Let's now take you to AdoState, where the governor, Gondwin Obaseke, has presented a 325.3 billion Naira budget to the AdoState House of Assembly for the 2024 fiscal year, which is a slight increase from the 320 billion Naira budgeted for the year 2023. Obaseke, who presented the budget to the Assembly at the Anthony and Nahor Assembly complex in Benin City, the AdoState capital, said the budget is made up of 178 billion Naira for capital and 146 billion Naira for recurrent expenditure. He also noted that with the budget, Christine Bodgett, home run, finishing strong, his government intends to despise the global economic headwinds and attendant implications for the national economy, martial resources to complete ongoing projects across the state in accordance of government's commitment to the well-being and prosperity of AdoState and sustained efforts to improve the ease of doing business, consolidate on key reform programs and conclude on transactions needed to stimulate economic growth. Mr. Speaker, members of this great House, the 2024 budget has been raised in budget overall, finishing strong. Despite the global economic headwinds and the attendant and official Scottish Government, we intend to mash out the hard-witted resources to complete ongoing projects that will sustain in further rest of our commitment to the well-being and prosperity of the states. We will sustain efforts to improve the ease of doing business, consolidate on key reform programs and conclude on transactions needed to stimulate economic growth, which is a slight increase from the 2020 budget. The budget is made up of 178 billion Naira for capital and 146 billion Naira for recurrent expenditure. The budget is the only thing that will give us care in the world.


All right, thanks. So, hey, welcome everyone. So, I'm Timothée Arvier and I work at Red Hat in the Chorus team, mostly on Fedora Chorus. And I'll be talking here today about Fedora Kinoite, which is a new version, a new variant of Fedora that we're introducing with Fedora certified. So, let's get right into it. So, first, the question is, okay, why Fedora? Why even bother with Fedora? And then why even bother doing this at all? And then, okay, where are the apps? And the, okay, well, with everything, we'll see a little bit about the future and what we're going to do with that. So, first thing, what is Fedora Kinoite? So, Fedora Kinoite, essentially, it's a new Fedora variant, which is attached to the KDE Sieg, so the special interest group in the Fedora community. We 100% Fedora. So, nothing in Fedora Kinoite is different from Fedora. It's just Fedora, but a little bit different twist, and we'll see that coming right away. So, yeah, it's 100% Fedora RPM packages. So, it's pretty Fedora. The thing that's different, of course, we're not just building something else just for the sake of it, is that it's an immutable desktop. We like to call it an immutable desktop, not in the sense that it won't change, but that you control how it changes, which is really important, like keeping control of your computer, of course. And, of course, we're here at the academy. It's all about KDE, and this variant is featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop. The first release for Fedora Kinoite is planned for Fedora 35. So, right now, Fedora 34 is stable, and we are in the development of Fedora 35, which should be stable, something around October or something. Yeah. All right. So, why Fedora? Well, there are a couple of things here that makes Fedora interesting as a base for this project. The first one is that Fedora provides a stable and up-to-date software stack. So, we integrate a lot of things in Fedora, a lot of open source projects, fresh and a bit stable open source projects. So, we do a lot of work on Wayland. We have Winn and Enable by default, Pipeware and Enable by default in Fedora 34, SystemD user sessions too, in KDE, and all of that comes tested and baked into the image by default. With KDE, more KDE focused, we always try, oops, it's still working. Oh, sorry. Yeah. We always try to follow KDE packaging, following KDE packaging, the latest release of KDE packaging, and we try to go upstream first usually. So, we try to make sure that everything of ashes is upstream first and that nothing is like only carry-by-house. We always try to keep it upstream. I'm sorry. I'm having a bit of trouble. I hope you can all see, still see me, and hear me. That should be fine. All right. So, come on. All right. I'll have to ask you for change slides for why, but that should be fine. All right. So, yeah, we upstream first, and we are an active special interest group. So, we have weekly meetings on Monday, around 1800, and we're very active. All right. So, what makes a difference? So, it's a little bit different from the KDE spin, the KDE spin, because it's based on RPM history. So, it's a different technology to manage your system. And essentially, the idea is that instead of managing single packages, you manage an image for your operating system, and you move from one version to the other when you update. It's the same technology I choose in Fedora Core S, for example, Fedora IoT and Fedora Silver View 2. So, that's RPM history for managing the system. And then, there's flatback that you use to manage applications. So, the basics about flatback is that instead of installing applications as packages, you install them as different packages, as flatbacks, and they can come from different sources. So, you don't have to add them from your distribution. You can add them from something else. They could even be preparatory or provided by all the vendors. And that's not an issue at all. And finally, when you've got all that, sometimes you have to do the development, you want to have command line tools, and things like that. And everything on Fedora Act Unite is using containers, essentially. So, to manage containers, we use Spotman, which is a container manager, which is very well suited for command line tools. All right. And, well, with all that said, the first variant, this kind of variant that was introduced in Fedora was Fedora Silver View. And essentially, we are really close siblings of Fedora Silver View because we use a lot of the same technologies. We share a lot of them. Okay. So, what does it look like? Well, essentially, it just looks like any regular caddy desktop. Like, if you just booted a Fedora QD spin and you compare it to a Fedora QD spin, it's essentially the same. It looks exactly the same because it's the same packages, same software, same form of version. Nothing changes except maybe a logo. We don't have a logo yet, but in the next coming week, maybe we'll have a new logo. And that will be the only difference, essentially, if you look just at the cover at the top. So, here it is. It's a Fedora certified that I freshly booted, recently booted. And you just install apps using Discover, just like on regular QD. It's just like all the only apps, well, mostly the only apps that you can install are Flatbacks. And you've got the same menu, the same fine managers and everything, same browser. Nothing changes here. All right. So, what's the current status of this initiative? Well, the official support is still in progress. Well, it's working. We already have it's planned for Fedora certified, the first release. You can track all that on the link here. We already have so official development builds. So, in Fedora, we call that Rohai, the development branch, which is like continuing development. And then it gets branched for each release. So, in October, or before October, it will be branched for Fedora certified. And then we will get our first stable release of Fedora Kinoite. So, right now it's Rohai, so it's development builds, but it's working. And I also produce an official build. So, I produce an official stable build for Fedora 34, the current stable branch. The only difference between the Fedora 35 builds and the 34 builds is that I do the builds for Fedora 34. So, it's not signed by Fedora key. And it's not signed. It's not built on Fedora infrastructure. It's built on my server, essentially. But it's still the same content. All right. So, what's the goal behind all that? And what do we want to do behind Fedora Kinoite and everything like that? Well, the main thing is one to create a really easy experience for users, which I think is like the top one priority. If you don't have users, it's not worthy of making everything, well, most things are not. Even if it's just you, but yeah, like we want to create a good experience for users. So, the first one is we use RPMS3 to manage a system and make system updates essentially a null event. The idea is that when you update RPMS3, it updates in the background. So, you don't change your system live. It creates a new version of the system. And then you reboot into it. And that's the base idea because, essentially, you don't have to wait for this to apply. You don't have to wait for your computer to update before you boot or at the shutdown. You just do like the bits live on the system. And it will only take place when you reboot. And you just reboot into a new version. The base itself is also set as like one single consistent image. So, you don't get like half things installed or half things misconfigured. It's just either installed or not installed at all. It's a stomach. It's just one or the other. You can get mixed. And if for whatever reasons you reboot into the new version, and there's a bug, like, I don't know, there's not your bug or graphics bug. And you just want to go back because it's, yeah, it's your day. You don't, like, you have things to do. You just go back to the previous version. Then that's easy. You just reboot into the previous version. It's always there. And you keep doing the work while you try to figure out why the bug is there, or report the bug or something like that. So, yeah, that's the system. And our payment stream makes managing the system really powerful. And that's the most of it. Then there's flatbacks. And when you use flatbacks, you get a lot of advantages right out of the box with the way flatbacks work. So the main idea is that you can install any big applications just like on their own. You don't need to update anything on the system to make them work. All the life cycles of the application is tied to the flatbacks. And that's it. There's nothing like need to system. And it makes it really easy to update application, install new ones without even bothering whether or not it will pull any libraries if there will be inconsistencies or conflicts or anything. That's never going to happen with flatbacks. It's either they're working or not there. And that's fine. So, yeah, it makes applications updates and changes completely independent of system updates, completely independent of the kernel, the changes, and everything on the desktop. We have two main sources of applications with flatbacks. Right now, we have which has mixed free and up to software and property software. And we also have a round set of flatbacks built on federal infrastructure, which we only contains free and up to software. And finally, the last piece here that makes it a great experience is toolbox. So the idea is you have a new multiple systems. So you don't, you don't, well, it's not always practical to install a lot of key tools or command line tools or things like that on the systems. And what you want to do is do most of that inside containers. And toolbox is the best way to make that available. And it also instantaneously makes all the RPM packages from Fedora available to you directly and free of cost really easy to use. And you can also use toolbox with all the distributions. So essentially, you get all the software that is packaged everywhere inside every single distribution, using toolbox, and you can run them as graphical application on your desktop. And it will work essentially in most cases. So yeah, that's like the last result thing, but that usually work for most things. All right. So that's like the basic thing. We want to make the user experience great, great for updates, great for install access to software. You don't get to missing anything. And at the same time, you get all the benefits of easy updates, never, never having fear that something would break if you update. So then, all right, we have users, but most of the times we, we also try sometimes even users try and do and test things. And we sometimes want to, as developer, ship some updated software to users for them to test. And that's something that's really easy to do by, to do with the same technology. So the main thing is thanks to our PM3, you can actually give updates to your users and have them try them just like one shot or thing like that. And then I let them go back to the stable versions. And that's really easy. That's something that it's really hard to do with classic package managers. And that's really to do with our PM3.   And that's what you get with our PM3.  And that's it. And you can always roll back if you got any issues.  Well, if you're a testing, a tester, you might also be interesting to test new flatback, new versions of flatback tabs. And that's something that's really easy to do with flatback too, because you can have multiple versions of the same application installed at the same time. And that's not an issue at all with flatbacks. You can switch between versions easily and, and install multiple versions in parallel. So you can always get the testing versions in the stable version. So if any issue comes back, you can just start the test, the stable one, and that's it. Then, yeah, and nothing that's great that with flatback, it's really easy to produce flatbacks from, from like PR or GitHub, GitHub PRs, for example, or, or any, any kind of PR, essentially. And for, so for example, you could give like, create a flatback repo, create a flatback change, just one, for one, for one fix and have it sent to users. And then the users can try this and like, make sure that by the day that the change is correct. And then you can manage the code. So I can put a link to GitHub action, because it's a quick way to, to, to try to, to try and create flatbacks from, from that. Right. And finally, we have developers. So if you are building on kitty, working on kitty, either the Plasma desktop itself or any applications, this is also a great opportunity for you because our industry makes you keep, keeps you in control of what's changing on system. So it enables control chance. I like to say it's immutable, but you have control over what changes in the system. You can replace any RPM on the system. So you can replace any component. If you want to have some, so for example, fix this system D, you could replace that and reboot your system and make sure that everything work. If, for example, you're working on fixing things there.  And, but you could replace any part of Plasma desktop and, and do the same. You can replace that live too. So you could apply the change like restart your session. And that's it. You're good to go. There's no constraints there. It's just essentially, there are a lot of tools to make that available to still for developers. So it's immutable, but you still get to change it. It just you have full control of all it changes. And for whatever reasons, yeah, it's development from time we made mistakes. If you want to go back to the version that's stable, that should be working, then you can do that. You can either revert that change that you've made live, or if your system crashed, for example, if any, if you had an issue, if you just reboot, you just go back to the stable version. And that's it. So there's no rolling back packages, changing or having broken system. Essentially, you never in a broken state. It's either working or you just go back to previous version that should be working. And, and for flatbacks, it's a little bit of the same essentially. So our industry is just for the system and flatbacks. In fact, you can have any environment, any frameworks, any version of Python, or any version of whatever you want installed, and any framework, and you will have that independently of what's installed in system. So you don't get to, you don't have any conflicts of whatever when you, when you're developing for, in flatbacks, because you did, you just get libraries from the firmware, for example, if you have any application, and you don't worry about the conflicts about in a system or user missing dependencies, something like that, because everything is packaged and will be shipped as is. So yeah, it's really liberating to have that in fact, and it makes it really powerful. All right. So, okay, so it's, we want to make a great experience for users, testers, developers. So, okay, well, in Federal Recreate Night, do we actually have applications? Because for most of the operating system, we need both, we need like, the system and we need applications, of course. Well, the story here is still in progress. So essentially, we already have flatbacks in Federal Recreate. So in one can write, you install most of the applications as flatbacks, and you already, you can already install most of the applications that are available as flatbacks from Fedora. So right now, we have a good selections, but unfortunately, we don't have the applications yet in Fedora, because we're still missing some couple of tricks to make them work. It's still in progress. You can follow the status here in the issue. And it's planned for Fedora 35. I'll try to make that happen for Fedora 35, with the Fedora KineWide 3Ds, of course. The main idea here is that once we'll get all the little things tweaked and working, we'll get all the already packaged applications from Fedora, KineWide applications in Fedora, on KineWide, essentially for free. So we'll get a lot of them straight out of the box, working. The main thing to remember is that they will be the same version as the one package in Fedora, because essentially they will, even though they're not strictly built from RPMs, it's the same recipe. So you will get flatbacks that are essentially really looking closely alike to the RPMs once. And it's always granted to be free in Opposite Software, because Fedora is about free in Opposite Software. But then in the meantime, it's good. We already have a lot of KineWide applications available on Flathub. So on Flathub, you get a ton of applications. I don't even remember the name, the count of the current number of applications available on Flathub. If it's high, you'll get either, well, a lot of them. And we quickly expanded the list of KineWide applications available on Flathub. You can search for all the KineWide applications there. And we try to follow all with the latest upstream release. So they get updated really, really, really fast when the releases are made. Essentially, it's on the day or the next day. And Flathub is a great place to do a lot of things. It's a great place to fix applications and work with upstream PDE application developers to fix the application that sometimes don't really work well with the flatbacks unboxing model. So some latest changes are needed to make them really work pretty, I would say. And yeah, there's a lot of small tasks that are easy to get started on that are there for packaging, either existing applications or to fixing some display issues for some or things like that. So if you look at Flathub, right now we have like a ton of apps on Flathub. This is just like the landing page with some popular applications. So it's mixed. There's both on Flathub free and up-and-down software and proprietary software. So you get to pick which one you want to install, but it's just to be aware of that. And if you search for all.kid, you'll get applications, which are, of course, free and up-and-down software, but they may come with additional specific software that's sometimes restricted in some places, such as FFM Bank or things like that, for video codecs or audio codecs. All right, so I'm good on time. So let's see what's the fuel or Federaq noise. So the idea is, okay, that's what's going to happen in Federaq 35. We're really close to be too close at that because I'll show you a running Federaq in the right instance just after that. But what's coming next? So essentially, the plans for the future is that we want to be the best platform to try the next version of KDE. So either KDE plus desktop or the KDE apps, we want to make sure that users, developers, testers, everybody can feel safe like testing the next version of those packages, those applications, easily using Kinoite, while at the same time keeping working in stable desktop environment. That's like so cool. So the first one is we want to make the Plasma beta releases available. So right now, Federaq, on the right branch, we always take the latest beta as the latest stable versions. But the stable version will always be a little bit behind, of course. So yeah, we want to make those available in a different way. And we want to also make KDE applications like pre-release or lightly flat packs of KDE applications easily available to users there. So that's both work like in Federaq and work upstream too. So we want to work with upstream here to make sure that everything done upstream to make application work in flat packs will be working well. So on the, there's already upstream KDE testing versions of, nightly versions of KDE applications. So that's good. And it's, I would say just need a little bit of polish to make it work well. But the main thing here, so for, on the Federaq, you know, outside is we is bringing to users like beta versions of KDE Plasma desktop really soon, really, really fast to, for testers on stable branches. And this is what we want to do in the short term. So have multiple different streams. So right now we'll, we will have essentially a different stream for each branch version of Federaq. So Federaq 34, Federaq 35, and 36 coming in next in six months. And what we want to add is essentially a new versions that will be Federaq stable. So the current stable version plus on top like the beta versions of the KDE Plasma desktop. So well, you will get that really strong solid stable foundation like system D, the kernel, Mesa, the graphic stacks and everything Firefox. And then on top you will get like the next the beta Plasma desktop available or the nightly Plasma desktop if there's no beta. And you can just try that. And so essentially you don't, you don't, you kind of, you don't have to fear that for example, there's a bug somewhere in the, in the fast system driver in the kernel in this different version because it's still a stable kernel. You're just using like the nightly Plasma desktop. So if things crash, usually it's just your system question and not everything on the system. And that should be fine. So yeah, that's like what we want to create like this specific version that makes it really easy for users to taste the latest Plasma release on a very strong stable version of the system. And I think that's something that does not really exist today. And yeah, we, we want also to make sure that everything gets tested before it gets released. So right now it's, we need a bit of mix because we do testing, but sometimes things go to, go to users and we still have some, some, some part missing around testing and we want to improve the testing here. Yeah. And essentially that's it for, for the, for the main thing we want to bring. And that's a big one because like enabling users to easily test the next versions is like something without having to create veteran machines, create, have a new laptop on the side to do the testing, but like actually do the testing live is a big thing. All right. So here's the like short summary of everything. Well, we still don't have a logo. It's still in progress. There's an issue to track here. I'll share the slide somewhere. Oh, the slide should be shared somewhere. And yeah, if you want to join us for and help us do on that journey, we're working essentially in the Fedora QE SIG and we're working closely with upstream. We meet every week on Monday. Usually we are very, very friendly bunch. So feel free to join, feel free to join. And yeah, you can try it right now. Official development builds of Fedora QNUite. All the interestings are there. It's on the Fedora. It's on the Fedora infrastructure. And if you want to try several versions of Fedora QNUite, so an official one, non-official one, the one that builds myself, you can go ahead and try in this link of the Fedora magazine article. And yeah, I think that's time for a little bit of a demo. So let's see if this works. I think I'm good on time. I still have five minutes, something. And I can't hear anything, so because probably I need to fix my sound. Okay, so demo. Hey, Tim, I think can I offer any help? Yeah, I'm trying to share a window. I'll have to switch presenter to another brother. Should be fine. Okay, joining back. Can you switch presenter mode on the new one session here? I have an audio please. Thank you. Great. I'll take the first questions if we have one right now. Well, I tried to figure out how to share things here. Sure thing. So it looks like we have a couple. The first question is when will we get Kino for Plasma Mobile? I don't think to be, oh, do you hear me? Sorry. Oh, my bad. Sorry. I'm back. Okay. Wow. Our first question is when will we get Kino for Plasma Mobile? Yeah, this is planned. This will come when we have all the Plasma Mobile application and changes a little bit of tricks into Fedora. I think this package in progress for that. The other question we have is are you using Keynote as your usual operating system? If not, what would be missing? So yeah, I am using Keynote on my main laptop and planning to switch my second computer to it when it's released in Fedora. Awesome. And we offer any help helping to get that demo up? I'll switch brother again. Okay. Could you, yeah, not on the other one, please. Sorry. Sorry. It's a little bit of a mess because, yeah, one should be better. I'll try and resize that so that we get only the most interesting part on the screen. And yeah, so this is essentially Fedora Keynote. It's not squared, but yeah, that's twisted. Strange. And that's extra weird. Yeah. All right. So it's just a regular key desktop. Well, let's forget about that. I'll share something else. I actually share my laptop, which is running Fedora Keynote. So yeah, here it's my laptop. And I'm running Fedora 34. So it's the official version of Fedora Keynote. And yeah, so you can see here I have two versions running. I have two versions installed. So I always, at all times, we usually have two versions still in system. So the first one here is the version I'm currently running. It's marked by a small dot on the side here. And I have some packages installed on top of this version. So we have Chromium, have Chrome, each job and thing like that. And there's a second versions underneath, which is the previous version that I had built before. So it's smaller from last week, and this one is from two weeks ago. And yeah, I could just go back to the previous versions if there's any bug in this current version. And I'll do a build like on Monday, something, and I'll simply update the new one there. So that's essentially RPMS3 that you manage your system. And you have one image with all the components, the KDE desktop and thing that inside. And then you get flatbacks. So if you go and try to look at flatbacks, I have here a lot of flatbacks installed. So I have flatbodies, so proprietary apps. And at the same time, I have inkscape, for example, open source applications and some QD applications there that are installed from Fathub. So if I launch Dolphin, it will run. Yeah, I need this to do QD Dolphin. Oh, I have a Dolphin installed. Yeah, I have Dolphin installed. It's just with a small d. Yeah, so essentially, when I run Dolphin here, it's Dolphin run as a flatback. So it's the latest version of Dolphin, even though I don't have this version on my system because here we're running like 21, 21, 4, 4, 2. And if I run the system Dolphin, so the one that's currently in my system, it's a little bit behind because we have not updated the version in Federal 34 yet. So I can run both. Actually, I can start the Dolphin, the classic Dolphin 1, and it's just fine. I'll have the version from the system and the one at the flatback here at the same time. And they just do absolutely the same because essentially, the integration is very good with flatbacks and you don't get to see much differences there. And we've got a lot of other applications. We've got some, the calculator, the image viewer, it's already there, the extractor, and yeah. And classic ones like Libreface, Firefox, Thunderbird, and things like that. Yeah, I don't know if, what should I show you on the desktop here? Yeah, essentially, it's Fedora and it's a kitty desktop, so there's not much to show because it's basically behaving in the same way. So right now it's called Sivaboo, but this is just like a peer-to-peer version. And yeah, and if, if I was running the override version, you will get the exact latest. We're right now in the override, we are using the Fedora 2522, the Fedora, the KDE 522 releases that we have 2521, the latest one built and available that will be shipped to Fedora 34 in the coming weeks. All right, do we have any questions left? All right, it seems we have a couple. Does KDE apps come from Flat Hub by default or from Fedora Flat Pack remotes? By default, it's only Fedora, because we want to make sure that only free-in-episode software is available by default, and then you can have Flat Hub and get anything from Flat Hub. All right. The question I see is, how do you handle things like the, I'm just going to spell this out, NVidia driver? Oh yeah, NVidia driver. So you can get that installed easily. It's, it's, it's working now, it's been working for a couple of phases. You can get that installed on top of the image, and it will be essentially, it will rebuild the, the, the kernel driver for every new version to deploy. And yeah, that's, that's working. I don't have one in VG card right now, but I did testing and it works. Great. Well, thank you. Yeah, thank you. I hate to say it, but that is the end of our time. And thank you so much for being here and presenting. Thanks. Thanks, please feel free to jump back in the chats and, and chat away, answer any more questions that come up. Thanks. Thanks. Have a great rest of the day.


Alrighty, so we have some pretty exciting news coming out of Kennywood. It looks like the final teaser has been released. It looks like that they're signaling towards a possible announcement tomorrow or this week. I mean, it really looks like it could happen unless there's a whole another round of teasers released. But I mean, these numbers have been throwing what seems like everyone off for quite some time now. I'm confused, like I'm beyond confused. It sounded like in our live stream yesterday that everyone was confused. So I thought I'd try something new. You know that I'm doing control my video on Instagram, where I let you guys kind of like control what I'm saying in my video or present a counter argument towards what I'm saying. And I put up a little poll today that asked people what they honestly think is coming to Kennywood. So at the end of the video, I'm going to read some of the quotes or opinions that people put down there that they think is coming. Because you know what? There's nothing funner or more fun to be correct than hearing other people's perspective. So let's get it right off to the start. So we just can't wait any longer. This is the main event of the evening, introducing the ninth and final clue of Project 412. Now what comes next? Find out tomorrow morning. It's an Independence Day surprise. So it does sound like maybe the announcement isn't going to happen tomorrow, but there's something to follow. A lot of people are speculating that the announcement will take place though, at some point this week or tomorrow even. And it could go either way. I mean, a reason I think the park might be rushing this teaser campaign and the announcement is we know Six Flags and Cedar Fair do their announcements in August and September. And maybe Kennywood, you know, it's a smaller park, but it looks like they're getting something epic, regardless of its size, wants to announce this sooner. So it gets the limelight it deserves. Based off of the numbers I'm seeing, the speculation, the most well hid coaster of 2019 come on props to Kennywood for keeping this under wraps. It seems like they really want to give this the attention it deserves and announcing it earlier than August would be smart on the park. So let's go over it. 197, 3. So this is my prediction. 197 is the height of the coaster, 3 is number of inversions, 24 is capacity of the train, 220 is either the drop, maybe intertwine those or exchange those numbers, 220 and 197. 120 is, this is where I get lost, something 75 is maybe the speed, 9 is, I'm confuzzled, 50 kerfuffled, and 4000 is definitely the track length in my opinion, which is awesome. That's a decent sized coaster for Kennywood. But let's talk about this. So again, I'm going to be doing the interesting, like reading people's opinions and perspectives in just a bit. At the end of this video, I will read what people are commenting on my control my video post. So again, head on over to Instagram, comment on any posts I say control my video or any survey or pull in my Instagram story. I think this is a great idea. I want you guys more involved in my videos. I don't want to just sit here and give you my perspective. I mean, as you can see with this campaign, I have no idea what's going on. So bring you on in and help me out with this. All right. So back to Kennywood. I got off topic there. So Kennywood, it is a mystery coaster. It really is a mystery coaster. They have kept this thing so well hidden.  It sounds like no one has a single clue, which makes this project probably in my opinion, and you know how much I'm favoritizing Canada's Wonderland's new coaster. I would actually call Kennywood's new coaster the most like what I look forward to in 2019. Like I think this is the biggest thing for the coaster enthusiast community to come forward in a long time like a smaller park with a really nice project coming, a bigger project. This is epic. It's been well kept. The teasing campaign is supreme. Like this is just awesome. Like the conversations I'm having with enthusiasts around North America online and in person at Canada's Wonderland. Everyone's talking about this project. Like great job Kennywood. Again, I couldn't hype you up anymore. Like you deserve every little bit of praise for this campaign and probably this coaster. I mean, I don't want to overhype this one, but it really sounds like this is going to be a winner and just great job. Definitely want to hear from you guys down below. A, what do you think this coaster is going to be? Do you think they're going to announce it this week? And do you think that this is the like biggest like what people are looking forward to in 2019?  Anyways, let's get into control my videos. So control my videos. As I just said, you go to my Instagram. If you see a control my video post comment down below what you want me to read. And if you see on my Instagram story, a poll, definitely participate in that. So I'm going to read some of the comments. So we have from Mike's Coaster Adventures, RMC Woody. We have Seth underscore Walkzac. Hopefully I didn't pronounce that wrong. Sorry if I did. Gertzlauer infinity coaster. We have casual coasters and Mac hyper probably Royals underscore Wesley underscore 25. Gertzlauer infinity coaster similar to Gold Rush at Sligaran. Hopefully I'm not pronouncing these wrongs correctly down below. If I do, I am so sorry I'm doing this on the fly. I do all my videos live. Coaster underscore rampage infinity coaster. So I'm starting to see a theme here. Carson 2345 Vakoma SLC. I think he was just being funny. Adam underscore pace five. They're lost.  But that's just how it goes. Waterbeast underscore 99 75 miles per hour launched hyper Gertzlauer infinity coaster underscore clouds one. I'm going to say it's going to be a mac hyper built kind of like top thrill dragster but shorter with a complete layout. That would be crazy. But hey, everyone has their opinion. And then African Texan mock launch coaster question mark. Zock burger 21 launched pen fari giga with inversions. FG photographs on Instagram. Glad to see you in there. I'm putting money on mock hyper coaster labs a 220 foot infinity coaster with 197 foot drop at 120 degrees makes sense because the hold section is quite tall a 50 degree angle of ascent nine inversions 75 miles per hour three records broken and 24 cedar train.  And then yeah, that's pretty much all I see on here. So thanks again for participating in my my first control my video. There's going to be lots any video I do I'm probably going to put up a control my video because I want my videos to be all about you. I don't want you guys sitting here just listening to my perspective on a park that in a lot of cases I haven't visited yet. I'm going to try and get out to a lot of American parks next year. But I think it's much more fun and the whole point of my channel is speculation and rumors so bring on more people into the speculation and rumors it provides a better discussion. So again guys go on down below comment what you think this coast is going to be. Are they going to announce it this week? And is this the best teasing campaign you've seen? I mean that's including it being kept a secret. Again thanks so much for watching my video guys. Give the video a like subscribe if you haven't and share this video. Thanks again guys have a good one. Bye.


Hi, I'm Cherdie from CalTV Entertainment. Tonight I'm at the Playhouse to get exclusive interviews on the cast of Chavez Ravine. Let's go check it out. More about the general concept of this play, what is it about and what can the audience gain from watching this play? What is so amazing about this show is that it talks about communities of color and it's a story that has not been told off. So I think it'll also bring a lot of audiences that don't normally come to the theater because of the content. I know a lot of the CLSD, which is the Chicano Latino Student Development Office, they are going to come as a group and my community college, Contra Costa College, the Chicano theater class is going to come and watch the play and my family is going to come. It's about Latinos and Latinos are considered minorities but in reality we are no longer the minority in California. I think it's a story that is very purposeful and it's about community and I'm just really happy to be a part of it. I'm glad you mentioned that because that was my upcoming question. How does it feel to represent the Latino community because I know this is personally very exciting for me. They're going to love it and we all have families traveling to come up and see this show and maybe for the first time we have friends in the cast whose families have never come to see them in a show and they're coming to see this show so this is really, it is about community. It keeps coming back to that theme so it's been really beautiful and having Sean San Jose as our director is just, it was necessary, it would have been impossible without him. Yeah, no, I think one of the little exercises that Sean San Jose made us do was to who would we dedicate this to and I think it would be selfish to say it's just dedicated to ourselves as actors to figure out our characters because we're not just embodying real people that live in the community but millions of people that are around right now that are dealing with these issues that are going on so in this play we jump forward through time from the bend backward to go from the 80s to the 40s to the 50s to the 80s so with that comes the confusion at possibly that you might be confused that you're going back in time but with the same issues that are happening again and again and again hopefully that the people in the audience see themselves fully and I think that's what we've all been trying to do and I think it's amazing to just have the opportunity to play someone that's Fernando Valenzuela who looks like me and I know I'll never be a Dodger pitcher but I get to dress up as a historically accurate person and that was all I wanted, I didn't even know I would get lines, so to see myself on screen at least here in photos and stuff it's been an amazing opportunity, thank you. Yeah I think this is the first, this is probably the first play that I've ever spoke Spanish in and heard Spanish being talked in on stage so that's amazing so when my parents come like you'll hear words like and I wrote this in a Facebook post actually like chale simón y orale stuff like you would never think would be on a stage but it's here and I think it's affecting so many communities like on the Berkeley campus as well as all over because our families are traveling from all over like California like no joke I have like 20 people coming tomorrow so I'm like really excited and really nervous because with this comes also like responsibility because it is the first time probably and so yeah I think it's a blessing to have this happen here while I've been here on campus. Again this is Charity from CalTV Entertainment make sure to come and check out Chavez-Raveen starting tomorrow March 4th, thank you. All Berkeley! All Berkeley! The evolution is in the air. Yes. Come here. That was great. Make sure to check out triple nine opening in theaters tomorrow February 26th, thank you.


Remember a Hallmark card when you care enough to send the very best. Pictures of Hallmark cards bring you John Hodyak in Standish of Standish on the Hallmark Playhouse. His greatest stars in outstanding stories and presents as your host one of the most distinguished actors of the American Theater. Mr. Lionel Barrymore. This is Lionel Barrymore. Since this is the beginning of Thanksgiving week, we of Hallmark Playhouse thought you might like to hear the story of a man who took part in that first Thanksgiving day upon these American shores. To do this, we have adapted Jane G. Austin's fine book called Standish of Standish. I'm sure most of us remember Captain Miles Standish for his legendary courtship of Brazil. But as a matter of fact, his whole life was a romantic adventure. I think you'll enjoy hearing about it. And to star in the role of the brave captain tonight, we are happy to have that excellent actor John Hodyak. And now here's Frank Goss from the makers of Hallmark cards. When you choose the Christmas cards that will carry your warm wishes across the miles, here's something to remember. Hallmark Christmas cards cost no more. Yet you can always find a Hallmark card that's a perfect reflection of your feelings of friendship, of your own good taste. That's why that Hallmark on the back is always a welcome addition to your thoughtfulness. For it tells your friends, you cared enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of the Technicolor Picture Plymouth Adventure, starring Spencer Tracey, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, and Leo Gann. And now here's the first act of Standish of Standish, starring John Hodyak. He stands alone on the hilltop, looks out to sea. His bearing, his erect and proud, has become the soldier who was fought so gallantly against the Spanish and far-off Harlem. Captain Miles Standish shields his eyes with a sun-brown hand and gazes intently across the borders of Glimlet Harbor. Across the calm Massachusetts Bay, to the open sea and the dark silhouette upon it. Aye, it bears this way. Be it friend or foe, it's long since sight of any ship upon these empty waters. How long? Many months, even perhaps a year. And yet, must a man always measure time by the hourglass and calendar? Is it easier to say that scarce two years have passed since we of the Mayflower drifted about upon that same horizon, or to say it happened fifty lives ago? Aye, for there were fifty more lives among us that December night when we gathered in desperate counsel. Every man except Captain and crew was in the main cabin that night. This much we know, sirs. The merchant company which sent us to found the colony in Virginia has entrusted us all to a traitorous captain. Aye, we'll never see Virginia. Captain Jones has taken Dutch gold to cast us away on this barren coast. Call him not Captain Michelle then, but a buccaneer and a slave. That was his former calling. Gentlemen, gentlemen, a word. Aye, Captain Standish. Anger is not our remedy. We can't forever coast along these shores. There's little food and too much scurvy. We must make a landing and begin our colony. We've made landings, Captain, and found no worthy spot. True, and been greeted by arrows and howling savages. And so we must look farther. Tonight I've talked to our pilot and he remembers a likely harbor. He's willing to guide us there. And perhaps to an Indian ambush. It is possible, sirs, for the savages do well to hate us. Other white men have come here to capture their people and sell them into Spanish slavery. Still, we must risk it. Well, gentlemen, what thank you of our friend's advice. You, John Olden, Captain Standish is our military commander. We have voted our lives under protection of his sword. Wherever we may go, he will not fail us. We're spoken, we're spoken. Then it is decided, and may Providence smile upon our efforts. Captain Standish, Captain Standish. Aye, ma'am. A word, most urgent. Then gentlemen of you will pardon me. And now, Priscilla, what causes you to interrupt the council? Your wife, Captain. Mr.  That the first warning came to me. An illness of which Rose made light and which I did not yet fear. There was work to be done and my worries were of it. The pilot had told of a harbor and a handsome beach. But before we dared land the women and children, his story must be proved by exploration. And so the next day the ship's longboat was provisioned and 18 of us set forth into the face of an icy gale. Sleet cut its mark across face and hands and crusted on our iron helmets and breastplates. The wind rose high and in one terrible moment rudder and sail and mast carried away. The first land we made was an island, but still a refuge. And with the passing of the storm, we found ourselves in the midst of a landlocked harbor. We rode toward the shore with better spirits than in many a moon. Look under, sirs, a great grey rock standing forth from the surf. I savor it lands. Let it be our stepping stone to the land. I'll say you, Captain. An excellent spot, Master Bradford. All things appear excellent. The open fields stretching down to the beach. That high hill beyond where I may set my cannon and make a fortress. Excellent gentleman. And familiar. Familiar, you say? Aye. This harbor bears likeness to Captain John Smith's map. He christened such a place as this. Glimmet. Glimmet. The port from which we sailed. And now the name of our new home. Glimmet. In our new England. Upon this rock I seized this land and lay claim to it. For the glory of our sovereign Lord James, King of England, France and Ireland. Rock we planted our colony. Began our fortress and cabins and common house. Snow and ice slowed the work and sickness brought it to a halt. Of our hundred and one only seven of us had strength to nurse the ill and bury the dead. At first they went by ones and twos, and then by tens. And with them she went. The rose of my life. John Alden and I buried her here upon this hilltop. Come away, Miles. It's not good to linger. One moment more, John. Count them. The graves? I'm weary of counting them. They number almost fifty. Aye. And give fair warning to the Indians that we grow weaker and they ever stronger. Strong enough to attack. It's true. I've seen them skulking about the woods. They watch and wait. And we must give them something to watch. With the first thaw we must plow this field and plant corn in it. What? You'd have us destroy our graveyard? We must before its presence destroys us. Miles, signal gun. Aye, they want us in the settlement. Let us go. It was Priscilla Moline who had caused the signal gun to be fired. We found her waiting in the doorway of her father's cabin. She was weeping. Go in, Captain. My father would speak to you. Why there is still time? But what if John we were told that he also was wanted? He is. Stay here with me, John. I fear to be alone. Captain Standish. Aye, Master Moline. I grieve for your loss this day. Such a loss as soon my daughter will have in me. May it not come to pass, sir. It will. First mother and brother, and now it is to be me. I'm made cast entirely alone in this crude wilderness. Has she no kin in her native France? France is far away, my son. You are me. Master Moline. Watch over my daughter. Keep her from harm. See that she marries soon and happily. I shall do all that I can, sir. Thank you. Captain Standish. Aye. If, despite my request, there be any else who has better claim to your protection. There is one, sir. Barbara. Barbara? We were friends in childhood, and our families are somewhat kin. It is my hope to do well here and to send her a dowry and a chance for marriage. That is my only promise, except that which I've given you.  God bless you. I found shelter with the family of Elder Brewster. And for myself, I sought the company of young John Alden. Together we lived and worked and waited for the coming of spring. Game fresh alarm. Captain. It's among us. I see him, Master Bradford. But he comes alone. One lone savage wandering curiously from cabin to cabin. But still an Indian, sir. Perhaps a spy will take a report to a thousand others. Whatever he be, let us receive him kindly. That all may know we are peaceful men. I am to prove it. I shall welcome him myself. Samuset came to Glimmus. A red savage who spoke our own language. Samuset learned white man talk when white men come in ships to fish. English fishing vessels have come to Cape Cod. Many summer ago. In Cape C.  White man give food, smoke, pipe with Samuset. We've little food left from the winter, but you shall have your share. White man have much food. Plant corn. Aye, but the soil is poor. The corn does not grow. Indian no way. Indian plant corn, fish in ground together. They grow good. Samuset show white man. Samuset came other Indians. Both to trade and to show us their ways with the soil. We bought the furs which they brought us, and their bundles of sassafras roots and loaded the cargo aboard the Mayflower. Then finally the day came when the ship made ready to sail. Governor Bradford called us together in the common house. Gentlemen, in Yonder Harbor floats the last link with a world we once called our own.  We left the old world with high hopes for a better future. The pleasanter life of Virginia was our goal, and we were cheated of it.  We chose a right when we cast off the old world. We've come to find a new world with new ways, better ways. We came on a pilgrimage to find a new life. That life is here, waiting for us to make of it what we will. An eye for one cannot and will not turn away from the task. We turn to the second act of Standish of Standish, starring John Hodyak. As I was making out my Christmas card list the other day, this thought occurred to me. Christmas comes twice a year, where you know the first joy of Christmas is in giving, a joy that comes the moment we start planning how to make someone else happy. And making someone happy is much simpler than we often think it is. Thoughtfulness, not cost, is the key. That's why at Christmas you'll see so many people selecting an individual hallmark card for everyone on their list. They have found one way to make their family and friends happy at Christmas. At fine stores everywhere you'll find there are hallmark Christmas cards with special heartwarming messages. Christmas cards you'll want to send because they express your sentiment so beautifully. Say something you want to say, just the way you want to say it. There are hallmark Christmas cards for each member of your family, for your neighbors, your family doctor, a man in the armed services, your minister, and many others. Each card carries your Christmas thoughts in a very special way. It's as if you were there in person saying, I selected this card especially for you for Christmas. And of course the hallmark on the back of each Christmas card you choose adds its own message of thoughtfulness. It says, you carry enough to send the very best. Now back to Lionel Barrymore in the second act of Standish of Standish, starring John Horiak. Hilltop, Captain Miles Standish gauges out over Plymouth Harbor toward the unknown sailing vessel which bears ever nearer. As he watches the strange sail, his mind sees again another ship, the Mayflower. Much as we hated the sight of that ugly, leaky, plague-ridden craft, we felt all of us that twinge of homesickness when it up anchored and disappeared into the east. With her went a most precious cargo, our letters to friends and kin in Old England. It was soon after the Mayflower sail that Governor Bradford engaged me in a private and most serious talk and after which I in turn went to young John Alden. Pardon me, Miles, but I catch not your meaning. Then I'll put it bluntly. You and I, John, and several more are single men. For our colony's sake, we should be family men. Oh. If you mean to marry him, if she will have you, there could be no if. Lucky would any girl be to call herself Mr. Standish. Think you such a girl as Priscilla Moline. Priscilla, I owe her protection. And with your help, she'll receive it on me. With my help. I've lived too long a soldier's life. I've little of the lover's turn of speech. But you, John, you know the maid well. You visited her often. And now you will again to woo her in my name. Miles, lad, do not look so stricken. Your task is strange. But in it, you help a staunch friend. When shall Priscilla hear your suit? Tonight. Tonight I stand sentry, and there bring me report. How did she receive you? Hurtiously. Kindly.  Carefully and fully. And her word? It was, uh, she may yet change her mind. No, I cannot. Cannot. Think, Miles. Why is it that Priscilla and I are so often together? Why did I shrink from tonight's embarrassment? You love her. With all my soul. No other man would I step aside. Be my friend, but do not ask me to plead your suit. Well... Miles, do not lie. It is but at myself. Here is the proof of my words. I've lived too long a soldier's life. So many thoughts of war and of the defense of this colony have filled my mind and blinded me to the signs of love in my own best friend. Then you hold it not against me? No, lad. For now I understand Priscilla's answer. She says me, nay, that she may say you, or as John, wed the maid, and with a loser's blessing. Summer passed and the autumn came with full harvest and a peaceful colony. So it was that we set aside a day and a week for thanksgiving to the merciful providence which watched over us. There was feasting and sport and hospitality to all the Indians round about. And now soon another year will end. And soon a second time for thanksgiving. Captain Standish, your attendance fleets. I am, Mr. Bratford. While you wander upon this hill, the village grows restless and craves your orders. What orders, sir? Concerning yonder ship. It draws into the harbor, and we know not if to greet it as friend or foe. Nor I, sir. Which is why I stand here waiting. Canada. Is it in salute or pirate attack? Close. The flag flutters to the mast head. Then to the beach quickly, and let us welcome their first boat. The good ship and the lad. Have I changed too badly? Oh, no, my name. But have you no other greeting? Aye. And now there's true breaching we shall have. Captain Standish. Aye, Master Bratford. We'll keep the ship's master waiting no longer. Master was but an excuse to call you. I like not to look on your face, Master Bratford. I like better than yours. And now it's this. The red skin, some of that came to me in the crowd and whispered of war. Things in fear of our growing strength. The sight of today's ship has fanned the blaze. Aye, but there's added worry. The tribes know you, Captain, to be our defense.  And to that oath I must make the same answer. I'll seek him out in his own force. No, Captain. It may be your murder. Better that, sir, than to cower here and so invite the murder of all returns from the wilderness. I feared sadly for the colony had no word from you these many days. But wait, your arms... A wound no more. And less than Pexuot received. Is dead? Dead. And there will be no war. Oh, thanks be to heaven. For peace, Barbara, for my safe return. No, this time I'll not ask another to say the words that are my privilege. Come, Barbara, forget the hour. The night is warm and we'll walk in it. I dreamed a dream another night. I saw you wounded and dying feverish in the forest. And so I was. After the Indians' blade found me. Was a fever as real as life and as true. I saw us in it. You and me as in you's gone by. You, a child in an English garden. And I already a soldier. A soldier too old to speak his heart to a child too young. A soldier who went away to Holland in the battlefield. He made her one promise only. To send a dowry for her wedding someday. That too was clear in my feverish dream. And then another girl, much older. I loved her with a different love. And it died with her. And then in my fever I saw another face. The face of past happiness smiling here upon this wilderness coast. And there. There the fever ended. I woke and wondered what power on earth had drawn you across that stormy water. Miles, can't you see? The only dowry I've wanted through all these years. Is the love of the soldier who went away. Then you have it now. To come. My love, my dear. And added to it, a richer dowry than any maids beyond these shores. This new land. This new world. It waits here all around us. For us and our children. To touch it into life. To tame it with the axe. To make it fertile with the plow. His blessing. A nation among nations. 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It's the same symbol you always look for on the back of a card when you carry enough to send the very best. Here again is Lionel Barrymore. Thank you, John Hodeak, for a magnificent mild stand. It was a pleasure to have you with us tonight. Thank you very much, Mr. Barrymore. As a matter of fact, this is the second appearance of a member of the Hodeak family on Hallmark Playhouse. Your beautiful wife, Anne Baxter, was our star a couple of weeks ago. And believe me, it's always a pleasure to see her. Well, Mr. Barrymore, Anne certainly enjoys being on Hallmark Playhouse as much as I do. By the way, just a couple of nights ago, Anne was reading the Hallmark card story of Christmas in an envelope in the new issue of Cornette. And you'd have thought she'd discovered Christmas cards for the first time she was so interested in. Well, I could well imagine that, John.  That's why the story of how they started is so interesting. It's also quite a fascinating story on the same subject in the December issue of Living for Young Hoonmakers, which tells the story of how Hallmark fostered great art as a means of expressing our Christmas wishes. Be sure to get a copy, Mr. Barrymore, thanks for telling me about it. Now, what story are you going to have on Hallmark Playhouse next week? Well, next week our story will be dramatized from the historical novel by Bruce Lancaster called The Secret Road, a story of espionage and intrigue that helped America win the Revolutionary War. To start on this exciting story, we shall have Dana Andrews. Our Hallmark Playhouse is every Sunday. Our producer-director is William Day. Our music is composed and conducted by David Rose, and our story tonight was adapted by Leonard Sinclair. Until next Sunday then, this is Lionel Barrymore saying good night. Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. John Hodiac is currently appearing in Battlezone. John Alden was played by Whitfield Connor, and Bradford was portrayed by James McKellion. Others in our cast included Virginia Gregus, Priscilla, Lerene Tuttle as Barbara, and Ted DeCorsia as Molina. Every Sunday Hallmark cards present two great programs for the whole family's enjoyment. On radio, the Hallmark Playhouse with host Lionel Barrymore, and on television, outstanding dramatic entertainment on the Hallmark Television Theater, consult your paper for time and station. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time. When Hallmark Playhouse returns to present Dana Andrews and Bruce Lancaster's The Secret Road, and the week after that Mildred Cram's miracle on the Blutter starring Joan Fontaine, and the week after that Lloyd C. Douglas' home for Christmas on the Hallmark Playhouse. This is the CBS Radio Network. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.