Good morning. You are at the Chabotin County Historic Museum for our third Saturday in October. It is October 19, 2013. And you are going to see more of Collectors and Collections. We have a really kind of neat lineup this year. We have an author, Dr. James Carey, who has written Echoes of the Home, which is a Civil War story. And he also has a Mediorama of the Civil War, so that should be very, very interesting. Then we have John Swart from Usberg, who has researched the B-47 cannon that shot off some bullets in the area. And we had three different families that were connected with that, the Chuni family, the Novotny family, and also another family, too, the Dealy family. And so we have some representatives of some of those families here today. And we have a replica of the B-47 that was given to them, one of the families by the Air Force. And we also have some blank bullet that was given to them. So that is very, very interesting to hear that history. Then we have a number of people that represent some memorabilia from Chaboygan area. We have John Matteran, who has come all the way from New Mexico, but was a Chaboygan native and grew up in Chaboygan. And he has lots of different artifacts of the Chaboygan area, which is very, very interesting. Then we also have Bill Wongman, who has very many pictures of the early Chaboygan, all different topics. So that will be very interesting also. And then we have Scott Lewandowski, who has some postcards of the Chaboygan area. Then we have Bill Sharp, who has collected arrowheads from his grandfather's farm along the Chaboygan river. So that also will be interesting to see those collections. Then we also have Teddy Bears that Pat Mollendorf has shown us. And she has lots of different advertising bears and bears from many, many different decades. So that also is very interesting. And then we have Mary Turk, who is showing us some of her polygraphy. And that is very, very interesting. It's things that are made with wood and then different shapes are built into them. And she has a number of women's pictures, and then she has some beautiful floral pieces, too, with the polygraphy. So that also will be interesting.  Thank you. Hello. My name is Jim Carey, and I'm a longtime Chaboygan resident. And I'm here today at the Chaboygan County Historical Society as part of their third Saturdays, showing my collections that I've accumulated over my lifetime. My Civil War stuff and my World War II stuff. Sadly, according to my wife, this is just a small percentage of what I do have in my basement, but that will remain my secret. I'm also here promoting my Civil War novel, Echoes from Home. It's been out for over a year and has been very well received. And I would encourage anybody who would like one to stop by, and I'll be glad to sign it for them. What we're looking here is one of my Civil War collections. This diorama depicts General George Custer's cavalry skirmishing with General Jeb Stewart's cavalry on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a very small skirmish. The cavalry's job was to go out and be the eyes and ears of the army. And sometimes they just happened to meet at the same place and would fight a very brief, small, and often very bloody battle. And in this case, that's exactly what happened here. I've been collecting toy soldiers since I'm about six or seven years old. I guess we can blame my mom for that. She's the one who got me interested in history and started giving me toy soldiers for Christmas and birthday. And I just have never been able to let go of the passion. Now we're looking at a model kit I built about 20 years ago made by the Lindberg model company. And it shows a Confederate artillery unit, the four horse team, the case on with the two attendants on it, and then the cannon carriage itself. What we're looking at now is a portion of my World War II collection. This depicts an armor battle between American forces and German forces. And I tried to bring a variety of different vehicles. We have some American tanks and some half tracks. And on the German side, we have their half tracks, a mobile anti-aircraft platform, and two Tiger tanks, and the infamous 88-millimeter artillery gun that was probably the best piece of artillery in the entire war. Behind that are some composition figures from the 1950s made by a company called Miller. They're very unique and I'm not sure if you can see it from here, but the figure in the tan uniform is actually supposed to be General Douglas MacArthur. And some of the other figures were designed or sculpted to resemble some of the movie stars of the action films of that era. There's a pose of a man in a foxhole where you only see his head and that is supposed to look like for Robert Mitchum, the actor. Behind that we have two of the American fighter planes of the era, a P-51 Mustang and a P-38 Lightning. Good morning. My name is John Swart. I've been working on a little research project during the last couple of months on the strafing of Sheboygan Falls in Usberg that occurred back in March of 1958. The story was pretty much lost and forgotten, but early this spring one of my cousins came to me with a spent 20 millimeter casing and said, I'd like to donate this casing to the museum in Sheboygan. I said, well, you really can't donate an empty shell casing without a story. So for the next couple of months I attempted to put together what has transpired and what the story was all about and create a 55 year later status report. Back in March of 1958, three homes in the area, two in Sheboygan Falls and one in Usberg were hit by 20 millimeter cannon shells from a B-47 reconnaissance bomber. Also some shells hit the streets in Sheboygan Falls. One of them landed a few yards in front of a squad car and this all occurred around seven o'clock in the evening on a Monday night. It was a rainy, cold, dark March night. The newspaper articles were very extensive indicating that everybody was safe, no one was hurt and after a number of years the story just disappeared and resurrecting the story during the last couple months. It's kind of interesting that while no one was injured during this incident, two people were within a couple feet of the shells that came through the roof of their houses and could have very easily created fatalities. So it's been an interesting project and talking to the families that were involved. We had the Navante family in Sheboygan Falls who lived very close to the point. We had the Dealey family from the southwest side of Sheboygan Falls that lives close to St. Mary Cemetery and then the Tooney family that lived on the northwest side of Usberg. So it's been a very interesting assignment and got a lot of enjoyment out of it. I just appreciate all of the help that the various family members have contributed. This photograph shows the Air Force investigation team that came to Sheboygan Falls on Tuesday morning, March 18th and also includes the County Sheriff and the Sheboygan Sheriff. This is at the Navante home right across the street from the point just off of Highway 23. This second photograph is a picture of the bedroom and the Navante home also and it indicates and shows where the dresser was right above the little girl's head is a scar on the wall. That's where the bullet hit the wall. If you look at the top of the dresser which has been pulled away from the wall, you can see a nick in the top edge of the dresser and the little girl is holding her piggy bank which was hit by the bullet as it came through the roof, glanced off of the piggy bank's head, nicked the dresser and hit the wall. Just one week prior to this event, the dresser had been off to the right and the crib had been where the dresser was and when this incident occurred, Sally, the little girl, was in her crib. This third photograph of the hole in the ceiling at the Dealey House indicates and shows where the bullet came through the roof and actually burled its way through a ceiling joist before it went through the plaster ceiling and then landed on the linoleum floor, bounced around and ended up underneath the bed. The police officers there are looking at where the bullet came through the ceiling and fortunately it lost a lot of energy when it went through the ceiling joist and didn't continue on through the house. On the table here we have a model of the B-47 bomber which was the source of the shells that hit the homes. This model was given to the Dealey family a couple months after the event occurred. The silver bullet and shell is a dummy that was also given to the Dealey family and the brass casing is a brass empty casing that came from the Heidemann farm near Hingham. All three of these items have been donated to the museum for future use. The items laying in front of the models is a scrapbook that was created by Harriet Tooney during the course of the event since it was national-wide coverage. She received a lot of newspaper articles from around the country. The other two pictures, black and white, is a photograph of a pilot. One of the two pilots in that first picture in the middle actually visited the Tooney home on a couple occasions and the other two pictures are photographs of the B-47. One of the pilots had promised to give photographs to the Tooney boys and that's where these photographs came from. Welcome to the third Saturday at the Sheboygan Historical Society. I'm John Madden from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sheboygan, South High, Class of 68, University of Wisconsin, Class of 73 and my Sheboygan collection is a tough one to put together because I live so far away in New Mexico but here we are today on 18 October 2013. What we have here are some photographs of a very old train car and the reason I bought this because it just says Sheboygan right up here Sheboygan actually had cigars, chief of them all and that was a phrase used for many different items, not just cigars. It was for soda and watch fobs and just a trademark. It's taken quite a while to find different penance over here and a lot of them are just what we call teresta things that you would buy when you're driving through the cities and the area but there's central high school there and I've got some friends on the police department and over the years they gave me a couple different Sheboygan police patches and just throughout my travels I've tried to find just whatever I can more central high, the Whirl Band in the top right corner there I played in that when I was in high school from 65 to 68 and then when I did my student teaching in Milwaukee I actually worked with Ken Whirl who was the nephew of the original Whirl who had the Whirl Band here in Sheboygan and as we move down here an old license plate that was in the garage at my neighbor's house so they let me have that when I was a little kid and I just hung on to it all these years. Bank bags from three different banks the one in your far right is quite, quite faded but it's still a Sheboygan bank bag. On the table over here we've got my bar tokens from Sheboygan these are really tough to find when you live so far away from home and to make them easier to see I've taken the time for everything in alphabetical order so this one starts with Al and Al's and a lot of people don't realize that bar tokens at one point were made out of metal so those are very, very desirable, very collectible and my collection goes all the way from A through Z way over to here to a place called Zimys Bar so it's really neat getting all these sort of things. Stamps also, they are canceled and it actually says Sheboygan, Wisconsin on them these are stamps that are pre-war and all the way through the mid-50s my grandfather was Dr. H. L. Rose, Marquette University class of 1912 and this is what he had in his office we talk about having to be bilingual these days well in those days from 1920s to the 1950s it was not unusual to have it in German and English and in my grandfather's case the terms were cash now here is a check from the German bank of Sheboygan and this is dated 1861 which is right at the start of the Civil War very difficult to find and I've got stuff like this hanging all over my home speaking of money this is known as obsolete currency this is only printed on one side this is a complete set, a one, two, three and five dollar bill it does not have an exact date on it it says 1870 and then the banker was supposed to fill it in at their discretion and put them out into the community in 1954 Sheboygan had their centennial and these are not wooden nickels these are more called wooden flats and they made them with a one, two and a five for a nickel, a dime and a quarter and they were differentiated by colors and these were only good if they were not broken until a certain date during that particular festival and as I said earlier the chief of them all was a Sheboygan cigar so we've got that here one of my prize collections are what's known as national currency and there were about four to five thousand national currency banks in the United States and every one of them had their own identification number this was known as a charter number this was the security national bank up in Sheboygan and this number was 11150 they made two types type one, type two and if you know what to look for then you'll know the difference but the prize piece of my collection is this twenty dollar bill Sheboygan, Wisconsin from 1929 to 1935 this is the first one ever printed so the serial number was the A series A-000-00-1 A I followed that on auctions for four years and lucked out enough to find this one and on my final table here we've just got my collection of metals and ribbons some of these are political and some of them are having to do with unions but most of them are actually religious metals some of these date back to the 1880s, 1890s and it's quite a conglomerate but they all in some form no matter what language they are in they will say Sheboygan and most of them will have a date on them also getting more close to Sheboygan if you can be that way we have Central High School North High School and actually I wore this beanie at Farnsworth back in 63 and 64 these two little awards here from the Sheboygan County Fair in 1943 and this I bought upstairs so make sure you go upstairs and buy one of these the Redskins was a great team back from 38 to 1951 coming further over I wear this one too the Sheboygan Legion post-83 but it's too small for my head and more metals and pendants and a lot of watch fobs and they always say Sheboy again one more over here if you can zoom in maybe on the top left one evidently there was a club of people who had beards back in the 50s which was kind of unheard of unless you were a I don't know what you might have been but there it is a very old phone book if you need information back in the 30s and I started collecting Sheboygan spoons a number of years ago before the prices silver went up and I never realized until just recently that they're all sterling silver I just thought they were just cheap spoons that say Sheboygan you know cheese, church, chairs and children stuff like that this top one here is really a neat one because it's got a swastika on it and it still says Sheboygan swastika was really a good luck symbol until the war and the last couple pieces over here are old tax certificates on ghee in the 1880s I'm Pat Mollendorf I'm happy to be here today and tell you about my collection of teddy bears my first teddy bear that I had is actually named Teddy and he's kind of over in the corner he's with the red shirt on there so I got him when I was born and it just kind of evolved since then probably when I was in fur making back in the 60s and my kids were little I had to make my own bear and I started with a Ming teddy bear and I marketed him through Neiman Marcus many, many years ago and I wish I would have kept one for myself which I didn't so then as I saw cute little bears through the ages I had to start collecting the bears I like the advertising bears because they all had their separate personalities and they kind of depicted the company that they were advertising for I found Harry Heathrow who's kind of in the middle there and he's from the London Heathrow airport and they do have many of those I guess throughout Europe but didn't get to collect all of those I do have Teddy Roosevelt up in the corner here and he's also a teddy that talks can't talk to you today because he's encased in the big cabinet here and one of my favorite ones is on the top and he's from the Civil War era he's the only teddy bear that has actual human teeth so I like him a lot he's got a mind of his own he sits on the top of my couch and every once in a while he'll jump off there won't be anybody around I'll find him on the floor so I don't know what's happening with that teddy but I do have the smoky bear I have the bear sting bears which you'll see over on the other case which the one is sitting in the little wood wagon and all these bears come in various sizes from big to little just like the furskin bears which is on the bottom down here in the case that's the largest size that the furskin's made and then it goes to the one sitting in the corner and the small tiny bears that rest with the policeman bear and the Air Force bear the foreign bear is that I brought along today the most well-noted bear I guess would be the one in the back which was a Mishka bear which is from the Russian Olympics that the United States boycotted and I find that he's a very valuable bear now and I have probably six or seven of them so I'm going to hang on to them for a while then you go over to the teddy bear toys which are the Sokies and the rubber bears at Squeak and the little roly-poly bears the bears in the front are foreign bears that have been collected from travels my daughter-in-law brought back the Chinese bear from China for me and my girlfriend brought back the bear when she was over in Germany and then I had the the little bear with bagpipes too now all of those bears also talk and make noises and things Snoozie over there on the bear rug he's a snoring bear right now he doesn't seem to be snoring he too is very temperamental not as much as this little bear here, Bubba Bear he comes with a voice of Jeff Fox worthy so the kids really like him they like to play with him a lot he's one of my favorites too so that's about the history of the bears I suppose we could talk about the Stifes and the Hermans and all those and I have some of those bears at home too but I have them in cases and they were kind of hard to get out of oh another bear that is bears that are really interesting are these little tiny tiny bears that's made in China they all put them together stitch by stitch there's no machine work on it at all and they're very hard stuffed and I find they're getting to be very collectible I think they were about $50 when I started with them and now they have just tripled in price she also makes some that I have a little locket bear that the bear actually opens up and there's a little locket in the center another one that you wear around your neck on a chain they're getting to be very very collectible and I would look for those if you're out in the store and probably try to pick up a real good value there so I thank you for being here I hope you enjoy my collection my name is Mary Turk and I have a collection of pyrography I'm showing at the Sheboygan County Museum this morning and my collection started with these two pieces that were in the family and they're over 100 years old and I will explain that the word pyro meaning fire thus pyrography and my collection consists basically of these pieces of women in profile and there have been times I've gone for years and not found a single piece some of the pieces these two pieces are over 100 years old this piece is dated 1907 this piece just made the 100 year mark 1912 this glove box is 1900 and basically it's an unusual collection or what I have been collecting but it's been very enjoyable thank you how do you do my name is Bill Wongerman I'm the city historian for the city of Sheboygan it's a job that's been sponsored by the city I have a lot of benefits that is I get no pay and I have no office but I got a lot of hours I can spend doing what I like to do all around me is a collection of photographs that I've gathered over the years many of them come out of the city of Sheboygan files I find them in the city hall buried here there and everywhere some of them were given to me by people who have photo collections at home people call up and say I'm a died and I don't know what to do with the photographs and so they they give them to me and I've collected them and I've probably got maybe 2000 or more right now what we have here is just a small portion of what we have collected over the years and it's sort of a view of Sheboygan frozen in time every time you take a picture here freezing history for just one moment or two so I've got many different categories of photographs from the police department and the fire department from city offices the first aerial photographs taken of the city were taken in 1925 there are pictures of various buildings all around the city many of them that don't exist anymore so the collection just goes on and on and on and people have shown a lot of interest in it over the years and we have a section on World War I and World War II and some of the people that were involved in it and of course having been on the police department myself that's the biggest collection I have but it's an enjoyable pastime and I put on many programs during the year at different places around the city request power point programs and the like so it's a collection that I hope I can pass on to someone some day so thank you very much my name is Scott Lavendeski and I'm the assistant city historian for the city of Sheboygan and I'm at the Sheboygan County Museum today with a collection of old postcards of Sheboygan and I enlarge some of the postcards to fill up the table and also to give people a little better view of the postcards and on the table I have some postcards like I have two of them here that show North 8th Street one is about 1930 and then this one is the same angle from about 1960 one postcard that I like to always point out is this one and it's really not a spectacular picture but it is signed on the bottom by the person who made the postcard and owned the postcard company and his name was GC Wincher and he even writes on the postcard that this is one of my views and on the back he writes that he is also in the postcard business so I've always liked this one over here is a picture from a postcard and it shows the interurban car number 27 car 27 was donated to the Railroad Museum in East Troy but it could not be restored but car 26 which was a matching car was also donated to the East Troy Railroad Museum and they were able to restore that one and they used quite a few of the parts from car 27 so car 27 does exist partially yet well hello my name is Bill Sharp I live in Cheboygan grew up in Cheboygan and I'm here today at the Cheboygan County Museum and I brought my Arrowhead collection out for public showing and it's a hobby that my father and I began back in the late 60's and all these artifacts were basically found in Cheboygan County on the southwest side of the Cheboygan Marsh and my grandfather started his homestead there many years ago and he bought a piece of land and he broke the land in the sod loose with a horse and plow one furrow at a time and he found a spearhead and that started at all the interest that he had was passed on to me and my father and I would go out on the weekends in the spring or in the fall or whenever we knew that the conditions were right a lot of times my uncle would say well I just plowed this field here if you guys wait for a rain it'll be just perfect for finding some Arrowheads out in the fields so he'd give us the okay and he'd give us the direction in which field to go and we'd spend some time together and we'd carry a stick for turning stones over as we go up and down the furrows or the corn fields and if we were lucky enough we'd find them laying right out in the open but most of the time they were half buried so then we'd look for an edge or a point or the back end of the Arrowhead or we'd see the flaking on the individual stones and then we knew we'd have an artifact and we spent 30 years we'd spend hours at a time but over 30 years I collected roughly 300 artifacts and it's just been a wonderful time for me and my dad to spend together not only finding the Arrowheads but going out there for the peace in this first display I have a couple of ax heads and this here it has a sharp edge on the back here that was probably a handheld axe whereas these are got some grooves in them for banding around a stick and something like these these are holes and this here is a trihedral axe or ads and I've been told that that's about 8,000 years old and this here is like a paint bowl I was called a paint bowl but it can be turned over and used probably for making fire by friction a drill type apparatus and we have some seltz here in this next display I have a number of stone alls and drills and I have some larger spearheads and I have a copper a copper all here that my grandfather had found and when my mother was young my grandfather used to pay her 10 cents a roll through the hole the weeds away from the sugar beets and apparently the story goes that my mother was so hard working so hard at holding the sugar beets that she didn't see this arrow laying in the roll so my grandfather kept that in mind and when he found one of the arrowheads that he gave me and in this final box I just have some more arrowheads they instead of having the notched arrowheads I have the tank point style arrowheads up here on the edge top edge


Yes, you can have nice things in Los Angeles. It's a lot easier in West Los Angeles on the grounds of UCLA Botanical garden. So life's still pretty good in West Los Angeles pretty safe Walk around UCLA. There's a little trash There's some fantastic trees even from Afghanistan other stuff here from Australia So the Mediterranean climate zone I read is only 2% of the world's Area, but 15% of the world's plants have a good ghostly gumtree Look at that fantastic Fair dinkum I'll ride it home You know rose gum Beautiful tray-yay and here up to the side of the UCLA campus The gray ironbuck eucalyptus. So you don't see a lot of other vegetation Underneath the eucalyptus tree except for some grass Generally I'll compete It's like a cup of water. That's a beautiful gumtree Just want to give it a hug Fair dinkum Taste of Australia you know rose gum when when my time comes You'll hear me whisper rose gum rose gum I remember I think Chuck Okay, it chuckles the cloud former UCLA Chancellor the one who was Chancellor when I was here used to walk the grounds Every morning first thing And if you saw any trash you would not be happy you'd have a word word with Custodial stuff So every man's a beautiful campus and that's a fair dinkum pine tree So you won't find any Poverts, so I'm less around here, mate We're about five miles from the ocean We're about 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles Good place to sit and read and meditate So I'm surprised by the number of people who said to me this time. Why did you come back to this shithole? Ten people have said this to me and people I know are moving Principally people have gone By the Orthodox Jews I know and their acquaintances. They've principally gone to Florida and the second most common destination is Texas And also some people going to the outskirts of Atlanta But life in West Los Angeles is not so bad, right? Not so many homeless There are no homeless on the UCLA campus No homeless in Beverly Hills But there are substantially higher crime rates compared to 2019 But not nearly as bad as what we've had in the early 90s. There are a lot of conservatives I'm now kind of discouraged To see down to my homelessness and crime will get sold on the Democrats and that has discouraged this Many of my conservative friends. I'm not sure how important it is that non-liberals getverted into office Quality of life. I love firms. It's a safe space Here on the UCLA campus Yep, I'm not I'm not discouraged. I think UCLA is best days. They're still ahead The dream is not over in California and it's February February afternoon, it's sunny Clear, it's clean Nothing but blue skies You can grow anything here So riding public transport here is a little more that's comfortable probably Every third ride. There's some crazy person on the bus or the train


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old mate what's going on brother what's your name Jack good brother how are you how old are you man how old are you bro i'm 17 17 yeah just checking to consent for the interview it's all good so this statement here i'm asking people whether they agree with it do you agree that animals that don't have any rights any liberty they're sold for profit you know at these live auctions do you think that they're slaves or it's a slave trade i don't i don't believe they're slaves i don't believe that the animals have the sentience and the capacity to understand what's really happening to them okay and to us it's just like a necessary consequence okay so that so animals aren't sentient enough to value their own freedom uh well no no i don't think so because they don't really understand do they so like it doesn't know what's really happening when it's put into that truck or wherever it's off to but neither would a small child yeah that is true should that dictate whether or not they're enslaved or not like no but a child's different from an animal with a way yeah but we're only talking about sentience and whether or not they're fully aware of what would happen to them that is true yeah and what was the what was the next thing you said um animals so first of all is they're not sentient enough to be aware of that but i think they're sentient enough to value their their freedom and you know when the knife goes across their throat they're they're losing their life and that that would fight against yeah and animals instinctive to survive survive yeah yeah and they become scared they do yeah and they feel pain that is also true so you say we're different right well i i think you believe that us and animals i think we're different as well but the things that we have in common we're obviously both self-aware you know yeah well not not necessarily equal but there's marginal humans that might have a mental capacity they might have a mental uh disability we wouldn't treat them the way we treat cows yeah based on their sentience level or their intelligence so but what we have in common is there's a level of sentience there that you can agree they feel pain and they suffer they want to live you agree with that they value their families if they get their child stolen and killed they would be upset with that you would agree with that they treat they do they do yeah but okay i have no argument you can't beat me on that one so so do you think that they can be slaves like animals can be victims of slavery and of murder not victims of slavery because slavery slavery is like like using them they're not being used they're being murdered really for what why are we murdering them why are we using them kfc exactly so that their bodies are being eaten and sold yeah well we don't do that with people slave trades like when but what let's just say if we did what would you call that if we know if we rounded up human beings took away their liberty genocide it could be you know animals are considered property animals are considered legal property of their owners yes so if a human being was considered property by their owner what would that be slavery okay so why isn't it slavery in the animal context what is that about them first story i have an argument for that yeah neither did i that's why i'm a vegan i'll never be vegan i love me too much but that's about a document you love me too much yeah i love about the slavery fact you don't care about that no i'm sorry they make a burger there's not there's nothing that would stop you from eating meat ever nothing can put me off me but you ever watched slaughterhouse footage what food you ever seen animals be butchered and killed have you ever seen a gas chamber before uh yes i've heard about how it fits our switch no no pigs a gas chamber here in the uk what a gas yeah the gas chamber i don't know why i didn't know about yeah pigs a gas chamber here in the uk i don't know yeah a third of all pigs killed in gas chambers let's see if we can find it for you so you can see do you eat pigs uh yeah i love bacon you love bacon yeah do you think this animal was uh not wanting to die probably not let's have a look see if we can find the gas chamber footage when i first heard it yeah are they getting lowered into there they're thrashing and screaming in there okay sometimes they tear their hooves off their little trodders off down at the bottom of the chamber because they're just trying to struggle and escape the industry we're calling that humane for 25 years it ain't humane i'll give it that but ain't right you don't think that's right i don't think it's right but you would never stop doing well i wouldn't stop eating them no yeah because by virtue of your dollar or your pound you go in a supermarket you're paying them to do that to them you know that eh that is true yeah so do you feel like there's some blood on our hands if we eat meat it depends on the way you look at it which way are you looking at it i'm looking at the way we are my hands on day i just enjoyed it but so if i were to pay a hitman to go kill someone would i be morally culpable morally responsible i'll say him let's just say in court trigger sorry i'll say i'll start pulling the trigger if you're hiring him and yeah yeah but i'm not hiring a farmer to go and stab a cow well you kind of are that's more or less what their owner's doing the owner is actually paying them to go and kill the animals so what do these places exist for simply just really i'm not trying to it's not a trick question just breed them make more food to make meat make dairy make eggs for who us and you're one of them so if everyone who was like you that ate meat dairy eggs and animal products stopped what would happen to these industries they'll be ruined that go under wouldn't they and what would happen to these animals this wouldn't this would stop happening wouldn't it yeah but then what would happen to animals after that would they just be set free what happened to them yeah because we it would slowly phase out over time and there wouldn't be a bunch of animals left on earth we'd stop breeding them wouldn't we that is true yeah but then what would happen to their population it could die out i think we all think that if we don't if we don't breed and kill animals they die out what about like what about other animals like wild animals this industry stops sorry don't know what happens if this industry stops we've basically captured every single cow and pig and everything like that so yeah there weren't wild animals wild cows and wild pigs before we started breeding them and killing them there wasn't there was yes yes that's how we started capturing them so they won't go extinct if we stop holocausting billions of them we don't know but they'll probably still live on so you don't think this is slavery well this is actually uh a man sticking his hand in the anus of a cow why do you think they do that so he's putting his hand in her anus to hold the cervix to inject bullsemen so through the anus he's holding the cervix and then with his other hand is injecting bull semen into her why would he be doing that breed them yeah for what industry in particular do you think that was me no that was a dairy industry that's a dairy industry to produce milk cows need to be milked well to produce milk humans need to be milked well they need to be pregnant don't know yeah yeah so cows need to be pregnant too okay i didn't know that cows had to be pregnant to produce milk these are the calves in fairness i do like a glass of cold milk every now and then yeah you know the baby cow bro another baby cow these are baby cows here i want to be a baby cow now then well separated from your mother in those little pens this is in the uk yeah fair enough it's pretty grim so you still don't think that's slavery like just even if you're going to continue to do it i'm not asking oh in my opinion ain't slavery but it's morally wrong to the animals yeah it's morally wrong but it ain't slavery for some reason no that you haven't given me i don't know i just don't see it as slavery but okay that's just the way i see it you can see it as slavery so you would say the problem with our treatment of animals is the way we view them because if you don't see it as slavery then it's not slavery then it doesn't exist if i if i kill an animal and i don't say it's murder that's not murder that's um humane slaughter it's it's fine okay i like to have an argument you got me there again you know what i'm saying like just because you don't see it as slavery doesn't mean it's not objectively slavery when you look at it i just don't see a slavery but i've probably seen a slavery and not yeah you've been brought up like i was yeah conditioned by the same culture i just grew up liking me a lot more than uh my local lettuce so well what about vegan burgers vegan cheese vegan ice cream never liked any of them you never tried have tried a vegan burger before my mate's vegan never liked the food though really yeah what about a beyond burger you had a beyond burger i'm no clue what beyond burger is no well you know what bro how about i'll give you this little card and maybe one day you might have a realization that's land of hope and glory all filmed in the uk that's cowspiracy and what the health that's a vegan challenge on facebook it's free i might one day but right now i've no panca vegan yeah but you couldn't i just want you to say yeah that's slavery is it the slave trade you know you know how i how i um get to you know objectively viewing something whether it's wrong or right just put humans in place of the animals and what is it the night will be slavery put humans instead of animals yes so you have to work out what the difference is between us why we can be enslaved and they can't what why are they so below us cheers brother that's all right good chat with you taste justifies a holocaust of animals um no i don't


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today. I've removed coverage of something I actually wasn't going to cover.  I have tried my hardest to be constructive in the criticism I have given but as you guys know, if something needs to be said I will straight up say it. What I'm going to cover today was put forth to me on Twitter by quite a few people. They want to hear a honest opinion on this matter and not a sugarcoated sucked up this once so that's what you're going to get from me. Okay so three days back Bungie dropped this statement to the interwebs. We've seen community discussion around XP gain in Destiny. After reviewing our data we agree that the system is not performing the way we'd like it to. Today we'd like to describe what's going on under the hood and talk about what you can expect going forward when it comes to earning XP in Destiny 2. Currently XP will scale up when playing longer or fixed duration activities like crucible, competitive multiplayer matches and the Leviathan Raid. XP will scale down when playing activities that can be quickly repeatedly chained like grinding public events. We are not happy with the results and we've heard the same from the community. Effective immediately we are deactivating this system. As a result players will see XP earn rates change for all activities across the board but with all values being displayed consistently in the user interface over the course of the next week we will be watching and reviewing XP game data to ensure that these changes meet our expectations as well as yours. Any additional updates to the system will be communicated to you via our official channels. So what is actually going on here? Basically people Bungie have been lying to us. Now it's actually something I figured quite a while back due to seeing people reporting on it but at the time I wasn't really interested due to how lacklustre the game is grinding XP for blood and gums would never really have interest in me but too many it is and this situation was getting more and more attention and rightly so. Basically what I believe happens is if you farm public events as such you earn a set number of XP. The XP bar as far as we knew was the same for every new level you hit but in earning XP to level up and receiving that bright engram that same amount of XP won't earn you another engram upon receiving the exact same XP although the XP bar still registered the same intake of XP the actual progression wasn't being applied in full to the progression bar this in my opinion is straight up scummy. What they're basically doing here is reward not so less the more we play the game. They state after reviewing our data we agree that the system is not performing the way we'd like it to basically trying to fub off the responsibility for this as a design hiccup and something that's not intended to be in place this I 100% believe to not be the case this was in place in my opinion and for a reason the reason that this company is intentionally misleading us with a false XP gain system so we will not accumulate items as such which we can also purchase with real life money think about it the progression bar XP UI was intentionally displaying false information leading us to believe that XP we gained was being applied but in fact it wasn't that's a line in my opinion and that is some super sketchy shit think about this also the only true end game grind to this game are bright engrams which are solely earned by gaining XP or spending real money on silver and purchasing these things this people honestly baffles my brain what are bungee thinking this is actually a super serious issue they could indeed get into some serious trouble for it and the only way they could get out of this serious trouble is to pass it off as a design hiccup I'm also hearing reports of this design hiccup still being in place and they are still lying about it I will do further research into that though and confirm that at a later date if it is the case but I mean people when did it go all wrong tell me we had 3 solid years within Destiny 1 how did it become this bad I've said it a few times in other videos I honestly think something is going down within the bungee studios this does definitely not sound like the bungee of old not in my opinion anyway this is just one of many many issues with this game and company some serious addressing is needed for sure this backpacked by the bullshit the game has become since release and the bullshit bungee are and even more so aren't doing is enough to crumble this as a franchise it seriously is let's face it they responded to this due to being caught they admitted it this system would be still in place if no one was any other wiser it's just seriously sketchy for sure but hey this is just my opinion there are still a lot of people out there who believe this was an accident if you are one of them people do let me know your opinion down below within that comments section so we are going to move on Luke Smith the main man behind this sequel tweeted this out next week the Destiny 2 team will detail the systems side of the December update it includes economy updates, vendors and acquiring their gear, tokens and legendary shards investment updates, new ward systems for armours and weapons gameplay updates and more additionally Mark Knowsworthy and I will be answering some questions and addressing community feedback we've been reading since launch see you soon so hopefully people will get news as to why Destiny 2 is so shit at the minute and what they're going to do to make it a better game I mean let's not beat around the bush here the game is still the game is dry it's basically dead to many but that doesn't mean it can't be revived I've said it many many times Destiny has a loyal fan base one which easily forgive and forget this game however does need some core changes made ones come by myself and many others hundreds of times over already so I aint going to get into it but yes, changes are needed for sure hopefully these changes are addressed I on behalf of the few of us left who want to see this game succeed I want to thank each and every one of you who have made your voices heard in speaking out about the issues with the game without us doing so these things would not be getting addressed you mark my words people if we have learned anything about the people behind Destiny it is that they don't really address issues unless they get serious reason to do so and with many of you guys speaking out about the game this is that serious reason needed for such to be addressed so I do really look forward to hearing what looks me from Mark Knows where we have to say and I'm interested in seeing if anything's mentioned about the quality of life needed to save this game although the changes would be big definitely needed for sure I think that's something we could all agree on also guys we get another stream this Wednesday on the Curse of Osiris DLC this one will concentrate on a loop we can earn from this expansion so stay tuned to my channel for coverage on that also but yes people let me know what you think about the subjects I've covered in today's video thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


All right, we'll try again. Ladies and gentlemen, I now have the distinct pleasure to introduce this special session on the prospects of reunifying Cyprus. Divided for generations, last year brought fresh hope, principally driven by the trust, will, and leadership shown by the two gentlemen you are now about to meet. His Excellency Mr. Nikos Anastasiades, His Excellency Mr. Mustafa Akinchi. In my capacity as the special advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, I am closely following the two leaders on their journey. It is a historic first to have them both on stage together. Later today, they will jointly meet the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon. In this panel, as is in the case in the UN-facilitated talks, they have agreed to act in their capacities of leaders of the two communities, the Greek Cypriot community and the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus. The panel will be joined, will be chaired, by our founder and executive chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab. Over to you, Professor Schwab. Thank you very much, Espen Aide, who is a member of our managing board. But even more important in this context, the special delegate of the United Nations for Cyprus. Your Excellency, this is a session I was looking forward with particular interest, so much is at stake. We are living in a world that in many ways is falling apart. We have geopolitical and humanitarian tragedies of colossal proportions in the Middle East, right on Europe's doorstep. And as we heard in the last panel, many questions are being asked about the future of Europe. But then, in the middle of all of that, just where the Middle East meets Europe, a ray of hope has inspired us all. Cyprus is one of the few international disputes that seem to move in the right direction, thanks to the will, trust, and leadership of the two gentlemen who are sitting here on this stage. The two of you have shown great courage and dedication over the last eight months of intensive negotiations. My colleague Espen Aide keeps me regularly informed, and I'm indeed very much aware of the still important challenges which remain. But rather than focusing on concrete issues in the talks right now, we are all very keen to hear from each of you about your vision, about your general vision. What could a united Cyprus look like? What could a united Cyprus bring to the region, to Europe, and to the world? And what would overcoming generations of divisions mean in practice? Several studies have shown that the economy of a united Cyprus at peace with itself and with its neighbors would have a growth trajectory significantly higher than the two economies of a divided Cyprus. This, in turn, means jobs, prosperity, and well-being. In this room, you have many of the world's important business leaders which are looking with great interest at what you are doing. I'm particularly pleased to chair over this session because, as many of you know, in 1988 at the annual meeting, Prime Minister Tugut Ozil of Turkey and Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, signed the Davos Declaration which opens the door for rapprochement between those two countries who had been at the brink of a war and which ultimately led to the establishment of lasting peaceful relations and necessary framework for your own current efforts. Today, I believe that you both represent the best source of hope with respect for drawing the lineback to the events in 1988. The long-standing engagement of the forum in the region is here and will prevail, and it will prevail particularly within a united Cyprus. Please applaud and welcome very cordially the two leaders of Cyprus. And I may invite Mr. Nikos Anastia-Siades to take first the floor. Excellencies, distinguished guests, it is both an honor and a pleasure to be addressing you today. And I would like to sincerely thank Klaus Zvab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, as well as Espen Barth, for organizing this event. It is not, I do believe, a coincidence that this session follows a discussion on the future of Europe. Since the history of Europe and of the European Union teaches us many valuable lessons. The most important being that a united Europe is the only sustainable antidote to conflict and division. And at a time when Europe is enduring a deep crisis primarily linked to the tragic events unfolding in Cyprus' immediate neighborhood, myself and Mustafa are working tirelessly to reunite, to reunify our country. Since May 2015, we are engaging in intensive negotiations to reach a settlement. A settlement that will be in line with the vision of the vast majority of Cypriots to transform that is to transform our country from an island divided to an island that it is a common homeland for coexistence, peaceful cooperation and tolerance in full conformity and respect to the set of rules, values, and principles of the European Union. The negotiations, which cover all chapters of the Cyprus problem, have resulted so far in convergences and common understanding on many issues, whilst differences remain on several other substantial and core issues. And without intending to create unrealistic expectations, I believe that 2016 could be the year that we learned the unacceptable status quo, provided always that we continue working with determination, we table constructed proposals on outstanding issues that will correspond to the climate of hope prevailing in the island and will take into account the sensitivities and concerns of both communities. A third factor or element is that all other stakeholders and interested parties involved support constructively the efforts. And the fourth is that we do hope that we shall have the support of the international community at large, particularly as regards substantially contributing to meet the financial aspects of the solution. Ladies and gentlemen, I am adamant that Europe and the European project holds many of the answers to the puzzle that is the solution of the Cyprus problem. That is the solution of the Cyprus problem. Let us not forget that Cyprus is and will continue to be a member state of the European Union. We must, therefore, approach all issues on the negotiating table through the prism of the EU. It is for this reason that we consider it a success for the process and for both sides equally, as well as the EU itself, that in this new round of the negotiations, the EU has assumed an enhanced role always under the auspices of the United Nations. The United Cyprus needs to be able to effectively participate and constructively facilitate the EU decision making rather than hinder it. Further, a lasting solution to the Cyprus problem would also have significant ramifications for Europe and all interested parties. At the same time, the discovery of hydrocarbons in the region opened up new possibilities for cooperation and synergies. We strongly believe that energy, energy cooperation in the region, without exclusions, can transform the Eastern Mediterranean into a pillar of stability, security and peace, while at the same time it can be a decisive factor to achieving energy security for the European Union. As I have often stated, I am convinced that emergency, sorry, energy must not be allowed to be a source of friction, but rather a catalyst for peace, stability, and regional integration. Essentially, it can become a cold and still story for the region. Ladies and gentlemen, these are decisive times for Cyprus, for the wider region, for the EU and the international community. I can assure you that, living in the midst of a region of turmoil, we are committed to continue working with resolve to heal what is an open wound at the heart of Europe, so as for Cyprus to be established as a reference point and simple for coexistence of the whole region. I count on the full support of the international community on reaching this goal and on turning the page of history. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you, Mr. Anastiados. May I now call on Mr. Akinchi. Excellencies, honorable guests. It is an honor to be here with you at a time when negotiations have entered a crucial phase. And first of all, I wish to thank Mr. Schwab and Mr. Aideh for making this possible. Within the limited time, I would like to convey three messages. Firstly, I wish to reiterate the strong determination of Turkish Cypriots to reach a settlement based on Bison al-Federation with political equality, as well as European values and principles we all share. As you may all recall, 12 years ago, the strong Turkish Cypriot yes vote was not enough for a settlement since the UN plan did not get the approval of the majority of Greek Cypriots. Consequently, Cyprus entered the EU as a divided island, and Turkish Cypriots were unfortunately left out. This time, as the two leaders which belong to the same generation, we are working tirelessly to achieve a mutually acceptable solution, and we are aware that this is the last trial for uniting our island. Secondly, I strongly believe that settlement shall not only benefit the two communities, but it will also improve the relations between all relevant actors, including EU, Turkey, Greece, and the future United Cyprus. With this solution, the newly found hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean will act as a source of peace, stability, and cooperation rather than conflict and tension. United Cyprus will be able to serve as a hub for pipelines transferring natural gas to the European Union through Cyprus and Turkey, which seems to be the most feasible route. Fresh water from Turkey, already brought to North Cyprus, can be shared by all inhabitants of the island and interconnectivity of electricity networks between the EU and the Middle East, will become a reality via Cyprus and Turkey, which again seems to be the most efficient way. All this can only be possible if Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots see each other as future partners and concentrate on the goal to create a united Cyprus where peace and prosperity shall prevail, and the future generations will not have to face the same strife and uncertainties of the past. Thirdly, we are aware that we, the Cypriots, are the main actors that will turn this into a reality so that it also serves as a beacon of hope to other ongoing conflicts. Hence, we will continue our hard work to put an end to the 53-year-old problem and pay way for new economic opportunities that will bring prosperity and security to our turbulent region. To that end, a strong collective international support shall be needed in terms of technical and financial assistance. In concluding, besides working for the solution of the Cyprus problem, I wish to express the urgent need to work together to create a better world and to make 2016 the year marked by not only a Cyprus agreement, but by better cooperation and effective action against any kind of human sufferings on our planet. Thank you for your attention. Thank you very much, Mr. Akinshipi. For the re-listen to the Prime Minister of Turkey, I just ask you both for a symbolic gesture and for the opportunity to stand with me here on the stage. And please encourage the two leaders with all with big applause to make progress and to come soon to a conclusion.


So, for those of you who haven't heard, California passed a law mandating big box retailers establish gender-neutral toy sections. Now, Ben Shapiro is going to take issue with this, and for whatever reason, he's like apoplectic over this law. It's not really a big deal, and honestly, I feel like this is kind of already a thing in most toy sections. So the law itself might be a little bit redundant, but we'll talk about that. Either way, Ben Shapiro is big mad, and he's going to explain why this law promotes chaos. This is his words. California has now mandated that every big box store in California that's kicked in in the new year, every big toy store is required to create a gender-neutral toy section. Why? Why? So the answer that people will give you is, well, you know, we need a gender-neutral toy section for those kids who are having trouble with their gender identity. It's what you're really saying is that gender doesn't exist. What you're really saying is there's no such thing as biological sex or human proclivities that are directed by biological sex or connected to it. That human tendencies are not connected to sex. And anyway, we have to redefine sex across the biological spectrum to account for the fact that there are some people who feel uncomfortable, a vast, vast, vast minority. And this is not how you make societal rules. Disassembling basic ideas of the reality of male and female. That is not the way that you promote human happiness. That is a way that you promote chaos. And the once again, the left does not seem to care about the fact that male and female are pretty rigid categories. Biologically, I want to say pretty, I mean innately rigid categories and that human activities within those categories tend to fall along somewhat stereotypical lines and that that's not a bad thing that societally speaking, that's quite a good thing. That doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions to the rule. We ought not treat those people with tolerance. We should. But that does not mean that you redefine gender entirely. And yet this is seen as a positive good. Why? Because there are exceptions.  I can't imagine. I mean, regardless of how you feel about this law, supported, disliked, getting that worked up over this law. Is it really that necessary to be this outraged? Ben, I mean, to think that a gender neutral twice section promotes chaos in society. I just feel like I don't want to say that he's being disingenuous, but it seems insincere because it seems implausible that an adult would be this worked up about a law that's pretty anodyne if you ask me. Again, if you agree with this or disagree with it, I feel like this type of law shouldn't evoke that level of emotions from someone. So it's just strange. So he tells you that the reason why this law is bad is because what you're saying, what you're really saying is gender doesn't exist. But that's not what the law is saying. The law is acknowledging that there are gender binaries and some children just naturally don't fall within the masculine or feminine categories. It's not an attempt to indoctrinate children. It's an attempt to allow kids to express themselves and feel as if they're not kind of boxed in when they select toys. I mean, look, as a kid, I mostly played with boys toys. I had my Beast Wars, but from time to time, maybe, you know, a polypocket looked pretty dope, so I wanted to check that out.  So we shouldn't be setting up this culture where they feel bad if they dare to deviate from the norm. But according to Ben Shapiro, quote, what you're really saying is there's no such thing as biological sex or human proclivities that are directed by biological sex or connected to it. OK, I don't think that that's what people are saying in advocating for this law, Ben. I don't. I mean, it's not like there are a lot of kids who acknowledge that they are transgender or non-binary. I mean, they show signs at a very young age, but no kid who's like two or three is explicitly thinking I'm trans. They're just being themselves. So if you were born male, perhaps you have this desire to play with dolls.  He's not talking about his gender. He's very young, but he likes frozen and that's fine. Like, I don't think that we should make him feel bad because he likes a toy and a product and a brand that's typically marketed towards young girls.  But moving on to the law and moving past Ben Shapiro's outrage, the law itself to me seems a little bit redundant, if I'm being honest, because if you go to any big box retailer, they already kind of have sections that are gender neutral. I mean, certainly they have these sections that are very clearly tailored towards young boys and young girls, but then they have sections like the educational section. There's usually like puzzles. They have sections where there's not necessarily a specific gender that they're marketed towards already. So it seems like this law. I mean, the energy for this law perhaps could have been directed towards anti bullying and more health care resources for trans kids, something like that. But either way, let's get to the rationale behind the actual law that Ben Shapiro is angry about. Jonathan Edwards of the Washington Post explains a 10 year old girl was shopping with her mother one day when she asked a question. Why were some toys off limits to her as a girl, but would be OK to play with if she were a boy? The girl was the daughter of a staffer who worked for a California lawmaker. This year, Assemblyman Evan Lowe cited the girl's question as an inspiration for a bill he wrote that will force some retailers to create gender neutral children's sections in their stores. California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed Lowe's legislation Assembly Bill 1084, which will force large retailers to have non gendered toy sections starting in 2024. Proponents said the requirement will help consumers comparison shop and also tamp down on gender stereotypes that hurt children who play with toys marketed to a different gender. Detractor said the law infringes on business owners' freedom to market their products and lay out their stores as they see fit. The new law introduced by Democratic lawmakers Lowe and Christina Garcia won't prohibit stores from having traditional boys and girls sections, but will require them to have a reasonable selection of toys and items in a gender neutral section, regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either boys or girls. The requirement will apply to retailers with 500 or more employees in California, those failing to meet it starting on January 1st of 2024 will face a $250 fine for a first defense and $500 fine for any after that. So I mean, this seems like their heart was in the right place. It's a step in the right direction, I think, being more inclusive. That's a good thing. It's just it's not as big of a deal as Ben Shapiro is making it out to be. Now, you know, the inspiration for this law, that 10 year old girl who is shopping with her mother, I think that it's more important to teach children that it's OK if they want to deviate from the norm.  If you're a girl, it's fine if you play with boys. So I think that teaching them that is also really important because there's no there's no innate thing in us as children that makes us want to play with action figures and be drawn to the color blue for born with penises. That's just not the case, you know, and the opposite is true for girls. So I think that kind of getting out of this is healthy for society. We'll make for healthier children if they don't feel as if, you know, they have to force themselves to play with a specific set of toys so that way they appease other people. I think that that's really harmful. I feel like as a parent, Ben Shapiro should acknowledge this. But either way, he's outraged about this. And I feel like he's just trying to feed into the culture war when an actuality of this law is not really that big of a deal. Again, I feel like you can do other things that are probably more pressing to actually help trans children, which they should do. I mean, California probably already has a lot more resources. But one of the biggest issues facing trans people is lack of access to health care. We need a single pair health care system in the United States, but we don't have that. So there's a lot of issues in the United States that are really, really worthy of Democratic Party lawmakers time. So this seems like something that's like an easy win for them. But either way, it's not that big of a deal. They could do more and they should do more to help trans children and trans youth. But either way, does this law warrant the outrage that it got from Ben Shapiro? No, but of course, it's anything that is affirming of trans and non-binary identity. So of course, they're going to hate it just by default because they don't like trans people, contrary to what they'll say. Their actions indicate that they think that they are less than cis people. And I say this because they support politicians who introduce legislation that discriminate against people who are not cisgender. So, you know, either way, it's not a big deal. But of course, Ben Shapiro is going to melt down. And I think it's time that we acknowledge that the true snowflakes in the United States are right-wingers, always have been.


Hi my name is Jessica and I am a software engineer and a contributor to Prometheus and this is my lightning talk on how to fill in missing data for recording rules. So many moons ago back in 2013 an issue was created that made this request to have the ability to persist data for evaluating recording rules in the past and I'm happy to say that eight years later we finally have a pull request that got merged recently that implements this feature and this talk is about how to make use of that feature to fill in recording rules from the past and so just a tiny bit of background what is a recording rule in the Prometheus official documentation it shows here has some information on recording rules that they are essentially ways to precompute expensive queries and save the result so that you don't have to evaluate those expensive queries over and over but rather that data is saved over time. So here's an example of a recording rule that figures out what is the current network traffic per second and you could see the query expression example here that gets run. So the problem with recording rules is that the data only exists from creation time on when you create a new recording rule there is no past data for that rule so we're going to use this example through the demo of making a rule that tracks the network traffic per second so here's a config file for recording rule example and if you so when I created this recording rule then you can go look in Prometheus you can look on the dashboard so on the left hand side this is the query that was executed and so you could see for the past hour there is actually data time series data that exists for that however if I just put in the name of the recording rule there's no data here essentially just because it's brand new so it doesn't have any time series data so the goal of this is to fill in the past data right here so that these two match and now we have the capability of being able to do that with prompt tool so I added this feature into prompt tool this is the sub command tstb create blocks from rules here's all the options so if you do run that like so you need to provide a start and an end time so in this example there's an hour window that we just looked at on the previous chart that hour window is what we're going to fill in and then the url to the Prometheus API is passed in and then the output of this sub command are blocks blocks of time series data for this recording rule so providing a location of the output directory this is where all of the blocks will be so execute this command you can see some logs it says blah blah blah we're running this rule processing it and then afterwards you can ls into the output directory and you can see that there's one block created to inspect that block even further there's another sub command you can kind of see more data about it so you can see it it's about an hour here and there's 70 samples which the evaluation interval is 60 seconds so this is about what you would expect in order to make use of this data in the Prometheus instance these blocks once they're validated they need to be manually moved over to the data directory of the Prometheus instance so I did that once I did that you can look in the logs and you could see Prometheus now sees that there's some overlapping blocks so when the next compaction hits it's going to merge those blocks together and once that happens then the data is available back in the Prometheus graph so back over here this is the first chart we looked at you could see the actual query is right here and we have all that data and then the recording rules over here now now we actually have all this past data for the recording rule and you can confirm that it looks pretty good and that's that so for future work for this I would like to add another sub command that will validate the blocks for you and also move the blocks over to a specified Prometheus data dir just to eliminate those manual steps and then I'm still we need to add still markers I'm going to do that soon and anything else if if anybody uses this feature and has any ideas how to make it better or there's other use cases that are needed or bugs or whatever let me know and then lastly I just wrote a quick blog post that has these kind of the same information from this talk and with a little more detailed links to docs and stuff so check that out if you want and that is it thanks a bunch


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