Okay, hi everyone. Welcome to today's bite-sized talk. Today we have Chris White, who's going to be telling us about Gitpod and how it can be used for testing development and training. I'll let Chris introduce himself, but I hope you enjoy the talk. Hi everyone. Yeah, so my name is Chris. I work at Postdoc at University College London. I also help with the training materials at Sakura Labs, and this is particularly where Gitpod, so this basically a miniature computer in the cloud that we can use for development, is really handy specifically for training, but is also now used really frequently within the NFCOR community to test code and to make changes and use all the features of Gitpod, of GitHub, I mean, within this really nice environment that we can all use. So yeah, what is Gitpod? It's an open source developer platform that's using BS code, and it can spin up these miniature development environments in seconds from a Git repository with all the code you need so that you can actually do all the testing or whatever you need to do in your particular piece of code. And it's free to use, and I'll get to more details of that later. And all the progress you need are actually just a Chromium-based browser, an internet connection, and a GitHub account. So you will need to decide in using your GitHub account to get access to the Gitpod environment. So just to overview what I'm going to talk about today, I'll explain why Gitpod is used, how you actually get started, which is a very simple setup, and then we'll get straight into running an NFCOR test pipeline. Then we'll go into slightly more like deeper topics that may be more for developers of NFCOR code, which is editing NFCOR pipelines, dealing with GitHub and how to push simple branches, for example, setting up these whole GitHub environments and live rendering of HTML and to do things with the website. There's also a really useful task that we use at NFCOR. So yeah, why are we using Gitpod? Well, it's this really cool, it's the kind of ethos of NextFlow, the fact that NFCOR that you have these repeatable and reproducible pieces of code, but now we also have a way of testing them in the exact same environment between all the collaborators of a particular NFCOR pipeline. And it also helps just simplify a lot of the tasks that we're doing when we're coding with these particular pipelines. And it's really fast. There are other different types of environment like this other than Gitpod, but Gitpod's super fast and normally you can just go straight from a GitHub repository to this kind of VS Code window where you have a terminal, all your codes, and a really, really nice neat way of dealing with all your work. So yeah, to get started, we may as well just dive in so that we can show exactly how this works. So yeah, if you want to do this at another time, I think maybe it might be difficult to do it as well at the same time, but if you want to then go ahead. But all you need is the browser and your GitHub credentials. And to actually open any GitHub URL as a Gitpod environment, then you just need to add this prefix that's shown here before the GitHub repository URL, or you can install a Gitpod browser extension. So I will put all these in the notes afterwards, but you can download this extension and it will basically add a Gitpod button, green button to every Git repository and all it's doing is just making this prefix before the URL so that you can quickly access with one click, especially if you already logged in with your GitHub credentials, then it will be one click and you'll get straight into the working repository. And finally, I just wanted to mention that this is actually being done through a file in the Git repository called a Gitpod.yaml file. And this is the file that tells Gitpod what particular pieces of code that we need and how to set up that environment so that the particular code that we're interested in works. So, yeah, so we're going to just go straight into the live demo. So I'll explain exactly what it looks like when we go into this environment, how you can add extensions into the environment so you can add different add-ons. This is a picture from Gitpod. You can add Docker or you can add lots of different functionality within your containerized environments to test your code. I will explain how to use Git within this and also opening files like PDFs, etc., and live rendering for website development. So what we're going to do now is we're just going to take, oh, sorry, skipping ahead, we're just going to go straight into how to use Gitpod. So hopefully everyone can see this. So the example pipeline we're going to use is the NFCore test pipeline. I've already got the browse extension, so I actually have this link already. I could also copy the link address, open up a new tab, and just paste it in. Well, just for quick speed, I'll just click on it. So when you log in, this is all you need to do, and at this point it would ask you for your credentials. So for me it's not because I'm already logged in. So yeah, so this is going straight from that repository into now we're in Gitpod. And along on the other side you can see the Explorer set says these are all the files within your repository. You have a window here to look at visualization of code or PDFs, etc., and then you have a terminal at the bottom. You also have, should have extra buttons here, which I can't see. Anyway, there's all the things you would normally want to do on your own computer. You can also do here. And just to show you how this is actually working, the Gitpod.yaml file is not to kick the right one, but I'll go back. So this particular repository, we're in the master. So some pipelines, this is a very good example to show you. So when you're looking for a pipeline to look with running with Gitpod, you need to make sure this Gitpod.yaml file, because this is all the programs you need. If we click on that, it's shown that we have an image, so a Docker file from Docker Hub image is being called that has all the code that we need. And I will go a bit more into these Gitpod yaml's a bit later. So we're in this development branch. I also mentioned at this point, if you're actually making changes to NFCore code, then you'll be wanting to do this in the dev branch and not in the master branch. So now if we click it, we should get back to a Gitpod environment that I was expecting that should have all the code that we need to run this particular pipeline. So sometimes this can take a few seconds. So if we click on that, it will probably be more than that. But if not, we can move on to different other things that I can explain to you, but it should pop up reasonably fast. I get it, there we go. So now we are actually in the correct repository that I wanted to be in, but just move that away just to make it clearer. So you can see there's a Gitpod yaml file, which I was expecting to see, which has, this is the reason why we have the code brought into this environment. And then in the terminal, now if we type in next flow, it finds the tool because it's already installed within this Gitpod yaml file. It's told us that this container contains all the things we need to run the particular piece of code. And so the other thing that's quite nice here, if you want to actually test this repository, there's obviously the read me. To open this, this is not obviously rendered. There's a preview button so we can easily click things to preview the render to look exactly the same as it would do on the web page. It also tracks. So if you're, if you're actually needing to change something like in the read me, you can, you can add whatever you want and it will automatically change it in the preview on the right hand side. But I'm not going to change this at the moment. Anyway, if I move this across, so if we look at the read me tells us obviously how we can run this piece of code. And I just want to quickly show you that obviously it's quite easy to quickly run this particular piece of code. So we're going to run next low. And remember this is actually in a dev, the dev branch so if we run it exactly the same as this line, we would actually pull the master branch which is not actually what we need to run. So in the next row, we can just run from the main file. Then we can set a profile. And here explains how to set the profile as normal of next load code. And in this particular case, we're going to use Docker. The reason for this is that singularity is one of the few things I know that doesn't work in Git code. So if you need to test something with singularity, you'd have to do it outside you wouldn't be able to do it within this environment. Then we could set an idea. So everything you need to do here is very simple to do. Okay, so if you want to add a new folder, we could call it results. And this is the kind of way you can add a folder manually by clicking one of these buttons for new files on your folders. And then we can just run the code like this. So now we're running next flow and running this pipeline within Git pod. So I hope you can see it's quite nice that we could quickly get to running this pipeline and seeing how it works and begin to see the output. The resources on these machines aren't huge. There's only a few threads. So you can't do anything that's going to be using like eight threads, for example. You can run for maximum half an hour if you have the free account. But we'll explain later there's an access that you can get a limited time. If you if you need that for the particular project. And so yeah, if we just see that the program is running. And we'll see obviously all the tasks next flow running through. And then I'll just wait for it to finish. Shouldn't take too long this this pipeline for, I should have mentioned, is actually taking fast queue reads, it's running it through fast QC to get color control of those particular samples. And it's using multi QC to push them all together to make a really nice plot of all the different features, the quality scores of the fast queue reads. So it's a quick way of running a pipeline. And you can do this for any of the pipelines that have this get pod yaml. And it's quite fun to do it means you can just really test out a new pipeline see exactly how it works and see if it worked with your data. You can drop and drag your files into this explore area to bring files in. And there's also other ways that you, there's also normally here there will be a file in store I don't know why it's not here. I'm doing full screen. Anyway, you can drop and drag files in here. Yeah, here we go. Sorry if I have the outside full screen you have options here that you can save files to your local machine. You can open files and do all the kind of things you would expect to do in a normal computer. And the other thing. So now it's finished in our results file we have our results. We have the multi QC for example we have the multi QC report. And again you can use these preview buttons so that you can render these particular results into a nice file that you can see everything's going on. So here is the results of that fast QC result in multi QC. And so I think this is quite cool know that you can you can just quickly run these pipelines. And within this this particular environment you might want to change something so maybe you're particularly interested in changing a particular module, and you can still change everything in a get put environment. And once you change something, I'll just add, I won't actually push this to the branch because people won't be happy. But if I add on say, I don't know, perhaps, whatever I've changed here. If you click on the code here, you'll notice on the left hand side on the source control. It's noticed that one of the files within your repository has changed. And if we click this button, it said that we've changed the main.nf, and you can now use the get functions within get pod to add that particular change. And you can also then make a message for that particular change. And also down the bottom you can see that we have this development branch on the bottom left hand side. So if we click this, we can also choose to create a new branch. So if you've made changes to the code. This is a very quick way to add create a new branch and show that that, you know, so that we can push it to the push it back to the repository and then do a poor request. So I think that's everything I really wanted to show you on this very basic example. So let's quickly go to another example that it's quite helpful to explore, which is actually on the website. So if I go to the website and repository, we can also run it from here. And I'll just show a few more features that I think are really interesting to see. But we can actually live render the whole website. The whole website is changing and we can change the underlying markdown. And so this is quite helpful when we've been developing the website so hopefully this will quickly load. And I can show you this example. So I will show you in this repository that if we see the get pod.yaml file. And this is what I showed you before that you have. Well, there's many things you can put in these ammo files and I think the best way to learn about this is to go to the get pod website, but also just looking at other people's get pod yaml files you can see exactly what people are doing. Before I showed you image, image was pulling a docker container, but you also can initiate tasks. So this is so you can do lots of different relations. Commands related to Docker, you can open ports to expose ports so that we can look at web browser and share share a particular web browser and HTML rendering. And the other thing are the VS code extensions. So these extensions are all on over here. And you can make sure that each repository that you make into a get pod environment has all the different code linting services. Adding different particular pieces of code that are very useful to have each time you can add these extensions manually in this get pod yaml. And you can also set all the get hub settings that you would need to change. So just very quickly because I'm probably running over time. We can, we can set here in the remote browser, we can set this to being a live preview. Okay, no you can't. Probably have done something wrong. So yeah, so within this repository we're now making a live view of the actual repository that's changed. And then if I wanted to go through the code into the markdown, I can actually change the markdown and like I showed you before you can actually change what's happening in this live preview of the NFCOR website. I think this is super useful as well. The only last thing I wanted to show you was with the get hub button here. You can look at all the open pull requests. You can click on different ones that you're interested in trying to fix. I'll get rid of this for now. And it should show you the pull request and give you all the information it loads. It will. Anyway, normally it should you should come up with all the things you can do and get basically you can do within this get pod environment. I think this is really handy. So there we go. So you can assign you can do everything that you want to do and get but it's within this get out of repository and I think this is really helpful. So I think finally, I think I showed everything I needed to show there. And I just wanted to mention. Here is a few slides left. So I wanted to mention that also these get pod environments are used as a sense of the training. So Satish presents really well the training materials that we have two weeks ago. All of these repositories are now running a get pod environment with all the code that you need to run them. So if you need to next, so this is a really cool way of getting into get pod and the next flow that you can have this amazing environment in the cloud with all the tools that you need. So the cost, the free ones really cool is only 50 hours per month. You have four parallel workspaces, but you have this 30 minute in activity time. As a member of NF core get pod, get hub accounts, you can find a free professional open source account, and you can get this through the following link so if you click this. There's a, I think the form you need to fill in to be able to get a professional account for free, which is really nice of get pod to open source developers. And yeah, just to say there's not very many threads, and I think the maximum size of each repository the back 30 to 50 gigabytes in case you're testing and need more than that. But normally it's the resources are easily enough to do all these different testing things that we want to do. So finally just to say if you need help. There's lots of people in NF core that work with get pod and have lots of knowledge of how to run all these things how to make the yaml's for example. And there's also a section on the web page relating to get pod. And there's really great resources and videos on get pod IO itself. And so yeah, I think that's, that's everything. Thanks for listening. So it's really fantastic talk and really exciting to hear a bit more about get pod again. Are there any questions. So the options are to either put your questions into the chat and I can read them out or I will just mute the microphones. So you should be able to speak up yourself. So what are the security issues. Personally, I really, I really don't know. I, yeah, I would have to check that up for you. And yeah, I don't know about if it's, what level of security they have. Yeah, I would say for all of the stuff to do with NF core isn't basically no security issues is public code running on the public server. And if you want to do something secret on a private repo and maybe consider that. And of course stuff I don't need to worry. It's completely off your system. So it's more secure than if you're running it locally. True. Sorry, I was just going to read out the question. Yeah, one of the pros and cons of get pod compared to code spaces. Yeah, so this is a good point. I mean we did play around a few of these different things, but and get pod is super fast is done. I think it is powered by Kubernetes and it's is done in a much more efficient way and it means that everything's really quick. And you have these initialization step the reason it's quick is because it actually saves these layers of your of these get put environments, so that you don't have to keep installing everything at the same time. So that's like a second, a few seconds normally to get to these things. So it's mainly for speed and also they're a really great company that seem to be really they have a really active community of people that help you with your code. So it's, yeah, that's the main reason. And the next question is, is there a way to put a link on a document to open it and get pod that automatically takes the current branch into account. I assume so I'd have to check that again I'm not sure I'd have to try it, but yeah I think it must be, it must be possible. I just didn't, didn't share that. Oh yeah I was meant to share the links. So I'm just going to quickly. You can just prefix the file link with the get pod IO. Thanks. Cool. It takes into account your entire current URL so if the current URL you're looking at is on a branch. We've got open get pod in that branch. And the same with the little green get pod button. Also, most of the repos we have a lot of them now. So when you're browsing pull request get pod has an integration which will automatically add a little button into the bottom of the first description of that pull request. So when you're browsing pull request you'll also see a button say open in get pod, and that will open you directly into that pull request. Great. So there's another question here can you kindly share the links, e.g. the slack channel link here. And make sure the links are at least on slack and one or two channels to find later. Okay, unless there are any more questions that pop up quickly. I just wanted to thank Chris again for his fabulous talk. You can always catch up on this talk again on YouTube will post this very shortly after the talk. 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Hello there! I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with today's video all about making an underwater Christmas card. With as obsessed as I have been lately with underwater scenes I had to get Lawn Fawn's Christmas Fishes set when it came out and I used a gajillion markers for this. Yes, that happens in my world. I end up with having to balance the markers against my hand when I take that little picture to post on my blog and there is a picture in my mind as I'm doing this that I wanted to get across and I wanted this to be in more natural colors. I didn't want it to be super bright so I used a YR for the glow around the kelp tree and created just a little bit of a glow around that. That led to some other challenges which was trying to figure out how to transition out to the underwater color. I tried going with a lighter yellow and stuff and I was going to maybe have some yellow highlights on some of the little fish that were around it but then how do I get out there to the blue? Of course green is a transition. I thought I'd try some YG00. Maybe kind of sort of see what happened. I'm still in brights. Now I've got to bring it back down to neutrals so I went over that with some YG91 and I just kind of kept going through this progression and for those who really want to learn how to do this kind of stuff it is always an experiment. There's no magic. There's nothing that I know that makes me any smarter at this than you. I'm just a little braver probably. That might be about the big difference between me and your your average colorist is that I'm willing to try things because I stamped this a couple times so I could try it several times since I had my misty out and was going crazy with my masking. Just do it more than once and then you're ready to try it again if what you tried didn't work. One of the other things that I did with this particular video for those who have taken the underwater Copic class and you might be fascinated with this I have put this one in as a bonus lesson but not just this video but I've put the whole real-time thing in there so you can go in and listen to Christmas music and watch this card being made in real-time. You don't have to pay extra if you've already bought the class. It comes with it as a bonus lesson at the end but I wanted to give you the opportunity to kind of try it along with me and if you've taken the class then you know what all of these techniques are for how to build up dark color around the edges and do bubbles for transitions and all that kind of thing that we've talked about in the class so that I offer to those who have taken that class already or if you're new and you take that one then you will get that as the bonus lesson. There is no voiceover for it just Christmas music. There's also a couple of tips in the text in that lesson as well but you can see how I'm kind of slowly building up that gradation from the outside edge toward the inside and I just keep rotating back and forth between the dark colors and then the medium dark color and then the lighter color and I have to work my way back toward the center again to get that blending to work and as I crisscross all of those colors then figuring out well what's the next logical color to try to make that transition work better and eventually I got down to having to go with a really light color and starting to to really kind of pull that in but the light color is not just any light color this one is a desaturated color because I wanted that desaturated look and then to finally get the blending to blend out softly I had to go for a B000 just because I had to I did add some color in the sand at the bottom and I wanted it to be dark because of course it's a nighttime I don't know if they have nighttime under the ocean it's kind of always nighttime there but nonetheless I put some blue in that brown just because I kind of had to in order not not make it look like it's stuck out like a sore thumb because I really want that focus to remain on the kelp tree in the middle and so I kind of tossed some dark greens along the base of each one of those pieces of kelp and then a lighter little piece for the rest of it let lighter color for the the end portions and they have all these little doodly bobs on the kelp as we know from having drawn kelp in the class and colored those in the green now each one of the fish and the hats are going to be hit by the glow coming out from the center toward the outside of the the image so I put the lighter color toward the inside where the tree is and the darker color on the very outside and just kind of pull that color together so that that it looks like the light is hitting each one of these things from the middle and one of the cutest little stamps I think in this stamp set is that little seashell that has a bow around it because it's so unexpected I was kind of thinking it would be nice if they had a gift and then I looked at that little stamp I thought it was just a little seashell and I realized it had a bow on it and was just tickled pink when I could stamp that little sucker so again with these other colors I'm keeping the lighter one on the side facing the tree so on the left side the shadow is on the left and on the right side the shadows on the right so it's not like your normal lighting since it's coming from the middle pointing out toward the outside of the images and had a little bit of shadows in the white now personally these are not realistic because you're not going to have Santa Claus hats on fish anyway so like worrying about the lighting on these trying to get the shading right is probably a little bit on the silly side and hello to the crow outside my window hopefully that did not come through really loud and screamy like it seemed to in my ear next up I added some bubbles both in a darker color and in a lighter color to sort of help that transition along and you can work on just putting a gajillion bubbles in here put more layers of the dark around the outside edges but I knew I was going to trim this down a bit so I didn't worry about it too much added some white highlights to some of the bubbles in the center just making a little sea around them and don't forget to put some bubbles in front of things so that it looks like they're all within the bubble cloud instead of just being behind or in front of the bubble cloud kind of pull them together and of course that is with my signal white gel pen which is invaluable during the Christmas season I go through maybe 15 or so of these pens for the 250 or so Christmas cards I make each year yeah I make a lot of Christmas cards send lots to my family and friends of course but also tons to my patrons so if you would like to get a Christmas card from me that might be a good thing for you to do is to go sign up to be a patron and you may get a Christmas card in the mail from yours truly thank you so much for visiting my youtube channel today make sure you subscribe if you haven't already share with your friends so they can subscribe as well and I will see you guys later on bye bye


Alright, before I get into anything else, we do have a giveaway going on for two copies of Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury. If you would like to enter into that giveaway, literally, I'm picking the winners this Thursday and getting them the download codes for their games. You just go down to the description or the pinned comment and find out how. Obviously, I would prefer if you guys would subscribe to the channel because, hey, you want to be pinged on all my videos and future giveaways and future fun stuff, right? Alright, so first thing first, you can already see the article on screen. We're going to be talking about scalpers and collectors that are buying up McDonald's Pokémon Happy Meals. My thoughts on this happening, this is not the first time it's happened in my life, it's not the first time it's happened to McDonald's. And I remember being a kid and having this happen for a different type of toy. And I want to talk about it, actually a couple different toys that I want to talk about this happening to when I was a kid. And some thoughts on this whole trend of scalping in general. But before I do, I want to apologize. There was supposed to be a video, a prime news video going out today. I haven't literally recorded, I've had it recorded since 7.30 in the morning. I have all the footage, I have everything ready to go. I've been having some technical issues all day. I'm not even sure if this video is going to go out at the time I'm recording this. Not necessarily because I've had issues with my cameras or my microphones, it's actually just been computer related. On my laptop, I just got a brand new laptop yesterday. It was a really nice laptop with an i7, like 10, 750H and a 6 core 12 thread processor. 16 gigs of RAM running at 3200 speeds. I had obviously a 2060 in this bad boy, 4K 60 screen. It was a beast. And it was essentially going to probably become my main way to edit. Not that I'm not going to use my studio. But I was going to kind of change things up to kind of have like a live stream setup versus a editing setup. And just make things a lot easier for me. But here's the thing, that computer, the keyboard stopped working on, right? So obviously I had to return it, order a new one. Okay, fine. And the stores won't have any in stock, so I returned it. Supposedly a new one's coming tomorrow. Whatever, right? You know, why didn't you just use your normal computer that technically this video was created on? And well, my desktop computer has been blue screening for quite some time. It doesn't seem to do it while I'm live streaming anymore, but it does do it in several other cases. And it's extremely frustrating that this is happening. And every time I try to edit any video that has any fancy editing, it just can't handle it. I have repasted the CPU, tried a whole new cooler. I have reset and replaced the RAM. I've tried multiple GPUs. I don't know what's going on. I'm pretty sure the motherboard itself is having some issues based on the error codes that come up, which means the motherboard needs to be replaced. Which, as you guys might know, it's actually kind of hard to get your hands on proper motherboards, proper any computer parts right now. It's a really bad time to have technology issues, and things are all on the second hand market and really expensive. So I just, this is horrible. I feel bad about it. I don't know when the laptop's arriving tomorrow. I do have to be here all day, so I had to take off work to sign for the laptop, assuming that it even arrives. I'm really upset if it's not going to arrive tomorrow after I already took off work. So if I end up doing more streams or more simplified videos here for the next day or two, it's not because I don't want to make prime news. It's because I just can't. It just isn't working with the technology I have right now. And you might say, hey, well, before you return the laptop, why didn't you plug a keyboard into it? The USB port stopped working. Again, brand new computer. I've only ever did one single school assignment on it last night. This morning keyboard doesn't work. USB ports don't work. No, I didn't leave it plugged in overnight, so it couldn't have been from a power surge. So I don't know what happened. It sucks when we're waiting for a new one for that. And if it happens again, then clearly there is some massive design flaws. But anyways, let's get into this story. So scalpers and collectors buy up McDonald's Pokemon Happy Meals, like stealing burgers from a baby. Alright, so here's how the story goes. This is why we can't have anything nice. Kids across the US are unable to get their hands on any of the 50 Pokemon cards included in McDonald's Happy Meals this month to celebrate Pokemon's 25th anniversary, since eBay scalpers have been buying up the packs in bulk. Since some of the cards are rare holographic versions, it's not really a surprise, but it is disappointing. It's like many adults are heading to McDonald's to purchase the cards in mass without the Happy Meals themselves. Which you can do. I used to work at McDonald's. You can buy Happy Meal toys on their own. That is something that's relatively common when certain Happy Meal toys are in high demand. And some are intercepting entire boxes. That's like a big no-no to me. I'm sorry, that shouldn't even be possible of the things before they even make it to restaurants. So Jimmy Bond here puts up proof that these things are on eBay. So it says, this is not cool. Your employees are scalping these while my kids can't get them with a paid meal. Entire boxes is what you see in here. Packs. Lots of 150 seal packs. 810 bucks. We'll go on eBay here in a moment and actually assuming my computer doesn't crash and look at what they're going for right this second. So Pokemon 25th anniversary McDonald's promo booster backs. That'll be a search term we'll use here. Over on eBay, full boxes are selling for upwards of $800. And individual seal packs are selling for around $5 to $20 each. The only way that these boxes could be in the hands of sellers is either a back alley deal with an employee or an employee is the seller. Either way, it's not a great look for McDonald's. Asking people to at least donate the meals to the homeless. And this guy here, JT Valor, you know, went to McDonald's to grab some of the new Pokemon card packs since you couldn't buy the packs separately. I bought 10 Happy Meals and then he gave out the food in the homeless area. So that McDonald's wasn't allowing them to be bought separately. It's kind of up to the manager. If you only want the cards, then do the same. So that was a nice thing to see. The homeless got some food and all that on people's card hunts. For the record, we have nothing against adults buying Pokemon cards.  It's always going to be a disappointing month for a kid who loves Pokemon. This to me is... Like this guy says, please retweet. I'm the person who buys Pokemon Happy Meals and gets 27 battleship toys and the store claims they don't have Pokemon card toys. Even when I spoke to the manager yesterday, he said he had them, the receipt even says Pokemon. Here's the thing. And I'm going to head over to eBay while I talk about this. I don't like scalping. I've never liked... Buying something for the purpose of reselling. I get that it's perfectly fine in the market. This is something, especially in the United States, that is promoted to something to do to make some extra cash at times. You know, card packs. Let's see what pops up for this. Here's one for $10.95, $45. $850 for a whole box. This is the thing that's happening. Scalping of children's McDonald's toys are happening right now. The prices on these are only going to go up and up as they're so hard to get in person. At my local McDonald's, which, let me see, we had one in Chippewa, where I'm from from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. I don't care if you guys know what town I live in. Whatever. And then there's a couple in Eau Claire next door. They don't have any of them at all. I try to get my kids some happy meals for dinner tonight, which they don't get to have that stuff very often because I'm on this healthy diet.  I wasn't even getting them for myself. None of them had them. They had backup toys, Hasbro toys, a couple other type of toys, but they didn't have the Pokemon cards. And why don't they have them? Because of scalpers. I've experienced this as a kid. Once with Pokemon, actually, but we'll get to that in a moment. I actually experienced this at McDonald's with TY Baby toys. You guys remember the TY stuffed animals? Like, those were highly collectible, still highly collectible today, especially some of the older ones, the older rare ones. And they used to have many ones at Happy Meals. I like maybe got one as a kid out of like 10 Happy Meal attempts from my parents because they just didn't have any. People were buying them up. And here we are with Pokemon, one of the most popular franchises in the world. And this is happening again. And I don't feel, if you legitimately go to McDonald's and buy a Happy Meal and get the pack and buy 20 Happy Meals and get the pack, fine. What am I going to do?  I have an issue when you see full boxes like this.  They're not allowed to. So to get a full box like this requires an employee breaking the law and basically stealing the box and selling it to somebody or selling it themselves. I mean, $950 here for this one. $900 for this one. This one's like sealed.  I used to work at McDonald's. I did every job you could do at McDonald's including groundskeeping for crying out loud. And yeah, I empty delivery trucks. Really want to be that hard if someone's not paying attention to slip this out the back door and get it into someone's car. It's pretty ridiculous. $880 for this one. Here's one that's a little cheaper because it might have a few less packs at $550. It just goes on and on. $975, $825, $950. It's ridiculous. And I get why it's happening because they're collectible and there's rare holographics in these. But the purpose of this promotion is Pokemon for kids. And the fact that there are thousands, millions, however many kids out there that might have been like heard about this from their friends that they will get a Happy Meal to get a pack that can't, it's disappointing. I am a gamer. I am a parent. I was a child at one point. It was disappointing when I was a kid and couldn't get my hands on the TY Babies. It's disappointing now that a promotion designed specifically for kids is being taken advantage of to the point that kids can't even get one even when their parents go to buy it the day the Happy Meals are out. I feel bad for kids. Well, what's happening when you see scalping of whole boxes like this is you are taking away someone's childhood memories. You are taking away a child who can open a pack and get super excited and maybe they ruin the cards. But you know what, that's prerogative. They're children. Maybe they don't. Maybe they hold on to the cards and they get to use them when they're older and sell them off if they ended up getting a rare holographic. Cards I got. $800 here. It just keeps going. $850. $1,100 for $150 which must be as many packs fit in a box. This is just not okay. I'm not cool with what is happening here. And we see scalping all the time. No, we've dealt with this as a switcher. I remember Super Mario 3D All Stars for like a whole day. It was really hard to find them. So yeah, that was being scalped like crazy. We've seen Switch and Scalp. Obviously we're still dealing with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X as being scalped. Scalping is very much a part of the world we're in. But I don't care so much as much about PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X as being scalped because we're talking $500 systems that clearly parents are going to have to buy for their children or buy for themselves or just adults in general. It's not really something that a kid can just go out and buy one of those systems, but a Happy Meal? But a Happy Meal.  It's just sad. Now I did mention when I was a kid there was a Pokémon something that was really hard to get but it wasn't that like it wasn't as difficult as these Pokémon cards that they get. And that is, you guys remember anyone who's in their 30s you guys remember back when Burger King got a Pokémon promotion where you got a Pokémon with a gold-plated Pokémon card in it? I do. I have three of them. It was a little bit easier to get maybe because Burger King isn't as widely scalped as a McDonald's toy, maybe it's not as collectible but after one week they never came back again and it was supposed to be a month-long promotion. And I have found out that they were being scalped as well. They just took a little bit for the scalper market to realize these things are valuable and they had real gold-plating on them supposedly. I don't know. Someone's probably tested them, I don't know if it's actual gold or if it's fake. But if it was real gold that just makes them even more collectible. I don't like this practice. Now again, if you're going to go out and buy some packs look at this 40 bucks here for these five of them if you're going to go out and buy some happy meals and get the packs, fine. But don't do it for the purpose of scalping them. Do it because you want them. You want the pack. I understand Pokemon Trip we just had a story in Prime News yesterday about the entire base set in mint condition selling for $666,000 of those first edition Pokemon cards from back in 1999. Like I get it, there's big money in Pokemon cards collecting. But those people at least bought the cards and or opened the packs and saved the cards themselves. So they got to potentially enjoy those cards in some way or form. Looking at them bare minimum. They just go get the packs to resell them. And this is the state of the world. This is the state of a free and open market is that you're able to resell pretty much anything you buy. Anything you buy is able to be resold even if there is like even if it says this item can't be resold. You'll see some items. You can still end up reselling it. You'll see that you buy a pack of suckers from Costco or Sam's Club or something. You get this huge pack and it'll say on the label not for resale. And then you'll see people selling those over and over again. Online or sporting events from boxes that say they're not supposed to be reselling them. But they do. It happens. We all know it happens and no one really does anything about it because that's just the free and open market we're in. You can say not for resale it doesn't mean it's legally not able to be sold. And even if it did mean that, there's not enforced. I think the only time we saw scalping actually kind of getting slapped down a bit was the guy who was scalping all the hand sanitizer. I remember that back in the heart of the pandemic at the beginning when we just did not have enough supply of basics like hand sanitizer, which feels like a basic these days. It's everywhere now. It's pretty easy to get at least in my area. Maybe in your area. It's still difficult. And toilet paper. There are people hoarding all of it and selling it on eBay. And government officials and police officers stepped in and said, you can't do that. These are supplies we need to keep people healthy. It was happening with masks as well. And 95 masks for a while was happening before. Obviously production has been ramped up now that mostly we can meet demand on a lot of these products. But this is just I don't like it. I don't like this one bit. I feel bad for my kids.  I feel bad for the kids at least of America where I know for sure this is happening who, you know, just wanted to experience being a kid and getting that really cool McDonald's toy that everyone's talking about and instead have to deal with the fact that adults are taking all the packs and reselling them and kids just aren't even going to get the joy. Like if I want my kids to enjoy a pack I mean look, 14 bucks here for one. I've got three kids here so I need at least three packs. Let's see here. 20, 50 for five that's not too bad. That's not too bad. Some of the prices aren't too bad. I'll give it to some scalpers. They're not doing they're not doing too bad. This is a card sleeve. But some of them are pretty bad. It's definitely more expensive than just buying a Happy Meal. Sorry, I'm really frustrated by this story. Maybe I'm just frustrated in general. It's been a really rough day with technology for me and I still have school stuff to get done and I have all the stuff to do. It's a rough day, guys. I'm the Denner Overjacks from the center of pride. If you enjoyed this video be sure to drop a like. Subscribe to the channel. Let's get on our road to 100,000. I don't know if we're going to hit 100K this year. I don't even know if we're going to hit 70K. But let's keep pushing, keep fighting and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


I'm pretty sure I was not the quickest one of the bunch. Hey guys! So this video is a little different and interesting because I have taken on another challenge and I know you're probably saying, Mandy didn't you just do an ultimate challenge with your haunted mansion puzzle? Like aren't you done with challenges? And I thought I was done with challenges but I got a message from my puzzle pal Rick from Rick's Nifty Puzzles and if you haven't seen his channel I'm gonna leave his channel link down below. And he asked me pretty much why don't we work on a puzzle together and see who finishes first? So after some back and forth we decided why don't we kind of start a new thing? Why don't we start a challenge where we're not actually racing each other? Because to be quite honest neither Rick or I have done speed puzzling before and I personally would like to try it one day but this considering what I just finished with with you know like the haunted mansion puzzle I needed something that was gonna be more fun and less stressful because you guys know that that last one really took it all out of me. But anyways this is gonna be a fun take on the speed puzzle challenge that was started by a lot of other puzzle youtubers that you know but not everyone likes to speed puzzle so we figured you know what why don't we start something where people who don't like to speed puzzle can join. So we kept the rules pretty simple we have to have a timer and the most important rule here was to puzzle as you normally would. There is no racing there's no stressing out to get it done within a certain amount of time and all it is really is to see who completes the puzzle first. Now if you're more of a fan of a casual puzzling experience hit that like button. Now on my side I announced this challenge on my discord server which if you don't know what that is I'm gonna leave a link down below to that video and it's basically my puzzling community that I've created and a number of the discord members also joined in on the fun. So you're probably wondering what puzzle did we choose? So the puzzle that we decided to work on is called Pete's Gambling Hall and this is from Buffalo's Charles Wasaki collection. It's 1000 pieces and it's 26.75 by 19.75 inches when it's completed. Now I absolutely love this image. Again I love Charles Wasaki I love his art style but there's just something about this time period in America that just fascinates me. Like if I had to pick a moment in time that I would travel back to I think it would be this time period. This is kind of like the cowboy pioneer error. I love this stuff. It totally reminds me of like Oregon Trail. I'm pretty sure that if I traveled back in time into this scene you know my first stop would be the bakery. I'm pretty sure they sell coffee too that's a must and then after making a quick stop at the general store I'll just trail back to my house way back in the mountain area. Oh I left my chimney on with nobody home that's not safe. You know what guys enough rambling let's open this box up and let's see how long this puzzle is gonna take me. Alright so we've already opened up a buffalo in the past so we kind of already know what we're dealing with here. I did pick this up use and it was advertised as new on eBay but um they fooled me which can happen sometime on eBay you just never know but anyways let's open this up and let's just hope that we have all of our pieces here so as most of you already know buffalo does contain a reference image in all their puzzle boxes and they're always fairly large which is awesome so it's been a while since I worked on a basic buffalo set so I'm really looking forward to putting this together. If you want to see my first review on buffalo I will leave a link in the description box down below for for that puzzle set that I think I did actually last fall or maybe before that I don't remember. Now I do have well I purchased recently my very first timer so I'm really excited about this because this is really nice and it kind of makes me feel like official or like a professional or something I don't know and the funny thing is I didn't buy it for speed puzzling I bought it for this challenge so at least now I have it for when I decide to start speed puzzling but anyways enough of that let's finally get into this set and let's see how long this is going to take me all right let's move on all right took me 30 minutes and 31 seconds to sort everything here as best as possible. Actually you know before I move on I just want to say this was actually kind of difficult for me to figure out how I was going to go about sorting it which you know tends to be the usual with me really I think I have a plan before I start it and then I kind of like lose myself in the process and then completely forget about what I was doing but here's what I think I did so again first tray edges second tray these seemed like pieces that were more towards the top of the image here so we have like the mountains of the sky the next tray here are any pieces that had any letters words or anything like that this tray it's very sparse because honestly I didn't know what I was doing here but kind of like put in pieces that I knew what it was like for example this tower here which is probably the only thing that's in this tray anyways this tray I put in pieces that had any distinct trees or plants in them as you can see with some of these there's kind of a common thing detail going on here and I guess fencing as well I don't know this tray was well these two trays here kind of like a big pile of mess so for this one I think what I was trying to do here was anything that I believed had to do with the lower half of the image so there will be like carriages horses and I think it may have also included areas maybe that had the trees because to be honest it was kind of hard to tell some of these pieces apart so there's kind of like a hodgepodge there that and then this tray is pretty much anything with building details and there are some people in there as well because of you know you see them here standing in the building so yeah that's kind of like my my sorting here so how well is this going to help me I don't know but at least now I got an idea of what I'm working with so you know what in terms of where we are going to start I don't know maybe we'll just do the edges we'll see anyways let's move on all right so no surprise I didn't have all the edge pieces in the edge tray but that's okay some of it was a little tricky because you kind of have like all this sandy effect going up on the sides here but it was still fun I must say this is a nice change from the haunted mansion puzzle so in terms of what I'm going to be working on next in this process probably the tray with the letters in what nine see where I see if I could piece those together pretty quickly but again no rush I'm really going to enjoy this process okay let's continue piecing the letters together was pretty stray forward and then after that I figured it'd be best to just get straight into piecing the buildings together now that tray had the most pieces in it so I decided to separate or resort them by color but continue to piece together as I recognize where certain ones belonged and that's something I highly recommend you do when you have a fairly big pile set aside after your initial sort for me it really helps to become even more familiar with all the pieces and have a much better overall view and plan on what to work on next you know instead of just staring at a large pile that can seem overwhelming but again that's just me you do what works for you especially if you're not a sorter but anyways this became a little tricky at times because some of the buildings kind of had some similar tones or patterns to them but I think this was my favorite part of the puzzle because the image really started to come along and take shape fairly quickly for almost three and a half hours and I got pretty much most of the buildings completed now I took one of the trays I had a bunch of all these like trees with red leaves in them and there seems to be different color patterns so what I did was I kind of just separated them here so we got like the yellow background tones the bluey tone white tone and so on so I kind of group those together I gotta put these together this will be pretty easy I'm just sat on the other side of the table now but so far so good I'm really enjoying putting this one together this one is a lot of fun the only issue here is that I've made a mess on my puzzle table I've got piles everywhere and I try not to do that but it always ends up looking the same way no matter how hard I try to not make a mess but anyways let's continue now the trees with the red leaves were also a little tricky I had to move on to different areas at times just so that I wouldn't stay stuck in one spot but once that was about done I moved on to the lower half of the puzzle and again another tricky area because a lot of the pieces that were part of the dirt road look like they belong to the other trees in the image they had like a brownie fall colored look to them so that threw me a little curveball but I have to say I was a little surprised with the overall fit of these pieces I found my set to be on the crumbly side many sections would just not hold well together and I don't know if that has anything to do with the quality of the production of that particular year or what but it was a bit annoying at times but other than that the print was great and I loved the use of all the warm colors in this image this puzzle compared to my haunted mansion is definitely a breath of fresh air we got the whole well aside from these two pieces here bottom half done and now we kind of just have to do which what which is what I figured would be the hardest part which is kind of like all the sky and the trees and the mountains as well so we have to do all that next and I am hoping I mean I feel like I've searched pretty long and hard for those two pieces in my trays and I'm hoping that this isn't missing anything because that would really suck but anyways let's move on to getting I guess I'll start trying to sort out pieces into groups with similar colors and patterns and hope that will work to help finish this off in the next I don't know maybe hour or so but we shall see so then I went right to work on separating the tray containing anything from the top half of the image and the more I went through resorting each piece the more intimidated I started to feel now as I said I knew this would probably end up being the most challenging part of this puzzle but honestly I was not expecting it to get me the way it did but I've kind of reached a point in this puzzle where I I'm stumped and to be honest I kind of expected this to happen towards the end because the trees and the sky and the mountains I they look like they were going to be challenging but honestly I didn't think trying to finish this last part was going to take me as long as it has been and it's frustrating because it's it's only just a handful of pieces that I have left but I'm really struggling I've been struggling with this since last night trying to get these pieces in place I feel like I could have finished it last night but the problem was is that my lighting got really really bad I did a little bit of resorting on my trays for the last few pieces but as you can see there I kind of resort it by shape and hopes that it'll help me get through this a lot quicker so I have plenty of light from outside so I think I could just finish this now let's move on so resorting by shaped is really what helped me to get through this in the end and that's another great way to go about organizing your pieces especially if they pretty much have the same colors patterns or overall tones now aside from getting stuck in some areas everything was pretty much going along great until I screwed something up right at the very end of course I had to screw up the timer the very last few seconds but anyways it's going to be close enough now good thing I had my timer set up in a way that it was visible the entire time throughout filming so I was able to track back on the time it was set to before I screwed it all up but if my maths is correct this puzzle took me six hours 59 minutes and 22 seconds to be exact so seven hours pretty much in the end and thankfully all the pieces were there well that was fun I have to say I kind of expected to finish it a little quicker than I did I think that last part like the trees and the mountains that that really got me in the end that that's what slowed me down but again this was no race this was just sit back relax and puzzle away now on a side note I did try to save this puzzle you know like the way I normally do with puzzles without gluing them but you know in terms of the quality for some reason this buffalo set did not really hold on well together it was too crumbly so I kind of figured you know this is not really worth saving and just didn't bother in the end but that's okay because I kind of feel like this image is probably one that I would work on again and if not it's definitely one that I would probably consider donating now I'm super curious how long this took Rick to complete I'm pretty sure I was not the quickest one of the bunch but his channel link will be down below in the description box as well so that you can check his video out after this one and for the other members who joined in from my discord I'm also going to leave their channel links down below so that you can check out their completion time now if you've completed Pete's gambling haul or if you become inspired to complete it after watching this video make sure to leave a comment down below on what your completion time was thank you Rick for reaching out to me and for wanting to create something that the more casual puzzler can join I'm pretty sure we'll be doing this again at some point so be on the lookout for future announcements but anyways guys I have a huge list of other puzzles that I'd like to get done so I hope you're all doing well thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one


Hello everybody Andrea Torosca here with dental tutoring. So this Sunday actually tomorrow me and my Lovely members will be going over a case study called preventive and desensitizing agents So think about when your patient comes in and says that they have a sore tooth They have a sensitive tooth you you need to know sort of what's causing that so you can not only tell them What's causing it, but you also have to know how to cure it or how to limit the symptoms or to help Prevent it from sort of happening in the first place. So we will be going over some case studies on that I did upload a mock exam for my members in the private Facebook group on this topic about a week ago to sort of help Prepare them plus they have a PowerPoint inside also to sort of reteach them the entire topic because I Find in either the Derby and Walsh or the Wilkins Or the Mosby's I find that this chapter is quite Slow and very very boring. So it makes it a lot harder to study from right So what I have done is I have kind of taken all of those three textbooks And I've put them in my own PowerPoint to make it sound a lot more exciting Plus to only kind of tell you guys what you need to know on the topic But to make it even easier, we will be going over some case studies So let me just kind of show you what that's about a little bit So in our session for for my for my members, we go over the case studies for about an hour Sometimes an hour and 15 minutes depending on how many questions so I'm just going to go over a few of them now for you and See how much you know about this topic. So okay, so the first case study is Joe is a new patient and his main concern is his tooth sensitivity. This happens all the time upon examination you noticed generalized demineralized areas What can be done at home to? Remineralize that enamel so I'll let you guys think about the answers a b c or d and Remember to pick apart each part of the question if you're Studying to take the board exam. Sometimes they will have too much information in the question or other times You're probably thinking well, they don't have enough information at all. How am I supposed to answer this? So you kind of have to pick apart the important info and not pay attention to the useless info So I'm just going to help to pick apart this for you So the first part is is that his main concern is tooth sensitivity So you you have to be thinking already Okay, how is the tooth sensitive? Is it hot cold sweet pressure? Well, it doesn't say so you don't actually know How the teeth are sensitive because it doesn't say that in the case study But then the next point is upon examination you noticed generalized demineralized areas so not localized to a few areas but all over so you need to pay attention to either is it Generalized or is it localized? So you have to know what that means so localized is 30% or less of the of the areas in the mouth more means it's everywhere and Taking a step ahead you of course have to know what? demineralized areas look like what causes it and what it is and then the last part is so then What can be done at home to help to bring back the enamel? So Demineralization means that that enamel has been taken away So then you have to somehow bring it back and specifically we are talking about at home Not in the dental office not somewhere else But at home so all of these things you have to be thinking of so let's go over the answer here So the answer is see a daily fluoride rinse so a is not the right answer because with these types of Spots on the teeth a lot more has to be done than simply brushing and flossing now If they're not brushing and flossing then those areas could become worse But you need to think how can you actually bring that enamel back because that's part of the question Okay, so a is not the right answer the second one fluoride rinse in the office is the correct answer But it's not the best answer because specifically in the case study I had said what can be done at home and this is talking about done in the office So that's not the right answer. So C is the most correct answer D is not correct because salt water doesn't actually bring back the enamel It's a good thing to do at home if you have perio if you have gingivitis but to actually bring back enamel that has nothing to do with it So C is the best answer. So See how you all have to always think outside the box. You have to know every part of the question, but An easy way to study is if you're reading the question and you're stuck say on the first part So if you were reading the question and then saying to sensitivity, okay So what different types of sensitivity could he have? What causes sensitivity? Um, how can you prevent it? So if you're stuck on that thinking? Oh, geez. I can't remember what causes it I can't remember what that might look like I can't even remember how to prevent it then you need to make sure to head back to that chapter and Read it so you know more about sensitivity because um case steps tend to be annoying for students when You try to go through the case studies first before you had a chance to actually study The material because if you do that you won't know anything and then you'll be sent to yourself I didn't know this case study at all. I'm just horrible There's no way that I'll be able to pass like this is just you know, awful But the best thing to do is to actually study the material first And then go through the case study to see if you need to study any more If you happen to get all of the answers correct, then you know that you can move on to another topic if you say Um Found a lot of the questions quite hard Then that tells you that you have to go back and study the topic again So i'm just going to stop sharing my screen here. So I hope that that helped you guys a little bit Um, if this is a topic that is hard for you, well, I am more than happy to help um because if you are a member of either the um board exam prep academy or the um dental l student program We do the case studies live online every single sunday on every single topic So you will get sort of a little bit of practice at a time. So you don't have to always feel so um stressed so overwhelmed because if try to do Say 10 case studies in a day, you'll be quickly overwhelmed. You won't want to do anymore But doing a couple a week helps plus I do upload new moth exams about twice a week too So you will always have something to look at and take your time. There's no rush at all So I hope that this helped a little bit if you guys need help let me know and I will see you guys next time


Around the world, forests and trees provide a source of income and livelihoods for over a billion people. Both women and men depend on forests, agroforestry and trees for their livelihoods and play a critical role in managing them. However, there are big inequalities in roles, rights and responsibilities among women and men. For example, deforestation and forest destruction disproportionately affect poor women as they have even fewer opportunities to earn income than men, and forest loss means that they can no longer continue to collect food, firewood and fodder for their household. Both women and men play a critical role in climate change action, but women's voices are seldom heard and their adaptive strategies rarely taken into account in design of climate change planning and interventions. The same goes for women's participation in forest user associations. Rules of entry prevent women from participating formally in forest associations, and even when women are formally represented, their opinions are often less valued and their ability to influence decisions is less than men's. Due to gender-based divisions of work, women and men often have different knowledge and preferences for trees and forests. When women's voices are not heard in the design of forest-related initiatives, their knowledge, interests and priorities are not taken into consideration. This can not only increase existing gender inequalities, but also decrease women's incentives to contribute to forest and agroforestry management. Enhancing women's participation in forest and tree management can support women's empowerment and also improve the condition of forests and trees. Therefore, the forestry and agroforestry sector has much to contribute to addressing inequalities between women and men, and empowering disadvantaged women and men in ways that contribute to sustainable rural landscapes. The CGIR research program on forest, trees and agroforestry is tackling this challenge head-on. Our research is aimed at understanding how a wide range of changes in forest and tree-based landscapes, such as growth of markets, climate change, migration and mobility, expansion of agriculture, and a wide range of interventions in the name of conservation and development are affecting women and men. We identify how different improved alternatives for landscapes and people can be realized by promoting gender equality and empowering women. We are partnering with a wide range of organizations at the local, national and global levels to undertake research on pressing gender issues as they unfold and ensuring that our research findings serve to safeguard women's rights, combat gender injustice and equitably expand opportunities for both men and women in rural landscapes. We are aligning our activities with the Sustainable Development Goals and we contribute to a global vision of gender equality and women's empowerment.


Martin Weißer, studied culture sciences and management, works with people with disablement and wants to work against advertisements. Dr. Eric Flick, works with FIFT, it's a forum for computer scientists and is terminally annoyed by neon advertisements. Your talk, your stage, enjoy. Hi. So, our talk will consist of five parts. First, I will describe the problems we see with advertisements. Then I will describe how in Hamburg there was a real escalation. I will talk about our initiative, the law we want to introduce and how you can take action yourself. So, first of all, not all advertisement is equally bad. We are talking about something like we can see here, it's in the way, it's intrusive. Sorry, there was sound missing.  So, these instalments are really bright and they are moving and they are really distracting. They exist in analogue form as well as digital and are equally as annoying.  I know that other people feel the same. Not all of them, some seem not to mind as much. But, yeah, the problems are real. The question why do I have to see this is obvious but never answered. And again, the sound is missing for me, I'm sorry. So, nobody is asking us. It's intrusive and we are forced to participate. It affects adults and also children. There is advertisements for tobacco, even in front of hospitals, because there is no alternative, apparently. If it's not working, you could just leave it out, don't do it. If it works, the question is, should it be there? So, some advertisement can be ignored easily, but there is the scientifically proven exposure effect that even something that weekly works still works on the long run. So, is it a good deal for the city? There's always somebody who says the city cannot ignore the money, but nothing is for free. So, what is being sold? The data? Probably not in this time, even though it would be possible with cameras and Bluetooth tracking in the advertisement installations. So, right now, what is being sold is right access to your thoughts. Over 15 years, it was 500 million dollars. So, this mindshare brings the citizens 20 bucks per year per person. So, is this really so much money that we cannot ignore it? We are paying for this with our attention. So, apparently, it was already always there, and we can't, we have to have it. And it pays for toilets, but there isn't that many toilets, I can't find it. So, what we need seems to be important, but it's being ignored, and we have that black and white. About the public-private partnership. It sounds convenient, but the government becomes the customer, and not a paying customer, but they become dependent. So, our attention is being marketed, is being sold. We don't have a say in it. And we are basically just the resources being mined. And the question, why do we have to accept this? The answers are not satisfying. Advertisement has always been there. We'll have it. But the publicity is not just really important, and there is no dialogue. What is about people who don't want to be consumers at the moment? And it's a very one-sided monologue. You have to know that it's not local advertisement. It's not really good for the local economy. It's just for monopolists, and those who want to become monopolist. It's not good for consumers, because good sources for information is independent and objective, and advertisement can't do that. It's unnecessary, and if we remove those installations, we don't lose anything. Quite the opposite. The only thing is workplaces. In theory, it's a valid argument. But if every business is being equal and is being protected, we cannot remove such a thing as cold energy either. It is distracting. It distracts you when you partake in traffic. And that's on purpose, because it's placed where it will catch your attention. There is a lot of light emissions, and that's a problem. And a lot of screens are even placed in shops and windows. That changes the day and night rhythm of humans and animals. And even switching it off after midnight doesn't help much. Even after a year, we don't really have much data about this. In the beginning, this apparently didn't matter much. Even about traffic didn't really concern many people. But we will keep asking. There are 4.000 of these installations in Hamburg. Between 2020 and 2020, around 4.000 of these installations, including background illumination and changing content, were installed. Werbung gab es schon immer. Es ist in den letzten beiden Dekaden. Es ist in den letzten decade so escalatet. In den early 2000s.  At busstations. 2007. Dreuer put out another offer. And holds now a large monopole. Almost never anything got built back. In the year 2000, these adverts didn't exist. So you can see it's not that needed. So do you need these 4.000? Is it a lot or not? So let's see this. Like, you can see here where these things show up. Every blue dot is an external advertising tool. And most of them are backlit. Some of them are just posters. But like, these are also kind of big. And if it's on a house wall, it's even bigger. A lot of them are at crossings. So at the most important roads, you just see advertising all the time. This is open data. This is from a repo of Jupiter Notebooks. You can look at this data yourself. We also looked at how much advertisement you are pressured to consume. You think that it's less outside. Disappointed. Not at how much you have to see if you drive through the city. Can't really escape. So you pass like 50 of these things if you drive from the inside to the outside of the city.  Real normal ways that a lot of people need to take. Even a bit crazier with bicycles. Probably because the fast roads are rear of adverts for a good reason. So, if you use public transport, you are not better off. So, fine Senator Hamburg said, we won't have that much adverts in the next few years. Very wrong. And you can see that in any city that will drive to these offers. So, I'm giving over to Martin. Martin. Statttif Hamburg ad three came from a wanting to remove external advertisement. We are a small group of democracy, climate, safety stuff.  And I think it's a bigger problem out of the commercialization All the places of life by large corporations, and afflicting a lot of areas of cities, city planning. We talked about how we could have a large impact, started using the initiative Hamburg to get free as a tool of direct democracy. I'll tell you more about that. Here's some international examples. Power, organizations can do something against advertisement. Paolo in 2007, by the mayor, a law, banned adverts from, large adverts from the city. And you can see here, before, after this internet, you can find images of high rises with extremely sexist adverts on it. And most people were very happy about the changes. Grenoble, was similar, initiative by the local government, by the mayor, and adverts in the public space were removed. This is really big, you can see stuff like this in Hamburg as well. It's a mega light, this stuff below the city light, on the right, both have vanished, and there's a tree now. In Geneva, maybe you heard about it, this is a new development, which started in 2017. There was a mistake in the contracts, where multiple hundred adverts places weren't filled for a few months. So people put on art and slogans stuff, people loved that.  The places were stuffed with commercial adverts again. So the initiative got together and the sign-up campaign, after that for like three years, they now make us looked if that initiative was legal. And in this year, in September, the sort of law in the Switzerland said that yes, this initiative is legal. In the parliament of Geneva had to take on the initiative, and there won't be more cities are not at free at all. Nowadays Sao Paulo and Grenoble still have public-private partnerships at the bus stations. In Geneva, this will only be legal in a few years and won't be only be true for places in public spaces. So people to see the adverts doesn't really matter if it's public or private property, but legally there's a large difference. I'll talk about the ad-free city network now. This is in the UK, they publish readers on topics like what's wrong with advertisement, like mental health, sexism, local, economy. Local groups, they use petitions, art, actions, lobbying to reduce advertisement. And just banning some product groups like fossil fuels or SUVs, stuff like that. In France, since 1992, there's a group named fighting against malicious advertisement. Not only because for advertisement for stations, TVs, advertisement, there are 15 groups with a lot of options against digital outdoor adverts. And to compile just a little information of what we already said to summarize, there is resistance against the commercialization of the public realm. It's both top-down and bottom-up, but it's complicated. There's not just one law that has to be changed and everything will be good. We have to distinguish, is it public space or is it private space? And of course there is this unfathomable public-private partnerships. So, yeah, let's talk about Berlin ad-free now. It started in July 2018. Well, it collected signatures. And it was more than 42,000. So the Senate took one and a half years to check the laws and decided, nope. We have to keep those laws. Even though the Constitutional Court of Berlin decided otherwise, so now they have to, they now can keep working. And they are collecting signatures again. So this slide shows the situation of Berlin ad-free and Hamburg ad-free and the concept how to also bring in other cities. So we are depending on the political situation in the following years. In Hamburg, we will start next years with collecting signatures. We don't need that many. If you want to join, please sign. And then we have six months. And we need 10,000 signatures. I would say we will manage. We are also prepared for the Senate to ignore our proposition. And we probably have to go to the Constitutional Court. And then there will be a public poll. And everything goes well. For the next EU election, we will have law prepared. And we will have prepared everything for referendum. And you will be able to say yes to it in the election. So you can feel free to contact us. So people from Berlin, Hamburg and other cities already created this association. For the ad-free to make public spaces ad-free. So our proposition for the law is now about seven pages. And we want to change the building laws as well. So on the left you would see what is a permanent ad. And we have to distinguish between permanent ads. And on the right side we have a bus with an advertisement. That would not be a permanent ad. So if you sit on the inside, you can't look out. But changing the building laws, we wouldn't affect the bus, obviously. But we try to bring everything together in one initiative. So ad-Installations on public ground and visible from public ground should be reduced in five aspects. So where it stands at temporary installations, then public transport into others. So the first one, where it stands. Having shop windows and signs of a company is allowed. But having it higher than ground level is not allowed. Or bigger than just one floor level. And where it stands at temporary, then public stops. The format is maximal A0, and smaller. But it should not be illuminated from behind. Es könnte illuminiert sein, aber nicht von hinten, so dass es nicht alles mit der Illumination ist.  Also sind sie oft in der Art und Weise. Einige Plätze auf dem öffentlichen Land. Maximum, sie sollten vier Meter vor dem Land sein. Maximum von Dean A4, nicht illuminiert. Und jetzt ein kleiner Quiz. So, das ist eine klassische Advertisement-Pillen.  Also, das ist eine Advertisement-Pillen. Es ist zu hoch, über den Boden. Es ist größer als 10 m2, und die Plätze sind viel größer als A4. So, das habe ich schon gezeigt, es ist nicht erlaubt, dass die Plätze nicht erlaubt werden. Es ist eine öffentliche Informationsinstallation, und es ist wirklich in der Art und Weise. Sie sind in digitalen Formen, oder nur ein Posterwindow. Aber ich würde nicht sagen, es ist nicht erlaubt. Es ist nicht erlaubt, es sorry, es ist wirklich in der Art. und es ist Und ich bin wirklich erstaunlich, wie viel Advertisement in der Trains ist. Du kannst nicht dort sitzen und ein Buch riechen, ohne etwas zu sehen, etwas zu sehen, ohne dich zu sehen und dich zu beachten. Und ich denke, es ist auch dystopisch. Und nur zu diesem, da sind Advertisementen, die zu News sind. Also, wer wählt, welchen News er hat, ich denke, das ist problematisch. Also, dieses Beispiel, es ist eine Ad-Installation. Du kannst es nicht sehen, es ist neben den Trains. Also, es ist ein Privatgrund, es ist ein wenig unter 10 m2, es ist nicht zu lässig, ist die Plakatierung. Also, das könnte okay sein, aber der Poster ist größer als A0. So wie das, es wäre okay. Also, viele kleine Poster, statt einer großen, wäre okay. So, auch mit unserer Law, es wäre noch mehr, aber es wäre nicht so intrusiv. Also, second to last slide. A lot of these initiatives are successful. This is from the Wikipedia page of the initiatives in Hamburg. 72% were successful to collect the 10,000 signatures in the first level. Many of them or some of them were accepted by Senate. Some managed the second stage of collection of signatures and even the referendum. So, for example, the one for the rebuying of the power lines, that was a referendum as well. Then sometimes there's compromises between the Senate initiatives like the one for the improvement of bike traffic. Some of the demands were met, others not. So, if there might be a compromise with us, that would have to include that there is no more outdoor advertisement in digital form. That's like our main point. So, the last slide. We will begin collecting signatures in March. And if you are interested in the topic, please contact us. We are on Facebook, Instagram. No, not Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, but please follow us on Macedon or write an e-mail. We are happy about all the help. So, yeah, please spread the word. You can help by distributing the message and help make this initiative known to people. I'm done, thank you. Please imagine ravaging applause here. Thank you very, very much for this great talk. Especially the data that you collected. So, it's really difficult how much advertisements there are on the streets. Also, comparing. Please sit down. So, comparing, so, comparing, so, comparing, so, comparing cities between each other was very, very interesting. Thanks also from the audience. We have a lot of questions. So, do you need more people helping you? Yeah, definitely. Also, we definitely need further people. So, people are really engaged, but it costs a lot of energy. Also, helping, talking to people. This is, needs a lot of time and we'll use all the support we can get. I hope your servers can be okay with a coming storm. Activists are always welcome. Another question, do you need financial help? Do you have help from the politicians? Well, the Bewegungsschiftung supports us, thanks for that. Politics is a question of the left in Hamburg which is pretty focused on the topic right now. The governing parties don't really maybe someone will be interested. The second question do you need financial help? That's not really the big problem right now. Thanks for the honest answers. Thank you. Thanks to the Signal Angels. One question. Are there statistics on how many precious accidents happen through these distractions by adverts? That's a very good question which we would like to answer but asking this in Hamburg which question the government. There are studies from Tel Aviv where the city speedway had no adverts for a short time so you could actually show that there are more studies that don't show that but it would be interesting to know in Hamburg as well. I think the emperor is naked pretty obvious things standing in the way is there so people look at them so our parliamentary request was written like it just the senate think that the risk is like zero and this risk gets ignored in advert land and autoland germany on the english side of ad-free cities UK there are some studies but we would like to have our own study with our cooperation public spaces if our scientists want to join and do some studies now I am no lawmaker but if this happens und yeah so studies where it is shown that adverts are distracting so if you are not allowed to look at your smartphone while driving so I can imagine there is a measurable effect so someone is working on a psychology degree this is an interesting essay or study you could do so that would be interesting thanks now with this initiative you might have some enemies so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so