This is stock number 7J355AA, a 2011 Nissan Murano. This vehicle has a 3.5 liter V6 motor. From this HD video you'll be able to tell that this vehicle is very clean all the way around. Factory fog lights, front bumpers in pretty nice condition. Has the projector lamp headlamps. Factory painted alloy rims. Brand new brakes all the way around on this vehicle. And brand new tires. These are Firestone All Season 22565RA teams. We put those on during our safety inspection as well as the brakes. See the front grills in really nice condition. Pastner rim is in excellent condition as well. And that tire is brand new as well. You can still see the little wear knobs on them indicating that they are brand new. Down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how glass light and reflective the paint is. 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And welcome to Desk of Lady Eta. Hey, everybody. Welcome. Oh, it's cool. I've got this green bandaid on its block. Welcome to your transparent open source, as always, Lady Eta. Sorry. So it's Desk of Lady Eta time. I know it's Saturday night. Tomorrow we want to, well, we're going to go see dinner with a friend. We're going to talk about electronics and engineering with one of Lamor's MIT friends, which is exactly what we wanted to do for the last 18 months. So we're going to do that. We're going to do that. And after I drink all that shi-chu and eat all that bibimbap, I don't want to come back here and try to do videos. So we're going to do it Saturday night instead, which is fine. I'm much more focused and not drunk right now. You're on it. Let's do this. OK, so you've got a couple of things going on Desk of Lady Eta. First off, is there any news or updates you want to get? This Wednesday, JP'll be hosting Show & Tell. We have a normal Ask an Engineer. We have our shows on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays as well. And then we have this special Saturday one. So over the next 10 weeks, just because of the holidays and more, we'll probably be moving stuff around. Lady Eta and I are doing some volunteer work during the week of Thanksgiving. And then we're also visiting an Eta for team member who's in the hospital on Thanksgiving Day. So things are going to be a little weird, but we will continue to publish, publish, publish, share, share, share. Take it away, Lady Eta. OK, cool. All right, so this last week, I'm back trying to get some more hardware done in a run up to the holidays. And the Feather ESP32 S2, I finally, it's like a design from like a year ago, but we finally got the modules a couple of months ago, the ones that have both flash and PSRAM. I didn't really want to release it until I got the PSRAM modules. I guess I could have, but I don't know, whatever. It doesn't matter. So you get the PSRAM cable modules in. And so we want to go to the computer, a really fast show. They're out of stock at this moment. Actually, it says in stock, but I don't believe it. Really? I guess we have some of the Feathers in stock, which I didn't realize. The ones without the BME 280 sensor. And then we have two versions. Yeah, that's pretty remarkable. Folks, you should probably pick up some. I mean, like, where I'm in. I don't know if that's true. That seems a little unlikely. It was out of stock. Maybe somebody was walking today? I don't know. No? OK, well, anyways, maybe an allocation got undone. But so you get the ESP32S2 Feather and the one with the BME 280 sensor. I kind of made two versions of this. It's one-foot, but it's one PCB design. And basically, whether we place the sensor or not, there's a price difference. And I figured some people care about the price difference. They want it cheaper or they don't. That said, I kind of like the version with the BME 280 sensor, because it's kind of an all-in-one environmental Wi-Fi sensing thing. And I think even though this wasn't designed for ESP home or remote node stuff, I think there's enough people that do those kinds of projects that it would be neat to have a version that had a sensor built in. And then I could also make a version with the BME 680, which also has a gas sensor. And they have an AQI air quality algorithm that's available for the express if it's a closed source binary blob, but it's available for the express if 10 silica chip set. So if people remember from like a year ago, I designed three versions of this feather, actually. So this one, a version with a TFT, and then a version with a TFT on the back. And ironically, I never actually put together the version of the one with the TFT on the front till now. So let's go to the overhead. And I can show the different versions. So this is the version without the BME 260. This is the normal feather. And it's got the BME 280 spot here, but it's not placed. And then here's the version that does have it placed. It's basically, we just program the pick and place whether or not to have that sensor pick and placed on. And then this is the other product that we put in the store. So you can see it's displaying temperature, pressure, and humidity. So handy. It's got basically the top three environmental sensors people want. So then the other version is this version, which has the very cute TFTs, which it's funny for like a decade.  And they finally became available. I don't know. I think these are used primarily for smartwatch bracelet workout things, like the heart rate monitor slash step counter thing. So this is the color TFT version. But I love this TFT. Because first off, it fits right in between the feathers. So you can see, it fits very beautifully. It's 240 by 135. So it's a good number of pixels. It's basically equivalent to the 1.8 inch TFT that was one of the first TFTs we've ever stopped. It's product number 300. But it's tiny, and it's IPS. So it looks good. And so this is a simple demo. So we did Arduino testing last week. And then this week we're doing, we did some circuit Python testing. So this is a, you can kind of barely see it, but it's the Blinka with a star. And then it goes and gets our GitHub number of stars on the circuit Python repo. Why this demo? Because it's not the Bitcoin demo that people apparently think we're destroying the planet by doing. So we don't do the Bitcoin demo anymore. So here's the thing, everybody. We've been looking for a really easy thing that everyone would recognize and say, oh, that's live data. And sometimes new technologies come along and all these crypto things came along. And it was really easy to just be like, oh, what's the price? And it has a date. And there's like, you could look back at time. And it changes rapidly, which was another really good thing about it. But here's what we've learned is there is no nuances anymore.  And what's happened is people on Twitter has targeted and harassed our team. And so basically, we're just like, well, let's just not have this on social media. But let's find something. Well, let's find something pretty good. And what's cool is since we stopped doing that demo, people don't use Bitcoin anymore. So it's actually worked out. But the thing is, I just want everyone to know, we'll always do the right thing. And we'll always try to make sure we don't polarize things. So we're not going to have that type of thing on any of the social media things. But this, in particular, is fine anyways. So GitHub Star is a community thing. And it's a nice thing. I wish there was no API needed weather thing, but it doesn't exist. Yeah, that would be, of course, ideal, but there isn't any. OK, so this is a number of stars for CircuitPython repo, and it updates every minute. One thing that I noticed when I first put together this board definition, I actually copied the TFT definition from the TTGo, which is a other ESP32S2 board that has the same TFT. And I was like, OK, great. I'm just going to take that initialization and change the pinouts to match. And one thing I noticed is, you see how the TFT is really slow to update? Like it has this really weird slow wipe refresh. So that's from when you draw bitmaps in CircuitPython, especially on this board where the flash memory is shared with the program memory, which is like all the memory is basically shared on one chip. Fetching the data from the bitmap on the QSPY, if the TFT is rotated, it doesn't redraw linearly. It has to access the BMP out of order, because it rotates it. And so it scans the BMP out of order, just jumps around to get the scan line of that BMP for that location. Whereas if you, and it's not linear, it's 90 degrees. So it's accessing each pixel of the file separately. Whereas if the TFT is unrotated, it does the right math so that it can read the BMP linearly. Like BMP files, if you've ever opened them, they have the data like linearly inside it. And so you can seek to get the pixel data you need. But it's ideal if you don't have to seek if you can just start from the beginning and read the data out. So I was kind of like, oh, how to fix this? And I thought it would be worth showing how to do that. So if we go to Circuit. Yeah, I can show the poor quest. So under, let's see, it's under ports. Suppressive boards. OK, so here, I think it's under board.c. So there's this kind of thing with Circuit Python. What we do is when the TFT is built in, we have to initialize it before anything else. And so we actually have to have all the initialization data needed for setting up the TFT and drawing to it like in the C code. We can't load a separate driver. So you can always, if you want to have a driver that initializes the display using display, but it's kind of cute when it comes up automatically. So here we have the display in its sequence. And the thing that you kind of end up having to mess with the most is the mad control register, which is memory address. I think MAD is memory address, memory addressing of display control register. And that's 36. So 36 is, and this is true across almost every TFT display.  And sometimes it actually comes up, and it's rotated or it's weird colors, but you actually get something on there is because the commands are almost all the same for getting out of sleep, for setting the gamma, for changing the orientation and stuff. So the MAD control registers what you do to twist around the display and determine what is orientation, the native orientation. And what's really nice is that they'll let you, almost every TFT lets you set this register to say not only which corner is it, but which way it's flipped. MAD control also sometimes changes the RGB ordering. So sometimes you'll get a display. You'll see I actually kind of messed it up when I made the PR. I ended up swapping the red and green or something. And so that register kind of has a lot going on in it, where it's for 36. But the hint that it was not oriented correctly is, oh, here, this is actually the correct version. If I go to history, OK, so this is the diff. But if you go down here, the rotation was set at 90 before. And by having the native rotation be 90, that's why the TFT, when it displays bitmaps, it gets very confused. Because it rotates the display, then it has to un-rotate the BNP. And basically, all the math gets a little messy. So when I did the PR, I changed the init code, basically from, I think it was 0, 0. And I set it to 0, 8, or 6, or whatever. And you can look in the datasheet for which way it is. Although I'll say, because every time I bring up a TFT, I'm always ending up messing with the math control register. And the only hint I have is just sit there or just try. Like just flip the bits until it comes into orientation you want. So the good news is that I did fix that. And then I guess I went to go to the red. Yeah. Oh, another nice thing is the Tina UF2 bootloader that we have. It's not easy to see, of course, but it tells you like. This is nice. It has a little bootloader symbol. So you know it's like in the bootloader. So one of the things I really like is low cost electronics, running, scripting languages like Python, USB-C, Stemmic Connector, shows up as a USB drive, has a UI for the user, has a screen, has battery stuff. Like, this is like, this is what we've been working for. Yeah, it even says, like, download a UF2 and drag it on. So I feel like if you have a device with a TFT, I like it when, if in bootloader mode, it would come up. So this is the new rotated mad control. So the good news is that, like, I did fix one thing. Let me hit the reset button to get it to reset. So the good news is I fixed the speed. So you see it, like, draw the image immediately. It is fast. Wow. But I flipped the color so yellow is blue. So I inverted the color or something. So I have to go in and, like, again, I just have to mess with the MAD Control Register until I get it right. And that's, you know, every bit is, like, flip, rotate, RGB, GBR, whatever color. So it's very, very common. When you do a TFT, that's the kind of the register you end up sort of, like, poking at as much as possible. But if you're adding a TFT or circuit Python board, try to get the rotation to be, like, whatever you want the native rotation to be, have that, which is like, you know, I want it to be, I kind of like this, I sort of feel like feathers should have, you know, the USB on the left and the battery up. And then this is the legibility, you know, and the text shows up quite nicely. These are design choices. Design choices. And engineer makes. But this is, but just to be super clear, like, this is not the native, like this top corner is not the hardware native 0, 0. It's actually this way. 0, 0 is supposed to be here. So, you know, you're rotating it. Question, what size is the TFT? This is like 1.1 inches diagonal. But it's a nice display. IPS display. All right. What's next? OK, so speaking of, you know, one thing I wanted to talk about is these mini modules, because I wanted to, you know, people who are watching the show, a lot of them make hardware, so I wanted to give you guys a hint. So this ESP32 S2 module, again, I'd like it. I don't have a, I don't have a, and we're over. Super handy, hold on the ground. So there's like, you know, three sizes to ESP modules. So this is the war over. And this is the, you know, the largest version of the expressive modules. And these are kind of common because they have the chip, PSRAM and Flash. And sometimes there's no PSRAM, but there's, you know, spots for the PSRAM and the Flash. And so you can, you can get these customized with like any setup of PSRAM and Flash you want. If you order enough, Espressif will send them to you.  And then they have either Flash or PSRAM. And you're like, well, you need to have Flash, right? But sometimes the Flash is built in. And then the mini, you see the mini modules actually like basically the same size, the mini module, if you line it up, it's pretty much the same size as if you just cut off this extra Flash chip. And this actually only has basically this circuitry on the right-hand side here, the chip and the passives and the crystal because it has the PSRAM and the Flash built in. Okay, why not rotate the BMP so the hardware can render it natively? Because when you open the BMP on your desktop, you want it to be like the image, you know, the stars are on the logos on the left. Someone's gonna have to rotate it. Someone has to rotate it. If you just do it natively, you only have to do it once and it's always like, it's elegant. It's like, it's exactly what you expect it to be. Because I think that people want to have a, you know, I feel like having a landscape view is better than a portrait view. But yeah, if you wanted to do portrait, portrait. I knew that too. All right, what's next? So this mini module is nice because it has the Flash and PSRAM built in. That's why I like it. That's why I'm using it because I really like the two megabytes of PSRAM. It makes IoT and memory not a problem because you can read message, JSON files, bitmap files, whatever, you know, and store them in RAM and you have two megabytes of RAM. It's so much that you barely even have to think about it. So if you're interested, this actually over here is not an S3. This is an S3. So the S3 is the next chip coming from Espressif. And this S3 is somewhat like the S2. It's again, the next generation of ESP32. But the S3 is a dual core and brings back the Bluetooth low energy support that was taken out in the S2. So it's like, you know, they had the ESP32, like super famous, dual core, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi can do everything, but no native USB. S2 took away the dual core, took away the Bluetooth. S3 bring that back. So the S3 is the closest thing to like, it's an ESP32, but with native USB, which is like, I think great because it supports teeny USB and it's wonderful. And I just noticed that on Digi-Key, if you search... You want me to go to that? Yeah, if you go to the, because I was actually like, what is the status of the ESP32? So the 32 S2 mini, you can actually get the version that doesn't have PSRAM here. Although I'll say this version, which is the four megabyte, the N4R2 means PSRAM to flash four megabytes.  It says like, looks like, you know, they have a real coming soon and they have more coming in February. So luckily they're starting to make it into circulation. But the ESP32 S3, and you know, I can kind of tell that they're gonna be doing a lot of promotion with this chip. So I'm always talking about the NPI here. So there are some ESP32 were over, sorry, were room and mini modules. Is this time for great search? It's not, this is a secret. Oh, we're not gonna do great search right now? Well, no, we'll get in a second, but I wanted to give people like a hint because I can't just on the great search because this is gonna be gone by the time I refresh. Okay, so I get it. So right now, if people want this, you should go get it now. And then we're gonna do the great search because then we save that as another segment later. This is secret. Yeah, I don't want to talk about this. Oh yeah. All right, so, hey y'all, for the community, by the way, the community that watches this lately is awesome. These are some of the treats you get. Go get some right now. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Because there's gonna be none. Yeah, for sure. If you want a prototype, if you want to develop with the S3. What should they search for on the site to get to this? ESP32 S3. Yeah, I didn't want to put this on the great search because I felt like maybe I'll do it later when there's more in stock, but these are really engineering samples only. They're not, these are not for large scale use yet. And there's also- Go, go, go, go, go, go. Dev boards. Although I don't think, oh yeah. So they have the dev kit. Yeah, someone said the great shh. This is the dev kit I've got. So I recommend this one, it's got the dual USB. 351 is up. And they don't have any other dev kits. We don't know how people will be buying these and popping the chips off. You can't, I mean, you can use this and remove the room if you want, but they do have some more rooms in. Okay, anyway, so that's- So I'm gonna pretend that didn't happen in one of your search? It was not a secret secret, it just didn't happen. We were here. Yeah, so let's go to the great search. I'm gonna do that, ready? Yes. Let's go to this intro. Where? The great search brought to you by Digikey. You know what I'm saying? There you go, Digikey. Every single League of Lady Aida looks online at digikey.com and finds- Parts. The parts. That you can buy. And we call that the great search. What is this week's great search? Lady Aida. Okay, so this week's great search is kind of, you know, it's a two in one. So one, Pelolu, which is a friend company, they're in Nevada. They also do open source hardware and electronics. And they did a massive post about silicon shortages and lead times. And it's a great article, so go check it out on the Pelolu.com. And one of the things that they showed is like their stock levels for some chips, including MOSFETs. Yeah, so I just want to, I want to promote them. Also, please support Pelolu. Their stuff is awesome. Yeah, so every holiday season, every time they have a sale- And they sell it on Digikey too. We promote them. And I'll say this to our live viewers and everything. I really hope the maker companies and the electronic companies this holiday season maybe get together and cross promote each other because like AidaFruit doesn't have every single thing. And every year we post all the sales to other sites and everything. Pelolu and AidaFruit always do that together. And we try to get the spotlight on Pelolu. But you know, there's this thing that happened. Like we all used to be a community and was smaller when we first started doing open source hardware together like 15 years ago. And now everyone's a competitor and like knives are out and like there's people who don't even talk to each other anymore. I think given that we've survived the pandemic and not everyone did, but given that like we're here now, some of us did, maybe it's a good reset. So anyways, this is part of the great search is finding the goodness in each other. In addition to this part back to you Aida. You're searching for another good come soon. Their stuff is available on digikey.com as well. So you can purchase through them. But please support Pelolu. They do awesome robotics stuff. But I really liked they posted some really good information about their part shortages and how they're struggling. And they mentioned that even MOSFETs are hard to get. Yeah, it's like the Silicon shortage. Like I know that there was a blog post by Playdate by Panic and they were talking about how their STM32 F7 chip or H7 chip, whichever it is. It's like they got a lead time of two years. And I saw another company say, you know, we have an FPGA and it's some crowdfunding project and they're like, our FPGA is delayed also for like a year or two. But you know, those, and those are like the things you're popular because you're like, you hear about these chips and sensors being used in automotive. But we're seeing this too, even MOSFETs, like even the most like jelly bean of parts are getting hard to get or you order them and you're not getting them. And I always found that a little bit weird because I'm like, you know, if you make a, you know, if you make a Silicon wafer with MOSFETs on it, I mean, you're gonna get like hundreds of thousands of them per wafer. I mean, they're very simple. They're easy to fab, but it could be that that process is booked up. So one of the things that we actually were, this week I had to go and find an alternative for is for our prop maker featherwing it's a stock because we actually couldn't get, there's not a lot on here, but we couldn't get the MOSFET that's used with turning on the RGB LEDs. So this prop maker wing part of it. And you know, of course, wouldn't I design this? I was like, what's three and channel MOSFETs? What's the big deal? How could they ever not be available? But we have a little RGB LED driver and you can see this ultra high power LED. A lot of people who make, you know, sabers or props, they have a very bright LED. We just did a prop with it for Halloween. Then a pager did it and they used an LED and they said it compared to a new pixel actually kind of the point source created a nice effect. But to drive these LEDs, you actually have to use a very powerful and channel MOSFET with a good power supply because these LEDs can be three watts. They can be an amp per channel or even more, maybe an amp and a half for the red LED. So it's a sizable amount of current. So you want to drive it well. So here is the circuit design we had for the prop maker prop feather wing.  And we spec the DMG3406. So let's go to the Digi-Key and this is the part I can't get. But let's look at this specs. GMG3406. So there's two versions available here but I think it's just the real size. It's how many is per reel. And yeah, one of the tricks I've done is, you know, I like to type in, you know, just a number here. If you're not getting a thing that pops up that tells you like the dates, it doesn't mean they're not gonna get them but it's kind of like, it fills me with an ease, you know what I mean? It's like what do you mean you don't even know when you're gonna get the next reel in? So that's when I think we even booked some and we haven't gotten them yet, but we went out and so we have to find an alternative. So, you know, when you're doing this, use the product attributes to select an alternative. So we're gonna guess it's gonna be a single MOSFET. It's gonna be an end channel.  This is a secret because I did it first and I didn't find a good alt. And then I was like, well, what if I click non-active and you'll see something came up? I want a MOSFET. Now for the drain to source voltage and the current and the drive voltage and the RDS on and the VGS. Again, I don't need it to be that precise number. I just need it to be around that number.  Instead I'm going to then filter by groups because it's like, I just need 50 milli ohm about or less, right? And less is better. So I can always select anything under that amount. However, I do want it to be a SOP233 and I want it to be, of course, pick-and-place compatible. I want to use the same package and PCB because I've already got that designed. Okay, great. So I'll use so much. So 345 available. Now, even though I don't care about active, I do want it to be in stock. And that basically brings it down to 50. So there's not as many of these in stock month surprising. Okay, so next up. So the most important is that continuous current drain. Now again, I mentioned the LEDs, people can connect three to nine watt LEDs. So I want to be able to draw, it was like 3.6 amps. I want to have something at least as good. So I'm going to select 3.4 amps, which a little bit less, but still well within reason or above. And that gets me to 16 options. And then the next thing is the RDS on. So I do want to have the resistance be low. I mean, I really need to make sure the thing that's going to be challenging is if I have to dissipate a lot of heat through this transistor. So I want to reduce the RDS on because it's not really heat sunk and it's driving a lot of current. So I had 50 milli ohms before and I'll basically select 58 or under. So I'll give myself a little bit more option, but still. For the VGS on, I think, oh, let me see what it was. Gee, I think it was 1.7. Sorry, the VGS is two. I will say that I'm driving it from 3.3 volt logic. So I'm actually not concerned. Nothing, you know, that's the one thing I'm really not too worried about. The VGS, everything here is under 3.3. So that's good. So let's see what we've got for options. So there are actually a couple options available, which is always a really good feeling. Let's see if there's any other, the VGS max I don't care about and the gate charge I don't care about. So these are all pretty good. And then when I sorted down from stock, I actually got a lot of good options here. So looks like, you know, one thing that I thought was interesting is that there is a DMG3402. So this is a, you know, like a sister product to the 3406. And this one actually just has a slightly higher current. So it's actually a slight improvement and it has a lower VGS. So this would be a really good option. And there's also the AO3406. And again, I always kind of like it when there's like a competing company that makes a chip with the same subpart number. Cause it's like, they're going to match the specs pretty well. Like I'm not, I'm like, okay, clearly this was meant to be a drop in replacement. Even though it's not guaranteed, even though you should check the data sheet, it's kind of nice, right? So it's kind of like, when you go to the grocery store and they're like, oh, they don't have Dr. Pepper, but they have like Mr. Pib. And you're like, well, it's like a Mr. Doctor, PhD, whatever, it's close. So both, all of these are quite fine, but you know, these three, I would are going to say the top picks because they have, you know, I need a lot. They have over 40,000 in stock. The DMG3402, I would probably actually want to test it just to make sure it worked. But for drop in replacementness, the AO3406 is another really good option. And what's interesting is that this was a NRND, but they have 40,000 stock. And again, I don't really care. I just want to, I just have to get through the next couple months until that order that I placed for the DMG3406 comes in. So there's definitely going to be a lot of like, you know, pick, pick around, find the right component to match. But for, you know, MOSFETs, when you spec them, I'll say it's tricky because there's so many specifications. And some of them matter and some of them don't. Like because this isn't driving, you know, anything high speed, I don't worry about the gate capacitance so much. But that might matter to you. And again, like the voltage, the gate threshold doesn't matter. And I know the DMG3406 has worked really well. So even though there's a chip that has slightly better specs, I'm actually probably going to be safe and stick with these specs, just so I don't get surprised by something. Even if on paper something looks better, I've learned like, do try to stick to the thing that's closest to what you've got. And then change your specifications if you need to. And that's a great search. Where in the world is that part I need to check? Okay, I'm going to wrap it up. Question came in. Unrelated question, if you're taking them today. Yes, we are. Bought the SGP30 board recently and the LED on it is different than every other STEMAQT board. It's not red, not green. Is the on LED color difference intentional or relevant or perhaps simply the wrong slot for the SMD LED wheels chosen for the pick and place that day? It's some purpose because I believe that's a 1.8 volt power supply. And so it would not light up a green LED. So we picked it in color, which would read. And check at Khan's video to find out why you have to use a red LED if you have a lower voltage. All right, that's the show for tonight. Thank you everyone so much. Again, want to say a special thanks to everyone who's always in the desk of Lady Aida chats and more, you know, you're the reasons we do this because sometimes it's rough out there, but y'all are good. So we're going to see everyone next week. It might be Saturday, it might be Sunday, unknown because there's a lot going on. But that's a deal with desk of Lady Aida. It's hacker time. It's hacker time. It's hacker time. I don't know. And we very much appreciate it. And thank you everyone who, you know, wants to all pick up some in the store because we want to keep doing this.  Got to pay some bills. So we'll see everybody next week. Bye bye. Bye bye everybody.


engineering the Albertine app for fun and profit. Let's first introduce myself. I am Nick Vars. I work as a knock engineer at Speakup. They do voiceover IP things like was presented. And by night, I'm a hacker, thinker, and a hosting provider. I do some hosting provider work for small businesses in and around NSW. So let's get started. Why did I choose the Albertine to reverse engineer? Well, they're close by to me. And they give benefits to people that use a bonus card. And the bonus card is meant to be linked to you as a person. And that gives you all kinds of discounts. And another reason was that, I mean, other supermarkets also have an extensive API. So maybe you'll find some inspiration from this. And reverse engineer, for example, the YAML app or the app in another country. So let's explore the API. We have an app, and this is a very simple screenshot of how the app can look. This is some discounts and some products that were lost last month. And what happens in the background when you open this page is that your app does a get request to this URL. And how can we find this out? How can we see what the app is doing in the background? Well, it's very easy. There are these tools. There are other tools as well. But these are Charles and Burp Suite. And what you can do with these is man in the middle your own phone. That can be very interesting. What you need to do is install a certificate authority on your phone. It needs to be trusted. And once you do that, the app hasn't been secured against this because the most bank apps will be and other apps as well. But the Albertine app is not. So when we install our own CA certificates, we can listen to the traffic. If you have a Mac with a M1 processor or M2, you can make this easier because, well, iPhone and iPad apps can run on your laptop. And that makes it so you don't have to install certificate authorities on your phone. Charles can do that for you. Once you open Charles, all traffic flows through that. And that makes it a lot easier to reverse engineer. So here's an example of something you might want to do in the app or data you want to get from the app. They have these loyalty programs where you can save up for, in this case, towels. And every time you get a full card with eight stamps, you get towels for three or four euros. So what if you want to track your progress in this? Say you visit the Albertine very much and you want to see how you progress alone. Well, you just do an API request to this URL here. And what you get back is a JSON response. It's very handy. This is how the app works in the background. Your app is just a front end for their API. They've built an API, then built a front end, and that is how the app works. So we have the balance right there. It's very handy. And you can track that over time in pretty Grafana dashboards. I'm a great fan of that. I promised you for profit. So here's why it's for profit. Albertine is a thing called the bonus box. What you need to do every week is go in there and pick out what kind of discounts you want. And as you guessed, there's an API call for that too. You just do a request to that URL there. Give the start date. You get back a JSON response with other products that will be discounted for you and you only. And we can also activate those products. You send a few parameters. And then the offer is activated. And you have discounts that you wouldn't have if you weren't going to go into the app every week and manually activate those offers. So there's a little bit of profit. I did exactly that. I wrote a script. And it goes down all the things that I can activate. And that makes it that I have cheaper groceries. I mean, Albertine is not the cheapest. If you're from the Netherlands, you'd know that. But there can be if you have the right offers. Here's the thing, though. Albertine made it pretty annoying to work with this API. It used to be that you can just send a login request via posts. And then you would be able to log in, get a token, and do all these API requests. What they did a short while ago is enable CAPTCHA on that login process. And there is no other way to get an authentication token. So what you need to do is, oh, sorry. What you need to do is man in the middle, either with a Mac that can run iOS apps, or you need to install a CA certificate on your phone, listen to the request it makes. And then you will see that it does a request for a refresh token. And that refresh token gives you, you can submit a request with that request token. And it gives you a new authentication token and a request token. So if you do that, let's say every half hour, you put that refresh token in a database.   So some of you might have already seen this, but I flashed it a couple of seconds ago. This is a Swagger page. Everyone that works with APIs will know what this is. And this is basically some documentation for the Albertine API.  So you can scan this QR code. And well, go ahead for yourself. It's on GitHub, too. So if you figure out more API requests from the app, please submit a pull request. I really appreciate that. And I know scanning QR codes is scary.  Like I said, the Albertine is not unique in these. A lot of apps work this way. This is an example for the YAMBO. When I click on the plus to add this delicious hamburgers a la minutes, it just sends a pull request to this URL. And the funny thing is, I'm not even authenticated here. I just downloaded the app and clicked the plus button. And I saw this in the app. So that means that YAMBO is still tracking users that haven't created an account yet. It's quite interesting. So that's enough about the API. I've given you some examples of how I use it. And I've given you a way to play with it yourself. And I'd now like to talk about the brief story of Random Bonus Cards.nl. And some people started laughing. RandomBonusCards.nl is exactly what you think it does. Once you go there, you'll be presented with a bonus card. That means that Albertine can track your purchases. Because Albertine uses the bonus card to track you and in return, you get discounts. But most people don't want to be tracked. So here is RandomBonusCards.nl. It's meant to be used on your phone. And it works really well. A lot of people use it. How do I know a lot of people use it? I can track website visitors. I have a Motomo install on this website, so I can track that. But I want to know how many people actually go to the Albertine and scan that code. There are others as well. I'm not the only one who does this. Here are three examples. BonusCard.nl, WellBonusGeneData.nl, and BonusCard.nl. And these do exactly the same, although I don't know if these actually generate random BonusCards or if these are doing a similar thing to me. Because, well, I thought one day, what if I put my own BonusCard on there? What if I only put my own BonusCard on there? So I put several on them on there. You might think, well, that breaks the promise of a random BonusCard. It's not random anymore. That's true. But the reason you like to use a random BonusCard is to have anonymity while you're shopping. And once there are enough users on the same BonusCard, the profile gets so contaminated that the data isn't of use anymore to the Albertine. So I did that. And here is a map of all the Albertines that people did groceries with my BonusCard. And this is only June. Because the Albertine app gives you an API call to track receipts. And that receipts has data of the address to store. So once you get that address, and you put that through a location API, you get the latitude and longitude. And then you store it in a database, and you get this. I have more statistics as well. Here is how many people used my website. It's 1,305. And this is just in June. Here you can track the amount of times it was used per day. So it was quite a busy day there on the 18th. Not sure what's up with that. Of course, Albertine isn't the only app that has a private API in Jumbo, isn't as well. There are others. And has anyone here heard of Go Scooters? OK, a couple of people. Go Scooters are a rental service where you can download an app and unlock a scooter that's on the street. People don't often treat them lightly. They say, don't be gentle. It's a rental a bit too far, if you ask me. If you download the app, you get this pretty map. And you can see all the vehicles that are around you. So let me zoom out here, and I'll go to Almere. And you can see how far assumed out I am and how many dots you can see. So that means that the data must be coming from somewhere, right? Oh, yep. And I'd actually like to do this with a live demo. So OK, let's see if I can drag my terminal over to the next screen. Yep, there we go. And can I maximize this and then make the text a little bigger? All right. So once you do an API request to this URL here, user.api.gourban.services, what do you think will happen? Well, I'm going to spoil this for you. I'm just going to press Enter and get a huge JSON request back, the JSON response back, with a lot of data, actually, and more data than I expected. Some of these coordinates are pretty precise, and you can also see the license plate and the state of charge of these vehicles. Not sure if this is meant to be this way. I'm guessing there can be some optimizations made here. I'd like to go back to this statistic here. There's a reason I showed June instead of July. And that is my scraper runs every 30 minutes. And when it does that, it asks the obtain API, hey, can you give me all four receipts on my account? And there's no way to limit that request. So what started happening was that script started spewing out error messages. And those error messages were 504 timeouts, gateway timeouts. So what happened was that the request got so big that the underlying servers weren't able to handle my request in time. Because my scraper runs every 10 minutes, or every 30 minutes, I put it down a little bit. There's less strain on their databases. But I think some engineer at Albatyn noticed because they limited the results I got back. I got curious, how big is that response? It's about 20,000 lines of JSON. So I can understand why someone did something about that. The only problem is they didn't limit it on the last receipts. So when I go into the app now and I check my latest receipts, the latest one is from October last year. So no more pretty stats for me. The discard looks quite empty for today and the rest of the month, July as well. What can you do? We talked about the Go sharing, and we've checked out the Go Urban API. So what's the moral of the story? Just open up your APIs. I mean, you've already built it. And once you do that, you give other people the possibility to create amazing things. One example I heard was someone that created a scanner app where you can scan a barcode, and it will automatically add that to your shopping list. It's beneficial to Albatyn because it creates convenience. And once it's on your Albatyn shopping list, well, then you're most likely to go to the Albatyn to buy that product. And you've already built it again. So why not release it? I mean, you can't release it the way it is right now. You have to do some tweaks, mostly with authentication. And the past can be cleaned up as well. But I don't care if Albatyn releases this the way it is. And I really hope they do. Another point, by the way, is data freedom. You can track your own groceries if you decide not to use randombonuscard.nl, which I highly, highly recommend. So what can you do? Does anyone know what these are? Awesome. I'm going to explain them anyway. These are Amazon Dash buttons. The idea is that you order Amazon Dash buttons. And once you push that button, one of these items will be added to your shopping cart on amazon.nl or wherever you're from. And it will also place the order for you if you want. You could make your own one of these. You can track the Albatyn delivery time slots. And you can also just place an order for delivery through the Albatyn app, which is what I did, of course, to try it out. Because once the courier comes, you pay at the door. So that makes it possible to place an order like that. So I'd like to thank you all for attending my talk. And if you want to contact me, that's how you can do that. Thank you. Thank you so much, Nick. That was amazing. And thanks, dear, dear audience, for applauding a live demo. I think that is a very cool thing to do. Thank you. I didn't even bring an offer to the demo gods. Are there any questions? And if you have a question, please move over to the microphone and ask a question there. So the people in the live stream also can hear your question. Thank you so much. The person in the back was first, so you can go first. I apologize if I missed this, but are you actually able to generate a random barcode for the bonus cards? Is there an algorithm to that, or is there just like any random unique ID would be valid? Yeah, the bonus card is just a AOM-13 barcode. And there's a certain range of card numbers. And what you can do is generate your own and ask the Albertine API if that is a valid bonus card or not. And that is actually how randombonuscard.nl worked in the beginning. It just, once you load the page, it generated one. And if it was valid, it will show that to you. I changed it up a bit for, well, statistics reasons. But yeah, there is a way to actually generate random bonus cards, random bonus cards. Yeah. Thank you for your question. Next one up, go ahead. Superman. Thanks. Thanks for the interesting talk. I saw you had 272 of the Handuk Segel things. How did you get those? And was that the random bonus card account? Yep. Yep, that's exactly it. Well done, well done. If you need some, by the way, just come talk to me and I'll transfer some to you. It's no problem. Thank you so much. Go ahead. So apart from transaction costs and interesting location data, do you have any other interesting data that you got via the not-so-random bonus card? I'm mainly thinking of interesting personal data. Right. No. It's very hard to, and I didn't actually try, but it's very hard to track individual users that use the website. I can see that the same person that used the bonus card in Almere also used it in Amsterdam a week later. I can't see that. And I don't even want to know that either. That's good to know. The promise is anonymity, and I want to keep it that way. I was wondering, do you have any tips because you were currently discussing how to reverse engineer REST APIs? Yep. I was wondering, do we have also have any tips to reverse engineer GQL APIs or WebSockets or other types of infrastructures? The same method I used for this REST API also works for GraphQL apps or WebSockets. Once you man in the middle, you can see all the traffic that the app generates, and you can also see the responses from the server. I meant more like, do you know any civic tooling or any? Yeah, the same tooling I showed you, so WebSuite and Charles can also see that kind of traffic. And the way I documented this API was with a postman collection. So what I did is copy the request as curl from Charles, in this case, and then paste that into postman because postman can understand curl commands. Yeah, of course. But postman isn't able to understand WebSockets, right? Sorry? A postman doesn't understand WebSockets. Yeah, that's true. So you need another tool for that. I don't have experience with WebSockets. Sorry. Go ahead. I was wondering if you racked up that many Handoek Seegels. How many AirMiles did you rack up? And what did you buy with that? No comment. Another one, please go ahead. Oh, yeah. Another question in the for-profit part. This likely also means that you can get all the product details in pricing and do nice comparisons with that. Exactly, yeah. That's one way you could use this API. Just grab the same product and the price and see how that develops over time. Yeah, do you have anything available for that, or is that something that? The Swagger I released and the OpenHPI specifications have some calls for listing products in certain categories or searching for products. So that should help you with that endeavor. You could also do the same thing as I did and listen to the traffic that it generates and see what it does when you tap a certain product. You most likely get a product ID and can query that for the price details. OK, thank you. This is maybe more of an Albert Hein question than a reverse engineering question. Sure. But would it be possible for someone to take one of the random bonus cards and sign up in the Albert Hein app, as though it was their bonus card, enroll in the Cope Zagels program, and then harvest the Cope Zagels from inattentive people at checkout that weren't noticing that they were purchasing some extra coupons? To clarify, by the way, I didn't enable the Cope Zagels on random bonus cards I don't know. I want to keep you as a user. But no, it's not possible to claim this account to a different account because it's already linked to mine. So once you try that, it will say this bonus card has already been linked to an account and you cannot link it to another one. You had the Pursión Liga bonus, which changes every week. But I noticed in the API call that there's a start date and an end date. Can you also query the bonus that you get next week or next month? You can query the bonus you get next week from Thursday of the previous week. So once it is Thursday, you can do that request with the start date. And the start date should be Monday.  If you do that before then, you will get back an error message. So unfortunately, no. Go ahead. Yeah, so I myself use just an unactivated bonus card. I grabbed from near the till, which also works. Random bonus card is a lot better. So thanks for that. Is there any chance that it generates a random one which you then register, as you just said, which then collides and maybe steals away my bonus card? Like I said before, the way it used to work was that it generated a random number and checked that against the API and then showed you that code or not. If that code was already linked to a different Albertine account, I'd actually not show it, but generate a new one because, well, someone can enable corp tables and that would encode costs on the users. And I don't want that. OK, so it is possible that my unactivated bonus card was randomly generated by the app and you've registered it? That is, in theory, possible. Yes. OK. How large is the key space around the button? I don't know off the top of my head. I can look that up for you. Cheers. Thanks. Thank you very much. I have one question from the internet, from Turim. He was wondering on the random bonus card if you automatically enabled all bonuses on it. Yep, that's a service from me to you. If you use that website, I showed you a screenshot of the script. On the screen, yes. Yeah, thank you. Sorry. How it is. Where is my screenshots? Here it is. It does this every week for all the bonus cards that are on randombonuscard.nl. And what it does is it enables Albertine Premium for reasons I'm not going to comment on. You can figure that one out. But it also gives me 10 offers to choose from instead of five. What you could do is bring in some more logic. For example, if you're a fan of a certain type of food, you could do some pattern matching and see when that is in your bonus box and then use that to activate that offer every week. What this does is just activates the first 10. So pretty simple, but yeah, it works. Thank you. I see another question. Oh, sorry. I think that was it then. Thank you. Now we have time for one more. Because I was interested. You told me something about the Albertine hasn't reached out to you yet, right? No, no. I'd really like to hear from them. I want to know.  Come talk to me after. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again, Nick. I think I'll put my contact details on there again. So you know. Can we get it? Oh, yeah, here. If you want to contact Nick, his contacts are on the sheets. You have been an amazing crowd. Give him the last big round of applause because I think you did a great job. Thank you.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. We are going to discuss with Poranjay Gohar Thakur da, the state of the economy, or shall we say the dismal state of the economy as it is turning out to be. Poranjay, big euphoria after the elections, at least among the BJP circles, country marching forward, endorsement of all these policies. What's happening to the economy? Because it seems that the rupee has sunk. The stock market is in a state of shall we say depression, if nothing else. And the industry is particularly the auto world industry. Numbers are very, very bad. Poor. You're absolutely correct. In fact, people are wondering whether all the noise about Kashmir has been essentially to divert attention from the terrible state of the Indian economy. Let me elaborate on all these points that you mentioned. I think nobody believes the government. Nobody believes Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman when she claimed that the current year India's gross domestic product will grow by 7%. We'll be lucky if it grows by 6.5% and this is on the basis of statistics whose credibility is being doubted like never before. In fact, the issue is not that the statistics are wrong per se, but the basis of the statistics have been shifted or tweaked to show higher growth figures, to present a more rosy picture. So it's a framework which has been shifted rather just by tweaking the numbers. In fact, the person who was the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, Dr. Arvind Subramaniam, he himself has presented a paper which shows that the last few years of the UPA government and the first few years of the first Modi government, the rate of growth of India's gross domestic product was possibly inflated by 2.5%. So instead of an average of 7%, it would be perhaps closer to 4.5%. And in some years it's been down to 3.5%, some years it's been 5.5%. This is not you and I, but a person who was there. Now you can crave and complain and say, why wasn't he making all these noises when he was Chief Economic Advisor? But even if he has become intelligent by hindsight, we can't ignore the facts. And there have been other economists including the people we have interviewed on Newslet like Dr. Nagaraj and others who have been saying that, look, you're the credibility of your GDP figures, whether they be different sectors, whether they be jobs are today perhaps lower than it's been in over the last half century. We have discussed this issue of the credibility of the statistics, particularly in the last three years of the Modi government. But I think it became clear even to them that the statistics were not doing well. So the need to shall we say, doctor the statistics. But leaving that out for the time being. Let me interrupt you briefly here and say, even there they did a lousy job about it. When the National Statistical Commission presented its data, they didn't want to put it out in the public domain. And the persons in charge, the official, the government statisticians, they put in their papers. And finally after the election, they released the same data, which says what? That your unemployment is at its highest in the last 45 years. So obviously that the issue was that it shouldn't come out before the elections. But leaving that out, the doctoring of the statistics, which we have discussed in the news click even earlier. Let's look at what are undeniable facts. So let's look at some undeniable facts. You mentioned the auto sector. This is industry statistics. This is the association. It's called SIAM, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. June figures that have come out say across the board, fall in sales. You compare June 2019 with June 2018, sales of passenger cars are down by almost a quarter. That is 24.07%. Commercial vehicles, heavy vehicles, trucks, lorries, buses down by over 12%. And two-wheelers, scooters, motorcycles also down by almost 12%, 11.7%. And clearly there is demand recession. Whether it be Tatas, whether it be Hero Honda, whether it be Maruti, all the major players, all the major manufacturers have actually shut down their assembly lines for different periods of time, some for a few days, some for a few weeks, because they are stuck with inventories which are not selling. And according to the industry spokespersons themselves, they fear that job losses could be running into tens of thousands. One figure I've read is 32,000 jobs are likely to be lost in the auto sector as a whole. That is how bad the situation is. And it's entirely demand recession. Yes. Let's look at also the two segments which behave differently. One is a luxury car segment, the big cars, the Mercedes Benz and so on, where shall we say the idle rich really buy those cars, even though sales are down significantly. But we also see basically the trucks which are the transport sector, they in fact represent the fact that goods are not moving. There's no demand to move goods more and therefore the demand for trucks are falling. And the same time. And rentals. Rentals have come down which shows you that there is demand recession. Yes. The other part is the two wheeler market which shows the middle class, the lower middle class, even what would be called the kind of market which has been created by Swiggy, Zomato and so on, even they are not growing because if they did, then also the demand for two wheelers would have grown. So you see both ends of the market. That's right. From the luxury segment to heavy vehicles to the two wheelers which are picked up by the middle classes. Now, you know, this is a reflection of a deeper malaise. If you look at what we say the infrastructure sector, the co-sector, electricity, steel, cement, these are capital goods. And telecom. Now these are sectors which give you a clear idea of the state of the economy. Now the figures of June show that it's hardly grown 0.2%. This is the slowest ever rate of growth over the last four years and longer, 50 months. These co-sectors, as a whole, if you put them as a whole co-sector, the rate of growth has been 0.2% in June. This is the lowest rate of growth in 50 months. This also includes railway traffic. And it's an interesting point when you're pointing out capital goods. Capital goods effectively, the infrastructure really drives particular countries like India where there's a huge amount of infrastructure which needs to be created. If that falls, that shows that the entire demand in other sectors is going to fall. And now you see the other aspects of why this is happening. You look at what has happened. Why has this happened? The demand recession. Another is, you know, part of the talk of demand decision is also being driven by the fact the infrastructure is not growing. And infrastructure is not going because government is not spending money on it. And also there earlier, some amount of the, say the purchase of vehicles, some of the purchase of homes, and that in turn would lead to steel consumption going up, cement consumption going up, etc. have also been badly heard by the crisis in the non-banking financial company sector. Notably, the collapse of groups like the ILNFS, the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, DHFL, they want housing and finance. These are among the major NBFCs that have happened. And also possibly, bendy crisis in companies like India. Let's see what happened. There could be, I mean, that's what Dr. Subramaniam Swamy is suggesting, that that could be a major housing banking finance, housing finance company that could be in a bad shape.  It's a very, very simple issue. You can see today the housing sector is not growing. And if housing sector doesn't grow on the bubble bursts as it were, the housing sector, the companies which have driven the housing sector are going to do it right. In fact, you can name three or four of these major housing companies, the private companies, which are in a mess. The Supreme Court has passed severe stretches against them and virtually, I mean, telling the government to bail them out, whether it be the Unitech Group, whether it be the JP Group, whether it be Amrapali Group, number of these large housing companies have been accused of literally cheating their customers. And in frustration, they've gone to the Supreme Court and finally the Supreme Court said, do something about it and told the government, you know, bail them out. So what we're seeing is housing bubble has burst. We also see the investment in basic infrastructure, roads, other railways. All of them also constrained as it were by demand. The investment's not taking place, therefore. And when you see the housing bubble collapse, it also means collapse of the banking sector, non-financial banks. And the industries with support housing, steel and cement, notably. Yes, absolutely. Now, the other thing, and this is what I'd like to draw your attention to, the very same industrialists, the big business persons, they, you know, when the budget was announced, you know, like every occasion they don't have anything terrible to say about the budget, but what happened after that? The markets are collapsing. All the indices, the sensitive index, the nifty are in a bad shape. The rupee, the rupee is now trading at over 70 rupees to a dollar. Look at the people. It was Rahul and Rajiv Bajaj. Bajaj is a major player in two-wheelers and in the auto sector. You had people like Mohandas Pai, one of the founders of Infosys. He's a man who, on television, is a cheerleader for Modi. Absolutely. Even now he's, the Larson and Tupro chairman, Mr. A.M. Naik, the HDFC, the housing development and finance corporation group chairman, Mr. Deepak Parek, all of them are today clean. And the most amazing thing, the founder of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar Shah, she has been quoted in the telegraph newspaper saying that a top official of the government literally told her, don't talk about the economy, don't complain, don't...  I apologise, it's an interesting issue. The complaint that the government is actually clamping down on dissent has come from what the government officials, not officials, but the government cheerleaders would like to call the anti-national brigade. Yes, the Tukre Tukre, you and me, the civil society guys. So we have been accused, shall we say, of presenting ill news as it were. Now these are all the cheerleaders and they are also speaking, shall we say, in a similar vein to what we have been saying. This has actually unnerved the government, as a result of which the finance minister, Nedmala Sita Raman, she's recently made a statement that they're looking into the problems that industry is facing. But they have done something. They have now put various criminal threats against business. If they don't, if they don't spend on corporate social responsibility. They can go to jail. But there are various other, as we know, this has been, various other measures are being taken. And what I seem to understand from people who do business, not many of my friends do, that the only people today who are making money are the accounts people, the audit people, because and consultancies for, consultants for GST and various other things because the compliances have become so big that you and I, so it's good news for accountants and lawyers. By the way, even some of them are under attack because they've been hauled up for fudging the accounts of some of these companies which I mentioned which have collapsed, including IL and FS. So what I'm saying is that do you think that like, for instance, we have now the various terrorist acts which have come in by which anybody can be declared terrorist. There are also a set of economic terror acts, shall we say, by which they hope to keep the big business quiet. You know, that's interestingly the new discourse that has been talked about. And it's not you and I, it's not the proverbial Tukre Tukre gang or the Khan market gang, representatives of civil society and media persons. No, it is these very same people who have been the cheerleaders of the government who are today talking about tax terrorism, including people like Mr. Mohandar Spai. That's terrorist. That's right. You haven't heard this language for a very long time. No, it was being used by the BJP against the Congress during the UP regime. But now this language is being used against the BJP and that too by that section of the population who would assume who are most favorably inclined towards the Mr. Modi and the policy. And it's interesting, you know, the same government which goes to town about saying how this five trillion dollar economy is our target, has kept completely quiet when we talk about how India's position has slipped from being the fifth largest economy to the seventh largest economy. They're not talking about the fact that the rupee has now, that 70 rupee to a dollar mark has been crossed. They're not talking about the impact that the US Fed, the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates are having on the world economy, the China, the trade war that has been going on between India and China, all of which indicate... India and China is not the issue. The US is China. Sorry, sorry. It's the US. India and the US as well. Yes, absolutely. And all of this is going to impact your external environment and you already have a situation where the internal situation, the internal environment in the economy is what it is, what we've just discovered. So your attention can be diverted by Kashmir, by the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, by the Right to Information Act, by the National Register of Citizens. But the economic situation is dismal and it's a terrible situation, the way I look at it. Thank you, Paranjaya, for bringing all this to our attention. And we hope that at least some semblance of a response to this, when the government will be made, instead of sheltering behind, shall we say, the shield of terrorism. Thank you very much for being with us. This is all the time we have news click today. Do keep watching news click.


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Finance ministers from the Euro area met in Poland in the middle of September to discuss the Greek debt crisis. American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner joined them. Fabian Zulig, chief economist at the European Policy Center in Brussels, said the United States was right to get involved. The intervention from the U.S. has also shown at least a risk that the stability of the financial system as a whole, the global financial system, might be under threat again. Earlier, the leaders of France, Germany and Greece held a conference call to discuss how to contain Europe's deepening financial crisis. Germany and France are Europe's two largest economies. Seventeen European Union countries use the Euro as their currency. On September 15th, five major central banks agreed to lend additional dollars to European banks in the Eurozone. The European Central Bank says the three-month loans will provide as many dollars as the banks need. The operations will end in December. The European Central Bank is acting with the United States Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank. The announcement helped lift European bank shares and major European stock lists. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has lowered its growth estimates for the Euro area. In Greece, the economy has shrunk this year. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Eurozone nations to do everything possible to avoid an uncontrolled insolvency by Greece. On September 13th, she warned that problems would quickly spread if Greece failed to pay its international rescue loans. And she said, if the Euro fails, Europe fails. The next day, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso spoke to the European Parliament. He announced that the Commission would propose creating Euro bonds. The idea is for Eurozone governments to jointly guarantee their debts. Germany and France have opposed such bonds. Mr. Barroso also said the current system that lets individual countries easily block policy is not working. I am convinced we need a deeper and more results-driven integration. A system based purely on intergovernment cooperation has not worked in the past and will not work in the future. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal.


Hi friends welcome back to my channel and happy friday. It is friday at 6 22 a.m And I just pulled into my ww workshop So if you didn't know or didn't watch my weigh-in video from last friday this week I did the wendy plan again. It went Superbly. I actually really enjoy the wendy plan. I find that I feel Much more in control and I don't know if it's because I'm tracking my splurge day or if it's because I do have a fluctuation in points daily So if I'm really kind of craving something I know that I can incorporate that Possibly the next day in my higher point day I haven't quite figured out what I like so much about the wendy plan Or not even maybe so much the wendy plan but the rotation of points some high point days some low point days I just really like it. I feel much more in control. I feel Much more Satisfied because I'm not limited to just my daily points the entire week after I've had my Splurge or my cheat day. So I'm loving it. I'm loving the wendy plan In fact, I'm going to do it again next week and see if I can get some good results again So my week went Awesome It went really good. Now. I didn't do any walking the first three days of the week My stomach was bothering me so much. I woke up every day With just kind of a stomach ache and then I'd go to bed with a stomach ache So I just decided not to push it with the walking plus super sore from the week prior in all the activity And I didn't want it to negatively impact my weight loss Just being sore and then sore and sore for another entire week So I skipped the walking this week. I am picking it back up on Monday So I'm ready to get back into my morning exercise, but my food was awesome Yeah, my week was excellent. So I can't wait to weigh in and see what happens on the scale So I'll be back shortly with not only a recap of what we talked about But my weigh in and we'll talk a little bit more about my plans for the next week on the wendy plan Hey guys, I just got out of my ww workshop It was such a fantastic topic one that I think that a lot of us on ww struggle with and that is healthy fats versus unhealthy fats I know for myself sometimes I struggle with wanting to spend my points on healthy fats such as olive oil Or nuts or seeds I I struggle wanting to Spend my points on those so the first thing that I think we need to determine Is what is considered a saturated or an unhealthy fat and what is considered a healthy fat? So someone in my workshop today shared something that I never thought of that is such an easy way to remember If what you're eating is considered a saturated or an unsaturated fat So if the item that you're eating is solid at room temperature, it is a saturated fat For example Crisco coconut oil peanut butter those are considered saturated fats because they are solid At room temperature an unsaturated fat is something that is in liquid form at room temperature Canola oil olive oil sunflower oil things like that that are actually in a liquid form at room temperature are unsaturated fats There are other things that are unsaturated fats that maybe we wouldn't think of and that's things like nuts Nuts actually fall under the unsaturated fat column and cheese and cream fall under the saturated fat column Even though cream is liquid at room temperature.  It's okay to have a little bit of that But we really want to steer ourselves towards the unsaturated and that is where ww Shines the foods that have the lowest smart points are the ones that fall into the Unsaturated fat column. Did you ever notice that you can have more olive oil than you can coconut oil? And that's because olive oil is unsaturated. So just a few things to think about as far as What's the difference between the healthy and the unhealthy fats? Now, what do you do with that information? So, what do you do with it? Right? What do you do with that information? I want you to remember that with saturated fats. Those are the bad fats. Those are the solid state fats Those are the ones that lead to heart failure high risk of heart issues Clothed blood vessels where unsaturated fats lead to powering your brain Giving your body the brain function to do its daily tasks. It's good for your heart. It's good for your soul So what do you how do you determine? How much saturated versus unsaturated fat do you need to study food labels? Do you need to be a food label expert? No ww has done all of the work for you So what you need to do with the knowledge that you have is remember when you're eating things like peanut butter Meats cheeses the reason the points are higher and ww has done all the work for us They've determined that the points are higher due to saturated fats and when you're eating things like olive oil Salmon nuts the points are lower because they are unsaturated fat So I love that. I don't have to read the ingredients of every label All I have to do is plug some numbers into a calculator and ww pops out What they know is a healthy and unhealthy food for me to be eating. Is it okay to still have cheese? Yes, of course Is it okay to have saturated fat? Of course it is you just limit it and that's where Freestyle smart points come into play Your points for meat are going to be higher than your points for chicken such as red meat Roast pork chops are going to be higher than things such as chicken salmon fish because of the saturated fats So this week I suggest that you map out a typical week day and what you eat in a week day In a typical weekend and what you eat on the weekend and figure out how much Unsaturated and saturated fats are you eating? What's the difference between what you're eating during the week versus what you're eating on the weekend? I know that a lot of people struggle with the weekends families in town You're doing things with your kids. You're going out to dinner. You're engaging with friends You're having barbecues There are a lot of things that would contribute to what you eat during the weekend Being a little bit higher in saturated fat or unhealthy foods than on the week day So sit down map out two days one week day and one weekend and list everything that you eat And then take one of these saturated fats that you're eating on the weekend And one of the saturated fats that you're eating during the week and swap it for an unsaturated fat For example, take the potato chips that you ate on the weekend and swap it for roasted chickpeas And do the math and see what smart points you'll save You will be amazed at the smart points that you're saving now. Is it important to still have fat in your diet? Absolutely, you should be eating and healthy fat every single day I have really started to incorporate more healthy fats into my daily points You're seeing that in recipes that i'm sharing where i'm using more olive oil I'm eating more red meat. You'll see a lot of recipes where i'm having red meat instead of chicken I know that red meat is a little higher in saturated fat, but i'm still trying to incorporate fats into my diet I've been loving nuts. I found those great nut squares At target. I've been eating those. I've been really trying to mindfully Incorporate a little bit more of the healthy Unsaturated fats into my diet. So look at a weekday. Look at a weekend. Do some swapping I bet you're amazed at the smart points that you save So now let's talk about this week's weigh-in like I mentioned before I went into my workshop I decided that I wanted to do the wendy plan again So the wendy plan essentially is a calculator online. I will link it down in the description box for you guys But what you do is you put in your daily smart points and your weeklies and the wendy plan calculator jumbles it all up And spits out the number of points that you eat every day You select what day you want to be your high point day And that day you will eat a lot of your weekly points in addition to your daily points And then the rest of the week you have some higher point days and some lower point days I'm telling you you guys for me. It keeps me in control like I said my high point day I still have to track so I am a lot more mindful Incredibly more mindful what I'm eating on my high point day than I ever was when I just used all my weeklies in one day It was just a free-for-all. I didn't track. I had no idea what I was eating and being on the wendy plan I have to stay within those points even though it's a lot of points for me It's between 50 and 53 on my high point day. So even though I can have all those points I still have to stay within those points. I can't just go free for all hog wild on my splurge day or my High point day because I still have other higher point days throughout the week And if I over indulge on that day, then it literally throws off the complete rest of the week on the wendy plan I find myself Sticking with my points a lot better. I find myself a lot less hungry I think the shuffling of the points really helps me one day I get a higher amount of points So I'm full and it leads me into the next day where my appetite isn't so strong So I'm telling you the wendy plan has been a lifesaver for me. I really feel like when I'm adam on a plateau which is what it was originally designed for or when I'm not losing or I'm maintaining Or I'm steadily gaining just a little bit every week. I find that going back to the wendy plan really helps Stimulate my weight loss. So the first week that I did the wendy plan. I lost 2.4 pounds I've logged the entire week. It is actually here on my youtube So I'm going to insert a picture right up here of the thumbnail of that wendy plan vlog I recommend that you watch it I literally told you everything I ate throughout the whole week And I will link that video in the description box as well But I've logged that first week lost 2.4 pounds So I decided that after maintaining and then gaining a small amount last week I was going to do the wendy plan again And I'm happy to report that I lost 2.8 Yeah, 2.8 in one week on the wendy plan and that was with no exercise I did not do my walks this last week like I mentioned. So I am Over the moon excited that I lost 2.8 pounds I'm just under the 21 pound mark again Which is where I was a few weeks ago. So I'm well on my way to the 25 Pounds that I really need to hit So with that being said and the feeling of control and seeing the success now in the second week of doing the wendy plan I'm going to go ahead and do the wendy plan again next week So I'm excited to see if even next friday. I have a great weight loss like I did this friday So I'm thrilled with 2.8 pounds. That's almost three pounds I mean, it's two ounces shy of losing three pounds in one week, which is awesome So i'm right back on track. I'm doing excellent thrilled with it If you're interested in the wendy plan again, the calculator is linked down below As well as the video where I talked all about the wendy plan and took you through my entire week There's also a lot of information on my facebook group gens w w tribe It's right there on the screen for you that talks about the wendy plan as well So if you're interested in just being part of a fabulous positive group check out the wendy plan If you're interested in the wendy plan If you're interested in a positive group go on my facebook group where there's information on the wendy plan And I also want to remind you guys I know there's been a lot of discussion about the foods that we are ordering online and how we Don't have to order foods online to lose weight or those foods that we order online are making us not lose weight I call bull I lost 2.8 pounds and I eat a lot of foods that I order online So don't be afraid to order food online. There is no different Difference in ordering food online and going to your local safe way. You're buying food. It's fitting within your points You're just buying it from a different source Then you would going to a grocery store and I know a lot of people have bill bars and guess what that's an online food So if you're going to complain about people ordering food online, you probably shouldn't be eating bill bars Just saying so feel free to do your journey However, you want buy your food online if that's what makes you happy if it stays within your points If it keeps you on track I plan on continuing to eat a lot of the foods that I buy online And all of those links and discount codes are also down in the description box So don't be afraid to check those out Order some different foods that you can't find locally And if it helps you stay on your journey and helps you lose 2.8 pounds I'd say that that's a win. All right guys. Thank you so much for coming along with me Thank you for all of your love and support And I'm thrilled with my weight loss cannot wait to go on another week on the wendy plan If you have any questions for me Please leave them down in the down in the comments as well as far as the wendy plan goes And I love you guys again. Thank you. You guys are so amazing I'm so blessed to have such a supportive group of subscribers and new friends and family on youtube So if you're new to my channel, I'd like to extend a big welcome I do away in video every week whether I gain or lose I'm here to share my journey with you No matter what so if you're new make sure you subscribe if you hit that bell You'll be notified every time that I upload. I know that they've been having some issues where if you're not Belled into someone's channel if you're not being notified sometimes you'll miss their video So definitely hit that bell give this video a thumbs up comment down below I want to know how your week went. Were you successful? Did you gain? Did you lose? Did you feel like you had a good week a bad week? What can you do better and how are you going to incorporate some unsaturated healthy fats into your next week? I love you guys so incredibly much and i'll see you in the next video. Bye guys


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I'm sure it's scant consolation now, but I'm scratching my head talking about how we've lost that one, are you thinking the same there? I mean, it's a real frustrating afternoon for us. There's times I've stood here at the home games this season and we probably haven't desired anything, but today certainly wasn't the case. First half in particular, I thought we were excellent. I thought we lost our way a bit in between before Steady coming off and after he came off. We've got a dead leg at the end of the first half and wanted to carry on and clearly wasn't quite right. It just instructed us, but all in all, I thought we showed bravery on the ball, I thought we showed commitment and endeavour without it and deserved something out of the game. I think at the moment Alan Sheehan had that header and it's it our own player on the line instead of going in the back of the net, you know, kind of sums things up a little bit. The first half in particular is extremely dominant for us. Is it really only that 10 minutes or so in the second half that's kind of cost us today? I'd say certainly the first half we were dominant. Yeah, I mean we've had chances second half as well, but it's just, it's a smash and grab from Doncaster. There's always things you can do better on every goal under the first goal. Cross approach came in a little bit easy. And the second one was a great finish by the lead to be fair to him. Maybe we could have dealt with it. So there's always things you can do better in any game, but I've got to keep the lead as positive as possible today because, you know, in a kind of pressure situation, you know, when you haven't won at home for a while and you're playing at home, I thought the bravery to keep passing the ball from the likes of Billy Norton, Yatesi in particular, was top class. Yeah, so just finally talking of positives despite the defeats, there's a lot of positives to take right now? Yeah, I think we've got to take them, haven't we? Because, you know, if we keep getting down on ourselves, you know, we're never going to achieve anything.  And I think that's key. I think we talk about performance levels. Obviously, we won the results and we need to get the results. We know that when the performance levels are like they were today, you know, I can't be too down on myself or the players. What we've got to keep doing is make sure that we reproduce that. But I thought there's a lot of honest, committed performances today.