What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another hockey card video today I'm gonna be opening up these two surprise packs from dollar Rama now if you guys remember I used to do these surprise packs before these ones are the ones that you can get in store at dollar Rama the ones I was doing before came straight from the company that supplies these which is pristine marketing The only thing is pristine used to have them with shipping. It was $4 now shipping is $12 So I decided just to bite the bullet go to my closest dollar Rama and pick up some in person So that way I'm only paying two dollars a pack, which is how much these cost So we're gonna see what we can find random stuff. You get card protectors and other supplies You get sealed packs. Hopefully and then any of their repacks So I'm gonna see what we get here in our first one Actually, I'm gonna open both up and just show you guys So we have a pack of the superstars a Goalie pack which I absolutely love getting those ones a second goalie pack in this one a 90s pack and We ended up getting a mini Snap holder so this is something that I usually like to get that's why whenever I purchase these surprise packs in store I was actually feeling the packs in hope to get one of these the thicker ones where it's hard plastic That would be a 25 card Holder where it can hold 25 cards. I'm not really into those. I just wanted the mini snap holders and the regular snap holders All right, so the next one here. The supply is a top-loader cards for of them, which I don't really need but It was hard to tell with this pack. I guess a Rookie's pack a Canadian teams pack and A nether 90s pack So these I'm just gonna cut them all open and I'm just gonna start with the Canadian teams pack That's gonna be the easiest one. Let's see what we get here Okay for the Canadian teams four cards we have Radman for beta not familiar with this player unfortunately We have an old card here for Adrienne pelvis Plavisk Sorry for butchering names. I tend to do that. So at least these ones here are all Vancouver Canucks highlights for Ryan Kessler and the last card for this pack is Antoli Semnov Not really familiar with them It's not too bad for the first one here. I'm gonna open up the rookie pack next So for a rookie pack, let's see what we get at first Darren Shannon NHL prospects We have a Dan at Crisco Oh, well G or sorry OHL. Oh well GGs a Brad McCriman and A Curtis Lazare So this one here is going to be going into my Ottawa Senators pack So I'm gonna be opening up the Superstar pack See what we can get Up first. We have Mitch Marner, which I already have this card here. We have a blues for Roberts David Roberts. Okay, just says his last name on the front Parkhurst for Jane Nina Mima butchering oh well and Tommy Wiggles wing wing I'm doing terrible today. That's all my faults. I haven't opened these packs up in so long So I'm gonna do a 90s pack now at first 90s pack. We have a Brendan Shannon Dan Telvelsky Joe Recky Ricky Pat peak or peaky Steve Larimer and we have Jeff Sanderson That's actually a nice-looking card. I like that. I'm gonna do the second 90s pack here. Let's see what we get All right, we have Mike Mafy Erin Garvey Sorry Scott Gordon. That's a nice one for my goalie PC Collector's Choice Just a st. Louis blues checklist not too bad that was pretty cool. I like that one and Ottawa Senators. I like this This is for Dave Mick will ain I'm butchering so bad today And then we have Mark Osborne and we have Let yard It's not too bad now for what I'm most excited for for these two packs that I purchased Are the goalie packs? I absolutely love getting at the goalie cards So up first for our first one Is gonna be Sean Burke Next is Mark Fitzpatrick a Jose Theodore and the last one we get is Greg Can you see it milling? We have one more pack here. I'm gonna try to speed this one up last goalie pack is Up first Mike Dunham a Martin Broder That one's a nice one. It's a thick card too That one's a nice one to get I don't get many of his cards a Don Bo prey and We have a Dan Clute here Not familiar with him So yeah, this is not too bad for getting and only paying two dollars per pack Unfortunately, this is what I was most excited about getting I needed to get a few more of these So for two dollars to get this a few cards for my personal PC my goalie cards and other things to add Wasn't too bad and just a reminder like you've seen in this a video You don't get high quality cards most of the time you only get base cards now if you order online off of Pristine marketing you do have to pay the $12 shipping per pack the packs you can get you can get jersey cards Autographs and different things within them just not in the in-store surprise pack. So I'm gonna leave this video here. Please take care. Peace


Hello everybody and welcome to today's live stream. My name is Sarah Lean and I'm a senior cloud advocate here at Microsoft and I'm joined with my colleague, Thomas. Thomas, welcome. Hi, Sarah. Good to see you. Happy to be on air today with you, so yeah, thank you for having me. That's okay. Today's session is all about Azure Landing Zones, and hopefully you've all seen the blog series that Thomas and I have been writing in conjunction with the Azure team around the Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Landing Zones. We're going to be taking your questions, so please feel free to drop your questions in the comments. We have our colleague, Antony backstage trying to furiously type away to your answers, so definitely make sure you drop us a question and we'll answer that as well. Thomas, do you want to kick us off today and explain the Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Landing Zones, all that kind of good stuff? Yeah, I will. Obviously, you and I both, before we joined that role in Cloud Adoption, we were both consultants and we worked actually with customers around the globe, basically, on their Cloud Adoption journey. One of the main things we have is when a customer decides to go with Azure or basically any other Cloud provider, the big questions come up like, how do I do the architecture right? How do I do security right? How do I do the role-based access control right? Obviously, there's a lot of things you need to learn, especially when it comes just from an on-prem world. That is where, for example, the Cloud Adoption Framework can come in, which basically gives you that proven guidance. Again, there are many, many different options. Like how you can actually build your Azure environment, and it's not just about building the Azure environment per se and then in itself. It's also about thinking about the processes behind it and the people behind it, and then what you actually can do and deliver. I think that is also important that you then think of like, how can I align with my business strategy, like what does the business want, and all these questions, and that is exactly where the CAF or as we call the Cloud Adoption Framework can come help you. Yeah. I talked to customers a lot about migrations, Thomas, and I think lots of people get caught up in the technology because that's obviously a massive part of a migration project, but there's also the people that are involved in all of that, whether that be the people in your IT department or the end users and how these changes actually affect them. I've got this slide up here about the Cloud Adoption Framework and how it's part process, part technology, and part people, and that helps to drive that modernization for you to your end goals, whatever that may be. That's one of the reasons why I really love the Cloud Adoption Framework, and I always highlight the people part to people. It is a very important one, and it also is important to understand it, because that is then how you actually can keep the control of your Cloud environment, but still have the speed and agility the Cloud promise to you. You're probably talking about simple, can be simple things. We don't want to have every developer or IT Pro going out and deploying in every region Azure offers, or for example, deploying our large MB2 series machines with hundreds of course, and I think 20 terabytes of memory and stuff like that, and they drain your credit card in three seconds, so you want to keep that control, and that is where the Cloud Adoption Framework can come in. In a nutshell, what is the Cloud Adoption Framework, and where does it come from, and what does it actually focus on? Really what I like is the sentence above, it's really like proven guidance for your Cloud Adoption journey, if you will, and what we're seeing is obviously where we did that is we worked with different customers, we worked with our partners in the field, with consultants, architects, and we try to create that guidance in the Cloud Adoption Framework, and as you can see, it covers a lot of different topics, not just like do the basic architecture, but also then like what comes further, right? Yeah, and I think this slide is actually a great representation of the kind of journey that you go through. We often talk about the Cloud Adoption journey, and this kind of shows you those decision points that you kind of have to go through. So defining your strategy, defining why you're actually doing this, what your success looks like, then planning about it. So starting to think about what you're going to do, and then the ready phase, whereas you are just getting ready for that migration, whether that be your new workloads we're putting into the Cloud, or whether it be existing ones you're migrating, and that's actually where the landing zones sit in. They sit in that ready section. So if you're looking for the Cloud Adoption Framework and you're looking for all the documentation, that's the ready section that has the meat around the landing zones, which is what we want to talk about today as well. And then obviously, there's the other stages, but we're kind of stopping that ready kind of today to talk about the landing zones. So yeah, I think, yeah, that's the way I look at the Cloud Adoption Framework. I don't know if that's also how you look at it, Thomas. Absolutely. I mean, again, we just want to point out, this is not necessarily just about the Cloud Adoption Framework, but we have a lot of people. We're not familiar with the Cloud Adoption Framework, so we want to really point that out. Definitely, if you're part of a Cloud journey, or even if you already have implemented stuff in the Cloud, please check out the Cloud Adoption Framework. It also offers you a couple of tools. We have the Cloud Journey Tracker, which you go through an assessment, basically you answer a couple of questions. And this Cloud Journey Tracker will, for example, find the gaps for you to actually then see, okay, hey, where do I need to pay a little bit more attention? Could be on governance, could be on security stuff. You name it, like basically everything in the Cloud Adoption Framework. Yeah. I just want to address one quick question, because we've got a viewer asking about landing zones and the top three components. You should definitely be deployed. We'll be talking about that in a wee minute, Matthew. So we will answer your question once we get on to talking about the landing zones. Yep, Axie, and that's actually a perfect, perfect time. I think let's talk about landing zones, because we already have a couple of questions also in the chat about the landing zones. But first, let's set the groundwork here on what actually the landing zones cover and what they are. Yeah. So I think when you're looking at what you need to prepare your environment in the days gone by when we're doing physical data centers, you'd be thinking about electricity and air conditioning and badges for your staff to get into. Those are kind of the decision points you have to think about when you're also moving to the Cloud. Obviously, there's different points within that. And as you can see on the screen of the slide that Thomas is talking about here, you've got those decision points you have to go through. And it's key to go through those decision points before you do the landing zones, Thomas. I know I've probably seen a few customers and you've probably seen a few who have went out and deployed a landing zone and then thought about their design. And that's probably the wrong way to do it, I think, if it's fair to say that. I mean, it's definitely helpful with the earlier you start, right? I mean, it's like building, and we bring that example, for example, building a house, building like stadiums, building like projects, like building houses in general, right? It's always good to have a plan and build an architecture and like answer these questions before you actually start building it. However, obviously, as I said before, even if you're started, that doesn't like, without that, you can still circle back and go and have a look at it. I still highly recommend because I know a lot of viewers right now probably already started and you're not like completely wrong, right? But the earlier you look at this, the more helpful it is to that. And I love how you pointed out like what actually is in the landing zone and that is also very interesting to me. I mean, I know that you wrote one of the big, or took the big part of like what is actually an Azure landing zone. Can you tell me a little bit more? Yeah, so the landing zone is those key components and you'll probably hear us say in the documentation, the minimum viable product that you need to house a resource in Azure. So if you think about like a server, a server needs core components, it will need like network connectivity, it will need authentication methods. We're not even cooling an electricity because we already have that in the cloud, but that's the kind of things you need to think about, you know, the governance, the role-based access control, who has access, who doesn't have access. Those are the kind of parts that make up a landing zone. Those are the bits that you have to design and you have to put in place before you can actually put a server there or a web app or even just a storage account. So your landing zone is really just that minimum viable product that you need to be able to support a resource. So hopefully that actually makes sense. Does that make sense, Thomas? I think it works perfectly sense. And I think what also a lot of people need to know because I see already a couple of questions and no worries, keep them coming. We will go through them as much as we can. It's not like just a fixed thing, right? It's not just like, because every customer is a little bit different and every project is a little bit different and the different landing zones can also be different depending on you have customers. So there's not the one right way of doing it. But again, the cloud adoption framework provides you with the proof and guidance on this. Now, what we are talking about, one of these landing zone types, if you will, or the architectures are the new, basically new, I put it in quote, because they're exists right now for a while, are the enterprise scale landing zones. And so we wanna quickly see, talk about what that actually is. And I like the slide you put here together, which shares like basically covers it pretty well in a very short sentences. Yeah, the enterprise scale is just building on that minimum viable product and making it for the companies that have, tens of thousands of workloads or 100 thousands or you don't, to be honest, you don't actually need all that kind of workload, but it's just the kind of next bit up from that minimum viable product that you need. And I think that's how I simplify in my head between a landing zone and an enterprise scale landing zone. Hopefully, I'm hopefully doing that right and doing that justice, Thomas, and summarizing that correctly. Yep, absolutely. I mean, for me, what I usually tell people what like enterprise landing is always like two things, right? We have this architectures itself, really providing you with like, this is how an architecture of different landing zone types can look like, but basically the guidance again for these landing zones, but then also we have certain reference architectures which we probably will have a look at before in just a bit, which we actually have also again, two things. We have the architecture of it, like we provide you and say how it can look like, but we also provide you with the automation around it. So you can actually take that code and the team created things like automated, like ARM templates and other automation parts based on, for example, Azure policy to make it easy to integrate into your environment. And that is also something we will definitely gonna have a look at a little bit later on. Yeah, absolutely. We can actually dive into that now if you want, Thomas, if we want me to jump over to some of the landing zone or do you wanna do the design principles first, very, very quickly. Just cover like before we go a little bit because again, I know that there are people in the chat which are probably not that familiar with the different design principles because this is an important part. What did actually Azure, like the enterprise scale landing zones, like taking care of, right? And it focuses as you can see here in blue and a couple of things. For example, like this is the democratization of subscriptions or you use subscriptions to separate your different environments. It's policy-driven governance. So it can take like policies and native management service within Azure which takes like place so you can run that. It provides a single control plane and a management plane. So you can actually go out and use basically enterprise scale to manage your different environments and landing zones. And I think what is also very important is this application centric and architecture neutral part where we don't just think about like, hey, okay, we just take over and we do a lift and shift of your applications if you have any existence. We also think about how you can actually optimize them for a cloud and in a cloud native way. And then I think most importantly, overall is that it actually looks at the Azure roadmap, right? Because what we see in the lot is like, obviously when you implement something we will bring out new features and new functionality. And so it actually aligns with that roadmap. So whenever you start, you can still work with that in the future and it's designed to be like upgradable. But yeah, you're right. Let's dive in and have a look at this stuff we want to show. Cool. So what we have is a documentation which lives on GitHub which is all the enterprise scale, landing zone templates and some documentation about how you can actually deploy them. So it's the place that I want to show you where they are. So yeah, this has all the information about the different architectures that we have, the different enterprise scale landing zones that we have. And there is some documentation about how you can deploy them. There's some documentation around how you deploy them in a CI CD pipeline via GitHub Actions if you want to do that. There's also some information about how you can try it out in a one-stop subscription. And yeah, basically just lots of information about this. So definitely somewhere for you to head over to on GitHub. What I want to show you is some of the reference architecture that we've got in terms of the landing zone. So we've got these fictional companies as we do here at Microsoft. We've got Contoso, we've got Adventureworks, we've got Wingtips, and we've got the Tree Research ones. And they all do the similar thing but on different scales and have different components when you look at them. So if we dive into just the Contoso one for an example, what we'll see in this GitHub repo is a big deploy to Azure button. So it takes the template and deploys it into Azure which we'll be showing you in a minute. But it also tells you a little bit about the customer profile that this is intended for and also some of the prerequisites that you have to do, what will be deployed, and then you've got the architecture diagram. So it kind of explains what this template is actually going to deploy for you so as you're not just deploying the template and not understanding what's behind it. Got a nice kind of visual diagram there showing you all the different components of it. And as you can see from the landing zones, what we try and do with these landing zones is split things up into different subscriptions. So we have subscriptions around your management and your governance, your connectivity, if you're looking to do hybrid connectivity back to your on-premises environments. Got identity and we've got the landing zone subscription which is actually where you put all your resources. It may look complex and I think probably first glance, Thomas, I'm sure you've looked at these and you think, oh, that's a lot of resources or a lot of things for us to manage. But when you actually look at it, it makes a lot of sense or at least it does to me now that I've been studying them for quite a few weeks. Absolutely. I mean, usually you need to look at this like all by yourself, right? If you would not take the enterprise scale landing zones, if you would just take something else, you probably, those are still the things you need to look at. You still need to look about network connectivity, security, still need a bit of a role-based access. So this is actually a good thing to like making you also aware of it. By the way, we also, this is great when you show that screen because we just see one question, I think from Matthew, I just came in. He asked about like, so would you have like multiple landing zones for example in a hub and spoke environment? And yes, kind of that's absolutely what it is. So if you look at, for example, this screenshot here, you can see that we have obviously different subscriptions for like the management part and centralized subscriptions, if you will. But then you have, for example, different landing zones on, for example, which can suffer like different applications, different teams, different departments or different environments, if you will. And I think that you can see here, it's like covered with a little end there that you have like one landing zone is literally like the base. But then obviously you can have multiples next to each other to separate different environments. Yes. And I think also someone's asking about the start small and expand landing zone. I believe that's the tree reference. So tree research, if you look at that one, don't necessarily quote me on that one, but they're different ones and they have different scales. So if you have a look quickly at the tree one, yes. So this one's for the smaller ones. So we might call it start small and expand but when you actually look at our cloud adoption framework, it does reference these company names, these fictional names, so you can put the pieces together. But again, you will have, if you scroll down, it's a slightly smaller architectural diagram for the smaller landing zone as well. And our documentation does go into why we've picked all these components and that's part of the design process. So those design principles that we talked about earlier and Thomas showed that kind of slide point. Those design points are driven by what you end up here. So if you say that you have to be mega secure because of some compliance need within your industry, if you've maybe got PCI, DSS, we've got payment protection you need to do, then it will help you design the different components that you need within this environment versus if it's just a demo environment and you don't need it secure and you're quite happy to have port 3389 open to the internet and stuff like that. Those design principles will ultimately help you design your landing zone and kind of define the points. So the documentation, the cloud adoption framework really walks you through why we've kind of gone with these reference architectures as well. So yeah, hopefully that kind of answers some of the questions. I know we've got a lot coming in here guys. We will definitely take the questions we can't really answer right now on the stream. We will definitely try to answer them in the follow up blogs or posts we have. I also wanna quickly go with Pixel Robots question here. One of, hi Richard by the way. Thank you very much for joining today. So he asked basically, are they also giving like these documentation to these different architects but they're also giving kind of like business reasons for it. And as you can see where Scarra is scrolling through, there is a customer profile. For example, it says, okay, for whom, for which type of enterprise or customers or which scenario is this made? I don't know if this is enough for depending on your scenario, but it should give you a pretty good idea how you can use it. Yeah, so yeah, there's lots there. I think somebody was asking about Azure Lighthouse and how it's integrated into the landing zones. I actually don't know if we have anything at the moment that integrates that environment, that cool technology that you have with Azure Lighthouse. But what we'll do is we'll definitely take that back to the team and check where it is on the roadmap if it's something that they do have. In this GitHub repo, there is a roadmap file. So yeah, we'll definitely take that question back to the team and see where they're going. The reference architecture that I wanted to actually show you and show you how to deploy it is actually the AdventureWorks one. And this would deploy everything that you see on screen here, which again, looks like a lot. But when we show you how you can deploy it, it's actually quite a simple deployment in terms of it. So again, when you're in this GitHub repo, you can click on this deploy to Azure button. And what it'll do is it'll start to open up the Azure portal for you and start to walk you through a nice interface that the team have put together to help you deploy this reference architecture in this landing zone. And I won't go through all the questions because it is one you can actually go through without actually deploying. Thomas and I have worked through it a few times before this live question. But it asks you simple questions, like what region do you want to deploy into? So I'm based in the UK. So I'd say UK for that. And then I start to walk through the wizard and I ask you various different questions. Like what prefix do you want all your management groups to have? You can have like your company short name or you could have tests or you could have production. Whatever it makes sense for your organization. And again, if you've went through the design process, these questions should not actually be unfamiliar to you. You should have all these answers written down on a bit of paper. If you've had those design meetings and you aren't just deploying this like me ad hoc without any planning at all. You've all get asked lots of questions around things like log analytics. Do you want to deploy that? Do you not want to deploy it? How long do you want all of this kind of data stored? Again, if you went through the design decisions then you will have the answer to all of this. And this could be key again, like I was saying to customers who have lots of compliance needs. They might need to store their data for 180 days to be compliant with whatever the compliance is within their industry. So yeah, there's lots of questions through this. Thomas, would you put any? That is actually pretty cool because you showed the architecture but it does not just give you exactly the default. Still you'll be able to actually easily modify different solutions. So if you, for example, let's say you don't want to use change tracking in your solutions for whatever reason. Again, obviously you have this documentation to explain what it is. You could actually just go out and say, okay, I don't want to deploy that. And so this is pretty awesome. I really like how the team has done it. Looks fairly simple to me to go through. I mean, I wish we had this way earlier years ago, but now we have it and it should be very beneficial for a lot of enterprises out there. Yeah, and obviously all the answers are tech. Yes, at the moment, Bill, like you said, if you don't want to use something right now, you don't have to have it enabled when you walk through this wizard. You get through to the networking piece again. You can deploy things if you want them. You can deploy things if you don't. Obviously I wouldn't want to do an express route gateway on my sub because I would suddenly burn my credits on my subscription right now. But obviously that's something again, if you're planning for, if you want that hybrid connectivity back to your own prem environment that you can start to actually plan through as well. One thing I am actually working through this in the portal obviously through the ARM template that was on GitHub, but we also have it in terraform form as well. So if that's something that you preferred, I know a lot of organizations are having debates about, do we use ARM templates? Do we do bicep? Do we do terraform? The options there in terraform, if that's something that you want. And then you could look at doing the pipeline things through Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions to deploy this as well. So there's multiple options there. You don't have to use this GUI interface, but obviously the GUI interface is actually quite a nice way of doing it. I think this is awesome because this is just, you answered just one of the questions which was coming in. Is it also like, can we also use automation and infrastructure as code? Absolutely, right? The great thing about that is then you can later on even go and obviously like from the concept of infrastructure as code doing changes within the code to actually like edit your deployed environment. One thing I also want to highlight. So for example, I know that a lot of you probably say, well right now we don't have an express route, but later we will. Or for right now we don't have, we don't need the hyper connectivity. We just want to start an Azure environment and we obviously have reference architectures for that as well. Can I like go from like starting smaller with another architecture and then still add things later if I want to? Yes, absolutely the options there for you to do that. And again, this is where a lot of the design comes back into play, Thomas, because you'll start to think about these questions. You'll have done all your discovery. You'll have figured out what your success measures are and actually forecasted where you want to be as a company, you know, in three years or five years or whatever that metric might be. So right now you might be saying, well, we're only going to deploy this brand new workload into Azure, but in six months time we want to start a data center migration. So we have to think forward that we might need an express route, that we might need governance, we might need something bigger. So again, I'm going to hammer the hot point again, just that that design decisions really help you pick the right one. You can pick the wrong one. That is something that some customers have unfortunately done, but again, if you walk through the documentation and walk through the design decisions, hopefully you will lead down the right path. But again, it's no disaster if you haven't because a lot of the landing zone architecture can be scaled and can be refactored. We do have a documentation as well in the cloud adoption framework that talks about refactoring your landing zones. So because I think as you said, landing zones didn't really exist when we were doing consultancy. So a lot of organizations already are using Azure, but they now want to maybe look at using the cloud adoption framework and landing zones going forward. So you can definitely refactor.  Yep, absolutely. And I think one of the questions as well is about, there's some of the landing zones don't have a lot of policies in them. There are some policies, the basic ones that a lot of organizations meet, but if you need more as an organization, you can build on that basic landing zone that we have. So if there's more policies you want to add in, then absolutely add them in. Again, we can't necessarily cover all the scenarios for every business and every industry and every vertical that there potentially is out there, a nuance that everybody needs. But hopefully these landing zones give you a great starting point, a great point for jumping off into your cloud adoption journey. And I think that's one of the key things that we have to mention as well. Absolutely, absolutely. I actually think we're running out of time. We're hitting that 30 minute mark, which has went super quick. So thank you everybody. Thank you Thomas as well for being here with me and answering all these questions. Yep, that was a great pleasure. Again, we have the link here. You can see you can find more. We will add more resources. Please also let your questions come in there. We will definitely try to answer as many as possible and let's keep the conversation going. And if you want to hear more of us, obviously leave a comment and we will be happy to do more. Yes, thank you everybody and have a great day.


To avoid a collapse of the Eurozone, Europe moves closer to a European mega-state, by Frank Hollenbeck, an Audio Mises-Weier narrated by Million Quinteros. The French President Macron recently fired a warning shot across the bow of the European ship of state. He said that without making all EU countries mutually responsible for the debts of individual countries, the EU could collapse. In March, Christine Lagarde asked Eurozone finance ministers to consider a one-off joint debt issuance of Corona bonds to assist with the coronavirus pandemic. But this has been met with opposition by Germany and other northern European countries, since they do not want to be responsible for the debts of the more spend-thrift nations of the EU. Before the crisis, Italy had a 135% debt-to-GDP ratio. Despite having more than a decade to reduce its debt after the crisis of 2008, Italy has consistently postponed dealing with the problem. Without pain or serious voter revolts, politicians will never take debt seriously, and their countries will inevitably fail to reduce their debt. This is also true of the US, France, Japan, and even the UK. If a central bank can increase the supply of loanable funds at will, interest rates can be kept artificially low for a very long time. Even before this coronavirus crisis, the European Central Bank, or ECB, was buying up massive amounts of quality debt in the form of sovereign and corporate bonds. This lowering of the yield curves across Europe also lowered borrowing costs for countries such as Italy. Without higher borrowing costs, there is no pain and thus no incentive to do anything about the debt. The actions of the ECB were essentially painkillers for spend-thrift nations that do not deal with the underlying cancer of high debt levels. The ECB's current policy of doing whatever it takes, including making massive purchases of Italian bonds, show that it has no concern about preventing cancer from spreading delaying the inevitable. Why are Germany and others so worried about mutualizing their debt? Every euro the ECB prints is a tax on cash balances. It is a tax on every person in the eurozone. By monetizing Italian debt, the ECB is forcing every German citizen, every person using the euro, to pay for Italian profligate spending. The German government is obviously more concerned about its bondholders than its citizens, otherwise it would have vehemently opposed current ECB printing of bogus money. Excessive debt is not just an Italian problem. France has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 98%, but has already indicated that this will increase to 115% after promising Christmas presents in April. Of course, with the world economy slipping into recession or possibly depression, a ratio of 150% is probably a more realistic number. This will be even worse for Spain and Italy. Without mutualizing debts, another Greece-like situation is a certainty. Macron's concerns are perfectly justified. Like an obese person who sets weight goals, European countries quickly forgot the 60% debt-to-GDP target set in the Stability and Growth Pact. Europe was already a dead man walking. The corona crisis has simply exposed its underlying dysfunctional economic policies. The clock is ticking on the existence of the EU. European nations will soon have the bleak choice of either ending the euro zone as it is now composed or being permanently stuck as a group in a low-growth rising inflation environment. A mutualization of debts means upward pressure on German interest rates. If Germany and other Northern European countries hold to their positions, a sovereign debt crisis will probably lead to the end of the euro and a return to national currencies. This scenario is by no means guaranteed, but if this happens, it will obviously be a shock to the world economy, but not necessarily a disaster. We have many examples of countries switching currencies without disastrous consequences. The US went from the continental back to gold and silver. Germany went from the Reichsmark to the Rentenmark in 1923, and the French went from the Assignate to the Gold Frank following the hyperinflation of 1790 to 97. Would the end of the euro mean the end of the EU? It is hard to envision large, expensive EU institutions surviving the coming economic upheaval. Yet nothing stops countries from returning to the original costless intent of the EU. The free movement of people, goods, and capital between member nations. The end of the EU as a superstate, with its myriad of regulations, may not necessarily be a bad thing. The COVID-19 pandemic itself will not be the cause of the cascade of economic events to come. The pandemic may be short, but the economic ramifications of the lockdown policy will last far longer. Europe may be the first domino to fall, but others will surely follow. After all, Japan's current debt to GDP ratio is over 200% and is set to become much larger. Historians may look back on this period as illustrative of the folly of allowing central banks untrammeled power to manipulate the money supply and public finances. As the adage goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is true of central banks, just as much as it is true of kings and parliaments. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.


Welcome to Toffy TV. It is the Everton News Daily. Carl-an-Wan Chalotty has held his press conference ahead of tomorrow's game against Brighton. He's indicated that there are no new injury problems at the club. He did say Andre Gomez is due back next week to start his fitness recuperation after obviously that awful injury against Spares. Obviously we've seen little bits and pieces of him out there doing things on the bike but he'll be back hopefully doing some kind of grass work next week I would imagine. You never know, we might get to see him again this season. It's been a brilliant recovery so far and it's really positive news in a time where I think Everton fans need positive news because everywhere I look there just seems to be drama surrounding Everton. In the other injury news he said Alex O'Wobby and Jean-Philippe Gabbaman are both working on their own in their own routines but no day chair of when they'll be coming back. So the possibility of getting those three players back sooner rather than later obviously O'Wobby and Gabbaman possibly should be, well O'Wobby I imagine will be too much longer and then Gabbaman and then maybe Gomez would be a massive boost. Going towards the latter stages of this season so, but at the same time if Gomez doesn't come back this season and so be it that's just one of those things. At the time Spares I thought it was going to be a horrific injury with maybe a year but don't think there's been too many complications. I think the fact that the bone didn't break the skin or anything like that, the ligaments must be too bad so fingers crossed we get to see him back sooner rather than later. Call of Duty also mentioned that it's about this week obviously being a lot of talk about dressing room and bust ups, Fabian Delf on social media, fans going down to Finch Farm. First of all he said there's no bust ups, just normal sort of stuff, people at the training, at Finch Farm and at the game are on field and suddenly just making their feelings known but nothing more than that. On Delphi he just said it's been dealt with and the fans he said it's normal, this is a normal thing that happens in Italy and he'd be happy to speak to fans so I thought that was a great way of dealing with it. If the fans want to speak to me I'll speak to them so excellent stuff from him. In other news today, Shen Towson has gone to Crystal Palace on loan to the end of the season. There is some talk that there could be a deal as being done if he does well, talk of £17 million free, which if that's true would actually be a really good fee because with amatisation he'd only actually be worth £15 million. A lot of people always think when you buy a play for the same amount that's the amount you're losing and well it's not been with us for a couple of years now so we've had two years of value if you want to call it value out of them so whatever we got back now would be determined by the amatisation which is around £15 million. If we got any land back we'd be making a profit on them so we'll have to wait and see how he gets on. I don't think there's any great loss at this stage, he obviously wants to play, he's got the Euros coming up at the end of the season so we'll wait and see what he does there but he has gone. The women's derby will be played at Gullison Park on the 9th of February with a 2 o'clock kick off. Season tickets holders, lounge members and official membership holders get free access to that game. If you fancy going to that given the support of the Everton women's team then go on the Everton website and find out. I'm not sure if you've got to get tickets or whatever but make sure you can support them. The game's obviously getting bigger. Everton are hoping to get the ground at Walton Hall Park open soon for the women's teams as they've got their own ground not too far from Gullison Park. If you can get down there please support the women's team and finally there's been a boost for the stadium today. Masyside Civic Society who are a heritage group have given their backing to the move to Bramley Mordoch. The group tries to preserve the best old building in the city and tries to find new ways for them and puts their back into different projects. They have said they've been impressed with the club of taking to go through the plans and obviously if you look through the plans Everton have gone through a hell of a lot of work to make sure that they didn't just dismiss a lot of the old parts of the docks area. The dock area doesn't have much going on there but they're trying to bring part of that dock back to life and putting a lot of the old features back in place and trying not to disrupt a lot of the old features and trying to make sure that they are looked after for as long as Everton are there which is hopefully, well if we get there let's just get there first but you know what I mean. And you know if anyone looks at the plans it looks fantastic and really this has always been the big problem for the stadium where anyone has been to my problems why Everton's ground couldn't be built. It's always been about heritage, it's always been about the wealth heritage side, it's always been about English heritage so to hear that one of the cities heritage society is actually coming out and backing it, that's a fantastic first step because that would really be the only thing, everything else has been put in place for this stadium, Everton have gone to great lengths to make sure that all the boxes are ticked and if there's any problems Everton have already looked at what those problems would be and heritage seems to be the number one thing that stands out so this is big news for Everton to have this backing and hopefully if they can get the backing of now of English heritage. UNESCO is a different thing because they've been looking at Liverpool as a city for the whole of the generation works, regeneration works that the city are trying to do and that gives them a black mark against them. The city might be the thing that pushes them over the edge but you can't stand still, you've got to go forward as a city and the stadium would be a huge thing for the redevelopment of the city and for that part of the city so fingers crossed this is another step towards getting that stadium which I'm sure we'll know more about come May, June time about what's happening with it. So there you go, this has been the Everton News Daily, give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already and if you want more great videos join us over on page and the link is in the description. Thanks for watching, see you later.


You know, just from towards the defensive mindset, you guys are shorthand on offense. How much does the defense kind of feel like, hey, we need to really quit? You do every week, but how much does the defense feel like it's on them to maybe play especially well this week?  I feel like various put that, you know, on the leaders of the defense to make sure that we get that done. But yeah, nah, I mean, it is what it is.  How well is their offensive line playing right now? Yeah, nah, I feel like just as a whole offense, they're just operating at a high level right now. And I feel like it's going to be critical, you know, for our front to make an impact in the game, you know, to give us our best chance to win. When they're getting rid of the ball as quickly as he likes to, what can you guys kind of do as a defense if the pressure can't get in all the time to get him or to disrupt him? Nah, I mean, we just got to be relentless in our rush.  And then when it comes down to it, just, you know, match up with your guys. But I mean, yeah, that's all you can do. Just execute the call to shame calls.


Hello and welcome to this lightning talk for FOSSAsia 2022. I am Dominic Torno. I am a principal engineer at Temporal. How can you develop always available systems while also enjoying a delightful developer experience? In this talk, we will learn about the important role of core abstractions, a key ingredient in answering this question. Core abstractions are the fundamental building blocks of your system. A core abstraction mitigates a set of challenges on a platform level while it entirely eliminates that set of challenges on an application level. Let's look at two examples. First, we will look at a well established core abstraction in the context of database systems. And next, we will look at a recent core abstraction in the context of distributed systems. First up, database systems. The database community faces many significant challenges. Here, I will focus on two, the presence of failure and the presence of load. If a database system experiences failure, some operations may have taken effect already, while other operations may not have taken effect yet. An anomaly known as partial application. If a database experiences load, some operations may interfere with each other. An anomaly known as a race condition. Obviously, these challenges threaten your system's consistency. It's correctness. However, for the past 45 years, the database community has enjoyed an unparalleled developer experience. These challenges do not seem to be on anybody's mind. Why? Because the database community introduced a core abstraction. Database transactions. A database transaction is a sequence of read and write commands that terminate with exactly one abort or exactly one commit. In case a transaction terminates with an abort, the database system guarantees that the resulting state of the database is equivalent to a state where the transaction did not happen at all. In case the transaction terminates with a commit, the database system guarantees that the resulting state of the database is equivalent to the state where the transaction happened exactly once and in isolation. In summary, a database transaction guarantees that the resulting state of the database is equivalent to the state where the transaction didn't happen at all or where the transaction happened exactly once.  As a database developer, I develop my application as if failure and load do not even exist. And as a database developer, because transactions are a well-established abstraction, I take this developer experience for granted. But not every community is so fortunate. Case in point. Next up, distributed systems. The distributed systems community too faces many challenges. And once again, I will focus on two. The presence of failure and the presence of time limits. As previously, if a distributed system experiences failure, some operations may have taken effect already, while other operations may not have taken effect yet. Again, the anomaly of partial application. If a distributed system approaches a time limit, operations may be terminated, an anomaly known as a timeout, which in turn may result in partial application. Again, these challenges threaten your system's consistency. It's correctness. Unfortunately though, the distributed systems community does not enjoy a developer experience similar to the database community. These challenges are on everybody's mind all the time. Why? Because we have not established a core abstraction. We are unable to mitigate failure, unable to mitigate time limits on a platform level. We mitigate on an application level. Our application code is painfully aware of failure, painfully aware of time limits. We break up our computation into chunks, wrap those chunks into retries in order to mitigate failure, and then stitch those retrying chunks back together via databases queues and crone jobs in order to mitigate time limits. Let's face it, our application code is just a hot mess. However, recently we are witnessing the advent of a new core abstraction. The distributed systems community is introducing the concept of a workflow. A workflow is to distribute the systems where the transaction is to databases. A workflow is a sequence of commands. A workflow guarantees that the resulting state of a distributed system after executing a workflow is equivalent to the workflow executing exactly once and to completion. Now once again, workflows mitigate failure and time limits on a platform level, entirely eliminating failure and time limits on an application level. With the core abstraction of a workflow, it is both trivial and delightful to build correct systems. One example of a popular workflow system is Temporal. Temporal is an open source workflow as code workflow system. Workflow is code refers to the fact that you can author your workflows in code, for example in Java, in Golang, in JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, any language that Temporal has an SDK for. Temporal lifts a regular function into a workflow. In other words, a workflow is a regular function but with additional execution guarantees. Check out this example. This snippet illustrates a workflow that loops forever until it hits an exit condition, sleeping one month in between iterations as if failure and time limits do not even exist. Curious? Learn more about workflows and workflow systems at Temporal.io. Thank you very much for watching and enjoy the rest of the conference.


Okay, well it is 1232, I'm going to call our meeting to order if everybody can join me and say on the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, so the first item on the agenda is roll call, Michelle Gentine, Lisa Merrick, Karen Houston, Abby Block. Here. Michelle Warner, Nicole Bredesen. Michelle Warner here, sorry about mute. Oh, I'm sorry. Kate Hodges, Christine Potter, Gretchen Houston. Here. And Kevin Post. Here. And Mike Heimbach said he was going to not be here today. The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes for September 30, 2020? So moved. Do we have a second? Okay, awesome minutes are approved. Thank you. Moving on to item three, we have some items for discussion and possible action. And item three point one is an update from the survey subcommittee on the creation and distribution of the community wide survey to gather feedback on the current state, a pet friendliness and Sheboygan, as well as how residents envision the future. Has everybody had some time to take a look at these. Michelle, do you want to talk about it since you are the awesome person that did all this work. You know, what I just tried to do is take a look at it in terms of what was the point first, what were the objectives of having a survey. And to me it was really figuring out a gaps analysis of what exists in the city and people don't know about or what you people want that doesn't exist and try to identify those things. So we can combine that with our demographic information of what we do have and then figure out priorities from there, putting it pretty tough to figure out where we want to focus on because we all come in with our own biases right of what we might think is most important. So I tried to take each section of the demographic information and just take what we had and what we didn't have and ask questions that were reflective of figuring out again that gaps analysis. I think that was a little bit long because I just did the whole thing and figured we can edit if people feel it's too long. I don't know what's appropriate or not. But that was my approach for it. Does anybody have any feedback on the survey that we created? Chairman, I think we should just go through the questions one at a time and then solicit some feedback as we go. Okay, thank you, Mr. Mayor. So the first question of course is do you live in the city of Sheboygan. And the next question was do you own a pet? If yes, please share what species, how many pets you have of each species? This would be an open answer. If you don't own a pet but would like to, why don't you own a pet? For example, are you not able to own a pet because you rent and pets are not allowed? Are you not able to own a pet because you work long hours and can't leave an animal at home? The next question is if you own your home or rent and what would make Sheboygan a more pet friendly city? So that's the section on demographics. Does anybody have any comments? Okay, so moving on to public parks, trails and green spaces. We have, do you bring your pets to public parks, trails and green spaces? No, are you aware? There I think we might be able to use a resource in our engineering department. They've created a GIS map that shows all of those areas on a map. So if people aren't familiar with them, we don't have to list them, but we might want to put a link in there for them to access that. That is fantastic. Thank you. Then the next question is, are you aware of dog parks available to you locally? And then we have, do you use either of the local dog parks? I guess the other, on that question, do you use either of the local dog parks? And I'm just wondering, you know, is it referring to the dog run on 18th Street or the beach at Lakeview Park? Or, you know, like the Humane Society is talking about putting a new dog park in their proposal. Do we need to list those or do you think that this covers it? I'll just type in someone who wrote it. I have no idea. I was surprised to see in the demographics that they listed more than one dog park because I'm new to town. I didn't know about more than one. So I think it would be a great idea to list them because I was not sure what they were referring to. Okay. I agree that that would be a great idea to list the names of the dog parks. Maybe separate that out.  Or are you aware that the Humane Society is developing a dog park? Maybe we could find a question like that. That sounds good. The next question is, are you more likely to use public off leash areas or on leash areas with your pet? And what are the three public parks or trails and green spaces you use most often? And then what would you like to see changed about the laws or the accessibility of Sheboygan's public park trails and green spaces when it comes to using them with your pet? I wonder if something like that, if we want to come up with some multiple choice answers and maybe leave like an other for, you know, like to give people some ideas of what that might even encompass. Sorry, hopefully you can hear me this time. That's a really good idea. That is a great idea. Does anybody else have feedback? I guess I'd say for kind of the multiple choice there, like giving the options because they may think that our current laws are applicable. Maybe give the option of like how do you feel are current laws like a. They're good enough be we need to be more pet friendly. See, they need to be more strict. Just kind of getting a general understanding and then there could be like a follow up question like if you wanted it this way, how would her if you want like more open laws, what are your suggestions or something like that. That way we have a better sense of where everyone else is as well. Because I know we are going to get some that say they need to be more restrictive. I think then and not not everybody I think is going to say like, oh yeah, let's just open everything up or let's some somewhere on that spectrum. But yeah, I think giving options helps bring it into focus a little bit. Thank you. Those are very helpful. And the next section would be pet friendly businesses. Are you able to find businesses in Sheboygan that cater to your needs as a pet owner. For example, veterinary services, boarding services, daycare services, food supplies, etc. And then we have what services are you not able to find in Sheboygan as it relates to your needs as a pet owner. That one is an open answer. They can fill in the blank. And then we have our pet friendly businesses like restaurants that allow pets to join you for outdoor dining stores that allow you to bring your pet inside hotels that allow pets, etc. Important to you. If pet friendly businesses are important to you do you think Sheboygan businesses do a good job of being pet friendly. And if pet friendly businesses are important to you what is an example of something you'd like to do with your pet, but you're unable to do. I wonder in that question if we could just leave off the if pet friendly businesses are important to you and just make it what is an example of something you'd like to do with your pet that you're unable to. Well, and I don't know about for the, you know, are they important? Could it be something like very important, somewhat important, you know, don't really care either way. We're not at all important or something like that just to make it a little bit more standardized when we're pulling the results together to say, you know, this percentage of people said it's really important to them to have this particular thing here in the city. That's a fantastic idea that would probably make it much easier because otherwise you're giving people too many options that they have their own choices to make with that answer. So we'll, we'll have to work on some of these things and then bring it back for review again. The next section we had was pet friendly workspaces. Does your workplace allow you to bring pets to work? If you're allowed to bring pets to work, have you chosen to do so? Would you value being able to bring your pet to work? If you would be able, if you would value being able to bring your pet to work, why would you value that? For example, it would cut down on your pet separation anxiety make it easier for you to have a pet. And the first three questions I'd like to see us consider adding an option for I don't know, because some people may or may not even, you know, be looking at that. But obviously we would want to identify the ones that do and don't. Okay, we can do that then. Thank you. The next section that we have is shelters. If you have a pet, did you adopt it from a shelter? The next one is have you wanted to adopt a pet from a shelter but were unable to? And if you wanted to adopt a pet from a shelter but were unable to, why? Now there, you know, we kind of put shelters in one group, but there are fostering groups, you know, and things like that. So I don't know if we can do something to maybe expand the title there. And then this kind of acts asked only what your present tense is, but I think we should also maybe allow people who maybe did this years ago or, you know, who did something in the past reply to it too. I don't know if we want to capture anything around like other programming. So even if you haven't necessarily adopted a pet to do, you know, call for the traps bandit or program or something like that. I think just to get a sense of maybe those people that utilize the human society or the other rescues, but don't necessarily have a pet from there. But I don't know how to reach that, Michelle. Sorry. Okay, we can work on those later then. The next section is family support. Have you ever needed financial or other help to afford your pets? Do you know that support is available to pet owners to help you afford your pet? Do you foresee needing support to help keep your pet in your home? And what kind of support would be most useful to you as a pet owner? For example, emergency food lodging or vet assistance. Does anybody have any feedback on those? Not to be redundant, but maybe the multiple choice options for the last, you know, you already listed on the show, maybe just listing those out and leaving like a room for an elder. There's somewhere that something that's not on that list. That makes sense. And then the last section we had was pet friendly housing and community amenities. Do you feel your housing options are limited if you rent and own a pet? If you rent, are you able to have a pet? If you rent and are able to have a pet, do you feel like the additional fees you pay are reasonable? If you rent and own a pet, what would be the most useful thing that could be available to you? Five species, breed, flexibility, lower fees, amenities like green space, et cetera. So I think multiple choice on that one also, maybe Abby. I mean, that would be my inclination, I guess, but like I said, always leaving on other so that people are able to write in if there's things that we haven't thought of or that aren't included. Also, oh, thank you. Do you feel your housing options are limited if you rent and own a pet? This might, this doesn't include people that are in a condo that feel like their options are also limited in terms of, you know, free flexibility and, and, you know, whether or not their condo is even pet friendly or not. So I don't know if there could be something in here. We could combine the rent and own a condo in one question or create a separate question. Well, I think the last three questions have fallen into that category. So maybe we could put a little precursor up there. You know, if you own your own home, you're done with the survey. And if you rent or are in a condo, then please answer these last three questions. Okay, and that is the end of it. Yeah, with those adjustments, I think we can work to put this into one of the online survey mediums and whether it's survey monkey or something like that. And then we'll be able to do kind of like a test with the group and then maybe make our final refinements and then look at putting this out to the community after that. Do we have a sense of time line? Thank you so much. Sorry, like when we want it to be actually out to the community. Do we have a sense of timing on that or not really? Well, as far as the timeline, I think, you know, we should proceed, you know, to do this as soon as possible, but there's no real crunch as to when it needs to be done. Okay. So, you know, I think sometime over the winter here will definitely allow probably at least several weeks to a month, something like that timeframe. The other thing we might want to do is see if we can find some kind of a maybe a supportive business that might want to put a prize out there. Sometimes that helps to incentivize people to participate. Does anybody else have any comments about the survey? What having this available through different veterinarians and veterinarian offices in Sheboygun, is that a possibility of getting this out to more people? Well, the thing is, is if we do something that's a paper survey, then we'll have to spend some time putting that into the survey, you know, to take care of it. But if it's just a computer survey, people take it, you just get the results. It's a little bit easier. So we'll have to investigate, you know, that option. Maybe we could put, you know, like a small card in them and just promote the idea of taking it and put the link to that on the card. So it would be very simple for them to get on their computer and take it rather than printing a paper survey. And the incentive, some kind of incentive, like you mentioned, would be great. Yep. With that, I think we can go on to the next comment. Go on to the next item then. Going on to item 3.2 is the update from the online assessment subcommittee regarding the better cities online assessment and information on the proposed dogtoberfest event. I'll let Joe speak to the event and where that's at. Obviously it's not happening October 24. You want me to talk about the dogtoberfest? Sure. Yeah. From the result from what the last meeting we talked that, you know, it was getting kind of late and there was going to be another main society event going on. And we decided afterwards that, you know, instead of really trying to push and change. I think it's important to get permission that we would work towards next year. And I believe the event was, I know it was, it was moved to a, I can't remember the name, a local bar that has outside in a big back room. So the event still went on, but it was just at a different location. Joe, it's still happening this year. Thank you so much for that update. This year, Joe, at a different location. It already happened. Yes. I think a week before what we had planned. Okay. Joe, where are we with the online assessment? Is that ready for submission? Sure. So we did include the assessment in last month's agenda. And there, you know, there are some things that are subjective. There are some things that some answers from the community survey, especially around businesses and what workplaces allow pets would be helpful for submission. But I guess that's up to the committee. If we feel like we want to wait or if we want to get it off and let them know. I was in contact with one of the people from Mars for the better cities. They're having some issues with submission. So even though I hadn't submitted it, it appeared that I had. So I think we could submit if we wanted to and later update that with information. But I guess that's really for the committee to decide. We feel like it's ready. Yeah, I would agree with the idea of submitting what we have and then we can update it when we get our survey done. Okay. Well, thank you so much for that update and all that information and your hard work on that particular project. Item 3.3 is the discussion on the process and timeline for reviewing the city's current pet ordinances and how this information will be used to further the work of the task group. Does anybody want to speak on that particular item? I'm trying to review other cities and their pet ordinances. I know I would like to personally just sit down and put some things together my thoughts on what we could possibly do as far as what we could do different maybe in the parks. So I'd like to work towards that and a few other people wanted to work on that also or the same committee that we had. We could work on that. Joe, as a point of information, the city attorney has advised me that if we have a subcommittee, they still have to meet virtually like this. So that's an open meeting to the community. So if you do something on your own and bring it back to present to the larger group here, that'd be fine. But if we do have subcommittee meetings in the future, we'll have to have them hosted here and do it just like the meeting we're currently in right now. I propose that we just kind of look at it ourselves then and kind of go through it at one of these meetings, whether it's the next one or a couple months from now. Or maybe you could break it up and there's several sections in our ordinance book that deal with pets and animals and maybe we could cover one section at one meeting and one at another. All righty. It sounds like we're getting some plans together for that one. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your input about the city attorney's office. And item 3.4 is other discussion or comments from those on the committee or members of the public. Does anybody have anything to say? Well, I'd like to thank Michelle for all the work she did on the survey. We really appreciate you grabbing hold and giving us some great skeleton of something to work with here. So Pat on the back, good job. Agreed. Yeah, you're welcome. It's my pleasure. Okay. Well, then moving on to 4.1. Our next meeting date is November 25th. And since we have exhausted your agenda, I would like to look for a motion to adjourn. I'll motion. Do we have a second? All in favor of adjournment, please say aye. Chair votes aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much for your time today and we'll see you guys next month.


Wasn't it John she brought us back again with another video. So we're gonna check out 10 words WrestleMania entrances of all time WrestleMania is right around the corner. So we got to check out some of these not so memorable WrestleMania entrances WrestleMania the whole show itself is it's big is bigger than life That's what they try to portray. So, you know, you want your entrance to kind of be extra for this particular night You want all the pyro you want all the the Grandness of it like you want it to be Special and memorable, you know and sometimes they may try to do something that doesn't really work You know, so we're gonna check out some of these times where it didn't really, you know They didn't land it like they thought they did with the entrances We're gonna get it right into this one. Appreciate all the love and support you guys showing on channel the pump The pageantry the endless fireworks WWE sets fire to the sky itself in an attempt to smoke out God no guards or Kings Only mania one of the reasons why we love WWE's bigger show of the year is that everyone gets involved gets prom Levels of fancy and throws as much glam buoyancy at you until you drown in it wrestlers wear their most beautiful frocks The set is Ozymandian Lee big and of course those special entrances Shawn Michaels zip lining down to the ring Austin walking through the shattered glass undertaker emerging through the tortured grasping souls There are countless amazing WrestleMania entrances, but no one gets it right every time no 60% of the time WWE gets it wrong Every time I'm Adam Haling from parts fun known and here are 10 worst WrestleMania entrances number 10 lax swagger Before they started taking the absolute piss at manias 32 to 35 it was a long show one of the reasons why is that everyone gets an entrance Are you winning have a lovely big entrance? Are you losing have a lovely big entrance with a live band playing your theme song at WrestleMania 29 Jack Swagger got No entrance in fact a job entrance the live feed came back from a video package And Jack was already in the ring with his music playing by any and all definitions That's a job entrance in a world title match at WrestleMania there was a mini-racist mobile by the ring But the viewers at home didn't get to see it perhaps because the Jack Jack man was in the doghouse at the time Having just been charged for driving under the influence a month earlier He would have got a WrestleMania entrance then he got high number nine mystery. Oh, no Proclaiming his love for for a hat a bucket hat man Great, that's awesome for raise knees No one in wrestling history has been jobbed out more than Papa Mysterio's patellars And that's not helped along by his entrance see the standard fair for raise entrance Especially in big shows would involve being catapulted through the air by a quick-rising trapdoor before executing a superhero landing often dressed as a superhero snicked as a daredevil Do hello and WrestleMania 26 his trapdoor no sold his entrance refusing to budge raised pyro went off The kind that would normally accompany him popping up through the floor But then the camera hastily cut to the crowd as people backstay started shouting fuck fuck Oh, wow Fuck into their headsets after covering the crowd for what felt like ages the camera finally cut to a super jarring close-up of Mysterio and ramp eyes wide nap after having pegged it round the corner up onto the ramp probably Dom related sabotage He's always had it in for him number eight Bray straw man Bray darkness is your friend unless that darkness is a UV light in which case it's not your friend turn it off Bray white can usually be relied on for two things spookums of variant quality and a killer entrance ever since the beginning He's had one of the best darkness lit by lantern light with the WWE universe providing that firefly magic beautiful unique Perfect which made his entrance at WrestleMania 31 all the more disappointing because of one simple thing It happened while the day time I thought why it was wrestling the undertaker whose entrance also suffered But nowhere near as much as Bray's because it involves spooky scarecrows borrowed from a local amdram society doing zombie walk Nonsense and Bray walking down to the ring via lantern light Bray my dude, you don't need the lantern you can see we can all see I was in your silly party city Wizard of Oz Boyfriends Yeah, the timing of that doesn't work. Maybe they should have kind of timed it a little bit when it got darker That's sometimes the issues with those them those Arenas or stadiums that you know don't have a roof. So it's kind of open So you kind of gotta work with the time if they would have maybe had to match a little bit later that night It probably would have had a better effect for sure Walking isn't easy one foot in front of the other slow down Professor and never is it harder to walk on the grandest stage of them all Seth Rollins famously almost fainted during his WrestleMania 35 Entrance and while he narrowly avoided disaster Not everyone has been so lucky at WrestleMania 20 Ultimo drag one the most decorated luchadors of all time Tripped over not once but twice on his own cable his entrance to the cruise away open Which has been carefully edited around on the network Also edited around the network Mandy Rose slipping and falling on the rain so Brooke what has not been edited around because screw Drax I suppose big Dave doesn't even go here Batista at WrestleMania 35 On his way into the ring to face off against Triple H in a big boring match And honestly the fact that Ultimo Dragon having a tiny tumble was cut around and one of the most famous actors in the world Stacking it hasn't that's very very funny number six Randy rides the sperm. Oh WWE you and your graphics while it would be easy to dedicate a worst entrances list to WWE's often appalling use those 3d-rended AR text these is I mean I just want to stop seeing that big gold Roman or the big-time becks or Bianca's terrifying disembodied mouth Different type of graphic the one that was projected onto the entrance ramp during Randy Orton's ludicrous match against bug life Bray Wyatt at mania 33 was a bad night for projections at night Yeah, stop it Bray had a good entrance because this time you wait until the Sun went down But Randy's made the audience pierced themselves He came out did his pose and then walked down to the ramp as what was supposed to be a giant snake Rived on the ramp underneath them. However with its big bulbous head and swimming tail looked just like a giant Frame rate that would judder and clip under his boots as he walked very funny to think about looking Down during his entrance of whispering to himself.   They don't really look that good But if you're a kid Watching it you probably think it's pretty amazing pretty cool pop Maybe I know if we were kids and we saw these images during interest us We thought that we probably would have lost our stuff So, you know, I get they're trying to do something different and give it a little bit extra flair But most of the 3d images don't really work part one There are very few things that are always funny a man getting hit in the cross by a football Old people swearing and triple H's WrestleMania entrances the end result of typing big tough guy into Google images and going Be more tough than a giant tricycle an incredibly slow-moving police chase and Stephanie McMahon looking like sandy at the end of Greece The size of the lapels on that leather waistcoat. Oh trips never change I was there in person to see that and I fell off my f***ing chair at his little vroom vroom It looked like him and Steph were being pulled over on their way home from seeing the rocky horror picture show with the rest They're married friends triple H has managed some cool entrances in the past Yes, yellow at mania 30 being a particular favorite this however was not one of his best that bike is so goddamn funny John's bulls*** part John Cena can be relied on for a ridiculously overblown WrestleMania entrance I think it was okay with more patriotic cheese and an old glory stitched together from a hundred craft singles Sometimes this works like the marching band 24 the honor guard drill at 26 Yeah, the gospel choir at mania 27 What did not work quite as well was the mobster entrance at mania 22 Featuring the cost of bugsy Malone and also a teeny tiny Riding down to the ring on the bulletproof bomb before Cena emerged wearing his dad's coat and fired a f***ing gun into the air Ah, Chicago's greatest export comedy mobsters. Just imagine if WWE did that today at WrestleMania 39 Logan Paul comes down to the ring waving a f***ing barretta around or Austin theory burst out dressed as a member of the cornbread Mafia firing a weed cannon into the crowd. Oh, John. You're the toughest boy in the high school play number three Paul's bulls*** I mean it worked at that time it worked at that time here. You can't do nothing like that now No Part two it's WrestleMania season So it's time to treat you to a round of frosty triple H milkshakes And sure I'm making fun of the man for getting quite serious burns and I'll reckon with that when I'm dead But oh, yeah, it's funny though Now we all know that triple H is a big taffy in his entrance at WrestleMania 29 for his match against Brock Lesnar is very much Indictive of that and on paper. It's one of the good ones emerging from a giant version of Vader's old helmet Like he'd been birthed out of sheer metal itself. However the entrance backfired Hilariously as triple H emerged he was sprayed across the midsection with not smoke But dry ice which caked his tummy and left him looking like he had a delicious vanilla glaze Completely obliterating the effect they'd hope the entrance would have absolutely fair play to trips for toughing out Yeah selling the fact that the dry ice had just given him second degree burns But there's no way that any entrance that could be described as satanic bukkaki isn't making it onto this list Hey, man, I always much respect for triple H for even Going out there before the match even started he had second degree degree burns Shout out to him man. It takes takes a special individual to to do this rest of stuff You can sometimes get injured walking down the ramp. That's great. Number two.  Oh, yeah those daffy Laffy clones Send in those soulful and doleful John Cena clones by the bowl full clones They're already He Circa 2009 it was the height of the sena wins lol phenomenon and most hardcore fans were firmly of the opinion that one john Cena was a john sena too many well a wrestle mania 25 WWE gave us senas until we can't stands no more sending out a small army of john sena clones in matching shirts and caps to Line the entrance ramp and do the you can't see me gesture I tried to count them all and there's like 50 of them I'm the 50 grown men who are willing to suspend their dignity by wearing john sena wristbands That must have been a herculean task and there are some people for whom this is their very specific kink But oh no, thanks not for me There is a very fine line between grandeur and embarrassment and the idea that john sena either Cloned himself and then released those clones into the wild to die when he'd finish with them Or that he'd assembled a bunch of his friends and parade them around in his own merch is a bizarro It just read deeply lame to me Maybe i'm the only one Speaking of that number one paul's bulls*** part three now. Look we're on youtube We're no strangers to product placement sometimes a little help from a serial or a Raid shadow legends helps to keep the lights on this era of generally dwindling ad revenue across youtube's baron wasteland But if ollie ever asks me to wear a metal terminator poncho in a skit that even s and l would regard as a little Cheap looking for a spoof then that would be the beginning of my 30 days notice the second hand embarrassment I felt from rewatching this wrestle mania 31 entrance burned more than any dry ice ever could in a bit of air quotes Brand synergy ww partner with terminator genesis easily the worst terminator movie by the buy To see daddy trips walk out looking like he just killed the tin man and fashioned him into the dad version of one of those Entire dead animal scarves that posh women used to wear in their downturn habits for some reason I'm gonna look cool, right said triple h. No Oh very cool said the costume designer handing him a bunch of terminator skulls with a straight face and a liar's heart Daddy ball has done a lot of very silly things in the name of testostero And this is by far the silliest and that's our list. What's your least? I figured I was gonna be on the list. I remember watching that wrestle manial.  Those were cool But that the corny as hell. I was like bro get this Party city costume off. You're better than this triple h And it's funny triple h was featured on a A few of these action. He has multiple a recurrence Recurring appearances on this list, but come on down below. Let me know. What's the worst wrestle manial interest You've seen of all time if they were on this list, let me know down below But I appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on channel road to 150 gang I am still the end of speedy youtube wrestling champ of the world and your intercussion world heavyweight champion Appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next one. Peace


Hello Earth citizens. In this video, I will show you a 10 minute routine for chakra tapping. If you're not familiar with chakra, chakras are energy centers along our spine. And each chakra has different colors, different characteristics, and different things that determine your health, whether you have too much energy in a chakra or too little energy or stagnant energy in your chakra. It's basically a way you can tell what is wrong with your body on an energetic level. So like all things that flow inside of our bodies, your chakras can also become stagnant and can have old energy in there and not fresh energy that's flowing there. So for those cases, we will do the chakra tapping to revive and refresh the energies in all of our chakras. So first, the first chakra is located in the perineum, which is in between your sexual organ and your anus. So when you sit in half lotus posture like me, it's the point of your body where your body comes in contact with the ground. So I will explain each of the chakras as we go, but first please get into a comfortable position, sitting straight like me in half lotus. Rest your hands on your knees. Take a deep breath in and exhale. Breathe in and exhale. Good. For first chakra tapping, you're actually going to sit with the bottoms of your feet together. And this might be a little challenging, but do your best. So you're going to try to lift your body up a little and down, up and down, up and down like this. Let's do this ten times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Great. And now circle your body around that point, your perineum. Let's go five times this way. One, two, three, four, and five. The other way, you don't have to move far. Just feel that point you are rotating around. That's your perineum for chakra. Two, three, four, and five. Great job. Now get back into your half lotus. And this time we will tap our second chakra, two inches below your navel and two inches inside. Imagine that point, your second chakra, that's the powerhouse of your body. So roll your hands gently into a fist and with the pinky side tap two inches below your navel. And imagine you're not just tapping the surface, but tapping through your body.  So tap like this. We will tap 30 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And now if you've got the hang of this posture, I encourage you to close your eyes, focus your mind on that point you are making contact with. And I'll count for you, just focus on your body. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. Ten more. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 30. And stop. Great job. Now let's move up to the third chakra. It's called the solar plexus. It's right where your diaphragm is. So right where your liver and your stomach meet. It's this point right here. When you tap, you'll realize you have a lot of pain there. So when you tap, before you tap here, you want to make sure your spine is not curved. So you're not caving in this way. Push out from behind this point. So you open that area and tap here. Right away you will feel a sensitive pain. Relax your shoulders, not like this. Relax, tap. So people who have a lot of digestive issues, anxiety, lack of self-confidence, and willpower will feel some pain here. So push out. We will tap here 30 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Are you breathing out? Make sure you are exhaling as if you're releasing and decompressing your body with each tap. So now close your eyes to focus on your body better. And just feel your body. I'll count for you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 30. Great job. Stop. If you're sensitive to energy, you will feel some tingling in your body right now. Let's move up to the fourth chakra, your heart, your chest. So your fourth chakra actually is right in the middle of your sternum, right here. So with your heart chakra, if we have a lot of stress, a lot of emotional worries, problems in our relationship, it's very easy for this fourth chakra, your heart center to close. So if you see people who are a little caved in like this in their posture, it's because they're carrying a lot of weight in their heart. So you want to open your heart as wide as you can. And here, same thing with your fist, tap. Or if that feels a little awkward, you can use your fingertips too and drop your fingers here. But with your fourth chakra, as you tap, I want you to make gentle sound like this. You see how my jaws are relaxed? When you relax your jaw, you relax your brain. So not like, ah, like this, relax your jaw, like this, 30 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 20. When you have some more time, please focus on any of the chakras that need a little bit more help. I'll just guide you through overall sensation. So here you might also feel some tingling or some heaviness or blockage. You did great. Now let's move up to the sixth, fifth chakra. Fifth chakra is your chakra of expression, self-expression. So it's located right in between your collarbone. Here, use your fingers, tap gently.  So don't clamp your jaw like this. Relax your jaw. And here too, let out gentle sighs, gentle noises to help draw out stuck energy in your throat. 10, 20 more seconds. 20, 10 more seconds. Great job. Now let's move up to the sixth chakra in between your eyebrows. This is your energy center of intuition, insight, and wisdom. Use your fingers. You can just use your fingers of one hand and tap here. In between your eyebrows.  So tap here. 30 seconds. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Close your eyes if you aren't closing them already. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twenty. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, thirty. Great job. Now last one, seventh chakra. Top of your head. This is your crown chakra that connects with heavenly energy.   Keeping your wrists relaxed 30 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.   Feel your scalp. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twenty. Last ten, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Great job. Relax your hands on your knees. Close your eyes for about five seconds and feel your body. Do you feel tingling from the top of your head down to your tailbone? If not that much, do you feel tingling at all? And if so, where do you feel you're tingling? Notice the changes in your body. You did a great job. To experience a full one hour brain education based yoga class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you.


As you might have heard from the introduction, I'm fairly new to this grey world of social science. I like to say that I came from the bridge in between pure science and now moved into social science, which is more, as I said, the grey area where nothing is quite right, nothing is quite wrong. There's so many different aspects to one single question so you can get great debates and get great arguments about all and nothing really. I'm in the Department of Geontology, and this is a little bit embarrassing. I've been in Geontology for about two years, and I always get the question, so what's Geontology? And I'll kind of just go, yeah, it's a study of aging. And I decided about two months ago, only two months ago, to look up what Geontology means. You would think that I looked up this about two years ago before I entered into Geontology, but no, apparently our PhD students aren't as clever as we might look. Anyway, Geontology is, I'm going to have to read this out because it's a bit of a mouthful, Geontology is the study of social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, biological aspect of aging. So basically, it's everything that's got to do with the fact of what happens to us as we get older and as we age. My PhD, Richard, looks into the pathways of informal care. And the reason why I chose this topic is that I grew up having an older aunt, who spent most of my living memory looking after her disabled son. So I saw how it affected her life choices and sort of her life in January, and it wasn't just negative aspects as you quite often hear. There was a lot of joy and there was a lot of positivity. Every year we got to go on a special trip to Legoland. That was the highlight of my year because I got to go over them and it was free. So that's fun. So before I start really going into my research, I don't have a watch on me because I don't want to do this, but it's past nine o'clock. We're in a pub. I thought I would turn this into a drinking game. Every time I say care, you have to take a sip of your drink. I also decided that this is a really bad idea because in my talk, I will say care every other sentence. So you would end up getting very, very drunk. But I'll make you a deal. If I start using very fancy, smancy, pentsy words or a lot of jargon, please feel free to shout at me and I will do the drinking then. So, why is research into informal care important? Well, just to clarify, when I'm talking about informal care and informal carers, I'm referring to people or individuals who are providing care for somebody without being paid. So the formal definition is people who look after, people who support family or potential friends. And it can be people who look after a relative, a friend who is in need because of all these physical or learning disabilities or illness or mental health. It can also be substance misuse problems. But the important part of this whole thing is that they are unpaid and it's not part of any volunteering scheme either. So the tasks that informal carers are carrying out can be anything from practical tasks or household chores. It can also be help with arranging more formal care or help managing finances. But it can also be in the other end of the scale where it can be personal care. So it could be help with showering, bathing, toileting, feeding, dispensing medicine, et cetera. So the term informal has quite often been criticised. And it's been criticised because it could be seen as misleading in a way because it doesn't really fully incorporate the magnitude and the determination and the dedication and the scale of commitment that the carers are providing and the tasks that they're actually carrying out. But these carers are exceptionally important to ensure that the people that I need of care get to have support and get to still have a really good quality of life. So informed care is also very important because there's actually about 7 million unpaid carers in the UK. That's about 1 in 10 of the population in the UK that are providing some kind of informal care. It's also been estimated that about 3 in 5 of us at any time in our life will end up providing care for somebody at some form. So it's becoming an increasingly shared experience for us all. So these figures I've just given incorporate all carers of all age ranges. So it also includes younger carers and I tend to look more at the older end of the scale. So over 65 it's estimated that 3 in 5 are informal carers. So that's quite a lot. So you can see this sort of bigger proportion are the older carers. That's a lot of numbers. Let's move on from statistical numbers to talk about money. So what's this all worth? So it's been estimated that and that's estimation is from carers UK that the value of informal care is saving the UK government whopping £132 billion. That was from 2015. That's actually the equivalent of a whole healthcare system on its own. So we're talking really big bucks here. Also this number is potentially really underestimated. We know there's a lot of hidden care so it's not being calculated into this. We also kind of how do you put a value on care? How do you put a value on providing emotional care for instance? And now we're sort of sticking with this money and I'm going to do some business lingo because that's completely not my field and I'd like to just do that jargon. So it's a prime demand. Chancellor was already saying that the population in the UK is aging and worth a lot more older people. So you would think, I've just kind of said that a lot of carers are older as well. So wouldn't that just mean that hey the supply is going up? We've got loads of carers. Should we really then worry? Yes we should because the demand at the same time is also going up. So again Johannes was talking about the disability free life expectancy. It's not actually catching up with the life expectancy so the gap is growing. And that means that this health, this supply and demand balance is not balancing out, is widening. So we need more carers.