Hey guys, it's MJ the student's act tree and in this video. I want to look at crypto currencies I've been learning a lot about the blockchain and Bitcoin and I feel it's saying that Actries are going to be playing a big role in in the future So I thought what better way to start than by learning our ABCs of crypto currencies So starting off with a there was a coin called arsecoin. It's no longer available a tech magazine made it just for fun and 22,000 people actually engaged with it and mined it and used it So it was pretty pretty incredible, but it had no value attached to it and they did shut down the project Which was quite sad Early on in the alphabet, I mean we're gonna come across Bitcoin Bitcoin is like gold The crypto currencies. It's the main one. It's the one that started all the hype They're the big boys in the block Whereas compared to say clam No one really knows about clam. I mean, there's probably five people in the world You've ever heard of the cryptocurrency clam in for D. I mean, there's a bit of a little competition going on between Dash which used to be known as dark coin It's a very serious coin. It's taken It's increasing in value a lot of money's behind it whereas compared to Dogcoin which was started almost like a bit of a joke There was like there was millions and millions of dog coin people were using it to tip their friends on reddit and all these various things and They even sponsored a NASCAR However, dog coin has been in decline and Dash has been climbing up the charts For he we've got something called ether him where you get ether and This thing is growing very quickly. I think it's now second Although when I say that second it the value might drop tomorrow and might go down to fifth. So these things are very Volatile so don't quote me on them but as of making this video ether him is second and they allow people to create Programs and apps and smart contracts on their blockchain In exchange for paying ether and making the whole thing work very very exciting Then there's something else called feather coin Don't know much about it. I think it was started in England It has started coming down though in the ranks compared to the others an Interesting coin is the grid coin. This is where you Because all these cryptocurrencies need to be in mind either by solving hash puzzles or all this type of stuff That's where the crypto part comes in grid coin uses your computer or uses computing power to do Scientific research and academia and all that type of stuff. So it might become the coin of universities for H we've got the hunter coin and very not not very well known this coin But it is a coin that you can mine as a human So you play this game where you run around and you collect coins instead of using a Hardware like you usually do for other other currencies Then there's something called index coin. I mean I could have gone with infinity coin But I wanted to speak a little bit about index coin. It's more of a philosophy that people Have got a psychological problem with the fact that there's only going to be 21 million Bitcoin and So index coin will work on the Bitcoin and its value will continuously increase so people don't don't see deflation with the currency With Jay, it was very hard to find a coin that started with Jay But I did find that there was a humorous project where they wanted to call it Jesus coin I think was made as a joke. They'd never actually got to setting up a blockchain there were a few other ones with the other religions, but Let's let's stay away from religion not get it not offend anyone I mean with the letter K. I could not find a Cryptocurrency that starts with K. So if you know of one, please let me know in the comment section below for all you have a thing called light coin and For a long time. This was second on the on the charts It's known as the silver of cryptocurrency. However, it has been dropping. I think it's now in fourth place But like I said volatile it could go back to second and What happened was it forked from Bitcoin Another currency that's just gone through a bit of a fork is something called Monero. It's getting a lot of hype at the moment With forks you get a soft fork where they just do a little minor change and people just upgrade the software And then you get a hard fork where it's almost like a whole new currency or If you don't update your your software you get left behind Don't know too much about it though, but that is Monero So that's been in the news a lot of people talking about it for end There's a coin called the next coin. This one again is a very serious coin a lot of technologies behind it and People may feel like this could be a proper alternative to Bitcoin sense that the technology behind it is very sophisticated Then for oh, I just went with Omni coin. No really fun facts about Omni coin This one's quite a fun one This one's called prime coin and prime coin the the mining process is not just solving random puzzles It's finding prime numbers. So every time you find a prime number you get some prime coins And I think they actually like breaking world records in the amount of prime numbers found so Yay for maths Then we've got something called the quark quark coin quark quark coin. How do you know you pronounce that? Fun thing about this coin is that you can mine it on a regular Computer in fact you can only mine it on a regular computer according to their their website and what's great about this it means you and me can actually mine it without getting blown out of the water by guys who go and buy specific machines just to mine Bitcoin So if you keen to start mining maybe have a look at quark quark coin Then there's something called red coin red coin wants to be the social currency So on Facebook and Twitter and all of those things This is the currency that instead of just giving someone a like to boost their ego You give them a red coin, you know boost their boost their finances Then there's this one's quite interesting this one's called staunch and Unlike giving up your processing power on your computer to to get this currency for staunch you give up unwanted hard drive space or free hard drive space and In return you get staunch coins, which you can then use to Put other stuff on the cloud although it's kind of weird. I mean if I've got a lot of space on my computer I don't really need the cloud, but I guess maybe for making backups or something like that But that is staunch very interesting very different Then there's one called tit coin and it's doing incredibly well It's not a joke currency how like I first thought it was It's used by the porn industry a lot of people are using it because these crypto currencies have that you know anonymous feature to them People don't want you know porn websites coming up in the credit card bills So they buy the tit coin although that's gonna come up on the credit card details Anyway, but anyway, they use this now to purchase porn and and all those type of things Then we've got something called You know bin to them you've been to them You know you know baiting it's you can see it. They've made it really difficult Name so it's probably not gonna catch on but how they want this coin to work is they want to make it the rarest Crypto currency out there so I mean every time you solve a block on this blockchain you're gonna be getting a mere fraction of a Let's just call it a you-know coin because that's a really really weird word to say But they want to be the rarest. They've got quite a cool website quite a cool philosophy Go check them out. They're all like yay science Then there's something called vcash. I check the website kind of boring, but you know, we need a saying for little V Then there's something called world coin. What's cool about world coin is Okay, look their value has decreased drastically. They were quite big But then they got smashed for some reason But what's nice is that they they did fund or crowdfunded a project in Kenya where they built worlds and and helped local communities there So so good for you world coin. That's great news Then another word, I don't know how to say exorum ex ex room It's for the the letter X in our cryptocurrency alphabet and the whole idea behind this one is that it's based on the gold exchange I don't really know exactly how it worked, but check it that website. I mean that is so That's so 90s. So I thought I'd say to show you guys a picture of it Then we've just got two more to go. We've got the what YB coin. I don't know if that's how you supposed to pronounce it As you can see it resembles Chinese currency, you know Chinese currency, I think I've got that little like hole in the money and This is your one of the biggest crypto currencies in China at the moment and Then finally you've got something called the zero coin and the zero coin kind of it's like an add-on the bitcoin blockchain And it's supposed to give you more Being more anonymous on the on the web But y'all that is the a to z Yeah, we say z not z in South Africa the a to z of crypto currencies and I hope you enjoyed this video I mean, I'm gonna be making a few more videos on the blockchain and Bitcoin So subscribe because in the series, I'm gonna be showing you guys my attempt to mine a bitcoin on a Mac and Yeah, I almost overheat the poor thing But I'll put that video up and then I also want to make some videos where I explain that maybe Instead of like mining just random hash puzzles Maybe the mining power can be used to solve or run actuarial models You guys know we have Monte Carlo simulations where you need to run a model say 100,000 times in order to get that stochastic element why not use the mining power of the world that could be quite a cool use What's also I want to make a few videos on is how will insurance be impacted Using blockchain. So just how remember when we spoke about storage There were some people who needed extra space and they would pay the other people who had the extra space on their computer Think of that idea. But instead of hard drive space, it's capital So people who have free capital just lying around they put that on the blockchain That creates the reserve and then people who need insurance Pay a premium and then they have access to that reserve if anything goes wrong, but I'll make a whole video about that As you can see on my channel, I've also been making some videos on that financing model So far I've got just the self financing and the loan the equity and Securitization is going to be coming up soon and in that video. We'll be looking at how you can Almost just make money out of thin air through Securitization and the blockchain we call it crystallization and it's a lot of fun and then finally I mean a little pet project of mine is to create my own cryptocurrency, I'll call it the NIM coin and It's going to be super cool What you're going to do is you're going to be mining for eight separate coins and when you have each of those coins you can combine them together to form the NIM coin and This is going to this coin is going to help you do research and study and and do all that various type of stuff But like I said, I'll make a whole video explaining it. I still need to think it through But job blockchain. It's a lot of fun. So start learning about it now I mean Princeton University has got a great textbook introducing Bitcoin. So go into that website and download it But otherwise subscribe and check out the rest of my Bitcoin diaries. Thanks guys so much for watching. Cheers


is TFNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network. News Update. Good morning, everyone. Wednesday, this is March the 2nd. This is the Tiger Financial News Network, 10 a.m. Market Update, does up 313 at 33,610. We're looking at an inside day so far. We've got the whole thing going. This is the response to last night's speech. It's also waiting for the Fed's speak today, or what's going on, because the S&P is, so the Dow is up almost 1%. The S&P at this particular point, if I can correctly type that in, come on, come on, come on, there we go. The S&P is also up about 0.94%. Up to 39 at 43,045, a nice relief rally, needs much more. We want to see by Friday, if this is going to be the start of at least a counter-trend balance, according to the counter-trend at this particular point, you'll want to see 44.10 on the S&P, so it doesn't have to be closing there, but it just has to hit that by, I would say by Friday afternoon, and you're looking at the QQQ, try to rally, it was a little weak, now it's come back a little bit at 170, up 174, 343.22 up only half a percent. This needs much more, this needs to get to the 349, probably 351 area by Monday. And let's see if we can do that. IWM Russell 2000 is showing a little bit of strength here, a little bit more than the others. It's up one and a half percent, up three at 202.50. I must say, I'm kind of impressed at how well the small caps have held, but they haven't broken up, but holding is, that's pretty good. And now we're looking at gold. Gold finally is having a bit of a pullback, it's just down $13 at 1930, it's so up in the higher range, it's really crude oil that we're looking at, crude oil just soared overnight, and it was up to hit 112.51 earlier this morning, it's up 570 at 109.13, what on earth is going to get this price down? I mean, whatever is happening now in oil, this is something that cannot be repaired in a day or two. This takes quite a while. So the TLT pulled back sharp, as the yields bounced up again, so the TLT is down 1.46 and 139.84. We'll see what the Fed does today, but the Fed's kind of sucked. I suspect that they're going to reluctantly go to a good point, and then we can have to see what happens. All right, I'll be back for the target technicians. Oh, there's a lot to discuss. A lot of questions coming in, we'll deal with them.


companies that do that technical colleges. Pre apprenticeship is really the preparation for the registered apprenticeship and we actually require that any pre apprenticeship registered we call them certified with apprenticeship Carolina has letters of support from companies that have a registered apprenticeship. So China Tech had done that this past summer with their culinary arts program for high school students and it is quite different because a few of those students and Melissa can tell you more were successful in entering a registered youth apprenticeship. And once you did their pre apprenticeship so those are the technicalities and glad to share kind of how we came up with that process with anybody it was a very long process but it has proven to be very impactful. That's great and I can be important hearing about the certification process I know it can be important for quality I will underscore there a piece of your answer Amy which is just that in part of your model is requiring that pre apprenticeships be connected to a registered apprenticeship program there for their preparation for a registered program, not separate from. And I know I don't know if john you have any comments on that just from the DOL's perspective on the model but I know that that's a that's a key piece that we often remind folks of it's not a replacement for yeah yeah type of program. Yeah that's exactly right I mean that's like critical component that that ultimately there's some kind of articulation agreement or agreements between that pre apprenticeship program and the registered apprenticeship program. I mean obviously the idea would be you want the exit requirements for our pre apprenticeship to match up with the entry requirements for a registered apprenticeship. And that there is that clear articulation, I mean there's lots of forms of work based learning there's lots of forms of experiential learning. But I think, you know, for folks who want to use that term, you know, I think it does convey a lot of expectations on the on on the part of the participants and I think we want to be really clear with people that pre apprenticeship really does lead and has opportunities to enter directly into a registered apprenticeship. Yeah, and Amy if I just quick word. If I can just piggyback on that you know yeah we were asked about doing pre apprenticeship when we started doing apprenticeship and my response to them was, you can't have a pre anything until you have to anything. And so we really had to build a new apprenticeship program, and then back up from that and so we built the pre apprenticeship and culinary as you mentioned this summer and got it certified through apprenticeship Carolina. And it's for 14 and 15 year olds to give him exposure in the culinary industry so they did three week intensive classroom experiences in the culinary Institute. So determine whether or not they want it to apply then for registered apprenticeship at the age of 16. So, have you apply and we're hoping for more next year from that group. That's great and I love that I'm definitely going to steal that.  We have a couple other questions here from the audience I'd love to throw your way one is a real easy one and Amy I'll direct this one at you. How many staff does apprenticeship Carolina have. I think we are 21 and growing. So we have close to 30 when we finish hiring folks. Okay, so, so not a small operation. And getting bigger by the day. So statewide intermediary soon to be about 30 Melissa as a as a regional slash local intermediary how many staff do you all have working on the Charleston regional youth apprenticeships. We have 10 to well if you count me 11, but we will count you many many many other roles within the college running $3,000 3000 student enrollment programs and other employer engagement but 11 people who will expend their energies in that space as needed. Very helpful. Thank you both. So we're the registration issue seems to be of great interest to our audience will have one more. And then then I'm going to try to squeeze one last question and after this we'll see how I do. But from an anonymous audience member is their value in registering apprenticeships at both my State Department of Apprenticeship Standards and the US Department of Labor, and what would the value of registering with both be. I'm going to let you take that one. Sure. I mean, generally wouldn't be necessary. Once you're registered at the state level or with us do well. There is reciprocity with the rest of the country and other states. I mean, we do see areas where national employers want to register nationally with us do well. But we also then there can be times when those programs should also register at the state level if they want to access statewide benefits that might be available but generally kind of if you're just operating in one state, there really shouldn't be any particular benefit to registering both at the state level and nationally. Both are portable. Okay. Thank you for that. One last question here. This is this is less to do with registration. But I believe really any of you could this could be relevant but how do you make the case and explain the importance of that sort of small and intentional growth to stakeholders and political offices who are pressuring for larger and larger cohorts. So I suspect this is someone who's dealing grant funding or political support but how do you make that case for small and intentional growth. I mean, we see it I mean it's true at the national level to right I mean, you know there's going to be significant expectations with potentially large national investments that could be coming down the pike. I think South Carolina is just a great model of how it can work. South Carolina didn't grow overnight it's been steady incremental progress since the early days of this initiative. And they've been able to sustain it and grow grow every year so I think, I think that's just a really good example of how you can do it. So we have to be in this for the long term apprenticeship programs take a while not only to stand up but to have a cycle of apprentices that go through to start to see the impact and see the results. We need employers to be thinking long term apprenticeship isn't, you know, a short term fixed to, you know, the current supply chain, you know, crisis or some other immediate need, where you're trying to plug in skill labor really quickly. That's something where everyone's got to have kind of a longer term view of it. But with that being said I think there's still lots that we can do. Again, so that the process of establishing a program should not take months or years that that should be simple that should be easy. That's something that with the support of organizations and intermediaries like apprenticeship Carolina that you know we can get you into an apprenticeship program, you know, today or you know this week it really shouldn't be a big lift. There should be plug and play options for people for folks. There should be large scale programs consortia programs that employers can join so you're not establishing a new program you're joining an existing program. This should be many many options that make it easier for for people to get involved and I think when you bring systems together. You know, I think the other success from South Carolina is you're leveraging an existing system, and you're leveraging all of that capability and capacity. I mean, think if we had every workforce board sponsor one apprenticeship program if we had every high school district sponsor an apprenticeship program right you could grow fairly quickly but but again all the structure and infrastructure has to be in place and all those protections to make sure that we're growing good programs as well. And I would just say if you start to large, you're going to to put your resources too quickly, and it's not going to go well. And if it doesn't go well, then it doesn't grow. One of our greatest accomplishments was starting with 13 students one of whom got a job right out of high school and bought a house at 19 and others who were equally successful. And it was there going back into their schools and back into their communities and telling their stories that caught fire for other students and parents. You have to give it time to catch to catch fire. You have to give it time to market itself. If you start with the vision that you have to start out huge, you're very very likely not to get. Yeah, we hear sometimes two from employers or from partnerships around the country that because it's such a big ask of employers to take a take a chance on young adults that doing it really well and making a good impression the first time is the way to keep them coming back and that sometimes if that first experience with a youth program doesn't pan out employers are more hesitant to come back to the table. And I don't know if those kinks are fixed or addressed, just because it's it seems like a bigger ask for them and I can understand that perspective to. So we have just two minutes left here and I'm going to ask one final question from the audience here. I'm going to add to it a little bit. Any one of you can feel free to claim this one, but can a program sponsor simply amend their standards to change the age requirements to accept youth into existing apprenticeship programs. And to that I will add, even regardless of what your answer is, what do you think the biggest change adult serving programs need to make when they begin accepting youth, or they adapt their model to work for you. Yeah, I can take the first one and maybe Amy Emerilist would take the second part. Yeah, that's a pretty simple process to amend your standards. You know you may want to think about your selection procedures in terms of whether there's an impact there. And how you're drawing students into the program if they're if they're being referred from high schools and other sources. That's a different selection procedure than you might use for adults but it generally should not be a complicated amendment to an existing set of standards. And I'll take the second let's go for it. Yeah, I'll take the second part of that and say, if you do that and you start engaging younger students you need to put in more supports for those younger students. You heard earlier today if you were with us students keep talking about Ellen Kaufman Miss Kaufman Ellen Ellen Ellen. She's the youth apprenticeship coordinator here and now we have a specialist who helps her because she engages with the students and parents. She is the hub for them the support system who ensures that all of their emotional mental needs are met. She interfaces back and forth with a K 12 system to get the supports from their school counselors. And we've heard our folks that employers need to know that something's going on or find out from employers when things are going on. So, the kind of support you give those students is different to get them launched. Yeah, I'll just concur with both John and Melissa, and then also kind of go back to that mentor piece. So having a really strong mentor not just somebody on paper is really important for working with you the premises at the company because that's where kind of the the biggest challenges will be with learning new equipment kind of managing that on the job expectations. Strong mentor is really really important there and as john said updating the programs is really really simple we do that every day for companies. Okay, well believe it or not we've already expended an hour of time together. So I know that this is a little bit of an awkward thing on virtual panels, our audience can't thank you and clap, but know that I'm doing it here for you alone in this room. So I just want to say a big thank you to Melissa Amy and john for sharing your perspectives and insights with us during this panel. So folks who are on the line you've heard about supports and policies that can support local program growth and success. You've heard about state resources and strategies to promote growth across regions and states, working with different types of employers, different types of institutions serving in that intermediary capacity and different ways that the state entity can deploy itself and support of this work. And finally from john we've heard about strong federal standards and policies both current and potentially future from the federal as part of its work to modernize apprenticeship and find ways to make this work more efficient and more flexible so that it can continue to grow and reach new corners of our country. Thank you very much for joining us today and sharing your perspectives. Careful what you wish for will probably have you back again someday. But thanks very much for your time and for being with us this afternoon and of course for all the work that you do to expand high quality and equitable apprenticeship opportunities for young people. Thanks so much. We're charged now with giving our official end of summit. Thank you to lots of folks. So first I'm just going to give a big thank you to all of the panelists who have joined us today to help us understand the many, many, many things that go into making the Charleston regional youth apprenticeships and innovative and effective regional partnership that delivers results not only for its employer partners, but for the young people and education partners that make it tick. I'd like to thank the pie and national partners and funders who support our work to make events like this possible, and also to thank everyone who is on the line with us today. I would love if the folks who are behind the scenes could bring up our very last slide for the day so that I can share with the folks who have stayed with us to this point in the afternoon. There are a couple of ways that you can remain connected to pie in the pie network over the months ahead. First, I would like to let folks know that National Apprenticeship Week hosted and organized by the US Department of Labor is coming up in just a few weeks. We'll be pie and pie partners will be hosting a number of events for National Apprenticeship Week. I've included just a couple of them up here on the slide. On November 16 our partner JFF will be hosting an event called a vision for the future a plan for today. Information about that event is available on their website in soon hours as well. On November 17, New America will be hosting an apprenticeship Twitter chat. So we can share some information about that and you'll see some of that on Twitter in the weeks ahead too. And on November 18, the pie will be hosting the pie equity solutions lab workshop hosted by New America. There is information about that event available on our website now. So enjoy learning about the Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeships today. We encourage you to consider joining the team on April 4 and 5. For the Charleston Regional Youth Apprenticeship Program Development Workshops and Conference that will be an opportunity to do an even deeper dive into the work that Charleston Regional Use Apprenticeships leads. And we look forward to planning and hosting and sharing more information with you about that event in the months ahead, but please do keep those months. I think the slide here says second through fourth it should say fourth through fifth so apologies for that. And last but not least I want to let folks on the line know that on a monthly basis we host through PIA a network learning series they are typically webinars or office hours that feature national experts or practitioner experts from around the country. You can subscribe to the PIAs monthly newsletter using that link on the screen. Sorry the URL that's on the screen there, which I believe has been shared with you via the resources button on your screen. Please do subscribe to that we advertise those events there and we also share resources and tools and updates from across the field via that newsletter, and anyone is welcome to subscribe. This is our very last offer of ways to stay engaged is on our next slide so if you could move to that I'd like to invite you and your partners to join us in a virtual networking event that we're going to host over the next 30 minutes here. You'll have a chance to meet in small groups with other folks who are interested in youth apprenticeship to share ideas resources contact information so that we can continue this conversation and continue our collaborative and collective learning about how this field is going to grow and quality and equity in everything that we do. So please join us there's a URL on the screen I believe it is also shared with you via that resource button that you can see. And last but by no means least we'd love for to get your perspectives and feedback on the day via our post conference survey which is also here on the screen, we're going to leave this slide up so that if you would like to go to either of these links the event or the survey you have a few minutes to jot down those URLs. But otherwise we'll hope to see many of you in just four short minutes on our networking event and please know you can join that and drop in and drop out as is convenient for you we know on the East Coast it's nearing the end of the day. So we look forward to seeing many of you there and once again thank you to everyone who made today possible, most especially the new America events team, who don't get praise on these calls very often, but Angela and Narmada Jason Shannon, and everyone who's on the line Thank you so much for helping us get to this day and making it all possible we appreciate you. Thanks so much.


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that's going out to the red sauce Adam Frazier for the Padres and for the Phillies pure power Bryce Harper that's gonna be not numbered refractor nice hit there for the Phillies and our encase card it's gonna be chipper jones going out to the braves that's gonna be a not numbered pulsar it looks like going out to the braves nice hit there congrats Atlanta so i'm just gonna show those encase cards i'm not gonna like play around and kind of hide it there's a lot to each pack so there we go for the red socks we got Enrique Hernandez he's been playing pretty well lately Enrique Hernandez for the red socks again we just have a couple teams left here in break number two if i can get these packs open if it's already encased for the Dodgers Julio your eyes uh rich it's actually Donnie it is actually Donnie making his debut at top loading what's up rich then we got Pedro Martinez for the red socks yeah it is actually Donnie making his debut here we go Joe Adele for the Angels then we got Lou Bob for the white socks what's up Andrew Hank Aaron for the Braves Joe Barlow for the Rangers Frank Thomas Big Hurt for the white socks Matt Veerling for the Phillies Zach Gallin for the D-bags all right here we go pack number three pack number three going out to the Pirates Roberto Clemente blue out of 75 nice hit there pirates blue out of 75 on the Clemente Tre Mancini for the Orioles not numbered and Christy Mathewson that's gonna be not numbered as well Christy Mathewson nice hit there for the Giants yeah i like this product there's just a lot of packaging Kyle Seeger for the Mariners Gary Sheffield Marlowe Brandon Crawford Tony Santelian Freddie Peralta Max Scherzer and that's pretty cool Jose Abreu pristine borders that is not numbered but that's a really cool insert pristine borders Jose Abreu there's our first auto of the day Cal Raleigh going out to the Mariners that's going to be not numbered on the Refractor Auto going out to Seattle nice hit there JT Romudo Refractor JT 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to be numbered 50 out of 50 nice hit there KC Boba Shet and Gold T.J. Freidl going out to the Reds that's going to be also numbered 50 out of 50 nice hit there for the Cincinnati Reds Kershaw Nathan Thompson Pete Alonzo Gary Sanchez Candelario Edgar Martinez and Freddie Freeman pristine borders here we go box number two give me just one second here we go box number two there we go nope these packs are not wanting to cooperate today jeez how about that though pure power Ryan Howard not numbered on the refractor auto going out to the Phillies Ryan Howard pure power morning Kendall we got Eloy and Max Muncie Patch Auto for the Dodgers boom nice hit there LA it's going to be not numbered really nice hit slice of star there you go Dodgers I'm liking this stuff this is really nice getting essentially three autos and a bunch of numbered cards per box John Smoltz Reggie Jackson there is Mike Trout Merrifield Peralta Nolan Ryan and for the Angels Shohei Otani pristine borders let's see if we can get the pack to open properly for us right now there we go Matt Olson for the A's number two there you go A's Matt Olson that's going to be not numbered on the refractor auto Andre Dawson purple Mikey Ostremski for the Giants it's going to be numbered 88 out of 99 Winkert Carson Kelly Jazz Chisholm O'Neil Cruz rookie O'Neil Cruz rookie Chipper Jones yow here we go Jaren Duran blue for the Red Sox 37 out of 75 nice hit there Boston Jaren Duran got some color coming Jared Walsh Cedric Mullins orange for the Orioles 14 out of 25 nice hit there Baltimore 14 out of 25 on the Mullins and that's going to be Frankie going out to the Metz yeah I can do that Ruiz Gil Gold 38 out of 50 going to the Yankees nice hit there Yanks Golis Garcia for the Rangers and Freddie Freeman Gold for the Bray or let me make sure where that's going that looks like it still says brave so that's going to go to the Braves Freddie Freeman Gold out of 50 for the Braves nice hit there Atlanta Chas McCormick Dick Allen Shohei Otani Strasburg Gonzalez and Mo there's a lot of gold that's funny Mikey Tom Siever not numbered on the Pulsar Tom Siever not numbered Pulsar going out to the Metz Metz so we have Tops Pristine and then we have 2021 Chronicles football pro uni those are going to be our two releases today we got Xander Shane Bieber if I could cook well I'd be Gordon Ramsay yep exactly that's cool Luis Gil New York Yankees nice rookie there Byron Buxton for the twins on the Pulsar not numbered Jonathan Indian and Kirby Puckett just three teams left for the next case three teams to go y'all Walker Beeler Josiah Gray and Dave Winfield pure power yeah I'm really excited for Chronicles I also really like Tops Pristine I'm liking what they did with this three autos per box a ton of numbered cards again just three teams to go here in the next break three teams left first hit Mookie Betts color match blue Pulsar 61 out of 75 nice hit their Dodgers Mookie Betts blue Pulsar and Jose Siri Soto and Peter Lanzo pure power hope everyone's having a good Wednesday there we go gold for the Rangers Adolis Garcia out of 50 it's going to be numbered four of 50 nice hit their Texas we got an orange coming up there's been so much color in this we got orange coming Tyler Gilbert for the Diamondbacks and for the Angels orange out of 25 Brandon Marsh nice hit their Angels that's going to be numbered seven of 25 we'll get that one magged up for you what's up Ty what's up Bubba uh yes there is a pack inside of the pack that is correct there is a pack in the pack so the mag should have a suit about a 35 one all the Albies in case Pulsar for the Braves bluegrass so this is going to be a hobby only product so you will not find it in retail skews it is hobby only Yoni Hernandez for the Rangers and German Marquez not numbered for the Rockies nice hit their Colorado Matt Manny Yoni Hernandez Jose Siri and Duke Snyder all right I'm going to sound like a cold news here how do you build tanks for it that's sick for the Guardians Shane Bieber popular demand not numbered on the refractor auto nice hit their Cleveland Shane Bieber sigh young award winner Joey Wendell and for the Phillies gold slice of a star Scott Rowland boom nice hit their Phillies 23 out of 50 Rowland was so good back in the day and yes I am saying back in the day for Scott Rowland nice hit there and you over there two left for the next case two to go uh Eddie I mean I I get it but I also understand where you're coming from uh the first break for football will be uh it'll be this morning I want to say it's after uh I think 1 p.m. right around there boom there you go raise wander Franco refractor rookie auto not numbered there we go huge hit for Tampa love the on-card auto so sick nice hit their Tampa and we have an orange same pack and we have an orange coming Ozzy Smith for the twins Joe Ryan orange out of 25 nice hit there 21 of 25 sam long Juan Soto gold out of 50 boom there we go huge hit for the nationals gold Juan Soto uh 25 out of 50 I was thinking jersey number for a second nice hit their nationals we'll get that one bagged up for you hey capillian Castellanos red out of 15 or that's actually going to be a pink pulsar pink pulsar out of 15 nice hit their Cincinnati yeah I'm liking this product a lot so much color in it gladi and hinge in Ryu for the blue jays that's going to be numbered out of 99 on the purple hinge in Ryu set beer and cabrion Hayes on the refractor we go box four this will take us to halfway through this break just the Padres left for the next break boom laddie junior orange out of 25 16 of 25 going out to the blue jays huge hit there and so much numbered cards in this so many numbered cards we got gold coming up raffy devils and for the Orioles Eddie Murray gold out of 50 Eddie Murray gold out of 50 again just the Padres left for the next break that's going to be not numbered Joey Gallo that's going out to the Rangers he is wearing a texas uni there Texas card out of 75 nice hit there Rangers Joey Gallo so we have our patch auto coming up Brian De La Cruz that's going out to the marlits Brian De La Cruz and for the Braves Andrew Jones refractor patch auto going well like I said to the Braves nice hit there Andrew Jones his son is so nasty drew Jones is going to take over the league we thought Andrew was good and he should be a Hall of Famer I think his son put is going to end up putting him to shame Schmitty Randy Johnson Javier Baez Zach Wheeler and Beltran again just one team left here in the next break Luis Gil for the Yankees not numbered refractor I'm sorry guys I'm not sure what to do about the packs like sticking to themselves you get plenty of practice so Jacob Degrom and Ernie Banks Shane Baez and Sammy Sosa here we go Orange KC Mies for the Tigers nice hit there Detroit KC Mies 10 out of 25 on the auto there we go see one of them the really big names there's some huge names on the auto checklist we got Joey Gallo Allen Trammel for the Tigers Orange 22 out of 25 back-to-back Orange is there for the Tigers yeah Wander is a big name there's a big name too Bryce Harper gold out of 50 going to the Fills 47 out of 50 man after he went down they just keep losing players Bryce Harper out of 50 nice hit there Philly but I mean like I want to see a trout I want to see a Griffey I want to see a huge name Tim Anderson Jacob Degrom purple out of it 99 80 out of 99 going out to the Mets Jackson Cowell last pack here this first half of break one not numbered on the pole side we got Chris Bryant and Mike Zunino yes Sean a pack within a pack within a pack other cubbies Nick Madrigal nice hit there cubs Nick Madrigal refractor auto Tim Anderson and for the Yankees with a pinstri dj lamehu nice hit there yanks dj lamehu again we have just the Padres left for the next break just the Padres left and then we got to start working on break number three Gavin sheets and soda Derek Jeter for the Yankees break two is sold out let's start chipping away at break number three just a couple spots left there break two is sold out appreciate y'all Joe Carter and Jorge Solaire nice hit there Max Crannick and Hank yeah Chris it kind of is inception Romeo Tapia nice hit there for the Rockies I like the like color match to the pole sard we got Fran Mil Reyes for the Guardians and gold going out to the Braves Eddie Rosario Eddie Rosario gold for the Braves that's going to be out of 50 orange out of 25 for the Marlins six dough Sanchez nice hit there Marlins I've thrown it through the deep end now you're good Reese Hoskins Corey Seeger and now we got Uzi Uzi's coming in for some middle relief work here just two teams to go in case break number three thanks Johnny yeah no problem Larry Walker for the Rockies blue out of 75 38 of 75 nice hit there Colorado Joe Musgrove and purple Liam Hendricks that's gonna be numbered out of 99 nice hit there Liam Hendricks purple so the Joey Gallo base is a Yankee Curtis Terry Cow Rally for the White Sox Jake Berger on the refractor auto nice hit there Chicago and Gavin Sheets and Juan Soto orange for the Cardinals out of 25 Yadier Molina nice hit there Cardinals and Freddie Freeman Ernie Clement Reese Hoskins Roger Clements for the Red Sox and Reese Hoskins gold out of 50 for the Phillies Spencer Walker or Walkins excuse me and Kyle Mutter for the Brakes Johnny Bench for the Reds Eddie Murray and Matt Canna what did I say oops Joey Vado Muller yeah I thought I said Muller my bad if I said Mutter Muller Piazza oh Mark Canna gotcha yeah that's my bad Tyler Gilbert for the D-backs Tyler Gilbert for the D-backs not numbered refractor auto Joe Morgan and for the Twins Max Kepler on the Pulsar Auto out of 99 there you go Twins Max Kepler Joe Ryan yeah I really like that there's no just like patch cards the patch cards are Jersey Autos bingo let's go baby O'Neill Cruz orange out of 25 on the auto huge hit for the pirates let's go show him yeah that O'Neill Cruz is is definitely the biggest card of the day so far huge out of 25 Griffin Jacks and Rodolfo Castro Jacob DeGramm blue out of 75 nice hit there Mets Corbin Burns and Jaimer Candelario for the Tigers Candelario purple out of 99 for the Tigers again break number two is full just a couple of teams left here in number three Jake Cousins Colton Welker that that O'Neill Cruz is definitely bigger than the Wander the O'Neill Cruz is an orange out of 25 if it was base versus base the Wander would be bigger DJ LaMahieu gold out of 50 for the Yankees 48 out of 50 DJ LaMahieu base to base the Wander is definitely bigger but base to orange I would take the Cruz could Brian Hayes and Zach Wheeler see that is Mark Hannah what did I say I said Matt though got you Zach Wheeler in January you and gladi yeah that's the other thing is O'Neill Cruz is playing out of his mind this is the perfect time to be hitting Cruz cards Marcus Simeon for the Blue Jays we got Max Kepler and Tony Gwyn yeah exactly and Wander is back to the IL I think right now Wander is gonna be good Wander is really good but O'Neill Cruz right now is looking like an absolute animal Connor Wong hey nothing wrong with that you're allowed to you're allowed to be more into football and basketball sunny gray for the red nice hit there what was it a broken wrist CWV was it a broken wrist or what was it for Wander this time I think it was his wrist at least Tyler Glass now how about that for the Yankees Sandman Mariano Rivera sick hit there love his auto we'll get that one bagged up for you love his auto and I love that his auto never changed Louise Gill and Devers for the Guardians Jose Ramirez what a back-to-back packs Jose Ramirez and Mariano Rivera nice hit there Guardians and Ozzy Alves your one pack one box to go here and break number one that's gonna be out of 15 Starling Marte for the A's one of 15 nice hit Oakland Lorenzo Cain and Andrew Ben attendee out of 99 yeah had surgery on his wrist that's what I thought that it was his wrist hopefully he takes it slow and comes back real healthy for the playoffs because I mean we know they're gonna be a playoff team or at least should be raised definitely should be a playoff team last box here break number one we have fallen a little bit behind and I do apologize for that hopefully we'll be able to catch up some hopefully we will catch up some as the breaks continue on today first up Patrick Corbin for the Nationals gold out of 50 nice hit their Nationals all de Jong gold patch auto for the Cardinals yeah I mean for every single team in the AL East is at 500 or above I think that's the first time this late in the season that's ever happened in the AL East AL East is is real strong this year well and welcome rookie gold for the Rockies nice hit there 25 out of 50 and JT real Mudo Mike that's not that surprising but they were also talking about some like three or 14 deal earlier today Brian De La Cruz y'all I'm just letting you know I'm gonna skip the recap just because we've fallen behind so I want to try and catch up some hinge in Ryu so I'm going to skip the recap here Garrett Cole and Ronnie Dawson gold out of 50 for the Astros yeah well the Rangers I think I'm a Rangers fan but we're a year ahead we're early I don't see us being an actual playoff team at least not yet but yeah it's gonna be a fun race this second half I'm gonna be excited to watch the trade deadline see who gets moved Joey Vada Michael Harris has been playing so well that the Braves are literally giving away their prospects so that's kind of interesting Vidal Bruja Salvador Perez I mean the Braves literally gave away Drew Waters who was a top prospect just like two years ago two packs left here we'll move right into break number two Tyler Glassnow for the Rays he is a monster on the mound Tyler Glassnow yeah Mike I'm not surprised what's it gonna look like Julius Randall mixed with like a couple of their young guys and the four first round picks are they gonna keep Randall Moustakis Matt Olsen numbered out of 99 going to the A's I think they need to get rid of Julius Randall though last pack here good luck everyone last pack break one Raphael Devers blew out of 75 going to the Boston Red Sox yeah I hope Obie stays because I mean you would move Randall to to give Obie minutes that would be the goal Machado and Michael Brantley for the Astros out of 75 or out of 99 excuse me yeah I would hope it's IQ and not Obie Lars Newbar Tyler Gilbert and Frank Thomas that'll do it thank you all so much break number one is concluded moving right on to break number two


David, can you tell what this is? It is the Stingray, aka the Skate Wing. Who would have thought you could get this at a restaurant here? Let's make that a thing. Elm Donizia, let's make that a thing. All right, so before we continue with that video, I gotta let you know that today, November 9th at 5 p.m. Pacific, we are going to be on the Yamibai YouTube channel doing a two-hour crazy long snackathon giveaway. And if you guys know about Yamibai.com, that is the premier online destination to get Asian snacks and Asian products, which means that you guys are going to have the opportunity to win a year's worth of free Asian snacks, Asian kitchen appliances. We're going to be doing instant discounts and all you need to do is get registered for an account at yamibai.com. Super easy. Super easy. Today, November 9th, 5 p.m. Pacific on the Yamibai YouTube channel. All the links are down below. See you there. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to a very, very, very, very, very special episode of Fun Bros. Food and we are about to go on a crazy Indonesian food crawl. Do you know what I love about Queens? Is that Queens just got crowned in 2019 as the most diverse big county in America and we're in Elmhurst and Elmhurst is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Queens. So that makes it maybe the most diverse neighborhood in America. And you know we could not do an indoor food crawl without an authentic indoor friend. Oliver, you host some TV shows in Bahasa, so let him know. Hello, my name is Oliver Pras from Queens, New York, but the country is Indonesia. My mother is from Manado, my father is from Jogja. And I'm also a TV host in Indonesia. Oliver, what are we gonna be doing today, man? All right, so we're gonna be checking out some authentic Indonesian restaurants here in Queens, New York. We're actually in front of Awan Kitchen, one of my favorite spots here. It is one of the top rated Indonesian restaurants in New York City. And I heard it's relatively new. A couple of years, right? Actually, yes. We're actually gonna get a nice sneak peek. Ayo, kita makan! Let's go! Plates are coming in, guys. This is a tempeh manduan, basically from the soybean. And you can use it with the sauce. It's the sweet sauce and the chili chop. Originality from Indonesia. Indonesia, basically, is the traditional food. Okay, like can Indonesia. Like not just like one region. This is a roast satay. We call it satay kambing in Indonesia. This is traditional from the West Java. We're gonna pour it with the sauce, with the k-chop, and the bercili, and tomato, and the samsara. And this one, with poyong from Indonesia. This one inside the egg, crab, and shrimp. With the pork sauce, with the tomato sauce. This is of the Chinese diaspora, right here. Wow. And this one is the nasi goreng kambing. This is usually in the street food, you can find it. And this one is the pompano with the honey sauce. This one is from the jimbaran. Normally you find it in Bali. Bali, okay, more south, right? This is called rujak juhi. Basically, this one is noodle, with lettuce, cucumber, and tofu. With the peanut sauce, with dried shrimp. This one, this one, you cannot find anywhere. This is nasi bungkus, with the ayam bakar. This one, the duk iga bakar. Salad makhan. We are at Awang Kitchen here in Elmer's Queens. We're looking at goat satay. This is street food. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yo, let's go in on this show. Dude, let's do this. Do I skewer one of the rice cakes? You try it, go for it, why not? Be creative. Goat satay. With a little bit of tomato and onion that is fire. So a lot of people are probably watching right now like goat satay. I'm more like in the chicken satay, right? I like it, that goat's not gamey at all. It's tender, it's perfect. All right, our second dish is Oliver. This is fermented soybeans.  Actually, between the goat satay and this fried cemented soybean square, these are two Indonesian dishes I've never had before in my life. Yeah, so it's actually one of my life goals to kinda introduce Indonesian culture, cuisine, food, entertainment, dance to the American consciousness. I definitely agree. I mean, it's top foreign population in the entire world, but it's a quiet four. Don't sleep on Indonesia. That's case in point, let's go. Tempe manduan. This is a fried soybean patty, right? Wow, if you look inside, so it's fried on the outside, it actually has batter and then on the inside, it almost looks like a vegetarian meat. Whoa. To be honest, I'm actually not a fan of traditional tempeh as an Indonesian, but this is actually fantastic. It's a nice spin. I had no idea that it was gonna taste like this. Bro, how do you describe it? It's almost like a taro. Like I would say, like a vegetarian meat, but it's really good. I love that outside batter. No disrespect to Manhattan, but you're not gonna find anything more authentic. In terms of Indonesian food than here in Queens, New York.  I think definitely as far as Indo food, because we lived in the 626 for a while. I think Elmhurst got it beat already. Oh, look at that. That's the depth. So we got nasi goreng gambing, which translates to fried rice with goat. See, I got a grilled pompano here. This is like a popular fish that I feel like they also eat in Indonesia and the Philippines, and it's got grilled with this honey sauce right here. This looks looking crazy. Is it interesting that grilled pompano kind of looked like the emoji fish? It does. Bro, you gotta try it with the sambal, man. Indonesian sambal is no joke. Last but not least, you guys, we've got a very special type of rojak here. This rojak Ujuhi has squid. It's got egg noodles underneath. It's got lettuce. It's a whole mixture of awesomely good noodles. Yo, that's just, wow. It's different. It's different, man. Wow, let's mix it up. I'm gonna go in on the nasi goreng. Let's split it up. We'll just do it. Nasi goreng. I mean mine on chip. It tastes different. Wow. It's different than the beef. You taste the tenderness of the goat. It's so smooth. When goat is done well, it's wildly, wildly underrated. How long? Great job. Good job. It's good. What can you tell us about the Pampano fish? It's a fish that's common to many South Asian countries. It's a cuisine that is incredibly popular. Indonesia is very well known for the spices, the amount of spices they have. It's actually one of the nicknames of the Spice Islands.  With your hands? With your hands? Man, I'm... Let's do it.  I'm down to eat this fish with my hands. Let's eat the rest of the meal with our hands. You don't eat with your left hand. I'm gonna eat with your right hand. Guys, all right. Three finger technique. Can I eat this fish? All right, go for it, man. Take some of this sambal, this crazy spicy sambal right there. With the hands, it hits different. Yep. It hits different. Mm-hmm. Rojak Juhi. It is a Rojak, but with Juhi. I like this Rojak a lot. The Rojak Juhi. My favorite Rojak I've ever had. And I'm... Whoa, that's quite the statement. Because it has so many different flavors in it. And sometimes the sauce on Rojak is so strong, it's overpowering, but I thought this one's a little bit more mild so it fit my personal taste. Oh, we got potatoes too. Nice. I love Indo coffee. Yeah, on fact, the most expensive cup of coffee in the world comes from Indonesia. Indonesian coffee. Kobe. Our next dish here is the Fuyung Hai, aka the Indonesian Chinese Egg Fuyung. Dude, this is my very first time trying this. Wow. Mm. So as you can see, it's like a egg crepe kind of stacked with vegetables and other things with the sauce on top. I'm an egg crepe guy. I eat lots of egg crepes. That's good. I think there's a connotation in America about egg fuyung. People generally don't eat it, but here, obviously, this is part of the Chinese diaspora that's been in Indonesia for a while. Moving on. This is me. I am Kang Kung. You can see the noodles with... In the water spinach, in Indonesian, we call it Kang Kung. Mm. Oh, this is really good. That was really good. Oh, man. My top two is the me. I am Kang Kung. Yo, that was fire. That one and the nasi goreng, because nasi goreng is just classic. Yeah, the nasi goreng with the goat, right? The goat goreng. I love the pampano fish. Yeah, I was like... With the honeys. I'm going with the pampano. This is Igabakar. This is a short ribs with some beef broth. That looks amazing. So soup and short ribs, that is a meal. Yo, I've never seen that. You got to try it, bro. Igabakar beef short ribs. Right off the bone. Mm. This grill flavor, smokiness is crazy. So soft and tender. That's a beef soup. This is a quick beef broth that you can use as a supplement to the beef ribs. The celery and the carrots in there taste it, bro. Guys, I'm about to unravel the nasi bonkis. Oh my gosh, look at that. So this is their, like, to-go box. This is their, like, Chinese takeout box. I guess so, yeah. Rice to-go, yeah. I do prefer to substitute the chicken with what's called rendang. Oh, beef rendang. Beef rendang, yeah, the beef curry. Another good one. All right, guys, just dive in. Let's get a couple bites, man. Is that a coconut? Is that coconut meat? Nasi bonkis is like the Indonesian beef embalm where you just put all the side dishes in together, you mix it up, and it's just delicious. For me, it was the jackfruit. And a lot of people actually use jackfruit as a meat substitute protein. Dude, that's a green sambal? If you get a chance, get the green sambal here at Awang Kitchen. All right, you guys, by no means are we done. No, we're going to Indo Java, which is right across the Boulevard to the Indonesian bodega. You guys want to know more? Check us out only on Fung Bro's YouTube. All right, guys, continuing on our trip to Elm Indonesia here in Queens.  Right now, we're here in front of Indo Java, one of the most famous and few Indonesian bodegas. The only places you can actually find Indonesian spices, Indonesian ingredients, and they even serve hot food, but we just missed it today. So this place is actually home to warung slasa and warung kamis, which means warung, which is like a small place you eat. Slasa means Tuesday and kamis means Thursday. They only make enough for a certain amount of portion. All right, so Tuesdays and Thursdays here are particularly lit. Let's head in, let's check it out. Indo Java, let's go in. Hello. Hello, look out there. So this is Elvie, she's the owner of Indo Java. How are you doing? Good, how are you? How long have you had this store here in Queens? Actually, we are in here, it's like 12 years. Broadway is three years, it's total is 15 years. What do like Indonesians from Indonesia when they come here, they say, oh, it just feels just like Jakarta or something? Yeah, they feel like at home. If there's homesick, they come here and then they feel very happy. Let's get some sambal. Let's check it out. Okay, we're definitely picking this up. Yes. We gotta get this to get in. But it's spicy, be careful. This one is martabak, martabak is like pancake. Inside there is like peanut, cheese and chocolate. Oh my God. Oh, definitely get it. That will put you to sleep for sure. Try also this one tofu inside this vegetable. Okay. All right, I'll get that. I've never had that. That looks interesting. Also in Indojava, they have pre-made foods that are already pre-cooked and all you gotta do is just microwave them or heat them up right here. Oh, look at this, we just had this. I do have it, yeah. Oh, the chichato musul. Hi, it's very good. Every Tuesday and every Thursday, the menu changes, right? All is changed, yes. Makase. Yo, I gotta tell you this, the Indonesian language sounds cool. And you got two cool things. Ah, man, I got the martabak and then the ramayana. Whoa! That's like an egg roll, let's go. But it's an egg roll, but a fried tofu, right? It's a fried tofu egg roll ball. Is it kind of like the Indonesian pizza pocket? More or less. I mean, I wasn't expecting that many things. There's like a lot of things going on in there. It's not an egg roll, it's an egg ball. You guys, I got the chichato migoreng flavored one. Does it taste like Indomie migoreng? Actually, the other track, it's been a while for me. They're done. This tastes just like the authentic instant noodle migoreng, jagang bakar cheetos. This is a Indonesian roasted bakar corn cheeto. Whoa! The corn flavor came in out of my head. This is my first time trying it. And in LA, all our favorite Indo spots, they're always sold out of this. This is a tranquilizer dart in a cake form. Oh, I'm excited, dude. Martabak. It's like a sponge cake. That's not a Western cake. I need to go to the gym. I think that this is the most underrated dessert in the world. Martabak wins in my opinion. I love it. The Martabak is a 10 out of 10. Don't turn your back on the Martabak. We're continuing our journey in Elmhurst. Where'd you take us? So we're here in the heart of Elmhurst, right? We're here on Whitney Avenue. There's two Indonesian restaurants here in Elmhurst that are literally side by side. Sky Cafe and Asian Taste 86. Yes. All right, you guys, we ordered from Sky Cafe, multi-regional pan Indonesian. We're gonna go head over to Asian Taste, which is Javanese. Ending hour, Elmdonizia Crawl on Whitney Ave. Let's go. Here we have the Mi Komplete. Mi Komplete.  This is my favorite dish. The Mi Komplete from Sky Cafe. That's good. Such a simple dish, but so tasty. I love the texture of the noodles. Nobody's going for the beef bone. This is the nasi bunkis, but with rendang right here. Oh my gosh, look at that. Look how deep that rendang is. Look at that beef. Large pieces of jackfruit. That's percadil. Percadil. And then you got your egg right here.  Nasi bunkis rendang. Been waiting for this. I mean, it tastes better with your hands, but... Beef rendang, to me, I think is the root of that very deep Malaysian curry as well. Where it's just like, it's super, super spicy, but not in a hot way. Yes. Very, very enjoyable. Give you something fresh and something different, but not to overpower you. You know what I mean? Last but not least from Sky Cafe, we have salt buntut or oxtail soup. Put some lime in there. Yeah. Squeeze the lime in it. Salt buntut, oxtail Indonesian soup. Mm, really herbal. This is definitely a healthier variant. If the broth isn't too thick, they don't put too many different spices on it. I think it's quite pleasant. Yeah, it looks like a really light soup, but it actually has tons of herbs and spices in there. A lot of like star anise. You know, the Asian spices, to be honest. It's good. We gotta move on to our Asian taste round. So right here in front of me, we have smashed chicken or also known as ayam pinyet. You got some tofu in there. You got your sambal terasi. We have sambal ejio. So two different kinds of sambals for variety. Indonesians, they peel off the chicken.  Oh my gosh. Ayam pinyet. Ayam means chicken. Pinyet means smashed. Ay. Smash chicken is great because when they smash it while they're cooking it, it kind of like tears the meat apart. So it's easier to get it off the bone. It is, it is, it is. I can eat that every day. You can try the tofu with the sambal. What I love most is look at this chicken skin right here. There's almost no batter on it at all. I'm gonna tear it apart. I'm just gonna bite it like this.  Incredibly authentic, man. We also have soto batawi, right? So check this out. This is an Indonesian soup, right? You got some beef in there. It's cooked with coconut milk. It's tomatoes, potatoes, all that good stuff with some group book chips and rice. Soto batawi, coconut beef. That thing has been simmering in that coconut milk for like, ever. You also notice that Malaysian food is actually quite similar to Indonesian food. Not that spicy. Very easy to eat. David, can you tell what this is? It is the stingray. The skate wing. Who would have thought you could get this at a restaurant here? Oliver, you said you didn't even have it before. Yo, to be honest, I've never had stingray in my entire life. I didn't even know this was on the menu. Bro, I've been coming here for a long time. The stingray was just so authentic. I mean, I just had to get it. Oh my gosh. Is that bone? Maybe get a little lime, of course. Potty stingray. Wow. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. God, that's some of the better stingray I've ever had. The way they barbecued that top, it was super crispy and like, almost I forgot that I'm eating stingray. Best and only stingray I've ever had. Amen. That's fun girl's food for you. I gotta give a special shout out to Asian Taste for letting us film here for me. This is the only time I've really enjoyed stingray and I've had it like maybe four times. I think I'll just go with the smashed chicken on this one. Where you going, mate, Oliver? For Asian Taste, this is tough because, like you, it's between the party and the ayampinyat, but I'm gonna have to go... I'm gonna go with the party. Ah! This is my first time ever trying it. I was not only puzzled and surprised, I was, well, I'm thankful to these guys because they're introducing you to food from my own culture that I've never had before. I'm not introducing it to you. I'm just going out there and ordering. Give me the stuff. I can't get anywhere else. Yeah. All right, you guys. We are wrapping up our crawl, our journey through Elm Donizia, Elmhurst Queens, Indonesian crawl. Yo, here's a shout out to you, Oliver, man. Thank you, thank you, bro. Oh my goodness. What are we looking at? I got my iced jelly. That's the latter, that's the latter. This is one of my favorite Asian desserts, this black pudding with coconut milk. It honestly tastes like a sweet rice oatmeal. I love this. Yo, I like this a lot. When you really sink your teeth into the enclaves out here, that's what I love about Elmhurst and I'm so glad we got to check out Elm Donizia with you, man. Yo, I'm not gonna lie, just the fact that you guys enjoy Indonesian food makes me so happy as an Indonesian American since we're oftentimes overlooked because I just don't think there aren't enough of us here in America. We got a long way to go and I'm hoping to be a part of that big reason why a lot of people going forward know exactly where Indonesia is on a map. And also, when you think of Indonesia, I want you to be thinking of this guy, OliverprostTV, host extraordinaire. Oliver, you got a big mission. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching that culinary journey through Elmhurst Queens, AKA Elm Donizia, who shout out to Oliverprost, check out his info right here on Instagram. Please let us know in the comment section below, what was your favorite dish? What's an Indonesian dish that we did not get to cover, that we need to try out? If I'm not wrong, it's not that good, I'm sorry, because I'm not wrong, it's not that good. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that video. We are on Whitney Ave in the heart of Elmhurst Queens right now and until next time, we out. Peace! What's the hottest item that the Indo's are going crazy for? Is it the shampoo or is it the toothpaste? What is it? It's the sun balm. It's the sun balm. Let's get some sun balm, check it out. Okay, and I also want to get one Indonesian beauty product. I don't know why, I'm just saying I do.


Commander Allied Joint Force Command Naples, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, Admiral Mark Ferguson, visited naval support facilities Suda Bay to tour the base, speak with sailors and meet with the Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff. The Navy over the last few years has consolidated in Europe to several bases that have a unique characteristic. Suda Bay offers a harbor, it offers terrific airfield support facilities, it offers the ability to sustain naval presence forward in the eastern and central Med and from that standpoint it's an important place for us to operate from. He also stressed the importance of sustaining our enduring partnership with the Hellenic Armed Forces. We rely on the support, the hospitality of the Hellenic Navy, the Air Force, the Army and the Greek nation for our ability to operate from here. They're vital NATO allies for us and their support is very important. Each sailor that's here is an ambassador of the United States and from that standpoint they're building that relationship, building trust between our armed forces and their armed forces that enable us to sustain operations from their country. Ferguson also thanked NSA, Suda Bay sailors and civilians for providing significant support to allow U.S. naval forces to operate forward in the European theater. Reporting from Suda Bay, I'm Petty Officer Margie Rodriguez.


Okay. So for today, again, for today for the recording, today's meetup I'll be talking about yet another year is a site project that I've built. It's a tiny New Year's resolution app that basically lets you write your new year resolution. As in nothing, nothing like surprising, no, no like super novel features. It was like a very tiny, tiny site project that I've made. Okay. So what I'll be going through in this talk is actually like the study is definitely like going through what is this project that I've made that I've built so that we all have context about what I'm going to talk about today. Like, even if I'm going to go through some, some technical stuff, at least you have an idea about what I'm talking about and where in the part of the app that I'm talking about. So definitely the study is just an intro day after that I'll be talking about a tech stack which probably will be helpful for people who want to build your own own own project. And then there are lots and lots of tools out there. So which one to choose, then maybe what I'm going to go through today will be some sort of like reference for you to choose. Of course, you are still free to choose whatever you want, but at least there's some sort of reference that you know have been used to build something that you have seen before. Okay. Then the last part is where the meat of the, the talk will be about it will be some challenges that I found really interesting some decisions that I had to make, which for while building this, this app. Okay. So the first one is definitely like what is yet another year. So, yeah, another year is just a simple web application. So what application means like it's a, it's a, it's a app. In the sense, you can, it's not just a plain website, you can log in, log out, you can save data in your account and do things with it. So it's like a web buy it lives on the browser. So, so therefore it's like a web application. So, so this web application yet another year is just a new year. I see it's a new year's resolution app. So it lets you write new year's resolution. It lets you track your progress for the year. And then it, and then it also lets you track resolutions over your over the years. Right. I guess I'm not sure about you guys, but sometimes I write them at the end of the year. And then all the start of the year. And then I write it on a piece of paper or some, some notes in my computer. And I just forget where it is that then this, then then it's gone. I can't really look back. So, so, so this app also lets you just write, write, write it in years and then you can just track across the years. What, what have you been aspiring to do? And one more thing is to be able to have a link that lets you share your new year's resolution with whoever you want to share it with. And, and then that, that link will come in handy if you have your blog or something. You can just put it there. And, and people who come to your blog or your website can link it up to, to, to see your resolutions. So, I've launched this app in the middle of this year. About and, and July on, on this website called product hunt. Yeah, so it's, I'll say that I launched it pretty recently. Okay, maybe six months not so recent. Yeah. So, so, okay, before I go to there, I just want to show you guys what it looks like. So it looks like this. So this is like the, the landing page or. Yeah, the landing page or some called the brochure. So this is like, okay, what's the app is about. And then you can go to the web app. And then. Okay. And then you are prompted with a login screen. They can log in. And here I use Google authentication. And basically this is like almost everything. So you have like some progress bar. So if you don't know now it's 18 November and we have 43 days left to the year. If you, which is actually not a lot of time. So if you have a lot of things you have not done finishing this year. Yeah, just keep in mind that you have about 40 days left. So, so then you can go forward by years and see what you have done behind in the past years. And then the last part is that you can. Oh, of course you can, you can like write, write new, new resolution here. They can delete it. So it's like a to do list button with a context of New Year's resolution. And you can share the link. So if you see a link like that, you get linked to a page that you kind of edit anything. So it's a good way to just share your New Year's resolution. Yeah, that's about it for for the app. So it's a pretty simple one. So, so the next one is like, what's the motivation that I built this thing. So I have been a software engineer for about five years. So I've learned many, many things at work, or just on meetups or on my own side projects, other side projects that I've tried to build. And then I just wanted to put it all together to actually get something to launch something. So a lot of projects like kind of stock halfway blue steam or just the idea wasn't like really good enough to want to continue. So, so I decided that I want to build something really small to increase the chances of it actually like reach a point where it can launch. And whether or not I continue development then it doesn't really matter as long as that is launched is sort of like feature complete to for V1. Yeah, so so this is like why I started building this app to, yeah, so to consolidate my learnings and to actually launch something. So the tech stack that I used to build yet another year is actually very, very simple. The tech has been around for a really long time. I mean people, a lot of people have built with this that after that they have moved off and but a lot of people are still continuing to use this tech to build. So it's supposed simple I highly recommend it for anybody who is like starting out building something and want to be fast in to push it out and get feedback from from people. So this for my stack. I use hero cool to host the app and the and the database so and then so that will be on rails which is the server of my app and then postgres the data storage layer. And then I have what pack to compile all the assets, especially because here I also have a single page app which is built in Elm. It's a front end frame. It's a language. It's a front end like language to build front end stuff. So, so what packs here helps me compile my my single page app helps me manage my images, style sheets, etc, etc. And then for authentication I use I just use Google authentication for for my app and then and then the way the the back end and front end communicate is just a simple rescue API. So this is the stack that I used to build yet another year. So next I'll be going through some of the interesting challenges here again I my focus is on the interesting. Not not so much like oh very very difficult problems but more like more like decisions that many people at least I find that many people just thinking for granted always has to be like this has to be like that. But actually I found when I was building I was trying to find simpler ways to do do some things and then and then and then I found that these decisions that I made were pretty interesting and it's something that anybody who starts out will probably face also. Okay. So the first, first interesting challenge that I found is actually authentication. So, because my app isn't like just Ruby on Rails app, usually if you have just Ruby on Rails, you will just use that session authentication the rails default session authentication. And then for people have single page at people start to talk about json web tokens and having like refresh token access tokens, etc, etc.  So how do I make sure that the front end knows all the front end and back end knows who this user is, it must be able to persist must be able to be secure, etc, etc. Then I thought okay, must I use json web tokens, which is like JWT because JWT has they use some, it has this like thing that can prevent people from changing the payload and all and it's sort of like guarantee that to a good extent it guarantees that this user is who he is. Then, then I realized actually the default Rails cookie store works perfectly fine. Because like cookie store, like the rails cookie store is encrypted, the values in there is encrypted is considered generally safe. Of course it's still open to people from hijacking your cookies but then there's like a separate topic altogether. And then on every API request from the front end to the back end from the single page app to your server, it will always send the HTTP cookie, it was always send the cookie in the HTTP header anyway. So my server side will still be able to know who this user is just from the cookie. And the last part is like, it's close to zero setup because the rails cookies store comes like baked into Ruby on Rails. Of course, you still can do JWT, there are a lot of device, they have like a JWT version. I think that there are many, many frameworks that is like a drop in replacement into rails for the authentication system. So a lot of them also have JWT. So of course those, if you just drop it in is probably also about the same amount of work except your front end code needs to handle the JWT stuff. But here I just opted to use the default cookie store and it's really like until now it's like perfect and it's really zero setup time. So in the end I decided okay, I'm just going to use this for the authentication. So this is like the first challenge that I, first decision that I found interesting that I had to make. So the next one is actually implementing authentication. This is not, I think like authentication, like it also falls under the bucket of authentication, but here is like a login system using a third party provider. So in this case, for another year I use Google authentication, right, Google OAuth. So in the usual OAuth setting, the user will, you have a form on your website. User clicks, you will do a post request to the server. The server will return a redirect to the unique URL of the authentication provider. And so you get redirected to Google and then Google, after you log in there, Google redirects the user back to your app. So I was thinking like okay, I have a single page app. Single page app doesn't really deal with redirects so much, at least not that I can imagine how they do it. Then I was thinking more and more and I really, then I thought about it and I thought, oh, maybe I'm in a single page app still renders HTML, right? So if I drop in a form in there, it should still work, right? So I don't need to make an API call to the server and get the link back and then use the single page app to redirect the user somewhere else. Instead, I just do the usual form submission from my single page app to the server and then the server will return a trio to which is a redirect status code. And then everything is that works the same. So okay, I'm going to try that. So the form submission all works so that's super cool. But after that, I realized that there's another problem is that to do a form submission in Rails, there's this security feature called CSRF. So it's like cross-site request for Jerry in short is CSRF. So there's a requirement is that in the form, it needs to have a hidden field, an authenticity token hidden field that has a value that match the CSRF token so that the server knows that this request is valid. And then the first problem I had was, okay, when the single page app generates the markup, it doesn't know the CSRF token. So then how can it generate a form with the correct authenticity token and be able to do the post request successfully. So I went to research online. Many people have told me, okay, you just use JavaScript. I've read many people wrote like you just use JavaScript when take the CSRF token from the page header. And then you just inject it to the form. So yeah, that generally works. But the problem that I realized as a spa, the single page app is that by the time you get the token, it might not be valid anymore. Because the security feature keeps refreshing the token to make sure that every single point that you are making a request is from you. So here I have a problem that the token might be outdated so that this way doesn't really work. So the next, another way that I found was that people say that when you load the spa, you can inject or you can just pass this token to the single page app on boot. So like for example, we react, you usually have a HTML tag and then react just attached onto it and then generate the entire react out. So or any other single page app also works about the same. So it's also the same problem. The CSRF token is only at the start. And then when the app goes through a few requests, the token might not be valid anymore. So there's really no guarantee by the time the user does the post request, it will still be valid. So the last one that I found, which I was pretty surprised that I found that it worked, is that if you have your markup and you have this input tag hidden name, authenticity token, this tag inside your form, if you do a full page reload, Rails UJS will automatically inject the value to this element. So all I needed to do is to make sure that the page that has the form does a full page reload. So for me, it was like the obvious solution because I only need to have a full page reload for the authentication page because that's the only page that has that form for me to do this OAuth flow. So I just, in my front end, my single page app, I just add this HTML element and then I just ensure that every time the user picks a link that goes or gets redirected into this page, it's always a full page reload. And then the form submission will work. So it's that, okay, that's great. Also everything works and it's super simple. So it's like low overhead because there's only one page that requires this thing. So yeah, so that is how I implemented OAuth in yet another year. So the next one is assets management. And in this case, assets, I'm talking about like images or icons or like fonts, et cetera. So here, if you are familiar with Rails, Rails has this Rails asset pipeline. Ever since the introduction or introduction of Webpacker a few years ago, some people move their like managing assets into Webpack. Some people leave it with still with Rails assets pipeline, but only have the JavaScript part, the single page app part that is packed by Webpack. So for me, when I started out, I used the Rails asset pipeline to manage like the images. So in development environment, when I build the app, everything is fine. When I render the app, the images all renders properly. And then when I push to production, then I realized that all the assets broke. The images couldn't render, it couldn't be found, et cetera. So which then I realized that, okay, for the assets pipeline in development environment, it does not require the digest at the back of the name of the asset. And then by in production, it requires because for caching purposes. So then, okay, now I know the problem there. I tried to like find the correct file path for the image, which then made me realize that there's no easy way to get it for Rails asset pipeline. For traditional Rails app, they all use the URI helper to help them generate the file path. But because I'm building a single page app and I'm not using Ruby to build it, so I don't have my single page app does not have access to the URI helper. So makes it a bit difficult to get the URL automatically generated in my single page app. So and then when I try to get the URL with the digest, it's a bit hard or so because only production has the digest. So I need to run it in production or something. So after that, they decided, okay, it's too painful. I decided to move everything to webpack, which is a bit contentious for many people. So I know people have a lot of issues with webpack, but I actually had close to zero issues with webpack. Everything works perfectly. The development production environment with webpack all requires the digest. So Dev and Pro environment is exactly the same. No surprises. If it works in Dev, it works in production. And then Webpack always give me the full URL with the digest, which I can just code it into my single page app. So everything works perfectly. So then I decided to use Webpack to manage my assets. So and the last one that I found interesting that I do think, I think it made me think a bit more about me. Okay. So identity is interesting because these days in the past, we always see like username and password login. That's it. That's only every website uses the same way of logging in. But these days, actually for quite a few years now, we've seen OAuth providers. We've seen Google authentication. We've seen Facebook. Facebook also can do OAuth. GitHub also can do OAuth. Many, many, many different services allows you to do OAuth with them. And then there are newer ones like password list login. These days a lot of full number logins, et cetera. So I was thinking like, how can I make sure that my authentication system scales for any future type of authentication method in the future? So then here instead of only have a user table, I have a identities table also. So each identity corresponds to a unique authentication method. So maybe if I have five authentication methods, because this is like a table, right? So even if next time I can scale to 100 authentication methods, it should all scale properly. So I should be able to handle as many authentication methods as I want to. So all these identities from different authentication methods will be able to map to a single user. So in the future, if a user is worried that he forget, if the user comes to the website, the website has five different ways of logging in and the user is worried that they forget which one did they use in the first time, they can link all the authentication ways to a single user. And then it always maps back to the same user. So this model sort of allows for this. And the last one is like each authentication method. Now that I have a unique identities record, each different authentication method, maybe in the future you require some special keys or something, right? So I will be able to save all this information for different authentication method. So what I found that I think that this model is pretty scalable and as far as I can think of, I think that it should scale well. If in the future I want to introduce other types of login methods. So actually that's all that I have today. So open to any questions about the talk. I think I can start off, right? I understand why you chose Elm over other frameworks. Because I just thought that I wanted to try something new. So of course like in the midst of this thing, I also wanted to learn something new. So then I decided to try Elm. It's not just learning a new framework because it's like functional programming. So I was a bit curious over the years about what functional programming is. So I decided to give you a shot. Yep, any other questions? Do you implement the OAuth without any gem? Do you use any gem for the OAuth? No, actually I wrote my own. I've been one that is a bit dangerous if you implement your own. But I tried to use the only of gem and then they had some issues with this basic flow. Actually I'm surprised that it doesn't work so well. So in the end I wrote my own. So I dug through the docs and the Google's docs and then I implemented everything that they recommended. So in the end I wrote my own OAuth flow. I wouldn't say it's actually not very difficult if you understand why it's happening. So I would say still do it with caution but it's worth a shot. Okay, any other questions? If not, I think... Sorry, I'm a bit laggy. Can I ask about... You said you launched your product, right? Is it possible to kind of share what was your experience like in terms of launching a product? Do you get any traction feedback from users? Anything like that? Okay. The experience is pretty interesting but I would say that I didn't get any traction. So I felt like, okay, I have no experience at all launching a product. Then I don't know... Okay, what should I go next? How to deal with marketing and all. So it was like a really very interesting experience and it's like a learning experience for me. So what I did actually is quite straightforward. You go to product hunt, you upload whatever you have to upload, you fill out this form, you set a launch date and after I've gone through it, things start to make a bit more sense what I can imagine other people are doing before the launch date that you submit all everything up already, right? Then before the launch date, people will be advertising, telling their friends, telling everybody and just getting traction, getting people to look at it and then during the launch date, actually I don't know what can people still do then maybe just reply all the questions and all. So mine was quite bad, I think because the day I launched, I didn't do any of the before pre-launch things. So the day I launched, I just shared with some of my friends and then immediately it was pointed out that the login wasn't working. So the launch date is today, yesterday I was like, okay, I need to fix this thing. Then I realized that I broke something. I said I didn't know I broke something then tomorrow it launched and then it wasn't working. So the launch date was pretty scary because I didn't have any experience. So then the day I had to, after I launched then people tell me that it wasn't working. Then I had to go faster, go and fix it. Yeah, so I didn't get much traction to be honest like just friends trying it or that's it. And it wasn't, but it was a very good experience. So whether or not your app takes off or not, I feel that it's always good to just try once. Then in the future you just get better and launching products. You might know how to do the marketing better. You might know how to do that after that, etc. So definitely do something small and give you a shot. Okay, thank you. Okay. How do you do all the CI test? Do you use Aspect? Oh, I wrote my test in, I use Minitest, but I would imagine like Minitest, Aspect is about the same. For me, I have like tests all written but I actually didn't do CI CD because it's like super tiny. I just from my console, I just push it up to Heroku and just deploy. For me, it's a really small app so I don't really see and I'm the only person working on it. So I didn't really see a point in setting up all the CI CD workflows. To me, it doesn't really matter. And of course, I still write my tests and making sure my app, I can continuously work on my app with confidence, with the tests in place but I didn't use the, I didn't have a CI CD pipeline. Okay. I think that we are, actually we are over time already. So maybe I'll stop the top here and then I can close up the Minitest. Okay. So let me stop the sharing.


My name is Willie Clark Orca, I would like to describe for you very briefly what the higher education portfolio in coal entails, but first, a little background. Coal has been in higher education since its creation some 20 years ago, and it did infringe for one second. One basic education was the dance craze, and everyone else was doing the gig to the virtual neglect of higher education. In economic terms, for national development, international competitiveness, diplomacy, higher education is very, very important. It is vital for creating the critical mass of human capital needed for national development and progress. That's where we train educators, doctors, engineers, dentists, lawyers, accountants, economics, and so on and so forth. Also, higher education happens to be a key industry, and it is on right. All of this, so much so, that Mahmood Mandani, the Columbia University professor, once described higher education as the strategic heart of education. I believe back in 2006, and he is right. Three key issues in higher education provision are in far more or less what we do in this sub-sector. They are access, quality, and cost. How do we ensure greater access, enhanced quality, and lower costs? To illustrate the problematic of access, let me give you one example. Kenya has seven public universities and 20 private universities. Each year, 50,000 qualified students apply to gain admission into these universities. Take a guess. How many of them do make it? Only 50%. In country after country, around developing Commonwealth, we see the same pattern, more or less. We run two sets of activities. One, I'll describe as regular, the other, irregular. The regular activities deal with programs that we develop in-house on our own, or in partnership with others, such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, and offer on the license to partner institutions which deliver them in your respective jurisdictions. We have two such programs, the Commonwealth Executive MBA and MPA degrees, and the postgraduate program in legislative drafting. The other is irregular in the sense that in that mode, we are responsive, reacting to specific requests from our partner institutions. What we plan to do within the next three years will give you an idea of what these activities are. We will be focusing on five specific activities. We'll be training trainers in curriculum and instructional design using relevant technologies. We'll be providing technical assistance to new open universities. We'll be training academics in open and distance learning methods. We'll be helping colleges in transiting to university status. And finally, we'll be conducting institutional quality audits using a newly developed call review and improvement method called the call RIM, a cost-effective model of institutional quality audit. Now, I would like to invite you to visit our website at www.call.org. Lots of goodies in there. You'll be pleasantly surprised what you find. Come on in and check it out. Browse. And if you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call or drop us an email message. We would be pleased to answer your questions. Thank you for watching.