Shun be pretty easy. How about 14%? Do you want me to give you a clue? There is the clue. Anybody? Top 100 websites in the world. 14% of them run on WordPress. And then we have this. That's easy. Okay. Number of 32% of websites are run by WordPress. Yeah? Which one? Which statistic? The 17%? It's on the website. It's on the website, bro. It's on the website. Okay. So I want to... Oh, then the network went. So I want to give you something else. So my name is Uduorn Jagero. I have other names. Which are basically English names. One is Ken. Another one is Anthony. But I like my witch names. These are my witch names. In my luo culture, every person has to be given a name. Your soul. That separates you from everyone else. You cannot find... So the spirit, the force that moves you if you luo, then it's Uduorn. It means midnight. Yeah? And then Jagero means... I don't want to say. I don't want to say. So I want to tell you what I am doing right now. Then I'm going to tell you my story. And I am here because of open source. One of the things that you should know is that I was born... I'm the only member of my family that was not born in a hospital. My mother gave birth to me on the roadside. Walking to the hospital.  Because she thinks that I fell on the road. And my head is a bit out of shape. That's what she says. So I'm going to tell you what I am now. So this is my life. What we'll discuss is open source. Then we'll discuss my life. Then my writing and how it all goes back to the topic. Okay? So three things that define me. I am the lead CMS Africa. And I am CEO of kwaamiji.co.ke that does basically web design. I am a writer and a novelist. Stroke novelist. Okay? So this is CMS Africa Summit. An event that I organized that I founded and organized hopes from one African country to the other every year. Last year, this year we were in Kigali Rwanda. That is, there should be a picture of Kigali Rwanda. Bit of the crowd. The first picture is also Kigali Rwanda. We were in Abuja last year. Keptown. Keptown 2019. I am very excited. Are you excited? So, if you are fired up about organizing events, I've been talking to a few people, but if you are really fired up about organizing events, you can speak with me, we can talk, we can make this the biggest event in Keptown after one camp. I'm saying that because of Bruce. He's a big man, man. So kwaamiji is a company that basically does branding and web design. And that is something that I really love. And then I am also a writer. I write short stories, I write point three and I write novels. So those are my books. Why the hospital corridor is white is fiction about something. The ghost of 1894 is a story that I recite in Rwanda. It talks about what led to the genocide in 1994. So I recite 100 years before the genocide. And then there is the true citizen. That's an urban fiction that talks about a cop who falls in love with someone. And then we have say my colon is about a lady that wants to commit suicide, but first she has to travel the world. So that's about me. That's what I do now. A lot of things. And guess what? The amount of brain power that he uses is just 4.7. I am not kidding. I have a family. That's my daughter right there.  So that's about me. I live in Nairobi. I am honestly telling you don't grow up. It's a trap. And that is how my story starts. So my story is not very nice. I was born about 25 km off my local town called Kisumu. That's about 350 miles from the capital city Nairobi. And my mother was a housewife. And my father was an accountant and also a drunkard. And he should have taken care of us. But the bottle man, the bottle took him away. So I went to school and then very difficult times. No school fees, no nothing because all the money was, money was going to the mighty bottle and then I finished by the grace of who that guy called Lakidube thinks about. So in 2001, after my high school, my father died of depression. I guess I blame alcohol. And then I needed to go to college. And there was no money to go to college. I really wanted to be a journalist and a writer. So my idea of going to college was like flushed. Okay. And then I say to myself, I want to go to the capital city of Nairobi and study. But there was no way of doing that. My uncle was in Nairobi City. Nairobi is a very dramatic city. Huge. I don't know what to compare it with Jobag. You know, Kels. Jobag? Yeah? Yeah, something like that. So my uncle was living there and I told him I want to go there. No, I didn't tell him actually because he wouldn't let me. Nairobi staff don't want an extra mouth to feed, bro. So I went anyway without telling him. So I went there. It was drizzling when I reached the city of Nairobi in 2004. And I went to his house. He was out on a business trip, got me back when he came back and said hi. Said hi. And then he didn't ask me anything. I started school because my mother told me that she's going to make everything work. My mother. I don't know. I think she was bluffing but she told me I'll make everything work. So she didn't because five months into my college and so I remained in the city without nothing. The college told me that, boy, you need to get us fees. We're doing away with your classes. So I dodged them for six months until my certificate. And then when my certificate was done, I told my head of department, good lady that, you know what, I am leaving school. And she told me, wow, so why? So life is hard. She told me to write a letter to the dean and I was given scholarship. For three years I went in, come out, went in, come out with the big body saying that I have finished school fees and I was rolling. So then I was now a professional writer and I started writing. I never got employed, which is a bad thing. I only got employed for 30 minutes. So when this guy gave me a job to write and by that time I was already writing a lot and doing scripts for the theaters around Nairobi and then this guy told me that I've got a very good job that you need to do. It was paying very well, $600 a month. Bye then, you know. And then I realized after that meeting that I had four meetings to go to, the day I went to report for the work. So I told this gentleman that you know what, I have meetings I cannot afford to miss. So I took my laptop bag. So when waiting for that gentleman, I realized that I am not able to do anything anymore because I'm going to be there from 8 to 5. So I never went back. Okay. So I've never been employed since then. I've just been doing this thing. So that brings me to how WordPress and open source saved my life. Okay. Because then I was in the city of Nairobi with only a pen and I needed to write. And I needed people. By then Facebook was there, but then people were having internet in Nairobi and I needed to take my work of writing out there. So I started a blog on WordPress. All right. Started writing poetry on WordPress and sharing on Facebook. Started doing this and sharing on Facebook. Then I got a friend of mine who was doing Jumla. He started doing the Jumla day, Jumla day Kenya. All right. Which is an equivalent of WordPress, Wadcamp, right. So I was helping him post on his blog, Jumla blog and I was posting on WordPress. And that is how people knew that I was a writer because of WordPress. And that is how a young boy that was born in the side of the road got his work out there to the world through WordPress. And when you look at the whole thing you begin to realize how important WordPress is. You begin to realize how important open source is to the world. And I was reading of a gentleman yesterday in the night who has made 12 million US dollars on one WordPress theme. 12 million on one WordPress theme. And that is how open source can change the world. 330 million Africans live in poverty and hunger. They are not able to get anything like breakfast, any lunch, any supper. 330 million. That is a hooping 24.7% of Africans. That some of them do not know that open source can change their lives. And nobody is talking to them about how open source can change their lives. How WordPress can change their lives. How Drupal can change their lives. How Magento can change their lives. And we meet these people every day and we don't tell them anything about these things. And if somebody had told me about WordPress and what WordPress can do before I discovered it myself then my life would have been changed before it was changed. That is the statistics in Africa. 28% 300 million. And when everybody talks about money we do not realize what money can do and what the human capability is towards doing all these things. So my message against from Kenya to Keptown is that do not underestimate open source because it's going to change the world. It is already changing the world. And one of the greatest things about open source is the collaboration part of open source. And when I talk to your people about level playground and that is the reason why I think there should be no... When there is a time we were having CMS Africa Summit in Nairobi and there was this very heated exchange between people, lovers of WordPress, lovers of Drupal and lovers of Jumla and lovers of other CMSs like Python and all these things about how good one is and how bad the other one is. And I think that is irrelevant in as far as open source is concerned because one way or the other the one complements the other. And that is when I went to Jumla Walla conference in America, Boston one of the people that was speaking there was actually Matt giving the kiss page at a Jumla Walla conference. He was the kiss speaker. And I think he led the way in a very drastic... He did something that really changed how people were looking at open source softwares like enemies of each other. Every year at CMS Africa and I want to thank Yop for organising the automatic to come to CMS Africa every year. In fact, automatic has been sponsoring CMS Africa Summit for the last four years. Let's give them a hand. And at CMS Africa Summit you find these guys exchanging notes on how we can collaborate as an open source community and change the world. There is so much happening in Africa right now. The entire duration of my stay in Cape Town I have not been driven by a South African in a taxi once today in the morning but the entire time Africa has been collaborating. Let me use the word. I have been driven as in Babwen I have been driven by a Malawian I have been driven by somebody from Botswana and all these other guys. When we talk about the things that happen in South Africa such as the tag of war and the other things that I don't want to discuss in details is that the thing is human beings are not supposed to be enemies and I've realised it the hard way. In Kenya there is this thing called tribalism I don't know if it's here in South Africa. My tribe is called the Luo then the other tribe is called the Kikuyu and the other tribe is called the Kamba and these guys are always fighting especially my tribe and the Kikuyu tribe they're always fighting and for me as a Luo when I'm selling my books I keep all the names of people who have bought my books and if you look at all the people that have bought my names the Kikuyu which is my most hated tribe buys my book more than 80% more than my own tribe which is a paltry 10% so if I hate the Kikuyu then I look like a fool if a white South African hits a black South African then he looks like a fool if a black South African hits a white South African then he looks like a fool and most of most if you look at a human being you know what time is it by the way how many minutes do I have I am good ya okay cool what I have realised is that a human being has very deep seated problems and if you approach that human being because you think he is this way or the other extremely unfair to that person because most of his sins are not his sins most of her sins are not her sins okay so I want to tell you that start loving people like open source loves people because nobody loves people like open source no one no one loves people like open source it has changed my life dramatically and the kind of collaboration that I have gotten from the open source community is unbelievable the company that is making the application for CMS Africa Summit is domicile in Poznan, Poland a gentleman called Kuba Lewinsky a guy that I met online and has been supporting the app for the last four years without a single cent he has been coming to CMS Africa Summit on his own money for the last four years okay Yop is a Belgian living in South Africa he has been so helpful with his team what they are trying to do is to help humanity and that is the soft side of business the soft side of business has to help humanity and I always say this thing some people come to me to build a website for free and I do build websites for free when they can't afford it because it is my duty to help those that are my neighbors okay so my message from Kenya is that humans are very good I am a specimen I am a confession that humans are very good and when you have a problem let me tell you a story that happened last night I was walking down from my hotel room looking for a restaurant to eat something and then I stroll into this restaurant called Jerry's very lively restaurant lot of people and when I get there I saw the big guy he is sitting at the corner and then I see some guy that works for 10 up 10 up he is in there talking I didn't know they were there turns out they were having a dinner turns out they were having a dinner and I joined them and we spoke and we laughed there is this gentleman that looks like a Jew I think he is sitting somewhere oh right there and his brother his brother is somewhere his brother is there so we talked and we chatted we talked about an array of topics he asked me a lot of questions about writing about this thing and we were sharing all the food it was a long bill it was long like the supermarket for an organization and then the guy picks the bill and pays it they Jew over there so that is how humanity operates and when you start loving people that are next to you and you start to feel good and so if there is somebody that you need to help be an open source to that person because it's very very important it's very very important so my that is all I wanted to say today that open source has made me open source has made lots of people and it is time for us to realize that fact and start opening up ourselves open your companies to people that want internship open your spaces for people want to work I remember when I was working in Nairobi I couldn't afford internet completely and South Africa oh dear internet is expensive here when I went when I was at the airport and they told me to give them $20 for one GB I was like what are you talking about that is 50 GB in Kenya 50 and it is even more in Nigeria Lagos internet is like water so if somebody does not have internet please allow these young people to come into your office and work because the next day it will be their day they will help your children I am telling you for a fact let's see I hope the internet has come so that I read you more statistics for what price internet here we go here we go here we go here we go I am out of luck yeah I am out of luck so I want to end my conversation by saying that I am very privileged to have known about water price I am very privileged to have known about Tomatik I am very privileged to have known about Drupal, Jumla, Magento and all these things and I hope that you will go out there and use water price to change the world ok thank you very much there are questions yeah so if you have any questions please raise your hand I will run across to you first is this person to me he has a question nice presentation thank you what is the objective of SEALS Africa training and how are you measuring this size ok so SEALS Africa actually happened by accident we were doing Jumla Day I didn't know about what come then we were doing Jumla Day and then lots of other people were coming that were not interested in Jumla and I was what the hell are these guys if you are not interested in Jumla why are you here I realized that these guys were some of them who were developing using Drupal and all the rest of these here messes but they were coming because it was fun it was really really fun and so I sat down and realized why don't I do an event that brings together all these guys so that's why I started and so what happens is that it has workshops for different here messes for example we can have 1130 we are having different workshops like 4 workshops running at the same time one is WordPress, one is Jumla and one is this and one is this and then we have a common room sometimes where you can go and ask questions so the idea is to I guess according to my subject my topic is to create a level playground for anybody who wants to use open source software so that is the reason why I started CMS Africa and that is why I guess everybody loves it whether you are coming from Jumla whether you are coming from Magento Python or whatever and then there are business topics we don't just discuss the practical so the workshops we also have other business topics such as the one that was done that was there before break time okay, ansas your question oh my books are on Amazon type my name on Amazon and everything pops up okay yep alright yes there is one there so so this CMS Africa is going to be in K-top in March if people here want to help you how should they do that alright so CMS Africa summit is a community it is very less of a business thing it is very much of a community so the difficult part of CMS Africa summit is organization every year it is in a different country and in techs a company or people in those countries to help organize it so the people that I am looking for are people who can help me organize help us organize the event people who are marketers people who can connect us with sponsors people who can connect us with venues and all those kind of things most important thing is to come my friend most important thing is to come my friend you can go to CMSAfricaSummit.org CMSAfricaSummit.org and you can present yourself as a speaker we already have about 20 people speaking yeah so that is how you can help and my email is my name and CMSAfrica.org you can write me an email okay yes there is a question right there what you mean like how to make sure that they have the money to run the operations something and to answer that question I think we have to go back to WordPress.org and WordPress.com I think somebody told me that open source does not mean free yeah and so this is one of the problems this is one of the conversation that is going on right now with Jumla because they are really struggling in terms of how to make it sustainable I mean last year this year they have cut the funding for Jumla Day by they usually give $1,500 to every Jumla Day that happens this year it has been cut all the way back to $500 you have to look for that money to do the event and that is difficult and they are marketing money has really shrung over the years I think that an organization so big as Jumla shouldn't be suffering I mean there should be ways of getting money they have these volunteers that make all these plugins and I believe that something has to be done to be provided I mean you can provide the main thing WordPress.org for free to everyone and then you have to be a little creative in the way you have to get money and I also think that most of the the problematic thing I see with most of the CMSs and open source is that I'm sorry to say over exploit the use of I mean you must find people that are core people that are working for open source there has to be a core group that is working that are probably paid and then you have volunteers around the world but if you have volunteers everywhere then it becomes very difficult to even get people for example in a CMS that I don't want to talk about you know does not have a proper communication structure then if you do not have a proper communication structure I don't know how you can even organize a gala or a dinner for people to give money towards your project so I think there are creative ways that you can do that I think I don't know if that answers your question a little bit okay thank you very much everyone


Well, I do not have much of an experience with my father. My father died when I was three years old and so I pretty much grew up without a father figure in my life. My mom was forced to play both roles. However, as a father myself, I would like to believe that my children think of me as a good father, that they look up to me, although I've reached a stage now where I have to look up to my son. He's much taller than I am at least. So, but I am very proud of my children and I would like to measure my success as a father with the outcome that I see with my children. I think fatherhood is perhaps the most significant, most important role a man can play in his lifetime. I believe a father is supposed to be one of the main pillars in any family and I look upon fathers to my mind, not only as a man who has children, but as a manual for his children. A good father should be a man that his children can look up to, should be an example to his children and a role model to his children. I want to wish all of them, first of all, a very happy father's day. I want to encourage all true fathers to continue playing the significant role that they are playing. They are, in fact, molders and nurturers and providers for the coming generation and that is the most significant contribution they can make in their lifetime to their country, to mankind and to society as a whole.


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This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network It is a Friday here on covering the spread which means it is time to talk some strikeout props And who better to do so then Rob Friedman pitching ninja or bringing him on today to talk about his favorite strikeout props across Friday at Fandall sportsbook and of course the daily Pitching leaderboard for strikeouts over at Fandall. It is going to be a delight as always This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network. My name is Jim saw this I am a digital media managing editor for Fandall research joint here as mentioned by Rob Friedman check him out on Twitter at pitching ninja You can find him at peacock and they'll be on Fox and they'll be calm and of course Fandall sportsbook as well Rob fantastic Friday slate a lot of fun pitching options for today. How you doing? I am doing great I'm doing better now that I heard your intro because that really gets me fired up for again I think you can like downgrade your your cups of coffee per day by like a half a cup if you have that intro blaring at some point I think that that does really reduce your required caffeine intake just because it's such a banger Absolutely, and especially when it gets to like that the dentist drill type thing at the end Yeah, like that Fantastic like the the outro is the same song and I will like it as I'm editing the podcast of the end I let that puppy roll because like, you know I didn't hear the transition to make sure like end of my voice transitions well with when the music begins But like I let it roll because I need to be in a good mood for the day and honestly Rob I don't need the performance enhancers to have a good day today because again good pitching slate once again for tonight One of your favorites. Hey Zeus Lazardo is pitching for tonight. We got that going just in verlander back with the Astros That's pretty exciting and overall fun pitching slate So again, I feel like we've gotten pretty lucky with having you on I know it's Friday So that helps because 15 games, but like I think I've gotten pretty lucky with having you on for a lot of fun Slates. Yeah 15 games a lot of work for me though Like I sit there and watch all of them and it's you know, it's tough being pitching and you know I know you got to get again the ice baths for the fingers to make sure you're all ready to get going Get like the big shoulder wrap except for each finger. We'll we'll get a medical team out there Because that sports science is very important. So we'll work on that for sure before we dive into the pitching problems for today Quick reminder to make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast We broke down EPL match week one with Austin Cass yesterday getting his thoughts on the opening week of the English Premier League That is up on the covering the spread podcast feed I also talked NASCAR in Indianapolis yesterday So get some thoughts on that on the covering the spread podcast feed a fan dual YouTube and fan dual TV plus as well Let's take a look at this fun slate Rob for Friday night and dig into the pitching props And you like most beginning with those strikeout props when you look at the pitching props for today Which strikeout number stand out most to you? Well, I mean I have a parlay and today is of course the pitching in your profit boost token day At Fandle we get 30% right here Look at that look at that But my parlay I was going with Paul Blackburn for 4k's or more Jose Barrios for 6k's or more and then Kyle Gibson for 6k's or more I just you know, we were talking off-camera about about Blackburn and he has been surprisingly Racking up case this year. I know he's got a tough matchup obviously with the with the Nats, but I Think it's more about him. I think he's you know 4k's the kind of low number It's a very low number and I think that the matchup is valid because although the National's offense obviously is not great They just got no hit this week They are a low strikeout team 20% striker for them But they also you're not wasting pitches against them because they don't walk either So like if you're looking at them against righties they average is 3.76 pitches per plate appearance and Blackburn is a guy who goes even with the A's not competing for anything he goes very deep in games and when you combine How deep he goes in games the strikeout numbers I had Blackburn projected for 4.9 strikeouts tonight and he needs four to get this number and his overrated There's any pretty high so the over three and a half strikeouts is minus 134 when you're watching Blackburn this year What have you noticed? Do you know what has led to? Not just the strikeouts, but also I think just being a good overall well-rounded pitcher this year I thought his breaking self looked better than I remembered so to me I always viewed him as a guy that was more pitch to contact a pitcher And he's he's actually getting a good amount of case and I've noticed that you know a lot on his breaking ball I don't know. I've turned into a quiet Paul Blackburn fan. Yeah, he's been fun to watch. He's been productive He's still suppressing hard contact So I think that Blackburn over three and a half minus 134 very enticing the other two mentioned were Jose Barrios and Kyle Gibson Let's go to Barrios first taking on the Cubs The number for Barrios here for his strikeout prop to get to Over five and a strikeouts is plus 105. What are your thoughts of Barrios in this match up here at the Cubs? I think he's been pitching better lately. I think he's he's viewing himself. He's got it together He's got his confidence back Fix some directional issues with his mechanics So since he's done that, you know, I've seen him Knockin on the door of being an ace at times and this is a time to step up for him So I I like him here and I expect a big day from him. It's an important game for them Obviously every game matters for the blue jays right now. I think that that always is an important time of year too kind of judging how Much a team is going to care and how willing they'll be to let a horse run and Barrios is a guy who can't go 100 and 500 and 100 and six pitches when he needs to So I think that is enticing for him too now with Kyle Gibson. I do my research for today and I saw a spike in strikeouts recently and Rob I was digging into his pitch mix digging into velocity and I couldn't figure out why So explain to me what the heck happened with Kyle Gibson to lead to this surge You know, all I know is his changeup has looked really good to me Like one of the filthier changeups quietly In baseball amongst starting pitchers and I've been surprised at it too Like I see him as a k guy now And I think a k guy going against the Mariners kind of like that matchup So, uh, yeah, that's why I'm taking him It is definitely a good matchup the Mariners active roster 25 strikeout rate against reddies That is one of the highest marks on tonight's slate Actually the second highest among all teams for tonight and Gibson again on a roll right now So two former twins in the uh the parlay here for Rob Gibson over five and a half barrios over five and a half and then blackburn over three and a half And I think that one individually by far my favorite because that number is just very Very low and again if you want to parlay them together You can with the pitching ninja profit boost a 30 profit boost on that available for all three plus like parlays Over at fan dual sports book now Rob because most of the starting pitchers have been announced for today We do have the daily strikeout leader board up over at fendall sports But can you are commenting before we went on air about how there are a lot of guys side of the top right now? Blake stell. Hey, suce. Lazardo landslin Luis Castillo and Justin Berliner all plus 550 I'm a bit surprised by that honestly Seeing this many guys group together I'm also a bit surprised at corbin burns if we're going to put that many guys together that he's not one of those So what's your read on this leaderboard right now? Yeah, that jumped out of me because I have burns as definitely a contender Certainly up with the guys that he's that he's behind right there. Right It wouldn't surprise me. It's not a bad matchup for him at all I think some of these other matchups may be a little tougher for the pitchers involved But I don't think you know, I consider burns. I would have I would have thought he might be the favorite here I thought so too honestly just because The white socks are a team that I talked about this before with the nationals But the white socks have very short plate appearances. They're not drawing stuff out They're not drawing walks. They're walk rate against righties 6.7 percent this year on the active roster So even though they're not like a massive strikeout team You're not wasting pitches against them. Like I I love Blake snow Blake snow is pitching like a madman right now, but he's facing Arizona, which is a low strikeout team and They they have drawn out plate appearances despite that and snail as we know can have those plate appearances by himself too so like I have burns a half strikeout below Snell in my projections, but like that's not a big enough gap I don't think to have the discrepancy between burns and snow much less having burns this far below Verlander and other guys as well. Yeah to me if I were I mean looking at it I think it comes down to those two snails been Really really good, but yeah, he does walk folks and Arizona's got you know the capability to take him deep into counts It could be a short outing for him still my you know, he's going to get his case because he just he's that guy But I kind of like I mean I I kind of like burns there and I wouldn't like as a sleeper What do we have Gibson at he's like way down there. Yeah, he's 44 to 1.  I don't know what number is going to win today I think it's probably my guess it's 9 or 10 I think so. Yeah, so can he get 9 or 10? Yeah, I can see 9 out of him. It's not impossible I think that with both burns and snail being on the road That's going to lower like the threshold you need to hit in order to win because that matters a decent amount There aren't a lot of like other guys who strike out a ton like I think Lance Lynn can do that He's at home. But like do you get the same home bump when it's a brand new team? I I guess I don't really know how that works psychologically But like I think that because you've got the two Biggest horses pitching on the road. I think that will lower the number Which is why Gibson's on the road too But like that could lower the number to the point where Gibson at least at 44 to 1 is at least very much in the discussion Yeah, I mean 44 to 1 that's that's what I'm looking at Like I wouldn't say he should be up there among the favorites But if you're going to give me 44 to 1 on it, I had throw a flyer on it. Why not? Absolutely I didn't want to ask you one quick thing about snow and burns before we close up here because The thing that has impressed me most about them we talked about this a bit of blackbird But the strikeouts are great. We love strikeouts You know you you make your living off of strikeouts, but they are getting strikeouts while also suppressing hard contact and like How do you do that? Like I know that's like if you could answer that question you'd be a millionaire and you'd be like you'd be off hanging out You know you'd be the highest paid pitching coach in baseball But like how are guys like snow and burns able to get those strikeouts without sacrificing? Letting up a lot of hard contact Yeah, I mean it really comes down to stuff But they do it differently because burns can be a really good command guy like when he's on Command of his cutter is just perfect. He you know so many different pitches where snow is a force of nature He comes at you. He also can lose the strike zone every once in a while But his stuff both of them the the the one common denominator is stuff They both have stuff that just is very hard to make contact on they go about their game so differently though Like they're very very different pitchers and that's what kind of makes it fun to watch too I think that that's been a delight for sure. Okay, so we got burns taken on the white socks now taken on the dinebacks We got Kyle Gibson with the late night hammers as well. So it should be a fun night overall That is Rob Friedman. Make sure you check him out on twitter at pitching engine Don't forget that 30 profit boost over at vandal sportsbook as well for a three plus leg parley Rob, good luck to you with the strikeout props for tonight and join the baseball We'll talk to you once again next week. Absolutely. Thanks for having me Alrighty again. 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We're going to dig into some money lines I like for tonight over at vandal sportsbook here And just one second the first the link for this week's fandal research daily fantasy free roll Is now available at vandal.com slash research it revolves around saturday's main slate For the english premier league as they return to the pitch lock is at 10 a.m. Eastern on saturday We're running these free rolls every week through the end of nfl season to celebrate their transition to fandal research And thank all the loyal number fire users to get the link and enter go to fandal dot com slash research and look for The story on the front page eligibility restrictions apply Let's take a look at some money lines. I like tonight over at fandal sportsbook And let's begin with some of these coast games and obviously these make me a little bit uncomfortable because we are betting on some teams That are not super fun to bet on right now. One of those is the new york mets I show value in the mets money law It's currently plus 156 over at fandal sportsbook as they take on the atlanta braves Seems bad to better get the the mets against the braves with the state of each got each teams roster, but there's a reason i'm here and I think my model is pretty low on tylor miguel miguel starting tonight for the mets and When I know my model is low on a starting pitcher and it still shows value on that team I'm pretty inclined to take that bet and that's the case we get here miguel Struggled in triple a it is for any struggle in this first hour back in the majors And he struggled with the same things that were causing him issues that led to it's a demotion down to triple a So that's not great. And that's why I don't want to be here But on the opposing side is charlie morten who? has had his own issues specifically with command and Despite the pitching accidents the mets have had their offense is still pretty good 113 a wrc plus against righties pita lanzo is just crushing it right now and when you add that that offense to This situation I buy into what the model is saying I've got the the mets win odds pretty decent amount above 40 percent They're implied odds at plus 156 or 39.1 percent. So I actually Don't hate it. I mean I kind of hate it like the fact that I'm betting on tylor miguel betting against the atlanta braids But I understand what we're getting at here And if I know the model is low on miguel and it still shows value That to me says I should feel okay betting the mets so the mets at plus 156 the first money line I like for tonight Second one a slight favorite the pittsburgh pirates taking on the since that he read for tonight This one won't make you vomit as much I think the reason why my model is showing value here is continued skepticism about how sustainable andrew abbott's run is he lets up a lot of fly balls and He lets up enough hard contact make it kind of squeamish You don't think that combo pays off super often where usually if a guy is a big fly ball pitcher He suppresses hard contact abbott doesn't really do that and doesn't have like a massive strikeout rate 25% big but Not a huge huge number and the pirates offense not great against lefties, but they're not putrid either pirates starting yohan oviedo and Seemed like he's been getting a bit better recently getting a couple more strikeouts And he started to use his foreseeing fastball a bit more 13 starts ago and when he combined it together with Expected regression for abbott. I have the pirates win odds at 56.8 percent They're implied odds at minus 112 are 52.8 percent So I think that's good enough to feel good about the pirates here And bet them and I feel less squeamish about that one than with the mets But that makes sense when the money line is minus 112 which is the other one is plus 156 So you get a couple of west coast games for the final two money lines the first one is the los angeles angels They are a plus 150 actually in texas Taking on the astros I do show a value in the angels money line at plus 150 here taking on houston My model puts the angels win odds closer to 45 percent than the implied 40 percent so I do feel good taking the money line here and It's largely due to continued skepticism around justin verlander He has not had the same strikeout upside this year He's had in the years past and strikeouts play a key role in peripherals because Every strikeout isn't out unless it's a pass ball Or a wild pitch versus Ground ball can be a single a fly ball can be a home run stuff like that You want strikeouts to improve your peripherals and verlander is not getting those right now Maybe the astros can tap back into that but You're really relying on An assumption in order to justify this price He's facing redemurs the starter for the angels and he's had some rough starts recently but Underline numbers still good. He's faced a lot of tough opponents including the astros so I think the market's a bit too high in houston here. So i'm fine riding with the underdog with the angels at plus 150 final money line for me for tonight is going to be the san francisco giants the giants are going to roll out an opener for tonight The opener for them is going to be scott alexander alexander opening in front of likely a ross tripling So stripling is basically the guy of projecting to be the starter here for the giants And stripling is not a full starter working behind an opener for the most part But he's still pitching really well if you look at the eight outings for stripling with fewer curve balls He has a 3.53 skill interactive eray. Thanks to a very very low walk rate and he's got really good bad at ball data He's facing john gray and gray has started to Pick things back up a bit recently, but he's still not pitching the way he was back in the spring I love gray back in the spring was taking strikeout overs on him pretty often But velocity has been down. It's been a very weird stretch for john gray And I don't think he's fully out of the woods with that one just yet My model puts the giants win odds at 56.8 percent their plot odds are 51.9 percent So I think they're a mighty fine bet at minus 108 for tonight. 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e things that Steve said about getting your aura in, as you said, when I don't think he used those phrases. In Westlothian, we got excited when Democracy Matters was on the go in 2019, and we had a big conference of all community councillors in Westlothian. We were talking to the local authority at the time who were making submissions to the joint cause of the Scottish Government initiatives. They were quite clear that they thought that community councillors didn't want to invent any new local body, so community councils might be something that could be reinvented or reformed, but they wouldn't come across with any ideas, because they wanted to move at the same pace as everybody else in Scotland. We set about having a discussion, and we came up with what we saw as a blueprint for the community councillor of the future. That was endorsed by all the community councillors. We formed a blueprint. I think I've circulated it. I hope that members of the committee will be able to get it from the clerk afterwards. We put a proposal forward for plans. We put a proposal forward for resources and powers. We described how we thought community councillors could be more representative and democratic, taking advantage of this reform process, and we also spoke about what we'd need to take this blueprint to life. One of the things we wanted to do then was have a Scottish conference, but of course Covid came along and destroyed everything. We are now resurrecting our blueprint, and we are inviting all community councillors in Scotland to a conference, an online conference, because we are admin grants that we couldn't afford to travel to an online conference on 10 June in the morning. We're putting that idea forward, but looking for other ideas from people we don't think ours is the only idea. We also, in our invite, asked people what they thought about having a Scottish forum at community councils. The overwhelming 90 per cent response at the moment is yes, and people have been suggesting topics that we could discuss at Scottish level. I think that that will be one of the outcomes of the conference, is that we end up trying to organise a Scottish forum. That sounds fantastic. Sorry, Willie. I kind of set you up, but I skipped over Bill. Bill, do you want to come in? Yes, thank you. I just, in listening to some of the other community councillors speak about budgets and that sort of thing, I kind of looked at it as being a return on investment and what community councils are paid, whether it be admin grants or what are the vehicles that they're paid to operate. You look at those numbers and you look at, I heard earlier in the previous panel, there's something in the neighbourhood of 1200 different community councils in Scotland. If you look at a budget at admin grants that are received by these community councils, from the local authority, perhaps you're looking on the high end, maybe of a thousand pounds. You're looking at 1,200,000 pounds of public money that is used to fund community councils throughout all of Scotland. How little bit of money that is, but how much Scotland gains and communities gain in this very, very small investment. Clearly, if there is a look at either more powers or more, whatever it might be, the future may bring to community councils, you can imagine what serious funding, with serious funding to community councils, what that return on investment might be. That's just one thing I wanted to kind of bring forward. A gentleman earlier mentioned about a community council receiving 250 pounds a year. In the scheme of things and what the Scottish Government spends and the UK Government spends 250 pounds a year is really a travesting. What that particular community council gives back is I don't know how many fold over, but I just wanted to bring that point up. I guess the other point I wanted to make was it's in relation to return on investment and how these community councils can operate fiscally going forward with these asset transfers and other responsibilities that have evolved with community councils. The workload that's increased is how can we, with a 1,000 pound year grants, how can we really operate effectively when we can't? So we have to look at alternative methods, alternative sources of funding. I think that would be very helpful to community councils that there can be some avenue, some vehicle that can be accessed. I know there's a lot of different funds out there for a lot of different things, but maybe if there's a particular fund that can be developed, whether it be sourced from wind turbine farms that are being built offshore, but that these community councils would have access based on particular projects that they want to build or develop, they would have access to that particular funding. The overall funding to community councils could still relatively remain low, but if we had this bank out there, this bank that we could go to and access investment funds for our communities, I think that would be something that I would like to bring to the table for consideration for MSPs today. Thanks very much for that, Bill. Actually, that's something that I have been wondering about. Do community councils need the right to invest? Do you have the right to invest or would you need that power? Well, regarding me, I'm not sure what, I don't know if that's in our remit to invest or how that actually works. I think it's probably all community councils work a little bit differently. That's what I've noticed today is there's no to saying similar community councils in the way that the obligations that they have and trying to source funds and so forth, but I think the challenge is, we can't operate with a thousand pound budget. We really can't, but we can operate with access to specific funding that, again, not a land bank per se, but a bank of some sort, lack for a better word bank, that we could go to. If the project is identified as being being viable and good for the community, then that particular community council is awarded that particular amount of funds. It's just something I wanted to throw out as a possibility. You can just imagine, again, with 1,200,000 pounds, what Scotland gets for that. Can you imagine if there was more funding available, what Scotland would get in return? I think we hear that point loud and clear. I think what I'm picking up is maybe some kind of community fund coming out of Scotland that's a potential thing. Willie, over to you. Thanks very much, convener. I think I'll probably just ask one question given the time we have remaining, convener, and it's really about how the community councils reach out to the whole community to get their views. Now, I'm conscious I've got Cambuslang and Rutherglen on either end of me here, so I've got to be careful what I say, but some of the critical voices that come out of the local governance review described community councils as unrepresentative, ineffective, reactive, self-interested and clicky. Now, we've heard the exact opposite of that today from the engagement that you guys are actually having with your communities and some of the IT and social media reach-outs were pretty impressive, but I wonder if I could just ask for a couple of views on how you improve and better your engagement with the local community, particularly to reach out to younger people and perhaps minority communities as well. I'd value just one or two contributions on that subject, if I may, convener. Steve, I see your hands up first. Yeah, so just to go on your last point first, in terms of young people, one of the things that we did with the community grant that we had was to ring fence money that young people could decide what they wanted to do in their area, so this neighbourhood network grant funding opportunity. We allocated £5,000 that was a project that they could submit, they could manage, but it was entirely, it was, it was hands-off basically, they met as a group and decided what priority was in their area. So finding a way to engage young people and to actually find what is, and you can have a perception about what is important to the, to young people and I think that that's, it's been an edifying experience and I think that local councillor found it particularly robust in the exchanges about what young people were hoping for in the area, so that was, that worked, that worked particularly well. In terms of reaching out to the community more generally, I think that you tend to, and it was something that Jackie Weaver, I think, said just at the end of her presentation, was that it tends to be people coming because they've got particular issues. So in the west of Edinburgh, for instance, it's about transport, it's about mobility, it's about house building and so forth and you get people coming forward in that way, so it tends to be episodic. I think that if I was being honest about the things that people really care about, we had things like cycleways, the mobility plan particularly in the city across Edinburgh is something that excites views either for or against and the community council has a role in terms of managing that and making sure people have the opportunity to express their views and community councils in the west have got to involve in that. So I think that it's recognising the importance of the particular issues that matter to the community and harnessing some of that enthusiasm and you get people coming forward to engage them. A few other people want to come in on this, so we'll go with Alistair and John, and just before we go, so time has been an issue, but you've answered actually a lot of the questions that we had, so I think what we'll do is we'll just go around on this engagement piece, but then I'll give a little bit of time at the end to just see if there's anything else that we really must hear, so Alistair. Well, as far as young people are concerned, engaging with the youngsters, we accessed 150,000 from the investment in communities fund two years ago and we gave 50,000 to the youngsters to run their own exercise and they were absolutely brilliant. I hope to achieve the same this time around and I'm hoping that we can, as a community council, we can then tap into that group of youngsters and twist their arms, I suppose, so that we can maybe get some of the youngsters onto their different community councils, so I'm hoping that that will be successful. The only trouble with youngsters, of course, is that they disappear to college or university, so you only have them there for a short period of time. They're like a breath of fresh air, you know, because they have a completely different perspective on things than we do. Planning, for example, is one, so I'm hoping that we can achieve something through this PB exercise. Sounds like a really tremendous thing because you're actually giving them the ability to have the agency to actually do something, so yep. Evetting the applications at first and they can back off holiday to do it. Brilliant, that's amazing. Brilliant, that's really excellent. Okay, we're going to go to John and then Barry and then... Yeah, quite some years ago we invited some people from the local youth centre to come along to a meeting. I think it was probably the most boring event experience in their lives, which is not surprising given some of the issues that we're discussing. But seriously, what we've done over the last few years is firstly engage with the local youth family learning services group, Universal Connections, to invite those on a community development degree course at Glasgow University to be involved in specific projects, which so it's like an internship for them where we've needed some work done, some community engagement or some analysis or some other project work. We've invited, we have a paid post for a minute secretary and for the last seven years that's always been a younger person or a young person which has been quite successful, but in general that our experience has been that involving younger people in specific projects has been most successful, particularly environmental projects. And we've had some schools partnerships which have been really good. Great, thank you very much. And Barry, you wanted to come in and then Shane online. I think it's important to young people because it gives them experience of how it works in the community councils, get them on involved in their community, bring them back to the community, like get involved in litter-picking projects, community events, things like that. I think else as well. If there is, like a shortage is maybe 18 or over, there is school, work into politics, community meetings, so it works, get experience and learn all about it. So I think it's important to young people involved because on my community council some only similar certain age over 30 or so. So this is young people 18 to 25 or 30 as well. So give us some experience of getting in the community. I also see some like how it involves the community, how it works, what's involved. You know, say, like our voice here in the community of young people because at the moment there's not much for them to get involved in in a way like not only voice of concerns, so if they come to meetings on their aspect, their voices are heard from their end, they can learn experience, bring some as well to the meetings, like things they know we don't know, all we know about, then bring experiences off to meetings and let training and stuff as well off how to get involved, how to become a community councillor when the time comes. Things over 18 to get elected, so it's good to get that done because it gives them, as I say, a voice and gives them an image where they can become better people in the community. People know, young people at the moment are just, you know, to cause trouble and stuff, but reality young people at the moment are more experienced than women. So giving them a chance to bring back to the community, people will see that they're all wanting to learn, wanting to engage in the community. We can become better people and improve the community as well, so it gives that aspect of, you know, bringing that, the bond as well with like young people, generations mixing as well, so it's good to see that. Yeah, I think that's a really important piece isn't it, the multi-generational relationships. Shane? Very similar tack to what Barry and John was saying that here in Shetland we had a drive through the community council that we invited a lot of young people and young organisations along to meetings and we also tapped into the member of the Scottish Youth Parliament who was a great help to us and over the course of two or three months where we had young people coming in expressing their own opinions and views on how, as a community council, there was a bit of a divide between the community council members themselves plus the younger generation. We have now, through the open project, a project that I'm a mentor with here in Shetland along with other community council members, there's a group of the younger generation that have now begun to set up their own board and what that entails is that they shall be getting their own committee and board up and running and they'll be specifically engaging with their own youth group and other members of the younger generation here in Shetland and liaison with the local community councils and the higher council in expressing their views on what could be done better and what things can be altered around Shetland to make it more supposed and environmentally friendly for everybody to get all the groups together and working together a lot better at the moment. That sounds great. It's an interesting thing. I have been racking my own mind around how to get young people engaged and I think there's a couple of things I'd be interested to hear but also I'm just going to open up because we're going to move to close and see if you don't have to necessarily respond to what I'm saying but there might be other things that you want to hear but one thought I had was around collaboration with the Duke of Edinburgh initiative because I think there's there's if people are going through Duke of Edinburgh I think there's a community aspect there but also I've been wondering about the whole idea and I know this would be a big thing that might go to the rebuilding aspect of maybe the whole of Scotland is the whole idea of universal basic income and that if there was because I think one of the things we've talked about is the amount of time that people have to put in to really be able to do this and I think I was thinking if the diversity of people actually had some kind of fundamental financial support then they would be able to participate much more in actually what we really need to be doing which is helping Scotland PLC do its thing and provide for our communities and along with that I've also been thinking about we've talked about improvement service does all this training once you're in a community council but I just wonder if we need to be at a high school level teaching young people around facilitation skills decision making proposal making how to kind of go into that space of tension where you're with people you don't agree with but to move through that process rather than getting stuck in that adversarial piece I feel like if we had that with teenagers learning those kinds of skills so skills that are my senses that school at the moment still tends to teach just to the job I mean not totally limited to that but just the job but if we taught to the community to be a member of community in civil society then you'd be great for your job but you would also have those underpinnings for for actually being part of the community so that's something that I've been racking my thoughts with but maybe you think about different things than I do because you're actually in those in those experiences so if anyone wants just to come in briefly Deborah handshot up there and then Steve one of the areas that was spoken about a lot earlier is planning support for community councils and it's not just how to respond or responding to you know very simple applications I think most of them are quite okay with that but it's the bigger applications the ones that have lots of technical details in space side community council last year in quick succession had some really big applications for new multings new biomass digesters and new woodlands and the capacity of them to read those documents and understand them so that they could then respond in the right way was was pretty much beyond them and you know it's not the community councils worked very hard and put in responses but they really needed some technical support on that and there wasn't necessarily the place to go which leads me on to like a national organisation I'm a massive fan of networking and I really think it does help with your workload it does actually reduce your workload to some extent if you're sharing ideas you're sharing documents if someone else has produced a document can you have a copy of it and then just tweak it to suit you it just makes it so much easier and then you can just keep talking to each other and the last thing you said about at school I used to be in a district council in democratic services and we did carry out local democracy week events at schools every October but again it's the time and resources and you know that would be brilliant I'd love to be able to go into schools and you know help show what community councils can do and talk about elections and things but I don't know who's got capacity really to do that but I like that idea of teaching to the community that yeah that would be fabulous thanks yeah great I think that's a really critical point around the technical support for planning as well Steve you wanted to come in yeah and I'll be very brief I promise it's a great believer international examples and it's part of the day job I cover in North America and the United States it's part of my role 2008 I was in an abama campaign office in Virginia and it was chocker with young people high school students who were manning phones and I assumed that it was because of the enthusiasm around the abama campaign at that time in 2008 but it was they were basically phoning people to get them to engage in voting voting reform or voting intent and it was part of graduating high school and this community engagement role was part of their they got credit for taking part in these types of activities and that was where that was the reason principle reason why they were there and it struck me that there was something to be said for actually having an element of high school curriculum which actually talks about to community engagement and about civic role quite frankly and maybe there's something in that that we could adopt anyway promise to beauty yeah I think that's a really great point um anything else that needs final words I think we've got everything donald just a quickie on the on the on the question about youth we recently the head teacher for a local bathgate academy is part and parcel of a big bathgate together group and she persuaded some of her senior pupils to come along and talk to us and give us some feedback of what they thought in the town and they had us right between the eyes basically they said there's nothing in bathgate for us nothing we go to limingston and it's expensive and you know it's not terribly friendly etc so it's nothing in bathgate and we we were really upset about this we've managed to get a local theatre who have carved out space for a youth cafe our local galley committee precession committee i've had discos for youths and we put a proposal to the three head teachers because our our kids are spread out amongst three different schools about a youth community council for the senior level they all come back said it was a great idea where people's were interested in just the wrong time in a year because we're studying for their exams so we're we're resurrecting it for the starting the next year and we're going to try to put together a youth council and if we're working in bathgate we're going to try and spread it across westlily but we really didn't have a clue what was going on with the with the youth who were very disaffected with their town that sounds tremendous did i hear somebody saying something Barry did you want to come in just thinking to say before the people at the moment there's a kind of gap in between directions but if you're involved in the community councils more often they can come they can learn and that way we know the experiences they've got from learning in school and also as well said by the youth council as well i think they're all more youth councils so that people encourage them to hang off their streets as well come into learning come out to the community and also people where we have politics they can come in learn about the councils how they work structure and then go from there maybe provide training as well to young people and from school onwards and see how that goes so maybe something like training for council worker councils or and that kind of aspect yeah so learning on the job in a way isn't it yeah that's great and john you wanted to come in yeah it's just a final point if that's okay yep just standing back i just wanted to personally encourage the committee in terms of going for significant reform because there is a real democratic deficit in my day job i work on regional local development across europe and we have virtually the poorest community development community empowerment and representation structures for that in in europe in terms of the absence of a community level of of influence we have towns of 10 20 50 000 people without any form of self-government that that should be a source of embarrassment to us as a sort of modern democratic european nation so i would really encourage the the committee in its work to think to think radically thank you very thank you very much for that encouragement and i yeah we do have this opportunity don't we with the local democracy bill coming forward and so i'm going to bring it to a close i clearly we could go on and discuss more i do want to say thank you for at least one of you mentioning community planning partnerships because we've just finished a piece of work which will be bring our report forward and obviously community councils play a role in that as well or should play a role more maybe than they do but thank you so much for joining us this morning this afternoon it is now i think it's been really useful and i'll just have i'll say happy birthday to all the community councils in scotland so we agreed at the start of the meeting to take the next items of the agenda in private so as that was the last public item for today and i'll close the public part of the meeting


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Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in today. We're looking at four nine millimeter handguns that I think are great for CCW each of them have a double-stack magazine and they are budget priced, so let's get to it Let's start out with this diamond back a m2. It's a nice looking handgun It's performed great for me and it has an MSRP of 339 people were buying these under $300 3.5 inch barrel take a look at that slide. It looks kind of neat with the black in between the Serrations and a top of the slide very nice grip texturing 12 rounds in the magazine also comes with a 17 round magazine three dot metal sights that are Glock interchangeable. I've got eight rounds loaded up Diamond back a m2 Nice handgun here for a budget price. Let's start on the I've had this gun for over a year now, and I've really enjoyed it does have a pick rail there for the accessories a Striker fighter indicator a loaded chamber sight hole and a great all-around handgun I'm yet to have a failure with this diamond back a m2 Here we have the canik TP 9 elite subcompact canik's smallest handgun With a 3.6 inch barrel a beautiful tungsten serco finished slide comes with a 12 and 15 round magazine. This is a 12 round Extended base plate on the magazine for three finger contact. You can see the trigger bar safety. There is red Doesn't have a pick rail Front serrations three dot metal sights optic ready a loaded chamber indicator bar Ambi slide stop I could go on interchangeable back straps striker fire indicator feature loaded To the max and it's a nice looking handgun people are picking this up for Little bit over three hundred dollars, and I think that's a great price For a gun with all those features. Let's take a few shots. We'll start on the right What a nice handgun this is happy to own it, and I've enjoyed it since day one Here we have the Taurus G3C They took the very popular G2C and made it even better with the G3C The three is the third generation. Let's start with the magazine three twelve round magazines Opposed to the two that the G2C gives you they put a tenor for finish on the slide They got rid of the loaded chamber indicator bar added a sight hole indicator still has the thumb safety I think it's the same grip. Some people say it's a little more textured But what I like most is that trigger they widened the trigger bar safety and it has a nice crisp single action trigger pull Metal sights that are Glock interchangeable front serrations and an MSRP of 305 74 a lightweight gun that a lot of people Really fell in love with and the G2C made people Believers in Taurus in many ways, and I think this G3C will do the same. We'll start with the Yeah, it's a fine shooter I've run well that was steel case and I've run others through this gun and it has Performed great. I haven't owned it real long You know just a couple months because that's when they released it But I'm very pleased with the upgrade and features and they also kept the MSRP down and added an additional magazine The Taurus G3C is the smallest of the four the Stoker STR-9C is the largest of the four, but it's still in that CCW size they took the full size STR-9 and made it a smaller model with a 3.8 inch barrel and a Little bit of a shorter grip there carries 13 rounds comes with two 13 round magazines It does have the deep cut slide serrations a loaded chamber bar there a very nice trigger A pick rail and a great shooter. I really shot this gun. Well, and I'm very happy to have it It's just a smaller version. They also have a matte finish on the slide 329 with one magazine and one backstrap But the three dot metal sights as well. Let's start on the left Yeah, Stoker did a great job with this and I I I'm very fond of it and shoot it well and for an MSRP of 329 you really can't go wrong with this handgun Well, there they are the Diamondback AM2 the canik TP-9 elite subcompact of Stoker STR-9C and the Taurus G3C Each are very nice their budget priced they in that CCW size range And each have a double-stack magazine in I think I demonstrated the shooting pretty well with these models as well It's raining out here. It just started pouring you may see that on the gun So I'm gonna pack up and get out of here, but if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe