Calm, sit down. Bill, you realize you're half my size. Come here, it's the other couch. Sit. We're gonna get your house. Over here you bet. Bill. Bill. Mommy did not see that if you're watching. Guys, I was trying to act drunk right there and I just knocked over the Christmas tree. What is up, Marvel Squad? How is it going? If this is the first time you are seeing my face, make sure to go down and hit that subscribe button and turn on post notifications right next to it so you get notified whenever we post. Welcome to our channel, guys. So I just got home from work. I'm about to go head over to Mariah's grandmother's to help her set up for the Christmas party. She's having one today. It's Monday right now and you're gonna be seeing this on Wednesday, but it's currently Monday. And oh, Merry Christmas, by the way. Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas in the chat. I hope everyone's having a great Christmas time to top it off. I'm about to be pranking Mariah with I Am Drunk. She did this to me, okay? She did this to me with wine, I think, and I came over to her house. Of course, she was like falling all over me. She got me good, so today I'm gonna get her back better. I think we posted that about a month ago, maybe a little longer. I'm not sure. I'll put it up on the screen. Today I'm gonna be heading over to her grandmother's house, like I said. So I was thinking of bringing this bottle, right? And it's an empty vodka bottle. If you guys are, this is alcohol. And I didn't wanna be walking into her grandmother's house and through her neighborhood, because I'm gonna have to get out of my car with this big, frickin' bottle.   That's DUI, everyone, no one drive drunk, okay? I'm gonna try studying up the camera somewhere in the house. I'm not really gonna be falling over crazy until I get everything on footage. So until then, guys, thank you for being a part of our channel. We are also doing an iPhone 11 giveaway. You're doing a New Year's slash Christmas giveaway, iPhone 11. If you guys wanna be entered, make sure to be subscribed and following me, and Mariah, on Instagram. That's all you have to do to win an iPhone 11. So good luck. This pre-video notification shout out goes to Presley Brownfield. Shout out to you, thank you for being a part of our channel and showin' love in the comments. All right, so I'm gonna send her a photo right now of me drinking the bottle, so it gives the illusion that I've been drinking since I got home. Looks like I'm kissing it. All right, so there's the screenshot. I'm sending that to her. Ooh, that's really good. That actually looks like I'm deadass drinking it. All right, so once again, thank you guys for being here. This is gonna be absolutely crazy. I've been waiting to do this video forever, and now's the perfect timing to prank Mariah back for what she did to me with the Christmas outfit. If you guys did not see the video, make sure to go check it out. She got me good personally, like yes. Mariah actually did a good prank, but I'm gonna get her back 10 times better in this video, so thank you everyone for being here, and I'll see you in the car. Hopefully she responds by the time I get in the car, but we'll just see. All right guys, so that was quick. I just got in the car, and literally she sent me six messages. I'm not even kidding. Let me show you them, hold on.  She literally said, wait, William James, do not drink and drive. Do you hear me? Oh my gosh guys, Mariah is literally freaking out. I do not think I'm gonna say anything back to her because I don't want to have her actually freak out because I want to get a reaction more on camera. Oh and one more thing guys, the reason I am not bringing that big freaking bottle of alcohol is because even though it's empty, I don't want a chance getting pulled over and having the cop suspect that I was drinking it at all, so I'm gonna play the safe side. I just have to make up for not having the bottle and good acting. So I'm gonna act as hard as I can that I'm drunk to make her believe that I'm drunk. So that's why I need to bring the bottle. All right guys, so I just pulled up to Mariah's grandmother's house and all the doors are shut right now. I see her cars in the driveway and I just texted her come outside so she could walk with me back inside because I'm gonna need help. Now I am gonna hold the camera to my side. So okay, she's opening the garage door right now but I am gonna hold the camera to my side so she doesn't see it and then I'll try setting it up somewhere. All right, I see her. I need to stop talking to the camera. She can't tell I'm talking to the camera. Little does she know. Moral squad right here. She's smiling at me. I think she thinks I'm drunk. We should be like Moral Squad. We're going in. We're going in guys. Hi baby. Babe. Huh?  Why'd you send me that picture then? No, I wasn't drinking. Babe, you're literally loopy right now. I'm not. Let's just go inside out. Why would you? Did you drink and drive? No.  Did you really do that? Does it look like I would drink and drive? I don't know. You're very lucrative. We're gonna go upstairs and talk to the camera. Babe, I wasn't on. Babe, did you drink? No. Yeah, she did. No, I didn't. Right, can you give me some water please? I heard you. Can you give me some water? I don't feel good. Right, can you go please? Please.  I don't feel good. Okay, wait, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I don't even have a pillow down here. Here. I kept getting beat at by everyone. Are you, Bill, how would you do that? I wasn't even driving bad, right? You were on family partying today. Sit up, come on.    Oh, wait. Bill. I swallowed it. Okay. Feel the way back, lay back, lay back, lay back. Here. I wasn't even driving bad. I don't know. Bill. I was like, people were just beeping at me for no reason. Here. Okay, okay, okay, here. Babe, let me do it. I'm gonna do it. No, you can't do it. I can drink more. No, you can't. How do you think that I... Bill, stop. How do you think... You are going to, this is my grandma's furniture downstairs. Stop. I think I'm a crab. You should. No, drink more. No, do you have alcohol? Drink more. Bill, you're drunk. I want more, though. No, you're drinking this. No. Drink. You need to chug a whole water. You need to chug a whole water, Bill. You're sick. I don't need that. That's sick.  Lay back. Oh, God. Lay back. No, lay back. Oh, God. Lay back. I was having fun, though. I was swerving. Why did you drink? It was fun. That is going to be even funny. Oh, God. I have a headache, though, now. Why would you drink and drive? What was your mindset for that? I was drinking and driving. Yes, you did. I drank before I drove. Bill, stop.  I don't know if my grandma's house is drunk, and my family's going to see it, and I'm going to throw up. They're going to have more fun. Are you kidding me? Where are they at? Let's go say hi to them. No, you're staying down here and chilling and drinking your water. Drink water. Seriously, drink. I don't have some to drink, too. I was not drinking and driving. I drank before I drove, so it doesn't matter. Drink. Bill, you need to go up. Can I just? You need to drink water, Bill. Here. More. You need to get the alcohol to your system. Oh, my God. Bill, step back. I feel fine. I feel fine. You said you were going to throw up. I feel fine. Can you sit down? I need to stand up.  Don't you ever drink and drive like that again. Why would you be? No.  It's not bad.  Bill, Bill, Bill. I'm walking it off. You are not fine. Come sit down. Come sit down. Bill, come sit down.   Why did you drop me? I didn't drop. Bill, you're heavy. Come on. Come on. It's OK. Come on. No, it's not OK. Can you? OK. Bill, I don't know what you're doing. You're half my size. I told you to sit on the couch. You're drunk. You have a aspirin. You don't need to. You don't need to put your feet in. That is the only way you're drunk.  I shouldn't have brought something for you.  This is my family party. Why would you do that? Why would you drink? You're literally, you could have killed yourself on the way here. Bill, you literally could have killed yourself. Do you realize how big this is? I've never had so much fun in my life. Do you realize how big this is?   Bill. Bill, sit. Come here. Come here. No, no, no. Oh. Are you kidding me? Where are you standing? Bill, you're being sandwiched. Why are you laughing at me?  My dad told me to rock it off if I ever feel sick. To rock it off? No, you can't. You're not even stable here. Come here. It's another couch. Sit. Lay down. Why are you laughing? Why would you get drunk? It's a party, a pregame. Before I come here, you got a pregame before the family party. This isn't a party party. Let me go to a friend party. Pregame to come to your grandma's. Perfect. Now, I don't got to waste your grandma's alcohol. I got my own. You know what I'm saying? I'm lit, you know? Like, let me just get over this headache, and I'll be good for another one. Oh, good for another one? Bill, are you serious right now? I got my head on my ribs. You literally just face planted on my couch. You dropped me. I don't understand why you came here drunk. It was like, no, sit down. You're playing a game. No, no, Bill, sit. Okay, sit down. Thank you for trying to help, but sit down, Bill. Sit down. You want to dance? No, sit down. Bill, sit down. Give me a hug, give me a hug. Okay, give me a hug. Can you just stand there for a minute? No, you can't even stand up straight. See that? What do you mean, that? It was before I happened to be like... We were not having fun. I can't believe you. No, you should not. Maybe not try it because that was a little scary. Why would you... We're not really long discussion when you get sober because you're not paying attention to me when I tell you this. You can give me some aspirin.    You could take it when you're sobered up. Now sit down and lay down. You don't need to be up and going. You got a guy who's down here? No, he's... No. See it was before I had him? No, we're not having fun. No, we're not having fun. No, sit down. You're not having fun. Sit down. You're cock-blocking the fun right now.  You're going to have to go to the hospital, Bill. I'm fine. Fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm not helping you.  Okay. Hey. Bill, I asked you to sit down. Oops. Look, I'm sorry. You're half my size. If you fall, I'm falling with you. I'm sorry. I asked you to sit down. I asked you to sit down. You're drunk. You're not going to...  I'm sorry. No, you're not going to play some football. Sit down. Oh, God. Bill. I'm sorry.  Stop it. I tried to put this... Sit down. You clearly can't stand for more than five seconds.  Can I get a real drink? No. That is your drink. I don't want any water. Chug it. You need it. Oh, God. I drank. You didn't drink. Drink more. You chug the water because you're drunk. Yes. It will get your... It will get your drinkiness or your alcohol. I'll give you some stuff. I'm not drunk. I don't care if you're drunk. I don't understand why you get drunk like that. You look good today. You're saying that I'm being drunk. You look good. Stop. Come here. No. Come here. No, you're drunk. No. I'm disappointing you. You've come to my family party drunk like this. Look at you.  Pretty good. You could be a little, like, you know, buzzed, but not this. I had to play it for hours. I couldn't play it for minutes, you know. Well, why would you do that? I'm having fun. I'm not having fun.  I'm about to leave you down here. Go to bed. Go to bed. Go to bed. Bye. I'm so mad at you. I'm not mad. We're going to play. No, sit down. Sit down. Come here. Sit down. Come here. No. Sit down. Okay, sit down. Kiss me. No. Bill. You're drunk. You don't want to kiss me. Because you're drunk. You don't love me. You're drunk. I'm just going to go home. I'm going to go home.  No, you are not driving home. Sit down. I'm going to... Sit down. Stop. I said sit down.  I'm going to go home. You are not going home like that. I'm going home. Bill, no. I can walk you straight. You are not. Look at it. No, you can't. You can't. You can't. Look, that was fine. That was straight. Sit down. I'm not in the wrong spot.  My family's here. Look, everyone's upstairs now. You're drunk. Let's go say hi. No. No. No. We're out here. No. Rise. She's captured me down here. Bill, you are not going home like that. Stop me. Let me go say hi to your family. No. Let me go say hi to your family. This is so important. Babe, come on. Stop. Sit down. What are you doing? You're sitting down. No. I'm not going up there looking like this, dude. Oh, God. I'm so embarrassed for you. I want to sleep. Freaking you. I'm not drunk. Do you? No. No. No. Yeah. No. Mariah, I haven't had one sip drop of alcohol at all. You're so frustrating. In the picture I sent you was literally fake. I took a picture of me holding the bottle, but there was nothing in it. It was an empty bottle. I was going to do it. I was going to smack it for drinking and driving. I know, but I would never do that. Trust me. Don't even worry. Babe, I literally hashtagged Team Bill. Everyone in the comments. This is probably one of the best drunk pranks there is online. No. Because Team Ryze would come back strong and don't listen to him. And what? Boo-Boo. Yes. The reason why I didn't have any bottle or anything because I didn't want to get pulled over. That's why I didn't bring the bottle with me. I feel like I brought the bottle that would have been a little better. But I made it up in the acting. I told them I would just have to go harder in order to make up for not having an actual bottle. Guys, Team Ryze come back strong. I went out listening to that. Everyone, thank you guys for being here. Give us a thumbs up for Mariah's reaction and me hitting my face. I actually did hit my face a little bit. That was the funniest thing I could have done. Come here. No, no, no. My head actually hurts. Is there a red mark on there? Check. Kind of. Guys, give me a thumbs up for me healing because I honestly hurt myself when I fell. But it made it more realistic. I had to keep my composure because I was literally about to laugh, slash, like, get mad. You were good at acting when you did that. Really? Yeah. But that's the whole point. I knew I had to go hard because I didn't have anything else. Any other props. I had myself, you know. All right, Marvel Squad. She's done with the video. She's done. Thank you guys for tuning in. But before we leave, we do got to give our post notification, shout-out, Mariah. You can give that shout-out because, you know, I've just been pranking you all day. You have not been pranking me all day. I just did. I just succeeded. So here. This shout-out goes to Meadow Sieger. Shout-out to you. Shout-out to you Meadow. Thank you for being on our channel and showing love in the comments. And we will see you guys in the next video. In the next Team Build video. But it's still good. Oh, and by the way, Merry Christmas everyone. It's Christmas. It's Monday right now. But it's Christmas on Wednesday. Like when we post this. So I hope you all had a great Christmas. I hope you all can top it off with the Marble Squad video. And Marble Family. Oh, Steve Bob, Madeline and Steven's merch. Yes, this is also Madeline and Steven's. Our YouTuber friends. They created some bomb, simple, but crazy looking designs. And yeah, so. So we'll see you guys in the next video. But until then. Peace. Merry Christmas guys. Love you. I hope you guys got all the presents that you want. Comment down below the presents that you got.  Alright guys, I'll see you guys in the next video. But until then. Peace.


By that rule right to seven so 30% of this room is recovering physicists. I think that's true You can you can write it down all right Mike Miller of cloud and I'm the last thing between you and a drink So I'll try to keep it quick And give us a second here. So yeah, all right, so it's a lightning talk I'll try to be fun with this in the spirit of data chick and tell you why databases of service is not a thing That you're just gonna consider is weird, but a decade from now. It's our last hope So what do I mean by that? I promise a quantitative argument So I'm gonna start with a little bit of philosophy my first postulate I guess of humans we don't get Exponential growth right it's the reason that we continue to fill up our planets the reason that we continue to Grow actively into limited resources that folded with reality is gonna get us to this conclusion Which is that in a decade you are not gonna dream of installing your own database? Okay, this is my takeaway and now I'm gonna try to convince you of it So my apologies to the DBAs in the room, but I think that you know my goal is to extinguish your field Right, that's where we're heading and I'm just gonna be upfront and blunt about that because it's gonna allow you to do other things Right, you want to be the Instagrams of the world. So how do we get there? We're gonna start with a large chat around Clidra and when I honestly learned what it means to be Exponential this is a picture of one of my colleagues on the floor It's a five-story device at CERN a couple hundred meters underground This thing makes data at about an exabyte a second and I can get to that calculation for the physicist in the room later on But the interesting thing is you can't dream of recording that right you cannot dream of recording all that digitized data This is the thing that that actually samples that but there's a Clidra You know buried under the mountains that creates you know something like In every 10 nanoseconds there's a collision that lights up this this entire device and that Clidra itself You can think of it like a big flashlight Okay, it's got beams of particles and they get brighter and brighter year over year and the net results is about every two years through various Various kind of knobs you can turn and tune this thing doubles in the amount of data that it could potentially produce It took me a while to understand what that meant meant that every two years I would record enough data that represented the entire amount of particle physics data with a squint to the physicists in the room That means that everything we had ever discovered in physics could be replicated in two years, right? So as a grad student, it's like oh, I can just redo everything right with that data took me a while to understand what that really meant And that's playing out right now So this is you know I cited something to try to find the doubling time of the volume of data that we have digital data in the world and You know it's doubling something like every two years, okay? So right now I think in 2009 we're sitting at about one zeta bite 10 to the 21 So I think it's a trillion gigabytes right and so that means if you go two more years you've doubled that Okay, let's think about you can draw a line anywhere on this graph and say I care about here, right? I'm at 400. What does it take to go up to 800 zeta bites? Well, it means that on the left side I have the entire history of humankind and on the right side I have the entire history of humankind plus two years Okay, so two years. So as a vendor I am focusing on the new stuff, right? This is all new right and what we know is what's in our brains in our history, which is all of the old stuff So while we think it's crazy to move data on into the cloud, right when I started the company I said we're gonna take your database when to put it on the internet We're gonna put it everywhere right like like Akamai for your database and people said that's crazy Right, but the reality is that solves a lot of new problems, which I want to talk about now So these two things have broken our model of computing if your developers say with me the lamp stack is dead Ten years from now. It's not going to work right then this story. I just told you about data volume It's true of connected internet devices to right We've long since passed the place and time where the number of connected devices is larger than the number of humans on the globe Right, we're way past that so these two things conspire to break the way that we've built our stack Right and it is all being reinvented. That's why it's such an awesome time to be a founder in the space Name anything it's all being reinvented from scratch, right? And it's being reinvented not necessarily by the big names in the field But by people writing Ruby on Rails apps that have to solve these problems That's where no sequel came from in the first place And yeah, if Fusion IO was cheaper in 2008 no sequel may not have happened for a long time Right, it's just a response So they're these market pressures and the things that are coming out of this I think are two big examples are no sequel and cloud services, right? So our company in cloud and its database is a service. We ship with a mobile strategy Come see me if you want to know what that means But if you look at where this falls in the realm of other cloud products, you know our competition is Amazon More small company you may never have heard of cloud in we're probably the smallest company with a digit revenues That you've never heard of in the no sequel space But the reason is because this market is really really good Right and you want to be in a really good and fast-growing market And this is the fastest growing product that AWS has ever rolled out So if you're interested come join those in mobile gaming in the enterprise in big mobile And come talk to me afterwards over beer for some of these arguments. Thanks. All right


Hello and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. It is now the 12th day of March. And according to my planning calendar that I have set up here, we are in between 10 and 11 weeks away from our last frost date here in Saskatchewan. So according to my planning calendar here, it's time to get some onions and celery started. So that's what we're going to do today. I'm going to show you how I'm going to be planting these up and get them growing under the grow lights. I'm also going to try some lupin flowers here. These are a perennial that are actually hardy to zone 3 right here in Saskatchewan. So these should be able to survive our harsh cold winters and come back every year. So I have some of these started in milk jugs using the winter sowing method and still had some seeds left. So I'm going to throw a couple of those in here today as well. So the two kinds of onions I'm going to be planting today and those are seeds that I got from a company in Manitoba called Heritage Harvest Seeds. And they specialize in rare and endangered heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs. So I have gotten a few different varieties of seeds from them last year and I still have these onions that I did not plant last year. And according to what I've heard, onion seeds don't store well for very many years. So I'm going to try and use these all up this year and see how they do. So I'm going to be doing a tropina lunga onion. That is kind of an Italian red onion according to the pictures I've seen. It looks very pretty and is a nice red onion that you can use in salads and cooking. And the other one is the early yellow globe onion. This is like a big sweet onion that those kind of onion I buy all the time and use for just regular cooking. So I'm not a big lover of onions. I don't care for raw onion, but I thought these two kinds are basic ones that I would use in my home. And I think I'm hoping that they will do well. I've only planted onion bulbs in the past and it seems like, you know, they're about this big when they go in the ground. And then when I harvest them, they're about this big. So I've never really had much luck with them. So I'm hoping, you know, start these from seed. We've got some potting soil mixed up here. This is seed starting mix that I've added some of some worm castings to it for a little extra. Fertilizer in it. So I'm very anxious to try growing onions from seed to see how it goes. And the salary I'm going to try today is just a Utah green salary. Purchase these seeds from a local company and these have similar germination time as the onions. And I think it's the lupins. The reason I'm planting these all together now. So these we will try them. Another thing that I have never grown from seed or grown in my outdoor garden. If you've seen any of my crack key indoor growing videos, I've had success starting salaries from the stocks that you buy from in the grocery store. I've managed to start them rooting and grow some salary successfully using the crack key method. So I have some seeds. My's will try growing them outdoors. So I'm going to use these today for starting seeds. I picked these up at the dollar store for buck 25 for 15 of them. So they're super cheap. There are three inch plastic pot with the holes on the bottom. So I'm going to set them up in a tray so that I can bottom water them. I'm going to be setting this on a heated seedling mat as well to get them started. So we will get these filled up with some dirt now. So something that I learned about onions when I was doing some research on these is there are three categories of onions out there. And those are based on the hours of sunlight that they require to grow the best. And so there are long day onions, short day onions, and intermediate day onions. So here in zone three, Saskatchewan, Canada, we have very long summer days of long days of daylight. So the long day onion such as this one, the yellow globe, prefers and does best in 14 to 16 hours of daylight. This one here when I looked it up was considered an intermediate day onion, which prefers 12 to 14 hours of daylight. So these are best for zones 5, 6, 7. Long days are best for the lower zones like zone 5, 4, 3 or so. But I think both will do okay here in my region. Short day onions of course would be in the warmer regions to the south where they only require, I think it's 8 to 10 hours. And have less daylight hours. So they should work well here. And we will plant up first of all the long day ones. And it can be pretty generous with the amount of seeds that you spread into each. I'm going to do up I think three of these.  So you just spread them in here. I'm not going to worry about how many I'm going to. Once they start germinating and growing, you just keep them trimmed up until you put them into the soil. They'll be easy to take apart and separate and plant into your garden. I don't think I'm going to get them all used up. I don't really want a ton of onions started, so I'm just going to stick with starting these three cells up. And the Lunga onion, the red one, seeds look very similar. It could almost be the same if you mix them up. So I'm going to just do up two. Now let's do three. I probably have enough. Here for three. So I did grow some red onions last year. And like I said, I'm not a fan of raw red onion. But I see how people like them on their salads and on their burgers. So what I did last year with my red onions is pickled them. And I have a video on how I did that. It was super easy and it kind of cuts down the bite. Onion softens them up a little bit and works great to put on your burgers. Different types of dishes that you would normally use of raw red onion. So check out that video. I'll leave the link below. So the celery seeds are super tiny. And again, I'm just going to sprinkle a pretty generous layer onto.  So I'm just going to do one cell and we will separate them out. Hopefully we have a good germination. Now I was just thinking about how I want to mark these so I can keep track of them. I'm going to be covering these with a plastic dome until they germinate. So I can't really use any sticks or markers. So I think to start with I will just use a little bit of tape on each one. Some painter's tape and write the kind of seeds that's in there so that I don't forget. So here are the lupin seeds. They're quite big. And it looks like they don't sprout for 20 to 30 days. So I guess that's a lot longer than I thought the onion's celery should be with 7 to 14 days. And on the heated seedling mat they may germinate a little bit faster. So we will see how these go. And I'm just going to spread out these seeds into two different cells here. I can space them a little more easier because they are bigger. These remind me the reason I really like these. I went on a road trip from Toronto to Saskatchewan and we drove through northern Ontario to go around the Great Lakes. You kind of have to head way up north and get around them to get across to the prairies. And that's one thing I remember on that road trip was there was beautiful lupins growing wild in the ditches. And they were very pretty and so I'm hoping that I can get some beautiful lupins going here in my yard as well. Okay so I got everything planted up here and I have just used green painters tape with the name of what I have on here. And to keep track of them. So I'm just going to give it a very light layer of more potting soil. I can use vermiculite as well. I've been using that, trying that as well. I think for this potting soil will work good. Now I just, I have watched a video on, I think it's called Gay Peace Grub. She's a great gardener that I watch all the time because she gives you how to's on starting pretty much everything. So I always look to her videos for different tips and tricks on starting seedlings. She's in a much warmer zone than me but for the most part we can use the same processes. So what she did to start her seeds instead of putting them directly under a light right away. She covered them with plastic to keep the humidity in and just kept them in darkness until signs of germination. And then at that time exposed them to some grow light. So we're going to try that as well. I got this jiffy dome piece from another growing pot. So I'm going to use that because it fits these nine cells perfectly. And we're going to go put them under the grow lights with the grow lights off. But I'll just show you how I'm going to set them up and get them ready for germination. Okay, so we have the seedlings here now in my underneath the grow light. And before I cover it up with the plastic dome, I'm just going to give it a good soaking. And as you can see here, I got the seedling heat mat plugged in. And I'm just going to set the tray right on there. And I'm going to put this dome on top to help keep the moisture in. And I'm going to just keep it in darkness just by covering it with this towel here. And I will be checking on it daily just to make sure it hasn't dried out. And as soon as I see some germination happening, I will remove the dome and get these lights going. Have them probably only, you know, an inch or so away from the seedlings so that they don't get too leggy. So I will be checking in on these every day to see how they are doing and when they germinate. As you can see, I still have a lot of space left here to get growing. I think next on my calendar to start planting is tomatoes and peppers, which I have so many of. 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What's up guys? Michael with Jaspy's doing a quick recap for our National Treasures football mixer number one random team which contained one box of 2022 national treasures One box of mosaic choice 2022 and one box of 2021 mosaic choice here are the teams in case you forgot Positive you need to There you go All right getting into the recap. It's a quick one only three boxes And a crystal lobby mosaic Jared Goff black gold out of eight And Austin Echler black gold out of eight both in the same box. So one of those black golds actually replaced the auto in the box I had a jail in Tolbert auto Easy at 80 Kurt Warner out of 80 true luck at 80 We're getting into some national treasures here Lawrence Taylor out of 56 Jameson Williams out of 99 There's some more mosaics All right, the rest is national treasure now Derek Carr sentry materials Sunday treasures Travis ETN Nicoby Dean rookie auto out of 49 Tyrone Davis price NFL gear dual patch auto out of 99 had a dual auto of Alec Pierce and Geolani Woods prime pairings for the Colts and if you saw the tape hanging out was because I Tape up this box. So the lid didn't come off, but I forgot I'm gonna have to show it again That's some fillers on the bottom. So didn't pop up and down We had a rookie first-edition signatures Jameson Williams with a nice chunky patch there out of 99 for the Lions It's a booklet and then another this was a Lions box big time Just get this back up there dual NFL shield Aiden Hutchinson Jameson Williams all the gambler came to you got a no went old No way now we're getting copyrighted all right dual NFL shield All right, so thank you guys for getting the break. Thank you guys for watching Sorry, you had to witness that at the end there, but I'm not sorry. Not sorry. See you guys later


Hello, my name is Chris and I'm a recovering nice guy. What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution.  And a lot of that has to do with relationships. And that's what I'm talking about today. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe. Click the little notification bell because I make a ton of videos. So I know I've been talking about YouTubers and stuff lately, but like this is kind of like about a YouTuber. I want to talk about nice guys. I used to be a nice guy. So to give you a little backstory, if you don't know about nice guys, I highly recommend checking out a channel that my girlfriend turned me on to. It's called Sorrow TV. And this guy goes through different subreddits and stuff and does a bunch of funny voices and he sings. And it's absolutely hilarious. I'm nice to you. Why won't you show me your boobies? All girls are the same. Us nice guys never get a chance. You're all chasing chair. One of the playlists he has is a subreddit called nice guys. And like when I watch it, I laugh and I cringe. I'm like, oh, my God, that used to be me. So I'm making this video for a couple of reasons, and I'm going to make more videos on this. So a few reasons I'm making this, OK? The first one, men, all of you men out there, we got to be better. We got to be better people. And a lot of us, you know, especially younger guys, like we're delusional. OK, so I hope that I can teach you a few things. The reason number two, women, women, you deserve better. Keep on the lookout for nice guys.  They'll get over it. They'll figure things out. OK. Third and foremost, like I hope with my channel to show how somebody can grow, someone can improve. So for a variety of reasons. So be sure to share my videos and show people that they can change that they can improve. And this isn't for you to sit around waiting for somebody to change. Because it takes a lot of work. Most of my videos, when I sit there talking to you and telling you things to do, it's because I've done it, because I've been through it. I used to be a terrible, terrible, terrible person. Not only was I terrible in relationships, I was also a drug addict. I was an alcoholic. I had anger issues. I had all sorts of stuff, right? But now I'm in this great place today. And I'm just completely different than I used to be. All right. But it takes work. It takes effort. And the first step towards solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem. So so for those of you who don't know what nice guys are, OK, it's this thing on the Internet.  And thank God it read it. It didn't exist. So a few examples of nice guys. There's somebody who will approach a woman and they're like, but I'm such I'm such a nice guy. I'm so nice and this and this or they'll say very sweet things and all that kind of stuff. And then when the woman turns that down, they snap. OK. So one example is they snap. They get mad. They'll call them names and things like that. So me personally, I didn't do that. OK. But I would talk to my friends about it and say, like, I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm such a nice guy. Why do these women not want a nice guy? So the first thing I'll talk about in my confessions of a nice guy to just help you get into the brain of a nice guy was I saw over and over and over again, women that I knew, you know, back in high school, you know, even in my 20s, I saw women who kept dating terrible guys, right? They would cheat on them. They would emotionally or verbally abuse them and things like that. I'm like, but I would never do that. I would never do that. And like there's this weird kind of entitlement that comes along with that like somewhere in the brain of nice guys. They think that just because you're not doing these terrible things that this woman should date you. And first and foremost, like you're setting a real low bar. Like, hey, you should date me. I'm not verbally abusive. Like what? What about your hobbies, your interests, your goals, your passions? Like things that you have in common, you know, are they physically attracted to you? Like there's more to dating than just like, oh, well, I never hit a woman. So you should date me like say your bar a little bit higher than that. And women, same thing. Like if you're getting out of a terrible relationship, raise your bar.  Raise it higher because for nice guys, right? That's what we look for. We're like, OK, the bar isn't too high, right? But the thing is, is that these nice guys, when they snap, they show their real colors, right? And this is because they're they're putting on this facade a long time ago. I made a lot of you haven't even seen this. I made a video about Aziz and Sorry during the Me Too movement. A lot of people got my video twisted, but I wasn't calling Aziz and Sorry out for any kind of mis like any kind of like, you know, illegal behavior. But I was calling him out for being a nice guy, right? I talked about him as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Nice guys are very good at pretending like they're good and well intentioned and stuff like that. But what really they're doing is they're putting on a show so they can get what they want, right? This is how a lot of women or even men, I guess, sometimes they get tricked into abusive relationships, not even physically abusive, but verbally and emotionally abusive. They get tricked because some people are good at keeping themselves together during that whole courting phase. Then you get stuck in a relationship with them and their true colors show. All right. But these other nice guys, what they do is they always they're posting and they're they're posting and boasting and they they have this self-pity party like, I don't get why I can't find a woman. I'm such a nice guy. I don't get it.  But like, again, it goes back to like just because you're nice, like it doesn't give you the right to have that woman, right?  And I really hope in this video, I'm not coming off as like this white night. It's just like I've learned. I've learned from so many mistakes and a lot of it came through self-evaluation and realizing this stuff. Like so for for example, I used to get so butthurt like and a lot of it was because of my emotions, I would get very strongly like emotionally attached to somebody and all I could do is focus on them. I need this one specific woman, right? And like, here's the reality of the situation. I had to ask myself, am I attracted to every single woman I meet? No, right? So how why do I expect every woman I meet to be attracted to me? Maybe they're not into my type. Maybe they're not into chunky bearded guys. I don't know what it is. Maybe they're not into guys with my kind of voice. Maybe they're looking for, you know, whatever, right? Like I have to like that's that's where empathy comes in. You know what I'm saying? Like maybe they're just not into my type. I have a type. Is it crazy that they don't have a type? But the other thing is too, and this is a lot about mental health as well. And people who have emotional attachment issues is we often forget.   OK, half of which are of, you know, the gender that you want to date. Quit focusing on one person because when you focus on that one person who broke your heart or doesn't reciprocate your feelings, you are closing yourself off to the rest of the world. And that's what I was doing. I was hyper focusing on things that I couldn't get, things that I couldn't have, you see what I'm saying? So like we really need to like, man, we need to start becoming better and identifying these things, you know? So like the last thing I'll talk about is this thing called self seeking. So I had this delusion in my brain that I was such a nice guy, I was such a great guy, but self seeking is doing things, expecting something in return. So for example, right, I would ask you to grow out on date. For some reason she would say yes, because back in the day I was a hot mess and she would say yes and I would go and I would like pick her up at her house and I'd like walk her to the car and I'd open the door for her. And then I would take her to an expensive restaurant, one that's way out of my budget.  And, you know, we start to have a meal and I'm complimenting her.  And she's like, thanks, you know, and she's all loving it and stuff. And I'm just nice and I'm complimenting her.   And she gives me a hug and then she walks inside, right? And then I get furious. I get furious about this because all I got was a hug.  I just did this. I was such a nice guy. But the reality is, like, I had to realize, like, am I really a nice guy? I was only doing all that nice stuff to get something in return. That's not nice. Being nice is being selfless. You know what I'm saying? So, like, a lot of this comes from men. Like, we really got to be self-aware. And a lot of us were not as nice as we think we are. And maybe if we were, we'd have a lot more opportunities. Women, like, there's a whole subreddit, too, of nice girls, too, right? Like, you got to check in with yourself and say, like, am I really as nice as I think I am? Because I might not be. All right. So, again, please share this video. There's a lot of nice guys out there who really need a stern talking to. And, like I said, I'm much different now. And this was a journey. And I'll make some more videos about how I grew as a man, how I started being a better person in relationships. I have a beautiful girlfriend. We've been together for over a year and a half. We're looking at apartments and stuff like that. If we make it till this December, which I don't see why we wouldn't, you know, we'll be together for about two years, you know? And, you know, if you ask her, I'm pretty decent in a relationship now. And a lot of it is because I give without expecting anything in return. And I think that's a problem that a lot of us have, right? So, anyway, share this video. Leave comments down below. What is your experience? Were you a nice guy? Are you a nice guy or ladies out there? What's your stories? Have you ever encountered one of these nice guys? All right, but that's all I got for you today. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up.  Click that subscribe button, ring that notification bell. And a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all beautiful and you're helping me make more content to spread the message of hope. And if you want to check out some more videos, you can click a tap right there. Thanks so much for watching. Quit being a nice guy and I'll see you next time.


Welcome. This is Melissa Armell with the Stock Swoosh and I'm introducing the Veterans Day Golden Gap course offer. So this is going to be open to everyone. You don't have to be a vet in order to receive this offer, but I'm doing this for Veterans Day, which is tomorrow, November 11, 2019. If you have any questions, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or call me at 929-3200 Gap. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So thank you so much for your service. If you are a veteran, if you have served the military, thank you so much. You know, I don't know where the country would be without veterans. Thank God people are willing to do this and put their life in their line and serve the country. So thank you so much. And so we celebrate Veterans this week. The offer that I'm doing is if you sign up for the Golden Gap course, you will receive the Stock Swoosh Show live trading room free through Memorial Day, which is a long way away. So it's May 31, 2020. This is a huge offer. Basically, you get November, December, and then five months into the beginning of 2020. So you get seven months free in the live trading room. Class tuition price is just the normal price of $64.99, except for you get seven months free in the room. And the room is normally $500 a month. So this is a huge offer. This sale is going to be running through Friday, November 15. And again, can be used for this class in November. Or you can sign up by November 15, and then take the class in December. The classes online, as all of my classes are, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com if you'd like to sign up. Again, the deadline is Friday. So right now, it's starting season. It's a very active and busy time to trade. It's been a really strong October. We're just into the first week here of November. And we'll see what happens the rest of this month. I'm telling you, we've had a very peaceful market in the sense that the market's been very bullish. And even I am surprised. So we've had some bullish plays. We've had some bearish plays. I get up in the morning and look for each gap that I'm going to do every day. It's a different stock every single day. And I'm trading stocks that are stocks you would recognize, companies that you know, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, things you're familiar with. And they're all stocks that trade volume, but I'm always looking for the gap. So again, this week is to thank all the veterans. This offer is open to everyone, not just veterans. If you want to sign up for the Golden Gap course next weekend, I'm going to review here one of the plays that happened that was a gap this week. This was a bullish gap. I'm going to go over this for you right now. Let me show you the chart here first. This was the day. So again, I was talking about the fact that we've been going long and short with this earnings season. This was CVS. Again, this is a company, you know, the stock closed here the night before, boom, gapped up here. And I rated the gap in the morning. So I called actually options in this and the day trade. Here's the rally. Now I'm going to go back here and go over the day trade. So this was the day trade. The trading room is where I call the live day trades. I call the entry, the stop, the exit, and you do the trade live in the room. The room is open in the morning between 930 while I open it up about 830, but we start trading at 930. And then it's usually opened about 1030, unless we're still in a trade. But you must take the class and learn the course before you sign up for the room. Okay, that's why this deal is such a great offer, because you normally have to sign up for the room on top of the class.  So the entry was 6960. Stop was 6880. Again, this was a long share quantity for an advanced risk trader was 3000 shares, exit 7062. This went past that point, what higher on the day. But that was a really, really solid exit on this trade profit 3060. And then I'm going to go back and just show you here how it ran up here closed at the high. This was the day of the gap of the earnings. Then it got to the following day dropped rallied, then it got here pretty much neutral rallied again into Friday to close the week. So very strong earnings showing for CVS. And of course, I've been liking this higher. So if you'd like more information, if you're thinking about joining, this is a great time to do it. What is starting season to you can take the class still get here before 2020, learn the information, do the class, get in this weekend, learn the system, start to trade, get experience under your belt. I find a lot of people think that they can't make money the market. And then all of a sudden they meet me and they realize that they can. If you're losing money the market, it's probably because you have a bad system. It's it's sometimes people think that they're losing because they have bad discipline, poor discipline, bad habits. Yeah, that may be true. But really, when you have a losing system, then you tend to develop bad, poor habits. Do you understand what I'm saying? So if you have a winning system, you may have habits that you have to break from the past, but it may allows it easier for you to do it. Because I'm calling good trades, and you take the trades, and you follow me in the room where I tell you to take it, put the stop in and get out. Okay. So know that you can do it, especially with a good support system and structure and having live trading room free until the end of May is a huge, huge support system. So sometimes people are retiring, looking to trade in the side. Sometimes people are full time jobs, part time jobs, and they want to change careers. Whatever the reason is that you want to trade. I do think it's important that you're aware of that and know that so your focus when you start this process. And it is a process you will learn. You learn in the class. It's the two day course. And then you will ask me questions after the course, especially in the live trading room, you learn a lot in the room as well. I always get this question too. How long is the learning curve? I have no idea what it is for you because every person is different. There isn't a set amount of learning curve. You may learn everything Saturday and Sunday and start trading Monday right out of the gate and achieve your goals in the first week. Or you may have a slight curve. So it depends what your experience is, but I tell you, I've taught people with no experience and they've done really well because I don't have any bad habits. So I can't even say that someone with no experience is going to have a learning curve because you may have no experience and then have no learning curve at all. So, you know, if you're open minded, if you listen to what I say, follow the structure, following the room, that's the best case scenario for you, whether you've ever traded before or not. So the class for November is November 16th and 17th. It's 9 to 5 Eastern Time. Class of the class is 64.99. Class is online. It could be anywhere in the world and take it. Email me at Melissa at thestopschwisch.com if you want to sign up. And again, the Veterans Day offer ends November 15th at midnight. So the class is Saturday and Sunday, 9 to 5. Class tuition is 64.99. Class is online. So you will get the live training room free through the end of May 2020 if you sign up by the 15th. You can use it and do the class in November or you can do the class in December. Okay, just email me if you have questions about that. If you're interested in the combo, the combo includes the Golden Gap course and the Trends course. The Golden Gap is again November 16th. 17th through the Trends is December 16th in December. It's a half-day class. You save $500 if you pay for both at the same time. The Trends goes over long-term trends. The Golden Gap course is where you learn my Gap method, how I choose which stock to trade each day that's gapping, like CBS. If you're interested in just trading options, you can sign up for this newsletter. There are no specials going on for this. This is a great letter and this is really a very good praise for this letter. There is no monthly subscription. It's one year subscription. That's it. The trades are emailed to you. We did do calls in CBS and they worked, and you would just receive the trades emailed to you, but these are options trades. So the trades that we do in the day training room are not the same as the options trades. You need to know that if you sign up. But a lot of people can't be in the room and trade every single day. So they want to do the options because they're at their office and they can't be in the room or if they don't have a margin account. So if you don't have a margin account, you could do the options because you don't need margin in order to trade options. I don't call options trades every single day like we do the day trades in the room. However, I may call five trades on one day, like for example on a Monday, and then I may not call anything on a Tuesday or Wednesday. So it's enough trades in the month's period in order to in order to be successful even if you don't want to do the day trades. Now I have people that are doing the day trades and I have people that are doing the options trades. So bottom line is that both are available to you. If you want to trade options and you want a day trade, then sign it for the class, learn the system. That's how I call the options and the day trades with the golden gap system. You will get the room free though until the end of May, which is very, very helpful with the class, like I said, for the Veterans Day offer. And if you want to do options too, you can sign it for the letter or you just start with the day trading, learn the system of the class, and then you can move into options later. Once you get experience learning the system, it's important to rate the gaps and see what I'm seeing even in calling the options trades. So some people have joined first on the class day traded, then signed up for the letter. Some people have done both at the same time, just started with everything. I think the most money that you can make is if you do options and day trades and you learn the system because you're going to get good at it then. Some people have started out with the options newsletter and then decided they wanted to learn the system and then decided they wanted to do day trade too. There are no prerequisites though for the annual newsletter for the options letter. There is a prerequisite to join the trading room. You have to do the class. Okay. Hopefully that explains everything to everyone. Again, if you have any questions, email me at Melissa at thestockswitch.com, looking for a strong, strong close to the end of 2019. Have a great day, everyone.


Hi guys, in this video I'm going to talk about rendering. So, what is rendering? According to Alan Tucker, Rendering is the name given to the process in three-dimensional graphics, whereby a geometric description of an object is converted into a two-dimensional image plane representation that looks real. So what that means in simple terms is taking the information stored on your hard drive or disk and turning this into the graphics that you see on screen. There are quite a few different rendering methods which are used to achieve this, but in this video I'm going to talk about three of them. These are rasterization, ray tracing and radiosity. Rasterization. Rasterizing is widely used to render real-time 3D graphics such as games. This is due to the way it balances the real-time performance needed with the ability to create the pretty pictures we've come to expect from modern games. Basically, the way this works is the rasterizer looks at the thousands of triangles that make up the 3D scene and determines which will be visible in the current perspective. With that information, the engine then analyzes the light sources along with some other environmental details to add light and color to the pixels on each triangle. Here's an example comparing rasterization to a higher-end rendering method such as ray tracing. You can see that rasterization does a good job, but it's not able to create the same level of detail as ray tracing in real time. Okay, so let's talk about ray tracing. Ray tracing is a rendering technique that is capable of creating photo-realistic images from three-dimensional scenes. The way it works is by calculating the path of every ray of light and following it through the scene until it reaches the camera. This means that ray tracing can create very accurate reflections and refractions. In general terms, ray tracing works by creating a ray for each pixel that will be displayed on screen. Then the path of each ray is traced from the camera back through the scene to the original light source. Here's an example featuring a pig in a top hat which demonstrates how this works. So in this example, the screen is represented by the eye of the bloke sitting on the stool. We then trace a ray of light back to the pig, but on the way, this ray travels through the glass, which causes the light to refract. Once the light gets to the pig, this is the point at which the colour would have been calculated. We then follow the ray further back to the light source, which in this case is provided by the lamp on the mole's helmet. Again, the light travels through the glass on the way, which adds more refraction. This happens for every pixel and for every light in the scene. This means a lot of information needs to be calculated. And for this reason, ray tracing is not yet suitable for real-time rendering. Here's an example of the type of image you can create when rendering using ray tracing. Radiosity is a rendering technique that focuses on global lighting and works to track the way that light spreads and diffuses around a scene. This is done in an attempt to simulate the effect of light bouncing around a room. This is a really good method for recreating natural shading. Have a look in the corner of any room or where the walls meet the ceiling. You'll notice that shadows tend to gather there. This is something that can be recreated really well using radiosity. This example shows a scene rendered with and without radiosity. You can see in the example on the right how much softer the shadows are as a result of the light bouncing around the scene. Some of the rendering methods I've covered here could be used together to create very detailed scenes that will run in real-time. In games, this can be achieved through the use of lightmaps. These are often used on the static elements of games such as terrain or architecture and they work by baking the lighting data straight onto the texture. Here's an example of the level of detail that can be achieved using lightmaps. So, if you're not rendering in real-time, then you could be waiting a very long time for your graphics to render. So how does Studio speed this up? That's where distributed rendering comes in. For those using high-end rendering methods, the time taken to render can be a real issue. For example, a single frame from Toy Story 3 took 16 hours to render. With a little bit of quick maths, we can see that in order to render the whole movie using only one computer, it would have taken 1,648 days to complete. That's just over four and a half years. The solution for this is distributed rendering, also known as using a render farm. This involves sending the project to a farm of networked computers which each render a small part of each frame. These parts are then sent back to the host system, which combines these pieces together to create the whole frame. This dramatically reduces the render time. Commercial render farms often have hundreds of these networked computers, or nodes, and they look like the example on screen. Click the annotation on screen or check the link in the video description for a promotional video which explains how render farms work. It is possible to build your own small render farm at home using Autodesk Backburner. OK, so that's it. If you have any further questions on rendering, then just drop me a comment below the video or contact me using one of the methods you can see on screen. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.


The US is asking Israel to transition to low intensity warfare on Gaza. Now this does not seem to stop the Israeli bombardment or the rising death toll. What is the latest from this brutal war? It's been 8 months since the war between the Sudanese army and the rapid support forces began. What impact has it had on the country? This is the daily debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. The death toll from the brutal bombardment of Gaza has crossed 19,000 as Israeli atrocities continue unabated. Meanwhile, the US has conveyed to Israel that it should transition to low intensity warfare. Although it's very unclear what that means, since US weapons are contributing to the intense bombardment. Meanwhile, there are reports that ceasefire talks are once again happening in Qatar. We go to Abdul for the latest. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. Another week comes to an end with the brutal bombardment of Gaza continuing by Israel. The death toll has crossed 19,000, even as noises are being made. There's some discussion, of course, about the possible ceasefire, but very early days yet. So first of all, could you take us through what the humanitarian condition is? What is happening on the ground? Well, in the last few days, in fact, the attacks have become much more brutal. If you see what is happening to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, there are reports coming that Israeli troops basically bulldozed the people who were taking shelter inside the hospital without considering whether there are people inside those tents or not. And apparently, scores of people have been basically buried alive, as per the reports coming in the media. There are also reports about other incidents of bombing of the houses, bombing of even shelters. Basically, in fact, on two consecutive days on Thursday and Friday, there were reports about how Israeli forces have basically attacked the shelter homes, both through the airstrike and through the ground offensive, killing innocent civilians. Though some reports claim that some of them were killed on a point blank, but of course, it is not confirmed. But these are the reports which are coming from the ground. Amidst all that, as you rightly pointed out, the overall death toll has crossed 19,000 now. And every minute, the number is increasing. Amidst that, of course, the humanitarian situation when it comes to Gaza is becoming bad to us. Every day we say the same thing, primarily because every day the situation is becoming bad. There are reports coming of starvation among children. The UN agencies have confirmed it that there are several cases of children dying because of hunger. Some of the children are forced to share whatever food they are getting with their peer. And then there are reports also about how some of the children, in fact, have basically have developed some kind of positions, complications, which is difficult to cure in future, even if there is some restoration of quote-unquote normalcy. So overall situation in the Gaza Strip, both in terms of the Israeli attacks and in terms of humanitarian situation is basically worse, has become worse in the last few days. On Friday, another Palestinian journalist, Al Jazeera journalist was killed. This basically, the overall number of journalists killed has crossed, is basically touching 100 now. Then there are reports coming from different sections of the media that Israeli forces are taking random Palestinian people under captivity and kind of staging some kind of fake surrender. And of course treating them in a very inhuman brutal ways. So all those videos have come out in public. And so this is overall the situation when it comes to the situation in Gaza. There are talks about ceasefire, resuming, but this is yet too early to say anything about it. And Abdul Ahmad, we also know that the US is saying that it is asked Israel to switch to what is called low-intensity warfare. It seems kind of difficult to understand what this means. What is the context of this argument even? Well, given the fact that there is a growing criticism of the US role in the war, the fact that most of the Palestinians who have been killed in the name of fighting Hamas are basically civilians, particularly children. And the elderly, all this basically has created a massive public, basically resentment against the US role, both in the West Asia and in the United States as well, apart from the other parts of the globe. This basically kind of creates a situation where Biden administration is fighting to some kind of image saving. So this is what basically US says about low-intensity war is basically another way of saying of avoid civilian casualties, which it has been saying for last many weeks now. Of course, without any meaning to it, of course, because the amount of weapons supplied to the Israelis which are used in bombing Gaza has increased. In fact, it has not gone down. And when the Jack Sullivan was there in Israel and also in the region, basically he did not say anything about the possibility of ceasefire. In fact, he said that whatever Israel is doing, the US will continue to support it in whatever way possible. In fact, Israelis have completely denied US attempts to kind of think of a post-war scenario where how the Gaza will be administered. And apart from as per the reports which is coming in the media, Israel is completely denying any possibility of ceasefire now or any possibility of sharing, sorry, any possibility of letting the Palestinians govern Gaza as well. So though US is claiming on one side that it wants the Gaza to kind of go back to the Palestinian authority to be governed after the war. So the primary point is that despite the fact that what US is saying, it is not able to convert its rhetoric in act because Israel is not listening to what US is saying, even if it is saying something in the private. At least in public, it has not said anything which can give any hope about saving Palestinian lives or about kind of creating a situation for the ceasefire in Gaza. Abdulla and finally, could you also tell us a bit about what the regional dynamics right now are. We know that of course, while the war, there have been many attacks by some of the regional resistance forces as well. Well in the last few days, again, the situation on the northern Israeli border with Lebanon has become tense, very tense in fact as per the reports even on Saturday morning there were exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces in which some of the Israeli soldiers have been apparently injured, though the reports are not confirmed. Of course, when it comes to Houthis, they continue to block the Babel Mandab in the Red Sea and continue to target the ships which are heading to Israel as per their declaration earlier. Apart from that, I think we have already talked about it how the US bases all across the region have come under attack and those attacks have not gone down. Apart from these physical targeting of Israel and US which basically is seen as a supportive to the war in Gaza, there are also basically increasing, you can say frustration among the Arab governments in the region who have basically expressed much stronger resentment against the US failure to basically create any situation, pressurize Israel to put an end to its brutal war in Gaza. Thank you so much for that roundup. We'll come back to you for our next story. It's been 8 months since war broke out between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary rapid support forces. Millions are displaced and a massive humanitarian crisis is underway. Now it's important to remember that the Sudanese left and the popular neighborhood resistance committees had warned that the generals who had ruled Sudan for years were not to be trusted. However, the international community made them a key part of the so-called transition to democracy until internal conflicts led to the war. Over the months you've seen reports of human rights violations from both sides including ethnic cleansing in Darfur. We go back to Abdul for details. Abdul, 8 months since the war began in Sudan, quite an extremely brutal war, one that has been massively underreported actually considering the amount of humanitarian, the number of deaths, the humanitarian crisis that is taking place right now in the country. The war continuing between the armed forces and the rapid support forces, former allies, citizens committees had warned that these generals could not be trusted and the same thing happened. So first of all, could you maybe take us through where, you know, what is happening as regards to the battle itself? What is the kind of military position, especially now that there are talks about some kind of negotiations taking place? Exactly. In fact, the regional East African forum, which is basically called IGAD, basically has basically claimed that there is an attempt to kind of create some kind of ceasefire in Sudan. Though there have been no official confirmation about it, neither the Sudanese army nor the RSF has confirmed it so far. But of course, they have acknowledged that there is a talk going on. And they have, I think, given a two weeks time for kind of building confidence, building measures to be taken by both the sides so that there can be a ceasefire. But despite the talks of ceasefire, the war continues. In fact, a few days back, there had been blasts inside capital Khartoum and of course the war in the Darfur and other remote areas continue where the RSF is basically considered to be stronger vis-à-vis the Sudanese army. So it seems that overall situation when it comes to war has gone down despite the fact that it has been eight months and there were claims in the beginning that RSF will not have enough resources to continue the war for long. It seems they have enough resources and they continue to basically continue to kind of spoil any chances of peace in Sudan. And that has basically led to a very bad humanitarian situation in the country. The country has already become the largest in the world in terms of displaced people. More than 6 million Sudanese have been displaced. Some of them have also gone out of the country, become refugees. But most of them remain inside and those who remain inside are living in a very bad condition because of course the humanitarian agencies are not able to take care of their basic needs and that has basically created a situation of a massive outbreak of different kinds of epidemics among the people in Sudan. And so all these things are happening at a time when of course the attention is basically divided between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in other parts of the world. But despite the fact that the attention is divided, the fact remains that Sudanese war is one of the most brutal wars in the recent decade in Africa. Abdul in this context also wanted to ask you specifically about the situation in Darfur. You mentioned that the RSF is much stronger there. We did have reports talking about ethnic cleansing there as well. So what exactly is happening over there? Well, the reports of course, most of the reports are not very clear about it. But this has been a kind of history of the region. If you see RSF, in fact, before the RSF there were Sudan, when the Umar al-Washir was there in power, there were reports of how militias were used to kind of ethnically cleanse some of the people in the region who were considered to be separatists and so on and so forth. But this similar kind of, you can say, situation, those same militias which were used by Umar al-Washir basically now is basically, by and large, is the part of the RSF which basically creates things that kind of fighting against the state means fighting against the common people living in the region and that basically leads to attack on villages, attack on the towns, attack on the different localities which are considered to be now, ironically, supporters of Sudanese military. So the fact that because the situation in Darfur is so complex where it is no one in a position to say which group, loyalties lies to which group. Basically there, because of the kind of chaos which is created in Sudan has basically created a fertile ground for different kinds of cross fighting against forces considered to be loyal to the opposite force and that is exactly what is happening. So it is very difficult to say exactly who is killing whom but the primary fact remains that there are reports that RSF is basically carrying out ethnically cleansing against the people in the region which are considered now claiming that these people are basically supporters of Burhan and supporters of the Sudanese army. Abdul, thank you so much for the update. We'll come back to you next week with more questions. And that's all we have in this episode of Daily Debrief. We'll be back soon with another episode. In the meanwhile, do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on all the social media platforms.


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