n the path of bespoke. That means individualized conspiracy mongering. There's an alternative view of events that authoritative sources can't tell you about, won't tell you about. So conspiracy theories require a suppressive network to explain away their lack of evidential support, while almost nobody is willing to accept these theories. So gurus are subject to this dilemma. They'll often need recourse to some conspiracy. With their conspiracy theories, their reasoning will become intricate but subject to massive overreach and they will tend to disregard simpler or more conventional alternative explanations. I'd give Prager a three out of five. There. Let's get some judging. That is your policy, of course, included NATO expansion, EU expansion, and turning Ukraine into a pro-Western liberal democracy. Those three policies packaged together were all designed, again, to make Ukraine Western bulwark on Russia's borders. The Russians made it unequivocally clear from 2008 forward that this was unacceptable and that it was not going to happen, and they made it clear that they would destroy Ukraine as a functioning society before they would let it happen. That's the first layer of the existential threat. The second layer of the existential threat comes into play after the war starts. Once the war starts, the United States sets the stip- So according to John Mearsheim, it's obvious that Russia's going to win. They're going to take whatever parts of Ukraine they want, those parts that are heavily Russian, and those people who are pro-Ukrainian will leave those areas and those Russians in Ukraine will move to Russian-controlled territory. John Mearsheim says that America's arming of Ukraine is a far, far more colossal blunder even than invading Iraq in 2003. To speculate what its goals are vis-a-vis Russia. And we have made it clear that our goal is to defeat the Russian military in Ukraine, to wreck its economy, and to, in effect, knock it out of the ranks of the great powers. There's also all sorts of rhetoric coming from the West and people in the administration that make the argument that we should go beyond that and that we should pursue regime change. Then we should put Putin on trial. Yeah guys, if you go against Dennis Prager, you're essentially going against God. I mean, you don't want to go against God, do you? I mean, that'd be crazy. Going to go up against the master of the universe? Crazy. Okay, I argue starting in 2001 in print that we would be in the mess that we're in now today. But whenever I talk about it, including in China, I would always say to people, this is based on my theory of how the world works. My theory is far from perfect. And I estimate that my theory is right 75% of the time and wrong 25% of the time. Because I- Okay, so much more nuanced that you get from a real thinker. You know, a serious intellectual that you get from someone like Dennis Prager. I love going to China and I love dealing with the Chinese. I used to say, I hope I'm wrong. I really do. I hope I'm wrong that China can rise peacefully. But my theory says that's not true. But again, theories are not perfect. So with regard to the discussion tonight, I may be wrong, okay? And it may be the case in two years, you'll invite me back. I'll have egg roll over my face and we'll discuss why I was wrong. But all I will say is I actually can't see why I'm going to be wrong. There are cases, you know, I deal with from time to time, where I'm not too sure that I'm going to be proved right. In fact, China is one of them. I was not 100% certain. But on this one, I think we committed a colossal blunder. And I just find it hard to see how we figure out how to get out of this mess. It just looks like it goes on and on for as far as the eye can see. You were saying earlier that you thought it was a worse mistake than invading Iraq. Oh yeah, much, much worse mistake than invading Iraq. I mean, you know, I have a whole section. I wrote the speech out and I have a whole section on the consequences. Right, and you start thinking about the consequences just for European-Russian relations moving forward, you know, talking about Nord Stream and what are the consequences of that. The Russians are going to be interfering in European politics. They're going to be looking for cleavages in European politics and trying to exploit them. The Russians are going to be looking for cleavages in the transatlantic relationship and trying to exploit those cleavages. We are going to be going to great lengths to undermine Russia economically and politically. They're going to be trying to wreck Ukraine. We're going to be trying to save Ukraine. Where does this end? As I said before, I think we'll all be dead. And it'll still be going on. The Chinese are not going to be the solution to the peace. No, no. Can I just say a word about that? That was a question. You know, I was on Indian TV not too long ago and the Indian commentator was saying to me, is there a role here for India? And, you know, he thought India could do something because India is quite friendly with the Russians and with the Americans, stuff like that. And now you hear the Chinese being trumpeted as a possible. They have say Machina. Right, but the problem is there's no deal. Right, whether it's the Chinese, the Indians, or somebody comes in from outer space or they put John Henry on it. What's the deal you're going to work out? How are you going to solve the territorial problem? How are you going to solve the issue of neutrality? Unless you're a magician, I just don't think it's doable. I mean, I hope I'm wrong. John, this was terrific. We were way over our time. Yeah, John Jay Mishima speaking there just a few days ago, five days ago about what's going on in Ukraine. Expect that it'll be a mess for years and years and years to come. So with regard to Prager's conspiracy mongering, you got Rolling Stone, November 23, 2021. Stennis Prager, conservative media's biggest COVID jackass. And then point number 10 on the grometer, profiteering gurus, desire, respect, and admiration above all else. You also tend to feel that more worldly intangible recognition of their talents is appropriate. So gurus are surprisingly willing to undertake activities such as shelling help supplements that would otherwise be a little surprising in an intellectual of their caliber. So Dennis, always telling the truth to the best of my human ability. All about telling the truth the best of his human ability. It's not like those vulgar people. Oh, I love I have the same commitment to honesty. Yes. I was at Tangent number 13. Yes. Oh, this is a total tangent. 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Okay, we're live Hi everybody welcome to the wikimedia monthly tech talk for May This month will be covering wiki media and the w3c our presenters are Evan proto Romo our product manager and Gales dubeck senior software engineer We will be broadcasting on the YouTube stream that you see in front of you ask Our speakers will be talking for 45 minutes and afterwards feel free to ask questions on the YouTube stream And the IRC channel wikimedia office I'll gather those and share those with the folks who are giving the talk And if you have other questions that you want to ask afterwards, maybe something comes to you later You can always ask those on the monthly tech talks page And before we get started just a note that anybody can get involved in tech talks There's a link down here, and we'll post the sick and after the talk and Without further ado over to our speakers Yeah, hi everybody. I'm Evan Pedro mo a product manager in the core platform group, and I am also the w3c advisory committee representative for the WMF the foundation has only recently joined the W3c and that means a lot of new Processes for us and a lot of new opportunities and so those of us who've been involved in the process of joining the w3c Wanted to do this conversation to tell people in the foundation about the w3c and solve all the mysteries of What's going on with the w3c? So in this talk? We're going to talk about what the w3c is Why the foundation joined as a member what we as a member of that consortium get out of the process how the w3c process works and then on a finer level What it's like to represent the wiki media foundation in a w3c Group, so I'm going to talk as the ac rep. I'm sorry as the advisory As the organizational representative I'm going to talk about the kind of high-level stuff and We'll pause for questions after I finish and then gills is going to take over and talk about his particular experience working with the web performance group at the w3c so What is the w3c? the acronym is yet another interesting numbered acronym acronym it stands for the worldwide web consortium That's a doubt 3w so it becomes w3 The worldwide web consortium is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web That's a Important word and I want to kind of highlight what a standard is Standard is a defined format whether it's a file format or a network protocol or even a behavioral protocol ways that People or organizations work together that we agree on that lets different software on the web operate together And that's really kind of what makes the web so magical is that we've got all this software whether it's browsers or servers Bots that are all working together written by different people without directly agreeing We all agree on this one standard and then we can work work forward and do really interesting work together on it some of the best known standards you may have heard of from the w3c HTML CSS XML SVG which is The vector graphics Format RDF is another one that is very important for doing structured data HTTP The w3c is involved in As the way that everything moves across the web. In fact, you could say that HGP kind of is the web E pub is a publications format that it for for books and other long-form publications, so When we say that w3c makes Standards these are some of the very important standards that the w3c makes The organization was founded in 1994 by Sir Tim burners Lee Sir Tim As people tend to call him was the creator of the web Literally was the person who created the first standards the first software and he made the w3c in order to further That development work so that instead of having a single organization that's involved with that Maintains the system. It is something that is shared by all the stakeholders involved in the web It is w3c has a very interesting Organizational structure. It's based in four different Universities Both in the u.s. And europe as well as in east asia there are 59 full-time staff members who work for the w3c And there are 445 member organizations of the worldwide web consortium Now that word consortium is an interesting word that i also want to underline because a consortium is an association thank you Wiktionary an association of businesses And non-commercial institutions that are working on a joint venture In the case of the w3c the joint venture that we are creating is the worldwide web And so there are a number of different stakeholders who are involved in creating that worldwide web They're the obvious ones like browser event browser vendors google mozilla Microsoft apple opera are all members of the w3c And they participate in the standards process Excuse me Because it's important for them To make sure that the web is interoperable Also a lot of hardware makers Both for handheld devices desktop devices network switches As well as you know chips all kinds of hardware makers have a stake in in the web Network operators like Verizon Viacom Comcast Software vendors Especially folks who make server software, but to some extent some other kinds of software a patchy software foundation is probably a familiar face there IBM is a big player sap sales force Another type of member are web publishers These are folks who are less involved in like software as a service or software that That they are they are selling that uses the web, but really concentrating on single big sites So that's anything from facebook twitter by bydu alibaba disney the raa So all kinds of publishers who are putting content out on the on the web have a stake in seeing the w3c Standards move forward. Finally. There is a strong research aspect to the w3c's work often there are performance issues or Breakthroughs in new technology so universities also participate as full members in the w3c oxford stanford mit And down the line a lot in europe and And north america, but also quite a few in the in the far east So given that there are that many members in this large Organization who are participating in the standard process. Why did the wmf join? What is our stake in this? I think for anyone who's Been involved in web development There is a tendency to think of ourselves as Passive players that someone else is making the decisions about how Web technology works, you know, we say, oh, it would be great to have this page do this thing But that's not really how the web works or not all browsers support that mechanism or it's too slow Or you need a plug-in or it's a proprietary extension That's that's needed to make this kind of thing work And so we kind of take no for an answer in terms of pushing forward Possible features for our communities for our projects that simply don't work with the web as it is today But it's important to remember that our projects are some of the biggest publications on the web, you know As the fifth biggest web Website we are really a 800 pound gorilla on the web And as one that is really focused on Publishing we're almost unique our software some of the most used software on the web Just because people are using our using our software and generating pages over and over all day every day it's That way of thinking of being passive about the web and the advancement of the web doesn't really match with the wiki media foundation of 2019 we are simply too big to be passive participants in the web We owe it to our communities to take our seat at the table and make the web work for them we Our mission Is simply too important to take no for an answer when it comes to the enabling stack of web technologies We have to start saying if it doesn't work that way we need to change it. So it does work that way Part of our movement strategy for 2030 is to become the essential infrastructure Of the ecosystem of free knowledge and that means that we have to have the enabling network around us to connect with those who share our vision and to make the knowledge that that we are Enabling available throughout the world and we really depend on the web to do that Finally, you know and something that's really kind of important when we're talking about sharing Free knowledge is that we've built up considerable institutional knowledge about performance using the web Not just performance, but about different kinds of media technologies internationalization accessibility we've learned a lot During the time that we've developed these pro projects and the web Needs to know what we know We have a definite knowledge sharing Opportunity here where we can make the web better based on what we've learned from experience So as members What do we get out of this? organizational membership There aren't a lot of coffee cups or Tote bags that we get out of the Out of becoming a member what we do get is a place at the table to start Making decisions about how web technology works First and foremost, we can make improvements to existing technologies We can literally ask for and get changes to existing web formats and protocols if we think that A new html tag or a new css selector would make sense and make Wikipedia run faster or let us deliver knowledge in a different way to a new set of Audiences that is something that we can actually move forward within the auspices of the w3c We can also fix problems if we have things that don't work right that don't deliver the right kind of Information in the ecosystem. We can actually start fixing problems in existing standards today we can As part of the w3c propose new standards if we think that there are new ways that new kinds of knowledge that we'd like to share new Ways of interacting protocols ways to do things faster cheaper Bigger better we can actually start new initiatives within the w3c And all those players will have the opportunity and often a big incentive to implement what we propose We also have If not an absolute veto we have an opportunity to stop Breakage before it happens as new web technologies come out We get to give a thumbs up or thumbs down on every new standard that comes out So if there's something that is proposed that's going to cause problems for one of our projects or Causing undue burden on our on our systems. We can actually say hey, this isn't going to work for us Or it's going to need some changes before it will work for us So we don't have to wait until some something is Has long been implemented in all the browsers before we say hey, this is garbage We get to you know, give our thumbs up and thumbs down very early in the process Finally, we get to Participate with the other members in setting the direction for the w3c as From a high level strategy. We can say we think these things are important We think these things are less important and we'd like to see the Organization developing new strategies in these different areas So Those are A number of things that we can do to influence the development of the web as members of w3c How it works in In particular is very interesting and very distributed the w3c's primary focus for Developing new technologies and new standards is a Entity that are called groups and there are actually a bunch of different kinds of groups, which I'm going to get into But these groups are specific working groups that are made up of Participants from lots of the Member organizations that are focusing on specific areas of the web that we want to move forward or improve Each of these groups has a focus on a particular area and the groups are really empowered by the w3c and the member organizations to Make a lot of changes in in those areas. So those groups are responsible for writing the standards documents that define how they how the How the new technology will work These the groups often meet Regularly so they have regular teleconferences IRC meetings or they meet in person Usually the groups have mailing lists for doing um, some Wordsmithing and working out how how things are going to work the groups collect requirements Both from within the member organizations as well as the web at large to make decisions about how Things are going to move forward um, often these groups will work On Reference implementations for a new technology. So being able to say hey, we know we have a proof of concept that that this would work And if you're not sure of best practices is on how to work Look at the code for this open source reference implementation Those groups answer questions that come from outside the organization And they are also really the main decision makers on these on these technologies so the Essential parts of the decisions are Made at this group level at a higher level The w3c and the member organizations can kind of vote up or vote down full Standards document, but at the fine level of you know per paragraph making decisions about the way the technology works That's really up to the groups groups are anywhere from You know a dozen people to a hundred people For the for the larger groups, but they tend to be pretty Pretty tight-knit in terms of who's participating in the groups Like I said before the group participants are either representatives of member organizations. So people from WMF for example Or invited experts occasionally there are academics or third parties who've shown Exceptional exceptional knowledge in an area and they'll be invited to join a group as an invited expert But typically it's representatives of member organizations And although there is a level of familiarity and knowledge that's important for a group participants Interest in the focus area is probably the most important one. I think that Having some motivation to work on the On the technology is probably the biggest part of what makes a good group participant So like I said, there are different kinds of groups at the w3c The most visible are so-called quote-unquote working groups These are groups that have been set up by the member organizations to produce a standards document They are going at the end of their process They're chartered for a particular amount of time at the end of that time. They need to have a document That defines a new web standard There are currently 32 working groups these groups kind of come and go based on when they get a new standard out Or when it comes back in I've already talked about some of the Better known standards that that have been around like css and html There are also some really interesting newer working groups that are working on web standards for things like Immersive web is for VR virtual reality augmented reality Web payments is for doing payments over the web, which is really interesting in a vendor independent way web authentication for using Different kinds of authentication mechanisms. They just published a really great system for doing Authentication with hardware keys so you can use various kind of hardware keys from the web web assembly web fonts And like I said 32 more of these kind of more Better known working groups these working groups kind of Can produce different kinds of documents typically as they're moving down this level of a you know draft documents to Candidate recommendations they become more formalized They need to have more levels of test suites and implementations before they can move to the next step by the time a document becomes a w3c recommendation It needs to have at least three independent implementations a full test suite. It has to be Voted on by the membership so the member organizations have to vote on it and say yes, we really do want to push this out So it is a pretty high bar to actually get through This life cycle of a of a document typically a single standard will take somewhere around one to two years To go from its first draft to a recommendation um Often technologies aren't Quite there yet, right? So with a bringing out a new version of css That's something where there are probably some minor changes that are that are being added sometimes there are new technologies that That are In the area of being explored currently for this kind of Interest area the w3c has a system called community groups This is where a group of people from the member organizations And the larger Community of people involved in the web can explore an important area before it's quite ready to have this formal standardization process So there are currently community groups Are a little bit easier to get started And there are 342 community groups at the w3c right now all kinds of interesting, you know processes There's a really good one for augmented reality kind of supporting that immersive web one for automotive web interfaces For conversational interfaces so chat based in interfaces using the web for agriculture Um, I'm involved in one called the social web incubator group That is involved with uh standards for social web Protocols, uh, the web ml community group is one that I think is really interesting. It's one that's doing Browser side machine learning so putting Machine learning resources on the browser end so that users are really in control of the ai that's um, that's Developing um around their behavior another really kind of cool system I think community groups are a lot easier to get involved with and they also happen to be doing, you know, some of the coolest stuff in the web One last kind of group Which is you know, sometimes called interest group. I call them horizontal groups. They there's this process called horizontal review They are really involved with improving all the standards that come out in a particular way So, uh, what will happen is that there will be people who have expertise in a certain aspect of technology That's not on a particular thing like css or html, but instead is something like Accessibility internationalization security privacy um participation of underrepresented groups um having, uh a positive work environment These are groups that as documents move through that Process that I was talking about before They'll get review by these kind of horizontal groups that say, okay, you know, you've done a really good On the wire protocol definition, but how well does it support? Right to left scripts or how well does it support people with? With poor I say, um, how well does it protect the privacy of? and users and so these horizontal groups can be really great ways for folks to advocate for a certain aspect of web technologies across all different Standards that the organization is is doing so Within the wiki media foundation You know, it's possible for anyone to join the join one of these groups And that's really the main way to get involved if you have knowledge of or interest in an area of web technology It joining one of these groups can be a great way to kind of develop that Typically, you're looking at about one hour per month up to about eight hours per month of involvement And uh, you know anyone who is um who has a wiki media dot org Um Email address is welcome to to join We're just trying to figure out if folks outside the organization that are closely involved Should be representing us there hasn't come up yet, but it's something we're definitely aware of In order to join a group, uh, you have to sign up for w3c account. Uh, that's on the w3.org website You have to sign up with your wiki media dot org email address and that'll automatically connect you to the wmf organization The um You should Have a group in mind that you're interested in and they're listed out on the uh on the website You ask become a member just by clicking on a link on the uh on the group page There's a quick confirmation process On my side where I make sure as the ac member I make sure that yes, you really are with the wiki media foundation Yes, you understand the responsibilities and that's it. You're in Um, again, if you don't have a wiki media dot org email address, but you think that you should be right Representing the wmf at one of these uh groups Let's talk And we'll see what what what happens there Um, I talked a little bit before about uh, what these groups do but the responsibilities of being a member You know at the very least lowest level of involvement. Um, you have to be on the mailing list Um, it's kind of recommended that you attend the meetings. Um Typically there are meetings say once a month or once every two weeks or once a week Um often on irc or by telephone. There are occasionally in-person meetings. Um, there are big group meetings On an annual basis. Um, but there are also say per group meetings Sometimes happen quarterly or by or or by yearly So that's that's something that that you can do Getting involved with reviewing drafts voting on proposals kind of getting knowledgeable about the work of the of the group Most of the groups do most of their work on github So, you know tracking issues through github making pull requests to actually update documents There is also a software development aspect to a lot of this work So not only producing document but creating tests and test suites And even doing implementations, whether it's an open source implementation That's part of the group or implementing the standards is part of the wick media foundation stack At the very highest level of involvement Each of these doctors each of these doctors each of these documents has an assigned editor who's responsible for the document And uh, so that is a very high level of involvement The it's uh, some of these in-person meetings the in-person meetings are hosted by members organizations. So if you want to Take a shot at hosting a meeting for one of the For a group you're in that's a possibility Um, and then finally chairing the group Means that you take responsibility for getting the documents from beginning to end or ranging meetings handling all the membership processes It's a pretty big responsibility But it can really mean the difference between A grouping successful and one that doesn't quite deliver On a note about obligations as a member Of one of these groups as a representative for the wick media foundation There is a code of conduct people are expected to behave professionally as an international organization The w3c's code of conduct is very Aware of organizational and national cultural differences in the way that people conduct business Which I think that we also are at the wmf, but at the same time, you know Expecting That we will be productive members of this of these groups Almost all the work that w3c groups do is released either under a w3c software license, which is a permissive License very similar to like the mit license or vst license All the contents produced under the same license as a documentation license. So again very permissive We have to disclose any patents that we have on any of the technology that comes out And which I think is less of a big deal for the wmf than it is for IBM or Disney, but it's still something that we have to do I think also that anyone who's in these groups should probably remember that You know that you're there to advance our projects in our community Or at least make the web a better place Um, so I've really talked about how Participating in the w3c can be a big part of how the wmf makes the web a better place. Obviously, it's a very It's a big web. There are different kinds of relationships that we can develop The w3c is not the only standards group that's involved That's around for technology and you know, we can always be members of more standards groups Seems like w3c is very focused on Our participation in open source projects is another place where our relationships Can help to develop the web And we also have bilateral relationships with platform providers and other web Web participants, but I think that the w3c is a big place for us to Have an impact on how the web goes forward So I'm going to stop here And we're going to move Now um, and I'm going to hand things over to uh gill But I want to take a second before we do that and ask I haven't actually been collecting questions, so I'm going to Pause for a second and see if we have any questions on what I've discussed so far And I might need to look in the This is this is sarah, um, I'm I'm looking at the irc chat And we also have to give a little bit of a lag for the live stream because folks will Get that just a like a moment after us, so No problem, and I'm also okay if we save our, uh Save our, um Questions till the end so if we don't have any anything that's ready right now I'd like to Hand it. Whoops. I'm going to bring up Slides again and We'll hand it over to gill to talk about His experience representing the wmf At uh at the w3c Let me see if I can get this live Hi so before the foundation joined A couple of months ago I was invited as invited expert to the wet performance working group at the w3c last summer So almost a year ago And the one let's talk about that experience so what it's like to present The foundation there So I have to say that I started Participating remotely and then I got to meet everyone at t-pack, which is the Big all hands meetings where all the working groups and community groups meet once a year And I got to meet the people I was working with face-to-face and like Evan mentioned A lot of groups have face-to-face meetings throughout the year on their own like in the mad money And so I think in terms of participation for anyone's interested Um, I I did feel a big difference before and after meeting people face-to-face um, there is a lot of trust involved and the You know, I could see the effect of me Bringing things up on the mailing list before and not getting a lot of response Then after meeting people people were paying more attention to what I was saying And uh, I got to create real working relationships with them um So something that's very that was very uh positive for me in terms of experience was how much browser vendors are eager to hear Our opinion about things what we care about what works for us what doesn't work for us because The issue at least in the working group that I'm involved in is that for the most part it's browser vendors discussing Standards between each other because they're the ones that are ultimately going to implement them and to Understand the needs of their users as in people who Web developers who use their standards They usually ask around and they're ordinary organizations. And so google will hear about google maps They will they will hear from gmail and microsoft will hear from bing and those are very Specific websites that are don't have the same needs as as the our projects do at all and so You know when I showed up and they're they're very very curious to hear Um, you know and those standards what was working for us or it wasn't like they care a lot about making things work for the web and the fact that We can be just sites are a very different kind of website than than what they usually deal with is very interesting for them. And so they're uh Very very much interested in what we have to say It was also very pleasantly surprised by how much influence I was able to Have very quickly like in the very first meetings I attended I was already, you know swaying Priorities or decisions about standards that were being worked on um, also You know giving them very precise feedback about Some ipis that were being developed Uh, meant that they were adjusted to meet our needs when in the in the past, you know dealt with a lot of Um browser standards and like Evan said like sometimes it doesn't quite do what we want Like it almost does what we want but not quite and I realized by being there that I can actually make it Do what we want, uh, you know when it's being created Which is exactly what we're hoping for and it says it has already happened for Several standards that are in the works and also, um as part of this, uh, so chrome like google tends to be um The organization that implements things first, uh for a lot of standards at least in the performance realm and one way that I got involved was to Do what they call chrome origin trial. So as they are trying new experimental Standards before like they're getting drafted and presented to the group They sometimes implement them in chrome and you can try them out Using this system and essentially it allows me to give very very early feedback On some of the ideas that are being developed for standards for new standards In that working group and this has been very, uh, very effective Have been getting, you know, very quick turn around feedback from the folks at google that are presenting new standards And influencing the shape it is taking so overall I have to say has been a very very positive experience and Basically that have been waiting for people like us to show up like for the most part most of the discussions Are between browser vendors And not many like like we've seen that a lot of there's a lot of publishers We're also members of the organization, but they're not necessarily Expanding actively in those discussions and the fact that I am there and I'm representing a user and a large one at that Makes the people in the group listen to me a lot because You know the facebook's of the world, uh, you know and those other big organizations don't necessarily speak up about A lot of the standards are being developed. So the fact like we're kind of feeling the void if you will Like like they're they're waiting to hear from actual users and the fact that we are there and talking Makes a big difference and we can get our opinion heard, which is probably going to be quite different from all of the commercial vendors that are Uh, commercial properties that are represented, um in assertion So yeah, that's my experience and I highly recommend that Anyone who cares about the movement Steps up and drawings working groups to Represents our needs and wants Thank you. So I guess we can get back to questions now. Awesome. That's that sounds good. Thank you so much, um are So i'm looking at the irc channel, I'm gonna start Looking through the questions that have come up And i'll start off with uh, subhu Who asks, um Are their community groups You think w3 is w3 wmf staff should definitely be joining That is a That is a really good, uh really good question. Um, there are some groups that I think are really interesting for us Um, and um, I think at least All right, cool. Um, so I think we have some participation already on some of the ones that are most important. So, uh, the one, uh, Geel's involved in is the web performance Working group and this is a working groups that is specifically about tools and techniques for getting great performance out of, uh, web systems, right? So it's it's making changes to the, um, Measurement and the tools for, um, getting a web performance, you know, up to the top and since that's such an important part of publishing Uh for our project. That's one that I really am glad that we have some Uh presence on there is a brand new Um There's a brand new group, uh, that is involved with publishing media So, um, for those folks who are who have, you know, worked with things like audio and video Tags and html different styles and and types of File formats for video. This is a A new Group that's going to be kind of building from the bottom up That same process, um, I would love to see especially as we are looking to develop more rich content in our projects I know that in the past problems with patent encumbered formats or performance of some of the different mechanisms control Of the of the mechanisms for delivering media has inhibited our ability to use the web for Delivering media. So I think the new media group would be one that would be A huge help for a wmf staff In terms of I talked a little bit about some of the horizontal groups our Experience again with internationalization and languages is probably second to none on the web in terms of the scope of languages that we that we deliver That we have projects for and so I think that Getting involved with internationalization and supporting Internationalization and new standards as well as existing standards would be really helpful to that organization And especially helpful for our projects that maybe are having problems with representation on the web for underrepresented languages So those are a few that are that are I think the most Most interesting. However, like I said, there's like 340 Community groups. There's another 32 Working groups that are working right now on new Standards And I think that those are pretty cool ones too. Oh, I talked to I talked a little bit about the immersive web one the vr ar one I think that we probably have a part to play at in that world Um in terms of delivering more information so it's pretty It's pretty easy to find these groups and And joining them is pretty pretty straightforward too so chris asked if The performance group is a horizontal group And the answer is no it probably should be I think it's because historically the way the web performance group emerged was through Standardizing metric collection and that was the main focus Uh, but yes the same way that there's a security and privacy horizontal group that probably should be performance horizontal group to check that new Standards and new apis don't slow down browsers. It's actually a very good point. I'll bring it up on the next working group meeting and Subu was asking us to speak about the relationship between w3c and what below g So, uh, yes, there is So my understanding is that What wg became popular emerged out of frustration of the very strict process in the w3c and they've taken ownership of some stand-up standards that you might have thought would normally live in the w3c world and It is creating a little bit of friction, but A lot of those standards that are interconnected are in the process of being synchronized between both as in standards Made under the w3c are referencing What the wg standards and vice versa and they're trying to work together to make all that stuff Work well, so yes, I mean The web is a bigger ecosystem doesn't stop the w3c so of course You have to make it work and I also encourage People interested to also join those other organizations, you know, we don't have to stop the w3c There's a lot of other work being done in other areas of the web that we need to participate in So, you know, uh, check out what what wg is doing as well And maybe you're going to be finding things that are more relevant to you and other organization Yeah, I think it's a really it is an interesting relationship like the what what wg kind of forked off as a kind of faster moving process and What has happened is that a lot of that has been reintegrated into w3c and a lot of the what wg Frustration about slow moving process with w3c Again, this was like in the late 2000s Has largely been reflected in changes to the way the w3c works, right? And right now they do remain as two separate organizations but really kind of the what w wg is a feeder that is creating new technologies that are really becoming part of the html and css standards, so A lot of the same people are involved in both organizations And I don't think there's as much of a conflict as there was before during that kind of fork period um, and the other thing is that what wg does do a does does a um a lot of focus on uh html and css to some extent JavaScript apis But there is a lot more to what the w3c does right so w3c covers a lot of other Kinds of data structures and etc That that do exist on the web I wanted to ask you gill Do you have working groups that are or other groups that you think we should have More people participating in uh, I think definitely css international sorry internationalization svg, you know, we rely a lot on svg You know, it's it's been a pain point for us like the support of some svg features, etc and open source Stacks that we rely on so yeah, I mean I encourage anyone to to check out the list because there's a lot more and Happening at the wmf that i'm not aware of that probably makes some groups relevant um, yeah So we had a round of um once once we announced that we were joining the w3c Uh, we had a round of folks who uh folks who jumped in um, I think we're now at around 15 people From the w wmf who have uh Accounts on the w3c and our members of different groups um, I might need to It'll take me a second to pull it up But I remember off the top of my head that we do have someone on svg on internationalization on Uh on web performance uh on social standards So there has been a lot of activity already so far Um, and it definitely doesn't hurt to have more people get involved um, and especially for Uh for those things that that matter for us security privacy internationalization accessibility I want to go back and check and see if we have any other questions on irc I just checked the live stream and we don't have any questions there. Um, and I asked a while ago so, um So i'm not sure we're going to get questions on the live stream this morning That's not a problem um All right, great. Well, um, if if that's the case and we don't have any, um questions I think I think we're all set. Is there anything you'd like to say to kind of finish up gill? Please get involved young groups Thank you Awesome, and I just also wanted to say i'll i'll put a link to the tech talks both in the irc channel and on the live stream We'll post a link to this from that tech talks page as well And then any of the questions that folks answered today that were asked or answered today will be Added to that that too and then we'll And then anybody in the future if you are interested in doing A tech talk of your own Please reach out and thank you so much. We totally appreciate that you came and talked with us about this today All right, thanks a lot sarah. It was great being being involved


Hey there chameleons! It's Camille and today I'm going to be showing you guys three different hairstyles that I've been loving lately and how to do them with or without bangs. So hopefully this will give you some hair inspo for the fall slash winter. Okay, so first I'm going to wash my hair and show you what products I put in before styling. I'm really lucky to be partnering with Aussie for the next few months since they just came out with a curl line which is obviously perfect for me and a lot of you guys watching. So I'm starting with the Aussie Miracle Curls shampoo which is specially designed for curly hair infused with coconut and jojoba oil so it moisturizes while cleaning your hair which is something I always look for in curly products. Also it smells like citrus so that's always a plus. Next I'm using the conditioner that also has coconut and jojoba oil to moisturize and smells just as good. I let that sink in for a while and then I use my Denman brush to comb out my hair and then I move on to deep conditioner. So I'm using the Miracle Curls deep conditioner and I'm mixing that in with the detangling milk so I get the moisture and the smoothing properties together and it gives my hair a great texture for styling while staying hydrated. I'm going to finger comb that out and flip my head and continue to comb because you get more volume when you flip your hair and then scrunch of course to help get those curls started curling. Then I'm separating out my bangs and scrunching those and then you just wait for your hair to dry. So this first hairstyle is really simple if you follow the beginning of the tutorial because you pretty much do nothing. I let my hair completely air dry which took hours because my hair has high porosity and because it's curly and blah blah blah but it's very worth it because if you let it air dry the curls come out better you don't damage your hair and it's a lot silkier. So the one product that I haven't already had a bunch of experience with in the past was the leave-in detangling milk but mixed with the leave-in conditioner it makes your hair so incredibly silky it's actually insane. So silky to the point where this is my three-day hair and you can still see how like silky and reflective and soft it is and the reason that I'm doing this part three days later is because this is the volume style. So I like to have as voluminous hair as possible which is why I got this exact cut because it helps with that but if you have freshly washed hair it's usually not as big as it can get so after that routine I just leave my hair for a couple days so it naturally gets a bit bigger and then what I also like to do is when my hair is drying you know hold your head upside down and kind of like pull the hair so it dries like away from your head and then the other thing I like to do is once it's dry just for extra volume you can kind of lift your hair up and normally I would use a pick for this but I don't have a pick right now so I'm just using my fingers as a DIY pick so you kind of just like pull your hair straight away from your head just a little bit out the roots so you can add volume without messing up the curls and then same thing up here I wouldn't go as far as teasing my hair because that would be damaging and I'm not a scene kid anymore oh wow I should have done this back in my scene days so this is kind of laid flat on my head right now so I'm just gonna kind of floof it up with my basic fluffing skills there you go this has been one of my go-to styles ever since cutting my hair and getting the bangs and I just really like it it's pretty simple and it kind of makes me look like a puffle from Club Penguin and I'm all about that nostalgia so the second look I'm showing you guys is something that I do as a natural progression from really nice hair to when my hair starts getting a little bit frizzy later on so it's a great way to hide hair that isn't perfectly coiled or perfectly hydrated so this one is definitely a time saver but it also looks really good and it's good at showing your face a bit more because I realized that when my hair is out I kind of like lose my face and then when I put it up people are like oh my gosh you have a face so for this look you're going to need a hair scrunchie and some water this is just plain water and then I'm gonna use a little clip to get my bangs out of the way and if you guys don't have bangs you can obviously skip this step and all of these looks work with or without a bang so I'm just finding which parts I want to leave down and I'm clipping that together so then the rest of all of this hair is gonna go up into a little topknot so first I'm going to just spray around the edges just to get my hair a little bit damp and easier to work with but you don't want to use too much water because you still want to keep the texture so you can get some volume in the bottom and I'm gonna use a little bit of milk lactose free so I can get it to lay down nice and smoothly on my hair so I'm gonna take this off because the bangs are already sectioned out and pretty much I'm just using my fingers for this I'm gonna like smooth it down and then comb a little bit to make sure any lumps are out always check for lumps people so you can see once I slick this down that there is no frizz coming off of that side and that's what we're looking for we want to just get the sides all slick down and I like to bring it towards the top of my head so it sits like right on top like that I should just wear it like this sometimes okay so pretty much you pull the scrunchie on and then twist it and then I pull the scrunchie all the way around from the back so then when you pull it up to the front it smooths that part over and you do this based on your hair length but I like to pull it back and then around front so then the front part is like the last part to see and then the very ends are facing in the back and then you just tuck those guys in and you have this perfect top knot so if you don't have bangs you could include that my bangs are actually long enough that I could also be included if I want it to be and that's why I picked this length so I can have some options and then if you want you can kind of like fluff up your bun a bit and if you have trouble getting it to stay then you can use bobby pins but I like to just do it without bobby pins because it stays and I don't need extra stuff in my head and that is it for this top knot with bangs out or bangs in or not exist in bangs if you don't have them okay so for this last look I'm gonna do it with bangs in just because I think most of you guys don't have bangs and all of these look servers it'll you can do with or without so might as well do one without so I'm gonna just spray down my hair but I'm gonna spray it down a lot more than I did before because I want all of it to be damp this time it's a lot easier to braid wet hair in my opinion when it's textured you're braiding straight hair I feel like it's easier or like just as easy to braid it while it's dry what rockstar do I look like so for this one I'm using some more milk because I want my fingers to be able to glide through my hair when I'm braiding it and I want it to be really smooth and especially since it's wet it's going to be a lot easier to incorporate so that's about how much I'm using I'm just going to spread that out as evenly as possible okay so now I have a rat tail comb you can use anything sharp except for a knife I wouldn't recommend that I mean technically you could but so I'm just tying one of the sides up to get it out of the way so it doesn't bother me I'm going to lightly finger comb because I want my hair to be as detangled as possible before I start braiding and to need it to be so what I'm going to do is just pinch off like a little tiny section of the front in like a triangle shape just that much then you divide this part into three and I'm doing a Dutch braid so pretty much it's the opposite of a French braid and instead of braiding like inwards you braid outwards so then instead of your hair being flat it will be like inverted I'm just going to show you so these three these are the three strands and instead of taking an outside one going inside I'm going to take an inside one and go on the outside so then same thing of those on the side that you just went to and just add that to the section you're holding over to outside a little section of hair this guy is in the center it's gonna go on the outside as well I'm just going to be doing this all the way across and down so like trying to stay in the center of everything so then it's even on both sides clear elastic let's keep a back up elastic then you're just gonna twist it on and secure the bag I was like doing this on my hair it's wet because then the curls can come out nice at the end so just like to finger curl this end a little bit let's do like the reload and scrunch and then when it dries it will be nice and curly and so I did my roots a little bit too late so you can see there's like a little bit of orange in there and I'm very aware of that but if you look at the braid and the texture but you can see that it's like a nice inverted Dutch braid so you just do the same thing to the other side maybe because I'm right-handed and it's easier for me to reach over I don't know I'm just guessing I'm not a scientist either way I'm going to right so this is the finished last hair look this one is good if you want your hair out of your face if you have bangs and you want that out of your face if you're really active or if you like the way that it looks so those are the three looks so I hope you guys found this video either helpful or enjoyable all of my links to my social media are in the description box down below don't forget to subscribe if you want to see future videos I wish you all a happy healthy life and I'll see you in the next one kisses


What's going on everybody welcome back to another breaking news story and the Miami Open entry list is out to the public We know who is signed up to play in the tournament at the end of March in Miami First Masters 1000 series event for the men and it's a big event for the women as well Let's go to the entry list. All right, so let's go to the top players from the men's side So we have no back Jokovic. He's playing Rafa Nadal said he's playing Daniel Medvedev's in team is playing Sitsipas, Zverev, Rublev, Schwartzman, Beretini and Shapovalov So the big name that is missing out of that top 10 is Roger Federer. We'll talk about that in another video Go check that out He has pulled out of this event to focus on training and just coming back a bit slow But besides Federer's name missing, we basically got the whole top 10 playing this event. Going to the women's side now We have Bardi up the top who's the defending champion from two years ago The Australian open champ Osaka is also playing, Halep's playing, Kenan, Svetlina, Pliskova, Serena Williams is in Sabalenka, Andrescu is also playing and Caviteva is in as well So out of the men and the women's tour there is only one player out of the top 10 from either group who's not gonna play and that's Roger Federer He confirmed he's not playing but we've got to remember that Halep, Andrescu and Bardi have pulled out of tournaments recently And of course Rafa Nadal pulled out of Rotterdam with the back injury So will he make the trip over to Miami and play that event? He did pull out of Acapulco as well not to defend that title because it was too much of a flight for his back Miami's not that close to Spain so maybe he's gonna pull out but hopefully not But at the moment Federer is the only guy who's pulled out of either event And we have a stacked event for the biggest tournament outside of the Australian Open for the year Let me know down in the comments below. Do you think anyone's gonna pull out of this event?  I mean Andrescu, we don't know what's up with her Bardi She looks like she's pretty injured as well and Rafa's back We don't know what the case is with that either so Miami if it goes ahead It's gonna be stacked, but I feel like some players are gonna pull out


Songs as a tool to teach grammar. To begin with, I have been teaching English for more than 30 years. I teach groups of students and individuals of different ages and abilities. That is why I have always had a problem how to raise my students' motivation, how to make my lessons interesting and exciting, so that the bell at the end of the class would be for me, not for my students. I have always wanted them to be upset that the lesson is over. As a result of this research, I concluded that along with having different games, quizzes, puzzles, crosswords and project works, learning and singing songs, is as challenging and helpful as doing grammar exercises. The results of learning English songs by heart is stunning. Do not think that I do this activity only for entertainment. It is a big grammar work, improvement of pronunciation, one of the ways to get nearer to the British and American culture and traditions. So what are the advantages of learning songs in the classroom? Teaching tenses. Many songs can introduce English tenses better than any teacher can do it on the board. The problem is that in Russian which is my student's native language, there are only three tenses, past, present, and future, while in English there are 12. Thus when I want to explain the present continuous tense, and show its difference between other present tenses, I offer my students to listen, read, and analyze the song I am sailing, singer Rod Stewart. I demonstrate the text of the song on the screen of my IWB, and students listen to and follow the text simultaneously. Then I ask them to copy the text into their copy books, find and underline the sentences which are used in the present continuous tense. After analyzing grammar in the text, students read line by line after the teacher in the chorus and individually, and sing the song together according to the recording. It is very effective to work with the song during the second stage of ESA lesson. During study stage. Another way to find out how the students understood the present continuous tense, is to let them listen to the song Lemon Tree, and write down in their exercise books only the sentences where they hear the present continuous tense. This task is better to be done during the engaged stage of the ESA lesson. Practice. The students then may be asked to express these sentences with other pronouns or names, transform them into interrogative and negative forms. It depends on the teacher's creativity and the amount of time during the lesson, also on the number of students in the group. Students should work in pairs or small groups of three to four. This was only one of the examples of how to teach grammar. The same can be done with the song Mr. Morton when presenting the past simple tense. Students can hear a lot of regular and irregular words from this song. When presenting, teaching, and practicing the present perfect tense, the best song in my opinion is what have they done to the rain? When I want to show the difference between British and American English, the song English Man in New York is the best alternative. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. In conclusion, I would like to point out that learning grammar through English songs in class, develops not only grammar skills but enhances listening, speaking, and writing skills as well. Also singing songs does not take much time as it can be used, as a warm-up exercise at the beginning of the lesson, but it is a great motivator and encourager for students to master English with great desire.


Everybody for a steer ripping the sports card Almanac high-end multi-sport volume 12 case number six is a live hit draft So what we're gonna do we're gonna random here just a moment to determine which case number we're gonna we're gonna rip We got five left cases one two four five and six and then we'll randomize again to see our draft order with all-time participants Quick rundown Just wrong graded cards no memorabilia in this it's all live hit draft two minutes for pick I need to get my soon timer ready. So we're good Yeah, so again two minutes for pick you make your pick and chat when it is your turn We'll confirm the with You'll what okay you got that up You'll confirm with your order number or your shipping zip code whichever you prefer. We'll we'll take both we'll take both Let's see so we open up all the cards lay them out and then pick an order once we know the draft order What else what else? Looking for preview picks you can find them on IG and Facebook No influencing the drafts or no talking about card values and no Saying you would pick this over that or this is better than that. You're totally allowed to say Okay, you're allowed to say all it's a great card or I love that card whatever it is But you can't just say you prefer this or you think that's better than that There's no like comparisons essentially I'm gonna get no values as that is influencing the draft I Think that's it for now Let's do some randoms. See you get this thing on the under underway card stands over here The old card stands old model original Good luck. We'll randomize for case number and for draft order right now. Thanks everybody. We're going seven times four and three Seven times Find the case number here. Jeffer one's up top one two three four five six and Seven case number one number one number one He was number one Schmini were been Yeager man Jensen Which goes along with the thumbnail today, honestly stop Dean Sounds like a good thing to catch Brandon cooks to 99. Oh geez. All right, and now let's randomize for the draft order Best of luck. There's everybody right there one sec actually one sec seven times Just wanted to make sure I had the the next The Google sheet ready. Good luck. And again after the seven times the one through ten there is the order That's one two three four five six Seven There's your order Daniel F on down to Joe. Well, let me copy these over and make it bigger so then we can see Where we are I just typed in draft order. That's this is case six. I don't know why I thought I Very strange either way. We know we're doing we know we're doing there you go That is a one through ten right there Daniel F with one Henry H2 Joe L3 P. Shea with four George K5 Christopher S6 Hilton with seven Brian G8 Chewie with nine and Joe L with ten Let's get started everybody. Thank you for joining What do you think big cars big cars for sure? I Know perfect. There's only some big cards in case number one break six New blade be careful with that thing Jake. Okay So again guys just NT football football mixer and pop century for tonight's got NT and prism mixers tonight Jake you got sunburn. I know yesterday. No, it was from last Monday Hmm when jet skiing. Oh geez And forgot to put sunscreen on Jake's just like Kenny Powers. Yeah Jake's exactly exactly like Kenny Powers I wish I was Kenny Powers. Let's see. Let's see. Oh, that's pretty nice 2018. Select Lamar Jackson tri-color PSA 9 That's awesome 42 of 99 Lamar rookie Tri-color that is the fuel level of that year as well and numbered Lamar rookie That's how we start. That's how we start former MVP Tri-color red white and blue Yeah, hopefully there's some hockey and golf just everything man. Oh Oh Check that out 2018 heritage Ozzy Albie's real one rookie auto PSA 10. Let's go love real one rookie autos This is my favorites in a big day yesterday It's been so good Yeah, all the Braves had a big day yesterday against the Mets Would they score almost 30 runs in the doubleheader? Yeah, someone got some very nice Albie's I love real ones. This is my favorite odd on card autos and and really anything That rookie but the rookies are obviously awesome, but UFC there could be some there could be some combat sports up in here I don't know. I didn't I didn't see much of what Lane put into this sometimes I can go and check it out in peak But I just never made around the doing that this time around before we packed it out Oh, that's really nice glass mosaic rookie Chris Olavae PSA 10 gem mint Olavae Olavae garden when you hear your family Jake 2022 mosaic glass mosaic sp olavae Gem mint 10 by PSA I'm sure he'll have a pretty big second year if he stays healthy Yeah, this is pretty good so far man pretty stacked really good young players all upside with a lot of those cards too This one is not great Oh, that's super sick though. You got an absolute football Rookie premier quad relic auto to 25 mac jones. Here we go Talk about a car with some upside Mac jones absolute football pretty good pretty good 25 to 25 in the bookend Looks like a sock or like a sleeve a helmet ball in a patch Again, if you're in the draft and you haven't chatted in a while go ahead and test out chat Just say test or whatever you want to say just to make sure that you have the capability so we can see you That could slab That could slab Oh gold contenders Uh our contenders optic premium gold. Oh, no it is contenders because it's premium Chrome throws me off kevin herter 9 5 10. That's a true gem plus The centering has a 10 everything else 9 5 done this thing And it's numbered 8 of 10 kevin herter Contenders premium gold super clean who's skill with the hawks rookie card there Yeah, pats out line not the best not the best I think the offense can still be better It's gonna look pretty different Keep it rolling jake's working hard over there That is pretty sick actually uh 2021 bowman university cj shroud First chrome prospect auto PSA 10 at that there you go. Oh good luck on whoever uh Snags that one of the draft remember to sides take that one Talk about a car with upside A lot of young players in this one haven't seen like a legend yet When lemar jackson and like ozzy always like the oldest person in the draft so far That says a lot Him and lemar are like the veterans compared to these other guys. Yeah, haven't heard it too What's up cheesy The one joey bar. Yeah, maybe next Whoo impeccable elegance rpa chad holmgren 37 of 99 rookie of the year chet Maybe rookie of the year Lane keeps saying that that three-color patch elegance rpa chad holmgren from impeccable 22 23 impeccable Impeccable In impeccable That's how jake swears as that's pronounced he told he told i was gonna say impeccable and he Sprayed me with a squirt bottle said hey, no no Hit me with a newspaper. All right Slacks going off right now. Why does slackjack go crazy? Oh my god. Oh, wow. I like that part a lot Whoa, 21 22 stadium club champions league chrome Gavi orange rookie variation PSA 10 Such a sick variation 17 to 25 on the serial number Yep, that is sick Yep That's a pretty unique card too. I wonder what the pop count does in the orange PSA 10 variation gavi That's a beaut right there Those of you that know soccer Know that that's for real. That's the real deal All right, a couple more cards then we draft This is just a young a young man's case right here rookie material signatures from 21 nt Justin fields 22 of 99 three color patch Uh, these were redemptions that is sealed from panini showed up like that. I woke up like this Wow Yeah, young man's case right here Oh, like I said, the oldest person is like 26 years of like 27 years old beautiful fields What do you guys think working material sig is the next fest after a true rpi? Maybe All right. Let's see what our last card is Again, everybody. Uh, no discussing values during the draft Uh, just out of respect for everybody We appreciate y'all for joining or watching like in the stream, of course And again two minutes per pick and if you are picking make sure you have either your order number For this or the shipping zip code from from this order. We'll accept either And lastly oh we go from all those young guys to this iconic card 2011 tops update Mike shrouds PSA gem mint 10 rookie card The trout rookie ps8 10 man This is gonna be a fun draft. I think there's a lot of different cards here I think there'll be a lot of times where people take the full two minutes and really think about it Look at what we got. Yeah, we're going the original model card stands here I think they're a little better suited to almanac than the stand-ups plays The original model Yeah, almost Shohei Bart I think that's all right. I think that works. I'm gonna make sure I can move the camera here Okay, let me type in chat pick number one is daniel f Pick number one. Let me get my two minutes started here If while you're picking if you want to see a card up close again, please let me know How much farther does this thing go? There we go Do we had mac lamar olave strout for and fields for football Pick 11 latent card stand. Nope, not these. I'm keeping I'm keeping the old model They're perfect for almanac. The other ones you'd have to like adjust Stand-ups the stand-ups look better in my opinion, but you have to adjust them for like every single type of the front and back there All right, daniel f pick number one minute 20 seconds. We want to see a card up close. Let me know. Let me know I'm guessing daniel is daniel f. You see the albies, of course So again 18 heritage real one rookie auto psa 10 I'm gonna get a little closer on the ink here Little light on some parts of the auto so the card graded to 10. Obviously the auto is not graded Heritage it's the chase and heritage is the real ones 45 seconds Put the slabs in the back where you can see that Yeah, keep that in mind for net for net for next round. This is a pretty damn good lineup This is pretty nuts A lot of a lot of cards is upside too. Go with the trout order 217052 For daniel. Yeah, he's going with the trout big congrats daniel Big congrats didn't even know we had a strout auto. Well, we don't anymore rich We don't anymore First pick is done Henry number two Two minutes for you, Henry We'll probably space these out and make it look a little nicer So the the new arrangement has the light directly over us. So I have to hold the camera up here for you to see the The cards a little better see the fields absolutely So again 22 of 99 rookie material signatures so rms On the fields it's a three color patch Um, they got the penny sticker there it was a redemption at one point And it's in the original Sealed one touch here It's the close-up on the auto pretty good looking auto. I don't know if it's perfect perfect But looks really good outside of true rpa's. He says definitely one of the nicer sets There's justin He's getting a lot of hype getting a lot of hype going into his uh This third season. I don't mind when the bears are good. I'm not a i'm not a chicago sports hater Yeah, it's oak on card Speeth catch lever. I got no idea cheesy. I do not know Anything about about about golf right now I know about golf. I just don't know like this weekend's tournament. No idea Yeah, I don't like chicago sports. I don't I'm not a hater. I like d rose D rose All right About 10 seconds. Do you see anything else real quick? Henry? We can do that The cj the cj Who's cj stroud? I was like who is cj?  Let me make sure it doesn't do that. Sorry Stop playing So there we go. Sorry, uh jem in 10 first moment on a cj stroud 2021 boom in you And then it is time to pick Henry. That was two minutes is time to pick He's taking the fields. All right. Just need your uh zipper order order number 60076 Yeah, he's good. He's taking the fields. Great pick Henry I did not who's cj from baywatch I know I the only person I know from baywatch is uh Actually, no, wait, uh Was david hasselhoff. Yeah, panel Anderson I know david hasselhoff. I don't know anyway Uh joel He was in spongebob. Oh panel Anderson was cj. I got you got you never watched To when baywatch was like popular. I was probably like seven years old. I'm not watching baywatch Oh, you mean the do you mean the movie was zack effron and um Who uh, that's right. Is there anybody else in that rock? Is there oh the rock is in there? Yeah, oh, he's like the lead guy Okay, like the I guess I've never seen that either. I don't know. I haven't seen it So it's move about lifeguards about lifeguards. That's why rich likes it so much. I think a minute and 20 joe Going with the chat. Gotcha. Did you see the? You see the yeah, all right, cool. Yeah, joe's good. He's taking the chat great pick chat Great pick joe for the chat Very very nice Rats on that. We'll just keep it just like that. I'll just move as little as possible really pick number force pjp two minutes still got um Uh four sports up there basketball football baseball and soccer got gavi mac jones Yeah, joe isn't a lot all the next night You know, I was kind of surprised to see joel at pick number 10, but he also had pick number three. So Good average there pj's taking the gavi fantastic pick nine one two zero four. Good. Thank you pj. Congrats on that one I'm honestly pretty jealous of that I remember when lane bought that at the national That's such a sick card Love those stadium club variations. Let's go ahead Move the lineup a little closer Okay Now we're on to george k Pick number five George k a fifth pick Only three sports remain Yes, bryant chris is correct 575 Yes, his case number six Case break number six. This is the first serial numbered case Good luck george saw george again at the national this year always nice one of our northern neighbors Next break is the hoffs cj parker dual auto Who would dislike that though? Well, that's just pretty neat right 90s nostalgia I mean we are in pop century tonight. There's a lot of possibilities in pop century All right, george about a minute left. I'll type that in chat if you want to see something else. Let me know Yeah, we do have some pop century breaking later. So you you can hit things along those lines. I mean you really can I don't think either of those two actors signed in it. But okay You got the stroud the herder the um, olave the albies the mac and the lamar Or hassle hoff and anderson the leads in that show like where they like the two main I believe so All right, 25 seconds george k Do not see george anywhere yet. Let me see nothing in twitch Take the herder one four three zero four. You got that That is confirmed. Congrats george beautiful gold premium contenders herder right there Again true gem plus nine five ten to Centering ten everything else nine five on it. I thank you again george appreciate it. Okay Into the final five christopher s Two minutes the slowest motion intro to every episode All right chris rest a minute and a half so 30 seconds gone the more we do almanac the more uh My congestion clears up true We're all chris fresco with those cj jake confirmed it Very very nice going into his rookie season That's awesome. This is the first time that first bowman like football card like autos are in like are there rookie season? Is this the first time? Or was it last year? All right, y'all there are four cards remaining Hilton is up now with pick number Seven No hilton said May not be able to make it for the draft so we shall see we shall see we'll give them full two minutes Good luck hilton. Thank you for joining Some beautiful cards left the mac jones absolute rookie premiere to 25 glass mosaic olave Try color field level lamar psa nine And the obvious again the lamar is numbered at 42 of 99 Okay, so was hilton. He said he may not be able to so we'll just give him the two and then that'll be it Yeah, he said he would he he's uh in his time zone. He said he would try and be awake for it Yeah, so we'll we'll give we'll get because he's in some other cases too So we're just gonna give him the two every time and then once the two hits we'll just Um pick form if we have to if we have to Prefer not to do that. We prefer when people are here, but obviously Yeah, not a not a requirement That is ozzy. That's ozzy albies Yeah, he's in a few though, so I'm sure he'll show up at some point And see the cards that he got It's almanac always walk away with something nice 30 more seconds for hilton. Let's get a little more time here So yeah, I'll just go close again since we use this time We're waiting for hilton to just kind of show Lamar ps a9 tricolor field level to 99 in the rookie select Real one ps a10 auto rookie albies glass mosaic rookie ps a10 oval lave and rookie premiered at 25 Featuring the swiffer in the background. It's mac jones. It's good stuff right there a lot of upside on the table Okay, that was two minutes um This is tough We're gonna go with the ink. We're gonna go the mac the mac the 25. I think uh I think I think hilton will enjoy 25 of 25 the quadra like rookie auto mac jones Going into his third season decisive season, but could be big Could be big for him Thank you hilton the other they're called the real one autos. That's just what they're called They're just the on-card auto chase. They're the only on-card autos in heritage to my knowledge uh next up with pick number eight is Brian g Start it up. Yeah, they're just they're legit just called. It's literally just called real one auto. That's what it's called I don't know where that comes from though. I don't know if that's like a An homage to something The olave is a uh a glass mosaic short print. So I think in hobby. They're about a case hit Which you can pull them in other skews as well And so it's basically a stained glass Like sp Class mosaic. So it's like the basketball still has stained glass. Well, I used to call them stained glass. Now they changed it Steve Steve Half the time left brian parallel on the lamar is tricolor So it's a tricolor field level So there's the Yeah, the label there and it's a field level as well. It makes it nice zero numbered 42 of 99 And it's a ps a nine Yeah, steve needs a water already the tricolor field level is the And they're all way I think as far as last few years they've opened like red white and blue and the tricolor is in the hobby For a select. All right, brian about five seconds. So it is time to pick Whenever you're ready, bud Then chew way will be up next once brian makes this pick. It'll be chew way Our jackson 21240 21230 for brian. Congrats. Thank you brian. That's awesome, man I'm excited to see lamar.  There's no talking about card card values in what's left Um, just fyi Talk about it after But just not during Chewie with a minute 15 left Again, this is the final pick So joel will get whichever one chewie does not pick substance victor how are you man 30 seconds 30 seconds glass mosaic olave ps8 10 or ps8 10 all these real one rookie auto That's a die. That is a tough pick. I'm not sure of two ways here, but it's a tough pick But again, if you guys are in a future case and you haven't shattered in a little while Please test out your chat function to make sure that we can see what you're saying time to pick Give it just a few more seconds for that to register or if there's a delay or anything, but haven't seen Chewie say anything so we shall see. All right That's that that's a few more seconds. I'm gonna go Chewie gonna pick formula see anybody in chat gonna go with the olave I'm gonna take the ps8 10 olave glass mosaic stunning looking card Short print for mosaic rookie ps8 10 you're at Chewie Joe L is getting the albies real one auto Congrats Joe L. Thanks again everybody That does it for k6 pretty awesome if you ask me moving on now to number seven


Well, Mark Bailey joins us now from Thig Securities Live in Sydney. Mark, good morning to you. Hearing there regarding the travel ban being placed on seven predominantly Muslim countries, certainly we are seeing business leaders and political leaders around the world responding to this and also markets responding to this. We are now seeing the VIX falling to significant lows. Is that somewhat of a surprise, however? Yeah, good morning, Natalie. I think it is in terms of how the markets are kind of calmly and benignly just continuing along their merry path in terms of equities. Yes, we had a bit of a pullback on Friday, but they've performed very, very strongly since the election. And as you rightly point out, that VIX index, the volatility measure, is trading pretty close to two and a half year lows. So, given the Trump tweets and the nature of how he's kind of presiding over the United States and seems to be ad hoc policy, fairly aggressive measures that are being signed in on some executive orders, it seems to me that you're not sure if you're a business or a consumer that you're not sure about the future. And if you're not sure about the future and there's that uncertainty, then you're not going to make big capital decisions. And we did see a weaker than expected Q4 print on Friday from the States, considerably below expectations. And I guess the fear is that that maybe comes through into Q1, Q2 going forward. And if the fiscal spending plans that Trump has talked about, but we've seen very, very little policy details so far, doesn't actually materialize, then I think you may potentially see a fairly severe pullback, especially in equities that are trading near all-time highs. And you know that 30-year bull market in bonds may just continue for a bit longer. With this in mind then, I mean, if we look ahead and we do have the US FOMC meeting, I mean, does this take a heightened stance in your view? I guess really whether the Federal Reserve will continue to forecast those three rate hikes this year, particularly when markets seem to only have two priced in. Yeah, I think what you'll see is the FOMC minutes will be a fairly steady hand. You know, there may even be a kind of a slight tweak higher in terms of some of the economic forecasts. But I think that there'll be no change at the meeting later this week. And I think you'll still see, although we won't probably get any additional doplots until the March meeting, that the talk will still be that they're expecting several gradual rate hikes this year and next. And there's been quite a bit of talk about trying to figure out where Janet Yellen lies on that two or three rate hike kind of consensus. And there's been a bit of backfilling from some economists, and they think that she's probably forecasting three hikes this year, which may come as a surprise to most people who thought she was fairly dovish.  And that's especially if we do start to see some more talk and some more noise about the Fed starting to reduce its $4.5 trillion balance sheet, because that will also have a similar impact if it doesn't start to continue to reinvest the maturity profiles and the coupons that it receives from its debt that is outstanding, that it holds on its balance sheet back into the market. It will have a similar effect to rate hikes. So if we do start to see some kind of kind of reduction in that balance sheet, then we may not see as many rate hikes going forward than the market expects at the moment. And I think that's probably a fair call. I don't think we'll probably get any details of that at the moment. And it may not even be formally discussed at the meeting, but that is what a lot of people in the market are talking about, when and how the Fed starts to reduce its balance sheet. Certainly, it'll be interesting to see how we navigate trade on Thursday post statement. Mark, we'll leave it there. Thank you so much. Thanks, Natalie.


Hey coach welcome back in today's video I'm gonna show you how to grow your business and spend less time training There's gonna be two ways that I can help you today, right? So here's step one step one is you look at the pricing that you have right now and you look to double it Okay, and when you do that you're gonna be able to make more money and Spend less time training because now you're going to be getting more committed more qualified clients Into your training program, right? And when I say double it I mean whatever you have right now multiply it by two do not try to add like fifty dollars or twenty five dollars I would increase the price But when you do that you increase the value of what you provide do not just increase the price So if you've watched our other video where I talked about why you shouldn't undercut any competitors that goes along with what I'm talking about right now because When you multiply the price the value needs to be multiplied as well Okay, that would be step one that can allow you to step away from training and just grinding it out Every single day at the field, okay Simply do that and the way I like to do it is I like to determine my schedule I want to know all right this this month I want to train this much every single week and I break down the whole week What are the days I want to train how many hours I want to train and then I do the math And I think okay great if I want to train that many hours How much money do I want to make based on the clients that I have okay? That is very simple to figure out Take action on that step two is if you wanted to train less and also profit more You should think about having a group training program similar to having Classes within your program to where multiple players are coming every week. So let me give you a great example Let's say you have ten clients right now and those clients that you are training It's all private one-on-one training and let's assume each one of those clients comes one time a week So you're looking at ten sessions a week that you would be you know if they say they're our sessions That's ten hours that you're spinning week after week. That's 40 hours that you'd be spinning per month Okay, that's with ten players now if you wanted to leverage your time better what you could do is Transition all of those ten players into group training this way they come on one day at one time So now you are maximizing your time on the field this way you have ten players at one session Right and think about it this way The ten players in one session that would be group training The price of that would be a lot more affordable than private training It should be if it's not then you need to correct that But what you want to do is have things set up to where those parents of The players that you're working with through your clients. They're all coming on one day at one time And this way you can start to leverage your time on the field or the park or at the gym Right because if you're doing everything privately now you know that you're gonna be spending more time With more players versus less time with more players. Okay, and let me give you a great example here Let's say your private training program. It's two hundred dollars a month. All right So if you had ten clients, you would be spending like I said 40 hours per month training to make two thousand dollars a month, right? Now if you have it set up with group training, let's say your group training is a hundred dollars a month Okay, now you're gonna be spending four hours a month making a thousand bucks Okay, you have ten clients now paying a hundred dollars now. You're working four sessions So think about the math there. That is ten percent as much as you would have worked Okay, that is a huge difference. Let's think about it on a larger scale. What if you had ten groups of ten players and Now you're working ten sessions a week, which is the exact same amount as you would if you were doing Ten sessions for private training. Okay now It's a little bit harder to manage a hundred kids versus ten obviously, right? But you'll be able to I mean if you had a hundred kids you had It was a hundred dollars a month. That's ten thousand dollars a month. That is not that far off if you have Your marketing down if you have the systems in place if you know how to communicate with parents You have a consistent marketing message going out going out every day, right? So this is how you can leverage your time with that by having group training and if you think about it for private training Like I said double your price double your value you do that and Your business is going to double or triple over the next month if you install that right and if that helps you out Right, I would love to chat with you on the phone and I want you to test that out test it out today Right, whoever you talk to you next if you're talking to miss Jones on the phone Be bold about your pricing be bold about your value, right? And if you need to transition from private training to group training you should start making those changes now Do not wait the longer you wait. All right, the less likely it's going to happen Okay, but I want you to test this out do it and once it works. I want you to hop on a phone call with me I want to see how I can help you on a much more advanced level with your business And that is what our mastermind is all about so simply head over to our website go to www.buildmysportsbiz.com at the top of the page it says mastermind I have a free phone call set up where it's a strategy call. I ask a lot of questions I see where you're at. I see if and how I can help you. All right, it's very simple I've done this hundreds of times already with coaches all around the world in every single sport imaginable Simply head over to our site and we'll get started there. I'll see you next time


What's up everybody? Jayce here for jaspyscasebreak.com which has a 19-20 panini noir basketball 2 box half case break round 19 number 26 Just sold out and again had some help with some mosaic fast break packs number 35 and 36 So here's a dice ruler. Here's the customer names. So if you want spots from mosaic fast break 36 and 35 You have your spots in there And if you bought straight up like Jeremy Steven with to Sean with three Travis with to Seth and Jinyin Then you guys bought it straight up. So good luck to you guys as well fast break number 36 sold out before 35 So that's why you see it's at the top and 35s at the bottom You got a random team second half of the case. Let's roll it and we got ourselves a one and a two for three times one two and three Sean down a set one two and three Thunder another war yes Sean with a thunder Sean with the Mavericks Jinyin or Jinyin with the Clippers Travis of the Magic and with the Hawks Brandon with mosaic fast break 36 You got the pelicans all over the Jats Sean with the Raptors Matthew the Nuggets Alan the Kings Right now with the Lakers travels with the Knicks Sean with the Pacers all over the Celtics Right on the 76ers T-Wills Jeremy with the heat Brian with the Bucks Kevin with the cows Brian of the Grizzlies Steven with the Nets and here The Sun's Alan the Bulls Round with the Pistons Blazers Steven with the Wizards Sean with the Rockets as well as the Spurs Robert the Hornets and Seth You have the Golden State Wars So if anybody wants to trade this is the time if not Stick with what you got Steven just got a team all There you go team all and Sean just got five spots in impeccable sell a pack number 122 you One two three four five four left Kevin gets two and team all nice one two Team all down to six I know I'm gonna trigger So yeah guys team all could it be happening tonight six left and Sell a packs at four left So those should be coming up next All right, so I expect team all to sell out the sell a pack to unlock my impeccable basketball We're good guys. We're good. All right. Good luck everybody There's the final turnout Nice Alex hit some big hits I was able to rip the box last time. I'm just afraid that I'm gonna like cut the card up So I don't want to force it too much All right, yes We got ourselves Colin Sexton five out of 25 Cleveland, this is for you Kevin All right, cool We got Kyrie Irving to 99 for the Brooklyn Nets and wow out of 10 Nikhil Alexander Walker iconic six out of ten Pelicans it's going to Brandon Brooklyn it's going to Steven That's right, so it's all about the touch right? We got OG to 99 Montresero to 65 We got a new wave jerseys Colby white Bulls one Allen We got ourselves a little RPA Quindyria witherspoon to 99 little one two three color packs Spurs, it's going to Sean We got Antoine Walker to 99 Celtics Boston Celtics went all over and Eight out of 49 Little sneaker spotlight of the trail spree well for the Timberwolves was a T-wolves Brandon does and look out Brandon look out Feel like Zion's don't come your way, but John Moran stew Two-color patch and autograph John Moran's. Oh, is that a jersey number? That's funny Eight out of 49. That's cool. There you go. Next one Kevin Porter Jr. to 25 a friend Top loaders we got to 10 Carson Edwards Little rookie Celtics going to Oliver. That's out of 10. Very nice. We got Rui Hachimura 33 out of 99 we got new wave jerseys 43 to 99 Brown and Clark We got 10 out of 99 Malcolm Brogdon for the Pacers Nice jumbo materials Coby white Three-color patch That's five out of ten Bulls, let's go now and we got a Quinn cook five out of five for the Lakers Lakers is going to brown We got Derrick Fisher nice autograph whoo another Jersey number six out of 40 Jersey number six. That's what he wore when he was with the Thunder look at that three-color patch and the auto Sean 101 again We got to 99 Grant Williams and the last one is a redemption And it is a sneaker spotlight autograph Card number 39 it is Kyrie Irving Which should be the Brooklyn Nets, but just want to double-check Could be calves could be maybe Boston Celtics who knows So let's quickly look that up and it is Brooklyn Nets and that'll be out of 49 And There you go guys that was a break this is no more basketball to boss half case break random teams number 26 on jazby's case breaks calm coming up next is Leaves greatest hits multi-sport one box break random letters number seven appreciate it guys


Fisheries are one of the most important natural resources globally. They provide food to many households, they provide jobs to millions of individuals and they are also a source of income to households, communities and governments as well. However, these resources are under threat mainly due to overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and climate change. Therefore, there is an urgent call now to reverse the trend and it is very well-timed in 2015. The reason why 2015 is because 2015 marks the end of the millennium development goals and ushers in a new era so-called the post-2015 development era or commonly known as the sustainable development goals. In recent developments on this front, the UN's open working group has come about with an outcome document that identifies Goal 14 which calls on governments to sustainably manage these resources. This call particularly calls the transition from the unsustainable use of the resources towards more sustainable use of the resources. And one of the main ingredients to enable such smooth transition towards sustainable fisheries management is finance. Therefore, at our this year's Fish Night event at IID, we have decided to focus on sustainable fisheries, financing the sustainable fisheries management. We will be exploring two main topics. One is what can governments do. Our chief economist Paul Steele, he will be exploring or sharing his insights about what governments can do and what the corporate sector can do as well. And we are very privileged to have Simon Dent from Alfila EcoSphere who will be sharing his insights about the role of impact investment in financing sustainable fisheries. This builds on our last year's Fish Night 1 event which was held as success by many colleagues in and around London who attended the event last year where we launched our book titled The Use of Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation. At the same time, we also launched our online platform fishnet.ning.com. Therefore, we do encourage you to come and join us in this year's Fish Night event. We will be providing the platform for people to mingle with like-minded people, discuss and hopefully having the opportunity to network and have some refreshments of course.


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