Okay. Hello everybody. So I'll be talking about Electron. So just wanted to see a raise of hands was like how many people have worked with Electron already? Anytime before? Okay. Anybody here worked with something like Electron say Node Webgate or Tint? Okay. So this will start from the basics and a little bit about what OS works. We can put into Electron and how we can build ship maintain cross platform projects in Electron. So just to start with I'll just tell about the architecture of Electron and what are the components in it. But before that, how about, let's say in five minutes, how you can make a simple Hello World desktop app using Node.js. So Electron has made it really very easy. So it's as easy as you go install the NPM module called Electron earlier. It was called Electron prebuilt, but from I think a couple of months before it's now you can just use the packaging of Electron. While you're installing that, if you want, for example, so since Electron is the native module, so since if you want to install the 32 bit version on S24 bit OS, for example, you might want to do that on Windows or on Linux. So you can also give the architecture name and download accordingly. You basically just like any Node.js project, you would need a package.json file and main.js, which is going to be our main script, which is going to run and an index.html file. So this is the one which will be our UI in our app. So one very important thing that we need to add in a Electron project is in our package.json. We add the key entry called main and this basically tells which script is going to start when you start the app for the first time, right? So you just point it to main.js. Let's just look at the script and we will understand it in detail. But you create a function called create window and we create a new browser window of given width and height and we load the URL of our file which has our UI, which is the index.html file and whenever the window is closed, we just nullify the intent. We require Electron into a browser window of an app and we have a simple event called ready. So whenever you open the app, we have the app becomes ready and at that point we can load the UI of it. And inside our index.html, we just have just a simple hello world and the version of Node, version of Chrome and version of Electron is running. So just about this much and you run it, you will get this on your desktop screen. So this will be just like any desktop app you open. It will have its own window. It will have its own menu and on it, you will be seeing whatever was there in your index.html file. So to understand basically, what is Electron? How it came about? So I guess everybody knows about Atom, right? Atom the text editor made by GitHub, a very good text editor for web development. So when GitHub was building Atom, they wanted to build Atom using web technologies. So they basically did was they forked the source code from the Chromium project, which is Google Chrome and they removed everything in the browser. For example, your history and URL bar and all of that and just made a simple shell inside which you can run a web app. So just if we try to understand what are the basic differences in Chrome and Electron. So here is how the way things work in Chrome, for example. So we all know that in Chrome, Chrome brought about multiprocessing. So basically each tab has its own process separately and there is one main browser for process. So if anybody of you have noticed when you open your task monitor on your operating system, first time you open Chrome, there will be two Chrome.exe processes and further on you keep on opening tabs. There will be like n tabs, there will be n Chrome.exe processes and one main one through which the worst level things are accessed. So your v8, which is the JavaScript rendering engine, the webkit, which is your HTML rendering engine, an instance of each of these are created inside your renderer process, which is there for each of your tabs. The APIs with which you are doing network communication or storage or your GPS, the location and the user interface of the browser where you have your everything your back button, your URL bar and all of that that runs in the browser process. In the internal API, basically at the C++ level, there is something called a resource message filter via which communication takes place between the renderer process and the window process. So this is the kind of architecture that Chrome uses for their browser. So what GitHub did when they were building Electron was they formed libchromium content. So libchromium content is the part of Chrome inside which your v8 and webkit part is rendered, like basically the document API and not the browser API. So they fork that and inside that we are able to run our HTML and our JavaScript and all of that stuff. And so this is how basically the architecture of Electron looks like. So instead of the browser process, now we basically run Node.js process inside which we have all our native APIs, everything that you can do inside Node.js without any restriction like you have on the browser side, you cannot access files which have not been put into the upload window. All of the restrictions are gone. The sandbox is not present anymore. It can have full access to the operating system. It can do network storage work. It can access GPS. Anything that's available to Node.js is available to the main process. Each window, so when we're using Electron, basically we are talking about windows instead of tabs because, for example, like using Mac sort of word, you can open up multiple windows for different documents. So like that we have different windows. So each window works very similar to how tabs work in Chrome. And instead of the resource message filter, there is a JavaScript level API here which is called IPC which stands for inter process communication. This is how basically the architecture is set up inside Electron. So how basically the processes are different. They are running on to this part, the top part that's running on a separate instance of V8 the way Node.js runs any JavaScript that you put like inside a script tag in your HTML, which is going to come on your browser. That is going to run on a separate V8 instance. So these two things cannot directly interact with each other as such. So for that, the IPC exists. And by the IPC, we have got basically there are certain things like the shell, the screen, the clipboard. These share a common context. Everything else we have to do very similar to how we use in Socket. How many of you have used Socket? Socket.io? Okay. So Socket, you have a basic idea of how you can send events from the client, get them on the server side, send events from the server side and get them on the client because it's the event emitter API. So here it's very similar in inter process communication inside Node, sorry, you create a channel, which is just like creating a Web socket and then you can subscribe to particular messages, which is like creating a on function and you can receive messages, which is using in socket. You have emit. Here we have got a send function. You send a message inside the message. You can send any kind of an object, any kind of data you can send. And via that, you can basically interact with any one of your renderer processes. Each of them will be different IPC clients and there'll be one main process which can interact with it. So for example, you want to drag a file into your app and it should save it somewhere. So you will have to send the object of the file from your renderer process into your main process to be able to save it to your file system because your rendered is just like any web app. It does not have access to your file system. Your main process has access to your file system. Similarly, you can also do asynchronous stuff via sending callbacks instead of sending objects directly. Both the things are available inside IPC. So everything that you can do in a web app, whatever you can do with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, that is possible beyond that when we are talking about desktop apps, there are certain more things we want to do. For example, creating menus, creating a notification tray icon and having our app run in the background. So all of these things, there are various APIs available inside Electron to access them. So first of all is menu. There are two kinds of menus. One is an application level menu, which is basically when you open an app and you see file, edit, view, all of those things. And then there is the context menu, which is available when we say in our browser, we right click on a word and we get spell check inside it. So creating menus is a very easy thing in Electron.  And you can then assign any function inside that that will take place when you click on that thing. You can also assign radio buttons and selectors inside your menus. So there is a menu object inside Electron. Inside that we have got a set application menu function using which we can create application menus. Then for example, we want to create context menus. For example, the option shown here, this spell check by default, the render process does not have something like a spell check, but you want to add something like a spell check. Then here we have to, as you can see, create the menu from the remote. So the remote when we do require Electron, we are basically getting the reference from our main process because this code is inside our render process inside the JavaScript that will be running on the UI. So here we need to get the reference of menu from remote. Then we can create the menu and simply you can then add it to the context menu event which happens every time when you right click on any part of an HTML, the context menu event comes up. You can fire up that menu and show the options from it. Then comes trays. So a tray is basically like on the Mac, the top right part of notification tray windows, right bottom part notification tray. So if you want anything inside your app to keep running without a window, something like a background process. So then you can use trays. There is a tree API and mind it, this part again, it's HTML only because everything that we are doing here is going to be just like a chromium window. So it's just like a chromium window here. You're writing it in HTML. It's not a default native OS UI as such. Then we have got notifications here. So by notifications, notifications were very similar to we have in HTML5 apps. Just using your HTML5 notification API that will work because the front end part, anything that's available as part of HTML5 that's going to work here. The latest version of electron uses the same lip chromium content API as is available inside Chrome version 44 and above. Then we also have the recent API. So if your app is something like the atom app, which can open files, so you can have reasons which will work even if your app is accessed from the quick launcher in windows or from the dock in Mac. Then we have got launcher menus. Now this part is something when we are going to do cross platform, this differs for all the three platforms having launcher menus. Basically, if you have put say Firefox in your quick launch menu, you will see that you right click on it. You get two options. One is to open Firefox and another is to open it in private browsing mode. Similarly, you have Chrome in your dock. You will see there will be two options to open to Chrome directly and one in your incognito mode. So how to launch app in different modes? These things happen in different ways. So for windows, there is an API called the jump list API, which is very similar to Windows native development you are using in .NET. There is an API called jump list.  Internally, the object of a jump list will be very similar to a menu object. You can create a label, an icon and a task, but you will have to add it to a jump list instead of adding to a menu and it will work like this. You will get options like this here. In OSX, it works entirely differently. So here we have to add a menu to the app itself instead of using jump list and those basically come up here in form of options. And finally, in Linux, there is no requirement to add anything inside your electron app as such. So in Linux, when we save our app, a shortcut in a .dextop file, there we can add different tasks to it. And like the three you can see previous change wallpaper, live wallpaper. So this is something that happens outside of electron as such. So how basically do you debug electron? So obviously in the renderer process, you open the developer tools in the window, but your main process that is not that straightforward to debug as such. But what you can do is when you are running the app, you can do electron and add a flag called debug or debug BRK. So using the debug, it is a simple debugging port is opened up using the debug BRK. It also adds a breakpoint on the very first line of your JavaScript execution so that when you open your debugger, your app is actually paused. Then you can add your own breakpoints and start working on it. So you do this and then you can simply create a script like this. You start your app, use the debug board, one, three, seven, for example, run node inspector. And then you can also do is you can use electron itself to open another window to debug it, or you can like here you can write electron, you can write Chrome, you can write Firefox, anything you can use, any web browser to debug it. But usually most apps use a script like this. So the app runs and another electron instance opens up to debug the main process. Coming to how you can actually distribute it. So at this particular state, you have got say your HTML files, your JavaScript files, your CSS files that is creating a UI. You have got your Node.js script to run your backend, but you are able to run it only after you have installed electron locally into your system. But when you are when you have to distribute it to your end users, then a lot of things come up. First of all, you need to rebrand it because the electron binary as such comes with an icon, the electron icon. It looks like the atom icon and the process and the application in your recent everywhere. It will be called electron, although it's your app. So that we need to change. Then we might need to package it. So like there's going to be a lot of source code files. You can package it in form of as our as our isn't just a it's just like a tar file, but it's an atom archive. Then we can package all of that together into always specific binaries, exe for windows, dot app folder for Mac and binary file for Linux. Then we can also create installers for it. And finally, we can also enable auto updates into it. So when we are enabling auto updates again, when you create your app for the first time, it's going to contain your source code. Plus it is also going to contain electron, the binary itself, the electron binary itself is going to be 40 MB in size. So when you want to program auto updates, you'd want to only update the change in your code and not update the whole app again, because the whole app will just the hello world app itself takes 40 MB in size. So the package structure looks somewhere like this when you basically build your electron project. So for example, the name of the project, if it is electron, this could be whatever name of your project is in Mac, it creates a dot app folder. There'll be contents resources app. And in that you will have your source code files. Or you can just package all of these things into an app.assar. Assar is just like said, it's just a TAR archive. It's not any proprietary format. It's not encrypted. Source code is easily visible inside this. So this does not provide any kind of source code protection. It is just a bundling thing for windows or Linux. There is no dot app concept here. You can just put it in a resources folder. So this resources folder basically becomes your distributable file at this point. Then you will need to rebrand the electron binary so that it does not you run your app. It does not show the electron icon and the electron name. So rebranding it is very easy in Windows, Mac, Linux and all three of them. You can just change the name of the binary from electron.exe. You can name it whatever you want it. And inside Windows, Windows apps have the icon file embedded into the EXE. So you can use any kind of a hex editing software for Windows and change that icon. There are a lot of tools available. You're going to just cover it, which does this automatically for you. So there is electron package and electron builder electron package. What it does is it creates the EXE app and disc folders for Windows, Mac and Linux respectively. Electron builder works alongside electron package and creates Microsoft installable or a DMG or PKG for Mac, or it can create a DBN or thing RPM package for Linux. Using squirrel, you can configure auto updates using school. You can configure auto updates such a manner that only the source code gets updated just your HTML JavaScript files get updated, not the electron binary all over again. Both of these pack, both of these npm modules are available in form of like a global install for a command line method. You can also install it locally and use them with grant or gull for whatever is your favorite CI tool. In the future of electron, there's just one very important issue being discussed these days is about that thing that the electron binary is for TMB in size. So the electron developers are thinking of making something like the Java runtime environment. We can have an electron runtime environment. People can have like my app works on electron minimum version one. So if there is electron version one or above available in with the user, so only the HTML JavaScript part gets downloaded and it gets run by the electron binary already present on the users setup, which had been the case with Chrome apps already, but they are now slowly getting shelved off and they have disabled the APS for new apps already. There are certain UI kits available like photon and react desktop. So just like CSS framework basically makes your whole app look like the Mac environment or the Windows environment react desktop has both. There is photon kit, which has a larger Mac framework library can create a whole Mac app kind of feel, but photon does not have windows or Linux shell, but they are developing it. So the thing that we discussed today, the API is you can get on github.com slash champion so much JS for electrons example. So I've created it step by step adding each component, the menus notifications, all of these things. There's a demo here. You can also check out a lot of tools and libraries available for electron at Cinderella sources repository called awesome electron. You can get about what components are available, what tools are available, what build packages are available, all of that stuff. So that's it for the presentation. If there are any questions from anybody, we have a lot of modules, right? And no, electron is one of them. Yeah. When would I use it? Like see a normal hello world example can be done. Yeah, so when would it when it is required? So first of all, is if you want to make something cross platform and don't want to deal with cocoa for Mac and dotnet for Windows and look at GTK for Linux and all of that stuff, you can just make your whole UI in web and we can ship it to all the three operating systems. Some very good examples are visual studio code is built with electron the slack desktop app is built with electron. There is also some unofficial messenger and WhatsApp desktop apps. So they just run WhatsApp.com web dot WhatsApp.com. But everything is cashed into your local folder. So you don't need to sign up all over again. Notifications come as native notifications. So that you can do with electron. You want to create something like atom that is also possible. Also, can I use any other library like Jake Mary with it? So on the renderer side, you can use anything that you can do with a web app, you can use any front end library that you want to what if I want that it should not it should basically disable the node environment if I'm writing it should disable the node part of it. Yeah. So that you can just distribute in it as form of a simple web app. Like this only so what electron as an extra is providing you is hooks into the operating system. Okay, Internet as a native app, you can put a train notification with it. It can keep running you can like have say like when you close the window, it hibernates and it come back comes back. So it is the status preserve. Hi. Hi. Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah. Right. Great. Great talk. Thank you. So I wanted to ask you about the whole file reading process. So when you're using the atom at this point, if I have a bigger file when I want to open on atom, yeah, it has a bit of a tendency of crashing. Yeah, so the performance part is that it is at the end of the day, the whole thing is going to be loaded into a V8 engine on the renderer process and any performance issues you have with V8. So that is going to come up here as well. Like if you cannot open a file inside say Chrome, you cannot open it inside electron either. So that is there. That problem is definitely there. I've got another question. Yeah. So the dream is to build one web application which can run on the browser as well as on the desktop. I didn't get you. Sorry. So the dream is to get one web application which you build which runs on both the things right? So I'll tell you what you can do. A very good example is you create the back end in Node.js as a web server separately and create the front end separately. Okay. You basically when you are deploying it as a web service, you're just creating say sockets or rest connections between the two. Right? So here in the electron app, your Node.js script can run its own server as well. Right? And just your saving your files on the server instead of that you use the file system API of the user save it in his documents folder or something like that. So there are a lot of examples. So recently I was making an event management system and it is available both via web service as well as an electron app. So inside the electron app, the server side script is also part of the electron process. Hello. Hi. Yeah. Thanks for the talk. Should I speak? So in order to port an existing web application, for example, right? Yeah. What kind of effort does it require in general? Let's say it's a medium sized web application and you want to port your existing application to a desktop. So the front end part is not going to take any effort because we are just loading our HTML file and it works right away. Right? And if it internally uses a server, a back end part of it. So if your back end is say written in Node.js, then I would recommend you port it to electron itself because it's going to require only a few changes in the files where you're saving and all of that where you're creating the server and the port and all of that. So instead of creating a rest server, you can use IPC to communicate between the back end and the front end when you're doing it for electron. But if it is not if your back end is not in node, then your desktop app can communicate over the internet. No issues with that. Yeah. So these are the things that you would do when you are starting your project, right? So for example, if you have an app, yeah, are there like very complicated things that you know, you are, do you reach a dead end where you cannot move forward in order to create a desktop application. So my experience with electron has been that mostly I face a limitation with performance issues because node can handle things at a certain speed and a certain size, of course. So for that case, you can always package some native libraries into it. For example, if you want to pack it, write some part of a code in C++ and compile that in forms of native modules for each of the three operating system version. So your node can just call the C++ program and run it. So you can have there are some libraries available which have go lang and node.js bindings. Okay, great. Thank you. So you said there are always specific groups, right? Like always specific API, which we can use. Yeah. Is it possible that I'm creating for two ways? Yeah, I write different modules for separate ways. Yeah, building I get the correct way. Yeah, you can just do process.os and it gives you Darwin or Linux or Windows and you can put an application for them. Module, I'd like to check. It's not like that. While building it will automatically take the module that you can put inside your grant girl for grant tasks because electron, package and builder, they build separate package for each operating system. So you can configure that part of your girl for grant task list. Hi. So you told about debugging part? Yeah. So is it possible to debug it remotely? If like you have a static IP address or you can port forward your laptop, then yes. No other way. No other way. Okay. Hi. Hello. On top here. Yeah. So basically, can you hear me? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So basically, js jargons.com if you've seen. So, so the backend is an express app connecting to mongos. So do I keep it? Do I package it along? So it is on the front end, we use technologies that we can package it while building the app, right? But on the back end, since it's an express app, do I keep it local to this particular electron app? Keep the express part in your electron and connect to mongo over internet. That's what I would suggest. Oh, you still want to hit the DB online, right? Like is your user specific or your DB centralized? If your DB is centralized, then it has to be somewhere else, not on the desktop. A little part of it should be user specific. And then the others, the generalized data should be you can use SQLite DB for the local part here. But the centralized mongo DB you connected over the internet. Okay. And we also have service workers running. That will work perfectly. The Electron supports it? Yeah, it does. If you're using Electron 1.3 and above, then service workers run on it. Okay. Thank you. Is there other questions that I can take them offline? Yeah.


This is Dr. Ross and Apostolof to introduce you shortly to the activities of the BioXL Center of excellence. So, Dr. Apostolof, please be welcome. Thank you, Anela. Do you hear me well? Do you hear me? Yes. Thank you. Yes. So, thanks everyone. It's really great to see this event in place. Big thanks to the whole organization for putting this together. This is a very important training type of training for biomolecular simulations. I hope that all of the students attending this this week will find it very useful. I'm leading BioXL Center of excellence, one of the organizing locations of the event. I'll give you a little bit about the center, what we do. You'll learn about some of the services that we offer, which might be very useful in your work. And we are also open towards the communities to help each other and to drive forward science, providing advanced applications and support services. So, as Elini already discussed, we are already at the stage inside where computers and the methods that we are used to model and simulate molecules are at a stage where it's ready for full-scale production and search for new drugs. And this school being a preschool, you are probably familiar, that places the largest demand organization in Europe, which provides access to supercomputers. And you have big possibilities in your research work to use all of these machines, TR0, these machines in Europe, that give you a true power to learn simulations and drive forward your research work. But as you have probably experienced, it's not that to use effectively such large machines. The software is getting more and more very powerful with a lot of features, but making the best use of it. It takes some skill and a lot of knowledge. It's our hope that you learn a lot about this during this. So BioXL Center of Excellence was established ago as an opportunity to support life science researchers in their work by providing high quality and user-friendly software, not only providing the tools, but increasing the expertise and the skills of researchers and bringing the community together. The center is now in the thin face. We're looking for a third one to continue for at least for several more years. BioXL is working with the core developers of several big important machines that are extensively used in drug design and molecular modeling. I will tell you a little bit about them and learn how to use most of the core codes in this week. We developed the software that also workflow solution on them. Around the products we have extensive services which are provided to the community to support with their training and increasing the expertise. Here's a very brief overview of the main code which we work with. Gromach's Haddock and PMX you will learn about the best way to use them tomorrow and on when. Gromach's Require Dynamic Simulations, High Relative Modeling and PMX for Free Energy Calculations. We also were developing an interface that couples MD codes with QM codes for those of you who are doing hybrid QM-MM study for example in Zimatic Create. We also do a lot of work on workflow solutions, particularly with the BioXL building blocks, BioBB frame. So in addition to all the software, as I mentioned, a lot of our work is towards the communities to provide support with their usage. Some of you might have already visited task.bioxl.eu where we provide the community forums. So being monitored by the core developers of the applications, there you will find help and probably answers to most of your questions with all of the applications that are developed in the center. We have been running for many years webinar series at bioxl.eu slash webinars and in our YouTube channel you can find recordings for webinars covering a lot of different and important software applications, not only those developed by xl but also once. We also cover a lot of methods that are gaining attention and are very well developed in the field. Success stories that are notable, it's a great resource for self-study and training. We regular training events, this week's event is one of them. I would recommend that you your regular website and you subscribe to our newsletter to learn about new activities. We launched recently a documentation website dot.eu where you can find a lot of best practice guides which are really important to consult with to research. They will be very helpful in your work and on this side we have docs.buxl.eu, there's also links to tutorials etc. Also it's a documentation that will be very helpful in your work. As I mentioned we work a lot on training and I want to highlight that our training program is based on the competency profiles meaning that for different teachers say novice who come from experimental background and are just starting with computer have different needs from those who are already power users that have been using the tools for many years. So we have these different profiles that you can benchmark yourself and what is needed more to learn, where to find information and so on. We organize events year round and mostly have very good and excellent feedback from most of the attendees. I want to highlight one of our flagship conference which is taking place in October. The registration deadline is this week. Visit our website, have a look at the speakers. It's a really selection of keynotes and presenters. You will find invaluable information there so I highly recommend you consider attending. It's a virtual also so it's very easy for everyone to attend. Finally, I want to highlight that we are also in the process of launching a another partner organization to COE, Buxl Enterprises which will be an additional vehicle support arm that will help us expand the network, strengthen the community, increase the collaborations between academia, industry and overall long-term support to the communities. So it's something that you might be interested in not knowing about and maybe it's something we can work together. So this was all from me. I recommend you subscribe to our newsletter. It comes usually once a month. There's very low traffic. You will learn about upcoming important events, webinar presentations. It's a very good way to keep in touch progress of the work done in the center. With that, I want to wish everyone a very successful week. I hope the program we've prepared for you will be very useful. You will learn a lot and you will apply in your research all the techniques that you look here and do a great response to. Thanks everyone. That's all from me. Thank you. Are there any questions? We'll wait a little bit because there seems to be some delay and a question pops up in the chat. I'll be happy to take questions also offline later. Okay. Our main work is to enable efficient HPC usage. But in order to make best use of HPC, you should also know how best to use the programs even if you're using them on a desktop. And to understand the science and the methods, the algorithms that are the basis for the calls. So, yes, it's possible.


Good morning. It's nine o'clock. You're watching kbbl live at nine Ireland are looking to follow in Jamaica's footsteps this year This is quickly spreading about a group of young individuals. I don't think they're gonna do very well But I'm a star Babsley don't make me laugh. I don't know family Ireland is entering should I let her do you wonder who are they? Who are these guys? Yeah, it's been tough, but I think for other people and hopefully myself and the rest of the lives We'll take that into competition now in two weeks time When it comes to Bob saying like they're all on about these Jamaicans like try call them Jamaicans They don't know what they're at like same as the Swiss, you know them boys, they're only good for them. I will arming eyes and Chocolate like do you know me? Yeah, I started when I was about six or seven doing soapbox off town in Wexford Had a pretty rough accident going down one of the hills. I ripped myself all down to the bone So this is all you can't really see but This is our prosthetics the hallway down. I mean I did win the I won the under 12 Babsley competition in Canacht West in West Canacht. There's a picture of me accepting my my award I was the only one in the competition. So there's nobody else on the podiums. We're heading over to soul heat for February 26th We've got a table quiz coming up next week in the new bar. We're looking to raise about about 10 or 15 grand I think we can get about a hundred people in there at a five or a head So I mean the pathway there at least if everyone turns out that one for the money to for the show Yeah, so I from the quiz we're thinking of doing a race day here next Sunday next week in this park I've loads of like little cousins are like five six hyperactive So, you know, they'd run all day So I'm just gonna put put a put some odds on and get all the boys to bet on who win the race Just just let them run around the park We don't have snow here, but we have We have harsh and dedication and that's that's warmer than any any kind of cool Snowing might get on the most kind of basis. Yeah, I've doing the doing the doom and short max there a few minutes now It's tough enough. It's funny. It's a funny one at the moment We're not actually active participants because we didn't get our applications in I was on my j1 one of the lads had a big row to miss us. So she she knocked them under the cover for a week So we're hoping that like if if people see this, you know the the nation of Ireland get behind us You know, we'll do what we do in February. We'll do we'll do for the lads and we're gonna bring home that purple ribbon So, you know, we've been training mainly in the in the rain like I'm sure as far as I can see any of the snows and he called rain really isn't it? And so the country waits in suspense to see where the team get into the winter Only time will tell


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com coming at you with a quick little box break, 2018-2019, Panini Prison Basketball Choice Edition. Some pretty good stuff here. This is Pick Your Team number four, the Mabs are randomized to someone in the break right here. So let's sort by column A. So if you bought at least two teams, you get one entry. Four teams, two entries, so on and so forth. So Adam Kelly bought two, so he gets an entry. Alan got two, he gets an entry. An entry. Ameris got three teams actually, but only two count gets an entry. Probably blocked someone else from getting in as well. Christian has two teams, gets an entry. Guy with four teams gets two entries. Josh with two teams gets an entry. Josh E has eight teams. So that is four entries, Oliver with two teams, that's an entry, and Ryan has the last four right here. Four spots, two entries right there. So this is just like the previous ones, one spot out of 14. One spot out of 14 will end up with the Dallas Mavericks in this break, Luca D'Angi hunting. One and two three times, name on top after three, good luck, one, two, and three. It's Ameris. Wow, after three times Ameris is in, and he had that last spot in Mojo too to block an entry, to block someone from getting in. It will Philip, it sure will. All right, let's print and rip.  We should be able to do that next museum a little bit later tonight as well. There's the official printout right there, Tiger is right there, Red Scope and Autograph. There's all sorts of things happening in this. All right, first off there's Jimmy Butler, blue, yellow, green, yellow, green, blue, tricolor, Timberwolves, that'll be for Josh E. We've got Chandler Parsons for the Grizzlies, Josh E with that one as well. And we've got Danilo Gallinari Clippers, that'll be for Adam Kelly. Nice John, that's a good reset. All right, and we've got J.R. Smith Silver right on top, Cavs Edition Guy with the Cavs. And behind Drew Holiday, let's get the Red Scope first. It's Dirk Nowitzki, nice, nine out of 88, Dallas Mavericks, Ameris with that. The Autograph is Troy Brown Jr., Washington Wizards. He's been getting some minutes, right? Ameris with the Wizards, Last Spot Mojo. And behind Silver Drew Holiday for the Pelicans, which will go to Ameris, we have T.J. Leif, Indiana Pacers, Tiger Stripe for Josh, Josh E with that one, there you go Josh. And there you go ladies and gentlemen. So nothing earth-shattering in these choice boxes, but I don't know, the more we go without seeing some of the bigger names, right? The closer we get, ideally that's the plan anyway. That is the plan anyway. All right, so that was Choice Picker Team Four, we've got a couple more in the store. Check it out. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one, bye-bye.


The 131st Field Hospital, part of the first medical brigade, conducted field exercise Operation Guardian Readiness on the Forbless Training Complex June 1st through the 13th. As part of the two-week training event, Guardian Knight Soldiers successfully stood up expeditionary health operations in an austere environment to offer level 3 resuscitative surgery and medical care for patients in the field. The durability of the 131st was put to the test as soldiers were exceedlessly and without outside assistance as they stood up the expeditionary medical support system at Camp Old Ironsides. Army E-Med is a modular, customizable network of mobile health care clinics designed to serve joint troops as far forward on the battlefield as possible. Level 3 care is the highest available in a combat zone. With almost 2,000 square miles on the Forbless Training Complex, battalion leaders credited their ability to train their soldiers in a truly isolated environment, one of the cornerstones of expeditionary readiness. Reporting for the Garrison at Fort Bliss, Texas, I'm David Poe.


Good evening and welcome to this community meeting update on the North trunk sewer replacement project in the shenate and Mendocino area of Santa Rosa. My name is Eric Robert supervising engineer with the city of Santa Rosa transportation and public works department. And I want to thank you for joining us tonight. Before we begin the presentation, I will ask our zoom host Lauren Wiley, senior administrative assistant with the city of Santa Rosa to explain how the meeting will work. Thank you Eric, as members of the public join the meeting, you will be participating as an attendee, your microphone and camera will be muted. Only today's panelists will be viewed during the meeting. Please know the city of Santa Rosa is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption. We will not tolerate any hateful speech or actions and will monitor that everyone is participating respectfully or they will be removed. If necessary, we will also immediately end the meeting. At the end of the presentation. Eric will open up the meeting for public questions and comment. Thank you Lauren. Tonight, after introducing our presenters, we will briefly review the purpose and scope of the project. Provide an overview of construction progress. Take a look at what construction activity is coming next, including a significant detour starting May 17. Talk about the fire season and emergency access and conclude with your questions and comments. Next slide please. At this time I'd like to introduce tonight's presenters. Again, I'm Eric Robert facilitator for tonight's meeting. And you have already met Lauren Wiley, who will host tonight's meeting, along with Mary Lou Nichols, administrative secretary, who will be our co host. They will coordinate the logistics and question and answer portion of the meeting. From the city of Santa Rosa transportation and public works. We have the city's project manager, Greg Dwyer. Also presenting tonight is Mike Van MIDI traffic engineer with the city of Santa Rosa. I'll now turn the meeting over to Greg. Thank you Eric. Many of you are already familiar with the project from the previous two public meetings. But to be sure tonight's attendees are all on the same page. I'm going to just briefly summarize the project. The North trunk sewer serves a large area of northeast Santa Rosa, which is assessed from Sinead Road, Parker Hill Road and Tara Linda Drive. Over the years stream bank erosion along pollen Creek has exposed parts of the sewer line. Due to the age and location of the North trunk sewer alignment, inspection and maintenance of the trunk main is both challenging and costly. Therefore, the projects relocating the sewer alignment away from pollen Creek to the road right of way. On our graphic here, the green highlighted areas sink delineate areas where the sewer main is being replaced or abandoned in the blue areas delineate areas where water main replacement work is being performed. New water main will be installed in various parts of Sinead Road limitus Avenue and limitus lane to both increase and upgrade the existing water system and provide separation from the new sewer main project will also relocate. In addition, 950 feet of sewer main located adjacent to pollen Creek 1350 feet of existing sewer main located in Mendocino Avenue and limitus lane. Next slide please. This photo shows typical open trench construction. You may have seen now throughout the project. Trenching is covered with steel plates at the end of each day to facilitate access. This photo shows typical trenchless construction operations similar to what will be occurring soon on Sinead Road. The large diameter for pits and construction equipment are required to install the new sewer main at depths of up to 40 feet. The detour is necessary to accommodate this work, which will be discussed later in the presentation. Next slide please. This view is looking down into the board pit and shows typical equipment that will be used to install the new sewer main. Next slide please. Six of these 14 foot diameter board pits and equipment will be installed along Sinead Road between Slater Street and Terra Linda Drive. Leaving enough room for single lane travel and the subsequent need for a detour. Next slide please. We're pleased to report out that great progress has been made since construction first began in December. We're about 40% through construction and have already installed new water and sewer mains and lower Sinead Road, new sewer main and limitus avenue and plum drive, and a new water main and limitus lane. And seasonably dry weather has minimized impacts due to rain delays and also contributed to low groundwater conditions. Next slide please. Starting May 17th, we will begin staging boring equipment in preparation of the upcoming sewer main installation work in Upper Sinead Road. There will also be sewer work occurring on the limitus avenue from May 17 to May 20, and on the private drive off limitus avenue from May 21 to May 28 with construction complete in the fall of 2022. I encourage you to visit our project website to Nate sewer project calm, where you can stay up to date on the latest information and subscribe to our weekly email updates. Parking and construction areas will be temporary temporarily affected. Garbage pickup and mail will not be impacted. Field crews have been great at facilitating access, and we've received positive positive feedback from our community. There will be noise during construction hour 7am to 7pm. Some work may occur on Saturdays. There will be night work on Mendocino Avenue from 10pm to 6am. In the months of September and October to minimize impacts to traffic and to local businesses. At this point, I'd like to hand it over to Mike, the traffic engineer Mike Fenmitty, who will be discussing the upcoming May 17 detour and plans to address emergency access. Thank you. Thank you, Greg. Next slide please. My name is Mike Fenmitty, and I'm an associate traffic engineer for the city of Santa Rosa. For those of you on the phone, or those unable to make out the details on this map, please visit our project website at chanate sewer project calm. There you will find the detour map, as well as the regular project updates. Work will begin on Monday, May 17 for the new construction operation as Greg described. This operation will introduce new traffic control measures requiring a westbound detour portion 8 Road at Parker Hill Road. As Greg showed earlier in his presentation, this detour is required to accommodate the construction footprint, and it will be in place 24 hours a day continuously through September. Detouring one direction of traffic is the least disruptive way to accomplish its work. The detour will apply for all road users. This map shows will maintain access on the north side of Sinead Road throughout the detour. This map shows Westbound Sinead Road will be closed to all through traffic between Terralinda Drive and Humboldt Street, Belvedere Way. In its place will be a detour that routes traffic traffic from Westbound Sinead Road, right to Northbound Parker Hill Road, continuing to Stagecoach Road, to proceed Westbound on Fountain Grove Parkway, then left to go southbound on Mendocino Avenue. Please note that the week of May 17 to May 21st City crews will also be working on weed abatement maintenance on Fountain Grove Parkway. This may cause additional delay during the first week of the detour. Please give yourself plenty of extra travel time as you navigate through the detour. Next slide please. Sinead will guide traffic through the detour. Local traffic accessing Terralinda Drive, Nielsen Road, and Cobblestone Drive in the westbound direction will be allowed. There will be a full westbound road closure at Terralinda Drive. Eastbound traffic through the construction zone will be allowed. Drivers will need to exercise caution as large construction equipment and payroll will be in the street. Advanced warning signs will be posted. Please follow all instructions provided to traverse through the work zone safely as conditions can change on a regular basis. Please anticipate longer travel times and if possible use alternate routes. Next slide please. I want to talk for a minute about the threat of fire and the possibility of evacuations during this stage of construction. The project team has considered the impacts of the detour and has put into place plans to facilitate emergency evacuations. Contingencies for emergencies have been incorporated into plans that have been shared with the fire department, police department, and public works department. Upon notification from our emergency operations center, construction will be halted and the road opened for westbound travel to facilitate evacuations in the area. We encourage you to review the Know Your Ways Out map for your neighborhood. You can visit those at srcity.org slash Know Your Ways Out. Rest assured that if an evacuation order called for westbound Shinnate Road travel, that plan will be implemented. And we actually have Sean from Team Jalati. Do you have any comments on this? Yeah, Team Jalati will have all the necessary signs on site and readily available. We can put those in place immediately once the city directs us to switch to a westbound detour. So we'll have all those on site ready to switch over at a moment's notice. Thank you Sean. Next slide please. As part of the contingencies for emergencies, the emergency vehicle access gate between Terralinda Drive and Lake Park Drive will be open for local northbound Terralinda Drive traffic only. This will remain open for the duration of the detour. Next slide please. In addition, the ballards will be removed between Andy Way and Baldwin Way for local northbound Andy Way traffic only. This will be removed for the duration of the detour. Next slide please. On the screen now is a map showing the westbound Shinnate Road closure and the locations of the emergency access gate and the ballards, which I just mentioned. We will answer any questions you may have about the detour and contingencies for evacuation during the question and answer period shortly. At this time I'd like to turn it back over to Eric. Mike and Greg. A quick reminder regarding schedule. There are many factors that can impact the project schedule, including inclement weather and unanticipated subsurface conditions that may be encountered during the work. The dates presented are currently our best estimate. We will continue to provide schedule updates through the project website and weekly emails. At this time, we would like to address your questions. So we will next, we will move to the question and answer portion of the meeting. Before we begin, joining Greg and Mike to field your questions and comments. I'd like to introduce Sean Durin burger with team gelati the project general contractor. Sean, our construction manager with Kennedy Jenks and Scott moon, the fire marshal from the city of Santa Rosa fire department. I will now ask Lauren to review how the public can participate, asking live questions and comments. Eric. Once the facilitator has called for public questions or comments, our co host Mary Lou will announce for anyone wishing to ask a question or comment to raise their hand and zoom for individuals wishing to participate in the meeting by telephone. You can dial star nine to raise your hand. You can also type your question into the chat function on the zoom screen. The co host will then call on the public one by one who have their zoom hand raised. The co host will unmute your microphone so you may ask your question. Once you have raised your hand and asked your question or shared your input, your hand will be lowered and your microphone muted so our panelists may respond to your question. Mary Lou, are we ready for the first meeting attendee to ask their question or provide a comment. Thank you Eric. Anyone wishing to ask a question or make a comment may do so at this time by raising your hand and zoom. If you're calling in, please dial star nine to raise your hand, or type into the chat sidebar. Our first speaker tonight is Jeremy Nichols, followed by Susan Dickey. I've enabled your permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and ask your question or make your comment. Good evening. My name is Jeremy Nichols. I am president of the bird rescue center at 3430 Shanae Road. I simply want to note that we're still there and that this is our busiest time of year. We have on the order of a dozen employees and volunteers on site during daylight hours, and an average of at least 20 persons coming to the center to bring us birds. We are aware of the project and we will work with all of our people, including the public to make sure they understand how they can get to us and get back to Mendocino through the detour. We simply want you to be aware of the volume of traffic that we have at this time of year. Thank you. Thank you Jeremy. Great, raised hand. Yes, our next speaker is Susan Dickey. Susan, I've enabled your permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Yes hi thank you Susan Dickey I live in Chenete Village, the condominiums close to Mendocino. It looks like on the map the Westbound Chenete Road detour map that the detour goes all the way to Mendocino but it didn't sound like when it was described that it was that does it stop at Humboldt and Belvedere or is Chenete itself from Humboldt Belvedere down to Mendocino Avenue going to only be one direction. Thank you Susan. Mike, could you answer Susan's questions. Yeah, thank you Susan. You are correct. The detour applies only between Terralinda and Humboldt and Belvedere. So between Mendocino and Humboldt and Belvedere there will be two way traffic throughout. Great, thank you. Our next speaker is Calvin Johnson. Calvin I've enabled your permissions please state your full name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Thank you. My name is Calvin H Johnson have two questions. Right now at the junction of Franklin Lewis and Crest roads. I'm going to stop sign up for five way stop I think it is. Will there be a temporary traffic light put there, because I noticed as this goes into effect. The traffic is really really backs up as people just stop. That's my first question. And my second question is, I appreciate all the information about evacuations but I wondered, will construction be halted on red flag days. Thank you Calvin. Because Mike can you answer that first question maybe Greg can tackle the second. Yeah, thank you Calvin the. There is not a plan to put in a temporary signal at the intersection you mentioned, and we do understand that there will be significant impacts with drivers using that intersection, more so than the dissonate and Humboldt intersection. Unfortunately, it will cause some additional delays and so I encourage you to make sure you give yourself plenty of time to travel through the area. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Gina Richmond. Excuse me, I think Calvin had another. I had another question. Question. Yeah. Great. Yeah, will construction be halted on red flag days. And this is Greg Dwyer the. Sorry Eric go ahead. Go ahead Craig. I'm Greg Dwyer that the project engineer for this project. And we will follow all the direction of the city fire department in regarding red flag days. The work that's being performed is within a confined area where they'll be lowering lowering equipment down into the board pit with little to no risk of fire. The crews do have fire extinguishers and so forth on hand, but it will it will depend on, you know, the current conditions of what's going on but that's certainly something that that we are considering as well. Yeah, I think answer to Calvin's questions. Work, you know, will will halt if there's any emergency of any kind, depending on the nature of the red flag morning. And it may or may not, but certainly with any inkling of the of an emergency situation construction will cease and we'll go into a, a mode of providing the best access we can. Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Gina Richmond. Gina, I've enabled your permissions. Please state your full name for the record if you so choose and provide your question or comment. Gina, are you there. Yeah, I was muted. Sorry. I muted myself. Gina Richmond. I'm off of Lomitas Lane. And my question tags on to the previous question. There's a lot of concern about the, the alerts, the fire alerts and evacuations. Often they're at night, you know, like nine o'clock at night, 10 o'clock at night. Are the roads open at that point after, you know, after the work is done for the day. Will the roads be open or is there still traffic control going on there. I'm just curious that, you know, I understand and appreciate the concern going into the daylight. I don't know what team gelati is working. But I'm, I was wondering about nighttime. Thanks Gina, Mike, do you want to feel that one. Yeah, thanks Eric and thanks Gina and unfortunately, the, the traffic control will be in place 24 hours a day, 70s a week throughout their lifetime. So the scope and the size of the equipment and footprint needed to accommodate that unfortunately does not allow for the contractor to remove them on a daily basis. It is something that we have taken into consideration with our plans for the evacuation. And as I mentioned earlier, and as Sean reiterated that at any time, day or night, we have made plans to facilitate moving the direction of travel from East to West at the direction of emergency response personnel. All right. All right, thank you. At this time I see no other hand so I'll take this opportunity to read a couple of emails that came in. The first one is from Michael on cobblestone. His question is this. Is this work being done during the business day morning and afternoon commute hours versus at night and weekends when negative impact on transit and traffic would be so much less. Greg you want to take a shot at that one. Thank you Eric. We carefully considered all the impacts regarding this project and how to best minimize them and complete the work as quickly as possible. The work within the neighborhood streets is being performed during the day, as is typically done because of the adverse impacts at night work has on local residents. There's been some night work and weekend work performed on Mendocino Avenue today with additional night work plan and medicine Avenue in September and October. This was due to the adverse impacts of traffic on Mendocino Avenue and to local businesses. We do acknowledge that night work has and will affect those residences closer to this work. Due to the size of the board pits and inability to move them. It's not technically possible to open the road during commute hours. Thank you. Seeing no other hands at this time. I have another email I'd like to read. This is from Mike O'Neill. A question has to do with access to Lumida Heights. Sounds like eastbound on Shanae is one way in. Then I read a post from some lady in our neighborhood that says that local traffic will be allowed west of Parker Hill. Is that correct. And finally she said we could come and go through the emergency access point at the end of Terralinda. We'll be opening this open this coming Monday and then 24 seven until September. And finally, the traffic out of Terralinda to Shanae will be eastbound only will traffic control be in place to help people exit. Sorry but this sounds like a rerun of the Tubbs fire evacuation which was a nightmare. I'll be sharing statistics on traffic volume in and out of Lumida Heights. Sorry for all the questions, but with just a few days to go. I don't think that the city has done a very good has done very good on dealing specifically with Lumida Heights traffic. Thank you. Thank you Mike you want to answer that question. I have a series of questions. Thanks Eric and there was a lot and so I may need to be reminded of some of the things that were mentioned if I don't capture them all so please bear with me. I'll start at the, as it relates to local traffic between Terralinda and Parker Hill. So, local residents will be able to access Terralinda. They will be able to access Cobblestone and Nielsen in in the westbound direction. So effectively that will be to two direction for local only westbound local. The ability to exit out of Terralinda or Nielsen or there will be drivers there will will need to make left turns from those three streets to continue east to leave the area. There will not be any traffic control related to assisting drivers getting out of those streets. It shouldn't be a problem. It's basically like how it is now. Can you help me, Eric, please on on any other comments. I think there was a question on traffic statistics or Yes, yeah, thank you. And also about the emergency access gate at the end of Terralinda being open so that will be open Monday around 7am and will remain open continuously for the duration of the detour. So if you understand that it is possible that there, there will be an increase in traffic on Terralinda, and we have not counted traffic volume before, and we don't anticipate counting them during this project. So being said, we do realize that there may be an increase in traffic and we will be monitoring that and there are some additional measures that we could take to help mitigate what we would consider non local traffic. Also realizing though that any impacts that we do in that regard will affect the local traffic, trying to get through or or to home. Thank you. As I'm seeing no hands raised at this time I'd like to go to the Q&A. And I will read these from Calvin I have two questions will there be a temporary traffic light at Franklin Lewis and crest roads. Secondly, will construction be halted on red flag days. You may have answered some of those. Yeah, I think that was answered. Okay. With Calvin's verbal questions. Okay. Next, I have a question from Kurt and Robin. We live near the ballards on Andy way now. People currently ride motorcycles through the ballards and golf carts traverse through the ballards bio directionally with the increase in sanctioned traffic during the detour. Is there any concern for the safety of walkers and others who also use the neighborhood. Is there anything we can do to improve the safety, once the ballards are removed, or is there anywhere we can or should report current transgressions. Mike do you have any guidance on that one. Thank you, Eric. So, this is something that we did consider, and we will be placing stop signs for the northbound traffic from Andy way to Baldwin way. It is going to be a one way only. There will be do not enter signs for anyone trying to head southbound, both at the ballards and also I'll mention at the emergency access gate at Tara Linda Drive. As for anybody that's doing any kind of motor vehicle violation, any kind of illegal activities like that. Obviously, call the center of the police department or anything like that. And we will keep a keep an eye related to traffic there on Andy and Baldwin way just like we will on Tara Linda. Thank you. Elizabeth Bennett would like to know, will I be able to turn left from Humboldt to shanae. Yes, that movement will be a lot. Her second question. Just confirming, is there only a waterline being installed on Lomita's Lane. No new sewer line. Great, you want to answer that. I'm sorry. Could you repeat the question one more time. Yes, Elizabeth Bennett is questioning. Is there only a waterline being installed on Lomita's Lane, and no new sewer line. Thank you. And Lomita's Lane is getting a new waterline. The water lines already been installed. And the sewer line is going to be installed in, I believe in September. But if we go to the project website shanae sewer project calm, and we'll keep that posted we generally go about three weeks out and update it weekly. And we'll be able to stay tuned as far as the dates of that upon completion of the, of the replacement. The road will get reconstructed into a brand new road as well. Thank you. Calvin Johnson is asking, can we get the slides emailed to us. Great. Thank you so much for your time, but they will be posted tomorrow on our website shanae sewer project calm, the full slide deck in addition to this video, so you don't have to try to write everything down and it'll all be available that you can go pull it up tomorrow. Straight from the websites probably the easiest way shanae sewer project calm. So our next question is from Tony or leave us. Will all the construction areas be repaved, not resealed but repaved. So the roads are smooth when the project is completed. Great. The roadways, depending on where it's at, they'll be receiving different types of treatments. Some will be a trench patch. Some will receive an overlay. Some others will be reconstructed and has to do with the level of trenching that's being done, for example on the meat of slain. We're reconstructing that road because there's trenching for water and sewer. So we're going to be reconstructing that road in other areas such as shanae road, they'll be paving around the immediate areas of the board pits, but because they can be reconstructed, it's all being done through trenchless excavation there's minimal impacts to the surface. So, depending to answer your question it depends where you're at. You can always if you live on a specific street and you want to know what we're doing on your street, reach out to our project website send us an email we'd be happy to answer specific questions that you may have. Thank you. Our next question is from Brenda Diaz. To make it clear, the closure down from Nielsen towards Franklin will be closed 24 seven until September. Correct. So, I'll just clarify the closure is from Terralinda in the westbound direction towards Humboldt Street or Franklin. And that starts on Monday and continues through September, and that is a 24 hour closure, 24 hours continuously through September. Thank you. Thank you. We have no other hands raised, and I'm going to check the Q&A one more time. And we have no new Q&As. Is there anyone that would like to ask a question please raise your hand, or if you're calling in dial star nine. I just wanted to respond to a previous response that I said, if I may do so. The PowerPoint slides will be posted on our project website tomorrow. The video of this presentation will be posted sometime next week. I said tomorrow but it'll be sometime next week so I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. We have another speaker. We have Jeremy Nichols. I have enabled your permissions please go ahead and ask your question. Thank you. I just want to make sure that people coming to bird rescue from the east side of Santa Rosa will be able to travel westbound on Shanae as far as County Farm Road. Mike, you answered that. Yes, Jeremy, that is correct. People visiting the bird rescue will be able to come from the east westbound past the detour and turn into your facility that. Thank you. Are there any other questions at this time. I see no hands. Okay, with no further questions. I would like to express my appreciation and thank members of the public and all the panelists and hosts for participating tonight. We appreciate you taking the time to listen to us ask questions and provide your input. Next slide please. I want to remind everyone that the website for this project is www.chinate sewer project.com, where you can find information on construction process and status and subscribe to receive construction updates. You can also subscribe by sending a request to info at chinate sewer project.com. The first option hotline is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And we'd like to remind you about the city's special webpage dedicated to neighborhood travel routes during an emergency. We'll leave the screen up for a few minutes. Thank you again and good night.


It was right here, Waiheke Island Magnificent, sun's not shining too much but it is a great day, we've got a whole bunch of kids, Henderson Intermediate represent, and a bunch of children's groups over here, we're eco-sipping, on the lines, down over the bush, fantastic, a lot of adrenaline about to fly, kids have been a bit of fun over here too, one of those great team building games, can you lower the ball onto the pipe? Great day, fun and games, it's Renalind the Ecoz, it was great fun, I'm not here tomorrow though, you guys can handle this? Yeah we'll miss you but yeah I'll cheer you on. Yeah, we'll share it mate, share it. We're Linden, what do you think? Yeah, yeah it was great, have a good game.


Hello, in this video, we talk about fundamental rights in the EU. But first, what do we mean by fundamental rights in the EU? Well, the EU is first and foremost a union of people and not just a union of states for the facilitation of economic exchanges. It's based on values such as respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. The main goal of the European Union is to defend these values in Europe and promote peace and the well-being of the citizens. All these fundamental values and the rights of EU citizens are enshrined in the EU treaties and the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights. Although this sounds great in theory, the EU still has a long way to go before fully defending the rule of law and the fundamental rights of us all. The free movement of goods, services and capital has made all of our lives easier and more affordable. But the freedom of movement of people is still being contested. Recently, several countries in the EU reintroduced border controls without sufficient justification, although this should only be considered as a last resort measure. And on top of that, the right of free movement is in practice only available to the most privileged among us. Those of us who can access programs like Erasmus or the European Voluntary Service or those of us who can provide for their own livelihoods in their new home country. Fundamental rights are not granted fully to each and everyone, with many people still facing discrimination because of their gender, religion or belief, race or ethnicity, age, disability or sexual orientation. This also means that some people cannot effectively exercise their right to free movement if they have fear that their rights will not be fully guaranteed. Especially with the recent backlash against the rule of law and the development of authoritarian tendencies in the heart of Europe, such as in Hungary, Poland and Italy, the attacks on our fundamental rights are unfortunately increasing. Countries wishing to join the EU need to respect a whole set of rules on democracy, human rights and rule of law known as the Copenhagen criteria. But shouldn't our decision makers ensure that our rights are continuously respected once a country has become a member of the EU? So we should demand our policy makers to fully deliver the EU's promises. In order to empower more of us to really experience our EU citizenship through living the freedom of movement, European exchange and mobility programmes need to be expanded and properly funded. The EU should not be an exclusive club for the privileged. To make us feel closer to the EU and its institutions, it should be easier for us to access documents of the EU institutions and information on decision making processes. On top of that, useful tools such as the European Citizens Initiative, where citizens can request legislative action from the Commission on a pressing matter, need to be taken more seriously. We need laws to prevent and eradicate all forms of discrimination on the EU and national level. We need powerful tools to hold those countries that are cutting back on our fundamental rights accountable. Current instruments at the disposal of the European Commission are proving inefficient. Shouldn't the EU establish a set of gradual measures to prevent violations of fundamental rights, which can be triggered at an early stage and do not require, for example, unanimity within the Council? Can a charter on fundamental rights be given more weight so we can defend our rights as individual citizens of the EU if they should be under attack on the national level? It's clear that we need our policymakers to step up, but it's also up to each of us to defend our rights and the rights of others and to be active citizens of the EU. This means that we also have to take up the responsibilities that come with our rights, such as voting in elections to the European Parliament and keeping track of the activities of our decision makers to really make this a union of its people.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with Layton's Sports Cards, ripping 22 tops, Chrome, Sonic, Baseball, Light, 8 Box Break, number 21. Pick your team style. Gonna read off a list of our names on our teams. Bill D with the Red Sox, we've got Brian H. Bluejays, Cameron L. Tigers, Christy Angels, Christopher S. Mariners, Gregory K. Braves, Gregory M. with the Astros Mets, Jason W. Cubs, Jeremy W. Royles, Jeremy H. Guardians, Jonathan S. White Sox Padres, Joshua B. Yanks Cardinals, Keith J. with the Orioles, Mark S. Dodgers, Ross G. with the Phillies, Ryan B. Diamondbacks, Sammy H. Giant, Scott C. Pirates, Tony B. with the Rays, and then Troy D. with the Reds, Rockies, Brewers, Athletics, Rangers, Nationals, Marlins, Twins. So thank you, Troy. Thank you, everybody, for getting us sold out on this one. Do appreciate it. Let's get rocking and rolling. Here we got more spots coming in. I believe the Mosaic, the Mosaic four box mixers now sold out as well. I think we just have three or four group breaks with spots left now, Sean. Pretty sure that's all we've got. All right, so what are we thinking realistically? The Panthers are going to do it number one now. And what does everybody's take on the trade? What does everybody's take on the Panthers' bearish trade? I'll give my opinion on it as well. I want to hear what the general consensus of it is. Yeah, I did, GMAC. That was unbelievable, dude. We've got seven teams to go. That is Don Russ, basketball, PYT. Some of the teams are on sale. Some of the more, you know, the ones that are over. The Panthers traded this year's first, next year's first, DJ Moore, a second rounder, and a, let's make sure there's no goldier judge in there, and a like a fifth rounder for the number one pick. Refractor Matt Chapman. There's Ray Wave, Kyle Lewis. They'll take Stroud, do you think? I think it was a robbery. There's Michael Brantley to 199, Teal Rayway, Walker Bueller. I think DJ Moore is the biggest, I think that's the most important piece of that trade right there, because theoretically like swapping first Trent Grisham, Brandon Woodruff, and John Means on your way, Ray Wave. My only big issue with like getting rid of, like, with going that, like the drop off, Lou Bob, there's Reed Deppmurr's Youthquake, Ronald Cooney, the drop off from the number one pick to the number nine pick, I think is a lot steeper than everybody also, also realizes. You know what I mean? Like Newt Bar, Moncada, Bobby Dahlbeck, you know what I'm saying? Like you're talking going from like a franchise altering player. Uh-oh, got something here. Tyler Glasnow, that is Expo Zay, Fernando Tatis, 13 out of 99 on the green. Congrats, San Diego. That's awesome. He's got the Padres. Fantastic hit on that one. Where's San Diego? That's going to Jonathan S. Congrats, buddy. There you go. Depends on positional needs. That's true too. There's Ray Wave, Jose L2. Like I'm, I will say I think it's a win for the Bears. I really do. I do think it's a win from the Bears. I just, if I'm a Bears fan, I'm a little disappointed we move, like my franchise moves down to number nine. Carlson, there's a Ray Wave, Peter Lanza. Yeah, nice one there, Jonathan. Congrats, buddy. Those Expo Zays, getting colors on those Expo Zays are really tough. Really, really tough. Jonathan. There's Jazz Chisholm. Play your rise. That's true. No, that's true too. That's true too. There's Matt Veerling. Joe Ryan. I do not think the Panthers are in the top 10 next year. I do not think that. I think that division is so wide open. Nice, Wander. Congrats on that. And another Wander. A couple of, I do not think the Panthers are in the top 10 picks next year. I do not, I do not believe so. I think right now they, depending on who they draft, they are the favorites to win that division because of their coaching. I think because of their coaching. Harrison Bader. That is Buster Posey. Eli Moore. I did just actually now remember they got their car. That's also a potential nightmare. There's definitely a potential there. There's Ray Wave, Kyle Hendricks. There's for the Rays, Teal Pink, Sonic Pulse to 199. Brandon Lau. Hugh Darvish. There's Spencer Torkelson. And Nelson Cruz. There's Bill and Carlson. Albert Pools. Make sure I don't miss a judge or a Goldie either. Honestly, right now just, unless we had something like, there's a Goldie, right? Speaking of, there's a Goldie right there. Trey Ambrice. What's up, Sin? Jake Meyers. No, I think I generally do think it's a good move for the Bears. I really do. Like, I think it's by far a bigger win for the Bears. I think it's by far a bigger win for the Bears than anything. Alec Bohm, Curtis Terry. I have a blue moon. Got that right. What's happening? Brandon Lau writes. Yeah, back to you. Be a little disappointed if that's your savior. Ray Wave, you Darvish. Yeah, definitely makes up for the Claypool trade. That was a disaster. John Carlos Stanton. And Ray Wave, Jake Berger. So Nanny. Nanny. Sin will be at the national. Oh boy. Vladimir Guerrero. Let's go. Now it's Sean today. Sean today.  Nanny.  Got Sean today. Ever. Yeah, for sure, man. Absolutely. I'll be 1 million percent down with that. Better 18. Yeah, let's go, man. True. I was shamed. Brandon Crawford. All good, dude. Love you too, brother. I shall call him Shawnee B. Crumb. Yes. Anthony, how dare you do. Yes, absolutely. Don't wrap me into that. Absolutely. No, it's all good, man. You're all good, brother. Don't wrap me into that crumb stuff. Matt Manning. Refractor rookie. Nice, manny. Oh, let's go, man. Good luck, brother. What are you in? Ernie Clement. And Ray Wave, Trevor Rogers. Yeah, what's your solution to be crumb? Ray Wave, Harrison Bader. I don't even know what that is. Oh, that's not a little loud. I don't even know what that is. T.O. Ray Wave. Adola's Garcia. 2199. Nice, manny. Okay, sorry. Let's go, manny. Good stuff, dude. Good stuff. Good luck is right. I want a soda. Let's use salacious laugh, Sean. Kyle Raleigh. There's a Mackenzie Gork. I am Miggie. My first spot tonight in Phoenix Break. Let's go. Let's go, Vegas.  Good luck, man. Good luck. What's up, SC? We're going to be rolling deep on chat right now, both on YouTube and Twitch. Kevin Gaussman. There's an Alex Bregman as well. Good to see all the troublemakers here today. All of them. Bryce Harper, Refractor. There's O'Neal Cruz, Youth Quake, and Ernie Clement. What's up, brother? Seth Beier, Ryan Mountcastle, Janneger, and Pavin Smith, going through the A's. Again, guys, seven to go on. Don Russ, basketball, PYT. Most teams are on sale. At least the teams are a little bit more expensive. Some of the inexpensive teams aren't, but they're around $20, so Mountcastle, manning. Hap, Lance Lynn on the Refractor, and Kevin Gaussman. Thanks, Vegas on the sub, on the Twitch sub. Let's go. Is that gifted? Aviva. Bryce Harper and Whit Merrifield. Going to the Raiders on the Ra-Wave. Or not the Raiders, the Royals on the Ra-Wave. So Vegas can mean us a Vegas. Honestly. Hey, thanks for the gifted there, Manny. Appreciate you, buddy. Manny. Overjoyed, baby. I hear you, man. For Bobby Abram's birthday, inscribed 50-50 on all of his, what's it called, on all of his autos that he has, and Panini now, or 40-40 or whatever it is, 30-30. That's you. That is you. Joe Musgrove. Joe Adela, that's what I like to hear, Vegas. There's Ian Hap. Ra-Wave, Jared Walsh. That's all the community right there. The community is awesome, especially ours. Our community is the best. Averpuholz on the Ra-Wave for the old LA Dodgers. Averpuholz. One Soto Refractor. There's a Wanderfranko Youthwake rookie, O'Neil Kruse rookie. Zatgrank. Apoptus Finest, Zatgranky. Yes, he's one of them, 21-Sat. Yeah, there's Joe Musgrove. Purple Yellow Sonic Pulse, the 299 for the Padres. John Lester. What was I going to say? You know, you know what, Anthony Simons in the NBA is on trailblazers. He's from Ultima. I didn't know that. Yeah, he went to school like 20 minutes away from here. Went to high school. Near, you know where Dub's drug golf courses? Yeah. Right across the street. That one. Edgewater or something? Yeah, I think my daughter's one. Really? Yeah. That's cool. Because yeah, I'd say, how old is your daughter? 25. Yeah, they're around, I would say. They would be in the same kind of age range. Cole Calhoun, DJ LaMejoo. Because he was one of those guys who like, went to high school. He played for IG Academy. He did, yeah, he played for IMG, yeah. That's where he transferred. Ray Wave, Lord's Gurriel Jr. Now in Arizona, Diamondback. Or not Ray Wave, Prism, Jacob DeGrom, and Ray Wave, Nelson Cruz. Ray's Nelson Cruz. Ray's Nelson Cruz, best Nelson Cruz question mark. I would vote. Hunter Green on the skin, Jen Rae. Patrick Wisdom. Zach Popp, refractor rookie for the Marlins. Robbie Grossman, and the Franimal. Fran Mill Reyes. Oh, the next one. Finally pulled an auto out of this. T.O. Ray Wave, Francisco Lindor to $199 for the Mets. Curtis Harris, dual of Bo Jackson and Deon Sanders. Oh, that's great. That's $25. There's a Goldie, Brandon Belt, Tray Mancini. No need for serious help. Caleb. A Prism, Jesse Winker. Kyle Tucker, Ray Wave. Best pull of the day, probably a Green Expo Zay, Fernando Tautis. That's probably the biggest of the day so far. Oh, Black Orange. Sorry, sorry, Joshua. Joshua lost that rule, actually. We've got Kyle Moeller, Orange, Black, Sonic Pulse, Rookie for the Braves. Congrats, Atlanta. That's awesome. We've got the Braves. That is Gregory K. Congrats, Greg. Nice one there, buddy. You could throw that on a recap. Javi Baez, Blake Snell, Matt Veerling on your base. Sure is there. There's a Ray Wave, the big dumper. Dumper. Sean's got Cal Raleigh for the Mariners. Brandon Marsh, Rookie. Is it Masters? Oh, Joshua Ray Wave, obviously. Oh, yeah. Nice. I was going to say, are you dialed in? Doesn't sound like it. I played Monday and let me tell you something after. Ray Wave, Jonathan India. Go on the old poem where I walked in there thinking, I got this and you know what? I didn't get it. Chashlow. Quick, Matt Chapman. Like it was bad. Yeah, bad golf is tough. When you're playing bad golf, it's not fun. Katie Martinez. Jake Meyers, refractor Rookie. Donny's making me go to the ranger. Bobby Whitt, smart. Yeah, he's very smart. I don't think so, Snowball. Where the Celtics play in the hawks, there's Brandon Woodruff, Boba Shet. Get him on. All I know is lockdown defender Trey Young is not going to let that happen. Oh, yeah. Lockdown defender Trey Young. Total lockdown. Turn style on defense, Trey Young. Not going to let that happen whatsoever. I'm just, four group breaks with spots. Bolt banners, PYTs, down to seven and ten. Alexander Wells, refractor. Mechaniker. Down to six to go. Thank you, Sean. Someone must have just bought one in between when I refreshed it. Bobby Baez, Miguel Cabrera. What's up, smack? Mack Daddy. Good morning. Good morning, mate. There's Jared Kelnick. Wahoos. Alec Minoa. Wahoos. What's up, dude? What's going on, gentlemen? There's Ray Wave, Shane Bieber. It's the couple more of the usual suspects we're waiting on now. Oh, yeah. I am not tomorrow, Timmy. There's Paul Goldschmidt. I will try Wahoos. I will try. I will be next weekend, and then I think we're bringing in another breaker to do it that'll be doing full-time drip. Ronesy Contreras. So, that'll be good. So, yeah. No more on Sunday for me after that. Trevor Lorneck. Zach Lothar. That is Prism Rookie for the Orioles. Lancelin. Nine a.m. in Australia. Can you tell us the future, smack? It's March 12th right now in Australia. Can you tell us the future? Come on, smack. Tell me the lottery numbers. Probably good for my bank account. Josh Donaldson. Prism, Jordan Alvarez. Juan and Ray Wave of Brian Hayes. Yeah, no Sunday drip for me tomorrow. I may end up getting a different day during the week, but no longer on Sunday. See how schedule breaks down, all that kind of good stuff. Brian Daylock, Bruce. I will be doing it next Sunday, though, for sure. There's Dylan Carlson. 60 out of 2.99. Purple, yellow. Sonicals for the Cardinals. Joe Adele. Yeah, for sure. Macintosh. I mean, we'll still be doing it. We'll still be doing it all the time. Trey Mancini. There's Jaren Durant. Macintosh. Yeah, sorry about that. And Cole Calhoun. Was that six at one point? Yeah. Must have been a auto refunded or something. Would be my guess. Every now and then that'll happen. Or if someone had like a fraudulent or like risk of fraud, that'll happen too. So I must have just automatically caught it. Two boxes to go here, everybody. On some Sonish Light. There's Tony Santian, Rookie Prism. C&E, Ray Wave, Eli Morgan, Rookie for the Guardians. Joey Bottle, Refractor. The Shet, Ray Wave, IKF. For the Ranger still, IKF. DJ Lamehu, Youthquake, Alec Thomas. You guys see Corbin Carroll picking up an extension today for the D-Vax. Just got paid at 22 years old, 111 million over eight years. Oh, Gold Ray Wave of Jaren Durant. There you go, Red Sox. Nice one there. Boston. Who's got them? Who's got the Red Sox? That is Bill D. There you go, Bill. Bill. Congrats, buddy. Nice one there. That is 14 of 50. So that's what you have to. Randy Marsh. I agree. Very smart deal by the Diamondbacks. It's kind of similar to the one that Wander signed to some degree. Obviously it's a little bit less, Salvi Perez. It's a little bit less, but I'd say just as smart for sure. Del Marte. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's the engine right here. We got a green Ray Wave now of Alec Manoa to 99. That is going to the Blue Jays. A couple of numbered Ray Waves in here. Very nice. We'll take it. We'll take it. Nice little box of Sonic Light we're rocking with now. Max Muncie Refractor, and there's a glass now as well. Dave Mookie Betts. The Dodgers. Newt Bar. Ray Wave. The Dal Bruhan. Rookie for the Raze. One there as well. Trehras, Heal, Hobby Buyers. There's Bryson Stop. Nice one there for the Phillies on the Youth Quake Rookie. Yeah, true. True GMAC. That's another low key parts of contracts you don't always take into account, you know what I mean? Taxes in certain states. Evan Longoria. That's why if you want to go out to LA or anything or San Fran, teams got to pay more because of how high income tax is. Some New York. Last box. Oh, Sonic Light. Good luck here, everybody. There's a Casey Meyes Prism. Ray Wave. Trisha Mackenzie. I'm in a legal Spanish baseball league. Oh, you're really? Yeah. So the draft is still going on right now. There's a judge. There you go, Joshua. Ray Wave, Byron Buxton. No, so the way it works is like every pick is eight hours because the draft is like convenient so everybody can pick kind of at their leisure. There's Brandon Marsh. So, you know, some people pick within the first five minutes. Some people take four or five hours but just makes it so nobody auto picks, which is good. Right. So the draft just take, that's why we're doing it so early because the draft takes a while. It takes a couple weeks to complete the entire draft. But I like my team so far. I've got Aaron Judge. I got Arnotto. I got Bogarts. Then at pitching, and then I have Salvador Perez at catcher. Taney, Katal Marte, Refractor. Arnotto. Then at pitchers, I have Aaron Nola, Luis Castillo, and Hunter Green. Brandon Marsh, Refractor, rookie. Yes, I like my team so I just needed our outfielder. I think my next pick up is going to be an outfielder or two. O'Neal Cruz, rookie. JD Martinez, Refractor, and Chris Sale. A couple of guys I got my eye on. Stuart Fairchild, Obeshet. Raywave, Manny Machado for the Padres. Padres did well in this one. Padres did really well. Tyler Gilbert, Raywave for the Diamondbacks. Pink Teal, Sonic Pulse, 2199. Jackson Coar, rookie for the Royals. Nice one there. Manuel Classe, Tray Turner. There's Gabriel Arias, Youthquake, rookie for the Guardian, and George Springer. Bronzi, and last pack here. Good luck, everybody. Prism, Joey Gallo, and Max Fried. Do a quick recap. Just a few cards we'll go ahead and show. We had the Gold Raywave, Jaren Durand-Rookie, for the Red Sox. We had the Orange Black, Sonic Pulse to 25. Kyle Muller for the Braves, and the Green, Expo Zay, 13 out of 99. Fernando Tatsis Jr. Very nice one there. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, number 22.