This is stock number 21T79A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Phonlec, Wisconsin. You're new and use light duty truck. Headquarters today we are checking out this super clean 2014 GMC Sierra. 1500 double cab, six and a half foot short box. This truck has the 5.3 liter V8 motor. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Iridium metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one comes with the 20 inch painted alloy rims and they're in pretty nice shape. No major scuffs on there. Does have Bridgestone Duler 275 55R 20 tires and these tires are very new on here. I'd say probably 80 to 90% of the tread left on those tires. Front fender is an excellent condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Comes with the projector lamp headlamps and factory fog lights. Front bumpers in pretty nice shape. I didn't see any major dents or dings on it and lower valance is in nice condition as well. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and it does come with the chrome trimmed grille. Has a stampede American flag bug shield on there. Obviously if you didn't like that you could always take that off but who doesn't like America? Passengers side front fender. Very nice as well and the passengers side rim. I don't see any major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck, hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fast Pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home so when you get here all you got to do is drive the truck, love it and you'll be all set to go. Back rims in nice shape as well and it does have four wheel disc brakes. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, frame it on the body, it's in pretty nice shape. Just a little bit of surface corrosion on the frame but other than that the actual body of the truck looks good, lower rockers all look really good as well and it does come with the really nice factory chrome step bars. And in seeing any denser dings in the box you get the chrome tipped exhaust rear bumper steps, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in really nice shape as well and it does come with a Truxedo soft roll-up tonneau cover that's in pretty nice shape. It has the shock down assist comes with a very nice spraying rhino liner and it does have the LED bed lighting that's in pretty nice shape and that tailgate shuts nice and solidly. As you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side once again no denser dings on this box side either and for full disclosure this back rim both the same condition as the rest. Down the rest side of the truck looks really good no denser dings on the doors and those step bars are in nice shape as well. Power mirrors with driver's side blind spot mirror inside the SLE1 package gives you the dark charcoal or black cloth interior. Power driver seat you do get 40-20-40 split bench seating this one has weathertech floor mats throughout in the front auto headlamps turned out four-wheel drive factory brake controller do you get the tilt steering wheel and you do get audio controls on the back of that steering wheel. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. We'll hop inside and turn the ignition on so you can see the instrument cluster and everything in here. You can see that this one has 65,789 miles you do get a compass display digital speedometer instrument cluster is very nice and clean comes with the leather-wrapped steering wheel Bluetooth and information center controls on the right cruise controls on the left and remember it's got those audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. Six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift you get the AM, FM, GMC and telelink radio and it also has serious XM radio capabilities.  We'll start it up here and you got your home screen with all your different apps there as well dual climate control stability control cargo lamps and downhill assist control this is also where your backup camera shows up and the passenger side floor mat and seat and carpeting is in really nice shape as well no rips or tears on that seat looks really good and the headliner is in really nice condition as well up here you get your home link buttons for garage door security systems and lighting systems you also get map lights up there and on-star capabilities in that rear view mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood back seats are just as clean as front seats no rips no tears back here it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seat needs you do get the fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost and these seats do fold up for extra storage and we do have an all-weather floor mat on one side back here must have the other one detail bay yet we'll grab that and we'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside note under the hood we have the 5.3 liter V8 motor and today's very clean runs very smooth this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been tracked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go and to see more pictures of this truck or one of other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it we got it put our website right there www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto number two like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you will see link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left it links more GMC Sierra 1500 truck videos like this one on your right if not the neural website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 double cab short box SLE-1 in iridium metallic thanks again for checking out the video


You can't solve any emotional or any kind of struggles and issues you're having in form. You can't solve them in the form. You have to choose the right mind. You have to choose to be in alignment with God. God is not the creator of problems, so the right mind would simply be a reflection of that love and oneness that calmly forgives and looks upon the world with quiet eyes. It looks upon the world in stillness. It judges not. That's what the right mind is. It's just pure stillness and non-judgment. And that's the solution. That's why we're here joining together, is to come to that recognition together like, oh my gosh, of course it would have to be my holiness blesses the world. My holiness answers every seeming problem of this world. My holiness is how I am the light of the world. It brings holiness to all other minds. Through my forgiveness, my holiness blesses and brings holiness to every mind.


Perfect Home. If you're looking to start your family in a new home, this indeed is the show for you where we travel around South Africa and you see more amazing homes which are for sale. Of course we have other shows coming to you every day this week. We have Zaman Tungua Kumalo with the private property podcast that's every weeknight at 7 p.m. And of course if you're interested in farming and agriculture while we've got Mbali on the ones and twos every Tuesday and Thursday night at 8 p.m. If you're still looking for that perfect home, join Chad Vaviros as he twos mansions, loft apartments, townhouses, gorgeous, gorgeous homes around South Africa. And last but not least we do have the first time home buyer show. Are you looking to build your property portfolio? Are you looking to make that first investment and purchase that first home? Well, this is the show for you. That's every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. The first time home buyer show. Good afternoon and welcome to the Saturday show house edition. We start off in Morgan's Bay, a gorgeous four-bedroom house, three bathrooms and one garage. As we can see a beautiful patio, the staircase leading upstairs to more rooms. And of course it is absolutely modern and designed to perfection. This is Morgan's Bay, a four-bedroom house. And if you're looking for something a little bit bigger, this is a nine-bedroom house in Morgan's Bay with five bathrooms. Of course, this is absolutely exceptional from the views to the bedrooms. Massive sliding doors to allow that gorgeous natural light inside your home. Breath-taking sea views of course. This home is absolutely amazing for that big family. Nine bedrooms in Morgan Bay. Still in Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela Bay, love more heights over here. Three-bedroom house, three bathrooms and of course three garages. Perfect home over here. Beautifully designed from the kitchen to the living room area as well as the bedrooms with lots of cupboard space in each bedroom. Of course an entertainment section at the swimming pool. What more could you ask for from this gorgeous house in Love More Heights? In Eastern Cape, the gorgeous homes we are looking through today from farms to massive homes for startup families. Or if this is your first investment for a first-time home buyer, absolutely amazing homes. And here we are in Richmond Hill, three-bedroom home with one and a half bathrooms. Beat the morning traffic with this gorgeous home perfectly positioned in Richmond Hill. Of course it is a double-story home which is the best part of this gorgeous home. And we're still on a mission to get that land back. This is a farm in Colleen Glen, exclusive property situated in Croc Arts Hope in Port Elizabeth and of course it is the most sought-after small farming area with a strong and caring community at its heart. This home in Colleen Glen, absolutely gorgeous three bedrooms and two bathrooms. And for those bigger families over here we've got a five-bedroom house in Sunridge Park. This gorgeous home of course is five bedrooms, four bathrooms and six garages. Luxurious family living. And we're still in Love More Heights, still in the Eastern Cape.  And you are greeted with this gorgeous staircase throughout this home. It is absolutely antique vibes and of course old school and that kitchen gorgeous. And unfortunately that's all we have for you on the Saturday afternoon. Take care and stay warm.


You're in gross Hey, welcome back to our super directions. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick and you can follow us on Instagram Twitter for more juicy content Threads don't touch that. Thank you for your source on patreon follows through Twitter count subscribe You can hit the like button because it helps the algorithm Ain't that right Everybody knows this. Yeah, it's true Today most important in life this dropped yesterday. Sorry for just getting to it This is a glimpse of Anthony Doss From Leo. That's awesome from Leo. We have a good excuse. You know where we were yesterday We were celebrating every third birthday. Mm-hmm at the beach but I'm pretty sure this is Sanjay Dutz character in Leo got it So it's another one of their promotional things have come out with a glimpse the song It's gonna be a very highly anticipated film. Yep Very much looking forward to it. Yep, and it seems that any film right now That's gonna be a big monster film has ony attached to it, right? Yeah It does seem that way But as it should be and it's just a really short little thing and so let's like my wife Short little thing. She is short. Yep Here we go That ran beer That's only one of my speakers is working for some weird reason. Yeah I Yeah, it's it look like Sanjay. Don't yeah, there's Sanjay dude. Everybody. He's in the movie. I mean, I don't understand Sure, I do understand because it's the birth. It's a promotion thing That's very common to do on the birthday of a star Yeah, and it's just keeping you engaged and right like anticipating the film coming out, right That's all so happy birthday. Yeah, does he look cool? Yeah, he looks cool Yeah, it was just kind of like you're Sanjay. Don't he looks like Sanjay. Don't And he's in a movie cut the tension that's cut the tension And he's gonna give you magic hugs He does seem to be doing a lot of crossovers Well, I haven't seen him wearing dresses of you Because he was in KGF as well or KGF to KGF to yeah, he's fallen into this Really nice groove of playing these and he's kind of badass. Yeah at this point in his career He seems to like playing the yeah, and maybe of course. We haven't seen a ton of Sunday Don't know actually no and apparently in Agnepath the Rithik one which we haven't seen yet. Mm-hmm He plays one of most iconic villains right Bollywood history. Yeah If from what I'm told He's bald and I don't know if you remember I do I remember I was recently watching Something from that It was something we reacted to I don't remember what it was one of the songs. Yeah, no, no No, yeah, it was one of the songs. I remember I was watching it with Indrani This was two three weeks ago and we were commenting on how freaking cool he looked. Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the ones I'm very much interested as I am Leo. Yo very much But this yeah, this is just a birthday card. Yeah, she's like When does this come out for I forget and actually I do too because there's been so many well There's been so many changes to dates with so many films I've forgotten which ones have been changed to what at this point. Let me see. I think it was I confused the release dates for Jailer and Leo because it's awning in both of them No Jailer is August 11th. It is definitely no, okay Leo I think it's September. Let's check October October, so it's it's actually a while still Yeah, it is but Normal to get the birthday greeting. Yeah, but yeah for something with a VJ star vehicle and how popular Lokesh has come. Yeah now with the cinematic universe of himself It's that kind of cool that he has his own cinematic universe. It's not like the Marvel cinematic It's it's his it's like this is the universe that I've created in my head. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yep. I like that I did nothing. I use it cinematic universe and it just took me over to my brain's been all things Barbie It's now. Yeah Barbie is Mattel's Iron Man. Yeah, that a whole new universe has opened up cinematically The folks at Mattel must be doing cartwheels. Well, it's about to make a billion dollars. Yeah next week. It is they and Nacho, I just anyway, I could talk about Barbie all day long But yeah, this is gonna be so From Leo we have right am I wrong I don't remember I don't remember it because everything that comes out of this film is is just Extremely popular. I don't remember a song from Leo Or is it just the Leo now ready? Yeah, not not not ready. We did get that. I'm what about a month ago Yeah, but a month ago. I Think it was a lyrical video just a lyrical video, which I bet is all we're gonna get probably in terms of like just like Jailer Yeah, it hasn't given you any footage. It gives you But we might because with What am I or actually I don't remember You remember Beast came out and all the songs from that were they lyrical or were they Did they show those stuff in the movie if I'm remembering the that stuff I think it was say like 75 to 80 percent lyrical with a couple of glimpses. Yeah of the eye of what Presumably is actual footage. Yeah and Master obviously we haven't seen master, but I remember all of these one-named films master Leo Jailer. Well, I think Yeah, thought about the VJ has a lot of one name. Yeah, like see any his theory master he has Beast he has Yeah, well, that's probably the most common name for movies. Oh, isn't it? It is Nolan's the majority of Christopher Nolan's films are one-named films Oppenheimer just has a lot of syllables a lot of syllables But we have inception interstellar tenet Manifest it for all of them. He kind of does. Yeah, it's symmetrical. Yeah. Yeah, he has a he has a theme Yep for what he likes to do. Anyways, anyway, happy birthday Obviously, we're very excited about Leo We love Sanjay dot as well. I think he's a really talented actor as Well, but it's really now. I think hitting his strides down strange to say it, but really Oh, we don't know we've only ever seen I know in in our one Perception of what we know of him It seems that way and we could be obviously completely off because you all know way more about him than we do Well, he was very very popular back in the day. Yeah Been around forever But anyways, let us know what you thought about the what do you know this is called? It's the happy birthday happy birthday card. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Well, let us know what you thought about it down below


CBD or Cannabidiol is a compound found in cannabis plants, so either hemp plants or marijuana plants and it is not intoxicating, it cannot get you high even if you try very hard, but it does have an array of health benefits. CBD is not just another millennial fad, this is not the next avocado toast. Really everyone is using and consuming CBD, everyone from baby boomers and above, down to millennials and below. The CBD industry, it's like a lightning rod, it's growing rapidly and we think it's going to be a $22 billion industry by 2022. People use CBD as an anti-inflammatory agent, people use it for pain, sleep and mood and just general overall wellness. CBD can get into other products by just being extracted from the green material in the cannabis plant that will happen through either CO2 extraction or ethanol extraction and then a distillation process and again that is oil soluble and people can put that into anything from cosmetics to tinctures to soaps. CBD gets into a beverage by using something else to help it suspend in water because CBD itself is not water soluble, cannabidiol is a dial, which means it is oil soluble, not water soluble. Most of the ways that CBD beverages are made are with something called polysorbate 80, that is an emulsifier that is used in everything from vaccines to ice cream and unfortunately isn't always on the label. So do your research on polysorbate 80 and if you feel comfortable with that then just know that that's probably how CBD got into your beverage. CBD is best used when taken every day. It tends to build up your body and has that compounding effect over time that will lead to increased anti-inflammatory effects and anti-inflammatory means general wellness and a better health profile overall. So again you can use CBD here and there but it's really best used on a daily basis. There are also two different ways to consume CBD and one way to consume CBD is a CBD isolate. Isolated CBD is just that crystallized molecule, it is only cannabidiol and does not have anything else in it and another way is CBD with a full spectrum product. That's basically a whole flower extract that's going to have other cannabinoids in it, terpenes and flavonoids and that adds to something called the entourage effect. The entourage effect means that you can get a better response at a lower dose than CBD isolate so I do recommend full spectrum products over isolated CBD although it's a little hard to get full spectrum into a beverage and have it be tasteless. I like to describe it as the difference between a packet of vitamin C powder you might put into your beverage versus an orange, a whole fruit. So if you don't have anything, sure use a packet of vitamin C powder but if you have the option, take the orange. There's a lot of CBD companies out there right now and there's a lot of misinformation on the internet about CBD and you really need a scientist to make sure that this is done correctly, done safely and is going to be both effective for use and safe work consumption.


Yeah, firstly, thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here. You know, first day is always, you never know what to expect, but it's good to get in, meet all the boys, a few of the players I know already and all the staff and everyone's been very welcoming and you know, I'm here to play football so get out on the park and put the first session in is good and you know, I'm very impressed with everything I've seen so far and looking forward to, you know, the coming weeks and the start of the season. Yeah, it was massive learning experience. I mean, I was 25 when I went over there and you know, I had some experience under my belt but you know, I learned a lot about myself in my game and just through Asia, it's all about adapting. You know, sometimes you don't get the best of what you want but you still have to perform at the highest level and now I'm here again, you know, it's a very professional setup and I'm really excited to have, you know, really professional coaching staff and to work with Tony and all the players so yeah, it's going to be good. Yeah, well things are far more professional. I think the league obviously, the standard's gotten better and the quality of players that are coming in better and better with some fantastic young players and some fantastic foreigners as well but you know, I can see already from my first day here just the, you know, the attention to detail in terms of your injury prevention and your prehab and you know, your attention to detail and training and everything's for got a purpose. You know, I think that's something that really, I've been lacking over the last five years in Asia and to get into a setup where, you know, really prolong my career, you know, look after my body well, it's really exciting for me. Yeah, I was brought to a few different clubs but you know, once I knew Western Sydney was interested and I had a good chat with the boss on the phone, you know, my mom was pretty made up to come to Western Sydney obviously fantastic supporters. The setup in terms of the professionalism and like I said earlier, the attention to detail and just the way that they've played and performed and had success over the last few seasons is something that would be attractive to any player who was looking to play in Australia. Yeah, I mean it's the biggest competition in Asia. Last year or this year, sorry, earlier this year I played in the AFC Cup which is kind of the competition below and I really enjoyed that but to play against the best teams in Asia is something that every player wants to do and you know, I've got a bit of experience from earlier in my career and Western Sydney obviously being the champions as well a few years ago. I think, you know, it puts us in good stead so hopefully we can have a good season and on the back of that a good Asian Champions League.


The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum invite you to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a comedy show created by Si Howard and starring as celebrated actor Mr. J Carol Nash with Alan Reed as Paswale. Friends, the makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum are glad to bring you life with Luigi because they feel it's a friendly, good-natured show that offers you relaxation and enjoyment.   Wrigley's Spearman Gum tastes good, it's refreshing, and the good easy chewing gives you comfort and satisfaction. Now, Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum brings you Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama Vasco in Italy. The one thing I'm like about America is that the songs that they got to hear. If you turn on the radio, you hear the jazz blues, the swing, the boogie boogie, and the b-wraps and the re-wraps. And if they even write songs for people who sell all the clothes, it's a curly rag time. The Americans, they write songs about everything, even about their beautiful cities in the states. They got to sing the Louisa Blues inside the Walks of New York, Missouri, Wall Street, Chattanooga, Sunshine, and Shoe Shiner. And then, I'm a herder, they got a song about a people who's played cards in a Pittsburgh. Yes, they call it Pennsylvania Poker. Somebody writes an album and we all in America are singing a wonderful song. That's the most friendly song I've ever heard. It's called The Command of My House. People, they're inviting each other to come over to their house. It reminds me of our little town in the Castellamare. We were always having a door open, anybody could come in and... Like the song is just saying they could eat the food in a dote, in a grope. They want to put it for everybody. Even when Uncle Pietro's a dote, does he come in? We had a tin of cans for him to eat. But all that song is making me feel so good. And it's a nice thing when I go to school and I'm walking and we're going to be singing. How come I'm in my house, I'm in my house, I'm going to give you candy. Oh, hey, how's it going? How are you, Luigi? Hey, nice to see you, how's it going? How do you feel to business? Yeah. What business do you have? Good or bad? Business is good, I'm making money, but I don't get a kick out of it anymore. Why are you not getting a kick? Well, in the old days, people not only bought the food, but they come in and talk to me. We'd have beautiful arguments and fights. A man's business was more than a business. It was a place where he could meet his friends. Isn't there more to that stuff? Yeah. Now everybody's too busy and worried to be friends. They call up, they order on a telephone. Or when they do come in, they say, Hey, Otto, give me a half a dozen oranges and plums, wrap it up, I'm in a hurry. I say, why don't we talk a little? They say, just give me this stuff, I'm in a hurry. Well, let's see what the men ask now. My best customer, Joe Thompson. Do you remember what friends we were? Yeah. He wasn't just a customer, he used to come in here and buy, we'd start to talk, and in no time at all we'd get into an argument. What fights we used to have. Yeah, I remember.  That's what I mean. It was just Joe Thompson and me discussing world events. But no more, no friendship. That's the trouble, Luigi. It's becoming a dollars and cents world. Luigi, if I had a buyer for a food store, I'd take a loss and get out. Oh, no, no, I said I'm gonna talk like that. Why not?  But now there's no love lost between us. Mama, mama, things, things in such a better shape over here. When a man took a shop, I ain't gotta got trouble. Nobody comes in. Well, ask anybody, Luigi, ask your friend, Shost, he's got a delicatessen, he'll tell ya, what's they use to talk, the neighborhoods want the pot. It's like I always say. The tension please, I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko, Mr. Howard, Mr. Olson, Mr. Shost. Mr. Shost. Mr. Shost, why do I have to call your name twice? That's inflation. Oh, thank you, fellow pupils. I'm so happy when you smile. Mr. Shost, Mr. Shost. That's an office building, you're trying to stop inflation. Ah, smile, be happy. Remember, life is a headache and a smile is the aspirin. All right, that'll be enough for today. Now to last, today's lesson was on civics. Who will review for us the traits of a good citizen? Mr. Howard? With pleasure. A good citizen votes on election day. Yes. He takes an interest in his government and in current events. That's very good. Mr. Shost, you go on. Well, ah, he votes on election day. And Mr. Howard's already said that. In spite of the totality of his votes, it don't mean that I can't vote. Please, Mr. Shost. Mr. Vasco, continue. It's the traits of a good citizen. Well, ah, he should have bought his fruits and vegetables at the master. Trask, how can you make up all those silly answers? Such sheer genius. That's enough, Mr. Shost. And it's for you, Mr. Vasco. Your answer was the worst of all. What is this, Mr. Astro? One of them is following it. He's got a fruit store down in my block. But what is the fruit store down to do with good citizenship? Well, it's obvious. If you don't vote on election day, we're going to get lemons in Congress. Ah, smile, everybody. That's a terrible joke, but I say it's so cute. Mr. Shost, please. I don't think it is something to make jokes about. It is something important. It is about the good citizenship and to astro is a mean everything. Well, Mr. Vasco, just what is the connection between Mr. Astro's fruit store and good citizenship? What I was calling him, I'm glad to tell you. It's one thing to know all that's said it in the books, but it's another thing to be good at said it. To make a good citizen is a man who is a good person. To go to people's type, to go to for other people. Is it not just enough to be customer? Is it a question to be good at neighbors? Otherwise, the stock keepers don't care if a neighborhood affords to pieces. And what's going to happen to the neighborhoods and to the cities and throughout the whole of the country? We're only thinking about the money, not the people. And that's what I mean by good citizenship. He will put a beard on him and I will shred out the evil I am lingo. Mr. Astro, I'm sorry I criticized you before. Yeah, I'm sorry I made fun of you, too. I'm sorry I told you not to worry about other people. Well, I didn't say anything, so I got nothing to be sorry about. Who was a sore loser? Well, anyway, even though what you say is true, Luigi, in my store, don't I see, people, they come in for two items. I start to talk about the weather. They say, rababah salami. You know, I never got to think about it, but years ago, when I first started on my milk drought, people, they would invite me in for a visit. Now, everything is so cold, that they leave a note in the bottle and that's all. Sure that there's not like it used to be. Well, perhaps it's too late to change things. The world moves forward. Now, Mr. Butler, where are the mozirans? Sometimes, sometimes it's not the fort, it's the backwood. I'm not going to go round and talk to everybody in the neighborhood. Yeah, and you'll get finished in January 1960, just in time to hand in the new ventures. Show us it's right, Luigi, the neighborhood is too big.  Of course, eh? No, that's good, but maybe you find a place big, you know? Right on the street, Alton, it's going to be block the party. A block party. It's a wonderful idea, Luigi. But you think this will bring the neighborhood together? Well, it's worth a try, Mr. Howard. Mr. D'Arceau, if it works, you'll get an A for this mountain civic. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ferdinand. And then you want to invite it to the block party right outside of my store. All the neighborhood is invited and then we're going to dance and a sing and a dance. Sounds good to me. It sounds like it should be a lot of fun. Ah, that's Luigi. You skit one day buying fruit for Astro, and from this he creates an international situation. Mr. Ferdinand, Mr. Ferdinand. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Mr. Ferdinand, I guess what's happening? Astro fruit man is a field of bad because the customers are no longer talk. The chutes are wrapping a salami. I'm going to get a hand at silly because everybody's coming to my block party this Saturday night until they build up at the neighborhood. Luigi, how come when you put together some American words that they come out in a foreign language? That's funny. That's funny, Mr. Ferdinand. And just a minute, calm down and relax. I like that.  Rest the ball. Here's a present. Two tickets to the annual restaurant owner's ball. That's the big affair of the year, Luigi. I'm giving them to you. To me? That's all I have to take. They are all paid up. Free a charger for nothing, a gratis. Oh, that's funny. How come you're so kind to me? Because I love you, little cabbage. You're pretty. What? Dancer tickets are belonging to you. Can I pretend if I tell anybody I'm a one-two? Sure. As long as it's to my daughter Rosa. That's funny. Suddenly, I'm going to feel like a dancer. Why? Didn't you dance with Rosa before?  Didn't you feel it so bad dancing with Rosa? Did it? All night, I'm affected like a Saturday in the picking a fight that we're away. That was the night that Rosa's a foreign man. I'm a broker to ribs. That was your fault. I told you a thousand times with Rosa, you don't try to lead. I know.  Welcome, Mr. Smart Alex. All of my friends expect to see you there with my Rosa. That's orders. I'm not going to argue with you. I'm going to think about it. Maybe you're going to help me out. You ain't got so much time to think about it. This ball is a side of the night. A side of the... That's the most important thing for me. To have everybody get friendly with each other.  No, no, you're wrong, first of all, because even a Miss Squadron needs a girl with me. If the neighborhoods aren't the happy, cities aren't the happy, and that's the girls that put a hole in the country. How come you suddenly become a happiness of boys? You really want to go around and spread my happiness to start the worst? First of all, she's a donor. How long has she spread them?  I'll give you two tickets to look at how you act. Yeah, but you tell me, I could have taken everybody I want to. All right, so I gave you the tickets with a little catch. You first of all, he adds to no catch. That's a trap. Come on, Luigi. Forget this, a block bar. Take a rose up to the dance. You can have a swell card. No, nothing to do now. I'm not going to monitor the dance. Is it that definite? If you don't believe me, here's your tickets to back in a goodbye. Ooh, a little pop of squeaker. He's a fixer, many things. Say, well, I'm going to fix it. Here's the block party, but it's good. No rose, no block party. Hello? Hello, police department? Say, if a crowd is going to gather in the street, don't they have to have a primary? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's a lack of time. Well, you come around at 21 and north of Holsteaders Street on Saturday night to buy an antique shop.  That's a lie, baby. My name? Look, what difference does it make? J. Edgar Hoover just calls me exit 38. No, no, that's no joke. You want to stop the problem, you better be here. These are the same people that started that tea party in Boston. Before we return to life with Luigi, we'd like to mention that Wrigley Spearman's chewing gum is an ideal taste sheet to enjoy between meals. During the morning or afternoon, when you get a little pack range of something tasty, flip a stick of Wrigley Spearman's in your mouth. Chew on it and get the full enjoyment of the pleasant chewing and the refreshing, delicious, real Spearman's flavor. You'll find that it satisfies you without spoiling your appetite for lunch or supper. So do as millions do. Enjoy chewing Wrigley Spearman's gum between your meals. It isn't rich, it isn't heavy, but it's your taste good. Now, let's turn to page two of Luigi Basto's letter to his mother in Italy. Well, I'm a man to manage the big and nice of a block of paddock. And now I'm going to really see what's to happen to the neighborhood. Lots of people, they don't care about it. But anyway, all week I'm going to run around from a door to door, pushing a doorbell. I'm going to sit like a tiger in a pallet of air. Luigi, my telephone bird. Ah, hello, sir. Well, how you met out there with a photo collector? Luigi, it's the food I collected. You couldn't see the pigeon that holds us. Don't care? Or they don't want to come to Luigi? Why should I give food? Well, if Jeff Hanson is all the customer, who'd you stop buying it from him? My man, if you look to buy it for the block of paddock, huh? Luigi, don't you worry. I stand behind you with the food for my delicatessen. The salami will flow like lumber in a large jam. You can tell everybody, full guarantees each and every person who attends the block party, a heartburn you remember for me. That's my Luigi. Ah, thank you, thank you, thank you.  Luigi, what else is life for? Thank you, friend, some good food. It's not the first time when your wife is on vacation. That's why I'm on the moon. Well, well, well. Look to who we got here. The old friends to deal with the antiques of salami, say, listen. Ah, good, Luigi. I am going out where the air is fresh. When you walk out of Schultz, the air is going to be pleasure in the air. Stop crying. Why couldn't you fall into a place of your spaghetti sometimes and join the other meatballs? I better get out while I'm ahead, Luigi. I feel the block party and smile. Happy is me like me. Always happy, always happy. You! My rheumatism is killing me. I'm going to love a rheumatism. I'm going to know what I deal with you. Whose are you and what are you? I was a tanker, Luigi. After all, I should certainly be at this block party. I got in my restaurant here 20, 60 years, and if anybody is ahead at this block, it's amazing. You're so right, Mr. Spallier. You're the ruler of blockers. That's the funny thing, Luigi. I'd say it is to come out of different. Anyway, Luigi, I'm going to be very happy to be there. That's a nice of a story. And I'm hoping you're going to enjoy yourself when you see what's to happen. Luigi, when you're going to see what's to happen, then I know I'm going to enjoy myself. Bye. When it hits you go, like that I know there's nothing to laugh about you. You're having a nice time? Well, I'm enjoying myself, Luigi. Okay, who put up those detour signs on both ends of the street? Well, it shows you the pen is on the right side, and it's along the right side. It's the detour with three O's. Well, as long as the cars are kind of there. That's good. Luigi, you've got a good card, all right, but there's some music. The card is getting in the deep. Yeah, I know. I'm going to ask the punters to bring me the card, and some other music to send it, but they're going to show up here soon. Yeah, well, I hope they do too. Maybe that will get the young young thing. Oh, I know I've been watching.   I don't know, Luigi. They just finished the basket of pieces, and now I think they are waiting to throw stones at each other. It was out of the neighborhood to fall in the past. You would think the middle of the street is the 38th parallel. So, I'm still a palatable half. My dough is already a part of the warm-up. You think it is?  Excuse me, I think I can still start with a salami on my back. Well, let's not stand around. Let's enjoy, huh? Have you tried to make everybody friends? Yes, I wish it was a musical video. We're going to come over there.   What do you think? Oh, by the way, I've got a surprise for you. A certain party was supposed to go to a certain event. Just didn't go. I've got to rough up my sleeves.  All right, the wise guy, I'm going to call her out anyway. Rosa! Rosa! Rosa! This is my little second day. Say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa.  People don't care if they never get together. You don't spend your time. Why don't you take a look at the dance before you get into some real trouble? What? Tony is here with your accordion, and he brought a few friends. That's so wonderful. I got him, I got him. Come on, a thingy of friends are here.  What have the musicians been doing? Oh, good, good, good. I see you brought the rancor musicians. Rancor, I know it's been a little bit cold tonight, huh? It ought to be. Come on, let's start off at your home. No, no, no, no. It's just the startling is going to be all right. Now, music is a hit, and I'm going to like to start off in the evening for some adventure with a new song, all the merrikes are falling in love with you. Rancor, listen up. And I want you to like to join in a few because that's to the idea. All right, Tony, push up and it's through the back. Come out of my house in my high house. I'm going to give you candy. Come out of my house in my high house. I'm going to give you apple and a plum. And I hope to put it to rest. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. I'm going to give you fish and a bass and a dress and a cage. And buy them from our store. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on. Come out of my house, come on.  It's like a regular business convention. I just got back seven of my old customers and the returns ain't in yet for me Yeah, I didn't tell you but every once in a while. I was sick with some bad tomatoes in the bottom of the bag Come on everybody Just a minute Who's Mr. Luigi Vasco? I'm off of their hottest traffic detail. We had a complaint about a black party without a permit Didn't I see you dancing, you know? That's right. I had a great time, but actually you shouldn't have been doing this without a permit Officer, your majesty Well, it'll be a $2 fine for a person of striking time. All right. I'm glad to pay the fine Yeah, but there's 300 people here. That'll be $600 What? People that's the first time the Atom bomb hit just one person by himself All right, I don't think I could find anybody. This black party's a great idea. There should be more Yeah, how do you have more time? Mr. Laffer, can you hear your wonderful name? And wait, don't relate, don't relate. Everybody, I feel it's so good. It's just a week from my roast I got a suggestion This party was very good, but I know one thing everybody says You are not kidding. If I tighten my belt any more, it's going to go hide through me All right friends and all I want to say is come on to my restaurant.   It's always a treat Yes, millions of people carry Wrigley's experiment with them during the day because it offers refreshment and enjoyment whenever they want It costs so little too. Get a few packages of good tasting Wrigley's experiment to engum next time you're at the store The makers of Wrigley's experiment to engum invite you to listen next week at this time when Luigi Vasco writes another letter to his mama Vasco in Italy Life with Luigi is a thigh Howard for Darcy and is directed by Mack Benhoff. The script is written by Mack Benhoff and Lou Deming J. Carol Max is starred as Luigi Vasco with our leader Suspraw A. Hans Tom Lee, the short Jody Gilbert Rosa, Mary Shippen, Miss Fauley, Joe Forte, and Carl Witt And Tim Keeter is as open. The music is under the direction of Love Gluston. This is Charles Weier This is the CBS Radio Network


For the first time in history, humanity has a single common foe.  In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity, Reagan said. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. The antagonisms of the moment, in Reagan's case, were the tail end of a Cold War standoff with the USSR that had held humanity hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation since the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949. Prior to that, the antagonisms of the moment were the two world wars, and prior to that were countless conflicts between nations, kingdoms, civilizations, and tribes, stretching back past the horizon of recorded history. Antagonisms have continued on from moment to moment to the present day, with a new multi-front Cold War which could turn hot at any time already bringing the threat of nuclear armageddon back to the forefront after a brief intermission.  That threat comes to us not from outside ourselves, as in Reagan's hypothetical alien invasion scenario, but from within. For the first time in history, humanity is being forcefully confronted with its own self-destructiveness, because we are driving ourselves to our own extinction. Humanity has been at its own throat throughout all of known history, with violence, war, and tyranny remaining a behavioral constant around the world for as far back as our records can show us. As soon as we became the new apex predator on the scene, we ceased having to worry about being killed by hungry carnivores, and instead worried primarily about being killed by other humans.  And while all that was going on, nature was just quietly doing its own thing in the background, unnoticed and unappreciated. Our biosphere had always been there, functioning in more or less the same way for as long as we could remember. So we mostly just took it for granted, and focused our attention on the far more urgent task of killing and enslaving and oppressing and exploiting each other throughout the ages.  Our biosphere is showing numerous and diverse signs of rapid deterioration and destabilization as a direct result of the competition-based models that have been driving human behavior in recent centuries. And if we don't come together as a species to drastically change the way we're collectively functioning on this planet, we're going to lose the only home we have. We're coming upon a point where humanity is going to have to unite to defend its home planet, not from extraterrestrial invaders, but from its own self-destructive impulses. We simply cannot keep harming and competing against each other any longer. Not because it sucks, but because it has become unsustainable. We're being forced into a situation where we must transcend our self-destructive patterning and move into a new way of operating on this planet, or go extinct. We will annihilate ourselves by environmental destruction or nuclear war if we don't drastically transform our own behavioral patterns very soon. In this sense, we are being existentially confronted as a species by forces deep within ourselves, deeply unconscious forces, ancient forces, forces which have been whipping around inside within us in some form since before our evolutionary ancestors first walked upright.  Because that's exactly what they are. Our common foe is any aspect of our species that is pointed at death, destruction, domination and exploitation instead of health and harmony. Some humans and some human institutions embody those forces much more severely than others, but they exist within us all. If we are to rise to the occasion and drastically change our collective behavior, we're going to have to uproot it all. Only then can we become a truly conscious species and proceed to the next stage in our adventure in this world. Every species eventually hits a point where it must adapt to changing situations or go extinct. We are arriving at ours currently. I don't know exactly what it will look like if and when that adaptation occurs, but I think we can probably assume it would look like a rapid increase in awareness of the forces which drive our behavior, both individually and collectively. Like an addict who has hit rock bottom, we're going to be pressed hard to look at what makes us do the things we do. On an individual level, that will come down to the psychological constructs and inner habits interwoven with the ego, which can be dispelled with rigorous inner examination. On a collective level, it will come down to the systems, institutions and people who are keeping humanity locked in its self-destructive patterns, which can be dispelled through revolution of all varieties. That seems to be what we're headed toward as humanity begins to turn and face its collective enemy, either a massive explosion of consciousness or a horrific, self-inflicted extinction. But what we are definitely not headed toward is a future in which nuclear-armed powers continue ramping up aggressions against each other while ignoring the health of the biosphere we all rely on for survival. One way or the other, those days are coming to an end. It's no longer about nation versus nation, ruler versus ruler, group versus group, person versus person. It's about humankind versus extinction. It's a fight that can only have one winner, and it's a fight we can only win together.


For those unable to get to the polls for Bemidji City Council Ward 4 seat, absentee ballots are now available. The special election will be held on March 14th at Bemidji City Hall. If you're unable to go to the poll on the special election day, you may vote absentee or in person at City Hall or request a ballot by mail as well. Ballots are ready for the voting in Ward 4. The voting will take place on March 14th, but if you'd like to come in and vote absentee and you live in Ward 4, you can do so. We're ready here at City Hall to serve you. And you must be a resident in Ward 4, of course, to vote in that special election. To request a ballot and application is available on the City of Bemidji's website. We've posted a link on our website, lptv.orgs slash news. If you'd like to check that out. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


In 2020, it was reported that Steve Harvey purchased his current mega mansion, located in Atlanta, Georgia, for a whopping $15 million. While he and his family have lived in some lavish homes over the years, this one goes above and beyond, boasting opulent features like 17 acres of landscaped lawns, a 70 thousand gallon infinity pool, an underground ballroom, and more. Steve won't be the first funny man to live here though, as the palace was formerly owned by none other than Tyler Perry, who let go of it in 2016. We'll check out Steve's homes, including this one, and a couple of his former properties. So stay tuned. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Steve Harvey is best known for being a comedian, turn-talk-show host, and self-help author. But that's not all he does. He's also familiar face on TV, hosting series such as Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, The Miss Universe Competition, and more. And he always brings a laugh wherever he goes. Considering he's been working consistently in the entertainment industry and he's also a savvy businessman, Harvey's amassed a net worth of about $200 million, and he loves to share his fortune with his large family. Hey guys, it's Kara the Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive host tour here in Femus Entertainment, and today we're looking at the mansions of Steve Harvey. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this video. In 2020, Steve shelled out $15 million for his current family mansion, located in the elite Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. The walls of this palace will never be short of a laugh, considering it was also once home to fellow comedian and actor Tyler Perry. Not to mention, both of these stars have rags to riches stories to tell, having both lived in their cars at some point before making it big. Well, this residence just shows the world you've made it. Perry officially offloaded the opulent home in 2016 for $17.5 million after it sat on the market with a price tag of $25 million for two years. Either way, the property made real estate news as the most expensive home sale in Atlanta history. So what makes this mansion so insane? Actually, the real question is, what doesn't? First of all, it sits on a whopping 17 acres of land with manicured grounds, while inside, the home covers 35,000 square feet of space. Once you get past the gates and up the hulking flight of stone stairs out front, the foyer is about as massive as they get, featuring twin curved staircases, soaring ceilings, a chandelier, columns, and polished marble floors. The mansion boasts seven bedrooms and 9.5 baths, which can be expected from properties so large. And considering Steve has seven kids, that extra space might come in handy, even though they don't all live at home anymore. Of course, the Harvey Mansion boasts multiple formal living areas, including a huge formal living room with double height ceilings and full wall of windows, and another sprawling two-level great room with wood-beamed ceilings, plush lounge areas, moral walls of windows and French doors, and stairs to an upper-level loft. One of my favorite rooms is the stylish library, which follows a bold black and red color scheme, my favorite, with zebra accents and a winding iron staircase to a gallery level. Of course, there's also an epic kitchen decked out in wood, another study with a fireplace, a games room, and a cavernous entertainment lounge, which has a medieval castle look to it. Honestly, the spaces inside this mansion are never ending. In addition to all of that, Steve's French provincial style main mansion boasts a state-of-the-art home theater, an indoor swimming pool, a wine cellar, and an underground ballroom with catering kitchen. All of that, and we haven't even seen the grounds. Among all of the perfect lawns and trimmed gardens out back, there's a 70,000-gallon infinity-edged pool and spa with water features, a lit tennis core, a fitness center, and a separate spa. The estate also has a guesthouse, a guardhouse, and additional caretakers suite, all protected with a top-notch security system. And in case of an emergency, Steve's property has a backup generator that can power the entire estate. Before Steve and his family moved into this estate, they still lived in Georgia, but in the area of Sandy Springs, also in Atlanta. He purchased this home back in 2010 for $3.4 million, and he and his wife enjoyed the family mansion for a handful of years. In fact, it's said that he still owns it to this day. This mansion spans 9,258 square feet of space, and while that's massive in size, it's only a fraction of Steve's new home. Inside, there are six beds, eight baths, and a handful of other luxury rooms. Some features here included an upskill cigar cabinet because Steve loves his cigars, massive grill, mini golf course, and infinity pool with waterfall. It's also said that the home was full of gold-trimmed velvet furniture at one point, and had a movie theater and full bar too. Finally, at one point, Steve's talk show was set up in Chicago, so the windy city was where he used to spend his time. Around 2012-2013, Steve lived in a penthouse on the 88th floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, Illinois, and it was quite the fancy apartment. It wasn't until 2018 that the place was sold, and when it was first listed, it was almost $10 million. Listing materials describe the unit as the most glamorous half-floor penthouse suite with panoramic views, 16-foot ceilings, three fireplaces, and much more. Some claim that Steve purchased the penthouse, while other sources report he was renting for a massive 25K per month. Either way, his condo with the Trump spent 5,500 square feet of living space with three beds and 5.5 baths. The upskill state-of-the-art kitchen had designer name appliances from Wolf to Sub-Zero and more, along with a Butler's pantry, and that, in combination with the living areas, made this place ideal for entertaining. Steve's penthouse also had a luxurious master bed and bath, large walking closets throughout, and a separate jacuzzi room. The five-star hotel amenities residents had access to included the spot, the Trump, a 75-foot heated swimming pool, room service, state-of-the-art fitness center, and indoor parking. Not to mention, the penthouses all had perfect views of the Chicago River or the city. Alright, so now we've looked at Steve Harvey's homes, including his current and new Buckhead Mega Mansion, which once belonged to Tyler Perry. Since that 35,000-square-foot palace blows any other home out of the water, I'll just ask, what was your favorite room in the massive home? I think I like the medieval-style entertainment room in that area of the home with the old-world hallway and the matching indoor pool. Let me know your pick down in the comments. Harvey's other homes include that Sandy Springs home we looked at also in Atlanta, and a 6,500-square-foot mansion in Little Elm, Texas, which he currently has for sale at nearly $1.1 million. Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Steve Harvey's homes down below. Thanks for watching, don't forget to follow me on Instagram, and let me know which celebrity homes we should feature next. I'll see you all in the next video. Bye!


Russia had five S-400 air defense batteries in Crimea, Ukraine blew up too. In the years prior to its wider war on Ukraine, the Russian Air Force deployed five batteries of its best S-400 surface-to-air missiles plus their radars to occupy Crimea. Forbes media outlet wrote this. It is noted that in less than a month the Ukrainian navy has destroyed two of them. Every S-400 battery the Ukrainians knock out is one fewer S-400 battery defending the Russian Black Sea Fleet at its anchorage in Sevastopol. The first raid on the S-400 on August 23rd targeted the battery in Cape Tarkankut on the Crimean Peninsula's northwest coast. The second on September 14th struck a battery 36 miles south in the Yevpatoria. Both strikes reportedly involved the latest version of the Ukrainian navy's Neptune ground-launched anti-ship cruise missile, the original model with which the Ukrainians sank the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva in April 2022 travelled 190 miles with a 330-pound warhead. The new version travels 225 miles with a 770-pound warhead. Ukraine's Luch Design Bureau from the outset designed the Neptune with a GPS-aided radar seeker according to Forbes. Basically the missile navigates to GPS co-ordinates. Once it gets there, the radar looks for something shaped like a worthwhile target. This combination of GPS and radar makes the Neptune equally adept at striking targets at sea and on land although Luch officials have said they tweaked the guidance in the missile's newer model. That could mean the addition of an infrared seeker. In any event, the Neptune works.


I thought Alan today was just amazing. He exceeded my high expectations. I thought Alan is one of the best speakers that I have ever seen. If you want to be a high achiever, if you want to raise your game, then you have to choose to take every single thing that's thrown at you and use it in a way that serves you and moves you forward. The power of story. And that morning, Coby taught me a pivot and for me, a life-changing lesson. And that's just because something is basic. It doesn't mean that it's easy. He takes those lessons, wraps them in the story of what happened and applies them to everyday life. He shows you how powerful just the basics can be. Coby Bryant, the best player in the world, said his secret is that he never gets bored with the basics. He has an unbelievable ability to blend stories and then things that impact both business and personal at the same time. My favorite part of the presentation is the concept of the next play. You just turned the ball over, it's okay, next play. You just missed a wide open layup, it's okay, next play. I know, I know, the referee missed a call. It happens occasionally, next play. Why would a basketball coach want their players to focus on the next play? It's the only one they can do anything about. Not being worried about what's happening three, four, five steps down the road, but focusing on what is going on in your life or in your situation, what you're working on right now. We're looking so far into the future that we forget to live in the present moment and really have that mindfulness and that drive for right now. It was right on the money, very energetic, very focused, right to the point. My favorite part of the presentation was definitely the Steve Nash story and how he led the NBA, not only in assists but also in touches. And I mean physical touches. High fives, fist bumps and pats on the butt. And the way that he was able to tie that into our business and our lives and the way that we encourage our friends, encourage our coworkers, not by patting them on the butt but by giving them more digital virtual reinforcement and how that translates into better performance. He definitely is motivating and inspiring. Are you making the time to do the things that you know you need to do to fill your own bucket? Notice I said making. You'll never find the time for anything. Not when you work as much as you work and you have your families and you have all of your other commitments. You will never find the time for anything. You have to make the time to fill your own bucket. That's something that I never really thought about before. I never really thought about, okay, I need to prepare myself before I walk into my business.  And I love what he had to say about understanding your role, embracing your role. I think he's truly one of the best speakers I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of speakers.


Hello and good morning. I'm so happy to be here and to see you all at this cloud native telco day. Yeah, it's fantastic to be here in this lovely city, Valencia. I hope we will have an amazing day sharing experience and things we want to work on in our telco community. I would like to thank for the opportunity to be here and share our thoughts and learnings. I'm looking forward for further discussion during today. And yeah, I'm happy to take all your questions. I'm very excited to tell you more about our cloud native journey with the 5G Core and our learnings at Swisscom. So this talk will be useful for you if you are interested to hear about our experience and learnings from our cloud native telco journey of an ambitious team building a 5G-40 Converged Core at Swisscom. So unfortunately, Ruben is not able to join today. He is moving from Swisscom to AWS to pursue a new opportunity. But nevertheless, we prepared this presentation together. He gave me a lot of thoughts, ideas, helped me to get to the essence, what to present here. So I need to say a big thank you for you, Ruben, to help me to stay here today. And yeah, it was a pleasure to work with you. So now a little bit more about myself and my background. My name is Joshua Hiller. Yeah, I'm so to say a newbie in public speaking. But I work now science a while with cloud technology as well as cloud native technologies. So I started over 15 years ago at Swisscom as a system engineer or network engineer and recently moved to Australia to work for Telstra. But because of COVID, I came back or had a travel restriction we had in Australia. And now I'm working at Swisscom again as a product owner for the 5G subscriber management. I as well have a very strong passion about agile and lean way of building services. And yeah, during my time at Telstra, I really could experience in the daily work how agile and also using scrum could really improve our daily work and be able to be more innovative as well. Yeah, have more fun at work in the end. So yeah, who we are. So Swisscom is the major telecommunication provider in Switzerland and has one of the, let's say, best network worldwide. At Swisscom, we really engage in ambitious technology and cultural transformation towards cloud native readiness. In the end, we believe that it is essential component to keep thriving in this increasingly competitive environment. So at mobile networks, our group, we develop and operate this new 5G 4G converged core. We have been closely working with our network function vendor Ericsson in a agile setup. So we have people from Ericsson in our DevOps team, and we closely work together with them to build and deploy and operate our 5G core in the end. So we realized very early that it's not only a technology shift, it also is a transformation on skills, culture, and how we collaborate with each other. So there is this new technology paradigms where we need really a different mindset, culture, and skills. So on the technology challenge, there is really the skill gaps we see in the telco ecosystem. So there, yeah, we need new skills which are more software engineering to help to build these cloud native workloads in the end. So there we have this transformation journey where we embrace on the change. So we want to learn to forge new paths, to be more innovative in the end, to learn to permanently evolve our status quo, and learn to continuously improve ourselves. So these are three key pillars for our cultural transformation at Swisscom. Now, a little bit more about what I want to tell you today. So first, we start with our cloud native readiness with this cultural and technology transformation. Then a little bit about this rich CNCF ecosystem we can leverage in the telco space and as well the huge opportunity to really automate all our services in the end. And then our cloud native journey. So there I will tell you a bit about our hands-on experience and as well then on the third point, discovery and learnings. So there it's really about our findings which we mainly can put into four pillars. So one is about decoupling of network function, infrastructure or CAS. Then the other thing is about the configuration management where we see a lack of maturity in the moment as well more on the architecture standardization aspect as well then on the service observability. And last we have some call for improvements. I would like then to give some suggestion on where we need to work as a telco industry to make our end-to-end services really cloud native capable. So what we do, so I would like to tell you some more details about what we do at Swisscom. As mentioned, we engage in ambitious technology and cultural transformation towards a cloud native readiness. To be successful in this, we started to build a new domain. We call this mobile cloud native services where we brought together software engineer, telco engineer, cloud engineers. We even found new teams to build a service management tool which I will come on later and really have from a design view to an operating view to a life cycle view all the people in one domain to make this successful. Then yeah, we started to integrate this 5G network where we deployed this to our NFVI cloud for now. But on the other hand just half a year ago we started our public cloud journey. So we work now closely with AWS where we collaborate to bring our 5G core to the AWS regions in the end where soon they will also open a region in Switzerland. As well then as said before we started with two new teams building in-house a service management framework or tool. So there we at Swisscom really see that it's key for an operator or a telco to have this capability to design end-to-end services. So not only like the 5G core itself but really end-to-end that you can then operate network slices at a scale. And then also what we started is to go in a GitOps journey. So we already had the Etsy monostack to deploy network functions but we see that this was not so cloud native at the beginning so we started to build our own GitOps pipeline in the end to be able to deploy and lifecycle the 5G, 4G converged core. Now some more details on the Etsy mano. So I created as well some hashtags. I would very appreciate if you could maybe tell me your thoughts about this and yeah. Also if you have any questions around this so we have SEMA here which is our service management tool which is based on Etsy or we can design an ASTs so network service definition templates which then can talk to an NFVO in the middle. But on the other hand this SEMA is as well able to push all the YAMLs dot value or the stuff you need to be able to configure to the GitOps pipeline or to Git in the end. And here we also then have for the CNF lifecycle management we have the VNFM which then do the deployment towards the cars. And as well we are working on an automation on the Etsy gateway. But this here is like just half of the full picture because what's missing here is the whole end to end configuration management which where I will shed some lights on later. And then we have our GitOps pipeline. So here on the left side we get the software from our vendors into our artifactory. Then we have our overarching Jenkins pipeline where we have different sub pipelines to source software to get notification and trigger other pipelines. Then we have a configuration pipeline for the application configurations. We have an element manager pipeline and as well some test pipelines. And all this is based on the source of truth we have in Git. So everything which we configure or want to add to our environment we define in Git and then we use for the deployment of the containers we use flux to deploy like an AMF in this case. So it takes the config from Git then goes to the artifactory take the Docker image and the help charts and deploy the network functions. And then after this it's able to trigger the configuration pipeline which then use Ansible as well. Ansible is asking Git for all the day too or the application configuration and then push this configuration over NetConf to the CN apps in the end. So today the CN apps we have they are mainly using NetConf and there we see some other things I want to talk later about. And also here I created the hashtag on Twitter. So I'm curious to hear your ideas, questions about this. So yeah, during our journey we explored different things. We had a lot of learnings. So here we could group this we can group this like in four different pillars. So first is the we still see a lot of vertical integration with the appliance towards CAS and even underlying infrastructure which is mainly also due to telcospecific protocols and requirements in the end. Then yeah, missing configuration management capability for really the end-to-end automation. I will go deeper in the next slides. Then from the architecture side there we still see that from the standardization point there is still like a very monolithic view on software. And then another big topic is the whole end-to-end observability. I also would like to tell you more from our experience so far. So first on the independence between network functions and CAS infrastructure even pass. So their application were still not really decoupled to some extent. So we see that with them there's still like a vertical integration towards Kubernetes. So it's in our view not fully cloud native where you just deploy, kill, deploy, kill containers and even like have immutable containers or microservice in the end. It also, we saw that we often use this CRDs which in the end had dependencies and you could to some extent not deploy just any network function in the same Kubernetes cluster. And there also we see still like tight integration of different microservices. So this means that you could deploy a network function but then you would need to add some day one configuration that other pods or microservices will start. And this is something we really should avoid in a cloud native environment. Then also scaling especially on the user plane function is still very limited. It's mainly due to specific Telco protocols we need. So there we see that we still need to do upfront the very specific like low level design to be able then to at least to scale to the resources we define upfront. Then also something which is interesting is really this layer two segmentation. We in the Telco industry use a lot of VPNs to separate different networks. And now if you go towards public cloud, yeah they mainly offer you one VPN in the end which then you need to build a lot of overlay separation which makes the whole networking very complex. And still like the if you use your NFEI and then on top you have your CAS. It's still not very smooth all the upgrades. So sometimes we saw that we kill the network functions and we had to redeploy everything from scratch. Then more on the configuration management. So that's something which is very interesting. So we mostly discuss about deploying all the CNFs but then it's like building a house but in the end it's not finished. So all the interior is still missing like kitchen stairs, electricity which is like the day one configuration or the application configuration. So we have models to deploy a 5G core so the containers everything but then to configure there is a model still missing where you could go an abstraction layer on top in the end. So there we see that every network function like UPF, PCF they have their own business logic with their own details, their own like failover scenarios and this is just making us a lot of headaches in the end. Then there is still this yeah, NetConf versus the cloud native way of using like config maps. So you have like one central point you configure your network function versus more than immutable capability where you add the configuration of the application already during the deployment. So NetConf in the end is great but on the other hand you have very tight integration and it makes yeah, it's not very useful in case that you just can start, kill, start, kill any services. Then there is still the complexity of the networking so we didn't take this too serious at the beginning but now we try really to deploy this 5G cores in public cloud and there they don't offer all this telcos specific capability. So there we need to find solution to make this possible and really the last point don't try to automate Excel. Really focus on building configuration as a code so to be able to have on top then some abstraction model that because if you need you can build like one network slice but if you then want to build 20 network slice you just cannot automatically generate your day one configuration for this what we see till now. And then more from the architecture or standards. So we say that the standards today they are not really cloud native so they get in the way of decoupling so there is still the trap of monolithic applications where we as telcos think really yeah there are all the boxes like UPF, AMF and and and and you have your standardized interface but in the end this don't help us to really build like more distributed systems just a lot of microservice in the end building your end-to-end service and yeah there we really should go more towards a microservice design instead of a large service design as we have today with the SBA in case and then on top we have this complex failover scenarios from all the different network functions but there we think we really should leverage more than native capability of some like service mesh to build this failover scenarios between microservice instead to build a layer on top very specific to telco environments and then the whole observability so we are very happy to see with cloud native network functions that observability to some extent observability is already built in so it's very easy to retrieve metrics locks traces but still if you want them to get the end-to-end view it's still very hard to get this together so you cannot simply automate this so there we need rather maybe models to help us to be able to stick together the different network functions and then as well do this in the observability view and on the other hand we also especially in our case so that we have already quite a lot of tools in the observability space like the standard PEM FM tapping functionality for the traces which in the end not really go very smooth hand-in-hand with all the new technologies like Prometia, it's open telemetry and Jacker, Loki and all these tools so there we need to find the right solution and also because of the very specific telco protocols like the troubleshooting especially in distributed system it's not just straight forward so for some protocols you cannot just use Jacker for distributed tracing in the end so here would be our call for improvement so really the main point is reduced network function complexity we see more and more bigger network functions which including tons of microservices but in the end that just go in a direction that we treat as a CNF still like a pet so we try to troubleshoot here, here and instead of just deploy and if it's not working kill it, deploy it again so this mindset need to more and more evolve in the end so really avoid vertical integration and yeah sometimes we really need to redesign network function from scratch really with the cloud native principles in mind and then on the configuration management yeah we need somehow an abstraction or a model to be able to configure up to or many different network slices end to end so this capability is missing so there we think really it's a declarative and intent based automation for the configuration management is really the way to go and then on end to end service automation we really see the need as a operator that we want to run over 5G core workloads on any cloud and this is not yet really working what we see we still need months or even years to implement the 5G core we not can just hit the button and then it's deployed when we can do this then we already spend like half a year to make everything working and really also something where I saw now a new project which could help there it's really like a service API or like de facto standards to make the end to end automation working so with this I would end so that's our conclusions so I'm very happy that we started early at Swisscom we really put automation as a key so when we started to build this cloud native environment we said we want to start automate everything from day one and we really invested the time to understand the technology regarding end to end service orchestration or service management sorry we don't see this mature enough today so there we still see the need for improvements and we need service management in the end to run network slicing at scale and one key point is as well better adoption of cloud native principles to improve our life cycle management and the automation and in the end you really can simplify all this I told you now in one simple sentence so telco workload should not be special so it should be like any other standard IT workload in the end and I'm very happy that just a few weeks ago they announced this Niveo project which really I think like took into account a lot of topics we were I was talking today so I'm looking really forward to see this evolving and yeah that's it for my side thank you very much for listening to me it was a pleasure to be here and I would love to take any questions hello it's Paweł Pawlak f5 so you mentioned about the vertical stack so do you have any takeaways to how to move away from it any suggestions or lessons learned or ideas yeah what we see is still that we have this telco specific protocols like GTP which don't allow for netting and there also we think we need to look into like software solutions which will help us to to provide their more flexibility that you don't have there this vertical integration in the end and also like today we still need to use like Azure IOV for the hardware acceleration for the throughput I think if there we maybe could we do something with EPPF to make this much more flexible I see like AWS are offering solutions where they claim to almost achieve line rate so I think there it's really on the on some network blockings for Kubernetes which could help us to avoid this vertical integration okay thank you and one more question if you don't mind so do you need CNFs for 4G yes we are using it so we build a 5G, 4G converged core so we have CNFs which are including microservice doing the 4G as well the 5G part in the same yeah CNF in the end so have different interfaces and maybe even this is maybe suboptimal for running like really independent services in the end I personally also see like we have this very narrow way of defining CNFs like UPF PCF and all this but in the end if you watch the whole cluster it's more just like 100, 200,000 microservices in a cluster providing you a service and we do a lot of on top specific stuff to still be able to fulfill all the standards but I'm not sure if if we could maybe start to think a little bit different and more just let the microservices directly talk to each other of overall service mesh, GPRC and whatever is possible thank you thank you for your presentation I just wanted to know when did you start the journey for the 5G core transformation and is this the adoption? I would say we started two years ago where we like build it a first team looking into like mainly the 5G assay core so we started to build this from our network vendor the first they were like they just started to deliver this 5G core function as containerized workloads in the end so that was about two years ago but I need to say so today we don't have a productive system we are still working on because we said from beginning we want to use this change to cloud native network function to also automate everything and yeah we are heavily investing in automating the whole life cycle of this network functions in the end okay and did you start the same work for the radio access network? no not now it's really focused on the the 5G core or let's say 5G 4G converged core and really doing this together also with this thinking about we want to build end-to-end service where we build this service management framework on top in the end okay thank you how many people are working on this project? together we are now with service management and orchestration maybe a little bit more than 40, 50 software cloud and network engineers thank you thanks again for the presentation, great I have a question regarding around the whole relationship with the major telco vendors like Ericsson because you guys are built completely on them and get a lot of their early features early but then at the same time if you're creating this orchestration layer and being first to it and that's somewhat challenging let's say the telco ISV how are you managing that relationship? how are you bringing them to the table and saying hey we're going to run this in Kubernetes we're going to do this and this and then they're stepping back saying oh we don't support that yet you know so it would be great if you could like unpack a bit of that yeah very good question I guess we were very lucky that our vendor was one of the earliest to deliver their 5G assay network function as a containerized workload so we could start very early to learn what this means to deploy a network function into a Kubernetes cluster and they are yeah like using microservices but yeah it's a and because we are working very closely with our network function vendor so we have DevOps team where we have our network function vendor as well in the team so they are as well DevOps engineer so we get very close on also talking about improvements what's not working as we expected but it's still it takes a long time because there are in my view still many objectives in the way yeah to really get cloud native workload in the end okay thanks and do you see this work being able to kind of create some critical mass by maybe open sourcing some of this so that it you know challenges the ecosystem of it yeah I'm I'm I'm personally looking really forward for this Niveo project in the end because there I see it addresses all the gaps or a lot of the gaps we see during the last two years and I'm very keen yeah to talk more about this and I think that can be a right way to go to really improve network functions towards cloud native readiness thank you very much indeed you mentioned agile you mentioned DevOps and things like that and you've shown a few diagrams can you perhaps speak to your experience that you had with moving what you've built here in fact into day two into operations I think many of us still have nox and socks and you have like isolated DevOps people how did you change all of that when you brought your technology to to that arena yeah yeah honestly I have to say we are not yet in operation but still the way we want to go is really that we have the DevOps team really or like Sec DevOps team really managing everything so we are also questioning existing processes example yeah today there we use like net cool for all the the more the observe operation part of managing the different incidents and everything and there we now like started to use like pagerdue your ops genie which is much more built for DevOps team but then we still need to see how we integrate to the existing process for level 2 support and everything so there we are still in ongoing process I would say okay so perhaps next year you'll give us a talk on how that went yes yeah definitely okay so the last question a great presentation thanks a lot thank you I was thinking you are early starters are realized which is I mean impressive and I see you're facing a lot of challenges that other operators may not yet because they're still waiting a bit the landscape you have a lot of dependencies as well with suppliers vendors telco protocols and so on so the question is where do you see what is your goal your vision and have you quantified that when I reach my end goal but I have sold off my challenges the network looks like something right yeah you quantify the benefits like okay I did it I fully automated I see your challenges what is the finally the was it worth it finally what was the the benefit so the final goal would be really that we can use our service management infrastructure or tools framework really to deploy our workload we need to to provide telecommunication service over any infrastructure so we want to be able to design in the service management and then what is available where we get the best resources or whatever to be able to deploy it and as well to life cycle it so the whole CICD or also continuous testing is is a big thing in in this so in the able ads it's the automation is key if you want to operate hundred of network slices thank you okay thank you for all the questions and I'm looking forward to listen to all the following presentations thank you very much


Welcome to the 32nd meeting in 2023 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. I'd like to remind everyone to please switch off or put to silent their mobile phones and other electronic devices. The first item of business is a declaration of interests and accordance with section 3 of the Court of Conduct. I'd like to invite Colin Smyth MSP to declare any interests relevant to the remit of this committee. Thank you, convener. I don't have any interests to declare. Thank you very much and I'd like to welcome Colin to the committee. Before we move on to the next item on the agenda, I'd like to take this opportunity on behalf of the committee to thank Mercedes Villalva MSP for her hard work and contribution to the committee. I'd like to think that we would all like to wish her all the very best in the future. The next item of business is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Is the committee content to take these items in private? Under agenda item number 3, we're considering four instruments subject to the negative procedure. No points have been raised on SSIs 2023, 335, 336, 337 and 339. Is the committee content with these instruments? In relation to SSI 2023, 337, does the committee welcome that the instrument fulfills a commitment by the Scottish Government to correct a cross-referencing error in the Food Scotland Act 2015, compliance notices regulations 2023, which the committee identified at its meeting on 13 June 2023? Thank you and with that, I'll move the committee into private.


Hello everybody! In this video, I'm going to tell you about backup options for Viber and WhatsApp on Android, iOS and Windows devices. Many chats have certain value for their users. That's why application developers provided the opportunity to create a backup copy of Viber and WhatsApp chats. Keep on watching to see how to create and configure a backup. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browser history. Admin software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. In Viber, messages are not saved or restored automatically, but if necessary, you can create a backup and then restore it on another device. If you want to save a copy of old messages on another device, you can save it to a file. However, such backup copy has certain limitations. A chat backup copy can be created and read as text, but it cannot be restored in the application itself. Copies of sent files, photos, videos, etc. are not saved to such text files. Yet, let's talk about backup with recovery options first. In this case, you can only save the messages available on your device at the time when you are creating the backup. When a new backup is created, all the old ones will be removed. Such backup takes some time and internet traffic, so it's recommended to use a Wi-Fi connection. As a result, you'll be able to restore only text messages and a list of subscriptions, so all photos and videos have to be copied from the memory of your device. To create a backup in Viber, tap on More, the button with three horizontal lines, then go to Settings, Account, Viber Backup and then Backup. Now you'll have to wait until Viber backs up your data and this process can take some time. Before creating a Viber backup, make sure Viber has pre-accessed your Google Drive from this device. If there is no such connection, click on the link under the message about Google Drive and select the account to which the data will be saved. In backup settings, you can decide how often chat history is saved automatically. You can also save a chat backup as a file that could be emailed as a text document. But as I said before, you can't use such backup to restore Viber chat history, and photos or videos from your chats will not be saved either. Before sending, go to Settings, open Calls and Messages and choose Email Message History. Then choose where to send it and then, depending on your choice, specify the address or the name of the document if you are saving it to Google Drive. Then click Save. As a result, the file will be sent to the specified email address or saved to the Google Drive with the name you have given to it. With an iPhone, the backup process is the same, the only exception being that you will use iCloud instead of Google Drive. In the same backup settings, choose Backup Now and wait until Viber copies its data to iCloud storage. For automatic backup, choose Auto Backup and decide how often it takes place. Before creating a backup, check your connection to iCloud. To do it, open iPhone Settings, select iCloud, sign in, choose iCloud Drive and enable it, then find Viber in the list of apps and enable access. You can watch one of our videos to learn more about restoring Viber chats from a backup. Find the link in the description. Restoring chats can take some time and it up considerable amounts of internet traffic. That's why it's better to use a Wi-Fi connection. When restoring chats, you can't restore chat history in secret chats as well as send and received photos and videos, chat settings and messages sent to additional devices which are also connected to your account. If you are using Viber on a desktop computer and wondering how its chats could be backed up, I'll show it in a moment. And if you're not using Viber for PC yet and would like to know how to install it, you can watch a video on our channel. And you can find the link below this video as usual. In case with a computer, you can only create a text copy of the chat or replace the file containing chat history. All chat history is kept in the file Viber.db in this folder on disk C. C. Users. Username. AppData. Roaming. ViberPC. PhoneNumber. That's why to restore Viber, chat history, you need to restore that file. If you reinstalled the operating system on your computer and need to restore chat history or media files, use Happen Partition Recovery. Visit our channel to watch a video on restoring Viber data. After that, you'll have to find the file, fold in the given path and restore it, then replace it. If you need to restore media data, here is the path to where it's stored. C. Users. Username. Documents. Viber Downloads. With this program, you can scan and recover them from that folder. In WhatsApp, backup is automatic and you don't have to change any settings. However, it means that backups are saved to the phone's internal memory and any copies older than 7 days will be erased. Such backups are stored here. WhatsApp. Databases. You can watch one of our videos to learn more about restoring data from such backups. Find the link in the description. But if you want to save data to Google Drive, you'll have to go to Settings. Go to Settings, chat, chat backup. With the Google Drive account, how often backups should be created, how they will be uploaded to the server with Wi-Fi or with any other available network, check the box if you want to add videos to your backup. The first complete backup can take some time. Every time you create a backup in the same Google Drive account, the previous backup will be replaced. You won't be able to restore any previous backups from Google Drive. Open up WhatsApp messages on Apple devices is the same as on Android, but using cloud backup options requires you to be signed in to iCloud with Apple ID. In the settings, you can select backup frequency, account, and so on. To use iCloud for backup, you should meet certain requirements, like having iOS 7 or newer version, and for iOS 8 and higher versions, iCloud Drive should be enabled. You can check it by going to iPhone Settings, tapping on your name, then iCloud to see if it's enabled. Before creating a backup, make sure you have enough free space on your iCloud and iPhone. If you are worried about using mobile Internet connection, you can configure iCloud so that backups are only created when working with Wi-Fi networks. To disable iCloud using mobile Internet connection for iOS 8 and higher versions, go to iPhone Settings, cellular data, and disable iCloud Drive. To restore chat history from a backup in iCloud, check if the chat backup really exists by going to WhatsApp Settings, Chats, Chat Backup. If you see the date of the last backup, remove and install again the WhatsApp application from App Store. After you check the phone number, follow the wizard directions to restore your chat history. As well as in WebR, with WhatsApp, you have the option of emailing chat history. To do it, use the app to open the chat you need, to send by email, tap to export it, choose if you want any extra files, specify by email address, and tap More for extra options. In Windows 10 Mobile, backing up WhatsApp is done in exactly the same way. The only exception is that when saving chat copies to the phone's memory, you will find the backup in the path WhatsApp with phone backup. That is all for now. Hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Good commands to ask questions, thank you for watching and good luck.