Real housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shaw may be calling a less than lavish jail cell home in the near future as she's reportedly been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for fraud. While the Bravo reality series originally saw Jen living in what was dubbed the Shaw Chalet as stunning nearly 9,500 square foot home in Park City, Utah, this was apparently just a rental. After things came crashing down for the disgraced housewife star, in early 2022, Jen was forced to downgrade to the Shaw Chalet 2.0, another rental costing her about 13K per month which looked like a smaller version of her former residence and was also located in Park City. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. While Jen Shaw of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City fame was arrested back in March 2021, it's only now that things are getting real. Jen has been accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as well as money laundering and her charges stem from her involvement in a long-running telemarketing scam that targeted the elderly and vulnerable, having them lose thousands and thousands of dollars. While the government originally requested 10 years in prison for Jen, her lawyers were seeking a sentencing of three years. More recently, a judge, Sidney Stein, went for six and a half years, although with good behavior, Jen could be out in five and a half. Furthermore, Jen was ordered to forfeit $6.5 million, make a restitution of $6.64 million and give up over 100 luxury items, 30, which were real, and 78, which were counterfeits. When Jen can finally leave prison, she will be subject to five years of supervised release. As you can see, downgrading to that smaller Shaw-Shall-A about a year ago proved to be the least of Jen's concerns, considering now she's looking at a cell as her main residence. To kick things off, why don't we check out Jen Shaw's former Shaw-Shall-A, the original one, which was featured prominently on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City? While viewers thought Jen owned the luxury estate, it was later revealed that she simply rented it and the property was owned by a Texas-based real estate company. On the show, notably in season one, Jen Shaw was definitely the breakout star, known for her bold fashion and friendship drama. But while her $4 million estate was just as grand as her, it was also just as much of a fraud. The Shaw-Ski-Shall-A, as it was called, spanned 9,420 square feet of space and its open-plan living spaces were shown often on the Bravo series. Renting a home might not be a big deal to some, but as fans of the Real Housewives franchise know, few things in their world are more shameful than that. Stephen Frey of Unvesco, which is the company that owns the mansion, claimed he had no idea that Shaw had been hyping the property as her own on the show. This Rawling-Shall-A style home was located in Park City, Utah in the Glenwald Club and Spa community, dubbed the Crown Jewel Home of the Neighborhood. The mansion was set at the end of a cul-de-sac in overlooking the designer golf course. It popped up for sale once in 2019, but was taken off the market once Jen began renting it. Now, it's on the market currently, but the price has risen significantly with an ask of $7.4 million. Rumors that Jen didn't own the home originally started when Real Housewives of Dallas star Brandi Redmond, while she teased that someone on the Salt Lake City cast was renting.  At the time, Jen shot back on Instagram saying, is this what everyone is getting their G string up their A about because they're irrelevant? Or is it because they wish they could afford to pay this rent plus own four other homes and have an apartment in NYC? It was never confirmed that Jen owned any of those properties either. While inside, Jen's one-time lavish ski lodge, it boasted five bedrooms and eight baths as well as timber frame styles and features like three spacious master suites, each with its own fireplace and living area. Main living areas in the home all offered soaring vaulted ceilings and the open plan layout was ideal for entertaining. In fact, during an episode of the show, Jen previously bragged that she loved throwing big over-the-top extravagant parties at the multi-level home, which has its own wet bar and cozy stone fireplaces. Photos show that the residence was decorated with luxury cream and gray colored furnishings and windows that overlooked views of the stunning property. Upon first entering the mansion, the entry hall has two levels and high wood beam ceilings leading into the common areas. The great room is situated directly ahead, offering a handful of sitting areas, a stone fireplace to warm up by, and nearby there's a stone bar and cozy circular dining knuck. Also on the main level of the former Shawshallet, you'll find an office library, a family room, multiple dining areas, and doors leading to the outdoor space with nearly 360 degree views. The massive kitchen is decked out in wood and marble and boasts a double viking oven, viking stove, warming drawer and microwave, built-in sub-zero refrigerator, freezer, and double dishwashers. The lavish master suites are set on the main level while the three additional bedrooms that also offer their own en-suite are located upstairs. Here, there's also a separate guest bathroom and large entertainment games room that overlooks the main entry. We can see one of the master suites had its own living area, animal wall art, and one of the eight fireplaces that are scattered throughout the home. Other rooms in the mansion include a home gym and a wine cellar. The layout of this Shawshallet home was perfectly designed for entertaining friends and family, and it's not hard to see why Jen chose to show it off on Real Housewives. Not only did this property provide guests their own private space, it also hosted multiple common rooms to choose from to mingle and spend quality time. Or, you know, to film some serious housewives drama. Outside, the mansion had plenty of patios to unwind, including one with an indoor and outdoor jacuzzi setup overlooking views of the golf course. Finally, the bonuses that living in this abode came with were equally lavish. Not only could you ski in and out to Park City's finest ski track in winter, you could also hike and bike on the Glenwald trails in summer. The property provided exclusive concierge club amenities, which included a 24-hour full-service concierge that had the ability to book you into the finest restaurants and venues, or get you last-minute reservations, a black car service to and from the slopes, or anything else your heart desired. Also included was a VIP entertainment and personal assistance service to help with local planning and management. While the chalet sounded like the best of the best off of TV and in reality, Jen's longtime home was located in Sandy, Utah, which she owned with her husband, University of Utah football coach Sharif Shah from 2004, until she sold it at a loss in June 2020. They initially purchased the home for only $302,069. It eventually sold for $213,000. After moving on from that home, Jen had since moved to what she called Shaw Chalet 2.0, an approximately $8,000 per month rental also in Park City. It kind of looked like a smaller version of the TV mansion. In early 2022, the Real Housewives star decided to open up about her move to the new home. She sat at the time after looking at many, many houses, we finally found something. We're downsizing, it's not 9,000 square feet, it's about half of that. So I would like an A for effort because I'm doing the best I can with what I can do. And on the show's season 2 premiere, Jen revealed she had moved out of the Shaw Chalet into a new home and set. I love the Shaw Chalet, but like all good things, everything comes to an end, just like our lease did. So we found the next best thing, Shaw Chalet 2.0. Well, this home wasn't too shabby either and it was valued at over $3 million, boasting five bedrooms, five baths, and about 7,000 square feet throughout. While it was said to be located in a gated community called Promontory. Shaw Chalet House was built in 2008 and reportedly the main living area of the home. There's a two-story great room with two-story stone fireplace, a vaulted ceilings, and a 25-foot arched window. Well, the nearby kitchen had stainless steel appliances, including a six-burner stove. Other features in this home are supposed to include a six-person casual dining space, a formal dining room with space for 10, and an upper-level family room, as well as a basement with media room, dining area, and a bar. It was also at the Shaw Chalet 2.0 that Jen was recently arrested. When Bravo released the look at the latest season of The Real Housewives of SLC, it already showed what was about to go down. On the show, when Jen was arrested, the ladies were in a bus leaving for a cast trip. But things quickly went south when Jen picked up a call from her husband. She quickly left and drove back to her rental house. Homeland security investigators then showed up looking for her while the confused ladies told them she left and then officers were shown outside of Shaw's home saying that they had a search warrant. Well, despite the fact that Jen Shaw's second rental chalet was supposedly a downgrade, I'm sure nothing will prepare this diva for what she's about to face behind bars. It's safe to say that we'll just have to wait and see how things play out for this disgraced Housewives star. Alright, everyone, that's gonna wrap up today's House Tour, but before you go, answer me this. How far would you go to protect your status or how you were perceived in the public eye? Would you risk it all just to stay one of the privileged? Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below, because it seems with Jen, she really did go that far and it all backfired. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and turn on those notifications. My name's Cara the Vampire Slayer. 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Welcome to the Valley Advocate Podcast, featuring interviews that take us deeper into the people and happenings on the local scene. For more podcasts and a closer look at what's going on in the valley, visit us at valleyadvocate.com. Hi, I'm Chris Goudreau. I'm a staff writer with the Valley Advocate. Welcome to the podcast. This is Gina Bevers. It is me. Yeah. I'm here with Beverly Ketch and Hannah Brookman from Lookie Here, a brand new space in Greenfield, Massachusetts. It's always pretty remarkable that I remember all those words together. But welcome. So glad to have you here. So tell us, what is this Lookie Here? It's a creative reuse and workshop space. Is it a maker space? Or is it? I don't think it, a maker space is usually really tech involved, is that right? So no. I wouldn't say it's a maker space. We have, well, first of all, we're a reuse store. So it's like an art supply, it's a thrift store for art supplies and music equipment. And we're a nonprofit so we can accept donations from people's art collections or supply collections and resell them for cheap. And then the workshops, it's mostly a lot of the people involved just have skills and things that they want to share. There's, my boyfriend wants to do a philosophy book club. There's people who are doing Spanish workshop. There's Beverly's doing children's classes, making fairy houses. So and we have a form you can fill out if you want to have your own workshop at Lookie Here. So hopefully that'll be kind of, because we have, it's a nice space so you can have those kinds of things happening. But we also do have a tape duplicating machine so people can make their own cassette tape duplications. Oh cool. And we're working on fixing a Rizograph machine so that you can use that for print duplications. How exciting. So it'll be that kind of an art service also. And where is it? I don't know if it's a maker space. But yeah, I would think that. No, I was just curious. Yeah. It's a community space for sure. For sure. And it'll pull people in around the arts. And where is it located? 28 Chapman Street in Greenfield. In Greenfield. Exciting. Exciting. So how did it all start? Well, I was walking in Greenfield and I noticed the spot where this, you know, sweet little funny storefront. And it seems so appealing to me. And the thing is, Hannah and I and other friends had already gotten pretty deep into the project of starting our own TV show. And so I thought, honestly, maybe I shouldn't say anything. Because if I say I'd want to open up a space also, people are just going to think I'm crazy. Because, I mean, we're already in a deep in a project together. But instead of everybody thinking I was crazy, everybody was completely interested. And everybody kind of fell in love with the space when they saw it. There's something nice about it. There's something nice about how the light comes in. There's something nice about being in the space.  So it's very near downtown and it has that feeling. But it also has a little set aside feeling too. So it's a great place for things to happen. And everything that we've done so far, we've had, because we have done things already, even though the official grand opening is going to happen on Sunday. We've already had poetry readings and drawing groups and writing workshops and films. Yes. And a film series. So, and all those, every time I've made it to almost everything that's happened there, not all because of just life. But I've always just really enjoyed being there. And also we have beautiful art on the walls because it's also a gallery. And that's been amazing to just be surrounded by that. Well, those nice events go on. I can't wait to see the spot. You saw it, Chris, didn't you? No, I haven't seen it actually. Oh, you did the article? Yeah, I wrote the article. Just sort of the preview talking about looking here and what you guys are doing. One thing that I found really interesting is that you guys are working on a children's TV show. Can you tell us more about that? Fun. Well, yeah. Well, we're having so much fun doing this because, I mean, you would think that there would be dozens of children's shows to look at where there are live-action fairies and mermaids and things like that. But the truth is there really isn't. You know, people haven't gone as far as they can, especially with the technology being so easy and available that we, as just amateurs, can learn by ourselves. And you're very amateur. Yes, we have to learn everything. Which is a beautiful part of the aesthetic. Right. I got to see this. Yeah, and kids can learn it themselves too. The kids have been helping us make it so far. Yeah, they're just as good as we are. And the kids in my neighborhood inspired it to start. And when I told Hannah, she took to the idea like a fish to water and we are since then partnering on it. And then our other friends that have joined in too, we've all really had a blast with everything we've done so far. And we were able to get a couple of grants so that we can pay for the little expenses involved. There's a lot that's free, which is amazing. And we've gotten help from the local production company in Ternish Falls called Fast Lights, which came in incredibly handy. And also, GCTV and MCTV and NCTV, they've all helped, which means that part is free. But there's still expenses just to make the props and the costumes. And so it's really been great to get a little grant and to get started. We're having so much fun. And now it's Umbrella under the non-profit of Lucky Here, which is our media wing. Gotcha. So it's a community-based children's television program that's kind of sponsored by Lucky Here. Oh, my gosh. We've finally got all of our ducks in a row. And so we're having a big party on Sunday. It's like not a small thing to apply and receive your 501C3. That's a lot of work. And insurance, business license, and the grants. Luckily you had the space because that's always another spot. So you had your space first and then you could like... Yes, it did fall into place pretty well. It wasn't exactly easy-peasy, but at the same time, things did go pretty well. It happened fast. I mean, all of this started not too long ago. In about November. Oh, my gosh. That is fast. How long did it take you to get your 501C3? You know what? We were really lucky we got it like that. I was going to say. I mean, since November, that's amazing that's an arduous process for a lot of people. But we kind of dove right in and started doing things. That's the thing we were just able to save. We were doing this because we were. That was a nice thing to have a venture. Our mission just kind of fell into place based on what we already wanted to do. Gotcha. Because we weren't organized enough in the beginning to actually have a steady mission and a real plan and a business plan and an LLC. It all just kind of happened as we needed it to happen and we started kind of hitting ground walls. We took us forever to open a bank account because we just didn't have what we needed to open a bank account. I know everything kept going wrong with that. But we're learning so much. But you have to because now you have grant money to take care of. Now we have to learn how to do money. You learn faster by doing it in the other way. I think you're right. It is interesting though because we actually met. Hannah and I met. Well, the first time I said, I saw Hannah, we were looking at a building that the town would have been able to give for free to someone who could afford to fix it up. Because what was on our mind then in our community of amazing creative people, we were thinking of having an art school, an unaccredited kind of natural folk art school. But then it turned out that that building, at that time we couldn't afford to do the fixing up it needed even if we got it for free. Maybe down the line we will. Which is a little requirement to not have it. It was such a wonderful building. And there is sort of a school of thought an amazing group of artists in this area. And we know a lot of them. And so it's been incredible to try to make one more wonderful focal point for our artistic group. But so many people have already been coming in since we've started to do renovations on the space. We've been meeting a lot of people just to stop by and get really excited about the idea. Greenfield folks that are just, you know, really interested in getting involved. This is a Greenfield folk now. His wife just bought a house up there. So he's an official Greenfielder. So what is your specific background? Were you a teacher? No, I worked in a library for one year. That is a little job I recently had. But I have a house cleaning business. But I've also been part of the music scene around here because I was in a band. Oh gosh, blow these many years. And it's such a great, and I'm still in a band now. So it's been amazing to be part of the music community. But there's also an amazing visual art community around that. Specifically, there's a lot of musical artists who also create visual art. And so that was part of what I wanted to bring in having this gallery open, looked here as a gallery. But then we ran into the problem that the fire department said that in the retail space that we had rented that there couldn't be more than 20 people in there at a time. And that's why for our grand opening, it's from the morning till the night. Because then it won't be a time where if everybody packed in, you know, it would be like, oh, you have to go. Come back in an hour. So that was one of the glitches we ran into that made us have to completely change gear and rethink what we were doing. But it was luckily Sarah and Hannah who were thinking on their feet and thought of a lot of great ideas that could still make it work even though it wasn't going to be what we originally pictured. That's pretty remarkable. I don't know if that answers the question. I think it's really awesome that you're opening in Greenfield specifically because there's a large artist community in Greenfield, Turner's, also in Brattleboro, Southern Vermont as well. Yeah, and it's all right. It's so close. A lot of people have come up from down here too. Yeah. What about you, Hannah? I've been an artist forever and I went to an art school when I was younger and then I went to college in Vermont and ended up back here a couple years ago and befriended Beverly through my boyfriend, Omid, who played music with her. And I guess while I was in college I was doing a lot of research. I went to school in Bennington in Vermont and I did a lot of research in town about making an artist community because that town was really, it seemed really difficult to integrate and nobody from the college would ever stay. And I realized it was because there was no art and there was nothing that was even open after 7 o'clock. And I'm from Denver, Colorado. And so I grew up with a couple different kind of alternative art spaces that were really important for me as a teenager. They were kind of like, you know, a little bit risky but mostly safe places for me to just kind of meet other artists meet other artists my age or other people older than me, people coming through town and I was able to be a part of a community. And I was meeting people in town in Bennington that were interested in something like that. I was working in high schools and would kind of do interviews with all of the arts facilitators in town and asked if, you know, would this kind of art space be a good idea for Bennington, would this be something that you think would be important for the community? And everyone said yes. But then I did graduate and move, just like everybody else. And so that hasn't happened here but I've been able to kind of pick up with that again through Lookie here because I do still think that there is a need for a place for people to just kind of hang out. And like we want it to be a free-to-be space where we've got couches and record players and tea and like cheap free art supplies and cheap free workshops so anybody can just come and kind of meet an art community or be a part of an art community. Because I think you're right. I mean, that's the thing about art. I mean, with musicians it's different because, well, most musicians, because you'll tend to collaborate and play together. There are, of course, musicians who don't. Not like Chris. But Chris is very social. But artists, we tend to be in a society and we tend to be in a silo in a way.  So for people to be able to come to a communal space and kind of get that energy from other artists, that's a really big deal because musicians do get that. You get to feed from each other and artists don't always have that opportunity. That's kind of one thing that I think is nice that Lookie here isn't necessarily going to be a music venue as much as we thought because there are so many music venues and there aren't really as many spaces for artists to have that kind of socializing. And I've always felt that as an artist who has kind of always been around a music scene, I've always wished that there was an art scene that I could participate in. But the art scene is usually kind of these white cube fancy galleries that I don't feel a part of or I'm not interested in. So I think this is going to be a nice alternative. I wish you could see like the free draw group that happens several times.  And if people are there who draw, I wish people, I hope people come who drawing isn't really what they consider their thing. But when you see people in action and it's so appropriately named free draw because everybody really is free about it. And it's just a matter of really seeing and drawing and it is truly an open feeling. There's nothing fussy or off-putting about it. And the more the merrier, there've been great ones where just a few of us showed up and great ones where there were maybe a dozen people. And so hopefully anyone who's interested should make a point of coming. That will be weekly, right? It'll be weekly on Wednesday evenings at seven. And then I was going to do the last Wednesday of every month. I was going to try to hire a model because there's a lot of people who have interest in drawing new models, new drawings. So that one would be a fee to pay the model. But that would happen at the end of every month. Maybe you'd practice during the week and then you'd bring all of your good materials and do a big, nice one. That's cool. So do people pay to take workshops? Some will be. Some will have fees and some won't. Also depending on the materials. And we hope to... I mean, building the workshop calendar is something that we will probably work harder on next month. I wanted to have a really great one to open with, but it's just kind of been a... We just want to get in the space. We just took down the ceiling. We repainted all the walls. We totally rearranged and made it look so nice. So nice. Without the drop ceiling, instead, a nice tin ceiling was under there. So it really, it looks so good. But we'll try to work on bringing in guest artists for workshops, too. So I really, one of my big dreams, I just want all of my friends to get paid to do what they like to do. And I know so many talented people who really deserve to get paid to teach some classes. And I think that people would be interested in doing that.  It could be if, you know, 15 people are interested in one person teaching something, I think that it could be reasonable for both the instructor and the student to participate. So that's what I hope will happen. But if people are interested in workshops, they should get ahold of us on our website. We'll make sure. What's your website? Lookieheregreenfield.com. It's so cute. Lookie here. We reused the name. Yeah, we reused the name. Because it was on the sign already. And then they made this great sign with the little eyes and the o's. So that was also part of the reason why we wanted that shop is because it was already called Lookie here. And the sign is adorable. And I'll just give a shout out to our lovely landlady, Shelby. She has been a dream the whole time. Completely 100% supporting all our craziness. And she owns the Bar Next Door Smitties. And it's really been so great to have her help and her support. That's really cool. Yeah, it's great having the Sweet Lady Landlord.  And we also are running the TV show. So it just feels... I know in Smitties, it's all female bartenders. Oh my gosh. Like the next door is the Lady Land over there. There's a salon next door. Yeah, that's awesome. That's great though. Yeah, it's awesome. It's pretty great. It is terrific. And then there's just like lots of funny old men who always pop in. They're like, it's a lady land. It's been so nice. It's been so kind. It has been really fun. Even though we don't have it open yet, like you guys want to talk to us and other people already want to see what's going on before we've even, you know, set it in stone. It's exciting because it's always exciting to have a community resource.  Because like you said, there's so many artists in the valley and different pockets, Greenfield. I don't live in Greenfield, so I'm not super familiar. But I know that there are tons of artists in Greenfield or Asheville or all these other places and when you can bring those people together in some kind of setting like that, it generates a lot of excitement. Because I think that people are always looking for a reason to get together. Yes, it has. People have been so excited. And it's been interesting to see that.  I mean, you know, it's a lot of art supplies because the thing is when you sort of have these things sitting around and they're kind of like, ooh, you're not used to being here. I don't want to throw that away. So, you know, then there's a really good reason to... And people could always come back and use it there. So if they tried to take that, you know. That's so true. Don't nobody use that with me. It's not like a phone shop, maybe. Yeah, that's great.  That's cool. Can't beat that. Yeah, but we've gotten some great donations from great folks already. So we'll have some good stuff on the shelves for the grand opening, but I really think it's going to blow up soon. Yay! Just have a feeling. Just have a feeling. That's how it is when you take donations. I think that's how... You've got to be prepared for that.  Oh, my God. Well, we only can hope for that for sure. Thank you guys so much. Yeah, thank you. You're having us on the show. Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited for you. Nice to meet you guys. You guys have a great show. A lot of good guests. Yeah. Yeah. That was wonderful. Yeah. I was really inspired by those other guests. Yes. Yeah, they're cool. They were cool. And so were you.


It's all about the complete and total, boys. Character immersion. Why'd you show me a new character? I put him on a different account so I can play on S-Fan on benediction. I wanna play on S-Fan on benediction at the same time and playing it on this character. So I put it on a second account. It's making me so hungry, me so soup. Me so, uh, soup. Cool. Um... Let's listen to some music. Feels good, man. Classic vibes, dude. The final chapter of Classic WoW, ladies and gentlemen. The final chapter of Classic WoW begins today. The pre-patch. The interlude. The final chapter. What about Cata? F-Cata. This is it, boys. Chat. Real men level with their fists. Complete and total character immersion. We got the long hair. We got the mustache. We have the beard now. We're older. We're wiser. Our thumbs are gonna break. Gladiator in game? Gladiator in real life. That's why we have the home gym. Rathalichking pre-patch. Actual launch is August 26th. Is Rathen beta? Rathen isn't... Er, this isn't pre-patch. Ooh, Flames of Chain of Boots. Thank you, dude. Wait, hold on. That's something for you. Wait, wait. Can you use a sword or use daggers? I love fresh server launch because everyone's just, like, tanning people gear and doing stuff. It's super cool. Look at this. Makes a level one character, sells everything, and then trades me the spoils. 12 copper. Chat. We're gonna turn this franchise around. 12 copper at a time. So technically, we are playing patch 3.3.5 right now. We are playing the last patch of Rathalichking because in WoW Classic, what they've decided to do is play the game off of the final patch. Yes. That is actually huge, Olden. That is actually massive. Thank you. Like, actually big W, dude. Thank you for this over. Dude, JK. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, dude. Hell yeah. Can I sell my current weapon? There it is. I got the wooden mallet chat. Big time. I'm completely broke. I'm completely broke, but I have the wooden mallet. Very good. Bonnie is playing WoW for the first time ever. I never played WoW, which one should I start with? Play Rathalichking.  I'm telling you, it's phenomenal. The long wash. That was my nickname in high school. The one with the kiss. Oh, dude. This drainer just blew a kiss at me. Do you think she's into me? You think I have a chance? I boosted a pallet. Could you run through some combos? Okay, here's a little quick tutorial on how to play Paladin. In the previous expansion, what you would do is, so steel twisting was the main thing. I'll go over it briefly because it doesn't exist anymore. They got rid of it. They changed it. So what you did is you would have rank one, seal a command up, and then within 0.4 seconds of your swing actually hitting, you would wait. You'd get within the end of your swing timer, 0.0 seconds, and then you'd switch to seal of blood or seal of the mortar. One of you did this, it would actually apply seal of the mortar to your white hit and to your seal of command hit if it procced.  So you'd end up getting four hits. All four of those hits could, you know, they could create, they could do a lot of damage, whatever, and then you basically have to juggle.  So that's how it used to work. That's how playing a Paladin worked before today.  So this is a new way of how to play a Paladin. And you can put any, any abilities on any button, it doesn't really matter. You don't really even have to think. So if you start thinking, stop. There you go. And welcome to Rathalich King.  I'm sorry. Okay, good. Wait, I wanted to watch. Now you can kill it. I didn't want to miss you killing it. Okay, well, I just killed it. Okay, let's go. There you go.  Bonnie, stop dancing with the guard. She's busy. Hurry. Bonnie. Did they change how the bear looks? Why does her bear look different? What level is travel form now? Nice. Why do they change it? I think this looks worse. When you change your hair, your form changes. Oh, really? It's better? You think so? I don't think so. I'm going to call Bonnie, chat. Hello. Can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you. Your voice sounds beautiful. Thank you, S-Van. Or what? Your voice sounds beautiful, S-Van. Thank you, Hobby Nerd. What? Brain. I have a bunch of items that I can't use because I'm an elf. You can have it. I will give you this I can't use. Do you see what I'm trading you? Yeah, you can just vendor this stuff too. So you have some room. Yeah, but I think I'll just give it to you. So, oh, that chest is really good. How'd you get that chest? Yes, I found it. Wait, this is like what? This is a ton of stuff. You did not find this. This is level six. What do you mean? You did not find this, Bonnie. This is level 60. This stuff drops in like level 20 areas. What? Who gave her this? I found it. Oh, okay. Well, cool. Yeah, this is pretty good. Vendor some of this stuff. Vendor that. Vendor that. Okay. You're selling all this stuff I gave you? No, no. Give it back. Oh, I sold it. Oh, wait, here. There's still more. There's still more. Oh, just Vendor. Okay. Wait, hold on, Bonnie, come back. I'm only seven away. Look at this.  Look, look, Bonnie Rabbit. The rabbit's dead, though.  What are your talents? Oh, my talents, I went to, I put them into, um... Oh, you're in peril. Okay, good. You can entangling roots things, too. Have you entangled roots anything yet? Yeah, a lot, but it doesn't last very long, so I need to up that. It's good for, like, getting away from stuff, or if you're trying to, like, stop something. Yeah, well, so is Shadow Mild. Yeah, well, Shadow Mild. Did they change how Shadow Mild works, Chat? I think you can't do it. We made it to the CreatorPC giveaway. Yeah, I can do it even in combat. Oh, they changed it. Oh, they changed it. No, come this way, come this way.  This guy's, like, out of prune. Let's hog it. Let's go. So come around. So come around, I'm going to pull him. Okay, come on in. Oh, this guy's asking for an invite. Let me invite him. I was asking for an invite. So he wants an invite because he's also on the same quest, and if we kill it, we have the tag and we kill it, then he can't get credit for the quest. Nice. Yeah. Oh, dude, I remember getting so mad. Oh, dude, when Classic launched, me, Aswin, and McConnell were leveling together, and I was so, like, McConnell kept getting all his stuff, and then he would leave us. And we're like, bro, what? Like, you need to wait until all of us are done with the quest. And he would just go on and, like, do the next quest in the chain. And we're like, like, I was, dude, I was so pissed at McConnell. I was like, no, like, we got it. Like, we got to stick together. Like, we're leveling together. He was like, no, I don't want to. It's like, dude, freak this guy. Do you know how much money I have? Uh, no. Well, it's a lot. How? I only have 16 silver. I have 15, 64. 1,564. What? Silver. You have 10 gold? How do you have 10 gold? Literally, no one gives me anything. I got 58 coppery yesterday from somebody. I have some gold, random. Do you have gold? I just want to borrow it. I'll take you back. Bonnie, come. You have to come loot these. I am. I'm trying. Yeah, but I keep killing them. And then they're, you're not looting. Oh my god, it's not a bear farm. Well, you keep killing them and not, oh, there's nothing to loot. Because you're not next to me. Come, dude, it's 60. What's up, dude? Oh, sick. Nice. Thanks, dude. Thanks a ton, dude. This is Westfall. Welcome to Westfall. I've been here before, but thank you. Wait, did you do these quests? I mean, no, I've never been here before. Yes, I did these quests last time.  I waited so we could be on the same page. Wait, no, I didn't do it today. I did it last night elf. Oh yeah, that's right.  It's Sanbey, thank you for the 17 months. Thank you guys for the subs and resubs. Are you telling me that I'm going to have to level this and then we're going to go back to Benedict, and then I'm going to have to level on Eggs Benedict? No, no, because you started level 70. I feel like what all I've done my entire life is level. You haven't even got the level 20 yet.  Yeah, I'm probably not going to play classic after Wrath. I didn't even play Wrath originally. I played the very beginning of Wrath, and I got bored and I quit. And then I came back at the end of Wrath. It was like my senior year of high school and stuff. So I was doing football and everything. I came back at the end of Wrath, and I literally couldn't get invited to anything because I didn't have gear score. I didn't have achievements. And I was like the top, I was literally the top right at Alliance Red Paladin in the battle group in Burning Crusade. And then, but I came back and like, all my friends had quit. I didn't have anybody to play with. I didn't have achievements. So I couldn't get invited to anything because they're like, link the chiefs, bro. Link the chiefs. So I quit. Sounds like retail. Wrath of the Lich King in a lot of ways. If you look at it in the full scope of the game's history, Wrath of the Lich King was the beginning of the end, you know, for lack of a better phrase because they started introducing a lot of the systems and stuff that kind of snowballed into what people don't like about the game today. Chad, I am going to really miss the old Paladin, man. What's wrong with you? What's happened to your life? They, because they changed how Paladins, like not being able to steal to us anymore. There was just something about like that. Oh, yeah. You said that you love sealed. You were even just the other day, you were like, I love sealed twisting. Yeah. You're like, I'm the best sealed twister in all of the town. Mm-hmm. So now you can't do a sealed twist as a Paladin anymore. Yeah, it's gone. Well, well, first.  What are you doing? I'm just trying to loot that thing. I just realized I'm free for all. Here, we change that sword. You want it? Yeah. I want it. Trade it for what? What do you, what do you have? Give me something cool. We have gloves.   Those are trash. Those are trash. It's fine. Rude.


The Romance of the Ranchos San Fernando 1845 Armies prepare for Battle of Calinga Pass San Fernando 1874 Senator buys Garden of Eden in Valley San Fernando 1941 Movie star buys Ranch in beautiful Valley of Homes The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents The Romance of the Ranchos A weekly dramatization around the colorful history of Southern California Each week there's a new story narrated in all its excitement and drama By our wandering vocero, Frank Graham Historical accuracy of tonight's story, like that of all these presentations Is assured by the records and the files of the title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles These records contain the detailed history of land ownership in Los Angeles County From the days of the first grants by the King of Spain The older ones are handwritten, of course, and many of them are in Spanish Since many of our early-day leading citizens and landowners were unable to read or write Signatures consisting of a mark attested by witnesses are rather common In many ways the records themselves are as interesting as the stories they tell And here to tell the story is our wandering vocero, Frank Graham Our story tonight deals with the lovely valley we call San Fernando But which was once, Encino, the Valley of the Oaks And from the days of the romantic mission of San Fernando And the days of the dones to the great valley of today It is a story rich in the romance of the Ranchos Our story of the Rancho San Fernando starts about the year 1790 For several years the Franciscan friars who had found the permissions of San Gabriel And San Buena Ventura had traveled many weary miles through the broad green valley They called El Encino, the Valley of the Oaks Another mission was needed, a halfway stop between San Buena Ventura and San Gabriel To break the tedious journey and to complete the chain of missions that stretched away to the north A party set out in 1795 to search for the site of a new mission Into the broad valley of the Oaks they came And then, Padre, this is about the point where it should be See, what we have left El Camino Real, we are business owners perhaps Two leads See, I know, this is all right, my brother Here in this upper end of the valley we will find the spot we want Or it is here that the springs come down from the mountain It is good land, with plenty of water Many Indians rancherias Well, the mission should be constructed on El Camino Real You forget we do not found the mission for our own comfort But for the good we can do for these poor Indians It will be the better, my brother See, I had forgotten, you are right There is a pasture land and a firewood mountain You are right, there is a pasture land and a firewood not far away And rock for the foundation, everything we need Also, from here we will be able to easily reach all of the Indians of the valley And furnish them with the central place for teaching and worship See, my brother, this is the place Here we shall find the 17th mission And so it was that on September 8, 1797 Father Lasuwen stood before a great gathering of curious Indians Here, my children, we have planted a great cross A symbol of our Christian faith May it stand through the years in veneration And may the blessings of our Lord fall upon this land Its fields and streams And bring this new venture a long, prosperous life of service And so we dedicate this mission San Fernando de España In love of God and in the name of our glorious King San Fernando III Oh heavenly Father, as we are gathered here We thank you After the ceremony, many Indians were given baptism And work was started on building a temporary church, granaries and storerooms Crops were put in and the land stuck with cattle The Darcyl Indians of the valley quickly became converts To the new religion of the white fathers And soon hundreds of them were learning the arts And farming and building In most cases, they readily took to the new ways of the white man But once in a while, the Padres had a little trouble Tomás, Tomás, come here I can't, Father, I can't You want? Tomás, where are your clothes?  Good then You did not know any better then, now you do Can ride horse more better without skin? No matter, you must go get your clothes No, no want Oh, why? Why don't you want to wear them? Come, tell me Squawk, she laughed Me, man, dressed in other skin like woman Women laughed Me, no like Me, man, me, no woman No life, no life In spite of such inconveniences as the new clothing The Indians of San Fernando Valley learned the civilized arts And as the years rolled peacefully by The valley sprang to life under their care By 1822, there were a thousand Indians living at the mission itself With many hundreds more scattered throughout the valley And an accounting of the great herds owned by the mission Showed rich gains Cattle? Seven thousand head Sheep? Sixty-five hundred head Horses? Thirteen hundred And that is all? No, there are forty goats, fifty pigs, eighty mules Quite an animal community, isn't it, brother? The mission's prospered, but it was not to last for long Already the settlers of the Pueblos were forming a movement against them Many a debate went on between church and secular powers But, senor, you are an official at the Pueblo We have always gotten along well together What have you against the mission? Nothing personal, you understand, Padre Nothing at all, in fact Except that they own all of the good land in all the California But we do not own all of it, senor We hold it in trust for the Indians who were here before we came That's just it, Padre That's where the mission system breaks down In the beginning, you thought you could teach the Indians to govern themselves The missions were supposed to turn the land back to them after ten years Yeah, that is right But they are so backward Exactly They are too backward to ever make anything of this land And in the meantime, many fine settlers have come from Sonora From Spain They are eager to build a new land here To make peace a new empire But they cannot, but they can't get no land But there is land Oh, see, land, but not good land You hold all of that And you have grown richer and richer by it, senor We only serve Oh, see, I know I did not mean you Padres personally We have done much good We have turned this desert into a cause See, I acknowledge that But your good has been done Your era has passed It is time now to go on to progress I'm afraid that very soon something will be done about it And something was done The Secularization Act of 1833 Sounded the death knell of the missions Their lands were taken over by the government And granted to private owners little by little But San Fernando suffered less than most others And had prospered for many years more It was widely famous for its fiestas Especially the one on May 30th When San Fernando Day was celebrated People came from miles around To taste the first fruits of the year And to celebrate a mass of thanksgiving Following a great banquet in the afternoon Horse races were held And the main event was a big bullfight The Indian tribes from all over Southern California Gathered to join in festivities of their own A great ceremonial dance was held Around the huge image of an Indian chief With a great ceremonial fire lighting the event And cries of the dancers furnishing the music But the great days of the mission were slipping away Each year more Indians left the confines of the church To work as vaqueros for the newly founded ranchos Others merely planted field crops On a patch of what had been mission land California under the Mexican government Was rapidly falling into anarchy and confusion Governments changed quickly and dramatically The differences between the Californians and Mexico Mounted until in 1844 Word came to Los Angles General Castro He's from Mexico What's the trouble? They have appointed a new governor For Alte California General Mitchell Torrena He's on his way here right now What? He's bringing with him an army He brings an army To grind us under his heel So, he is to be our governor And his army? It is rugged and dirty And most of the men have been taken from the jails Of Mexico City Same for Senor Alvarado Andres Pico Pretty word We must prepare for this It took time to organize an opposition To the new governor And in the meantime He'd occupied the capital and ruled the land But resentment against him grew For his ragged army knew no law Constant stories of the brigandry poured in Senores I did not know what to do Here we were My wife and I confronted by the guns Of two savage ragged soldiers They had no shirts No pantalones Nothing to hide their necks And fill for the greasy blanket They demanded clothes Food A horse At the price of my life I gave it to them How could I do otherwise? I was helpless before the governor Through these things must stop We Jose Castro and Juan Alvarado Proclaimed that Governor Michel Torrena's troops Must be disbanded And sent back to Mexico The proclamation of Castro and Alvarado Bore fruit At least on the surface Michel Torrena agreed To send his ragged followers away But as the months wore on It became apparent that he had No intention of doing so On the contrary He used the time gained To enlist new support Soon he started a military campaign Against the Californians In February of 1845 His army pursued the followers Of Castro and Alvarado Into San Fernando Valley It was there that a young American Approached General Castro General Castro See, Buenos Dias, señor I'm William Workman of Los Angeles See, you need men do you not? Of course Otherwise we should not have had To retreat before those gruffians There are Americans fighting With Michel Torrena? See, a hundred mercenaries Hired by Souter They think if we win We'll close down Americano immigration Hmm, you are an Americano Are you not, señor? Sí, but don't worry Not all Americans favor the governor In fact, most of us here Are behind you to a man I've come to offer you our services James McKinley and I Have enlisted a good many rifles for you Excelente, bueno Your men will be ready to fight When those gruffians get here Sí, we're ready to march right now Bueno, then we'll give them A real battle, señor Let them come José, José Sí, what is it? I have news from the Pueblo The authorities of Los Anales Have issued a proclamation Deposing Michel Torrena And appointing Don Fio Pico To act as governor Then they are behind us Sí, ante el Pueblo, too And the Americans, señor Then our cause is already won We shall ride out to meet Michel Torrena And defeat him Across San Fernando Valley Came the ragged army of the governor Out through Cahuenga Pass Marched 300 Californians Under Castro and El Verado Soon the two armies were within sight Of each other And they lined up for battle On the banks of the Los Angeles River What do you see, Juan? They are bringing up the small cannon Oh, bombardment, eh? Oh, yes Then we shall bring up our cannon Señor, workman You have never seen our artillery in action No No, I haven't You're pretty accurate Accurate Señor, our fire will devastate their ranks The field shall run with blood Oh, did you see, señores Their first shot did not even come near us Now, watch what we shall do to them Here Has anybody got a cigarette? See, I have But what do you... How can I light the cannon Fuse without a cigarette? Give it to me Ha Now watch There General, I... Never mind Our next one might be much closer Hurry, reload And make sure it's pointed the right way this time In the distance noon Yeah, and it's three o'clock now When's the fight begin? The way it looks to me They're gonna keep popping away at each other With those pint-sized cannons all day Hey Take a look over there on the hill Yeah, they got the right idea The lion and the shade I wouldn't mind some shade myself right now They look like Americans, too Yeah, but they're on the other side What difference does that make? They don't look like they were in any more Of a fighting move than we are Let's go and join them Hmm, maybe you're right Looks like they've taken a siesta Looks cool and comfortable, too One of them's got a jug or something Vino, maybe It might be Come on, let's go What have we got to lose? It's almost sundown The battle will be over soon Looks like we are getting the better of them Yes, our shots are coming closer anyway Sir, what are our casualties so far? Two dead, Herr Alcastro Caramba! They shall pay for killing two of my men No, Herr Alatman, two horses The battle of Cahuenga Pass Lasted half a day Until after sundown, that 20th of February, 1845 The Americans on both sides took no part But preferred to fraternize among themselves Total casualties of the battle Two horses killed One mule Injured The next day, the two armies continued on to the Verdugo Rancho Where they fought another brief skirmish Looks like a lot of their men have deserted them General Castro Any casualties yet? Oh, not at all Probably not on theirs either Look, look! They are running, they are retreating Hey, the battle is over! We have won! Got a white flag, I see See the white flag? Missa Correna surrenders California is ours And Pio Pico is governor The huge system of records in which the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles accumulates And classifies the information it requires For the issuance of title insurance policies Is called its title plant Operating this title plant is much like Operating a large bank with more than a million And a half depositors There are over a million and a half separate parcels Of assessed real estate in Los Angeles County And the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles Maintains a separate account on each one of them Even though the company may never be called upon To ensure the title on a particular piece of property The account on that property must be kept always Up to date In this county, there are some 1,500 legal recordings Filed daily that affect the ownership of real estate Each of these must be entered in the account To the particular property it affects And the entry must be made the same day The instrument is recorded All this record keeping entails a great deal of hard work By a large number of trained personnel But its net result is that when you want Title Insurance on property anywhere in the county The Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles Can serve you without delay And the rate you pay is very much lower Than similar service and protection Would cost you almost anywhere else In the United States The same year which witnessed Mitchell-Tarenis surrender Saw the Valley of San Fernando pass into private hands For the first time Andres Pico, brother of Governor Pio Pico Joined with Juan Manzo to lease the land But California was not to no peace for some time yet And in June of the next year, 1846 Don Ulogio de Salas stood before Pio Pico You are a native of Spain, senor? We, I come here straight from 1836 And you want to buy this rancho Ecstasy on de San Fernando? See, that is why I'm here Well, you understand that ranchos are not usually sold But granted upon application to the government See, I know, but I heard that this one was to be I do not know why, I will tell you You know, of course, if there is talk of war Between Mexico and the United States See, you said The armies of the United States Would probably try to occupy California And many people, Californians as well as Americanos Will welcome them, that may be But I have orders from the Minister of War And Marine to raise the necessary funds for our defense In any way that I can This is one way See, that my money will help, hm? The price is agreed 14,000 pesos for 13 square leagues of land Very well I shall give you the deed But only on one condition What is that? That you shall agree to care for the old Indians Living there And respect their right to plant crops Oh, see, I agree There's plenty of land for that Also, the church and its grounds They have to be reserved Together, with sustenance Send lodgings for the Father Minister That too Then, Rancho Exmision de San Fernando Is yours, Señor Sales And may this sale Help us to do what we must But the Americanos see Whether it is the right thing to do or not I do not know But as governor of this province I cannot fail to do my duty to the Constitution We must prepare to fight War broke out In January of 1847 Stopped in Incarnia again At Los Angeles After the battles of San Gabriel and La Mesa The Californians camped on Julio Verdugo's Rancho San Rafael to the east And debated what to do It was there That word came of Colonel Framant's arrival At the mission of San Fernando We remounted San Fernando and the others At Los Angeles We are trapped in Oropico See, Herr Castro It looks like our course is over You do not propose to surrender And accept Commodore Stockin's terms No But our men are deserting us They say it is no use On the Americanos There are too many of them I see I do not know what to do I can only hope that somehow Somewhere we will find the way out And the way out for the defeated Californians Was being prepared At Mission San Fernando Where Colonel Framant spoke with the young Californian Pesos Pico I told you in time to push on after your Rested country for a month Hold on, Azuz She no need for further fighting It looks to me like it's all over I am glad to hear that But my countrymen are still you know As they expect to be attacked I know They know they are beaten But they do not know what to do about it There is something pretty gallant about They are holding out to the bitter end See, they are fine people Colonel Framant Not rebels I know that in your I want to avoid any more trouble For them if I can I want to give them a chance For an honorable surrender Commodore Stockin has given them Terms of surrender I know How can they ask them To deliver up their lead To be tried and sentenced Like a common criminal I know how you feel, Dona Azuz I think I have the answer I think that I'll offer them Terms too My Terms Colonel Framant Your Terms?  Oh, anything You have saved my life I will do anything I believe you are the man To talk to your country I do not like to ask it I know that they may have Real feelings toward you Because of your friendship with me Ah, it does not matter If I can help you Unto I shall be helping them And my country That is right And I ask you to carry My Terms to General Tico They shall be in Armistice Ending the war in California Then everybody May return to their homes as before No one shall be arrested Foral will be forgotten Oh, senor My countrymen will listen to me For I bring them peace with honor The Californians did listen And on the 13th of January, 1847 Colonel Framant and Andres Pico Met at the old Cahuenga Ranch House Now a park opposite Universal Studios There, the Cahuenga Capitulation was signed General Pico, now your signature here Gracias, Colonel Is that all? Yes, except my hand, General Gracias May this be the beginning of friendship And prosperity for all of us together in California Peace and prosperity did come to the Southland And to Rancho, ex-mission of San Fernando Its original owner, Don Ulochio de Salas Returned to Spain before he died But from his estate in 1854 Andres Pico bought a half-interest In the great trap Gradually, the title to the lands Of San Fernando Valley went through many hands And a huge area was broken up into different tracks The southern half came under the control Of Isaac Lancashire and Isaac Newton Van Nuys And in April of 1874 Senator Charles McClay of Santa Clara Rowed out to look over the northern half Your idea was to buy this land, eh, Senator? Yes, Governor Leland Stanford recommends I look it over Well, now that you've seen it, what do you think? All I can say is, this is the Garden of Eden With George K. Porter Senator McClay bought his Garden of Eden And within a few months, he paid a visit To the county recorder's office in Los Angeles To record a subdivision Its name was the city of San Fernando Town lots were offered at $10 to $25 A hotel sprang up, seven saloons came to life Senator McClay opened a store In residence plot to the new town Then, on September 5th, 1876 Today at Lang Station, the Golden Spike Was driven in the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad North to San Francisco Los Angeles has a direct rail link With the rest of the United States The land was petitioned, and the valley grew Town sprang up, Toluca later called Lancashire And today, known as North Hollywood Chatsworth Park, Owens Mountain Now Canoga Park, and many others Then, in 1903, the Pacific Electric Came to San Fernando today Linking the whole valley with Los Angeles And more settlers flocked to the Green Plain LC Brand led the race To subdivide the land into more lots More homesites, Brand Park was established Opposite the old mission buildings Then, in 1913 Today, the people of San Fernando Saw mountains of water brought from 250 miles away Cascade into their valley As the Los Angeles Aqueduct, one of the Greatest engineering feats of all time Was completed Water and transportation had come To San Fernando Valley, and nothing Could stop its growth Thousands more poured in to fill its towns And cities In 1915, the greater part of the valley Was annexed to Los Angeles And the lands of the Franciscan fathers Had now become part of one of the world's Great cities Today, almost 120,000 of Southlanders Call it home And find all the necessities of good living In the towns of San Fernando North Hollywood, Van Nuys Studio City, Universal City Canoga Park, Recida Folks, Chatsworth Park, Northridge Tarzana, Granada Pacoima, and Roscoe Such is the romance Of the ranchers Frank Graham will be back in a moment to tell you The subject of next week's story Officials and staff of the title insurance And trust company of Los Angeles Take a great deal of pleasure in presenting These true stories of early California They sincerely hope that few are finding Equal pleasure in listening to them Their company's primary job, of course Its most important service to you and to the community Is providing protection against loss Due to title defects when you buy or lend On real estate Land, usually considered the soundest Of all investments, cannot be picked up And carried away But ownership of land can be lost For its value depreciated through forgery Or falsification of records Or by prior claims due to mortgages, trust deeds Leans, judgments, property rights Determined in divorce cases When title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles Issues of policy of title insurance It stands between you and possible loss of your property Due to such causes Now Frank, what's the story for next week? One of the greatest cities of our south land Long Beach Stands on land which was once Part of the first and largest ranch In Southern California Its fascinating story will be told next week Until then, this is your wandering Barquero, Frank Graham saying Hasta la vista, señoras y señores The romance of the ranchos A presentation of the title insurance And trust company of Los Angeles Featuring Frank Graham as the wandering Barquero comes to you each week At this same time Bob LeMond speaking This is the Columbia Broadcasting System


Welcome back as as always on Fridays we wrap up the conversation talking sports and this morning Wale Scott has joined us to discuss on the new Super Rigos coach that will be announced soon. Good morning to Wale Scott. Thanks for joining us. We hear that Jose Mourinho was contacted or was mentioned in the conversation and I fell down laughing when I saw that. It's laughable really. Some of us who are sports presenters are tired of Armadupinix grandstanding. Of course you didn't contact Jose Mourinho and he just got a job with Roma in Italian Syria so he's not going to take a Nigerian job not now and we know that Mourinho is going to coach a national team, it's going to be Portuguese national team, Portugal is country not Nigeria and Mourinho won't come here. I will advise him not to come because it's enough embarrassment the way we treat our coaches. Don't forget that Gennaro actually had to take a 20% pay cut in the course of doing his job to keep it. I don't know why he loves Nigeria so much but we're hearing that a sladdish or something a Croatian name a Czech Republic name will be named soon and we're asking ourselves a question. Austin Egoavoim played in the Super Rigos at the grassroot level. This guy knows Nigerian football and using this as an example just on the side now Steven Keshi took the Nigerian Super Rigos to the nation's cup and he won that nation's cup and we beat the biggest team in Africa at that point in time. They had Didier Drogba, Kono Turei, everybody who mattered in world football in that Ivorian scene and we beat them to one and everybody felt it wasn't going to happen and the Ivorian coach said listen if I had a list of people who would give me problems in that match Sunday back who scored the second goal for Nigeria wasn't in that list because it was Nigerian based. We need a coach who's going to look inwards so we're tired of going to Pakistan Kazakhstan to go and look for players when we have raw talent in our Nigerian league here. Is it players or coaches where you're talking about now? We're talking about coaches. We're hoping that he's the one who's going to take the Nigerian team to the nation's cup and we start on January 9th and then we're hoping that he will look inwards even if just two or three players, even if they don't play. So my concern is you know for the fact that we constantly have to consider looking outwards I mean getting foreign coaches to come coach our own team. Is it that what you have mentioned some names now what's the issue like we don't believe in the people we have or Nigeria is the only country that I know that our NFF president our Football Federation president doesn't talk to us the journalists. He feels I don't have to talk to you. He's very arrogant. I'm a jupynex that is and nobody like I'm insisting to do on the show no sports presenter can say I have seen Gennaro's contracts. We don't know what he's what he's using there ordinarily in a contract by a country to a coach we'll say improve on your nation's league. We don't know if that is said in Gennaro's and I doubt that Gennaro has never looked inwards. He goes on the internet and looks for footballers who play their trades abroad whether it's Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, wherever but not in Nigeria and we have talent here. For example, I can boastfully say we don't have a free kick taker in the Super Eagles as we speak and we have more than five footballers in Nigerian league who have scored almost all their goals from set pieces. Why can't we look inwards? So what's the problem then? They just don't trust the league. The structure is bad. The structure is bad and so most coaches don't want to take that risk. But what I was saying to Gennaro then when I met him at the stadium before Nigeria played one of our matches for the qualifiers I told Gennaro, listen, I'm not saying play them. At least give them the experience. Let them follow the team abroad. Let them be on the bench. Let them be able to play football as okay. When they see them messy one day they will be scared. But shouldn't this be a policy of the NFF? Is it dependent on the coach? If we bring a coach from Iraq that continues to do the same thing shouldn't we have like a policy that the NFF puts on ground because you don't do this in England? That was what Messi just asked me now. Messi said what's the problem? Probably simple. None of us have read Gennaro's contracts. We don't know what he says. But we believe most sports analysts in Nigeria believe that it should be part of, it should be close. In that contract that says, listen, you must improve on your dad nation's league. In the English national team, I remember a point when the EPL, the English Premier League, insisted that St. Wenger had too many foreign-based players in his team and he must put, and then there was a law. There's a law in England as we speak. Out of your 11 players on the field of play in England, you must have at least six English players. But well, you must have it. If you don't see it on Gennaro's contract, shouldn't you see it as a policy of the NFF? It should be a policy. So we don't have to look at their individual contracts to see that. But we don't have the contract. We don't have the contract. But we insist that we're saying that, listen, like I said earlier, I'm a GP, Nick is the NFF president. He doesn't listen to anyone.  Now we have been telling him, listen, shouldn't it be part of the coach's contract that, listen, you must get involved. In fact, I was even... No, I'm thinking that what he's asking now is, shouldn't it be part of the NFF, like the entire, you know, Football Federation? Shouldn't it be part of the policy? So is it part of the policy now? What I suggested at a point, I suggested two things at a point and I got into big trouble for it. I can assure you. The first... Big trouble. I was suggesting Senates looks into one. If you are a foreign-based company in Nigeria and you work in Nigeria and you're making money from Nigerians, you must invest at least 5% of your earnings, yearly earnings, to a particular sport, whatever sport you want. It doesn't have to be football. You must pay money to it. Egypt is doing it now. Secondly, we must have at least three, even if they are on the bench, three home-based players in all our national teams, football, basketball, all at least three. For the experience? Even if we don't play them. For the experience, let them travel, let me, it's part of the travel party, and go and play with them, whatever, train with them, and then travel with them. And so you realize that at a point in time, we are scared. The average Nigerian is scared when a home-based player is growing up against Argentina and is looking at all mighty lunatics. And he wants him to play well. How? All right. He wants. I would have to wrap up here. Wally Scott, it's a very, very... It's a big conversation. Too big. You know, and it has to continue. If we need to see better sports and we need to put Nigeria back away, it was in 1996. We must insist that our home-based players are involved in this, our World Cup Nations Cup sports, musts. We'll see how it goes. Thank you very much for coming around this morning. Good to see you on Friday, as always. Thank you for coming. And this is where we will be saying our official goodbyes this morning. Thanks for staying with us all through the week. Of course, Merry Christmas in advance is just tomorrow morning. If you missed out on any part of our comeback for Watkins tomorrow, for midnight. If you missed out on any parts of the conversations this week, remember where to catch up. It's simply at Plus TV Africa on all social media platforms. I am Osaogi Ogbon. And I am Messi. We'll do have a Merry Christmas.


Hi, everyone, and welcome to our session where we will talk about edge architectures. My name is Ildik Ovanca. I work as Senior Manager of Community and Ecosystem at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. And among other things, I'm a big open source and edge computing enthusiast, and I have a co-presenter today. Hi, my name is Gregor Chatteri. I'm working as a semi-open source specialist at Nokia in the central open source program office. And I'm also participating in several open source and edge activities, mostly together with Ildik Ovanca. Hungarians rule the world. Yes. And now let's jump into the middle of all this. So what edge computing? There are a lot of debates out there about what edge computing and edge are, so we will not join and deepen the debate here. I only wanted to just emphasize on that edge computing is part of an evolution path as we are kind of moving on from cloud computing only. And edge computing is making it possible to get a computing power out of the large data centers towards the edge and towards the end users, let them be humans or machines. And when it comes to edge computing, a lot of people and organizations are focusing on the edge part of it because that is new. It is exciting. It has a lot of new opportunities, and it also has a lot of new challenges to solve with really small footprint, also with location and circumstances that you all have to be aware of and plan for. But edge is also always on the edge of something, on the edge of the network, on the edge of your system, so it is always part of a larger ecosystem and architecture. And that is what the Open Infra Edge Computing is focusing on. The Open Infra Edge Computing Group is a top-level working group that is supported by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and we have a broad industry outreach and a focus on infrastructure software. And what we are looking into really is the massively distributed systems that are behind edge computing use cases, so really how it looks like from core to the edge, edge to core, or edge to edge in some cases. The group is focusing on collecting use cases in the edge computing area to understand the requirements and challenges that they have. And we are using these learnings to build reference architectural models to also help anyone out there who is trying to put together a solution for an edge computing use case, regardless of industry segments or what kind of organization you're working for. So these architectural models are really there to help the industry and also to identify gaps and see what we should all working on in the open source ecosystem to fill those. You can check out the group on the wiki, the link is on the slide, and also we published two white papers. So you can see all the exciting use cases that we've been working with that covers telecommunication, retail, and we even have a use case on how to modernize and automate shrimp farms. So you can also find the links to the white papers on the side as well. Go and read them. They are not very long, but they are even more exciting. And we can move to the next slide to take a deeper look at what we are talking about when we are talking about architecture models. So our learning is that there is no one size fits all solution out there. There is no one particular tool or one particular configuration that will work for everyone. I would think that it's not coming as a surprise to you either. So what to do when we are facing challenges like that that we have to prepare for really multiple options, a lot of requirements that are similar, but still different. So the approach that the edge computing group has been taking is that we are looking into some crucial requirements that most of these use cases are sharing. And our focus so far was on connectivity. So what happens when you're losing connection between the central data center and an edge site? So it really depends on your use case in how you would like to approach that. And in our learning there are really two big groups that we can put the use cases into, which is how much autonomy you want your edge site to have. And in that sense, we came up with two models so far, the centralized and the distributed control plane model. And the two big difference between the two is that with the centralized control plane option, which is the top diagram on the slide, the control functions and services are all running in the central data center and the edge sites are running the compute workload only. And in this case, most often if you lose connection, your workload is still running on the edge site, but you will not be able to launch a new workload and you will also not be able to do many other operations either. And in some use cases, this is totally acceptable and you may want to rather focus on increasing the workload's footprint on your edge site. But when you need full autonomy on the edge, then you need to look into which control functions move to the edge as well, which will reduce the footprint that the workloads can use, but you will have all the options available for you even in case of a connection loss. So that is what we have been focusing on so far. And when it comes to solutions, we started to build these architectures with OpenStack, also with Kubernetes components, and see how it looks like when you're putting this into action. And we also collected a couple of projects for you that Gergay will describe that are matching one or the other architecture models to give you some examples. So I'm giving the word to Gergay. Thank you. So as you've mentioned, we collected some projects related to Kubernetes which are implementing either the sentence control plane or the distributed control plane architecture. And we also selected some projects to show you in this presentation, which provide support for edge use cases in a different way. So for the sentence control plane implementation where we have all the control functions in a central location, the two most notable projects are K3S, which is a very small IK 200 distribution packaged to a single binary which you can run on all of your locations. And it contains a full Kubernetes distribution with basic features for networking storage, load balancer, and rigorous controllers. And also it has a component so-called tunnel proxy which makes it possible that the communication between the central location and the edge connection location and what is needed for the Kubernetes control plane is possible to do over one. So in this way, K3S is a complete solution for providing edge infrastructures. And it is very famous about its slimness, so it's very slim down Kubernetes distribution. The other project which implies the sentence control plane is Q-Bedge. This is a bit more complete solution than K3S because it has also some features specifically for IoT workloads. So on top of the infrastructure services which are running similarly to K3S, all the control plane workloads in a central location and running the control plane for running the workloads in the edge locations. So on top of these control plane functions, Q-Bedge provides also features for IoT like a message broker and an event bus and also some device management features. And here also we have this capability that the control plane is able to communicate over the one via this edge and cloud components of the architecture. So these are complete implementations. They have all the different pieces which are needed for Kubernetes to run workloads and they are providing a single installer where you can download and install the solution. So these are implementing both of them at the same flight control plane architecture. And for implementing the distributed control plane where as learned from Indico we are running the Kubernetes control plane in all the locations and we have some kind of a federation on top of that. A bit different approach is needed and this is implemented for example in Stardingex which is an edge infrastructure solution providing both Kubernetes and OpenStack as an option to run different workloads. So Stardingex is a very good fusion between Kubernetes and OpenStack for edge cloud infrastructures. And this is again an integrated stack which has all the extensions and all the needed components to run workloads on these solutions. And it has a central management function which controls the data and limit synchronization of the different edge sites. So it has this complete control plane implementation for the different sites and there is one central function which is managing all of these and it can handle for example the cloud infrastructure software updates of the components and so on and so on. The other project was selected is not a complete solution so in this sense it's different from from the others what I described in the previous minutes. So it's cube-fed, it's part of Kubernetes. It's an implementation to federate the Kubernetes API. So basically what it does is it's running the federation agent in one Kubernetes cluster and from there it is capable to schedule workloads to different Kubernetes clusters also. So it's really a scalable API for Kubernetes. It is a necessary component for building edge cloud infrastructures purely based on Kubernetes with a distributed control plane if a single empty point to the infrastructure is required. So this project provides that but to have a complete solution there are lots of other components needed because they are not part of cube-fed so it's not a complete stack basically. There are two other projects what I wanted to highlight and we wanted to show this because these are somehow not vertical solutions of edge cloud infrastructures but somehow like horizontal projects which provide features to build edge cloud infrastructure. So one of these is it's meta-cube, so meta-cube is a bare meta for provisioning service for Kubernetes and it has this capability to provision nodes over layer three with the help of Redfish which means that even worker nodes running in remote locations can be provisioned and can be attached to a cluster or can be installed as a separate Kubernetes cluster with the help of meta-cube. Meta-cube implements the hardware management layer of this so again meta-cube is a necessary part of an edge cloud infrastructure solution but this is a very important part because of the remote manageability of the hardware is key in case of edge cloud infrastructure because as we learned from your deco in the introduction side edge cloud infrastructures are about massively distributed cloud infrastructures and to be able to manage these in a scalable way we need automation and all layers of the second and hardware management is an important part of this. The other project is related to networking and it's called submarine and what it does it makes it possible that ports running in different Kubernetes clusters can communicate with each other and it's built in a way that it opens VP and tunnels between these Kubernetes clusters and channels the traffic via these VP and tunnels also it provides service discovery feature across these clusters so this is a very good baseline to implement a distributed edge application which is able to communicate from like edge to edge in a mesh kind of way so for this submarine it is a great networking solution so these are the the example projects what you wanted to highlight we know that it's not possible to list everything we just collected the let's say most notable examples which are implementing the architectures what we identified as the most prominent ones from all the architectures but also we are now working on defining hybrid architectures when Kubernetes and OpenSpec components are part of the edge cloud infrastructure in different places and in different roles but let's hear more about the future plans of the group in the next slide from Yldiko. So we have a call for action for you because as Gerge was mentioning in the interest of time we only had the possibility to bring only a handful of examples to you but I think it already showed very well that there are a lot of components and building blocks and options out there that you can choose from to build your edge solution and edge infrastructure with but we would like to understand it better how the the landscape is shaping how the edge solutions are shaping and how the edge requirements are evolving over time so we are inviting you to come and collaborate with us and give us any feedback for instance about the the two edge architecture models that we have so far the centralized and the distributed control plane model is it something that your use case or your solution already fits into or do you have a third architecture that doesn't really fit into either of these buckets we would like to learn about all that and also if you have a project that you're working on that we did not talk about here but would fit into this work please come in and share the details with us or if you have a use case that you're trying to identify your edge architecture for and need some help guidance or you would like to talk with someone about that we would really be interested in learning about your use case and requirements too so the the slide contains all the information about the the weekly meetings that we have also the the mailing list and IRC channel where you can get in touch with the group so come join us and work let's all work together on finding solutions for the various edge computing use cases that are out there and with that I believe that we arrived to the Q&A part so we are hanging out here at the event so come and ask questions now or start a discussion or find us during kubecon or reach out to us on the email addresses that you sell at the beginning of the presentation or well find us anywhere we are all over the place participating in open source groups up on social media so you should be able to find a connection to us thank you from the edge yes thank you


Jasmine Paris becomes the first woman ever in the history of the Barclay Marathons to complete all five loops. The Barclay Marathons was created in 1986 by Gary Cantrell, otherwise known as Lazarus Lake. It was originally a 50 mile race but soon became the 100 mile race and over that we know now. Five loops of the frozen head state park in Tennessee. There had only been, up until today, 17 individual finishers of that race. Just about 60 hours ago, 40 or so runners headed off from the yellow gate at the frozen head state park at the start of the Barclay Marathons 2024. A friend of mine was taking part, Henrik Buri, you might remember him from the Suffolk Backyard Ultra in the UK here last year where he was the assist with 81 yards. He also took part in Biggs Backyard Ultra and he was invited to take part in the Barclay by Lazarus himself. Henrik managed one loop, which is absolutely amazing for your very first Barclay. I'm sure he'll want to go back and try and better that next time, but one loop is amazing. Some people start the Barclay, don't even get that far. Other people who've done backyard ultras who were involved in this year's Barclay, well, there was Harvey Lewis, who's the world record holder, who set that world record at Biggs Backyard Ultra last year. He didn't make it to the end, didn't make it past the fourth loop. So Harvey tapped out quite early on, but the other person was E.O. Verries, who was Harvey's assist at that world record. And E.O., in fact, was the very first person back having completed five loops and finished the Barclay Marathons this year. So essentially, E.O. was the winner of the Barclay Marathons this year. So congratulations to Henrik and E.O. fantastically well done, amazing finish by E.O. to come in first. However, there were two other runners who have done this event multiple times, coming back for another crack at it. Friend of the channel, John Kelly, you may have seen the interview a few years ago. He was back for another try. He's done two Barclay Marathons, completed two Barclay Marathons before. He was back for a third finish and he got it. Amazing work by John Kelly. Jared Campbell has completed all five loops three times and he was back again to see if he could be the first person to complete Barclay four times. And amazingly, this time having had a DNF last year, he did finish it. He was the third person back, incredibly well done to Jared. He is the first person ever to complete four Barclay Marathons. But the big stories for us here in the UK were those of Jasmine Parris and Damien Hall. Both huge ultra running stars here in the UK and around the world, both of whom were at the Barclay in 2023. Damien Hall made it past loop four and started the final loop. Unfortunately, some nav issues, finding a book, cost him time, he didn't make it back on loop five. Jasmine Parris made it further than any other woman has ever done in the Barclay Marathons. She made it past loop three and started loop four. She didn't finish loop four. She and Damien were both back to try again in 2024. Now quite often the Barclay Marathon course will not take any prisoners. The weather can be brutal and quite often runners have come back and not completed the Barclay Marathon simply because of torrential rain or freezing conditions. On this occasion this year, the Barclay Marathon weather was kind and the runners had a clear run and a clear stab at getting to five loops. As runners dropped throughout the 60 hours and we got to loop five, incredibly, seven runners were still in the game. We've never had that many runners starting loop five before. And two of those were Damien Hall and Jasmine Parris. Remarkably the first 46 hours of the Barclay this year were relatively uneventful. The weather was kind. All the runners looked comfortable and in control. But it is that last loop which often catches people out. The problem being that a lot of the runners have gone around together, helping each other out, helping each other find the books, keeping each other's spirits up, keeping each other on the right navigation. However, on the last loop, runners have to go in opposite directions and often runners will find themselves on their own for the first time in the race having to navigate in the dark or in poor weather by themselves, having not done so for the entire race. However, as we got closer to 60 hours, the first of those seven runners made it back. Eeyore from Canada and Ukraine made it back to the Yellow Gate in 58 hours and 44 minutes. Congratulations to Eeyore. We just had to wait a few minutes longer before the second runner made it back. John Kelly touching the Yellow Gate in 59 hours 15 minutes for his third Barclay marathon finish. But then the news that none of us wanted to hear or see from Keith Dunn's Twitter feed. Damien Hall comes back in the wrong direction, having not completed Loop 5. Something must have happened out on Loop 5. He knew he wasn't going to make it back in time and he's come a shorter route back to camp. He didn't make it and I'm absolutely gutted for him, especially as just before that I had tweeted, I am very confident that Damien is going to make it back. I'm so sorry for him, but Damien will live to fight another day. He will be back, I am sure. He's got it in his bones now. He wants to finish the Barclay marathons next to touch the Yellow Gate in 59 hours and 30 minutes. Jared Campbell made it four finishes of the Barclay marathons and he's the first person to do that. So congratulations to Jared. Amazing effort after a DNF last year. He made it back this time four finishes for the amazing Jared Campbell. The next runner to make it back and the fourth finisher of this year's Barclay marathons was Greg Hamilton who finished in 59 hours, 38 minutes from New Zealand. Congratulations to him. And then we had another DNF, another person not making it back on the fifth loop. Sebastian Raikkon from France didn't quite finish the Barclay marathons 2024. Maybe he'll be back again for another crack next year. So that just left Jasmine Paris as the sole competitor out on the Barclay marathons course with just minutes remaining. We were constantly refreshing our Twitter X feeds. We were constantly seeing if Keith Dunne was going to do another update. We were constantly trying to contact our friends if we had any on the Barclay marathons campsite to see if they knew any news. Could we see a light in the distance? Well, no, we couldn't because even though it's dark here in the UK, it's daytime in Tennessee. It's just easier to imagine it in the dark. It seems somehow more dramatic to imagine it in the nighttime. Nevertheless, with just two minutes to go, less than two minutes to go, a tweet came from Keith Dunne. Jasmine Paris has touched the Yellow Gate, the first woman to finish the Barclay marathons ever in the history of the Barclay marathons. It's been going since 1986 and no woman has come close to finishing it. Jasmine was the closest ever last year and this year she's gone one better. She's touched the Yellow Gate after completing five loops of the Barclay marathons. Absolutely outstanding, unbelievable, completely brilliant, but also, also overdue, overdue. Congratulations to Jasmine Paris. This opens the door for women at the Barclay marathons and in ultra running everywhere. You know it can be done. Jasmine finished in 59 hours, 58 minutes and 21 seconds. That is cutting it fine. Absolutely full congratulations to all the finishers of the Barclay marathons 2024. Incredible work by Jared and John. Unlucky Damien, so sad for you to Greg. Well done to Jasmine. Absolutely amazing. And Eor who came in first, incredible. Well done to everyone who took part and I just cannot wait to see what happens at the Barclay marathons in 2025. Till next time, we'll see you on the start line.