Hi everybody! Welcome or welcome back to the channel! I'm very excited today because I have a guest, Laura! Laura, do you want to introduce yourself? Absolutely! Hello everyone! I also have a hiking channel. I have an Instagram adventures after U75 and my hiking channel is LauraLyanne and there it is! Laura creates a lot of content about hiking and adventure traveling here in the U.S. and beyond. She's gone on so many wonderful hikes really all around the world and the reason we are here today is to talk and share our experience climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. So as you guys know I climbed Kilimanjaro last year 2021 in August via the Machame route and then Laura climbed the mountain via a different route. I did. I actually did it in late December sorry some of it December 31st so only a couple months after and I did the Murangu route. Today we want to kind of compare both of these routes the Murangu route and the Machame route and understand what the differences are what Laura's experience was like and then what my experience was. Before we get there I did share a lot of videos about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro via the Machame route including a documentary about the whole experience that you can check up here. I will also leave links to Laura's channel she has a lot of valuable information about climbing the mountain from the Murangu route. So for me Laura the Machame route we spent seven days on the mountain. How many days did you spend on the mountain from the Murangu route? Yeah so the total you would spend is five or six days for the Murangu route. I did it in five but you also can take kind of more of a just one day kind of quick hike to rest your body and that would be a sixth day. So really the main thing or the main difference between the Machame route and the Murangu route is the the land or the duration of time you're going to be spending on the mountain. The Machame route you will need more days on an average the Murangu route is shorter. Now I know when it comes to the distance the the Machame route we are covering about 36 miles and then the Murangu route is a little bit longer right? It's actually a little bit longer even though it's shorter days fewer days but fairly similar around 45 miles. The Machame route is known for being one of the routes with a high success rate and then I know that with the Murangu route you really have to be a competent hiker you have to be fit in order to to make it. Yeah absolutely since it's in fewer days and longer you definitely need to kind of make sure that you've done some training beforehand. With that said it still it still does have a very high success rate. All Kilimanjaro does have a very higher success rate but because you're kind of going in more altitude every single day altitude sickness might be more of a issue. That's a good point because at high altitude or at high elevation you want to give your body enough time to adjust to change in elevation and it feels as if with the Murangu route you don't have that much time so unless you have experienced hiking at elevation it will be a little bit more challenging. Exactly yes and like I do have experience with the elevation with that said since I was just you know only in Tanzania I wasn't coming from much of another mountain beforehand I was not acclimatized so I am used to those higher elevation hikes from previous hikes but at the same time I wasn't really ready so definitely that night before I was feeling it but when I was kind of looking around in different huts I know a lot of people were feeling it. Awesome so you mentioned huts and that's one of the major differences between both routes. On the Machame route we are sleeping in tents so there are campgrounds that are established throughout the mountain so every day we would go to a certain camp and then basically the porters will pitch your tent that's where you spend the night but I know that's different on the Murangu route so what does that look like? Yeah you actually are singing huts the entire time so they can be a little bit smaller so the very first night I believe there were only there were three little beds and it was like a bunk bed and then one just regular bed and then the other two nights it would be three different bunk beds so six beds so every single place that you stayed you definitely were in more of a bunker feel to it and then you're sharing it with a bunch of other climbers of course. You were if you definitely had people in your group you'd be sharing it with them I actually was by myself with guides the guides were not in my group but I would share them with different hikers. So we also had different circumstances of when we climbed the mountain because it was right during the pandemic and I think the time we climbed that's when a lot of companies started taking people on the mountain so on the Machame route it's usually known for being a very busy route so you will come across a lot of people but when we climbed the mountain it wasn't the case because you know people were a little bit hesitant about you know climbing during the pandemic. Yes exactly that was the same for me and I think normally more people would be in huts than when I was actually there I think the average would be most the huts would be filled up I also was there in December I think you've probably got better weather than I did every day at like 11 a.m. it was just pouring so I don't think that's super common but yeah I think it is a lot more common to see a lot more people on the mountain. I was gonna ask with the huts did you feel like you had good comfortable nights of sleep they were warm enough? Yes I brought my own sleeping bag and I do have like a high up elevation good sleeping bag that you know cost me a pretty penny so I definitely brought that but also like they were they were mattresses there for you so that's kind of what made it a little bit cheaper and less weight for the porters to be carrying because you didn't need those sleeping bag or sorry you didn't need the mattresses and you also didn't need an actual tent. I'm curious about the number of porters because for our group for example on the Machame routes because they still have to carry tents bedrolls and sleeping bags we probably had more porters. Did you have a small amount of porters for your team? Yeah so it honestly it still was it was a cook it was your guide there actually was like another guide and he was learning how to be a guide so I didn't really talk too much honestly but he just kind of like followed us around and then there was like a driver I think he like came up to camp one with us or something like that but that was that oh sorry and then porters sorry and that would that would be it though so like I'm saying I think if you're doing any of the other routes you need more porters especially if you had more people. And I think with more porters that mean probably more money to pay for the climb so with the company that I climbed the mountain with it was a little bit pricey now when it comes to all of these tour operators there are some that are local to Tanzania there are some western companies usually they have their admin teams in the US UK so it's usually a little bit more expensive but you agree that the price is probably more approachable and affordable on the Merangu routes? Yes I believe it's the it's the cheapest option and of course the shortest I paid I believe those 1200 dollars and then that doesn't include like tipping reporters and everyone but for the most part the longer you're up there the more you know fees for Kilimanjaro sleeping up there and every all the porters all the cooks they also have to be paying those fees as well so the longer you're up there the more fees they're having to pay so the more you're probably you're you're just gonna be. Yeah that's 100% true more days on the mountain more money to pay. I wanted to ask you about the situation with the toilets. Obviously. What does that look like? So for that route I believe every every day there was some sort of either long drop or some sort of like porta potty situation um I was trying to think I believe and then like a lot of times halfway through a hike in the day if you're on the mountain for like six or seven hours hiking that day there's gonna be some sort of nice little rest area and there'll actually be some sort of long drop there as well um there was never one like in your little bunker but it would be fairly close by and then the actual summit day there definitely was not one which was fine but like unfortunate like you saw a lot of toilet paper and stuff on the trail which broke my heart but wow. For the Machame route I saw some restrooms on the way as we're hiking throughout the day but I think the deal with the company we climb with is that when we get to camp they would pitch a tent and then it's literally a whole toilet right there that you can use. I've never actually even experienced that I'd love to like see one.  Do you like still bring your own toilet paper in? So you I brought my own toilet paper but I think I think they provide it as toilet paper as well so you don't really have to pack yours. Right interesting that was those pretty impressive like wow this is this is luxury camping. Clamping at the finest. So on the Machame route it's known for being one of the most scenic routes it's really beautiful because you are hiking through different climate zones. Yeah. I liked when we got to see the Cinesio Kilimanjaro the trees that are unique to Mount Kilimanjaro that was pretty and then I remember early on when we were hiking through the rainforest we were able to see some monkeys and some unique birds. Were there any special wildlife encounters on the morango route? So no special encounters. I honestly I did safari right after so I had like just such a wonderful time but I would have loved to see like a giraffe as I was hiking um but every day was totally different than uh then the day before I guess kind of thing but at the same time since you're going to the summit coming right down guess what I've seen these trees before and I'm ready to go have a shower so that would be like a huge not a huge negative but definitely one of the negatives of it is your whole way down you've seen that before you're ready to be off the mountain tired where's a lot of routes you know you're going just from A to B or like a circle around it those kind of things so on the morango out you go up and down the same exactly so you would have come down the route that I went up as well um so you're actually seeing a ton of people on your way down that are like like you'll be like two days out from a summit and someone will look like sunburnt and terrible and you're like you must have just summoned and you're on your way down that was very common to see and you looked better earlier awesome guys thank you so much for watching if you have any other questions about climbing Kilimanjaro in general about the morango route or the machame routes please leave them in the comments and be sure to check Laura's youtube channel it's really fun she always have great tips about hiking and then her instagram I'm gonna leave it down below and if you're not subscribed to my channel be sure to subscribe this is Habiba from the trek in pals Laura was a wonderful guest in this episode today I will see you soon on a new adventure bye


Hello everyone, and welcome to the Circuit Python Weekly Meeting for October 11th, 2022. It's that time of week that we get together to talk about all things Circuit Python. This meeting typically happens on Mondays at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific, except like this week when it coincides with the U.S. holiday. In the note stock, there's a link to a calendar. You can view online or add to your favorite calendar app. We also send notifications about upcoming meetings via Discord. And I guess I didn't really say what this was, so I'm Jeff and I'm sponsored by Adafruit to work on Circuit Python, which is a version of Python designed to run on tiny computers called microcontrollers, like over 300 different ones. The development of Circuit Python is mostly sponsored by Adafruit, so if you want to support them and Circuit Python, consider purchasing hardware from Adafruit.com. This meeting is hosted on the Adafruit Discord server, which you can join anytime by going to adafru.it-discord. We hold the meeting in the Circuit Python DevTex channel and the Circuit Python Voice channel. And there's basically 24-7 activity on our Discord of some type or another, so if you want to talk about something Adafruit-related, electronics-related, we would love to welcome you. There is a notes document to accompany the meeting and recording. If you're viewing this after the fact that document will have timestamps to help you skip to the part of the video that interests you the most. And then after the meeting, we'll post a link to the next meeting notes document for people to fill out during the week with their hard reports and status updates, which I will explain that in just a second. This meeting is held in several parts. The next part is called community news, where this week we are taking a look back at the Circuit Python and Python hardware newsletter, which goes out on Tuesday morning. So the news is a little late, but trust me, there's good news in there. And then next after that, we take a look at the state of Circuit Python, the libraries and Blinka, a statistical overview of the entire project, kind of trying to, yeah, basically get the big picture separate from what we're each individually doing. Then comes the part where we all participate together. It's called hug reports, and it is around Robin. It's an opportunity to highlight the good things folks are doing and take the time to recognize the awesome folks in our community. Next after that, and the big part, is called status updates. We invite you all to take an opportunity to sync up on what you've been up to. Tell us about what you've been doing in the last week and what you hope to get up to over the next week. And if you have something else in your life that kind of spills over and informs how Circuit Python is playing a role in your life, we'd like to hear about that too because it really builds community to understand what's going on in other people's lives. And then the last part, which is optional, is called in the weeds. If we need to have a more long form discussion about anything, we can have it at that time. And you can identify it ahead of time or as the meeting progresses, but just add those to the notes document and we will take any or all topics that appear there. And that covers how the meeting is going to go. So I am going to step over to community news. And first up, Circuit Python support for the Raspberry Pi Pico W hits version 8 beta 1. Work on Circuit Python has reached the point where it has been released on circuitpython.org. While not feature complete, it is usable for several types of Wi-Fi and it's currently being actively worked on by Adafruit, meaning me. And also Liz has a Twitter post about trying out Wi-Fi on the Pico W. And I'll say it almost every time I talk during this meeting. Thanks so much to people who are helping out and testing with this. Next up, Arvaryon and Varela was on the Alpenglow solder sesh video cast. And Varela, a member of the Circuit Python team at Adafruit and your newsletter editor appeared on the Alpenglow Industries solder sesh number 45 on October 6. And an Alpenglow founder, Kerry, discussed Circuit Python, Circuit Playground Boards and much more. And you can catch that on YouTube. And I've not watched it yet, but it sounds fun. And then the last one I picked out to recap is called Making a Talking Macintosh with Circuit Python. A Talking Mac SE. It is set to speak any messages it receives through a USB Wombat and Adafruit Metro ESP32S2. It is controlled through Home Assistant using MQTT and Circuit Python, quote, my friend set up the Mac to boot to the speech program so it's going to be part of our tour. And there are links to Discord and GitHub. So that's just a few of the items from the Circuit Python weekly newsletter, which is a community-run newsletter emailed every Tuesday. The complete archives are at adafruitdaily.com slash category slash Circuit Python. As always, it aims to highlight the latest Python on hardware related news from around the web, including Circuit Python and MicroPython developments. To contribute your own news or project, or your friend's project, you can edit next week's draft on GitHub and submit a pull request. You may also tag a tweet with hashtag Circuit Python on Twitter or email cpnews at adafruit.com. And we do really want to hear about what you're up to. Don't worry that your project is too small or too beginner because you're at your level of skill and readers are at their level of skill and your thing is going to meet somebody right where they are and we love hearing about it. So don't hesitate.  All right, next up, I'm going to tell you about the state of Circuit Python, the libraries and BlinkUp. So we have an overnight process that runs every day and reviews the last seven days of activity on GitHub.  And there are some names. And because this meeting is taking place eight days after the last meeting, there's a possibility that I'm going to miss somebody's contribution just because of when the script runs. So if I miss you and don't acknowledge you, my apologies, but it's kind of down to our technology that we're reviewing seven days, seven out of eight days between the meetings. Anyway, so we had a magnificent number of pull requests merged. 45 pull requests merged by 17 authors. And I want to thank Bill88T, who is a more recent contributor. And then some names that don't ring any bells for me at all. I think we've seen Isaac Ben before. But the Dabargia, Kyle F. Moore, Calcutt, Ryzer58, Dead627, Met2481, a bunch of people who are new to me or less frequent contributors or new contributors. And we really appreciate your work making CircaPython the libraries in Blinka better. And I also want to thank our 10 reviewers, which is Tektrick, Meagher, Melissa, Kattney, Anikdata, Jephler, Naridoc, Fomiguy, Microdove, Dee, Halbert, and Gambler. Everyone can comment on pull requests and issues. And again, help us make the best CircaPython possible. But these people are acting in a more official capacity and they have the capacity to accept or ask for changes on a pull request. And everyone, whether you're participating formally or not, those help us create the high quality software that we want CircaPython to be. So thank you to all of those official reviewers and everybody else who is participating on the issues and pull requests. And finally, another great number. We had 52 closed issues by 15 people and 23 opened by 15 people. So we're net down on issues, which is wonderful. And just the level of number of people participating is really heartening to see. So next up, we're gonna drill down a little bit in those numbers and talk about the core, which is the part of CircaPython that's written in the C language, and you typically load it to your device with a UF2 file. And we had 21 pull requests merged by eight authors. So Bill88T and Kyle F. Moore are on that list again and six reviewers. This leaves us with 21 open pull requests. And I think this list is fairly well groomed, those older pull requests. We are waiting for action on somebody else's part or some other thing that just means we can't merge it right now. But if you feel you're waiting on us to work on a pull request in the core or in the libraries, please don't hesitate to just give us a ping within the comments of that pull request. Issues wise, we had 22 issues closed and 15 issues open. So we are net down a few issues. We are left with 579 open issues in the core, but we organize those according to milestones. Milestones tell you what Adafruit prioritizes working on among all of the issues. We're always happy to have the community work on whatever issue they feel is going to improve their experience with Serger Python. But we've identified 30 open issues that we would like to resolve before releasing version 8 as stable. And a further 13 issues that we've identified as issues we'd like to close as we make stable releases of 8 after 800. And then we've also got four issues not assigned to milestone, which just means that somebody needs to go in, triage those and decide which milestone they will be assigned. And so, narratively, what has been going on is Dan has been doing a lot of great work that he will tell you about for stability of the ESP IDF, and then I've been doing a lot of work around getting the PicoW wireless support, getting the most depth of features that we can. And of course, other people have been up to other things, but those are what's at the tip top of my list. We released beta last weekend and we will probably release another beta soon. Thank you to Dan for both of those. And yeah, just generally our goal as 80 Fruit people is to move toward making version 8 a stable version. We think it's a really good version. There are a lot of wonderful additions and we just need to get it to the point of stability and feature completeness that we want. And with that, I'm gonna move on to telling about the libraries. Normally, I would have Ketney, our library manager and community manager tell you about this, but she is out today. So, pardon me as I muddle through it. In the libraries, we had 22 pull requests merged from nine authors. So thank you again to Isaac Ben, the Debar Gaia, Calcut, TC Franks, Dead 627, Meta 2481, who are names that I see less commonly. There is a link to a list of the merged pull requests in the notes document. We have 26 open pull requests that need to be worked on and again, we believe that most of these are waiting for action by other people. Certainly if they've been open for a while, but if we can help you out or if you're waiting on something from us, please don't hesitate to ping. Issues wise, we had a magnificent 30 issues closed and seven new issues opened. And Ketney has a really good spiel that she gives about how to help. And so if you can just put up with my inferior version, I'll read it off of our document. If you're interested in this information and more, check out circuitpython.org slash contributing. You'll find all the open PRs, open issues and a list of library infrastructure issues. If you're looking to contribute, this is a great place to start. The issues can be sorted by labels so you can search for good first issue if you're getting started or bug or enhancement if you're looking for something a bit more complicated. We have a guide on contributing to Git and GitHub and we're always available to help you get started with that. So let us know if you need any assistance. And then one final note. If you've been looking at the notes document, you'll see something about the Hacktoberfest label. October is the month of Hacktoberfest and we are recognizing people's contributions within almost all of the Circuit Python repositories. So that gets you a chance if you participate in the Hacktoberfest event, which I think is hacktoberfest.org, that you can receive a t-shirt or have a tree planted in your name. And that's going on during this month of October, although we welcome your contributions at any time of year. And thank you, Paul, for the link. It's hacktoberfest.com. So with that, oh, there's one more thing. There was one new library in the last seven days and that is Circuit Python Display IO Flip Clock. So thank you. I believe that one is by FOMIGuy and it helps you create a neat kind of flip looking clock on an LCD display. This was on one of Tim's deep dives, I think, in the past few weeks. So that library is now in the bundle. That means you can install it with Circuit and all those fun things. So check that out if it speaks to you. And now I will let Makar Melissa talk about Blinka. Hello. So Blinka is our Circuit Python compatibility layer for Raspberry Pi, MicroPython, and other single board computers. And this week we had two pull requests merged by two authors and two reviewers. There are currently six open pull requests amongst their repositories. There were zero closed issues, but zero people wound up familiar one person. And it says the hacktoberfest has zero reliable added to zero issues. But we kind of just added more of a general overview. So any of the issues should get you the hacktoberfest stuff. There are currently 85 open issues and there were 11,937 PyReels downloads in the last month. And we are now up to 96 boards. And that's it. Thank you, Melissa. So yeah, one last thing about hacktoberfest. We have tried to add the hacktoberfest topic to each of our public repositories on GitHub. And if you submit a pull request there that is accepted, then that should count towards your hacktoberfest credit. If we're missing that, we can add it to the repository or we can put the label hacktoberfest accepted on your pull request. If you notice that something is missing, like when you go look at your contributions on the hacktoberfest website. Again, please don't hesitate to ping us on the pull request and we will get that sorted out so that you can get your credit. And with that, I think we're ready to move on to Hug Reports. Which is the chance to highlight folks in the Circuit Python community and beyond for doing awesome things. I'll start and then we'll go down the list alphabetically to give everyone a chance to participate. If you're text only or missing the meeting but have Hug Reports in the notes document, I'll read them off as I get to you in the list. All right, so I have a group hug because I know that in these lists, I am always missing people who are helping out and so but I'd particularly like to thank Anecdata, Bill88T, and Liz and the unnamed person for testing of the PicoW functionality. Dan and Nerodoc and someone else for pull request reviews and merging. And Dan for the last release and the upcoming release, which will be another beta of 80. And next up, I'm going to read notes from Anecdata who has a hug report to me, Jebler, for getting for all the great work getting PyCow going and a group hug to everyone for all the project inspirations. Yes indeed. And next up are Dan and then DJ Devin.  Thank you. All right, so thanks to Jeff who's done really quick work on PicoW Wi-Fi support and thanks to Anecdata for testing that, which meant my reviews. We're just looking at the code. We're in a copy-aiding kind of way and Anecdata did the hard work of actually testing the Wi-Fi support. Thanks to MicroDev, who's been doing a lot of reviews and PRs and works on schedule offset from ours. So fixes things in the middle of the night, including fixing a GitHub actions issue, which came up where they required a newer version of Node. And we were using a lot of older versions of GitHub actions. And MicroDev updated all of those, which was great. Thanks to Dare Broader71 today for finding out that a board edition that was held up could be completed. We were waiting for a USB product ID and then for testing that when I finished off the PR. Thanks to Jeff for a bunch of touch up PRs in the past week, which were fixing various knits of various kinds, which is fairly helpful. Thanks to Bill, ADAT and Anecdata for a lot of testing for an issue having to do with Wi-Fi scanning. And I'll talk about that in status reports. And thanks to TAC, our tiny USB person for starting to look at a possible tiny USB output treated as input issue. And to Jeff for another test case for the same issue. And Jeff is suspicious now that this might be an idiosyncrasy of Linux about how... What we're seeing is that we're writing something to output at the very beginning of connecting via USB. And we see that output showing up as input parts of it. And Jeff thinks this might be due to a race condition in Linux where when you first open a teletype, a TTY, I'm going to say teletype, but that's what the TTY stands for. That it opens in echo mode where the output goes back to the input and you have to turn that off. And most programs turn it off right after the open, but there is a window of time in there in which that you can get... There's a race condition. So we'll be checking that up too. So thank you, Jeff, on that. Okay. Thanks, Dan. Anymore I was going to send you to End the Weeds because there's a lot to this topic. But it's nice to be maybe making some progress on it. But anyway, next up is DJ Devon 3. Hello. Hello. Can you hear me? Okay. There we go. Yes. I'd like to send a hug to Jepler for absolutely killing it on all the PyCow related stuff this week. Dan H and AtticData for helping me narrow down some suspects in the Feather S2 and S3 hard reset bug, which is... I don't know if it's the same as the Wi-Fi scanning bug, if it's related, but there's an issue there. And they've both been searching for that. And I'm guessing we'll hear more on that later. To Melissa, for an excellent Tupel update for the StemO7 Segment Display Library, allowing multiple backpacks to be initialized and combined together as one larger backpack, which that code already existed, but it didn't exist for the StemO Backpack, so that was very helpful. Yeah, the StemO Backpack. To Paul Cutler for using his RGB matrix to help me troubleshoot an issue I was having on my RGB matrix and for going through hand surgery this week, so I hope he's feeling better. To Nerodoc for being an absolute knowledgeable beast in the CircuitPython help channel every single day. To JP and FoamyGuy for streaming every week, I always learned something new watching them. To Ann Borrella for a beautiful mass project and an amazing YouTube interview with Alpenglow that represented Adafruit very well. To Skr and Cater for helping troubleshoot an RFM90 receiver toggling on and off every save bug that I created myself, user-inflicted. Turns out I was flipping the IRQ on and off every file save due to incorrect wiring, and now I can continue my efforts on the Lorb project unabated. And that's all I got for hug reports. All right, thank you. I've got a couple of people's notes to read. The next up to read for themselves will be Maker Melissa. But now, David Glode, thanks me, Jephler for the PyCow as always, Ennecdated for PicoW Networking Test Code, and Dan H for another beta release. Next up, FoamyGuy has a hug for Paul Cutler for a tip about PicoW in stock at Digikey last week. To GitHub user, the... I'm stowing over this name every time, and I apologize to you if you're listening. To GitHub user, the Dbar Gaia for tracking down and submitting a fix for the round switch widget, and a group hug. And next up, Liz says a hug report to Jeff for his great work on PyCow Wi-Fi. I've been using it with Adafruit I.O. with great success. And what Liz doesn't say is there's an issue for it not working with Azure IoT, but we'll get there. And Liz also has a group hug. All right, and that brings us to Maker Melissa and then Paul Cutler. Go ahead, Melissa. Yeah, I just want to give a hug to you, Jeff, for fixing some changes on Secret Python. I made a... Where I made a PR, but it missed a few things. And then everyone just contributed, adding boards to go in there to get us nearly to 100 and group type to go in less. And then Paul. Thanks, Jeff. I have a hug for Sea Grover for rescuing the audio of an upcoming podcast episode. Made a huge difference, and I'm really, really grateful. And a group hug. All right, thank you. And last up, I have notes from Tectric, who has a hug to Katny for helping get the Hacktoberfest labels attached to all the libraries. And to Fomiguy and Mark Gambler for all the PR reviews. So far, we're on top of all the Hacktoberfest PRs. Hooray. And that rounds out hug reports, and we are going to continue down to status updates. Status updates is your time to sync up on what we're all doing. I will start and then we'll go through the list alphabetically to give everyone a chance to participate. When I call on you, take a couple of minutes to talk about what you've been doing since the last meeting and what you'll be up to until the next meeting. It's also an opportunity for trading tips and tricks relevant to what people are working on. But if the discussion becomes too much for status updates, we will move it down in the weeds. And with that, I'll get started. So as I mentioned, there was more progress on the PicoW. And I did some sleuthing about a serial echo problem, and I now think it may be a race condition in Linux. And then continuing on, I have more PicoW bug chasing and general version 8 bug chasing. I'm pretty sure that the PicoW is just about at feature parity with the ESP32 port except items that we are definitely deferring right now, which is support for MDNS is not implemented yet and support for web workflow is not implemented yet. And because of some architectural differences between the way the Wi-Fi works, the way the ESPIDF has its own separate heap, that really puts a barrier in the way of supporting the web workflow. So that is deferred for the future. And it's going to be more for me going forward about working on some of the bug reports that people have hopefully posted. And with that, I'll re-nose from Anecdata and then we'll go to Dan, whose experience with teletypes goes back to 1971. All right, but Anecdata writes, a belated hug report for Naradoc, which may be French for never sleeps for the broad and deep help to everyone on Discord. And Anecdata also used async.io for the first time to make an ESP32S2 feather TFT-based micro crontroller that regularly checks all the things on my land plus external servers at various times and intervals and sends a push notification if there's anything amiss. All right, and next up we have Dan and then DJ Devin3. Okay, thanks. So, as I mentioned, I fixed, there was a bug which garnered a lot of comments, issue which garnered a lot of comments about Wi-Fi scanning, and I managed to fix that by just updating the ESPIDF, which I was surprised because it looks like the bug might have occurred, been fixed, and then reoccurred and then got fixed again because it was confusing about which versions it was working in and not. So anyway, that's fixed. There are some other Wi-Fi bugs, which perhaps this ESPIDF update will fix and or maybe some I2C bugs, but I haven't had time to test those yet, so that's on my agenda. I'm trying to make something fixed on small builds. A user added a pull request, Isaac Ben, added a pull request for OS.U file, which lets you set the access time on a file, and it's a very nice addition, but it should go in the smallest builds probably and I'm trying to squeeze them to fit, and I still need about 120 bytes on some builds, so I've got some more work to do on that. I've made some further fixes on .env parsing. It's good enough now considering that there isn't actually a formal document that says what the result should be. In terms of documentation, I added several missing native modules to the module support matrix, including the built-ins module, which points to all the documentation for things like dur and int and sort and stuff like that. And then I'm going to continue to bug hunt for an 808 final release, and I'll probably do an 808 beta release soon so we can get Jeff's PyCow stuff into a labeled beta release. All right, and this reminds me of one thing that I skipped over. I made sure that it was possible to use Emoji for keys and values in a .env file, so now you can use emojis in your SSID. Well, I don't know if you can use emojis in your SSID names, but you can definitely retrieve the environment variables that contain them. Anyway, next up, DJ Devin3 has a big update with some pretty photos in it, so go ahead. Hello, there we go. I have been busy this week. I received a batch of 20 TR-Calbel PCBs from JLPCB on Wednesday, along with 10 PicoWs from DigiKey. I began testing assembly sub-prototypes. Board names are an exposed copper, which is something I've learned to do, and I think it makes it look very pretty, along with all the stuff going around about the Papyrus font lately. I've made sure that my name was in the Papyrus font. It has a breakout for Stema and ITC, and an external display, which we had a thing with D-Glaude, so I made sure to name that external display. If the assembly goes well, I'm hoping to give some away. Other than a sequencer, it would also make an excellent linear macropad. Great for switching cameras and scenes for anybody that does studio streaming for OBS and stuff like that. I finished the physical build of the social media tracker using the eight seventh segment display backpacks in a shadow box based on a project by Becky Stern. Each display is actually a 2x4 character, and thanks to Melissa's recent PR for the Adafruit HT16K33 library, now the library combines each pair into a single eight character display. I am having a problem having it display text, though, and I might need to input a bug report for that. Now the library binds each pair. It's only currently integrated with the YouTube API. I still have to integrate the rest of the API, so that one's still unfinished. Coated with CircuitPython and the Wi-Fi and Request library. So when I said it was from scratch and show and tell, that wasn't exactly true. I do use the Adafruit Request library because I don't know if there's a distinction in saying coded from scratch or actually just using the Request library. So I want to specify, I use the Request library. The Feather ESP32 that I dropped a big solder blob on and then fixed using a hot air rework station is now the same one powering that social media tracker. So I resurrected it, put it back in service, pointed personal pride, my first SMD repair, back in service, awesome. I started working on a Neopixel Google Google Goggle project for Halloween. The guide says it's ill advised to attempt to wear them, so now I have to do it. I will be routing wires, hiding the sides of the LEDs to minimize lighting and glare. Should be okay for short durations, just to hang out candy. Not trying to go to raves with it or anything. Got an RGB matrix panel up and running on both the ESP32, S2 and S3. The learn guide for the M0M4RP2040 matrix Featherwing does not include code for Circuit Python. And it actually mentions that the S2 and S3 have yet to be confirmed stable even while using it with Arduino. So I confirmed that they worked in Circuit Python, submitted some example code via feedback. The code is identical to the example code that's only exist in the Adifer GitHub. Except on the S2 and S3, they should use the pretty names of Rx and Tx instead of D1 and D0. So that's the only difference really. Even though I was able to get the RGB matrix working on the S2 and S3, I was unable to get it working on the unexpected maker at Feather S3. I added a bug report for the UM Feather S3 and RGB matrix library. And if anyone has a UM Feather S3 and matrix panel, please help me test. That would be appreciated. I started working on an I's project using two GC9A01 round displays for a pumpkin window display that Todd bought. And Todd bought wrote the example library for that which is in the community bundle. And that really hit, let me hit the ground running. I submitted a PR to his library with a string that will now support the M4 Express out of the box. And that's all I've been up to this week. All right, well that is plenty. And thanks for the pictures and feel free to share those into the channel if you care too. Next up, I'm going to read notes from a few people and then after that we'll be maker Melissa. So David Glode writes, Circuit Python, Tested Anecdata's basic HTTP client code on PicoW. A failure with USB HID. I tried to make a meta LED slash key work on Windows but there is no meta key and no LED so I'll keep playing with scroll lock. Replaced my mouse jiggler by simulating random blinking of the scroll lock LED. And an item from last week already in the newsletter, the passive aggressive writing helper by random shift key presses. There's a link to Twitter in the notes doc. And non-circuit Python news from David. Success upgraded my Casio F91 with sensor watch. And a failure to reproduce the HID remapper to read USB mouse and keyboard and pretend to be a mouse slash keyboard. And next I have notes from FOMIGI. FOMIGI investigated an issue with bitmap label under blink of display IO and submitted a PR to allow it to work again. The change needed was implementing the bitmap.blit function in blink of display IO. Uh, there's a library... There were library PR reviews and testing. Testing the MQTT pull request that has more standardized and predictable behavior when there are multiple messages in the message queue. Tried out the new version with example scripts and learn guide projects on various different devices. And finally, basic HTTP requesting on the PicoW. Built a simple terminal-based trivia game. Fun. All right, so next we have maker Melissa and then I will round out the session by reading notes from somebody else. Hi, so last week I went into fairly deep rabbit hole of seeing what worked and what didn't work with regards to running PyGamer 2 on full-side various configurations. And then I updated the RPI Vision app to work with PyGamer 2 and added missing boards to circuitpython.org. I updated the 128 by 64 OLED featherwing guide with a page on how to wire it properly to non-feather microcontrollers. And this week I'm working on updating the TensorFlow and Raspberry Pi Guide for bullseye, so that using the PyGamer 2 and probably do a few more get-have-prs and then get back to finishing up code.circuitpython.org. And that's where I'm at. All right, next I have notes from Tektrick, who last week had not much for circuitpython other than staying on top of poor request reviews since I'm moving over the next couple of weeks. And this week, still moving, so just trying to keep up with Hacktoberfest PRs or at least the ones that don't need hardware that I've already packed. In personal news, the circuitpythonica is most of the way through its 8-day test, which means once the move is done it is time to make a lot of them. The tooling behind the project has been fun, and I may break it off into smaller tools and make them public since they may be useful to others. And relatedly, started a mini project brought up by Dan H to have a tool that automatically saves code in a local directory to a circuitpython board. Having fun using os.fork can't wait to accidentally put it in a while true loop. And that finishes up status reports, status updates. And that brings us to the section in the weeds where I've currently got one topic, which is by MicroDev, whose text only so I will read it out. And they've put a large note in the text channel. So the question is about the storage extension API. On a lot of ESP32 microcontrollers we have allocated space within the single flash chip for two copies of circuitpython or other firmware and one area for the circuitpy file system. And the reason for having two of two areas for the application code is so that you can do an over the air update. You're running firmware A, you update firmware B, and then you reboot into firmware B. And most users are not using this functionality and it would be more useful to have a bigger circuitpy drive. And MicroDev has a very nearly done pull request that adds all this functionality. And the question is about when do you expand the storage into the over the air update area. And in the text channel they have four possible scenarios. So one, it could be initially extended by default and erase file system would default to extended off, which means a fresh firmware will have extended storage, but erasing the file system with the default state will reduce it. Second, if it's extended by default and erase file system defaults to extended equals true, then either one will leave the full space. But a user who uses dual bank dot switch, when they simply call erase file system, they will end up with the other firmware wiped away. And then there are two more options if it's not extended by default. And each one seems to have at least one flaw. And finally extended cannot be made a required argument because that would make it incompatible with other boards. Each option seems like a compromise. I guess I'm the one who brought up this issue, but I also don't have a great answer. I wondered whether the default could be none, which would mean do the same as what the currently present file system does, and it could be overridden with true or false. But I'm not sure if that's feasible to know what the current setting is, but that's my only concrete suggestion. And with that, I'd be happy to open it up to anybody else who has something to say. I just have one idea that perhaps the switching should not be in erase file system, but perhaps dual bank should remember the state of the thing so that there's dual bank enabled or something like that. And so if dual bank were enabled, then when you erase the file system, it would shrink the file system and leave an OTA position. It would leave an OTA partition and also a sort of pie partition. And if dual bank were disabled, then it would do the opposite. And we might start out with dual bank disabled on most boards so that we get the maximum size of... When I say we need disabled, I mean dual bank dot disabled would be true or enabled. And that state would be remembered somehow. It might be remembered by looking at the partition table, I don't know, or in a flag, in a flash or something like that. I don't know, does that make sense to you, Margaret? So then that would take the responsibility away from erase file system to know about this. All the responsibility would be on dual bank. Yeah, so we do have to erase the file system, but what I'm saying is that, like you said, if you said dual bank dot enabled equals false or equal true and then you called erase file system, it would set it. It would create a larger file system with or without it and an OTA partition with or without that. And so that erase file system just uses whatever partitioning scheme is there currently and dual bank controls what partitioning scheme is in effect. Then erase file system doesn't really even know anything. The user using erase file system doesn't even know about this and it's not an argument to erase file system at all. Does that make any sense to you, Jeff? I mean, I think so, but when you say you use the dual bank call to enable having the two banks, you would have to then follow that by erasing the file system because the file system will still say I'm four megabytes long, but it could really only be two megabytes long. Right, right. That's what I'm saying. Right, it's your responsibility to do that. To do both? Yeah, it could also be that dual bank, dual bank dot enable does something, does the erase file system itself or dual bank, that's kind of terrible. I would change the name of it. Erase file system and enable or erase file system and disable or something like that. All right, so I'll have to think about this some more, but it would be nice to not, for the ordinary user, I think the cases that we're trying to cover, the ordinary user probably doesn't need dual bank. It's a rare thing and the ordinary user doesn't need to know, shouldn't need to add any extra arguments to erase file system, which I think makes sense. That's all I have to say. And I'll try to, I'll try to write this up. Maybe I'll write this up in there in the comment in the issue. I think that's all the discussion we have for in the weeds. Thank you for offering to write that up Dan. And with that we are done and I'm going to wrap up the meeting. Let me just find my notes. So this has been the CircuitPython Weekly Meeting for October 11th, 2022. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you want to support Adafruit and CircuitPython, and those of us that work on CircuitPython, consider purchasing from the Adafruit shop at Adafruit.com. 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But once again, next week is Monday as usual, October 17th at 2 p.m., and that's still in the daylight time. Anyway, we hope to see you next week. And thanks again to everybody who participated.


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I bring you a new world video showcasing all-known legendary ice gauntlets in the game now we'll say from the research I have seen I mean all these ice gauntlets have the same icons and images but that may not be truly apparent within the game so if we think all these are looking the same it's probably because I think they meant to be I'm not too sure and I also will mention a couple of these weapons all these gauntlets we don't know where to obtain from yet so there I'm hoping you guys can help me out but in terms of the the item stats it's all here so let's go how's it going guys my name is dpj and if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe okay so today I bring you a video showcasing all-known legendary ice gauntlets in the game and how they're obtained now there's quite a few more ice gauntlet legendaries than there is any other item I've noticed in the game don't know why that is but hey okay so let's get into it people first up we have the thunder snow so this legendary you have to craft where you need an rk in a level of 142 it also needs to be crafted on an alchemy tier 4 station and you need a trade skill xp of 3750 and a territory standing over 100 next up we have the subduer's wrath so this legendary needs to be crafted also guys requires a station of an alchemy tier 4 requires a rk in a level of 137 trade skill xp of 3750 and territory standing over 100 next up guys we have the brine of the frosty shore so this legendary also needs to be crafted station requires an alchemy tier 4 requires an alchemy level of 147 trade skill xp of 3750 and a territory standing over 100 so next up guys we have the frost grasp gauntlets so this legendary is seemingly an exclusive drop to the lazarus instrumentality expedition boss of sila so i want to farm these they look good for you this is where you got a goal next up guys we have the winter wish so this legendary is an exclusive drop to the garden of genesis expedition boss known as eluvian mildercare taker next up guys we have winter bite this legendary you can drop from a level 59 and 60 last equipment caches which i believe are obtained they use fishing but don't quote me on that as from all the research i've done so far it doesn't seem there's a actual concrete place where these are obtained from but i do believe they could be fishing so next up guys we have in the quiet also this legendary can drop from level 50 and level 60 last equipment caches again i'm not sure exactly where these are from but i believe it could be fishing next up guys we have the griping rhyme so this legendary isn't that post rush tier five cast chest reward obviously you need to be a level 60 to take part in these pvp battleground star 20 v 20 molds but when you do you have a chance of dropping this from the end tier five chest next up guys we have the fractured bolt so this legend they has a chance of dropping from a level 59 a level 60 protectors equipment cast chests and also angu earth equipment cast chests where these are at the moment i have no idea if you can help me out let me know and i'll edit the video description next up guys we have the biting resonance so this legend they has a chance of dropping from a level 59 and a level 60 ancient equipment cast chests now i have seen these and a couple of spots of the map within the higher leveled areas and i'm guessing once you reach around a level of 40 to 50 these are added into the loot pool next up guys we have the glacier rage so this legend though you have to craft required stations are alchemy tier five it requires a arcane a level of 197 trade scale xp of 7285 with a territory standing needed for 141 next up guys we have the rhyme lash so this legendary guys is a quest reward legend though the quest is called the hand of whore thrust the quest giver is jennifer heatley the territory you obtain his quest is great cleave it requires you to gather components to make the legendary ice gauntlet rim lash but i believe you have to complete many of the tasks before this quest opens up and those quests could indeed be forest and thrust chilling spectra's rebels and ice thrust bit and fighters bloated in the snow a tm's icy crown wintery boons and frozen hearts now this could just be one long quest so if you have any quests where those names seem familiar continue on with those quests and you should eventually open up the main quest for this could the hand of whore thrust which eventually rewards you the rhyme lash ice gauntlets next up guys we have the master cyro masses gauntlet so this legendary needs to be crafted station requires an alchemy tier five requires an arcane a level of 187 trade scale xp needs 7285 and total standing of 141 next up guys we have the thrust fairies gift this is also a legendary that needs to be crafted required station of alchemy a tier five required arcane a level of 187 trade skill xp needed is 7285 and total true standing of 141 next up guys we have the crystalline curse so this also needs to be crafted required stations of alchemy tier five required arcane a level of 200 trade skill xp is 7440 and total true standing of 144 okay so the following legendaries are all world drops across the board which are believed to be added into the loop pool between the level of 40 and 15 okay so they are the fragment the sirens the cutter the shard of one the ruga mortis the promise of malevolence the pilgrimages end the frozen fingers they're ever giving and they're called stone so those are all world drops people and the following ones guys are actually unknown drops at the moment meaning we don't know where these come from wherever they're actually in the game yet we do not know but if you've had any of these drop let me know on our editor video description so the world knows okay so those are the glacial gaze the frozen spate the frozen embrace the peaceful chill the gargoyle probably that's pronounced i'm probably wrong i normally am the frost bit emit and the diamonds icy grasp so those are all unknown drops at the moment but there we have it guys all icy grunt let's believe to be new world right now if you guys enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more new world be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video i upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully i will see you on that next one


Welcome to around the North West, now I say that Ireland's first ever thatching school is going to be built in the South West of the county because the county council has granted planning permission to a new and Ross bag community co-op for the facility to be at the Dolman Centre and the first of its kind in the country where people can learn to thatch properties properly and the largest concentration of thatched cottages in Ireland is reputed to be here in Donegal and within Donegal any shown has the highest number. There's actually a new book out called Irish thatched cottages a living tradition and it looks at that thatch cottages not just here in Donegal but around the country and it reveals the art and craft of thatch and the history and the stories behind many of the thatched homes and I'm delighted that the author Emma Byrne now joins us and joins us streaming as well on Facebook. Emma, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, John, how are you? Good, good. Are you joining us from a thatched cottage from your home? Well strictly speaking it's not true because I'm in my little shed my very posh office out at the back but yes it's on the property of my thatched home down here at the other end of the country in County Wexford. All right so just talk us through the experience of living in a thatch. I actually grew up in a thatch cottage and not that it was very romantic mind you we but it used to be rushes on the roof back then and any more it tends to be a bit more sophisticated than that so what sort of a thatch roof do you have? So the thatch roof that I have it's a little different to what you're used to there in Donegal in that the material could be similar so it's a wheat and thatch roof so it's long wheat and straw and in Donegal they're more often than not the thatch is made from flax or from rye and I suppose another difference with the roof here is that the pitch of the roof is very high so it's much more of a strong apex triangular shaped roof whereas in north in Donegal the northwest in particular in particular coastal regions it tended to be rounded and more of an A frame and it was tied on with ropes onto backhorns which were stones that came out of the the top of the wall and it's really to do with weather and the environment in each of the places you know that there are lots of different styles throughout the country and in Donegal where you've got huge huge Atlantic winds blowing off your wild coast and it would it made more sense that you had the roof had a lower pitch and was rounded whereas here it suits the weather conditions to have a higher pitch and that affects roofs in different ways I suppose but there was even different styles of thatching within the one county like within Donegal in in in some parts of the the county say in the east of the county the thatching style would have been different to along the west coast and that was that was down to the weather and especially you know coastal weather absolutely that's as you as you move further east into Donegal that you have a higher pitch and different materials and it when you think about it it's common sense and the weather really influences you know the materials and and how people built these houses I mean all of these houses they're from they're from the vernacular tradition where local people used whatever materials they had locally and they use them to work with the weather conditions that were available to them and it's why it's very exciting to read about that piece in the Donegal daily about the thatching school and you would hope that it does reflect that I mean not only in Donegal you have a certain type of thatching but throughout the country there are lots of different traditions and most of the thatchers here that you speak to including the thatcher that worked on my own house here he is British and he learned his craft in Britain and he he has four apprentices now that are working on their own who would have learned from him and so that's that's a certain sort of style and I a thatcher that works in Donegal a lot either Kilpatrick he will have his own sort of style which is based on the environment of Donegal so there's lots of different styles and traditions and it's great to see them you know a thatching school dedicated to that absolutely and all the different styles are evident in your book and some some just holding up the camera there and some some brilliant pictures as well and it's not just we're not just chatting about thatcher cottages here because there's you know pubs and restaurants and museums and all sorts of buildings absolutely I mean that was one of the things when I went around taking photographs of all these different buildings yes there's a huge amount of I mean the thatch cottage for so long was this romantic image of Ireland that was exported throughout the world as part of our Irishness and if there is an old or vernacular building in a community you it's wonderful to see the community look after that in if it's in private hands it can be a public house or it can be a museum but I always remember up around Loch Naye there was a fisherman's cottage that still had its thatched roof and it was a community centre so people in the community helped to look after that so this old building that might have been disused or fallen down as so many of thatch buildings are because they're difficult to maintain was cared for by the community and there is a map in the book of all the places that you can go and see that still have thatched roofs that are open to the public so whether it's the heritage park in Wexford or up in Glen Column Kill up there near yourselves and you have the Father Dire Park which is a fantastic facility and you don't just see as you say the thatch roofs you see how people lived lives in these buildings how they were constructed from local materials and I suppose the lessons that we can learn from from that in contemporary times where we're looking to locally source buildings materials etc it's a huge part of our heritage and we do have this romantic notion about Irish thatch cottages and I can tell you there's nothing too romantic about the one that we lived on dirt because when it got wet it was basins and buckets to the rescue but you know things things are moved on now and obviously most buildings or cottages would have a you know a very not only a secure but a you know a waterproof a waterproof thatch roof and as I mentioned your book great examples of different styles and different sizes of buildings but it is we have this iconic image it's also the thatch cottage in Ireland with the thatch roof we do I mean it's it's there throughout our history it's exported I mean in particular to America I suppose and to tourism and you know the golden roof with the little painted windows and the little painted door but there I suppose what I wanted to look at in my book was as yourself you grew up in one I'm living in one so you have you have the reality of where you're you're dealing with you know rodents or birds I currently have two families of starlings living over the front door and so there's interesting battles there of a morning and you know and the costs of insurance there's only one insurer at the moment that that deals with that and the maintenance costs every year you have to put copper sulfate which is a preservative onto the the the roof to maintain it and so you know it's it's part of it's not easy it's part of what you you buy into but then you're aware of that when you go into it that you know you're it's not just a twee symbol that you're trying to keep alive for the sake of it and it these it's an important historical place and you know from the stories that go with it you know they're usually old buildings like my house that I live in was traditionally a great card house so all the people in the community used to come and play cards in the winter nights and you would find things like they're old layers of tach as as you know as it's come to being re-tached over the years and the tacher would find something from the last time it's been touched like a piece of newspaper from a certain date and there have been stories of wheat that goes back 300 years you know where they they've taken a sample of it and they've discovered you know what sort of plants were around at the time what kind of pollen was produced by the bees and you're you're it's a living organic thing I suppose that you're you're you're living with so that's a bit removed from this little twee image you know you're back with it the whole time and are they are they in decline or has as a situation now stabilized it they a mix of both I would say they're they are in in decline I one of the things I read when I was researching the book it was a publication by the Department of Housing from the 70s and the first line of it was tach cottages are doomed they're doomed but they're still here there's about 1500 on the island and but they are they are still disappearing I think there's only 20 roped cottages left in Donegal and you know despite but there's new initiatives all the time the you know the department recently have released funds targeting help to help vernacular building and the so it's constantly being talked about people constantly trying to do stuff and so far they're surviving and you know it's but it's down to private ownership and it's down to people having enough energy and strength to keep them going I think well just chatting to you Emma and and looking at the pictures in the book is bringing back a lot of memories and even there you mentioned birds and and how you you've uh for nest and we used to have nest as well and given that the roof was so low that the building was so low it was great as as kids you'd be able to go up and sort of try to peep into the nest I know we just realized back then we weren't supposed to disturb the nest but anyway one of them one of them thing is going up the book is called irish that's cottages a living tradition Emma Barton thanks so much for channel thanks very much John all the best thank you one bedroom at a time she's a push keeper


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Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-rounds on YouTube. This one comes with the steel wheels with the chrome covers, and it has Goodyear Wrangler all-terrain adventure tires. These are LT27570RE teams, and I would say they have a pretty decent amount of tread left, probably 60%, 70%. Frame and underbody is in really nice condition for being a 2015, and that front fender is in excellent shape as well. Headlight lenses are nice and clear, and the front bumper, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. The grille is in nice shape, comes with a nice bug shield as well, and the hood is in really nice condition. I didn't see any major dents on there. Passenger side front fender looks good, and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of this 2015 Ram 3500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck here, the truck, and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you, and then I can keep doing these videos each and every day for our great customers. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, and the frame and under body other than a little bit of corrosion by the weld, so there looks really good. It's like that all the way underneath, and for being a work truck, that's almost eight years old here, looks really nice, has some nice factory chrome step bars, lower rockers, and cab corners are in great shape. The passenger side box, no major dents or dings on there. Coming around the back, the rear bumper is in nice condition, has a bumper hitch on there, bumper pole hitch, tailgate is in excellent condition, does have a locking tailgate, this one does have a backup camera, comes with a spray and bed liner, your spare tire is in the bed because of that unique bumper and hitch on there, comes with a diamond plated steel cover for the tailgate. Coming around the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the box, looks really good, and for full disclosure, this back wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Down the rest of the side, one-skin cab doors all look good, does have the heated fold-up tow mirrors, they have built in directional singles, they fold up like so, and they fold in like that. Inside the tradesman package gives you the gray cloth interior 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front, no rips, no tears on there. Seats are in really nice condition, fixed glass rear window, side curtain airbags, once again no rips or tears and it does come with a nice weather tech floor mat in the front, automatic headlamps, power windows, locks, and mirrors. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, and you can see that this one has 33,148 miles, you do get a digital speedometer on here, as well as an outside temperature display. In-sprint cluster is very nice and clean, you get information center controls on the left, and cruise controls on the right, there's your automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, six-speed transmission, has the AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities, turned-out four-wheel drive, climate control, stability control, and tow haul, you do get a 12-volt power point on each side, a storage compartment right here, you also get that weather tech floor mat that goes over the hump end to the passenger side, seat and floor mat are in excellent condition, and the headliner is in really nice clean condition in this truck. You get a compass and temperature display in the mirror, and this is also where your backup camera shows up, you can see that is working nicely. All right, we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights, or anything like that. Did want to show you real quick the tire and loading information sticker, as well as the VIN sticker. All right, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options, and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood, we have this 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine, 410 horsepower engine base, very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this thing is 100% ready to go. There is the emission sticker, you can see the shocks are doing a nice job holding that hood up, and I would highly recommend this truck to make quality and condition standpoint. I think whoever's gonna get it, it's going to love it. 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I decided to attend the conference because the INCF meeting is a great place for me to connect to other people that are creating resources for competition on neuroscience so we can coordinate and collaborate and share what we're doing.


All right, and just before our first major topic, first major conversation for today, which is going to be on the new political platform that has been formed by Fama Ainek Chairman and a couple of other people, let's talk a little bit of history and we're going to be going back to sharing something that happened in 2016 that was done mostly to preserve history. And I'm talking of African-American history. It is called rather the Museum of African-American History in the United States, which of course on this day was launched by former President Barack Obama. It had been, you know, something that had been in the works since 1915 all the way to 1917. For about a century. Yeah, modern century. And then finally in 2003 they were given a go ahead to build, to go ahead and start the building of the Museum. The site was eventually selected in 2006 and this is very interesting. It was a design that was submitted by Freelon Group at Jaya Associates and Davies Brody Bond. Apparently there might be a Nigerian company or Nigerian person in this mix here. But then that design was eventually selected in 2009. Construction began in 2012 and it was completed in 2016. It is the world's largest museum dedicated to African-American history and culture and it is ranked as the fourth most visited Smithsonian Museum in its first full year of operation. The museum has more than 40,000 objects in its collection and only about 3,500 are on display. Just a little bit about the museum. It's called once again the Museum of African-American History and Culture. I think this is one place I would like to visit when I visit the U.S. because it just is packed with so much history of the black American in that country. When this was eventually launched, it was a three-day festival just to commemorate and to celebrate, to feature dance, music, poetry. It was just a lot of celebration. It said that the black American needed to fill that pride of place in the U.S. Their forefathers had been born there, taken away from African countries over to the U.S. And eventually they've come to see that place as their home, even though there's still some form of racial segregation regarding the fact that the skin color is black, but the fact that these American people, these black Americans have lived all their lives, that's basically all they've known, that respect needs to be there, that respect for African culture, African history and the black person in the U.S. So this really was a historical moment, the opening of this museum in the U.S. on this day, beautiful cultural galleries there, and lots of things that really just takes you back to your forefathers in Africa. So yes, good one. You know, I think it's also because of the importance of history and how they've also been able to see how vital it is to maintain history and have a place where people can always reach out to learn more about their past. Connect to their roots. In Nigeria, there's always been criticism with regards to our preservation of history and preservation of where we're coming from. Museums are almost non-existent in the whole country. History books almost do not exist. If you go online and check for information on certain things, parts of Nigeria's history, you would find absolutely nothing. History books actually exist. I studied history. History books exist, but not to the depth that you would have expected. The funny thing is, I learned more about African history reading books by foreign authors, and that's just the irony of it, because we have always believed in oral tradition. The reading, writing thing came about with colonization. So we believe in oral tradition, but we know the challenges with that is that the memory fades. Your memory can be edited, people forget. So that really has been the challenge. So there are history books just to clarify that, but we need to do much more regarding preserving our history. History that is written by a foreigner is not your history. If you don't have enough history that is written by people who actually live through or pass through, you know, that those bits of information to people still in Nigeria, then it's... Nigerians have written history books. Nigerians have... We're just saying that more needs to be done. It's not like it's non-existent. Of course, there are. One more needs to be done regarding preserving our history through using museums, through writing more books, through telling our stories in the media, and all of that. All right. First major conversation for today. We're going to be back after this short break, and we're talking about the new political force. As always, every four years there's something called a third force. This time, it's been, you know, pushed by from a chairman of INEC, Atehiru Jaga, Professor Patu Tohmi, from Governor Donald, you kind of few others, and we're going to be talking about that after the short break here on the breakfast.


So this fellow here behind us has a world record as being the tallest mounted dinosaur in the world Yes, but but he's not the biggest attraction here today. Are you trying to say that you are though? No It's the science book. Ah Think of names like Tristan in Germany And probably don't think of this guy We did our own activities with the kids before things got started and some of the rockets work better than others Then we jumped straight into the workshops we ran these during the day and straight into the night time sure it is long night of museums So Phil, how has it been going at the National History Museum here in Berlin? Pretty good. I've made a friend. He's He's taken me around everywhere. He's very quick And my remedy is for all moms who are still breastfeeding hello No The lighting conditions are a bit difficult, but other than that, I'm pretty proud of the art. I mean Well, I have to say I worked on the first 50% we tested it and it worked and then I handed it over It wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. How does it feel to have a successful charger? It was it was a good feeling. It's good feeling to be just ahead of us by one second Just stealing the bike to test mine. That was a good feeling So we're the last ones here outside the National History Museum in Berlin. We had long night in the museums and Yeah, we'd lots of people come over to our workshops, and I think we were the triceratops I think a lot of people saw us over the evening, but it was very long evening, and I'm a little bit T-Rex now And well, I think that's a Velasa rap