Nothing like starting your Sunday morning doing a whole hot, hot, hot, water, nothing. And now it's lunchtime when we literally just got dressed a few minutes ago. But, you know, I also forgot to close the vlog last night. Oops. Again, I can't even say it's an accident because at this point it seems to be a habit. Anyway, we're gonna start our day, albeit late, by getting a good walk in. And then I want to do some sewing and, yeah, draft a pattern for a little bag that's bugging me. And, yeah, all right, let's go get some steps in first and see what we can see. I'll be back. It's Sunday afternoon. What time is it? 4.30. And I've been doing some sewing since we got back from our walk. And out of what I think was two or maybe three yards of this knit material, I have this much left and a thrifted pair of shorts, some kind of exercise shorts I have this much left. And what did I make out of that? This and a pair of pants. I mean, I'll throw some photos here. I love them.  I'll put a link down below. The top is actually a dress pattern and it's a German pattern. If I can figure out the website, I will include it down below. I can't read German, but it's a pretty easy like tank top dress pattern. Any tank top dress would work. Or if you have a tank top that fits you well, you could make a pattern from that. But anyway, I use the part of the leftover shorts for the top and the one whole piece for the front. And then I pieced together some smaller pieces of this knit for the back. It's the back. It doesn't matter. And so anyway, I'm pretty pleased. All right. I also discovered that if I'm up here sewing and making my self things, yes. The mannequin comes in very handy because I was able to measure how long I wanted this pattern to be for the top anyway. But I still am going to want to try it on. So bike shorts and a workout top underneath my dress was a great idea. So something I got to put in the back of my brain there to keep doing. Anyway, I'm going to clean up my mess onto the next. Other than buying the pair of shorts that I use to make this, which that part at least I kind of consider an upcycle. I didn't buy anything else. I had the fabric in my stash and I found it when I was doing a recent fixing the flow video and I was going through things. And I forgot I had like two or three yards of this knit fabric. I don't even remember now what I was going to make out of it, but I love these baggy knit pants. They are so comfortable. Anyway, so, you know, I consider it using up my stash. So it's a good thing. Of course, the daughter gave me that pile of white linen. So I don't know if I've used up anything as much as acquired more. I don't know. But anyway, pretty pleased. What do you think? I'll be band-a. March 27th, I think. Do we need to know? That doesn't say. Yeah. March 27th. Just before lunch. I spent this morning sewing again. I'm sewing again. I know. So I have this pattern somewhere that I think is a, here it is, 1970s era wrap dress. And it has the pants, which I actually might use for the pants. I want to make that dress, which is like four sizes too big for me into a top and pants. I might make these pants and just shorten them. They're actually, they're bell bottoms. I'm pretty sure this is a 1970s era wrap dress and pants or wrap shirt and pants. I always meant to make it out of this fabric. I found a whole bunch of this fabric when we first moved here before COVID. And I never did anything with it. So we're using it up today and I've cut it out and I've got the thing three quarters of the way put together. This out of the three yards of fabric I had, this is all that's left again. Happy about that. Anyway, I'm going to give it a press. Iron is heating up over there. I'm going to give it a press. I'm going to do some top stitching. I'm also going to, I'm going to add some pockets to the front of it. On the bottom one in the center top. And yeah, I think it's going to be pretty cute. So I don't know if I'll wear it as an apron or if I'll wear it as a dress. I'm not sure yet, but it's turning out cute anyway. All right, let's get to it. I don't know if I'm going to wear this as an apron or a dress, but hold on, let's see. You'd be worn over a dress and I actually have something in mind. I can also see wearing it as an apron. Instead of making it a tie closure, I added a clip. I did a leather, a burned leather design a la El Harp. And how cute is that? I don't know exactly when the pattern is from because it doesn't say. It's from Newberry. I mean, if anybody remembers the store, Newberry. I know when I bought it, it was two or three sizes too small for me. So I thought I was going to have to up size it. I didn't really have to do that. So always a surprise, but a good one. All right, now it's time to eat some lunch. I'll be back. It's Monday afternoon. It's getting pretty late, 3.53 p.m. I haven't edited the vlog today. I haven't done this morning's dishes. I haven't done laundry. I haven't done my weekly posts for the Facebook groups, but I did get another upcycle done. So I don't know if you remember from vlogs past, but this was a double XL dress and I didn't take it in a lot. Although I did take it in just because I kind of wanted it loose and baggy. But obviously, as you can see, I turned it into a top. Oh my goodness. Hold on. Okay. First thing I did was cut the top off at a length plus like a half an inch where I wanted it. And when I was, I did take a half inch off up here and two inches off on each side on the bottom. So that's four inches off around the bottom.  And when I was sewing up the side seams, I left this little slit. I thought that was cute. It had pockets which were up here, which I took out, right about where the slit was, took them out and saved them. I took what was left of it and I took the pattern from the 1970s apron dress I just made that had pants in it. And I used them to pattern out these pants. And I used the entire width of the dress and the pockets back in. I mean, and I just did a simple elastic waist. How cute is that? Great summer outfit, simple, easy to wear. Hey guys, I would say good morning, but it's after lunch already. I spent the morning working on another sewing project. I know, right? This time we're upcycling a pair of black jeans I got recently at the thrift store. They're really big jeans and there's a lot of fabric in them that's in really good condition. So I had this and I've spoken about it before. So when I don't have things with pants or something with pockets to put my wallet in, I like, I don't like to carry a handbag anymore since COVID started, but I do have sort of a hip pocket, sort of the hippie version of a fanny pack. And I have a green one I bought years ago from Earthbound Trading Company. Probably 10 years ago I barely used it. And then recently I looked at it and went, ah, that's what I need nowadays when I have no pockets. But I need a couple more colors. I had a couple of belts in my stash, including this one that's a brown one that I don't really wear anymore. But there's nothing wrong with them. They're nice quality leather. I don't remember where I got them from. Anyway, I had a black one and a brown one. So I took the black jeans apart and I made a bag. Now, I haven't sewn this on yet, but I'm going to sew this on right here. And my sister, Elizabeth, years and years ago had a wedding. I was in her wedding. It was a Renaissance Fair Fairy wedding, and I was the white fairy of the North representing wisdom and guidance and age. I don't know how I feel about that still, but I mean, I was happy to participate. Anyway, these were part of my costume outfit. And there's three of them. I'm going to hang one on each of my new hip pockets. I'm also going to take some of the clothing from the costume closet, the Renfer clothing, and I'm going to repurpose some of the fabric. But I'm also going to incorporate some of the clothing into my regular everyday wear, because why not?  I'm not going to try to do it all at once. And there may be some things that just stay up here in that closet, but I mean, why not? Life is short. So anyway, and today I have this on. I love this sort of floaty, blousey thing. I've had it in my closet a long time. I've got it on top of a tank top and some leggings. And it's cute. Anyway, I like the idea of adding the bells. What do you all think? Anyway, I'm going to go put one the green one downstairs, maybe this one, and save this one for the brown one. I also found my earring I wore that day, which is a long earring that fits in like two earring holes. That has a chain. I didn't know where this went to. I'm so glad I found it. I'm going to put it downstairs in my jewelry box. Anyway, what are you all up to today? I'm making a mess again, but you know, I'm having fun doing it. I'll be back. I haven't dyed fabric in probably 20 years, but this is what we're doing today. This is supposed to be sage. It looks very blue to me, but yeah. And then this is their teal. Anyway, we're going to dye it. We're going to see what happens. Is it in enough water? Probably not, but you know, we're going to see anyways. All right, I'll be back. Guys, I got so much done. I got some. I picked out four of my favorite watercolors that I've been doing lately. I framed them and I hung them up around the house. The rest are for sale. So if you've seen something that you like, let me know. They are listed in a Facebook marketplace listing. So go over there and search my name. Stuff will pop up. I went through our old run costume stuff. Renaissance fairy wedding costume stuff. I took out my, one of the crowns I had in there. And I hung that on the wall and here over in the other nook. I hung up my, I had some fans in there made out of feathers. And anyway, I hung those up. I had some butterflies that were in my hair at one point. I think for the wedding, they're up on the hanging wires above my desk. I got some fab, the fabric died as you saw. And I did the 20 minutes soak to fix the color and then a final rinse. And now they're in the washing machine doing another rinse in there. And then I'll pop them in the dryer. And the way I usually do this, when I do anything that I'm not sure is color fast is I will wash it by itself.  Seems to be working so far for the last 35 years. Anyway, I'll also search my stash for anything that was the right color brown or solid brown to make another hip pocket from for the other belt, the brown belt. I don't have anything actually fun fact. So I think I'm either going to go to Joann's and buy a little bit of like brown corduroy or denim or thrift for something or both. I have to pick a day and go run errands this week. It may not be tomorrow because I have counseling at 10 a.m. And it just depends on how counseling goes for me and what kind of mental space I'm in. If I'm doing all right, then I will go do them tomorrow. But otherwise I might do it Thursday. What else? Have I gotten anything else? That just seems like a lot. I've gotten the dishes done. Yeah, I got the table cleaned off a couple of times to reset to do some painting. I know painting. I know I haven't done a lot of that lately. But you know, don't beat yourself up about it. If you're doing creative stuff, you're doing creative stuff. It doesn't matter what stuff. I did figure out what to do with one of the things in the art room. I've had trouble letting go of, but I don't like my chalk pastels.  I don't know why I didn't think about that before. It's not a new idea. It's been around a long time. I think I need to crush them up and add them to the pigment wall. Because yeah, I'll get better use out of them there. All right, I'm going to watch some YouTube. It's already like 5.30. I don't know if we're going to go walking or not. I think it's still raining outside, but we'll see. I'll be back. Hey guys, good morning. It is Tuesday morning, March 29th, I think. It's 11.07 a.m. I just got down with the counseling. We're going to go out and run some errands. And including thrifting, because you know.  I was so startled I didn't get the camera turned on, but you know. Anyway, let's go get it done. I'll be back. I don't know what time it is. It's after 6 o'clock. It's 6.26. 6.26. We're going out for a walk. The sun is out. It's very bright. Yay. Yes, I have no jacket on. I had to take my vest off that I had on because it was too hot. Anyway, got some fabric dying. While it's dying, we're going to go get some steps in and see what we can see. I'll be back. You're going to see that a lot, but there's a pair of ducks over there. My guess is they either have laid a nest nearby or they're thinking about it. They seem to like this little part of the pathway. You know, I wish I brought bread with me. Hey guys, we're in my upstairs bathroom. And yes, they kind of resemble pajamas, but stash busting, some knitted fabric I had. And this and the waistband are from a pair of sweats from the thrift store. It's pretty cute and very comfortable. Although, yeah, they do resemble pajamas, but I mean, that's okay with me. I did a lot of sewing today. Made a pair of pants, another tank top. I also made a dress. So I have this pattern from Etsy called the metamorphic dress from So Liberated. I'll link it down below. It's a really cute pattern. I did change it a little bit and it's a reversible dress. And I really like I use bed sheets. I dyed one of them blue. I'm going to put it on the mannequin rather than change in front of the camera because nobody wants to see that. I'll put some pictures of me in the dress here. And let me get the dress form dressed. Okay, it's supposed to be oversized and sloppy. That's like the style of the dress. I did make a few changes. First of all, I used a vintage handkerchief. I added that to the dress. This greenish tan color, that's a bed sheet. I added some ties to the waist. Okay, I added some ties to the waist to just give it a little more shape. At the same time, it's a woven fabric. So you can't make it too fitted without putting a zipper or buttons or something in because it doesn't have any stretch to it. So I added the ties, which I think is good. I took the straps on the original pattern are a little wide. So I just, rather than being doing them, I just put a tuck. I did a sort of sloppy tuck over here just on one side of the skirt. It isn't uneven hem anyway, so it's fine. It has a pocket here, which I lined with the handkerchief and then I put the left over here. Both sides have side pockets and are you ready? Oh yeah, both sides have pockets and both sides are equally as cute. Both sides of tucks and ties. I like it. I could see me making this again. We're taking some ideas from this and altering another pattern. Anyway, it is dinner time and I should probably clean up now. That was more than I intended to do today, but cool. Good morning everybody. Yes, I'm in the car, I'm running errands again. I need to prep the April daily drawing journals today because it's the last day of March and I haven't done that yet. But anyway, family dinner night is tonight. I need groceries and we are celebrating Son-in-law Paulias' birthday, which is I think Sunday. Daughters do any time now, so yeah, anyway. But we're gonna have one last dinner or so before the baby comes. I don't have on the new dress I made yesterday, but I do have on one of my new hip pockets. It's a little too cold for the dress and I need to make some other things to layer it with to make it look good. Anyway, I kind of want some gauze. I kind of want to make some of these dresses out of gauze and just buying fabric at the shops is really expensive. I remember when gauze used to be like 99 cents a yard. That was a long time ago. Anyway, all right, let's go get some errands done and then see what we can get up to for the rest of our day. I'll be back. Guys, it's just after 10 a.m. and on Saturday, sorry, April 1st. April Fool's Day, I guess. Anyway, we're gonna head out in a bit and go get some errands done. Specifically, we've got to make a Costco run, which is a big box warehouse store here in the U.S. for those that don't know. I think we're gonna do a little thrifting.  That's what I find, if anything. We have this room here, which is set up as sort of a library game room. There's actually, sorry for turning too fast. There's a little bit of a bar back there. Kind of a room for all those things we didn't know where to put in the house. We're toying with the idea now that we're having our first grandchild of turning this into a kid-friendly playroom. I have no idea where to get started on that or where any of this other stuff is gonna go. If you have any ideas, websites, inspiration, let me know because I'm interested. All right, let's go get our errands done and see what we can see, find what we can find. Yeah, I'll be back. Yes, it's hailing.  So when we were at the thrift store earlier today, I found some really cute clothing pieces to wear. But I also found some really great scarves. This is a scarf, it's huge. And then I also found this one to maybe go with some of the scarves, silky type scarves that my friend Laura Gurgain sent me to make a sort of kimono. And then I found this is like a giant moomoo thing. I don't know, it's huge. I have an idea for that. It's not gonna stay that way. But I also found some patterns. Hold on. So I got off of Amazon because I couldn't find it with the fabric store. And then when we were at the thrift store, I found this one. I also found this one. I already own something like this that I bought when I was in Hawaii that I love. So I'm so excited to get a pattern. I don't know if they're completely not. But at first glance, it looks like it's never been used. And this one. And that one also looks brand new, factory-folded. We're out trying to get a few steps in in between hail and rainstorms. Yes, hail. Hail! I said hail. All hail. Anyway, it was hailing a little bit as we got a block or so down the road from our house. But it stopped pretty quickly. Anyway, gonna get some fresh air and stuff. We spent today running errands. Did a little thrifting as you saw. I did pretty well. We also... You know, took a second look at a few bills and when is the last time you reviewed some of your utilities and things like internet, cable TV if you have it, satellite TV, whatever. Cell phone. We do that periodically. Not as often as we should. We both are of the set it up and use it and forget about it kind of tendency. But we finally took a look at things today and we were able to save over $100 between just only two. We have one more to do. So, that's pretty good. That's on a monthly basis. Per month. Yeah, so per month. We have one more to do and if we do this other one it'll add another almost $200 to that. So, I'd recommend taking a look at some of those things. Making sure you're not paying too much that you're not paying for what you don't need and all that stuff. Check the plans that you have and they may be changed. They may be changed. They may have altered prices but most of the companies they're not going to tell you they've lowered the price if you're paying higher and you don't say anything they're going to just let you keep doing that. Yep. And the way the economy is going they're going to want your business. Yeah, so we're going to go walk see what we can see. I can tell spring is coming because my aspen has been kind of acting up but go as far as we can. I've got a pocket full of cough drops so I'm good. Alright, I'll be back. We have ducks and a crow somewhere. So cool. We haven't been by the duck pond in a while so it's nice to get over here but we have to watch out for that. Alright, let's go home. Guys, while Mr. Bob there tries to peruse our options on a TV because we're sorry, ooh, dark. We're thinking about making some changes on our television service because we don't use what we have and we pay too much for what we don't use. It's a long complicated story but anyway we've finished March journals a day late and a dollar short maybe? Anyway, it was a fun day today. We got a lot of steps in. It was interesting because hello hail you know all the things, hold on lights and gotta get the box out, hang on. So we have this box for 2023 journals and things, memories so all done. I have this journal which I glued something in and it was wet so that's dry. So you can put that away. Let's go sit down for just a second, okay? Anyway put a pile of stuff on the art table to take care of more sewing I know, right? Maybe if you guys want it I'll film a sewing video garment making video I'm no expert by any stretch but I mean I got some stuff to upcycle so maybe I can share my thoughts on some of that and some of the patterns I got Anyway yeah it's been a good week, exhausting week Grandson's do anytime now and he's gonna be a big baby by all guesstimation so might as well enjoy the peace and quiet while we can, right? Anyway, no it's all good, I'm kidding. Alright if you have any questions, comments or concerns leave them down below and if there's anything in particular you'd like to see on the channel do let me know. I am going to be working on an abstract watercolor video per request it's probably gonna be a short video and we'll start with the really basics the tools or what I think are the basics anyway and then we'll do an actual painting it'll probably be again a multi-parter I'm not sure if I'm gonna release them all at the same time or one at a time like over a couple of days I don't know yet but if you have thoughts or suggestions let me know alright comments and concerns down there because I'll reply if you want more direct contact with me or you want to support the free content here on YouTube or any relevant links or anything like that please do check out the video description Anything else? 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WePress stores in the mobile apps next I'm going to show how AI can help with product images for a lot of visual shoppers what a product images look like can be a big factor of whether they purchase a product or not it is a common practice to remove the background for a clean look this background removal feature is available for WordPress.com and WooWePress stores in WPM in my past experiments with Apple's Vision API we can also apply background filters it detects the objects in the product photo and it only applies the effects to the background another interesting background effect is to highlight a subset of objects in the photo by the tap gesture and it can be helpful for variable products showcasing different variations the next level of image effects is to replace the background of the product image this can be helpful for a consistent thing throughout the store or just to create a more fitting background for the product as you can see on the left hand side this is the original image and it has a messy background by providing a prompt about the background that we desire it can replace the background right away as in the image in the middle it looks pretty realistic with the sharp salmon and salad edges and the overlap between the table cloth and the plate as you can see on the right hand side the quality might sometimes not be the best like the wooden table looks a lot unnatural after showing a few examples for individual products now I'm going to talk about store creation for new merchants who are just starting a store creating a store from scratch can be intimidating in this feature that other web teams that automatic have worked on for who we spread stores specify a description of their store and some sell options to start the description of the store can be a list of highlights about the store and the merchant can specify how the store might look like and the writing style of the content in their store after that it will output a functional newcomer store with a few stock images and products now that I have shared all the examples for this talk I just wanted to share a few thoughts about the future first, in the AI models that we experimented with there is still some room to reach a high reliability and quality for example the response will sometimes return in a different format from what was specified in the prompt however, I think it's just a matter of time for the community and industry to get there the next focus area is to utilize AI's training for a large amount of online e-commerce data to help a store with content, analysis and research the first direction is on content generation where we can use AI to generate text and images for various places in the store beyond the examples in the store in this talk the second direction is to provide information about the store in the merchant can ask any questions about the store like stats or to perform basic store operations additionally I think AI can be very helpful for market research similar to the example we shared earlier AI can further help us with keyword research when creating a product price can also be an interesting part because it can be challenging to optimize it manually if a product's price can be kept up to date to boost sales but also maintain a balance for the overall sales of the store it can contribute to a store's success lastly, when AI models can better take in live data marketing strategies from the AI can be very helpful for merchants without a lot of marketing experience in summary the future could be how we utilize knowledge from its training to offer a great user experience that integrates with the store management seamlessly that was the end of my talk thanks so much for listening thank you very much for joining us today I have to walk around you a little bit because I hit a secret look, here it is because the organizers asked me to give you this little gift so thank you very much for your presentation thank you Taco see you at the after party tonight we immediately continue with our next speaker but if you just came into the room run over there, find yourself a seat because you have one minute so make sure that you find yourself a seat it's way more comfortable than standing on the side alright, our next speaker is coming all the way from Vienna he's here to talk about languages his WordPress career started in 2005 with WordPress 1.5 and for those who don't know that's the version that added pages to WordPress so today Alex is sponsored by automatic to work on the polyglots team and the meta team and he's the creator of Translate Live if you're interested in the Fediverse please make sure to talk to him as well because he has tons of wisdom to share on that topic but right now he's going to focus on his biggest improvement in translating WordPress in the last couple of years Translate Live so please give it up for Alex Kirk thank you Taco alright today I'm going to talk about Translate Live and Translating WordPress so Translate WordPress mostly means contributing translations to the WordPress project from English to your language that you speak you can Translate WordPress core plugins and themes and for many this is the first step into contributing to WordPress it happens at translatethewordpress.org and there is an introductionary handbook the polyglots handbook so this is what translation into environment typically looks like you have the translations on the right the English text on the left and the status of the translations is highlighted through a colored background and when you enter a translation you've got a translation field a text box there is some metadata there might be a suggestion from the translation memory and but this is how you would get started so first you would think what am I translating so the screen can be a bit overwhelming but here you can see that we are translating a plugin which is called friends and the first thing that you're supposed to translate is this string checking URL so which URL and why should we translate these the plugin is called friends but it's about URLs so that's a bit confusing why is that so by default the sorting of the strings comes from the priority of the strings developer can specify how important the string might be but the reality is that most people don't do that so the next thing that it's sorted by is date added when the string was added so if a plugin is active new strings enter the plugin all the time so the most recent update would have added some strings and those are that you see in the top so what would be better here you can see I found a way to show strings that seem more useful so the first string would be welcome to the friends plugin probably that's what the people see first so how did I do that on one hand you can enter a search term and magically I found out that here you could specify welcome.php and use the final name in source as the sorting criteria who would know that and it doesn't work for all plugins like they have different things that you need to specify so can we do this differently so just recapping the typical translation environment means that you often start to translate somewhere in the middle you're missing the context you don't know is this string a headline a button it makes a difference in different languages but the good thing about the typical environment is that there is all sorts of tools so for example we've got comments and discussions and history there's placeholder highlighting, warnings there's a glossary where you are hinted to how to translate typical terms you get a translation to other languages which could be useful if your language is similar to another language and we've got translation memory and machine translation there and the community created browser extension slideplot.dict which is a translation especially for validators much more convenient so I'm suggesting to use translate live it's a hands-on approach and I will show shortly what it means it's built on WordPress playground and it runs WordPress and a plugin or a theme in your browser and in addition it provides inline translation through something that we call localglopress and when you're finished with translating you can submit it at localglopress.org so you can visually see the current translation state of a plugin using translate live you can add new translations and modify existing ones you can try translations without submitting them yet so you can experiment with translations without that being exposed we've integrated several tools for example placeholders, warnings and glossary and machine translation so this is what it looks like it's full of colors but the colors mean something so first you would click the right text add the red text with the right click and you would get this pop-up there's green text which means it's already translated yellow text means it's waiting non-highlighted text means it's not part of the plugin here you can see that there's a glossary term highlighted and we've got placeholder checks furthermore you would save the translation with this button you can query the machine translation and it will automatically ask for glossary terms you can modify the query and query again and copy the suggestion and modify it before saving so a short demo this is a recording it's live, this is how your press starts in the playground and you can see there's text that I can translate and I don't speak Chinese so I've used machine translation and I hope it's kind of okay but it serves the demo to show you how you can transform your interface from English into your local language so typically you would either enter your own translation or you would use machine translation you can see that the query to open your eye here is modified using the glossary terms so let's go ahead and translate some more and as you can see it can sometimes happen that the placeholders aren't submitted so what you can do, you can modify your query and say please make sure to include those placeholders and ask it again and then it made a better approach the next time so let's quickly speed it up and do some more translations more to be done and as you can see gradually you're transforming the interface from original English to your language and it also means that you're translating the things first that you see first and that works for any plugin and now if we can switch it off so that you can now see what the screen is like so how do you access translate live? it's very easy, on every plugin or theme page there is a translate live link to download the plugin in your browser so some things about translate live that are important to know so it's very quick to get started it works without a wordpress.org account if you do that you just download a PO file when you're finished it's very visual as you just saw and it's good for translating a theme to a new language from scratch or to modify existing translations and improve them with translated items in context and you know some languages are shorter or longer you can immediately check if it works for there good to know, don't forget to submit the idea is to try it but also you can throw it away accidentally if you don't save so submit it there's a button at the bottom and also if you have a very complete translation of a plugin it might not be the best tool then it can be hard to spot that final missing string that you want to translate so use the table view for that and also the performance depends on your computer and speed is like 7 megabyte initial download and it is cached so the next time you try it it goes loads faster but just keep that in mind there's some things that can still be improved it's hit and miss you saw that sometimes English text is not recognized there was this gray box in the demo that didn't work some plugins can be slow some plugins before you can really use them they require a setup so what to do about that and other plugins are sometimes needed to actually run this plugin so I can have a recommendation here for plugin developers there's a new plugin preview feature where you provide a blueprint in your plugin and there's this URL where you can find everything about it and translate live will use that same blueprint to boot up the plugin into a state where you can start translating right away so a summary it's an easy way to get new translation started it's accessible for all plugins and the local WordPress that actually is powering this will be shipped in WordPress 5.0 so you can actually use that on your own WordPress coming forward thank you this is the first time I've been in a track with three lighting talks where at least two out of three were exactly on time so really well done okay let me do my little trick again because I've been hiding stash here and of course this is for you as well thank you so much for your presentation and I'm curious here in the room who has ever translated something for WordPress who's gonna use this I mean I definitely am this is absolutely fantastic thank you Alex again we have a few people coming in so please find yourself a seat there's some seats available on that side make sure you don't have to stand because otherwise this final session is gonna blow you away and that will give a mess so find yourself a seat make sure that you're ready okay let me click this and then switch I told you I need my notes otherwise I get nervous so um and we have plenty of time so I can talk a little bit that's fine I see some people coming in if you're standing over there please find yourself a seat unless you're a photographer because in that case you probably need to roam around alright so are you ready for the final presentation in track 4 of wordcamp asia 2024 that's more like it that's the energy we're looking for on a Saturday afternoon alright so the next speaker is joining us from Cairo Egypt she's a senior marketing manager at go daddy and this is her first time speaking on the wordcamp stage um our speaker speaks three and a half languages three and a half languages three and a half languages I'm not entirely sure how translate life works with half languages but we'll figure that out um but she's been a meetup organizer for the wordpress meetup for arabic speakers for a while now and today she's staring her story and helping us start a meetup so please put your hands together for nada hello you have attended a meetup a wordpress meetup in the past six months okay how many of you have organized one in the past six months let's applaud them please it's hard I do speak three and a half languages and I've lived in four cities around the world and this has pushed me to get out of my way and out of my comfort zone to meet new people to make friends and although I've been using wordpress for five years I'm not going to tell you how old I am but I attended my first ever word camp in March 2023 in Bangkok and this was my um entry point into the word camp or the meetup communities of wordpress I haven't had an idea before that day how amazing that community is and since I'm an Arabic speaker and there are more than 300 million Arabic speakers around the world I went online and I googled the meetups and wordpress related content in Arabic and I found that there's a huge gap where there's very very little content online of wordpress in Arabic so what did I do I started reaching out to the existing organizers and I realized that ever since covid most of them had either stopped or have just taken a step back and decided that they will not be doing any more meetups they got busy with their lives so I said you know what I'm going to start one I think it's worth it and that's what I did and ever since then we have had four online meetups and one hybrid meetup where we had live recording but also a few people have attended offline and we have had a growing community of over 100 members across the world but you might be asking yourself how can I start my own meetup you don't need to have like an official wordpress meetup to call it a meetup any get together of wordpress enthusiast is a meetup but if you are interested in creating an official one here's what you have to do first thing is check if there's an active wordpress meetup you can reach out to the organizer and ask them if you can co-organize with them or you want to volunteer or help them around I'm sure they'll appreciate it if you can't find one that you're inactive anymore you can fill out the meetup interest form it's in central.worthcamps.org or if you already organized a meetup that is not official and you want to move it to the chapter program you can still do that through the also the central.worthcamps.org now what are the benefits that you get when you join that program the chapter program there's going to be a streamed line on the wordpress.tv you also get wordpress swag for the attendees you get the support to cover costs like rental which can be sometimes costly and in general you get a lot of support that you need now now that you have your meetup setup you filled out the forms, you have everything ready that's the hardest part the pre-meetup planning today I start planning for the meetup maybe three or four weeks ahead and personally the hardest part is finding qualified speakers who want to dedicate their time to speak sometimes they would ghost you or sometimes they would just decline politely but if you find a qualified speaker you start talking with them ask them like the topics that they would like to talk about that they're comfortable with but also think about it from an AT&T perspective if you are an AT&T would you want to attend this meetup or not and based on that you get to agree on a topic and then coordinating a time, date, venue can also be a daunting experience because is it a week day is it a week end are people going to come are people not going to come so this is also a big part of the pre-planning phase and then once you have all the details lined up now you start working on the creation of the event page the description creating some marketing materials posting everywhere and anywhere, sometimes I even get my friends and family to post about it tell everyone please and then maybe a few days before the meetup itself I have a chat with the speaker make sure that their content is the content is well written the journey is smooth and seamless and that they're comfortable with the meetup itself and then during and post the event interaction and communication is super important so I make sure that I record the session and then post it or do a live stream sometimes and then send a post survey post meetup survey to get to gather feedback from the audience so ask them are they happy with the topic are they happy with the speaker would they want to come back and listen to the same speaker are they interested in more beginner topics or more intermediate or more professional topics what I did was that I started with very tech savvy topics and I realized that this is not what people want to hear people want to know the basics the basics of the basics things that you might think are very very easy they might not know and then finally sending a thank you note to the speaker and keeping a communication or a relationship with them is also very important so that when you need them to come back and speak you can always do that now that we talked about how to set up a meetup how to plan pre the meetup how to engage with the audience during the meetup and after the meetup we asked some of you on x twitter here what are the highs and lows what are the challenges that you might face but also what are the good parts about being a meetup organizer or an attendee and here are some answers is anyone anyone here from the answers hi taco so most of the answers that we got on the highs were people who were happy that someone showed up and participated people who came on from world like from across the world this was something that I also experienced because most of my meetups are online so I'm so happy to see that people from all across the world show up to the meetup and then also the connections that you make I know that someone wrote that he found a job through some of the the people that he met in a meetup meeting amazing people and taco had a great meetup with over a hundred attendees and a great presentation but it's not all rainbows and butterflies there are also some challenges that come with setting your meetup what are those challenges one a lot of the times members don't want to help with organizing a meetup also finding stable venues can be a little bit hard also finding speakers in new topics and this is one thing that I really struggled with finding speakers I think you struggle with finding new topics when you have had the same meetup for a very very long time you feel like you've gone through everything and there's nothing new to talk about but also after post COVID everyone is just they want to be on zoom and there's no face-to-face engagement anymore and that's something that a lot of people talked about people RSVP and don't show up tell me about it participation even in the most lucrative meetups is also something that people suffer from so I want to wrap this up and say that if you're one of the attendees here today and have never been to a meetup go online look up a meetup in your region in your city in your town and try to attend or if there are online meetups RSVP and attend if you don't think that the topics are interesting feel free to reach out to the organizers and talk with them maybe you can even be a speaker and if you're an Arabic speaker or you know of an Arabic speaker please tell them to join my meetup and then we've already launched the 2024 meetups and we have a series coming up of five very very basic WordPress topics and hopefully within the next two to five years we'll be able to organize the word camp thank you so much that's amazing before you leave the stage there's a little present from the organizers again so I have to do my little dance here we go okay and as well for you thank you so much for your presentation and I hope we had some Arabic speakers in the room today so before you all leave I've been an emcee before and there's one thing that I always do so please don't leave because every single time my mom doesn't believe I'm on a stage so what we have to do is do a selfie make it look fun alright thank you very much she's gonna appreciate that alright we have a little break then at 3.30 we have a Q&A with a guy named Matt Malawak you may have heard of him he has some interesting things to say if you ask the interesting questions so make sure you go there and then at 7.00 tonight we have the after party it's spring themed so come in your spring outfit and do not forget your badge let's have fun in these last few hours of word camp asia 2024 and I hope to see you all again good old wear


President Joe Biden is expected to take on the annual tradition of pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys, presidents have spared turkeys often on as far back as the Lincoln era, but the first official pardon was granted by President George Bush in 1989.The event is usually an opportunity for droll commentary by the president and the kind of inside detail that the White House rarely shares with reporters. When former President Donald Trump was in the White House he made impeachment jokes while. Pardoning the holiday bird while pardoning two turkeys in 2006, former President George Bush made light of the situation, the birds have found themselves in the pardoning of the turkeys will set in motion of a flurry of holiday events in the White House as the 2023 year comes to a close. It's a fine looking bird, isn't it? Flyer is probably wondering where he's going to wind up tomorrow. He's probably thinking he's going to end up on somebody's table. Well I'm happy to report that he and Flyer both have many tomorrows ahead of him. Don't interrupt. You are hereby pardoned. Give me a hand. Give me a hand. I'm hereby grant you a full and complete pardon.


What's the word y'all? Ladies and gentlemen, I gotta admit, man, the last 48 hours of the NBA world have been extremely exhausting for me. I'm talking about the stuff that's happening on the court, off the court, social media, all of it combined, it has me exhausted for the first time of my life with this being my job. I'm usually a dude that's live tweeting events like the Vintage James Harding game we got today or the Dallas Mavericks, Dora Finney Smith hitting every single shot. Those are events that I'm usually live tweeting, but this is not supposed to be a video that's ranting about social media because we wanna talk about the stuff that's actually don't happen on court. But I'm definitely gonna do a video soon talking about all the ins and outs of NBA social media because it's gone too far away from I think the intended purposes of these things. I started to enjoy basketball moving because I felt like so many people are not just enjoying the game of basketball, which is what we're supposed to do. It's so many legacy tarnishing. It's so much ranking. It's so much just overall toxicity in the community and it's just exhausting for me. So now I'm watching these games and I'm getting tweets like Kenny. No tweets about Dallas, no tweets about Philly. I'm actually just gonna talk to my community in these videos and let it be that, bro. That's how crazy we've gone, bro. And then sometimes I look at what's going on in 2022 and look at me being almost 26 years old and I'm trying to figure out, am I so out of touch? I realized, no, it's the children that are wrong. Either way, join the enjoy basketball community on Twitter. I haven't been as active as I probably should be, but we got some good conversations as overall basketball lovers over there. Hit the link in the description. Subscribe to the Enjoy Basketball newsletter and be looking out for the merch and stuff. I think it's a movement that needs to be really talked about and enjoying basketball don't mean that you can't have debate because debate is a big part of sports, but it's like, let's talk about these games, man. Let's talk about these games. I think we had two good games today. One way or another, the Dallas Mavericks tie up their series and the Philadelphia 76ers tie up their series. A series did not start until a role team wins and so far it's been home team, home team, home team, home team. There is a lot to be said about these games. Let's start off with the first game of the day, a game where Luka Doncha shot nine for 25, one for 10, from three, and they comfortably beat the number one seeded team in the league. The team that had dominated the entire regular season. Luka, I can't say a poor performance because his ability to make his teammates better and his ability to find his teammates elevates any, well, not any, but majority of bad shooting night. So I can't say he had a bad game, but he had a bad shooting performance. He won one for 10, from 10, from three, and they won pretty convincingly, man. You gotta give a lot of credit to Doreen Finney-Smith on the broadcast. They were talking about it was Mother's Day and they were telling the story of his family and his mom as she was still working at church, his chicken after he signed his first contract and she finally quit because he signed that extension. And now you're looking at that extension of you, Doreen Finney-Smith, you're like, damn, I could've got more than that. And you look at that extension of you, the Dallas Mavericks finish it. That's one of the best contracts in all the basketball. Like I said, when it comes to the playoffs, I love the chess match that is involved when it comes to these coaches. The first two games of the series, specifically in game number two, these Phoenix Sons hunted Luca Donchich. The entire fourth quarter was Chris Paul isolation Luca. It was Devon Booker isolation Luca. And now in the last two games, we haven't been able to see that. Actually, the hunted, the hunters have become the hunted. Chris Paul, they're trying to get him on switches. Devon Booker, they're trying to get him on switches and it has been successful. What have the Dallas Mavericks done differently to prevent Luca Donchich from getting hounded? Well, when they try to get that screen to get Luca Donchich to switch, they are doubling the ball handler. They're forcing the ball out of Chris Paul's hands. They're forcing the ball at Devon Booker's hands and they're not allowing Luca to get a lot of possesses where it's him in isolation. It's beautiful coaching for coach Jason Kidd. And like I mentioned a couple videos ago, I'm enjoying what he's doing because he is not afraid to make some changes in his rotation. Today, Frank Nielikina gave them almost nine minutes of really solid basketball. Yeah, he fouled a bit. That's what you expect from a dude like Frank Nielikina but he was hounding, you know what I'm saying? We talked about in game number three how Reggie Bullock had made Chris Paul's life a living hell. He did it again. And then Frank Nielikina helped us some more. And then now, even though, damn, I didn't realize that Spencer Dimmity shot three for 10. At one point in the second quarter, Spencer Dimmity went on the 8-0 run by himself. And in that same quarter, Davis Burr 10s had four straight threes. Now you're getting the people outside of Luca doing part of their job. And today they hit 23s, 45% from the three. But when it comes to Phoenix Man, Chris Paul has to be better. You know what? I'm done doing this thing. I come to these videos and I'll be like, I don't see a world where Chris Paul has another stinker. I don't see a world where Kevin Durant has another stinker. I don't see a world where the Miami Heat shoot 20% from three again. All of those things have happened. Chris Paul had a terrible game on his birthday. I was like, he might've had a lahim before the game. He's celebrating his birthday. Another stinker, the Miami Heat shot 20% from three a couple games last game and it shot like 15% today. Kevin Durant puts together the multiple bad games. Like I'm done saying it's unlike them to do it again because it seems like this playoffs, the unlikely thing is likely to happen. Chris Paul only being able to play 23 games, one of the biggest detriments to the scene. No infancy buts about it. And I know there are some Suns fans like, oh, it's heavily rigged against us. It's not rigged against you.  And I'm not even a dude that like to talk about officiating. I did not watch this game thinking, I was one sided towards the Dallas Mavericks weight. I did not watch the Miami Heat lose their game and say it was one sided to Felix's weight. I think officiating is at an all-time low at the moment when it comes to playoffs at least. In the regular season, you know, you got bad umps, you got bad officiating, but now these are supposed to be the top 5% of refs going to these games and trying to call it as close as possible. And I'm a dude that's somewhat of a sympathetic when it comes to these referees because it is a hard job. You try to make split decisions in a game where everybody knows how to sell calls. Everybody knows how to sell calls. Even Jason Kidd in his post game interview talked about his team selling calls. We've learned from the best, talking about Chris Paul. You know what I'm saying? We've learned from one of the best when it comes to selling these calls. We learned from, so officiating is a hard thing, but one thing that happened in today's Slater Games, and yesterday's Slater Games specifically when it came to the Boston and Milwaukee game, there was no consistency with these calls. In the game of baseball, every single ump has its own little strike zone. You can tell very early on, oh, this ump is calling the strike zone high, okay? So this pitch that is usually a ball high, he's calling the strike, so let me adjust my own personal radar and say this is coming in as a strike because I know the ump is gonna call a strike. In the game of basketball, that's kind of the thing too. That's why you're here to say, it's like, oh, they letting them play out there. Oh, the whistle's kind of tight. In these games, there's no one way, one quarter they tight as hell, and then the next quarter, they letting them play. One minute, you can't touch a dude, and then the next minute, they throwing punches. There has been no consistency whatsoever. So I know there's some Suns fans like, oh man, that's six foul of Chris Paul. You don't call that. It was a foul, so I think you call it. You know what I'm saying? Maybe they hadn't called that call in the first two quarters. The first two quarters, maybe. But when you look at that replay, Chris Paul did foul him. It's unfortunate, and you expect Chris Paul to be the smartest player on the court, 99% of the time, in his last two games, he has not looked like that. For the first time, I've seen back-to-back games where Chris Paul has been uh, fuzzled. Confuzzled, confused. And I saw something on Reddit that Chris Paul has blown, I think it was four, two-0 leads when it comes to playoffs in his NBA career. I don't like that stat. I desperately do not like that stat. McHale Bridges, we needed you to have another game. They didn't. And then now DeAndre Aiden has not looked as dominant as you expect him to look in a series where the Dallas Mavericks is going small. And a lot of that is credited to the Dallas Mavericks. They're preventing him from getting deep into the paint. And DeAndre Aiden is normally a dude that is not a guy that gets deep into the paint. He's a long mid-ranked shooter. He's a finesse guy. He's a finesse guy. You know what I'm saying? He's not a physical dude. So they're preventing him from getting to the paint, which is where he probably should be. Like I said, Jason Kidd and them deserve a ton of credit on this one. But what I am seeing from the Phoenix Suns, if they want to get this thing back on track, let me go to my notes, because like I said, I'd be taking notes here. Oh, oh yeah, this is my notes. And this is a scary note if you're the Phoenix Suns fan, so maybe close your ears. They reminded me of the Utah Jazz on their Hope Defense. Yep. And game one and game two, they did a pretty good job of saying, we can let Luca drop 40, but we're not about to let nobody else get free. We're not about to leave Doreen Finney-Smith. We're not gonna leave these other players in the game three and game four. It seemed like they flipped the idea completely. They're like, we're gonna stop Luca and Luca is a very willing passer. Luca's gonna find Doreen Finney-Smith. Luca's gonna find Maxi Kleba. So I would recommend, and again, I'm not Monty Williams. He has 30.5 million times as basketball knowledge as I do, as much coaching as he's done. But as an outsider looking in, I would say Luca beat us and let's cling on to these shooters. Because right now, they're scorching hot and we saw them be scorching hot basically in the last series as well. So you know that they can win four games when they hit 23s or 20-ish threes. So they gotta figure it out, man. Shout out to the shooters over there because they doing their job. I gotta give a lot of credit to Jalen Brunson as well. It went from D-Book, calling them too small to him. Like going at book and like doing his best on it. You know what I'm saying? Same thing with Luca. They're hunting Chris Paul. They're hunting a Devin Booker and they're getting good success from it. And I need to see Monty Williams adjust his rotations like we saw the Dallas Mavericks adjust theirs. Right now, Cameron Payne is not giving them anything at all. And when he got into the game, I don't know if this is first shift or second shift in the first quarter, second quarter. It was three straight possessors where Luca was like, let me get Cameron Payne on my back and let me back him down and force him to call as a double team and I'm gonna kick it out for three. It happened over and over again. Now they didn't hit every single one of those threes, but it was just, that's a great scheme. He can't really guard anybody out there. Now, Kenny, what is the alternative? The alternative was maybe seeing what Aaron Holliday has in the tank for you. Now alternative number two, let Devin Booker run a lot of the point guard when Chris Paul missed a good amount of the games this season. Point D Book was a thing last season. Point D Book was a thing and it was a damn good thing. You know, we even saw it in the playoffs last year. Let De Book just control a second unit. Now you're probably asking a lot, but like, listen, you need two more wins in this series. You can't lose two more games. So you got to bring out some stuff that you might have done some time because this is something that they ain't prepared for either. So go ahead, do your thing, man. Bring them out, bring them out. Oh man, James Harden. This is the most James Harden-like game we've seen since James Harden pretty much got. I mean, I guess the first couple of games he got to Philly, he was really good as well, but the first time of the playoff run for them, we got like a whole snap James Harden game. And if we get at least something similar to this, whoa, look out because Philly looks dangerous. He ended up with 31 points, nine assists, seven rebounds. He had six threes and we got him yelling. And when James Harden is yelling, you know he on. And then I got it, I got him in. This is about as dominant as I've seen Joel and B.B. since he hurt his hand, which is another good sign. I think Bam on the bio did a pretty good job trying to force the ball out of his hands to try to deny the ball for Joel and B from getting it or deny Joel and B from getting the ball. But when he did get it, it was like barbecue chicken. You know what I'm saying? And that is, I'm telling you, bro, these two dudes can click at this level. Miami got to look out because I said, oh, they ended up hitting a couple threes late in the game. So they were shooting like 16% for a lot of this game. They ended up shooting 20 at the grand scheme, seven of 35, still terrible. But boy, oh boy, we got Danny Green, second game in a row where he was impactful with hitting the shots. And then we didn't get a terrible George Neane game. Hello, a little bit scary. Tyrese Maxie shot out of a cannon and they overall played amazing defense. And Miami should be, I don't know, a little bit worried, bro. Kyle Lowry, he ended up three for 10 from the field. I swear the times that he did get towards the basket, he passed out for a three every single time. And I understand three is greater than two. Mori ball, mori ball, mori ball. And you want to see your shooters get it going because well, right now we ain't been able to hit threes. But at some point you got to take, you got to take the easy one, bro. And that goes for the entire Miami Heat team. Jimmy Butler, second game in a row, he tried to put a backpack on. 40 points for him, six assists. He was just over the only player on the team that really showed up other than Bam. Again, other than Bam. Bam had a great performance after game number three, he gave us a stinker. He had a great performance. Everything after that, Tyler Hero couldn't get it going. Victor Ledipo could've get it going. We got 0 for six from three from Kyle Lowry, 0 for four from three from Gabe Vinson. And I'm so surprised at Spostra when you were having performances like this. Duncan Robinson has to be in so deep in the doghouse. It is crazy. My team was shooting 15 to 17% for the majority of this game. And I decided not to give Duncan Robinson a second, not to get Kayla Martin more than 10 seconds at the end of the game.  I can't tell Eric Spoketra had a coach because he knows way more than I do. But like at some point you got to give him a chance, right? You got it. That's a 90 million dollar contract. And listen, the defense won't suffer that much. I wouldn't expect it to suffer that much if Duncan is out there in the court or if Kayla Martin is out there in the court. And like I said, I'm done saying, I don't expect them to shoot this way again. I'm done saying that because we've seen that, hey, they can shoot that bad. So a lot of credit goes to the field after 76ers. Unfortunately, I only got to watch pretty much the second half of this one. And in the second half, I saw a lot of James Harden going crazy. So that's dope. But boy, oh boy, we got two series right now. And again, maybe not because the home team hasn't lost yet. But hey, I'm just saying, people are asking my opinion about this whole Jordan pool, Jama Rant stuff. And that was part of the stuff I was talking about at the beginning of the video. Where off the court stuff has me exhausted as well. I literally do not have an opinion. That my opinion is that I don't have one. I'm a person that can admit, like if I don't know anything about a situation, I don't need to just form an opinion. I personally didn't think it was a dirty move from Jordan pool, but I can understand why Jama Rant would feel that way when you look at that replay. But if you look at the other side, if you look at the other players that I'm jumping out at Clay Thompson, that look like a play that could have hurt his knee. You know what I'm saying? So I don't really have an opinion. It's unfortunate that he's listed as doubtful for game number four, because obviously he's been one of the reasons why they won their one game, or the reason why they won their one game here. But it's just so exhausting to see like the fan bases go back and forth, ah, name calling.  I don't know, man. It's getting rough out there. And that's why I said I just wanted to come out here and talk to y'all because again, I think we're building a community where I will say 97% of y'all have the same mindset as me as far as enjoying the game of basketball. Not everybody, which is fine. Everybody doesn't have to think the way I think.  But yeah, man. Oh, another thing off the court. The Chris Paul, his family getting pushed or whatever the story is, unacceptable. Obviously that one fan does not account for the entire Dallas Maverick fan base the same way. No one fan account or no one person accounts for an entire group of people. It's never that way. But it's literally, it's unacceptable, bro. It's completely unacceptable. I don't understand the lack of boundaries when it comes to these things. And it's not even a professional sports to just the boundaries as human beings. I would never ever, you should never ever just put your hands on someone just because of who they are. You know what I'm saying? Even if it was like trash talk speaking to each other between the Paul family and this random fan, it should never get to the elevation of pushing or putting hands on anyone, especially someone's mother, bro. On Mother's Day? On Mother's Day? You're gonna push someone's mother on Mother's Day out of all of the days. It's not cool for 365, but especially not today. Especially not today. There has to be some type of boundaries. And I feel like since, and I don't know. So I think it might have been Kaia's Duncan that tweeted this and I could be, it might not have been him. That since the fans have been involved, they're back into the arenas. I feel like we've been getting so many instances of fans pushing the boundaries. At the end of the day, these hoopers are people and we're supposed to be there enjoying their product of the game of basketball and it shouldn't be much more than that. Dislike Chris Paul, you want, dislike any NBA player all you want. It should never get physical in any circumstance. It should not. Whether it's amongst each other, a Mavs fan versus a Suns fan should be thrown punches or you versus the family of a player that's playing. It's unacceptable, y'all, and we gotta be better. We gotta be better as fans. Actually, I don't know why I'm saying we because I know boundaries. Y'all gotta, that guy has to be better because it's unacceptable.


I'd like to begin by thanking our hosts, President Kosinski and the people of Peru, for such a warm welcome. This summit was a chance for APEC members to tackle the challenges facing the global opportunity and to seize the global community and to seize the opportunities that lie ahead. Essential theme of our discussions this weekend was the need to encourage free trade in the Asia Pacific region. We know that increased economic cooperation has the potential to expand new opportunities for business owners, help create well-paying middle-class jobs, and to increase prosperity. As leaders, we must work together to break down trade barriers and introduce business-friendly regulations that will fuel growth. This is especially important to the success of small and medium-sized enterprises which could benefit from increased access to international markets in a number of key sectors like technology and infrastructure. But we know that creating an economic environment where businesses can thrive just isn't enough. Economic growth can and must deliver positive results for everyone. Today, I'm pleased to announce that the Government of Canada has made progress on three key areas to do just that. First, we agree on the need to work together to ensure that free trade agreements are fair for all parties. Yesterday, the Minister of Freelance announced the intention of Canada to promote trade and foreign investment, while fighting poverty, thanks to the mechanisms of development of specialists for trade and development. Canadian experts and from all over the world will work with developing countries to ensure that trade agreements are fair and equitable. These experts will be able to provide government assistance throughout the process of negotiations on ratification. Second, we discuss the importance of helping workers seize business opportunities around the world. Canada and Peru were pleased to announce earlier this weekend that we have concluded a convention on social security between Canada and the Republic of Peru. This agreement will make it easier to do business abroad by allowing workers to spend part of their careers in both countries and still benefit from their pensions. Third, we're redoubling efforts to ensure that all citizens can be equal participants in building economies that benefit everyone, and that includes women, youth, and marginalized groups. In the name of the Government of Canada, the Minister has announced two new initiatives to this effect. In partnership with UNICEF, Canada will invest almost $20 million on a seven-year period to make education more accessible to the vulnerable teenagers in Peru. This initiative will enable young people to acquire the skills they need to get jobs tomorrow. In addition, we will make investments to help modernize the public function of Peru to guarantee to all citizens, including members of Indigenous communities, a better access to government services. And finally, this summit was a chance for me to engage directly with many of our partners, including Australia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, the US, and Vietnam. We talked about the need for greater cooperation on a wide range of issues, especially on the economic front. We know that trade can have a positive impact on middle-class families and those working hard to join it, but at the same time, we realize that it is our job to make sure that the benefits of growth are felt by all. And it is our job to ensure that all citizens have a real and fair chance at success. It is our duty to ensure that all citizens have a real and equitable chance of success and that they will benefit from trade and economic growth. I look forward to working closely with my fellow leaders in the years ahead to build a better, more prosperous future for all.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping at 10 box Tuesdays 10 box select Chronicles football mixer number 162 random team style there's a look again at your random results as always find those on the website under the results tab as well as the Lincoln chat It's good luck guys. We're gonna start with Leaf Trinity so again anything of guys not in the NFL will be one random in the order that we pull them will go It's in that order So we'll start with where's Trinity yet? Yes, 22 leaf trendy. Let me look this guy up really quick leave this guy is still in college. Yes, every break is sold out Jeff Yes Every break for the night is in fact sold out First auto is gonna be a random. That's Theo wheeze that is 56 out of 75 again, that'll be a random step Missouri currently. This is him in Oklahoma transferred to Missouri Next up we've got going to the Cardinals Trey McBride 499 Trey McBride for the Cardinals Going to the Ravens. That is gonna be a David a job. Oh 19 of 49 go to the Ravens David a job. Oh This is I know he's in the NFI just don't know if he's anywhere else right now He is currently on the Falcons. That'll be Slade Bolden 14 of 25 Again going to the Falcons. He signed there on May 15th, 2023 Released by the Ravens and signed with the Falcons. So that'll be a Falcon and then going to commanders is Sam Howell 59 of 99 congrats commanders nice one there Sam Howell Alright next up we've got leaf metal hobby leaf metal hobby 2023 leaf metal hobby Okay, here we go. I think this guy's a Bronco. Let me just double check Yep, go to the Broncos that is gonna be Marvin Mims three of six Marvin Mims on the blue ice I'm just gonna double check but I'm 99% sure he's an Eagle he is that is gonna be a Nolan Smith Nolan Smith going to the Eagles I swung their Philadelphia on the redemption Again, I'm pretty sure he's a Patriot. Yep, that is gonna be going to the Patriots K. Sean buty That is one of four one of four K. Sean buty for New England Go to the Packers that is gonna be done TV on wicks Don TV on wicks going to the Packers. That's one-to-one press group One second and respond to an email. That is gonna be gold vinyl one of one Eric Gray Eric Gray Eric is a Giants congrats New York football Giants Eric Gray one of one Alright, we've got leaf metal jumbo now 23 leaf metal jumbo. I'll get this guy I'll get this guy as far out as you can possibly be out the lubeinator Get him out get him out out out. What's going on Blake? What up though? He's in the NFL, I just don't know where. Going 49ers that is Cameron Lattu three of three Cameron Lattu That's 49ers Nice one there. I'm pretty sure he's a bangle Yep, going to the Bengals that is Miles Murphy. Nice one there. Yeah, we missed you too Blake. Geez, man Oh We got the deal. Oh, he is that's what I'm talking about Ooh, this is a Raven.  You know what I miss what? Me too, dude Yes, yes This will be going to the Falcons. It's gonna be Zach Harrison one of five Zach Harrison for the Atlanta Falcons Going to the Panthers. We've got a Matt Corral that is four of five Four of five Matt Corral for the Panthers This I'm just gonna double check, but I'm this is a random Nope, that's gonna be a random to all trade beyond Henderson. So money one of three 12 pitches nine strikes. Let's go. Let's go easy easy work Yes, Ram tall Packers Luke Musgrave and it's gonna be a one-on-one press proof Nice one there Luke Musgrave going to the Packers Most likely not Edward just because he's on the checklist because it's an update. So there's cards from 18 There's car a few cards from 2019. There's a handful from 2021 Like fields is in it as a rookie in 2021. There's a few other ones as well. So I don't think so I'll go to the Browns Johnny Mansell. That is one of one Johnny football on the Browns. Huh? That's interesting How about for the Chargers a Justin Herbert auto one-of-one Justin Herbert nice Herbie Congrats LA And then this will be a random to all is gonna be Malachi Nelson one-of-one press proof Congrats on that and good luck. You next 23 Chronicles draft picks Do me do me do Drapics One thing really quick here. I'm such a bot dude I'm just a bot in general. That's just it. That's really the just just an NPC That's it whoever's controlling my me as their sim is just messing up right now As their sim character There you go. All right on to Drafts What's the Johnny Mansell? Hell yeah, dude TJ Hawkinson orange that is gonna be Andre Carter purple Anthony Richardson to 49 Nice one there Parker Washington and K-Shaw beauty there's Jalen Hertz. Go to the Eagles. Nice one there For again for the Eagles now I feel that Edward a lot of times the situation is due they got they like the guys don't sign them and then Eventually, they'll sign them and they'll fulfill it. That's kind of the issue But now I agree with that some I agree with that. There's orange will levis Baker there's a Herbert to 149 Jackson Smith and jigba Joey Porter jr. Just points random to all at the end. That'll be a separate random We'll do a cart like college card random and then we'll do a points random as well if there are any more points Devon Witherspoon, Cedric Tillman and Randy Moss Nice, this is actually pretty cool 99 tank Dell.  Who's the first auto we pulled out of this? Is that the first auto we pulled was that tank Dell? Free Saul there's Jalen Carter to 99 Yeah, huh interesting Anthony Richardson Quentin Johnson, I guess it is I guess we pulled the point so there should be one more one or two more Uh tanner McKee that is tanner morgan uh to 199 tanner morgan Pittsburgh Steelers going to the Steelers Bijan rookie that is Vince Young for the Titans. I believe that'll be to 149 CJ Stroud and Michael Meyer So chrysaloticon going to the chiefs Sensational signatures going to the chiefs That's thanks bigsby Uh quinton johnson to 99 And bakes We'll do 22 Donner's optic retail 22 Donner's optic retail There's courtland Sutton That is hutch rated rookie. That is kair elam a josh jacob's nick benita alex pierce Stars rated rookie is drill montana drake london rookie There's nicobi dean nice one there On the next fran robinson jr Dominators lamar Eli Manning rising sun so i'm gonna depend on if he stays healthy. That's really the big thing. You know what I mean If he stays healthy, I think he'll be fine, but hello jerry judy jaylon nailer But he's won't he's missed the last seven games The last two years diamond hands tyree kill last year different story He's not coming back if he's in chairs. I get it jay jetta's hollow evin neil Oh, yeah, i'm sure he was fine dog Yeah, davante what because they said like pretty much anybody could have recovered from that injury in two to four weeks and he Missed seven so Yeah, because he wanted the contract understandable. So i'm fine with that got the contract not open playing a jay dillon Yeah, go play now now you owe us on that one You owe us. What do you get? Uh falcons of desmond ridder legendary logo a lot 200 something. Yeah olave rookie. I know I don't know how you'd love it too because that's hometown. This is like dj more All right on to 22 illusions and ob s crashed. Oh reconnected. Thank god This yeah this for this Maybe we'll hit one now Never know Kenan allen to 399 Funkadelic man 250 Joe name it Nice one there That'll probably don't work now Kind of wanted a little bit more suspense on that. Oh erin rogers on the finite short print Ooh first impressions desmond ridder to 149 nice one there for the falcons jerseys are and 250 jesson herbert operation detonation Blee is tharnel mooney at 199 And illusionist to 199 diva more points 600 this time. So again, that'll be with the 250 random mick chubb Zeke aliet to 499 Funkadelic man Lamar jackson trellon berks michael ervin rookie idols. This will probably be another random The titans is Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee john v and the cowboys Dallas is tyler m. So yeah, that'll be a random to those two teams at the end That'll be again the third random we do to a tag of iLo at 499 and tom brady king of carts david bell 45 of 50 on the mystique auto nice one for the browns Austin eckler uh trellon berks michael ervin um Oh this okay, so this one's to 75 And then this one so both both will walk away with a hit Both because it's the same one which is good Uh christian watson. So basically how that one will work is we'll do the random whatever teams on top we'll get the uh We'll get the one that's numbered and this what the other team will get the uh the non numbered one There's blue erin rogers to 75 and mystique garret wilson That's the first time i've ever seen something like that happen. There's two of the same dual jersey card in one box um, all right, so we've got up next is 22 chronicles abbey birdie rookie gridiron kings derrick stingly jr. On the auto to 49 that's gonna be chris olaveta 99 nice one there welcome rodriguez eric azucanma printing plate oh downtown clad edwards hilarious On the plate nice one for the chiefs.  I would not mind jay mo silver malik and olave This could be safe Gloves 75 nice one there for the lions. We've got here at wilson and how they're all here Yeah Good before you got injured.  What's up? I think so So 240 is isaac spiller originally when it was at the viking destroys knee That was the issues remandrated 99 drake london and erin rogers. Yeah, he got sleep on that hit though Oh, yeah. Yeah. No for sure for sure for sure True uh 21 chronicles Uh, we do wild cat. I don't know if we have any. I don't think we have any in stock right now jet we don't get a ton of nhl because Uh upper deck's a little bit different with like allocation and with when you can sell products Um, so we don't have any right now, but we do do nhl breaks. We do have nhl personal's every now and then as well We just don't think we have any right now Miles garret to 199. Yeah, no problem.  There's a jail in waddle orange to 75 prison black. That's your boy right there ron delmore and jamar chase My home's fields rookie Cowpits luminance deandre hopkins at 3.99. What? Terris marshal jr. Gray iron kings rookie auto 225. There you go panthers. Nice one there etn bryor muth devante smith score and kyler jail in waddle silver Eli mitchell nico collins. There's a patrick sartan to 99 Devante smith and davis mills Kirk cousins dany dimes four of ten Nichols on the signature series. Nice one there giants. Congrats giants What'd you say? Danny Nichols. Rashad bateman fleet by frank's nico collins the 199 Helen mon and michael parson's On to 22 select asia team all 22 select asia team all Dragon skill jonathan taylor to uh 89 or 89. Yes uh hunter unfro as well to 89 Raiders and for the packers to 89 dragon scale kway walker rookie We've got a christian harris base and die cut darin bland for the cowboys Uh, and then we're finishing off last group rakebox tonight It's like toby 22 the base right there rogers silver neon icons matt stafford grease hall Stack presscot silver ron dale moore michael parson's tdp trevor lorence that's mac jones to 199 Got rookie or not rookie, but jersey auto 43 a 199 is fred warner There's a little scuff on the bottom left corner I'll send the empty box and wrapper with the niners that jude on with the nanos Silver jalen hurts jandre hopkins and staphon digs desmond ridder rookie Blue is dalvin cook to 99 silver skylare tomsen and Ademarie Cooper pro cd Uh, 23 of 25 trink london on the tie-dye rookie patch auto jumbo rpa That'll be going to the falcons. Congrats falcons. Nice one there at ingram south gardener Brock purdy. Nice one there to 149 Sylva jelani woods mark angers edward if you're still in here I would ask about I would see if you could reach out to me and ask him about that though Now that I think about it tresson ebner. There's cmc field level to 25 seven or 25 for the niners What? Yeah, you might as well Silver kyler kenneth murray because you have the video, you know what I mean you have the video You have both videos theoretically so it's definitely possible. I would do it silver martin emerson and patin manning Because the more I think about it the more you make a good point about that Yeah, the more you make a very good point silver daniel jones field bubble and kirk cousins to erin rogers to 149 silver romeo dobs And devin bush Isiah spiller matt corral and then we've got sake one barkley to 49 bronze jumbo jersey. No just bronze jersey not jumbo Matt jones silver and niggas petite for a let's do a couple of randoms here So the way this will work will do The points random all cards are all teams in on this top team will get 600 second team will get 250 We have the college cards Again, all teams will be on in on this Top team after the randoms over we'll get the oe's second team will get henderson third team will get mc nelson and then with this We'll do the titans and the cowboys the top team of the two will get the numbered one and the other team will get the Not numbered one. So Okay, let me get these random setups. We have points first We've got college cards second And we've got the berks Titans Titans cowboys So Bring you over. We'll start with the points random going to roll the dice Again after seven times the top team will receive 600 points. The second team will get 250 Got one two three four five six and seven The cardinals raiders combo get 600 And then the broncos will get 250. So that'll do the points there Next up we'll do the college cards again everybody in this one top team will get we's second team will get henderson third team will get nelson after Seven dice rolls. So we've got one two three four five six and seven Vikings get we's Henderson will go to lions And then the jets will get nelson. So there you go the top three teams there And then we've got the berks and urban duel again We have one that's numbered one of 75 and one that's not numbered so the top team after Eight times look at the numbered one the second team will get the Not numbered one one two three four five six seven and eight so the cowboys will get the numbered one And then the titans obviously will get the not numbered one All right, let's do a recap Joyce ease we've got barkley miles Garrett Isiah Spiller printing plate downtown of clad ever to lair and jalen hurts for the eagles Now we've got autos and mags. We also had the two dual jerseys. I just showed you guys. We've got malachi nelson Theo we's travion henderson. It's gonna be a drake london rpi Fred Warner Daniel jones dandy dimes Eric stingley jr. David bell Desmond ridder chrysalota con tanner morgan tank del Justin herbert nice one there. That's a one-to-one actually Johnny men's elf of the browns also a one-to-one a luke musgrave matt corral Zach harrison dante dimmish jr. Miles murphy cameron latu Eric gray one-to-one a don tevion wicks k-shon ut Nolan smith marvin mims jr. Sam howell Slade bolden david a jabbo tray mc bride and then the Kenny picket from chronicles with the finite finish I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks for the fill up next is personal


Hey guys, welcome back. So today I'm going to be showing off the contest prize from the Dragon Quest 8 contest that I told you guys about last time. So yeah, quick recap. I did win the official Dragon Quest 8 contest from the official Dragon Quest Twitter account and they actually got me the prize today. So we're going to take a look at it right now. So the prize should be, if I'm correct, it should be a slime plushie and a poster signed by Yuji Hori. So yeah, let's kind of take a look at these first. The first thing I'm going to take a look at is the slime plushie, which this should be. I'm pretty sure this is it. So yeah, crack that open. And there you have it. That's the slime plush right there. As you can see, it says Smile Slime Square Enix Toys. And it looks pretty nice. So it's kind of like a requirement to be a Dragon Quest fan to own one of these. And up until now, what's kind of funny is I did not own one. And I guess I got my first slime plush from an actual Dragon Quest contest, which is pretty cool. So I'll definitely hold on to that. Now the next thing is the sort of big prize right now. I have a poster right here in this poster tube. So we're going to take a look at that. So hopefully I can get it out nice and easy so it doesn't get damaged. And it looks like it came out all right. So let's take a look at that. And it's pretty small. It's an A2 poster. So we'll stick this here to weigh it down. And I'll roll it. And there you have it. That's a Ujihori Sign poster. As you can see, it has Ujihori's autograph on it. And it looks pretty nice. And that's an A2 size poster. So yeah, I'm definitely going to get this framed whenever I get a chance. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed seeing the prize unboxing from the official contest. And I'll see you guys next time.


Every year, Tilburg University organizes the elections for the University Council and the various faculty councils. Maybe all this sounds a bit complex, but in this video we will explain how it all works. Let's start. The University Council is the central assembly of our university. It consists of nine students, nine employees, and the executive board. The council monitors and advises the board on university-wide policy and various affairs. Topics such as quality of education, budgets, well-being of students and staff, sustainability, and facilities are being discussed. Two student parties are active in the University Council. The faculty councils play the same role as the University Council, but on a smaller scale. Each faculty council consists of five to seven students, five to seven employees, and the faculty board. Their task is to advise their respective faculty boards on the implementation of university-wide policies to their faculties. Each faculty council has two parties. On both levels of participation, the councils have an important role in the governance of our university. The councils have the right to consent, advise, discuss, and in addition can request information from the boards. Also, all parties have the right to initiate one of their own ideas, which is called the initiative right. Now let's hear why this is so important for you as a student. I warned all students of dual university to receive the highest possible quality of education, which is why I joined the University Council. By joining student participation, you are able to improve the university you are studying at. It is also a great way to develop yourself on both a personal and professional level. I joined the faculty council in order to monitor and affect some changes there. In the process of working over digitalization and SD budget, I've actually learned how to better my skills, how to work with the team, and also had a great time there. Do you also want to participate in one of the councils? You can apply as a candidate by contacting the student party you want to join. During the elections, all Tilburg University students can vote for the candidates from one of the student parties in both the Faculty Council elections and the University Council elections. Vote for one of the student representatives in order to let your voice be heard at the highest level of the university. The more students vote, the more we will be listened to and the more we can achieve for you.


Yeah, Krush actually, that's a great big push higher than video. It's coming down. I'm going to get long in Nvidia, 10 day options. Looking at the 540 calls, I go in with four contracts, 870, got filled at 870. So hit that big push higher, pull back here, got the higher volume, see if we can get a continuation to the upside. Nvidia, I'll put in an order to exit half those at, see, I got filled at 870, put in an order to exit half at 950. Helios, we are long in video, so we bought calls, bought the 540 calls. Nvidia looking like it wants to start making little bounce, there we go. Nope. Nvidia filled in Nvidia, closed half of those. I got filled in Nvidia at 10% on half of that position. Nice push higher. Now we're on our third bar here, so I'm going to go ahead and close out one more of my Nvidia at 970, okay, so I've got one more contract in Nvidia, we'll see if that wants to run, going to give it a little bit more room. Nvidia, I'm going to hold this last contract for a little bit, see if we can catch a decent run to the upside. Nvidia pushing like a beast, getting a higher spike in volume now, so I'm going to go ahead and cut loose that last contract in Nvidia. Okay, filled, so nice profit in Nvidia.