Hi, everyone. Welcome to this interview. I'm really excited to be with Tad Hargrave. If you know what you have been following my work for a little while, you know that I love to interview Tad. And we've got, you know, I've got several interviews with him on my channel. And today, what we're going to talk about is how to launch things well.  Launching is one of those really, really key skills that you need to develop if you're going to have a, you know, viable and thriving business. And Tad has even more experience than me in launching things. And I'm grateful to be able to bring him here. We will pick his brain for a little bit on the stuff. Tad also has an upcoming course about launching stuff. So this is kind of a preview into some of the stuff that he's going to be talking about with his co-teacher Bradley Moore. Some of you know Bradley as well. Anyway, let me just stop talking for a sec, Tad, because I want to bring your voice on. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you so much. Yeah, I know we've only got about 20 minutes. So let's see how much we can fit in. Totally. Right. So if you're watching this and you've got a course, a membership, a program, something significant enough that you can't just, you know, send out one email that's full, or that is not an evergreen, just available all the time type thing, or somebody may need an injection, a boost on a regular basis, then these ideas are for you. And so launching is basically the art of putting something out into the world. How do you, how do you get it out there? The very first thing I would say is if you don't have to do a launch, don't. It's so exhausting.  My answer was as little as possible, as much as needed, but as little as you humanly can. And so launching is, I would just say, on the larger end. And so if there's a way you can do it simpler, or just through word of mouth or through reputation, or if it's going to fill up anyways, great, you don't need this. But let's say you have a goal to hit numbers you've never hit before. You're pretty sure your own email list won't do it through just a few emails. This is, these are some thoughts on that. And the error that I see, and just maybe, again, if you're watching this to just see if you can see yourself in this, it's three weeks before an event, a program, a course, something you're launching, the numbers are nowhere near what you need to proceed. Now you know there's going to be a last minute rush, you hope, but you've only got two people or one or none signed up. And there's this question then of what do I do? It's three weeks out. And for some people that decide, I'm gonna cancel it. Okay, and I'll do it later. But the later one, they find themselves in the same position. I remember I went to Holly Hawk retreat center in BC, it was leading a workshop, and I went to apologize because I only got 12 people for the, for my it was a five day workshop. I said, Oh, it's okay. And first of all, Holly, I just forgot this is so hard to get to. I mean, it's a full day journey to get to it from, from Vancouver. And so it's just, it's a slog to get people to sign up. It's a real destination thing. So I got 12 people. And he said, No, it's fine. And he went through the catalog and he said, Yeah, these people went ahead without the minimum, this one went ahead without the minimum, this one canceled, this one canceled, that one went ahead with almost none of them, almost all of them didn't even hit the targets. And so this happens a lot, I see for people. And if you cancel all the time, you get this reputation as being flaky and people just stop trusting your, you know, sure, it's going to happen. And then if you go ahead without the minimum, it's not the full robust experience, it could have been for the participants, if there'd been more people in it, and you don't make the money. Anyways, I just see this where it's a constant, they're so behind, they never get caught up. And so the promotion, everything's so last minute, by the skin of their teeth. And they, you know, there's a lot of personal outreach and desperate last minute Facebook posts and a barrage of emails at the end. And of course, the consequence of this is it leads to a lot of unsubscribes. It leads to people being burned out with the requests. So this is one of the challenges. I mean, if you think of launching like a rocket launch, a lot of fuel gets burned. And the things that get burned in a launch like we're talking about, when you get burned out, that's one, because it can be exhausting. But two, your list can get burned out. And they just pay less attention to your emails now, because everything's a scramble. Everything's a last minute promotion. So yeah, so I mean, I suppose this is the thing Bradley and I are going to deal with. But I'd love to share some thoughts, some nuggets on this here. Yeah, Nan, this is really good. It is interesting when you say, if you don't have to launch, don't do it. But if you need to launch, if you want to fill, if you want to reach higher numbers than you have before, this is the kind of process that you and Bradley are going to be talking about in the course. And it's interesting because I'm thinking about, you know what, I haven't really launched anything in years. The way I do it is like, I mean, talk about marketing for hippies. I mean, the way I do it is like two emails, two gentle emails, two Facebook event page, two gentle Facebook posts that are boosted for reach. But yeah, man, I guess I'm spoiled by this point. But you have actually recently, I should mention, I think one of the reasons why you're so qualified to talk about this is you recently did a very full launch and it went really, really well. Do you want to just give us a one minute summary of that? Well, it's interesting because it's connected directly to the thing you said. So yes, I launched my membership program. We got 150 people on the initial launch. And then I did open it up to monthly. And that's just to say, that's enrollments, that's actually paid enrollments. Like my members, average, they paid, let's say 670 bucks. And then I got another hundred at the monthly level. 85 of those were at the $25 a month level and then 15 or so were at the $100 a month level. And so yeah, this is for the membership. And so I made about 120 grand in terms of gross on that launch, which is more than I've ever made in a month before. Yeah, my goodness. And it's almost like if you did that, you're set for the rest of the year, kind of thing. Sure, that's as much as I've made in one launch as in previous. So that's possible if you do a good launch, you can make as much in one launch as you did in the last year. That's not an inconceivable fight. And so launching for membership, of course, you're in a similar situation. It's a much more sustainable business model because because of that model of having membership, I don't need to do the launches to my list every time I do one of my quarterly 30 day events. I don't have to do that launch because it's mostly because it's only going to be for members moving forward. And I had to do a launch to fill that membership. That took a very thoughtful launch. And there may be things you may not be in a position if you're watching this to do a membership or that may not feel like the right model. So this is for you. So here's the most important thing I can say about watching. Number one, give yourself enough time. So first of all, I mean, start this thinking about this a year, six months in advance. This is not the month before start thinking about it. You plan it out six months in advance. And I did a video recently called the four rules of time. But just to give the close notes of it, four rules of time. See if I can remember them. Number one is the rule of one hour. The rule of one hour is in the period leading up to it. Let's say two months before one hour a day working on the launch, literally put it in your calendar, put it in your schedule. The second one is the rule of two months. And the two months before and the two months after, you're not promoting anything else. This is all you're promoting. There's not another program, another thing, you know, a few other things you want to offer before or after that window. But in that two months, two months, it's only this thing. Just you don't overwhelm a confused your people. Number three would be the rule of one week. And the rule are two weeks, right? But I think it's basically the week before and the week after clear the decks. Just don't have much else going on in your life, except this. And then there's the rule of two days, which is the day before and the day after the launch, just literally zero else. Everything is canceled. Because why glitches will happen. There will be last minute mayhem, almost guaranteed of some technical nature for which you are unqualified. So it's if you have a big important dinner the night of your launch, or you've got calls with clients that day, it's just an awful setup. So that's the most important thing I can say is that number two, have a plan. You've got to create a plan for this. Most people have no plan. This is the thing I've seen. And this is what we're I guess going to be going into the day with Brad helping people craft this plan. But even just the thought of having a plan, when I've asked people, so yeah, you know, raise your hand if you have a plan for you, and just no hands get raised. What that means is I'm going to do a bunch of stuff and hope something happens. I'm going to throw something at a wall and hope that something sticks. And there won't be any pattern to it, but there you can think this through. And as soon as you start to think it through, it becomes very obvious, the general flow will should go first and second. So for example, a general flow of this, I mean, Jeff Walker has his sort of, you know, layout, but generally, it might be something like this. The very first part of it, you need to make the case for you need to say, well, here's what's coming. Here's what it is that I'm doing, or here's the topic. So if I was doing the hub marketing, the first email probably just be what is hub marketing?  The second email could be, here's why it matters. The third email might be here's some real life examples and case studies of hub marketing, you know, the fourth email might be here's some blunders and mistakes that people make the common errors in hub marketing. And then the fifth one might be, Hey, join me for a call about hub marketing, or let me do a hot seat for, you know, there's a number of things. There's a general logical flow to a launch of you're making the case, not for them to buy from you initially, you're making the case for this. It's like, look, whether you sign up for my hub marketing 30 day or not, take hub marketing seriously, and let me give you a lot of value. And so I guess that's number three is when you're doing a launch. It's, you know, Jay Abraham, who you and I both know, one of the God fathers of the marketing direct marketing movement. His marketing was and is so brilliant because his marketing was so educational. If you read a salesman from Jay Abraham, you learned something during one of his courses. And I thought this is such a great example of a launch. He was called his mastermind marketing training was around the year 2000. It was a $5,000 US train in LA, which I went to. And in his launch, he said, look, I'm going to be promoting this thing. I'm really excited about it. Sign up to be marketed to for this. Get on the email list, because I'm only marketing. If you join this email list, I promise you, you will get more real value, more profit producing, take home, money making advice and content of this, then you would get in most programs you paid for in the launch for free. And it was true every, every day. There was another email with a PDF from one of his colleagues or from himself. I still have some of them on my computer. I mean, it was phenomenally good, the content he got. So this being a generosity based business in the launch, you're saying, look, instead of it just being a commercial followed by another commercial, which is why people stopped, you know, that's why Netflix is doing so well, fewer commercials, saying, let me be generous in sharing my perspective and point of view and examples in the lead. And so another example of that, but not topic based, but with my membership, Bradley and I talked about because he really helped me design this launch. And we're wondering about how could we give them a taste, a genuine useful taste of what the membership would be like. So ideas we came up with that we did where I thought, well, you know, this membership is really to help people get more rooted in my perspective on marketing. So I took my day long workshop, which I'd never done online. And so I'm going to do it online for the first time. I also did it on a page can basis. So anyone was able to attend. I did that. I did a, I said, well, you know, during the, in the membership, there'll be weekly calls with me that people can get. So why not give them an example of one of those office hours calls.  Do you like it or not? You get a sense. I did a, I've done this a few times called stump the hippie. I said, you know, in the membership, you're going to have a chance to ask me a question. So on my Facebook page, here's the link to the post. It's called stump the hippie ask a question. And I'll do, and if I probably have a blog post and a video for it, but if you can ask something that I don't have a blog post or video for you stumped me and I promise I'll get you a response. So there was that, which of course, then it gives me good content to create moving forward, even if I don't have something. Yeah.  One of the things, yeah, it's like, you've totally reframed what a launch can be for an audience.  And what you've done is to reframe it as what if the what if the launch was actually something that the audience was looking forward to, because they get so much value from the launch materials. And I think it's brilliant. And of course, you know, it's been done for 20 years plus.  Well, you know, if you've been following along the kind of stuff that that I've been talking about, you've been creating content over the years, you could just take some of your best stuff from that topic and put it into the launch. And people now see it in one place or in one several weeks or whatever. One question for you, how long, how many weeks do you recommend a typical launch to be? Or is there a range that you like to see? I mean, I think 30 days is fine. But you know, you can be you can be seeding it. So for example, three months before you might just start teasing, saying something's coming. Hey, I've got something big. I can't wait. I can't reveal it yet. You know, the I did that with not as I wish I'd done more of this, honestly, but with a mentorship, I said, because I was launching out on November 11, so it was like 1111, I'm going to drop something big.  I don't know, I just think it's fun. And then so you can be doing that in the lead up. And then you could just start, you know, you could drop a video or you know, saying, Hey, I've got a thing, and it's going to be loosely on this topic. I can't tell you too much. But you know, if you struggle with this issue, if you struggle with this problem, or you're craving this result, I've got something coming for you. So you can be doing that. And then the official launch, you know, maybe 30 days before, but you can be telling people book off this date, because let's say it's for a day long workshop or something, you can be three months before saying, look, I can't tell you why. Just book off this date. You'll be glad you did. I've got something that's dropping on that date. Book it off. You can do that well in advance. And just to go back to what you said, George, 100%, all my my launch for the hub marketing stuff, I was amazed. I had it all done. I had all the videos, all the blog posts, I have my ebook, that's 200 pages. I was able to go and cut and paste stuff from it, stuff I'd already done, but had never been laid out in that way. So sequentially, you know, publicly in that in a digestible way. And yes, they should, this is the goal. I don't know, do we ever achieve this or but it's a it's a good thing to aim for that they would follow along your launch and at the end say, wow, that was so worth my attention. I got something really useful from that, from the launch itself, not from the course.  So if you're trying to pitch them and sell them and get them to get a massage from you at the party, they kind of think that vibe that pushy aggressive desperate vibe is what it will be like on the massage table or life coaching or therapy.  So I'm a therapist and you start talking. And in that conversation, you're really present. There's a lot of empathy and you're just asking good questions. And there's no pressure. They think, boy, that felt good. And I've seen that happen. And we've probably all received that. So with a launch, the experience that they get from you in the launch is what they think the thing will be like. Well, and in the case that what we do, it is aligned. There is integrity, you know, because in fact, the product, the kinds of products that you do offer are hugely aligned and an extension of all the value that you've been doing in the launch. Speaking of which, since we only have like three minutes left, this has been a good example of a launch of the launch of a small course about a launch. I want you to, yeah, I want you to invite people to this. So for all of you who are watching, Tad and Bradley are going to go into the details of this stuff in a step-by-step way. Tad, you want to say, give us a preview of that? Sure. So if you go to magicmedia.com slash presales dash. And I'll put the link below. Yeah. And by the way, I'm not affiliating for this. I'm not getting commissions for it just because we didn't have time to set it up. And I don't care because Tad's been so good to me over the years that this is one small thing I can do to help him. But I'm going to put the link below. And I'll, yeah. So those of you who are watching this, there is a link below in the notes or in the comments or both. But yes, what's it about? What can people expect in that day? So it's from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific time, April 12th. We're going to be going over how to craft a plan. You're going to get a templated Excel spreadsheet example that you could use and customize for yourself. You're going to be getting a lot of ideas of the different types of things you could include in a launch. And you're going to get some time to actually get started on all of this. So there will be time to really sit down and do some exercises. So it won't just be a content dump, but a chance to actively begin to plan. I think by the end of the day, you should have a, you know, the workings of a rough start of something that you could actually take and use. So if you've got something coming up or that you've been thinking about that you'd like to really in advance start the thought process on, this would be helpful. Plus we're going to walk through a number of case studies, including more exactly and precisely what we did on my launch. And Brad's going to walk through some of the other. I think his launch was at $500,000 last year. But anyways, the launches went very well. And certainly I know a lot of those people, it was the most money they'd ever made from something. So a well-constructed launch can generate so much income very quickly and faster than most things that I know of. Man, this is really exciting. So I'm really grateful that you guys set up the sort of the half day in a way that people are actually doing the planning right then and there. So that's really nice. The link is there in the notes below or the comments below the video. Tad, thank you so much for showing up and sharing this stuff with us. Those of you who are watching, if you have any kind of quick questions that Tad might be able to answer, feel free to comment below. Be sure to check out the link. And Tad, I'm sure I'll see you again before long. Thank you so much for doing this. Take care.


Hello everybody. Welcome back to another AI video. In this one, I want to show you how to create amazing presentations or slideshows using an app called Tomb. This app is currently free. It does amazing work and it's got a few things that make it better than my opinion than PowerPoint. Let me tell you one. One, it integrates in GPT-4. That's right. It has access to chat GPT-4 or just GPT-4 and it uses it to populate the presentation and I'll show you how it does it in a second. It also has access to Dolly 2 and soon-to-be Dolly 3, which is an AI image or an AI art generator and it has unlimited access to that as well. And more importantly, it's easy to use. You can have literally zero technical skill and you can create amazing presentations. If you're a teacher, if you're doing a report or you're teaching a class, whatever it is you're doing, I'm going to show you how to do it step by step, walking you through it the whole way. Here we go. So the first step, I'm going to show you the presentation that I made. I want you to keep in mind I made this presentation in about three minutes and I had no technical skills required. So here we go. We've got a, we've got Macbeth full summary, play summary. Here's a few things that it talks about. Here's an image of the, the witches doing the witches thing. Here is the prophecy. I've integrated in a video from YouTube. So here's the tragedy of Macbeth by the Coen Brothers. I've got a snippet of that cut into the presentation. I've got a top, I've got an image at the top of the, of this page here that I built using Dolly 3 and the image generator. And here we go. Another image through Dolly 3, Macbeth's downfall, et cetera, et cetera. Let's do this step by step, follow along with me if you'd like. First step, tune.app. That's all you got to do. I'll put a link in the description below. You need to have an account. If you don't have an account, it's free to sign up and you get 500 credits to start with. So the average presentation for me takes about 30 credits, maybe 40 credits. So you get at least 12 free presentations and unlimited amount of, of image generation and all that stuff. And you'll see here I made a whole bunch of different funny looking things. Okay. So there we go. That's the first step. We're on tune.app. The next step is you got to find what you want your content to be. So the document. So in this case, I've got a Macbeth summary and I just took this off spark notes. And all you got to do is just get the text. You don't, you don't have to copy in any images or anything like that. Just select the text, wherever you use Microsoft Word, Mac notes, whatever, select it, and then go back into tune. Now we're going to go over here, click on create. When we click create, we get a whole bunch of options. But the one we want is here at the bottom, document to presentation beta. This is still in beta. It should be out of beta pretty soon because it's working pretty darn well. So let's go. I'm going to click on that and then presto. Now it says paste the document. So all this content that we took here, I'm just going to command V or control V and paste it in. And then I'm going to click on that generate button. And now it's basically dialing up. Well, that's not the right way to put it, but it's cluing in with the GPT for. So it's using GPT for logic and it's using that to create this new presentation. So here we go. It's created this as its first crack. If we don't like it, we can keep it or we can try again, but let's go ahead and keep it and see what we got. Okay. So clicking on number one, this is the first slide, Macbeth, full play summary.  You can change the fonts and all that stuff. But this looks pretty good to me. And I don't want to bore you with all the technical stuff, even though it's very easy to do. The next step I'm going to click on number two and I see, okay, we've got these four points that it's identified. Now, if I wanted to add in another one, I would just go over here and I could just add in text. So I could either just start typing, of course that didn't look right. Or I can go over here and I can add in a heading. But in this one, just clicking on it, I think we should put an image here on the right side. That would look cool. So how easy it is it? I'm just going to click on add a tile or the plus button. Then I'm going to click on image and there you go. It's selected it. All I got to do now is drag and drop in an image. I'm going to go to my finder or my explorer and I'm going to go to desktop. And then what do I have? Macbeth up here somewhere. And there it is. Copy of Macbeth doing Macbeth things and presto. There it is. Now I've added it. This one here I added a second one by accident. So I'm just going to click delete on it. And there we go. We've got Macbeth looking good. Again, this has taken no technical skill whatsoever. Let's click on the third slide. This is the witches prophecy. So for this one, maybe I want to add in that video. That would be pretty cool because the video is of the witches doing witches things. So I'm going to go over here again, click on the plus button. I'm sure you're getting to see a pattern here. And now I can either add in a video by clicking on this and that means I can upload my own video. If I've got it on my computer or on one of my cloud drives or alternatively, I could just click on this web button here. It's a web link and watch this. I'm just going to go here to YouTube and here's the tragedy of Macbeth. It's a five minute clip about the three witches. I'm just going to click on that share button. I'm going to click on that copy button part of me. Go back in and then just paste that web link and hit enter. Watch that. We've integrated in the video. Again, zero technical skill whatsoever. Just clicking. It's just a copy and paste. That's all you need to know. So there we go. We've got a very cool looking third slide. Let's go to the fourth one. Macbeth's first crime. Okay, I like that. If I want to change some of the wording, I go, this was whatever. So I just could start typing, but I don't want to. Let's say I like it. I want to add in another image. So in that case, let's go ahead and add an image. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to click on this plus button. I'm going to go to Dolly this time because in this case, I want to show you how to use the Dolly three AI image generation AI art generator. So this has got infinite Dolly credits, which is amazing, by the way, because you have to pay for them on open labs. So I'm going to click on Dolly and then here it says enter Dolly prompt. And so what do I want in this case? It's let's just say, okay, Lady Macbeth, whatever, let's do it. Lady Macbeth and King Duncan sitting at a table. I don't know that I spelled that wrong. Okay, whatever. There we go. I mean, you could go nuts, whatever you want it to say. If you wanted to be like, you know, and she's wearing a red crown and and he's on the floor like you can be very descriptive. I'm just trying to do it very quickly. But do keep in mind that this is the full Dolly image generator and it is seriously good. So there we go. We've got four candidate images. If I zoom in a little bit, yeah, I kind of like this one at the I like this one here at the bottom. Let's go with that one. I'm just going to click on it and I've added it in and that's it. That's pretty ugly. Actually, her face don't look right, does it? No, it doesn't. But okay, so I would reroll that. But in this case, you know what, let's take her right out of the, wow, we can't even got a key. Okay, well, whatever. Okay, so she's in it and she's not pretty, but whatever. Okay, fine. It's not a great image, but I wanted to show you the technique we would vary that in the future. So there we go. We've added an image. And if I wanted this image at the top, I'm just dragging it and dropping it and putting it at the top and what the hell happened to her face. And his face is no better. Oh boy. Anyway, so there we go. We've added in Dolly. This is that fancy little AI image generator. It's in. Let's go to the fifth slide. Okay, looking good, growing anxiety. Maybe on this one, we want to add in who knows, we want to add in another image. This is all there is to it. I would just go ahead and I would grab, I would grab this image here, the three witches and presto. We would delete that, add it beauty. If I want to move it to the top again, done. Looks good. This is literally all there is to it to creating amazing presentations. I think this is going to take out PowerPoint. And I think Microsoft's going to have a lot on their hands here because this is really good. Anyways, if you have any questions, let me know. Thanks for watching.


This is a great opportunity to see one of the kind of mythical sites of Scottish archaeology. The Cocknostone is one of these sites that people have heard about, there's rumors about it, but very few people remember seeing it before it was buried and so to be part of the revealing of it is really exciting. The Cocknostone is a large ancient rock located at West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Measuring 42 feet by 26 feet, it was first discovered in 1887 by the Reverend James Harvey. Such a large stone, once sitting proud upon the surface, inevitably attracted people's attention for thousands of years. The stone features around 90 carved ancient images, considered to be one of the finest sets of ancient petroglyphs in the world. It was reburied in 1965 by archaeologist Ludovic McClellan Mann, who decided to bury the massive slab under several feet of soil to protect it from damage and to prevent people from adding their own modern carvings to it. In 2015 it was partially re-exposed for investigation during a three-day dig and a more complete re-exposure followed a year later. So far archaeologists cannot agree on what is exactly depicted on the massive slab, yet the images are clearly strange. Often when you discover that specialists cannot come to a joint conclusion, the subject is of a controversial nature. There is no consensus among archaeologists on the meaning of the intricate symbols found on its surface. Experts plan to digitally map the stone, and that data obtained could shine more light on its history, its purpose in the people who created the artwork they believed lived more than 5,000 years ago. Dr. Kenny Brof led the excavation and described the experience of seeing the stone as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Because of the array of markings on it, the cockna stone has been recognized as being of national importance and designated as a scheduled monument. Due to its unusual illustrations and the choice in shapes and placement thereof, many researchers have come to the conclusion that the cockna rock could have been some form of star map. The mystery of its strange decorations will undoubtedly persist for many years to come. Although school curriculums, historical publishings, permitted TV documentaries, and even national museums all conform to a dreary, limited historical tale in which modern archaeology dictates all, we feel evidence to suggest that a lost civilization once lived, flourished, and built incredible as yet unexplained structures all over our planet is now overwhelming. We have endeavored to explore, unravel, and describe to the world this unimaginably enormous array of impressive, incredibly ancient feats of stone building. By doing so, we feel we have demonstrated that not only is academia severely lacking any explanation or even permitted study of these features, but that this lost civilization, before their mysterious disappearance, were clearly far in advance of our own current architectural, agricultural, and even technological knowledge. And while the world has begun to awaken to the reality of this group's past existence, we have been busy attempting to uncover just what they were building, who they could have been, and why they were clearly infatuated with the stars. It should be clear to anyone who has explored these unexplained ancient structures that a common reoccurrence, among all, is the inclusion of constellations, whether that be within the alignment of said builds, or indeed etched into the architecture itself. Why would a clearly highly advanced past civilization have been so obsessed with the stars? If one ponders this question, without the clouded primitive belief-based explanations and motives academia puts forward, it is a question that becomes highly compelling. In Chiori Kanchakusko, the golden star disk once rested, once part of a large star map, although funded scholars have seemingly been unable to describe its obvious depictions, many individual researchers have conveniently deciphered this disk with ease. The golden star map, according to an Incan elder, is a map of the sky where their ancestors and Viracocha came from. It has been investigated by academics for over the last 70 years, although this research bared little fruit. Its detail was masterfully produced on one enormous hammered gold sheet, and is believed to have been a mere piece of a map once far larger. How did this ancient people know so much about the stars and the universe around us? Why were they so obsessed with stars? Were the Incas visited by beings from space? Perhaps one day we will find out. There are some extremely interesting anomalies which can be found on Earth, the most impressive of which undoubtedly found upon the Giza Plateau. Particularly regarding the alignment of the Great Sphinx and the dating this can give us for its possible construction. Pertaining to a past alignment with the Star Constellations Leo, some researchers have concluded that the Sphinx was built over two precessions prior to its current date, over 10,000 years ago. A conclusion that has predictably been denied as possibly being accurate by certain bodies of study. However, compelling ancient ruins, pointing to a date of construction far back to this 10,000 plus time period, can in fact be found on an entirely different continent. Discovered carved into the roof of an ancient tomb within Japan, this amazing engraving is actually a star chart. However, due to the claimed age of the tomb, it has been dated to a far more recent time within history than the evidence within the map is illustrating. The roof of the tomb is unusual. Instead of the usual religious illustrations, the ceiling depicted this enigmatic celestial map, complete with 68 constellations painted in gold and three concentric circles drawn in vermilion, these displaying the movement of all our system's celestial objects. Funded researchers claim that the ancient star chart was drawn around 65 BC, with the tomb said to have housed the remains of an official or prince of the region. And although academia believes that the star map was made using observations of the celestial heavens, the research which has been done to unravel the map has revealed some startling controversial implications. The star map is actually extremely ancient, depicting alignments over 10 millennia older than the date claimed. The obvious question would be, who could have created a map of the heavens so early in history? Why would they want to do so? If they were, like academia states, not actually observing this constellation in real time, and didn't actually create it as a logical form of dating their own tomb, then why draw such a chart? We personally suspect that this star chart is an upart, masquerading as an explained away anomaly. Yet regardless of academic claims regarding the Dunhuang star chart, it is undoubtedly a remarkable item of interest. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. Thus it is always based upon that which I have personally sought to confirm as undeniable realities before sharing. I do not only offer an intellectual armory for you, the viewer, who is often confronted with many academic fallacies, but particularly the younger viewer. Enabling their empowerment to correct academics, often ordered to pass on such fallacies through a permitted curriculum. As such, I feel that it is crucial that not only are the facts I share established proofs, but that features which they explain away as others work are established as beyond doubt as currently unexplainable, as such undeniable as the work of others. Exposing academia's lies due to our ancestors' limitations, ancestors often claimed as the constructors of said ruins found throughout the world. Due to this bestowed responsibility to only convey historical accuracies, established mystery, and ancestral limitations, many independent researchers often privately contact me via my secure armored email, often sharing not only their own controversial research, sometimes including their own expedition details, but also academics in positions of tremendous public influence, who not only share my view that much of the history currently being taught to future generations is not only inaccurate, but is based upon a conspiracy of concealing past civilizations. One such email received recently pertained to something known as the Moonshaft. However, although this is not the main theme of this particular video, I will briefly cover what has been shared with me, and after further research, endeavor to do a detailed video in the future regarding said explorations if enough evidence of its existence can be established. Sent to me by Mike Collins, a member of an unsuccessful expedition to try to rediscover this mysterious layer, a brief prologue is as follows. Quote, Three soldiers hiding from the Germans in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia discovered a layer which could possibly be the oldest man-made structure in the world. The structure is believed to be between 300 and 310 million years old by a number of individuals, with Heinrich Himmler even sending several scientific expeditions into the Tatra Mountains looking for the shaft, with members of the KGB also attempting to obtain the diary writings on the experience from these deceased soldiers. End quote. Although compelling, I am reluctant to cover this story yet. Due to a lack of any physical evidence, regardless of the considerable lengthy testimonies that pertain to its existence, I intend to invest some time in researching it further myself first. However, tonight's subject originates far away from the supposed Moonshaft in China. Ancient star maps of such accuracy and range, that due to currently attested academic understandings of the history, they simply should not have possessed such knowledge, let alone been able to accurately illustrate it upon parchment, known as the Dunhua Star Chart. The chart is the first accurate graphical representation of star locations within ancient Chinese astronomy, and it is of nearly every star across the atlas. According to Modern Academia, it is dated to the Tang dynasty between 618 and 907, although I feel this is actually a copy of charts of a far earlier age, and thus of a far earlier, far more capable civilization. Before this map, much of the star information mentioned in historical Chinese texts was drastically inaccurate. However, this map provides a graphically precise verification of star observations and are part of a series of charts all known as the Dunhua Manuscripts. It seems, however, in an attempt to quell the curiosity of the astute among us, considerable funding has been funneled into constructing an excuse for its existence. This funded project is known as the International Dunhua Project, with much of the research and indeed exclusive access to the maps solely granted to these academics, which I believe is an attempt to convolut their importance. However, regardless of these tremendous efforts, there are many features of the map which remain unexplainable, compelling evidence of them being Chinese copies of knowledge left over by a past vastly more advanced civilization, copies of elusive manuscripts that at some point within Chinese antiquity were most probably found preserved somewhere. First, the Dunhua Star Map is to date the world's oldest complete preserved star atlas, meaning that before the ancient Chinese were even a seafaring civilization, they somehow had access to knowledge of the accurately plotted star charts of both hemispheres. Additionally, the main image, which many presume is the entire Dunhua Star Chart, an insinuation implied by Wikipedia, is only a small fraction of the collection, yet this piece in itself is an exact, accurate plotting of polar constellations, and due to these ancient Chinese people being incapable of such tremendous voyages, not only does the advanced knowledge copied down upon these charts strongly support my posit of them being a rediscovered copied relic of a past civilization's knowledge. These copies were found in the early 1900s in a walled-up cave containing a cache of manuscripts. They were discovered by Chinese Taoist Wang Yuanlu in a cave system known as the Mojiao Caves. Although the scroll with the star chart was found amongst those documents by Oral Stein when he visited and examined the content of the cave in 1907. One of the first public mentionings of these script in western studies was from Joseph Needham's 1959 version of the book Science and Civilization in China. Since that time, however, only a few publications have conveniently been devoted to the map, nearly all being Chinese publications. This map, or as we postulate, accurate copy, was made around the year 700. I feel their lack of public exposure and my reasoning for asserting that they were copies of a far more advanced civilization's work is not only due to the Chinese civilization's inability to travel to such locations to plot such charts at the time, but that the whole set of star maps contains over 1300 stars. Not only proving that, although the Chinese are academically claimed to have believed the world was flat at the time, the star charts prove beyond doubt that they had knowledge of constellations from around the globe. The academic explanation for this is that, although the Chinese supposedly presumed the world was flat, they somehow assumed that the heavens were somehow spherical, which to me just seems like a desperate attempt to discredit such manuscripts' true origins. I believe, due to the in-depth and accurate knowledge copied upon the star charts, much of which were far out of the reach of this ancient civilization's observational capabilities, be clear proof that they had discovered maps left by a civilization that was not only seafaring but global. Also, due to the chart featured on Wikipedia, had successfully explored the poles and accurately mapped its constellations. How did the ancient Chinese have such in-depth knowledge of so many constellations, especially polar constellations? We find such manuscripts, academia's funneling of considerable funding into the discrediting of their inexplicable nature and their lack of exposure as highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. Without you, we cannot survive. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Panini Immaculate Baseball eight box pick your team five here on a beautiful Saturday in Hermosa Beach, California Thanks everyone for getting into the action right here eight box PYT five Saturday the 29th Only a handful of number block teams Robert with that last spot mojo Yankees. There you go Thanks everybody else for getting in as well appreciate it. There's the number block results right here nice for for those teams Only for this break If there's there may be the rare I don't I think everything's numbered right if there's a rare instance that there's Something that's not numbered will randomize it to one person in that particular number block Good luck everybody. This is for now. This is our last case Try to get some more. Oh Nice Ford you're welcome. I'm glad we had stuff to send Sometimes people go hit list sometimes they don't get hits Glad everything got there safe and sound a little difficult. I got it. So I'm actually gonna stack this entire Eight box. You can see on the top camera right there There they are right there all in that camera to make myself a little room. All right ladies and gentlemen good luck Thank you. All right. Here we go boys and girls. Let me use this blank card right here You can hide some of the hits a little bit There is Cool Whitmaryfield 25 out of 49 and that will be for the Royals Richard. Oh, and look at this Shawn Murphy 5 out of 10 Nameplate That's awesome That will go to the A's J with the A's Richard A with the Royals with the Whitmaryfield. That's nice We got the Legends Relic Chipper Jones 28 out of 49 that will be for the Braves Robert Runkle with the Bravo's Game worn we've got J cave 1 out of 3 Matt and a dual relic and silver ink autograph right on the eye black that sweet that goes to That goes to the Twinkies that's gonna be Kip kip hooray with the twins there you go kip all aboard the big hit express Jersey and autograph you ward on Alvarez 14 out of 49 clutch Relic and auto that will be for the Stroze Chris day With the Astros Jersey and autograph Jake Fraley debut moment single in home debut.  So that's Seattle five Robert Seattle five and the last one here is Josh Rojas maybe in a Rojo parallel three color patch and autograph 35 out of 99 AP with his snakes Peyton fun fact or or name drop. I know J cave super good guy Well, maybe that super good guy J cave can come break a couple boxes with jasps. What do we got here? We've got those blockchain cards in this set too, and that is Brenda McKay Premium patch autographs that goes to Tampa Bay. That's gonna be for Josh Hansen. There you go. Is that you? Joshua Bruin, there you go. I'm not sure what these blockchain cards are all but yes You are okay. Hi Josh But some of these have a lot of secondary market value Dylan cease jumbo relic 34 out of 49 that goes to the number block that'll be White Sox for Jeremy 33 with 34 one off the 33 Always one off the number. Whoa. Look at this. What's this? It's a fielding glove Wow What three out of six pro grade Be Harper pattern Dylan Carlson, that's pretty cool Cardinals three Robert Runkle Set this Oh got an ejection all right back to the baseball we've got a Dual rally two color dual relics 16 out of 49 Astros Chris day and we've got Ian Desmond some nice relics in there Nice matinee dual relic and gold ink autograph 17 out of 25 We have Gavin Lux. There it is two color patch and autograph 30 out of 48 I've been hearing from the gang that that the Gavin Lux call up today Should be permanent Rhea Mitchell with my Dodgers nice Once you can get things going I mean look at that look at look at what he did All right triple a Oklahoma City 392 and 49 games That's what he's capable of Power could develop to we've got triple relic and autograph seven out of ten Davey gruyon Winter collection Triple relic and auto seven out of ten that'll be for Kevin and the Phillies I might be more 180s than I thought top-loader wise. All right, let's move on. We got the monochrome coming up love these Jersey and autograph Sam Hilliard 17 out of 49 That looks really sharp Colorado that goes to Ollie and the Rockets These monochromes are pretty sharp for Ford. Are you asking me? All right, there's Andrew McCutcheon 31 out of four asking the universe. Okay. I was like you can't ask me That doesn't work All right, McCutcheon with going to Kevin and the Phillies Nice so Mike. We've got what is this 23 out of 51 each euro just a base card But I guess featuring his his all-star appearances. This is a cool-looking card. I don't think I've seen anyone one of these yet Seattle Seattle's a number-block team So Seattle 3 is gonna be Robert. There you go Robert. We got jackets Anthony K 10 out of 10 Piece of Anthony K's jacket and his autograph going to the blue birds That's gonna be for Robert and the Blue Jays That's really cool. Is that part of the elephant tail trunk? There's the ball that he stands on four out of five AJ Puck Jay Crider with the Oakland A's and out of fives and under. Oh, that's the tail right? Yeah. No, I see it now There's the tail That that's his Foot right there standing on the baseball Out of fives and under get the train whistle All aboard the big hit express Got an on-card auto up in that too got another monochrome autograph This time it's Jake Rogers 34 out of 49 goes to Tyler Brent, where's Tyler? He was waiting all day for this Tyler Brenner on the board with the Tigers and we've got Zach Collins 88 out of 99 Jersey and autograph clearly auto clutch as well All sorts of things white socks is a number-block team. No worries Jay. Oh, there you are Tyler. Nice So that's white socks eight goes to Oliver last spot mojo in the number-block. Oh walking the hour Jets asking do none of the rookies have contracts with tops? Don't understand that understand that question. Of course they do because they have autographs Jett think that question through man Next one Sorry All right. Next card is Adrian Beltrae Dodgers edition 37 out of 49 didn't he hit like 49 home runs Last year he was a Dodger. That's Rhea With my boys in blue Eddie Murray also for the Dodgers 49 out of 49. Yeah, he was Dodger for a bit Oh, you're talking. Yeah, some rookies hat will have exclusive contracts With with either company no tops has a couple exclusives for baseball But oftentimes you'll see you'll see them at least for their rookie years. You'll see them in in both sets Six strong innings in his rookie debut for Ronald Bolanos 75 out of 99 there you go for the Padres That's for Mark Bissette and we got a Joe Adele. That's a nice looking patch right there some lettering right there Eight out of ten for the halos That's gonna be Robert rungle with the angels nice On-card auto as well big up and coming prospect for the angels. He's getting some playing time Another Jay Grodgers for Tyler Brenner two-color patch and on-card auto 22 out of 99 and the last one here is TJ Zook Two-color dual relic and autograph 10 out of 25 for Robert in the blue jays Mike when you get a chance, can you I have no idea what putting any blockchain is? So your guess is as good as mine. I think they have a whole page on it and I read it Once and I was like I'll be I didn't read it very carefully, but But I do know that they those some people are into it and they some of them could get some Could generate a lot of value in the secondary market. Oh nice tray Yeah, definitely keep us posted on that and we would love to We'd love to see you Everything should probably be normalish by then Yeah, the digital cards are up. Yeah, I've seen some Zion digital cards go for a lot Not cut that enough. All right. Next up is Ozzy albis 91 out of 99 braves Robert we got a big jumbo crisp white jumbo patch right there at 36 out of 49 Jordan alvarez Chris with that. I guess they can't all be crazy Chris with that one next up is another Anthony K dual relic and autograph 11 out of 49 for Robert and the Blue Jays Eight out of nine CJ Abram. That's another up-and-coming prospect for the Padres They've got a good good little core of prospects ladies and gentlemen that will go to Was that is Jersey number two? We rarely hit that Jersey number. That's a Padres Mark Bassett with San Diego Santiago and a one-of-one Jonathan Daza Patch and autograph. I don't know what that patch is some sort of commemorative patch Some National League patch That's really cool. It's Oliver with the Rockies Yeah, I'm not sure Brad Maybe it's got to be some anniversary patch or something But that's pretty cool. Allie all aboard the Big Head Express Whoo, that's really cool And back here. We've got 10 out of 15 Michael Bayez for the Padres And all West Cards here and that's Mark again with the Friars Well, Brad L is saying looks like the peak of the Rockies 25th anniversary arm patch All right, there you go. That's pretty cool. Nice All right next box ladies and gentlemen Idiot doesn't even know how to spell it right Um, all right next one Yeah, there you go, Oliver. Congrats. Oh, that's why Oh, the rocky spot is for your son says Oliver nice Well, there you go. That's something to add to his collection Oh another one-of-one I think no ink, but just relics on top It's a brand logo Majestic logo and it's for the Marlins one-of-one Isan Diaz for the fish Matthew S with that one There you go, Matt. Oh wrinkly on that top loader there Center that card up there a little bit nicely. There you go. Nice Matthew All aboard the Big Head Express Got another big patch right here Yeah, part of his satin jacket. You can see it right there. Nico Horner 10 out of 10 Greg with the Cubs Avir Baez 32 out of 49 another one for Greg and the Cubs You guys are these my rivals that is Mauricio Dubon 99 out of 99 jersey and autograph big prospect for The Higantes Stan Turski Little oppo jo mojo and there you go turk and we've got debut moments a single and his first at bat for Boba Shet 45 out of 49 Robert Runkel with the Blue Jays Tyrone Taylor Nice bit of gold right there 88 out of 99 Tyrone Taylor for the the brew crew Ria with the Brewers and we've got Travis Demarit That's a great patch That's he's seen some of that threading right there 76 out of 99 for Tyler Brenner and the Tigers another one for you Tyler Nice break and the blockchain card is Matt Chapman for the A's So I guess you can go there and Add to your digital collection showcase your cards to the world. You can sell it and auction them I know that patch is really cool Tyler So that's for Oakland. That'll be for Jay Two boxes to go Five out of nine Logan Allen satin jackets I need to get a let me get myself a satin jacket That goes to Cleveland Steve Locke on the board with the tribe We've got legends dual relic 16 out of 49 Pete Rose Reds Robert with the Reds You got quad relic and autograph extra bases auto 11 out of 25 It's four total bases. That's a home run Jordan Hicks cardinals cardinals are a number of block teams. So cardinals one Is Joe M. There you go Joe another AJ puck debut moments a hole versus new york five out of 49 Another Oakland a for Jay 99 point Got a pretty big arm nice Justin Dunn 23 out of 49 Seattle Are a number of block teams. Seattle three Robert Runkel There you go, Robert And the last one here looks like more a's. Hey Susa Lazzardo RPA three out of 25 More good-looking color in there for Jay and the Oakland a's I think Houston is cruising against okc Maybe I could Chance a little baseball here a little my Dodgers are on Dodgers at Rangers They're up three two on the Rangers top of the fifth Dodgers up to bat There's Seager Oh speaking of Rangers. Do I see a nice Rangers hit coming up? Texas wake up Texas. Where's who has Texas? Arthur has Texas It's a team logo one of one. Look at the tee of Texas from Nick Solak's jersey One of one That's pretty sweet, Arthur Texas tee All right, Arthur All aboard the big hit express All right, see you Mike And the next one Ron Santo 21 out of 49 That'll go to the cubbies. That'll be for Greg We got Tress Barreira Two color patch in autograph five out of 99 For Mickey and the gnats On the board Mickey A few more to go. What's up Rex? A few more to go we got Gavin Lux Nice The second one for Ria With my Dodgers Two color patch and the autograph on a bit of his lumber 23 out of 25 His debut moment was two hits against Colorado Almost exactly a year ago Two more to go We've got Jonathan Hernandez 35 out of 99 for the Rangers jersey and autograph debut jumbo jersey in auto right on the card as well It's for Arthur and the Rangers And the last one here is dual relic and autograph 28 out of 49 Trent Grisham for the Padres That'll be for Mark and the Friars There you go. And there you have it.  Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us Keep an eye out on jaspyscasebreaks.com for more Panini immaculate collection baseball Thanks everyone. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye


Tom here from One Systems, and since I did my recent video on XC PNG talking about VMware, it's because it's June of 2022, and we are still figuring out everything that's gonna happen with VMware based on its purchase by Broadcom. I'll leave a link to that video down below. But the most common question, and a good one at that, is what about Proxmox? When I posted this on LinkedIn, when I had this video on YouTube, I just see all the comments on there, and I wanted to clarify a couple things. One, I have nothing against Proxmox. There is this weird assumption a lot of people seem to have that if you like one tool, you must hate the other tool, or there's some terrible reason you're not using it. I'll admit that Proxmox and XC PNG are both open source. They are both good. They are both solid platforms to build your virtualization on. That being said, why did I choose XC PNG? I'm gonna put the details together for that. Now, this is not a me trying to convince you if you're a use case and the feature sets that I'm gonna cover here just don't line up, then keep using Proxmox if that's what you're happy with. That's one thing about tech is, especially in the open source world, you may get multiple answers of how to achieve something and they're both correct. There is just differences in the nuances, the way these things are implemented that one may work for you or another. So I wanted to get that out of the way at the beginning of the video. That way, if you are hoping that I'm gonna be a deciding factor, maybe I'm just here to drop some knowledge, but I'm not here to tell you which one to use. That's never my goal. I only like to share information, let people know what's available out there and let them make the decision, hopefully a more informed one. Before we get started, the details this video, let's first. 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And now back to our content. Now the first piece I wanna start with right here is my forums and everything I'll be talking about will be linked down below, including a series of videos I have on getting started with XCPNG and also a series of videos on getting started with Proxmox done by Jay from LearnLinux TV. So it's version seven, that's current as of June of 2022 for Proxmox and the latest version of XCPNG is version eight. Depending on when you're watching this, I may have the version eight videos done but there's not much difference in seven and eight. Now the other thing you have to note, Zen Orchestra is separate from XCPNG but I treat them as the same because they're supported by the same place. And it's one of those things I just wanna get out of the way is how Zen Orchestra integrates into XCPNG because this is a really important thing. The Zen Orchestra is the web orchestration tool that allows for the management and I treat them as one and the same but I know they are absolutely separate. This web orchestration tool has a one to many relationship with many, many hosts that you can have with XCPNG and resource pools you can build and one instance of Zen Orchestra to manage them all even if they're remote, even if they're remote in another data center. There's a lot of options on there to even have some advanced proxying options to have proxy workers that manage at a local site while you manage through your main site the Zen Orchestra interface. This is where there's a big difference between the way they're implemented because Proxmox for each host is a complete with web management and everything installed for every host and you group the hosts into their clusters. With Zen Orchestra, you use Zen Orchestra to take the hosts and group them in the clusters but the hosts themselves are very lightweight and don't really have any web interface on them. XO Lite is something you're working on in the future to give some basic management but your main tool is the Zen Orchestra tool. How that tool is sold and delivered. You can get a free version that has some limited functionality. They have a service delivery model which is keep you the latest version with a limited amount of support based on your subscription that you can buy for it or you can download the source code. People in the home lab that have done this are very well aware of how this works. You download the source code, you compile it. Yes, I have a video on how to do that and you get all the features built in to the open source one and you get a little note on there that says no support just like how Proxmox when you use a free version it says that you don't have their paid support for the professional support. So pretty simple, they have a similar model but you do have to compile it yourself so I will admit right off the beginning here that Zen Orchestra being separate does make it a little bit more challenging to get started with XCPNG especially because it runs as a VM. Now for those of you saying it's not lightweight this is where there's also a little bit of nuance to it because of the single Zen Orchestra instance being able to manage so many hosts you're not repeating the same web interface on all the hosts, you're using one single VM instance to manage all the different Zen installs that you have. So if you have 100, 200 XCPNG hosts each one because of limitation of 64 per pool you've grouped them all into pools you can manage all those pools and all those hosts through one Zen Orchestra interface that you loaded once. Now base operating system CentOS but highly customized. It's not just CentOS and you're getting support from CentOS which obviously with the changes that have occurred could be a problem. They are taking care of the support and all the updates and things that go within it versus Proxmox is based on Debian. High availability, yes, high availability supported in both of these. Max supported hosts per cluster. 64 was an orchestra for each pool that you group them into but with Proxmox it's a little bit less clear because it depends on the hardware as best I can understand from reading in the forums and her documentation. There's a reference in her documentation that says they have seen high end production systems with more than 50. I don't really have a number for you outside of what I read through their documentation. If you read through the forums a lot of people seem to think it should stop at around 32 before you run into problems. It has something to do with the way the synchronization works between the hosts. Container management, this may be a hard stop for some people. It is not natively supported inside of Xenorchestra or XCPNG but they do have LXC container management within Proxmox. Web console via Xenorchestra as I had mentioned and it's native to the system there. Live VM migration between hosts. Yes, you can just do live VM migration between the different hosts and you have to have them within the same cluster in Proxmox probably not a big deal for some people but you can actually do it to the other as I mentioned different resource pools you can migrate back and forth between with different ones even if they're not in the same resource pool. Live disk migration, yes and yes. Local storage, G documentation and shared storage, G documentation. There's a lot of storage support and there's a lot of details and they both implement things a little bit different. The first thing I will give a clear example of is ZFS. Yes, ZFS supported in XCPNG but no, when you do a snapshot in XCPNG it's still a virtual machine snapshot not a ZFS snapshot versus if you build on ZFS you're able to do ZFS snapshots within Proxmox because it talks natively to ZFS. So there's differences there. When it comes to shared storage yeah, there's a lot of different support in at first glance you may go but it looks like there might be a couple extra things that are supported on XCPNG versus Proxmox but the reality is it's Debbie and you could probably load the support for the other things on there. See documentation, think about your use case. Then provisioning depends on storage type for both of these but yes, it's supported. Max supported VM disk size of two terabytes. More than two terabytes depends on the back end. It is my opinion that attaching extremely large disk to virtual machines is not a wonderful idea. I generally prefer and we use Windows as an example if you build a Windows machine but you have eight terabytes of data you'd like to have shared across Windows.  Attaching an eight terabyte VM when you wanna back up the VMs. Less of a good idea in my opinion. Go ahead and hate me in the comments down below and tell me you liked attaching 16 terabytes at a time or eight terabytes at a time to any particular VM but I have generally found that to be a little bit harder to manage and not the best way to implement it. Usually you want it to be small, lightweight so you can back up your operating system very easily, snapshot it easily, migrate it between hosts if or shared storage locations without having to wait for 16 terabytes to move. Just my thoughts but hey, leave yours down below. Hyperconverged setup, XoSan versus SEPH and ZFS options they have. So they have a couple of different ways you can do hyperconverged in Proxmox. I'm not gonna get into the details of it but XoSan and XoSan V2 is coming. Update management and automation. Yes, via the Xenorca show or via the package manager. Yes, via the web interface or via the package manager. It goes a little bit more extensive in Zen because you gotta roll your pool updates and you don't want any one pool having to be reset with too many resources on it. They actually have some really neat features when it comes updating to automate all of that of restarting all the servers and migrating things between clusters if it's HA. So there's actually a little bit of more nuance to that if you wanna dive into the details of it. So check the documentation or watch some of the videos I have on some of those topics. An accredited council, yes. Advanced networking, this is a C documentation. So VXLAN, SDN, Firewall, where you can create specialized network adapters on there. Know these platforms have not implemented them the same way but they do have these extended features that you can do such as VXLAN or that private network adapter that you want across different hosts. There's ways to do that in both of these but go to the documentation to see about the details of how they're implemented including the firewall options that are available or IP restricting options that are available for both of them. Cloud in it, Cloud in it does work in both of these. Now the backups is the last thing I'm gonna mention but we're gonna go into the demo here in a minute to show you the web interfaces between them and that's where there's gonna be a significant difference but the backup specifically is really basic in just Proxmox. They have their separate Proxmox backup appliance which has more backups. Jay from LearningLink TV has a video on that as well I'll be linked down below but yes the backup is fully integrated into Zen Orchestra and gives you quite a large array of scheduling and features and including one feature that's really cool that I just did a video on which is auto restore testing to validate your backups on an automated schedule where it actually goes through and fully restores the VM, verifies that the VM boots, shuts the VM down and destroys it. It can do that on an automated or one-off basis because you wanna check a restore and not just check it and go through a manual process but actually automate that process and that's a really cool feature that's integrated in there. Now as I said in the beginning, I'm not a big Proxmox user but I've gone through the setup and I did not find it particularly difficult to set up to get working, to attach an ice guzzie to, to load a VM in and I went through it and this is what it looks like. Now I'm not gonna spend too much time on the interface but it's got the basics, it's got the things you need and it works. That's the bottom line, it wasn't hard, it's relatively easy to go through, set these settings in here, see what's going on, here's your cloud init settings, options, boot order but what I meant is it's a little rigid when it comes to things like how you might want to name something or manage something. It is compared to the way Zen Orchestra which I will cover more in depth a little bit later here in a video where that is the killer feature is how you manage things at scale in Zen Orchestra but it's very manageable in here. You just don't have quite as many features like here's one of the backups, I can say backup now, create a snapshot, suspend it, how do you want to do all the modes? Everything's here and UI is not difficult by any measure but one thing I did find a little bit interesting when I was going through this is when I went through the storage and if I look at the local storage, well not there, let's go back to the data center view and it's this right here where I can see how much is available here but when I click on like the Synology Ice because you want it doesn't seem to show anything here but that's actually where my VM is running. So I'm not 100% sure what I did wrong for that not to show up, I also had a weird issue and it would connect but not give me an error but it wouldn't work, the VM would fail. So those were a couple of things but could completely be me and completely be a problem I had because it was a problem on the Synology side where I had a permission wrong for the Ice Guzzi when I set it up and I wasn't able to find it here until I connected it to Zen Orchestra which told me it had a permission error and I fixed the permission error and went back over here in Proxmox and then it connected again but once again didn't give me an error but actually let me build the VM on it. So there's been a couple of little nuances I found like that, a little strange but completely could be me, I'm not ruling that out but overall I didn't find this to be a challenging or difficult interface at all to use to get things done the monitoring looks decent on here but other things like where it goes back and forth between the command line sometimes a little bit confusing for me but that's just me being new to Proxmox for those of you that use it a lot like Jay has well, it's gonna be a lot easier. Now XTP and G on the other hand I find the interface more intuitive. Like I said, this is still all opinion as far as that goes but hey people wanna know what the interface looks like. Now this is our two pools, four hosts and 55 virtual machines. This is where you'll start to notice the big differences between these different platforms. If we go over here to home and we see that it's filtered for Tom you can create all these cool filtered views to filter and tag different VMs. You can see the tags this way. So these are tags for Tom or tags for Tom test machines. So we can click on any of these tags and filter and pivot between them or Eric, one of my other staff he's got some machines here so now I can filter to all of the things that Eric is working on. He's working on and restoring and testing a few different backup systems so this is how we do that. While you're doing it you can see and we'll go into like Eric's Win 10 system I can go over here to the console if I needed to see what's going on there. I can go to the network here I can click on the different IPs that it has apparently it's got a few different interfaces. If I click on them it just copies the IPs to the clipboard. I can even we'll go back to one of my VMs I don't mess with Eric. Let's go to this right here. Tom's lab we're gonna go and start this VM so it has a console that comes up. You can see the stats on it. Everything's nice to me and laid out tab-wise like this. Now back to these tags if we add a tag like this we're gonna add YouTube as a tag we can go back over here to home put YouTube in and these are things I tagged with YouTube which does include running a nested version of Proxmox for a YouTube video. How does nested virtualization work? Yeah just a button right here. How about loading the tools and this is a really important one I've covered before if you would like the Windows update to automatically load the tools when you load Windows VMs so you have the different access to the network information with Windows well you just check this little box right here you have to do it with the VMs off it's gonna give you an error but other than stopping the VM you just hit that and away you go. Present from Accidental Deletion or Accidental Shutdown or Auto Paran or all just little toggles right here that you can do. So pretty simple in terms of changing anything on here I do everything from the Zen Orchestra I don't use any other tools to manage any of my Zen servers it's really all done through these interfaces right here and some of them you can even drag if you wanna change boot orders turn devices on and off and hit save. For stop force restart. Back over to our things that say YouTube like this right here swapping networks so currently this has got 172, 1669 we just booted it but what if we wanna move it and we have a bunch of different network adapters in here because we simulate things we have all these different resources in here but let's move it to I think we call it the Pwnage Pool so it's another VLAN that we have it'll take a second it's gonna refresh and then it will have a new IP address all this happens without refreshing the page or restarting the VM all the interface updates in real time and kind of an easy example I'm gonna give of that so I'm gonna look over to you my right and type in test and you can see in real time I'm updating somewhere else this is actually really handy for when me and my staff and all of us are working on different things we can actually keep seeing each other's renaming and changing of things dynamically the interfaces constantly being updated now back to the tagging feature and why that makes a lot of sense too for things like storage we're always testing things we're a lab and environment a lot and that's how I make some of my YouTube videos or we're standing up things for clients we can type in lab and I'm gonna expand it out here these are all the different lab resources for storage right now lab trinity pool you can see I got tags and some of these or some of them are attached to the different lab servers that are in here this is what gives you a lot of power when it comes to doing things and it's not just for finding them or viewing them it also gets related to things like backup so if we go back over to VMs and let's look at our production VMs and let's click on one of them and it's easy cleaning up the interface we'll just reduce it back down go here I have two tags on this one's critical one's production so if we click on critical these are all the things I refer to as critical so we're gonna go back over to here we're gonna look at our backups here's the backup jobs attached to this particular VM because I said backup things that are critical with this thing right here it says full backup while critical systems so if we over here drop the critical tag go to the backups it's gone if we go back over here to the general tab we add critical back to it and it's back the way that works is really simple so you go here to your backups which we can actually go here overview we'll type in critical for the backup we're gonna click edit and we see we're backing up things with this tag you can add VM tags to include or exclude or even do scheduling there's a lot of things are all based on VM tags this allows you to add things to production without having to go back in and change any of your backup you just have a tag that you know like critical that you want for a certain backup job as it runs and you'll just add that tag this allows just a wild amount of flexibility when it comes to moving resources around when it comes to having all the backups now while on the topic of backups there's also the remotes and what the remotes are is all the different storage destinations for backups this is all handled by Zen Orchestra so even though we have we go back over to our pools we have our lab pool and our pool is then which is more like our production pool the backup system is able to do backups simultaneously to different pools or to different storage targets as I see fit this is actually really nice from a flexibility standpoint that even though I can have production and non-production environments managed in one single interface the backups I can set the resource pools so we go back over here and actually look at what those look like we go here to remotes offsite production backups production backups and the lab backups I have three separate storage destinations for them that way on my back end I have different backup strategies because I don't bother backing up all the stuff that is inside of here for the lab backups but obviously the offsite ones those get a synchronized offsite so I don't want the constant rolling backups that occur here to production backups so this is still production backup but this diversity is what is really cool about it because you can choose whatever you want to be your storage target I'm using just standard SMB protocol tied to a TrueNAS as my destination and then for my TrueNAS I send it off but nonetheless it's the interface flexibility that I like so much for example we'll look at this Proxmox demo and we can just do this call it whatever we want it actually lets us put a pretty long name in here with whatever we need and I can also do this but I won't I could type all I want there so I can give some really solid descriptions of what these are and when you have as I showed here if we go back over to the overview and you have 55vms and there's going to be a lot more soon with the project we're doing you kind of need to start grouping and tagging things together to make that just easier to manage now one more thing I'm going to note is how you handle logging users because we are a multi-user environment so I have the email address is blurred out but we can go through and figure out who did what when and it has an entire nice log that has immutable integrity to make sure that this has been not tampered with this is just really an important feature when you're going through and someone did something who did what when that's an important aspect and of course it's completely searchable including finding out when Tom added the tag YouTube to a couple different things that can be found just like that or we can go back to critical and you can see tag remove tag add and Tom did that there so there's a lot of logging that goes on inside of here speaking of user management I will mention because someone may ask I didn't really cover it in detail when I was comparing the two because there's a little bit more nuance to that as well but when you go into the plugins there is Auth GitHub Auth Google Auth LDAP Auth SAML so there's multiple ways you can authenticate and federate against other services if you need to there's also a NetBox plugin if you're not familiar with NetBox look it up for IP management performance alerting their software defined network and controller the transport email Nagios Slack notifications usage report and some web hooking options to get you know a little bit more advanced if you need to now as I said at the beginning I favor XCPNG but I don't see any problems of Proxmox especially if there's some feature like LXC container management that you prefer then stay with it there's not a reason I can tell you like oh no get off Proxmox it's bad it's unstable because that's not true it is a good platform it is a stable platform doesn't mean my preference isn't for XCPNG and I especially love these in orchestra interface and how it handles things at scale like managing lots and lots of VMs and we've worked with some clients and that's sometimes what we're demoing stuff is putting together a project in-house that we are proof of concepting for a larger client that may need it and that being said you kind of need that manageability if you have like you know 800-900 VMs that you have to shuffle around based on criteria or change backup rules on and not having to modify 800 backup jobs and or when you move them in and out adding a tag so they go or belong to certain backup jobs makes that job just a lot easier when you're doing things at scale so I guess that's maybe one takeaway from this depends on if you're a smaller or larger environment smaller environments if you just need the more basic features of Proxmox great if you go man I really need those features because we're trying to figure out how to handle 800 VMs in a reasonable way and that seems to be easier to do in my opinion inside of XCP and G let me know your comments down below head over to the forums for a more in-depth discussion thanks for watching and look forward to hearing from you


Heading back to the hardwood, now class 3A's 20th ranked Bemidji, traveling to East Grand Forks. First half action, Kaden Ralfus drives to the bucket, lays it up and in, and we're tied at 6. From there, it was all lumberjacks, applying full court pressure. Jax get the turnover, Javon Rogers gets the end one. Then they would pour it on from there. Here's Ralfus again, this time dropping it down low to Jeremy Beberg. He's got the strong finish. The Jax rolled to a 36-point victory 79-243.


traditional spare ribs. So I bought these spare ribs last week and I prepared them both at the same time. I vacuum sealed them both and rubbed them down with some run-and-wild peach rub, threw them in the freezer. I just took the other rack out that I'm going to cook traditionally and put those in the refrigerator in my garage so they can thaw out so they're ready to throw on the smoker tomorrow. These frozen ones they're going to go in the sous vide bath right now and we're going to sous vide cook these at 150 degrees for 24 hours. So tomorrow we will take these out right around 3 30 or so to throw on the grill to get some smoke and bark for a couple hours. The traditional ones we will throw on about noon tomorrow and we'll cook those for five to six hours strictly on the smoker and we will see which one turns out better. So I'm going to go ahead and throw these spare ribs. The smoked only ribs and so the fire is gone. I only put one fire starter there in the middle because we're going to be cooking right around 225 to 250 so give it a couple minutes and I'll throw I'm going to put some pecan wood on today so be back in a few minutes and we'll put our wood on. Alright guys welcome back. Alright I got the ribs out that I'm going to smoke only. Hold them out of the refrigerator and I'm just going to put a little bit more of the peach rub on from running wild just because some of it came off and it's been sitting in there marinating. So I'm just going to head through a little bit of more of that on and the fire is coming up the temp I'm going to put these on a rib rack today so this is going to go on the fire in about 10 minutes and then we'll let that cook for about three or four hours and then we'll throw the other ones on so I'll be back. Alright it's sitting right at 225 and smoke's rolling pretty good. I'm going to throw that first rack of ribs on and like I said we are going to use our rib rack here and since it's only going to be two racks it's going to stick them right here in the middle and I'm mainly using this so that they don't get burnt on the top or the bottom. Just kind of keep it where it's got a good air flow on it. So alright that's that first rack and we're going to leave these in here about three to four hours on their own. We'll come back and check them occasionally make sure the temp is staying right around 225. I'm going to close this down a little bit just so we can nail it in. I don't like to go overshoot too much because it's hard to get it back down. Alright guys we're going to see you back in about three, three and a half hours. Okay I pulled these ribs out of the sous vide bath. They've been in there for 24 hours at 150 so they are completely cooked. I did put a little bit more of the run and wild peach rub on there and I am going to go ahead and throw these on the smoker with the other ribs. They have been the other ribs have been on for three and a half hours and we're going to let these cook on there just to get the bark and the smoke for about an hour and a half. The smoker's right at 225 but we're going to walk out there and I'll meet you at 225. These ribs are looking pretty good if you can tell. They got some good bark to them. Nice mahogany color from that peach rub. So I'm going to go ahead and throw these on right next to them. Like I said we're just going to make sure that these get some smoke and some bark to them. So I'm going to go ahead and close this bad boy up. Make sure that the temperature stays right about where this. Alright it's been right at about another two hours. So these ribs have been on for about five and a half hours and these are the sous vide ribs. They've been on about an hour and a half or so. It's a little over an hour and a half and they're getting pretty good looking. So we're going to leave them on there for another 10 or 15 minutes and then we will take them off and chop them up and see which one turns out to better. I'll be right back. Alright guys they are in and they're both looking pretty darn good. I don't know if you guys can tell which one's which but I'm getting ready to cut these up and we're going to have a taste test with a friend of mine Adam who I made the pastrami for in my pastrami video. So I'm going to go ahead and slice this stuff up and he's going to taste which one's better. So I hope you guys got a good look at those and we'll be right back. Okay I got my friend Adam Herkelman here. He is going to be my taste tester today. So he has A and B. He doesn't know which one's which and he is just going to taste. They're both been seasoned the same. They've just been cooked a little different. So go ahead and try A. Just tell me it's a tender, smoky.  Just looking for the smokiness and the tenderness. I used a peach rub on that so no sauce. I don't sauce the ribs until I let people sauce them at the end. Alright now you're eating B. Okay so it's more tender. What about smoky flavor? Okay so not as much smoke but they're a lot more tender. So which one would you prefer over either one of them? I would prefer B. B? Okay well B is the one that was sous vide and then smoked. Okay so probably I could have probably put a little bit more moisture on it when I put them in the in the smoker but I should have sprayed it down with some apple juice. It would have got a little bit more smoky flavor but the tenderness and overall flavor is much better on B on the sous vide. Cool. You need them both but B is a slight edge. Well great. Well thanks for helping me out today. I appreciate it. You can eat both of those.  Alright guys well thanks again. I hope you enjoyed this video. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. Make sure you subscribe and like this video and I'll be doing more like this where we compare the difference down the road. So thanks again. Thanks for watching.


There is a basic equation that must be applied when you graze animals on range lands and it isn't rocket science. The total food that the plant produces must be greater than or equal to the food needed by the plants for their own health and vigor, plus the food eaten by the animals, or the whole system goes kaput. Here is an example. Once there were plants on both sides of this fence that could produce about 1,000 pounds of food that could be eaten by animals per acre per year. Unfortunately, the animals grazing on this side of the fence needed many times that much food in just a few days. The result, no more good plants, just weeds and bare dirt. By the way, that is not good for the animals either. So remember, if you want to graze animals on your property, you should begin with a realistic assessment of how much forage the pasture can produce and how much the animals need to eat. It's the only way to keep both your pasture and your animals healthy. I'm Gene Gade of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service.


In this video we're going to investigate voltage, look at its units and have a look at a formula for voltage. So voltage is represented by the symbol capital V and the way I understand it is to look at the units. So the units of voltage is volts which is the same thing as joules per Coulomb. So a volt means an amount of energy per charge. How many joules of energy per charge or Coulomb of charge? So to help us understand voltage let's go back to the diagram that we had before of potential energy in a circuit. So the voltage at a particular point in a circuit is equal to the amount of energy a charge would have if it was at that particular point. So for example if I had a charge and it was at this point in the circuit there down below and I put that on my diagram it's about there. If I have a charge at that particular point it would have high potential energy and so it has a high voltage. Whereas if I had a charge on the other side so here and that would correspond to an energy of about there then this would have a low potential energy and so that amount of potential energy per charge is volts. So it would actually have exactly the same shape. This graph would have the same shape whether it was potential energy on the y-axis or volts on the y-axis. So I'm going to put that one in now. So it doesn't matter if I could put this as potential energy or as volts which is joules per Coulomb and the graph would still have exactly the same shape. Now normally in a circuit we don't want to know the voltage at a particular point. Instead what we care about is the change in voltage across two points or the potential difference. So in this particular case the potential difference between this point here and our other point up here would be equal to the size of that gap in there. So potential difference means difference in voltage between two points in the circuit. And this would tell us the difference in voltage between this point here and this point here. So if potential energy and voltage look the same on this diagram that can be represented by the same curve why do we use voltage? Why don't we just use potential energy? Well as time goes on and charge carriers move from the positive terminal of the battery to the negative terminal the amount of potential energy in the battery is going to decrease. The potential energy is being converted into light so the remaining potential will decrease with time. However both the brightness of the light bulb and the voltage across the circuit will remain the same unless the battery starts to get very flat in which case the light bulb will dim and eventually go out. But this is why we use voltage rather than potential energy. Voltage allows us to easily make calculations and predictions about the behaviour in a circuit like for example the brightness of a light. So we're going to look at this more in an upcoming video. For now I'm going to show you a formula that you can use to calculate the voltage. The formula is V equals W on Q where V is the voltage and that's measured in volts. W is the work or the energy delivered to the electrical component and Q is the charge that has flown through that component. So this is a formula that you can use to calculate voltage. Have a go at this now.


We're here at ITU Telecom World 2015 in Budapest in Hungary and I'm very pleased to be joined by Professor Nicholas Negroponte, who is Chairman Emeritus of the MIT Media Lab amongst other things, including one of the first people I understand to have used the internet, and an author of such seminal books as Being Digital, which very much has impacted on our digital world today. And I'd like to talk to you, start off by talking to you about the theme of ITU Telecom World 2015. It's accelerating innovation for social impact. How have you seen ICT innovation directly impacting on socio-economic development and people's lives? Well, I think there's no question that connectivity in general has created both prosperity, wealth, health education and learning in the poorest as well as the richest countries. I think that the theme of the ITU to accelerate it probably needs a little bit of a parenthesis after the word accelerate to accelerate where normal market forces might not ordinarily accelerate. Because if you look at the landscape globally, the absence of connectivity is noticeably in poor countries and rural parts of richer countries. So that's not only true, but it's a natural fallout of market forces and what would make sense to develop as a business. My thesis, which is what I came to this meeting to present, is to consider telecommunications as part of civil society, not just a corporate opportunity. What concrete measures do you think that governments and industry can take to encourage entrepreneurship and foster the growth of SMEs in the ICT sector? Would just making it easier to start and do a company of some sort is going to make that flourish? It turns out it's very hard in some places, even things that you might not think of like the bankruptcy laws are very discouraging. So there are many things you can do on a regulatory side which I'm convinced the ITU will do. I ask that question because here we're surrounded by a number of pavilions here on the show floor that are brought to SMEs along. We have another section here where SMEs are displaying their projects and their projects. I wanted to ask you what's the most important advice that you would give as a mentor to budding ICT entrepreneurs? I've been involved with the startup economy for many years. I've funded over 60, 60 startups personally, so I've been deeply involved with that. I give slightly different advice today because I think the startup economy has perhaps gone a little too far and is sucking a lot of the talent out and you are getting the quick turns, the app, the this and that and the percentage of students that go on to work on really hard, really long-term problems has gone down. There's a deficit today for those that want to work on hard problems. I'm actually pushing a little bit the other way, asking people to join civic society to do NGOs, to address big problems, whether it's ITU-type problems, whether it's fusion, whether it's eliminating poverty. I mean there are many things you could do that are part of global civic society that aren't just a startup or a small company. What's the value for you of attending events such as ITU Telecom World 2015? The value to me is a little bit the fox and the chicken coop, where the audience is the chicken coop and I get to have a podium where most people might disagree. If everybody agreed with me then I wouldn't be worth coming, but in general my theories and beliefs and actions right now are quite orthogonal to the person who would come to a meeting like this. Now they may agree or they may disagree, but one thing is for certain that when you do say something that people do listen and they take notice of your vision and I wanted to ask you for people who weren't able to attend your talk today, what's your main message to participants here at ITU Telecom World? My main message to all the participants is that connectivity shouldn't be just affordable, it should be free. It's not as if making more and more and more affordable gets you closer to free. There's actually a jump. It's not an asymptotic or it doesn't cross the line. There's a real jump in belief and the analogy I use is if I came to you and you're ahead of state and I say I will provide education for all of your children, kindergarten through 12th grade, but it's going to be private education and you say no, that can't be, no I can't let you do that. So that's okay, I have another idea. I'm going to charge half the children twice as much and give it free to the other half. It's not quite right either and then I'm going to lower the price. So in the end obviously price matters whether it's being paid through taxes and government or whether it's being paid and of course the prices must come down as much as possible, but there is a point where something flips and even if you don't call it a human right, which I happen to, at least it's a civic responsibility and one thing about civics and human rights is they're free and people have said loosely they think that connectivity should be a human right, access to the internet is a human right, but they say that and they don't really realize all human rights are free and so you have to make that leap and believe is it really part of our essence and I think it is. Thank you very much for being with us today. You're very welcome. Thank you.


Straight leg raise. For this exercise what you're going to do is gently tighten the muscles in the front of the thigh keeping your leg nice and straight, lift it up over the table or mat one to two feet, hold for ten seconds, and then bring it back down. Repeat this exercise ten times, perform it three to four times per day.