Hey everyone, what's up? Thanks for joining us today for this very special a&a today. I'm here with Lay Wang. He is the CEO of kind protocol. Hi, Lay. How's it going? Hi everybody my great pleasure to be here talking about various things Yeah, wonderful. Well, it's great to have you here before we get started I just want to remind the audience to please send us your questions in the chat Lay is here to answer those and again, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Rachel Wolfson and yeah I think we are ready to get started So lay first question what is kind protocol and how is it different from other decentralized exchanges? right kinds leading a decentralized derivative trading market Delivering a fast transparent effortless way to trade the derivative on multiple chains So they are made the main features that are kind out of from other decks are first kind is the first text to support a hundred times plus leverage and second any trade are complete in 20 milliseconds and three more flexible position measurement feature allow user to build multiple positions on the same asset and And met mention them separately and for newly launched a copy trading feature is educational tool for new user to observe following learn from professional traders other trading strategy and then currently kinds are ranked number four decks on coin market cap Nice Lake can you kind of explain the goals behind the platform just so we can get a better idea of you know, what the goals are Sure to the answer to that I'll go back to the initial product design stage Before we did that product design for kind. We have done plenty of research on the various existing derivative decks My general conclusion on those product is they're not useful I'm a trader myself if I do any serious trading and they rather go back to centralized changes like a finance. Okay. Yes Then then using them I can live with the lack of support for other types less flexible position management tools and That's attractive appearance, but the most my complaints lies in the three absolutely critical fields liquidity Cost and the latency. So these are the absolute essential factors for leverage trading Because leverage trading is not like a trading spot It requires high leverage and the frequent open closing position So firstly it can't be too expensive each trade Which means the the fees has to be comparable with centralized changes and secondly Liquidity has to be sufficient to support large position. So it doesn't introduce huge slippage cost and three The latency has to be reduced to millisecond level. So user don't miss any trading opportunities or Bear any lost caused by latency for Supporting not all the other types for serious professional traders So most of the previous Derivative dex has a failed all of them and then it's not entirely the project's fault Most of these issues caused by the inefficiency of Current blockchain infrastructure, and I believe given time this issue will be resolved But that's not the excuse to compromise user experience So our initial goal was to build a product satisfy or above requirement So I remember back in the college I was reading Apple's design principle for its first iPod. I was so inspired for it by it since since then it has become my Design philosophy for any part as I remember Steve Jobs the requirement for I bought was firstly a musical device stores oil music or not not part of all and And second it should be able to fit into your pocket and three Battery lasts for days not hours and the four it can our user can operate it was with one hand Right, so I think it should be the guideline for any product design. So And I got three points from these product design principles Firstly always put user experience above everything else and second listen to the complaints of the similar product in the market And then try to improve them and three Don't get the detail to distract you when you set your direction. So We are they here that principle and made our own guidelines for kind when we design it So it should be a derivative dex with these features first the cost to carry out each trade should be lower than most centralized changes and second The sub to it must support more than a hundred times a leverage without introducing extra slippage and three latency should be at the millisecond level not second and for support or frequently use the Other types. So, you know, we thought if we do all this to the minimum, it should be a great product People would love to use whether it's possible. I believe when there's a will there's a way So If we find this impossible to achieve later, maybe you know, it's not something worth doing. So we all we can always find something else to do. So Fortunately, we have achieved all of them and a lot more like support multi-chains Coffee trading extract etc. Etc. But we keep our goals clear for everything we do You know, you might be a bit disappointed that I didn't talk about that big vision everything I think about them all the time and it's something I tell myself, but when I talk to users and market about Things I try to be specific measurable And the realistic Right. Yeah, that's a great explanation. Just based on that. I'm wondering who is kind Target audience. Are you targeting professional traders or new users? You know, what are your thoughts on that? Our target audience is Is always the individual traders retail users rather than the professional Because we want to create a safer and a fairer trading environment, right? So The choice of our face the choice of our liquidity model is beautiful You know, in many other book based exchange Market makers and high frequency traders often using their advantage in technology Lower fees speed advantage better access to information to take almost risk-free profit from individual users without them even noticing and then centralize the chain centralize the exchange and normally are happy to Assist them doing so by giving them VIP fees colocation they'll sell them the other book information and and there are also, you know other techniques By the professionals like spoofing scalping etc etc to mislead individual users And a profit from it. So most of these technical of course are illegal in the traditional finance world But free to use in the Crypto trading so it has the it has given professional traders too much advantage against the retail users and that You know create a such unfair trading environment What we want to do is create absolute fair trading environment for everybody. So The the beauty of our liquidity model here to pull is there's no active market making a passive pool serves as sort of the role of a liquidity providing and Every user has the same level fee Same level of information access and the same access to be so it has in a way You know kind doesn't welcome high frequency traders to ensure a fair trading environment for all individual users and another advantage of Beautiful is the liquidity is more stable under the extreme market movement. So, you know when when with market makers When market moves against their favor, they often choose to withdraw liquidity to protect themselves that became When the liquidity is needed the most is kind of the worst, right? So Yeah, if you remember what happened back in March 2020, that's what happened. So I believe we we did create a more fair trading environment for Got it. I'm gonna take a few questions from the audience right now So Kostya is asking will there be a kind token. Clari responded there already is a kind token So lay maybe just elaborate on that aspect to kind of clarify that for the audience. Oh Yeah, yeah, we yeah, yeah when the products launched we also Pushed out the kind token and the first exchange it was listed on was okay. Yeah Yeah, if you're interested in token side of things, you know, check up or check out check on our website You know talking economics out there Cool. Okay, great Now I know that I you know, I was looking at the Twitter today kind protocols Twitter and it was talking about the zero-fee trading There's a promotion going on right now. So Lake. Can you explain the meaning behind that and why you guys are doing it? Oh Sure, sure. Yeah, so the the competition between the DeFi and the CFI lies in the aspect of cost efficiency user experience and the security and transparency So I believe user do not choose between concept What the the the simply choose the product does best in all that all those aspects. So DeFi has this natural advantage in security transparency, but normally doesn't do well in the rest But the recent completion of Kinds user experience upgrade Evidently kind has made this a significant improvement in the efficiency and the user experience and That they increase the number of active users and their feedback has given us the confidence We are on the road to victory. So now we're ready to take the last box Which is the cost and bring the competition into a new level. This was the main drive behind the zero-fee trading zero-fee trading promotion The other side is that we have learned from the past, right? We we tried a lot of different things like we tried the trade mining and back in March last year And it did bother us a lot of volume But a lot of the a lot of them are watch trading, right? So and then we did the yield mining and it has bought us excessive liquidity that we are unable to consume and So, you know, they rework always end up in the hands of the wrong audience. So The genuine user who keeps use of platform to trade that didn't get it anything out of it. So, you know here we want to Make correction for the mistake and we want to apologize to the lawyer user who? You know who has always been supporting us So, yeah, that's that's another reason we're doing we're doing this zero-fee trading promotion And now instead of paying the any user who use it we choose to cut the trading cost to zero So that way the users who has trading need will find it attractive and the others user who are Reward motivated won't get much out of it That's what I call the incentivize the right audience Yeah, apart from the zero-fee trading. We have another upcoming user you see program for loyal users. I'll talk about it later Okay, sounds good. Lay. How long is the zero-fee trading going on for? It may go for indefinitely Okay, it could be ongoing people loves it. Yeah, I'll be you know indefinite Okay, wonderful audience keeps sending us your questions. I'm actually gonna take another question from the audience Miss kill is asking. Do you think the DeFi space is gradually and slowly being replaced by game fi industry? Or do you think both and co-exist in your future? What do you think? Well, they saw different firstly a defying the game fight. They saw different problems Right. So in the you know, you know traditional world Game company cannot take place of the the bank, right? So They serve different purpose They will definitely co-exist because in the game in the in the game There are a lot of FTS that they are valuable and they may need the financing service a lot of people they have interest to collateralize their FTS and you know for money out of it, you know, these are this can be a Can be easily supported by if I services. So, yeah They definitely will be co-exist Right. No, I agree that that's a great response. I'm just kind of on that topic Lay, can we talk a little bit about the current DeFi market? A lot of people are saying DeFi is dead right now What are your thoughts on that? Do you think that's? Yeah, I wouldn't say DeFi is dead Today evidently DeFi has more users more services and more transaction than early 2019 I know a lot of people called 2019 DeFi as a newborn baby You know clearly it has grown stronger You know, but in its own space in its own pace just didn't meet some unrealistic expectation that investors has so I was there early 2000s when the dot-com bubble burst It's just the same thing over and over again But look, you know what web 2 has achieved over the last 20 years after the bubble has burst So give DeFi some time. It may surprise you But what I would say is a yield mining based DeFi logic is probably dead You know, my understanding of yield mining is a very good way To kick off DeFi summer, but it is also a very poor way to sustain it To be clear, I think there's nothing wrong with the idea of yield mining itself The project are free to use any tools to attract users What is wrong is the people abusing it for their own purpose It has given burst to too many well wrapped punzy scheme in the name of DeFi So for for a while, you know, many people even put the equal sign between DeFi and the yield mining I think that is wrong. DeFi was doing fine and growing strong For many years without yield mining and how come it suddenly cannot survive without it You know, like taking a medicine once a while to keep your body healthy is fine But addicted to drug is definitely unhealthy So for a long time people has turned yield mining from medicine to addictive drugs And those who think DeFi is dead is probably yield mining drug addicted So my conclusion is DeFi is not dead It's growing in the natural speed Like you don't stretch your baby every day hoping it grow faster, right? So be rational about it And for irrational investors, you can leave the DeFi space for now and let it grow in its own pace Party elsewhere Come back later when you see new short-term opportunities For long-term investor who has faith in DeFi, just be patient and time is your best friend You know go out to enjoy your life spend time with your family Check it check it out to the interesting stuff once a while Watching a poll today it will never boil Yeah, Leigh that's I think that's such a great answer Very insightful I think if the audience wants to ask you any more about that topic, they definitely should I'm just kind of blown away by that response I also think it's interesting that coin telegraph research found web three to be the most sought after investment sector this year Topping DeFi it used to be DeFi But I think you're a hundred percent right. It's not dead Give it time and it may actually become one of the most sought after sectors just once It advances I guess Yeah, yeah Yeah, so that's really interesting I'm going to take some more questions from the audience because we've got those coming in Kostya is asking how do you attract liquidity? Yeah Yeah, I we we give by giving the fair compensation Depends on the supply and the demand so we The nature of the turtle pool leverage trading pool is It's only need the liquidity to cover the net position Out of the law and short right So the we don't need that much of liquidity basically according to the Past data every day our net position even though the the total trading volume is large the net position is at a couple of million dollars so but we have a pool size of More than 20 million is It's basically more than sufficient to cover the recent period and foreseeable future So basically we don't have a new plan to attract more liquidity. Actually, we want to get off of get off some extra liquidity right now Got it interesting We've got more questions coming in. So I'll just take those as well Kostya is also asking how do you make money with zero fees? It's a good question Well, you I think you solve problem one by one now I think the biggest problem is you know the genuine user for d5 Is very few. So the first problem we solve is by taking user in And how we making money we'll figure it out later, right? If google thinks about how to make money the first day they made the product We won't be able to see such great A company today, right? So Let's worry about it later Okay Got it. Um, floris is asking I've seen kind roadmap on twitter before Can you share more thoughts about this and actually I think it's a great question because I'm curious to know how defy Well, it's moving forward Right, right. Um Yeah, so our short term say a short term plan including the uh, The spot trading or definitely support spot trading Because it works really well in the bull market this prayer for it and We will have a Jumpstart launchpad program to help new defy Builders to get finance then get the right exposure and we want to share our experience With them to you know together to build a better world defy world And also we will have a loyalty program loyalty user program To incentivize the user who has You know has been always using the plan form. So each trade you have for example, each trade you have on it each interaction you have with the uh, with a particle each Twitter you retweet it everything will be given the credit points and then that those credit points will Give you a monthly reward. So every month will be different Uh Yeah, that's basically how it works Yeah, there are a lot more about, you know Stay tuned And following our Twitter you'll get all the information Okay great This is actually a question that i'm curious about so chloris is asking will kind have more cooperation with other projects So lay actually maybe you know answer that question but talk about if kind does already have collaborations and cooperation with projects and how that relationship works Yeah, we are we are definitely activity having cooperation with other projects We have a lot of a cooperation on the bsc project. You know introduced by the bsc people since the way we participate the september competition last year And the recent Collaboration we have one is with crypto.com That was a complete last month and there's another one. We are working with gateway A large gateway website called the remittano In this month as well. So we'll keep this going anyone who is interested in to have You know Corporation with kind let me know or definitely follow up Great Um, so I have a question. So I'm wondering if D-fi and c-fi can coexist And how you view that relationship if they can or if they can't why is that the case? I think there's no reason they can coexist right especially at the current at the current stage D-fi does better in many Aspect for example, you know during the the luna crisis Many centralized the lending party has gone bust but none of the d-fi Landing protocol has the same the similar problem, right? You know, that's why I want to teach to d-fi but also because there's no credit lending system in d-fi, right so Uh at at least at the current phase each has their own strengths They should be coexisting for long for long term until One becomes a superset of another Got it lay also, I'm wondering do you think d-fi and elements within d-fi Can revolutionize traditional finance and if so are we already seeing that today? Maybe give a few use cases about how d-fi is kind of transforming traditional finance Yeah, yeah, sure You know, I worked in the bank for 15 years Banking and hedge fund for 15 years If you are traditional financing, it's generally very slow. They think slow moves slow It's like people are so scared to try new things It takes ages for them to to make a decision or view the new stuff If I had proposed my zero trading fee promotion there, it probably takes forever to get approved, right? So but look at d-fi New product being viewed every day so many innovative promotion programs everywhere You know, we are definitely on the Fast track to catch up it takes time You know takes time to take down a giant. It probably won't happen tomorrow next month even next year But I know it will happen d-fi connects people and money Across the world in a much more efficient way You know one once defies in the merchants of mature state Traditional finance will face real challenge in all levels, you know, not just you know, in financial service For example, you know one person living You know one person living in one country is very hard to get loans or get access to investment opportunities Overseas right without paying a large fee, but imagine A world people where people are no longer bonded by country color Ethnical background We can trust each other trade with each other and work together Without you know without boundary. So We're not just building a better financial environment. We're probably building a better world in all aspects You know banks will have to force themselves to improve To cope with a new challenge In the end it benefits everybody in the world Right lay. I'm wondering if you can just kind of maybe elaborate a little bit on the benefits of d-fi And what platforms like kind provide? Um, yeah Yeah, so the For example the in in in d-fi We cut the we cut the middleman out of the the process right in the in the In the traditional finance world if you're on the trade foreign assets On a foreign exchange you have to have a pay the broker You have to pay the exchange and you probably have to You know the bank will probably have to take a cut But in d-fi actually, you know, all this middleman goes away, you know, you trade directly You know, it fulfills your purpose You know much more cheaply should be much more cheaply, but the only problem is now d-fi Is still only be able to serve a small group of user Due to its high entrance criteria, right? I think you know in the future In the future to make d-fi world for everybody service will have to be much more tightly integrated in in a more systematic way For user to get access So the service connecting those scattered dot will be very important To bring down the Entrance threshold people should be able to access all kind of device service Through a few clicks on their phone You know a d-fi let's call it a d-fi gateway or something So yeah, that that's And I think There's another thing I found a particularly interesting recently is called a sole bond token, right? You know in in Many people have been saying, you know, having a credit system in d-fi is impossible Uh You know, I I think there's a great potential in there. Uh, you know, for example the d-fi The the sole bounded token can be very well served as the Uh as a identity card, right? Where you can accumulate where you know, you can accumulate credit For the good behavior you did on on chain. So every service can offer airdrop Discount credit small loans and other vip service to those, you know, well behaved individual That way, you know, we are really Reward the people for their contribution to the community instead of the amount capital they own and then When you keep contributing to services to accumulate more Credit and you're able to enjoy more better services everywhere. So people start to cherish their Wanted address and hard-earned credit Rather than, you know, as treated as a disposable thing Yeah, so so it's a It's a long way to get there for this to work or projects to contribute to the system together Right. Yeah, that's wonderful. I mean digital identity is I think that's a really important next step That we'll start seeing and I think that's a great Use case and of course they should be entirely voluntary, right? So, you know, for people that prefer to Keep anonymous They should be able to Right. Um, I want to talk a little bit about the technology behind kind protocol. So it's built on ethereum Um, so why is that the case? What benefits does ethereum provide? I just want to get your your take on that Right, so I think when we did the design the one of the toughest problem we have to solve was the cost, right, you know, you can Back then, you know, the The gas fee cost is ethereum. It almost made frequent trading impossible. It was okay for spot trading Normally because people hold the position for days even month But for leveraged trading normally people don't hold their position Past the night. So that has you know, that cost has become a huge problem. So our design to To resolve the problem is we keep the Clearance and settlement process on chain. So the ones relate to users Asset on chain, but we take the order The the bookkeeping order bookkeeping process off chain. So every few minutes it gets uploaded to to the on chain It's clearing clearing engine So that way basically most of the gas fee gets to be saved and basically we cover the the gas fee for all users to to trade Yeah, so so basically that's how we be able to achieve You know such a low cost for trading and I've earlier I have explained the Benefit that the liquidity model beautiful has brought So the technology side is You know what we did most of what we need to solve the problem with basic Right and lay are there any security features that you care to mention in terms of just protecting kind protocol and ensuring that users are safe I think that's a huge issue Yeah, there are there are many there are many things we have put in Basically, since we launched every day, we're fighting off the hackers You know, especially the first few months. We see a lot of a hacker attempt different things at a kind protocol basically I had a me and the team we had a wake up In the middle night all the time to solve things You know, there are many many cases that we we have put in like, you know, when the certain like market and manipulation activity happened. There's all automatic automatic alert to stop it from happening And besides what we have experienced we have always been Watching the unchained Hacker activities and basically even simulate that on on kind to make sure our users are not Affected by them. So and we have so far we have been safely running for a year More than a year. So that should give you some confidence The code is safe Right. Yeah, that's that's great to hear Audience keeps sending us your questions. We've still got time with lay He's very knowledgeable on this topic all things be fine I'm going to take a question from chloris. So they're asking Why did kind choose to upgrade their brand at this time given the current market situation? So A brand upgrade. Is that what's happening right now? Yeah, well, you can call it a brand upgrade. I You know, I don't like to use our world. Basically it's a service upgrade Yeah, there's a when there when it's a service upgrade. There's no bad time to do it. Whenever you have a You have time to do it you should do it One of the one of the biggest challenge is defi Has the two few genuine users and too many capital in there, right? So I believe many builders has put too much effort in token economics in a reward structure marketing their tokens, but not enough attention to product itself Any successful product takes years to build and defi product is not special. So You know Last couple of years the fake prosperity of defi creates the impression that there are a lot of users Using defi and now they all disappear. That is wrong you know Last year the last few years you see many people using it because you're paying user to use it, of course, they're gonna use it But when you stop paying them, uh, they'll go away, right?  I believe The builders should stop playing capital games. Just don't worry about your market market value Don't worry about your token price focus on long-term growth You know put put your head down listen to your users polishing your product and find ways to attract genuine user You know we're engineers. We do you know what we do best design and the build You're most importantly Be creative again You know and I love defi so much was because when I first look at the field I feel I've never seen so many brilliant idea and new innovations flying around in the in the in the new field Reading their work inspires me So much and it excites me It was the best place to turn ideas into productivity engineers become artists in this in in this world. Yeah, but I want to see defi go back to the way it was, right? So AMM was a great idea Your mining was a great idea multi-clutch or that was a great idea But those ideas were designed for specific business purpose not answer to everything What I see is many builders. They just take those ideas and do minor fix on it and call them a new product just Come up with your own design And to fit your own business purpose and if you're really building something Improves people's life people will appreciate it and you're contributing to the defi field Right Lay I want to get your thoughts on this. So I think you know with defi over time Because defi is not dead as you mentioned users and investors will be attracted to it over time What are your thoughts on regulations around defi and You know, I don't know about the regular regulatory landscape or your base But do you think that regulations are good or bad for the defi space and you can be as You know specific in terms of where you are just in general I think I think for my point view. It's definitely Necessary to have a regulation for example, I think a lot of You know right now One side of the good thing is people are innovative new product has been viewed every day and you can see all sorts of service Coming into the space every day, but the bad thing is often they are halfway products Right, we should have a regulatory body to ensure the product you offer to users Are not halfway product For example, the safety has to be security checked You can play with you can use the users as a guinea pig play with their asset, right? And also the level we should have a standard for level of service maturity for example, you know, taking your latency your efficiency cost into account and that they have to meet certain standards to be able to be able to register as a valid service Not few people knock up few lines for code or simply, you know, copy some code and you know start marketing misleading people into an mature service So so I think this is what the regulatory body should do and I think It doesn't have to be formed by the government. It can be, you know It can be formed by the A project alliance or something as long as it has the in the the right skill and the ethical standard to To keep the street Yeah, no, I agree. I think that's a great answer in terms of how it should be formed It doesn't have to be formed by the government and maybe that's even the best way to have an alliance Form it. I think that's great and obviously not to use users as guinea pigs. We've seen that Too much lately and I think that users need to also be aware of what they're getting into before they Access these platforms read Read the fine print that usually is not read and I think that can also help prevent These horrible use cases that we're seeing today. Yeah Um, I'm going to get back to some questions. We still have a few more minutes with lei So audience keep sending us your questions. Um So an audience member is asking just wanted to ask you this kind protocol Have an ambassador probe an ambassador program that we can join and what does it offer? Oh, yeah, uh, we do have an ambassador program It's we don't promote it that much, but we do have a few community member running in different city to help us build the The community so Send the email or reply on our twitter or is you know talk speak in our discord channel If you are interested Our team will get in touch with you. Uh, and maybe we together we can start something Really great Yeah, what is the discord channel by the way? Uh, let me send it Just so our users can know I know that the twitter is just kind protocol and that's the handle I believe Yeah, but I want I want our audience members to know about that Yeah, it's also it's also a kind protocol. Uh, I don't where's the the text Uh, I guess afterwards if the audience has a question connect with you on twitter Sure. Um, or we can pull that up on the screen if we're able to In the meantime, I'm going to take one last question from the audience Um Harding is asking as I know many different player ones have run marketing strategy for community successfully and they've created big Tvl on their chain. What's your strategy to build community in southeast asia? Uh, well to build the community in southeast asia, you know, what firstly we're working with the uh, The one of the largest gateway service called the tunnel in venan That's step one and secondly we are going to Really put the put the effort resource in hiring people locally to help us Do the marketing So Let me see Yeah, in regarding to the uh big tvl I think You know for for a very long time, but tvl has become a key matrix to measure Uh, d5 project all project like a game 5 and ft What what does people really understand? What does it mean? Right if a service? It doesn't really need that much tvl tvl is really Nothing, uh for the project. It's like if you're running a Restaurant for for a small town of Few hundred people that's that's the situation basically what d5 is now You know very not so many real users use the service many stakers of many used miners But not so many users, but it's like you're running a little restaurant about store Ingredients for millions of users And at a very expensive price So that's basically so so people should treat tvl rationally and stand the nature of the business itself For example, you know, uh, if the spot trading need more tvl to support each pool But leverage leverage trading normally doesn't need that much of tvl and a lot other d5 service probably doesn't need tvl at all So don't make it a key matrix to measure everything just first we read the the product and stand what it's done for You know and then having your own metrics to measure how How good is it for us? Yeah, so they were almost to have time which is unfortunate because we've still got a lot of questions from the audience But before we end the am a I just wanted to get your thoughts on what we can expect next I know you briefly talked about the roadmap a little bit But was there anything else that you wanted to mention before we sign off Um, yeah, I've basically briefly Talked about the jumpstart program. Um, I think it's worth talking about it a little more So basically, uh, we we have we'll have a jumpstart program to have new genuine project to get financed and to get early And they help users to get early investment opportunities That's uh, yeah, basically that's the first thing and the second thing we We have an interesting Experiment in line is the loyalty incentive program. So we will credit the user for each use of the product and their and other contributions So based on the loyalty point, we give out various reward each month that way loyal user will get Get to share our success and then be more bonded with us Um, so certainly we will also upgrade the popular copy trading feature So professional traders and followers have more interactions To to enhance its educational function Teaching and sharing activity will also be rewarded accordingly. Um, yeah, so that's uh, that's a most recent plan in line for us and Yeah, for for the rest plans place. Stay tuned and follow our twitter at kind protocol. Uh, you know, look forward to Talk to you next time Yeah, wonderful. Well lay. This has been a real pleasure. I've learned a lot. Um, defy is not dead That's for sure. I'm excited for the future and I just wanted to thank you I want to thank our audience for joining us Thanks for the questions. Be sure to connect with lay afterwards and to subscribe to our youtube channel Yes, we will continue doing more of these informative amas for you guys lay. Thanks. Again. It's been a pleasure I hope you all have a great rest of your day or night wherever you are. Thank you very much I enjoyed I enjoyed it very much I'll speak to you all next time Great, wonderful. Thanks everyone. Bye Bye


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That's what I'm going to go with on this one, not high to low. I just kind of want to see what's currently selling. So this is a mega blocks replacement pieces. And I have sold mega blocks replacements. I actually do really good over on Poshmark with the larger Legos and mega blocks. So think about that. If you're not selling on Poshmark, you can sell hard goods over there. And I do have a link to join down below and that will alert me if you join. So you can check out that referral link. I think you get $10 to shop and then they give me a $10 credit to shop when you buy something. So it is like a referral link. So I'd appreciate it if you use that, if you're not already on Poshmark. But let's look here, Duplo. These are like Winnie the Pooh. I saw a whole bunch of these. I don't know what these are, but some of the higher solds are these. It looks like it goes to some robot. So those, if you see those, definitely pick them up. OK, this is from the Quirkel Quirkel Quirkel game. I've talked about these before. One of my Bolo Buddies YouTube members sells these and she just keeps replacing them. And it's a great way to have a multi-quantity listing.  OK, so here's more of those cubes. I don't know. Those for some reason are special. OK, these I think are the same as mine. The alphabet activity cubes, but they have this thing with them and sold for $49.99. Here's more of that Quirkel game. So just to give you an idea, these replacement parts do sell. This is a vintage Tupperware toys, busy block replacement letter J. I don't see a J, but maybe I'm I don't know, J for Jeep. Maybe it's on the backside, but eight bucks plus shipping on that. Now, I know that replacement parts are not for everyone. Some people will not waste their time with these smalls, but look at this, you guys. It's a Jenga piece. Is it one piece for 39 free shipping? It's a wood block single from the 1986 Milton Bradley game. How funny is that? I wonder if they had like multi-quantity look right here. Seventeen sold. So they just got one package and listed them. That's hilarious. It's one block. So, yeah, 17 of them sold. So there you go. Anybody want to list Jenga pieces? So, I mean, they're not making much, maybe 50 cents to a buck, but it's one listing multi-quantity. So just some ideas. This one right here is mine as well. It just sold. I want to say it sold for the full asking price of $43.40. You guys will see that in an upcoming what sold video. But I parted out a Cactus Town Western Village and it had like horses and stuff like that. So I listed those separately. But just to give you an idea of different things that you can sell. Here's another one double-sided. It's missing one missing the H. OK, here's the the sorter blocks. So, yeah, lots and lots of things. I love the peekaboo blocks. These always do fantastic. I dig those out of the bins all the time. I just actually found a couple of these at the bins. I don't know if I've listed them yet. I don't think I have. If I have there up in my store. So, yeah, I will totally all day long list replacement parts. I love it. It cracks me up when they sell. I just am like, oh, I just made someone's day. Someone has been looking for this and they needed it and I had it. So and a lot of times so you see these right here.  Two dollars and seventy five cents plus shipping. Well, number one, that shipping is high. So they're making a little bit of money on that shipping. And every time they find this letter A, they just go in and add to the quantity. So they're not doing anything extra. They just have to keep finding it. OK. Now, here's another item that I just sold. It is this handle. It's a Playmobil replacement handle for the take along house. And if I remember correctly, the item was damaged and I sold the handle. And then I also sold the latch on the front. The latch sold really quickly. But here's just some other handles that have sold as replacements. So, you know, if you get these items and they're damaged, take them apart. You can sell those replacement pieces. And I'm just giving you kind of an idea of some different handles. This is the replacement leash. That's so funny for a real for real pet. Never thought of that. Some of these items don't really apply. I tried to take it down to toys and hobbies to really show you. These are from a G.I. Joe Jeep right here. All right. So replacement battery covers. So when I go to the bends, a lot of times I pick up toys that I get them home and they don't work. And I'm like, you know what, I would like to try to make my money back. So what I'm doing is I'm listing the battery covers. This is my listing. I took a best offer of seven dollars for this. It's from a vintage 1978 Merlin replacement battery cover for this handheld game. And is it big money? No, but it'll probably cover what I paid for the item because it was a heavier item. And I probably made three, maybe four dollars on that. But you can see here that battery covers sell. People lose these or they get damaged and they need them. So as long as you can identify what it covers, go ahead and list those items. Someone is going to be looking for it. And they are going to be so thankful that you have it. I've sold a few leap frog battery covers. And, you know, they've actually sold surprisingly quick for me, especially for the vintage harder to find items that are no longer made. So just another tip. Again, some of you are not going to want to waste your time with this. This is for the Fisher Price Imaginex Bigfoot Monster 850 free shipping. So this person probably made, you know, six, seven bucks on this after they paid fees and maybe only five after they paid fees and everything. But hey, you know, you got to figure out what your business model is and what you're what you want to list. I know any activity in your store is good activity. And from what I understand, the more you sell, the more you get picked up in the algorithm. I don't know if any of that is true. That is just what everyone says. Another thing I sold is this amazing brooch. It is I just dropped it made by Weiss. And Weiss is an incredible brand to be on the lookout for. I actually pulled this off of a journal from that big estate clean out. It was a garage sale estate craft clean out. I have not posted the video yet because I'm waiting to post it before I do my what not show because those items are coming to what not. Just fantastic crafters items. I may give you a peek. We'll see. I'm thinking about it. But anyway, this ended up having a little teeny chip. I see. Do you see it up there right on the corner of the top little gemstone right there? Oh, my goodness. This, if it didn't have that chip would have went for a lot more money. But I did end up selling this. OK, this came from that estate. So I talked about probably got a quarter in this, ended up selling it on best offer for $50 plus shipping. Super score. So the first thing I searched on eBay is Weiss. I think that's how you pronounce it. It's W. E. I. S. S. Butterfly brooch. And I am searching high to low solds for these butterfly broaches. So you're just going to see a lot of these have sold in probably around the seventy five to one hundred dollar range, depending on which one it is. So really with that chip being on mine, getting fifty dollars, I feel really good about that. But you can see these are just beautiful. They are signed on the back. So you will know it is a Weiss. But once you see this, they're pretty recognizable because the the artwork in them is just they they stand out. I mean, they are embellished with tons of rhinestones. Look at this one. And that one went for sixty eight and it's in mint condition. It looks like I don't see any flaws. And here is mine. So it had that little chip right there and it went for fifty bucks. So I think I did pretty good. This one right here is pretty much identical to mine. And it did not have the flow and it looks like it sold for sixty five. So pretty good, I think. What do you guys think? Do you think I did well with that? And just here are some more comps. I searched high to low. You guys price these items high and wait for the right buyer. You can put best offer on there. But if you price it too low, it's going to sell low. Somebody is going to grab it and it's going to bring the market down. And these are beautiful and definitely quality made worth the money, in my opinion. All right, so let's go over here to just Weiss. I put in Weiss brooch just in general broches by this brand. You can see here, there are some really high solds and I'm not doing my. Bolo category video where I go in and I actually click on each one. Check feedback and stuff like that. I'm really just pulling it up for you guys to see that this is a really great brand to pick up if you see it. A lot of people are selling these in lots. So I mean, you can source on eBay, but typically the people that are selling jewelry and big lots like this, they've done their homework and they pulled out the really good stuff. So be careful with that and definitely do your research. YouTube auctions are a great place to get jewelry. I know Donna Telebot Alino and auctions for you. They do not go through their jewelry before they sell it. They just throw it in bundles and you can find some really great stuff. If you have purchased from one of them and found a home run, let me know down in the comments. I know some of you may not want to tell because that brings competition right to the auction. But anyway, here's just some other Weiss things. Like look at this, one hundred and sixty nine on that. You got the flower at one hundred and seventy nine. So be on the lookout for the brand Weiss. All right, let's talk. I'm going to pop over and I'm going to show you what's inside of one of those craft totes that's coming to what not. I don't know when, but it's coming. I've got vintage clothes coming. I've got many, many piles coming your way. I do have a link down below that will take you to my what not. I'm Bolo buddies over there. If you're already on what not, definitely just go and search me. If you are not on what not yet, you can use my referral code or my referral link down below and that will get you a ten dollar credit to shop. So definitely use that. Free money is great money, right? All right, let's look inside this tote. OK, I'm only going to show you a little bit because I have four. I think four big totes full of all of these crafters items. This lady was an artist and they were having a garage sale and I was literally looking in their garage and they said, do you want to go to the basement? And I said, yes, send me to the basement. So there's lots of just little unique things. She made stuff out of. I forget what it's called. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get this open. Oh, goodness. I want to show you this. OK, look at these little weird things she made. They're molded out of something or maybe she handmade these. I don't know. But look how incredible that is the detail. Do you think she did that with like a like she carved on? Or do you think it was a mold? Because there's molds in here. But anyway, just lots of lots of different stuff. These are incredible. I haven't decided if I'm going to sell this individually or as a lot, but they're leather magnets. How incredible is that? But just, I mean, all kinds of stuff, the full video will be out on again before the show. I think she may have made these also. I don't know what they're made of. Pretty cool. We got some vintage clip on earrings. So jewelry. Well, that's kind of cool. I don't even really know what all is in here. I literally have not had time to dig into this. I just figured what not would be the best way. These just say casual corner, but they're probably definitely vintage, but they're cute. You know, I'll look at these fish earrings. Wow, cute. Oh, no, it's a button cover and there's only one. So, yeah, is that a button cover too? I don't know what all this stuff is. So, yeah, it'll be fun kind of going through it. I'll probably do on what not just. Oh, goodness, I don't even know how I'm going to do it. I may just put things in by weight, and then we'll just kind of go through this together and I'll pull things out and maybe do it by weight. I don't know because there's just so much stuff and I don't have I don't have the time to take pictures of everything and have it pre-listed. This looks like some sort of shell bracelet. There's a couple of those. Maybe I'll sell those together. This is Tiger's Eye, right? It's cold. Oh, it's cold. I don't know what this is. It's cold, too. It's some sort of rock or stone rock. It's a rock jewelry making supplies.  We'll just I'll just show you. So I don't know, just lots of stuff like this. Let's see what's in this one. Oh, look at that. That's cool. Some sort of I don't know. It's a treasure hunt. It's a treasure hunt.  I don't know what that is. Look how pretty that is. Wow. What is that? Just a chunk of something. Wow, that is beautiful. I have no idea what it is. That's what's on the front. I don't know if that's actually the box that it came in or what, but these are just more really nice jewelry making things. What on earth? Let's see.  What do you call those meditating balls? I don't know what these other things are. So I'm definitely giving you guys a sneak peek, but I know there's three totes that are this big. And this is I don't know what size this is. It's pretty big in here. More just who knows what beads I just want to dig through this now. So new old stock stuff, just the hodgepodge really. But if you are a crafter, I don't know what that is. Seventy five cents, an old patch. So yeah, I'm going to say there's a big mix of just crafting and jewelry making stuff. So we are going to stop there. You guys are going to have to come follow me on what not. Let me see. This is how big the tote is, and it is full to the bottom. There's another one below it that's just about that size and one of them over here. So I'm so excited. You guys have got to follow me on what not. And I'm not just going to do crafting items. I think I'm going to bring jewelry and other things like that as well. So I hope you found this video helpful, kind of two totally different things. We've got high end jewelry and then we have replacements, replacement parts and toys. But you know what, it all sells. It all adds up and thanks for watching.


We've been developing a set of web applications which whose idea is that they should look like desktop applications and function in the same manner. All the backend is Linux Apache MySQL PHP and the data transport is done with XML and the frontend is Flash which some people may find it unattractive. But again, it is, that's what's out there in the market. But as you can see, the whole concept is that the applications have basically the same functionality as every desktop application just give me a second. You can open full screen, you can do several windows at the same time and replicate many of the functions here. We are opening all our applications today. Later, they will be released under the AGPL, the Afaro general public license, I don't know if you've heard about it. It's basically the GPL with one class added which is usually, well what the GPL says is that if you don't distribute your code, you don't have to return the changes to the community. But with web-based stuff, if you serve them and if you provide a service over the web, basically you're distributing your applications. So the Afaro GPL license, what it does is just add some clauses doing that so that if you use it commercially or for any other purpose, and even if you don't distribute the code, you have to give it back to the community. So that's what the GPL does and that's the license that we're using to release this. And let me show you some more of the applications here. Oops, what we're releasing right now is all what you can see here, which is basically a file manager email calendar. Everything is in open formats, for example, the calendar uses iCol and the context directory is here. It is based on LDAP and vCards and all that. So the whole idea is that you are able to switch providers if that's what you need, for example. We believe that the monopolies that could be created with web-based applications, which seems to be the thing that's coming if you look at Google's strategy, for example, it looks like they're going to be heavily based, they are relying heavily on web-based applications. So what happens there is that as it is today with Windows, for example, your operating system is owned by somebody else, but as it would be in the future, even your data would be owned by somebody else. So we believe that in order to break this, web-based applications that provide the same functionality as desktop programs to users are needed in an open scheme to break this. So that's basically what I have to say and Carlos can talk about some of the technical details. Hey, well, I'm going to talk about how we use Linux to build this website. As you can see, we basically have all you can find on the internet, but just plug into the same page. We are using BossFix to email. We are using a storage based on GPS. And for example, the others book, Authentification, all is based on LDAP. We are handling about 100,000 users. All those users are stored in LDAP. We use NCCD because of the authentication must be as fast as possible. We build our own schemas for LDAP, for example, to handle all preferences. Our others book is based on LDAP as well. The calendar, as Oscar told, it's based on open standards, open protocols. So we use iCal, for example. We use big cars for exporting port data. So everything you have, for example, weft calls can be added to our calendar. We have a news aggregator, messaging, we use Java. You can add as many Gmail accounts as well. And well, we have very uses to this application thanks to Linux. We are giving this software not only as a web services, but also as a LSTP desktop, the Linux terminal server project. We are working with government, we've managed to handle, we've managed to build unattended Linux installations based on Debian. We build, we give the user a single CD and we package all those services, lamp, Java, we use Lame for MP3 decoding. We give the user a CD, the user just press enter and the unattended installation starts. You get a full server style it. Once you restart, you just configure networking and some default settings. And you start using SAP LISC. We added the LSTP project to launch about 15 machines without any hard drive just they put from the network. And we have this for about 20 schools in Mexico. So at the end is cheaper enough. And the whole idea here is that according to the open source development labs or it's a new incarnation, I can remember the name now, but 70% of all desktops require very basic applications only. So what we're trying to do is to put all these applications on the web with the same functionality as desktop applications so that this idea of web devices can really take off and it has worked for us, for example, there's a company in Mexico that has 12,000 desktops, it's a mining company and they started migrating to Linux recently and they are using some of these applications here because they, for example, had a survey amongst their users for switching them to web mail. They were using some windows and outlook and many of them didn't want any web mail. So they show them this and it was an acceptable compromise for many to have some web email that replicated some of the functionalities of a desktop email. As it is right now, we're opening it is, we call it in beta but web software is always in beta and we're opening it to the world to create, we aim to create a community around this and we aim to create a community that brings together both open source developers, free and open source developers and creative professionals. That's something which that's the culture of our company, that's how we work. Carmen here is a designer and she's the one who has created all this look and everything so we aim to bring more people into the free and open source community, people who usually wouldn't even think about participating in a free and open source community like creative professionals. That's something which we have, we participated in an event with web designers and all that recently and told them that we were opening and it was the enthusiasm that we could see was enormous and we already have 150,000 users, we have two commercial services, that's how we plan to survive as a company, not selling code, not selling software but selling a service based on that and we know that there will be competition, we hope that this competition is based on the same software and we want this to grow and be something else. So that's basically, we really don't want to steal more of your time so if you have any questions, but all right, shut up. Gosh, what do I start here, gosh. So you basically first said off that there's a trend that services owning a data. So I thought you were coming up with a solution that people can have their own data. Is that how I understand it?  That's the whole thing. The whole issue is to promote services based on open standard, services based like this. What we want to do is to allow people to at the push of a button, get all their home and all their data here and if. But where's the data stored on your servers? On our servers, but the whole idea would be that if this architecture is replicated, if there are many providers using this same thing, it will be able to transfer your home somewhere else if that's what you wanted to do. So the plan is for you to hold the data for these services, but hold it in formats which are easily interoperable with other people providing competing services. Exactly, exactly. And allow people to move their data whatever they want to. I mean, this is something which you're probably not gonna be able to do with all the problems. Well, when I first thought of this, I thought this might be you're doing some sort of, you're latching onto a GNOME desktop, but I guess these are not GNOME applications.  I didn't quite get that. This isn't GNOME, is it? It's something else. I mean, this is not a GNOME. No, okay. This is not gonna go out there. Okay, so you basically had to re-implement every single application into the flash thing. But some of it's standard applications like Java. I don't get that. Some of them are standard applications like Java. Yeah, but I mean, re-implementing the whole freaking desktop stack is a lot of work. And... How do you want it to be GNOME? Huh? How do you want it to be GNOME? No, it's not GNOME, it's something... It's web-based, look, it's a browser there. Yeah, but... It's a URL. A web application isn't a flash application. That's, I think, quite fundamental to me. Yeah, you must have to rewrite everything. Well, but the whole issue is 70% of desktops use very, very basic stuff. 70% of all desktops are just email, calendars, contacts, and the basic office suites. What we're doing right now is providing open office through VNC so that people can do like editing of documents and stuff like that. So that's basically our concept. Create a very basic scheme for applications that replicate the functionality, the look and feel. It's a web application. But it's not a web application, it's a flash application. I can see this working with the... I can see this working.  I mean, that's important. That's really important. That's why I don't think Google could actually succeed in the long run because they need to open up the server backend as in I own the data. So I thought that's a good idea, but I don't think this flash application is a good idea, really. You should be doing web applications, not flash applications. Well, the thing is that the only way you can create all this look and feel, all the functionality of the desktop today is basically with flash. We do it out of a pragmatic approach. Yes, you can definitely install the plugin in Linux. That's what you want. One of the things that they make very clear on the website for this product is that they would like an open equivalent of flash to migrate to. And that's the thing, Nash is there, but it's still in alpha and it has been in alpha for basically forever. So something has to happen there. I mean, what you have is the neutrality of the backend and the transport, which is XML. Basically, what you do with the interface, what we're doing now is using what's available out there, which is flash. If someone would come with something else, then I guess it would, everything would work. I'm coming from, I work on the Watt workgroup, web hypertext application technology workgroup, I work for the W3C. And basically using an API, which isn't really part of the web. So really got to make that clear to you. Flash isn't the web. And what a little thing I got carried away there. I don't think that there's no possibility of joining your top point of view. It's too complicated. Your is? My point is the one which I like. Google rights app, Google has quite a big market share. It's doing pretty well. Google are using web applications. Don't you see that Google is a success? Absolutely, absolutely, Google is a success. It's a strategy that works. It definitely, definitely works. What we want to do is to have people, to give people the possibility of installing this in their own servers, in their schools or anything else, and also provide their own services like this. It's like, look at the state of open source web apps like Squirrel, for example, Squirrel Mail. It's definitely back there in 1999. That's where we remain. Nothing else, nothing has improved, nothing has evolved in the open source with regard to web applications. This debate whether Flash is web or not, I believe you know how long it takes. If it's HTTP, if it uses port 80, it's web. Okay, I would just ask my question and I give back the mic to further discussion. Okay, I just want to know if you, in fact, I've got a small problem. I just want to know if you have a solution to provide people with sort of key in order to encrypt the data which you can place on the hard drive in order that this information keep our confidential only to these people here. In other words, when you come to, for example, a remote desktop, okay, you just plug in your, let's say, USB key with your cryptographic secret and it will be able to decode the content of the hard drive, but you need this key, only this key to decrypt the content of the hard drive so that even if you've got the data on your server, only the people who own the data really can only read it. It's a concern about privacy, in fact. I believe that those are the things that an open project would do. It would create all these derivatives based on people's own preference.  Do you want to have encryption? Then that's something which we would certainly encourage you to do to create around this, you know, an encryption module. All this stuff, for example, as it is today, we have Java with the MSN transport implemented. That's what our users have requested. But the transports for Yahoo and for other messengers are out there, so the way we visualize it is that eventually it will include all this stuff and more. It basically depends on what you want to do. I mean, it's a small download. You just put it in your servers and run it and, you know, start doing whatever. Okay, great, thanks. Anyone want to ask a question anymore? Okay. Well, I mean, most people, that's what they want. Most people want windows. Most people want these functionality of a multi-window environment. Just to give my own point of view, I think that's ideologic things. And I'm not sure, maybe the best solution is to push Adopt to open his own source code. But I'll just point something. We have structure or development based on three layers. So we have backend, we have a control layer, and we have, well, what you see as flash. So our control layer just splits XML. So you can use XML translator and you can turn all these data and applications into a HTML page. So that is no problem. You just have to design your own frames or divs or whatever you use to deploy XML applications. And all the functionality and all the data will be the same. So, well, we are opening everything, not just the flash application. We are providing you a backend configuration. We are providing you with our control layer that you will get in minutes all this XML stuff. So, well, you can do whatever you want. You can use any Python, Parallel, or whatever script and language to process this XML. So, well, it is so independent. Now, well, I just forgot about backing something. I just forgot about backing something. Any more questions? Oh, I remembered.


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Yeah 105 on the Auto Nikki Lopez Royals The worm create dude the worm was crazy Silver Jaren Durand rookie explosion Red Sox Actually, I don't think it's so I think it's just that's the way it always is There you go Red Sox nice short print silver Akunya Premier level for the Braves That's all the driving 610 For ones you can chair us Pirates to 149 light blue rookie Greens a bit different though cuz he can handle the ball fairly well and he can run the from the court and all that I think he has like today's version of it like it's not the same But if there's like a version of it today, that's what it would be No, he's not out there because he can score Try calling rookie Phillies Luke Williams and today's day and age if you can't score and you're on the court He must be pretty important a line green match happen in the 99 a's Back when the games were like 85 to 82 and now every game is like 121 15 Colton Welker to 199 sparks auto Tucker Davidson two of ten gold patch auto Atlanta nice Sweet patch there John He's Lee Royals rookie Jersey and flag goes silver Nick Castellanos Silver Diamond level JP Crawford Mariners Yeah, man Pat Ewing lambier Keem was a finesse guy. He could still take he could still take the beating but Dream shakes and all that silver concourse Alcantra for the Marlins One of the most impressive is like Magic Johnson and Kareem Like I don't know man Magic to her Kareem took a beating red rookie to 199 Houston Jose Ciri. That's why he had to use a skyhook She didn't beat up Ozzy Smith tri-color Cardinals Ray's rookie Jersey Fidel Ruhon Silver premier level rookie Chas McCormick Houston Mike Messina to 149 Orioles light blue again Everybody sold out for the nights already. That is awesome, man Make sure you check out the national breaks. Make sure you check out The weekend's breaks. You got Saturday and Sunday national break start Tuesday night Tuesday night national break start Brendan McKay to 250 Jersey card raise The big release Wednesday is gonna be tops tier one baseball fairly nice baseball release Jake burger to 199 white socks rookie auto Love tier one you get like an on-card auto per box. I think maybe two I can't I can't remember but you get a chance of like bat nah, I was in the crazy patches and stuff the 25 crack-dice patch Auto Nate Pearson blue jays tier ones one of those like mid-tier products that has like some chance of like really really rare hits so Fun one Silver concourse angels might trout. I forget what they retail that it was like That's under 500 for sure. It's like four or five cards a box Two autos a relic Ozzy Smith cracked ice the 25 cardinals Magic cream best do of all time Jordan Pippin. Hmm. I mean Silver Billy Williams cubs those two put together I think are greater than the Abilities of MJ and Pippin put together, but as a duo on the court together I think MJ Pippin accomplished more got stanton lime green the 99 Yankees if that makes sense Like I think cream and magic you can both say are top ten players all time. I don't think you say Pippin is top 25 I would think silver rookie Mets try them a gill diamond level. I think It's tough to say with Pippin because his talent is crazy, but He was never like the guy He was for a year rookie Jersey to 250 Braves Kyle Muller a brain with silver moon shots white socks Yeah, that's interesting. Oh, sorry. That's interesting Burrios to 199 blue jays Try color offy devils red socks Shard are you six titles man? Try color Brian Reynolds pirates Wasn't such a gender gambler. Probably would have just won seven in a row Who knows like five I just been like retired. Yeah, I don't know What would have happened? That's a big winner. We got relics Kyle Muller Brendan McKay Vidal Bruhan John Heasley Cal Raleigh Eli Morgan Spencer Strider TJ Fridl Matt Brash Ryan delayed Juan Yepez Jake Berger autos now you got Nate Pearson Jake Berger gold Tucker Davidson Colton Welker Nikki Lopez Steve Carlton Greg Deekman Jose Barrero Jake Myers auto Lopez. I'm a Berea Aaron Ashby gold That's gonna do it. We've got leave Trinity baseball coming up


Hey Clay, can we talk about this picture? This picture is just ridiculous. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we're back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is Prairie Fire, guidebook for surviving Civil War II by Mr. Clay Martin. So, I enjoyed this book, I enjoyed the first one, which I just reviewed previously here, and I enjoyed the second volume as well. Some things to note about this particular book. It's exceedingly short, it's only about 160 pages, so it's not long at all, it's again, it's a pretty quick read. I'll be honest, reading this book back to back with Concrete Jungle, I got kind of depressed because Clay is very much of the mindset that the war is coming, the next Civil War is coming and you're either gonna be ready for it or you're not, and it's hard for me to not agree with him, and so it's just kind of depressing because everybody loses in a Civil War. But that aside, if you are also of that mindset and you're thinking, yeah, I think something bad is gonna happen here, and what do I do? Where do I start? How do I prepare for that? I would recommend this book. It is, again, like his first book, it's a very high level kind of crash course primer. He's just touching on major topics. You're not gonna get in-depth knowledge about tactics from this book. You're not gonna get in-depth knowledge about prepping from this book, but you are gonna get a good understanding to touch on the major topics of things you need to think about, and that's where the value of this book comes in. Again, I view this book and his other book as primers, and I think that's the best use case, it's the best way to explain what this book is. It's a primer, again, 160 pages. It's super short, so it's a primer to say, hey, here are some major topics to think about. Having read several tactical books, a lot of which I've reviewed on this channel, it helps me understand what he's talking about when he just gives a very cursory, like, yeah, I think it's like three paragraphs on fire maneuver tactics. Maybe it's like two pages, but it's not very much, is my point, or patrolling, like he just kinda glazes over a lot of patrolling things, and if you don't necessarily know what those concepts are, this will give you a bucket to understand it, but if you really wanna know more about patrolling or fire maneuver or whatever, you need to go read some other books. This isn't, you know, it's not be all end all. It's not the Bible of how to survive the next Civil War. Again, it's a primer. It's helping you get started with categories and start thinking for ways that you need to deal with this. So that's where the value of this book comes in. As you can maybe tell by the cover here, this book is targeted more towards what I would say, rural areas. Like the audiences for people who are in a rural area. I put that in quotes because really what he's talking about here is people that aren't in the main city center.  This is more focused towards those of us who are in smaller cities and or rural areas. It doesn't have to be like out in the middle of nowhere, but smaller towns, you know, really middle America, right? That's really what this book is primarily, again, minus those major city centers, primarily targeted towards. One of the real good values of this book is that he talks about having, or how to start a militia. And you know, I'm 35, so I've grown up in the time when militia is a dirty word. And I don't think it should be, right? I think that's kind of our American militaristic heritage and everybody, either former military or civilian, we all need to embrace that and love it because it's awesome. And so he helps you give some good starting points on how to start a militia. And I think that's super helpful actually. He's the only person I've ever read that's actually talked about that. And so that was an extremely helpful thing that I pulled from this book. I plan on trying to apply some of those steps here in the next coming months. So if you're in South Dakota and you wanna join a militia, hit me up. Sticking with the primer kind of deal, he does reference multiple other books for further reading. Those are always helpful. Anytime you read an author and you like them and they recommend other stuff, go read that other stuff. That's just a good reader tip. Another helpful thing that he does in this book that I like is he starts to break down the coming conflict again, if you think that's where we're going, into phases. And I think he gives a total of four phases if memory serves me correctly and kind of explains how things are gonna go in each phase. Again, that's helpful. This book came out in 2020, I think a couple months ago. And as of right now, you can kind of see how those phases match up to reality. And that's helpful to kind of understand, again, big picture, where are we in the sequence of events? Assuming that you think like I do and like Clay does and like probably a lot of people that watch this channel and read this book that things are gonna go bad. It helps again, explain where we're at in the timeline and allows you to understand things. One of the things he talks about in here is that he goes through gear. And again, cursory, short thing on gear, which is great. And he does recommend that you get night vision because as he talks about in the book, if you don't have it, it's kind of hard to fight people who do have it. So one of the things that I did take away from this book is that it convinced me to just pony up the cash and buy night vision, which I'm sure I'll be glad when it gets here, but right now I'm just feeling the pain of having to make that purchase and it hurt. That's all I have about Prairie Fire by Mr. Clay Martin would recommend it. Again, if you think things are gonna go bad and you're not sure how this is all gonna play out and you wanna start thinking about being prepared for things that are potentially coming down the road, this book can help you do that. Do brave deeds and endure.


This is Sean Reilly for Pakadelfia, bringing you the inside scoop on all things Pak Expo East. This season, I highlighted all the culinary delights to explore during your time in Philadelphia, from the writing terminal to the Italian market, all of Philly's delicious bakeries, and of course the hotspots to hit for a Philadelphia cheesesteak. In this final episode, I'll tell you all about an only in Philly experience that is the Victor Café. During the warring 20s, musicians playing the many halls and opera houses throughout Philly and across the river in Jersey would enjoy an Expresso and Spumani with neighbors at John Di Stefano's gramophone shop. Then the depression hit and no one could afford to buy records, let alone pricey Victrola's. Rather than close, Di Stefano kept his music playing, allowing people in the neighborhood to come and listen for free. Soon, Di Stefano purchased a beer and wine license and transformed the old record shop into the Victor Café, Music Lovers Rendezvous. During dinner, he would sit in the back room and play opera records, and often patrons would stand up and sing along. Eventually, an opera student working at the Victor Café between singing engagements, sang for his customers, and another tradition was born. The next year, an additional waiter with a voice joined the team and contributed to the evolving live soundtrack.  The waiter or waitress who moments ago was taking your order will stand up and offer a brief explanation of the piece they are about to perform and why they chose it. If you've seen the movie's Rocky Balboa, or Creed, you've already seen the interior of Victor's Café. Victor's is truly one of a kind, wonderful food and drink, and opera singers serenading a captivated audience throughout the meal. From the show floor to a music rendezvous, PacExpo East will teach you a thing or two. Today we'll hear from John Eckler, from Promo, about the value he finds at PacExpo East, and what makes this regional event a show not to be missed. PacExpo East is a great show. We've got a number of our product brands that go every year because of the location in Philadelphia. A lot of those customers can bring larger groups with them because they can take the train in or they can drive in, and we get to sit down and have deeper, more engaged, longer meetings than we can have at some of the larger shows. The PacExpo name is synonymous with quality, innovation, and progress. And PacExpo East is no exception. See for yourself, March 3rd through the 5th at the Pennsylvania Convention Center when 7,000 attendees and 400 exhibitors come together to find solutions to real-world packaging challenges. For more information, visit PacExpoEast.com, and thanks for watching this season of Pacadelphia.


He's a great mover. He's probably a really good example for us today when I'm talking about what I'm trying to accomplish because Fundamentally, he's a great mover and he's very strong and balanced But the the if I've struggled at all it's been with getting to take over enough He's committed to cut but really truly look at cow dead in the eye and and and do a lot without my involvement You know, and I'm always training again. I'm wanting him to be pretty mentally tough working rerun bucking bulls that are tough But as soon as I get clear of anything I'm gonna get my hand down and I want him to understand that once he's got one cow in front of him that it's his job Come up through here I'll get my hand down wait for him to make a mistake almost helping there.  I like the challenge. I'm gonna let him make that little mistake. No big deal But I am gonna try to hold this cow Almost really good a little pressure This is all good pressure from the cow It's hopefully making him later on yeah in the year before the fraternity or whatever. I'm gonna have to make sure that my Make sure that my angles are good and make sure that my form is good And but right now like Buster always said you gotta have a cow horse before you have a cutting horse and a cutting horse before a contest horse And I think right now.  I Wanted to remember the reason everything that offer everything that every reason that they got relief and release right there Was because of that thought was because she crouched Swooped in there read the cow correctly had nothing to do with me. She was committed to holding it And I want to leave that thought I want to leave that there, you know, so I don't want to take her off


Now, what you need to do, you need to become that expert in the niche that you're in, right? So if you're in basketball, you need to become the expert in basketball training. If you're in soccer, you need to become the expert in soccer training. If you're in golf, lacrosse, you know, baseball, whichever sport you're in, you need to be seen as the expert and everyone wants to look for you for help.


Dear students, this module is a continuation of the previous module that how internet works. And in this module, I will discuss with you the two modes of communication. Of course, one of them which is basically used for internet communication which is packet switching. And then of course, I will also talk about different components like servers like peer to peer communication that like routers which are part of this, pardon parcel of all of this. So, let us look at some in more detail. Now, this picture shows what is called as circuit switching. Why it is called circuit switching? The reason being because when these two from this point and this point, there is a communication between say point A and point B, then this circuit is dedicated for this communication. This circuit is set for this communication. This circuit is not shared by any other communication system. It is dedicated for this. Now, in the old days if you have seen any movies, this was done manually. So, you might have seen boards with wires and lady sitting and they are pulling the cables from the holes and putting in different holes. So, what they were doing basically, they were establishing a circuit, dedicating a circuit for a certain communication. Now, that circuit switching is very costly. The reason being that this circuit if between two points on different continents is dedicated to be used by only two people and one of them say for example, goes to get coffee or tea. Now, that circuit is dedicated, nobody else can use that circuit. That is also very expensive and if the people are typing email and they sit and think for a time that what should they type and during that time nothing is happening, that circuit is not available and all other people in the world who would like to use that circuit cannot use that circuit. So, that is a big, big disadvantage of circuit switching that one it is very expensive and number two that it slows down the traffic. So the point I am trying to make is that circuit switching is not made for internet, is not optimized for internet. So, just to give you I have discussed circuit switching just to give you an idea about circuit switching. Now, we move on to the next mode of communication which is packet switching. Now, packet switching what happens is that I have this message over here. I have this message over here and I divide this message into packets M1, M2 and M3. Now, maybe M3 uses this route, M1 uses this route, M2 uses this route and over here M2 is lost. It is possible M2 is lost or maybe they arrive in different order first I get M3 then I get M2 which was lost and then I get M1. Instead of this order the benefit of packet switching is that one communication media or medium is being used by hundreds and thousands of different users it is shared by them. So, the benefit is that it optimizes the bandwidth it is low cost and the transmission control protocol which I will be discussing very shortly that takes care of ordering of those packets, assembling those packets and making the request to recent those packets. So, what happens is that ultimately this message which was sent that is received over here intact perfectly without any issues so that is packet switching. So, internet works on packet switching it is low cost it is efficient utilizes the bandwidth and allows hundreds and thousands and more users to simultaneously share the same communication medium. So, what are the devices which are used for the internet to work servers. Server is a main machine we have the main machine which is taking care of mail which is the mail server we have a main machine which is taking care of the network we have a network server a main machine taking care of database server. So, these are the servers client machines are the machines my palm top my laptop computer through which I connect and retrieve data from the server. I have my processing power but I get the data I get the mail I get the service so I am the client then I have peer-to-peer peer-to-peer means I am having a chat session now during the chat session my machine is sometimes a client sometime it is a server. So, that is a peer-to-peer communication and finally I have the routers so routers what they do is routers they connect the machines say in a school through a router to an ISP and so on in an organization connect different computers to router to the main server and so on. So, let us let me show you in a picture how all these things are connected together. So, you can see over here that this PC is the client over here this is the client over here this is the DNS server which I will be talking domain name server domain name service this over here is the internet this over here is one router this over here is another router then another router you can see that there are many routers and over here resides my domain which I had purchased on this web server I will talk more about the details about this. In this environment how these things work these things work using the IP internet protocol they work using the TCP IP transmission control protocol and the domain name service. So, what is IP? IP is basically it assigns the addresses to different devices IP address which I have briefly mentioned which consist of numbers between and dots between them. And then I have the transmission control protocol which assembles and dissembles and takes care of the lost packets and everything. So, that is the TCP control protocol and then I have the domain name system domain name system is required because the IP address is almost impossible for people to remember. So, they have associated text with it. So, when I host my domain at a certain service provider they associate an address to the device where it is hosted. So, that is the IP address and the DNS the domain name system translates the text into the IP address. So, this is how things are tied together this is how they work I hope you understand you have questions you are welcome to ask thank you very much.