What is up? Welcome back. I gave the stream button a double tap last time. Well, everybody. Yeah, I'll say they're not here now. So give them a second. Oh, we got to figure it out. We were coming in so excited to tell you we haven't figured out. Yeah, I was coming in because I double checked all of the settings. I was sitting here with printed out the settings and sat here. I made sure I had them all right so that the sound and audio is good. And I got so excited. I hit the stream button and then hit the stream button again to end it right away. So here we are. Go and stop. I will. Oh wait. So everybody gets here now. Like I was prepared. I was so prepared. I started doing other things, but then I stopped. I forgot to print out what we're doing this week. His color scheme. And then I got too excited and gave my stream button a double tap. Started it and stopped it real quick. Yeah. Is it hot, babe? It's very hot. I feel like I'm already red. I feel very red. I feel like I'm always jacket right there. Anyway, how's the audio? How's the video? I did a lot of testing today. Kristie's there. She can hear us. Great. I think you're getting most everybody back. London Times. Who is that? That's Ashley. So she's here from Alabama. Thanks. I can't see you guys. You can't see me now. She's on Facebook. See if overhead works. Okay. Like I said, I tested everything thoroughly, got excited, double hit the button, but here's what we're doing. We're going to go overhead because then I forgot to print out. I forgot to print out what we're doing. I'm doing a... Jason, I read all your chats. I'm serious about the cruise. Oh, I'm serious about the cruise. We can figure out how to make this happen. I am very serious. I think it would be very cool. And um... Oh good. Tammy says she's on Facebook and can see Anne here. Oh great. Thanks, Tammy. I see Jason. Yeah. Oh here. You want your phone back? This is how he watches the comments. Yeah, that's how I watch the comments. It's really too small to read them. So I just... Helen said, see Jason, you prematurely hit the like button. Helen says, now I can hit the like button. Well, go back and like the other part. I mean... I read your comment, Helen. You were only going to hit the like button if we had audio and video issues. Yeah, we were there. Done. I just got too excited. All right. Over here. So both of these were requests and I refused to do them. He did. Both of them. Yeah. These have been on the table for a while for us. They haven't been on the table. I kept knocking them off the table. Yeah. I was like... The suggestions have been out there. So these two suggestions were like a glass of water. I just kept knocking them off the table until there were too many glasses of water. Yep. Yep. So it was requested back in October and then somebody else mentioned it. Then Scott, we saw where you were doing the who's in this house and then... Let's see. Where else? Oh, and then Kim messaged us. Another follower. Let's see if she's here today. And somebody at the craft show showed it to me. Yep. I just... Who's in this house? It's like the popular file for this year. Garrett did his own take on it. But who? He wouldn't do exactly the same one. Yeah. I see. Everybody was using like the same file and then I would feel bad if I did something similar. So I just tried to do it a little bit different. So here I go to overhead to show you. I just tried to do it a little bit different and I gave them all faces. See. You can tell me what you think of it. Everybody's got a face and I gave them all like little clothing piece. Each one has an article of clothing. Ish. Clothing-esque. And then the one that Kim's doing is Kim's design. She said, here I am. Is Kim's design. And this is when I just feel like a little creepy. A little creepy claws. That one was requested for a workshop. And Kim made the world's most interesting Santa.  Ice. Yeah. He's a cool Santa. Is he a cool Santa? There's some ho-ho-ho's in the center. Yeah. I feel like that Santa would say that. Look, he's making me paint it everything. Yeah. He painted that one. That Santa right there hangs out in the velvet rope section at clubs. It's bottle service. Yeah. That's that. That's that Santa. Yeah. Creeper. Sweet tea, half gallon just for you. Yeah. Can you guys see it? Do you guys know it's there? Did anyone see it? Because it's right there. Not sponsored. It's always there. Hell, Santa's looking good for hoes, LOL. That's right. Yeah.  All right. I guess we should get started. I'm getting started. I'm already starting. There's a lot of comments about them. Oh, shall I leave it? He needs a whiskey and a cigar. Yes, that's exactly what you say. Yeah. He looks like he needs to, he's got a little something on the rocks. I don't know. I feel like he just, he just smoked his whiskey with one of those little things. All right. What do you need? What were you saying?  I don't know. You really wanted one of them to have faces. I just wanted the, I just wanted the shadow, the outline. No, I feel it now. I mean, if you don't put your face, that's a lot of painting. If you don't really. Okay, continue. Sorry. If you don't put their faces in, then you're going to have to paint the back or behind them. Through that. Well, maybe I guess you could just leave it. If you do the whole back or white, you could leave their faces just plain old white. Plain old white. I'd take pictures. Oh, that reminds me. Did you do that of all of these? Yeah, I did. Were you gallivanting around town? I got a casket. We got a casket for lunch today. Saw some people there. The lady at the counter was the food counter. We were grabbing food on the way out. She was not being friendly and I was like, and just about the time I was about to get ugly. Somebody's like, hey, I was like, hey. Karma was like, hold up, hold up. Don't get too, don't get too happy. Yeah, don't get too happy. Yep. This is karma's favorite holiday right here. What's funny? I was just telling, I just gave the kids that lecture last night. I got home and the sink was full of dishes. The floors were a mess. There was like crumbs everywhere. And you know, we've been gone all weekend for the craft show. So I knew they had been home from school since four o'clock. This was eight. This was like eight o'clock. And I was like, okay, nobody found the time to do dishes this afternoon. And I was like, and then both of us, Garrett and I both started singing, you better watch out. You better not. Then we had our own lyrics. Yeah, because mom and dad live in this house too. He knows if you've been doing the dishes. He knows if you've been laying in the bed on your phone. Yep. Let's see what's happening out there. Here is the Grinch on your website to purchase. What Grinch? Which Grinch? This one? I don't know what you're talking about. What do you mean? Are you joking?  Yeah. Well, yes and no. No, I'm confused again. Give a vague kid. Oh yeah. I need to know what you guys think of that nutcracker. What do you think of this guy? Can you see him behind us? I'm blocking him. He's all up. He's all up. I'm wearing the hat. Hold up, let me do it. Hey, you look so official. I should put him between us. Yeah, I'll slide him over. He's so cool. I think he's giant size. I love him. He's awesome. We've already named him Timmy. Timmy? Yeah, Timmy. He doesn't look like a Timmy. Tanner. No, it was Tanner that named him Timmy. He's too burly to be Timmy. He looks like he's part of the user. He wanted him to be Charles. Jamie's the one who asked for the home alone. Remember on your little, we went through during our stand up on Monday requested files and your home alone was in that list, Jamie. It's on my list. It might stay there for this easy. Because your sign is on my list. Wait, wait.  Yeah, Garrett's getting a little stressed out with this long list of requests. It's like for every one I do, to pop up. Jenny, you need a poppy tool, Garrett. Oh, what? I don't know. A poppy tool. That sounds funny. I don't know what that is. Yeah. Tanya's first Test Cut Tuesday. Hi, Tanya. Oh, welcome to Test Cut Tuesday, Tanya. That's a lot of tees. Helen says this is addicting. We'll see you every week now. Uh, Tammy says the one Garrett's doing, what was she saying? Oh, is the Grinch on your website? Oh, the one you're doing? Yes, it's. Is it up there already? Yeah. Yep. It's on there. Sure thing. Are we going to do a Happy New Year's? You know, we talked about it. I actually did a design last year and Garrett was like, I don't think anybody wants a Happy New Year's, it's for a short period. Yeah, it's like a day. No, it's like the week after Christmas and then, you know, all of January. I think you could leave it up for at least a little while of January. I don't know. When do you stop saying Happy New Year's? Someone mentioned the Nutcracker file needs to be thrown on Patreon. Have we done that yet? Oh, have I done that yet? Let me put that on my notes. My bad. I am making a Glowport version, so if it's in a Glowport, that might be what I was waiting for. That is also on his list. My list. My list. Helen, a sauna, giant Nutcracker file, please. Yes, that's what's going on. Helen, I keep forgetting to put you in a sauna, seriously. They have blizzards in the pan handle. Would I miss something about the weather up there? Right now, they have blizzards in the pan handles? Oh my gosh. Wow. Tonya says she watches every week. She's just too late for the live. Tonya says she loves Timmy. Timmy, see what I did there. Oh, thank you, Diane. I appreciate it. Courtney actually cut my hair. She actually whacked it off without my knowledge. I was coming in for a trim and she whacked it short, but I like it. I love it. Scott Ward's first live. Welcome, Scott. Jenny said a poke tool. Like, why don't you know what that is? I thought it was something totally different. Oh, to get all your faces out is what you're saying. Yes. I have one on my desk. Would you like me to get it? Like a pointy one? I don't know what's done. Do you see how I left their eyebrows and stuff in? I'm all chatting and Garrett's over there. Getting his pizza though. Somebody said we might have to do a video on how to use a sauna. Nice. Tonya said thanks for the Christmas vacation file. She sold her light up version for 75. We did too. We brought, well, we brought the Shuddersville file to the sign to the craft show. We sold four of them all for 75 each. It's a good design. Thanks, Jamie. Finally got back on with the paint. I'm sorry, Lois. You missed it. We talked all about how we got, yes, he got too excited. We've got it all figured out. He did, she did the upgrade. He did an upgrade.  He worked on it to make sure everything was perfect for today. And then he hit live and somehow like hit it and hit it again. So he started the live and then ended the live all at the same time. So then he had to go back and reset up because you can't restart it again. You guys, do you just have to make a whole new one? Cindy says she's excited. All right. Anybody going to say anything to Garrett about the who's with two O's? No one's going to say anything yet. Why are you trying to call me out early? I did. We held it out. See, left like their eyebrows. Hold them up so they can see what you've got. Like if it's going to be easy to punch out all the little stuff. See, I left the frames of their faces, their eyebrows and stuff. All I have to do is put the nose and the mouth back in. Yeah. So I can just put the nose and the mouth back on or I can put these pieces back in. I don't know. I haven't decided yet. Can you hand me that black roller over there? I can start. Can I have the white? I can start. We'll start at the same time. Dual squirts. Oh, you're painting your letters first? No, you're right. I'm going to do my backer first. What am I thinking to do it? We say it every time in the workshops. Start with your backer. Let's do your backers first. Let's go ahead and hit your backer. Two coats. Do you have your backer? All right, now we're just drys. I can have the white paint. We've been doing a lot of workshops lately, can you tell? Yeah. I'm just going to do the spiel. You've got to spiel almost down. Honestly, pretty good. Just shallot spiel. I'm another white roller. Actually, I see it over there. I'll dry it out on the table. Get out of here. Shoot paint. Don't bother me. Is this white? Yes, I feel good. Thanks. All right, Helen, we'll go back and catch all your asanas. She said the Merry Christmas door topper file. Oh, yep. Man, don't spoil it, Helen. Everybody's seen it. You posted it on TikTok. Yeah, but I was going to give them that one and a secret one I was working on today. I was going to give it to the top tier patrons tonight. Tell them Merry Christmas. I hope you make my Batsumu off of this one. It's a super secret file. It's a good one. It's a good one. I'm not going to tell you what it is, because Kim just ruined Kim and Helen buying to sabotage my Christmas present to them. I don't even know. I don't even know what you're talking about. What the file is. What file we're talking about. Right. You just asked about giving them the Merry Christmas file. You're like, yeah, we'll put that up on Patreon. I was trying to ignore it, and then I was going to give them that one, another file today on Test Cut Tuesday. I was going to give them two extra test cuts for Test Cut Tuesdays. Merry Christmas. You were feeling generous. Yeah. Oops, I pulled the gear. I think I got too much paint on my back here. Mine has like the perfect amount of paint. This time it does. Yes, you're right. So they're doing a lot of backers during the workshop too. Yep, that's right. Call me the old backer pro. Any other bag for this thing? Thanks. Yeah, here it is very entertaining during the workshop. So you guys are nearby. Come visit us. We have fun. Yes, we do. We make it fun. And I make everybody say made it at the end. And then yesterday one of the ladies thought I said say naked. Say naked. Listen, two of them said naked. There you go. That's the later. That's the later workshop. Let's come back to that one. Show them a little tape trick. Take the pieces down. Kim does it.  You like that if you look over at the door, that is my husband. That's what you said, okay? Yesterday when you were doing your field, I was standing by the door when I did mine and you went over to start doing the paint demo and then you started into the about us section. If you look over by the door, that's my husband. And then if you look back, he's gone. What do you mean I was a magician? Now how you would introduce things and stuff. And if you'll notice there was nothing in the box. I was on the Jurassic Park ride. You're in like showman mode. Yes. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. Does anybody else get that way? Like when you know you're on, I suddenly become a tour guide. You become louder. I'm loud. Yes. I'm loud. Just a general loud. I'm the tour guide. Yes, totally.  In fact, when we would go on the tours, we had to be up front by the tour guide. No, that was you. That was you. Well, that's because I wanted to hang back in like the middle, but then there were slow people and then we would got lost. And then this guy from Boston, it's like five foot two with a heavy Boston accent starts yelling at our Italian tour guide. And he goes, Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy, the old people back here. Yeah. And the tour guide literally looked at him and was like, Are you some kind of cartoon? Our tour guide was so like rude, but like in a funny way. Well, like, he didn't care. Yeah, like he didn't care. Did not care. He had to yell at some teenagers. So he did it in German. He goes, I use German. That way it sounded like I meant business. I like being that close to the tour guide, though, because he would say stuff to us that he wouldn't say into the mic. You'd say the crazy things. All right, we'll color my colors. In offensive his hat.  What's in, uh, Patreon. So that's nice. That's Helen. Red. Red. That's not red. Not red. Patricia. Yes, we'll make those door toppers a kit. We have some ideas for those. I have so many ideas for the day. Yeah. You know how I do. It'll definitely we'll make that next week's test cut Tuesday. We only went with these because we had to felt like I had to get them out and this one's upcoming for a workshop. So yes, I'm going to get that. I'll complete it anyway and cut. Are you going to use red? I am. Yeah. I need a different cable because the video quality for the overhead camera isn't as good as the face camera. Becca says our nutcracker looks awesome. Thanks, Becca. We were just talking about how much we love it. Is it true or who? I like the look of the double O. I like the look of the double O. WHO. What to do? What to do? Thank you, Chris. Yeah, we also googled it. I like the double O. He did, he did the double O and then I was like, hmm, you spelled who's wrong. But they're who's. But I told him that after he showed me the cut file, it was already cut and everything. Yeah. And I was like, well, are you going to fix that? He's like not before the live. Yeah, this is at like 130. This one. What are you getting? I was just going to take the white one. What color are you going to use next? This red maybe since it's in here. Jenny says I love surprise presents. Yeah, see sabotage surprise presents. Yes. Helen was sharing with everyone that this private Facebook group for the top tier patrons we're all a family now and Tyra said she loves the private Facebook. Yep. I haven't, I've really been trying to stay on that because you guys are hilarious. But last week was crazy busy. It was our last big craft show. Yeah, probably for most people, I think anybody else is probably this week coming up the 10th. It's probably the really the last week of shows most likely. We have one, we just have a neighborhood thing we're going to do on Friday, but nothing over the weekend. I was trying to get into one over the weekend, but it's full. We can't get in. So our new focus is trying to get people to come to your workshops with us. One behind. Keep behind on comments. Oh, cute. Everybody's telling Darlene that she's going to join Patreon or did join Patreon. I'll join today. They're pure pressuring. Helen said that's my commission for Darlene. I mean, will you be willing to relocate? BJ, how do I get in the Facebook group? You, I'll see if you're new, is it in, is the link to it in the chat of Patreon? Yeah, you would have put the link up there. So BJ, yes, if you're, once you're a top tier patron member, you'll see the chat in there and you'll be able to access it from there. At least I think so. If not message me. Yeah, or Helen. She's the Helen's. That's Helen's. Becca says that's the plural. Who? Yeah, like, like moose. That's like meese. Oh, cute. Christine wants the door corners with cats and dogs. Jamie, no, not for the rest of this year. No more craft shows. I tried to go to one in Kerry Town, if you're familiar with Kerry Town. They have a holiday market coming up this weekend, but it was full when I asked them. And they told you to beat it. Oh, Jason says they have one this Saturday, 12 10. It's outdoor with a 90% chance of rain tonight. Oh, man. And Jason, where are you? You're like out west where it's already cold already. Sheesh. Space heater. That's all I'm saying. Space heater. And then always volunteer to go back to the trailer to get the signs. Right. Yeah, teaching you all the tricks. Yeah, there's pro tip. Pro tip. Be willing to go and hide out in the trailer. Yep. With the space heater. With the space heater. Yeah. That was our last, that was our January, February last year. And too bad you guys, we didn't have this going on then because those were some interesting stories. What does that mean? Those cold, those cold mornings, setting out, taking down. Oh, man. There's always something. Pinched my finger. Pinched my finger in the, in the cold. These things, both of these are dry. Man, that, that was painful. Oh, Jerry made it. What's up, Jerry? Oh, Jerry said they just did an outdoor show this weekend and it was in the single digits. No way.  Jay, that's my job is to make sure the trailer stays in the parking lot. I'm a security guard. That's right. That's right. Sometimes you'll have to. You've got to protect it from the inside. Sometimes, well, sometimes you'll have to drive around it. You have to get in your vehicle and let your vehicle really warm up and let those seats warm up and then maybe back the car up, pick up the other side of the trailer and then pull right back into the parking space. That's like a good 15 minute. Yeah. Yep. So you're 15 minutes right there. Just doing a check like that.  No. You can't leave them hanging like that. I mean, I guess I will. So we set up the show, what was that? Thursday night? Yes, Thursday night. We set up the show on Thursday night and it was Tanner and I. Tanner and I ran out because we came out to take Grace to Girls to Women's. It's like a new girl band and a Philly. It's none of those things anyway. Now it's them, ABC, BBD, the East Coast family. And no, that's not what I'm doing tonight anyway. Oh, anyway. So it was me and Tanner and we set up the whole booth and we're coming back with two MP carts so that we can bring more on Saturday morning or Friday morning, I guess. And I was like, ooh, let me go park the trailer and then we'll throw the carts in the back of the truck. So the trailer is not in the way. Instead of putting the carts in and then moving the trailer, he decides. I'm going to move the trailer and unhook it so that I have easy access to the back of the truck. Unimpeded, easy access back of the truck. So I leave the carts in a parking space, two parking spaces. Actually, at this point, it's only one parking space away. So here are the carts. Here's me in the car. I back the trailer up into another parking space. So at this point, there's a truck in between me and the carts, but only for a minute because Tanner and I jump out and we unhook the trailer real quick. I'm very proficient at it at this point. And then we pull forward and one of the carts is gone. That's magic trick. That was a magic trick. One of the carts was gone and it was the good cart. Tanner said, you know, you can't go home without that cart. That's Kim's favorite. That's Kim's favorite wagon. I'm like, ah, let's go find the cart. Let's go find the wagon. So we go back into the craft show and at this point, I didn't tell you this point. So I totally forgot about that until now. So we go into the craft show, back in the craft show, looking for the wagon. At about, I don't know, five minutes of looking for the wagon. I go, you realize I left the car running and the door open to go look for the wagon. And that's in the parking lot. Well, at least we'll find the wagon and the she'll be less mad about the car than she is the wagon. I was like, truth. At that point we split up, Tanner and I split up and I saw the wagon and I go over to the wagon and I see that it's my wagon. It's a very distinct wagon. And I see it and some guys got his stuff in there with his girl, his girlfriend, wife, I don't know, partner, business partner. I'm making a lot of assumptions. There was a female there and I was like, is this your cart? And he looks at me and he looks at the car and then he stares at me for like a really long time. Like at least three seconds he stares at me and he goes, you could have it. And I was like, yeah, I can have it. It's my wagon. And he goes, oh, I just found it in the parking lot.  It was like me and Tanner were standing there. Anyway, and then the girl comes over and she's like, I'm starting to wheel the wagon away and the female comes over. This is the only reason that I say female earlier. She comes over and she goes, I think y'all got my hair in the wagon. My hair in the wagon. Is that my hair? It's like, I think it's plastic bag here. Here's your hair. She kept saying it. Tanner goes, what was she doing looking for her hair in the wagon? That was like, she had already put her stuff in it. She had cleaned the wagon. It's her wagon. She's going to go ahead and put a wig in there. No worries. He's rescued the wagon. Uh-oh. You know what I realize? What? Yes. That line is going to pop now. Yes. It's going to pop now. Everyone, you got to welcome Darlene. She is now a patron, a Patreon member. Hey, Darlene. Welcome to Patreon. I mean, the best part of that, I think is the, well, one, all my SVGs. If I, if I like SVGs, I'd enjoy that. And then it's the Facebook group. I get a good Facebook group. Helen and like, Helen runs the joint.  And I get everybody is willing to answer questions. And like help with laser stuff, paint stuff. Yes. It's a wealth of information. Yes, there it is. My cup will run it over with all the info. I'm going to need the red baggie over there to put this in. Oh my goodness. The business phone is just blowing up. Oh, that looks like it. Yeah, I think pretty phone calls. Let's see the one I watch. I just paint all of these pieces. Miriam says hi. She's at the doctor. She's watching in mute. Oh, hey, Miriam. Miriam, you're missing all the fun. Hi, Miriam. I hope that came across the CC. And now I'll take your line here. Oh, it didn't really work. And did you ask me something? Um, let's stand with the legs. Oh, I don't remember now. Oh, do I just paint this black? Yeah. You have a black roller? Yeah. Where'd you pull that from? I like the magician. Told you. Here you go. And I'll take the green paint, please. I like your clients. Yeah. I see that you finish. Every time he finishes using something, it goes way over there on the other side. Put it away. Put it away. Oh, false. That is so false. I love to do it. As soon as I'm done with something, it gets put right away, right where it belongs. Every time. I don't care if it's my socks, my shoes, my Doritos bags. Oh, they're looking for Candace. She's not here today. Uh-oh. Maybe she's in as her alter ego. Miriam, just put in one earbud. Yeah. Oh, no. Jan, come on now. What? She said there's the audio going in and out for anyone else. Oh, come on now. I hope this is a cool prank you do for Jan. Jan, I hope this is a prank. Can you hear anything over there? No, I put it just in my ear. Oh, yeah. I can hear you saying it. Jan, it sounds like it's getting deep over here. I'm going to put my boots on. You and the puttin' everything away when you used it. Thank you everyone already knows. It's not that I actually put it away, but I do put it where I know where it is. That counts. Nope, he leaves it right where he's done using it. They're similar. Or he used it last. That's what he'll be looking for. And that's where I go back looking. Now I'm going to have to put three coats because I painted mine the wrong color. Oh, three coats. There was a hiccup a minute ago, but great otherwise. Oh, good. Jan says she'll go out and come back in. Oh, no. Spant the sensors for the best out. Oh, come on, man. Seriously. Jason put it on the sauna board. Just kidding. And he said, I'm going to need that illustrator course completed. Man, we were talking about it last night, Jason. And that's what I was thinking about. Yep. Well, you sure were. Don't expect it before Christmas. Probably not. But at least we'll have a little time now. Now that I just had no idea how consuming like doing the videos. Yeah. Fall season's been crazy with the laser. So they've taken some maintenance. And then, um, and then craft shows. And craft shows. Yeah. Just getting all the product together for the craft shows. Sugar pie. Any bunch. But, you know, I'm cursing the craft shows. But once I get to the craft shows, I like being there. I like hanging out. It's like, uh, it's like the mall. Yeah. He's so funny. He's so funny. He loves being there. And at first he wouldn't like leave the booth. But on Sunday, he wasn't there Friday and Saturday, but he was there Sunday and Sunday. He came back with a box of popcorn. He has some popcorn. He was gone like, how long were you gone? 45 minutes? He went around. Top tip. Had a bunch of friends. He was quite the social butterfly. I'm in like some dry waiting. You're dry waiting? What is that? I'm dry. I'm waiting for the backer to dry. Got the old dry weights. A couple other things too. Once this dries, I gotta put a second coat. You guys probably can't tell, but it's a little bit blotchy. I could do it. A second coat on my santae here. It's a bit, a little bit rocky now. A little bit blotchy. A little bit rocky now. This is a little, uh, hoopy. So I'll do a little sanding, but not with that grid of sandpaper. That was too much. See, he loves to see what goes wrong each week. He makes his day. I hate it. Yeah. Yeah. Let's you know we're only human, right? Audio visual problems go wrong this week. Stay tuned. I know. Who said it was almost a flawless show? We just keep it. Oh, Helen said, Steve, they're just keeping on brand. Yeah. Audio visual problems. Shannon. For our audio visual channel. Yeah. Here, do what we do. Do as we say enough we do. Take the plug.  I actually printed out instructions. I have never done this. I printed out instructions and then sat there with them. And he did. I was, yes, it's so true. And I was so surprised. Total old guy at the computer. Double checking all of the settings. Trying to make it right. Shannon says she cleaned her laser. And surprise, it cuts like butter now. Oh, yeah. Isn't that nice? Good cleaning. I mean, we were just talking about that today, too. The lasers need a good cleaning. Yeah, looking dirty. Yeah. I would not pick them up if they're a hitchhiking. That's how dirty they look. Yeah, Scott, I saw your post about taking a break. That's what you could do during your break.  The errors is a mess. Wanna know, Wags? You want us to do one? What's that? We can be talked about talking to doing one. Maybe we do like a clearance sale. That would be fun. In January, part of it is like a clean house sale. So you'd have like leftover fall and Christmas and miles from last year.  I don't know. You guys want me to do another, us to do another online sale. Should I make all their stuff like different colors? Their clothing pieces? Well, what are you replicating? Are you replicating? I don't know. Um, I would say no. No? We'll color them. All yellow? All red? All black? All black. Everything's black. Like her hair and stuff and everything. I'm going colors. I'm disregarding what you said.  I'm almost done. Look at me go. You haven't even chose to do colors yet. I just did and it's happening, Kim. It's happening right now. I don't know what feast this is. That's his pants. Oh, that's his. Red, black, green, blue. We need a good yellow. Let me use that yellow. What yellow? It is red. Where you got everything? Green? Yes. Let's get the lime colors. I think one of the strands has the lights in the other. This guy's purple pieces. What is that piece? Oh, that's a shirt. Oh, look at that marker. What color do I do when lights? Orange, I'll get the orange in there. Yeah, I'll say orange. I'll do red. Yeah, red, green, blue, orange. Helen says easy coloring, Gary. Easy coloring. Easy coloring, Garrett. Easy coloring. Once we see it nice, you ruin it for the rest of us. We were delirious at the end of that weekend when we'd our online sale. That was so funny. Yeah, we were in it. We went on. We were in there two hours stint. It's like QVC. I think I can do it now. That was my tryouts. I'm surprised they haven't contacted us. That's what you kept saying there? Yeah. Which color for the face? You want to go overhand? Oh, you are overhand. Can you zoom that in?  I got all their little faces. I think I'm going to put them back in. We think about that color. Is that their face color? Yeah, but they're a food. Here's what you said. Well, whose faces aren't orange? This isn't orange. I see what it is. I've seen. This is the color of the hood. They're like muppets. Those are muppets. I guess they're woops. Wow, this is starting to look weird.  Those are missing pieces. It puts the lotion on its skin. Oops, I'm making a mess of that. I don't have a good yellow for my poskets. Lost it or something. I was using this yellow. Yeah, can I use your little sponge? She's cheerful. Awesome. Perfect. These markers don't match. Helen, it's on it. She's out there looking at cruises. Yeah. For 2024. Well, Blake, where would we leave from? Right here. How about this one? Depart Florida to Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and then back to Florida. Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. Send us the deets. That's industry speak for details.  Yes, Helen. I mean, not Helen. Lois, yes, Lois. You were there every day. What a super trooper. Yeah, it's not the right blue. Let's try this blue. This blue is too dark. It was a good time. Some good time, some bad time. Most of the good times. Most of the good times. Let's go ahead and say, do you have any bad times? I never have a bad time, except when it's cold. Oh, hey, after I color them, maybe I don't even have to put the black pieces back in. I just put their faces back in. Theresa, no, we don't seal it seal on when we use the markers. No. We just go right in. I was looking to see if there's acrylic or anything on it. We did the birdhouse with the markers and they look okay. Oh, true. That's true. Those are in the parking lot right now. They've been out in the parking lots. Oh, I need to read it one more time. The Goma pieces are painted. Wow, really? Yeah. Where are you at, Cam? I'm all painted too. I'm ready to assemble. Garrett. Can I see the truth on camera? You can have this. That's red. You can have this. That's green. And I want to do this. Thank you. And this. Don't get me. Oh, no. Oh, no, it'll go in my pants. You guys say to yourself, why don't you paint with apron? Dirty red pants. We do one more coat on my backer. I can give a new one here. 458. Oh, yeah. We got something to do tonight. Rock and roll. We got moist men. Yes. Tonight is great to men. ABC, BBD. I'm not sure anyone caught your jet fairly in. Well, they're part of the East Coast family. And then we get... They never miss a beat. You'll make. Check this one out. We did the whole thing earlier. Where are you at now? I don't remember all the lines. There we go. All right. I need a second coat. I think we're good. I think you're good. All right. Helen said I could tell what the song bomb on TikTok will be tonight. You know he's going to keep singing in, Helen. What's going on with you talking about? I don't know what you're... You mean what? Do you have the baggie for this one? Cool fish. Oh, I do have it. Thank you. I'm going to start at the top today and work my way down. This is Starbond Thick. This is our Frank Redhot. We've done everything. What does that mean? Did you spike the glue? No. There's like no stopper. Is that what you're saying? No. Like the two bottles I picked up earlier were empty. Oh yeah. No, there's no stopper. We filled them for the workshop. You know, you think gluing gets easier because of how many times you do it. But yesterday when I was trying to glue one of the signs for the one lady, she was like all up in it now. So nervous. I was going to leave like the score marks that I left the score marks. She wasn't watching. She goes up. Eagle eye in you. Yeah, she was eagle eye in me. She goes, oh, you left the marks right there. It's like, ah, you won't even see that. She's like forever. I will see that. Well, I ended up glittering. All the way dry yet. I'm going to the second or two. I can chat for a minute. Chat them up, Cam. Oh no, I just broke my E. I'm going to do a fundraiser for the cruise. Well, I'm sure if we just all figure it out and then like contact them. She didn't say industry lingo. So I'm like my 20 year old kid. You might have a lot of the same things. About the same. Making sure I got it right. Yeah, Jerry says I want to go see B2M. They are a fame of mine. Who's B2M? Bob, did we get our DTF printer working again? No, but we're ready to work on it. Now we've got some time. Time on my list. Yeah. I'll do it. I'll go in there and do it, but I think we want to do it together. We want to film it. Yeah, because it might happen to somebody else. Somebody else might try to use a liquid cleaner. Will the printer still on? Lois, I did do the second nutcracker, but you would laugh. His face is too long. I could get him. Go get him. So you guys can laugh at him. The other ones. Timmer. What do you say, Jason? That's my good question too. Jason wants to know what's the plan moving forward? When are we done with Christmas file? I'm saying next week is last week. I got to get those few things out, but we also were talking that we were done with it. We were talking about our videos too. Are we done with Christmas videos? Should I move on to... Well, the ladies yesterday, we were talking spring stuff. They want to come back and make spring stuff. When are you guys going to start spring stuff? I was like, probably another week or two. She's like, I'm coming back for spring stuff. That's what she keeps saying. Well, that's a lot of spring stuff. I wasn't planning to do spring stuff quite that soon, but maybe. Maybe we can just have Bruce Springsteen come in and play while everybody's doing the thing. So, I think it makes sense, right? We should contact him.  Well, it's really what I was thinking. Every time she said spring stuff, it really sounded like spring to me. See you, Sandra. Bye, Kim and Garrett. I'm not so concentrating at work. See you Friday. Bye, go concentrate at work. Keep your jet up. Helen has a pro tip. Would you like to hear Helen's pro tip? That's talking. More putting together? No. She said, pro tip, if you get glue showing, even after cleaning up with the makeup sponge, if you spray it with glitter, it's magic. Glitter is the Parmesan cheese of the crafter. Yeah, totally agree. I put it on everything. Yeah, us too. I'm glittering everything. Shannon says, we have Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day. I know. I know. That's what I was saying. That's what I was thinking we would do for January, is some Valentine's Day ones. Throw in the St. Patrick's Day. Go ahead and get those going. Some all seasons, you know. Some generic welcomes. Garrett's working on another leopard print one. Actually, I did it already, didn't I? The leopard print with the banner across the middle. Just a simple leopard print. That's a good one for all season. It's the bow that really makes that one. Yeah, you could tell it's glue time. Yep. I was just going to say, you can see it's glue time. Garrett, stop talking. I've stopped talking. I got a little messy with this white roller. Face to face, face to face. Santa had a mess. Maybe next week we do a Christmas and a New Year's, then move on. That's a good one, Tyra. That's a good one. Go down with that. Throw that New Year's in there. This guy in the end. Tell me this guy in the end right there. It doesn't look like who's that famous physicist. Hold on. What's his name? I'm blanking because I'm trying to do that. Ooh, we should have trivia. Whoa, we're gluing. We should have paint night trivia.  Our workshops. No, the physicist. Are you talking about the... Oh, I can't think of his name either. Coming to me. It's a famous picture of him with his tongue out. He worked in... He married his cousin. Worked in a patent office. Thought about the whole concept of time while sitting on the back of a bus, going back and forth to work. Oh, not sure who you're talking about. E equals mc squared. I also am gluing and not thinking. Are you talking about Einstein? Thank you. Shish. Can't believe us based on his name. Yeah, what were you saying you were trying to call it? We can... Because all I could hear was Eisenhower in my head and I was like, why am I trying to say that? No, I think it was Einstein. I think I was still on Springsteen. And then I first thought you were talking about Neil deGrasse Tyson and then I was like, oh no, no, no, whatever you're saying now doesn't match with that. But tell me that dude at the end doesn't look like... Einstein. Oh, no. Tell me it's Einstein. Yes, thanks, Jan. See, Einstein. Got it.  What do you know what about? 18 and sexy showed up. Oh, no. What is it about our lives dreams? I don't know. Why? Must have a lot of followers that click on their links. Oh, it's not us. 30 birds. Come back for Kim and Garrett after dark. We aren't even doing those signs right now. Jason's in there. Let them know we're using our star bond thick. Blue. Good stuff. Yep. Can you guys see? Let's see. Hold on. I'm going to get together here. There you go. This is the best glue to glue these signs with that we have found. That we have found. Yep. Yes. We do stock it in our store kngmega.com.  Pick you up some. Add it to your order if you order an unfinished kit. Where we've got some new an order on its way. And I might have even gotten, I think I got the bigger size like the 32 ounce size, a real big size because we've been going through so much lately and having to fill up the little bottles for the workshops. We need the little bottles for workshops. Put some glue in his pelvis. Can you guys see? Oh, Garrett's is coming together. I can see it up there. I think I'm going to put the faces back there. I don't know. I'll hold them up when you tell me. Whoops.  Face. Yeah, it doesn't look right without it. Face. And maybe I don't put the other pieces back in. I just put the faces back in. I hear you. Yeah. I don't think you need his eyes, nose, and mouth. They're already looking dark. Figure on the end is not dry. Now I got to remember whose face is whose.  I'm going to put it over here because you guys can see him. How cool is my Santa? He's a cool Santa. The world's most interesting Santa. Yes. I guess I'll just start with the same color. I don't want to even out. Yeah. I think the face is even more. So I feel like I might have lost the color. Are you guys still with us? We're so quiet right now. What's up? Best glue. I'm going with Garrett. I like the multicolored clues. Yeah. Well, thank you. He loves to hear that. He likes to hear he was right. Right. I'm going to say it again. We took him missing the top of homeboy's head. Now, I'm pretty sure I saw it earlier. I don't know what I did with it. That looks like a Cyclops. You're going to move his eye. He does look like a Cyclops. He's just got one eye. Ah, stop looking at me. Stop looking at me, Swan. Do you guys find that your funny signs grab the attention of folks and bring them in the booth? Because that's what we have found. I love to keep some snarky ones and funny ones. It grabs their attention and then they come back. That's part of the RV one. That's what it does. It grabs their attention and brings them back. Oh, I do not want to talk about that. What? I think there's some and in this house should be white. Do you think that should be white, you guys? Too late now. Too late now. Maybe it's just at the angle I'm holding it for these guys. There's some ho ho. No, I like it in black because there's a lot of white going on with that. With the Santa face. Tonya said this might be her next sign. That Santa looks like he would have a black Santa suit, not a red one. Kat, your time was probably better spent cleaning up your workshop than watching us. Thank you. Gave them faces. All right, what do you guys think? There we go. You got to get a little closer. Can you zoom in? Yeah, I'm going to zoom in. Oh, there you go. All right, what do you guys think? Yeah, all of that.  It's not very clear. Yeah, his, the dad has a purple tie on. It's a little dark. Oh, you can't see that. The overhead's not on. There you go. There you go. You can kind of see the whole family now. And the Cyclops on the end over here. Yeah, the Cyclops. Okay, that's the one that looked, he used to look like Einstein. Now it looks like the Cyclops. This one over here in the yellow, she looks like teenage pebbles from Pebbles and Bam Bam. Kim said three of these are pets. I disagree. I think this couple has six kids. I don't see any pets there. They all look like who's. No, they're all kids. I think you're right. Yeah. Needs a dog out into the family. See, nobody, they weren't pets because somebody said needed to add a pet. Yeah, see, we need to add a pet and separate this guy's eyes. They're a little close together. He is really scary looking. He, he's taking very, Hold it up so they can see Cyclops' eyes. Poor little guy. We got, we got a fixer. Look, his other role. He, I mean, he was a who? He was a who in the movie Who Built, but then his other role, he'd be surprised how old he is because he was in the 1973 classic Deliverance. He played the banjo on a porch. Yes, Kat. I do think you can get in trouble using these kinds of files. Yes. Garrett is very, it's part of the reason why he refused to do this. I don't like doing these, but there are a lot of requests. So. They kind of match for their colors. We did the both one green. That's cool. Little peer pressure goes a long way. Colored clothes are great. Tommy is learning her laser. She's learning her laser while watching us. So. Oh, well, that's cool. That's a good place to be. All right. At 5.17, I think we're gonna have to wrap it up. You got to go. I got to go. You got to go. And we will see you on Friday. Oh, well, we have a surprise. Surprise. We have a surprise new tool. New tool. So we're about out of time. We will see you on Friday, where we'll do a building and make it. And next Tuesday, where we'll do some more test cuts. I don't know why I'm looking up.


We are starting the framing process Donnie has me building headers and corners this particular corner is a double on studs with cripples in between I Think he wants to snap a line with his TV We just use some blocks to pad that out so that way on the interior We'll have a nailer and it strengthens up the corners We are framing with hand drive 20 penny and 16 penny nails I'm using a 28 ounce S-wing hammer Donnie is doing the layout for the framing and Steve he's going to come behind him and frame the walls Donnie and Stevie are going to snap a line with the chalk line to ensure that our wall is straight Our deck might have a little bow or a little crook in it But snapping a line with the chalk line make sure that the wall comes out straight We are framing with rough cut hemlock that we milled ourselves this summer Spring and fall Some of it still had a heartbeat a couple weeks ago After sawing a tree sometimes the lumber can twist or turn or go back to its natural bend So you'll see us toenail from time to time and a toenail has a tremendous amount of strength to bring a stud Straight again How bad You put three in each that Donnie what's that you do three in each one of these are just on the three Well, yeah, I do three in each of the singles Okay, if it does like set a head deep Deeper better Go through a fault to it Look, I got a window right here. That's why we did full stud and full stud right and I left the other ones Oh, okay. Yeah, that that's fine Looks like I might have I might need to put one here Or is this the window that might be the jack So maybe one right here I gotta put one more here So these axes get a regular These two are off just a little bit just so you know There's there's something under it. Ah, it's all right, or yeah, I think it's flat right here. Yeah, it's just I Think that's just my pole cut Yeah, is that any better? Yeah, that's close enough. Yes. Yeah water pouring out as the nail goes in That's kind of a small window. That'll be nice in the kitchen That's the one we can best when I can find here's what it is. Yeah, it was a 32 There was a 24 no one's sneaking out of it Got you a header if you want it in the wall tip for some reason but I do need you to make up a wall stud To good studs Like this with a stud One side To catch the wall. Yeah, so two with one and he can just have this. Yeah. Yeah, as is. Yeah, you need a you need a double triple Right. Yeah, I need it Need it. This will be one on top. Now be right in between. Oh There's a pocket a pocket, okay Okay Pocket. Yeah, I'll need two of those one for that wall one for this wall. Okay There's your pocket Stevie. Are all done Stevie? Yeah, I'm all done. Want to stand her out? No, will you put that header in Stevie? Header going in. Yeah, which way you want it Donny the two by four down or up down, right? Point it down. So go right to the top. Yeah, and then you can nail down through that top two before into the head of this way Oh, it goes right to the to the header. Yeah, sweet right out. Nice That's never going anywhere. I might not be going in here Get the grinder What do you need a sledge? I don't know. Should just go with a regular hammer. I got a hammer right here Pieces don't hurt your leg. Yeah, just get her going the right direction. Probably shrink and fall out Quite flush to this, is that all right? Yeah, I sandwiched them together. Does that They should have been four inches, but yeah, I mean stand on the plate first and see if it flushes them No, I guess I guess it's fine I can try and hold that up from the ball. No, no, that's fine as long as it's not Going the other way that that same amount, but since you stood on the plate And it didn't go up or down. You should be good. Yeah, it'll be flush on the other side But you got one where we got to go out a quarter, right? I think so yeah in the middle What happened nothing I just wasn't sure if I needed to nail that So I hit her you mean Where they meet right here at this joint No, I didn't nail this one to the top yet. Okay, you can nail this half of it this side. Yeah Half and half, okay, just in case we Stevie. Yeah, can you nail that header down through the top plate with nails? Yeah, I did. Oh, okay. Yeah So is that all one piece now that wall? No Where's the break? They meet here, and then we left These next three off because they meet there on the bottom Well, I'm standing up a wall you can do the whole thing at once or you can electro do it pieces like we did dimensional lumber and Fairly green lumber is a lot heavier than the kiln drive stuff. So it'd be a heavy wall to do it all at once with two guys under 50 and one over 80 The first thing you want to do after standing up the wall is to get the bottom plate on your chalk line Straight you can nail that down if you want first Making sure that the corner is where it needs to be lengthwise The next thing that you want to do is brace it And you could plum it at the same time and get a good level and plumb While you get your brace on Putting the brace on the outside of the gable end On the rim joist is a good spot to put it because it'll be out of the way when you raise your gable end wall And it'll also act as a catch So you won't go too far with your gable end wall when you raise that one I'd go higher if you want You're only gonna hit the rim joist Right unless you can hit one of the you're right. Yeah, you liked it. You liked it right here, don't you see it?  I guess so right here's okay Was this all right How far down did we get This is gonna come in. Do you want me to throw it through us then? It'll be easier to take a path Let's see, go on How's the top? There's a sledge up here somewhere Donny You want this knee? I guess if they're tight here we're good, right? Level right here Donny. You want to push it up at the level Rack it towards you Stevie to your right There we go You want me to nail the plate down? How good am I? How far down am I good? Probably good there. It's right here. It's hanging out. Yeah, can you hit it here? It's still good right here Yeah, let's do this outline brace first or no. Yeah Yeah Yeah Drop me a nail through Donny. I got my hammer Donny's gonna get the level.  We swagger down my hammer now Let me get one started. Yeah, so Donny's gonna go in or out with it It didn't jack that did it? No, I mean yeah, it didn't it didn't jack it right because I had a little discrepancy right here I had to tell I don't it might have jacked it a little Joey All right, I take that one out. I'll grind it down just to hear more. You're pretty close to where you want to be Yeah, quite a bit of this ladder. Yeah, if you want to get on top and do that You can still go top down All three first if you want It might be easier that way. Yeah, can't look it up because the sun is right there And the saw does You good? Yeah, this one's just free-floating. It's all right. It's all right. Yeah, yeah, the two plates The work That's right here. Yeah, that ladder will go up if you want it to. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, pick up some headers Yeah, what do you know how big I need two by eight just like made just like that one. Yeah, I Need one that's 43 inches long One that's 8 feet Yeah, we also need one more 35 inches 35 yeah, okay Hey, I gave you one that's 43 43 8 foot 35. Yeah Good Donnie is doing a layout for the south facing wall He has the top and the bottom plate next to each other Describing a line across and then putting the X on the side where he wants the two-by-four These two plates will be separated the length width of a two-by-four and all the two-by-fours studs will be installed in between them The bottom plate will stay a single and the top plate will get another plate for added strength And we'll give us another two inches of height Making carpenter This is the door I'll just won't drive it all the way I guess Higher higher Okay, yep, never moved Almost got you that would have been real bad. It would have been better if I'd have done it to myself. Yep right there Dead nuts she go. Yep This is my favorite level It's always always on It's ready. Yep. You ready Stevie ready one two three What's that on it Keep going about it. Get one more just for fun That's the header that's the header right yeah, that's for that door so when he Well, he does that header he could pull that in yeah, okay I'll hold the header off you know hit that top with a hammer Tony you have that sledge hammer I'll get it now that didn't come together for us Even with the jack It does need to come but See how the jacks touching both studs. Yeah, I think I gotta get something. I gotta get over here and hit it Oh, right. I guess it shows it's off on both commas. Well, no, there's just a gap in between on the plates And there's a little bit of room up top there That came in yeah after you get that they brought it in quite a bit can't be over 28 foot I got half of mine and take a measurement But we should be a quarter Long right If you've got a quarter inch there. Yeah, let's stop game Let me try where your left hand is if I can get a swing in there How much is it these three nails out? So Because then we'll just Cat's bow or saws old ony. What's better? Three nails Diagonal Donnie, what do you think of a diagonal? It should be right on if we're leveled both ways plumb both ways, right? So just hook this on the outside corner Oh Yeah, 16th long that's ridiculous Right on the money for the couple farmers bunch of chicken farmers Does that get a double or under the window or just straight I just gonna do one So I can cut those jacks. We're gonna need a jack here jack here one there. Steve and I could put those in yeah Support it yeah, all right, so I'll cut two eight footers and Donnie it gets one on the inside just like you did there All right, yeah, whatever that open it is Yeah, I don't know where oh Steve he's got your sheet need it. Yeah For Donnie actually can you give it to Donnie? Yeah, he'll tell me what I would need to cut Wait are you still good? Yeah push it in Do that and pull it through Oh right now well tomorrow the gable ends will tie the other way Tie the outside, but the inside is Going across will tie the back end, but we need those beans. We'll still have a 20-20 box 20 by 20 box. Yeah well So you'll cut them right now We'll find them. I'm not going to help it.  Yeah From the eight foot to the outside walls. Yeah, sweet. That'll lock them in, right? Yeah, that's that lock the back end That'll lock that in nice Yeah, it's looking great we got a lot done today Could get some firewood Could build that back wall They could lock it to five more I could do that pile We could do a lot I could build two more headers I'll stay away I am getting tired Does that ever smells good or what? Yeah, she's smucking Oh, you went and got some good wood? No, I haven't been down there There's some friggin nice in here How much longer we gotta wait for dinner? Ready when we fill it up That's like my favorite question Two T-bones and two rib-eyes You can take whichever ones you want I'll take all of them I could still do it, baby Next year we'll line this camp with fur That's what I think, Matt We're gonna repurpose the old camp We're just making a skin and shack Oh, that'd be nice Because we could put a little wood stove in there So you can go skin and you know You know, I'm not out in the cold Or let the carcasses off That'd be nice You know, if you had a skin and day Want to do it, honey?  Thanks for tuning in Really, really appreciate all the support And I'm also super excited To see what we can get done tomorrow


Hello and welcome on our STM32Cube IDE basics training session. In this part I would like to demonstrate to you some basic components concerning project management over in the workspace, how the projects are organized, how to switch between them, how to switch to different workspace, what are the key features and which can help you on day by day development. So the objectives. We will demonstrate how to manage the projects within STM32Cube IDE or explore some project settings, basic ones, where to find the most important ones. I would like to demonstrate to you how to share the project with others using import-export features, how to switch to another workspace and how to restore some default settings by resetting the perspective. So let's start from the beginning. Projects. Within STM32Cube IDE, as it is an Eclipse-based environment, we are working on a workspace, which can contain one or more projects. Within the workspace we can perform some basic operation on the project, so we can switch between them, we can make them active or disactive, we can close project, we can delete the project, we can delete the project as well from the file system. So all of those features are available. Let's start with the basic concept, project opening, project closing. As I told you before, only one project can be active at the moment, but many of the projects can be opened. There is a big risk that if you have opened more than one project and from each project you've got opened some files, it can be difficult to manage it. It may happen that you will edit some files from the project, which is not currently active. It can create some mess. This is why there is a good feature within Eclipse, and it is available as well within STM32Cube IDE, which is closing and opening the projects. The feature which allows you to close and open the project. On the left part of the screen you can see the example of the workspace, which contains seven projects. One of those is open. This G0 LED is open. To close this project it is enough to click on its name, then click right button on mouse and select close project. In this case you will see the situation like on the middle of the screen, that all projects are closed. To open the project it is enough to double click on the name of the project, and then it becomes open and at the same time active. What is good is that once you click and close the project, all open files which are related to this project are closed automatically. Here you can see it on the screen, that we've got main.c and IOC file related to G0 LED opened. Once you select the close of this project, those files are closed as well. Here is a more difficult example, when we've got three main.c files opened in this project. Open in the same time from different projects, and we've got seven open projects at the same time. Of course only one is active, but sometimes it's quite difficult to check which one, or which main.c file is for which project. Just to make an order of it, we are selecting one project, just clicking on its name. Then we are pressing the right button on mouse, and we are selecting close unrelated projects. All other projects which are not this G0 underscore LED are closed automatically, together with all files related to those projects. Only one main.c remains related to this G0 underscore LED, and we can continue the development. To switch between the project is quite easy. With Eclipse and STM32QPID, it is just enough to click with the left button on mouse on the project we would like to make active, and there will be automatic switch from one project to the other. How to check the properties of the project? It is enough to highlight its name. So we click on its name, then we click on the right button on mouse, and select from the bottom of the many properties. In this case a new window would pop up, with title properties for and name of the project, in our case G0 underscore LED. And within this window we've got all the settings available for the project. Within CC++ build we can select, for example, configure the parallel build of the application. So in case you've got a stronger PC, a stronger multicore CPU, you can select the enabled parallel build, and for example use optimal jobs, which are optimal for your application. Then within CC++ build settings, you've got all important settings concerning the tools, which we are using to generate the code. Starting from the MCU settings, you can select the floating point unit, which is used instruction set, which is used runtime library, which is very important, because it allows you to reduce the code, which would be used by your application. If you're not using all the features from the standard libraries, you can select, for example, nano library, which is much smaller, and will not increase the code of your project drastically. So this is the MCU settings. Then from the next option, MCU post build outputs, you can select what kind of output files you would like to have as a result of the build of the project. So you can generate binaries, hexadecimal, hex files, or Motorola S files. So those are the options. So you can as well display information about the size of generated code, and you can select or unselect the generation of the list file. Within tool settings, you can configure as well Assembler, C Compiler, and Linker, which is used to build your application. So this is the place when you can specify the optimization level. You can specify some additional definitions which are used within the preprocessor. You can specify some additional input paths, or some other components which are used by the compiler, or linker, or assembler. If you would like to share the project with others, or just start the project in some external repository, we can do it using export option, which is as well the feature of the Eclipse environment. To do this, we need to go within the workspace to file export. As a result, we will see an export window. From this, we need to select from general section either RHA file, if you would like to store our project in a compressed form, zip, or tar, or file system, if you would like to store the project in some folder. I will demonstrate the feature with RHA file of zip, so general RHA file. Then window will change, and it will display or available, I mean, open projects with an active workspace. In our case, we've got seven of them. We can select which projects we would like to export into the file. And then we need to specify the RHA file. This is this window below. We need to press browse and select the RHA file name. Then we need to specify what would be the format. It can be zip, it can be tar. I would use zip file, and then once you do all those operations, you need to press finish. Having this zip file, you can share it with other team members from your team, and it would be possible to import it from different workspace. To import the file within the workspace, you need to go to file import option. And from general, you can select what would you like to import. Within stm32cube IDE, you have an option to import an RHA file existing projects into workspace, so the cube IDE projects, file system import, AC6 system workbench for stm32 projects or Atolyctr studio project. In our case, we will try to import the same file. We have just exported. So we will select general existing project into workspace. Then we need to select either root directory if the project is stored as a file folder, not a zip, or if it's stored in an RHA file, we need to select this RHA file and browse it. I can select interesting projects for me and then press the finish button. As a result, all of the projects are popping up in my active workspace. Another thing which is quite convenient within stm32cube IDE, it's coming from Eclipse, it's switching the workspaces. We can imagine the situation that we are working on several projects or several workspaces, and to switch between them, it's quite easy. It's just enough to go to file and switch workspace. And as a result, you can see the list of recently used workspaces and the option other, which allows you to select a different location of the workspace, which is already existing. Another important point once you're working with stm32cube IDE is perspective management. The perspective is a set of windows which are used in the current step of the development. We can have three main perspectives within stm32cube IDE. The first one is device configuration, which is very similar. In fact, it's based on stm32cubeMix device configurator. The second one is CC++ perspective, which is used to code development, it's compilation, it's build. And the third one is a debug configuration, which is used for the debug purposes. It might happen that once you're working on the configuration and we're working on a perspective, you close too many windows, change the configuration in such a way that not everything is visible. It is easy to restore the default perspective view from the application by using window perspective, reset perspective option, which would restore the perspective view to its default configuration. In this part, I would like to demonstrate this management within stm32cube IDE. The first thing I would like to demonstrate is how we can manage projects within stm32cube IDE workspace. Then we'll explore a bit project settings and demonstrate how to share the projects with others using import-export features and some additional points, some additional features, which would be useful during your project development. Let's switch to the workspace. I would use, for this demonstration, purposes one of the existing workspace. It contains all of the hands-ons, which are prepared for this cube IDE basic sessions. You can find them in the training materials in the zip file as well. You can duplicate them. Here in the workspace, you can see several projects, all of them are closed at the moment. To open the project, it is just enough to double-click on it. Just double-click on this G0 underscore XTI. This project became opened and active. Active means that if I would press on it, I would press on the hammer. Only this project would be built. The important point is that active open project can be exported later on. All closed projects are not handled within export operation, which we'll discuss a bit later on. To close the project, we need to click the right button on mouse and select close project. The important point is that when you close the project, you are closing all the files related to this project. I will demonstrate now this feature. Just opening a few files, a few projects, I opened three main.c files from different projects. It could create some problems during our development. What we can do here, we can use this close project feature. Let's assume the situation that we would like to continue development on G0 underscore PWM project. What I can do, I can just click right button on mouse and select close unrelated projects. Please have a look what it will be done. All the other projects have been closed and all the files related to those projects are closed as well. Main.c file from G0 underscore PWM file is opened and can be edited. To delete the project, we just need to click on the project and press delete. It will be deleted from the workspace. But to delete the project, we just need to either click on right button on mouse or just select the project and press delete button. If we just click OK, the project will be deleted from the workspace without... and it will be not deleted from the file system. We can as well select this delete project content on disk and then the project would be deleted physically from the disk. We'll skip this process. And now we will focus for a while on the project properties. If we select the active project, in our case it will be G0 PWM, I press the right button on mouse and select the last option, last position from the menu, it is properties. A new window will be displayed on the screen. It's title is properties for and name of the project, in our case G0 underscore PWM. Within this window, we can perform some configuration of the project, starting from selection how the build process should be done. If we are using multi-core PC, we can select enable parallel build and select the number of the jobs which can be done, build process in parallel. In my case it will be four jobs in parallel during the build process. This is the first point. Then within the settings, next option I would like to discuss is settings within the CC++ build here. In tool settings we've got a complete set of the parameters used by the assembler, compiler, linker, but as well you can find here some settings about the MCU post build options which can be useful for your development. Within the MCU settings you can select the floating point unit which is used in your application, you can select the instruction set or runtime library. The sliced option is very important point because you can select the reduced C library or standard C library. The difference is that in the reduced C libraries you have reduced functionality rather than the number of the functions or simplified functions but the size of the standard library is much smaller, so the application in the final build will be smaller. This is the first important point. The second option MCU post build outputs allows you to select what kind of output files you will have after build of your application. You can have a binary file, Intel Hex file, Motorola S-record file or Veriroc file so you can select it. You can select more than one. You can select as well display information about the size of the build project it is done by default and you can select an unselect generation of the laced file. Then you have three main big sections concerning assembler, C compiler and linker. Within those sections you can set some additional settings for those components. Most important ones are within the C compiler so for example you can select the optimization level which is by default none, so 0. You can modify the input paths you can add something new. You can add some defined symbols you can specify the debug level from none to maximum of the number of the information which would be generated during the debug session available during the debug session. Those are the main settings which are available for the project. Of course there are much more than this but for the complete set you can refer to the manual for this tool. Next point I would like to discuss in this section is about the comfort of work within this environment. What we can see right now on the screen is so-called CC++ perspective it is slightly modified by myself. I already closed some windows I can close more and it may happen that during your development you click too much you closed too much windows and you don't know how to come back to the default state. For this you can go to window perspective reset perspective Yes and now as a result current perspective will come back to its default settings. Another thing I would like to demonstrate to you is how to export and import projects within the workspace. In our current workspace we've got two open projects the rest are closed. So let's select the export option so I will go file export I can select either RHA file or file system or preferences file system will store the project within the separate folder of the folder structure which is present in the project. I would select the RHA file which allows me to store everything in one single file either zipped or tar format. I press next. As you can see only open projects are available to be exported. I can select which of those I would like to export to the RHA file it can be in zip format it can be in tar format. I would select zip I would put it on the desktop and now if I would go to the desktop I can see one zip file with those two projects. It is possible as well to export particular projects from the workspace I just click on the project to make it active then I click right button right mouse and select export and again RHA file next by default there is only one selection of the file which I clicked on and I can continue of exporting it to the separate file let's call it like this and finish. Let's try to make an opposite operation switch to different workspace to new one so I would go to file switch workspace and I would call it cube IDE 5 it takes some time the cube IDE is restarting ok it's restarting with a new workspace cube IDE 5 which we can see here on top we'll close this information center or I can click import project as I exported all the projects with the zip file I would use as an import source RHA I will go to desktop and I would select the first file MOOC1 remember there were in fact two projects I can click finish and I can see both projects on the screen previously exported projects bit differently let me delete those two projects from this workspace so I would delete it one by one ok and now I would select from the file open projects from the file system again I would select RHA and select MOOC1 yes the effect is exactly the same thank you for watching this video


We're back, we're live, we're here with Midnight in Brussels, actually a special edition of Midnight in Brussels. Gauri Kondekar, our correspondent in Brussels, joins us. It's what is at 11 o'clock at night on a given Monday. She is with Global Relations Forum, that's her think tank in Brussels. Welcome again back to the show, Gauri. Thanks so much, G. It's always a pleasure. It's great to have you on the show. Keep us current. Teach us about Europe. We need to know more about Europe. Hawaii is so far away and it's out of sight, out of mind, but we need to know about it. So there are, what are we calling this show, the news in Europe, one headline after another. Been pretty active lately, eh? Yes, for all the wrong reasons actually, but yes, I have to say events on the 15th and 16th and then again, they've just not stopped. It's been chaos a bit. Well, let's unpack that. So the thing that comes to mind is Bastille Day in Nice. What happened? And you know, what do you make of it? Almost everybody knows it was Bastille Day celebrations in Nice on the sea front and there's an area, it's the walk called the Promenade des Anglais. So we'll come to that about his character later, but he drove a pickup truck, one of the biggest pickup trucks there are, rammed it into people and moored around 200 people or more, killing 84 for now because there are some people who are still critical and injuring more than 200 and it was really the most shocking incidents because it unveiled quite a few new tactics, but also the people that have been killed on such a happy day. Yeah, something like a competition. Each one of these guys wants to kill more than the previous guy, make himself famous. Yes, I thought Mohammed Bouley, who was the terrorist, he was known by the police for petty crimes, but he wasn't a known terrorist and it is now believed that he got radicalized very quickly. He was a divorced single person who had said that he was not very religious. He used to never go to the mosque, he was a salsa dancer, bodybuilder, he used to drink. So his religious intonations are really not clear, but he was self-radicalized, it seems. And I think one of the main characteristics we notice is that it's a loss of purpose and a will to do, to go from zero to hero in a way and so they pick up this ideology, they assign themselves to it and they create carnage by which they feel they will be remembered in some way. Yeah, well the truck is a new strategy, isn't it? And it strikes me that we're going to see more trucks, don't you think? I mean ISIS had sent out this warning a few or a call, let's say, a couple of weeks ago, saying that fill petrol in your vehicles and go and mow down people. And it's really scary, I mean I've seen videos of the NIS attack, the aftermath, people lying on the ground and it's so scary, I mean we live in Europe but you know when attacks happen thousands of kilometers away, or miles away, you don't really feel the impact but when you see the videos you know it's real, you know. And it just drives home that fact, you never know who's going to pick up which vehicle. And any means are possible of mass killing actually. Yeah, well you know what really I wanted to ask you, so you're quite a distance from NIS and yet it's still Europe. Yes. And it's very interesting, you're connected with the south of France, so how do people feel about this one? Is this getting to be business as usual or are people more excited than they were before? Actually I was in NIS last year for a friend's wedding. I have a friend who lives in Monaco and NIS, I mean they're really close by. And she was in NIS at that time. And it's really a shocker because NIS is, well, quite a velocity, it caters to the rich and famous mainly and of course those seeking vacationing spots in Europe. Lying on the French Riviera it has a laid back attitude. And so this has been really something that's more than a shocker for Europe. It's been more than a wake up call in a way. And people I think they don't know how to deal with it because they've had such a laid back attitude to life itself. I'm one country, it's all countries. Your country could be next, you know, it could happen in your city. We just got through it. You just had yours. Maybe you'll have a moment of respite before you have another one. But it certainly seems this is an ongoing thing. On the other hand, this was special, this was iconic. It was Bastille Day. Bastille Day is really important to the French. And of course the fireworks and all that make it a very sacred holiday for them. And Avenue des Anglais is the sacred place in Nice. It's the center of Nice, it's beautiful, isn't it? Yes. So this was iconically, this was very symbolic, this attack. Of course. And it's the day of French identity and we have liberty of independence, fraternity, equality. But you know, I mean all these values aside, the national day. This was expected in a way but not in Nice, you know. The political capital of course is Paris. But Nice is all the more shocking because it was not on the radar, I think. Yeah, well that's the scary part. Any place, any time, anyhow. So, you know, looking at it now, you really wonder what's going to happen. The French got pretty angry politically and they said, Alain said they were going to send 10,000 troops into the Middle East, try to deal with ISIS there. They beefed up security around the country. Does this mean a degradation of civil rights? Does it mean a move to a conservative and oppressive government? Well, the government itself is in trouble. It's not been very effective at preventing terrorism. And this is what Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president and also leader of the opposition has accused the government of doing. Francois Hollande, the French president, enjoys a really limited popularity amongst the population. It's at the lowest of any president, any French president. So that is quite something. Then you have the growth of the far-right movement under Marine Le Pen. She's a very controversial figure. She's been booked under also racism, intolerance, antisemitism. So, politically, things are not stable in France. Although the government might want to show that they are tackling terrorism to a certain extent at home but also abroad, won't help much until they consolidate what is to be done at home itself first because the first response needs to be domestic. Because the person, the terrorist was domestic, he never even went to Syria. He's not been using the traditional radicalization platforms. So domestic is really a bit of more soul-searching that needs to be done by the French. Yeah, they've got to do something. I think in the absence of some action, they'll just continue to have these attacks all of Europe will. And it seems to define at least a part of Europe's future now to have to deal with this. But let's move to another topic, okay? I guess we should talk about the coup in Turkey. That was remarkable. What happened there? Well, suddenly everybody was dealing with the aftermath of news and then news about Turkey emerged. I think it was the shortest coup possible. But we literally saw on Twitter the news erupting of coup being declared by the armed personnel in Turkey. The military had issued a message on TV declaring that it had taken over the country and then we saw tanks in both Ankara and Istanbul, jets flying over, shutting off the TV stations. And then immediately, a few hours later, we saw Erdogan, the Turkish president, on FaceTime speaking with an independent news channel, which is ironic because there have been quite a few jokes on that because he's been suppressing them for so long and he used their medium. He used an independent news channel. I think it was CNN Turkey and he was speaking with them on FaceTime and he called out to the public to come on the streets via that call. Surprisingly, people came, people mobilized very quickly, which is something I doubt. How did they come out so quickly in a way and how did they have access all to the televisions and all the social media were closed so the word spread out rapidly. And the people came out, they defeated the army. Mind you, it was the second largest army in NATO. So a handful of people defeated them and then Erdogan came there the next morning and said, well, it's over. The coup has been suppressed. But for me, I think that this coup was really staged. Staged by Erdogan himself and I'll give you a few reasons. The coup lasted just six hours in a way, six to seven hours maximum. There were really few, just a few deaths rather than a lot of bloodshed, which is not normally East of Europe. A coup is really bloody East of Europe. And here I would count Turkey East of Europe. The other thing is... Well, they lost 250 people were killed, yeah? Yes, no. But early reports were 100. And then afterwards there was an execution as well. But it's still quite limited. I mean, if you see the coup in Thailand or also in Pakistan, there are thousands dead. Yes, yes, yes. But then Erdogan's plane... So he was coming to Ankara and there were two F-16s which had him in view but didn't fire at him. And only half the military or part of the military had staged the coup apparently, which would never happen in any military. There's a line of control and command. And unless the entire military is on board in a country like Turkey, they would not take the chances. But, you know, Erdogan has important discussions coming up with Israel and with Russia. Are you suggesting that maybe Erdogan set up the coup for his own reasons? What were those reasons have been? That's my thinking. I still have this conspiracy theory in mind. But for a few reasons, I mean, it gives him an excuse to do what he's doing now, which is establishing himself as the only person in power. Ah, moving to the right. Taking greater control of the country. Exactly. History personal, but also 3,000 judges. So there was a joke I read this morning about the economist with a person, a military man sitting in prison with another guy and he's saying, oh, this is not fair, I need a human rights lawyer. And the other person is, well, you came to the right place. At least there's some humor there. He always wanted to make the president's position stronger than the prime minister because earlier he was prime minister. Now he wants to transfer it into a presidential system. And second, I mean, other reasons are also because it strengthens his own position vis-a-vis the EU, vis-a-vis Russia, vis-a-vis Israel because he has negotiations and he portrays himself as the only man they need to speak to. He's the prime suppressor coup in the second largest army in NATO. It makes him stronger at a time when he needs to be strong. He's got a lot of challenges right now, right across the border from Syria. I would say it's just foreign policy posturing in a way.  Let's take a short break, Kauri, and then we come back. I'd like to talk about the fallout from Brexit. This is really full of headlines. I'd like to talk about the Asia-Europe meeting in Mongolia. And if we have time, I'd like to talk about, you know, whether Europe cares about the Hague's decision over the South China Sea. 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This is Johnson Choi, your host. The topic is Asian Reveal. We do it on a monthly basis on Thursday at 11 o'clock. Be sure to check the schedule. See you. We're back live with Gary Kondekar. She joins us by Skype from Brussels. We call this Midnight in Brussels, with us a little earlier than that. We're talking about the news in Europe, one headline after another. Okay, moving on to, let's see, what do we got? The Hague. The Hague has made a ruling about the South China Sea and ruled in favor of the Philippines, which I think in most people's view was the right thing, that China has no legitimate claim to building Scarborough Island and otherwise taking control of that area. Now, this happened in Europe. This decision was made in Europe. What kind of reaction do we see in Europe? None. China is too politically all to import and economically as well for Europe at the moment. So none. There are a few reasons for that. Actually, it's the permanent arbitration court, which has nothing to do with the UN. It's a member's court, actually. And China has been calling this statement void, the ruling void, and it says that it does not accept it. Now, you know, China is Europe's second largest partner after the US and trade figures are quite close. Investment-wise as well, Europe is looking for investment from China for obvious reasons. China's one belt, one road will really benefit Europe. Yeah, so people are not likely to take action against China about it. In fact, I would say the same process that you described in Europe is happening in the US. You know, it's somebody else's backyard, not mine. And I think the only way to stop the Chinese on this move, this taking of territory essentially, is force. But nobody is willing to even suggest that. No, but also who is going to implement the decision? There's nobody. There's no global NATO. There's no Southeast Asian Army. So there's nobody who's going to implement that decision at all, except for putting pressure on China. And China doesn't really care about pressure. And the Europeans won't even try. Yeah, and the stakes are high for China, because it wants control of an area where three trillion tons of trade move every year, whereas strategically, from a military point of view, this is a critical piece of real estate. And because this is a process they haven't done before, but which now they can do again with impunity. You'll see more of this, Gary. I guarantee it. Yes. You know, what's surprising is that some countries in Asia themselves are not supporting this. And they've opposed Philippines' decision to appeal to the court in the first place. So the countries like Malaysia as well, India, and Cambodia, which is, of course, curry-flavored by China. But I mean, most of these countries oppose it because they have their own crisis. For example, India and Pakistan over Kashmir, yes? And what the court does is give a fait accompli, which is a decision that is to be, you know, a ready-made decision. You cannot appeal that decision. So there are some countries that don't want to already acknowledge the ruling in Asia itself. Even though they might benefit from it. But this is the paradox of international politics. It is. One thing is clear, though. The boundaries are changing. The area is changing. The power structure is changing. And from an international point of view, it seems like China is making headway every time you look. Not only politically, militarily, and economically. This is just a geoeconomic policy of Europe at the moment. I think it's a misguided policy because peace in the South China Sea is extremely vital because Europe has trade with South Korea and Japan. So it's not only trade with China that comes. So Europe has all the more reasons. It's also trade with Southeast Asia that is dependent on this sea. So I think geoeconomics aside, I think geopolitical considerations should also be born into mind. A more united Europe is required. But of course, after Brexit, that becomes all the more difficult. Yeah, well that takes us to our next subject. Let's take a moment and talk about Brexit. Theresa May, what do you think of her position? You're going to let it happen the way they voted. She's not looking for any re-vote or reconsideration. She's going to try to make the best of a bad vote. Is that going to work? Well, Theresa May has been surprised by her or taken aback by her, not positively because they thought she would, since she was close to Cameron and she had campaigned for the remain vote to remain in the EU. They thought she would somehow work it in a way that UK stays in the EU, but she's not done that. And there are two surprising revelations because first of all, she's created a Brexit minister and they've set a date for Brexit to happen, which is the 1st of January 2019. By that date, the UK will be out of the EU. The second thing is she made Boris Johnson, so I think everybody knows a bit about Boris Johnson. Now he was the mayor of London, the former mayor, and he campaigned quite strongly for Brexit. And he was also a good friend of David Cameron, a former prime minister, and he stabbed him in the back. Which is, he was a quite close friend. And she made Boris Johnson, who's quite a controversial figure now in Europe, she made him the foreign minister. And as foreign minister, he has a number of meetings and he's in Brussels today, actually. So these have been the two moves. Theresa May has taken a hard line on immigration as well so about the people who would, Europeans that are already in the UK, but also Europeans who would come between now and the Brexit date. So she's been quite tough on immigration. She's been very adamant on, or she seems very adamant on Brexit, so there's no second thought there. I think she wants to appease the people in view of the next elections. So that is her personal gains, medium-term strategy. Well, economically, this is going to hurt Britain and it's going to hurt the EU, too. But what role does the US have? Can the US help soften the effect of Brexit on Britain? Well, the UK is going to bear the brunt of it. It's already going through quite a difficult time economically. Brexit has wiped out billions of the stock exchange of property prices. The euro is at its lowest, it's standing at 120 per pound. If I could travel to Europe, I should come to Europe immediately. Yes, you should actually go to the UK because it's cheaper and then come to Brussels. But how necessarily lost its value? I don't think there's anything the US could do at this point. President Obama himself was in London speaking to the public. I don't think you could do anything more. In terms of what to do after Brexit, I think the US will have to strike its own special relationship with the EU itself. And I think Germany will be taking the role of special partner to the US in the EU. Now, taking over from the UK of course, and the UK-US relationship will of course be something a bit separate, but I think the UK will lose its value. Yeah, really interesting. The implications are huge. They're still unfolding. We don't know yet. The next few months or a year we'll see more, what two years, whatever it takes. And at the end of the day, it's not going to be a zero sum game.  Yes, I agree with you. One other point if we could get to a quick discussion of what happened in Mongolia. Was that every several years there's a meeting between Europe and Asia. This time it took place in Mongolia just a few days ago. What happened? Why? What was the reason? What was the upshot? An intergovernmental platform called ASEM, the Asia-Europe meeting. This was the 20th anniversary of ASEM and they were celebrating it with a summit. It's a biennial summit. It's an event which brought together around 34 leaders from Asia and Europe. The total membership of ASEM quickly is 53, but 34 members had come to Mongolia and it was already Mongolia's largest international event in its contemporary history. So it was quite a big deal for Mongolia. Now ASEM has been working over the years to try and bring Asia and Europe closer. It's a bit like APEC for the US, but not quite. The thing about ASEM is now today it's more divided than ever. Asia is more divided and Europe is more divided and that's my new piece actually what I've written about ASEM. Already ASEM lacks visibility and it does not have many tangible outputs, but today's geopolitical situation with the crisis Europe has faced and Brexit of course and the far-right movements that are gaining space in Europe but also what's happening in Asia with India and Pakistan, China but also the other fights between China and Japan, Japan, South Korea and this has all created so many divisions within ASEM that it's unprecedented in a way. So as a forum which does not have a secretariat which does not have many tangible outputs it's already a difficult task. So going into its third decade I think ASEM has many challenges to face. Garry, it all sounds like the world as we see it evolving these days is evolving into greater fragmentation here, there and really everywhere and wait till you see the Republican National Convention which is happening today, tomorrow you'll see. Now that will be a study in fragmentation too. Some people say it's going to implode the Republican Party. I'm sure Europe will be watching. But I would like to see your piece. When you finish writing your piece on fragmentation I would appreciate if you'd send it to me. If you don't mind I'll send it around too. Fantastic, I'll do that. Thank you very much, it's very grateful. Thank you Garry. Garry Kandakar, Global Relations Forum turning us by Skype as she does every few weeks on Midnight in Brussels. Today we're talking about the news in Europe. The headlines are one headline after another. We'll be back with more headlines next time. Thank you so much Garry. Thank you Jay. Hello.


What is causing today's spike in inflation? There's actually an interesting analytical way to look at this. The price of basically everything in the US economy can be divided into three components of costs. Those three components are labor costs, like wages and benefits, non-labor costs, like equipment, materials, and corporate profits. So you can basically look at any period and see how much of inflation or price growth over that period was due to each of those three components. And when you look over the recovery, what you find is that corporate profit increases explain 40% of the rise in prices in this recovery. That is about three times higher than usual. So what that means is that when you are doing your shopping and you see prices that are really, really high, you can know that a key driver of that is corporations exploiting a war, exploiting a pandemic to line their own pockets.


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