Hey guys what is up welcome to my channel for today's video we are going to rank every single eyeshadow palette that I tried in the month of September from my least to my most favorite and if you want to see what those rankings are then just keep watching Hi guys if you're new here my name is Morgan I am a product knowledge enthusiast I just love knowing anything and everything about the new makeup items on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys and we're gonna go over all of the palettes that I tried in the month of September uh some are older most are newer and yeah it's a pretty decent month of palettes we had some real winners so I tried 10 new palettes in the month of September so we're gonna start off at number 10 my least favorite unfortunately that has to be the shantekai safari collection eye trio now I did do a whole review on this I just don't think it's worth the money I believe it was like 70 dollars or 60 70 80 dollars either way you get three shades and I feel like I love the elephant but I just feel like the overall general packaging is cheap for what you're paying for I don't like that these guys in here they move they're not even stable so the elephants are like upside down sideways it just looks cheap to me and the shadows are okay I like this palette I wore the taupe shade in my Charlotte Tilbury super nudes video I wore the gold shade in my Selena rare beauty review and I did a whole review and I liked the colors but it's just not worth the money these are more washes of colors I don't really like these all together mixed up in a look I just feel like they look better alone and while I do like the effect on my eye I just don't think this is worth the money at all I can't recommend that you get it and I was really excited for this product because this is the first Shantikai eyeshadow palette that I purchased and I thought it was like their single eye shadow so I was really excited and it's not like their single eye shadows the one that are like super glittery the luminous I can't remember what they're called but I absolutely love those those are worth every penny so I had very high hopes for this palette and I mean while I will continue to use it of course and when I use it it's not a bad experience don't get me wrong but it certainly is not worth the price tag so that is why that is ranking at number 10 so let's move on to at number nine and this is the Nomad Cosmetics Tokyo eyeshadow palette now I wanted to love this one so bad and I think the looks that I created with it are very pretty but it's just too much of a journey to get there and really like the looks even though they turn out pretty because the colors in this palette are pretty they don't really turn out how I envisioned so first of all I just love it because it's super cute that's why I purchased the palette the colors everything the whole theme of this really gorgeous I love Nomad's cosmetics vision behind their brand but I could not get down with this formula if I'm being completely honest love the color story love the whole story of the palette love how these are all shimmery shades love how these are all pastel mattes I just find these take too much to get to work you definitely definitely definitely need to use a white base with these or just find their pastels but I really do feel like these shadows fade in like five minutes flat after five minutes applying these I find that I need to reapply more to get the vibrancy that I'm looking for and overall I just there's something that's not there to fully complete my love for this palette because it looks so stunning but it takes too much work it takes too much rebuilding having to use that white base having to use glitter glue for these bottom shades and I just feel like the colors can tend to blend together I don't know I really do like Nomad cosmetics I still really do like this palette because the color story is just amazing in this guy and the looks are so very pretty but just when it comes to my experience with like high quality eyeshadows these just aren't quite there moving on to number eight this is from hood of beauty this is one of their three palettes that they released this month and this is the seance palette and to be honest I was just rather underwhelmed by this particular palette so while I do really enjoy this launch from hooda this palette in particular really is nothing special to me I feel like I can get these colors within her own line and like I said it's a pretty palette but I just wasn't impressed with it I wasn't in love with it I felt like it wasn't anything really original and you know what some of you guys might really like it it's funny because even though this is my least favorite of the three a lot of you guys this was your favorite because these are the most wearable colors but to me it's just such a warm normal palette that didn't stand out to me at all alright moving on to number seven and at this point I pretty much like all of these palettes don't have too many negative things to say but we have the ophra cosmetics collaboration with Leora she's my friend here and this palette is just adorable and it's very good quality I wasn't too sure what I would think of ophra's eyeshadow quality this is my first experience and I was very impressed I must say especially with this yellow and I think even though this palette has five shades it actually is very versatile you can get more looks than you think you would I love that you have this fun pop of green for like a green smoky eye or under the lash line so that makes it really fun again the yellow also really just brightens up the look and I really enjoyed this shade right here it can work as a great highlighter on the face or just like a neutral pop to the lid and I've done multiple looks with this palette I've of course played with the crazy colors and I've done looks with just these simple blush tones right here and it really creates just a great neutral eye look overall I'm very impressed with this palette and I think she did a great job curating these colors I wouldn't say that these are everyday colors that I personally go for but these have maybe go for colors that I don't normally go for and I'm just impressed with the overall quality and the versatility and I know seven seems kind of low but that's purely just coming from a point of colors that I wear all the time and it's not really these colors but I've been very impressed by this palette moving on to number six this is the hood of beauty purple haze palette now I've used this a few times more since my review and I still really do love the color story of this I think it's a very well curated purple palette but I will say quality wise I find the colors to fade and they also take a lot of building up on the eye so you do need to work with them a little bit but this is still ranking where it's ranking because I do love the color story so much and when I get the look that I want when it's there it's there you know it's really really nice so you do have to put a little bit of extra work in for this guy and make sure you have a good eyeshadow base glitter glue all of that stuff you have to know how to work with it so I do think it's really nice and I don't want to steer you away from it but do be aware you know this isn't the best formula I think the hood of formula in her bigger palettes are better than these guys right here but you do get great color stories and I just think that they curate the best palettes from this line and if you like purples I enjoy this purple palette a lot I've been wanting to grab for it because I love purple so much I've had to take my hands away from it and choose other palettes I'm always so tempted to use this palette just because of the way that it looks it's so appealing to me moving on to number five I think it's the packaging which is why I love this so much this is the Marc Jacobs terrific palette this is part of his very merry cherry holiday collection and it's kind of one side or the other as far as liking the packaging or not because you know what when you do think of Marc Jacobs you definitely think of luxury mature all of that and this is kind of cheapy matches my earrings juvenile whatever whatever I mean you guys know I love luxe expensive looking packaging but I also love cutesy juvenile packaging so I like the packaging the packaging is one of the reasons that I picked this up because this isn't necessarily a color story that I would go for on an everyday basis but I do really enjoy this palette now if you watch my original review with this shade right here to me I was disappointed in and when you have a palette with such a limited number of shades it is really important that every shade works really good so that you are getting a bigger bang for your buck a bigger palette okay if one or two don't work whatever but when it is a limited number everything used to work so that was the only disappointment that I had and also I had high hopes for the shadow because it could really be a game changer in this palette it's like a pivotal color but unfortunately this color didn't work but everything else works really great I'm especially in love with this glittery shade right here and like I said this may not be my everyday color story here but I really do enjoy this when I want a look that's kind of this color especially as a holiday's mirror I'm gonna want more colors like this so I've been enjoying the quality of this a lot the packaging it makes me happy I've grabbed for this palette a few more times since I got in it and I have enjoyed it quite a lot moving on to number four now this is not a new release it's a palette that I picked up during a Sephora sale and this is noir fume and I had this sitting for a while in my collection before I tried it which is very embarrassing but when you review makeup that's it just happens sometimes but anyways I love this color story now on the eyes you know what I will admit it does not look like anything special but you guys know how I love these more cool toned kind of neutrals and these are great everyday cool tone neutrals and of course with Tom Ford you get buttery smooth mattes they just blend incredibly I will say okay these two shimmer shades right here they don't look like anything special on the eye especially for me who likes a really metallic eyelid when I put them on I am a little bit like but you know what at the end of the day I just love these tones so much and this is such an easy palette to grab for the quality is great and if I do want a little bit extra pizzazz I'll just go into that glitter drawer that we all have with all of our single liquid glitters liquid eyeshadows and I'll pop that on the lid if I want something more these are base shades that I feel very comfortable going for it's great quality and I really enjoyed this palette for that reason as far as just everyday practicality this has been a go-to of mine and I'm really excited that I did end up adding this to my Tom Ford collection because I'd been eyeing it for a while and I do not regret it at all and I'm very very sorry it took me a long time to try you out you're kind of boring looking but I love you all right so let's move on to number three and this is the palette that I'm wearing right now I mean this for fall I just want to grab for it every day and it is the hood of beauty khaki haze now again quality is not luxury quality on this this takes a little bit of time to blend I will admit in my original review I think I used a really light hand or something I don't know but I did not experience blending issues and I wouldn't necessarily say I experienced blending issues at all but it's more so it just takes a little bit to work the shadow out so this isn't going to be a formula that blends itself out like you gotta put the work in to blend it out but I just love the tones in here so much I love the shimmer shades I just think they look stunning now I did use a glitter glue today because I really wanted the metallicness to show off in particular the color story in here is why this is ranking so high I do wish you know if we could get this in a Tom Ford formula this would be the ultimate palette for me I have got to say but yeah I want more palettes to look like this because I'm obsessed with that you can get greens you can get coppers like I have for today's look I just whoo it is a gorgeous palette and I do recommend this palette for sure I've almost sabotaged myself with buying such amazing luxury makeup because now if something is not luxury quality I'm like like I'm a snob about it and I have to stop this I did not pay a luxury price for this you know it shouldn't have luxury quality anyways it's a gorgeous palette highly recommended for this time of year I feel like I get a lot of different looks with it that I'm really into so I've been loving that okay so let's move on to numero dos charlotte tilbury's bejeweled eyes to hypnotize I love the color story in this guy and I love charlotte tilbury eyeshadows I really do they have snuck up on me in the last year and have become one of my favorite formulas for a while I tried to convince myself that they were overpriced and just not worth the money she must have changed her formula like she did change her formula and ever since she's kind of upped her eyeshadow game they are so good so good and I love these big guys because they are such a good value and there is no compromise in the quality these are still the same quality that are in her quads I just love the different options that you have here you have cool tone browns over here you have nice purples a more pinky look and then a more warm golden kind of brown kind of look and it's just such great colors to grab for I've mentioned this multiple times it's not my favorite of these longer palettes that she's come out with it's really not but they're all just so good and I haven't grabbed for this a lot I will be honest they're just been so many options I've been overwhelmed but I do enjoy the quality of this and I know as time goes on it's definitely going to get a lot more use out of me because the colors are just so good and the quality is just so good I'm gonna use this tomorrow because I need to give it some love all right so let's move on to my number one favorite and honestly I feel like this should not come as a surprise to you guys Natasha Denona of course her glam palette I don't even want to talk about this too much because I've already said everything I've had to say about this in every single one of my videos cool tones my favorite this is a cool tone palette it's also one of my favorite formulas because Natasha 100% of this is really great quality and it's just a very well curated thought out palette there are some neutral neutral tones but there's also some cool neutral tones and it's just a fabulous everyday palette for me I want to grab for it every day I've had to stop myself because there's a billion other palettes that I also want to grab for every day and this is one that I know is going to be used and be used as time goes on because it is just a palette that I feel so comfortable with and I know every time I wear this I'm going to love the look that I come out with so I have to not use it because it will be used a ton it's just a gorgeous palette and I love the direction that the makeup trends are going towards more cool tones because I think people just didn't appreciate them and they're so flattering I feel like and I love a cool toned glam look okay cool tones don't have to be blue you know they can be like these there are such a thing as more neutral base like taupey brown cool tones those are my jam and this palette just I was looking through all of my Natasha Denona midi palettes and all three that she's come out with this year have been bombed because I'm starting to think of okay like what are my 2020 favorites I pulled out the love palettes the bronze palette in this and I was like I might have to put all three of these in because she killed it love wasn't my favorite and I think it's a little bit inconsistent with the quality but I used it a ton I just kept grabbing for it and then bronze of course is just like like just summer delicious it even looks like the look that I have on today and then she came in with this and stole my heart Natasha did a great job with her releases this year anyways I'm getting off on a tangent that is all I have for today's video those are all of the palettes that I tried in the month of September make sure you guys keep an eye out next month for when I do the palettes I've tried in October currently working on that and let me know your thoughts on these palettes if you've tried them so that's all I have I will see you guys in the next one make sure you subscribe to my channel like this video comment all that good stuff and have a wonderful day


YouTube team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and another throwback, baby another Another one bites the dust And my apologies. I couldn't bring you all this video earlier cuz I was out and about And I first saw the news. I'm like whoa Josh Norman's out of there wasn't really shocked to surprise anything But then right when I got home the Redskins went and added Paul Richardson to the list too and These are two big acquisitions That they did couple. Yeah, I know Paul Richardson was about two years ago in free agency He came from the Seattle Seahawks Speedster. He was supposed to be the downfield deep threat and of course Josh Norman, we all know he had his breakout year with the Carolina Panthers and He did all right with the Redskins, but um, it's recently he didn't live up to his uh, the standards with his contract and Like I just said, I wasn't surprised that the Redskins did this. I mean it is the time of year I do definitely respect and this I do respect the Redskins for doing it now Because with the Redskins releasing both Josh Norman and Paul Richardson now They give them a leg up on the competition And again when I say that I mean it allows both Josh Norman and Paul Richardson to be free agents immediately They don't have to wait until March 18th. I believe that's the date to enter free agency. They get to do it now but This also serves as a reminder that with the Redskins It seems to be the same old story It seems to be the same old story Redskins are a team that They'll they they will always make a few of the sort of sexy free agent signings a big splash names And I mean I think back to and I know a lot of Redskins fans can go back even further But it just reminds me of guys like, uh, clinton portis when they traded a champ barely for clinton portis um When they uh, obviously Albert Haynesworth, he's a name that I know a lot of Redskins fans are like, oh gosh Why do you have to bring that up? um, and then of course there's been other guys throughout the years um Then but yeah, donovan mcnaib. He was another one. I forgot that he was with the Redskins as a matter of fact But yeah, that was oof big yikes um, and then more recently, of course, josh norman and paul Richardson but the thing with the Redskins is like I I don't have a problem with the Redskins. I didn't have a problem with anybody But I feel like it's just it's going to continue to be the same thing the same cycle every single year until There are significant changes Significant changes and and the most significant that I mean it's not a head coach. No It's not an offense or defensive coordinator. No Mm-hmm Stan Snyder Stan Snyder That is the only way that I see any positive coming from the Redskins They can have a great draft They can make all these key free agent signings They can make a few nice trades here and there But I just feel like it's always going to be the same thing. It's going to be the same cycle rinse and repeat until ownership changes Because dan Snyder has had the team for a pretty long time now A very very long time now That's like the key ingredient to all this failure, man You see a pattern man. You can go through whatever head coach you want to go through You can have whatever quarterback, whatever offensive defensive court. You can have all of that stuff But if it's not right at the top It's going to be the same thing. Look at the browns Look at the browns the browns. Oh man Especially last year, but you can I mean forever now The browns they they brought in this player that player that they drafted this guy that guy that guy But it starts at the top man Stars at the top Now josh norman, um, he's gonna find a job. He definitely both of these guys are gonna be in the nfl So it ain't like this is these are career ending releases And you know what these guys hate to say it, but these guys might actually be a little bit happy Of course, you never want to get fired from your job, but at the same time If you get to leave that organization, even though you did make the decision to go there Both of them made the decisions to go there so But still they they're leaving now So It's like uh, all right. What's next? What's gonna be next? So but again, like I said, I do respect that the Redskins did do it now Instead of after free agency started because if they would have done an after free agency started then they would have held these guys back from maximizing their earning potential Maximizing how much money they can get in and their next contract So at least at least kudos to the Redskins for doing that. I guess they did the right thing with that, but Uh, josh norman, he can go to a cornerback in 80 team Uh, he uh, I believe he's just an outside corner. Does he play inside? I don't believe so and if he does I don't believe he does it well Um, but he can help somebody He can help somebody Um, and you can sign him you can sign both of these guys without having to give up a compensatory pick So I know y'all know about the compensatory pick formula Uh, but yeah, so again, they'll find new homes rather quickly So shout out to the Redskins for doing something kind of right uh and shout out to josh norman and paul regison On their next journey. So Redskins they they they said that jordan re could be up next Said he could be up next So we're gonna see but team keep it clean appreciate y'all. I love y'all and just like josh norman and paul regison I'm out


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network I don't think I could have planned a week off any better because when you come back from a week away from work You're kind of groggy You don't really want to work or anything like that and it's not exactly where you want to dive back in both feet first and go full Out luckily for me. I'm coming back for the MLB all-star break Which means things are a little bit quiet things a little bit slower around here Which means we can ease our way back in but still some fun because the home run derby to me has always been One of the best events the entire summer So we're gonna break down the derby for tonight talk about Hopefully some things I'm seeing maybe talk about some first-hand matchups and bets that I like to get you ready to enjoy Tonight's derby in a fun fun way welcome on into covering this spread That's right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Saunas. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire here to preview tonight's MLB home run derby breaking down Hopefully the spots we can see some value based on the odds over at Fandall sportsbook Do you want to extend a big? Thank you to Austin Swain for filling it for me across this past week giving you some insights on Monday And then Wednesday through Friday Austin. Thank you as always. Thank you Tom back you as well filling it for me over on the solo shot be hearing from those guys again Then not too distant future, but I'm here for a bit So you have to deal with me for it right now if you're watching over on Fandall TV or the Fandall YouTube page Apologies to the lack of setup. 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So proceed with caution for sure. The big thing to consider typically is the park because Obviously parks are different. They are not congruent where it could be much better for writing than for lefties And that is the case this year because the overall home run park factor at T-Mobile Park is 98 at baseball savants With a hundred being averaged there. So overall, it's 98 to bit below average But it's 104 for righties and 90 for lefties So right-handed batters would have a pretty big leg up And I went into the sinking glad look to the field yet thinking okay cool Just you know fade the lefties but the only guy in the derby who is not a righty is Adley rushman he's a switch hitter and He said he'll likely start batting left-handed and may switch during the round to keep things fresh I don't think we can glean much from that I do think it downgrades rushman a bit being that he is a more powerful batter as a left-handed batter than a righty So if he does go righty, it's gonna downgrade his overall His overall I would say it's skill in that regard as far as trying to hit home runs So I would downgrade rushman. That's the only take that we have from the park for tonight second thing to consider as a format because the format changed Where it used to be based on outs be be bad from before 2014 on but from 2015 on It's based on time instead and that's made a pretty big difference and if you watch the derby to me It always seems like you see guys get kind of gas You see them get worn out as the round goes long So it seems like a lot of physical big guys have won the derby in this time All of the winners from 2015 on have weighed at least 210 pounds and four out of the seven have weighed at least 245 era judges in their Jean-Carlo Stanton and Pete Alonso twice So four to seven winners 245 pounds are heavier only two guys in this year's field that weigh that much or weigh that much are Pete Alonso and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. And not surprisingly they have been in the same derby once that was in Cleveland Back in 2019 I was at that one Which is a lot of fun and they met in the finals Vlad put on a massive show Alonso eventually won So it's not a huge surprise based on the weight trend that both those guys Did do well in the one derby. They were together back in 2019 as far as other weights go at the Richmond Let's say 230 Julio Rodriguez 228 Luis Robert is 220 at least Garcia is 205 The two guys with low weights that I would deem to be kind of red flags may give us some policy or Randy Orosa rena and Mookie Betts both those guys 185 and 180 Respectively so I would say for them. That's a bit of a concern It's not a cross-off because again We're dealing with a sample of seven derbies and it's paired with anecdotal Evans watching guys get gassed I mean seeing the physical guys kind of come through So it's not fully conjecture, but I do think I would Downgrade those guys a bit as a result of their weight Finally, I do think it's worthwhile to consider batting statistics I done a study a couple years ago About which numbers correlated best to success in the home run derby and at the time Fly ball rate was a big key and it makes sense because at the time I think this was 2016 2017 or so it was right when they had switched to being timed instead of outs If it's if you're a line drive batter, you can get you can run out of ten outs pretty fast there so I Think that that's why we can potentially downplay that like Juan Soto was the winner last year and so too Didn't have a better fly ball right last year than typically he typically does but he's never really been a huge fly ball guy I do still want to look at it because Peter Lonzo is the lone two-time winner in this time And he puts the ball in the air a ton But it's possible that that factor is not as important as it once was so The hand in this stuff doesn't really gives huge leg up because it's kind of just knocking down Richmond the weight stuff I do think bumps up with Vladimir Guerrero junior and Peter Lonzo and then that does bump down a bit Mookie bets and Randy Arosa reina and then as far as the stats go we'll dig into those when we talk about the individual match ups And lucky for us over at fangal. You can bet on the individual matchups in a round once Let's dig into those and see if we there's any value here that we do want to take before we talk about the overall derby winner here In just one second first round one match was the least robert taking on adley ruchman Robert is minus 250 rushman plus 198 as mentioned I'm pretty low on rushman and that's as a result of the fact that he'll be Left-handed if he is playing to his strengths, but right hand if he's playing to the the the park strengths I don't think that's a great, you know mesh there So I'm lower on him then I am on robert But the problem is that the price here is pretty steep minus 250 he says to me that other betters who have bet into this market Already are saying the exact same thing Ruchman does have the weight edge. He does You know it does have that for sure But robert is going to be the guy with the edge everywhere else as far as flight ball rate barrel rate launch angle exit Vilo Robert has the edge there. I think because this is a somewhat chaotic hard to predict event I can't get to minus 250 on robert's, but I think that makes it a stay away I'm definitely not taking the ruchman as an underdog to me This one's a no bet as always. No bet is better than losing bet So I'll pass on that first one, but in my head if I'm filling out a bracket I'm penciling robert into round two based on pretty much everything that we discussed the second round one matchup Hey, it's going to be at least Garcia taking on Randy arosa rena Not the second matchup But the one in the same side of that bracket as with robert and ruchman Garcia is minus 144 and arosa rena is plus 188 Now I've thought maybe that Garcia when I looked at his weight could be a bit of a concern because he's a 205 But ruch rena is 185 Garcia does have the edge well in flight ball rates barrel rates launch angle and then exit Vilo pretty similar For those two guys. So you're getting Garcia minus 144 I don't think that's a bad number by any means puts implied odds to Bipola 60 percent I think that's pretty fair based on the factors that are in play here because he is 20 pounds heavier than arosa rena and does have the edge elsewhere as well So to me I think if I'm looking at a first round matchup that I'd actually want to bet The one I am most inclined to take would be Garcia minus 140 for taking on arosa rena So I'll put him in the second round in my head again And I think that the minus 144 and Garcia is actually a decent first round bet for the derby Looking at the other half of the bracket We got the rematch from last year Pete Alonso taking on Julio Rodriguez Rodriguez knocking out Alonso now They get to go head to head once again Alonso is minus 170 Rodriguez is plus 138 in this market and I Think the last year was not a huge surprise because Rodriguez has prodigious power and you look at his exit Vilo 92.8 miles per hour this year that is a massive number It is higher than what Alonso has as well But the weight favors Alonso although Rodriguez is pretty high in that regard as well Which is a good thing for him fly ball rate favors Alonso barrel rate favors Alonso launch angle favors Alonso We haven't seen Rodriguez putting the ball in the air a ton so far this year And I think it I think that does still matter to an extent even if it's not as big of a factor as it was Back in the day. So to me I might not feel good enough to bet Alonso minus 170 But I think it's pretty close and I do feel good about putting in it into the second round I would say this is a pretty concerning matchup for Alonso for sure because it's Rodriguez But it's not concerning enough where I'm truly truly digging Alonso when it comes to the outright market Looking at the home run derby winner market, but it is a factor to consider I think that Alonso will advance here into the second round The winner that will face the winner to Mookie Betts and Vladimir Guerrero junior This is a massive weight discrepancy in this one Betts listed at 180 Guerrero listed at 245 So that's a huge red flag for Mookie there I will say though that Betts kind of from a data perspective Hangs everywhere else because his fly ball rate is 49% whereas Guerrero's is 33% Barrel rate pretty similar between the two guys Launch angle nineteen point seven percent for Betts nine point one percent for Vlad. Now in Vlad's defense He crushes the ball when it's a line drive And if he gives a little bit more lift as we saw back in 2019, he can go bananas. So I Don't want to overweigh this and suddenly be like oh, maybe Betts is an underdog here plus 172 I think that the launching or the exit velocity does matter for Vlad The fact that he can actually crush a ball matters And I think that's enough where I'm not gonna take Betts at plus 172 I would say though if you're looking for a first-run upset Betts may be the guy best position to do so because of the launch angle because of the flat ball rates Because he's a very good overall hitter. I can't get there myself at plus 172 because I am concerned about The weight discrepancy between these two guys Mookie is a phenomenal athlete But at some point that format is pretty pretty tough and it will wear on you So I think there are some upset potential here with Betts at plus 172 I will not take that myself, but I do think it's worth noting that it's a bit of a concern for Guerrero Let's put Vlad in the second round though Let's just assume that he does get past Betts and is facing Alonso in the second rounds We turn our focus towards the outright market instead because these two guys are the two favorites of plus 324 Alonso plus 350 for Guerrero Once we get there, that's where the red flags around Guerrero become a bigger concern. I think that again He's a good option overall But when we're facing Pete Alonso in the second round we can be more nitpicky Alonso has the has a similar way to Guerrero so no difference there much bigger fly ball rate for Alonso and The barrel rate is also higher for him in large part because he puts the ball in the air more often You can't barrel it if it's on the ground So I would say in round two. That's where the concerns around Guerrero becoming bigger That's why I can't get to Guerrero even though he is plus 350 so a bit longer than Alonso's odds at plus 320 I think the other takeaway from this is that this half of the bracket is brutal because Betts is a phenomenal player very good, and you've got Three of the four heaviest batters in this field all in the bottom half of the bracket so that could make you a bit wary of Alonso Guerrero in this half into Rodriguez as well Because the path is going to be so tough for them to get to the final the counterpoint That would be that whoever from this side of the bracket makes it to the final I think would be the favorites unless it's a less as best then maybe not then but if it's anyone else I'd say they'd probably be the favorite so they might want just just beating up on each other which is a Something that definitely could happen And that's why it's hard to be super enthusiastic about the shorter Let's take a look back to the top half that was robert's taking on at least Garcia in the second round for us Wait does favor robert plus he's a 220 Garcia of 205 Fly ball rate favors Garcia launch angle favors Garcia or sorry barrel rate favors Garcia launch angle favors robert's and Exit below favors Garcia as well Given that robert is not a whole lot heavier than Garcia. It's 15 pounds difference I don't feel confident in saying that robert should be four to one whereas Garcia is seven to one I think that matchup will be pretty even and again, I know that Part of that's because robert is more likely to advance in the first round than Garcia is but in the second round I could see that being a pretty competitive matchup. So I Think that if I'm looking for a longer shot Garcia is probably the one guy I consider because the top half of the bracket has an easier path in my eyes to get to the final and He also is somebody does great out decently well beyond the weight being a bit lower. I think it's 205 It's not as low as a roce arena in bets at least even though it's not quite where you'd want to be So I think if I'm looking for a longer shot, I would look at Garcia at seven to one With that all said I do feel like if I'm making a bet in the outright market It would be on the favorite Peter Lonzo at plus 320 again. The weight is there 245 We want those big guys. He checks that box puts the ball in the air a ton He is a massive barrel guy right handed batter, which is great Again, rutchman to be in the loan exception in that regard and we've seen him do it twice before He's won this event twice already Which means he knows that the format works in this exact same format He has thrived in that format and taking down a lot of these same guys previously outside of Rodriguez So if I'm betting the outright market, I think that a Lonzo at plus 320 would be the way to go It is a difficult path for sure to get from facing Rodriguez in the first round to all the way to the final and He'll face a tough second round matchup as well But I do feel like if he gets the final he'd be the pretty heavy favorite over everybody in the top half of the bracket So to me if I am betting the outright market give me Peter Lonzo plus 320 Again with the massive caveat being I don't have a model for this. I don't know if this is Correct. We're just looking for trends looking for data We can identify that puts in the right path towards identifying who win this derby that could lead us down the wrong path We want to keep that in mind for sure, but I think I think we're feeling pretty good about this And we'll see how it goes out But again the two bets considering most Lonzo plus 320 to win it all and then at least Garcia to win his first round Matchup minus 144 against Randy a rose Serena. That's gonna do it for today here on covering the spread We are back once again tomorrow Brandon can do it was gonna swing by we're gonna talk some golf with Brandon as always Getting more back into our regular schedule and funds shows planned later on this week as well As we get it set up for the second half of the MLB season Do not forget to subscribe to the covering the spread podcast feed wherever you get your podcast If you like what you hear leave us a five star rating enough a podcast or Spotify and also check us out once again over on the Fandal YouTube page and On Fandal TV plus if you've got any questions for me I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis J. I am SA NNES You can also follow the Fandal podcast network at Fandal podcast want to thank you all for tuning in for today Good luck to you with your bets across the home run derby. Enjoy the action for tonight Have fun. We'll talk to you once again tomorrow This has been covering the spread right here on the Fandal podcast network


Okay, we are live. Welcome to the last JSO Coinee session for students. Today is April 9th, so this is deadline for applications. We will have some Coinee topics today, but generally the most of the students have already submitted their proposals, final questions. It's possible to do some edits if needed, but yeah, we expect that the most of the projects are completed and they're waiting for reviews, which will happen over the next few weeks. So, yeah, let's just proceed with questions. Yeah, I just have one question. I have written how I'll approach the problem statement. Do I need to make a flow chart diagram? See, I'm doing machine learning plugin for Jenkins. Mm-hmm. So do I need to make a flow chart diagram for the same as well? Yeah, I'm not sure which exact flow chart you need. I can show you what we expect in the proposals. Just a second. Do you see my screen? Yeah, yeah, I can see it. Okay, just a second, I will present to everyone. Yeah, that should be okay. So, yeah, let's go to our client for students. Okay, so here maybe we have, sorry, I have to mute you again. There is a background noise, okay. Okay, so here we have information for students and we have information about what should be in the proposal. Why do we have it? Student selection process. I would feel some way here. Maybe, yeah, here, there is a student proposal section. So the most of the information is actually located in the GSoc student guide. It explains what is expected. There are common sessions like yeah, he benefits to the community deliverables. So what you plan to deliver to in terms of, for example, new plugins, et cetera, and other information which will help. In addition to that, actually Jenkins project has nothing really required. So if you follow these official GSoc guidelines, they will address the most of the questions. But we have some recommendations. For example, you can have contribution history, especially if you contributed to Jenkins or other open source projects, you can get more information about design for your project if you have time for that. And yeah, then all kinds of additional information. What we really suggest that you will spend some time on clarifying what are your other commitments. Because we've hit several cases when they're going to disclose commitments which will hit the project. So now we expect to have a list of commitments in the application. And here you can just put all your plans which I expected to take a lot of time. Of course, life happens, but if you have something already planned for the summer or for the coming into the morning period, it would be great if you just list these commitments in your proposal. And effectively that's it. So if you want to create a flow charge for your project, if you want to create additional design, et cetera, you are more than welcome to do that. You can put it in the proposal directly or you can add appendix to the proposal. But yeah, there's not that much mandatory information. But yeah, everything which can support your application is something we're welcome to add. Does that answer your question? Yes, thank you very much. Okay, welcome. So if I share my proposal now, will that be preferred? Will that be what? Yeah, will that be appropriate? Like if you go through it just once and suggest some edits or... Oh, well, I can commit on that. But if you send me the proposal, there is a Gitterchart for a machine learning project put it there, put it to the JSOC management piece. And hopefully some people have some time to review. Yeah, the proposal submitted on the last date while you have less time to get feedback. Sure, no problem. Thank you. Okay, thank you too. So Prasthik, anything from you today? Hello, sir. Yeah. Sir, not related to project, but I just wanted to know your feedback about my proposal. I've already submitted it. Mm-hmm. I've already submitted it. The final PDF has already been submitted. So I just wanted to know your feedback because if there are any changes that you desire, I can still edit it. Well, the latest version was okay. So yeah, there may be some changes which would be nice. But again, at this stage, our main expectation is to just have a proposal to talk to student, to understand what would be the preferences, et cetera. We will be analyzing the design during the community bonding. So right now, there is no strict need to have a final design. Everything may shift a bit because when we do reality mapping together with mentors, yeah, the proposals may shift a bit. But yeah, the version I've seen was okay. Okay, thank you, sir. That was my only question. And I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you very much. Like the Jenkins community, it was very welcoming. It was very supportive. And especially you and Klaus, sir. Thank you very much, sir. That is it. Thank you too. We are trying to do our best. We can know the time constraints, but yeah, I hope it will be a great JSOC. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, this is probably the last meeting. I don't expect many students to join today. So we can just spend more time on questions. So we can close down the meeting once there is no questions. So yeah. If you have anything else to ask, just do it. Like confirmation from Google, it does not come right now, sir, right now, sir, like confirmation. Confirmation, what do you mean? Confirmation means like email confirmation. It just showed in the display piece that it has already been submitted. So I guess that's... Yeah, if it shows in the... So just a second, I'll check your status. Because yeah, we also have Fadmin interface. Okay. But yeah, I believe that everything was okay. Just a second. Yeah, I see your proposal, the status is final. So it should be okay. All right. Okay, sir. Okay. Yeah, so it... Yeah, Google doesn't really send much confirmations, I believe. But yeah, from what I see, everything looks to be fine. Okay, okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. No. So yeah, we've got quite a number of tropical solidarity. Yeah, there will be still some last minute ones, but we'll see what gets admitted. Okay, so if there is no more questions, just have a good day and I'll stop the broadcast. Yeah, sorry that I had to move the meeting today, but yeah, commitments which unfortunately cannot cancel. It's fine, sir, thank you. Anything, get your chats because I will process everything there today. Okay. Okay, sir. Okay, sir. Thank you, thank you. Have a nice day. Last question.


The House of Representatives ad hoc media committee says the House will announce its standing committees before proceeding for its yearly midterm break. This information is coming as part of the committee's daily media briefing with the House of Assembly press call on Tuesday. The committee, according to the chairperson Honorable Karija Bukkar Abba, sees the opportunity to inform the media also that the committee is already sitting to ensure that the position of the chairman, deputy and members will be done in such a way that membership is evenly distributed. As you are all aware, today the leadership of the House was announced, the remaining leadership. Initially the speaker and deputy speaker were elected before, were nominated and they were endorsed by a big majority of the House and we have to go on recess because of the summer break and coming back, the minority and the majority have told us, we've been told of the leaders that are going to form part of the rest of the leadership and so we'd like to let you know that this was a uniform decision by the House to endorse the members that have been nominated and approved by the whole members of the House of Representatives as it is they wanted to settle the issue of the leadership first which it has been done accordingly and the issue of committee will flow and this will come before September before we go on holiday. and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


All right, next up is Andrew with another, you know, these are those things, another tip he says, if you're in the camera app and you would like to change between the options, the types of things that the camera app is doing, video, photo, portrait, etc. at the bottom, you can just tap the name of it on the, you know, on the screen and it'll jump right to it. You can also swipe them back and forth on the bottom of the screen, but as Andrew continues, did you know that you can also swipe higher up on the screen instead? So you can swipe like just in the middle of the screen back and forth and it will switch from photo to video to portrait and, you know, all of the other different modes that whatever your phone's camera has. Pretty good tip. I like it. These are good. It works. It does. Yeah, it does.


I see myself in Junior Secondary as being the sort of person that moulds the kids as they move through into Year 8 and Year 9. So if we have them in Year 7 we can really shape them and make sure that their transition to high school is really easy and seamless so that they don't struggle with things and that we just sort of nurture them and take them onto sort of that high school journey and just keep them going. We're nurturing them into becoming good social people, part of the community, by instilling in them good values and beliefs within themselves and how to treat other people, work with other people, we're moulding them into good individuals for later life. Primary school teachers, particularly Year 5 to 7 primary school teachers, should give serious consideration to teaching in the Junior Secondary environment. It's a great opportunity to apply those wonderful skills that you've learnt as a primary school teacher in the Junior Secondary environment. This is it. I love teaching Junior Secondary on here this day.


What I'm going to talk about today is the chemistry of money, and specifically the chemistry of Bitcoin. I want to talk about one of the aspects of Bitcoin that makes it so exciting and so interesting, that yet most of us don't even notice it there until we study Bitcoin for one or two years. Bitcoin is a bit like an onion. You have to unwrap it, and as you unwrap it, you just find one more layer. I started five years ago, but I'm still unwrapping. I'm finding more and more things that surprise me every day about Bitcoin. One of the things that surprised me about Bitcoin is that, when I first encountered it, it looked like a relatively familiar banking system. I went to well-known sites like Blockchain Info, and I could see transactions, and I clicked on the transaction, and it said sender, receiver, and account. I was like, okay, this is pretty familiar, banking, great. Then I thought, let me look at the source code and see how this works. I'm a programmer, a computer scientist, and I'll try to understand how the system does these things. I went through the source code, and if you search for sender, receiver, and balance, and account, you won't find anything, because none of those things actually exist in Bitcoin. That really surprised me. When I looked at the source code, none of the things I expected to find there were actually there. You'd expect that a banking system, as it appeared to be, has been designed to do certain things in a very specific way. Bitcoin isn't like that. It's not like that at all. How many of you have looked into the source code at all, or understand the technical underpinnings? A few people in this room. So you go digging in there, and there's no balance, and there's UTXO, and there's no senders, there's inputs, and they don't really correspond to senders, and then a transaction has outputs, which don't really correspond to receivers. You realize that, suddenly, what you're looking at is almost this quantum or atomic nature of Bitcoin. In chemistry, we have elements like copper, steel, and iron. Well, steel isn't an element, but copper, iron, helium, whatever. Chemistry gives you this enormous complexity of things that you can combine to make interesting things like people. And toasters. But when you dig into the chemistry, you realize copper isn't a thing. Copper is a pattern of protons, neutrons, and electrons. There is no copper. Copper is just protons. One proton is just the same as another proton, and if you break it up, that proton can just as happily be part of helium. It doesn't care. There's nothing about that specific proton that makes it part of copper. Chemistry is one layer, but underneath that is atomic physics, and that layer is very simple. It's very simple. It has a handful of elements, and this handful of, you know, just a few elements make up all of the chemistry we know, hundredsome elements in nature, that all have unique and different properties that are completely different. Some of them are liquid, some of them are metals, some of them are gases. They behave differently. Some are acidic, some are not. But none of that is in their basic makeup. These are just patterns. Bitcoin has this fundamental atomic structure, this elemental structure. The elements of Bitcoin are the components of a transaction, and the elements of the scripting language. Those elements have nothing to do with traditional banking. You don't see anything about accounts, balances, senders, and receivers. Those elements are looking for fundamental mathematical properties and cryptographic properties. Whether a hash is equal to another hash, whether an elliptic curve signature matches another elliptic curve signature, manipulations of numbers, etc., etc. What you see on the surface, the transactions, are just constructs. They are a specific way of mashing up these elements to create something that kind of looks like a bank. Which is great, because if you are new to Bitcoin and someone tells you, well, there is an account, a sender, and a receiver, you are like, okay, I understand this. You have a wallet, but your wallet doesn't have coins, it has keys, and those keys can be copied. Now you are like, whoa, your wallet can be copied. Now you are losing me. This doesn't quite match my experience. Things get complicated because Bitcoin isn't what you think it is. It is a platform. It is not a payment network, it is not a currency, it is not a banking system. It is a platform that guarantees certain trust functions. Now, if you happen to have a platform that guarantees certain trust functions, one very useful application for that is to build a currency and a payment network. But you can build more things. When I was a child, my favorite toy was Lego. And the reason my favorite toy was Lego was not because what is on the box. Because when I took a Lego set, I did not build what is on the box. If the box had a red fire truck, I would build a dragon. Or a hippopotamus giraffe. Or something that didn't exist. Or some strange idea that I had. And so that is what I liked about it. I could take these basic building blocks, and I could build whatever I want. Now, what this does is it changes the perspective of how you look at things. Because from an abstract perspective, Lego is messy.   And 20 minutes after I started playing with it, I'm bored.  But Lego allows me to do that. As I grew older, I started getting into cooking as a hobby. And what I loved about cooking is that it is the perfect combination of art and science. Because if you fundamentally understand how the ingredients work, and how they behave, and how their chemistry changes when they are combined, or when you add a catalyst like salt, or when you apply heat to them, then you can create anything imaginable. And so then you can create this idea of what you want to make when you're cooking. And as long as you understand how the ingredients work, you can execute and deliver that thing you wanted to create. And Bitcoin encompasses that elemental nature. It doesn't give you a final result. It gives you a set of ingredients and a recipe. It gives you a set of Lego blocks, and a photo on the box that looks like a red fire truck. And when we present that to the world, and the financial companies look at that, they say, well, your fire truck has sharp edges, and it's made of silly little blocks. Or you take the ingredients, and you put them together, and you make a burger. And in Bitcoin, we take the ingredients, we put them together, and we make a banking payment system, and the banks come and look at that. And it's as if they're saying to us, your burger is okay, but in McDonald's we can make it in 45 seconds. And we can sell a billion of them. So why do you need a chef, ingredients, a recipe, if you can just churn out a billion of them? And they're missing the point. And the point is not generating a billion copies of the same inferior product. The point is not getting the plastic injection molded plastic red truck that I'm going to be bored of in five seconds. The point is unleashing my creativity by giving me the tools and the elements I need to build something unique, to build something new. And I can guarantee you, my little red fire truck, or the burger I just built, I didn't do it, I didn't build the burger as fast as McDonald's, or as cheap as McDonald's. And my little red fire truck isn't as smooth as the Chinese copy. But I can also make albondegas with red tomato sauce, and I can also make a hippopotamus giraffe. And you can't do that with a prefabricated toy, and you can't do that in your McDonald's kitchen. I've unleashed my creativity. With Bitcoin, if you look just at some of the elements, you're beginning to see people realize that this is a set of ingredients, and you have one recipe, but you can make a different recipe. And so people are now trying to recombine these ingredients, and they say, well, if I have atomic transactions, and input versus output sums, and digital signatures, I can build a project that does Kickstarter projects, where you have a single transaction that can be funded by multiple people, but only if all of the amount is funded is it a valid transaction. That's the same elements I use to make a payment to you for a dollar over Bitcoin, but you can recombine them differently, and now you've got a crowdfunding platform. And then somebody else says, well, if we use two of two signatures, multi-signature, with transaction time locks, we can do a payment channel that charges for video streaming by the second, and that's a new recipe that no one had come up with before. And we can take that, and then we introduce this new thing, which is hash lock time contracts, and we can make multiple payment channels connected together, and then we've got Lightning Network, and that's a new recipe that no one has ever seen before.  And the point is that we're not trying to sell a billion burgers in 45 seconds each, we're trying to unleash the creativity of an entire generation. We're building a system on top of which a thousand applications that require trust can be built.   We have tested this with the focus groups and the marketing teams we can produce them by the millions, they only cost three cents, they have a very small amount of lead paint and poisonous toxic carcinogenic hydrocarbons, not a problem, and we can do this very cheaply and very profitably, but they can't build anything else with that factory. And when you build a kitchen like McDonald's, you can churn out burgers every 45 seconds, but you can't make albondigas, you can't make something else, you are streamlined to do one thing and one thing only, and as long as that serves your profit line, it's okay, because I'm sure you focus group tested it to make sure that that's what everybody wanted. And that is a terrible way to build an economy, and that is a terrible way to build a financial system, and that is a terrible way to build a payment network, because effectively what the banks are saying to us is, we focus tested this, and what people want is the ability, instead of swiping their Visa card, they can wave it over the reader, saving almost two seconds and reducing their effort by at least four calories. I mean, we could deal with the four billion people who have no access to banking or clean water, we could deal with the fact that our world is a fragmented mess where the vast majority of humanity has no access to financial services, or we could reduce the shopper's effort and make a swipe card into a float card. We could face the fact that the reason more than four billion people are unbanked is because we require everyone to be identified on every side of every transaction, so that we can build a totalitarian surveillance system that the Stasi would be jealous of to monitor every financial transaction from every corner of the planet, because we have persuaded ourselves that our bourgeois sense of security will be protected not by solving poverty and not by reducing perhaps the bombing of other countries, but instead by watching everyone all the time when they buy a burger, just in case. And we subject ourselves to this mechanism that has now streamlined itself, like the factory that can only produce little red fire trucks. This is a system that can only deliver privileged financial services for a tiny elite sliver of the population worldwide, with totalitarian surveillance tied up in regulations of each country with barriers on the borders, not permitting international trade, a financial system where the government can apply pressure to stop you trading with WikiLeaks because they don't like them, while you can still send donations to the Ku Klux Klan. And that's not a joke, that's exactly what happened. They have built a system that can only do one thing in slavus, that can only do one thing impoverish us, and that system removes freedom in the most efficient possible way to deliver profits, and that system is broken and it doesn't scale. But if that's what you're trying to do, it's the most efficient system you've ever seen, and by comparison, the crazy little mishmash system that we've built with Bitcoin. Well, that's wrong, and it's slow, and it can't scale, and it's inefficient, and it's not as serious and sophisticated as the international banking system, but it delivers freedom, and it allows us to unleash creativity. Thank you. Hi, I'm Andreas Antonopoulos. If you enjoyed that video, consider that it takes a lot of work to produce open and free content that can be shared with everyone around the world. This isn't sponsored by some company, it's not promoting a product or an altcoin, or some kind of investment scheme. My goal is simply to help explain the technology of Bitcoin and open blockchains to as many people as possible in a neutral way that focuses really on the incredible possibilities that this technology brings us. If you'd like to support that mission, subscribe to my channel and go on patreon.com, where you can participate and help me build better content for more people. Thank you.


When you get into things like window managers and the tools that go along with them things like Rofi and stuff like that or if you're getting into using the terminal or command line And you're starting using command line applications a lot of those applications and window managers come with things called dot files Now the reason why we call them dot files is because they usually reside in some place inside your home directory with a period at the beginning of the directory name and basically all that does is Allows your system to consider that folder hidden So when you do just a regular LS in a terminal all of your dot files are hidden away You don't actually see them even though they still exist So when you hear somebody call things dot files basically what they're talking about is the configuration files for their particular setup So for me personally, I manage my dot files in a very Manual way. It's not the most convenient or efficient way of managing dot files. However It works for me now what I thought I'd do today is to kind of walk you through how I manage my dot files And how it enables me to move from one distro to the next fairly easily So let's go ahead and jump in so all of my dot files reside in a single get repository on my computer called my repo Now everything that you see here isn't necessarily anything that I use anymore But a lot of the stuff I still do use and I like to keep the things that I use give especially if I've spent time Configuring them or ricing them or whatever So something like Xmoned I don't use it anymore But I've spent some time in it and I've done some custom work there So I've kept those dot files in case I ever decide I want to come back to it Same thing with like Herp's love WM or open box Those things are things that I don't really use anymore But I've kept the dot files and if I ever choose to return to them I still have that stuff available for me to use things like cute browser cute tile Ranger and stuff like that are things that I use all the time So basically what I can do is I can download my repository I think it's called my dots on git lab But I always rename it to my repo on my system and it gives me this directory full of all my dot files Now obviously by default these directories are fairly useless because The applications that they relate to don't actually know to look in this directory And I don't really want them to look in this directory anyways I don't need them to be configured in a way to look in this particular place I just want them to look in the default place the question then becomes how do I get say I3? To know that my configuration file resides in this directory and not in that config when I don't really want to move my I3 folder Into that config well the answer is sim links now if you've never used sim links before The idea basically is you use a command called Ellen something like this and what it will do is Create a shortcut in a particular directory. So so for example, let's just say I wanted to create a Shortcut or a sim link in this case for Herp's left WM I could do so by doing Ellen dash s and then slash home dr. M dub my repo Herp's left And then I would declare the place where I want the directory to be stored or in this case not directory But sim link and in this case I want to be till the slash.config so I Hit enter and that I'd be done now Here's what that looks like if I go into CD.config and do an Alice here You'll see now that there are some folders here that are colored a little bit differently now Your colors may be a little bit different because this just happens to match my theme But they're usually colored a little bit differently the blue ones in this case are all sim links And there's the Herp's left WM one that we just created so now I could go into Herp's left WM in my repo Like so and create a test file So just touch test dot txt like so and then if I go back over here to this one and CD into Herp's left you'd now see test dot txt right here Even though technically this directory does not reside in dot config. It's actually just a shortcut. So that's the main way I manage my dot files all of my Configuration files live in this repository right here. I make all of my changes tie three poly bar whatever right here in this directory and Those changes get passed on through to their respective shortcuts in dot config or wherever Those programs are supposed to look for their configuration files Now when I said earlier that this is the probably least efficient way of managing your your dot files that's because that's true there are several other ways that you can manage these and There are actually programs out there that will allow you to kind of automate the Management of your dot files things like yet. I'm in things like that. I don't really like those tools I like being able to have complete control over my dot files And how they're uploaded to get when they're uploaded to get how they're sent to different places and stuff like that So I want to have all that control and basically what that means is that managing them manually is the best way for me Now when I switch to another distro I can either download my repository and then do a sim link Manually one by one by one for each program that I'm going to use or I can write a script which I have done Let me show you that now this particular script is actually for arch Linux So I don't actually use this one. I'm using fedora, but when I was using arch This was a great way to get all of my setup in one place now this script is up on my Git lab. So if you want to download it, you can just know that it's not tested for anybody else This was just for me So basically all this does is it sets some variables It downloads all the stuff that I need so things like i3 gaps row fee came live things like that and then the Real part of this is that it actually downloads all of my dots changes the name just because I prefer my repo I don't know why I didn't name it my repo on git lab I just didn't and then what it does is will actually do all of those sim links for me one by one by one without me having to Do it at all, which is really nice, right? So I can just run this script. It'll download all the things that I need when I use arch It will download all my dot files It will create the sim links and then I'm pretty much set up and ready to go so that's how I manage my dot files and have a way for me to Quickly move my dot files from one distro to another. It's actually fairly simple It did require some setup on my part So I had to write that script even though I'm sure that it's not the most bash and Efficient script out there. It's just what I created and obviously the dot files themselves require some maintenance So every once in a while if I'm in a situation where I'm doing some rising which happens quite often I know you're shocked I'm creating a new theme for i3 or something like that I would do all the changes that I need to make or whatever and then I would upload all that stuff to git lab So that the next time I move to a different distro or I download a VM or whatever I have all of the most recent files that I need uploaded now. Like I said, that's a manual process That's something that I have to do and it's not going to be for everybody I know a lot of people prefer to have some of those programs that automatically do that kind of stuff for you I prefer to have the control of knowing when things are getting updated What some links are being created and so on and so forth. So this is my way of managing my dot files So I hope that kind of inspired you for your setup if that helps at all So if you have comments on this you can leave those in the comment section below You can follow me on Twitter at the Linux cast you can follow me on massive on our odyssey Those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the Linux cast just like all these fine people Thanks to everybody who does support me on page on YouTube. You guys are absolutely Amazing people and your support just blows me away. 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You're getting similar responses or were you getting different responses based on the location? Because it seems to me there's a world of difference between a bus stop on a Monday afternoon and a nightclub queue at midnight on a Friday night Saturday morning. Yeah, and there was a difference. So nightclub queue, actually, it was very provocative. So a lot of people said that there would commit a crime in that particular. Because, yeah, everything, as I said, it's all context dependent. I always tell my students that they're very less likely to punch somebody in my lecture hall than they are, you know, just in their student pub down the road, right? So even in a very similar kind of situation within 500 meters of each other, different social settings call for different rules of behavior, but also cultural settings. And my other favorite example is so I grew up in Russia and Russia has a very kind of the culture of protecting yourself and protecting the people who are dear to you.   On the other hand, in the UK, and somebody comes up to you and insult you. Normally, the culture is just shrug and leave them alone and go away and think, well, they need help. So if you were to punch somebody in a, I don't know, in the weather spoons, I guess that does happen. But people would think, oh, are you OK?  That's not very normal. So it's all context dependent, culturally, but also very specifically within the location. Have you had the opportunity to compare what you found in terms of your hypothetical study with figures from police, from law enforcement or whatever as to actually what does happen? Is there any way of seeing if your findings correlate with actually what does happen on the ground? I don't know, do the metrics exist to allow you to do that? Yeah, you can see. So the problem with police recorded crime is that it's also quite specific, right? So a, police presence just, you know, changes crime around it. Obviously, you're way more likely to punch somebody when there is not a police officer, when if there is somebody standing right behind you. But there is, yeah, we know that this is something that happens and we know that circumstances change. And I'd say we know that environments are really important. And my obvious example is always, say, if I'm sitting in the room all by myself and I'm desperate to punch somebody in the face, but there's just physically nobody here to punch in the face that I just can't do it. But again, you know, we need to think about, you know, oftentimes we think about crime as, again, a specific person. We think you need to be a specific person to commit a crime. Or, you know, there's something about you, which is something different. And that usually stems from the media and the shows. On the other hand, we find that even Jeffrey Dahmer didn't kill anybody for four years, right? So there has to be something, something happened in the circumstance. It could be availability of victims or it could be a different social norm or something happened more globally that pushed people to do it. So even the most prolific offenders actually spend very little percentage of their time committing a crime. So there has to be something action dependent in there. This was very much based on as I've from what I've read of the survey was very much based on people's reactions. Did you do any survey or any investigation into whether people would be proactive? If rather than reacting, if people would actually start something, if people would make the first move, cast the first insult, throw the first punch. Have you had a chance to look at that element of things? The thing is it never we don't exist in a vacuum. Humans don't, you know, there's we're always reacting to something at no point. Are we not reacting to something and some of the scenarios were quiet. So so there's you had referring to the two scenarios. So the bus stop scenario in a nightclub Q scenario, which is violent crime, which is usually what we find interesting. But there's two more scenarios about a dropped wallet. So are you going to steal the money? So say somebody drops the wallet, are you going to take the money? So that I would call proactive, right? You're not necessarily reacting to something. It's just somebody's walking past the drop the wallet. Are you going to take it? Yes or no. And actually, and it was really interesting because again, by changing the scenario a bit, you could see a big difference. For example, first, you are presented to just the normal person sitting in the bar and they have some money sticking out. So some people said that there was still that money, but a lot of people didn't. And then you present them with the same scenario. And this person who is sitting in the bar, they insult the bartender. So, you know, they behaving rather rudely and then a lot more people were to steal money from that person. So even when the perceived rudeness is not directed towards the person themselves, it changes the likelihood of people saying yes or no in a hypothetical scenario. So they would make a moral they would make a moral judgment on the person and whether the person deserved to be stolen from or not would be based on that moral judgment. Yeah. And that's what I'm saying about that we commit crime in the right circumstances, because oftentimes we'll say, I'm not stealing money. I'm punishing this person for being a bad person. I'm not doing a bad thing. Or people, you know, punching somebody in a nightclub queue saying, well, I had to punch this person because they broke a rule. They insulted me for no reason, even though I'm just standing here in a queue. And our desire to punish a violation of a social norm is really, really high. And my favorite example of all time is the bin gate, you know, from the Great British Bake Off when the woman took out somebody's ice cream and it melted and the other contestants then, you know, threw the ice cream in a trash. And so many people went on Twitter to insult the old lady who just, you know, took somebody's ice cream out for 10 seconds, even though it's a baking show that none of us have any personal investment in, but we are really engaged with punishing violation of a social norm. Right. It's fascinating. And you also found and we're going to finish on a positive. You also found where people may react to negativity with negativity. People also were if they were if they would if they were presented with kindness or presented with positivity, they would also react the same way. So if you are shown kindness, you'll react with kindness. Yeah. And we usually do. And we are very, we're highly cooperative. Species, right? And that's something that I found that normally we cooperate a lot. We're really nice to each other. And I know some people think that, oh, it's all wolf eats wolf. It's all life for an eye. You know, people are all out to get, you know, stuff for themselves. But that's actually not true. We cooperate a lot.  Or, you know, everybody talks about how the UK is very good at QA. And we do actually cooperate with each other a lot. And if you put people in the right circumstances, they will cooperate with you because if you're kind to people, they tend to be kind to you. Dr. Revans Fengen, thank you very much, indeed, for speaking to us this morning from the University of Birmingham, associate professor of criminology. Evelyn, thank you very much, indeed. That was rather interesting and food for thought, indeed. Now, our competition was in relation to free membership for Fit20. The question, who won the Women's World Cup? Was it Spain or was it Ireland? The answer, of course, was Spain. 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On the show this week, we welcome our Dora Singer songwriter Gary Mangan, local singer Keelan Barrett-Ross. We're dropping in for a chat and a few songs. And with the Glentys Harvest Fair just around the corner, we'll be chatting to some of the organizers and artists about this amazing event. So, that's the Monday Night Sessions, this Monday night between 8pm and 10pm, right here on Highland Radio. It's the 9 to 10 noon show into the final few minutes. Donald Kavana standing in for Greg on the show today. Greg making his way back from London after a very successful programme from the London Irish Vintage show yesterday. And Greg back on the show as normal tomorrow. At the start, when we were doing our review of the papers, we referenced that Competition and Consumer Protection Commission confirmation that the researchers carried out into pensions has revealed some concerning gaps. The survey showed one in 10, 45 to 64-year-olds don't have a pension and pension ownership among the 45 to 54-year-old group stands at 76%. That's a sharp decline since 2022. Joined on the line by Muriel Dolan, who's the Deputy Director of Communications with the CCPC. Muriel, good morning. Good morning, Donna. Muriel, the fact that a lot of people don't have pensions in that age group is going to be a worrying one because we know the proportion of older people to younger people in the state is going to grow in the coming years. And when people don't have provision, it's potentially going to put a lot of pressure on the state in years to come. Yes, it is. And that age group was to say at the outset, it's never too late to start, and that's what I wanted to get across to your viewers this morning. But yeah, one in 10 of the over 45 currently don't have a pension, but it's never too late to start because it's tricky. We have seen that a lot of people are now going to use other forms of income for their pensions rather than putting it into a pension. For example, 57% of people said they were going to use deposits or savings. What we would say to those people as well is to putting it into a pension makes much more sense. It's much better value for money because you get good tax relief on it. It also goes into long-term savings. So you have compound interest building up. And also with a lot of companies where you have pensions, your employer might pay into it as well. So there's all of those advantages of putting it into a pension. So it's never too late to start. So any of your listeners listening this morning, to have them start to the pension, it's really time to think about it now and start saving it to a pension. There have been a number of initiatives over the years where, as you say, schemes were developed where the person would pay in and employers would pay a certain amount in as well. I mean, there's a time perhaps for the government to look at introducing a similar system again to try and boost the numbers, particularly those perhaps from the late 20s to the 40s because if the sooner you can get this started, the sooner the better your prospects are going to be in years to come. I mean, is there a role here for government to bring in another sort of targeted scheme? Well, there is, and they are looking at auto-enrollment and that's hopefully be introduced the second half of next year. So that means that, you know, there's certain criteria, we have to be earning over 20,000, you will be automatically enrolled into a pension. But also, your employer will have to pay contributions into it as well. So we feel that this is really going to be a game changer first, trying to set people up for when they retire. And because as you said, like the state pension may not be enough to sustain the lifestyle that you need or you want in retirement. So that's why it's so important that the government look at this, but it's also so important for people to review their pension because sometimes, you know, it's sometimes very naturally, you know, I have that box ticked to have a pension, but if you don't review it over your lifetime, you don't know if it's going to be sufficient for what you want in retirement because your needs can change.  Now you have children, you have a mortgage and all of that, and that's really, really important. Like for example, I know that if my kids go to college, that they will, I will be retired by the time they're in college. So I'm thinking of that now to make sure that I will have enough in my retirement to be able to help them because I'll basically still have two dependents at that time. So reviewing your pension is so important because as I said, your different things change in your life and you might have different commitments or different responsibilities when it comes to retirement. The fact that many people, one in four of those that don't have pensions say, I mean, basically they simply can't afford it, that that's going to be concerning. But maybe the auto-enrollment is one way of getting around that, that at least they make some contribution and the fact that their employer will make a contribution as well, that will maybe help build up that pension pot and certainly will be better than not having anything at all. Yes, oh absolutely, and I think it will help. And when you're paying into it, it just kind of focus you and then you know you have it and then it's just not to forget about it and that's really, really important because yes, you're paying into a certain amount but you might have different needs in retirement and you might have to increase your contributions. And one thing we do say to people as well is if you get an increase in your salary, if you get a bonus before you get used to that money, maybe put that into your pension. So increase your pension that way, your contributions to your pension or even part of it would be good because you haven't got used to that money yet. So you know, put it into your pension because you'll get tax relief on it as well and also you're building up that income for when you retire. Muriel Dolan, Deputy Director of Communications with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. Thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this morning. I'm afraid time has beaten us. That is the Naito Nuncho for this morning. A very special thank you to all our contributors. Thanks to Caroline Orr for producing and for taking your calls. Most importantly, thanks to you for listening. Greg, back tomorrow. But for myself, Donald, have a very good day. The Naito Nuncho in association with Fit20, letter Canada.