We're gonna give them about half an hour. I am gonna spy on them a little bit, but the camera's kind of like overwhelming.  She's on the perch looking up at him. We're totally being invasive. Hello, my fellow sniffers, flighters and hatchlings. My name is Marlene McCohen. This is George. And this right here is Finchie. I'll get you a close up. Finchie just had a bath because it's a very big day for Finchie. And I'm sure you guys are all here to see what's about to happen. Finchie is finally going to get to be with his new girlfriend. So we'll see how Finchie reacts. Finchie's been waiting for this day. He had a tragic life before this. His wife died, his kid died. Then he grieved and now he's getting ready. So let me show you the cage. I cleaned it up, took everything out of it and I'm gonna show you what it is now. And then I'm gonna show you us prepping the cage for both of the birds. So here's the cage. The bottom is clean. I put just some paper right here. Basically there's nothing in the cage. There's lots of room for things. Oh, I forgot to take out Finchie's little swing. But we're gonna put a whole bunch of new things in there now. First, we're gonna start with this cute little perch that George is playing with with Finchie. Trying to get him to go on it. Oh my God, he looks so cute in his bath. What's up Finchie? Are you so cute? You still need to dry up, huh? Are you so handsome? Yes you are. George, let's choose some spots to put all of Finchie's branches. So the first thing about this branch. Okay. The first thing you guys need to know is you wanna get natural branches or branches that resemble natural branches in shape. You know, so they have a lot of different options for their feet, so their feet won't be stuck in one position. So we have some new ones for them both and some old ones that Finchie was on. This is a real Manzanita branch that we had for Finchie, along with a few others. The camera's a little heavy for me and we got some new ones which you guys saw in the last video, so check that out. So we're gonna insert those in the cages along with some other things and then we're gonna introduce them. And let me show you what Finchie's doing now. We'll keep tabs on Finchie every few minutes, okay? Oh, I love Finchie so much. Finchie's really chill. Also, I just realized you guys don't know if his girlfriend's name is Fiona or Zora. What do you like better, George? Finchie and Fiona or Finchie and Zora? I think Fiona sounds better. Finchie and Fiona, you're right. Danny is his girlfriend's name Fiona or Zora? Zora, Fiona was married to Shrek. So the first perch George decided to put right in the middle. We obviously have lots of other perches to put around but you remember that this might be trial and error. You might see how it will feel more comfortable. You might realize when you put other perches in that they're not placed correctly. Placed correctly would be, for me, that there's not one perch directly on top of another where they can go potty on all of the branches below it. You wanna maximize the ability to keep the cage super clean so just think of that before you put the perches in. The other thing is you wanna make the perches accessible to where the bowls are gonna be. So that's a whole another thing to think through. So George is finding some spots and we'll see how they turn out. You also wanna have different levels in the cage because this cage is big enough for them to fly around but you wanna make sure that the perches don't block all their ability to fly around as well. You could keep these kind of low because we obviously have this swing. We have this perch over here. We have this one over here. He's put this perch up here with a bowl next to it. We have this swing up in the high corner. You can decide officially where all the bowls go later. We also don't have to put everything in there right away. We can switch things out just to make it entertaining for them. I got them. This swing is ladder because it hangs straight without moving too much and they sit in it like a swing. So if Finchy wants to sit here, then Finchy can stand here. Oh, look at him. Did he go over to her? Oh my God, he flew to her. So that it's also next to a perch. No, look, they can meet there. Let's put this down here. He's gotta approve him too. Goes two ways. Why would you let your vets be next to each other, George? She might need her space. Well, they don't have to date right away. They can be like friends. These four bowls in all different sections. So technically they each have food and each have water. They decided that if the bowls were in all different locations, it would be better kind of like foraging for them and to get them used to playing with different areas so that they climb up onto the perches and stuff. We'll see what happens. Like you gotta watch your birds after you update or change things or put two birds together. You gotta make sure that they don't feel uncomfortable that something isn't dangerous. You have to check everything. Something falls or keeps falling. You gotta take it out the first time there's any kind of mistake. So hopefully they utilize this. Let's see what happens. All right, guys, this is Fiona. Here she goes. We're gonna put her in here first. She goes in there first. Let's give her a moment just to explore. Kinda wanna wait till she perches somewhere. Okay, there she is. She's perched. She's chilling. So I think we should put Finchie in there. You excited, Finchie? He's excited. Finchie is doing well. She's so beautiful. She is beautiful. Finchie's like, this has made me hungry. He's happy. It'll be fun watching all the things they do and chill on. Finchie, I want another kissy Finchie. Daddy give you a bath today, yes. Okay guys, so we're gonna give them about half an hour. I am gonna spy on them a little bit but the camera's kinda like overwhelming and then I'm going to, she's on a perch. I'm coming for her. She's on the perch looking up at him. We're totally being invasive, but I just want. Do you see? Oh, I got a visitor. Who flew into my shoulder, huge. Okay guys, it's been about an hour. They're both sitting on the same perch. Finchie went into his house. He went into his little nest and she's sleeping outside. Morning everyone, let's have a Finch House update. As you guys can see, there she is. She's up there. She's exploring. She's hanging out. Finchie's down here. He needs to come up and hang out. He has been though. They've both been kinda on this perch and this perch. I've seen them together. The camera doesn't bother Finchie but it bothers her right now. She'll get used to it. So that's the update. What is the matter, Cody? Oh my God, oh my God. Are you the cutest? Are you the cutest? Oh, Finchie wants me back. Do you hear that? 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Family Theater presents Audrey Totter, Jeff Chandler, and Regis Toomey. On Hollywood, the Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater presents Jeff Chandler and Audrey Totter in The Promise. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Regis Toomey. Thank you, Tony Lattrano. First a word about Family Theater's purpose. Family Theater is dedicated to the promotion of family prayer To the belief that if we pray, we will have peace in our times. Peace in our world. And now to our drama, starring Audrey Totter and Jeff Chandler in The Promise. It was the quiet after the storm.  Then there was no more to say. I was driving, except for the singing of the tires, the silence had been oppressive. The thrill's gone, isn't it, Pat? I remember when, just to be with you like this, driving somewhere was enough. All right, let's not talk about it until we get home. You're tired and I'm sore. No matter what we say, we'll only keep hurting each other all the more. All right. But it's all over between us, and we both know it. Yeah. Please don't drive so fast. I'd like to get there in one piece. Okay, okay. You want to be in Frisco in the morning, don't you? But the road's sopping. You can barely see through the windshield. One mistake and we'll be in it. One mistake? The whole trip was a mistake. I thought I'd drive you to Salt Lake City for the special broadcast, and, well, on the way and back, I'd get some time with you alone. Time to patch up differences. Time to say the words I want to say like I used to say them. Nothing you've said thus far sound very reminiscent to me. Because the words get all tangled up. They come out poisoned. Do they? You know they do. We end up like a couple of polite enemies. Look, do you mind if I pull over and stop? The road's pretty broad here. Maybe we can talk. Isn't it rather dismal in the rain? Well, if you want to, okay. Well, the rain is monotonous, but the silence is worse. I thought you had something to say. Look, Alicia, for six months I've been trying to get up courage to ask you this question. Is there anyone else? No. There never could be. What is it you want then? Success. I'm sold on success, Pat. I want to be a somebody with a capital S. A radio personality as important as Joe Stafford or Dinah Shaw. Tops. You think you can climb faster alone, is that it? Yes. All right. You can divorce me if you like. I won't stand in your way. I might have waited another week before you told me this. This noose. At least till after Christmas. Let's leave the holly and mistletoe out of it, shall we? Sure. Let's be realistic. Let's be modern. Kick sentiment in the teeth. That way it's easier. And if you ask me a lot more civilized, it'll be easier on my nerves right now if you'd slow down. We're coming to Snow Creek Bridge. It's right after this tour. I know the road. Pat, there's a car coming. Relax. I see it. It's on the wrong side. Pat, look out!  The road, Pat! Let's keep our wits tight to get out of this sardine, Kent. Pat, darling, that's a lucky thing I could open that door. Are you all right? Don't forget me. It's you. I'm... Stand back and it's sliding again! Pat, it's in the river down there. But I still got you. I'll take that back. I'd forgotten. Let's get off the muddy slope back up the road. Grab these bushes. They'll help us climb. At least I think I see a light way down the canyon. Are you sure? Look, you see it? There it is again. I'll go down and see you wait here. And freeze to death? No, I'll go with you. Give me a hand. It's a bad slope. Here. Okay, this way. There it is, all right. Is that a house? Certainly it is. Look, that light I saw, it's the same one there in the window, like a traveler's beacon. But the house is like an overgrown doll's house. I only built a stone and a funny little fence. I bet I'm frightened. Don't be. Come on, let's go in. Where's the gate? Oh, here it is, right in front of us. Uh-oh, dogs. Don't be afraid of the dogs. They mean no harm. Welcome. Oh, hello. My name's Adams. This is my wife, Alicia. Hello. A hit-and-run driver knocked us off the bridge. I know, I heard the crash. I've been expecting you. Come in. A white-haired old man held an oil lamp above his head, leading away. I noticed his face was seemed with age. Gentle, kindly, but strange. The room was pleasant enough, arranged as if company was expected.  I'll get you coffee. Oh, you mustn't go to any trouble. If we can just sit here until morning. I always make coffee for them. It's very comforting.   For the first time, I had a good look at our clothes. What I saw astonished me. The sleeves of my jacket were slashed from shoulder to wrist. Alicia's skirt was ripped of stockings and ribbons. A coat torn across the back between the shoulders. I looked again at my jacket. There was a big jagged tear over the heart. We're not scratched, either of us. They never understand at first. They go on thinking they're alive. What? I try to tell them, but they won't believe me. Well, they're alive. You can see for yourself. Wait here by the fire. I'll get some goat's milk for you. I keep it fresh and cold in the creep. He thinks we're dead. I know. He's a little touched, I guess. Just for a minute, I couldn't help thinking we might be. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. If we are, it would be sort of wonderful, wouldn't it? What? No pain or blood or anything. And being here. When I was a kid, I had a storybook. There was a picture in it I've never forgotten. A room like this. Pat. Yeah? Pinch my arm. See if I feel it. I know you don't. We're strangers, remember? Yeah. Bet the old man built this place himself, stone by stone. Yeah, solid it is. Rooted deep like a tree. Oh, I can't all houses feel like this. It is solid, isn't it?  I could work here. That book of mine would write itself. Alicia. Yes, Pat? Suppose I could talk the old man into renting this place. Not for longer. A year, perhaps. I could toss our jobs over the moon and really live here. Would you do it? Would you be happy? I'd be bored to death. Why do you ask? To make me seem selfish. He's back. I brought the milk and a crock of cheese. We are very kind. We're complete strangers. No, you're guests. My name is Peter Fauner. I came from Switzerland when my young wife died. I couldn't bear to be near the scenes familiar to us. I roamed all over the world. When I discovered this canyon beneath Snow Creek Bridge, I knew I'd come home again. It's so peaceful, except when there's an accident. Like tonight. Oh, have there been many such? Twenty persons have lost their lives on that bridge. Twenty-two counting tonight. They all come here. I remember the first two. A middle-aged farmer and his wife from Kansas. What do you mean they come here? Just like you did. I'd watched the ambulance take away their bodies, so I was shocked when they walked up to my gate. I thought, what you're thinking, that I was out of my mind. Yes, go on. I took them in. They were frightened, like lost children. How long did they stay? A few hours. In the morning I asked them what they wanted to do. They said they hoped to go to heaven. What did you do? I asked myself, where is heaven? I'd never given much thought to things, but I supposed it was up in the sky. What then? I cut them some staves and carved their names on them. Beth and Joel Burnett. I remember them well. It was March the 10th, 1920. What did you go with them? I led them as far as I could to the summit of Old Whiteface. That's 6,000 feet. They thanked me and said goodbye and went on. I stood in the snow watching them for some time. They seemed to climb a trail of light up and up until I could see them no more. I hope they made it all right. They always do. There have been many, you say? Many. Men, women and children. The children were always afraid until they saw... Saw what? Someone always came down the trail to meet the children. I'm taking the milk and the cheese back to the creek, son. Would you like to come with me? Yes, I would. Let me take that crunk. Be careful, son. The trail is narrow. But there aren't any obstructions. I've worn it smooth with my comings and goings. I'll follow you. What's that? Can't be frightened. They're my creatures. Perhaps they think I've come to feed them again, but it's not time. They come so close. Look at those deer. So close right now I could touch them. I thought they could sense a stranger. It isn't that you're a stranger. What is it then?  You weren't gone long, but the dishes are done. I've stacked them here near the cupboard. Is there any place we could sleep for a few hours, perhaps, till daybreak? There are no beds, but I'll bring some quilts. Here, I'll put them near the fire. I'm really tired. I'll just drift off, I know. What about you, Peter? Don't you ever sleep? When you're old, it's consciousness you treasure. Every minute of it, I like to watch the fire and listen to the sounds, but you two must rest. Tomorrow, you have a long way to go. What'll you do now? Are you sure we're not disturbing you? Oh, no. Put yourselves at ease here. I must carve your staves, as I did for all the others. I keep a supply of holes. One for Alicia first, then yours. How long will they take? They'll be ready when you awaken. Rest well. I'll sleep the sleep of the de- the just. I lay there with my eyes closed, but I didn't go to sleep right away. Scenes kept running through my mind like strips of motion picture film, but backwards, back to the time I first saw Alicia. I was in France. I was in the 47th Tank Battalion. She was a singer with the USO troop that came up to the front. She was so beautiful, my heart began playing hopscotch. When she sang, I won her. It wasn't easy. Now it seems so unreal. Now I was losing her. That was unreal, too. Miss Old Man, was he real or was I just dreaming it? The accident in army? Maybe we were dead. Suddenly, I heard myself screaming. Alicia! Alicia! What is it, Pa? I guess I dosed off. We were being buried in the same grave. Where's the old man? He's outside. I heard him go out. Perhaps he's gone again to the creek. Look, Alicia, he's finished the staves. They're lying there already for us.  It's too spooky. Don't stop to argue. Here's your coat. No, Pat, no. We can't go. What can we tell Peter? We'll tell him he's mistaken and thanks. We've got to get back to our jobs. It's time for you to start your journey. Are you ready? Yes. Yes, we're ready. Here are your staves. I've marked your names. Yes, I see. Thank you. You've gone to so much work. What delicate carving. I will come with you a part of the distance. It's a beautiful morning. Come. Holds out. Oh, that was some climb. How much farther? There is white face. If you climb the west flank, you'll have no trouble. You should reach the summit before nightfall. Well, you're coming with us, of course. No, I'm an old man. My heart is old and rusty and tired. Then it's goodbye. Only for a little while. I'll be coming along myself on Christmas Eve. Oh, no. Surely you're mistaken. No, my friends. I am not mistaken. I am like my creatures. I know when my time has come. But surely, Peter... I wonder if you would do something for me. Anything. Anything I can, of course. Would you be willing to speak to God? In my behalf? Explain to him that I am old and tired. That I did not sell many of my carvings in the town this year. Now, with the great storms coming, I do not have much feed in my sheds for my wild creatures. They will all come back. On Christmas Eve, I myself must climb the mountain. Tell him this. I will be gone and my sheds will be empty. He will understand. He will send someone to take my place. I have no doubt. No doubt at all. We'll deliver your message. Yes, Peter. We promise. Thank you. Thank you both. Now I must go down again. God speed you. We watched him go slowly down until a turn of the mountain carried him from sight. Finally, Alicia broke the silence. What a wonderful old man. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We lied to him through our teeth. Did we? Oh, Pat, you did not really fall for all that nonsense. You did? Well, maybe for a minute. He was so sure. But in this day and age, for a moment I forgot to think straight. I wonder what came over us. I don't know about you, but I'm going to the top of that mountain. Pat Adams, you... Now who thinks we're dead? I do. Oh, he couldn't be. I feel so alive. Don't you like being alive? I do. I can think of a thousand reasons why, especially now. Name them. Oh, music and coffee and hot baths and hats and spring and flying. And you. On the level? Uh-huh. Maybe this had happened to put us straight with ourselves. If I were alone, I'd keep my promise to Peter. I'd go on.  It's wonderful. Okay, then. Let's go down and see whether people can see us. I think that path will take us to the bridge. Mr. State Highway Patrol, has your pleaded accordion down on the river? He can see us. So he can. Look, mate, is that your crumpled car down on the river? How did you guess?  What happened? Hit and run, driver. Why didn't you report it? Where have you been? We've been dead. I get it. You've been down at Peter Fauner's down there in the canyon. You know him? Of course. What about him? Is he? Claims he sees the ghosts of people killed on this bridge. Harmless, though. From the looks of that car down there, you barely escaped being ghosts at that. I guess you're right. Got a license? Damn, if I haven't lost it, oh, here it is. Patrick Adams, San Francisco. Who's the lady? My wife, Alicia. I'm Alicia Adams. Alicia Adams? You must be the gal that sings on the radio. I am. And I've got to sing from San Francisco this very afternoon. Can you get us there? For you, lady, anything is possible. I'm one of your fans. The cop was as good as his word. He flagged down a bus. In San Francisco, he changed to a taxi and headed for the studio. Alicia grew more and more anxious. Miss Adams, you're on the air in 40 seconds. Oh, wait, Alicia. I've got to know something. I'm on the air. Let me go. No, you tell me now.  I've got to go in. Answer me. Do you want a divorce? Yes. Yes, I do. That was the splitter. Alicia didn't come home. Instead, she phoned. It was wonderful while it lasted, but I guess I'm not cut out to be a wife. And then she was gone. I read later in the trade papers she was going east. Television, I guess. She certainly had the looks for it. I've read... Let me have another one of the same, huh? Look, Pat, this is a filling station, but I think your tank's about 11. What's the matter? Is my money any good? Sure, sure, Pat. But you can't drown nothing big in one of them little glasses. All right, give me a big glass, then. Now, Pat, use the old bean. You don't want to be fogged up with Christmas coming. Christmas? Yeah, tomorrow night's Christmas Eve. Hey, hey, Fred, you believe in anything? Oh, sure, I believe in lots of things. All right, now, get this. There's the mountain. Yeah? You can't see it, can you? No. But if I can make you believe it, sir, it is. It is? You don't get it? Get what? I'm talking about faith. Faith is coming up for a test pretty soon. How's that? The scientists are working on it. Final tests of faith. Hey, you better watch out, Fred. You better have faith or else. Oh, you got it? Sure, I got it. A whole mountain full. Now, why's it making much sense? They got me in a cab later in the cab. He put me to bed. Next morning, my head was the mountain. But after breakfast, I felt better. I saw in the papers there was a blizzard in the Sierras that made me think of old Peter Fauna. He'd said the storms would be heavy. Maybe I could be of some use up there. I called Alicia again. Good afternoon, Vaughan Hotel. Oh, is Alicia Adams in? I'm sorry, Miss Adams has gone out. Any message? No. No message, thanks. I went to a neighborhood garage that advertised cars for rent. Oh, say, could I rent a car for a couple of days? Sure thing, mister. Take your pick over there. I want to carry some supplies to a friend. Have you got a good, sturdy one? How's about that station wagon back against the wall? Yeah, yeah, just a thing. Have you got any change to go with it? I think I'll need them. I'll scout you out a pair. It was a long, lonely drive, rough going in many spots. I crossed Snow Creek Bridge and found a place to park on the other side. The trail down to Peter's was choked with snow, but I started down. Old Peter's place was twice as pretty in a setting of snow, and it was ringed around with animal tracks. Then I noticed there was only a faint whisper of smoke from the chimney, barely a trace. Peter's beacon light was out, too. I shouted, Peter! Peter Fauner! I called again, but there was no reply, so I went in. The dogs didn't growl much. They were at his feet. Peter? Peter, are you asleep? Aren't you going to welcome me? Wake up. There's no time to be sleeping when you have a guest. Then I noticed the staff leaning against the fireplace who was beautifully finished. The name was carved in. Peter Fauner. I went back and touched his folded hands. I lit the beacon and went to the door. Just then I saw a flicker of light coming down the trail. I waited. Alicia! I thought you'd be here. I had to come. I couldn't stop thinking of him. Is he all right? Oh, Pat. He did know, didn't he? He knew that he'd go on Christmas Eve. And look, isn't his staff beautiful there by the fireplace? Yes. Pat, you'll think I'm silly, but this morning I went to church and prayed. I prayed what he asked us to say. Please send someone to care for Peter Fauner's creatures. Pat, we've been sent. Don't you see? I did get through. I was heard. We're here. I'm going to stay here all winter if I can. I am too. Oh, Pat, can I give myself back to you so Christmas present with all my love? You're the only Christmas present I would have. We got our second chance, didn't we? To be together. To make our marriage work. It will, darling. This time it will. Alicia, look. Dad, what? He did staff by the fireplace. It's gone. You know, I'm one of those persons who's forever interested in all the new and wonderful gadgets that come out every week. Whenever someone brings out a new potato peeler or a better mousetrap, you'll find me in the admiration lineup wondering what won't they invent next. Yes, this is the age of invention, all right. The gadgetry that surrounds us in our kitchens, offices, and workshops gives adequate testimony to what I mean. Running thoughts like these over in my mind the other day, I asked myself, what is man's greatest, his foremost invention? After I'd thought about it a good deal, I began putting the question to a number of my friends. Most of their answers centered on new things, but an occasional person said, the wheel or fire. So many said the atom bomb that I shuttered. I think I'm inclined to share the opinion of my philosophical friends that the greatest invention man ever made is certainly one of the first and oldest, language. And pursuing the subject even farther, what is the highest form of language? Of course, it's prayer. It is through prayer that we thank God, who gave man vocal cords for spoken language, hands to shape the first written language, eyes and lips for the language of love, and knees for the language of humility. Family theater again reminds you, the family that prays together stays together.  Family theater has brought you Jeff Chandler and Audrey Todder in the promise. Regis Toomey was your host. Others in our cast were Norman Field, Tudor Owen, Paul Maxey, Landbeardsley, Chris Kraft, and Bill Irwin. This radio adaptation of Mildred Cram's Beloved Story was by James Roach. Music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman, and the production was directed for Family Theater by Joseph F. Mansfield. This is Tony Lofrano expressing the wish of Family Theater that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home and inviting you to be with us next week at the same time when Family Theater will present Irene Dunn, James Cagney, and Jean Cagney in Tommy Malone Comes Home. Join us, won't you? Family Theater's broadcast throughout the world and originates in the Hollywood studios of the world's largest network, the Mutual Broadcasting System.


Welcome to this edition of Tony G psychic medium. I'm Tony G and I am a psychic medium and a channel. I am also a author, hypnotist and healer. So I believe that we all could use a little guidance. We are all very intuitive. We have that gut feeling or that knowing inside of us. We're extremely intuitive on our own. But every once in a while when we're making major life decisions or not so major life decisions, we could use a little guidance. Today I have a very, very special guest. A Lisa, a cat is my guest today. And Lisa will be getting a reading on air. How brave of you, Lisa. Well, you bring out the bravery in me, so I appreciate that. Absolutely. So Lisa, today we're just going to answer questions that you have about your life, connect with loved ones from the other side if you do so choose. Okay. So would you like to start with a question? Well, before we started the show, you said that someone had already entered that wanted to talk to me. So that would probably be the greatest way to start. Okay. So there's a gentleman standing next to your chair on your right. And this gentleman is a medium build, very black hair. I'm not seeing the face. I'm only seeing the profile because this gentleman is looking directly at you but very black hair and short, combed back hair, like slicked back.   I know this isn't extremely descriptive. Oh, and not old. This person is not old. If I have to put an age on this person, I would say or I would repeat 30 to 35. Okay. 34, 35 possibly. This could be a cousin, uncle. It's a relative for sure. Okay. For sure, a relative. Are you, do you have an idea of who this might be? The only person that even would come to mind would be my grandfather on my dad's side who I never have met, who I think was around that age when he passed away. Okay. Because I just think about the olive skin and the jet black hair and yeah, probably he's handsome. I don't know. Short. Is he kind of five, six somewhere? Yeah. Short. Okay. I know short because barely comes above the top of the chair. Yeah. Well, my dad's short. So that makes sense. That would be the only person I could think. Okay. That would fit that description. Yes, I said are you and he said yes. So the one thing that I want to tell you and there are other people here too, because for me for some reason, like one person doesn't come in, your whole lineage comes in and I have, I don't want to say access, but if there's somebody that really wants to speak or be the spokesperson, I'll see them first. And then I'll start to see other relatives also. Okay. So the first thing that he wants to say is lighten up. Lighten up. Just lighten up. Now he means this two ways. The first way he means this is like, don't put so much pressure on yourself.  You're carrying this with you and just totally saying, don't put so much pressure on yourself.  And guess what? You've made it this far. You're gonna make it. You're gonna do it. He's going, he's looking at you going, you can't get this wrong. There's no way to get this wrong. And also to lighten up. The second way is to bring more of your own light to expand it inside of you to the outside that will automatically dissolve some of the heaviness that you've been carrying around with you. He wants to say he loves you and that you are just this really amazing girl woman. You're this really amazing woman that that I'm asking to rephrase or restate a comment. So that deserved much better. That deserved don't think your past defines you because it doesn't. You've done amazing things. He's a pointer. Oh, he's a pointer. Like he's like, we all like to talk with our hands a lot. So I've never met him. So this is very awesome. Yeah, it is. And he is he's he's honored and grateful to have you in his lineage, by the way, because you are so strong and such a great survivor that it is amazing to see the human human strength and resilience, resilience, so much human resilience. You are going to accomplish a great deal in this life.  And I was gonna say it better start soon. It is starting now. It is starting now you are coming into your own and you are going to have just a really miraculous fall. This is where everything starts to pick up for you. They're show like when I'm doing this, they're showing me steps that you're going up and you're going to okay, okay, okay. You're going to you're going to reach the top. You're going to reach the top.  And you've always worried about finances, but finances are about to open up wide for you. I mean floodgates open. There's a poem in my brand new book. I just wrote I just published a brand new book and there's a poem in there. And he's he's he's referencing this poem, which I do not know by heart and is a little bit embarrassing. I don't even can't even recall the title of it. This is a great promo for my new book. Well, you've written a lot of books, so I wouldn't worry about it. Well, channeled messages from above is the name of the book. But there's a poem in there about climb the steps climb once more. But it talks about just it there all these poems are channeled from God. And this totally talks about being just keep going. And you'll you're going to get there. And he's referencing that that you are going to get to that spot. And you are going to have that amazing experience of peace in who you are with complete acceptance and love of self sounds like a dream. Oh, that is awesome.  Yeah, I've kind of never given a care about that. Unless I've had to for other people's reasons, you're not going to have to anymore. You're going to be very accepting of all you are. And you're going to realize the separation between things that happen and you very soon. And you're just going to like I see Archangel Michael taking a big scissors and cutting the things that have happened because you now realize it within I want to say within a month that that's not you. It has nothing to do with who you are. And you're going to be just really happy. And the other thing he wants to say is he's just he just loves you. He's like, you're amazing and I love you. And he wishes you could see all the love coming in from the other side. So now that I've gone on a bit with his messages, do you have a question? It's totally off the subject of that. But so over the last three months, I've physically had my left side be very irritating and in pain.  Well, he didn't do x-ray, but he physically touched him, whatever. It's not going away. So I'm wondering if there's anything you can tell me on what I need to do to remedy it. And if it was really bruised ribs or if it's something different. Yes. I asked, was this bruised? Was this, is this bruised ribs? No. Was it bruised ribs? Yes. Was and is. Okay. Present. Then I ask, is there scar tissue? A little. There's a little scar tissue that's working its way out. Okay. Yeah. Does she need to do something else for this? No. Just time. Yeah. I am going to do some work with you. We're going to schedule an appointment. I'm learning this amazing process by Jimmy Mack, who's a healer who had a near death and he spent three days out in the galaxy learning this process. We'll do that. We'll clear this out of you like that. It'll be amazing. You'll love it. Awesome. And since I mentioned Jimmy Mack, Jimmy Mack Healing, J-I-M-M-Y-M-A-C-K-H-E-L-I-N-G dot com is where you can find information about liquid fish. But you and I can do this in my office and you'll be amazed at how much oh that's what's going to cut the cord too. Amazing. So when I physically feel better I'll cut the cord. Yeah. You know what? It will be cut. It will be cut on its own. You just need to clear the energy of this out of you and you're going to be just fine.  You can deal with a lot, but sometimes your body is not as strong as your will. Is that a good way to put it? Yes. And that's probably why I'm not healed because I still pushed my body and didn't let it recover. Exactly. So we're going to, we're going to just clear that away and you're going to do amazing afterwards. You're going to feel like a million pounds have been lifted from you seriously. Okay. So and then having said that, the other thing that I really want to say is go easy on yourself. You know, go easy on your body. You don't have anything to prove anymore. You don't have to prove your, you know, a warrior anymore. If you believe in past lives, that life is long gone. Okay. Done and gone and you're not there anymore.  And so do you have another question? Does that answer that? Do you want to ask more about that? No, it does answer that. Thank you. Now, one thing I would say is start to take appropriate care of your heart emotionally and physically. Okay. You want to elaborate on that pretty please? Yes, I do. Okay. So in some schools, they believe that emotional grief, depending on where it sits, can cause physical problems in the body. I believe that. So a lot of grief can cause lung issues. But also heart ache and heartbreak. The name says it all, right? That can cause problems with the heart. So we have to be sure to clear that stuff, but also I always like to say it like this. It's not set in stone. It's a probability, but not set in stone. If you choose appropriate care, you can avoid this, but the left ventricle, left ventricle, left ventricle is what I'm hearing. So you definitely want to take care for that. Now one really amazing thing for the heart is Hawthorne extract. Okay. And walks around the block. And no smoking. I'm sure my parents would say. Oh, yes. Yes. Absolutely. And that does explain what I'm seeing. I always see this with smokers where part of the heart is almost, it's white instead of that nice pink, beautiful heart color. Now remember, the body was designed miraculously to heal itself. We just have to get out of the way and do what's right for our body, right? You're bringing up something that I wanted to ask you before today when I was thinking about what I wanted to ask, but then I forgot until you just mentioned like the issues or whatever. So I did have my first mammogram and then they saw something on it, but they have nothing to compare it to. So now I'm having another one. So that would be a question. Does that have anything to do with the things that you're talking about right now too? I'm hearing yes. Okay. Now I'm hearing you're going to be okay. It's all going to work out perfectly. You're going to be in a place where you feel confused and lost for a little bit. Make sure you take your time with this and don't jump. This is where some of your stubbornness is going to come in handy, okay? Yeah. And what some people love have had amazing results with apricot kernels. You're the second person to bring that up in the last month. To just, there is, I personally know people who have used these and the big C has a cancer, not saying that's what it is, has literally come out of their body. Even after doctors have said there's nothing else we can do. They start then taking the apricot kernels and then it is gone. I've heard that. So something to think about the sooner the better sort of thing in this sort of case. If you can eliminate it prior to going back in. Okay. All the better. Now of course, Western medicine is not going to say, yeah, that's awesome. Do that. Yeah. And every person has to make their best educated choice. Do your own research. You told me, relax on the research because you know me. I do do my research and overdo it and yes, but no, I understand. I'm not nervous about it. I was just curious about it. Everything is going to be okay. It's all going to work out perfectly for you. You are going to be a little bit confused. Now that's an interesting word, isn't it confused? Like this doesn't seem right. So if that because I'm pretty intuitive. So for me to be confused will not be a comfortable feeling. If you, when you get that feeling, definitely take a second look, literally take a second look. Okay. Okay. Perfect. So what's your, does that answer all of that? It does. Excellent. What's your next question? I guess I only have the two more. One is, am I supposed to be a mother? Yes, you already are. Love. Okay.   I know that.  Am I supposed to have a child? Okay. So I'm going to ask that differently because am I supposed to, says, am I obligated to? Do you, the first thing I would ask is, I would put this in a way of, I'm very conflicted because I have wanted one all my life, but then I also don't know at the same time. So one of the things is once you let go of all of the fear of motherhood and what could possibly go wrong, all of your answer, all of your questions will be answered. You will not question that. When you think about only what can go right and how different you are and how well you take care of your fur babies, I love fur babies. Yeah, they're pretty spoiled.  Your question is, can you protect a child or not? And yes, you can.  Will that be happening or will I stop myself from having that happen? Okay, yeah. Because the clock's ticking. You know, this is one of those cases where I can say yes or no because this is ultimately a decision you have to make, but I do feel like there is going to be a child in your life, whether you personally give birth to this child or not is another question. But I do see a child in your life and I do see that you are going to be the primary caretaker of this child. And that's an interesting way of stating that, isn't it? See everything they say leaves a little clue. Yep. Primary caretaker of this child. Well, that's my role in general. You are going to just envelop yourself around this little bean and just beyond take care of it. But you know, you're going to have to be strict and have guidelines. They're not like our pets. We have to impose rules and stick to them. I'm okay with that. I just don't want to be overbearing with that. I feel like that's not, you're not going to worry about that. I feel like you're going to know exactly, you know, between your intuition and your caring, you're going to know exactly what to do, when to do it and how to do it. You're going to be amazing.  I just have to get rid of my own guilt on everything. And yeah, you're going to be doing that. Like I said, I see within a month, all that is going to go. You're going to be amazed at how life can be when you're not, you know, carrying the world on your back. Yeah. Thanks. Right? Right, love? Yeah. I know that there's something that every time we do a session together, and it's been over a year that we've known each other. We always come back to the, you helped me through a breakup, and then we did the healing. And here I am now. We always go back to when am I going to attract a, also a really great person. Okay. That person is coming in a month to six weeks. So this month mark is kind of big for you, right? I feel like between now and the end of that month, you're really going to be working, working, working on fixing, fixing, or clearing, clearing, clearing. There's nothing to be fixed. You're perfect as you are. Just need to get rid of the dust in the corners, and then you're going to be doing amazing. Okay. And right around that month mark, this person is going to come in, give it to six weeks. I think you meet at a month, somebody brand new. This is not the one we talked about a long time ago, the in between to the one. I don't know. Here's what I'll tell you. This is somebody brand new coming in, and I'm hearing she's the one. She's the one. She's the one. Okay. There might be somebody coming in sooner than that, but the person in a month that's coming in, she's the one. Now, once you meet her, you might meet her and maybe you just like run into her or introduce to her very casual, not with the intention of anything, but then at the six week mark, then something else you meet again, because I'm hearing a month and six weeks, a month and six weeks. So I feel like at the month mark, you initially meet maybe at like a picnic. Okay. It's probably not a picnic. Just say it. It's probably not a picnic. I just knew that. And then you run into each other or meet again or talk again at that six week mark. And that's when you really start to So it's like a friendship at first. Oh, it's pretty hot and heavy from the beginning. I think from that, at least from that six week mark, it's pretty all systems go. Let's get the show on. Like I feel like it's really ready, set, go.  Once you both know you're both single, interested, ready and willing, it's going to be a go. You're like right away, right in.  They're not telling me anything new. What the heck? There's no like, we should wait for the third date or my three month rule. There's none of that. There's just like, you interested? Yeah, you in? Yeah. Okay. It's just done deal. But this is very long term, very substantial. I feel like this person in some way is in the same field you're going into. So whether this is a financial advisor, which is not the same field you're going into, but I feel like a mortgage broker. Yes. Like a mortgage broker or a finance person, some kind of finance person. And I'm saying at this month mark, given the fact that you do the work and I know you will in a month, everything is like, you know, those lotus flowers, they just show it completely opening up for you and to you so that everything, it's just a new beginning in about a month. It's a brand new beginning like the old the last book. This book is closing. A new book is opening. It's not even the end of a chapter to a new chapter. It's a brand new book. And you are writing a whole new that's the end of the series. This is a new series and off you go. That sounds great. I did give myself that by September I would be done with all of the studying and all of the licensure and jumping into the career. Excellent. Alisa, thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks for everything. Such an amazing guest. I think I answered all your questions. You did. You always do. And I just I'm so honored that you are here today and such an amazing guest on the show. I'm I always love when I have such beautiful, amazing people that loved ones get to come in. And I want to thank you for watching today too. If you would like to be a guest on Tony G Psychic Medium, please go to my website right below and contact me. I'll be happy to have you on as a guest also. Until next time, make your life amazing.


Welcome, everyone, this is the Jenkins Platform SIG meeting, March 26, 2024. Around the table today, we have Mark Wait and Kevin Martin. Hello, folks. On the agenda today, quite a packed up agenda. We have the usual suspect, the open action item, Java 21 support 2 plus 2 plus 2 plan and so on. The release work of the agent and controller images, the work in progress on images, and a few words about Docker base quick start tutorials and exotic architectures. Mark, Kevin, is there anything else you'd like to add to the agenda? Nothing, so you've got the topics I want to discuss. Oh, cool. Thank you, Mark. So let's get started with open action items. As always, we still have to find new ways to announce the blue ocean Docker container is not updated anymore. So yeah, it's deprecated, but it's low priority. We don't see that many messages asking for updates on the various media channels. So that's okay. I think people tend to get it or are accepting the fact that it's not updated right now. Now on to the Java 21 support the 2 plus 2 plus 2 Java support plan. I haven't seen new things in the discussion, Mark, but that doesn't mean it's not progressing in any way, right? So Basel and I were just just discussing a day or two ago before the weekend, and we've, we've got more implementations that have happened. We have some more work that needs to be done. And yeah, it's still got more to do. We may ultimately take Basel up on his suggestion. I may ultimately take him up on a suggestion he had offered when I started the thing to that he would create a counter to it a competing proposal that I could close my phone request and use his because he's done, he's done the vast majority of the technical work has been by him, not by me. And so, and that's, that's okay. I'm, I've still got to discuss with him because I don't know that I'm going to have enough time to do all the other things yet. So he and I will discuss it further. Thank you, Mark. By the way, by reading earlier today and your proposal, I discovered another dedicated vendor for Solaris or Solaris compatible. Yeah, that's something I didn't know of before today. That's pretty cool. That star Solaris is still alive and kicking. Interesting. Yeah, so who's the vendor. Oh, I'm not sure it's a commercial vendor. I think it's an open source initiative. Okay, maybe I totally misunderstood what I read. No, no, that's, that's cool. I'm just glad to hear it as well. Peter Tribble is still maintaining an Illumos Solaris. And so that that work is somewhat akin to the same work that is done in the FreeBSD project where they're where they they provide open JDK 21 as part of FreeBSD also and FreeBSD has it now also. So it's it's been positive. It's just that's not a particular vendor. That's just a port that they make available in Illumos. Yeah. Okay, so the Jenkins infra or community does nothing for that. It just happens to be there. Correct. Yeah. We don't we don't test it. We don't know nobody that I know of is an Illumos shoes or in the Jenkins community at all. Okay, got it. Next object is once again, it's for you, Mark, because the spring project made an announcement a few weeks ago about the last public build of the spring security framework 5.x next August. And about the spring framework 5.3.x, which is also August 2024, and we are not supposed at Jenkins to move to JDK 17 before October. If I'm not mistaken, so there would be some kind of a gap between August and October, if ever something terrible would happen security wise within spring. Am I right? Correct. Yeah, so you've understood it. The alternatives are as listed there that and the most likely is that if something happens in spring 5.x between August 24 and the end of October when it's end of life. We may have to patch it ourselves. That's yeah, we've we've done that before with other things. So if we had to do it there we could. I haven't started the discussion yet on the mailing list. Basel and I have been discussing it face to face, you know, to each other, and we'll continue that discussion there's more to do, and I will start the discussion publicly. In addition to here, because it's, we need, we need more planning and more, more effort on this it looks like it's going to be a large effort. Yeah, fingers crossed. We'll see. Thanks a lot, Mark. Now on to the release work on agent and control images, which means releases. So Damian told us earlier that we were still having some errors, problems, issues with Docker hub that keeps sending HTTP code for 29 errors. For whatever reason, I think we don't know yet if it's linked to a modification in our account or modification in the Docker terms of use or something else, but it's still happening. So the windows image for the latest weekly are not up yet, but the Linux images are okay as far as I know. And I've checked the Linux images and they are definitely okay. Cool. Good to know. So of course we had got since last two weeks to control weekly the 450 and the 451, which of course, agree to latest Jenkins weekly versions, but we also moved to a newer version of the bookworm Linux, and we removed the convert from json issue by simplifying that's just for windows images, if I'm not mistaken. It's linked to a more recent version of PowerShell. If I understood correct. Anyway, that doesn't change anything for the end users. We also had an LTS for the Docker image by the way I watched the video you made with there in pop lately mark and it was great. Interesting really. Thank you for that. So what happened within this image, we removed the dedicated when 19 from the update CLI script. I think you did that mark. Thanks for that. And it doesn't change much for the end user. It's just, we're not building any more dedicated 19. We also moved that even book more bookworm to a newer version and you benign to the latest version. So nothing groundbreaking for the end users. What about Docker agent. We had quite a few changes and a few version bump. And so we got three new releases. So it has been quite a few weeks or months since we had a JDK bump version for the Docker agent that because of her. It's a bug limitation. Something's changed within updates CLI lately and you now have to write down in the updates like manifest the complete architecture that you are targeting in the conditions for example you we used to work to write arm 64 or AMD 64 to check for the existence of arm 64 AMD 64 Docker images and Linux was implied and in the recent version of updates CLI that's not the case anymore you have to prefix with Linux or with windows or even worse for arm 32 you have to write Linux slash arm slash is seven I think so the manifest we're not working anymore and that's why we didn't have newer version of the JDK that solve mostly solved now so that's why we now have some newer versions. So we also upgraded to a newer version of bookworm and yes we got back official not not back because that was never the case we now have official Timurine build for Linux s 390x for JDK 21 because up to a few weeks ago we had only preview versions of Timurine JDK for s 390x and now that it's widely available, we can use official version for the s 390x. That's pretty cool because that also allowed the infrastructure team to have official JDK 21 images for our at 319x. The agent machines if I'm not mistaken they are from OSU OSL mark right. No actually they're donated by IBM. Damn it. But that's okay. Okay, an account that IBM lenses. But we do have some s 390x agents. We do. That is correct. IBM. Thank you idea. Now for SSH agent nothing really major we had just two version boom for bookworm linux and the kids version on windows. Now on to the work in progress for images we still have the long running draft adapter that you like JDK 1174 windows. It will work one of these days thank you have a first time you, you took on that. Now for the Docker agent three PRs are in review. The first one is an automatic one fired by update CLI about the newer version of the JDK 21 but that showed us it doesn't work and that showed that that we still have some work to do on the way we are updating our docker files and docker bake mark I think yes you were the one that saying that we had to do something about that. And then we started on several other PR that were supposed to solve the problem but some of them are not yet finished and yeah, we'll see. One of them was just a proof of concept. I think it will never ever get a merge but that was just to show that if ever tamarin was not able to provide us with recent version of dedicated 21 bill for arm 32. There are other vendors at least one other vendor that could supply us with a recent version of the dedicated 21 an official version. And that's something that made me think of the way we are building our images today. Most of the time we take an image from tamarin itself. It used to be a focal image now it's a jammy image and then we extract the JDK we run the link to have a customized or tailed version of the JDK and then we take a dbn image and put that binaries into that dbn image and we have, when we were experimenting with dedicated 21 we had preview images, and we did another way that tamarin was not supplying the human to base images so we took the official preview binaries for linux and then copy them directly after a gelling step into the dbn image we know that works. We'll have to discuss with the rest of the community but I'm not sure we should keep on using that human to image because it's sometimes it appeals sometimes later than the official binaries themselves. So whenever there is a CDE we could be faster to react when using directly the binaries instead of images but that's my point of view, you may not agree with that and that's fine with me. I think it's a worthwhile discussion so the question there is do we build from container images do we use a from clause to bring in the container image, or do we go after and download the exact binary that the, I was a little surprised that you haven't moved that one out of draft, because arm v seven as far as I understood it they've tamarin has said they're not going to do it, or has has that have they actually changed their statement. No, officially no. In fact it was in their roadmap. It should have been there but then they faced a problem with the TCK you know the test of the sweet. Yeah, it was not working, but then we saw that it was working for Liberica, for example, so we know that open JDK can work for on 32. And they would like some of them, some of the people in the tamarin community would like to get on 32 JDK 21 bills. But the thing is they have a limited amount of time as in every open source project, so they don't have the means to do it for time being but today I saw once again, it's toward Edison, you would also like on 32 bills for the 21. Maybe if we, we, you know, the tamarin users would need the guy so the Java effects and so on part of the JDK. So I don't know what that means. But maybe it's because they have a test failing in the UI part, maybe so maybe we could have a reduced version of the JDK. I don't know. I'm still in touch with Stuart. So we'll see if anything good happened from that. So yes, it's still in draft, because I'm not so sure I want to use Liberica for arm v seven. And frankly, I haven't heard a voice in the Jenkins community saying, I want an up to date JDK 21 Docker image for arm 32 I even don't know if I'm not the only one using the side. Mark, have you heard anyone complaining. I have not. So we still, you know, it's 2025 maybe when we'll have to move to JDK 21 for Jenkins. 2026, I think it's two years right we roll over every two years so so we still have plenty of time. Okay, and the last one is not really interesting. It's an attempt to track the human to adnibian LTS releases. I thought that that's what Damian wanted me to experiment with but I think I misunderstood what he wanted so we can forget about this one but this also made me ask myself, do we still want to use that human to dependency, or just use a binary releases, I think we'll have to discuss that more. Right. Now on to the darker usage agents. We have one PR that he's a long running run which is the bomb of the github FS version of windows, but there is a flaky test. And of course the time being is blocking the migration to JDK 17 and 21 for windows. So there are a bunch of things to do before being able to update that version of github FS. We also have the bomb JDK 21 version 2202 13 I think you mark detected that there was a problem. Because now after the 371 of 372, we can see that every time JDK 17 or JDK 21 are updated there is a flip flop in the Docker file because the Docker, the JDK version flips from JDK 17 something to JDK 21 something so that's whenever I made in the recent PR. So we'll have to correct that. And the last one is the one that we are using to move the Linux S3 19x to an official version and not a preview version. The thing is, the current version that is defined in the Docker files and in the docker bake, does not exist for S3 19x so we'll have to upgrade the version of the JDK and then we will be able to move the S3 19x to more recent version and official version for JDK 21. Okay, so that part could you I need to be a little more clear on that one so we're using 21.0.2 everywhere as far as I know. I'm not sure I understand then so, so. Yeah, the thing is we'd like to move S3 19x out of preview and into the standard one and the thing is the current version which is 21.0.2 something. What is it from. This is the one that shows the flip flop. Yeah, yep, you're right. My fault, I guess. So the 21.01 underscore 12 does not exist for S3 19x. Right, 21.0.2 13 does. Yes, indeed. Sorry, I was not clear. Okay. I mean, that's that's one where we could certainly do that. We could fix that problem interactively by by modifying that pull request to be acceptable so that then you can get get the thing released. Even if we don't fix updates even if we don't fix whatever's wrong with our use of update CLI. We can also wait a day I think that Damian said he had thinks he knows the solution for it and is interested in doing it so we can just wait a day. Yeah, that's why I didn't start it thought correcting it. I could have done worse things by the way but Damian already knows what he wants to do with that and he. Yeah, so it's let it like that until Damian fixes it. Great. Thank you. Let's go on to the Docker base quick start tutorials. So, Kevin, I think you merged before all leaving the multi branch pipeline tutorial so it's it's done. It's. Okay, it's not mine. I should have. It's directly on Jenkins.io. My bad documentation tutorials. Up. Up. Find it. Up. Yeah, sorry. Near the top. I think it is end to end. Yeah, because it's so big in order to share it so that other can read that I just don't recognize the page. So yes, it's done. And it's working. Thank you. And now I'm working on the main Jenkins installation. Thanks to the worker and hopefully will be able to do without Docker in Docker. We'll see. Mark, two weeks ago you told us that the unfair server run it first shot so it's still working. It hasn't burst into flames or yet. Oh, no, it's working great and I used it to do diagnosis of several problems over the course of the last few days where I would run tests in parallel and on it on it and on AMD 64 to check K is and it's behaving beautifully. Yeah, so it'll continue. I've got to discuss with the infra team how they want to handle it, because we could treat it like a static agent the way we do system 390 as a one off. We could treat it as a cloud cloud provider. We could treat it some other way, and it's up to them what what they would what they would prefer. I just need to discuss the, the opportunities it provides for cost savings aren't nearly as great as some of the other cost saving opportunities that the infra team is working on right now. So it's it's not as hot hot a priority for them. Yeah, of course, as their current projects. That's cool. Thank you, Mark. Oh, yes. Thank you a lot. Thanks a lot. Our colleagues for this opportunity. And last one we were supposed to receive a meal five pioneer board these days, but unfortunately the supplier has to deal with an inventory shortage of stock so we'll have to wait, but that's okay we still have lots of other things to do. Kevin mark anything else to add before we wrap up. Nothing else for me. I'll grab my sign. Okay, thanks a lot for for your time. The video should be available from 24 to 48 hours and see you two weeks from now. Bye bye.


Today, this morning, so far, we have talked about our global economy, Canada's, our economic situation across the country. Premier shared some of our various experiences and where we sit with the economy. I think, notably, every Premier in the room really seized on the idea of making Canada an Asia-Pacific country, more than it even is today. And so, you know, all the way from British Columbia to PEI, provinces were talking about how we can seize this incredible generational opportunity to be a part of the tremendous growth that we're going to be seeing in Asia. There's an endless stream of visitors from around the world going to places like China, looking to secure greater economic ties and to build a stronger economic future back home that's understandable, so we've got to be there on the ground. So I have proposed, amongst other things, that we consider a Council of the Federation trade mission to China, to India as well. From our perspective in Atlanta, Canada, you hear a lot of the Western provinces talking about their gateway. Well, even from a Prince Edward Island perspective, we do a lot of trade with China around our seafood products, education, and we view that as a major opportunity for us to grow our economy as well, and I'm glad that it's on the agenda and that we're going to push forward to try and do more business in that area of the world. We had a great discussion. We're going to continue it this afternoon. What we kind of, we all realize pretty quickly, we're all in this together, and we are certainly all stronger when we work together. And that's going to be the continuing discussion that we have this afternoon as well.


Course overview improvements in Moodle 3.6 The new course overview on the Moodle 3.6 dashboard has many improvements making it easy to customise your course display. You can hide or star courses, show past, current or future courses, sort them by title or last accessed and select alternative views. Here our student's course overview is displaying all his courses but he can change this view. Courses may be bookmarked or starred from the three dots and then quickly located. He can also hide courses in the same way and if he needs to find them he simply filters hidden courses. Courses may be displayed either by their title or by last access and instead of the attractive card display there's also the option to see them as a list as here or as a summary as here. To summarise, the improved course overview makes it easy to customise your course display.


Hi, everyone. My name is Victory Brown and I'm a user experience designer and open source contributor. I'm also a member of the open source community, Africa. For today's session, I'll be talking about supporting free and open source software in Africa. It's really exciting to have you join me. Well, first, I want to clear the notion that there's always a notion that Africa is a country. Well, Africa is a continent. In fact, it is the second largest continent after Asia and also the second most populous country continent with over 54 countries. And I happen to be from one of those countries, Nigeria. Well, just for clarity, see what is free and open source software for free and open source software is software that allows users and programmers a day to modify or reuse a software source code kind of gives developers the opportunity to improve program functionality by modifying it. It is free in the sense that there's free liberty. It could be used and studied by everybody open source, because the source code is open to be modified and used. Well, straight on to about communities supporting free and open source software in Africa. Unfortunately, there are several communities that were supporting free and open source software in Africa, but have not been active for a while. But currently, there is one community that speaks and supports and also creates awareness on open source software here in Africa. And it is open source community Africa founded by Samson Gaudi and Ada Yom. Well, the open source community Africa is a community that creates awareness and supports Africa and help Africans contribute to open source projects. They also try to create an awareness of what open source software is. And they have two parts of this community, the community focus area where they do more advocacy on open source projects, raising awareness on open source communities, how to join and how to contribute as a newbie or as a first time at open source. And then they have the project area where they build stuff or they build open source software tools, open source products and programs. Now, the open source community Africa in relation or in partnership with Sheikot Africa, which is also another community here in Africa that promotes women who are interested in coding, came together during the open source festival in 2019 to create the women of open source community Africa. Now, this is a community of women in open source that are interested in for during their or pushing their open source career. Last during the 2020 break, they held a program in the month of July where they got ladies to contribute to open source communities and whoever made the highest pool request was awarded. And this kind of like brought a lot of women into open source. I came through that medium and it has been life changing for me, which is really exciting. And there are so many women who came into open source through that medium and are doing fantastically well in the open source community. Well, challenges facing free and open source communities here in Africa is access opportunities. Well, considering that open source is free in terms of voluntary and contributing, you know, be paid to do this kind of like a learning medium. But sometimes after learning, it's always so hard for Africans to get access to opportunities like mentorship or job or references to present somewhere to kind of like give them a head start on their career. Also, the issue of funding, funding is one general challenge that faces both communities, the women of open source community Africa and the actual open source community Africa. Another challenge is access to resources, resources on open source funding, open source liberty, open source software, learning and certification. Also, the lack of technical supports. Most of these communities are just newly founded and would need a lot of technical support in terms of teaching or mentorship on how to use most open source softwares. A sense of belonging, a sense of belonging. This is rare, but it's also another challenge that is first that we face here in Africa. Sometimes we're a part of communities and we don't feel like we belong there. And this is why open source community Africa was created to kind of like create a body of people who share the same ideology or the same need to contribute to something bigger or work on something bigger. Also, the time zone differences trying to contribute to most communities that are not on the West African time or some other time zone. But this can be fixed because most communities actually take note of this challenge and actually try to help by keeping video records, also sharing Google Docs link from the meetings, etherpad links, so you could follow up if you miss anything. But sometimes it doesn't really solve the problem because the feeling of working together and sharing ideas live, it kind of like takes out the fun that as a Nigerian, I want to talk about the impact of open source here in Nigeria, where open source has had such a great impact on so many persons. But for 2021, I want to talk about the open source stars of 2021, Ruth Ikega and Anita Iheheman. Ruth Ikega is one of the women or yeah, women who benefited from the women of open source community Africa challenge in the month of July, where there was a hackathon for who make the highest pool requests and she did it. She's a Python developer now turned writer. She started her contribution to layer five community chaos community where she contributed as a document and she took documentation for the community. She also acted as a spokesperson for new commerce school. She helped onboard a lot of new techies to the open source ecosystem, which is quite amazing and her growth has been so tremendous. She says open source gave me the confidence to do things I had never thought of doing. She speaks at conferences now and she has also been awarded a GitHub star award, which makes her the first female African to get this award. Also, Anita Iheheman started tech without the knowledge of how computer works and during the period of the women of open source community Africa, she found the layer five community which she has contributed to by contributing through front end and also helping to onboard new commerce. She has stayed in community for such a long time that she was made community manager. So these are actually very exciting growth here in Nigeria, especially from women here in Nigeria. So this shows that these communities are actually doing so much. There are actually so many persons who have benefited from these communities. I for want to have kind of like gotten satisfaction contributing to open source communities as a designer. At first it was challenging, but with the help of these communities, I found my place in communities talking, writing and designing for them. It's actually a very amazing experience. Anita says I was afraid of speaking in public and that all changed when I started contributing to open source projects. Now I advocate for this project. Anita currently works as a developer advocate for Nermata and her growth has also been very, very tremendous. Now how to support these free and open source communities in Africa? Well, you could make donations to the open source community Africa through the Open Collective. The Open Collective is an open source organization that deals with funding of new open source projects and open source communities to kind of help them to grow and get a stance. Hosting workshops and trainings, it is you could reach out to these communities, their leads or community managers and talk to them and tell them, okay, I want to host a workshop and training for members in the communities and it's really exciting. Authenticating these communities probably by giving them a badge to say, okay, you've done this so far. Promote these communities, try to create awareness that these kind of communities are here and they are working to create awareness in the open source space. Proper onboarding, yeah, this can be a challenge sometimes as new techies come into the open source space and are lost trying to find communities where they will feel welcomed in or also find projects to work on. So have a proper onboarding system, have a documentation that guides newcomers to contributing to open source mentorships. Mentorships are really important, be a mentor, get acquainted with the community, mentor people, technical writing, project management, design. There are so many people in tech that are in these communities and doing different, in different areas of tech. Also hosting university outreach is helping these communities to host university outreach here in Africa is also another way you could support free and open source software in Africa. Well, thank you for coming to this talk. I'll be here if there are any questions, I'm ready to answer them. I look forward to hear from you soon.


It's 2022 and I don't know if you guys know this or not But that's an entire year more than it was the last time I did one of these Episodes so every single month of the year I go through and find five awesome Linux apps that I can share with you my community and This has proven to be a really popular little series So I thought I would continue it in the new year and that's what we're gonna do today So I have five really awesome apps for you. Let's go ahead and jump right on in but before we do Make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss next month's list And if you have applications that you'd like to suggest for this list, you can leave those in the comment section below Just remember don't leave a link because YouTube will actually just go ahead and delete those things And that would be pointless then of you actually leaving that comment So now let's go ahead and jump in okay So the first app on the list for this month is called app image pool now One of the primary complaints against app images that I've always had is that they're a hard to find be hard to use and See hard update app image pool strives to fix those problems first of all it acts as kind of like a app store for app images so you can go through and as you see on the Screen go through and actually find in app images that exist in a app store like package it's really cool and it really does solve the problem of Discoverability when it comes to finding things that actually have app images now It's not perfect as you'll see in the b-roll there are issues in where there are apps in the store They don't actually have app images attached to them. That's a problem, but this is a fairly new project So I'm expecting it to not be perfect Another thing you'll notice that is kind of weird is that sometimes there are Apps in there that just don't feel finished. So for example later on you'll see me search for Kaden live and it doesn't have any Like screenshots no information is there and you can't download it some Applications don't even have a download button. They're just kind of here It's weird that they have entries in the store But no ability to download them. It's just one of those things that kind of make this feel unfinished However, the things that do work work really well So you see me download blender where you can go through and just download blender and then you can launch it right from here It would allow you to update it from here I didn't actually get to test that because that actually has to be an update to be Actually available for you to test that but it will update from here. It'll also allow you to uninstall things from here so it's great because it'll allow you to go through and Actually have a complete list of all the installed app images that you have Another cool thing is if there's a certain version of an app that you want to use Say that you know for a fact that is stable and it has an app image for that version You can go through and search through a list of all the app images for every version that they have available and while that's not universal There's most apps. I would say don't actually have that functionality But some of them do and that's cool So this application holds a ton of promise now I have not been able to test whether or not this adds the app images to your Application menu or not it didn't work for me with Rofi But Rofi is kind of finicky that way so it's possible that if you're using a desktop environment This might add it to the menu for that desktop environment. I'm not sure I will also say there's not very much here in the way of settings mostly things for Where you want the applications to be installed and for dark mode. That's really it so that is app image pool It's really awesome, and you should definitely check it out if you are interested in trying something that isn't a flat pack or a snap Okay, so the next app on the list this month is called Persepolis download manager. I'm maybe mispronouncing that but I don't know this was Suggested by chemist Neo and the discord. So thank you for submitting an application chemist Neo. I really appreciate that So basically what Persepolis Download manager is is just a download manager. It's written as far as I can tell and cute So if you're using KDE plasma, this will fit in way better than it does in DWM so that's one of them I don't like to start out negative But just to know if you're using a tiling window manager as you'll see later on the b-roll sometimes things get a little finicky here It also didn't respect covantum, which I have installed and all my other Cute apps respect covantum, but this one did not so just those two negative bits out of the way if you're looking for a Download manager that will help you manage downloads, which is seems silly to say Persepolis is actually a really good option. It goes through it has the ability to schedule downloads It has a bill ability to save downloads for later And then it has all the basic tools you'd expect from a download manager things like Managing how many downloads you can have it doing at a time how fast those downloads can going can go together You know download and upload speeds you can also Stop them mid download and then resume them later Which is probably the best feature I have for a dollar manager because if you're downloading something big But you have to go away, and you don't want to keep going while you're gone You can stop it and start up later. That's really cool and then you can also go through and Do things like download playlists from certain sites now? I've not actually tested this out, but it's apparently a feature and It also has quite a few settings as you'll see in the b-roll there somewhere along the line There's a quite as you would expect with things that are written kind of for KDE There are quite a few settings that you can kind of tinker with so Persepolis download manager if I'm pronouncing that right is actually a really good download manager if You're looking for a native non-electron app. I'm pretty sure this is not written an electron to manage your downloads I really like it now. I do have some qualms like I don't know why when you started a download It has to open up another window. That's kind of annoying. I also don't care that it doesn't really play well with DWM Definitely if you're going to use this with a tiling window manager Institute a rule so that it's always floating and Institute a rule so the window that pops up oddly Is also floating so that doesn't take up the whole screen. It seems to work better that way So that is Persepolis download manager Okay, so the next application on the list is called font preview and what font preview is is a Terminal application that allows you to preview fonts now There is a way to view this like in view your fonts inside the terminal using this application using something like ubersug I was unable to get that to work but I'm still gonna try to get that to work later on but the the Basic functionality is that it's an fzf like fuzzy finder for your fonts You go through and you search for things using fzf it then highlights Whatever you searched for you hit enter and it will spring up an s6 IV Preview window of that font so you can see what it looks like that's literally what it does now There are a few things you can mess around with it You can change the size of the font you can change the Background and the four color of the font you can change the preview text you can change So for example with a preview text if you wanted to go through and change it so that it said something different instead of the Default a b alphabet it you could do the lazy dog jumped over the fox or whatever how that saying is You could go through and have it say something specific in particular you can also change the position of the font preview so it's you know in a certain position in the window and Basically, that's it So there's not a ton of stuff here that you can do what I would really like is if you go through and actually set fonts using this application Like system fonts, but that would be way hard like because different distros Have different ways of setting fonts and stuff. So that's asking too much. I understand that But just the fact that you can go through and preview fonts and then know exactly what those fonts are called So you can then copy and paste the name of the font into whatever config file you're working with That's really cool And it means you don't have to deal with GTK based applications that can be somewhat finicky sometimes Or require root permissions just to even run. So that is front preview. It's really cool and really simple I really like it. Okay, so the next app on the list is called flat seal now This one here is a very nerdy app and it's for people who use a lot of flat packs Now I'm not one of those people. I use an arch-based distro Which means I pull most of my applications from the a you are But if you're using something like MX Linux or fedora or something like that where you might be using a lot of flat packs This is a really cool application and it's very simple and for good reason All it does is allow you to manage the permissions of the applications that you use through flat pack And when I save permissions, I mean literally everything. Can it connect to the network? Can it see your home directory? Can it manage your windows? Can it even exist in xx or can it exist in Waylon? Can it do all I mean literally every single thing that it might need permissions for like SSH Access to the root directory access to Bluetooth access to volume and cameras and all that stuff everything is here and You can turn things on and off as you want now I will say that if you turn something off like file access or Xorg access Chances are the application is not going to work. It's just probably not because it's probably going to be built for It's probably going to be built Necessitating access to whatever those things are there's a reason why it has access to those things However things like your camera things like the sound in your audio and stuff like that probably can be disabled without breaking things No, it's not a guarantee, but it's chances are stuff like that You can go through and disable if you don't want them to have access to the camera So for example, if you are using retro arch it does not need Access to the camera same thing. It doesn't need access to Bluetooth and it shouldn't be just shouldn't be enabled by default anyways but if it is you can turn those things off and make sure that your Applications aren't doing anything nefarious That's literally all flat seal does it manages your flat pack permissions it's very much similar to what you'd get on a mobile device where you're going through and Managing permissions for your mobile devices and that means you can go through and be very minute in what? Access these applications have similar to what you can for on like iPhone or Android. So that is flat seal Okay So the last one on the list is called Q prompt and this is my favorite app of the month I usually save the one that I enjoy the most for the last and that's just because I'm an evil person So basically what Q prompter is is a teleprompter application So this is not going to be useful for everybody. I can already point that out Most people don't have a use for a teleprompter But for those of you who per who do content creation of like any kind whether you're doing a podcast or a video or whatever And you write scripts or anything like that Q prompter is really cool And it has just an absolute ton of features. I can't even get over the amount of features that it has So it actually allows you to write scripts right here in Q prompt if that's what you want to do I don't know why you'd want to Maybe if you're just writing something really short like I do later on in the b-roll you can go through and just write it here But it'll also allow you to input just regular old dot txt files I'm not sure if it'll let you import other types of files. I didn't try that I just tried the txt because that's it works fine But I'm assuming it probably would allow you to import other things as well Otherwise, you could use something like pandoc to Transition things from like markdown to that txt. It wouldn't be hard at all So the thing about Q prompt is that there's just a ton of features so you can change the text size You can change how fast and how slow it scrolls You can change how many how far the lines are apart There's a few settings that you can change you can go through and change where the Arrows along the sides are you can change whether or not that the there's a bar Along the the middle of it so that things are kind of like highlighted as it scrolls You can put up a timer so that it times how long you've been talking or how long it estimates you have Or how long that like the text would take you to read like so if you have so many words or whatever It'll say well you have the you know to this will take you two minutes to read And then we'll kind of count down as it scrolls through so you can kind of time yourself So say you want to create like a 15 minute video you could go through and do that You know how much text you'd have to have in order to get to 15 minutes at the current velocity of the text that scrolls through So that is Q prompt and it's just kind of awesome now like I said it's not for everyone like most people don't need a Teleprompter like at all but if you do I Haven't found one of those one of these applications that work this well It has a lot of other features too. So for example if you're you've set up some kind of hardware mechanism where similar to like a professional teleprompter you could go through and mirror this on to like a Some some other surface or whatever you could go through and do that. So this allows you to Flip things around so that they're it's scrolling the other direction It allows you to change the background You can go through and make it opaque so that it can be over over top of other content if you wanted to do that, there's just a ton of stuff here that you can do and I really like it and Everyone knows that who's watched this channel for any amount of time. You know that I'm not a scripter like I don't script these videos Like it all I've tried it before and I was actually made fun of in that video because you guys could see me Going like this, you know reading lines by lines I don't know whether or not this using Q prompt would actually have me continue to do that or not But I could see myself if I wanted to improve these videos at least a little bit more I could go through and do some scripting in some other the more structured videos and see if I could go through and you know Use this to improve The the videos just a little bit.  I really really like it. This is probably of the Applications that we talked about this month the one that I will for sure be leaving installed so that is Q prompt and That is actually it for this video So if you have applications that you'd like to see on this list leave those in the comment section below if you have Comments on any of the applications that I shared with you this time You can leave those in the comment section below make sure you hit the like and subscribe button I really do appreciate that you can you can follow me on Twitter at Linux cast You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slice linux cast before I go I'd like to take them home to thank my current patrons today dev on east coast web patrick all primus marcus maglin jackson I feel steve a cyber guy linux garrick mitchell art center carbon dated shawn jeremy odin Merrick camp drashley j dogs abuse these rock crucible and dart bandit six. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time