We've known each other for many years and tell us, give us a detail, the accounting of your garden, how's it doing? Well thank you Bill, it's true. I think I first went up to some of your classes maybe 25 years ago now up at Johnson State. I'm with a lot of gourds, you still call them gourds?  Our squash crop is pretty good, they were on somewhere heavier soils so even though we suffered a drought quite a bit of this season, they're coming in okay along with our butternut and our acorn and our other winter squash, spaghetti are already harvested. Other crops struggled, we had smaller corn than usual because we just don't have enough water in our ponds to irrigate the corn as much as it would need and we rotate our irrigation just to keep things alive actually. But we had sweet potatoes are decent, a little small, broccoli's been pretty bad but our cabbage is coming in pretty good right now and our carrots are looking pretty tasty and you know we grow a lot of different crops and every year's a little different. This year's drought, last year's heavy rains, we're not seeing the normal weather we used to see in Vermont. What's the best crop it's doing for you right now and how do you market what you grow? The very best crop, I don't know that I can name a very best crop, the tomatoes did pretty well in the high tunnels this year, the warmth was good for them and we mostly market our product through our CSA system which now is a credit system where people pre-buy and they get extra credit for their money and they can pick what they want whenever they want at any of our pickup sites so it's a much more flexible CSA than a drop box or a prescribed CSA model. How many pickup sites do you have? We have four scattered about Chittenden County during the week and then we have one at the farmer's market on Saturday so people can go to any of five spots from Hinesburg to South Burlington to Williston to Burlington twice. Can you guess at the kind of revenue you might get from year to year? Yeah, you know it covers the bills, you know the gross is a few hundred thousand dollars but we've got twelve employees full-time through a full summer and then a bit fewer in the fall there's all kinds of mortgage our electric bill is almost six hundred to a thousand dollars a month so gross and that are very different things and so people often see to hear that big number of a few hundred thousand but you know we usually make between ten to thirty thirty five thousand dollars a year. What are you growing recently that you've been producing recently? Well, husk cherries are new to a lot of people we give out samples at the farmer's market they're a little they look like mini tomatillos but they're just a little fruit that's in a little paper wrapper it tastes a lot like a sort of a pineapple-y sweet tomato flavor it's very hard to explain but it just pops in your mouth. My son grows tomatillos. Oh, tomatillos absolutely which is a very different flavor we grow those for and people buy those to make that green salsa you get it at some restaurants that's the main ingredient for those so those are some of the newer things we've got great sweet peppers you know orange and yellow and red sweet peppers which are always fun for a few weeks we had a pretty good watermelon year. Do you have any hot peppers? We used to grow a lot of hot peppers and no one wanted them 15, 18 years ago so we stopped growing them now everybody wants them so sometimes you grow what is in in the fad and sometimes you don't so we're not as much on the hot pepper scene but our meat has been selling a lot more in this new CSA model and we raise organic pigs and we raise organic chickens and folks have really been enjoying the sausages that my wife makes at the Mad River Food Hub where she makes up some of the flavors herself so we have a ginger garlic sorry a ginger sausage and we have a garlic basil sausage that are both really popular. How do you market all these remarkable things that you do? Mostly through our CSA and the farmers market that's about three-quarters of our sales and then we wholesale some product in fact I have some in my car that I'm going to deliver after this show down to wood-bellied pizza right here in Montpelier but we wholesale about twenty-five percent. Sophie's got an incredible garden I can't imagine maybe she'd want to talk a little bit about that but more people that have their own gardens the better. We've had some CSA members say you've turned me on to fresh vegetables and I'm going to start my own garden so I'm not coming back next year and we say that's the best reason we could ever possibly be here. We want more people out there growing their own food if they have the land not everybody does or garden space with the right sun but if you have it it's so wonderful to grow your own food go out and pick it just before you're going to eat it for dinner or lunch and it's really meditative it's actually a great balance for me with the politics to be able to get out there and have a little more quiet time being productive getting work done but really just having the sounds of the wind or the birds or whatever happens to be going on around the farm. So what do you grow this most surprising to you? There must be some that come along better than you thought. There's nothing that's been particularly surprising in this year it's been a little bit more not as good as we would hope than as good just because of that drought but mostly with our own irrigation we're able to keep most crops up to up to par and so nothing's been surprisingly good and bountiful this year but a lot of things have held their own. Bill and I got Brussels sprouts going this year. Oh good we've stopped growing them this year. They are so beautiful. Oh fantastic. It's amazing and then we did a pumpkin patch too which is just it's gone bonkers. Yeah yeah we our pumpkins are ready which is a little early and it's already still warm. Yeah. So we've been harvesting those to make sure there's not too much rot in the stems from powder and mildew and we'll be giving those out to our members the next two weeks as sort of their bonus item but we also work with the school and almost donate we don't quite donate we take 20% just to cover some of the costs or maybe it's 25% my spouse arranges this but we raise by selling those at the school over a thousand dollars a year for the PTO at the local school. Oh that's so fun. We've been doing that for about four or five years. I want to talk about the weight of your largest pumpkin. Well I haven't weighed them this year past years we've had some that are you know 30 40 pounds we don't do the monster pumpkins with the milk and the ivy and all that but just in our own patch we get some that are 25 35 pounds in in good years this year I don't think they're quite that big. You're a lot of pie pumpkins. We do yep we've got five uh 20 bushel bins of pie pumpkins you know those apple bins you see we fill those with our winter squash we have five of those full of pie pumpkins that we sell throughout the fall and winter. Carving pumpkins too? Yeah those are the ones that we give to our members and give to the school to sell or um and that's uh we do I don't know I think we've got 12 or 14 bins full of those yeah. So how many acres do you have? Well we raise about 22 to 23 acres of vegetables and we raise about 30 to 50 hogs to slaughter each year and we raise and slaughter about 750 meat birds every year and we've got another 25 layers so we've got quite a bit going on we've got some cats in the barns to help with critters so we've got about eight or nine cats now.  The chickens we do yeah the pigs we take to different slaughterhouses throughout the state depending on scheduling. All right yeah yeah it's turned into quite a industry I think. Yeah there's a lot of great slaughterhouses it's tricky uh you know we because we're a premium organic products that already cost a lot to raise they're gonna cost a lot to buy the meat um sometimes the cuts don't always come back quite as as presentation like as we would like for some of the customers that are going to pay that kind of money for them so we have had some challenges at some slaughterhouses but there's some that do a really great job. Yeah Sophie and I both have gardens but talk about your garden how many acres you're involved? Oh yeah yeah we do about 22 to 23 acres uh in vegetables we do another 20 to 23 acres in cover crops so we raise crops to feed the soil for the next year's crops so we rotate between where we're growing vegetables and where we're growing cover crops and sometimes we run our chickens over the cover crops over the clover in particular they really like the clover and so they eat the clover and that helps their diet and and makes them into a richer chicken. Then you get the nitrogen. Yeah we get the nitrogen goes back into their roots and so it works out really well. Have you had a good likely crop rotation? Generally yes I'm lucky I have a little more soil so I have a better opportunity to rotate my crops than some other farms but I'm still facing challenges from Swede-Midge which affects the whole coal crop family so broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, we have to rotate those almost 2,000 feet from each other every year. Oh my gosh and I can't quite do that so we end up with Swede-Midge every year which is a problem now. Can these vegetables do to each other adversely? Not too much. There's some diseases that one crop could get that might affect another crop so we try to rotate at least three years before we grow the same families of crops in the same soil and if I can go four or five years I try to do that so that the the diseases that might be present on the on the detritus on the leftover plant material can be broken down and and the diseases die out. Maybe that's where your chili peppers are going to come back in. Yeah yeah maybe that's right. So for your property I read in the paper the other day about your solar project. Maybe online I posted on Facebook. Oh it might have been online.  Is it going to be just a tool shed? Well we built a pavilion so it's just posts with a roof last fall and it's right at the base of a hillside so we're hoping to have events there someday. We do our CSA pickup right now once a week under there sometimes we park trucks and other implements under there in the rain but it's a 30 by 50 foot structure so we're pretty excited for farm events pig roasts music maybe someday. It's hard to schedule everything with my spouse having Lyme disease with our having a 12 year old with my engagement in the political arena with running a farm and all the different kinds of animals trying to put on events. Yeah let's have a party but we were very excitedly posted on Facebook a couple days ago that we just put 64 solar panels on the roof that's over 18,000 watts of power which is quite large but it's still less power than our farm uses so we're trying to offset what our farm uses we're trying to invest what we can but that was all that we could afford for now. Well excuse me I'm working hard but our power bill is you know 600 to a thousand dollars a month to keep produce a lot you know chilled down and keep our meat frozen and process food in our wash station and so that's going to offset a lot of that power but we still need to do more. And this is the first alternative energy project that your farmers worked on? Well in a way I mean we've heated our home and our hot water with wood so that's renewable energy because it's not fossil fuel and we harvest the wood typically from our own land and we go through four to six cords a year and we have a high efficiency wood boiler and a water storage thermal tank so I can run it for about five to seven hours every other day in the winter and the stored up heat in our cement floor and in that storage tank makes it so that we don't have to be running heat all the time a furnace all the time and we also could if we ever had the the time could go away for a weekend when our house wouldn't freeze you know a lot of people that are wood heat with a fireplace or stove you know four hours after the fire goes out there's no heat coming off of that stove anymore. Right. And so this is a got a little bit more storage so we do use wood heat and hot water for our home and our hot water for anything we use around the farm. And talk about your taxes? Our taxes. Well the solar project will help because we were able to put that in ourselves we will be able to take the tax credits towards our taxes over the next many years given that our farm as we talked earlier doesn't make that much money it'll take a number of years to use up the tax credits because that's you can offset your tax liability with that. That's so exciting that you're able to do that. Was it part of a grant or was it part of just... Well there are farm grants you can get through the USDA to help with some of the solar projects. We had not succeeded in getting one the last few years. We applied I think four or five years ago. The United States Department of Agriculture has some grants for farms and farms across the state should look into that with the USDA and Rural Development Office. Our farm it's a once they've given out all the grant money you know we were just too late that year. And because I'm lieutenant governor I tend to be a little wary of applying for too many grants even though it's completely legitimate to do so. As a resident right? Well yeah but people will will claim that you know I get grants that I shouldn't be getting and I'm a government official and so forth. And so it's actually one of the things that particularly as a representative I was particularly frustrated by because as a representative you get paid fairly small amount of money. You were a senator for a long time and that's 13,000 a year. Yeah 13,000 a year which you know to then make it so you can't apply for six and ten and 20,000 grants for massive projects on your farms seemed a little wrong to me but one can apply but it's about perception and people will exploit perception negativity for political purposes in campaigns at the drop of a hat which is really unfortunate because as Bill you know we want everybody to be able to serve in public office if they want to and be able to run and contribute to their community but sometimes if the economics don't work it makes it hard on people. What issues have given you the most satisfaction that you've worked on? Well you know the satisfaction actually comes years later when someone has bumped into me at a fair or at some event that I'm at somewhere around the state and they say you know the work you did on medical cannabis has really impacted my life or a family member who now is you know using medical cannabis while they're on chemotherapy and it's helping them have an appetite or maybe has alleviated pains so they don't have to take opiate killer pain killers. There are when people tell me those stories about how the work I've done has impacted their lives that's what really gives me the most satisfaction. Certainly I put a lot of energy into our GMO labeling law and was extremely thrilled when we passed that law only to see it get cut to pieces by the federal government and a hundred million dollars of lobbying by corporate agriculture, corporate agribusiness which has now passed a law in congress that's supposed to be a labeling law but it's very hard to interpret you can't read the signals if your phone doesn't work which in most rural areas they don't and it's really turned labeling into a propaganda effort where now some of the food companies want to see the label that vermont created which simply was a statement of fact versus the federal government's new label which is much more a smiley face and and all these things that really portrays a little tiny writing a pro or a con when really the vermont law just said here's what it is you decide so that's something that was very thrilling and satisfying and then now very frustrating but you know we've passed the minimum wage a few times while I was a legislator we did it again this last year while I was lieutenant governor unfortunately governor vetoed it but that is very satisfying to try to move legislation that improves people's lives and the minimum wage has gone up slower than inflation really since Reaganomics and we're just trying to make it go up a little faster than inflation so that hardworking people who work full-time and are paying their dues to society can actually earn a living that could pay the bills I don't think that's too much to ask in a civilized society what was the major point of the veto well I can't really speak for the governor you know there's different reasons given but most of them don't really relate to the reality of people's lives day to day and you know they'll say well these are entry-level jobs for young people well the majority of people working minimum wage jobs are not entry-level folks it's women it's single women who are helping run their households it's folks in their later 20s and 30s who haven't been able to find another job that are paying their rent aren't living at home it's seniors so the majority of people working minimum wage jobs are not high school students entry-level jobs they're people that's their that's their job and they're having a hard time paying the bills so if they were earning more that money would be paid right back into the community and would actually churn in our economy but you have to spend to hold your office what do you spend the campaign yes well typically a lieutenant governor's race has been in the for the last decade or so has been 150 to 180 thousand dollars my campaign two years ago was quite a bit more because there was both a primary that all candidates were spending close to that and then there was a general election so that race it was about 150 to 180 in each of those two elections in that one year this time around it looks like i'd be spending in the 150 thousand dollar range in all likelihood that's for your house seat that's for the lieutenant governor's seat yeah and i have never taken through all my races any corporate donations and don't intend to this time either and you know that's a different decision than some people make but i've never taken a corporate donation and a lot of people don't do it for the same reason you don't some people i wouldn't say a lot of people don't take corporate donations but but there's there's some who are dedicated that do not certainly bernie does not there's some house candidates that don't there's some senate candidates i know senator ash and senator oh i don't believe senator ash i know senator pierce and do not take corporate donations they're up in chitlin county but i know anthony polina down here in washington county doesn't take corporate donations as senator drain for governor would think you'd have a chance uh he might have a chance but i'd like to see him run for president again and i think he'd have a better shot this time now that he's got the base out there i lost my head i should have asked that question that's right that's fine yeah do you want to talk about some of the projects that you've been working on for community building sure lieutenant governor you know i got elected as lieutenant governor the same night that our president got elected and um in vermont he's the least supported president of anywhere in the country so i think i can safely say that most people in vermont had the same sort of horrible night that night that i did even though i just won statewide office i should have been jubilant but uh but but i i could see what was coming and there were two main issues that concerned me um the stream court and climate change uh and you know my daughter is 12 and i've been thinking a lot about the stream court and especially recently with the next appointee first the one that they stole uh and now this appointee as well and now that's going to shift the courts around her reproductive freedoms uh the issues around corporate control of our communities and our government uh they're gonna probably rule very much towards corporate voices uh they're going to um rule on environmental issues away from our common need of a clean environment uh and so i've thought a lot about those things but but a big piece of what concerned me about his being elected is really our democracy as a whole and people's faith in our democracy and our discourse in our democracy and we're lucky here in vermont we have a very civil discourse for the most part and um really work to bring everybody's views together once the elections end the party labels really should mean less and we really should be bringing everybody in and so i started a movie series sponsored by a range of groups from environmental groups to labor groups to civil rights groups so that we would host movies primarily at the state house during the session once a month in the evening welcome people in the state house from anywhere in the state but primarily central vermont but now we're taking the movie series once a month all across the state to really have discussions on provocative issues from we showed 13th which was about the 13th amendment of the constitution and incarceration rates for people of color we showed a movie called maiden doggen harm which was about women in the 60s who actually organized the ford motor plant in england for better pay in the workplace and both union organizing but also about equal pay for equal work we've had a movie um awake from standing rock that was about the indigenous peoples and fossil fuel and coming together and really valuing long-term investments in our communities and and many native communities that really look at what they what their decisions are and how they impact multiple generations and they look to their ancestors and they look to their future offspring many generations out and think much more long-term than we tend to think in our society we've shown environmental movies around energy and the coal workers both the coal workers in west virginia and the energy issues of west virginia so it's not just about green shoes environmentalism but how has the coal industry affected working people in west virginia so these movies are really all about bringing community members out to talk about the issues of our day and watch a movie that really documents some of the things that are going on i've also put out a newsletter to tens of thousands of vermonters every couple of weeks during the session to talk about what's happening among people in a little deeper context than you sometimes get in the media and i have people signing up for that all over the state all the time at ltegov.vermont.gov and it's a one page two sided equivalent goes out electronically and people can email back in questions they have or contact groups that are involved with that did you bring one with you i didn't bring one because we have very few hard copies we do mail them to those folks that don't get electronic media anybody who wants to sign up can contact the office and give us your mailing address we will mail them to people if they don't have email i have a coffee hour every friday morning during the session it's actually an hour and a half where anybody can come in and and we have a discussion of three to ten people about whatever the group wants to talk about and again welcoming people with different perspectives so that we can hear the different concerns people have people are so tribal now from party tribalness to your for or against an issue well oftentimes there's a gray area to talk about and if we don't bring people together to talk about them we're never going to find that area where we can find common ground so those are some of the things i even also during the session did a weekly facetime on on again social media half an hour i would bring in people we had youth from a local high school talking about raising the black lives matter flag we had folks with Alzheimer's in talking about Alzheimer's and what's out there for support for people as they age and how to access that support and mentoring and community support i've had people in about minimum wage both talking about why it should be increased and i also had a show for the folks who are concerned about raising minimum wage so again people could hear different perspectives on my program to find out a little more depth on an issue so it's not just a two-minute story on the news but a half an hour discussion about why the minimum wage is important to raise or what the challenges it might be for small businesses and how it could maybe be worked out so really try to create opportunities for people to engage in the system because more people need to engage not just the folks that are in the state house all the time and the paid lobbyists in the state house all the time but also everyday citizens and that's really been a big piece of what i've been trying to do as a lieutenant governor you go to conferences for lieutenant governor we do there's a few lieutenant conferences conferences around the country every year for lieutenant governors there's about four of them i try to get to a couple of them there's no real budget in the lieutenant governor budget to go to many of these sorts of things the budget for the office is is pretty slimmed down i basically have one chief of staff who does a lot of my scheduling does a lot of my constituent correspondence helps work with the newsletter and and works with our interns to do that but there's not a lot of money in the budget to travel to conferences so as lieutenant governor as you were as a senator and as a representative folks buy their own business cards the state doesn't pay for those we provide a lieutenant governor's office coffee or tea for folks and sometimes snacks and on friday snacks for people you know that's out of my pocket squash chips yeah i think we maybe pay some of the food for the coffee hour from the lieutenant governor budget but i actually think it might be my own credit card that pays for that so really most of it is um is out of pocket so it's very so to travel somewhere and stay in hotels and spend you know eight hundred a thousand dollars you know i have to make sure that it's worth it for vermont taxpayers to make it worth it to go have you thought about running for governor well you know this year a number of people said they wished i had run for governor and i i'd greatly appreciate the sentiment it was really not in the cards for me right now uh when i first got elected to office i was a member of the progressive party as a as a young elected official from burlington and being with all those different labels young burlington progressive i didn't really have in my mindset the idea of being able to ever run or win statewide office and i don't believe that now do you well i've now one statewide office so it's changed a bit but the but the mentality that i've always brought to the office whether it was representative senator or even now as lieutenant governor is that the people of that district whatever scale it is have given me the responsibility and the privilege to serve for those two years there's no guarantee i'm going to get another two years and so i have always just gone full at it for each two years that i ever have whether it's fighting on the issues of raising wages universal health care uh you know affordable housing uh end-of-life choices gmo labeling cannabis reform sustainable agriculture i am all in during the two years i'm in there renewable energy i mean i've fought like crazy for supporting converting our our energy system to one that's much more sustainable and diversified and uh if that opens doors for opportunities because people are excited about those issues great if it closes the door and says gave you're too far ahead of the curve on these issues then i wasn't where the people were but i basically take each two years as full on as i can with the responsibility and the privilege i've been given and now you know that i've one statewide office do i look at those other offices and go if the door opens which one would i most want to run for i contemplate those ideas but really mostly i'm focused on my job at hand and the most important part of the job from your point of view what do you enjoy the most well i think in many ways it's a very boring aspect of the job to people out there which is that moderating the senate being basically the town meeting moderator of the senate is critically important because i want to make sure the rules are are applied equally and fairly that nobody can at the end of the day say as a as a senator i didn't get a fair shot with my amendment or a fair shot with my voice and that that any legislation that comes out of the senate has had its full and fair process and to me right now as our democracy foundation has got a couple cracks in it and people are really wondering whether this system is going to work i need to make sure that my role is towards making it work and making it work fairly i do think there's some real issues out there with campaign finance and that without public financing or changing away from corporate donations we're going to continue to see the the finance situation run congress and that's not my job as lieutenant governor but it starts to feed into these races of corporate donations the amount of money you have to run and raise to run for governor or lieutenant governor or u.s senator congress it's just not right and it makes it so that ordinary people can't run it makes it so that people serving have to spend time raising money instead of doing the work of serving and um so i see a lot of my job is as making sure democracy works and people are part of the system and that its people's voice is not large money that has the loudest voice in the system from that i think there's tremendous issues to work on in terms of everyday lives for people and their their ability to make a decent living pay their bills and have time for their families that's that's what most people want and the way we pay people with minimum wage i don't think we're there the way we don't have paid family leave we're not there the way we don't have universal health care we're not there folks don't need a lot to be happy but they need time and if you have to work 60 hours a week to pay your bills you don't have time to be with your family and raise your children or visit your grandparents and then i was older as an office older but the most difficult decision you've had to make name it name one name a couple oh that's a curveball that's like a debate question i hadn't really prepared myself for that um the most difficult decision i've ever had to make um i'd say vaccine bills are tough because of individual liberties and my concern about the pharmaceutical industry versus the amazing good that vaccines do to prevent illness across our society and around the world i think we've had tremendous scientific advancements with vaccines i do worry that there's you know two three hundred of them in the pipeline some of which could be the issues could be addressed through better hygiene and better water quality and investments and are making people's lives better and not always through drugs being injected into people that pharmaceutical companies are investing in and ultimately want to make a profit on so that's that's been a really tough arena of discussion for me um but most of the issues i've worked on my views are clear and uh when i run being very clear where i stand on issues that makes it much easier to serve and vote on those issues i have many colleagues who who really hem and haw about an issue that they want to support but they say well during my campaign i wasn't really clear where i didn't talk about that a lot and so i don't know where my district is i've always been really clear on sustainable agriculture and universal healthcare and raise the minimum wage and climate change issues and mitigation and what we need to do about it so when i have to vote on those things it's not that hard uh civil rights issues criminal justice issues it's not that hard we need to make sure we put fewer people in prison and really address these issues earlier on in education and make sure opportunities are available because people are going to prison is really much more a symptom of societal problems where we haven't funded our education system properly or where we haven't trained our law enforcement to not have biases in their enforcement or where we haven't made economic strides to where families have domestic challenges because they're struggling so hard and then people suffer domestic violence and either perpetrator goes to jail or the person suffering domestic violence then turns to substances to deal with their pain or to bury their challenges and those substances lead them to addiction which leads them to crime i mean the women in prison today are primarily uh folks who suffer tremendous domestic abuse or have now become addicted to drugs those people should not be in prison i mean in a so so all these issues are resolvable well i'm just wondering in a situation like you have is there a place that you can see that you can inject like a you know a mentoring program for women with economic instability and like provide you know how-to's on small business and math well i think unfortunately maintenance from a policy perspective lieutenant governor actually has very small role i don't write laws i'm not a senator or representative anymore that's the work of those folks the top policy position in the state is governor and that person runs a lot of those kinds of opportunities and programs that could be started through human services and other i'm in the middle in this sort of no person's land but what i do have the opportunity to do is through programs like this through the soapbox lieutenant governor affords through those newsletters through the face time discussion where i have people in i actually had folks from mobius and other mentoring programs in to talk about what is mentoring and so if my position can help expand the opportunity for all of these organizations you know Alzheimer's support groups and mentoring support groups and drug addiction support groups to get out there so people know about them because many of these services exist and people don't even know about them you know there are services through human services with ebt programs and nonprofits working with them to expand your dollar your ebt dollar to buy local food at farmers markets and to you know farm to family coupons or women infants and children through farm to family coupons and seniors with low income through farm to family coupons to get healthier food a lot of people don't know about those programs so if i can talk about those programs over and over and sometimes i'm repeating myself but it's different audiences every time right uh that can really help impact people's lives through the programs that already exist we don't always need new programs no we sometimes just need to make sure people know about the ones that exist one of the things i'd really like to see us do and i've talked about it for years and it's related to property taxes and education and educational outcomes and human services the governor wants to flatline education spending well the biggest place spending is going up is in the social services in our schools but we already have a huge human services budget in state government why not look at the overlap between our school spending on social services and our human services spending on social services blend them reduce redundancy save money for taxpayers and create a better flow of these services between the families outside the schools and then the kids in the schools and actually have a better continuum of service for the kids we could save money and we could have better services so fewer of those kids end up in these challenging situations we talked about the governor i brought to the governor i think it's millions and millions of dollars and he chose not to follow up on it and that's you know that's the difference between me and the current governor and we're not running against each other but you know it's important to understand policy as governor and really delve into it and use the office to go into human services and go into education and go into natural resources and dig down and see where we can improve services for people not just you know cut taxes well what's going to get cut by that let's save the money right to be able to cut taxes let's make better programs so that we can save that money that would be my approach well i think it's very it's um it's timely you know that you can look at it in that way because i think it's true the amount of people incarcerated is ridiculous compared to the amount of people going to state colleges it's it's criminal and and the money that goes into incarcerating people that could be spent seventy five thousand dollars per year per person whereas your college education is going to be forty thousand max going to princeton or some great school with the well it might be a little more than that now but in a lot of a lot of cases there's there's grants or there's low-rate loans but yeah if we put money towards higher education and we got some of these you know addicted moms out of prison and into treatment uh we would spend less on them or just having to prevent people even the of going in which is actually what i'd like to do with our with cannabis reform right is put the first money towards drug treatment highway safety youth prevention for sure but then any added money let's put into the higher education trust fund so that we make college more and more affordable over the long haul let's put some of that money because we don't know what's going to come in let's put it into an economic development endowment so we can invest real money in economic development you served on economic development for years you know there's no money and so if we created a fund over the next 10 years it might have 30 or 50 hundred million dollars in it and we suddenly had two or five or seven million dollars a year to invest in economic development think about all the needs that exist in economic development that you are unable to fund and support because there was no money let's take short-term windfalls and make long-term gains out of them not peter them away on short-term feel-good measures right self-aiming question well i'm just thrilled that we get to have you to ourselves yeah this is really nice can we get you let's you get the last word then how do you want to leave it well i just it's it's been a real honor to serve as lieutenant governor the the biennium is is over and and i still am the lieutenant governor through january certainly i would love people's support to get back in that office i think a lot of people are taking elections for granted it's feeling very quiet out there at the state level a lot of people are looking at national level issues and they rightly should be but i do hope people recognize that we need to keep voting here at home whether you vote for me or not i hope people turn out and vote and participate in democracy because low turnout just gives a sort of fewer people with a lot of money more power and i would say whether you're to the right or the left you know donald trump's populist message was to a lot of working class people who don't necessarily want corporate power i think they got duped by by donald with you know his tax giveaway to the rich and so forth but um but ultimately a lot of working people have been really suffering from a government that's not serving them well whether from the right or the left and i just hope they get out and vote and everybody gets out and votes and participates question for yourself i think he's got it he nailed it i think you know it's been wonderful to have a progressive thinker in a position of power it's it's inspirational for those of us on the fringe i think and and generally um it makes the state house feel more accessible for the general public which i really appreciate and thank you for my goal and your energy and effort towards that and bill's done the same thing just really you know reminding vermonis that the state house is their house that's right and it's important to when i was first elected michael obahowski was the speaker and he always called it the people's house yeah and uh some people think that's corny but it really um it's an important thing to remember that we are public servants as elected officials i like to call myself a publicly elected official whenever someone says you're a politician i said well no publicly elected official you can use either term you want but one really kind of puts forward a a thought process that i am beholden to the people of this state of vermont right and i know many reps from across the political spectrum and senators feel that way as well uh here in vermont we're very lucky and i hope uh that i get another opportunity but it's up to the voters to decide so if you and i thank you for the interview absolutely thanks for having me it's great to see you bill thank good to see you absolutely thank you for joining thank you so much absolutely thanks everybody


What's up everybody, JC over at jaspyscasebrace.com 2023 tops Chrome Disney 100 Chrome hobby one box break, random pack number nine just sold out. And again guys, everybody gets a random pack from a sealed box and looking for at least four numbered card, no four numbered parallels in every box, look for a variety of inserts, one-on-ones and hopefully maybe some autographs guys. All right, so let's open up the box. We'll label each pack, randomize the names and the numbers and we'll see what you guys match up with. Let's randomize the names and the numbers, see what you guys match up with. Three out of two, five tops. One, two, three, four, five. Omar at the top, down to Anthony. Two, three, seven, down to 42. All right, so again, five, five. Omar with seven, Denise you have five. Anthony with 16, Rob with one. Omar with 17, or 17 sorry. Craig with two, Denise with 18. Rob you got 15, Eric with nine. Omar with 11. Rob with six, Rob with 10. Denise with 13, Rob with two. Oh, Rob and Ronco, that is. Omar with eight, Rob with three and four. And then Anthony with 14. Now again, I'm just gonna go by the customer names here and I'm gonna print out the labels too might as well and then I'll just do the break for the sorgers, right, it might as well. I'll do their job here. I'm gonna make it a little easier on them and then just for our sheet purposes I'm gonna. All right, let's do this guys. Anthony you're gonna be up for this buddy. 16 and 14, 16 and 14. All right, here we go man, good luck buddy. Got Sid, Scrooge, McDuck, Bala, and then there's one of those stitch costumes. All Hail the King, I feel like we hit this one already. I don't know how many of these he actually has, but I always feel like we hit that one already. All right, we got Scar, Pavy's, Mickey, and then Iconic Moments. I think he was flying with style, or falling with style, sorry. Yeah, well nothing super crazy there Anthony, but thanks for giving it a shot man. All right, this is the first one there guys. All right, Craig got one pack, number 12. Should be the last one here. All right, might have a numbered card, at least a refractor, Merlin, the Beast, Carl Fredrickson, and Michael Zalski.  All right Craig, thanks for giving it a shot man. I like it, I like that. All right, next one is Denise got three, five, 18, and 13. So five, 18, and 13, so 13, 18, and five, five, 18, 13, 13, 18, and five. There we go, good luck. Sully, Princess Tiana, in light foot, and off the page, Clarabelle Cow, I Peter Pan, the Incredibles, Stitch, and a Buzz Lightyear Refractor, to infinity and beyond. Our last one here. All right, so we got a numbered card. Finally, first numbered card. Zerg, Captain Hook, Alice, and wow, it's a Stitch one as well. 101 days of fun, number 23 of 23. That's a cute one right there. All right, well hey, one numbered card. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. There's no place where I'd be. There you go, one numbered card so far. Eric, one pack in it. There we go, man, good luck, ready? Pack nine. All right, looks like you may have a refractor numbered card. Oswald the Rabbit, Dumbo, Donald Duck, and you got a Dory Refractor. All right, Eric, there you go, buddy. All right, Omar, you got seven, 17, 11, eight. Seven, 17, 11, and eight. Seven, 17, 11, and eight. So eight, 11, 17, seven. Simba, Dr. Felsler, the iconic moments there for Escape from a Plane. Excellent. And we got a Gaston. Gaston, Gaston. The 399, Frozone. Yeah, yeah, we're doing a workout. Looks like we have iconic moments there off to Neverland. So we got that as a numbered block yesterday out of 10. All right, last one here, Omar. Wally. All right, man, we got one numbered card, buddy. All right, big dog, you got one, 15, six, three, four, 10, and that's it. But we're just gonna skip to Rob. I feel like he shouldn't have to wait all the way at the end. We'll just go to him first and then we'll do the rest of yours there. So Rob, Rob Rumpel, there you go, buddy. Pack two, let's get you something nice here, man. Good luck. Ooh, got a numbered card, nice. Bell, Russell, Wade Ripple. Wow, look at that, the Incredibles. 43 out of 299. That's a cool one right there. All right. So again, we'll just double check all the match up there. Pack one, 15, six, three, four. What's happening? Not much, man. Just doing some Disney. Ooh, gold. Edna Mold. Dominations, Baymax, and we got, ooh, that Nemo. Nice, Nemo. 42 out of 50 gold. Little fin. Ernesto de la Cruz. Whoa, I haven't seen this one once upon a time. Pokemon, I mean not Pokemon, it's a Nokia. Moana, refractor. I don't think so, I can't say that I have. Is that like an 80s or early 90s film? Because I remember I'm 92. So maybe we didn't see that one. I mean, I've seen some old classic ones, but not really many of them. Olaf, little cat. Watching him reply to Paris, Tommy. Well, safe flight, buddy. And awesome, have fun. All right, last one here, man. Stitch, we got this one numbered earlier. Is that P-Rod's dad? Big dog, there you go, man. Nemo to 50. So appreciate it, guys. That was some fun stuff, guys, as always. Again, we're still looking for that elusive autograph, guys, if it did post up another box. We only have, I think, that one or one more after that, I believe. So, get it going, guys. Jaspy's casebricks.com.


Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Gavin Lock here. How are you today, Gavin? Good thanks Tracy, and thanks for the opportunity to have a chat. Of course, you're one of the leading large-scale global rare earth projects, and I want to ask you what you think has happened with mollicorps and linus. What are you hearing out there in Australia? I guess the two key issues are probably no surprise to anybody, and that sits around technical and financial risks associated with any rare earth project. I guess the production numbers that are being put out there are less than anticipated in forecast, which is understandable given commissioning issues that many plants have, but also the financial situation that many of us find ourselves in, us to a lesser extent because we're not at project finance yet. But obviously the issues surrounding the type of financing structures that they have in place are obviously plaguing them at the moment, and we're working hard to try to avoid making those types of mistakes, I guess. Do you think one of the advantages you're currently experiencing with Arafura are all your many off-take relationships that you currently have? Well, they're part of it, I think. It goes a long way to de-risk the project if you obviously have a big brother sitting in the background helping you out. To that extent, our largest shareholder in ECE has been extremely useful. They've been a long patient suffering shareholder for us, and they've injected $30 million when the company needed it most, so we're forever grateful for that. But also importantly, they're actually providing us with introductions to a range of technical experts within China who are assisting us in reducing our technical risk. So they certainly have gone a long way to helping us, I guess, avoid some of the issues that some of the others may be experiencing. Of course, one of those challenges are environmental permitting. Can you tell us a little bit about where you're at with this presently? Sure. We're one of the most rare organizations. We have some radioactivity associated with your body, so it does create, I guess, a more onerous social responsibility on all of us. And we've submitted our environmental impact assessment to the Department of Environment in the ENT, the Northern Territory of Australia, that is, and we've received feedback and public comment, and we're now amending our current process. So that we can submit our final license to operate next year. And we think that that is a very important matter for potential customers and potential financiers that you're seeing to have your social license to operate, which your EIS is part of. You're considered one of the leaders in the rare earth industry. You speak around the world and you're in Asia frequently. Can you tell us if you can confirm some of the rumors we're hearing that the Chinese are applying downward pressure on rare earth prices? Well, I can't confirm or deny that, but history has shown that that has occurred in the past. But is it happening right now? I can't comment on that and I don't have that intel. I wish I could inform you, provide more information on that. What I do know is that, given the restructuring of the rare earth industry within China, we now have six large organizations that are mandated by Beijing to control the supply process of rare earths out of China. And I think rare earth prices are probably being affected at the moment because of the surplus inventories that are still in China from all those industries that have been closed down or are in the process of being shut down. And that information is consistently being told to us by both people within China and that's customers alike as well as potential customers in the rest of Asia. We have a lot of interest at investor intel about electric vehicles and of course their batteries require an eodymium and you have one of the best neodymium resources in the world. Can you give the investor intel a bit of a background on what and how unique your resource is and how you might be affected by this demand presently? Sure. We're very lucky to have a resource that's enriched in that key magnet feed. The magnets are certainly the... the ND and PR is certainly the backbone of any magnet and for that reason we are extremely bullish on the outlook there. All forecasts across the industry and inside and outside the industry expect demand to grow for these magnets in the order of 10 to 15%. So, you know, we're looking at positioning ourselves as a key magnet producer for the future. I must refer actually to nine years ago I joined Arafira and one of our major German shareholders told me at the time that it's all about the neodymium and I didn't quite get the picture at that point in time but certainly I do now and I think we are starting as we've recently done to report our costs against per kilogram of neodymium and I think that's important for the industry to start realigning itself into its key market sectors rather than just promoting itself as a rare earth generalistic player. And of course you've done a great deal to reduce your CAPEX and OPEX costs and have received accolades from analysts like Christopher Ecclestone. Can you provide us with any additional updates on this? Only that it's always an ongoing process. We're not comfortable with where our current capital and operating costs are. The operating costs are significantly improved and that's a great credit to our team and, you know, we look forward to even trying to bring that down even further with our Chinese optimisation process. The capital constraint still remains our biggest issue and that's the biggest issue for financing. So, you know, we're always looking at ways to chip away at that and, you know, I'd love to see it under a billion dollars but at the same time I guess if you look at Linus and Molly both of their projects are north of a billion dollars for similar tonnages so, you know, we'll keep working at that and see where we get to. Well, I got to tell you, it's a real pleasure speaking with you. Thank you so much Gavin for joining us this evening. You're welcome. No problem Tracy. Thanks very much.


Over 15 schools from surrounding counties joined Friday at the Appalachian Wireless Arena for SOAR's Healthcare Career Pathway Fair. Really it's a simple purpose for today. Get our healthcare partners like hospitals, get our educational institutions and our high school students in the same place to talk about healthcare opportunities in eastern Kentucky. The reality is there's tons of available jobs, there's tons of opportunity for students from the region to go to schools locally to get school paid for, to graduate debt-free and to come into careers that are good paying careers with full benefits and nobody has to leave. All that's right here in eastern Kentucky. With three hospitals helping host the fair, students had a chance to experience healthcare opportunities first hand. We've got Pikeville Medical Center, we've got Appalachian Regional Healthcare and we've got Q's daughter's medical system and healthcare system represented here today. We've got three educational sessions, there's a simulation in one, but really all three of these are just to give more information related to healthcare careers. It's really what the day-to-day looks like, right? So for high school students, especially those that aren't sure what they want, which I was there before and not knowing what you wanted to do, consider a career here and here's what it could look like so that students can kind of think about, can I see myself doing things? Is this a good fit for me? Because it's nursing, it's pharmacy techs, it's phomotomists, it's all these lab techs, med techs, there's so many different types of support roles that they probably don't get the credit that they need to get but it's what makes everything in a hospital run smoothly and those roles are open, roles that pay $25, $30 an hour. So those educational sessions that are each led by those hospital systems, they're going to give students a taste of what those roles look like and that way students can take that information and think about is this something that can be a potential good fit for me? At Pikeville Medical Center, we believe that together, we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always, we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center, where cancer can be defeated. Afterward, we spoke with aspiring nurse and student Donovan Workman who says seeing the educational sessions is extremely beneficial. It really gives you a good insight on what it is really like inside of a trauma room. You would think that everybody would be panicking or it's a very stressful situation but they make it look really calm and they're really focused and good at what they do. Lastly, Workman says he hopes other students see that there are healthcare career paths within our region. That there are so many options in the healthcare field and it's an ever-growing working field that requires people and needs more people every day and there will not be a day that you don't need a job there that you are not needed and every job there impacts people. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Korjol.


Accessing public services for most people is often taken for granted. But for Eric Grassian, 57, accessibility for all users has been his personal mission for more than two decades. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Estimates that of the 6.25 billion people predicted to be living in urban areas by 2050, an estimated 15% or 937 million will be persons with disabilities. Lack of accessibility contributes greatly to the marginalisation of persons with disabilities and results in disproportionate rates of poverty and exclusion, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is often taken for granted. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is often taken for granted. To be seen it's very important for persons with disabilities as it is for any other person around the world. Unfortunately, people with disabilities have been excluded from community living and from being part of society for too long. And the consequence of this is that people have no direct experience of what is to be a person with disability and how persons with disabilities can contribute to enriching everybody's life. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is often taken for granted. After a near-fatal accident in 1989, Eric Grassian woke up after two months in a coma to life confined to a wheelchair. He was in a hospital, he was in a car that was in the back of the car. We found the car in the back of the car. I was two years in the hospital and two months in the coma. A former professional ice hockey player, his life was literally turned upside down but his passion for hockey never wanes. Persons with disabilities face higher exclusion from housing both public and private than others. Data from 32 countries in Europe show that 4.7% of persons with disabilities experience severe housing deprivation compared to 4.1% of other people surveyed. Participation is key for changing attitudes around persons with disabilities and what needs to be particularly supported is that people with disabilities can be part of societies on an equal basis with others.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards. We're doing a nine box mixer for Johnny H We've got 222 tops tier one baseball 222 Panini three and two baseball and then five 2022 Panini three and two baseball first off the line. So we'll start with the regular three and two. We'll go into tier one and then we'll finish with the First off the lines. Good luck Johnny Then we've got Barry Peter and David that'll finish us out for the night Cal Ripken and 99 Jordan Walker to 99 and Bryce Harper to 150 future first bounce got nice one here jumbo swatches Player worn 59 out of 75 Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. For the Blue Jays Lone Star signatures Tristan Kossus 23 out of 35 for the Red Sox nice one there Second three and two Vladding Jr. To 99 Jason Dominguez to 99 the Martian and So ends to 150 say a Suzuki rookie. We've got Wanda Franco 37 out of 99 a player worn nice one there and Rookie Jersey Otto is gonna be Brandon. Loud not rookie Jersey Otto four out of 32 Brandon. Loud Player worn on that one my optic baseball break. What are you three? What did we say in your know? Oh boy, I'm a little scared to even think of what that was 22 tier one baseball There's so many oh Vaughn got one too What was Vaughn's? Sean Doodle Yeah, wait send me a picture. I want to see what it was Oh, yeah, I know There's gonna be some new ones that are gonna go on so yeah as well Jason Heyward that's a 399. Oh, it's next one's really cool. We've got to 199. How about a willy maze? Game used bat the say hey kid Legends tier one legends We've got Joe Barlow That's 81 out of 299 and you rose a rain up to 299 nice one there raise next one up Johnny Carlos Del Fina like Sims Walker, Ben Oudre, James Jones and John Salmons. Oh my god Forgot I remember that now Dejala, Mayhew nice one there to 399 Just random random rule players from the 2020 times when I say it sent Vaughn Vaughn, Godolph and Sean We've got Luke Voight 68 out of 299 For the inks And then Seth Beer rookie out of 299 on card for the Diamondbacks. There you go Johnny All right, Johnny we got your five first off the lines now Got Nick Prado to 99 for the Royals Yadir Molina four of six on the exclusive and full count is Chris Bryant to 150 We've got cool one here full count swatches Miller Huggins To six of six That's an old oldie right there game used bats read Detmer's that's awesome on the Three color three color is gonna be four or five. All right next first off the line I'm just doodle. I want to look at it after this break. Kyle. I got you I kind of want to see what that that's all about Al Simmons to 99 red prospects Christian Hernandez for the Cubs five of six and Yadir Molina to 150 I don't know Ditos probably from like either family or they buy them on auction stuff like that. That's George Brett That's 100 jumbo swatches two out of six game worn that And cool one here. We've got three of three three color patch auto Alfonso Soriano for the Rangers game worn to nice patch on that one Know that I really want to pull again is one of the Roy Halladay's Yeah, one of those so bad. I gotta buy one of those at some point Yankees legend Alfonso Soriano. Yes, sir big time Yankees legend Alfonso Soriano You got an extra card in here Nolan R and out of the 99 Yuri Perez to 32. Yeah, we're not supposed to get this one. Nice one there extra card Jordan Walker five of six on the color match red prospects card for the Cardinals and Mike trout all hands team to 50 three color patch Joe Adele that is four of six player warrant for the Angels and cool on here. We got a moments two of six timeless moments Mark McGuire Nice one there That is breaking the homerun record the Cardinals Yeah, he was Rangers legend Alfonso Soriano, I Didn't know he was a ranger to that card to be honest. I Knew Cubs and Yanks. I knew he played other places Goal Jayrod 10 out of 25 rookie nice one there Johnny good start red exclusive one yep as five of six for the Cardinals and Future first ballets to 51 of 50 Jose L to that We've got Corey seager six of six player warner player used bad, I guess For the Rangers and then superstar auto Jose of bray you for the white socks. That is two of three nice one there It's true, man Unmumbly good box right there that good about good what good one to save to the end for sure Tray Turner nine or nine of 12 Red Chris Bryant five of six and Javi Baez 19 out of 50 all hands team Got nice one here Jason Dominguez Jersey laundry tag for the Yankees Five of six the Martian and some sick patches on this. How about a matte brash? RPA three color four color for the Mariners one of three nice one there Johnny. Congrats, buddy Nice one there. There you go Johnny. That'll do it for your break my man. Thanks as always for the support We'll get those right out to my man


Hello and welcome to this session. In this session we will identify two dimensional figures obtained from the cross-section of three dimensional objects. We will also identify three dimensional figures obtained by rotating two dimensional figures. Now let us see how to identify two dimensional figures from cross-section of three dimensional objects. Now three dimensional figure or we can say 3D figure is a solid which has length, width and depth like cylinder, cone, sphere and two dimensional figure or we can say 2D figure only length and width like rectangle, circle, square, triangle etc. Now when we are playing intercept or slices a solid figure we obtain very interesting shapes. First of all let us understand the meaning of cross-section. Now when a plane intersects or cuts a solid then the intersection of the plane and solid is called cross-section. Now let us take one illustration in which we will slice the solid with a plane in three different ways and we will identify the two dimensional figures that is obtained. Here we have taken a cylinder. In first figure we have sliced the cylinder vertically with a plane and here the plane divides the cylinder in two halves. Now we see the shape of the cross-section formed after cutting the cylinder with this plane vertically and it is of a rectangle that is the shape of cross-section is of a rectangle which is a two dimensional figure. In the second figure we have sliced the cylinder at an angle that is we have sliced the cylinder by a plane at an angle. Here we get oval shape of the cross-section. Now in the third figure we have sliced the cylinder horizontally by the plane and we see that here we are getting circular cross-section of this cross-section which is circular in shape. Now let us take one more example. Now when a sphere is cut horizontally we can see that shape of the cross-section is a circle. Also we see when a plane is sliced vertically then we see that shape of cross-section is triangle. Now let us discuss how to identify three dimensional figures obtained by rotating two dimensional figures. To understand this we will see an illustration in which we will rotate a right angle triangle ABC to obtain the solid cone. Now let us rotate the triangle about the line AB. Now rotating the triangle about the line AB we get shape of a cone. Now the direction of rotation does not matter we can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise about the vertical line AB thus rotating a two dimensional figure that is right under triangle we get a three dimensional figure that is a cone. Now let us take one more example. What will be the solid formed when a rectangle is rotated about one of its edges. Here let us take the rectangle ABCG. Now we rotate it about edge AB in any direction. Now here we can see when we rotate this rectangle about edge AB in any direction we obtain a solid that is cylinder similarly when we rotate a circle about its diameter we obtain a sphere also we must note that the line around which we rotate the figure is called axis of rotation. So in this session we have learnt how to identify two dimensional figures obtained from the cross-section of three dimensional figures and this completes our session hope you all have enjoyed the session.


Hello everybody, I'm here to talk to you about Open Source BIOS at SCALE, so who we are. We are basically an online scaleway, it's an hosting company from the French Telecom Group ILLYAD, ILLYAD is better known for free telecom. What we do is we build our own data centers in France, and in our data centers we build our own some of course. Yeah, I try. So we are hosting company, online the debuxes to the brand we have for server hosting. And SCALE way is the brand of our cloud service. And to provide the service we have data centers that we manage ourselves, we build ourselves. And in those data centers we put servers from there and we put servers that we built. And in those servers there is an ARM32 offer that's called C1 on our cloud service. It's basically, I think we were the first to do a cloud on ARM32. And then we want to more x86 kind of server with Intel Avoton. And the new ones, the one I will talk, the rest of the talk is the Denverton chip. And SCALE way is hiring, so if you're interested in those kind of jobs, come with us. So what we did is we developed an open source BIOS. What was your requirements? Basically bring up the board, do pixie booting, so boot from the network. Have the OS ready, so we need ACPI tables and stuff like that so that the OS knows how much CPU you have and how to change the speed, et cetera. We need some interface with our BMC so we can do a remote console and configure the system from the administration network. We need a secure dead process. We need to be able as a hosting company to update the BIOS and not our clients to flash their BIOS if they wish. It's our job, not theirs. And I think I did everything. And why open source for that task? Retried BIOS vendors. Basically they sell you something that almost works but does not really do what you want.  Whenever you have a question, you have to ask the person and they're not quick to answer you and you pay extra for that. So it's not really a good solution. And basically what they're selling to you is the initialization of the chips that's from Intel. They are giving you an UFI stack that's basically from Chernocore. And they are legacy BIOS and a very nice menu with the mouse clicking to configure your system, which we don't need. Another solution was to use Intel's reference BIOS but you're not allowed to do that. They give it to you just for testing but you can't go in production with that. And none of those solutions did cover the interface with our BMC. So we needed to develop something so we went for open source to do that. So mainly there's three components. Coreboot, which is open source, community-driven effort. FSP, which is the black box from Intel. And Chernocore, which is the UFI stack. So Coreboot does the early init. The first step that's run is from Coreboot. Then it passes to the FSP to do the memory training. Gets back to Coreboot. We do the multiprocessor init. We prepare the CPI table and stuff like that. And we need to call the silicon init from Intel. It's doing more fuel stuff like locking some registers so it cannot be changed afterwards.  Basically it could be unchanged using the Coreboot payload from Chernocore project. We did a few changes in there also for the BMC support. So basically we took all that and it worked. It almost worked. First, I was still learning the Coreboot cost base, et cetera. And your system boot, you're happy. And you're on Linux. And you have high-end CPU and it's running at 800 megahertz. Wow. So you start searching on ACPI how to configure those speed step features so that the Linux knows how to change the frequency, et cetera. It still doesn't work.  So you look into the Coreboot how it's done for that chip, et cetera. You mostly find stuff that looks like, but it's not the same chip so it won't work. And at some point, what was in my documentation and what was on Coreboot upstream, Apollo Lake support was like, this will do the initialization, but it's not really documented. Okay, should I use that? I asked Intel support. They said, yeah, yeah, it's that code. So I integrated it and that was it. It was booting and running at 2Gerts. There's some other stuff. That one is found with the NVME drives. That one from Samsung is working fine and the one from Intel was not working. So we had several changes with the Intel support and they finally found out why. So it was some configuration failure, but we couldn't find it easily because we don't have debug tool for PCI Express. So what's good, pros and cons? I start with the cons. It's a little longer to develop than using BIOS vendors. We don't have the nice graphical menu. Yeah. We don't have legacy BIOS support. We could have used CBS for that if we really wanted, but we didn't. Intel's bug were for us, not for the vendors. So we had to talk with them. We don't have BIOS vendors support, but we had Intel support. And that one is important for the community. Early contribution is hard. Basically, the first version of Coreboot that we had was before the chip was even released. So it was under NDA and we didn't have the right to talk about it. Then nobody knew about it before it was out. So we couldn't contribute at that time. And when Intel contributed something to Coreboot, it was a totally different code base. So basically what I have to do now is rebase everything and redevelop some of the features to contribute. And then in the process of doing it. The good thing is most of the code is already there. Even more now on Coreboot. Basically it works. It's as fine as the Intel reference BIOS. Performance as air, disk architecture, everything. We have some more features related to LBMC. We can configure the UART for the console to display information about BIOS or not, stuff like that. Which are really useful for debugging, but we disabled them in production. So it's easier to have configuration there. And about the flash. Basically, the system LBMC locks the flash. And the Intel FSP is configuring the flash controller to protect also the access to the flash from the host. Basically in a regular system only the ME component has access to the flash once it's booted. And when we want to update, we want to use flash from Linux. So we have a special mode where we go around the protection setup by FSP so that we can write to the flash. And one good point too is when discussing with Intel on the memory reference code, this code has a lot of information about the training of the DDR. And we wanted to get those information for our inventory. So we wanted those information to be displayed on boot. And basically Intel planned to release the version that's released on GitHub of the FSP without those features. And I told them, yeah, but we need it. So at first they said, okay, we'll give you a special version on the NDA.  So thanks to us, everybody has access to that. So it was indeed investment. Yeah, scale we had to hire me. But it was useful. And we're really happy to have the control on our birth stack. So that was just a few toe-toe type. And it's going fine. Yeah, by the way, we are producing lots of those. The next scale we run on those. Any questions? Yes? We are talking about training the DDR. What do you mean by training? Yeah, basically when DDR3... The question is for... Yeah, okay. The question was what training the DDR means. But if you are on DDR3 and 4, the link between the CPU and the DDR, it's like a small network on board that runs really, really fast. And it's not like you put one, you get the one at the other end. It needs to fine-tune the way it controls that. And the specific code to do that, we don't have it. It's anti-appropriatory. We don't even have the data sheet of that part. Yes? In your case... Yeah, what about the maintenance engine? In your case, we are a direct Intel customer. And we are using it. The maintenance engine has the role to bring up part of the platform. Yes, we know that at WAT, we don't have those features in the version we have. We know it. But, yeah, it's part of... The stuff we have under NDA are the same as the other manufacturer. We are like... Yes? Okay. What's running on the BMC? Basically, our BMC is a small microchip. And we implemented the APMI. Basically, we have a UART forward to TCP port. Well, UDP port. So it's not a full standard APMI. It's really just the feature we need. And then, we have applications that run on other computers in our network to handle the tasks. It's not a standard APMI. Yes? First, a second question. One people, me. And how long I started... I think it's about six months... A little more than six months' work. It's been more than a year. But during that time, there was BIOS development, BMC and stuff. And when you're waiting for the support and you have no clue about the specific bug, you switch to something else. So it's more than a year. But it's probably six months. Learning core boots, learning EFI. And that one is a pain. And tweaking those stuff, et cetera. Yes? Are we planning to train learning boot? Yes. As I said earlier for contributing, I'm still in the process of streaming our changes. And I see it as a requirement before training boot because it's integrated in latest core boot. And then, we'll see... As a developer, I will try it and we'll see how to deploy it and whether it has benefits or not, et cetera. I think that. If there's no more questions, then I'd say I thank you everyone for being there and probably see you next year.


I love everyone and to girl Kenzie here from Leighton sports cards and I'm ripping 21 22 Panini Chronicles basketball Hobby six box half case break number 13 pick your team. I'm gonna go over the teams and then we'll get started here We've got Alexandros s with the Lakers magic hornets and T-wolves Thanks for closing us out Alexandros Arthur y with the Celtics Brian B Bucks Brian We've got two Brian B's Brian B a with the Bucks Brian be you with the Sixers KCD Raptors for hon H sons George y with the bowls nuggets Pacers Nicks Glory H with the thunder Gretchen T calves Harold v Grizzlies Jared I pistons can Kaizo a with the heats can suke a k rocket slursack y blazers Indian Z with the Clippers Matthew X with the jazz Michael M warriors Patrick team abs Robert P net Samuel B with the Hawks Suzanne P with the spurs Thomas D. Pelicans Tony K wizards and Ushuo L with the Kings Alright, here we go. Good luck Good luck. Good luck eight to go on the next one everybody, and we got four total breaks of these half case pick your teams So let's get them filled up Eight to go on the next one Moody Johnson Bob Mair we've got timeless treasures out of 149 train man thunder Kominga Yannis Edwards and SGA Jones, we've got Zion out of 149 pelicans Josh Giddy on the honors rookie thunder silver honors Davion Mitchell Kings Marquis Cameron Thomas and Alphan Shandgun George Jones Keon Johnson. We got Bones Highland at 249 out of Plates and Patches Nuggets Kominga. We've got purple rookie Bones Highland from hometown heroes Six out of 49 on that one Denver. I have no sumo and Anthony Edwards mellow second year Thomas Bones Highland. We got genre rant that is gonna be gold eight out of ten Grizzlies There you go. One of the last teams taken congrats on that one Grizzlies Very nice. Trey Murphy the third. We got our first autos spurs Rookie Giusevato 57 of 99 Joe Weisskamp for the spurs Jalen Green rookie out of XR and Davion Mitchell You'll get Jackson We've got a Evan Mobley for the Cavs Scotty Barnes out of playbook for the Raptors Filler, LeBron, James Harden. You have Jalen Suggs out of Essentials and Purple LeBron 45 of 49. Nice one there Lakers Last pack box one Tatum Tramann Bassie KD on the Purple Foil 5 of 49 Cameron Thomas we've got Pistons a David Bing 113 of 149 on the Hall of Fame insert auto Dave Bing Got LeBron and a Trey Young out of XR Right again still eight teams to go on the next break everybody Eight to go many of them are marked on sale Get them filled up eight to go Jocominga, Weisskamp, Alphonshengoon out of 149 Rockets Austin Areves We've got Darren Sharp on the New Jersey Auto 94 of 99 for the Nets. Nets with another one Steph Curry and Robinson Earl Pylon Filler, Halliburton, we've got XR Jonathan Cominga and Orange Rookie 28 of 75 Franz Wagner for the magic There you go Orlando Luca we've got Bless you Jalen Green rookie Rockets Evan Moley for the Cavs Davion Mitchell that is six of 49 Quentin Grimes we have okay C One of 99 Ricky Jersey Auto Aaron Wiggins You go thunder Lots of limited Ricky Jersey autos coming out very nice Herbert Jones and Joshua Primo Johnson Josh Christopher Johnson, we've got Josh Giddy that is 16 of 99 Rookie from Plates and Patches Thunder Jalen Green out of hometown heroes Rockets Cameron Thomas Jaw and Steph Curry Hardin, Dosunmu, Dosunmu, Herbert Jones on the Blue Foil 96 of 99 Pelicans Got Jalen Green out of honors for the Rockets Silver honors Josh Giddy Thunder Nice one there Davion Mitchell and Treyo. Thanks for subscribing LB last pack box to Bradley Beal Sharp Duarte Got timeless treasures of Jonathan Cominga out of 249 Duarte blue crusade color match for the magic out of rookies and stars Jalen Suggs 18 out of 99 Kisper Rookie and Aaron Wiggins Rookie Still eight teams left everyone that breaks right after this Eight teams left pick your team pick your team pick your team format 12 autographs on average coming out of each one of these breaks George Garuba, we've got a Cade Cunningham Two out sorry 21 of 149 from luminance pistons He on Johnson on the prison rookie update. We've got out of 149 national pride The gelica are by Aletia Jelica by Aletia from Serbia for the Warriors Again was 134 out of 149 Wiggins Rookie and Steph Curry Jones, Lomelo, Herbert Jones, Wagner Phillip, Cominga, Yannis, Robinson Earl and a red rookie Isaiah Williams for the Grizzlies don't 149 Thomas, Jokic My god Jalen Suggs out of luminance Moses Moody gold two of ten. There you go Warriors another gold What are we five for five now? I think right? Yeah. Wow five for five on breaks with golds Wow, nice one there dubs Josh Getty rookie Cornerstones Evan one of the sets we were talking about there you go Gretchen T with the Cavs 99 rookie cornerstones Beautiful head We'll make that one for you. Of course Jonathan Cominga and Herbert Jones Wow Big hit on that love those cornerstones For Jones Darren Sharp we've got Evan Mobley out of 99 on the Timeless Treasures another Cavs it there Davion Mitchell Lebron out of Phoenix We've got Cade Cunningham out of essential and Jama rants Mitchell Moses Moody Duarte. We have Trey Mann out of 99 Thunder Davion Mitchell silver rookie Josh Getty out of Phoenix another nice hit for the Thunder Thunder is doing well Curry and Davion Mitchell Last pack box three Johnson SGA shingoon. We have Joshua Primo red foil out of 149 spurs Luca purple rookie of Cameron Thomas for the Nets three out of 49 Trey young and Corey Kisper All right, very solid first half of this break Let's go seven to go seven to go on the next break now everybody and that will break right after this one Let's get that filled up We can keep ripping appreciate all the spots taken so far tonight getting everything filled up as always Jalen Green rookie and be we've got Austin Reeves to 149 for the Lakers out of prestige First to our day hometown heroes for the Hornets rookie out of the 99 GT Thor Hornets there What's up Prince? Quentin Grimes and Evan Mobley out of essentials Wattford Curry Jones Biller Jalen Suggs out of Crusade Trey young out of honors Luca and red friends Wagner 75 149 It's Wagner there art day. It's gone.  We've got 75th anniversary Out of 49 to L&B KD we've got gold standard for the Pacers rookie Jersey Auto 52 of 99 Isaiah Jackson Another subset that's nice in this cold standard LeBron and Franz Wagner Feel sharp Murphy. We've got Jonathan Kumminga out of 149 warriors Soon move Steph Curry train Murphy Kumminga Jock a minga Billy. We've got Jalen Green 70 of 99 Rockets from Luminance Evan Mobley out of Crusade silver crusade LeBron James for the Lakers Jalen Green Rockets and Davion Mitchell Kings. That's a nice pack Alright last pack here at a box for Halliburton Highland Trayman we've got LeBron out of 249 from plates and patches Lakers James Hardin orange wave crusade Jalen Suggs 74 out of 75 for the magic Magic doing well so far to Josh Christopher and Lamello ball. All right box five Let's see Celtics Hornets Mabs Grizzlies T-wolves magic and wizards still seven left everybody seven to go on the next break Let's get that filled up here bring in on about ten minutes or so Let's get it filled up nice Josh Giddy or Like personal or just the Timberwolves and wizards left now. Oh nice Franz Wagner on the blue foiled in magic Halliburton Thomas Robinson Earl so Matt. Thank you Matt. Just two to go now on the next break two to go Yannis shingoon look at Garza. We've got Trayman on the red foil to 149 thunder It's a bonus. We've got to 149 airborne rookies and stars auto Marcus smart You know Celtics That's a player of the year last year Josh Christopher and Kessler Edwards Lillard we've got Scotty Barnes out of prestige Here at seven Red foil to 149 Kyrie Josh Giddy crusade silver honors Scotty Barnes KD and Moses Moody Scotty Barnes threads Kominga we've got Tyler's treasures to 249 Kate Cunningham go pistons Sumo we've got orange waves Scotty Barnes 45 is 75 nice hit there Raptors Heck yeah, beautiful orange wave Well magged out one for you Jalen green rookie and kominga Yeah, Brennan. I bet he is I was an Earl Joshua Primo to 49 spurs Yannis we've got Clippers rookie Jersey Otto 23 of 99 Jason Preston Clips Got Devin Booker and a Christo Arte Last pack box five little leather Primo got Franz Wagner rookie filler crusade of Trayman Shingoon a Kevin Durant and purple Zaire Williams 46 of 49 Grizzly's Box here number six Like all over the place.  We've got Josh giddy on the 75th anniversary Bones Highland Yannis on the silver crusade bucks from Wagner rookie and Trayman Scotty Barnes out of chronicles and say it's hot Kominga red foil timeless treasures. I don't assume for the bulls out of 149 Wagner rookie Jonathan kominga on the red hometown heroes 103 of 149 Franz Wagner and Kate Cunningham nice pack Mitchell We got Steph Curry on the blue foil the 99 warriors Jalen green rockets rookie from Phoenix We've got out of 99 rookie Otto out of Phoenix Isaiah Todd Washington no wizards BBJ and a BBJ a couple packs left Franz Wagner on the luminous Got filler look at down chitches Davion Mitchell Yannis and red of Davion Mitchell to 149 Kings All right last pack here Pack and then we'll do a recap Josh giddy Luke with Garza. We have Steph Curry on the foil that is 43 out of 149 Brandon Williams prism updates we have David Thompson on the airborne Otto for the Nuggets out of rookies and stars David Thompson And we've got Yannis and Cade Cunningham Alright everyone that will do it for the break Let me go ahead and do a recap here We had Dave Thompson Nuggets Isaiah Todd Wizards Jason Preston Clippers market smart Celtics Isaiah Todd Pacers JT Thor Hornets we had Be Jaleeka for the Warriors Aaron Wiggins thunder Darren Sharp net state being pistons a Joe Weiss camp spurs and then our max cars We had the Scotty Barnes on the orange wave out of honors for the Raptors 45 is 75 and the beautiful rookie cornerstone RPA to 99 Evan Mobley calves congrats again on that one calves All right, that'll do it for the first one. We got number 14 coming up as soon as it feels. Thank you everybody


everyone and welcome, this is Melissa Armo with Stocks, Wishing and Reviewing, Apple. I called the 110 puts this morning in this and it was just a really nice call. I mean, this was more than 100% return on investment in one day. I did tell everyone you could have done it as a day trade but you could also still be in this because it doesn't expire till Friday. And in fact, this is falling after hours here. So just a review came down here to the low 106.77. So this went more than $3 through the strike closed at 107.12. And I mean, this looks a lot lower but if you did it today and got out of it you could have just done as a day trade book the money done and got out. You can do that with options and that's a nice aspect of doing this as well. And this was so cheap because I called it really tight. So today is Wednesday. I called the 110 puts with the expiration of the 25th because I knew it would go today. So you can do that when you know that it's going to go fast, fast meaning quick and it went right away today. And again, you could still be in it but you could have just done as a day trade but now. So look at this, this is selling off right now. Wow, let me look here at this market. So one of the things that's interesting again, again I teach gaps in a class once a month. If you wanna learn my system, it's called the Golden Gap. The class is October 3rd and 4th. If you don't want to learn the system you can sign up for the Gap Options newsletter. It's 69.99 a year. You get all the trades, email to you in a newsletter and you take them when you get them. And you would have taken this trade today, boom, fell. Nice move, it was a put. Again, when you buy a put, you're betting that the market is moving lower. You are predicting that the market is going to drop or the stock or whatever you're doing. So we did Apple puts, we did the 110 puts and we did them pretty early. It was before it broke through that. I mean it was just perfect timing quite frankly which counts for options. And then because the date was so close these moved very fast and very quickly. And these, if anyone's still in these are gonna be up a lot tomorrow morning if this would open right here because it's really gonna look like it's gonna continue down to 105 and beyond. In fact, the low of this tail here from two days ago where this got bought is 103.10. And I mean, again, where does this open tomorrow is gonna depend on really where this can go whether it continues lower or backs up like it did two days ago. But again, if you did the trade today you got the nice sell-off, you got the momentum. So if it continues down and gaps down tomorrow I mean, this is gonna be worth much, much more. I mean, this was a really nice call quite frankly. And I've been calling a lot of puts in this lately and they've been working. So if you're interested in doing options you can just sign up for the options newsletter, email me if you want to sign up forms there's no prerequisites. And you can start trading as soon as you sign up. So the class is in two weeks. You have to wait to do the class October 3rd but if you wanna start getting the trades immediately email me, you sign up, fill out the forms give me your email, you get the trades to your email fabulous trades in the last couple of weeks and I've just been reading this market really well which is one of the reasons that these things are working so nicely. So email me and Melissa the stockswish.com we'll see where Apple goes tomorrow. We'll see if it goes to the dream target. I mean, by Friday basically. And we shall see. Good luck everyone.


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