Get a DisplayPort here at Mobile Oil Congress 2017 and you have a new announcement. Yes, we have previously you could take and use like the LG G5 and the V20 phones to export DisplayPort outmode out the bottom of the phone so you could get your video to connect it to an external display, television, projector, anything of that nature. And now most recently at CES Qualcomm announced that in their new 835 chip that they will integrate DisplayPort alt mode actually right into the chip itself so any phones that use the 835 chip will have this same sort of capability to export DisplayPort video out the bottom of the Type-C connector on the bottom of the phone. Directly on the SoC, so no need for separate ICs. So for example Windows Continuum they were all using DisplayPort and a separate IC. There was a separate IC chip in these phones to allow that DisplayPort alt mode to come out of the phone. Alt mode of USB Type-C that's like a standard phone. So you get not only DisplayPort video you also carry USB and power as well. So let's check out how it looks when you connect it to a this is a what kind of display is this? This is an LG display this has a Type-C connector on it it's one of the few monitors in the marketplace that does have Type-C it's a certified DisplayPort device. So when you plug in the LG phone all right then it's just gonna automatically get over here right here we go and then you have a productivity a huge display for your phone can we look on the back there's even a sure so on the back because this monitor serves like a standard USB hub it will actually power the phone right now so it can charge the phone but it also because you're carrying USB you can also on the back you can see we have a USB plugged in USB drive plugged into the back of the monitor and that shows up on the phone and that shows up on the phone so you can play videos or whatever you'd have on that storage device from your phone directly to in this case an LG monitor but obviously you could connect this using a DisplayPort alt mode to an HDMI adapter and use a television as well you wouldn't have the hub capabilities but you could still display your videos that's a great thing about DisplayPort alt mode is it adapts to HDMI as well so if your display is HDMI you can easily convert this DisplayPort signal to an HDMI signal so right here if you check on the back again sorry yeah so this is a type C right here type C connection but it could have been a HDMI display correct and it just works we yeah well you'd have an adapter but yes it would still work just the same there would be an adapter right so you'd have a DisplayPort this is DisplayPort there would be an adapter that takes DisplayPort turns it in the HDMI then you connect the HDMI to the HDMI port on the back of the monitor or the television there's no cable that can do all that it needs to be an IC in the adapter box to do to do to do HDMI most of them are all active any potential we can do even more in one display with an Android device well so the potential is in the future to take out of your phone basically set up a scenario where you could plug your phone into a dock and the dock would have two outputs to two displays so in theory using DisplayPort alt mode and our compression called DSC display stream compression you could actually drive two 4k displays from your phone that's fantastic this is gonna be 10 nanometer this is a crazy fast future Snapdragon coming out so you'll have so much performance that displays like this right what kind of resolution are we looking at here here your losses a single DisplayPort cable using the latest high bit rate 3 we're going to a synaptics docking device so this is DisplayPort into the dock we have two DisplayPort connectors on the dock each driving a single 4k display at 60 Hertz so could you connect the phone through something like this to two 4k displays in the future it could be not possible not currently but in the future that is possible using compression so that's the DisplayPort 1.4 those are DisplayPort 1.4 capabilities yes so 1.4 you announced it last year but now there's there's products and we have several in here that we can show you this being one of them and the other one is our ability to drive 8k 30 with a single cable using high bit rate 3 which as I said you know 50% increase in our throughput so 50% increase in throughput that's 8k do you have any 8k displays here in the booth we do wow is there any chance we can run 8k from the phone no I wish that is coming people that are doing phones or whatever are definitely pushing for 8k from the phone 4k is coming out of phones now but 8k is the future people do want 8k out of their phone and to do it they're going to need compression and we'll talk about compression a little bit later so what we're showing you here 8k Dell display this was announced at CES we have some raw 8k images that we're showing here this monitor will be available sometime towards the end of March and what we're showing here is using Alienware notebook that has the display that display port 1.4 capabilities so we're driving this using a single cable off the shelf standard display port cable you can buy anywhere no specialized cable and now you're getting 8k at 30 Hertz if we had a desktop system here with two ports we could drive 8k 60 but we would need two cables but they would still be the thin small cables so what's the bandwidth bandwidth here is you're doing 8.1 gig per lane they're four lanes so it's 32 32.4 nice so that's these are products like I said this will be available within a month I believe they've targeted $5,000 for this display so the images you see on here now actually the person who built this booth for us had a Nikon D80 camera and so he had been taking raw 8k images but he had never been able to see them but he couldn't see them right because he had no way to display it so this was the first time he had ever seen the images in full 8k so he was amazed to see the quality of the images that his camera was taken this is the same issue that everybody has everybody's taking pictures higher than 8 megapixels never see the quality no you're never gonna print it out and you don't have more in 4k display no so so this is there it is there it is and this is a 4k demo this is this one is 4k HDR so each many TVs have HDR now but there aren't a lot of devices that can actually drive HDR to the set right so what we're doing here is we have an AMD graphics card using display port we're using display port then to an HDMI DP to HDMI active adapter because the TV is HDMI so we're seeing full 10-bit color here using AMD graphics card so we can actually with display port get to full HDR using display port to HDMI adapters so you can see the content on your television or whatever type of display you might have so a lot of display ports has to do with compression right and you have a partner right yes so what's the latest with that it's called display stream compression and they've updated sort of how they're doing that so I will let the Stefan tell you a little bit about the compression I just on the front end I will say visa has agreements with HDMI MHL and Mipi to also use this same algorithm compression algorithm with the products that are built to those standards as well awesome so hello so we met last year and so what happened since last year yeah we met last year last year we had the HD demo and now we have upgraded to 4k demo and just to show how the quality we can carry with this compression so you have a 4k video running right now it's 4k display with 4k video and 4k image and it's we're switching between the source image on the reconstruct one so we cannot see really a difference in the in the reconstruct picture when you see the SC output and as it is 4k and we have a new demonstration platform we also run everything on display port to show that it really works well so the laptop is driving through mini display port to this card we're doing a compression the compression and display port to the monitor all right last year version two 1.2 of the standard was announced to support more of the TV digital TV standards so we already have some customer interest and we're in the phase of completing the our version of the IP to support this release of the standard 1.2 and we're also involved in the advanced DSC task group which is developing the next generation of compression so direct stream compression and display stream compression a display stream compression compression and so this is about how do you how do you develop the next generation where what do you have to think about it what what is the target well it's you know 8k to support and other new resolution reduce try to get more compression higher rate and reduce the cost at the same time for the implementation so there's a lot of of thing to do and see how it can be realized to be implemented in the hardware of the most efficient way so what is the hardware that runs on like how do you run this is it used a lot of performance a lot of hardware is used and required yeah actually we for the 4k we have great our platform this is a FPGA this is FPGA but the main customer they are integrating our IP into their chips so they are chip maker or chip manufacturer like Qualcomm or LG electronics and you have for the decoder part all the display manufacturer which are a lot of them are based in Asia and that's an arm chip it's on so see and you are where are you an SOC well the chips which are developed these days our system in a chip means that people buying IP or piece of functionality from different supplier let's say they need a USB port they say they need a processor and they need DSC interface then they ship the shop around put all this together very data it works well and then go into projection of a chip it's more complex than this but it's in a few words that's how it works code run on the CPU on a DSP on the GPU or where do you run the encoder run on the graphical processor on the GPU yeah on the GPU and the decoder runs in the display interface chip all right and so it's fully smooth fully optimized and you can do even better we keep updating already what do you need to well we as I said we work on version 1.2 is almost complete advanced DSC we are part of the committee which are developing the standard we have over 20 license licensee actually we have new market that we develop the FPGA version of the encoder to drive the display of the manufacturer that when they want to test their equipment so that's a new market also going on also in automotive because there's a lot of cabling in the car that people want to reduce the number of cable in the car because every year there's more display and cameras added to into the car and we'll get to I think something like 13 and 15 in a few years so there's our new markets and the new opportunities coming on and we we're driving leading the way to get our products into this market and make the most of it and the most performance for the people


March 20th marked 20 years since the beginning of the brutal Iraq war. It has been 20 years since George Bush, Tony Blair and their allies launched a disastrous campaign based on lies and moralize. The war destabilized the region, led to the rise of the Islamic State and divided countries. Its impact continues to this day. It also exposed people across the world to the hypocrisy and imperialist approach of the United States. 20 years later, how has the war changed the U.S.? What impact did it have on its institutions? Eugene Puriar of Breakthrough News explains. You know, I think that 20 years on from the Iraq war, there are a lot of implications. I think the biggest implication, the biggest impact that the war had was really shaking the trust in the mainstream media. I mean, the role of the New York Times with its front page distortions, the Washington Post that ran, I think, 27, at least 27 editorials in favor of the war and by some counts, 140 front page headlines around the war. Maybe no one was really all that surprised that the Wall Street Journal would have joined into that. But MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, I mean, all of these sort of pillars of the traditional journalistic enterprise that have already become under assault because of the rise of the Internet and independent media. But it's pretty consistently cited by many people as why they don't really trust the media because they've seen what's happened in Iraq. And I think that we've seen for the U.S. government, it's had a huge impact on their war-making ability and the idea and the concept that we were lied into the war into Iraq overhangs almost every single other conflict that takes place. Whether the government ends up moving forward or not, it becomes a conversation inside of the populace and usually as opposition to these wars rise. The issue of the lies that are being told is the first thing that comes to the forefront. So I think that it has not only shaken the trust in sort of the mainstream ruling class elite opinion makers over the long term. But I think it's also hardened people's general skepticism about wars abroad, which has changed the way the government has operated. I mean, from the rise of drone wars to the rise of embedded journalists during the Iraq war, which has only continued since then, the attacks on independent media, people like Julian Assange. I mean, all of this has been a direct response to the fact that the impact of the Iraq war, I think on governing institutions, on media institutions and the broader approach to the ruling elite has been one that has shaken the confidence that people have that these individuals are leading the country with any form of integrity or in a way that may be right or correct, but that in fact, many of these people are liars. They're often dissembling and that they have their own agenda. And I think 20 years on, that is the big conversation in the United States. How this war was actually able to happen based on lies. And you have many of the people who are for the war now spending a lot of time trying to go back and rewrite history and say, well, they weren't lies, we just got it wrong. And that has been a big axis of discussion. And I think that alone speaks to the erosion of trust in so many key ruling class institutions in the country. And of course, you know, the Iraq war came at a time where the US economy had already been massively hollowed out from the point of view of deindustrialization, the so-called globalization of the economy. I think the impact of the war in terms of the people who were killed in terms of the money that flew to the military industrial complex has really also heightened people's awareness of how the war machine has really bled off the main needs of so many people here in this country over the same amount of time. We're spending trillions upon trillions of dollars for these endless wars that started with Afghanistan and where we had the apogee perhaps in Iraq. And in that time, we've seen the standard of living, the quality of infrastructure all decline. And this is to the point where Democrats, Republicans, independence, communists, libertarians, I mean, all across the political spectrum, this has actually kind of become sort of common sense. And the neo-conservative type forces who want these wars are constantly at pains to try to justify what they're doing from a financial sense because of people seeing clearly that impact. The US establishment did not learn from 2003. Less than a decade later, it encouraged and participated in similar wars in Syria and Libya, once again destabilizing the region. US military expenditures continued to soar. How did the military industrial complex in the US change its strategies after the Iraq war? How does it continue to wage war today in new forms? I think what we've seen from the ruling elite and the national security establishment section of it, that they have moved more to sanctions, more to proxy wars, you know, the advance of technology, which has opened up the possibility of drone wars. All these things are coming in the rise of, you know, more extensive special operations forces that kind of actually started there, you know, with General David Petraeus in Iraq. Because the basic point that I think that the ruling elites in America have recognized from Iraq, but also from Vietnam, is that the more American troops are put in harm's way, the more death that comes, the more maiming of people for life that happens, the mental injuries that people are also facing because of these conflicts. The more of that, the more it drives opposition to these wars because the carnage is right there and it's right at home. I mean, when something's happening thousands of miles away, it's a little bit more easy to hide the human toll, to to allied the human toll, to decontextualize it in a way where, you know, people become desensitized or at least aren't willing to take to the streets in huge numbers or whatever it may be. And so we've seen that there has been a concerted effort to try to avoid those kind of boots on the ground conflict. And if you listen to the past couple of presidents, you'll constantly hear them say as a concern various comments. Well, we're not sending US boots on the ground. I mean, that's been Joe Biden's key refrain as a concern in the issue of the war in Ukraine. Trump, Obama, same thing. You were constantly hearing this issue. We don't know US boots on the ground and they're moving towards forms of pressure and forms of warfare that are making it easier for them to insulate the reality. Now, a lot of times there are boots on the ground in many of these places. But, you know, you just don't hear it like that.  But I think the way it's presented is like, oh, it's just drones. And someone in Las Vegas is flying far away. And all the people really doing the fighting are people from over there. It's really a version of kind of Vietnamization as we saw during the Nixon administration, where the hand of the U.S. is very clear, but it's slightly hidden by the use of other people and other countries and nations forces to do most of the dying in the context of what's happening. And I think we're only going to see that happen even more. And we can see it in the evolution of US foreign forces, you know, in terms of their embrace of technology, in terms of the embrace of small group special operations forces, but also the huge explosion we've seen in sanctions regimes, which are obviously a form of coercion and a form of pressure that tend to lead up to wars. But the use of them has exploded in the last 20 or so years, specifically because I think the government, the U.S. ruling elite are looking to use anything they can to try to enforce their writ without having to put troops on the ground in a warlike scenario. And I think we're seeing in certain areas there's a shine away from putting boots on the ground because of understanding what's happening.  Well, we don't want a Black Hawk down scenario. And so I think, you know, that that is the main switch is to try to create the perception in the U.S. population that this massive military industrial complex is that it exists. They're not trying to hide it exists, but that it's not driving wars that are going to kill Americans. Now, that's not necessarily true. And of course, they could lead to nuclear wars that could kill all of the Americans. But at the very least, you can see how the Iraq wars had a huge impact, just like the Vietnam War did on the willingness of the government to try to put U.S. forces on the ground where they can die in large numbers. Twenty years ago, as the U.S. establishment plotted the war, hundreds of thousands marched on the streets against it. This week, over 200 organizations took to the streets against war and military spending. The marches of extreme importance due to the current U.S. role in Ukraine. How does the anti-war movement see this moment when the U.S. is fueling conflict on a global scale again? I think the anti-war movement is looking at our current moment. Twenty years on from the Iraq war at something of a crossroads. I mean, on the one hand, you know, since we've had so much, you know, shadow games being played with wars, the rise of sanctions, the rise of proxy wars, we understand that our task, our educational task, our propagandistic tasks are higher than ever because some of it is actually helping people to understand the stakes of the conflict, because since thousands of people are dying, sometimes the stakes can actually seem lower when, in fact, they're actually higher in the context of great power confrontation and the potentiality for nuclear war with Russia, with China, and so on and so forth. And so I think we're recognizing that the anti-war movement has to really double down, you know, on its educational role.  I mean, street protests in a way and rallies are their own form of mass education. But I think in terms of the materials we produce, all of the different aspects of our work, that's a bigger factor, is combating the changes that have been made by the ruling elite. But on the same token, I think the anti-war movement is feeling very energized in the fact that the destruction that's being wrought by the military industrial complex is so palpable in terms of how it's starving communities, working class communities of funds here in this country, of how it's only driving more conflict in other countries, how it's behind and responsible for some of the many of the biggest political challenges America is facing from inflation to immigration. And that all of these different contradictions also create the basis by which a real strong opposition to the military industrial complex and the war machine in general can be made. I mean, typically we had the anti-Vietnam War movement, the anti-Iraq War movement, the movement against intervention in Central America and so on and so forth. Very particularistic movements around particularistic moments. But because the system itself isn't the thing that's being attacked, then, you know, they re-up and they come back and they do it again somewhere else. But I think many anti-war activists in the United States feel more than ever the possibility of building an opposition that connects all of these different points to the war machine in and of itself is at a high pitch. And I think that that is seen as an opportunity as much as there are many big challenges.


What's poppin folks welcome to another video guys we have a absolute Banger today, so you guys don't need to be skippin through I got my boy. Lojo We're about to do some frog fishing and turtle fishing oh god Man, I got to do with the loader today. Oh, you're sticking me with the turtle Yeah, yeah, I might try it out too, but we you know I've seen the turtle for a while now I haven't seen anybody catch a fish on it be honest with you So I'm curious to see how this video goes turtle versus frog. It's gonna be killer and we're gonna see what happens today Be sure to smash that subscribe button you smash it I mean just And then I'll be sure to subscribe to my boy. Lojo down below and also hit the like button If you guys have been enjoying the content and hit the dang bell man the guy you gotta hit the bell You gotta hit the bells important YouTube's been a little weirdly exactly you gotta hit the bell Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and get this bad boy started. Let's go ahead and rig up We're gonna get down to the pond catch the salons just today boys. So stay tuned I cannot believe that I drove all the way to Atlanta to visit my good buddy Noah and he is gonna stick me With that right there. I mean wow it looks pretty saucy though It doesn't look cool, but I've never seen a person catch a fish on it It's this thing gonna catch fish that would be my only Reservation it's got the double hooks, which is like like a frog But do you know what this thing right here if I do get a bite like a short strike trying to eat the legs Well trailer hook we might actually get them with that hook though. So I don't know. It's definitely a cool color But man, I just don't know man I'm not as confident as you are but you know what there's only one thing you can do that's give it a dang shot All right, all right. I know dude.  Legitimately just crazy. Yeah, that'd be killer So that's the thing that old lojo is throwing right there if you guys are wondering what I'm throwing I got to go with the old poppin pickle. We got two types of poppin pickles here today We got a standard white one right there and then we have the old original poppin pickle that has catched I mean so many donkeys I've caught so catchy catch catch say it's too early in the morning beautiful right there I'm telling you this is a donkey slayer I've been getting a ton of DMs from you guys catching tons of huge bass So I know it works. And yeah, that's what we're gonna be going with today. Let's go ahead and tie these bad boys on I'm curious about the pot like I've been here. I've caught some Giants. I'm just curious about the poppin pickle here Could be a hit or miss, you know See, you know my question with this thing It's got the double hooks right like for slamming a hook set, but it's got this one What if they if they just come up and short strike it and I slam the hook set But I mean is it is slamming the hook set with that tiny little stinger hook gonna yank it out of her mouth Because you with double hooks you have to slam All right guys just made it down to the pond got loads of behind me with the old turtle and Got me with the poppin pickle. It is about to go down Let me tell you one thing about this place been about a year since I've been out here We filmed some bomb fire frog videos out here and let me tell you this place is a lot different from last time Oh boy One that's a Christmas tree in the water over there. Lojo that was underwater I see you tell and two the water is so low If you guys can tell all that stuff on the bank was underwater all these stumps are underwater before that concerns me There still is a little bit of grass Gosh man, I can't believe it looks like this but you know with this grasping here I know they're still gonna be fish tucked up in it and you know, we're gonna see what happens This is probably gonna be better for Lojo with the turtle So you're not gonna get a ton of grass on them before I'm telling you man There's so much grass out here. Let's go ahead make our first cast get this thing started. You ready, brother? Let's get it, bro. We saw a few bass swimming around Flip the pickle next to this tree I don't know if there's anything on it Like I said this I'm interested to see how this goes. Usually that bank Lojo is the best, but you know We're gonna start here.  I have a feeling I'm not gonna get a lot of bites But if I get a bite it might be like King Kong, you know, just a reminder. This is what I'm throwing I'm gonna hit that Christmas tree that Noah pointed out though and bring this turtle right over the top of it Maybe just maybe I can get lucky.  So I don't know oh and it's already messed up Oh, no, what have you done to me? You try to be careful not spook one off the dang bank. Oh god. I'm on the oh So the freaking turtle man, dude, I switched up my retrieve, right? I was like straight retrieving it and on that one. I just kind of like did weren't like this like that That sounded like a tank It like shocked me I wasn't I wasn't even like prepared I was just thinking in my head Dude, yeah, you know, it's perfect about that cast I landed it on on land and I just dragged it into the water I popped it twice and he got absolutely annihilated Let me try that again. Oh, I got a backlash What kind of a world are we living in where the turtle has gotten more action than the frog? This what ooh, I spooked one out of the tree you ran away from it. I'm supposed to eat it No don't no It's gonna be legendary He ate it right on the corner of the Christmas tree. I mean, I was like tucked up against it I know you guys are probably curious as to how I'm working this thing I mean, it's like I would say it's a whopper plopper style bait So the natural reaction would be just to maybe like wind it on in just a slow retrieve I did that for a long time with no success But then I started like popping it just popping enough to where the little legs will go Just for a second and pausing it and that's actually gotten me a couple bites. So It's kind of odd. It's an odd way to fish a lure like this I think you're just supposed to retrieve it, but it wasn't the retrieve wasn't doing it for me. So I'm gonna pop this thing until Until we figure something else out, you know, it's weird as I haven't like seen Any like cruising around really I'm a couple when we first walked up, but I haven't seen any Yeah, oh, oh I'm letting him. I'm letting me to God, that feels good too. Yeah, it feels pretty good. You might be in the grass. No, he's not huge, but he's nice You literally just caught a fish on the turtle. Let's get the salad out of here. Oh, what do you got to say about that? Oh Me and Noah are sitting here talking about like dude, this is freaking. I don't know if this is gonna work Look at that. The dang stinger hook got on the two hooks Are you kidding? But see this is this is how they're eating top water, right? Yeah, they're coming up and swiping and grabbing it Dude, I was not working this again And he came up and tried to like grab the legs of the turtle and it got caught by that dang stinger hook Dude, this isn't a bit. Look at what the heck? He's got a broken back. Look at him. Yeah, he's got dude That's so weird and look how skinny is that is not that kind of concerns me about this place Now, that's not cool. Wow.  You've had so many good strikes on it.   That's how fishing is. It's Freaking nuts, man. I can't believe that first fish on the turtle. I know and you've had three good bites That's nuts, man. Let's uh Let's get this guy back. It's not big, but I mean that's the turtle fish man I can officially say loge that you're the first person that I've seen catch a fish on a turtle I can say that I've tried before on my own channel. You said you tried what two or three times At least like dedicated days that I could not catch a fish. That's crazy. All right. Let's get him back in the water Oh, man. That's muddy. Oh, loge. Oh get over here. Man. You got me all excited, bro I can't not believe it. It was out in the middle too. Like we said, we thought they were in the middle That's what I'm saying. That's almost you know, we said it earlier I think you might have an advantage of that because this time It's so shallow. I'm almost thinking you should toss him a little bit. Yeah, I left We got two guys. We got just kind of get him out there. Get him. Yeah, give him a little There we go. He's going. He's good. Oh, look at him. Dude. He took off that way. See the trail Dude, loge. Oh, I mean, this this this is crazy, man. This is nuts, man I don't I don't think I had zero confidence after I missed those two bites I was like, you know Those are my two chances like that that was it especially the first one you saw the first one Dude, that was like a dude. That was a big. No, I'm big and dude, but they're not getting it But you know, I was just about to take the stinger hook off too Yeah, but I didn't because that would have been another miss right there and we just like gave up and left, right I can't believe it. I don't want to keep throwing a turtle I know you're gonna probably get another one, dude.  Did you count it probably to 10 before you hooked that too? I think I was oh, yeah, no, I waited.  Oh my god. Look at him choke it That was the coolest catch I've seen in a minute he like knocked it all the way out of the water I twisted one more time and he just he's slobbered. Don't keep it. All right guys. There's that beautiful fish right there Does that affect the fish in a like a very like I I mean you might know the answer lojo does that you think that's Killing the fish off because that fish did not look healthy and let me tell you from last year We were catching some solid, you know four or five pounders that were thick and fat And this just kind of worries me man, you know, and certainly can't be good for them I mean, I don't know. I know it's not good for him But I don't know if it'll be killing them off on the turtle on the freaking turtle. Let's get back in there Oh, so you gotta swirl behind it, dude I don't like the old frog man. I like screw this thing I've never in my life seen anything like that.  I go, what if I just had a giant just crushed the frog That's how you want to look at that and he ate it just all you had and he was going nowhere Guys, this has been painful. This has been so painful and look how you ate that frog. You've been grinding man I've been grinding on it, man. And you know what I did reaction bite bro.  Dude, that's nice. That's a little bit bigger than mine or about the same size But yours at least doesn't have a broken back. You got a belly, you know, yeah I'm not a belly, but he's yeah, he's got something on him healthy We've been grinding we've been freaking grinding man. You guys only see about five minutes of it But we have been grinding baby for sure Beautiful bass right there Dye gets me pumped up was one to one on the turtle his turtle is just I don't know what's going on. Keep an eye on it out there in the water. See if we can catch another one You might just toss him dude. Yeah that might super sketch Okay, there he goes So you guys are probably really confused at what me and Lojo are doing right now just because We're throwing a frog or he's throwing a turtle But I'm throwing a frog in the middle of the lake and I just had you know My first fish on it has been painful to let you know There's a big as you guys can tell us some grass on the edge, but out here in the middle is a big Little pile of grass. It's just right here in the middle Like it's just this little oval shape and you can see it and that's where we're casting over right now We know there's a bunch of fish in it. Um, you know, he's had some bites. I just caught that one And they're out in it pretty good dude. I thought that's why I was bringing that bag. I was thinking because I had my chatter basics Oh Dude that was a huge one by the time it hit. I couldn't even click my reel.   Is he broke back?  That's a freaking Choke job right my heart has not raced this fast in so long This has just been painful guys like like I said, you guys don't get to see all the time that we're doing this and it's just Crazy man. We're really triggering them. This is the thing. It's a slow day. Take a tip from this Bluebirds guys, look at that. Yeah, not a cloud. I can't see a cloud from Nope deer to no wind He's fish for super slow now the frog's beating the turtle surprisingly, but I know you're just making a comeback on me He did Very nice my friends


The Wilderness Preservation System was enacted on September 3, 1964. Let's hear why the Wilderness Act came to be. I have to say that I am very proud of our Wilderness tradition in this country because Wilderness originated as an American ideal. As the Europeans started to settle, the United States, the quote, Wilderness, was disappearing. It was being cleared for fields and forage and railroads were being built and forests were being logged. One of the first things that happened as this American landscape was changing was some real visionaries started to see that there were some places worthy of preservation and one of the very first places that came to their attention was Yellowstone National Park where it had all its geothermal wonders and wildlife wonders and so George Catlin, who was an early American artist, stepped forward to really voice the importance of preserving it and started to voice the importance of the idea of a national park system and people like John Muir were joining with him and bringing Yosemite forward as another place that was worthy of preservation and so the national park system was established. But that didn't do the whole job. Still areas were being developed and even in the national parks roads were being put in, lodges were being built, tourism was being drawn in and promoted and so again there were visionaries that stepped forward to say well we really need some places that are roadless and undeveloped and left in their primeval condition. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a national wilderness preservation system. So the intent of wilderness is basically in the words of the act to preserve a place for present and future generations where man is a visitor who does not remain, where it's non-motorized where you can escape the sights and sounds of humankind. So it's being preserved both for naturalness and for ecosystems to play out their free processes. No two wildernesses are the same. Each landscape is unique. The landscape of wilderness in the United States is incredibly diverse and that was by design. Our Ranger District has an amazing climatic gradient over 50 miles. We start up on the Cascade Crest where we have over 100 inches of annual precipitation and it's a very lush subalpine environment. And then you keep transitioning into what we call the dry forest which is Grand Fur, Douglas Fur and Ponderosa Pine. And as you look across the rest of the landscape in the United States there's grasslands, many different desert ecosystems. You have everything from high desert where you'd expect pinion and juniper, sagebrush, rabbit brush to low desert where you have saguaro cactuses. There's wilderness in almost every state so you would expect swamps in Louisiana and the hardwood forests of Northern New England and the Great Lakes states. There's wilderness in Florida. And then of course you go to Alaska where you have tundra landscapes and wilderness and the Black Spruce Forest. There's four federal land managing agencies and all of four of those agencies have wilderness. So there's the United States Forest Service and that was the original agency. And quickly joining the Forest Service is the National Park Service. Then we also have the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. So each agency as it struggles to conceptualize how to manage wilderness has a little bit different spin on it because we all have a slightly different mission and that affects how we manage wilderness. Most wilderness areas will have a set of regulations that go along with that area that specifically define exactly what the requirements are for visitors in that area. There are often special orders and the special orders will identify maybe what the group size limit is. If there are particular locations where camping is prohibited or restricted there can be a whole variety of different particular requirements for that area. For work I've traveled on foot backpacking. I've traveled with stock maybe just with one or two animals or with a full string. I've traveled by sea kayak for work as well and then in aircraft as well in places where it's appropriate in wilderness. Float planes that are landing on lakes different ways of moving through the landscape and it really varies from place to place. Rangers are passionate about preserving wilderness. Let's listen to why their jobs mean so much to them. My greatest satisfaction working in this job is knowing that I'm preserving something for future generations and hopefully make it better and make it last. It's being out here. It's contributing some way to this place so it's been nice to have some way to give something back to the area. Some of the perks being a wilderness ranger is obviously being in some of the most beautiful country in the world. I enjoy these high alpine lakes and mountains and then obviously this time of year in the fall the berries come up and we get to enjoy that and I just enjoy being by myself a lot too.  It is the time for a moment to be very simple. You get up when the sun gets up you go to bed when the sun goes down and getting back into that rhythm that ties directly to the land and the rhythms of the day you have a chance to immerse yourself in a whole summer of going in when there's snow still on the ground and watching spring come watching summer unfold and all of the flowers and wildlife and then transitioning to the pastel colors and the changing light of the fall and then back to the first snowstorms and seeing that change over the seasons is an incredible privilege. Like forest rangers of the past a wilderness ranger of today is a jack of all trades. Let's learn about the wide assortment of skills you'll need to do your job. I always think of it as two main groups of skills. You've got the physical carrying the backpack, cutting the log digging the water bar carrying the rocks all those big physical type of skills and then the social skills like helping someone who needs first aid contacting a visitor educating about leave no trace but the perfect balance I mean that's what makes a good ranger is having strong in both of those. You have to have so many different skills and the skills might be life or death skills. Here you're probably going to need snow travel you might need some climbing skills or maybe you can do your job with just the hiking skills and horse skills. I think wilderness skills the first thing that comes to my mind is just the type of tools and methods we're using cross cut saws and hand tools for example navigation is another big one and it's just you have to realize you have to really be able to read maps and use a compass and be able to navigate. Understanding research methods and methodology for a lot of the work that we do because we do a lot of monitoring and data collection other skills that I'm starting to see are law enforcement training, grant writing community outreach You win your NRP I've always been pretty involved in doing education programs and doing community outreach and being a resource for people in the community doing the best you can to get out into the schools and out to fairs and other special events that go on in the community You're an educator and if the education isn't working you're the enforcer and you're basically a glorified wilderness janitor of cleaning up after people and occasionally you're going to be a restorationist trying to restore damaged campsites or trails and we do monitoring, campsite monitoring so there's this whole variety of things they might be doing Your involvement in fire depends on the wilderness you're in and how much fire is a part of that ecosystem So when I am hiring rangers I do let them know that they are expected to participate as wilderness resource advisors if we have a fire As a wilderness ranger your main fire responsibilities would be to watch the weather look for any smoke after a lightning storm comes through and primarily would be to educate the public whether there's current fire and people need to start changing their route plans that are within the wilderness or if it's elevated fire danger you need to start contacting visitors to put out campfires to limit their cooking to certain areas Typically most wilderness rangers at a minimum will want to have a wilderness first aid certification and then in addition to that you can escalate to a wilderness first responder become a wilderness EMT there are even trained medics that work as wilderness rangers in some locations How do you decide what gets done when there's so much to do? Here's some advice When I think back about first becoming a wilderness ranger the hardest part of it to me was not carrying the weight it was not being alone not being dirty or remote it was how to decide how much time do I spend working doing trail work how much time do I spend contacting visitors how do I make those choices You do the best you can come back and talk to your supervisor about it Usually the day that you have planned never goes how you had it planned and they're running into downed trees or a law enforcement situation or a lost horse there's always something that kind of derails where you thought you were headed and you end up spending more hours in your day to accomplish what you thought you were going to get done just because there's a lot of additions that are added throughout the day Rangers have worked with stocks since the inception of the Forest Service some still get the chance today Well the horses are they're a great part of my job I grew up with horses and really they are my crew The reason for having these guys is that they help you pack a lot of weight that you couldn't carry yourself so using a minimum tool concept we don't take them out every time we go we only take them out when we need them and I do find that on busier sections of trail when I have the stock I will walk in front of them a lot so that I can have a one-on-one contact with people on the ground so that you're not talking down to your visitors as you pass If I'm walking up the trail with a backpack and I see a stock train coming my way I would step to the downhill side get off the trail far enough where you're not going to pose a threat to the horse where it's not going to see you as an odd animal with a big back and it's not going to get spooked and move slowly don't be loud The llamas are great because they can go anywhere they can go on narrow gauge trails they can go over rocky slopes they can go off trail and they just don't create the same impacts they don't have the same weight they don't have the same food requirements as the regular stock and I do a lot of education when I'm on the trail both to people on foot and stock users or pack streams about the llamas Probably one of the biggest challenges that we have is safely using stock properly and being able to take care of them you can get hurt awful easily you can cause a lot of damage very quickly I've worked with a lot of animals and have had a lot of teachers and I still consider myself a novice so that's probably one of the bigger challenges working with the animals but it's pretty fun too As a wilderness ranger a key part of your job will be to meet visitors We get all kinds of people depends on what areas we're hiking in we get a lot of day use on some of our trails that have a destination say within 6 miles then we get backpacking use the typical backpackers of varying skill levels we have several off trail routes a lot of climbing in our wilderness both rock and alpine we do get stock use we get a hunting crowd during hunting season we have a lot of alpine lakes in certain areas it's amazing where those folks will go for the opportunity to catch some trout rafting and kayaking river sports in general technology is changing and a lot more people are out on the water and there's a lot more opportunities for ordinary people to get out and float the river there's a lot more opportunities out here if it's one or two people day hiking if they don't want to talk to you say how you doing have a nice day and move on if you see people with overnight packs it's worth finding out where they're heading making sure they understand the rules and regulations it may apply and then making sure they've at least heard or understand some portion of the principles of leave no trace a wilderness ranger can't be a hermit and they need to know how to have a conversation have the skills or the ability to talk with the kind of user that they're visiting with be able to talk to a backpacker from that frame of mind be able to talk to a stock user be able to talk to a commercial outfitter be able to talk to a floater and talk to them on their level you have to develop this confidence and feel comfortable going up and approaching people put people at ease and just be friendly and nice and say hello and introduce yourself and try to establish some kind of rapport with people well I usually say to them as well is there anything that I can help you with is there any information that I can give you open it up and let them ask you questions you are the expert so don't disappoint them and if you don't know something for garish sake don't try and BS your way out of it tell the truth we appreciate it more than anything one of the most important jobs rangers do is educating the public so much of our population being in cities they don't know and appreciate wilderness or even wild lands so we have a big education job ahead of us so a lot of the visitors that you get coming into wilderness some of them don't know what a national forest is many of them don't know what capital W wilderness is you have to assume the role of a subtle educator an interpreter to try to imbue visitors a sense of what wilderness is and what's important about it and also how to behave in order to protect and maintain that wilderness character and I have found people really like to see wilderness rangers and they're usually excited to see a wilderness ranger and they want to do things correctly when they're out in our wildernesses how to go to the bathroom how to hike on trails how to find a campsite and so I find that trying to engage with people and teach them has worked really well let's hear how you can protect the wilderness through compliance work my role is it's educational and it's enforcement so those are kind of the two things that I do I'm enforcing the wilderness act so making sure that the act is upheld and then also any local regulations if you want to gain compliance there's several ways you can do that you can use your authority of your uniform or the authority of your agency you've got a badge on and that's a pretty strong authority for some people for some people it's not and they need something that grasps their ethics a little bit more than just simply that it's the lot authority of the resource was actually developed by a professor George Wallace at Colorado State University and it's a communication technique specifically developed for those of us who work in resource management in the back country the authority of the resource is a concept where instead of trying to scold somebody for a negative behavior like maybe they had a campfire in a place where it's no campfires or cleared aside some vegetation to put up their tent the temptation would be to go in and scold them what's a more positive way to handle it is to literally try to orient the person so you're standing side by side and looking at the problem together so you're no longer confronting them face to face you're now switching the orientation to the issue instead of the personality and you're looking at the issue which is the resource damage and then we talk with them about what the appropriate behavior is and try to gain their compliance most wilderness rangers are often talking to visitors about is not camping along the lake shore when you can tell people that you can't camp within 200 feet of the lake shore it's just because it's a regulation and that's the way it is there's a much better way to approach that in a desert environment those water places may be the only place that wildlife has to come and get water at night and if people are camped right along there you're prohibiting them to get crucial water that they need so talking about it in terms of why that regulation is in place not that it's just a regulation can be very helpful wearing the uniform is important and wearing it well is important because it gives you a packed up by 100 years of history and if you're wearing your uniform poorly or we're not wearing the uniform I think it makes us all look a little less professional and people are less likely to listen while working in the back country it's important to stay in contact with your unit there are a number of ways rangers keep in touch when the rangers sign out for their trips we have a calendar that share a sign in sign out calendar where the rangers schedule their exact itinerary for the trip and then day by day they call in they have a daily check in so at any point if someone came up missing we would check to see where they last checked in from and that would be our point where we would go begin a search on this district because of the concern for employee safety we're making it mandatory that people that are going into places where radio transmission is not existent or it would be a day to get out that they'll be carrying the satellite radio so that there really is 24 hour communication and we've done a lot over the years to try to improve our communications but we still have some significant dead zones our forest actually has a policy where you need to notify someone whether it's your supervisor or dispatcher as you enter the dead zone and notify that person as you exit the dead zone most of your visitor contacts will be friendly and pleasant but not all rangers may come in contact with potentially dangerous people let's listen to how you can protect yourself probably our biggest hazards and wilderness are more related to people than the natural setting you don't really ever want to put yourself in a compromising position when you're talking to people as you approach them on the trail you want to keep a little bit of distance respect their space always observe before you approach any situation and just make sure that you can move out safely and quickly if you need to most contacts are going to be extraordinarily friendly but you always want to put yourself in the best possible position well I always tell them I'm not traveling alone I always say my partner is up at the lake or behind me or I'm meeting the trail crew tonight I went up to a lake and I was planning on camping at that lake and there was a couple of guys camp there and they just gave me the heebie jeebies and so I just moved on and you know hiked about three miles further and left them behind and I was fine you can come across poaching situations you can come across folks that decide they just want to live in the back country and are setting up camp and building a cabin and then even you get every now and then you know the freak scenario where there's somebody who's running from the law and there's you know a pretty aggressive or violent person and usually that's something you're going to pick up on real quickly and if you ever do find yourself in a situation like that that's a definite back out of go away record whatever information I have descriptive information and then that's time to get on the radio or go back to the station and get your law enforcement officer as a ranger part of your job will be to keep the wilderness wild through maintenance and rehabilitation work yeah trail maintenance is a huge part of our job and we begin by clearing all the trails it's the first task of the season is clearing trails using cross-cuts bow saws and chopping basically and then we're looking at brushing back the trails but usually then there's a trail crew that will camp out and work on the larger projects just being the first one up a trail at the beginning of the season and cleaning every single water dip up that trail and when you come back down you just you walk past and you just see all of your fine work because every one of those water bars or water dips is clean and ready for the first gully washer of the season so every time we come to a sign that's on a live tree we are loosening the bolts so that the tree can grow and not envelop the sign you know we're trying not to hurt the trees we want them to be able to grow it's funny when people talk to us they always say you have the best job and it does a great job but I don't think they understand that a lot of it is cleaning up messes that people make in the back country we spend a lot of time dismantling fire rings when we take them apart and we get rid of all the charcoal and the burnt pieces and then we rehab the site and try and make it look like nobody was ever there sometimes you get so weighted down with trash and we were in here cleaning and the guy's like oh you're the cleanup crew huh? people think that people come in and clean up after them it's frustrating definitely as wilderness rangers part of the job is to be cleaning up after those folks not properly disposing of their waste it's a lot of toilet paper yeah being real careful with that picking it up and putting it in your garbage bag with gloves on and being really really careful for your personal safety is important unfortunately find a lot of that and so it's basically little pieces of trash so it's the corners of wrappers it would be like the little twisty ties that come on bread bags classic piece of micro trash these guys are pulling noxious weeds and this has been one of our main priorities this summer and we're basically trying to keep these weeds from getting into the wilderness I have the awesome responsibility of protecting this wild scenic river corridor and when I started pulling weeds it's like pulling 80 miles of weeds you know on both sides of the river and just seeing, just realizing how awesome that is so when you're out there just remember where you are take a moment to look around and if you're frustrated with somebody or frustrated at cleaning up yet another campsite that you know were just out a week ago it's important I think just to sort of calm down take a breath you know smell the air feel the breeze and you know really enjoy where you are remember how wonderful a job it really is in some areas you will even be working to improve the condition of the wilderness the wilderness management model is basically a triangle where you're looking at pristine conditions being way up on the apex of the triangle and down at the base you have a wilderness that has some roads or some buildings some development some ongoing uses that aren't really wilderness appropriate and somewhere in the middle on that triangle is a line that is the definition of congressionally designated wilderness our job as managers is to manage the condition of wilderness to meet the intent of the wilderness act and if we can to gently nudge it further up the triangle so that the conditions continue to improve in an appropriate way and that's where we are now trying more actively to go in and stabilize impacts and reduce impacts like with campsites we're trying to figure out how can we still allow for use but shrink the parts of the sites where we don't really need the impacts on many units volunteers play an important role in the wilderness volunteers are critical actually dealing with wilderness work you don't have time to actually do a lot of physical restoration type work unless you have a volunteer crew so with a volunteer crew we're able to go out for about a week at a time and really hammer away at the sites and places that need restoration or cleanup or maintenance we can really do a really good job and also as far as leading a crew of volunteers it's a lot about teamwork they want to do something important and really do something for the better good of the wilderness that's what they came here for they really really enjoy that experience as a ranger you'll play an important role in delivering the wilderness one of the really key responsibilities of the wilderness rangers is they're the eyes and ears on the ground for keeping an eye and assessing changes to the resource our main focus is to inventory human impact basically which would be campsite inventories taking pictures of the campsites GPSing them really really recording them as best we can and then that information will be stored and compared 5 or 10 years down the line a lot of times I have my wilderness rangers will do an element of trail work so they'll also do trail inventories and we'll GPS those trails but we'll also do handwritten notes on specific sections of trail that may need work but then there's also some wilderness areas that have more extensive inventory programs there are places where they are monitoring wildlife they can be monitoring weeds monitoring air quality, water quality lots of other aspects of the whole bigger inventory and monitoring program I carry a little notebook also I mark down my visitor contacts we take information such as how many people were in their party were they on horses, were they hiking were they hiking for the day do they have a dog comments about signs that are loose or stock ties that need work or campsites that need to be closed visitor comments somebody may complain or compliment us or the back country I try to write those down so they're carrying a fair amount of paperwork out there and then the key is coming back in the office and making sure that gets inputted in all the right places wilderness rangers stress the importance of staying healthy to do their jobs let's hear what rangers have learned through experience you need to be in good condition before you start the job you need to be in good condition all summer but I think more importantly you need to be in touch with your condition you need to understand how you're feeling taking care of yourself is very important in the back country because the job is so demanding to be sick or not feeling well and trying to carry a heavy load and get your job done and so to be sick while you're trying to do all those things almost negates the fact that you're out there trying to accomplish anything one thing I learned over the years was to always take time to eat well you use so much energy and so many calories when you're a wilderness ranger I ate well fresh veggies, a lot of fruit and tortellini with alfredo sauce be very conscious about how much water you're drinking tons and tons and tons I'll get a headache so easily and it's just because of water and sun exposure and sweating a lot I never ever drink the water straight it's just not worth the consequences had you already been there don't want it again it's just worth the time just treat it however you want to treat it filter, iodine potable water whatever is your thing it's worth the time unless it's the most severe extreme weather conditions we're out there in hot and cold and rain or sun and snow and just if it's raining we don't generally pack up and say well let's go back because the weather is lousy and I've had enough and that's part of the challenge of doing the wilderness ranger work too pretty much in all weather conditions being prepared for really the change of weather in the seasons is pretty big having your warm clothes having layers with you hypothermia is a big one and usually you start to kind of feel immune to it and there's usually one good fall event that makes you wake up and take notice of what you have in your pack really your pack should only weigh at most a third of your body weight more like a quarter is usually more appropriate and that's really hard to do when you're a wilderness ranger it is a skill trimming things down to what you need and what you're really going to use and what tools can work for multiple purposes for you so that you can cut that down as much as possible because it does wear on your body I've gone to a very lightweight sleeping bag which has taken a lot of weight off I have a small pocket rocket stove I carry two pairs of socks then I have my gaiters to keep that pair of socks clean and that actually works really well and to keep rocks and sand out of my boots so I'm not getting blisters yeah blisters are tough and that's probably the most frequently reoccurring problem and it is remarkable how painful a blister can be the foot maintenance is incredible you've got to take care of your feet because if your feet break down then you can't do your job stretching in the morning and stretching at night it's just a lot of physical lifting you can do it with a backpack and digging with tools and just hiking with a 50 pound or a 60 pound pack for all day it takes quite a bit out of you so make sure that your muscles are stretched out while in the back country even a minor injury can become serious when help is a long ways away let's hear some common sense practices you can use to keep safe and sound self reliance you have to come out here and you're on your own there's consequences to every action you're going to take come in the back of your head that you need to do things smart back here it's not a place where you can take unnecessary risks I always think when I'm doing things out there I stop and think am I going to get hurt doing this and if I do what's that going to mean so there's definitely times that I choose not to do something river crossings are actually probably one of our more dangerous situations and there are times when you just need to be able to say not today or I got myself over here this morning but I'm not going back tonight I'm going to wait for tomorrow morning until water drops a little bit the times when I almost got into trouble were times when I was thinking about something else probably watching the the otter cross the river instead of paying attention to how slippery the rock was and those things happen so fast it was one of those classic summer thunderstorms where they just roll in one after another one bigger than the next so there was lightning popping all around and it was very loud and I had no business being on a pass and it is not worth it when you're in that kind of situation come out you can turn around and go in a different drainage but all it takes is one accident and you're in there by yourself and it's just not worth it as a ranger you'll have to deal with emergencies you come across a visitor that's got has either been injured or they have a medical situation going on where they need assistance and that's where your role as a public servant really comes into play first hand because you're there to provide assistance and do whatever you can to help those people or facilitate them getting the help that they need the best you can do is stabilize somebody and call for some help the dispatch person is your first line of contact and they've got a whole list so it's kind of like 9-1-1 from the district perspective they have a whole list of who to call next and how to start that chain of events happening for you this year we've probably been involved with about four different search and rescues it's not uncommon that we're actually somewhere near the injured party and can move in that direction either to help with first aid to help figure out where a helicopter is going to land or just to stabilize the whole situation in this program you heard about topics such as how our wilderness act came to be the diverse skills you'll need to do your job the importance of educating wilderness visitors your role in maintaining and improving the wilderness character and how you can stay healthy and safe in the back country I get a lot of comments on oh here comes the woman with the best job in America and I've had that more than once and it really it's a great job it's hard work and it's challenging but it is just so rewarding


Hey guys, my name is Ron. I'm part of a freedom family family here in the Philippines and this is what one year in freedom means to me As most of you know or maybe not I'm a dev here at freedom family and the Philippines and I did most of the cool stuff You see on the dashboard like the SoundCloud dashboard and the apps dashboard on the new and the old dashboard and the current Dashboard we're making now and lots of other stuff that I made you with UI and other front-end functionalities. So One year in freedom. Wow, what can I say? It's been a long ride and it's been one hell of a ride Where we started from nothing George had only three developers originally me Rob and Ash and we grew from three to almost 20 now Including others other staff and it's been an incredible journey. We made lots of friends. We reached from We made we made maybe top seven in self social blade, which is really awesome as well and George has been really nice to us. He's been a great boss especially a great friend and Guiding us and helping us make new stuff and just being like an overall fatherly figure to us He's been very supportive and he's done everything that we needed him for for everything and in turn We do our best to like deliver everything for the partners and for the freedom partners So this one year has been a great great experience for me. I've been able to like I'll learn new stuff and Become really confident in my skills as a developer because of the people around me and the situation George put us in So it's been really great. And I hope we can make it to number one before everything else is over. So Stick with us. We've been we've been working really hard to deliver the new dashboard And I hope you guys stay in tune for that and just remember that We love you as always and we're doing everything we can here. So, you know, be free and Thank you for supporting freedom one year Let's discover freedom. Click the first video to learn what is freedom and how it helps you grow Click the second video to learn about sponsorships for all freedom partners Even if you have just 10 subscribers and click the other videos like how do I leave freedom to learn more? Click get more views to learn how to build your audience faster on youtube Click get more cpm to learn how to make more money from your channel And click get more music to learn where to get more music to spice up your videos Click the first playlist to watch the George show on freedom. That's my show Or watch the anthony show or the alex show also on freedom And we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family You are part of it. We are all part of it and we're all growing together So grow with us and partner with freedom that play now button right there on the video bar Is all you need to click to get started


This study proposes a new approach to developing allogeneic car T-cell therapies. The researchers used CRSPR, CAS9 gene editing to create human hypoimmune, hip, T-cells which lack certain genetic components that can cause immune rejection. They then added two additional genes CD47 targeting an anti-CD19 car to these hip T-cells to make them more effective against cancer. The results show that this combination of genetic modifications does not impair the ability of the T-cells to kill cancer cells, but instead enhances their effectiveness. This could lead to the development of universal allogeneic car T-cell therapies that can be used to treat a wide range of cancers. This article was authored by Xiaoming Hu, Carl Manor, Rowena De Jesus, and others.


Alright, how's it going everyone? It's Logan here with Beckett again for another video and hopefully you are all having a great day today. I hope you're having a great day today because twice more and more MV teaser... Oh! Yeah! They dropped another one. They dropped another one. And boy am I excited! But yeah, I'm excited for this because it's gonna be good. I can't wait to see what it's gonna be like. And yeah, let's just get into this because it's gonna be a short video. I'm ready in 24 seconds. So, you know, let's have fun whilst we watch it. The audio is fixed by the way. I have it, so it's better because I did a dumb, dumb thing the other day. Three, two, one, now. What the? Okay. A. It is voice is so beautiful, but Naeul's voice is way...  I'm gonna have to watch this again. This is awesome. Ah! I... Okay, well, I... Okay, I... There was that one there. I'm saying my theory is getting closer and closer to being correct. Uh, let me see it. Come on. My theory is more and more getting closer to correctness.  And it's like bass, boop, boop, boop, and then it's gonna be like... It's gonna be insane. But we're watching this again because I don't... I just don't know why, but I'm in love with it already. I said it was Song of the Year and that was only from instrumental. And now we got vocals and choreography? Goddamn. That choreography is so beautiful. I love stuff like this. And I love Mina as well. Do you know me? My name is John. That was a light slogan, see? If you said, oh wow, his name is John, you don't know me. Okay, I'm watching this one more time because I'm loving it. I'm seriously loving it. Okay. Choreography? Awesome. Nayeon's voice? Awesome. Sana's here by the way? Awesome. Jiho's here as well? Awesome. Then Mina's here? Oh, awesome. Wait, Chui's in the center. Something badass is gonna...  I'm calling it. It's gonna be badass when met. It's gonna be like the duality. Like cute, adorable, to badass. But yeah, three views was enough. And I swear, if I am incorrect, then you can subscribe. And if I am correct, then you can subscribe. Does that sound like a deal? It does. It does. Just subscribe. Because content, I gotta convince you to subscribe. What if I can teleport from here to over there? You ready? All right. Now was that an epic meme? No, just subscribe. But yeah, thank you guys all for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed. If you did, show some support by leaving a like. Comment down below how much you love TWICE in another TWICE video you want me to react to. Because I actually wouldn't have known this existed if someone didn't comment on one of my videos I uploaded last night saying, TWICE needs to do a teaser because I woke up at 7.30am and I saw that and I'm like, please? Yeah. So comment down below more TWICE videos you want me to react to because I will do it. Because I freaking love them so much. Oh my god, it's taken me so long to just finally start making videos on groups that I really freaking love, like Golden Child. I've been making a lot of videos on them recently. Twice, I'm going to start making a lot of videos on them. Stray Kids, I'm going to start making a lot of videos on them again. SF9, a lot of videos on them. I's won a lot of videos on them. And Blackpink and IU, I just want to start doing videos on groups that I really love. And BTS, you'll see that in my reacting to every BTS music video. But I just need to do that. I just need to make videos on groups that I love because I want to share my love for everyone. But yeah, I'm about to hope you all have a great day. Keep on smiling and yeah, peace.


I'm Naomi of the African American Center at the San Francisco Public Library. The Center is a collection of in-library use materials that serves as an introduction to African American and African history and culture throughout the Black Diaspora. The clip you're about to view is of Thomas Fleming, the founder and publisher of The Sun Reporter, San Francisco's African American weekly newspaper. He was an elder and activist of the African American community. Mr. Fleming passed away in 2006, but we were fortunate to have him come to the library for an informal talk in 1998 and we recorded it. In this segment, Mr. Fleming presents the story of his San Francisco, remembering just how unbelievably small the community was before the start of World War II. Now, Maheri is in Nashville and he started the reporter in what year in San Francisco? 1944. 1944. He came the next year and he didn't get in the paper right then. He didn't get involved in the paper until 1947. He started lending me money right away. He and Dan, Dr. Dan Collins too, to keep the paper alive. Now, Dan Collins is the first African American on the faculty of UC Med Center in the School of Dentistry. He was. 1944, is that correct? Yeah. Okay. Now, you might want to explain to the public that before the war there were what, maybe 5,000 African Americans in San Francisco? The 1940 census said there was less than 5,000 blacks living in the San Francisco. And then when the war began, some 50,000. The war workers started coming in. Now, I'm talking about the 1940 census. They started coming in short, right after Pearl Harbor. The war workers did. And Oakland then in 1940 had a black population of about 13,000, Berkeley had about 6,000. And that Berkeley, much smaller than San Francisco, had more blacks living over there than lived over here. What was the climate for African Americans in those days prior to the influx of the shipyard workers and the families? Well, it was a little different than you'd find down south. You were a few samples here. Just as well as you were down south. You couldn't stay staying in any big hotels in San Francisco. You couldn't eat the same thing in Oakland. You couldn't eat in the best restaurants there. And in fact, some of those hamburger places over on San Pablo Avenue had signs in the window saying, we have the right to refuse service to anyone. Well, we knew what the meant when it had that sign in the window. Want to learn more? You can watch the entire video at the link below or visit us on the third floor of the main library. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to this GitLab training video. My name is Brendan O'Leary and I'm a Solutions Architect with GitLab. Today we're going to be talking about how to install GitLab into a GKE cluster on the Google Cloud Platform using GitLab's Omnibus Helm charts. Today we're going to build everything from scratch. So we'll start by creating a new cluster inside of Google Cloud Platform. So I've logged into my Google Cloud Platform account and I've gone to the Kubernetes clusters under the Kubernetes Engine section. I'm going to go ahead and hit Create Cluster. Today we're going to be creating a cluster for a football team called Friday. So I'm going to call the cluster Friday Football. I'm going to go ahead and put that cluster in the US Central One zone. I'm going to give it two virtual CPUs to use in each node and I'm going to keep the default size of three nodes. And then I'm going to go ahead and keep the rest of the defaults here and hit Create. Next we're going to need an external IP address for this cluster so that it can be reached from the outside world. So I'm going to go ahead and navigate to VPC Network and external IP addresses. Here I'll press Reserve Static Address to make a new reservation. I'm going to call this Friday Football as well so that I know which cluster I'm associating with this with. And I'm not going to attach it to anything right now that it will be handled automatically later on. This external IP address once it's created will also allow my GitLab instance to use a domain name and use Let's Encrypt for automatic SSL. I'm going to go ahead and copy this IP address as we'll need it in just a minute. Next we're going to create a wildcard DNS entry for our domain pointing to this IP that we just created. For this I'm going to go to Network Services and Cloud DNS. And here in my Friday Dot Football zone I'm going to add a record set. And for this record set I'm going to make it a wildcard domain. I'm going to make it an A record and I'm going to make it map to the IPv4 address that we just created and reserve for ourselves in the previous step. And I'm going to go ahead and click Create. Okay, so now we see that Anything Dot Friday Dot Football is going to point to that IP address that we created in the previous step. Let's go see how that cluster is doing and see if it's spun up yet. To do that I'm going to go back to Kubernetes clusters. And we can see the cluster is still being created. I won't make you wait around for the cluster to be created, but I'll be back with you as soon as it is. Okay, we're back and we can see our cluster has got the green checkbox and it's ready to go. So here's that cluster we created. And we're going to go ahead and connect to that through our terminal. So we're going to show the gcloud command to get connected. Prior to this demo I already installed the gcloud SDK, which you can find more information about on Google's website. So here in this terminal window I'm going to go ahead and paste that to make the connection. I'm going to need that one extra piece of information, which is that external IP I created earlier. So I'm going to go ahead and go back to Cloud DNS and take a look at that. So here's that same external IP I created earlier. I'm just going to need that as part of the variables I'm going to pass to my helm chart. Okay, now that I have that I'm ready to go. I've created the kube config entry to point to my cluster. I'm going to go ahead and run helm init to initialize helm on that cluster. I'm going to add git labs helm chart repo.  You can see I've passed a base domain of friday.football. I've passed our base IP that we created and my email address. You can see it's now installing on our cluster and it's going to automatically spin up a lot for us. Let's take a look at what it's spun up. So if we scroll up here, we can see that it's going to create a namespace for everything to live inside of. It's going to create configuration maps that will tell the various pieces of the git lab stack how to communicate with one another. It's going to set up persistent volumes for all the persistent storage we'll need.  It's going to spin up the ingress, a secret area, storage, services that are needed for git lab, and then all the deployments that go along with git lab. And in fact, if we open a new tab now and do kubectl proxy, we can then connect to our cluster. Let's go back and see it here. Google shows us how to connect really easily. Git lab is now deploying and we can watch the status from this workloads page in our Kubernetes dashboard. We'll watch for all the items here to have a green check mark showing that they have completed. This process can take a few minutes as GKE allocates all the resources needed and starts up all the various containers. You can see here several containers. The main git lab container has the Rails app, but also Mattermost for chat, integrated Docker repository and registry, and Prometheus for monitoring. There are separate containers here for Postgres and Redis and the autoscaling git lab runner for CI CD. This is everything you need for the DevOps lifecycle on Kubernetes. Great! We can now see that all of our Kubernetes deployments have been successful, and we're going to go ahead and open a new tab here and go to our git lab instance. So now if I go to gitlab.friday.football, here's our brand new git lab instance.


A dispute between neighbors is a common call that police often respond to, but Pikeville police were recently shocked when they arrived to find a man had attacked his neighbor with a running weed eater. We got to the scene, we made contact with one of the individuals, and the only thing that he would say was, he hurt me, he hurt me. And when we got to looking at him, he had blood running down his arm. We made contact with the other subject who was on the hillside cutting weeds. Randall Fordeis had taken, he had gotten to an argument with his upstairs neighbor, and he took his weed eater and started the weed eater and began to attack the other subject with the weed eater. So the weed eater string caused significant injuries to the other party. He had injuries to his arm, to his side, to his back, shoulder and neck area.  When police asked Fordeis why he attacked his neighbor with the weed eater, his answers were as surprising as the crime itself. When we spoke with Mr. Fordeis, he stated that the victim in this case had stabbed his air conditioner and caused some damage to his air conditioner, which we didn't find any damage to the air conditioner. And he also stated that the victim had stolen a candy bar from him previously. There's no excuse for taking a running weed eater and assaulting someone with it. Fordeis was indicted by a Pike County grand jury on a felony assault charge. He is scheduled to appear in court August 5th.


Top of the morning to you diesel top of them ironing top of the morning to you, too It's another new day. We are getting ready to leave got all of our stuff all here and washed You want to go inside diesel? Yeah, yeah, man. Let's go outside Unlock all these unlock the fortress All right, stay here. Okay. There's nothing in the yard right now. All right All right, you ever You ever buddy Yeah, so we're getting ready to Head out to final destination will be cold Lake Alberta What did I say yesterday stopping in Melford, Saskatchewan? Lloyd Minster, Saskatchewan There's another Saskatchewan one in there. No, Lloyd Minster, Alberta, whatever you want to call it Then cold Lake And we'll see what we're doing from there They're not Whether or not it is cold out already like it is the leaves are all falling look at that Leaves are all changing color Just crazy So guys, we're gonna get this day underway wrong to Get in the truck We're going to start the truck and then we're going to Drive the truck Let's go All right getting ready to go Getting ready get ready. I'm getting ready to go No, I can't know this is this is a two-handed job. Oh, dear Oh, oh, oh got it got it diesel. Yes Gotta go start the truck. Gotta warm it up. It's cold outside since when does it get this cold this early? It's not fair I Turned to heat up in the house when I woke up. It was cold. It's cold diesel. What's going on, man? What's going on? I Don't know man. This is This is getting cold Like next time I come back That tree there will not have any leaves left on it in that big one back There will probably be almost all gone as well. Oh It's too bad. Just bought a lawn mower now. I won't be able to mow the lawn. Oh Well, good thing I bought a snowblower too. I'll be using that in a few weeks. I bet Anyways guys Gotta get all my gear here. Gotta get it all into the truck on the other side of that wall over there And we need to hit the road No, dilly dawdling dilly daddling no dawdling Is that a word? dawdle, it's a funny word All right off to our right there. You see that fire station. I was showing you the other day. Is that yesterday? Not the day before yesterday, right? Mighty Steinbauer. How's everybody doing in Steinback this morning? So we're bob-tailing as you can tell there's no trailer behind me the yard To pick up the trailer. The trailer is going west you guys already know that why am I repeating myself? Stalk for the red lights truck of jash It's all new yesterday. This on the right here is the new Steinback credit union. It's popping up here It's actually a huge credit union. They have huge branches in Winnipeg two big branches as far as I know maybe more Got me was the fact that Winnipeg had these big fancy fancy Branches right just huge and Steinback the whole location was just this small little outdated building But gotta go inside and look at it. I don't do any banking at Steinback credit union I don't thank you Steinback. Good morning to you too the automobile city. It is sort of like a little mini Detroit Steinback it's worth the trip is referring to the big city people coming from Winnipeg It's worth the trip to come buy a car in Steinback And are you kidding me? I'm getting this light red too. Yeah Fine fine. Not like I'm gonna hurry going anywhere. Just whatever Whatever right diesel whatever tripping. We haven't even left the airbags. We're not inflating and I noticed this with my eagle eyes And I said hey, this is not good. We can't run without suspension. It's very hard on the trailer And I'm sure my boss would not be happy if I broke the trailer because I didn't do a proper check So I did a check and I found out. Hey, it's not working So I went to the shop here and the shop here is always really quick to fix the trailers when there's something wrong with it So I said hey, I got no air in my bags The brakes release but no air so we found out that the dock locks the trailer is resting on the dock locks, which is It's very hard to explain. I can't show you right now because they're working on it and Not everybody likes to be on YouTube. So I'll let them fix it and then I'll show you but it's When the trailer is in the dock and you let down the air there's these braces that come down or pretty much lock It's that the trailer is not all wobbly in the dock, right? So those were stuck down. So we got them to release But then the shop wasn't happy with how high the airbags were inflating So they think that there's possibly a problem with the valve which takes air from my truck here and pressurizes the trailer And then that valve Lifts the airbags and releases the brakes and whatnot, right? So they're gonna replace that valve real quick for me, and then I'll be on my way Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? What is with this dark roast? Somebody explained to me why there's so much hype over this dark roast. Have you tried it yet? Is it good? I guess I should just try it myself and find out for myself, right? That's what everyone's gonna say Just try yourself, Chuckitas Haven't tried it yet. I'm scared What if it's terrible and it scars me forever, and then I'll hate Timmy's I can't risk it So we're here at this oak bluff Tim Hortons, and we're going to Clear off shore first because I've got stuck in there And we're gonna hit the road. We are headed west. We're a little bit behind But I wanted to do because of that trailer repair, but we're still on schedule. So it's all good It's going pretty good pretty good. That was actually very smooth If I wasn't driving Two thumbs up to this highway more of these more of these passing lanes Because driving this highway from Winnipeg or a port of La Prairie to Saskatoon It's all too late. And somebody's got to tell him his calendar's wrong. It's cold Technically according to Canadian standards, it's still warm outside. I'm just whining because I'm used to the hot summer I said this before isn't it strange how us Canadians When it goes to like let's say it's like plus 10 Celsius right now it says about 45 Fahrenheit or so In springtime this temperature is hot. We're out there with our shorts and t-shirts and just enjoying it having a barbecue on the deck the same temperature in Fall after a hot summer We're all bundled up in shivering. It's so cold We're strange people aren't we diesel a strange canucks up here They're strange. So we're at a rest area Like the only rest area in Manitoba there's one here and there's one at the Saskatchewan border This one's the nicest one though. It's on the least traveled highway Not the least traveled but you know between the two we only have two We have the one and the 16 and they put the nice rest area on the 16 Doesn't make any sense. Oh Well, this just puts a whole different mood on everything doesn't it? It's danger thin ice and open water ahead You don't say That's what that liquid formation is over there It's funny that they have to actually remind people that there's water over there just in case you didn't notice In case you didn't notice there's some water over there, and if it's cold out the ice might be thin Just in case you didn't notice You notice right diesel because you're a boss What do you got there man your nose out of there like found a snake I forgot to tell you guys in my video when I was telling you about all the wildlife around my area I forgot to tell you that there's lots of snakes Around my house lots of them Garter snakes. They're harmless They'll run away from you, and they're not poisonous. I'm just not used to you know walking through my yard and going Did not see you there, mr. Slither. Oh speaking of snakes There's an actual snake here diesel leave them alone. Do you see that? You got to see a true reaction. Oh speaking of oh speaking of snakes a true reaction as I was talking about Being startled by a snake a snake startled me. I did not plan that I promise you I did not plan that What are the chances of that diesel did you plan that? You plan that I'm gonna I'm gonna look forward to going back through that footage and seeing what my actual true raw unedited reaction to a Unexpected snake is oh speaking of snakes. What are the chances of that? I did not plan that Just to put stepped on a snake while I was talking about stepping on snakes Anyways, yeah snakes like that. They're calming around my house There's lots of them during their mating season whenever that is I got to Google it yet Apparently they just they're all over the place, but like you said the only harm they do Is startle you because just like that happened right there you don't expect to see them right and then all this and boom You're stepping on a snake that that look right We are here in Yorkton Saskatchewan there is the Saskatchewan flag over there you see it Behind the clouds. It's there though. It'll let the highway 16 Saskatchewan 130 kilometers Here's an interesting little twist for you guys.  I just it feels like there's just something wrong Could this be it? Yep I'll give you one guess Did you guess moose? You're right. I hit my first moose Just skinned it you want to see some moose hair?  I believe it was a cow moose Luckily The radiator is okay All the important stuff are okay. The tire is okay However, my bumper down there and my fender up here Suffered some stresses today. That's just not cool so Let me tell you the story of what happened and tell you the story Driving down a highway two-lane highway minded my own business on the road to nowhere literally I'm in the middle of nowhere Nothing around for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles plus a few more miles Listen to some music About half an hour from my destination almost there getting ready and A car the only car I've seen all night a car comes is coming towards me, right? So I'm going this way and there's a car coming this way. So obviously I'm a courteous driver I dim my lights Turn all my big fancy highlights off Actually, I only have my headlights are not that fancy, but I dimmed them down right for the driver So I wouldn't blind him. Well, what do you know just before we met? Mama moose Decides to take a stroll on the highway in front of me Because my lights were dim and the driver coming towards me had kind of extraordinarily bright lights He didn't have his high beams on but they're really bright lights Right at that perfect second is when Suddenly boom, there's a moose on the road Where'd she come from who knows but she's there Because there's this car coming towards me the only car I've seen all night I couldn't swerve into the oncoming lane or I would hit that car That's a little worse than hitting a moose in my opinion no offense to you animal lovers But I'd rather hit the moose than the car. So I was left with this dilemma in this decision Do I hit the moose? Or do I hit the car? Took me about a fraction of a fraction of a second to decide yeah, we're just gonna nail this sucker that moose done So I tried to get around as much as I could went right to the edge of my lane Right, I thought I was gonna just skin past her skin past her No, she decided to check to see who's coming. Hmm.  I Don't know exactly. It all happened so fast All I remember seeing was a moose and she moved at the last second and I think I just nicked her butt I gave her a nice Little push and like get off the roadie crazy moose So she's definitely probably not dead Though then again, she could be because I might have hit her head.  They sort of look the same in that fraction of a second Either way she gone. She gone. I didn't see her after that again couldn't find her. She's gone so Yeah, I Pulled over about a half mile as soon as I could slow down When it was safe and checked out the damage saw the damage Thought to myself. Okay. Okay. This is how it is. This is how it is Not only am I in the middle of nowhere in northern Saskatchewan I just hit it northern Saskatchewan moose right on so reality said in I checked to make sure I wasn't losing any vital fluids Check to make sure my tire was still good check to make sure no serious damage was on the truck and once we Determined that they're that I could still drive Because I was in the middle of nowhere. There was no cell service. I felt the need to Mosey on down the road another 20 minutes or so to this town where I'm in right now. This is actually by destination. I got to unload here in the morning and Yeah, that's my story Reported it called into work Said I hit mama moose. She gone Sold my fender But I have minimal damage. I've inspected the truck the best that I can and from what I see I Hit the moose just skinned them right on the edge of my truck right here, right? Boom hit it here.  I was the noise it made when I hit it I'm just kidding. It made sort of a That was more of a noise but Yeah, so really all I need to do is get my hood replaced and My bumper I Needed to replace the bumper anyways or at least get it painted. So hey, I'm getting a new bumper guys. Hooray And the hood was good, but I guess I should probably replace it seeing as it's all full of moose hair No offense. I don't want any moose hair on my hood. So I'm just gonna get a new one Look at that a oh Nasty Just nicked it Can't believe that happened. So a new hood and new bumper And that's it. So I have minimal damage for hitting a moose. That's not bad. That's not bad So obviously I'll get an alignment make sure my tires are all good get the whole truck looked over see if there's anything else But we're gonna stay here the night because I'm not losing any vital fluids. I can idle the truck through the night It's cold if I need to I'll put the bunk heater on but I'm okay The moose is probably not okay.  Maybe I should get one Okay, so Important things were safe or good. That's my moose story. I hit a moose my very first moose. It was kind of a special moment My very first moose my first kill Wish I wouldn't have taken so much of my truck though, but hey, it could have taken a whole lot more so Guess we'll deal with this tomorrow. I'll see you then at 4 a.m. Central time here in North America to figure out What we're going to do now