students. But what I've failed to consider was with one device at the front, whether it's a whiteboard or an interactive projector, is the impact that it might have on a child sitting at the periphery side or the backside of the classroom.


important news about that conference that rejected all those TCC solutions. Here's a light bulb. Alright, so for the first time in 2018, it's going to be hosting workshops for the conference. Okay, so this is crypto. On Sunday it starts with a recession in the evening. And for the Friday, Saturday, and the day of Sunday beforehand, we're going to be having workshops. So what does that mean? That means if your beautiful papers were accepted two days ago, you should call the head of crypto. If your beautiful papers were rejected two days ago, there's nothing like sticking it in crypto, like going to the workshops and not really going to the conference. Okay, so this is part one, decentralized crypto currencies and blockchains. All sorts of speakers coming from crypto currencies, coming from companies from academia. On Saturday, there's a couple of different ones. This is part two of the same, this decentralized with different types of blockchains and other sort of speakers. We'll also be hosting some Saturday currency and crypto for industry. I'm going to go over these pretty quickly. I'll just tell you how much time we have. And also on Saturday, a workshop with a tax and a photographer. So we're going to have a spectrum of different sorts of things. Perhaps wait a few minutes here. So this is now shifting to Sunday, the third day. This is the day before the recession of crypto. The first workshop is in a TCS, a theory of computer science conferences. This is tied between crypto and other areas of fear. So a spectrum of people who are not good doctors, for example speaking. About TLS 1.3, we have an entire workshop going into security of it, looking at the design and so forth. And a workshop on encryption and surveillance. This is sort of a theme of legal connections. Crypto is one of the important topics to debate there. And finally, so a workshop of mass graves. So this one is actually a little bit different. They're having a paper submission. There's a PC that we'll go through and we'll accept some sort of small collection papers for people to see the workshop there. So how it works. You pay and you register for crypto. You can pay for a day to register for the workshops for each day. And then you kind of go around to, if you want to go to this workshop, you can go to that for the day. And then we have a discount security to get crypto and also for your student. Okay, so all together, and take a look. We've got all this information and more on the website. So if you go to the crypto 2018 website, it's a little on the left-hand side to hear there's this affiliated events. And this is where you can find everything. Thanks.


Hey, good morning. This is David Russell with Alabama Extension and we're coming to you from the field on Sand Mountain this morning and we're supposed to have a field day showcasing some forage plots where we applied herbicide in the fall to try to treat some cool season annuals. So we'll do our best because of the restrictions to show you what we've got in the field now and how it looks. The questions that I get this time of year are how to control broadleaf weeds as well as annual grasses while we're still in the cool season as our warm season forage emerges. And as far as herbicides, our options become limited as our warm season forages begin to emerge. In this case, we're standing in a Bermuda grass hay field, but you really can't tell it because of the amount of volunteer annual ryegrass that's surrounding these demonstration plots. So as you can see, this is a volunteer stand that we're standing in of a mixed stand of annual broadleafs as well as volunteer annual ryegrass. And as you know, a lot of these germinate in the fall of the year, the October, November timeframe. And so the best time to control these specific weeds are through pre-emergence options. And those are best applied before, obviously, germination, which in this case, all these plots were put out in mid-September before germination. A lot of cases, it's still really hot. In fact, when we put these out, it was 91 degrees in mid-September. There was still a pretty good amount of coverage from Bermuda grass and crabgrass in this field, and the producer had just removed his last cutting of hay off this field. And so you'll see this is left unchecked, and you know, if you want to come in and control this, our herbicide options are limited. So we're showcasing a product that is set to come to the market this year for forages. This is endazoflam. It will be the proposed trade name Resalon, and in these demonstration plots we put out a three ounce and a five ounce rate, both in mid-September. So this is a fall application, and you can see we're in mid-April now, and you can see how clean these plots are from our cool season annual control. And also you can see the amount of Bermuda grass that is beginning to spread across these plots. You can see the amount of Bermuda grass that's starting to spread, and obviously without weed competition in a program like this, he's going to get a quicker emergence of Bermuda grass as the soil temperatures increase, which means a quicker and earlier hay cutting. This again was a single three ounce application applied in the fall, and we moved to our right end in the next plot. This was a five-inch rate applied in mid-September, and from a weed control standpoint, at this time we really can't see a difference between the two. I think the biggest difference between these two are going to be the longevity in weed control. In other words, how far into the spring and summer seasons will we continue to get control? And that's a pre-emergence application we're talking about again, not controlling what's already there, but preventing seed that is yet to emerge. And so as we get on into the summer months, we're hoping that this application will continue to provide control for warm season species like crabgrass and some of our annual pox tail species. The plot we're standing in now is a scenario where we've applied three ounces in the fall, mid-September, after the last hay cutting, as well as three ounces this spring. We put it out a month ago in mid-March. In the spring application we included about a quart of Roundup, and we did that because we knew that we'd probably have a flush of weed species mixture that's in here that we'll compete with the emerging Bermuda grass, and so we wanted to clean that up. We also included Roundup because we knew Bermuda grass in this part of the state was still truly dormant. And I don't advise anyone putting out Roundup when Bermuda grass or any other warm season mixed grass is actively growing because it's going to result in some pretty heavily injured stands. So, but in this case it's a three ounce in the fall, three ounce in the spring, and so we clean it up pretty well, but the spring application will obviously get better control into the summer months. We're also going to compare that to the five ounce rates this spring, like I said, from a weed control perspective at this point, you know, not much difference between the two, but I think as we move into the growing season, we will start to see how long they will, currently there's only really one free emergence options that we can apply and establish warm season grasses, and that's Prowl. Prowl, compared to this, I think is a little more specific as far as our application timing. Prowl requires rainfall incorporation pretty quickly after our herbicide application. In other words, we want to get that herbicide moved into that soil profile to prevent weed seed germination. This, this product laid on the field probably two or three weeks before we received a good incorporating rainfall, and so just comparing the two with this one, we get a little more leniency as far as our application timing in that after our last hay cutting in the fall, if we want to control any of our cool season annuals that are set to emerge, we've got a window there that we can apply and wait on rainfall to incorporate. We do have some grasses that slip through here and I will say that they don't have much of a root system at this point. If we were to find any annual rye grasses that have slipped through this, you can pull them up pretty much with one hand and you can see they've got club roots or no roots at all. And so what has happened here is actually the herbicide hasn't been applied. This annual rye grass has germinated in the crop residue or the thatch layer above the soil surface and so we've gotten so much moisture up here this late winter and early spring that it's still, and other grasses like this, like little barley and Carolina Foxtail that's germinating in the fall of the year, they can still do fairly well in that thatch layer above the soil surface as long as we've got moisture. So I think as we move into the summer months and this begins to dry out, all these that have germinated in that thatch layer will eventually die because they can't send a tap root down into that soil profile.


Hello, over in this part, we will do some practical example on software timers using CMC's OS version 2. Let's do some practice on software timers. We will start from stm32cubemix or stm32cubedeconfigurator. Important message is that software timers are disabled by default within CMC's OS version 1 and enabled by default within CMC's OS version 2. So in general, to enable software timers, please go to freeR2S configuration, select CMC's OS version 2 and then below within select config parameters, be sure that use timers option is enabled. The next step would be adding some tasks. We will use a single task in this project. Within tasks and cues of freeR2S configuration, please go to task section and press add to add a new task. These task parameters should be the following. Name task1, priority OS priority normal, stack size 256 bytes, entry function name start task1. The rest of the parameters we keep in default state. Our next step would be adding software timer. Within freeR2S configuration, please go to timers and semaphore stub, then click on add button in timers section. Use the following attributes of the new timer. The name, let's keep default default my timer 01, callback, let's keep default as well, callback 01 and type OS timer periodic. Rest of the attributes, please keep in default state and press OK. After this, a new timer should appear within timers section. At the end, we can generate the code and open main C file for further code processing. Let's have a quick look on the code generated by STM32QPIDE or STM32QBMX. We'll focus on main.C file. Within private variables, we can see two handlers. One is a handler to our task1 and the second one is a handler to our software timer. At the beginning of main function, after hardware initialization, we can see a creation of software timer and our task. Then we need to start manually software timer. In our example, we will use task1 function body. So within start task1 function, in its initialization part, we will start our software timer with period 1000 milliseconds using function OS timer start. With an endless loop of task1 function body, please put two operations. Sending task for two seconds into blocked state by function OS delay and execute task action function. In our case, it will be SWO data send. Remaining part of the code of the software timer callback will be covered on next slide. During project creation, we have specified the name of this function, function callback used by the timers as callback 01. Empty callback function is generated by STM32QBMX or STM32QPIDE. We need to fill the code inside this callback. In general, timer callback functions execute in a context of the timer service task. Those callbacks are not called from the interrupt context and should not contain any blocking functions. Structure of those functions is very similar to hooks implementation, described with an advanced topics part of this training. In such a case, we need to put inside the callback function a short action. For this, we will use our task action function with an argument C. So on each call to timer service task, we will see on our ITM single wire viewer monitor a C character. After this code modification, please compile the code, start the debug session, start ITM SWV monitor and run the application. After a run of application, we should see on our SWV ITM data console a similar picture to this one. At the beginning, there is a timer service call task run. So we can see the C letter on the monitor. Then we can see task one action and the character one is displayed. Each two seconds and each one second, we can see an action of software timer again. So the C letter. So we can see the structure like here. So there is C, then after second one, then after second C, then after next second C, after another second is one because there are two seconds between each task one execution. Thank you for watching this video.


Hey friends, tonight I am hanging out at Disney's Magic Kingdom. It has been a very hot week here in Orlando. So I decided to come out to the park a little bit later in the afternoon just as a way to keep cool. But also I wanted to ride some rides, eat some food, and even listen to some of the music right here at the Magic Kingdom. So let's go do this. I'm really noticing a lot of changes to Cinderella Castle getting ready for the 50th anniversary. I am so excited for the 50th anniversary, and I also noticed a lot more people are actually visiting now. I feel like we're rolling into the summer crowds. It's June now, but I think it's only gonna get busier once July comes around the corner. I'm super excited to check the wait times and ride some rides tonight and also to get something to eat. I feel like I haven't been at the Magic Kingdom for a sunset in a while. Usually I'm coming during the day, and I'm usually home and editing and just relaxing and hanging out with Gracie, but today it's already, I think it's 6.30? Yeah, 6.30! I feel like I'm really late today. The park closes at 9. I noticed they started selling Spider-Man bubble wands here. That seems a little funny. I've never seen them before. I can see that they'd be popular right now over in California because of the Avengers campus, but not really here in the Magic Kingdom. Walking around, listening to that music, it feels so great to be here right now. I love, love, love, love coming to the Magic Kingdom. It always puts me in great spirits. On my way over to our first attraction, I want to show you one of my favorite places to kind of like duck out of the way, especially if you want to sit down and eat something. It's right here by the Ye Old Christmas shop. You see, they have this courtyard, and inside they have a sleigh, and the sleigh is a really cool photo opportunity, but behind this sleigh, there's a nice little cozy table that a lot of people don't even see. But I'm going to show you guys so you can see if it's ever open. You can come back here and just sit down and people watch. Now I'm kind of regretting not having a coffee or something to drink because I'm actually enjoying sitting over here. I wish I had something to just kind of relax with. It's beautiful and you get to people watch and just enjoy. It would be a great spot if there was a parade happening too. Like I said, you're really hidden over here. A lot of people don't even know because it has all this empty space and the table is behind the sleigh. I think I'll head right on over to the Haunted Mansion. Check on the wait time. If it's not a long wait, maybe we'll take a ride. I mean, you can never turn down the Haunted Mansion, right? Looks like Disney is definitely pulling a fast one on us. Says 20 minutes, but it looks like it's a walk on. Oh, I gotta put my mask on. Sorry. I always forget to put my mask on before I actually approach a queue because I think that it's outside and I have to go into a building to put the mask on. But even if the queue's outside, you gotta wear the mask. Hopefully not for too long though. But this is really awesome. Like I said, walking on to the Haunted Mansion. It's 6.30 in the afternoon. Like I would normally think that it would be super, super busy. But no, this isn't in 20 minutes. This is like literally a walk on. It is a 100% walk on. So fancy. That was really awesome. There was nobody waiting to ride the Haunted Mansion. Now I kind of want to check the wait times for the other rides, especially like Seven Doors Mine Train and Space Mountain and see what those wait times are. Was that a fluke? Like the Haunted Mansion just being completely empty or is it really just a low crowd a day? Looks like Seven Doors Mine Train is only a 45 minute wait. Still a little bit long because I only have two hours in the park. But I feel like maybe it's a fluke. Like you know what I mean? Like just I got lucky going on Haunted Mansion because 45 minutes is probably like kind of like familiar or similar to what the line has been for a while now. And I think I'm going to grab something to snack and maybe a drink to cool down a little bit. I have not been to the Starlight Cafe in a while and I wouldn't mind seeing Sunny Eclipse for a little bit. So maybe we'll browse and see what they got going on in there. I haven't been in here for a while, but how many of you guys missed the topping bar over here? I remember they used to have the little fried onions and the cheese sauce. I wasn't a big fan of the cheese sauce, but I would get a burger and tons of those fried onions. It was like a side. And wow, this seems so awesome to be in here. I don't think I'm going to be getting like an actual meal from here. I think I'm just going to get a dessert and maybe a drink. But they do sell hot dogs, hamburgers, spicy chicken sandwiches. The hot dogs are really big hot dogs. Kind of like Casey's hot dogs. But I don't think they're really, really Casey hot dogs. What I decided to get was the Cheresire Cattail and the Strawberry Lemonade, the frozen one. They both look good. This is kind of like a traditional dessert that they always had here, like a snack. I don't think I've ever had it before. And normally, I think they sell it over here at the Cheresire Cafe. But I think because that's closed, they started selling it here in cosmic rays. And yeah, I thought it was time to try it. Maybe I have had one and I don't remember, but I don't know. I guess if I did have one, it wasn't that memorable, so it wasn't good. So I'll find out once I do bite into it. Mmm. Oh, it's actually very delicious. A little bit sweet, but it's like a chocolate croissant. A warm chocolate croissant with icing drizzled on it. I like it. Very delicious actually. But this right here, this really hits the spot. So cool and refreshing. Oh my lord.  This is something you need when you're in a hot day like today. A nice cold slushy is the way to go. You know what I really miss? I miss the one that they did sell at Casey's. It was like a mint lemonade one. That one was so much better. But this will do the trick. This will do the job. I always have a hard time saying Cheshire Cat. Like I want to say Cheshire, Cheshire, Cheshire, Cheshire. It's a speech impediment that I have. So when I read it, but it's Cheshire. See? It's so hard. You ever have words like that? You can't. I mean, I know how it sounds, but for some reason, I'd say it like seven different ways. I don't know why, but anyways, I think we're going to move along, maybe head on over to Tomorrowland. Well, basically we are in Tomorrowland, but I want to ride the People Mover. I want to kind of time it right so that when I hop on the People Mover, as we hit that turn where you can see Cinderella Castle, the sunset would be just happening. I mean, I'm sure I can't get it at the perfect time, and it's only like 10 seconds worth of footage, but I bet you it will be pretty. So maybe we'll just give it a couple minutes or we'll see what the line is like, because maybe that'll be enough time to actually let the sun go down a little bit. It actually looks like there's no way for the People Mover. So I don't know if the timing's right. I think it is 7.30, and the sun is set to set at 8 o'clock, gives us a half an hour. I don't know. Maybe we'll just wait a couple minutes, and then we're going to board the People Mover. I was seriously thinking by the time I came over here that there might be like a 10, 15 minute wait, but literally we're just walking right on. Wow, and also Buzz Lightyear is a walk on, too. So Tomorrowland is just really a good spot. So maybe all the wait times are low except for Seven Doors' Mine Train. That would make perfect sense. Look at that. Just walk right on in to Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin. Maybe we'll do that afterwards. Now I'm thinking maybe I should just ride Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin so then when the time I get off, it'll be a lot closer to sunset. Instead of the walk on, we'll probably definitely be out in time. Can you imagine if we get off the ride though? And there's a long wait for the People Mover, and we miss the sunset? I hope that doesn't happen. But if it does, oh well, it was probably beautiful. Get that top of the volcano. Serval vision. Ooh, I'm really going in the black lights here. Uh-oh, we're going in the dark tunnel. We're going in the dark tunnel now. Time to get served. Oh boy, watch out for the flashing lights. Anybody else notice Buzz is hitting served with his laser blaster right here? He's got a direct hit right there. You see the red light on his chest? I'll be back. That was a lot of fun. I didn't get Galactic Hero this time because I was too busy like riding the ride and like just paying attention to the ride itself. You ever just ride it for the ride and not play the game? It's really fun seeing all the different aliens and Buzz Lightyear and the lights and spinning round and round and round. Anywho, I think we're going to head over to the People Mover now. We definitely killed about 15, 20 minutes there. So maybe it's time for a sunset or at least close to a sunset. Oh, doesn't look like there's still a long line. I mean, it was a little bit shorter before but this is probably just like 5, 10 minutes maybe at most. It might not be like a really, really low sunset but it's going to be beautiful. I got a good feeling about this. You can kind of see it a little bit. Oh yeah, that nice cotton candy sky and orange cones on a People Mover. It's more important than tomorrow, man.  You're quiet and carefree. So we're going to get two shots at this. This one first coming up right now and then on the other side. Let's see how this bad boy looks. Oh, yes. That is beautiful, isn't it? All that cotton is planted for 10 seconds towards the footage. But like I said, there's still another shot with the castle so it's only going to be better. It's just so beautiful at night though, isn't it? Look at this. Hi friends. People Mover is the perfect drive for people watching. Oh, there it is. First is appropriate. Share the fun. That was totally worth it. So beautiful, right? Wow. I didn't even think about that until I actually came up with the idea of going on the People Mover today. But now I kind of want to make it a tradition to come and watch the sunset on the People Mover. We can just round and go round and round and round. I mean, technically there's nobody waiting so maybe they'll let me go again. Wow. Seriously, look at how beautiful that is. I don't want to get out. Can I go around again? Oh my lord, I love you. Seriously. Really? Oh wow. What a miracle. Yeah. I'm so happy right now. It's like a wish come true. They're going to let me go around again so I'm going to be able to see it again. I'm so happy right now. It's like a wish come true. They're going to let me go around again so I'm going to be able to see it again. Wow, this is too amazing. I'm actually tearing up a little bit. It's like the old days. We just go round and round and round. Here we go, round two. We're going to see this beautiful view again and it's going to even be better because it's later on. The sun has set a little bit lower. Look at that. That was so nice that the cats were going to let us go round again. Literally made my day. Just a little magic like that. I feel like things are getting back to normal. There's a lot of people moving in the sun. I kind of just enjoyed it. I didn't film that much because it was just really relaxing and I had a lot of fun. But I was so thankful that it did. Now we're going to come out here and watch the rest of it from ground level. Look at that. I feel like a kid in a candy shop. Look at that. Perfection, right? Wow, seriously. Just being able to stand here and watch that is so beautiful. All the lights inside the hub are starting to turn on. Cinderella castles, the lights inside the windows are starting to turn on. It is so beautiful. And the reflection off of the water is breathtaking. It's so hard to capture everything but do you see what I'm talking about? The reflection in the water. It is so amazing out. I think I'm going to head over to Adventureland. I have a real pirate to the Caribbean for a while and I feel like that would be a nice ride to get on right now. By the time we come out I'll probably be dark out.  But at the same time I want to ride some rides. I want to enjoy the Magic Kingdom. It's so nice to be able to be out here and it's not too hot. I think right now it's in the 80s but it's not like humid. The sun isn't powering down on you. I love it. The hub definitely got busy though. Look at the line to get photos. I don't blame them though because it's a really nice sunset happening. The funny thing is when I said I kind of felt like riding Pirates of the Caribbean. I was kind of smelling it in my head. I was like wow it would be great to smell Pirates of the Caribbean at the moment. Isn't that a little strange? It seems like there's nobody over here. Look at this. Wow. Honestly I got tripped up by Seven Doors mind train but everything we rode today has been basically a walk on and it's about to be Pirates of the Caribbean too. I can tell it's a walk on just by how there's nobody in this general vicinity. Usually this is a very crowded area so it's pretty 100% sure that we're just going to walk right on to Pirates of the Caribbean at this moment. It says 30 minutes but there's no way. I'm putting the mask on. We're ready to go. 30 minutes. Here's the kill. Look at all this.  Oh wow. We're actually bypassing all of it. Nice. We don't have to go through the separators. I can actually hear the Pirates back there. That's so funny. Oh looks like we got row number 1. Fancy. That was awesome to ride Pirates of the Caribbean now it is dark outside and as soon as I got off Pirates I ran over here because I wanted to get one more ride in and the closest ride was the flying carpet so we're going to do a night ride on the flying carpet which I don't think I've ever done. 8.59 Closing time. We got to find ourselves a magic carpet here. I think we're going on the far distance over here to the left. Oh yep. There's one right there. I'm not too sure if you guys remember the other day when I rode Triceratops spin. This is the same concept. You actually control how far you want to go up and down from the front and then on the back or lean front. So it's really awesome. It's two different ways you can ride. All the way up. Oh no. Look at this. I love it. We're going to go down and then we're going to go back up. We're going to do a little rock. If you just do it real quick it kind of bounces you. Watch it go down real quick and then back up and then down and it makes you bounce. This is too much fun. I forgot about the back lever too so we can tilt ourselves already forward or tilt ourselves all the way back. We're going down now. Look at that. Little bumpy. That was funny to run and get one last ride in on the flying carpets but I'm happy I did. You know it's so hard to say good night. It's like you don't want the day to end. We came here kind of late. I feel like we got so much accomplished. We rode the Haunted Mansion. We got food at Cosmic Race. We rode the People Mover twice. We rode Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger, Spin, Pirates of the Caribbean and the carpets all in three hours. Not even three hours. Two and a half hours. Amazing. That is a successful day I feel like. I feel like it has been probably months since I've been here at night. It's so beautiful seeing all the lights. Only because the parks have been closing kind of early so it's hard to get here and actually stay all the way tonight because the park closes and the sun isn't even set like sometimes so it's nice to see it all lit up. Right now it's nine o'clock and normally happily ever after would be happening. Wow, I miss that so much. I can't wait for it to come back. I probably will watch it every single... I bet you I'm going to watch fireworks every night that I get reservations for just so that I can take it all in because you kind of take advantage of those situations and you don't know what you have until they're gone. So coming to see fireworks in a nighttime show and being like, no, that's right. I'm going to go do something else. I wish I could go back and watch as many fireworks as I could. Magic Kingdom before the parks closed and the fireworks ended. My last time seeing happily ever after, I was in the Crystal Palace and I was eating dinner. No big deal at all. I'm just like, oh, the fireworks are going on. I wish I would have known and paid more attention because that would have been the last time I seen the fireworks in like two years and it probably would have been a little bit more memorable for me but I guess you never know what's going to happen. Look at this. A nice lit up Main Street USA. Get to say goodbye. Nobody's wearing face mask. I'm telling you, soon. Soon. No more mask at all and fireworks will be back and the world will be looking up. Well anyways, I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. Just a random day here today checking out the wait times, enjoying the park. So crazy that I got to ride the people and we're back to back. It was so much fun and actually made me just like so happy. Honestly, I kind of got teary-eyed because it was just like a sense of normal. Do you know what I mean? Anywho's. Like I said, I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye.


Hi, my name is Ken Murray. I'm a CICD engineer at IBM, working within the Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps team. My area of expertise is in the adoption of GitOps in the development and operation of deployment pipelines. Today, I'm joined with my colleague Ying Mo to present on the topic of GitOps and cross-plane and its application across both traditional non-Cloud native IT environments and Cloud native applications. So an overview of the agenda. First stage here, I'm going to talk about the adoption of cross-plane and Argo CD in CI CD pipelines. I'm going to give a generic view of deployment pipeline as it exists today and how we use our deployment pipelines in the infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management, but also in application deployments. Going to talk about cross-plane as an abstraction platform for infrastructure provisioning. So basically using GitOps to both manage our infrastructure and also application deployments. Ying Mo will then discuss ongoing development work in the area of Ansible cross-plane provider for more traditional IT systems. He'll discuss the provider in terms of how it works and how people can use it and how it can be adopted and then finally a deep dive across the Ansible provider runtime lifecycle. Some best practices in the use of the provider and then finally comparing the Ansible provider with the Ansible operator. So if we just look at a typical deployment pipeline, very generic view, you typically would have a build here coming in on the left-hand side of the deployment pipeline. The first stage would typically be the acquisition of infrastructure onto which you would run your deployments. The second stage would typically be some kind of configuration you might want to do on that infrastructure. So in terms of a Kubernetes cluster, for example, you might want to set up some storage or some prerequisites before you do your application deployment. Application deployment then you would deploy your software components onto that infrastructure. You may want to do some close deploy checks to ensure that your applications are deployed to a sufficient level before you would trigger some downstream test pipelines. You may want to export some deployment logs, trigger them downstream test pipelines, export those test pipeline results to some location that could be downloaded by individuals at a later point. And then finally, you may want to do some notification out to the wider teams that your deployments have completed. The stages in such a pipeline that would be typically, as I call it, GitOps ready, would be those that would be more typical to application deployment and the application of Kubernetes manifests onto a cluster. So in terms of this generic pipeline view here, we could look at perhaps configuration, application deployment more typical to the typical view of GitOps and the application of GitOps. Infrastructure management in particular would not be as biblical as it stands today to GitOps. Infrastructure management typically involves the use of custom infrastructure APIs. So provisioning of infrastructure, you would typically point to that infrastructure providers, APIs to create those environments which typically don't lend themselves quite well to the adoption of GitOps. So infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management, then if we just focus a little bit in on the infrastructure section of our pipeline, the current infrastructure. Today, what we do in our pipelines is that we maintain a pool of Kubernetes clusters. So this pool is available for deployment at any time. It speeds up our complete deployment lifecycle in a sense that we have clusters prepared before they're actually needed for deployment. So we maintain a set of pre-provision clusters in a pool. When we request a cluster from our deployment pipeline, we go to our pool manager and it basically picks a cluster available for the deployment pipeline. Our pool manager then also tops up that pool. So it communicates via custom APIs to IBM's infrastructure provider to create clusters. So in this case, we're using Red Hat OpenShift clusters. So we communicate with our infrastructure provider over their APIs to create a cluster at a particular config level. And it's placed into our pool ready for deployment at a later stage. So as I said, the pool manager is set at a provisioned level. So we have a set level of X number of clusters we need for deployment pipeline. It supports variation in cluster specifications. So different specifications of our worker nodes, for example, CPU memory and storage. And the key point here, I guess, is that the infrastructure, the interface to the infrastructure provider is a custom interface. It's non-cloud native. So quite interesting if we could think of infrastructure management like we do application management, could we adopt and leverage the benefits of GitOps and span that across both infrastructure and application deployment. So with the use of crossplane, we can achieve just that. Crossplane provides an abstraction platform for infrastructure provisioning. So we have rolled out a provider for our infrastructure management crossplane provider. It defines a cluster as a very simple resource type. So the complexities of managing our clusters for our end users is really masked to our users. They don't need to be aware of the API specification. They just need to be aware of the kind of type of cluster and the configuration of the cluster within the OCP resource, the OpenShift platform resource definition here on the left-hand side. So you can see here, we specify things like the cluster name, the diversion of the OpenShift we want to provision, things like the site, what data center we want that cluster to be deployed into and then some very high-level configuration for the workers within the cluster. So the user base, it just needs to populate out these parameters here and the provider communicates across to our cloud provider to provision the cluster. The provider also provides the cluster endpoint and credentials then written to secrets on our control plane cluster. So the control plane is essentially our cluster running our gross CD. So it is our master cluster for that basically performs the provisioning of our infrastructure and running our deployment pipeline as well. As with any type of Kubernetes resource type, we get status again via the provider back onto the OCP resources. So on our control plane cluster, we can list all the clusters we've got deployed in our pool and get the status of those as we would wish any other Kubernetes resource type. So in the definition of our resources then for cross-plane, we're using Helm. Helm provides a very good mechanism by which we can override and set configurations for our clusters. So the template basically allows for the passing of customized attributes for our cluster deployment. So here on the left-hand side, for example, you can see we're taking the fall values from a values file. But we're then also taking like actually it's like a cluster name, we're overriding those to create the overall OCP definition. And we'll see that on the next slide. So here we can see the default values for our clusters. So this will be in one particular cluster pool type. This pool type is basically holding clusters of OCP 4.10.3 in site XYZ. And this is the default configuration for the workers. The cluster pool YAML then is basically overriding the cluster name each time it creates a new cluster instance in our pool. So when we want to create another cluster, we essentially just add another line here into our cluster pool YAML. And that then merges with the names template to produce the overall cluster instance here on the far right-hand side. So how can we bring this together then? To manage infrastructure and applications using GitOps. So this is kind of just a high level view of the flows then. If we start with GitHub on the left-hand side, on the blue kind of trend here, we're looking at the default values coming in for the clusters. Our cluster pool YAML, which defines the instances of the clusters that we want to exist in our pool. As I said in the previous slide, it has merged with the names template and it basically routes through Argo CD, which syncs off of the Git repository holding those artifacts true to provider and opposed to requests across to our infrastructure provider to generate the clusters in the pool. So if we want to, as I said in the previous slide, if we want to create clusters, we essentially just add a new cluster entry into the cluster pool YAML. And similarly, if we want to delete a cluster, it just gets removed from that cluster pool YAML and Argo CD detects the update or the commit representing that removal or addition of a cluster and reconciles that via the cross-plane provider onto our cluster pool. Application deployment then, again, cloud native, right? So it's using the traditional cloud native path here. We have our values.YAML, again, helm driven, our application templates, which contains all of the templates for our application deployment. And I thought of the green line, which essentially is again, syncing off of GitHub, our GitHub repository for application deployment true Argo CD and this time straight on to the cluster that's chosen for deployment. So as I said at the start of the presentation, our deployment pipeline will choose a cluster from the pool for a particular deployment run and that becomes the active cluster then for the deployment. So we deploy straight onto that cluster, again, using Argo CD. So some of the benefits of doing it this way, right? So managing both infrastructure and applications using GitOps, we have a common approach. So we leverage the same Argo CD approach for both managing our infrastructure. So you can think of infrastructure as code. It's managed and maintained within GitHub. Some of the benefits there obviously, right? But with anything else, suppose in GitHub is that we've got it versioned and audited. We've got an audit trail of when clusters get created and removed from our pool. Single sources truth, of course, for deployment infrastructure, it avoids configuration drift. Okay, so when we look at our cluster pools, we know definitively that those clusters map back to our definition within GitHub. There can be no configuration drifts in the sense of individuals creating clusters and placing them in the pool that may contravene our configuration templates for those clusters in that given pool. Cluster state is continuously reconciled and this is an important aspect. If clusters get inadvertently deleted from our pool, Argo CD will see that and it will detect the change and it will drive the cluster pool back to its defined state as per GitHub. So again, that's a very important characteristic for us. Not only in terms of application management and to ensure that your applications are mapping back to the single sources truth, but obviously also for our infrastructure. So I'm going to hand over to Ying Mo now and Ying Mo is going to discuss some ongoing work in the development of an Ansible Provider. Again, more focused on mapping GitOps across to traditional IT systems. So again, continuing on with applying the concepts of Argo CD and crossplane to the non-cloud-based world. So over to you Ying Mo. Thanks, Ken. So my name is Mo Ying and I'm from IBM as a software engineer. Next, I'm going to share with you how Argo CD can be extended to reach traditional IT system by leveraging crossplane. So a little bit background, as we all know, both Argo CD and crossplane are designed for cloud native and it can only be run in Kubernetes. However, this may not be true for many real world organizations where they may have IT systems that are traditional based such as application run on VM or bare metal. And they may have already heavily invested on management automation for those kind of systems. For management automation, Ansible has a popular automation technology as a large user base and mature ecosystem. It is widely adopted by many of such organizations to automate management for different varieties of IT systems ranging from cloud native to non-cloud native. So the question here is how we can drive GitOps for those systems consistently, no matter it is cloud native or non-cloud native. Here, I'd like to introduce an open source project that is currently working in progress, the crossplane provider for Ansible. It is targeted to extend the crossplane scope by enabling its integration with Ansible to build a bridge between the cloud native and non-cloud native world. So that can open a door to drive and reuse existing automation assets to manage hybrid technologies using the same way consistently and help organizations transition to cloud native while keep their existing investments. Let's take a quick look at how it looks. So this is diagram that illustrates how Ansible provider works at a high level. Basically Ansible provider is driven at its core by a Kubernetes controller called Ansible run controller where it watches the Ansible run Kubernetes customer resource along with a reference to the provider config that includes all the information to run Ansible contents. The controller usually retrieves the Ansible contents remotely from many places such as Ansible BXC, Automation Hub, or Git repo. And then it will store the content into a working directory so that can be launched by a embedded Ansible runner command line. So here are some examples to demonstrate how to use it. For example, we can define an Ansible run to call an Ansible row or an Ansible paybook. And both of them are usually retrieved from a remote place which can be defined as a requirements in the provider config. So as it is shown here, this one is retrieved from Ansible Galaxy and this one is retrieved from a Git repo. And if it is a private Git repo that requires credential to access, it can also define the credentials information here. We can also pass variables to customize the Ansible run like this. And for some simple cases, we can even define an inline paybook directly within the Ansible run resource which does not require any remote retrieval. Next, let's take a little bit deep dive into the Ansible provider design so that you can better understand what happens inside the provider. First, let's take a quick look at how Cross-Pen provider manages its resource. So to manage resource, or usually we call it external resource on targeted system, it requires us to define managed resource that includes the desired state and is watched by the Cross-Pen managed resource we consider on local system. To manage the external resource, we will have to operate on the managed resource where the changes will be detected by the managed resource reconcealer. Then the reconcealer will operate on the external resource on targeted system to reflect the changes that we made on the managed resource. To be more accurate, this is a typical reconciliation loop that consists of five phases. It starts from the connect phase that is usually used to establish the connection to the targeted system. Then observe, delete, create, and update that map to the resource crowd operations. During the observe phase, the provider will usually detect if the resource on target system exists or not. If it does not exist, it will advance to the create phase to create the resource. And if it does exist but not up to date, it will then go to the update phase to update the resource so that the desired state and the actual state are always in sync. Once it's finished, it will recue to wait for the next loop. And if user deletes the managed resource, that means we will never need external resource on targeted system anymore. Then this will trigger the delete phase where the provider will help us delete the resource on targeted system. So this is what we call as cross band managed resource lifecycle. Now it turns to the S-baran lifecycle. You may see that it is actually a subset of the cross plan managed resource lifecycle. Generally, in Ansible provider, there are two types of lifecycle for the S-baran that are supported. In the first type, the provider uses observe to handle the case when the managed resource S-baran is present and use delete to handle the case when the managed resource S-baran is absent. And both observe and delete will call the same set of Ansible contents. In the second type, the provider will run the Ansible contents in observe first, but using the check mode, which is essentially a dry run. And if any change is detected after the dry run, the provider will then trigger a create or update to kick off the actual run of the same set of Ansible contents. Also, both two types will use connect to prepare the runtime environment for the Ansible run. For example, to retrieve the Ansible contents from a remote place. Okay, now you learned how Ansible run will be driven by following the lifecycle. Ansible provider implements the lifecycle to decide when to run the Ansible. But in order to do the actual work to manage the resource on target system, it relies on the Ansible contents. Now let's see what are the best practices for Ansible users who creates the Ansible contents so that can align with lifecycle much better. So here are a couple of rules. The first rule is to keep your Ansible rules or playbooks adaptant. It is always a best practice to write Ansible rules or playbooks in an adaptant way. For Ansible provider, this is required because the same Ansible contents will be run many times in their reconciliation loop. You should guarantee that each Ansible run should produce the same results if the decided state is not changed. The second rule is to ensure your Ansible rules or playbooks to support state field. It is also a common practice in many Ansible modules that support state field and behave differently according to the state value. And for Ansible provider, this is required because the same Ansible contents will be used to handle both the case when the Ansible run resource is present and absent. Next, let's take a quick look at the difference between Ansible provider and Ansible operator, which is another similar technology created by Red Hat that can bring Ansible into Kubernetes world. So as listed here, there are a few major differences. First, Ansible operator is mainly designed for managing Kubernetes resources, while Ansible provider can be used to manage both Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes resources. And second, Ansible operator requests you to bundle Ansible contents that manage resource into a container image at build time before you deploy it. And Ansible provider on the other side works as a driver without having to build Ansible contents into it, but instead to prepare and call those Ansible contents at runtime. And third, Ansible operator is usually implemented as a co-located Kubernetes application to operate on in-class resources. While Ansible provider usually runs on one Kubernetes cluster, then operates on the resources on another remote system, which can be either Kubernetes or non-Kubernetes. Lastly, all the discussions around the Ansible provider was extracted from the design doc, which I put the link here just for your reference. You can read it to get a more detailed version. And since it is an open source project that is evolving rapidly, I would encourage you to join us and feel free to open Git issue or submit PR if you have any good idea on how to improve it. Okay, that's all for this session and thanks for watching.


The American Red Cross has been setting up donor stations all across northern Minnesota. Arshorel Moore shares with us why the need for blood is prevalent. It's like an oil change for your body. It's good for you. When was the last time you gave blood? Maybe you don't have time, or the facility was too far. Or you have a big fear of needles. Luckily, the Red Cross is here to alleviate some of those fears. We donate every time that they come here. It's nice. It's great. Like every year we do it, we have somebody come in. So it feels like we're just helping out. A lot of people encourage to do it. The Red Cross has been hosting blood drives all over northern Minnesota. Today's was held in Walker at the Northern Lights Consino. The process is pretty simple and at the end you get a free t-shirt and even some snacks. You sign up at the front. You come in, we do the health history. So that's where we do all your vitals. We take the hemoglobin to do your iron levels. You can just show up and walk up. We prefer that you sign up. And there's multiple ways you can do that. You can do that right online at redcross.org. You can just give us a call at 1-800-RED-CROSS. Or you can download our app. It's been more and more common nowadays. Donating blood takes about an hour from the time of sign up to the time you're in the chair. And then, just remember, there's never a bad time to give blood because it's always needed. We get emails every day about how our storages and hospitals are calling, emailing, saying, hey, we need this blood type. We need that blood type. We need all blood types. We have different scenarios and different reasons why we need the blood. You have cancer patients. You have people that have been in trauma, like accidents, things like that. You have babies that were born with sicknesses, people that need transfusions for all different types of reasons. There's a few things to bring if you plan on donating with the Red Cross, like a donor card or a picture ID. You should also come hydrated and eat something beforehand. And if you miss this blood drive, you have another chance. We're trying to grow in this area. We do a lot of blood drives in Baxter, the Red Area, Wilmer, Hutchinson, but we're trying to grow in this area because the people here are wonderful. They're great donors. Tomorrow, we'll be in Cass Lake at the Palace Casino from 10 to 4. Reporting in Walker, Sheryl Moore, Lakeland News. The Red Cross is always in need of volunteers. You can sign up through their website or app. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.