From New York, it's theCUBE. Covering Big Data New York City 2016. Brought to you by headline sponsors, Cisco, IBM, NVIDIA, and our ecosystem sponsors. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Peter Burris. Welcome back to theCUBE, everybody. This is Big Data NYC and we are covering wall to wall we've been here since Monday evening. We were in NVIDIA, NVIDIA, talking about deep learning, machine learning yesterday. We had a full slate. We had eight data scientists up on stage yesterday and then we covered the IBM event last night, the rooftop party. Saw David Richards there hanging out with him and wall to wall today and tomorrow. Jigain Sundar is here, he's the CTO of Wendisco. Great to see you again, Jigain. Thanks for having me, Dave. You're welcome. It's been a while since you and I sat down. I know you were in theCUBE recently at Oracle headquarters which I was happy to see you there and see the deals that are going on. You got good stuff going on with IBM, good stuff going on with Oracle. The cloud is eating the world as we sort of predicted and knew but everybody wanted to put their head in the sand but you guys had to accommodate that, didn't you? We did and if you remember us from a few years ago we were very, very interested in the Hadoop space but along the journey we realized that our replication platform is actually much bigger than Hadoop and the cloud is just a manifestation of that vision. We had this ability to replicate data strongly consistent across wide area networks in different data centers and across storage systems. So you could go from HDFS to a cloud storage system like S3 or Azure, Wasbi and we would do it with strong consistency and that turned out to be a bigger deal than actually providing just replication for the Hadoop platform. So we expanded beyond our initial Hadoop foray and now we're big in the cloud. We replicate data to many cloud providers and customers use us for many use cases like disaster recovery, migration, active, active, cloud bursting, all of those interesting use cases. So anytime I get you in a queue but I like to refresh the 101 for me and for the audience that may not be familiar with it but you say strongly consistent versus you hear the term eventual consistency. What's the difference? Why is the latter inadequate for the applications that you're serving? Right, so when people say eventually consistent what they don't remember is that eventually consistent systems often have different data in the different replicas and once in a while once every five minutes or 15 minutes they have to run an anti-entropy process to reconcile the differences. And entropy is the thermal randomness. If you go back to your physics, high school physics. What you're really talking about is having random data and once every 10 minutes making it reconciled and the reconciliation process is very messy. It's like last right wins and the notion of time becomes important. How do you keep time accurate between those? Companies like Google have wonderful infrastructure where they have GPS and atomic clocks and they can do a better job but for the regular enterprise user that's a hard problem. So often you get wrong data that's reconciled. So asking the same query, you may get different answers in your different replicas. That's a bad sign. You want it consistent enough so you can guarantee results. And you've done this with math, right? Exactly. Our basis is an algorithm called Paxos which was invented by gentlemen called Leslie Lamport back in 89 but it took many decades for that algorithm to be widely understood. Our own chief scientist spent over a decade developing this adding enhancements to make it run over the wide area network. The end result is a strongly consistent system mathematically proven that runs over the wide area network and it's completely resistant to failure of all sorts. That allows you to sort of create the same type of availability, data consistency as you mentioned, Google with atomic clock, Spanner I presume, this fascinating, I remember when the paper came out I was, my eyes were bleeding, reading it. But that's the type of capability that you're able to bring to enterprises, right? That's exactly right. We can bring similar capabilities across diverse networks. You can have regular networking gear, time synchronized by NTP, out in the cloud, things are running in a virtual machine where time is adrift most of the time. People don't realize that VMs are pretty bad at keeping time. And all you get up in the cloud is VMs across all those environments. We can give you strongly consistent replication at the same quality that Google does with their hardware. So that's the value that we bring to the Fortune 500. So increasingly enterprises are recognizing that data has an, I don't want to say intrinsic value, but the data is a source of value in context all by itself, independent of any hardware, independent of any software. That it's something that needs to be taken care of and you guys have an approach for ensuring that important aspects of it are better taken care of. Not the least of which is that you can provide an option to a customer who may make a bad technology choice one day to make a better technology choice the next day and not be too worried about dead ending themselves. I'm reminded of the old days when somebody who was negotiating an IBM mainframe deal would put an Amdahl coffee cup in front of IBM or put an Oracle coffee cup in front of SAP. Do you find customers metaphorically putting when disco coffee cup in front of those different options and say these guys are ensuring that our data remains ours? Customers are a lot more sophisticated now. The scenarios that you pointed out are very, very funny. But what customers come to us for is exact same thing. The way they ask it is I want to move to cloud X but I want to make sure that I can also run on cloud Y and I want to do it seamlessly without any downtime on my on-prem applications that are running. We can give them that. Not only are they building a disaster recovery environment often they're experimenting with multiple clouds at the same time and may the better cloud win. That puts a lot of competition and pressure on the actual cloud applications they're trying. That's a manifestation in modern cloud terms of the coffee cup of a competitor in the face that you just pointed out, very funny. But this is how customers are doing it these days. So are you using or are they starting to, obviously you were able to replicate with high fidelity with strong fidelity, strong consistency, large volumes of data. Are you starting to see customers based on that capability actually starting to redesign how they set up their technology plant? Absolutely. When customers were talking about hybrid cloud which was pretty well hyped a year or so ago, they basically had some data on-prem and some other data in the cloud and they were doing stuff. But what we brought to them is the ability to have the same data both on-prem and in the cloud. Maybe you had a weekly analytics job that took a lot of resources. You'd burst that out into the cloud and run it up there. Move the result of that analytics job back on-prem. You'd have it with strong consistency. The result is that true hybrid cloud is enabled only when you have the same exact data available in all of your cloud locations. We're the only company that can provide that. So we've got customers who are expanding their cloud options because of the data consistency we offer. And those cloud options obviously are increasing. They are. But there's also a recognition that it's, as we gain more experience with cloud, that different workloads are better than others as we move up there. Now Oracle may, there are some of their announcements last week, may start to push the envelope on that a little bit. But as you think about where the need for moving large volumes of data with strong consistency, what types of applications do you think people are focusing on? Is it mainly big data? Or are there other application styles or job types that you think are going to become increasingly important? So we've got much more than big data. One of the big sources of leads for us now is our capability to migrate NetApp filers up into the cloud. And that has suddenly become very important because an example I'd like to give is a big financial firm that has all of its binaries and applications and user data in NetApp filers. The actual data is in HDFS on-prem. They're moving their binaries from the NetApp up into the cloud in a specific cloud vendors equivalent to the filer and the big data part of it from HDFS up into cloud object store. We are the only platform that can deal with both in the strong consistent manner that I've talked about and we're a single replication platform. So that gives them the ability to make this sort of a migration with very low risk. One of the attributes of our migration is that we do it with no downtime. You don't have to take your online, your on-prem environment offline in order to do the migration. So they are doing that. So we see a lot of business from that sort of migration efforts where people have data in NAS filers, people have data in other non-HDFS storage systems. We're happy to migrate all of those. Our replication platform approach, which we've taken in the last year and a half or so is really paying off in that respect. And you couldn't do that with conventional migration techniques because it would take too long. You'd have to freeze the applications. A couple of things. One, you'd probably have to take the applications offline. Second, you'd be using tools of periodic synchronization varieties such as R-Sync. And anybody in the DevOps or operations who's ever used R-Sync across the wide area network will tell you how bad that experience is. It really is a very bad experience. We've got capability to migrate NetApp filer data without imposing a load on the NetApps on-prem. So we can do it without pounding the crap out of the NetApp servers such that they can't offer service to their existing customers. Very low impact on the network configuration, application configuration. They can go in, start the migration without downtime. Maybe it takes two, three days for the data to get up over there because of the man link. After that is done, you can start playing with it up in the cloud. And you can do the cutover seamlessly so there's no real downtime. That's the capability we're using. But you also mentioned at least one data type, binary, they can't withstand error propagation. Absolutely. And so being able to go to a customer and say, you're going to have to move these a couple of times over the course of the next end months or years as a consequence of the new technology that's now available. And we can do so without error propagation is going to have a big impact on how well their IT infrastructure, their IT asset base runs in five years. Indeed, indeed, that's very important. Having the ability to actually start the application, having the data in a consistent and true form so you can start, for example, the database and have it mount the actual data so you can use it up in the cloud. Those are capabilities that are very important to customers. So there's another application. If you think about, you tend to be more bulk. The question I'm going to ask is, and at what point in time is the low threshold in terms of specific types of data movement? Here's what I'm asking. IoT data is a data source, is a use case that has often the most stringent physical constraints possible. Correct. Time, speed of light has an implication but also very importantly, this notion of error propagation really matters. If you go from a sensor to a gateway to another gateway to another gateway, you will lose bits along the way if you're not very careful. Correct. In a nuclear power plant, that doesn't work that well. Yeah. Now, we don't have to just look at a nuclear power plant as an example but there's increase in the industrial IoT is starting to dramatically impact not just life and death circumstances but business success or failure. So how, what types of smaller batch use cases? Do you guys find yourselves operating in places like IoT where this notion of error control, strong consistency is so critical? So one of the most popular applications that use our replication is Spark and Spark Streaming which as you can imagine is a big part of most IoT infrastructure. We can do replication such that you ingest into the closest data center.  We will take care of consistency from there on. What that gives you is the ability to say I have 12 data centers with my IoT infrastructure running, one data center goes down, you don't have a downtime at all. It's only the data that was generated inside the data center that's lost. All client machines connecting to that data center will simply connect to another data center, strong replication continues. This gives you the ability to ingest at very large volumes while still maintaining the consistency and IoT is a big deal for us, yes. We're out of time but I got a couple of last minute questions if I may. So when you integrate with IBM, Oracle, what kind of technical issues do you encounter? What kind of integration do you have to do? Is it lightweight, heavyweight, middleweight? It's middleweight I would say. IBM is a great example. They have deep integration with our product and some of the authentication technology they use was more advanced than what was available in open source at that time. We did a little bit of work and they did a little bit of work to make that work but other than that it's a pretty straightforward process. The end result is that they have a number of their applications where this is a critical part of their infrastructure. Right and then roadmap, what can you tell us about? What should we look for in the future? What kind of problems are you going to be solving? So we look at our platform as the best replication engine in the world. We're building an SDK, we expect custom plugins for different other applications. We expect more high-speed streaming data such as the IoT data. We want to be the choice for replication. As for the plugins themselves, they're getting easier and easier to build so you'll see wide coverage from us. Right, Jigain, thanks so much for coming to theCUBE. Always a pleasure to have you. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back to wrap. This is theCUBE, we're live from NYC. Right back.


Welcome to GILLA commit. I'm really excited to be here that are in overall European user conference. Thank you so much for being here. Today's about GILLA and it's about you. Let's learn from each other and have some fun as well. GILLA was born in Europe and before we dive into today's agenda, I want to get some energy into the room and I want to know who here is from London. If you can please raise your hand. Thank you for having us in your town. That's a lot of people. Let's give them a round of applause for having us. I'm curious to know who here is from the rest of the UK. Please raise your hand. Wow. Thank you. Thanks for having us in your country. You know Brexit jokes. Who are here from continental Europe? Make the track across the channel. Thank you so much for having us. And I wonder who the people are who traveled from beyond Europe, from Africa, from Asia, or maybe Americas. Thank you. Thanks for coming all that way. Appreciate it. Thanks for indulging me. I hope that woke everyone up a bit. Thank you for coming from places near and far to be here. We know your time is valuable and we're trying to make this valuable for you. Speaking of time being valuable, cycle time compression is the key to business success. It's a quote from Mark and recent adventure capitalist in Silicon Valley. And this quote has really resonated with us at Vietnam. Cycle time is the time between deciding to do something and getting feedback from users using that thing in production. And cycle time compression means reducing that time, reducing the time it takes to ship software and features to users. And we agree it's a key to business success because software is eating the world. And every improvement in a business has to be implemented in software. So therefore your jobs are becoming even more important. And we hope that the best practices you will learn here today will help your company achieve cycle time compression and with that business success. We believe DevOps is the best way to compress cycle time while also building a high quality product. And GitLab will be with you every step of the way helping you to make your business successful by driving down the cycle times with a solution that is a complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. We cover the full DevOps life cycle. And that strategy of a single application has resonated with the market. Today more than 100,000 organizations and millions of users use GitLab. In 2015, just four years ago, we had nine people working at GitLab the company. Today, we have over 900 people across 59 countries working at the company. We were just named a cloud native continuous integrations tools leader in the latest forest of wave. And the report notes that GitLab's simple cohesive approach lends it squarely as a leader. GitLab's approach of having a single application to manage each phase of the development life cycle comes true in its developer experience. I'm very proud of our progress to date and GitLab's journey started in Europe where we began as an open source version control project and then became a company. So I would like to tell some highlights from our history. And our history starts in the Ukraine where in 2011 Dimitri, the creator of GitLab, had two things he wanted to improve in his life. He would like to have running water and he would like to have great collaboration software at work. And he started with the most important thing. And in the first year, 300 people joined him in making better collaboration software. In 2012, a year later, I was browsing Hacker News from the Netherlands and I saw this project and I thought it makes so much sense that something we all collaborate with is something we can contribute back to. And I looked into the energy around the project, I was super impressed with all the contributions. I also opened up the code base and I was super impressed by how clean it was and how good of a job Dimitri had done stewarding at being a good steward of the code base. And I sent him an email. I sent an email and said, hey Dimitri, this looks very promising. I'm going to start GitLab.com without you. I hope you don't mind. And he sent an email back saying, that's totally cool. It's open source.  So that was the start of my journey with GitLab. And then a year later, he tweeted out to the entire world, I want to work on GitLab full-time. And I sent him an email back, let's make that happen. How much do you need? He named the price and I went to the local West Union money office and I said, hey, I want to make this wire to the Ukraine.  There are lots of scans going on at that time. And I made that wire and we were in business together. And then I think the other country I want to highlight is Poland. Because at some point, we got a contribution to GitLab CI, a completely new runner, completely out of the blue. And we were blown away by how much better it was than what we made in GitLab. And we said, okay, we'll make that official. And by the way, since you made that, do you want to join the company? And Camille joined the company. And after a few months, Camille said, look, we have to combine GitLab version control and GitLab CI, which were the two stages and the two applications we had at that time. And Dimitri explained how he was wrong. Dimitri said, look, there's no two applications that are better integrated. We got single sign-on, we got custom APIs. There won't not be a benefit for the user. I also explained to Camille how he was wrong. He said there will be a benefit for the user. He said, everyone else in the industry has these separate things. People want to mix and match. We shouldn't constrain choice. He said, well, if you don't believe it's better for the user, at least believe it's going to be better for us, because it's going to be so much easier to have it in a single code base, in a single database as a single, release as a single application. And we couldn't argue with that. So we did it because we want to be efficient. We don't want to spend too much time. But it turned out he was totally right. He was right that it was not only better for us, but also for our users. And when we discovered that, that version control and CI were better together, it was obvious that the entirety of DevOps should be together. It's not just those two phases. It's everything from planning, to securing, to releasing, to monitoring, to defending. So that's the path he set us on. We're back to today. So our vision of a single application is resonating around the world and in Europe. In fact, almost a third of our business, and 42% of our customers come from Europe, and we're really grateful for your business. Thank you. Yes, our customers deserve a round of applause because without them we couldn't do this conference today. And our mission is to make sure that everyone can contribute. And GitLab is making development, security, and operations teams more effective every day. And we're expanding to product managers, designers, QA people, everyone who is involved in software. Our mission, vision, and product also resonate with the wider GitLab community. I'm honored and humbled that the likes of Porsche, Siemens, Kibi.com, and the Department of Work and Pensions here in the UK are not only customers and users, but also folks who will stand up here on stage today. And they will share their DevOps transformations with GitLab. And I'm excited to hear about their journeys. Open Source is in our DNA too. We have open roadmaps. We have an issue tracker that we work in. You can read and modify all of our source code. And not only our code, but even our company processes are open to you. We have a public handbook of over 3,000 pages. So it's very exciting to see that adoption by Open Source projects is soaring. You're here from KDE and Gnome today about their journeys in the Open Source panel run by Ray. And all of this is happening because the big bets we made are paying off. The first bet I want to highlight is the workflow portability for multi-cloud. We send the evolution from data centers to the cloud. For now, many organizations are pursuing cloud independent DevOps processes, which give them workflow portability. Workflow portability is the second phase of going multi-cloud and it offers the biggest benefits. It ensures that compliance is easier, that you can use the unique capabilities that the different clouds offer, that people can switch teams and still be effective immediately, and that you can host new applications in the cloud of your preference. GitLab is the only independent DevOps platform that gives you workflow portability. And today you'll hear from Okado and Delta about how they are leveraging GitLab to implement their multi-cloud strategy without technology processes getting in the way. And we're proud that GitLab is part of their story. The second bet I want to talk about is the importance of Kubernetes. Out of curiosity, how many of you are using Kubernetes today? So that's about one foot of the room. Thank you. It's amazing to see the adoption of Kubernetes in a short time. And we think it's a ticket to multi-cloud for enterprises because it's a common interface to the clouds. It's also the ticket to reduce cycle time and to implement DevOps in organizations. But it needs to be in the hands of developers for lasting results. So GitLab helps to put Kubernetes in the hands of developers and offer first-class integrations for managed Kubernetes services. Met from Kep Gemini will be coming on stage later today to live demo some of that in a 20-minute demo. And that should be really exciting. I'm really looking forward to that presentation. The third and last bet I want to talk about is security as a first-class citizen. Security needs to be baked into the software development lifecycle. It can no longer be a checkbox on afterthought because businesses face increasingly sophisticated risks from attackers every day. In order to deliver faster cycle time, it's critical to connect the developers and the security professionals in an organization. And it's our bet in order to do that, both developers and security people should have access to the same data and the same information and be able to collaborate in real-time. The bets we just talked about are paying off and the success of our customers is leading to deeper partnerships. And I want to tell you about some of our latest partnerships. You might have heard about infrastructure as code and GitOps. It's a growing requirement for DevOps teams. GitLab integrates with Terraform by HashiCorp. The integration allows users to borrow best practices from software engineering to version and iterate on infrastructure as code. Soon we'll have an integration with the much loved Vault project as well, baking in security for pipelines. As we discussed, security needs to be best in class at enterprises today. And already many customers use GitLab and Vault with great success. You'll hear from users about Terraform and GitLab throughout the day. We're also excited to collaborate with VMware to help organizations accelerate their cloud native transformations. We're featured on their new marketplace and I'm working with Bitnami to list in AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud marketplaces as well. You'll hear from VMware and talks today and you'll see an amazing live demo I've heard. As I mentioned, multi-cloud is key to the future. And GitLab wants to support all cloud providers. We also want to provide first-class support for managed Kubernetes offerings. So I'm proud to announce that support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service will be launching this year. Thank you. As with all the good things, there's still a lot of work to be done. And GitLab has an audacious vision as a complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. What you see here is our current feature maturity. And the hearts you see here depicts lovable features. Currently, there's only three hearts in a sea of circles, specifically version control, code review, and continuous integration have 1D hearts. But it's going to require a lot of investment to convert all the other features to hearts. Our goal is to have half of our features lovable by November 18, 2023.  And to do that, we need resources. And luckily, we've just raised a series E around the funding. We closed $268 million. That value is $2.75 billion. We have many amazing investors backing us. And we really appreciate their support. We will use that investment to build for DevOps leaders like you. We will make our vision of a complete DevOps platform a reality. And there will be investments across the company in product and engineering and sales and in marketing. And later on, in the product keynote, you will hear more about our plans. You can bat on us to continue to improve. Many people that are here today pick GitLab not for where we were when you picked us, but for what we were going to be. And raising this money will allow us to keep holding that promise of getting better. You manifest our mission that everyone can contribute. This includes both people within GitLab and in the wider community. For example, our very own Martin has been leading the charge to transform our DevOps practices. He has changed our DevOps practices by enabling us to ship to Kubernetes ourselves with GitLab.com. And today we can go from commit to Canary in GitLab.com in less than two hours. We have a program at GitLab called GitLab Heroes that honors folks who contribute to our community. And I want to ask the heroes in the audience to stand up because we want to give you a very warm welcome. Please stand up. Thank you. Thanks for what you do. They are contributing code. They are writing articles. They are doing all kinds of things that relate to GitLab. And there is a special booth here just for the heroes called the Heroes booth. And if other people here are interested in learning more about the program, please stop by the booth, too. We would love to have you more involved in the community. So in the spirit of that, we want everyone here not to only learn from GitLab today, but also from each other. So there will be lots of time today for serendipity during the conference. But I hope we can start making new connections right now during this keynote. So if everyone in the room can turn to your neighbors, introduce yourself and share where you're here from. From the next two minutes, I will do the same. Please say hi to your neighbors.


Justin Turner's back with us, JT. What's up, guys? Congratulations, man. Thank you, thank you. Let me ask you to start with this. And we've been talking about this. You guys, a little different than last year. Last year, you guys rolled and really were the class of the league the whole year. I'm not saying it was easy, but this year, you really had to fight. You personally threw injuries. The rest of the team, your 10 games under 500 at one point. Can you just give me an idea of the grit of having to battle and still get your way here and now you're back in the World Series? Yeah, this is an unbelievable feeling right now to be standing here after everything we went through this year, myself personally with the broken wrist and spring training. The team with all the injuries at one point, 10 games under 500 and at one point, nine games back in the division in September and third place in the division. And everything that we've overcome, we play with our back against the walls in the entire season and here we were again tonight, game seven, back against the wall, must win obviously and we found a way to get it done. JT, congrats on the win, Alex Rodriguez here. You mentioned it's been a different year for you guys, but it's the same characters doing it late for you. It has been Kershaw, Jensen, yourself. How is this year different? What did you learn from last year to help you out in this World Series? It's different in the road that we took to get here, but last year was the same. It was a group full of guys. Every guy mattered. Different guy taking the big swing every night. Obviously, Bellinger had a couple of big swings in this series for us. Puig with a big three run homer tonight to give us a cushion and Walker Bueller taking the ball in game seven, going out there, throwing the ball outstanding. If it wasn't a game seven, he probably stays in this game and continues to pound the strikes on the way he did, but just 25 guys contributing the unselfishness of this entire club. You look at our bench tonight and there's three, four All-Stars sitting on the bench. So everyone's bought in to what we're trying to do and that's one of the World Series. JT, my man, big puppy right here. Congratulations, bro. You guys were deserving. Thanks, puppy. Hey, listen, you've been playing the player for a while. What was your mindset going into a game seven once again today? Just to win every pitch, try to win every inning. Every time we get out there, obviously Chassine was going out. Starting tonight, we wanted to get to him early. Yeah, baby, yeah. Making it rain. Yeah. Making it rain. You need the goggles. No goggles. Got a lot of burn. Enjoy it, baby. This row was too tough. You got to enjoy this one. Oh, it tastes so good once you hit your lips. Who is that? Yeah, but the game plan was to go out and try to get on the board early off Chassine. And we know they were going to run to the bullpen right away. And we got behind. Yellich hit the Hella Homer in the first. But we grinded. We saw their bullpen guys, I think, in every seven games. So we knew where we were getting. And again, like I said, a couple of big swings by Belly and a big swing by Puy to give us a cushion. JT Frank Thomas here. Now, you guys have seen this Boston team. You know they're a very good team. But after facing this Milwaukee bullpen for seven days, doesn't that just raises the confidence of your offense? Yeah, Boston's got a pretty good bullpen as well. So the thing is, we'll get to see some starters for a little bit in this series. So that'll be a little different. But we know they're a good club. They've had a heck of a year and won 108 games. There's a reason they're in the World Series. So we're going to enjoy this one tonight. And tomorrow we'll start thinking about those guys. JT, you're going to pop his wedding right here. I'm wearing the Red Sox helmet right here, buddy. Hey, don't worry. I know where you're at. I know where you're at. Alex is probably on our side. Hey, they called me the major of the series. So I can't even return to Boston. Who you got, Frank? Who you got, Frank? You know what? I know Kevin's a Manhattan Beach guy. So he's got to be pulling for the dollars. I'm pulling for one heck of a series is what I'm pulling for. Oh, Frank. I can't wait for this thing to start on Tuesday. I'll tell you on Tuesday. JT, congratulations, man. Awesome. We'll see you again in the World Series, OK? Thank you, JT. Good luck, brother. Thanks, JT. Thanks, guys. All right, Justin Turner. Another clutch series for him.


project manager for the military relations team with Lockheed Martin and I'm a proud Navy veteran. On board a ship we would take part in firefighting drills and I worked my way up to be an on-scene leader and that means you're on in charge of the entire firefighting team and my very first time that I was in charge of a drill that was really the moment that I had wow I'm doing something important here and I've got a lot of compliments from that and it just grew from there. You know they break you down and then build you back up to where this way you can actually learn from it. It's the very first part of really having life experiences and understanding as you go. As a team you're coming together and you're developing that trust among amongst each other and that's just something that just comes natural. You're expected to have everybody know their position and you know as the leader you know you do that as well. Same thing with any other management role that I had in the Navy. You know it's a teamwork environment everybody whether you're the one that's the manager in charge of the team or the office everybody comes together and works together for one common purpose one common goal. You learn so many different skill sets you know you're wearing many different hats. It's not just the job you know I was a photographer starting out and ended up as a recruiter but along the way I learned supply I learned logistics I learned time management skills. You learn so many different things along the way that by time your career is over with you're amazed with all the different skill sets that you've learned along the way.


update. One Basel Chapman here, this is the Tiger Financial News Network, 11 o'clock Eastern Time market update does down 65 at $33,996. It's stuck right here, fantastic session yesterday. The Doji Canada, you're looking at right now, is actually just stuck at this Chapman Wave inside track repellent zone. The MACD did turn up very nicely, the Stochastic's improving, it's only at 63%, I really want to see 80% or more on balance volumes, okay. You can see we need to see the 34,150, the high today's 34,129, at least 34,220 area tested to say, ah, again we've broken out about that resistance. Same thing with the S&P, but it hasn't actually gotten close to the resistance level. Well, it's got to the first resistance level, it's down 7, not bad action when you consider the market, yesterday it had a spectacular late hour run and it's given back quite a bit in time and price to consolidate the big gain from the last hour yesterday. But the S&P needs to break about 4,400 to really push away from all the resistance of the 200-period moving average in the daily. We'll talk about the weekly tomorrow when we get into the end of the week. We're looking at the QQQ NDX 100 down 2.5 at 337.79, it tried to rally, it got to a higher high than yesterday and now it's pulling back and this is where the struggle is, excuse me, in the tech sector. I don't think they're ready to really break out now, but they're ready to have decent pops. Looking at the IWM, IWM, sip of tea there, acting much better, look at that, nice action, lower case H, goes to lower case M, up 68 cents at 2.61, these two are sixes to really say, hey, I'm now in play, gold, fabulous move up in gold, up $41 at 1950, this is the area that the market keeps going to, it's the yellow icon of fear, gold and it's coming back, but it really needs to get to the 1970, 2000 and just say, hey, hey, that big slide that I had, I'm done with that, I'm going higher. So far this is good action, we're looking at crude oil, very up, I mean, up sharply, up seven and a half at 102.44, but still just getting tested at the 14 and the line period moving averages and needs to get to 105 to break out, we're looking at the TLT, oh my goodness, up today, 34 cents at 13, 13, 16 yields, I've been going higher there and we'll see what happens over the next few days. Thank you for Larry Prince of Enter and great program, and Tom O'Brien is back with his show, that's awesome, have a wonderful day, thank you.


And I want to welcome you to TechSoup. My name is Danita Pimienta. I'm the executive director for CARE, which is a nonprofit youth development organization. We hail in Central Florida, serve the Central Florida community. And so we are so happy to be a part of TechSoup on this morning. And we want to extend the opportunity for all of you to join us, either as an event producer, a speaker, doing marketing or answering, who are absolutely more welcome to join us on this journey. But enough about TechSoup. You are here because you are going to hear from a wonderful speaker. She's Aretha Simons. And ordinarily, she's our compadre in all of this. She goes ahead and she is the co-host as well for TechSoup Florida events. And today she's going to be presenting on pieces and parts. I have the opportunity to hear from her on that because she utilizes all of the gifts and helps us multiply all of our talents as we go on this journey. What I want you guys to do is take a copy of this screenshot with your phone, grab your phone, take a screenshot because you're going to see my five points that I'm going to talk about today. Today I'm going to be talking about fundraising plan. Pieces and parts to include in your fundraising plan. Melanie was supposed to be here to teach this, but she is not feeling well today. So you have me. So before I get started though, I want to find out how many of you have a fundraiser plan? Just put a one in the chat room if you do, put a two in the chat room if you don't. Most people don't like plans. We don't like the right business plans. We don't like the right strategic plans. And now you're talking about a nonprofit plan. What is this? Oh, yes, I see some twos in the chat room. I love it. I love it. I love it. So this is good. This is good because fundraising is really how most nonprofits generate their income. Grants are great, but they're not the total picture. They're not 80% of where you get your income because sometimes you have to wait on grant. And so we always have to have a fundraising plan. Am I right? Yes, I see some nods. We always have to have a fundraising plan. And that fundraising can include your board members helping you with fundraising, your board members giving, you going to your local community, local corporations within your community. So let me talk about this fundraising plan. Some of the things you should have in it. Step one is to definitely always reflect on your past. If something worked good in the past, do it. I had a young lady who was on my conference calls. I do free conference calls every Monday for nonprofits. I'm having one at night. I'll put the link in the chat room. But she said that they went to a skater ring. They didn't have to show up. They went to a skater ring and talked to the owner. And he said, okay, on this night, everybody that comes in, I'm going to give you a portion of the money that we make. They made $400 without even being there. That's a part of the fundraiser plan. If you can build a relationship with businesses that want to give back, trust me, you think you're the only one with a heart in the nonprofit sector? Everybody wants to give. They just want to make sure that they're giving to somebody who's doing something that's making a difference in the community. So think of your past fundraising events. Would you type in the chat room some of your past fundraising ideas? I know that we've gone both virtually. I just was a part of a fundraising event online with one of the nonprofits that I normally get to. And they did an online virtual event. They had raffle prizes. And the way they did it was so unique. And they said they raised over $10,000. That's virtually now. So you can do that. And they made it fun too. They had a DJ. And the DJ was not in person. He was online playing music. So they just did a whole bunch of, I love that. Delana did an online virtual auction. I love that. I bought a couple of things from a virtual auction from a girl in Texas. And I was like, I love this. So Delana, would you share with me some of the virtual auctions, how you guys did it? Because I don't want you guys just to hear me talk. This is interactive. This is not just seminar style. So would you all meet yourself and tell us about your virtual auction? How did that work? What did you do to get your auction items? You're still muted. Go ahead. We were launching a new community website, partnership for our county. And every little area, our county's very diverse. And every person on the steering committee was responsible for reaching out to local vendors in their area and getting donations that represented their area. And then the people that were building the website have done online auctions before. They gathered them all. They hosted this auction, put all that we took pictures, sent pictures in, and there was stuff. We're in Oregon. We had stuff from Sisters Oregon. We had stuff from Portland area down to Medford, down to the Redwoods, over to Crater Lake Port. So there were everything from gaming. People donated Dungeons and Dragons. They had the value on there. People did local visits to the coffee shop to custom made earrings to Wild Life Safari, which is an attraction here. Wine tasting tours. Just pretty much anything that our county is known for was featured. And so people that were planning trips this way, it got those little known to the outside of our county people, that platform, the people that hosted it did great, got it out there. And we were sold out. The auction ran for two weeks. And we were sold out two days before and raised, I think they said $5,000 more than anticipated. Wow. So, yeah, it paid for all of that website for a year. I love that. Yeah, I love that. Thank you for sharing that. I hope you guys are writing notes down, because that's something that you all could do. You can have your board members, your volunteers, get donated items. It could be from where they work. Or it could be from where they network. So I love that. And I hope that you guys will continue doing that, because there are some people who still want to do a virtual. I don't want to go to live events. Some people are still that mindset. So if you do a live auction, you should also do a virtual. I think virtual is going to be here forever. So think about those. Anybody else want to share your past events? That was awesome. Thank you for sharing that. OK, so the next thing to do is identify existing resources. I think that just now, we were talking about our board members. Your board members, put them to work. I know if you're here, you're probably executive director. You're probably the founder. You're probably a person that's wearing multiple hats. Put your board members to work. But also think about your existing resources within your community. Like I said, every business is going to be taxed on their products. So they usually want to donate it so they can write it off. And everyone wants to give. I have walked into Office Depot when it's time for school and say, hey, just with a simple donation letter, we want to get some donated items. And the manager went to the back. And they had boxes of things. Maybe people opened or maybe returned it or whatever. Marked down, didn't sell. He gave me boxes of things. And I was like, do you need tax right off? He said, no, I've got to give you this donation letter. And he took the letter. I don't know what he did with it. But they were just happy to give. So think about businesses within a five mile radius of where your nonprofit is, or where the community that you reside in. I know we just can't walk into Walmart. Like we used to be able to have a relationship with that Walmart or Target Manager. Now everything is online. But find out if there's a process online. But there are a lot of individual businesses that or franchises that the owner is right there in your community. So anybody else want to share some of your existing resources that now if I went around and asked you, like one existing resource, people would just come up with all kinds of names. And I do this so that we can get ideas from each other. Because that's what today is about. It's not about me just sharing with you. I want you to share with each other. So the next thing I want you to think about is listing activities to or renew or upgrade your donors. Now, going back to that, that silent auction or the virtual auction. So you may have donors who may say, I'm not going to bid on anything too much. I might pay $100 for a ticket. But see if you can upgrade, build some relationship with some car dealers. Yes, some car dealers. There's a, I've been trying to win a BMW every year. There's a nonprofit here. They get a new BMW donated to them every year. And I buy that ticket. I haven't won yet, but I'm so happy for the people that do. But they have a relationship with BMW. They donate a BMW. I'm like, who does that? Guess what? The answer will always be no to you if you don't ask. So ask, ask someone, hey, we want to do a live auction or a silent auction and we have some high profile donors. They like these autograph things from Shaquille O'Neill. They like these type of things. They like professional golf clubs signed by Tiger Woods. Just when I say upgrade your donors. Also ask for higher donors. Reach out to those people there. Somebody, if you don't know a high profile person, somebody in your circle is connected to one. I was at an event the other day I did a session and there was two women in the room and they were just so quiet and they were there to learn about grant writing and come to find out their son's a professional football player. And he told them, hey, I want to start this nonprofit. And they're like, we're doing it because he's not and we don't know what we're doing. So that's why they were there. But guess what? He's connected to all those friends and don't know what everybody was trying to build a relationship with them by the time they left. But it's really about building relationships. So can you tell me, somebody in the chat room, some of the activities that you've done or things that you've done to attract new donors? It could just be online, asking people online. It could be one of those GoFundMe pages. Anybody want to share? I see somebody type in a chat room. Oh, thank you, Denita. Reach out to local business with a five mile radius. Yes. Okay, Ava, I see your hand raised. You're still muted. Are you ever going to mute yourself? Okay, there we go. One of the things I want to share that I believe is going to work out for my nonprofit, which is Life Skills of America now. We had a recent name change from Life Skills Service Center, yay. So what we have recently found out, as Aretha knows that Life Skills Thrift Store is in Citrus County, Inverness to be exact. And we're planning a benefit ball within this city. And we learned when we went to look at the venue from Parks and Rec that they have a grant that they give for events that you have. So we're looking forward to that and they're going to pay up to 50% of our costs. And if I can say it on this call, they even encouraged us to use the higher number. Yes. Because of the CARES Act, this particular city has money available for events. And we are going to fully take advantage of it. They have the event hall, the venue, where we're going to use, they're referring to DJ. So they even a lot of the things we would have to figure out. They already got it worked out for us. And so I'm happy about that. And another one that we use also is we call on Publix a lot. And we get gift cards. And I'm sorry, I can't think of the website right now, but it's Publix.com might be slash giving, I'm not sure. But you can play around with it. But those are some of the things that we have going on with life skills. I love it. And for those of you who don't know, Publix is a grocery store here in the Central Florida area. I don't know where they are in different places, but I want to say something and piggyback on what you said, Avon, because when she had her grant opening, she invited, want to say her grant open to her thrift store, which I also want to talk about. That's a part of fundraising. She invited, the mayor came and there were so many other dignitaries at her thrift store.  They fight for funding for you to come and they fight for funding from the federal level to come in their city to work for you.  So thank you for sharing that. Talking about upgrading donors, those are the people we need to attract, yes. I can share one other thing that we're doing also. We are planning a conference, it's called Reinvent Yourself. And we're gonna be inviting, we want at least 50 women, which is our women department. And we want 50 young ladies between the age of 15 and 19 because that's what we do, we cater to at risk girls, 15 and 19 years old. And so we are planning this Reinvent Yourself conference. And so we call on the late dean United Methodist Church who is going to allow us to use their location. We have actually two choices, churches and all they're gonna want from us is to pay for a staff person to be on hand while we are there. So they're donating their space to us. It's just, as Aretha said, when you don't ask, the answer is no. And when you just begin to ask even through a letter or an email, they want to help. I'm finding out they want these partnerships. So we've got several irons in the fire that we're working in terms of major fundraisers for life skills. Love it. Thank you for sharing. Sandra, I see you unmuted. Did you wanna share? Okay, so this is great. And I wanna also say fundraising, have you guys noticed, I don't know everybody live in different areas, but Goodwill is now adding another part of fundraising. We think of Goodwill, everybody knows Goodwill, no matter where you live in the world. We know them for the first store, right? But they created ways to generate funds by getting government grants to have courses to do job training. And now one of our local food banks, excuse me, not food banks, Goodwill has a food bank. That's what I was gonna say. So that's another way to generate income. So every time we do things, it doesn't have to be for free. And you know that, okay, you're thinking of food, they're giving it away, but they have to make money to even give it away. So they're getting funding to hire people, to help people during crisis situations. And you have to buy food. Every food bank doesn't get food, donates them. A lot of times they're buying food. So think of other fundraising ideas. And I use that as an example, because I know we all can relate or picture a thrift store or Goodwill, but what about in your areas, what other things can you do to generate income for your nonprofit? So the fourth thing I wanna talk about is creating goals for each activity. Now, we talked about, you have a couple of people share their ideas, their options, even if you have an event, you have to create a goal. What's the budget for that goal? Because every time you create an event, you have to spend money, right? So what's the budget you're gonna spend? What do you anticipate bringing in? What revenue you anticipate generating? Also, who's gonna be in charge of that activity? And if there's a project that has to be finished, give a deadline to it. So that's the very important that when you set up your fundraising plan that you create goals for each activity, not just for the entire plan for each activity. If it's going to buy water, I'm telling you, we'll say, okay, Aretha, you gonna make sure we have 12 cases of water by tomorrow. Everything should be in writing so that everybody knows the pieces and the parts that they have to do when it comes to that fundraising plan. And I cannot say this enough, and then I'm gonna open the floor and let you speak and let you ask questions. Put your plan on your calendar. I know that sounds simple, but right now, we are in such a digital age, we get so distracted. We click on Instagram, we click on Facebook, and then we forget what we were supposed to do. I don't know about you, but I have to put alarms on my phone. I have to put plans on my phone, I have to put ideas. You wake up in the middle of the night with an idea. Put it on your phone, put it on your calendar so that what is, what's supposed to happen, what's next? And then add all these things into your nonprofit's plan so that you can have a successful fundraising plan. Now I told you I wasn't gonna do a lot of talking. I'm gonna open up the floor. Donita, if you could stop sharing the screen so I can see everybody's faces and hear from everybody else. So Delana says, has anyone, see, ever had a budget for an event go out of control? Ooh, what a good one. What a good one. Is that anybody? Have you had an event and you had a budget set for, and it just went out of control? I can speak for myself, out of control in my mind, but at the end we broke even. So that was my case. Anybody else wanna share? I see Carmen shaking her head, yes. That was a rush.  I thought I was way out of control, but there was, there was reserves just sitting there and I didn't realize that it was for events. So I was able to use a tad bit of it, but either wasn't that out of control, but you're right, when I subtracted the expenses from the revenue, what we earned, we were good. That's good to hear. I see Tori and you put yes, did you wanna share? Sorry about that, hello. I was typing in the chat, yes. And that's because the expenses and the numbers increased, but like y'all, I had an emergency, I keep an emergency revenue fund for everything I do. I don't care if it's $500, $750, I keep to the side just in case I call it my miscellaneous fund in case something goes wrong. So that helped. That's, thank you for sharing that. And let me ask you both, Karen and I think I've said your name, Tori and. When you, when your plan was going out of control, is it because you kept adding things because you didn't stick to the plan or you thought the things that you added needed to be there to make that event successful? For me, it was things that were needed for the event to be successful. That was not, in that particular situation, it was kind of a lot of unexpected variables. And so I just had to adapt, but I am a strict person when it comes to my budget and funds and especially other people's money. So I like to be to the penny, but it just didn't happen out of time. And for me, it was other people saying, we need to do this, we need to do that. They were a part of the team, but a lot of that stuff we didn't need to do, but we did anyway. They're pretty good. Yeah. And I'm glad you shared that. That's why we have to have a plan and everybody who's a part of that need to know the plan. Like, we don't need to change the color of our t-shirts. We'd say we're gonna use white t-shirts, let's use white t-shirts. Yeah, we know blue would look better, but stick to the plan. It's those little things. But that was a great question, Delana. Thanks for asking. Anybody else wanna share?  Go ahead, Denita. Were you gonna share something? No, no. I just was putting in there how awesome it is. And I apologize, because I am on my phone and the computer. That's how technologically challenged I am this morning. But I was just going to share that the overarching pieces and parts that you were talking about are so incredibly important, especially after you've already established your nonprofit, because people think we have to have, like Ms. Torian said, this emergency fund in the beginning, in the beginning almost everything is an emergency, right? You've got all your filing fees, you've got so much going on, you gotta find an account, you've gotta find all this stuff. So everything seems to be an emergency in the beginning. But then as you're established, even in the first year or two or five, 10, that having an emergency fund is a really brilliant idea to have some reserves left over. And when you budget for an event, for example, I was thinking about taking just a little bit, if you have, if you've raised $10,000, there in your goal was only $8,000. What's the harm in putting those other couple thousand towards the next event that you're going to have? Because then those funds will be just taking that sweat off of the brow for you as you're going forward. So I love, I really do, I picked up a lot of pieces and parts to put in with some of the fundraising ideas that we have. And I hope the same for everyone. So this has been a great discussion and I love the tidbits there, Ms. Delana. She says, I'm not the one in control of the budget, but deal with grants and there was not a plan. And now I'm getting asked what grants we can pull from to make up the deficit. And that, Ms. Delana, can happen when we don't have that emergency funding or those extra reserves off to the side. And I know how challenging that is for you. Our hearts go out to you because you're not the one in control of the money and how it flows, but you're having to come back in and see if you can make some adjustments there. So prayerfully that will get some resolution quickly. So I just didn't want to comment on everybody. That's my takeaway for it all. So it's a little ramp up. Yeah, this is a great discussion. We hope that all of you feel the same. So Mo, when I see your hand raised, go ahead. Yes, thank you so much. But I wanted to ask you, you mentioned earlier that you have a open session. I think it's today you said, and you're going to put your link in the chat. Could you please? I did, yes. Thank you so much for reminding me, I forgot. So if you want on that, you'll get the link to the call and you'll get a reminder when we get ready to start. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. That was a wonderful conversation. I hope you got some tidbits from it. I never like to leave you hanging. So if anybody have any questions, please feel free to ask.  Okay, I hope you will join us for our next event. It is with the president of Grant Station. If you're not a member of Grant Station, Texas was going to have a wonderful sale on Grant Station next month, $99. How many are you using Grant Station to find your grant? Yeah, three of us out of several. So you may want to check that out, but this is going to not be on a Monday, it's going to be on a Wednesday, I believe, and it's 10 a.m. Pacific time, 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So I hope you'll join us and get some top 10 tips for grant writing from that session. Danita, I'm going to turn it over to you to say goodbye to everybody. Listen, I couldn't thank everyone enough for coming to join us today. You have a number of things that you could be doing with your time and chose to spend it with us. And so our hearts are just full of gratitude for that. So thank you very much. Please make sure that you are connected to TechSoup events for Florida. So you can keep up with what we're doing. We have another one coming up next month as well. And so we want to make sure that you are a part of it. As Ms. Aretha said, and then again, if there's any questions or what have you, you feel free to reach out to myself or Ms. Aretha and we'd be happy to answer those for you. And if you decide that you want to join us on this journey, please do so because that's always a thing is just having more people on board. So thanks again. This has been another TechSoup event for Florida and we are delighted that you were able to join us. Stay tuned for more that we have coming up. So we appreciate you all. You have a blessed day.


Hi everyone, it's Sarah and today we are going to have an introductory video about how do things move across the cell membrane. Do you remember how I told you cell membrane was semi-permeable in the previous video? Well, to understand how do things move across the cell membrane, let me go back to the analogy I used. Cell membranes are like our walls and we humans created a number of ways to go in and out of them. We have doors, windows and vent and they all vary in the size, the material they made of and the purpose and mechanism. In some way, it is very similar to what's happening at the cell membrane and we call that cell transport. Before we go further, can you spot the main difference between these two doors? Size, yes. And what about these two doors? Energy, well size and energy are two important factors in cell transport. And that's why we use them to classify the different type of transport. We distinguish three major types of transport, passive, active and bulk. As suggested by its name, passive transport does not require energy but it can only move very small molecules such as oxygen. Active transport needs energy to move larger and rarer molecules. Finally, bulk transport uses even more energy but can transport cargo as big as an entire bacterium. In the next videos, we will discuss each type of transport in more details.


Search for my key where I put them yesterday because I took the motorcycle in so I don't take all my keys Then I don't take all my janitor keys, right? So yesterday I'd gotten home, and I guess I was just so excited to be at home. I just put the keys down In a spot where they don't usually go I have a few spots where I usually put my keys like subconsciously if I just put them down somewhere and forget them Usually I can just check these spots and you know one of them That's probably where I put it. They're supposed to be hanging in their spot, but I know me However, this time I Put the keys down in a completely unusual spot where I've never put them before Took me half an hour to find them sitting right there in plain sight. So we're on the way for a coffee Going up too long again today. Not for me today when I'm filming this. It's Friday And this weekend we have some plans What are we doing tomorrow? Tomorrow's Saturday. So tomorrow we're going into Winnipeg Britt, this guy just put his vehicle in park in front of me What are you doing? Making me nervous. I just saw his backup lights flicker on Usually that's when you put the vehicle in a park or drive and then you put it back in drive just now Okay, you're going forward not backwards. Okay, that's all that matters I think yeah, I think Britt has a hair appointment tomorrow her hair did And I got a few other things done while we're there We've got some friends coming over for a bonfire in the evening Who knows what we'll get up to it's a big day and then Sunday we have no plans yet Sunday We're thinking we might go back up to birds hill and Do another hike. There's a whole bunch of trails just like the chickadee trail we did the other week That one was about four kilometers long We want to go on a bit of a longer one now They have a whole bunch of them there. So we might pick a longer trail and go on a nice nice weekend hike I don't know. What do you have planned for the weekend? Let me know down below. Got any big plans for the weekend? Well, I want I want all day breakfast Well, I'd like the morning breakfast. Thank you Uh, there's a spinach feta and cage-free egg white wrap No, thank you. That sounds Well, that actually sounds pretty good. I don't know why they got to put cage-free egg Like who puts their eggs in cages? I don't know Double smoked bacon and cheddar. That sounds pretty good bacon and Grigory wager Soobin egg bites. I have no idea what you're trying to tell me starbucks. I don't know what that is Sour dough grilled cheese. Oh, that sounds maybe I'll try that sour dough. You think the dough is sour? How do they call it sour dough? It doesn't sound good, but I'm gonna try it Could I get a uh, a sour dough grilled cheese? And a large coffee with two cream No, that's it Man got a frog in my throat right when I started talking there. Who sounded like I was dying for a second So if any of you thought of this as well, I'm just wondering am I the only one that thinks that starbucks is missing out on a massive marketing opportunity by offering Starbucks as a reward like, you know five starbucks gets you this or that is equal to a an actual buck You know three bucks for a coffee or You can spend three starbucks or maybe maybe make their currency worth a little more say one starbucks gets you a coffee or something one starbucks Or did they do that already? Usually if I think I came up with a really good Really good idea I got to remember that it's 2021 and any good idea that comes into my head Someone else has already thought of and probably already marketed It's hard to come up with original ideas these days, but uh, that's why when you see something original you're like, wow Like look at movies for for instance All the movies being made all they are remakes of old movies. There's no Not a lot of new ideas out there But I guess yeah, there is still some but there's a lot of remakes and a lot of I don't know. I I think that they're missing an opportunity Buy a coffee get a starbucks or something You can use those starbucks to buy other starbucks like actual starbucks stuff. You get what I mean, though You give it out like little currency like canadian tire money But then again, it's nothing new canadian tires already been doing that But it would be cool. I don't know I don't know. I'm new here. I'm new to starbucks. I don't listen to me. What do I know? You know, I used to think it was gross. What's happening to me? Okay, so this is a Vt pike place What does it even mean? I just ordered a large coffee Okay It did its job I am wired It's time to go do some trucking Let's grab a bag out of here Oh, yeah, we'll grab our trailer number 605 Yep We'll do some trucking It's a beautiful day It's a beautiful day for trucking and it's a beautiful day for a friday All right, we got our stuff. We got our bag. We got our pit stick always use pit stick Some of you need a reminder every now and then clean inside I think that there's not stuff all over the floor sometimes I Sometimes I go into those trailers and whoever had it before me leaves uh The gift of cleanup to me They're very generous people. I always love cleaning up their mess for them but no This trailer is uh in good shape I can't get between any of these trailers though. Holy smokes. Can we get through here? Yep, there we go. Come with me. Not like you have a choice All right, what's going on back here I guess I should have hooked up the lights first now. I gotta come back here again to check the lights I wanted to make sure everything was latched up here Trailer tires are up. Oh, but look at this. You see this I'm going to put that down and move that Ratched out of the way that ratchet shouldn't be so close to that tire. Remember we talked about that That was the last week Gotta make sure that uh those ratchets are far away from those lift tires This one here too. This one's not too far away, but this is here Yeah, this won't touch the tire though It's just from when you go over bridge connections right and the trailer suspension goes up and down Sometimes these tires touch the ground and they start spinning and if you have these ratchets right here When that happens you go over a bridge connection. This spins. It actually rips a chunk of tire out So in that case it's better to always have this thing down, but sometimes, you know You want to use it for its intended purpose and lift it save fuel or save money on tolls wherever you are Because tolls are usually charged by axle on the ground So this truck has one two three four five axles on the ground, but if we put this down That's another axle on the ground, which means an extra five dollar five fifty depending on which toll road you're on Sometimes you just want to save that money adds up after a while if you go through like, you know Five to ten different toll booths five bucks a shot That tire gets very expensive and you save quite a bit if you just have it off the ground, but you got to make sure That these things Aren't going to defeat the entire purpose And destroy your tire anyway, and you got to replace the tire right away No one likes replacing tires that don't need to be replaced Seems that all the smoke is cleared out of our Out of our atmosphere around here that rain this last week must have done Done a lot of good for the forest fires around here I know there's a lot more burning all around the world. It's kind of crazy You got to wonder like is there more forest fires happening now than there used to be Or are we just hearing about it more because now we have the internet and global instant media Because you know if there was fires in africa A hundred years ago you wouldn't hear about it until The news would literally travel by boat To our shores and then be spread from our shores inland most times you probably would never even have heard about it But now I mean if there's a fire in south africa boom, we hear about it that second Not months from now not weeks from now not even days from now that second we hear about it So there's fires in cyberia in africa in greece all across europe in the the amazon And of course in north america here in the us and we hear about them all at the same time So it seems like there's so many fires all burning at the same time. Whereas in the past we probably would have only Heard about our local situation You know, I'm wondering if that has a part to play in it. Like I'm not saying that's what's going on, but You know, there are people out there that are saying that they are increasing Or is the news just increasing. I don't know.  Oh, I made my first tiktok the other day. Did you guys see that? You can find me on tiktok. Uh, just the at symbol at tjv tiktok tjv tiktok You don't find me on tiktok. You can find my first my first tiktok I know it sucked me in It sucked me in. I thought it was so lame And then I watched one and then I watched another one then before I knew it I was hooked So I made one Guys, if you guys are into that, if not, I don't blame you be careful. Once you start it's hard to stop We'll see what today brings. Anyway, we got clear sky. Well, my clear sky is clear air Which has been really nice. It's supposed to be a really nice weekend and then more rain next week I'm on my way up too long. I gotta pick something up I'm gonna need to fuel up the truck There's a petrol pass right up here about a quarter tank and that last quarter drops way faster than the rest So it's probably less than quarter tanks already Fill it up today and show you're ready for monday It's just a little card lock With a lot of recycling owed back apparently. Wow At least they're recycling That's a big pile Where'd all that come from? The whole town drop it off here or what? They'd make some go-go juice Okay, we don't want marked diesel because that's for the farmers because the farmers get the special fuel Special cheap fuel Something about them, you know making food for us or something. I don't know. Okay Lovely, let's uh put ourselves on duty not driving. We're fueling Let the government know what I'm doing again. There's always some nosy All right So again, this is one of the card locks where you just sort of string it across I'm gonna start with this side and then do the other side next Pump five. Don't let me forget that pump five Enter pump number five Give me some juice. Come on use pump selective absolutely absolutely Oh, there comes the dump truck. Maybe he's gonna pick up all of that uh Recycling over there.  Whoa Apparently he wanted fuel He walked back over there to the garbage pile.  Here you guys ready for some math. I know you didn't expect that this morning when you clicked on this video What's the diesel at right now? About $1.20. $922 or so. Over $900 worth of fuel bought today. That's from this past week. Approximately, I think there's a little less. I don't remember the last time I fueled up. For the Americans, you guys in your funny measurements, 769 liters divided by 3.78, that would be 203.4 gallons. U.S. gallons. Not imperial gallons. Busy on this road. This is our terrible intersection here once again. Shouldn't be too bad, but it is Friday and it's quarter after five. There's gonna be a lot of traffic leaving the city, but most traffic's headed out to Falcon Lake, out west or north. Not a lot of traffic would be going down 59, I don't think, but we'll see. How long do you think we're gonna be sitting here? Waiting for all that traffic over there. I've got to get onto that lane there and go that way. Now, by the time I see the traffic up on top of this bridge here, it's too late. And now I can't go anyways until that lane is clear. So we'll just watch that way. But most of those cars are going down the south perimeter. You see that? That's a different road altogether. So I think we're clear.  I'm gonna. Nope, that car's in this road. See, it's hard to tell. This car coming here. I thought it was on the other road over there going down the perimeter. Nope, it's on this one. I would have cut right in front of him if I would have gone. And now this car's coming from there. This car's coming from there. Guys, timing this? How long is this gonna take? All right, if there was an opening now, I could go now. I think I'm just gonna have to send it and just hope for the best. Got a long line up of cars behind me already. Sorry, guys. Nothing I can do about this. I'm not the one that signed off on this intersection. Okay, so after this pickup, I got quite a bit of big break there. Okay, now we need a break here on this direction. After these two cars. Yep, after these two cars, I'm gonna send it. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, it's gonna be tight. This is gonna be tight. Misty gear. Misty gear. That's not good. All right. Whoo. Oh, the guy behind me and royally cut off that car. Dude, why didn't you do that? Be just about got rear-ended by that car. Ah, that intersection is so dangerous. I really wish they would fix that already. I know it's expensive. I know what I ask is expensive. But how much is one life worth, right? How many lives does it take to justify them fixing an intersection like that, right? There's always a limit. You know, a couple of people will die there and they'll have a couple of meetings. A couple more people will die and someone will make a statement in legislature about it and then forget about it.  Sorry, I'm yelling. Sorry, gotta keep my voice down. Don't raise your voice, Trucker Josh. Calm down. I know. I get mad at these things. I get mad that it takes people dying for the government to act sometimes. And I live out here on these highways, so I'm passionate about highways and I know that they're a safer way of doing things. And I know there's better ways, yet they still do it the backwards way, every time here in Winnipeg. Every time. It's so frustrating. The city planners here have no idea what they're doing. They don't consult anybody who actually drives on them. I'd love it if they give me a call and ask my opinion, you know? We could save ourselves intersections like that.  No one needs to lose their life because of poor planning, right? I'm passionate about these things. Gets me going. Gets me going. But it's Friday, so we're gonna release those feelings right now and we're gonna fill ourselves with excitement and fun because it's gonna be the weekend, alright? It's gonna be the weekend. Well, that took a long time. That took all day. That's all I'm doing today. Now I'm back and everyone else is gone already, so I figured I'd just park her right in the middle of the lot there and give you some behind-the-scenes footage as I go to place you guys down right over there so you can wash me back up. I think I can get her in in one shot. I make no promises. I am gonna put you down, hmm, I could put you down right here or right there or in there. Where do you guys want to sit? Hey guys, how about on this bumper here, okay? How about like right here? You're out of the way then, but you don't get that good of a view, right? If I put you here, I might drive over you again. We don't want that. I promise to take much better care of you guys now. I'm not mad at my word. How about here? You're sort of facing up a little bit because this thing is bent. How about there? Right there. I think that's a good spot. You're gonna be right here, okay? I need you all to hang on. All right? You got one job. Hang on. Five stars for holding on tight. You didn't even fall down.