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UC7RgQTe5CiHZiMfb5qk8YuA	The New Fan Experience, Getting Co-Signed, Artists Getting Disrespect \| No Labels Necessary EP8	The new way of selling concert tickets is here! And Omarion is leading the way by bringing his fans food, healing treatments, and photos! No Labels Necessary is a Weekly Podcast unveiling the world of marketing from Indie Artists to Major Labels. Watch our Last Episode Here : https://youtu.be/U5563UIn5iA Topics Covered 00:00 Don't Forget to Like, Comment and Subscribe 2:00 - What Is the Omarion Experience 30:24 - Oprah Winfrey Watches This Small Content Creator 49:05 - Music is Getting Bad in the Content Age Want to marker music like a professional? Join our Music Marketing Executive School! Learn more at https://www.brandmannetwork.com/mmes-home?el=ytnln This channel is ran by the founders of ContraBrand Agency, Sean "Brandman" Taylor and Jacorey "Kohrey" Barkley. ContraBrand Agency is a music-first marketing agency that helps artists impact culture through digital content and marketing. Want to run a marketing campaign? Apply at https://www.ContraBrand.agency	[ "BrandMan", "brandman channel", "BrandMan Sean", "music marketing", "brandman network", "market my music online", "kohrey", "Music", "ContrarBrand Agency" ]	2022-11-22T12:00:40	2024-02-08T16:57:11	5,221	pCO3Nl8bZeE	What's up? What's up? What's up everybody? I'm Sean and I'm Corey and we are back with another episode, episode eight of No Labels Necessary where we talk music, business, branding and all that good stuff. New folks, new folks. If you all do not know anything about us just to give you all a little context. I'm co-founder to Corey's co-founder of Contra brand agency, music marketing agency. So we help artists grow to work for the major labels, all that good stuff just so you can get a feel for who we are. But let's get to the real because we got a lot of dope topics today. Hopefully the audio is good. Shout out to y'all who's helped us along the way. I think we have a few episodes in at this point of some decent audio and look, we're on Thanksgiving week. You know what I'm saying? This is Thanksgiving week. So the episode might be a little bit shorter. Things are busy but hopefully y'all enjoy y'all families this week. Y'all chill. If y'all don't have no family, hopefully, you know, you get some sleep. You know, hopefully you get some sleep. And jacquory, I know you don't really like going home. All right, man. Yeah, I'm going home. It's right down the street. Why not? Why should they miss me? You gonna go ahead to those 10 houses? Yeah, bro. Every every year it's at least at least seven for real like that. At least seven houses because I don't I mean, you know, I don't know how to explain it. They're down the street but my family doesn't like coming to the city. So I have to go back to the country and then hit hit every block. But it's cool because I'm fair for like two weeks. You know what I'm saying? I don't really stress about it. That's the game, bro. It's like a sampler from every house. Oh, this smack and cheese was cool but the the dressing was a little dry but they got the great dressing style. Mix and match in place. I mean, you got the perfect setup, bro. Like, I ain't matter. That's good money for the budget right there. I like that. I like that. Well, she's now jealous. Well, let's get into today's topic because artist, I want to ask y'all, are y'all being creative with your experiences that you offer for your fans? Managers, are y'all pushing creativity when it comes to your fan experiences with your artists because my guy Omarion, Mr. O himself, he's doing a little something. I want to share this and we're going to we're going to talk. I had a little ad that passed my page. You know, I don't know why Omarion was targeting me how I fell into that subset. Yeah. Oh, maybe because I'm in it. I was in it. You know, okay, okay. Yeah, he's probably just generalizing. All right, but check this out, right? For those of you who cannot see, y'all are just listening. This says the experience, mind, body and beyond. Clever. Show dates, 1106 in Atlanta. You got the DMV. He's going to New York and he's going to Philadelphia, right? Omarion established artists, but this is different than that type of experience. He says the ultimate connection, private exclusive, and they spell connection like kinetic, you know, in motion. I didn't even catch that. Okay. I was wondering about that angle. I was a little nervous. Oh, you didn't do it. I did not. I did not. That's the type of. All right, the ultimate, the ultimate connection, private exclusive session with Omarion tickets available and it's 250, 250 per ticket. Now, we know Omarion is not an artist that people are really paying 250 to go to show these. I mean, who are people paying 250 to go to their show these days? I just learned that, you know, Paramore the band and the way of them, they're charging 400 for that show at the Tabernacle. 400. Yeah, that's what I learned. That's what Taj told me last night. Jeez. Exactly. So, apparently them. Apparently them. Um, nothing that I can't think of nobody else. I mean, I'm pretty sure probably like the Kendrick's Drake's, you know, the super high level. That's not even the low of it. They're still tickets lower, right? Yeah, yeah. They usually have at least like an $80, $90 when that's somewhere. That's what I'm saying. You know, you in the back. So, Omarion isn't somebody you would expect to be able to charge 250 for a show, but this is more than a show, right? So, to give you a little bit more context, right? It says limited ticket. It's available also on the flyer. Um, the experience mind, body and beyond the ultimate connection must have a ticket to the event. All cells are final. You will receive details on the secret location via email. Ah, three to four days before the event. Ah, this is what I love, right? This is how you create a little mystery. But at the same time, say, hey, we ain't figured this thing out yet and we're not going to book our our spot until we figure out how many tickets we sell. But I get it. I get it. I love it. I love it. So, you flip your weaknesses and and use it as a marketing fine as a marketing strength. That's the game. Originals, I guess that's what Omarion takes you on the ultimate experience, elevating your mind, body and beyond. Okay, give me some more. Go one-on-one with the king. Okay. So, there's some one-on-one aspect to this. Okay. He's the king of unbothered. When did he get that title? Oh, man. I was I was about to ask you that. What does that even mean? I mean, he has been pretty chill recently. Like, well, he's always been chill though. He's never been like a super out there guy, right? I kind of like he's been relatively chill for still having to be out there as a celebrity. I give him that and then there's a lot of stuff going on like with the group. Yeah. But he still tried to. Yeah. Now, you're just trying to claim the title. That's what I'm going to talk about. Like, he's like, nah, that's me. Let me get that. Okay. Okay. Unbothered in this intimate healing experience. This isn't a show. This is a healing experience as he shares gems on mindfulness, principles and practices on how to choose your joy and live an unbothered life. Oh, I love it. The branding on it. So, he might be branding himself as unbothered king of what, you know, whatever. Yeah. And now he's reinforcing what that means. He's motivational speaking to his audience. That's all that's happened. That's how I'm taking this, right? Yeah, he's giving real shaman vibes right now. Now, we're getting into the details. Okay. This unique session includes a personalized autographed copy of Unbothered, the power of choosing joy. I'm assuming that's a book. I was just about, I was like, that's a long name for an album. It gotta be a book. It gotta be, right? Appetizing cuisine. We're gonna feed you sound bath healing. I don't know if y'all know about that sound bath, you know, um, you know about the sound bath, right? No. Oh, man, the girls you date, bro, you don't even, I never even took me to a sound bath. Apparently, I'm in the wrong. The wrong day in pools, bro. You don't even gotta go to the stuff. All right. I'm about to look this up, right? Like, I was missing out. Like, I'm like, man, I need to know. No, no. It's, it's, it's some LA girl shit for sure. They, they're big on this type of stuff. Here you go, Jenae, Ico doing a sound bath. This time I'll take it slow. Take it slow. You don't have to have all that going now. She's, she's singing. Hold up, hold up. I'm gonna find this real quick. We're gonna get to the point of, of this whole thing, but who might take me? I'm trying to find out what that's like. Nah, sound baths are more like, they got a little bowl. Here we go. How would you like to turn your innate passion for helping other people into a prosperous part? Getting lost in the rest of her SEO. That seemed like, that seemed like her fault. Yeah. It's all of these, bro. I have seen this before. I've never been the one, but I've seen it before. You can buy them on Amazon for like 30 or whatever and just, you just, you know, scoop that thing on around and do it. Do it work? Do it work. I mean, I haven't, I haven't done it myself. Oh, you're up. Okay. Yeah. You know, my, my girl who requested, I just got a very gift, so it worked for me to get what I wanted out of it, but I didn't do the sound bath. I'll tell you that. Limited space on only 30 tickets available. Okay. Only 30, so he, he legit making it limited. Let me, let's go ahead and do the math. I don't even want to do it in my head right now. About 80 bands, maybe? Not 80, bro. I'm a little, I don't know, man. I don't feel like doing the math. Yeah. Somewhere. 7,500. Now, that's interesting. That's not enough. I would think to bring out Omarion. I think it would be more than that. We're breaking this down in real time, but again, we're going to get to the subject. You will receive details on a secret location via email again. So, all right. So, this is basically a high ticket event, a higher ticket. I'll consider it more middle ticket. And this is something that a lot more artists should consider. Not necessarily this, right? But you have these different experiences that you can do that aren't a part of a show. And the only thing that we see typically is the funnel. If I have a concert and you can pay me a little bit more to see me backstage. All these other things, variations of things that I can do while I'm there, right? It's a pop-up marketing funnel there. I bet he's going to have some kind of marketing funnel at within this event too. 100%, right? It's going to be merch. You pay here, but yeah, there's some additional merch. Yeah. I bet he'll, he could probably squeak in another 20 bands out of this event. Yeah, 100%. 100%. Some way. Probably going to be pool vendors that he own or something there, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, advertising a brand. There's more to it. So, we're going to get that benefited out, because I'm pretty sure there is, because I don't think Omarion's just stepping out for 7,500. Not that he is not enough. He doesn't do walkouts, walkthroughs and stuff like that. That he might get something like that here and there. Yeah. But still, putting up a whole event, I would expect him to have to want more. But one, he might do, this could be a prototype for a branding experience that he wants to build on. Yeah. Right? You get the footage, but you just try to break even. But then also, I think there's a marketing funnel. But the point is, how creative are you guys getting with your audience? Because we need to see more of this, right? We need to see more of this. Everybody doesn't have the audience yet. But if you have an audience, right, a show is cool and all. Right? But I'm still disappointed by what I've seen. The lack of creativity I've seen since the pandemic. Right? You would think, oh, pandemics happen and people won't get deeper into these virtual experiences. They're going to become more of a real thing. There was very much of a trend that didn't get utilized enough. Yeah. Still hasn't got utilized correctly. And then people went right back to the same system. Now, after over, we just weren't about to wait for these shows. It was back. Finally it was back. Yeah. It was like all that time. And the wake-up call wasn't real. I'm not saying don't maximize what you can in this vertical of touring that's already established. Because the industry has a lot that pushes you in that way and go ahead and get that money. But you should at least start thinking a lot more about monetizing outside of that. So this is one experience we talked about well, you know, we both know Kari did that really dope show. Doing live stream show. Yeah, live stream show during the pandemic. But again, he did it in an extremely dope way. Right? It was branded. It was what is it called? The weird? This is weird live stream or something? Something like that. Yeah. Kari, forgive us if you ever hear this that we aren't remembering it. But like his whole experience was detail where it was a variety show. Yeah. Vibe. Games. So I'm an artist. Obviously, you follow me, but I'm going to play games live on the live stream. Obviously, he performs and his whole branding of dropping his ads, which we maybe pull that up or something. But like it felt like the theme for a TV show. Right? It was thoughtful commercials. Yeah. Let's put it that way. It's definitely something like I think if he had wanted to keep it going, he set it up in a great way that it could have turned into a series or a real show. Exactly. It could have become an entire continued series and experience that his fan base is happy to feel a part of. Right? It could just be a one-a-year thing kind of like so if you look at Travis Scott with Astro World, right? Yeah. And that was themed obviously had the album part of as well. That whole thing was amazing. But you know the fans more and more come every single year. Yep. Of course, it's a festival and that's something more specific. But you can do that with these side concepts because what it also gives you a way you can build a brand using your brand that becomes interesting in and of itself that you don't get to market when you're doing your music. Yeah. Like oh, a variety show. At this point people might just come because it's really fun. Yeah. Right? Like next time around I'm going to bring my friends because the shit was dope. It was funny. Yeah. It was cool. Who cares who Kari is? And then next thing you know you might learn you come closer to Kari as a part of the process or even if you don't Kari still got your money. Right? Yeah. So like that type of thing there's so many ways to do that with these side experiences like Mario with this. He's hitting this entire fan base, right? Next thing you know he starts to invite sound healers or or shaman or whatever speaks to that fan base. Have a little motivational panels. Panels. Exactly. And he's no longer even the center of it. It's just a concept almost like a festival or a seminar or a conference or whatever and now you can probably charge more and more and more and again he was just the foundation of it. So this is a great way to use yourself not only to monetize your fan base in a different way, right? But also to set the foundation of a brand that started as adjacent to you but you're attacking a vertical that and we know to be honest you can monetize a lot more easily than you can in the music space. Yeah yeah because people are paid for things to do a lot faster and they'll pay for music right? You kind of you internalize it differently. You justify it differently, right? Like oh this is an experience like in memories this show this song is a song, right? And I'm already kind of thinking of the comments for this and I know the next question is probably gonna be like well how you know what I'm saying? How do we how we make these cool experiences for people that type into us and the biggest thing that I've seen with these artists is they just doing shit they was gonna do anyway you know what I'm saying? Like and they're like hey how can I like sell my fans on being a part of this thing that I probably was gonna wake up and do anyway today right? I was already gonna go to a sound spot, right? I remember when um no gotta go gotta go back to the king you know what I'm saying? I remember when Lil Yachty was first going on tour and he had this experience with like I don't know maybe you do this though but you know good damn well I did not know you're about to say Lil Yachty when you said that. Shout out to Yachty, right? Yeah this is really this is really early tour experience with like you could just hang out with him and eat pizza and play like Uno or something you know what I'm saying? Rory, you know Rory is right? Like from Atlanta? Oh that Rory. He has to hold like in the woods thing you know I feel like yeah I feel like he just hangs out in the woods anyway it's probably like his vibe right? So I'm saying what artists are like hey like what is something that I like to do that I can put together see who else in my base is interested in it and then from that either I keep doing it right or I pivot and I'm like okay they don't like playing Uno well maybe next time I'll have like a big space game or something you know what I'm saying but I think it goes back to like just like what else are you interested in outside of music you know what I'm saying like what else do you like to do what do you care about or what have you heard your fans tell you they like do like what do they seem like they will possibly be in based on like the interactions and conversations you've had with them so the Mario thing makes a lot of sense because he's he's older so he's probably at this point in his life where you know he's getting himself together spiritually me all I'm doing all the stuff that he done done yeah when he was younger you know like that plus 30 that 35 plus mindset man I gotta get shit together now right so it's probably just like he put like he looks like he does stuff like this anyway yeah I mean especially in his picture yeah bro no it was built for that but he looked like black Aladdin right here but he should have charged like if it was me it was me I would have the 250 one I would have had like a five hundred all or maybe 750 like guided meditation group what I got like you can you can come be here for this price but then maybe five of y'all can get this extra ticket you ever seen that that might be there that's what I'm saying that's that might be the invisible funnel and now I have you in this peer pressure oh yeah I got you saying yeah yeah yeah anything here right it's controlled to make you want a little bit more than I'm a ain't trying to scare you away with the price yeah I'm trying to scare you away with these additional prices but I already got that 250 for you already here and now you spending separately because you forgot about the 250 you spent it already yeah now you're just spending 500 or whatever that that number is yeah that's that's what you might be doing yeah I hope so because like you said bro seven sending about 100 I mean I guess it's what 30 bands for the whole for the whole set but like you said that has to be something deep but there's no way he's traveling to all these I mean I guess they're all not that far in New York to Philly Philly the DMV well no because it went as first so it learned the DMV DMV the New York and then back down to Philly there's no way he's putting all these travel arrangements together without some type of up sale in the funnel or something you know what I'm saying no way no way might have to look deeper I wonder if he already has like shows in those cities at the time and stuff like that that'd be cool that'd be interesting but but yeah I think what you said is a good start right like just what are you doing yeah already what you like and then there's different levels of it right so you have your your fan base music the main thing they know you for and they come to you for now you can take what you like and then figure out what level do I want to introduce this to my fans with all right so yeah you said uno we could do some kind of private uno experience whatever go hard with it but I also could just play uno versus a fan alive right and yeah free and just another way to connect with them and build with them all right then or I could play Super Smash Bros right live but then I also can host the whole Super Smash Bros tournament yeah right and have them involved and then you know run that whole thing up yeah then there could be I don't know what I don't even know what it is well there's a virtual live I'm at a virtual tournament right yeah but then you can do a real life tournament all right and each of those come with their own different charges and extra things you can do around it but it all comes from that same idea of this is just another thing I do or like no name I think she had a book club yeah yeah something like that all right and then you think about this I have this audience that is reading books with me right you might always think well where's the angle I can monetize well she might then in the future have recommend books based on authors paying her because they know that she has this clout among people who actually are book buyers yeah right you know like an email list to blast and get sales and get affiliates where people are paying you with advertising costs bring that speaker in right and there's other ways and people might have private experiences again you get into the in person thing the in person thing is always going to be big in an environment that we're divided in this digital space yeah right yeah that's always gonna be a thing so it's the stuff that you like and then it's the stuff that is just a special experience as a whole like you know when Ryan Leslie did the whole castle experience you know I don't think so yeah so he I don't know how many times he did it but I know at least one time for sure because you know he has super phone he's able to hit up his his you know most real fans and they did a private experiences where he did a show in a castle oh shit yeah show the castle you know black tie like real like upper tier real swanky like some of that type of stuff and it was a private show for those people and you put them in this space that you know they're not used to being to that level experience that's a whole another day right it's one thing to just do something cool and private it brings them closer to you but another thing to do something that just takes them into a space and gives them access that they normally don't have yeah and I think the opportunity around you like a lot of fans just value like being in your vicinity oh I might there's a there's a hot chance I could have a conversation with him much easier to think that when you're in a room full of 30 people they're in the room full of 3 000 right even if they don't really get to talk to you or never touch you or whatever like they still think it going into a lot of people are kind of bound to that stuff like out of homey um Tom one time was going to throw like a kickball game at p-month and he was on charge for it have his fans come out but there were fans who were going to like fly out here fly that and I thought it was crazy but like they're going to fly from wherever they are to Atlanta for a kickball game yeah that's how much they like this man he ended up not doing it um I can't remember I think it was like just logistical reason you know p-month man it'd be shit you gotta go through to get them to do it but yeah that was when it clicked the next other man but he got at least like 10 15 people talking about yo when is it I'll get my hotel I fly out right and I don't think he was charging nothing crazy for I think he's gonna maybe do like 20 25 dollars of signed up you know you get put on your teams when she actually might even been free now I think I think you're gonna do some free shit and just sell like merchant stuff at it you know like use it kind of like a free funnel come play the game when you could have a special like tom kicker oh sorry yeah for the teams right yeah actually yeah that's a that's true memorabilia to move forward you know what I mean like not personable of course you have your regular merchant everybody has access to but only y'all have this specific thing yeah yeah it's a flex in the fan base yeah it's a flex in the fan base and that's that's exactly what you want to do give opportunities to your fan base members to flex on that's all they want bro I just want to be like hey you a fan I'm a bigger fan because I have like this exclusive t-shirt the only way you could get this year you pull up to Atlanta on October whatever at 9 a.m. and play this game you weren't there but I was that's why I got this shit yes I am better than you as a fan right a good way to think about that too is nfts right if you listen to a lot of the experiences people thought to make around nfts and say oh well this is going to become possible oh so that shit is possible right the metaverse and all that all that stuff they applied it to okay that still has to build out and yet that's going to become possible but doing these exclusive events having special ways to know that if you can get in whether it's a password whether it's a specific card or your names in a database it's a list all that exists you can already do that symbols like you said um like flex on the fanbase with the t-shirt all those abilities and possibilities already exist for some reason though it just takes people to like have that new outlet to actually see the possibilities for some reason I think people just like they're intimidated by trying to make it work in an old space but it's like the old space is already proven that there are people that is willing to get it the new spaces those shit you should be scared of because like yes new there's no opportunity you could cap but there also could not be people there that are looking for what you what you're trying to offer yet that's what I think it comes out to brother I can see that you're afraid but now that everything sounds like this is built to support that you feel like there's a lower chance of failure and it's still in such a new space if I fail it doesn't look as bad than me failing in the real world yeah exactly because it's like there's not a lot of people here yet so it's like if it doesn't hit it's like it's like running a bad ad on Facebook versus running a bad ad on like a new platform like it doesn't hit on a new platform there's not enough people that know you fucked up with Facebook it's like there are hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people that saw your bad so I think that it kind of comes out like that same thinking it's like oh I have the chance to like cap over here really hard which is true I have the chance to be you know we talked in the last episode to be able to say I was the first person to do XYZ and whatever space right so that's a narrative in itself yep but then also like there's a lot of sounds on me if I fuck up and if it goes bad I can just act like it never happened because nobody was over here anyway paying attention to it that's a huge limitation when it comes to a lot of artists and potential embarrassment yeah you know I don't know if that's part of insecurity that comes with not that's a lot of people in general but especially the personality type who wants to be an artist yeah all right but a lot of conversations that I have or artists there's a lot of barriers or limiting beliefs that come around embarrassment of some sort yeah which is weird because you're supposed to want to stick out right and part of the stick out risk is embarrassing potential embarrassment potential embarrassment there's this this concept right that most people actually do not want to stand out most people end up think about artists that's why we probably put certain people on a pedestal all right just because they are standing out and we innately understand that there's danger with standing out all right and that's why the crowd doesn't want to stand out all right because if I'm out there it's a risk it's just me out here all right yes there's a lot of rewards that come with it taking that risk if you happen to survive out there but most people don't survive out there all right so you look at zebras and I think it was what's his name Jordan Peterson that was talking about this that I heard he was talking about how zebras are you know they're striped so you're like well how is that built for camouflage right it's like the lions and it's a here are more camouflaged with the backdrop and zebras are right but they move in these herds so they're more camouflaged amongst each other all right and they're not standing out the way a lion identifies them is because especially you know lions often at times they attack together right oh this one got a hobbling leg they can barely move or that one's bleeding so we can all agree that we're chasing this one but when all of them are good you just keep a lot you keep you get lost yeah oh I was chasing that with all I thought we were chasing that one bro I was like nah man I'm not here like what's going on so like that risk of standing out right that's how we translate that to humans yeah it's like people wait when people say there's this innate feeling I think a lot of times people want the rewards of standing out but then that risk just to actually do it you know oh shoot you gonna get canceled you gonna get whatever whatever whatever yeah people walk up to you in public yeah if you walk up to you in public it's a weird feeling I know the first time you experience like all that is just like a weird thing when people oh what's up you like well I know you know you know dang these people they see me before I see them yeah but no it's crazy to think about it like there's somebody out there that knows so much about you and you know nothing about them it's a very wild feeling right right a very wild feeling so I think most people again they under they admire the fact that someone else is willing to do that knowing that they aren't or won't yeah all right so um I don't even get on that anyway you smell like R is not wanting to stand out because it's like it's a part of the job like you gotta kind of get over that right right and then that came from those was derived from why they're willing to look at NFTs yeah right in a certain way and do these experiences that they can already actually do all right so bringing that full circle again there's so many opportunities to do just cool stuff whatever your brand is right or marion's um doing this mind body soul type experience right but you could do you know gaming you can do music you might like watching certain movies and your fan base might be really deep into it like if you got a horror core audience and y'all are into horror movies yeah whatever that stuff stuff looks like there's so many possibilities so if y'all could dig in be more creative again the beauty of this right is it actually is easier to sell this type of stuff than it is a regular show yeah right it's the equivalent of when you have a merchandise brand that can stand on itself versus hey all my merch is just my face on it your audience really gotta like you if it's that right but if your shirt is but god is dope right yeah like let's say toby and way way i think i said that right i don't know god is dope would have been a great merch brand for him yeah right all his stuff could say toby right but a bigger brand for people that don't even know toby would be god is dope right and it's a line with who he is and what the type of stuff that he speaks so that's that example it's a lot easier to sell that type of thing you still get the money right look you can end up being on your own brand's marketing almost looking like who is this artist why do they have him showcased why is he on everything why is he why is he and it just makes it seem like you got a sponsorship or whatever and you're somebody all right so like all those opportunities exist when you start to move outside of this space in place but you can tie it back to your artistry where it makes sense and it creates new fans and if it doesn't create new fans it's at least creating new money so i encourage y'all y'all y'all definitely take advantage of these opportunities especially the way you can do it today but we're going to move on to another topic because cori you send in a really really dope video a really cool story in the way i guess i can say this like Oprah out here blessing people changing a lot of changing lives man changing lives let me i would put out this video every week man and nobody will watch it nobody and i would put out this video every week man and nobody will watch it nobody and and i say this and this is not even a joke is every week it would get like 11 or 12 views this video and my mother was watching nine of those you know and so it was no one was watching this thing but i thought this was a way for me to at least create my brand within the space now it turns out that one of those 11 views was Oprah but people say like okay how did Oprah find you the reason why Oprah was able to find me is because a year prior i was doing pro bono matchmaking services free work free work one of my clients and i had no idea but one of my clients was a writer for o magazine year later she's on Oprah's jet Oprah says i have a concept for a new tv show i'm looking for a fresh voice my client in the jet says have you heard of paul brunson oprah says no but let me see youtube search oh paul brunson save let me start watching so oprah was watching this youtube series and and you know when i always look at i say gosh to me it is a powerful that's crazy that's well actually does he have a gym at the end on top of this ooh should i let it don't worry because she ends up offering me a job to co-host a television show with her on her brand new network off of this youtube series that no one was watching but oprah my mother and like two other people and i say it's a powerful story about quality over quantity ultimately bam there it is there it is and ej you have to superimpose that video my bad man i didn't even do my little switch but um it's so much to this video i wonder what it's like on over his jet by the way right coffee there's he know probably coffee right coffee for a push-up i think there's so many points in this when it comes to content consistency like just a power of content period but let's focus on that last thing first that he said which is quality over quantity and i don't even i don't want to stress the quantity the over quality but just the importance of quality content because look man we've we've had people ourselves that we find out yo this person watched the video like these people reached out to me and you know spot even early on right before we're even doing the things that we've done it's like yo how can they find this in the first place yeah you never know i mean you got actually i could think of one person who's pretty big very well known if i say his name you would say it sure whatever this guy's son was watching and right no son wanted to be an artist all right so he's like yeah right son wanted to be an artist so he found um reached out to me wanted to work with us his music was trash that's why it's better i didn't say his name yeah yeah was trash you know what i mean but you know you know he was early on it i think it has since improved but it was just like you know just started stuff and but i never would have guessed right that any way i could have got with that person when we work i work with uh with macy was through our content not a label not any connections yeah they're like oh saw one of the webinars on top of that which is okay what i'm saying golden yeah golden was have been watching us uh before we were even official and that in that make up we technically contra brand hadn't even started yeah right yeah he had been watching us already so you never know literally who is watching your stuff and you don't know who the people who are currently watching yourself will become yeah yeah to me that's the biggest point like he says like this video has team views on it but like all it takes is one of those 10 views to be somebody that could do something for you and then it becomes sometimes more worth it and maybe the video that got 100,000 views or a million i remember um i don't know if you remember but we were doing a campaign for kelin brie one time and i always remember at the end of it we did like a mean campaign for and like the mean campaign did i think pretty well for the budget but it didn't do nothing like crazy yeah but i remember her telling me after the campaign like yo like this a and r from such and such record label reached out to me i wonder how they saw it i'm like no the fuck they saw it what you mean you wonder us we the reason they saw it but the post that i asked her i was like yo can you ask the a and r like how they found you um just no just i'm pretty sure she'll tell you and yes she had came from like one of the smaller mean posts we got and like that mean campaign probably like eight nine went up the biggest one had maybe 200,000 views it was the post that maybe had like a thousand views on it that the a and r happened to see and reached out to her about and i was like it's crazy she didn't come from the big one she came from the one that you probably in your head were trying to say like oh this should one of you worth it you know saying only got a thousand views on it this year got thousands got 200 i wanted that all across all the posts and so like you said we've seen it with clients i've seen it i've had conversations with people in real life they're like oh bro i love you i'm like oh that's crazy you don't follow me on nothing like how do you how you say you love me bro i don't get to follow no i might just watch your content not kind of or you come up on my for you page you come up on x y z and then that's when it starts to click where it's like man bro like i always tell clients like you gotta remember bro these views are like real people like real people every view every like is a real person and you don't understand the impact that person could have on you until they either make the impact they do it or you talk to them you understand like oh shit like you know blue j one two three is the fucking the main promoter at this club i've been trying to perform at for the last six months oh shit dude was just watching my he was one of my four people in my life for the last month and a half of some crazy shit bro as well yeah well man it's it's so interesting because like the quality right the quality quality quality versus what we think people want to see from us or what the algorithm wants to see with us from us that has them that gap is a risky gap right because a lot of times in trying to go viral in trying to get seen and adjust for what you think the marketplace wants to see a lot of times we lose what makes us unique yeah or just what creates quality in general come off to try hard right to try hard whatever that is right and now you'll have somebody see it and even if that person is important right they might not connect with the same yeah because you're so busy just looking like everybody else i don't even notice oh yeah just another one of those funny videos or another one of those songs that sound like this it was cool but nothing special right and as a matter of fact with taj right so remember got to send his project to irko oh yeah before he dropped right now imagine if he made it i don't know like just on some regular trendy stuff right that's cool and it probably could do well and then you might end up having somebody like him work on it just because you're big and you're doing it but they might not care as much for the music yeah but the other way around is oh snap you here and you and this person's like yo this junk is crazy and everybody who hears it on an individual level is like this is crazy so when it comes to trying to get people to help you for something yeah they're more willing to do it yeah they believe in more they believe anymore and that's part of heck right and i want to talk about in the video actually of getting things done in the industry right like when you do real dope work like why is somebody helping you let's put it that way jacore you can reach i'll be like hey shine man you know i got this artist can you do such and such for him you know and i'll be like check it out dang it's i but i'll rock with jacore though so i guess i'll go ahead and do it or do i be like yo this shit is hard yeah send them over bro with jacore so i'm definitely gonna do this shit like it's a whole different mentality and the power of having great content whether that's music whether that's your music video whether that's your post whatever you're doing right great at whatever you're doing so his his example was i guess he was what given a relationship advice yeah yeah yeah he i don't know his exact backstory but he was pretty much just giving people a free relationship advice turning content right like the power of just doing that in a way that actually hits it's a slower burn sometimes but when it catches to the right people like man it sticks and it's so much easier to help get other people to move on your behalf not just oh the algorithm got a hold of it a lot of people saw it but oh real people are willing to help me get it seen put it on their platforms attached their name to it that's a whole different type of thing and you actually touched on something huge um and my voice just cracked a little bit um the post for calin brie yeah right the one that had a thousand was the one that got seen by that a and r not the ones that went more viral and we judge things superficially just by views like yeah views and likes but where did i give you maybe that page for whatever reason that only had a thousand happened to be followed by more industry type people yeah right because maybe that page is known for quality post you know what i'm saying and we see it like how many pages do have we come across to have like 800 followers been all 800 be like a and r vp you know saying promoters things like that it's like yep i'm a surface level standpoint maybe engagement standpoint but this is not worth it when you think about who it could tie into and you're like no this is probably five times worth whatever that might be trying to get me to do for exactly exactly like so it it's really dope because it supplies across the board in this day of content creation especially i mean you know again like we're talking about over and and dudes literally just talking about like yo nine views yeah and somewhere in every city i'm sure sometimes it was 13 or 20 but like overall like you really ain't getting no views yeah he didn't expect to wake up and get a call about open bro he didn't see that come no way no way but that's it's real man like i and i can say for a fact right being quote on quote at this point to some people right an industry person i know that i'm watching right i know i'm watching some pages right that i might not be following right or i'm watching some artist and i am following they might not even know because they might i don't know for whatever reason they might just might not know like there's this one guy his name is silas i don't know silas yeah right now this is not necessarily beside a perfect example because this dude is like popping already um you know like he has his one song i ain't stressing today he had been working it i just DM'd him off of seeing like three four post not even his post no i saw one of his posts and i saw some other people post to it in the sound just off of that i'm just like this is dope as a matter of fact one of the comments that made me hit him up was someone saying i'm so glad that this didn't become a thing because i didn't like it or whatever and like why is it still popping up for me that was like oh this dude is consistent yeah which i loved yeah so like and i hit him out just like yo like how long have you been doing this i think he said he had been working it like a year yeah like a year but a longer song which made me have with him even more and i was like oh i'm definitely following this dude and just now i saw like Lou Peter um posted and like some other people some other names and that's just working at one song that he really believes in got the dance to go with it so consistency with the content and the song's actually good enough where you start to have celebrities connect with it in their own way to be on it as a matter of fact then we could look at uh i keep forgetting we so a big time artist right we can say this we can say snoop hop done okay okay song right snoop hop done buddy song and buddy song doesn't really have no views it's not really known by anybody like that but not only was it a really high quality song dope concept it matched snoop's brand yeah perfectly so when your content and this is goes innately goes with quality and also because part of quality within content is some level of authenticity to whoever you are or whoever you're speaking to right yeah so when i talk about somebody in the industry billing uh willing to go to the go to bat with you not just offer the favor of their friend but for the content itself is it's about can i see a vision for it i'm like i see where this can go me personally so i really want to do something with it it's not even work for me to like figure out i only want to take time well what can i do for him what can i post about it i was like i know exactly what to say in my caption or i know exactly who the collab should be or however my connections can make us make sense for it i got a vision because i see the vision from the content right yeah my point being that specific song was specific enough in its energy that snoop dog could see himself on that song yeah you know what i mean versus just oh that's another good song so that's part of not watering things now for a trend too because then people aren't going to be able to connect with it on the same level yeah so man it that quality content conversation is i don't know you know as marketers and then you know people like we talk about tick tock so much and all that stuff i think people think they were all about like chase viral yeah like people forget you can do both it's like you can make it you can make a corny tick tock and then drop the greatest music video ever credit in the same week they don't sound like that are you saying that a corny video needs to be a part of your strategy maybe don't know who you are you know or you know if you try to lighten the brand up a little bit you know nothing lightens up the mood like a corny video you know unless they already don't like you then it's just you know you shooting yourself in the foot oh yeah yeah but it's just like i don't know i feel like i got a 50 cent talk about nick canning yeah if you talk about like why does he keep rapping i don't understand yeah exactly bruh it's like ours i feel like always painting away like you have to do one or the other like either i'm going to make the most amazing visual content ever created or i'm going to make a tick tock and it's like why can't you do both yeah you'll be much better off if you can figure out the both right and then and then plus amazing is in the out of belt but hold on i've seen some amazing music videos that were made compared to some tick tocks i've seen some masterpiece tick tocks bro i'm like damn bro he really he or she really sat down and created this put this together so and um i think the whole quality thing too just going back to his clip is it comes down to messaging right like if the messaging reaches who you would or if you have a messaging or something and it reaches who is supposed to hit that audience is going to say this is quality if it hits people that don't care about the message they they might disagree unless like certain elements of it really are so hot quality we've seen some shit before that we didn't like but you we won't knock and say that shit with strategies like i don't like it but now this shit kind of fought you know what i'm saying yes exactly so a perfect example would be for this guy paul brunson to have got on the relationship talk train we know relationships he's in a relationship category and we know exactly how polarizing relationship talk can be on instagram yeah or social media every thing really right yeah he could have came from r.r.p kevin saying those type of angle right but that might have not have been him yeah right that's not my energy that's not my type of advice that's not my voice but oh this is working let me do that i want to bet nine times out of ten nine point nine times out of ten Oprah doesn't resonate with a kevin samuels voice she don't want to stand next to a kevin samuels in that specific voice for what she's trying to put out so he would have missed that opportunity right yeah paul wouldn't have got that trying to copy and i'm just using kevin example but there's so many different directions and voices in the way that you can speak right let's just say if he was caught up like just a cursing a lot or using the n-word a whole whole lot right which you know Oprah doesn't like the n-word i don't know if you remember that whole thing she had against uh jz and all that stuff for a moment right so those little things would have made a difference for her yeah all right so that goes back to like whatever your voice and your style of doing it is do it in that voice and style and there's somebody who will resonate on those different levels but if you get caught up trying to talk to everybody yeah talk to everybody and switch off or something just because it works then you'll probably miss out on those things because she might have trouble finding somebody who speaks in his voice because of all the things that are popular on social media and those other voices because i don't see anybody who speaks i might really accustomed to his his content but for everything even just that vibe of him talking yeah i can't see him talking crazy seems very encouraging and positive yeah and you know politically correcting in some ways you know very advertiser friendly yeah advertiser friendly there we go there we go now with that being said you know content content content content we are in a new content creator space and i don't know man it seems like artists are being disrespected these days all right people don't really respect music and i want to talk about why they don't really care about artists or respect artists quite the same straight into my chair a little bit yeah yeah you know get yourself together get yourself together here's the context that we're going to start with right rice gum okay right influencer star rapping right handleable birds for y'all don't know great comedian yeah great comedian great writer great writer starting to be a rapper he's pursuing it in the most respectful way i've seen right but one starting to be a rapper and like retired from doing comedy just a rap bo bernum another comedian starts dropping music right look at some of these random influencers who never even wanted to do music that were getting signed to then do music yeah yeah everybody's dropping in the song bag people are getting people are like looking at music as a lick look at that even if it's only for views right on the other side what other categories do you see getting taken advantage of to that extent it's not to the same degree but i would say now probably boxing and fighting every influencer is trying to box all right not to the same degree not to the same degree that's actually a good a great example actually yeah um because like you said it's not to the same degree but people are doing it who don't fit that tradition all right in the same way you could argue that comedy might be you know yeah you know people are think they're funny yeah everybody's dropping some videos that are some type of funny and then stand up comedian specifically all right feel like they're being taken advantage of all right so i don't think there's almost any content creator creative space that's not experiencing some level of people from the outside just taking it lightly and trying to create content on it but it seems like on a high level music is being exploited differently why because there's more infrastructure or report support of it i think in some ways all right think about bad baby yeah being signed to the landing all right she came into the machine she came into the machine the machine truly support and said that we're going to do this and i mean there's other examples like that um like you have somebody like ddg who took it seriously right so that's fine probably did the best out of all of them i would argue i would say yes yeah yeah well him and queen niger queen niger was influence first yeah i know that yeah really queen niger was um on youtube and she was in a relationship with uh some guy well i guess maybe it's she might her her first son i don't know how many kids she has but i know she has a she had a son with that one um guy and then they broke up that became a whole thing so they had a couples page okay i know yeah she used to see covers and stuff too on youtube she was one of those people and then he had broke up and then now she got some other guy um in some ways gives me similar vibes just she got a tight ish but but they um but yeah she came from that way and she's like you look at her and think artist first you don't even think youtuber yeah like that right so she did it seriously but again most people are violating look at the meme pages all right and this is why i think music is getting exploited on a different level and it's more disrespectful because as an artist you see that some random meme song goes up and a record label said oh snap we want to sign them or we wouldn't at least sign that song and we want to exploit that song now the record label you get it because they're just trying to make money short term and they know these windows come and they don't expect the song to be serious and their their business model is set up in a way that that doesn't necessarily hurt them and it's not short term maybe there's an argument that long term you're ruining the industry and it'll slowly collapse because you signed this meme song or this random one off i don't know maybe there's that but on a short term basis for sure it's like oh yeah we just kept we made a good year that was an extra million in the bank to report to our shareholders or whatever all right but and the artists are like well dang that's what you want that's what you want like something about him exactly so i don't know i think that's going to but that is something that i know i've seen a lot of artists um i hate it bro they hate it i hate it they just gotta say they hate it they don't like it they're not fucking with it but why is it so easy to do with music i think i think music i should probably say this i think music probably has one the lowest barrier of entries with a lot of the creative like think about it's like lower barrier entry entry comparison like other things you want to paint and do certain things like you gotta you have to own the equipment yes and you gotta you gotta buy the supplies there's not as high of a demand for like you could decide that i want to be a painter doesn't mean that tomorrow every people gonna buy your painting you could decide today that i want to be a music artist you go drop this in a ready thread like you might get eight people that listen to right eight people that could potentially grow into consumers or or fans or whatever so i think like one is that i think a lot of them see it as like a very low barrier to entry especially especially from an influencer standpoint because what do we always say the hardest part about being an artist is learning how to get attention as an influencer you've already mastered that part of the game so now your hurdle is can i make let's say the best of quality song at the least a listenable song right which i've said before on other episodes i don't think that's as hard as a lot of people like to make it out to be right like you have the influence and the money right you can put yourself in the room with certain people you can put yourself in you know i'm saying get yourself in certain situations with producers and writers and things like that it might not make you amazing but it might make you listenable to right and listenable to is enough to get things moving for a lot of people especially after we just talked about the whole fan experience thing if a influencer i like drops a song i'm going to listen to it not because i think they're amazing but because i like this influencer right so he could have dropped he or she could have dropped damn anything i want to check it out they just chose the phone that attention to music so i think that's probably one the biggest reason to it like they see it is like a very easy attention flip which it is like the like that biggest barrier entry is getting attention hey i already have a hundred thousand followers here or a million followers here if i can just direct those people to Spotify doing something i already know how to do because i already know how to make great content right most of them are really good content creators i already know how to speak to my audience and engage them and make them excited about things i can do the hardest part of this is now me just making the song that's nothing bro that's a that's a couple hours on google and some phone calls and you in the studio session bro i'm making some shit see i think a part of that like you said you don't even have to be amazing is your song can be good for the people while it's still bad yeah like the have you seen the period odd girl on tiktok period odd yes period odd yeah that girl well i should that should it was so terrible so bad they don't even like calling music bad well that should be bad so bad it flipped her in the fame bro it's crazy exactly we get one we get at least one of those a year like some of the internet jokes somebody into stardom like at least once a year easy right so when it can be that right it's not even necessarily a good song and people almost know that it's not a good song but it still connects in some way i think about being younger like when the hood wrap in Atlanta was like big yeah right i'm not not when the hood wrap was big i'm what am i trying to say i when hood wrap was less sophisticated right like pro tools and all this stuff it wasn't as figured out like now where most of the like known hood wrap actually sounds good right like in terms of the audio quality yeah we listen to the shit that we were listening to that she was horrible i was making a computer mic and shit exactly exactly so going back and listening to that it was like dang but it's still hit it's still connected right so you don't and some of these people might only have one hit back then or whatever they weren't the most sophisticated lyrics is like songwriters whatever whatever but it still connected because it was a real based off of what you understood where you came from right so you take that and then you put that out to basically the rest of the world everybody has maybe one song in them yeah all right yeah true and all that tech is one speaking that experience and letting everybody relate whether it's funny right like or some true go hard but i think obviously the ones that tend to go up are those ones that you know some level of funny right or some level of the relatability flexi i think the perfect combination of could easily have been a bad song but it's actually a great song which is why the moment i heard it i said this is a hit glow rilla oh yeah right yeah what's the official name of the song i'm so bad at song name fnf fnf right no i'm sorry oh okay now i remember what i said yeah okay cool fnf easy right it's it's funny there's a level of flex in it it's reliability the relatability and it's the type of stuff that somebody would just say anyway right and there's a lot of people who can do that all right they might not put it together the production might not be as good but it's a lot of people who can do that and connect because the space that is coming from all together is just like it's a real authentic space all right so i think that's what makes it so easy for other people to catch on to the space and at least catch one you don't really get challenged unless there's a whole album needed yeah all right and you know you gotta create another song you gotta create another song that's something different but a lot of fake people don't even want that from outside the space it's like oh i just want to create one song for fun right just because we're experienced and a lot of them you talked about Spotify they don't even want to monetize it necessarily they don't care about monetizing as much yeah it's just more almost like for marketing or just to have a video that went viral and then shoot as a label especially it's like we'll shoot they don't even want to truly lock down on these percentages and stuff like that they don't care the same so i might as well take the lion's share of this particular track and let them have a fun let them have their fun let them have their fun while i sit back in the house and count the money that's me is one of the bigger parts of it too where it's like every now i feel like i've heard other people say this too but it's like every other creative profession i always feel like deep down they want to be a music artist right like athletes actors definitely the athlete you know we see the influence like they all kind of have like that dream in the like man what would it be like to be a big rapper or a big pop star or whatever and so i think a lot of them just do it just because i think of an influencer mentality like if you're a big enough influencer and you've tried enough products and things with your audience like you got probably got in your head like there's nothing i can't sell you know i'm saying like if mr beast wanted to drop an album today that sure probably top 10 you know i'm saying because because of who he is right i hope you don't do that but you know if you did you know i'm saying um so you you know the thing about the influence you sell in t-shirts you selling shows you selling chicken nuggets like random shit and then you get to music and nothing and you're just gonna tell you can't sell music you know i'm saying it's like i've sold all these other things that are much harder to get created and packaged and produced in a song is so why wouldn't i take that leap um and then you know music can have a crazy return on investment if the right thing spark off you know like you could record a thousand dollars song that should blow up and make you millions right and so it's i think there's a a level of potential return on investment that these influencers see in music that they don't they don't see what their other creative avenue like it doesn't like like i said like a painting it's hard for like a pain to go viral like it's hard for like a um it's hard for like a stand-up comedy clip to go viral and have the same impact because the clip might just leave the ticket sale there's still something hard you gotta have set up maybe if you sell like digital products or whatever but it's like but music is like the attention is going to go off to 30 different streaming platforms that i'm getting paid from all of them is going to make me look cool to my audience right because they're like oh now such and such is rapping so they're going to buy in deeper into my brand narrative and my story and even the other things i have going on and then like you said it's like this shit work out i might have a legitimate career if it don't work out i can always be like well that was fun now back to the main thing you know just keep it back pushing wherever i was at before bruh do you remember Kim Kardashian dropping a song yes you remember Paris Hilton dropping a song yes i remember all of them doing it it was a weird time very weird time very weird time why are these people doing it right like why are they dropping music and not more comedy right more act legitimate acting and we know that a lot of people have tried acting right that some actors feel like shouldn't have and some of them feel like oh they've taken some of our spots because they already have some celebrity we know that's a real feeling in that space as well but the lasting value is different i feel like because of one major thing you can do it in the dark you can create music in the dark all right i'm in this room i create i can mess up a whole bunch of times i can have a producer work magic literally right mix engineer work magic literally master this thing and then it gets presented to the world but to do acting at scale i got to get good at this even if i do it badly because i got into a room that you know i normally wouldn't have based off of the talent where it is but you know my name the money connections whatever but still the audience looks at it like that's bad yeah right yeah and then you can't really keep doing that you can't ever get looking like look that is truly serious so it's just a different path and it's a different type of labor that comes with a lot of these other routes that i don't think music has music doesn't come with and definitely doesn't have the same level as potential embarrassment because you can at least give it your approval before it goes out yeah and i mean you said something too um i think is one of the bigger things with it is like the the perceived amount of talent you have to have to be successful in the thing like in acting i'm pretty sure there are bad actors out there they probably don't get far but it exists right yeah um but like you you don't have the potential to make it to being a top tier actress or actor without being like a pretty high-level actor saying i feel like with comedy right like comedy you're not hitting the big stages until you perfect the comedy at a certain level music is one of the only artistic skill says well you legitimately could make your very first song today and have an audience in the next couple of months so you haven't perfected it yet you haven't gotten you know let's just like quote-unquote good at it yet right like you may be bad to some people because it's such a preference thing and it like i was saying earlier like the internet jokes one terrible artist and to start them every at least one a year every year it's at least one and so it's like that could be used and the only difference between you influencer or celebrity with bad music and random artists with bad music is you already got an audience there's already people who gonna listen to it anyway just because you on it you understand you put it out so you have a little bit of an advantage in the head start that might kick off all the other things that are used to convince us like this is actually good you understand you know my example of all examples that i fall back on uh who what i'm gonna give you one guess i don't want to guess inside too many you know what i'm saying man i can already tell you like i was like your brother i don't know where you about to take this i can already tell you go to roger rush because this is an easy one that you wouldn't feel that way about rebecca black friday oh yeah a hundred percent a hundred percent bad song everybody joked about it being bad and it was so bad that in some way it was an earworm and good you can't forget it and now everybody knows what she is yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't have said that yeah i had at least three other songs so i was like now let me hurry up and slide a slide in the base before he put something out there so but it's a perfect example yeah like you cannot beat that it's so easily and specifically bad that it made people talk about it right that's what that's the other struggle um while i get into that in a second but like so people talked about it and they talked about it so much that they shared it oh you gotta hear how bad this is though yeah share it but dang it's catchy and now uh it's friday it's friday you got that jump going in your head or now you singing it almost in making fun of her but still you're still sharing it at the same time and that loop exists and then it became a thing i remember when she dropped the song a few years later that she was actually kind of good it's like oh she actually can sing a little bit or she's not all that bad like that became a story for a second song just because the first song was so bad that's so funny that's so funny we talked about this last episode so i think like if you fail big enough it's hard to lose yeah because you can flip it have whatever way you want to go so that to me is the disrespectful part with the influencer thing is like the the procedure amount of time you have to have because like either they come into it thinking like hey i am good at this thing right and i have a passion for it or they're coming to a thing and like i'll just other shit trash i could do it you know what i'm saying and i feel like a lot more lean towards the right because you know you have like you have the outliers like the dg's and like the paul brothers and things who could you know put out well i like dg so i think his music is great but the rest of paul brothers music was good i didn't actually have not listened to i don't remember just like default like i'm not really interested in checking it out i'm going to assume no i just remember them being the headline because one of them paid for like a gucci verse or something and then try to put out like gucci was fucking with me and gucci but no they paid me for that shit it came like a whole thing and i was like man the biggest narrative here is that they could afford a gucci feature because that was like they were big at the time they weren't like nowhere near where they are today right um but yeah like it's like because we worked with influencers that wanted to be artists and like there's some of them on like okay your music is good you probably really do care about this thing like people allow to have other creative interests outside of whatever the main thing is but i think that accounts for like maybe max 15 percent i think the other 85 percent is like oh that shit looks easy so i'm gonna get in that shit especially rap right every everybody thinks they can rap everybody they can rap everybody right you're just saying words there and i guess a keyword too you said is creative right most creatives don't see a limit to what they can do creatively yeah i think they can do everything they think they can do everything and oftentimes done that setters respect the other craft as it should be because should we've seen some bad celebrity music right um what's his name lamorn laverne laverne yeah laquif laquif my guy i tell that brother here so well i think yeah he's my brother hey man no don't hit me up don't hit me up i would look hey i i respect your your craft you know art wise and everything only reason i say i would love to work with you but i don't hit me up because i'm not a producer you know i just don't have the talent to make you better right that's just really not my thing but you want to be marketed like you have a great creative mind i'm sure you have a really cool concepts that that's my sauce that's my juice do not hit me up until it sounded i can't even play that game right and that's me respecting the craft that were producing right who else dropped some uh i feel like it was one other person that it was so bad and i respect them so much i don't mind commenting on how much of bad it was but then like my could be joined up a song or something i don't know i don't know you don't call me on that i don't know i'm gonna try to google real it feels right though like it feels like something he would have done let me see my dude jordan oh um the rock dropped us on recently yes the rock the rock that's what it was yes see the rock's music though i would not put on the level of lakith because it was good trash and what i mean it was theme trash it was trash with the with a clear message with a clear reasoning and a target a clear target target demographic it was like i understand what this is yeah it's like corporate so it's so it's supposed to not necessarily be great yeah that's what it felt like a corporate thing you know like oh this is one of them cheesy songs in a commercial or something like that right and you don't get hold of the same weight to it or it was like the the theme song to a kid show now you know some kids shows that some great theme songs but then there's also a lot of them that aren't necessarily all that hot and it's just cool you don't really judge it that way that's how i look at what the rock did because you can't even like the rock's image it'll be hard for him to have a good song that's that allows his image to be the image that it needs to be you know what i'm saying yeah like so so that's different right but it does go back to the theme right of what actually gets attention and when people get upset oh why is this bad music getting attention well remark ability right always going back to that theme the word remarkable what does it mean the word for marking about right someone's going to tell somebody else about it so good music like i don't know i might hear a good song but i might not necessarily share that song mid music not necessarily so all right mid music is almost good music these days right great all right we're getting better excellent off the chain however you want to say it that's the stuff that gets shared a lot of times right where it's like wow you bro you gotta hear this song you heard your song then on the other side of spectrum realistically most trash does not get shared yeah it really doesn't sometimes it feels like that but most trash does not get shared we're talking about without somebody having a platform anything like that the things that go viral is the trash word for marking about like bro this is so bad in the right way that is i gotta share this jump yeah you know i mean i got like rebecca back friday right it was perfect and it i don't even i don't it's almost good enough right and it's it's playing with that line where i gotta share it because it was like horrible and i can't listen to it no one's going to even you're not going to even play it or share it right one by one you listen to it yeah exactly you don't want to buy it well that's a whole another thing right like like just say poorly makes music that's the best way to say trash without even necessarily having to get into us the subjective ideas like this is hard to literally listen to yeah no one's really talking about that stuff right only reason you would talk about that is it's somebody who recorded it what somebody worth talking about right yeah it's like oh rock song was like just what is this right so now you go share and talk about it but most bad music doesn't get talked um talked about so it's like either the top of what i call good music mountain right or the top of the trash can those are the things right that get the attention everything below that i don't know man so i get it your music might be good but it's so much good music out here all right the new way the only the best way to make good music go viral these days it's almost like a bad way by somehow getting it branded as mid because people love to talk about how mid music is these days so if you can if you can catch that it's like we're not even saying it's trash it's like it's just nothing special so if you can i mean nobody really wants their music to be branded that way but that is the way that good music does get talked about these days yeah yeah bro i mean because good bad music stands out good oh regular good music does not stand out exactly it doesn't stand out man so you just gotta understand human psychology man like what what do you what do you when you think about what you spend your time on what you tell people about what you share because it was funny etc etc yeah what does it come down to what does it come down to what you literally do how much good music have you kept to yourself because it was just like good all right but of course the great music we know we try to share that as much as possible so like that it's such a complicated conversation i feel like people don't really give much attention to in terms of what artists are going through today in terms of the disrespect the genre is getting but i think on the flip side artists need to take advantage of it yeah a hundred percent right like a hundred percent y'all are doing y'all are missing the opportunity to take as much advantage of these other routes of creativity and monetization that others aren't all right so i have a a thought process so you you're aware how like the black community is always like by black by black right and we need to support our own and have you ever heard any conversations where people are like you need to build it almost only for black people yeah it's like this is ours our own and we don't serve anybody else that like that type of thing and for me you got to look at it holistically right it's just basic economics if we only circulate within us at some point right there's diminishment that happens all right things diminish because we don't have any new money coming in especially if others are taken from our community all right so it's a bar bill there's two sides of it one economically yes we have our own and we maximize how much we circulate within our community great and do for our self but you can't be mad at these other people who are not building specifically for black what you want to really track is what they do after they get the money yeah all right so let them get everybody like everybody else is getting everybody else money let us go get everybody else money and then bring it back to the community then we have those people who just want to stay within but you we need to have the full spectrum for the pot to grow otherwise if we're just circulating within us it doesn't move right it doesn't grow yeah so makes sense that's the whole way i look at it and in that example artists are the black people right artists all right cool do your artist stuff your monetization stuff but you got to expand all right into these other categories something about money and then apply it back to funding your music career apply it back to whatever your lifestyle and maintenance is as an artist so you can continue to pursue your dream otherwise if other people are taking from the community right while you're staying in your community your pot is only getting smaller while theirs grow so that's the game you got to have both a great example is the dude named Trevor Jackson i think that's his name it's confusing because there's a white one and a black one but the guy who's on not groupish grownish okay yeah right yeah he talks about like doing acting pretty much really just to find his music he has a respectable music career by the way let me see how many Spotify followers he has real quick or uh monthly listeners real real quick all right so he has 303,000 monthly listeners all right that's a very respectable that's crazy oh yeah he had a viral moment on tiktok recently too oh yeah because he did a remix of um some song yeah whose song was that he oh oh the pollin yeah pollin yeah bro yeah all these tracks again bro i can't get back yeah i can't get back hey the king man you want me over you might win me over you got me for the day um Trevor Jackson though yeah he had 303 monthly listeners and he's finding his music career right as an actor built the brand as an actor built the brand make that connection and the same way Will Smith went from music to acting that you can go from acting to music right i think the problem that you don't see a lot of people you don't see the reason you don't see a lot of people do it is because music's so much harder i think to monetize than acting the fans of small segment most infrastructure real infrastructure unless you get to the top i don't want to start no arguments actors and you know you like feel free to school me a little bit but i'm making a blanket statement i get it but let's look at it this way you can get an acting job and make a decent amount of money even when you're not like a big known name right there's like levels to make money on the way up yeah artists is very hard it's to make much at all like anything if you don't really have a name like it doesn't have to be the biggest name but it's all it's almost like the chasm is like zero to 60 right then you know 70 80 100 where acting and many other um careers have like zero 10 20 like they have a path to make money on the way up so if you're already big and you're making money and then you have the way the music industry works you're just like why do i even want to put my energy into that maybe i just might make some for fun that's the big one yeah but like why do i want to like do this and go that route they're getting that shame like oh there's what y'all doing over here oh no let me go back let me go back to where i can't make it too hard to make the money like it's just too much right so i definitely think that's a part of it but artists that there's so many ways right so much money in these other fields and spaces and places even within music right to focus on sink deals right versus just building your fan base that one specific way there's so many ways man like we of course we got the stories of damn your name not coming to me right now bro my bad oh cashmase cashmase getting this 100k plus writing a song for spanks all right DMing the CEO first of all which shot at Sarah Blakely i think she exited for probably like more than more than five billion i'm pretty sure selling spanks right um and then who else did something like that there was somebody else who wrote a sink deal that i know for some serious money yeah i know vance talked a lot about uh he got more money i think he said from the gta placement of his music then he's gotten from a lot of his music industry stuff who said that vance staples see he's in the last gta hey hey so there's so many other ways that you can look to to make the music work at least do that right at least do that do both do both for sure like like no every artist that's winning big is doing both yeah right like yeah we know that jay z Beyonce and you know those usual actors for sure have money and and their their music can do whatever they got real fans but a rihanna is in this new movie right what movie is that i don't even make that slow song that came out and they say she's gonna drop another one coming up soon don't do it to me but yeah like that's a sink deal right yeah all right everybody is going to get that extra cash yeah it doesn't make sense not to right it's just artists many of y'all y'all might not find that level success and find even more money just going straight to the other route yeah sometimes the music is just an entry point to the thing that's gonna really make you a lot of money you know and i think while we see it with bigger artists have gotten the opportunity to go through enough stuff that they realized that small artists haven't gotten to go through it yes they don't believe that until they get into there like damn y'all weren't lying this is not what i thought it was let me go sell socks it's like everybody's been selling socks from the jump clave black said bro i made a million off socks i believe him he said that he said in one of his songs something something right in the box i made a million off socks he did say that yeah he did i guess i just assumed that that was not socks he was talking about and i just said don't even talk about but maybe he was you might be right yeah i believe him he probably did just straight up shit oh man but yeah man the money is out there it's so many ways to get it even we just literally this is the whole conversation because we just talked about the experience the experiences right there's so many ways to brand it look at yourself as brand a brand look at yourself as intellectual property and look to build intellectual property with your intellectual property because that's the thing that could becomes easy to monetize you can sell that itself so then like okay now i don't own like let's just say adventure atl right at one point i was like well should we could just sell adventure atl the festival concept and name and then have nothing to do with it because we were gonna we're targeting a very specific audience and how it was being built right that's the way i was seeing it so and build the cloud and energy in that space and just like oh it could be on cups it could be on pencils it could be on clothes it could be in different experiences and spaces without me even having to do that work but how many uh they don't do what's his name anymore would would damn brother the festival is always festival og festival hippie did be festival what's called the brain brain it's my brain but let's just say burning man dang it almost came to me um i'm gonna find out there real quick but um i know carlo santana was there stockwood is that what it's called something would would dang whatever anyway if burning man stopped having a festival burning man as a brand could still move on keep going yeah i understand like literally people gonna are gonna have t-shirts right yeah that simple all right it's a thing that can be so so we should have like a deeper conversation on intellectual property and ideas and how that's gonna be very very different in this content space and era but you know we got a close out for today jacquory gotta go make some money i'm always a proponent for so so he threw it y'all but this is time this is time i'll be back but we appreciate y'all i did not mention at the beginning all right so hopefully you still here in the end tuesdays and thursdays tuesdays and thursdays come see us that's when we're dropping these episodes uh y'all have a great thanksgiving week travel safe uh safe travels safe eating don't eat too much you know i mean i'll 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UCq6ysZYeu-HwhBEV7TuO8wg	Problema 8 Cuentas por pagar del libro mayor 70	Problema 8 Cuentas por pagar del libro mayor Contabilidad financiera	[ "Problema 8 Cuentas por pagar del libro mayor", "Contabilidad financiera" ]	2023-10-01T21:00:09	2024-02-05T07:48:25	1,593	PcqPejqZrq0	Hola, en esta presentación, trabajaremos un problema relacionado con el ciclo de cuentas por pagar, un problema similar a uno que trabajamos en el pasado. Sin embargo, esta vez, en lugar de publicar sólo en una hoja de trabajo, publicaremos desde las entradas del diario en el libro mayor por aquí. El proceso será entonces que íbamos a registrar las entradas del diario aquí, este será el diario general, registraremos las entradas del diario aquí en el diario general que registra las entradas del diario, y luego publicaremos esas entradas del diario en el libro mayor, el libro mayor estará en el mismo orden que el balance de prueba. Esos saldos luego se llevarán al saldo de prueba, donde podemos ver si estamos en equilibrio o no después de cada transacción. Recuerde, todas las cuentas serán un orden de activos que pasivos, luego ingresos, luego gastos en el mismo orden en el libro mayor donde tenemos activos, pasivos, patrimonio, ingresos y gastos. Nos centraremos en el ciclo de pago o el ciclo de compra y, por lo tanto, nos centraremos en la cuenta de cuentas por pagar, compraremos cosas a cuenta y luego pagaremos esas compras a cuenta en un momento posterior. Tenga en cuenta que registraremos estas transacciones desde el diario general hasta el libro mayor a medida que avancemos y construiremos el saldo de prueba a medida que avancemos. Y al hacerlo, podremos ver si estamos o no en equilibrio después de cada sistema de transacción que recomiendo hacer siempre que sea posible, porque eso le ayudará a detectar problemas a medida que ocurran. Y esa es una técnica en la que realmente quieres entrar cada vez que estás armando algo dentro del departamento de contabilidad o muchos departamentos. Para que pueda solucionar el problema una vez que suceda, en lugar de dejar todas las transacciones y luego registrarlas todas, y luego crear el saldo de prueba aquí de todas ellas. Si tiene que trabajar un problema con papel y lápiz, es posible que tenga que hacerlo en ese formato, pero es posible que incluso desee intentar hacerlo en un formato similar a este, lo que significa que borra el saldo de prueba cada vez y escribe el nuevo saldo de prueba para ver si está desequilibrado o no para ver que todo funciona y solucionar problemas a medida que avanza. Si estás trabajando en Excel, por supuesto, eso es lo que recomendaría hacer, porque puedes ver lo que está sucediendo. Y puede hacer ese tipo de cambio sin tener que borrar mucho, así que desplace hacia abajo y veamos lo que tenemos aquí en las actividades. Primera actividad compra suministros a cuenta. Así que vamos a repasar nuestra serie de preguntas y preguntar primero si el efectivo está afectado. Y este caso, vamos a decir que no, compramos algo a cuenta y por lo tanto no pagamos en efectivo sino que pagamos con otra cosa, lo que vamos a pagar serán cuentas por pagar. Sin embargo, a menudo es más difícil saber si debitar o acreditar las cuentas por pagar. Por lo tanto, pensaría en lo que hemos recibido. En este caso, tenemos suministros, y vemos suministros aquí en la categoría activos, esa va a ser la cuenta, pensaré primero, es una cuenta de activos y los activos están subiendo. Por lo tanto, vamos a hacer lo mismo que su saldo normal, que en este caso es otro débito. Así que voy a copiar los suministros en E7, haga click derecho en copiar, vamos a poner eso aquí en la celda B5, haga click derecho y pegue no pegar todo en lugar de querer el formato, solo quiero los valores. Así que vamos a pegar 123 valores, solo la cantidad entonces será acomodado el 585. Así que vamos a poner 585 en la celda C5, estoy pensando en acreditar algo por esa cantidad, sé que acreditaremos algo, así que voy a poner negativo de ese número. Y voy a empezar a usar fórmulas, podrías poner un negativo y simplemente escribir el número. Una vez que seleccione ENTER, pondrá corchetes, voy a usar una fórmula tanto como sea posible solo para entrar en la práctica de usar fórmulas de formato tanto como sea posible. Entonces solo necesitamos conocer esta otra cuenta. Y, por supuesto, no va a ser efectivo porque no pagamos en efectivo, serán cuentas por pagar, cuentas por pagar, siempre que veamos ese término a cuenta. Por lo general, significará cuentas por pagar o cuentas por cobrar, aquí estamos tratando con cuentas por pagar en este momento. Así que voy a copiar las cuentas por pagar N8 haciendo clic derecho en copiar cuentas por pagar, voy a poner eso en la celda B6, haga clic derecho pegado 123 luego vamos a hacer doble clic delante de la A y espaciar tres veces para dar una sangría para el crédito allí. Recuerde que si no tiene algo bloqueado, puede ir aquí grupo de alineación de la pestaña inicio y luego aumentar la sangría y eso también le dará esa sangría sin usar ni necesitar la barra espaciadora. Tengan cuenta que sabíamos y sabíamos que íbamos a acreditar las cuentas por pagar porque debitamos suministros, pero también queremos pensarlo dos veces. Sabemos que la cuenta por pagar es una cuenta de saldo crediticio, debido a que es una cuenta de pasivo, sabemos que debe estar subiendo, porque lo malo es subir, debemos más dinero para comprar suministros. Por lo tanto, le haremos lo mismo que su saldo normal, que es otro crédito. Así que de alguna manera verificarnos allí. También tengan cuenta que los suministros van a ser un activo o introducción alimentario, no un gasto en el momento de la compra, porque aún no lo hemos consumido para ayudarnos a generar ingresos al mismo tiempo, sino que lo estamos poniendo como un activo para ser consumido en el futuro para ayudar a generar ingresos en un momento futuro. Vamos a publicar esto ahora, esta es la entrada del diario que acabamos de registrar en el diario general, el proceso de registrarlo es el proceso de diario, la entrada del diario, y ahora publicaremos esa entrada del diario en el libro mayor, vamos a comenzar con la cuenta de suministros, que es la tercera cuenta en el balance de prueba, luego la tercera cuenta en el libro mayor. Así que voy a desplazarme un poco hacia abajo, va a estar justo allí, hay suministros. Ahora voy a tratar de hacer esta pantalla un poco más pequeña, para que podamos ver más de ella a la vez, y ese 130% voy a hacer que baje, digamos a 110, no a 2, bajemos lo a 100, y luego podemos, luego tenemos que desplazarnos un poco hacia abajo, pero lo mantendré allí, estamos en la cuenta de suministros, aquí mismo, esto está en el lado del débito, aquí están los suministros, aquí está el lado del débito, vamos a estar aquí en J24. Ahora voy a decir iguales, y voy a desplazarme hacia arriba un poco, poco, para poder señalar ese desplazamiento 585 hacia abajo un poco, también puedes escribir igual hace 5, pero recomiendo usar fórmulas aquí, y ahí es cuando llegamos a enter, eso va a aumentar los suministros aquí, va a aumentar los suministros en el balance de prueba, y nos va a desequilibrar aquí, así que hagámoslo, allí hay 585 aquí, 585 aquí, 585 aquí, vamos a volver al 130 por ciento aquí abajo 130 por ciento, así que ahí está, si antes era un poco pequeño, y aquí está aquí si se ha superado el balance de prueba, a continuación publicaremos las cuentas por pagar que tienen cuentas por pagar es la cuarta transacción de la cuarta cuenta en el saldo de prueba y, por lo tanto, es la cuarta cuenta en el libro mayor, así que aquí están los suministros de cuentas por cobrar de efectivo y luego las cuentas por pagar primero cuentas naranjas, solo cuentas naranjas solo cuentas de pasivo, vamos a estar aquí en el lado del crédito, así que estamos en el lado del crédito de cuentas por pagar, en o 9, voy a decir iguales y luego solo señalar ese 585. Una vez que seleccionamos ingresar, aumentará el saldo aquí 585 luego sacará ese saldo aquí a las cuentas por pagar 585. Póndanos de nuevo en equilibrio en el balance de prueba y entre, para que tengamos eso, recuerde que esto significa que las cuentas por pagar están subiendo en la dirección del crédito, no es negativo, no va al agujero, no tenemos cuentas por pagar negativas, lo tenemos subiendo en la dirección del crédito en este momento. Desplazándose hacia abajo la siguiente actividad que sucedió ve dice que pagó por suministros comprados en el pasado 585 la primera pregunta es efectivo afectado. En este caso, vamos a decir que sí, el plazo que se paga, ahora recuerde, es posible que haya visto que podría haber dicho que pagado suele ser un término clave para el efectivo y también podría decir, pero también dice cuentas a cuenta. Bueno, no dice cuenta aquí, pero podría haber dicho cuenta, cuenta. Y si hubiera dicho cuenta, tengan cuenta que podría comenzar a pensar que ese efectivo no se ve afectado porque tiene algo que ver con las cuentas por pagar. Y si fuera la cuenta relacionada con nosotros comprando suministros, eso sería cierto, pero tengan cuenta aquí que estamos pagando lo pagadero a cuenta y, por lo tanto, tanto el efectivo como el pagadero se verán afectados. Lo veremos primero. Sin embargo, al concentrarnos primero en efectivo, cada vez que veamos pagado, básicamente vamos a decir, concentrémonos primero en efectivo, y vamos a decir, está bien, el efectivo tiene un saldo de odor, tenemos que hacer que baje. Así que vamos a hacerlo contrario a él como su saldo de débito normal, que en este caso es un crédito, copiar el efectivo en E5, hacer clic derecho copiar, vamos a poner eso debajo de la b. Así que aquí está la b, vamos a ponerla debajo en la celda b9, haga clic derecho y pegue 123 bueno, luego haga doble clic antes del espacio se tres veces. Y luego, en la celda de 9, vamos a poner la cantidad de esa cantidad de crédito 585 crédito 585. Los créditos siempre van en la parte inferior. Así que vamos a poner eso en la parte inferior y pensar primero en el efectivo, aunque esté en la parte inferior. Entonces vamos a debitar algo por 585. Voy a hacer eso con una fórmula en la celda c8, negativa de este número, y entrar. Así que vamos a debitar algo por 585 solo necesitamos la cuenta. Ahora en este punto. Esa cuenta entonces va a ser usted podría pensar que debería ser suministros, pero no lo es, por supuesto, que bueno, eso podría ser lo primero que nos venga a la mente. Pero no es porque hayamos comprado los suministros antes. Y ahora, por supuesto, estamos pagando lo que debemos en los suministros, como pagar una tarjeta de crédito que debemos después de que se haya realizado una compra. Y esa va a ser la cuenta por pagar. Así que cuentas por pagar, voy a copiar cuentas por pagar, vamos a poner eso en b8, haga clic derecho y pegue 123 en b8. Por lo tanto, también queremos verificarlo. Sin embargo, vemos que las cuentas por pagar tienen un saldo de crédito representado por los paréntesis, debe bajar porque esta cuenta representa a las personas que nos deben dinero. Y esta transacción representa a alguien que nos paga dinero, y por lo tanto la cuenta que representa a las personas que nos deben dinero debe bajar. Así que vamos a hacerlo contrario a su equilibrio normal, que en este caso es un débito. Así es como podemos verificar nuestro proceso de pensamiento y comprender mejor el funcionamiento y la función de cuentas por pagar, luego publicaremos esto, primero publicaremos cuentas por pagar, será la cuarta transacción en el saldo de prueba. Cuarta cuenta sobre el balance de prueba. Por lo tanto, también es la cuarta cuenta en el libro mayor. Así que obtuvimos efectivo, cuentas por cobrar, suministros, y luego, por supuesto, cuentas por pagar aquí, estamos evitando cuentas por pagar, así que estamos en el lado del débito en vender en 10, donde diremos igual, y luego señalaremos este débito 585, que reducirá el saldo a cero, también llevará ese saldo de cero aquí al saldo de prueba, y nos desequilibró en 585. Así que ahí tenemos que tenemos el cero aquí, que realmente no se puede ver, pero es cero, y luego tenemos el cero aquí, estamos fuera de los límites por 585. Retrocediendo, vamos a publicar el lado del efectivo ahora que se ha acreditado el efectivo, esa será la primera cuenta en el saldo de prueba, y la primera cuenta en el libro mayor. Aquí está la cuenta de efectivo, estamos en el lado del crédito en este caso, así que estamos en la celda K9, por lo que K9 es igual y luego apuntamos a este 585 tenemos un saldo de udor aquí, está bajando en 585 en la dirección del crédito, dejando un saldo de 49 para 15 de ese saldo que se transfiere al saldo de prueba 49 para 15, y poniéndonos de nuevo en equilibrio aquí en el balance de prueba, lo que significa que los débitos son iguales a los créditos. La siguiente transacción que vemos dice comprado OroSorbes a cuenta. Así que compramos servicio de automóviles. Entonces, la primera pregunta es el efectivo afectado, vamos a decir que ningún efectivo no se ve afectado, lo compramos en la cuenta término clave en la cuenta. Por lo tanto, vamos a afectar las cuentas por pagar. Sin embargo, a menudo es más fácil saber lo que recibimos para saber si debitamos o acreditamos la cuenta. Así que pensaría en eso primero. En este caso, eso es ser servicios de automóviles. Así que eso no va a ser autoelactivo, va a ser un gasto aquí, así que los gastos están aquí abajo gastos de automóviles, supongo que es como un cambio de aceite o algo así. Los gastos siempre tienen saldos de udores y solo aumentan. Por lo tanto, vamos a hacer que suba haciendo lo mismo, que en este caso es otro débito. Así que vamos a copiar el gasto de auto en E11. Pega eso aquí en B11. Haga clic derecho para pegar 123. La cantidad entonces es 416. Así que 416 y C11 también queremos poner esa misma cantidad en el lado del crédito en D12. Voy a hacer eso con una fórmula, esa fórmula negativa de ese número, y enter. Ahora solo necesitamos poner la cuenta aquí. Una vez más, no pagamos en efectivo, así que no vamos a acreditar en efectivo. Lo que acreditaremos son las cuentas por pagar, por lo que debemos las cuentas por pagar que serán el crédito. Voy a copiar las cuentas por pagar, vamos a poner eso en la parte inferior de la celda B12. Clique derecho y pega 123. Haga doble clic antes de la para aplicar sangría a la barra espaciadora tres veces. Ahí tenemos que ahora ya sabíamos que íbamos a acreditar las cuentas por pagar porque debitamos el gasto automático, pero si tuviéramos que verificar eso diríamos que cuentas por pagar tiene un saldo credor. Vamos a hacer que suba haciendo lo mismo con otro crédito. Necesitamos hacer que suba porque lo malo está subiendo, lo que significa que compramos algo a cuenta, compramos algo que no pagamos por ello. Por lo tanto, necesitamos aumentar la cuenta que representa el hecho de que debemos dinero en el futuro por algo que compramos hoy o gastamos hoy, así que aquí está el gasto del automóvil. Vamos a registrar esa primera nota de que los gastos están en la parte inferior, lo que significa que es efectivo y luego los pasivos son lo siento, los activos y luego los pasivos, luego el patrimonio, luego los ingresos, luego los gastos. Así que el gasto va a estar aquí en el libro mayor también, es un orden de activos, pasivos, gastos de capital, voy a hacer esto un poco más pequeño para que podamos ver más a la vez, así que voy a hacer esto un poco más pequeño. Así que ahí tenemos eso y tenemos nuestros gastos en el lado derecho. Y estamos buscando registrar este gasto, este débito aquí en el gasto automático en el lado del débito, por lo tanto, estamos, estamos aquí en nuestro 9, nuestro 9, vamos a decir que eso es igual y luego señalar este 416. Una vez que seleccionemos enter, esto subirá a 416. El punto es poner el 416 aquí también, pero está desequilibrado por 416 y el ingreso neto disminuirá los gastos, el aumento reduce el ingreso neto. Así que ahí tenemos que tenemos el 416 aquí 416 traído al balance de prueba y estamos fuera de equilibrio por 416 ingresos netos 50.000 menos 416 de 49.584. Vamos a hacer esto un poco más grande de nuevo, volver a subir a 130. Luego vamos a publicar la segunda mitad, aquí es la segunda mitad cuentas por pagar, así que cuentas por pagar, esa es la cuarta cuenta aquí, así que aquí está cuentas por pagar, la cuarta cuenta para el libro mayor, queremos estar en el lado del crédito. Así que estamos aquí en el lado del crédito, la próxima transacción en la celda 11. Luego diremos iguales y señalaremos este 416, eso va a hacer que esto aumente en 416. Va a poner esa misma cantidad aquí en las cuentas por pagar y nos va a poner fuera de balance. Así que ahí tenemos ese 416 fuera de balance por 416. La siguiente transacción de dice comprar comidas comerciales en la cuanta 1950 es efectivo afectado, vamos a decir que no hay efectivo no se ve afectado, los compramos a cuenta. Por lo tanto, lo compramos básicamente con la cuenta de cuentas por pagar, pero pensaría en lo que recibimos primero. Así que recibimos comidas y entretenimiento, eso es lo que consumimos. Eso sería un gasto aquí abajo, entonces, los gastos, todos tienen saldos de débito, solo suben en la dirección de débito. Por lo tanto, vamos a debitar las comidas y el entretenimiento. Así que voy a copiar eso. Simplemente lo llamamos entretenimiento aquí para acortarlo y pegarlo en B14, haga clic derecho y pegue la cantidad, luego 19.50, 19.50, vamos a acreditar algo en de 15 por la misma cantidad diciendo negativo de ese número. Y luego el crédito irá a la cuenta de cuentas por pagar cuentas por pagar. Así que IE 8, haga clic derecho copie las cuentas por pagar, pegue en B15, haga clic derecho pegando 123 luego vamos a hacer doble clic delante de la para que podamos aplicar sangría al doble clic en el espacio 123 y sangrar. Ahora, de nuevo, ya sabíamos que íbamos a acreditar las cuentas por pagar porque debitamos el gasto aquí. Pero si lo verificamos dos veces, sabemos que las cuentas por pagar representan un pasivo, es algo que debemos, tiene que subir, lo malo es subir, debemos más dinero después de esta transacción. Por lo tanto, le haremos lo mismo que su saldo normal, que es otro crédito. Ahora vamos a publicar esto. Así que vamos a publicar el entretenimiento de las comidas o solo el entretenimiento primero. Y eso va a estar aquí, es la última cuenta de activos, pasivos, patrimonio, ingresos y gastos de la última cuenta en el balance de prueba. Así que va a ser la última cuenta en el libro mayor. Así que vamos a hacer esto un poco más pequeño, reducirlo a 110. Estamos muy por aquí en las comidas y el entretenimiento. Así que queremos publicar estas comidas y entretenimiento todo el camino aquí a estas comidas y entretenimiento en el lado del débito en su AR15-AR15 vamos a decir que es igual y luego señalar este camino de 1000, 950 aquí. Así que eso será igual a 14. Una vez que seleccionamos entrar, llenará esta cantidad aquí, esa misma cantidad se completará aquí en entretenimiento y nos desequilibrará por esa misma cantidad. Así que ahí tenemos que va a hacer esto un poco más grande, llevarlo de vuelta al 130%. Ahora estamos buscando las cuentas por pagar. Así que aquí están las cuentas por pagar o como una cuenta por pagar. Aquí está nuestra primera línea y única responsabilidad aquí y luego la publicaremos aquí en el libro mayor. Es la cuarta cuenta en el balance de prueba, por lo tanto, la cuarta cuenta en el libro mayor. Y vamos a estar aquí abajo en o 12 o 12 esto va a ser igual y señalaremos este 1950. Una vez que seleccionamos enter, esto aumentará en 1950. Y esto subirá en el mismo 1950, nos pondrá de nuevo en equilibrio aquí abajo. Así que entra. Ahora estamos en 2366 aquí, 2366 aquí, luego obtuvimos la última transacción aquí, que dice que pagamos por oro service, que se compró a cuenta en el pasado por 16. Así que el efectivo se ve afectado, vamos a decir que sí, y está bajando porque pagamos. Ahora de nuevo, podríamos estar diciendo, hey, veo a cuenta y veo pagado. Esos son nuestros dos factores que generalmente indican efectivo y cuentas por pagar respectivamente. Y a menudo, podríamos pensar que esas dos cosas no suceden en la misma transacción y si tuviéramos que comprar algo a cuenta, entonces el efectivo no se vería afectado. Sin embargo, en este caso, ambos se ven afectados. Porque estamos pagando algo con efectivo, estamos pagando la responsabilidad, estamos pagando las cuentas por pagar. Entonces, lo que vamos a hacer es decir que el efectivo está bajando, el efectivo tiene un saldo de udor, haremos lo contrario, por lo tanto, para que baje, que en este caso es un credit. Así que voy a copiar dinero en efectivo en las celdas C5, vamos a poner eso en la parte inferior, desplaces hacia abajo un poco, vamos a poner eso para ser un adolescente, haga clic derecho y pegue 123, voy a hacer doble clic, vamos a hacer doble clic antes de la sangría, hace tres veces sienter. Y luego vamos a poner la cantidad en 416 dólares en el lado del crédito en de 18, diciendo negativo 418. E ingrese doble verificación que en realidad es 416. Perdón por ese 416 negativo, luego vamos a poner esa misma cantidad en el lado del débito, voy a hacer eso con una fórmula de esa fórmula negativo de ese número, tomando ese número volteando el signo, haciendo que el negativo sea positivo, entonces sólo necesitamos esta cuenta aquí. Y cuáles serán las cuentas de IVA, puede pensar que debería ser un gasto de automóvil, o eso probablemente sería lo primero que pensamos en considerar que es para gastos de automóviles, pero, por supuesto, ya registramos el gasto de automóviles en el pasado, y en este momento, estamos registrando la reducción en la cuenta de cuentas por pagar, estamos pagando lo que debemos por el trabajo realizado en el pasado, registramos el gasto en el momento en que se consumió para ayudar a generar ingresos a pesar de que el efectivo no se gastó de acuerdo con el principio de coincidencia, ahora sólo estamos pagando lo que debemos. Así que voy a copiar el pagadero, vamos a poner eso en la parte superior derecha haga clic en pegar 123. Ahí tenemos que ya sabíamos que íbamos a debitar lo pagadero porque acreditamos efectivo, pero si lo verificamos dos veces ahora podemos decir bueno, el pagadero representa lo que le debemos a otras personas, ahora estamos pagando a esas personas, y, por lo tanto, ese saldo de crédito debe ir por el camino para hacer que algo baje como hacemos lo contrario, que en este caso es un débito. Así que siempre quieres volver a verificar esa cuenta y eso le dará una mejor idea de cómo funciona el pagadero, y verificará esa entrada completa del diario en general, luego publicaremos esto. Así que voy a publicar esto, voy a hacer esto un poco más pequeño para que podamos ver más al mismo tiempo, así que vamos a publicar esto en el pagadero. Así que es una orden de activos y luego pasivos. Aquí están las cuentas por pagar en el libro mayor, esto está en proceso de contabilización, queremos estar en el lado del débito, aquí abajo en 13 y 13 iguales, bueno, entonces señale esto para 16. Una vez que seleccionamos enter, reducirá este saldo de 2366 en 416, y luego traerá ese equilibrio hasta aquí, y eso estará desequilibrado por 416. Así que tenemos que redujimos esto en 416 a 1950. Ese mismo 1950 trajo al balance de prueba fuera de balance sobre balance de prueba por 416. Ese 1950 ahora representa solo esa cuenta que todavía se debe, que es el entretenimiento de comidas que compramos en D, sección de o entrada de del diario y ahora vamos a contabilizar el lado del efectivo ahora, así que aquí está la primera cuenta de efectivo en la primera cuenta de saldo de prueba en el GL. Queremos estar en el lado del crédito, así que estamos en el lado del crédito y estamos aquí en cadíes cadíes igual a apuntar a eso para 16. Eso reducirá este equilibrio. Traerá ese mismo equilibrio al efectivo aquí y nos pondrá de nuevo en equilibrio allá. Así que ahí tenemos eso. Tenga en cuenta que este es un problema de para horas y echamos un vistazo a las cuentas por pagar. Este es el tipo típico de rutina que verá en las cuentas por pagar. Voy a acercarme un poco más y eso será que vamos a comprar algo a cuenta. Es como una tarjeta de crédito. Bueno, deberíamos ver esto. Cuando miramos el balance de prueba o el libro mayor debería decir o la cuenta de este patrón debería ser el patrón. Deberíamos ver el significado de que compramos algo a cuenta. Luego pagamos algo a cuenta. Luego compramos algo a cuenta. Luego pagamos algo a cuenta. Así que siempre va a ser un saldo de crédito porque cada vez que compramos algo a cuenta va a subir en la dirección del crédito y cada vez que pagamos algo va a reducir ese equilibrio. Ahora tengan cuenta que si estaba pensando en algo como el estado de cuenta de su tarjeta de crédito puede ser un poco más complicado en el sentido de que es posible que no podamos hacer coincidir exactamente. Ya sabes podríamos pagar como cuotas por lo que es posible que tengamos que hacer coincidir los pagos pasales para compensar el crédito. Entonces el crédito podría estar allí para 585 podríamos tener un pago de 100 pesos y luego un pago de 485 pesos, pero el punto es que debería aumentar con un crédito y luego hacemos pagos, disminuyéndolo nuevamente. Y, por lo general, podemos pasar por allí y simplemente tachar estas transacciones y ver cuáles están relacionadas entre sí, el patrón típico que veremos cuando trabajemos con cuentas por pagar después. Vamos a tener que hacer un seguimiento de esta actividad no sólo por fecha, sino por a quien le debemos. Y ese será un libro mayor subsidiario que rastrearemos y será por proveedor por quien le compramos cosas.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcqPejqZrq0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCiWMV3RA6jpYNGZWTbjFneA	WHY YOUR HAIRSTYLE LOOKS BAD....\| 5 Huge Hair Mistakes You're Making	Blumaan's products changed the game for me. You can shop them here: https://bit.ly/JohnnyThaiBlumaan Thank you Blumaan for sponsoring this video! 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[ "fly with johnny thai", "johnny thai", "streetwear", "men's fashion", "men's style", "techwear", "sneakers", "asian streetwear", "japanese streetwear" ]	2024-03-01T00:38:13	2024-04-19T16:11:16	444	PcoH5iWiv3Y	This is young Johnny. He had a lot of issues, especially with his hair. So today I'm going to show you all the mistakes I made when it comes to my hair. As soon as you finish this video, I promise you you can make improvements today. So this is why you look bad in your haircut. Let's get it. Okay. So this is objectively true. Johnny was like Franklin with that yee-yee ass haircut. Maybe you got rid of the old yee-yee ass haircut you got. You get some on your several of them actually, which is why you guys always saw me constantly in headwear. Not because my hair was thinning or anything. I just didn't know what to do with my hair. So reason number one why your hair looks bad is you probably don't have a barber or you don't know how to guide your barber, which was me. So when it comes to your barber, you want to be able to guide them in the right direction. That way they can give their input back to you. And you can do that when you understand barber terminology. I just think about it like this. If you walk into a car dealership and you just want a car, they'll sell you anything. But if you walk into the dealership saying you want a reliable car that also looks good, they're probably going to recommend the Camry. So the best thing that you can do is understand the names of different haircuts and understand terminology like a lineup, skin taper, skin fade, layering. It's just a win-win for everyone. The barber is going to know what to do. You're going to get a better haircut. And if the barber knows what to do, but they have some better feedback, you guys will be able to work that out together. Now the problem with me was I was cutting my own hair for years, but I kind of had to. I was living in New York City. There was plenty of times where I was struggling financially and thinking about how to be able to get groceries for the week. It's a rough feeling. So whenever I cut my own hair, I save about $200 a month after tip. I knew a few techniques. I was pretty good at a skin fade. But the problem was I was doing my skin fade way too high. So my haircut lost shape and I also didn't really know how to cut the top of my hair. Now reason number two is you just don't understand your hair type. Whenever people hear hair type, they probably just think straight or curly. There's much more to it. What's your hair density like? Is it thick? Is it thin? Is your hair oily or is it dry? If you can't answer those questions, you should probably consult with the barber. Now when it comes to Asian hair, it's actually one of the hardest hairs to cut. You'll get scabbed a lot. Typically straight, very pointy, but fortunately for me, my hair is naturally wavy and people pay to get a perm so they can have my hair texture. But the problem is it gets very dry. And I've tested almost everything. I went several days without shampooing my hair. Then I went a week. Then I went a whole month without shampooing my hair. It was gross, but my hair still looked dry. I've tried sleeping with a silk pillowcase, a leave-in conditioner. And so after experimenting with all that and being able to understand my hair, I know the best look for my hair is when it has a slightly wet look. Now some of you have naturally wavy, nice, beautiful hair and you probably want to go for that natural look. They make products for all of those hair types. Curl creams, if you got curly hair, clays, waxes, creams. And for that shiny look, I've come to realize that pre-styling my hair is the most important part of my routine, which is why I use Blumon, the sponsor of today's video. So let's talk about pre-styling, which is the next reason why my hair looked horrendous. And so I'm going to take you through my hair routine and we're going to use some Blumon products. Here's what happens when I don't use a pre-styler. It's a puffy mess. Now, fortunately, every hair type can benefit from pre-styling. So what is pre-styling? Well, this is going to be the foundation for your hair that provides that texture, the volume, and thickness that you're looking for. And it also gives you much more control of your hair throughout the day. So my biggest problem, I would just shove the heat directly on my hair, basically microwaving it, and that would just cause more dryness, damage, and frizziness. But this pre-styler from Blumon is meant to protect your hair from heat while setting the foundation. I like to mix their rebound and their Ascend volume cream. And then I'm going to grab a dime-sized amount and apply it directly to my towel-dried hair. And yeah, these two products smell lovely. It has a lemony scent, one for hydration, and one for a heat protectant. Because we're going to have to apply some heat to the hair. And then I'm going to use this attachment to brush through my hair when I'm hair-drying it. And as you can see, it's already starting to become well tamed, not too poofy, and the texture's starting to come through. You can see that it has a good foundation and you just need to use a finishing product. So as our post-styling products, remember, I require that slightly shiny look, so that is why I love their pomade. And there is the final product. The hair is nicely set, has some nice texture, malleable, which is the biggest pro that a lot of people don't know about when it comes to pre-styling. If your hair gets messed up because you pre-styled it, all you have to do is work your hands through your hair and you can get it looking back to normal. Back in the day, if my hair got messed up, I would just have to redo the whole entire hair routine. So that is why you should be pre-styling your hair. I've been using their products for over the past year. I started off with this sample pack, found out exactly what worked best with me, which was the pomade. And I see y'all in the comments. Y'all been complimenting that you guys loved Johnny Flow era. I appreciate that. My girl loves the longer hair. All my friends like the longer hair. So Blumont products are easy to work into your hair. They've been used by over 150,000 customers with thousands of 4.5 to 5 star reviews. It's definitely changed my hair game. And I would highly recommend y'all head over to Blumont. And all you have to do is click that first link down in the description. Once again, head over to Blumont. Just click that first link down in the description if you want to support the channel. Thank you guys in advance for being supporters and thank you Blumont for sponsoring this video. Now the next reason is you're just too afraid of change. And this is a problem because there's a study out there that says two thirds of men are going to experience male pattern baldness by the age of 35. That is a crazy statistic. So while you have it, why not try as many hairstyles as you can? Right now I have a modern style molest going on. Not everyone's preference. But I'm gonna change that. Especially on my wedding day, I'm definitely gonna cut this off. But ideally, you want to have the goal of going really short or going really long. And so in between that journey, you want to try different haircuts that lead you to the other side. Because the reason why people don't want to make a huge change is because it's a huge change. You want your hair to grow gradually into it. So let's just say you're starting off with long, long hair. Why not cut it shorter to a wolf cut? It's still pretty long, but you have a different hairstyle. Then you can go to a middle part or just a general medium length haircut. Then maybe a brush back or a side part. And then eventually a buzz cut if you want to. You can stop anywhere you want. And vice versa. If you're starting with the buzz cut, you just gotta do the reverse. You can't say you don't like a certain hairstyle on you until you try it. Now that's for those if you still have hair. For those that have thinning hair, there are solutions to mitigate that. So there's finasteride and minoxidil. And then eventually you can do a hair transplants, which I would totally do if I lose my hair. Now the next reason why your hair looks bad is you're going through an awkward phase and you don't know how to mitigate that. So I gave most of the reason away from the last segment and that is to have different hairstyles in between. So if you want to avoid that lowered far quad look, there are a lot of techniques that you gotta let your barber know. And the first one you want to do is go for the skin taper. So we're talking about a skin taper, not a skin fade, their difference. The skin taper allows you to keep the sides of your head darker, which is essential for growing out your hair. So especially with my people, our hair grows 90 degrees. That's why you have a spiky poofy look until it has a lot of weight to it. And then it'll flop down. You don't need that extra length right here. You just need it more up here for that flow. So if your barber is good enough, you can just keep doing low skin tapers until your hair grows out to the length that you want, and then you have other solutions. So that is why skin tapers are important. You're still gonna get that post haircut clarity confidence, especially if you get lined up, it's still gonna feel like you got a great haircut while your hair is growing out. And then once your hair gets really long, you want to tell your barber to layer your hair. And so when you layer it, it helps thin out the hair, but also gives you shape and texture. That is the biggest reason why people try to grow out the hair and then they give up. And so those are the reasons why you look bad in your haircuts. Take it from me personally. Slight tweaks is all that you need to do, but they make the biggest difference. So if you found this video helpful, make sure you give it a thumbs up, subscribe to this channel, and until then, stay fly deuces.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcoH5iWiv3Y", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UChFYqizc-S6asNjQSoWuwjw	20200130_OpenAIRE Research Graph_Consultation	Delivered by Andrea Mannocci (OpenAIRE)	[ "openaire" ]	2020-01-31T09:59:48	2024-02-05T08:53:06	2,694	PCwXMDQb3r8	Hi everybody. Can you see the presentation? Yes, we can see it and we can hear you. Great. So thank you everybody. I see lots of people attending the webinar today so thank you for being here. So what I'm going to talk about is as anticipated, it's something about the Opener Research Graph and I want to start with saying that one of the main activities we do, one of the many activities we do in Opener is focused on the construction of my son. My son is not. Is there some problem with my headset? As I was saying, one of the other messages is much better. Okay, great. People voted. So one of the main activities, it's about the construction of the graph. So just because I'm not really aware about what's the background of the people that are attending today, I'm just saying that graph is a mathematical way to model reality or the aspects of the domain you're talking about. So mainly you have entities and edges that connect different entities together. In our case, our domain is scholarly communication. So the entities we deal with in Opener are the ones that you can see on the left of the screen. So pretty much like even Facebook, you have people that are nodes and friendship is edges connecting different peoples. Here we have different entities that are connected through semantic relations. One of the central, the key entities that we have in Opener is the product. So for these entity and only, we do a subclassification. So we have literature on one side, publications, which are intended to be consumed and read by humans, researchers and scientists around the world. Then we have research data, which is anything that is processed, that can be processed by machine. So we intended that as machine readable, not strictly human readable, even though you can go through CSV and what is your bag? Okay. Yeah, we had a poll. Great. Thanks for doing that. So let me close this. So we're saying research data. Then we have software, which is basically anything that can be compiled, interpreted, run in order to do some kind of elaboration. And then we have a casual category, which is the research product. And this is intended to host all the products, all the research products that are not strictly any of the three categories that I aforementioned. So for example, protocols, workflows, slides, and anything that might be very domain specific, that doesn't go, is not broadly accepted as a well-recognized entity across science domains, across disciplines. And then you can see other familiar names and projects funded by certain funding bodies, certain funding streams, organizations participating in research and communities, which in our case, it's something we introduce it because we work mainly with and for communities of researchers that can be, for example, thematically driven. So for example, I don't know, marine research or bio biology community, or we also have research, research infrastructures, which are community themselves. So for example, EPOS, the European Plateau Observatory dealing with the seismology and earthquakes and other aspects of geology, it's again, it's itself a community. So that's okay. So in order to build this graph, because I mean, as researchers, we daily provide some pieces of information to build to these graphs. Every time we deposition a publication on a repository, every time we go and we release our data to be openly accessible, every time we claim that certain has been funded by a certain project, and then we are affiliated to a certain university rather than another one, we are, you know, like seeding pieces of information that concur to building this graph. And in order to materialize it, what we do is just harvesting. We do that in a couple of ways. On one side, we go through what we call institutional repositories. So like any open access repository that's exposed by universities or other research centers. And on the other side, we have thematic repositories and repository repositories that are that are run by by research infrastructures, for example, and or other other infrastructures that are run cross community like Zenodo, which is an architectural repository developed by CERN, or other infrastructures, as I was saying, APOS, or Daria, which is for cultural heritage, and Elixir, which are just a few examples of research infrastructures we deal with. And when we get all this raw material, raw information from from the harvesting process, we have a bunch of processes that are that are concurring into the progressive enrichment of the information space. We have duplication that tries to put, right, tries and succeed to to put together records that are relating to the same to the same item, same publication, for example. And it does so to have a better representation of what of all the information that's around. So it doesn't it doesn't overwrite anything, it just tries to put together all the different descriptions, for example, if it has a publication has multiple titers or different authored lists, or different identifiers that applications try to put everything together and have a better representation of the record itself. We have end user claims and user feedback. So like, you know, we register users, users on open air that come to our website and claim themselves pieces of with pieces of knowledge that this publication can be related to this funding. And this author, specific author as as participated to the to the writing of a certain paper and so on and so forth. We have a number of mining processes that try to infer missing links that potentially might have gone lost in the original source of data, but that still can be inferred by running some NLP. So NLP, sorry for the acronym, but it's a natural language processing over the PDF. So, so that you, for example, you can infer link missing links between articles and projects, articles and institutions, and so on. Once the graph is ready, it uses fuel to to serve certain applications which which are under the shield of open air, namely monitor, connect, explore and develop. But this doesn't mean that can fuel other applications, which are the third party. In our case, in the ecosystem of open air monitor, it's for monitoring, for example, research impact. So it's used by by funders in order to understand how the initiatives they are and the projects they are financing. They are going throughout time. We're just in a nutshell. I mean, it's much more complex than that. But just to give a brief overview, connect, it's for giving feedback to communities and providing a slice of the graph that's being customized by their own view. So as I was saying before, like EPOS works with geology and seismology. So they can have a preferential view of the whole open air graph with only results that are pertaining to this community. So it gives stats and customized search that just, you know, like tailored for the needs of the community. Explore is just is the search engine that you might know already. So you just go there and it's like Google, Google scholar, but running over open air research graph and develop is is intended to serve through API codes, the needs for all the developers that might want to, to develop and to query in a programmatic way the information space, the graph that's produced by Johanna. Also, what is going to be part of the European Open Science Cloud as a scientific product catalogue. So it's something that we are pushing for and hopefully in the near future, like the entire open air research graph is going to is going to take part of the ESC core services as the main scientific product catalogue. So like these are the key properties of the open air research graph. The main one, it's that is intended to be open. So all the material we get, we release it with CC0 royalties, CC0 right. So it's like everyone literally can can get into whatever they prefer to do with the with the data we expose. Some parts of the material we have and we distribute cannot be redistributed with CC0, but they are rather distributed with CC buy. And this is because we get them with this more restrictive license. So we can, we couldn't possibly redistribute them with CC0 because it would be more, you know, like releasing constraints, relaxing constraints, but for example, all the information we get from Microsoft Academic Graph is distributed to us via open data commons by license. So it cannot be redistributed with CC0, but still it can be redistributed by us. And you can use it, provide it that you reference the Microsoft Academic Initiative back. One of the other, the second property of the open air graph is that it's complete, or we have been trying so far in the last decade to have it as complete as possible. So you, I'm pretty sure you can find here like plenty of logos that you know. It's like, but yeah, we get, we rely on trusted and like in a scholarly word, trusted sources in order to get the information we need and in order to construct the whole graph. And you can see here like the sources that are devised mainly for software, other sources that are mainly devised for providing scholarly metadata and bibliographic records, other ones that are completing all the information regarding authors, read-through data, and cardies that are cardies mainly for projects and read-through data for providing like a reliable list of data sources and data providers, and so on and so forth. And also like on the right, thematic and community-driven, community-specific repositories and data sources. As I was mentioning before, it's the duplicated, which means that again, we try to provide better representation of a single record by harvesting and putting together all the information that comes from different sites. There are, I put a couple of bibliographic references that explain in details the deduplication process. So if you are curious to see what we do and how we do that, there's like plenty of information, it's everything documented, and you can check one is a thesis and the other one is a poster. So there's an overload of information over there to check and in order to disclose which are the internals of the deduplication mechanism. We do deduplication for mainly scientific products and organizations. So publications like that are merged together and organizations, because organization can be manifest through, wait a second, I don't know why. Can you still see the, okay, yeah, because I think I accidentally stopped the screen sharing. So I was saying like the duplication of organizations because they can appear with different names. So we don't want to have, for example, our monitoring application to that to provide different results for the same university appearing in different with different variations. We want to have all the all the indicators merging to one. So that's why it is a key part of our monitoring infrastructure, for example. It's intended to be participatory because anyone can take part of this can be, you know, inserted in the open-air loop. So anyone that really wants to provide material to open-air is welcome to do so. And the same way anyone that wants to consume open-air research graph is invited to do so. It's transparent because for every information we have in open-air and we provide, we provide provenance information stating where the information comes from and what are the the real reliability indicators and trust for the information we obtained from mining. So because of, because the mining can come with a threshold of uncertainty, we always burn this kind of information within the, we level this information together with the piece of knowledge that has been inferred. So because in principle you could say prune the whole graph with anything that's below a certain threshold of trust so that you, you know, like you restrict your observations to only something that you retain of high quality for your application. It's decentralized because like our philosophy is that in a case open-air hopefully not but cease to exist whatever we produced in the last 10 years cannot disappear because it would be just a shame. So the main idea is to redistribute and recirculate everything we do with other research and initiatives that are building knowledge graphs and scholarly, scholarly graphs for example the three that you can find at the bottom of the slide and we also redistribute whatever we find to content providers that are providing us content. So the brokerage service which is part of the provide, let's say application, provide set of services that are part of open-air is one service that is intended to redistribute back to the content providers any kind of enrichment and missing information they might be interested in. So the content provider can subscribe to certain events and whenever for example we find that the original record was missing a DOI or had a piece of information that has been enriched by our processing and our construction of the graph we can notify back in a very punctual way so every record is going to be notified back. We can do that for every publication for example and notify all this new information and enrich information back to the regional content provider. And again it's also trusted because users are considered in the interloop so we have user claims as I was saying at the beginning so anyone registered on the open-air portal can claim pieces of information, can claim, can state that something has to be merged together like two publications are when not duplicated properly I want them to be together I can claim that if I discovered that two publications on the contrary have been merged and they are not supposed to I can claim that again I can I can claim a split if I if I know that a certain publication has been funded by a certain project I can do that so all these it's like ultimate truth and it can be it can be fed into the into the creation of the of the graph by end users. Also from December we are part of the ORCID I mean we're a member of ORCID which means that not now at the moment you can only log in but in the future we are going to to link open-air and and ORCID in the sense that you can you can send publications that you find on open-air directly to your CV on ORCID so you can curate and and reach and claim all the publications you and data sets and projects and and software and other other kind of products that are present in open-air and send them and and curate your CV on ORCID. So tabulating the graph so we do we do this in a kind of different way from from what we've seen in other in other similar initiatives so we have like every source of every kind of repositories that we harvest from is treated as a hybrid source because we notice at the beginning we were like if we harvest from a institutional repository we were thinking that pretty much everything was like publications and well turns out that turns out from experience that's not really the case so we learned on our own expenses that it's better to have to consider every repositories we harvest from as a hybrid source so we have in place some mapping mechanisms and that try to classify every single record that is being harvest into one of the four categories you see here so publication data sets software and other research products. The mappings are public you can you can have a view and then if you follow the documentation on the website and this is something really peculiar that that that we do another thing that that it's it's implemented by open-air it's like these the automatic bridging of research infrastructures and scholarly communication so what you traditionally have for for research infrastructure is what you see on the left so a research infrastructure running an experiment with certain methods certain settings over against certain data sets with thematic services and producing possibly new data sets and so on. What we do in open-air is just is together with I mean with a strong liaison with the with the infrastructures and research infrastructure we managed to plug the scholarly a better scholarly communication process right into the infrastructure so that whenever they run experiments they through open-air connect they can push automatically all the all the parameters and data sets and input methods and data sets produced anything that's that's worth mentioning into Zenodo and which means that the experiments the experiment they have just run will be reproducible and transparent for all the community and this is something that was missing because at the beginning when only the left part was was present without the open-air connect effort the scientists of the research infrastructure or the infrastructure had to manually sit down and and push the records onto the onto the pertaining repose repositories which means that seldom because it was an automatic this that seldom they would do that and in this automatic way instead we just we realized that and in communities as well and infrastructures as well they realized that it was much much better and actually improving open science and transparency and reproducibility of any research effort they were they they are carrying out also one one Zenodo is one any kind of record that comes from from from research infrastructure is fed into Zenodo that it also is collected by the open-air harvesting infrastructure and fed back to the research graph which means eventually will be will be processed and take part of the new version of the research graph this is just an experiment for the EPOS infrastructure but it's exactly what I was telling you before so how the research infrastructure automatically materialized and if any any experiment every experiment actually and push the records onto Zenodo so not every source that is a that takes part of the of the graph it's it's harvested there are certain a couple actually of big sources that are pre-computed pre-processed one is collect lawyer which deals with publication data set links and this is done offline I mean while open-air has an harvesting service and that runs periodically and and updates everything both scholar explorer and DOI boost they are done offline because they have to ingest huge quantities of data so in this call explorer is we constitute of four hundred and eighty bilayer links and it's it's all any link every link is between publication and a data set so it's it's actually one of the biggest collection of these of these it's not the biggest one of this kind and it's been used by scophers for because we have an API so they literally hammer our our endpoint in order to resolve DOI's and see for example which are the data sets related to and vice versa the other one is DOI boost which is in a nutshell like a in a rich version of crossref so crossref I suppose you know it can be harvested from from a public endpoint what we have done for in DOI boost is basically um try to harvest also another handful of sources namely Microsoft's academic graph unpayable and orchid and inject information back into crossref data so that so that is enriched for example uh author author's IDs or um um links to open access PDFs uh authors affiliations uh citations and so on we have at them at the time being 85 million publication records which if you know the numbers and the figures in in crossref it's a bit lower this is because uh we are we are trashing certain records that do not match uh our you know like minimal uh quality requirements because they do not they don't have titles they don't have authors in that case we trust them because otherwise crossref itself it comes something like more 100,000 100 million sorry publication records we try to do that both both the data sets are pushed to Zenata so you can go there look for either scholar explorer or DOI boost and you will find dumps we try to update them every six months even though it's a bit of a stretch because the process is quite tricky so that's that's more a name than it's more a promise than than reality but yeah let's say that every six months we tend to we tend to release new updates uh so like still on the on the side of all the processing we do on on uh while constructing the graph uh it doesn't end with mining and and and the duplication and user claims we also have information propagation which means that we use on on certain subsets of of the graph we use logic uh chains in order to propagate certain information from one entity to another very briefly for example if you have a publication that has been um it's related to a dataset either because it reused the dataset or is it produced the dataset and you know that the publication is uh funded by a project then you can say that um that the dataset that has been produced by the publication is also funded by the project it's something very it looks naive but it's it actually improved lots uh the recall when you search for when you search for things and when you navigate through the portal and is this the same happens for example when you when you harvest uh a publication from a certain data service which you know is is of uh interest or it pertains to a certain community then you can say that that product is associated associated to the community as well because it's been produced by but as if it's been produced by the community itself and the same thing happens with countries because you you might uh if you know that a certain organization that is resides in a in a certain country and participated participated to a certain project uh funded funded a certain publication then you can say that the publication it's is uh associated to the country as well so these are examples of of the logic propagation we do uh for certain fields for certain pieces of informations around the entities of our graph um so here i just want to capture uh the the difference in the figures so um in open air at the moment there are two souls one is the production one which is the one it's accessible to everybody and and and there's also the visa one in the meanwhile what the main difference of the numbers is because the context access policies changed so we moved from an open access solely uh content access policy to open science content access policies so which means that the graph that you can see in production is much smaller because the the main premise was let's let's collect open access uh material while in the beta infrastructure we are moving to um open up open science which means we get anything from everywhere um because we want to have the best picture as possible uh of the whole landscape of in research at the moment so as you can see here from the numbers like we are harvesting from more 10 000 data sources we have uh 340 million records and more uh are coming from when once base uh will be integrated in uh in our pipeline we have roughly 12 million publication full texts and 960 million of links uh between objects is uh we count a number of liaisons around we have uh one with Microsoft research which is providing as the research graph the uh the agreement is is finalized so we it's um is inside a loop but is not up to date at the moment so like we are finalizing in order to have uh monthly updates of the monthly pushes of the micros of Microsoft research graph we have ongoing applications uh liaisons and collaborations with um paywall and orchid and also we we we participate to an interest group in the research data alliance for an open science graph for fair data and we collaborate with a number of different projects and we exchange information and expertise and and data sets back and forth uh so at the moment we are in an open consultation phase which will run for some other time before the the graph is premier is promoted to uh production which is due to happen in in spring uh if you go on this on this uh link here bet explorer open area you you will find a button and that leads to a trailer board and uh which is our main tool for for gathering feedback from from you guys really so if you have anything to suggest us please uh go there comment uh provide feedback uh throw ideas and we will consider anything you you you write in the next uh in the next release in the forthcoming future this is uh how the board looks like so there are different sections uh different cards and you can comment add new cards and uh and ideas and so on and that would be all thanks for listening i've been maybe i hope i wasn't too long it's 40 minutes so yeah if you have any question i'll try to do my best to to reply okay thank you andrea and there are two questions on the q and a so maybe we can start with that to get conversation going just a sec so would it be possible to make every is everyone reading the q and a oh best read it out loud andrea okay yeah andrea would it would it be possible to make it more transparent when data is harvested from different providers uh what is used from microsoft's academic graph for example um so uh as for as for uh this question i would say that so microsoft academic graph takes part in the in the opener pipeline when when we build doi boost there is a publication uh there is an article on the deposited on zenodo that uh that talks about in details on what are the informations that are uh merged into crossref uh from from microsoft orchid and unpayable so if you go on on if you read the publication you will see plenty of details then of course uh once doi boost is constructed and fed back and fed into the opener graph all these formation all these information flow in the in the opener graph construction so you know like the it it it induces ripple changes uh the other question is where can i find the provenance information reliability indicators um in a dump in a dump um um for example again um when building doi boost uh when we say that a certain author has a certain identifier we have a trust and we have a provenance information both labels so if you if you download the doi boost dump you will see plenty of these labels for trust and and and and provenance like where the important piece of information come from if you download the the opener research graph dump you will find this information for example also for links that have been inferred so at some point if you see a link between let's say a publication and a project you will see that has been produced by this algorithm and the trust threshold for for these information being produced is 0.75 so it's is again it's it's something you see in the dump okay so uh i in congrats thank you which is the technology uh the graph is deployed on uh a graph db for example a triple store have you flattened the graph on a text search server for better search experiences uh the graph so i know to some extent it can be misleading because when i when i talk about graphs i tend to think about um rdf uh all these kind of you know travel stores and and and this kind of uh these kind of things um actually what what it's um it's it's a graph uh as the web is a graph so you know like the the web is it's a graph of web pages pointing back and forth the opener research graph it's a graph of xml's uh pointing back and forth so every entity so every publication every project so it's it's a uh an xml and it contains links between uh different xml's so through identifiers you can you can move back and forward and explore the graph so there's no triple store really there is a as a as part of of opener there is an effort which is about linked open data but that's a projection it's not the entire graph so there's uh there was a task uh in on in opener uh in the last years that was intended to uh to transform the the graph i mean our information information space and expose it uh as as uh lod and uh but this was it was not for the full information it wasn't mapping everything it was mapping just a subset so at the moment uh what you can find there is not the 100% of the of the graph but just a projection okay so uh why do you have community as part of the graph and not researcher very good question also because i'm i'm very interested in affiliations and affiliations work with uh with researchers primarily um so the problem with researchers is that uh is a long story at the beginning we when we started 10 years ago uh we were harvesting mainly institutional repositories we had no uh we couldn't get any sense from from author ideas because the author these ideas were not there so we only had a name and surname in the best in the best case mostly like just a string for for the authors so uh modeling authors as an entity standalone wasn't very viable and um recently we introduced and and it has it wasn't viable since recently like now that we are uh feeding back into the construction um the microsoft academic graph which uh best effort i would say because they are not solving all the problems but they are they do some some work towards uh towards that they uh they have authors as entities they try to sign uh ids to authors even though it is largely perfectable for example like i was i was i was looking it changed that uh approach changes with seniority was uh high have in in in uh in microsoft i have like six different identifiers because i change affiliation in a like handful of time and uh while i notice that uh senior people they are reconciled better so they tend to have uh one just one identifiers while while fresh freshman uh or early career researchers have uh can have more than one so there are identifiers in microsoft we could at some point um try to model thanks to that uh authors but uh it's not something that we are doing at the moment we we we need to to make it make it make a stance about that and see whether it's going to be possible in uh for coming future uh okay so frank is asking did i hear correctly uh is going is going the graph uh to integrate base yes uh it will be integrate base even though i'm not uh i'm not um taking part active part of this uh in whole initiative i know it's going to happen i don't know in what terms and uh and what is the deadline for this for this action but it's something that's uh that um i've been uh i've been listening for for last couple of months so yeah it's uh it's going it should happen within the next year within 2020 okay so i see the q and a box remains empty for now um thank you very much andrea um for this very useful presentation um as i said at the beginning this is definitely not the end of the consultation session and of the work that we're doing on the research graph so what i would suggest is that you stay tuned that you follow us um on social media you'll hear about any next webinars and consultation sessions and uh you'll all receive email with a link to the recordings uh ones that are available and uh so if you have any additional questions uh feel free to contact us at the webinars at openair.eu or uh andrea directly whose email address is now on the screen um so thank you very much uh for attending and uh i hope to see you soon in one of the next webinars yeah thank you thank you andrea	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCwXMDQb3r8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCQ74G2gKXdpwZkXEsclzcrA	Openstack 101	Getting started with OpenStack. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms.https://www.openstack.org/software/ Speaker(s): Joshua McKenty: https://twitter.com/jmckenty Connect with us: OpenInfra Twitter: https://twitter.com/openinfradev OpenInfra LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-infrastructure-foundation/mycompany/ OpenInfra Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/openinfradev OpenInfra Website: https://openinfra.dev/ #OpenStack #OpenInfra #OpenStackDemo #OpenSource	[ "OpenStack", "OpenInfra", "Open Infrastrucure", "Open Source", "Demo", "Getting Started" ]	2012-10-27T03:55:01	2024-02-05T15:56:44	2,542	pCkzrezRmJI	And we're not really famous for being punctual at OpenStack summits, but I figured we might just break that trend this year and say, let's get started if you can find a seat in the back, that would work out well. Most speakers, I think, get an introduction, but I'm the chair of the track. And so technically I should introduce myself, which is a little bit confusing. How many of you don't know who I am? There's a lot of new people. Shut up. My name is Joshua McKenty. I was the architect and team lead at NASA that built the Nova volume, Nova network and Nova compute components prior to the launch of OpenStack. The first release of OpenStack source code was on my blog in May of 2010. I now run a company called Piston Cloud Computing and we commercialize the OpenStack software for private cloud deployments only, and specifically really for folks that look a lot like NASA. So banks, governments, life sciences, where security and reliability are important. I'm not going to talk about that today. I figured we would start with story time. How many of you are vaguely familiar with the history of OpenStack? Okay, sort of. I will give a very vague story then. NASA and Rackspace joined forces in the spring of 2010 because we were both coincidentally doing roughly the same thing. We were building compute and networking components and they were building storage components. And when we got together for the first time it was the weirdest experience ever. It's like discovering a long lost twin in software. We had chosen the same languages. We'd chosen in the same frameworks. We had the same design architecture. We even were using the same networking hardware at the time. We'd never met before. And so OpenStack was sort of born three weeks later as the fastest gestation period in the history of babies. I want to mostly debunk things that people believe about OpenStack that are incorrect. So that folks getting started with OpenStack start with a level playing field. And starting with the philosophy. OpenStack does have one. We didn't, we didn't espouse one to begin with. We just discovered in that first conversation with Rackspace that we all believed pretty much the same things about software development. Which is that standards for standard sake are not what we're interested in doing. I actually should back up for a moment. I usually start every talk I give by apologizing for the fact that I am going to offend people. And that I will make my best efforts to offend everyone equally. Means I might offend people a little more than I would if I just spoke naturally. I have a lot of strong opinions about software. I have some very strongly held opinions about OpenStack. I have been sort of involved on a 24 by seven basis for years of my life. And this in particular, this philosophy that OpenStack is not a standards body. If you want to argue about standards in the absence of working code, there are many other places you can go and do that. What you will discover is at places like the design summit and in the process of using OpenStack or filing bugs or submitting patches. If you propose something without working code, no one will hear your voice. It's like a tree falling in the forest when no one is around. This has made it harder than it should be really to engage directly with the user community because they tend to have great ideas and not have working code. And so events like this, one of the questions people ask is, why do you have one summit that's a mix of developers and users and customers and business people? Well, the reason is so that we have those conversations happening directly. Because it's really impossible in the OpenStack community to get anything done if you don't have at least a written blueprint. At least an idea about how this code could be made to work or better yet, maybe a patch. That as a preface, OpenStack has always been about working code. We never wrote a spec just to emphasize this. When we launched OpenStack, we had been working on Nova for less than two months. It was just working code. Okay, OpenStack is always in about two kinds of cloud. There are big explosive public clouds and in your kitchen private clouds. And that challenge is part of what defines OpenStack and it's part of what makes it amazing. The best analog to that is the internet itself, which was a technology built to build both private and public networks. We ended up using the same technologies Ethernet, TCPIP and BGP routing to address both private and public networks. And that made things possible that we couldn't have imagined. That's really the goal behind OpenStack as well is to have the same technologies work for public and private cloud environments. Because we don't even know why that's gonna be great. We can just tell that it is. Trust me, it's gonna be great. The last and the sort of high level philosophical pieces are the interfaces. Every piece of OpenStack has three different kinds of interfaces. So you've got a GUI, that's a dashboard, that's the horizon component. Everything inside OpenStack can be exposed through that GUI. Then you've got a command line tool, CLI. And every piece of OpenStack has today its own command line tool. There's also a project now underway to unify those to a single command line tool. And then you've got the actual HTTP REST API. And again, every component in OpenStack has all three of those interfaces. So when you start talking to developers, it's really easy to get lost. Be like, wow, there seems to be like 18 to 20 different projects. I don't understand what people are talking about. Where is this in the code base? Where are the docs? Strip it down. There's really just three kinds of resources. There's really only three or four core projects. What makes it seem complicated is there's three different interfaces for each one of those projects. So if you think about this as a matrix of the way you use the systems with the resources that the system provides, that gives you this basis for understanding. This is the diagram everybody's probably seen. And I'm going to start with this because when we get into the project names, we will get very confused. So let's start with the concepts. The resources we talk about in IT are compute. Notice we say the word compute. We don't say virtual servers. We don't say virtual machines. And the reason is because OpenStack doesn't care if there's a hypervisor or not. The idea of provisioning compute resources can be applied to bare metal. It can be applied to virtual machines. It can be applied to Linux containers, LXC, OpenVZ, et cetera. It can be applied to supercomputers and ARM processors and GPUs. So compute resources is really an abstraction of something that runs a process. Storage, same thing. We have two different major core projects in OpenStack, Cinder and Swift, that provide different kinds of storage. But when you're first easing into OpenStack, just think about storage as a kind of resource. Networking has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of releases of OpenStack. And at a very high level, you've got data. You keep it somewhere. You do some processing on it. And your network gets the data to the processing and back to storage again. You can do amazing things with each of these components. OpenStack does not have to be deployed as one solution. You can deploy just compute. You can deploy just storage. You can deploy just networking. You can deploy a mix and match. It works best if you deploy all of it. We have tried to keep these projects very separate, to run them separately. They have separate technical teams. They have separate tracks in the summit. But they do have a lot of intimate relationship. And this makes sense when you think about what people are trying to do with cloud. You're always processing some data. You do need some storage for your compute environment to be useful. And if you don't have a networking connection at all, you can't get in and out of the rest of your environment. So you still end up needing these pieces. But you don't have to use OpenStack for all of it. All right. We talk about these different sets of resource pools. Let's talk in specific about each of these core components of OpenStack, starting with compute. I want to put faces to the projects because a 101 class is never enough. And the reason to be at a summit and be here in person, for those of you who are watching, I record a video. I'm very sorry. You should have been here. Is you can track these people down. So this is Vishwananda Eshaya. He is the project technical lead for NOVA. How many of you are familiar with Conway's Law? Conway's Law essentially says that when you build a piece of software inside an organization, the structure of the software will match the structure of the organization that wrote it. When we launched OpenStack, there were two projects. There was NOVA and there was SWIFT. And that was the biggest mistake we ever made. Because people then believed that OpenStack had two capabilities, virtual machines and block storage. When we launched it, NOVA also included all of the networking code. And it also included all of our block storage, sorry, object storage, SWIFT is object. We named it that way because inside NASA, NOVA was the name for our whole thing. We didn't have names for these sub-projects. And we had two companies and we launched two projects and that seemed to make sense. But it led to a huge amount of confusion. So since then, we've taken all of the networking out of NOVA and we've made that quantum. We've taken all of the block storage out of NOVA and we've made that cinder. So today, NOVA is just about compute. Those of you who are developers in the room will know I'm lying a tiny bit. There is still block and networking code in NOVA. Pretend it's not there. So this is Vish. Vish is the project technical lead elected, although nobody ran against him for the last, I think, ever. And the idea in NOVA, the most important part of NOVA is scheduling. So I want a compute resource and I have a bunch of these resource pools. Where is my VM going to run? There are a number of schedulers. There are a few that are part of OpenStack Core. There are many that have been written by the community. So when you hear people talking about scheduling, that's what they mean. A lot of other communities would call this placement or they would call it allocation or they would call it reservation. We call it scheduling. Means is I need to get a VM running on some piece of hardware. How's that piece of hardware gonna get selected? And again, this is not about virtual machines. This can be bare metal. It can be containers. It can be ARM processors. It can be GPU environments. There are a ton of drivers available for NOVA that make it run all of these different things. But at a very high level, schedule and launch compute resources. And you can track Vish down. He's not wearing that hat today, but he is out in the halls. You will find him. You can ask him questions. He will probably tell you to go talk to one of the lieutenants depending on what part of NOVA you're interested in. Okay, object store. This is arguably the most mature piece of OpenStack in the sense that it was the first one that was running at massive scale in production. It was the Rackspace cloud storage code base. The project technical lead is John Dickinson. He is also here. You can track him down. I know he's in the room. And how many of you are familiar with object stores as an idea? Some of you. The idea of an object store is that it's like a file system or like any other kind of storage except that you've given up on the parts that make it hard. So it's not POSIX. You can't map a file into memory. You don't have the same security controls around who owns it, what group are they a member of? Exactly. But the trade-off is you can make an object store theoretically infinitely large. Dozens of petabytes, hundreds of petabytes. And it's incredibly durable. Every bit that's written into that object store is saved at least three times, three different servers, three different hard drives. There's a process running continuously that's looking for errors at the bit level on any one of those hard drives. And if they're detected, it automatically goes and makes a fresh copy for one of the other two copies onto another piece of hardware. So the data is incredibly durable. And it's very highly available because every component of Swift can run on many different machines. You can lose whole racks of gear and have zero downtime in a Swift cluster. The last thing is that the architecture of Swift from the bottom up is designed for massive concurrency, which means you can have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people or individual processes accessing Swift at the same time. Which really for a service provider is your number one bottleneck. It's great that you have hundreds of petabytes of storage, but if you can only have a few hundred people accessing it at once, it's a very expensive bottleneck. So that's Swift. And again, track down, John, if you have questions. There each of these projects have what we would call the bleeding edge or the leading edge where work is being done. Swift, not that much. It is of all of the projects, it is basically what it is today. People are very interested in maybe locality awareness, perhaps some geographic performance improvements when you're running multiple data centers around the world and you wanna replicate between them automatically, but by and large, Swift does what it was built to do. Nova on the scheduling side is also fairly mature at this point. All right, lock storage, Cinder, young, just landed in core in Folsom. And again, it was originally called Nova Volumes. It was part of Nova. Think of it as an external hard drive, but without the USB cable. It can be disconnected and connected to any compute resource you have in theory anywhere in your cloud. Internally, it uses iSCSI. There are folks involved in making sure that that supports every possible export target you would want, AOE, NFS, fiber channel, et cetera. It is POSIX. You can use it exactly like a hard drive. When you connect a Cinder block store to a Nova virtual machine, it looks like an attached hard drive. That's how it shows up. And it has the performance characteristics of hard drives, not object storage. So it's much lower latency. Use it for the data store for your database. It doesn't, however, do, in most OpenStack deployments, it doesn't magically keep three or four copies. It doesn't necessarily fail over when the machine that that hard drive was hosted on is turned off. Some commercial implementations do that, but it's not part of the Cinder spec. And again, the driver community for Cinder is maturing rapidly, but it's fairly new. So you'll see most of the large storage vendors, a lot of the new storage vendors, Ink Tank, Solid Fire. I'm gonna forget people, MP Store, Cast Store. If I forget you, it's not on purpose. This is... A new Griffon, Griffith, John Griffith, thank you. Project technical lead for Cinder works at Solid Fire. You should track him down, he's also here. I don't think he's in the room. Okay, networking. There has been probably more buzz around the Quantum project in OpenStack than anything else. And personally, I believe that's because OpenStack is the thing that makes software defined networking makes sense. We're the use case for SDN. So every SDN vendor in the market has piled into OpenStack. This has been where they could demonstrate their stuff. They can use OpenStack to show how cool SDN is. So the launch of SDN was three, four releases ago. Let me get the dates mixed up, I think he was in Diablo. And it started with Cisco, Nasira, MetaCora, Arista, Big Switch, and the rest of the OpenStack community in a room for a full day, thinking out what would an API for software to find networking look like in OpenStack. We had working code, we had Nova Network. And Nasira had OpenVSwitch and MetaCora had the early versions of MetaNet. And we really brought that community together and said, okay, take your vendor hats off. How does this need to work? And what we ended up with was Quantum. There are a number of OpenStack deployments that don't use Quantum. Most of them still use Nova Network. That's really been because of when they were deployed and when Quantum was well integrated. And there are a lot of folks who've used just Quantum and not the rest of OpenStack. So this is kind of that mix and match. That is Dan Wenlach from Nasira. He's the project technical lead. He's also here, you should run him down. You wanna get involved in Quantum. The bleeding edge for Quantum is really moving farther up the stack. So we've got great layer two, virtual layer two, almost virtual layer one, networking, ports and cables. And we have some decent layer three functionality on IP addressing. We don't have layer four or above. As I believe, some of my colleagues mentioned this morning there's no DNS in OpenStack. And we know it's missing. Quantum might be a good home for DNS. Load balancing is a service. Also not yet part of core. There are some ecosystem projects that support that. Let me pause there for just a second and talk about core. Because this again, this came up in the foundation board meeting yesterday and we've done a poor job of explaining this. The goal in life as a project inside OpenStack is not necessarily to be in core. That's not everyone's goal in life. If you're a hockey player, you wanna be in the NHL. But if you're a piece of software, you don't necessarily wanna be in core. And frankly, we've rejected more things from core than we have accepted. The only things that belong in OpenStack core are the things where clearly there is only one way that this should be done. And OpenStack needs to own and prescribe that one way of doing it. There are a lot of projects that will live in the ecosystem forever in the satellite community and that's where they belong. And that doesn't mean they won't be well supported by distributions. It doesn't mean they won't be commercially supported in products. It doesn't mean the integration won't be mature and maintained and they won't have an active role in OpenStack governance. What it really boils down to is the trademark policy for the word OpenStack requires a product that's called OpenStack to include everything in core. And the more things we have in core, the less appropriate it is for the general case. We go back to these public and private clouds. We don't want things in core that are only useful for private clouds or only useful for public clouds. So you're gonna see a lot of debate this week around cilometer, around the metering solution that's been proposed to say should cilometer be part of core? Probably not. It's not really what private clouds need. They need to charge back. They need cost visibility. They don't need billing. These are sort of divergent solutions. Maybe there's a central part of cilometer that belongs in core but the rest of it doesn't. We've had this debate around orchestration as well. And OpenStack has always had a philosophy and I think we'll continue to have a philosophy that says OpenStack goes up to the infrastructures of service API layer and no farther. So above that you will see right scale, scaler and stratus, dynamic ops, service mesh, puppet and chef, a number of other solutions including juju for managing the guests. And OpenStack does not go up into that layer. We have never taken one of those projects and said we'll make that part of OpenStack core because this whole tools ecosystem are our partners. There are the ones who are bringing OpenStack into every possible solution. And if we become, if OpenStack because competitive to that tier, OpenStack has no reason to exist. Out of those major resources, so the storage, the networking and the compute, there are a number of shared services that these other projects rely on and these three in particular are in core. There's always a debate. Should we take some of them out? Should they be merged? Glance is the image registry. It's a slightly nuanced idea but essentially if it's launchable, it lives in glance. Disc images, snapshots, et cetera. The storage is actually not part of glance. Most OpenStack deployments use Swift to store the disc images. Glance manages that registration layer. What format is it in? What hypervisors can it be launched with, et cetera? Keystone is middleware. Auth n and auth z. Authentication and authorization. We would love for it to be a more complete identity management solution. It probably never will be. And this comes back to private clouds, public clouds, science clouds, hybrid clouds. They need different things from their authentication solution. So what Keystone really does is provide an abstraction and an API that has a number of drivers and those drivers can connect anything. So there are presentations as we're showing Keystone connected to SAML. There are PAM modules. There are SQL lite databases. Most service providers have done their own Keystone plugins for their internal identity systems. Most private clouds, we've been involved in use active directory. Finally, common is a cleverly named common, OpenStack common, and it has a bunch of other stuff. Logging, configuration, file management, the nuts and bolts libraries of the rest of these services. The goal with common is less about what a product or a user can get out of it than it is how can we make the rest of OpenStack easier to work on. This is don't repeat yourself in real life. The project technical leads for these three projects, I am not going to get into gratuitous detail, you can track them down. I should do Mark McLaughlin, Joe Heck, and somebody help me out, Glantz PTO. I know this guy, I knew this was gonna happen. There's always one name you just can't get, huh? Thank you, BC Walden. This is because I never call him Brian. Brian Walden, BC Walden in IRC. All right, let's talk briefly about governance. If you're involved in OpenStack and you want to get involved in OpenStack, having a very quick idea of how governance works will be helpful. There are three governance bodies in OpenStack. The foundation itself is a nonprofit and is governed most directly by the board of directors of the foundation. It has 24 seats. Ridiculous. Eight of those are directly appointed by Platinum members. Eight of them are elected by the gold members out of the pool of gold member delegates. It's somewhat confusing, but there are currently, as of last night, I believe 12 gold members. There will never be more than 24. And there will only ever be eight seats for gold members. So they have an opportunity to run, but not necessarily a seat on the board. The last eight are individual members. They are elected out of the community of the currently 6,000 individual members of OpenStack. There are some interesting rules. I'm not gonna belabor them as far as, there can only be two affiliated persons on the board so Platinum members can have one individual member from the same company, but not more than that. So the elections get very complicated and there's a large amount of debate about whether or not we should change the election process and if it's really proportional representation and everything else. The bottom line is it's working pretty well. And if you think about the board's responsibility being the marketing of OpenStack and the protection and preservation of the brand, the members put in the vast majority of the dollars that go into the foundation and those dollars are primarily spent for those purposes. And that's basically what the board is for. The technical committee has directly replaced what used to be called the Project Policy Board. Don't really need to worry about it. It is the PTLs of the core projects plus another eight, I believe, no, sorry, five, generally elected active technical contributors. So anyone can be a member of the foundation. Cost nothing, we may at some point in the future ask you to write up 90 characters worth of why you would like to be a member just so people have some sense of who you are. But in order to be an active technical contributor, you have to be an active technical contributor. That doesn't mean code. And Gentile is hiding in the back of the room behind the camera. She leads the documentation team. She is absolutely the shining paragon of an active technical contributor. Right, Docs, yes. Docs count, bug reports count. Community evangelism counts. We have a number of folks on our team at Piston who host meetups and go give talks about OpenStack in other communities of Python Software Foundation and others. That's active technical contribution. It doesn't have to be patches. But in order to be, there are a much smaller number of ATCs than there are foundation members. I think ATCs are in just shy of a thousand. That community elects their own general members to sit on the technical community and they use condor set voting. So it's a, again, nuanced and complicated. The TC makes all of the technical decisions about OpenStack. Each project makes as many of their own decisions about that project as is appropriate. The technical community and technical committee tries to make sure that the projects don't go off in random directions. So the creation of OpenStack Common came out of the TC saying, guys, we're doing configuration management four different ways. Can we clean that up? They also vote, along with the board, on whether new projects should become part of court or not. Really helping to define what OpenStack is happens between those two groups. The last governance body is the user committee and it's very new. So far it's one person. His name is Tim Bell. Literally, the way we wrote the bylaws for the foundation is the board has to a point one member, the technical committee has to a point one member and those two members then get to make up the process for how to fill up the rest of the user committee and in fact they get to decide how big it should be and how long folks should sit on it, everything else. So that is happening right now. Tim Bell is here. He is from CERN. He is also on the foundation board, although that's not a requirement. And he's been very active in helping folks understand what you can do with OpenStack and bringing back to the community feedback on what they would like it to do that it doesn't do today. That's really the goal of the UC. If you're involved in OpenStack and you're not going to write code and you don't particularly care about politics and arguing about the budget of how much money gets spent on lawyers and which legal firm we should use to protect the trademark, you should try and get involved as a user. Just to put to find a point on it, marketing and membership, meritocracy and active technical contributors, the users of clouds including the tools builders and the operators of public and private clouds. If you decide to get involved as a developer and I'm not advocating that in particular, in fact, we have a lot of developers. I think we could use more folks on the user committee and more folks bringing back the feedback from the people running it saying, hey, you know, we tried deploying it this way and it turns out that combination of Hyper-V and Swift, it doesn't work. But if you do, there is a review process and it goes like this. You see something wrong in the code or you see a place where you can make a contribution and you write a patch. You don't ask for permission. If you want to, if you wanna feel like you got permission, come to the summit, lead a session or a lightning talk and say, hey, I've got this idea. I think if we used this one kind of driver, we could get OpenStack to control those carpet robots, vacuum cleaner robots, what are those? Roombas, I'd like to have a Roomba Cloud. I'm gonna write the Roomba Cloud driver. Okay, submit a patch. I'm just gonna say no to you writing code. They will say no to you committing the code. And so what happens is that code goes into a review process and two members of the core team for that project need to sign off on it. It's automated. Generally, it shows up in a web form. You go to IRC, you say, hey, I've submitted this patch for Roombas. I'm pretty sure that Vish should look at this because technically it's a compute driver. Vish will look very briefly at your commit message and say, no, I think BC Walden should review this. I have no time for robots. And there's some folks like this who will log in and look at your code. Hopefully they will provide constructive feedback. Why are you trying to power a robot is not constructive feedback, but perhaps this doesn't follow PEP 8 standards or you've reimplemented the other general purpose robot driver that we had. And then they'll say, okay, it's done. It gets merged automatically. It goes through unit tests. Congratulations, you are now in ATC. It's pretty easy. If you want to get involved in the technical community at large or in governance, specifically in the technical committee or in fact on the board, do this first. Do something, do some contribution first. If you are going to get involved as a user, awesome. Go talk to Tim Bell. In fact, talk to any board member. Say, hey, we're using OpenStack. We'd love to provide some feedback on what it does and maybe you can tell the delivery community to fix these things, great. But if you want to get involved in the governance, you should be a contributor first. And we've had this confusion with a number of folks who felt like they needed to come and become a sponsor or a member before they were gonna be allowed to contribute code. This is open source. It happens exactly the other way around. Hatch is first. Then come and talk to us about logo swaps. And it's not hard. Most reviews are done in less than a day. If it drags on for weeks, it gets harder and harder to merge. So get an IRC. All right, last point and I've sort of emphasized the developer workflow because I figured there was some clarity that could be provided but really folks at this conference fall into three buckets. Either you want to use OpenStack. You want to learn how the APIs work. You want to learn how the GUI works. Maybe you want to take some training. You can start with TriStack. It's free. You got all the APIs and go play around. Learn the APIs. Read the docs. Get good with OpenStack. That's a great place to start if you want to be a user. There is training available. Rackspace offers training. We offer training in Piston. Morantis offers a ton of boot camp programs. There are others in other countries. I'd be, does he know events? Offer training in French? There are folks in Australia at Aptira who have offered training courses. Wherever you are in the world, there is someone offering training. If you want to start as a user, try TriStack or get some training. If you're going to run it, please start with a product. Please start with a distro. I'm gonna come back to this in a minute. If you're going to be a developer, what you want is DevStack. It is a shell script that turns your laptop into an OpenStack cloud. It's crazy awesome but it's nested hypervisors. It's turtles all the way down. So don't use it to run OpenStack. Please, that's not what it's for. Don't use it really to try OpenStack because you're gonna get frustrated. It takes like whatever 10 minutes to launch a VM. It's on your laptop. Laptops are not designed to be clouds but if you're a developer, great. It's all the code and it's built for developers and it's easy to restart processes after every patch and you can run the whole test suite in there. DevStack is awesome. If you're going to work with DevStack, you should track down Jesse Andrews or Dean Troyer. Submit patches so it can be run on more platforms. Okay, I said this before. I wanna come back to this. We are very proud that people have downloaded source code from OpenStack.org 300,000 times. Please stop doing that. It's like kernel.org. If you go to kernel.org and you download the raw source code for the Linux kernel, you're probably going to be unhappy. You're going to have to write your own make files. You're gonna have to write your own, like it's not designed to be an operating system. It is the Linux kernel, right? OpenStack.org, same thing. It's not everything you need. There are what, 560 configuration options in Nova alone. There are 19 different files full of configuration options. We support every hypervisor known to man. We support LXC containers in OpenVZ and bare metal provisioning, and you have a less than 10% chance of taking the raw source code from OpenStack.org and getting it up and running. Even if you're following the docs. If you start with, I mean, there's like six free distros. Grab any one, we've got one. Rackspace has one, StackOps has one. Start with that, even start with DevStack. Please don't start with OpenStack.org, because what happens is then you're sad, and then you go in the forums, and you're sad, and you're like, I tried OpenStack, I couldn't get it working. Okay, well, which line of which config file did you have, like, misconfigured? The reason there are products and installers is the same reason there are Linux distros, right? The kernel is not a product, it's not designed to be run. Distros are a great way to start. You will have a chance to try two or three, and you will gradually realize it for the kind of cloud you're wanting to run. There is one product that is perfectly suited for that. If you're a service provider, you probably do want to really, really understand OpenStack, all the way down to the source code. You want your own developers to be monkeying around. You want to write your own Keystone plugins. If you're running a public, private cloud, probably not. You don't necessarily want your own dev team contributing to OpenStack. There are products available for that. That's my PSA. Grabbing source code from OpenStack.org is not really the best way to start. Now, I have gone over by one minute, but we started three minutes late, so I think we have a couple of minutes for questions. There is a mic, nobody ever uses it. You want to stick your hand up, I will repeat your question, so the folks following along from home can hear. Yeah. So the question is, can you mix and match physical infrastructure and virtual infrastructure? Let me make that more general. Can you mix and match different NOVA drivers? So different hypervisors plus bare metal. The answer is yes, but you should do it in separate cells. So NOVA has a concept of a cell, which is a collection of resources in a single pool. You can run a scheduler across multiple cells, but all of the resources inside a single cell really ought to be of the same type. And really where the issues come in is the integration with Glance. When you have stored a disk image, mapping that to which resources can launch that disk image is not as automated as we would like. There are blueprints for Glance to be able to do transform on the fly, to take a disk image built for KVM and turn it into something that'll run on Zen or run on Hyper-V or run on vSphere and just move it over there and launch it. They're not done yet. So yes, if you keep the resource pools separate and yes, if you're willing to make sure you've got the images managed correctly in Glance. The projects for bare metal provision, by the way, there's two different projects. There's one at Dreamhost and there's one the UCSB folks, Nimbus Systems, Ryan Stevens. I'm not sure if he's here. If you wanna track me down afterwards, I'll make intros. So the question is what's the best way for an enterprise to get started with an OpenStack cloud deployment? There are two routes. There might be more than two routes. There are two routes that I see today. So we do this for companies at Piston Cloud and usually what we do is we sell them our Enterprise OpenStack product. Sometimes they start with our free airframe product and they try it out themselves and then they're okay, well we get why we want the upgrade. The other is there are a number of professional services firms that will come in and do a custom built solution. The risk with that and I think Shuttleworth highlighted this pretty well this morning is you want a cloud that can be upgraded. You want your cloud built in such a way that you can move from Essex to Folsom or from Folsom to Grizzly. That's something that the products have spent a lot of time working. I know we spend a ton of time making sure upgrades work. I know Canonical spent a ton of time making sure that upgrade demo would work. Most of the professional services based deployments I saw in the first two years of OpenStack weren't thinking ahead. So there were a lot of Diablo based clouds that had a month of downtime to get to Essex. 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And we promise today that we would have a little bit of fun. Pop some bubbly. So cheers to all of you to all of us to all of our sponsors to the entire year. To be honest, mine has kombucha in it. That's my fizzy for drink. Mine has tea iced tea, which it looks stressful. I thought that it would be maybe a little bit darker and it would just be a good sell. But it's not like I said to Jared in the chat chat. What are we going to call it the green room chatter? Green room chatter. Yes. Green room chatter. I told Jared that if I had real champagne in my drink, we would lose all our sponsors like 10 minutes into the show because I don't really drink very much. All the here all of our amazing sponsors that have kept our conversation growing and growing throughout these last two years. I always like to say these companies really exist for you and your mission to help you do more good in and around and throughout your community. So please do check them out. As you move forward with your day, your weekend, we will not be broadcasting live tomorrow. So you will miss both Julia and myself tomorrow. But we have moved tomorrow's episode of course to today since many of us will be taking tomorrow off. Hopefully getting some rest because that is much needed after you know this year. But as I keep saying it is the finish line. It is in sight. We are literally right there at it. So again, cheers to all of you. We this is our bubbly. This is our our promise. We said that we would have some fun and so cheers to the new year. Cheers to all of your accomplishments and successes that I hope you are celebrating from this past 1112 months. And just as we always end the week, we have our ask and answer episode. So many of you continue to send in questions. Thank you very much for playing a part, a huge part in fact in these episodes. And we're just so very grateful to have your continued investment and interest as we all continue to navigate forward. Julia, you know, it's amazing. Yes, send us your questions. I know Jared that you and I when we're out and about people and that's pretty limited, but people do ask us questions. And that's a lot of fun. But you can get to us to our website through Twitter, you can email us. I mean, there's so many different ways linked in. So definitely, definitely want to hear from you. As we are hearing from from miles from Lexington, Kentucky today, miles writes in Have you heard of a policy that details how our employees can engage with clients? I have just learned that one of our team members had invited a client over to their home for a holiday party. We don't have an HR department, but I run the operations department. Really interesting. Yikes. Really? So I got to tell you, Miles, I speak a little bit of Spanish. In my community, there was a huge surge. Several years ago, you might remember of migrants that were coming mostly from Central America. And they were being dumped off by ice, one of the big, big shelters. And they put out an an APB for anybody that could speak Spanish. And they needed people like to work, you know, like two in the morning to like 7am type thing. So I was like, Yeah, I'll do it. And I witnessed, and they had asked for all different types of people. And they asked for medical medical help. And I witnessed a doctor, a young doctor take a woman and her child home, because the child had become horribly ill. And he's like, I need to get this child in an IV situation. And I'm afraid because they're undocumented if I take them to the hospital, they'll get put into a loop. And it was like a morality thing. And I didn't know what to do. And I would never identify the organization where this happened to the person. I think he did the right thing. But it was one of those things that I stood there and I was like, is this going to is this woman and her child going to be victimized? And I asked, I said, Does anybody know this doctor? And the team said, Yeah, he comes and he volunteers. And he's of Hispanic descent. So he can speak Spanish. And it was like one of those things that was just it haunts me because I don't know what happened to that to that woman and her child. So sorry, I had to tell that whole long story. But I feel like this is something that happens. Well, and you're right. And it's not just during the holidays, right? It could be literally during a crisis situation while your organization is providing service and programming to the community in which you serve. My clients, Julia, that I've worked with are in that human service space. So homelessness, you know, food banks, things like that, in which there's actually staff has different phone numbers, even for outreach, so that no client actually has the direct phone number or personal phone number of the staff so that there is that, I don't know, I'm going to call it a buffer, right? But there's the operation that separation. And miles, I love that you're asking this. And again, my greatest opportunity is for all of us to get ahead of any potential risk or situation that might come about. So the fact that you've brought this up as a great question. Again, you know, we jokingly state how two years ago we were talking about how to how do we get on zoom? And now we're talking about what policies exist, right, for us to interact with clients. So I would highly encourage you, I'm a huge researcher and benchmarker to see what other organizations are doing, how they have responded to this. And again, you know, Julia scenario where it was right there in the thick of service delivery, and then yours particular miles, you know, it's a more festive gathering. And you need to know the answers and how to approach this moving forward. I prefer to err on the side of caution that we don't engage with that client so to speak in a personal manner and then it stays within the organization. And to have that set up a little similarly to your story, Julia, I was in an earlier life of mine. I was a college soccer coach. And I had a couple of the girls show up at my at my house and you know, they they were having trouble at their dorm. It was the semesters, they weren't are, you know, a final review kind of exams. And they were asking if they could stay the night and I was like, no. So you really need to make sure that you have some kind of, you know, a separation in place, the policy and again, always something to fall back on, I think is really important. So miles, thank you for asking this question. Thank you for realizing that it's something that needs to be addressed. And again, to really get ahead of and to mitigate any potential risks. Yeah, I think that's your that's good advice, because, you know, we are compassionate people by virtue of serving in this sector. We are going to open our hearts and our homes and our wallets and our minds and our spirit to clients. I mean, that's what happens. But I think you are right. We need to have these policies and to get ahead of it and to research this miles. Good luck. And, and I hope that you share with us what what occurred because this is really an important thing. And I would, I would take it a step further miles, you know, it's not are we able to transport clients? Are we able to do that in our personal car? Are we able to do that with a company car? So really understanding, you know, what that looks like, because many ways, phone numbers, that's another, are we able to give our personal number? So really, this policy should encompass any and all potential risks. Good job, Jared. You are the nonprofit nerd. Okay, let's go to Nicole from Bangor, Maine. I bet it's so cold. I'm cold just hearing me. I have to have a sip of tea. This really is tea. Just in honor of that. Okay, you read this one, getting liquored up on iced tea. I want to propose the head of our marketing and communications part department be on the nonprofit show. We are honored. She has done wonders for our fundraising campaigns. And I would like to hear her share her insights. How do I go about this? Well, that's nice. That's nice. Nicole, thank you. Well, Jared, you take it away. So there, we are looking for a guest. We love, as you know, Nicole, thank you for being a viewer of our show, of our multiple episodes. We do have on the American Nonprofit Academy website, so American nonprofitacademy.com. There is a form where you can fill out to nominate yourself, nominate someone else to come on and be a guest. As we continue to build out our 2022 episodes, Nicole, we would love to hear from your, your head of marketing and communications. So, and this goes for any of you any, any other Nicole's out there that wish to submit a nomination again, either for yourself or for someone else. There's a form on the website. And again, we are really looking to diversify topics, voices, geographics, really just everything as it relates to the nonprofit sector. So our Q one is booking up quite fast. Thanks to many of our sponsors that you see here in support of the nonprofit show. And again, we'd love to hear from you, Nicole. So thank you. Thanks for asking. Yeah, and Nicole, that's great. And just to heads up, you know, there's no charge for this. So we, you know, we, we say no a lot. If we, if we think that it's not going to be a good fit. But yeah, we're looking for all types of people in across really the nation. But even globally, we've had guests on from other parts of the country. Bless our hearts. They have to come on at really weird times because we hold fast to a live show date of 9 30 a.m. Pacific time Monday through Friday. So yeah, Nicole, I hope that we get to hear from you and be nice to Jared because hint hint, she's the one that does most of the bookings. A lot. But we are getting more and more. So it's it's it's been fun to watch it grow. It is. It's really remarkable. Next week, we have a great, great group of guests. So yeah, absolutely. Okay, now you know how I love name with help. Let's see what name with help has. I want to move into a CEO position within our nonprofit. I know that our CEO will be retiring in 2022. Any suggestions for the roadmap? We have answered this question, but or and this is really, really important. I think you need to be looking at what is out there in the marketplace. And you need to be very transparent about this. Bring it up. Ask share with the management around. There's such a problem finding top leadership. We have the great resignation going on. And I think that if you go before your organization and say, Hey, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring. What do I need to do? I think that that's the best thing to do. And I would ask, you know, the the existing CEO to share his or their succession plan. What is currently in place? What have they considered? What have they thought about? I'm also going to put a plug in for fundraising Academy because a huge piece of the CEO role is fundraising. It is being person of position, power, and it really drives philanthropy for your organization. So if this is something that you're not quite savvy on, or you want to brush up on your skills, there is a 2022 Accelerate program that is starting February, maybe. And again, this I think will really be an asset and a benefit add to that CEO track. Again, continuing your education because that CEO does maintain a lot of fundraising constituency based relationships. So I would say, you know, to add on to Julia. Yes, have that conversation. Let them know you're interested. Ask them what you can do to really get ahead and in a place of potential consideration. I think that's wonderful. And then ask what if there's a current succession plan in place? If not, what you can do to help to evolve that into a more, I don't know, secure kind of an outline. And then again, maybe, you know, just get ready to all the things that you absolutely can to address your desires. We've talked a lot lately, Julia, the last couple of weeks about goals, personal and professional goals. So again, great opportunity as you move into the new year and into Q1 of 22 to address what your personal and professional goals will be. And you know, I really like that you said and we don't say this enough. I think we know it. But I don't think anyone's ever said this piece about how much the CEO does in fundraising and how big part how much of part that is. And so, you know, if you're not good to go with that, and if you just think it's going to be, you're going to be the big boss and telling everybody what to do and how high to jump. That's not what you're going to be doing. I mean, you'll be doing that some of the time. But I love, love, love that you brought up that fundraising and that the relationship to the donors. That's great. Thank you, Jordan. Absolutely. Absolutely. That Accelerate program with Hannah Berger, who's leading that. It looks like it's going to be a really great training program. We'll, we'll put a slide up at the end to remind everyone on that. Okay, Francis from Arlington, Virginia. We have a new board member who wants us to have a board liaison. Okay. This is my jam. Brink in your I'm loving this new board member, whoever they are. As the board chair, I guess it's my responsibility, responsibility to get this. However, I don't really know what this person does. Is it someone on the board or a staff person? Francis, good question. Yay team sister. I think you're a woman, maybe not. Okay. Francis, the board liaison oftentimes is the administrative assistant to the CEO because they do a lot of those types of pieces. They put a lot of those pieces together. So they are going to be the person that they attend all the board meetings. They do not have a vote. They are not a fiduciary, but they will make sure that all of the meetings are posted, that all of the requirements that you need to be taken care of. So monitoring your policies, making sure that things like your COI conflict of interest policies, your DNA, you know, NDA, I always say DNA, NDA policies, whatever policies that you might have that they're executed and they're ready to go. Hopefully you're using a digital board portal, such as like our friends, Jeff Banner, affordable. I mean, those types of things that person will take care of it. When I hear this, it makes me think that your board member that you just brought on has come to you with some board training and they've seen how really strong boards perform. So that's the good news. They might be able to help you with this, but absolutely, this is the best practice. And if you want your board to be working well for you and navigating the things that are new and different in this time since the pandemics, this is one of those things you need. In Francis, there are several episodes that we've done for the nonprofit show, as well as additional training and resources available through the American nonprofit. Find out what exactly the board liaison is responsible for and can assist you as the board chair and this incoming board member and truly all boards, all of the board members that oversee and govern this nonprofit. There are so many resources that are available to you from the American nonprofit Academy. And you're right, Julia, it really is that existing executive assistant or the person that is playing in that in that role or position with the CEO slash executive director. Those two terms are typically interchanged in our sector. So take a look to see who that person is. If they have truly been serving as this role and maybe you have not named them officially, the board, the, but chances are they have played played this role. Right. And I love that you said that, Jared, because I think that's true that, you know, for a lot of people, they'll be like, well, shoot, that's what I already do. But it is, it is a title and it helps to find things. Yeah, I like that you said that. Okay, let's move on to, do you need a sip of your fake champagne? I do. For those of you that might have joined us a little bit later, we are celebrating. We told you we would pop some bubbly, which means I have kombucha in my, in my goblet and Julia has tea. So we're celebrating our final episode of this year, but we will be back next year. We will, we will be. Okay, Irina and Zach, I love it when we get the two first asking question. Columbus, Ohio, it is apparent to us that we're going to have to extend our work from home policies in 2022. We need to have a budget item for staff to have access to funds that help them with their technology at home. Maybe everything to an office chair or desk, any suggestions, any amounts that we should budget for. You know, this is interesting. We've had guests that have been talking about this a lot more, and I would say in like the last four months, saying, look, you need to set something up. It might just be a fund that if they need a chair or they need a divider or they need a new light or they need, you know, a desk or something and so that they're not sitting at their kitchen table trying to do their work. And I think it's a really good thing. I really do. What are you seeing, Jared? You know, I've heard the same and I want to say your part-time controller did share with us a bit about what that stipend might look like. And that was something that was available for any and all employees as they continue to work remotely. So, Irina and Zach, as you move into the new year, yes, there's still that work from home component. And to be honest, I believe it's here to stay. That is now one of those negotiating opportunities for your current and future employees using that to leverage and to sweeten the pie, as we like to say, for the new hire and to attract and retain your existing staff. So, these work from home policies in 22 and beyond, I believe should include some type of a work from home stipend. You know, I would highly recommend you also take a look at your cybersecurity. If you joined us yesterday and we talked about the best of 21, cybersecurity was one of the big topics both Julie and I admitted. It set our hair on fire. And so, as you look and consider technology, you know, perhaps it's that information technology support and staff member that can also help with your remote connections. So, not just your aesthetics and, you know, perhaps your ergonomics of working from home, but also truly being in touch with that technology and software side. Right. I think that's a, I think that's a brilliant idea. And I think that should be separate from, you know, that should be a line item that is just in there for everybody because it's so important. I think the other thing is, if you have any ideas on amounts, it seems to me that Jennifer from your part-time controller, and I don't know if this is true, but I think she said somewhere she's been seeing amounts between $500 to $2,000 a year depending on the organizations. And so, really is a function of your budget. But just a work chair, as you know, is going to quickly eat up 200 to 300 bucks. And that's going to be like a lower level chair. That's right. You know, so it's expensive to get yourself situated for work from home space. Not to mention a lot of people now are going for those raised desks. Yeah. I know several people that have the, oh gosh, the not an elliptical, but you know, one of those walking desk and I don't know how I can do all of that at the same time. I would fall flat on my face. I would too. A lot of people. Of course, stability ball as well. So, you know, again, it really does depend, I think, on what is comfortable for that person. When I sit on a stability ball, again, I might very well fall off the ball. So I could do nothing but sit quietly, calmly on a chair. Well, and that speaks to the issue. You might have a list of things that work that you can say, okay, yeah, we'll fund a chair, a desk, a light, you know, whatever. And so I think that's that's kind of one of those things. You have to take a look at what you're doing. And I think also to not, we need to mention this, you know, really depends on what you're doing. So for example, if you're an organization working in Health and Human Services, and you have HIPAA policies that you need to, you know, observe, that means that you need to be conducting your business, even when you're working from home and somewhat of a secure area. You're not supposed to have an area where people can overhear what conversations you might be having with clients. It's really an interesting thing. And so, you know, I think those will be the things Jared that that leak into HIPAA and some of these things as we navigate these things. We've been in such a crunch mode and crisis that that hasn't really been addressed. But I think we'll be hearing about things like that. I think you're right in the VPN, right? Having that VPN. Yeah, exactly. So I mean, we'll be we'll be hearing more and more about this. And that was a great, great question. Hey, before we sign off, I really do want you to share more about this cause selling accelerator, because you know more about it than I do. And this comes to us from our friends from Fundraising Academy. It's a cohort. It lasts several months. So that I'm not sure, but we should definitely want to something that did catch my attention. I named dropped her Hannah Berger. She was on for Friday, Friday, asking answered, and she will be the one overseeing and truly guiding this Accelerate program. So a 2022 online meaning remote, you can do it from anywhere. Hopefully you've received a stipend to have your work from home set up. And I want to say it's about $400 as an investment. So when I recall hearing from Hannah, it's not a huge investment, but it definitely is something work considering. I also believe it's for more of a higher level advanced person, you know, looking at their cause selling model in fundraising development philanthropy at large. Perhaps you're the one looking for that CEO track and you want to again brush, you know, brush up on your fundraising. This looks to be phenomenal. And what it provides also is that cohort, as you mentioned, Julia, so many nonprofit leaders from across the nation. So much like we have learned so very much from the vast amount of thought leaders across our nation, this program also connects with, you know, professionals in the field across the nation. So it's not just, you know, your geographic community, you really are put into a national workforce. I think this is going to be great. And I love the idea that it is it has some study prep work, but then it does have time for discussion. And this is what's so powerful with all of these different things that have been changing and are continuing to change. You will have real time opportunity to discuss this with the Fundraising Academy leadership, but then with your peers. And you know, we learn, we learn the most from our peers, we learn the most. So it'll be a lot of fun. And we'll have Hannah on, I think, to talk more about this. Hey, what a great year. Thank you so much to all our viewers. I'm Julia Patrick. I've been joined today by the nonprofit nerd herself again without our amazing sponsors. We would not be here. And because of our sponsors, that's why I chose to drink iced tea from my champion flute. And I think you're drinking kombucha. Yes. Yes. It's been great. As many of you know, you're raving fans. You join us either live or recording. These are unscripted episodes. So we come on, you know, truly with an episode guide of the topic with our thought leader, with our guest across the nation. We have talked about the topics. But these are organic conversations. So these are real time live. We will continue to be live in the new year. And we will not be on tomorrow because we will be taking that time off as well as Monday. But we will be back on Tuesday, January, quattro. Yeah, and we have a rock and roll and week lined up. We have Jeff Schreifels coming on talking about it, how to identify if you're working in a toxic environment for your nonprofit and how that impacts fundraising. I think that's going to be fascinating. We have somebody coming on talking about grants for good or the grants for good organization and what the grant perspective looks like in 2022. It's changed a lot. We just have so many exciting things coming up. And so we want you to join us. And as we sign off as every day and we have pretty much from the beginning, right? Absolutely. We say this little mantra and we really mean it. Stay well so you can do well. We have a lot to do. It's going to be an exciting 2022. Thanks for joining us and being a part of our family on the nonprofit show. Thank you, Julia. Thank you, Jarrett. Happy New Year. 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UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA	Mod-01 Lec-13 Conjugate Quadrature Filters Daubechies Family of MRA	Advanced Digital Signal Processing-Wavelets and multirate by Prof.v.M.Gadre,Department of Electrical Engineering,IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in	[ "Conjugate Quadrature Filters Daubechies Family of MRA" ]	2015-09-09T09:27:34	2024-04-23T23:46:57	3,142	pCjQ2KH7QnA	A warm welcome to the thirteenth lecture on the subject of wavelets and multivariate digital signal processing. We continue in this lecture to build upon the particular class of filter banks which we had introduced in the previous lecture namely the conjugate quadrature filter bank. A number of issues related to that filter bank were left unanswered in the previous lecture. To some extent our introduction of the filter bank seemed ad hoc at points. What I mean by that is we had suddenly made little twists in the nature of the filters where a proper justification had not been given simply because there was a bit of a chicken and egg problem. The justification was best seen after we went through the discussion and that is what I had promised that after we complete an understanding of this filter bank many things will be a little more clear. So, let us embark then upon that filter bank once again let us look at that conjugate quadrature structure once again first in Toto and then in specifics. So, in today's theme we shall look at conjugate quadrature filters in depth and we shall again consider one specific class of those conjugate quadrature filter banks namely the family of filter banks and family of multi resolution analysis that emerge from Dobash filters. Incidentally, as I mentioned Dobash or you know sometimes it is pronounced as Dobashis has been a mathematician, scientist, engineer whatever you want to call her of repute. Her important contribution in this field has been to propose a family of compactly supported wavelets which also have some other interesting properties. It turns out that the hard wavelet is the baby of the Dobash family the simplest of the Dobash wavelets and there are further and further ones of which we shall give an introduction today. In fact, the central idea in the Dobash family is to build upon what we had briefly mentioned in the previous lecture namely the idea of keeping and annihilating polynomials of higher and higher degree on one of the two branches of a filter bank. Anyway, we shall look at specifics as we go along, but this is to put the lecture in perspective. So we shall talk today about the conjugate quadrature filter bank and we shall look specifically at the Dobash family of MRA. Now you see the conjugate quadrature filter structure as we understood it at the following relationships between the filters. We had the analysis high pass filter was related to the analysis low pass filter by the following relationship and we had promised that we shall understand this a little better today. Of course, the synthesis filters were related very easily to the analysis filters. So you had g 0 z being h 1 of minus z and g 1 z being minus h 0 of minus z. This of course, was essentially Elias cancellation for you these two conditions. But now let us focus on this relationship of h 1 to h 0. So first let us justify why it is a high pass filter. So let us consider this expression z raised to the power minus d h 0 minus z inverse and let us put z equal to e raised to the power j omega as we do to obtain a frequency response where upon we will have e raised to the power minus j omega d h 0 minus e raised to the power minus j omega. Now if we take the magnitude of this as is normally what we are interested in we have the magnitude of e raised to the power minus j omega d h 0 e raised to the power minus j omega is the same as the magnitude of h 0 e raised to the power minus j omega minus I am sorry minus of this. That is because the magnitude of this is 1 and now let us look at this quantity the magnitude of h 0 minus e raised to the power minus j omega. You see if h 0 is a filter with real coefficients. So if h 0 z corresponds to a filter with a real impulse response and that is the class in which we are most interested. In that case h 0 e raised to the power minus j omega is going to be h 0 e raised to the power j omega complex conjugated that follows in a straight forward way from some basic properties of the discrete time Fourier transform. What we are saying essentially is that the magnitude response of a filter with real impulse response is symmetric in omega and the phase is anti symmetric. If we now replace e raised to the power minus j omega by minus e raised to the power minus j omega what are we really doing. So h 0 minus e raised to the power minus j omega is essentially h 0 e raised to the power minus j omega plus minus pi we have done this before we have noted that minus 1 is essentially e raised to the power plus minus j pi and therefore, what we have done here is essentially to shift this by pi either forward or backward it does not make any difference because there is a periodicity with a period of 2 pi anyway. What we do know is that a low pass filter I think we have seen this quite frequently now a low pass filter when shifted by pi on the frequency axis becomes a high pass filter of course, a low pass filter aspiring to be a low pass filter with a cut off of pi by 2 it becomes an aspirant for a high pass filter with a cut off of pi by 2 again and similarly when a high pass filter is shifted by pi on the omega axis it becomes a low pass aspirant with a cut off of pi by 2 we have seen this pretty much before anyway recognizing this then we have an interpretation for what we just did. So, we said this minus essentially shifts by pi and therefore, h 0 e raised to the power minus j omega without the minus sign would have been a low pass filter as it is because of this conjugate symmetry that we have here and now with the introduction of a minus sign it becomes a high pass filter. So, we have a convincing argument now that h 1 z the way we have constructed it. So, we have convinced ourselves we have shown h 1 z in the way that we have constructed it namely z raised to the power minus d h 0 minus z inverse is indeed high pass or a high pass aspirant aspires to be an ideal high pass filter with cut off pi by 2 provided of course, h 0 z is an aspirant to be a low pass filter with cut off pi by 2. So, now things have fallen into place the only issue is why have we taken this peculiar expression not so peculiar really now we do not see it is so peculiar, but why the z inverse and so on. So, we will understand that in a minute you see I will just give you a trailer for the reason the trailer is that this automatically brings a condition on the magnitude we will see that shortly anyway. Now, let us put down the Elias cancellation condition is anyway put down we need to put down the perfect reconstruction condition. So, let us put down the perfect reconstruction condition we did that yesterday, but we will do it little more carefully the perfect reconstruction condition essentially says that you would have g 0 z h 0 z plus g 1 z h 1 z must be some constant we called it c 0 times z raised to the power minus d and what are g 0 g 1 h 0 h 1 here. Now, we have agreed that g 0 z is essentially h 1 of minus z. So, we had h 1 minus z h 0 z plus now g 1 z we had agreed to make minus h 0 minus z and h 1 z of course, we have agreed to make it z raised to the power minus d and so on, but let me write h 1 z for the moment and we want this whole thing to be c 0 z raised to the power minus d. Now, we will substitute h 1 z in this equation we have minus 1 to the power d z raised to the power minus d h 0 z inverse times h 0 z minus. Now, again you have h 0 minus z here and h 1 z becomes z raised to the power minus d h 0 minus z inverse this you desire should be c 0 z raised to the power minus d. Now, you know this z raised to the power minus d that we have here. In fact, we should not quite have written it like this though what we have written now happens to be correct. We should have started by giving a different value for the delay here and the delay on this side, but now again through serendipity or through convenience we can actually make them the same. The purpose of putting this z raised to the power minus d here was actually to take care of this term here. So, it is not coincidental that we have written the same d on both sides. So, that should not have been done initially we are doing it right away to emphasize that this z raised to the power minus d term that we introduced in h 1 was meant to take care of this. So, what we are saying in effect is that we want the rest of it to match as well. So, what we desire for perfect reconstruction is essentially this minus 1 raised to the d h 0 z h 0 z inverse minus h 0 minus z h 0 minus z inverse is a constant. Now, again we have the freedom to choose the value of capital d here. Again the main issue is whether capital d is odd or even. If capital d is odd then we have a minus in both places for both the terms. If it is even then this is a plus and this is a minus. Let us choose to make capital d odd and in fact again there is a reason for that it is not arbitrary. You know we have just looked at the Haar filter bank where we have a filter of even lengths a length 2 filter actually all of them you know 1 plus z inverse 1 minus z inverse on both sides are of length 2. When we replace z by z inverse. So, let us take the Haar case once again you had h 0 z of the form 1 plus z inverse whatever forget the by 2 here in the Haar case h 0 z inverse would have been 1 plus z and the z to the power minus d h 0 z inverse or if you choose you know you can write minus z inverse as we do and this would then become minus here z raised to power minus d h 0 minus z inverse is actually intended to make this causal this filter is non-causal. So, you need to introduce a z raised to power minus 1 here to make this causal and therefore d becomes 1 in this case. So, you see the role of d I had hinted at this yesterday you see we said that the reason why we cannot avoid a delay is because you want the filters to be causal now you see what we mean this z raised to power minus d term has been put there to retain causality and you just put as much of a d as is needed to allow for causality and. So, here the d required is 1 now in the Dovash family we keep augmenting the filter length by 2 in every rung of the family ladder. So, when we go from the baby of the family namely the Haar MRA to the next member of the family we augment the length by 2. So, we have a length of 4 when we go to a length 6 it gives us the third member and so on length 8 the fourth member and so on so forth. So, successive even lengths of filters give us successive members of the family in the Dovash family now what we are going to do is slowly move towards building the second member of the Dovash family and therefore the next case would be capital D equal to 3. So, you would have a length of 4 and you would have a maximum power of z equal to 3 z cubed when you write h 0 minus z inverse that is the role of z raised to power minus d here. Therefore, it is justified for us to begin by assuming that d is odd. So, let me put that down once again for you in this relationship that we have here we shall now assume d to be odd with d odd we essentially have for perfect reconstruction h 0 z h 0 z inverse plus h 0 minus z h 0 minus z inverse is a constant let me explain you see when d is odd then both of these are minus sign. So, you can take away the minus sign from the left hand sign and put it on the right and this is anyway a constant. So, negative of a constant is also a constant. So, there we are now what does this mean we need to reflect on it little we will first reflect on it in the frequency domain. So, when we put z equal to e raised to power j omega what do we have here h 0 z or rather h 0 e raised to power j omega times h 0 e raised to power minus j omega plus h 0 minus e raised to power j omega plus h 0 minus e raised to power j omega h 0 minus e raised to power minus j omega is a constant. Now, once again we shall remove the minus sign here and shift omega by pi and we shall also note that if you have a filter with a real impulse response then h 0 e raised to power minus j omega is essentially the complex conjugate of h 0 e raised to power j omega. The same holds here when you have omega replaced by minus omega here you again get a complex conjugate of this. So, all in all for real filters we have h 0 e raised to power j omega h 0 e raised to power j omega complex conjugate plus h 0 e raised to power j omega plus pi plus minus if you please h 0 e raised to power j omega plus minus pi complex conjugate is a constant. Now, we have a very beautiful conclusion here you see this is the magnitude squared and this is again a magnitude squared. So, there we are what we are saying in effect is mod h 0 e raised to power j omega squared plus mod h 0 e raised to power j omega plus minus pi the whole squared is a constant. Now, this is very interesting this is exactly one of the properties that we had introduced in the context of the Haar system namely the property of what is called power complementarity. Here it is clear now that by this construction we have achieved power complementarity in the high pass and low pass filters of the analysis side and in fact it is a simple consequence that if we look at the synthesis side they are also power complementary. In fact I leave it to you as an exercise by using the relation between g 0 g 1 and h 0 to show that the synthesis side is also power complementary. So, what do we have here it is very interesting the analysis filters are power complementary and so to the synthesis filters. So, as I said exercise show this we have already proved it more or less it is just a little bit of as they say dotting your eyes and crossing your t's you need to write down need proof, but I think that is a good thing to do we must leave a couple of exercises for the class to do and this is a very simple exercise with which we begin. Use the discussion that we just had over the last couple of minutes to work out the details to show that the analysis filters and the synthesis filters are both a cop a power complementary pair. Anyway this is the motivation for that so called quote unquote peculiar choice of h 1 now we see things falling in place. The z inverse was required to bring this complex conjugation replace omega by minus omega and of course as you see for a real impulse response it had no effect on the magnitude, but we could remove the phase. So, it is a strategic choice of analysis high pass you could have chosen h 0 minus z or something like that, but you chose h 0 minus z inverse because you wanted that complex conjugation and then you put a z raise the power minus d because you wanted to make it causal. So, a z raise the power minus d is to introduce causality the z replaced by z inverse is to introduce to bring in this complex conjugation to bring in power complementarity and finally, the minus I mean minus z inverse instead of just z inverse is to convert the low pass to a high pass. So, now it all falls in place and we have justified our choice and now we also know what we demand of h 0 z so that we get perfect reconstruction. Let us look at that condition once again that condition tells us and let me write it slightly differently. That condition tells us for perfect reconstruction some interesting intermediate filter which we shall define by kappa 0 z. So, let us define kappa 0 z as h 0 z h 0 z inverse what we are saying is that for perfect reconstruction we require kappa 0 z plus kappa 0 minus z to be a constant. Now, things are beginning to make even more self. If we know the sequence that gives us h 0 z what is the sequence that gives us h 0 z inverse let us reflect a minute on this. So, what I am trying to say is we have agreed that we are going to choose even length h 0 z something like an impulse response of the following form h 0 h 1 and so on h 0 lies at 0 up to h 0 z inverse. So, h 0 h d remember d was odd and therefore, h 0 z inverse would then correspond to the following quite clear when you replace z by z inverse you are essentially reflecting the sequence about the point n equal to 0 simple. Now, h 0 z times h 0 z inverse corresponds to their convolution you know when you multiply two z transforms the corresponding sequences are convolved and therefore, we have this convolved with this maybe I should put parenthesis here and indicate the 0 clearly there. Now, how do you convolve? Well these are of equal length. So, I could choose either of them as the static one and the other one as the moving one. So, just for convenience what I will do is the sequence which we started with the one corresponding to h 0 we shall keep as the static sequence and the one corresponding to h 0 z inverse we shall make it move. Now, what we are saying essentially is keep this static. So, you have and make this move. So, when you make the other one move you are doing two things you are bringing you see you want to if essentially you have sequence one let us say sequence let us call that sequence g n just for the time being the sequence g n is this or g k if you like in which case the sequence g n is the sequence n minus k this is of course, a function of k. So, k equal to 0 its h 0 and so on. So, g of n minus k is going to look like this the 0 would go to n and whatever comes before 0 would go after n there. So, you have h 1 and so on up to h d. So, this reaches the point n plus t here this is the sequence g n minus k and this you may of course, call the sequence h 0 of k if you like. So, you are trying to convolve this sequence with essentially with this sequence, but in that convolution you are going to move around this at different locations here. Now, visualize let me put that down clearly once again for you. We are saying we have this so called static sequence and this is going to move around n is moving. So, you can visualize the situation for different values of n this lies at different locations with respect to the static sequence. For example, when n is equal to 0 the samples actually coincide. When n is equal to 1 then h 0 clashes with h 1 and of course, h d has gone out of range. So, it has gone to a 0 sample here. When n is equal to minus 1 you are here and then of course, h 1 clashes with h 0 h d with h of d minus 1 here and so on so forth. So, you see what we have is actually the dot product of the sequence and its own shifted versions. This is very interesting. What we are saying is that the samples of kappa 0 are actually dot products of the original filter impulse response shifted by different amounts of shift. Let us write that down. That is a very important conclusion kappa 0 kappa 0 z which is h 0 z times h 0 z inverse corresponds to a sequence whose nth sample is as follows the dot product of the impulse response corresponding to h 0 and the same shifted by m samples. If you want to be very specific you should say m samples forward, but that does not really matter. So, if you want to write it down in the notation of dot products what we are saying is that this denotes the dot product of sequences a and b. So, you know a with an argument integer argument b with an integer argument this is the dot product of a and b and we are saying the m sample of the filter kappa 0 is essentially the dot product h 0 and h 0 shifted by m plus or minus is not really an issue. If you like you can make this minus. There is a symmetry you know you can visualize that if you shift backward by 2 or forward by 2 it is the same let us verify that for a length 4 for example you will see what I mean. So, if you had a length 4 for example you would have h 0 h 1 h 2 h 3 and if you took this and the same thing shifted by 2 you are talking about this dot product the rest of it is 0 of course. So, here again you get 0s and you do not need to write that. So, the dot product is essentially h 0 h 2 plus h 1 h 3 now if you were to shift it backwards. So, you had h 0 h 1 h 2 h 3 there and you shifted it backwards and of course, this is all 0. So, again the dot product would be h 0 h 2 plus h 1 h 3. So, as you can see shifting backward or forward by m is not an issue. However, what we are saying here is something very interesting we are saying that with this understanding of the samples corresponding to kappa 0 z kappa 0 z plus kappa 0 minus z is a constant and if we take the inverse z transform now and if you only care to multiply by half on both sides this is also a constant obviously and this is something very familiar to us. We have encountered this when we did down sampling. So, in fact if the original sequence corresponding to kappa 0 z. So, you know let kappa 0 z correspond to the sequence let us write small k 0 n then what we are saying is that kappa 0 when this sequence is modulated by a sequence which is 1 at the even locations and 0 at the odd locations. So, it is something interesting we are doing we are modulating this kappa 0 n by a sequence which is 1 at the even locations and 0 at the odd locations. This gives us a sequence corresponding to the inverse z transform of a constant which is essentially an impulse. Now, you know this modulation is what we derived when we talked about the z transform across a down sampler. So, remember when we go across a down sampler by a factor of 2 it is like first modulating by a sequence which is 1 at the even locations and 0 at the odd locations. In general when you go across a down sampler by a factor of capital M it is like modulating with a sequence which is 1 at all multiples of capital M and 0 elsewhere followed by an inverse up sampling operation. So, remember a down sampling by 2 was modulation by a periodic sequence with period 2 which was 1 at locations equal to multiples of 2 and 0 else followed by an inverse up sampler by a factor of 2. Inverse up sampler means a compressor throw away the zeros down sampling by a factor of M was essentially multiplication by a periodic sequence period capital M 1 at all multiples of M 0 elsewhere followed by an inverse up sampler by a factor of capital M which means throw away the zeros and compress. So, we have you see that throwing away the zeros was what made z replaced by z raise the power half. So, here in this expression kappa 0 z plus kappa 0 minus z we are not writing z raise the power of half. So, we do not do that inverse up sampling operation, but the rest of it is there and that is the justification for this step here modulation with this periodic sequence and now this is equal to a constant which means if we take the inverse z transform here we are saying this is essentially the impulse which means this has a non zero value at 0, but 0 everywhere else. So, let us write that down kappa 0 N when modulated with this periodic sequence with period 2 with the ones at multiples of 2 and 0 elsewhere results in a sequence which is non zero only at z equal to at N equal to 0 that is what we are saying and obviously at the odd locations anyway it is 0. So, there is nothing very surprising here it is at the even locations that we have a surprising result there. So, the surprise is at the even locations of course m not equal to 0. So, what we are saying is that if I take the impulse response of the low pass filter on the analysis side shifted by any even number of samples 2 4 minus 2 minus 4 6 minus 6 and so on and take the dot product of that shifted impulse response with the original impulse response that dot product is 0. For those of us who are familiar with the idea of auto correlation what we are saying is that the auto correlation of the impulse response of the low pass filter is 0 at the even locations other than 0. Let us use this to build the first of the family of the Dabash filters you see well I should say first non trivial. So, it is second in that sense the first non baby member Dabash filter with length 4 is going to look something like this it is going to have an impulse response H 0 H 1 H 2 H 3 and recall what we did yesterday we said that in this filter we would need to bring in one more factor of the form 1 minus z inverse in the high pass filter. So, her had 1 1 minus z inverse in the H P M. So, this length 4 filter would have 2 factors 2 1 minus z inverse in the high pass filter and that means you see the high pass filter was obtained by replacing z by z inverse and then by minus z as well. So, if the z inverse part gets taken care of by the delay z raise the power minus d, but the z replaced by minus z needs to be undone to go to the low pass and therefore, the low pass filter would have a factor 1 plus z inverse square. Now, when you say it has a factor 1 plus z inverse the whole square you already constrained 2 of the 3 zeros that it has free to be chosen. What I mean is if you looked at H 0 z it would have been H 0 plus H 1 z inverse plus H 2 z raise the minus 2 plus H 3 z raise the power minus 3. So, there are 3 zeros to be chosen out of them we have already chosen 2. So, we have only 1 free let that free 1 be at b 0. So, in all it is very simple we can take H 0 z to be of the form 1 plus z inverse the whole square times 1 plus b 0 z inverse. What do we have then let us expand this we have H 0 z is essentially 1 plus 2 z inverse plus z raise the power minus 2 times 1 plus b 0 z inverse and we can expand this further that product will be 1 plus 2 z inverse plus z raise the power minus 2 plus b 0 z inverse times this. So, b 0 z inverse plus 2 b 0 z raise the power minus 2 plus b 0 z raise the power minus 3. So, in a sense we have the following impulse response for the filter 1 2 plus b 0 z inverse plus 2 b 0 z inverse 1 plus 2 b 0 and b 0 here this is the impulse response. Now, we have set up the low pass filter for the second member in the dobash family where do we go from here. We shall use the constraint that we just derived namely that the dot product of this impulse response with its shifts by even shifts must be 0 and we shall see the constraints that emerge on the free parameters. In the next lecture therefore, we shall constrain the value of b 0 make a choice for b 0 and derive precisely the impulse response of the dobash second member and thereby also establish a general procedure for building up the dobash family low pass filters. Concurrently we shall explain how this family evolves and recall again the significance of going from one member to the other with that then we shall conclude the lecture today. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjQ2KH7QnA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC5-rNGe-OhG_KxwYN4DuNVQ	An Obfuscated Beacon - Extra XOR Layer	More info: https://videos.didierstevens.com/2022/09/06/an-obfuscated-beacon-extra-xor-layer/	null	2022-09-06T07:51:24	2024-02-05T08:35:06	916	pCNYvgh_OuQ	Hallo, ddstevenseer, seniorhandler bij de internetstormzetter. Ik heb een koppelstrijkssample gegeven, een beacon, dat mijn tool 1768.py niet de configuratie kunnen extracteren. Dus dat is mijn tool, de sample en dat is de uitgang dat je krijgt. Nu gaan we eens kijken naar dat file, het moet een pf file zijn. En inderdaad, het is, maar het heeft ook een overlay. De low overlay is rond 256 kilobytes en het betreft 91 procent van het file, eigenlijk bijna 92 procent, het is een hoge entropy. Dus dat is waarschijnlijk waar de beacon houdt, want als het file zelf, het pf file, zonder de overlay, laten we zeggen een paar van 10 kilobytes, dat is niet mogelijk om een volledig stagelijke beacon binnen te houden, want dat is rond 250k. Laten we eens kijken naar de overlays, sorry, op de sections. En inderdaad, je hebt veel sections, maar de grootste hier, met de code is 10k en oké, je kunt houdt, je kunt hier een schelcode hier, een stagelschelcode, maar je kunt niet een volledig beacon in het. Dus laten we eens kijken naar de overlay, want dat is waar het zal zijn. Dus ik krijg de overlay en laten we een haringlink encoded askidump doen. Oké, hier zie ik een repeaten sequence. Het is al interessant. En laten we eens kijken naar het begin. Oké, ik zie dit. Nou, ik heb dit opgemoet, dit is iets te doen met de compiler die gebruikt was, maar voor de rest vind je niets betekend. Ik ga dit door mijn stroomkommand, hier een binary dump, zie je, niet veel interessant hier. Dus wat is hier waarschijnlijk gebeurt, is dat de pfile hier is ontdekend en dat het encoded is xor. En dat is waarom op het eind dat je hier deze repeaten sequence ziet, want op het eind van een pfile zijn er usually een aantal null bytes, value 00. En als je xor 000 sequence, null byte sequence, als je xor dat met een kiep, eind je eigenlijk met een kiep. Dus als dit encoded is xor, dan is dit hier de kiep. En dus het is repeaten hier. Je ziet 1 naar links, dus dat is 16, dat is 2, dus de kiep is 18 karakters. Nou, de ding dat ik heb is een tool die een kiep met xor encoded kan doen. Dus je moet het een noon plaintext geven en dan het gaat proberen te vinden de noon plaintext die encoded is en de kiep van de encoder van dat noon plaintext met de actuale data van de overleving hier. En ik heb mijn tool hier, xor kpa update, zodat het een paar plaintext voor cobblestrike, dus een van die is cskey. Dus dit is een noon plaintext voor de header van de publieke kiep in de configuratie met xor. Dus 2e. Dus let's run this. Oké en hier heb je verschillende kiepen en de meest gelukkige kiep is naast het eind, want dit is de kie hier dat de tool vond, de xor decryptie kiep. En als het dat kiep gebruikt om dat plaintext te decodeen, dan heeft het nog 15 extra bytes over, dus dat betekent dat de kiep is vergeten en het is erg gelukkig dat de correcte kiep was gevonden. Als we dat hebben, wat we kunnen doen, is de option D om de decoding te doen en dan zal het decodeen met de meest gelukkige kiep, de laatste kiep, en uitvoeren dit als binary. En ik ga dit opnemen die, laten we eerst de be checken, om te zien of we met de be file aanbieden. En ik denk dat het niet begint, omdat je dat header hebt. Dus ik ga proberen om de be file te loceren. Oké, geen be file was gevonden. Laten we eens kijken naar de kiepen. Oké, ja en decoding heeft gewerkt, want nu hebben we 3 be kiepen en we hebben dat niet gehad. Dus ik zal dit nu in mijn kogelstrijk becan analyseren tool. En inderdaad, hier is de configuratie gevonden en extracteerd. Nou, een beetje meer over de non-plaintext texten hier. Als je een help doet, hier heb je de verschillende plaintext dat ik heb gezien voor deze tool. Je kunt natuurlijk op jouw eigen plaintext, geen probleem, in een tekstfile bijvoorbeeld. Maar je kunt ook zeggen, ik wil een van de pre-defined kiepen gebruiken. En dus dit is de plaintext van een header van de kogelstrijk kiepen die niet exor encoded is. Dus value 4, config item 7, sorry 7, dat is de publieke kie, type 3, een lengte hier van exodesmo 100 bytes en dan hier heb je de kie, de publieke kie, de start, wat, eigenlijk, deze part is altijd dezelfde en dat is de header, met bijvoorbeeld de ID. En dus dat is de kieping die niet exor encoded is en dan heb je twee andere kiepen die exor encoded met dot en een met i. Dat zijn de twee kiepen die je vaak in de kogelstrijk begint te vinden. Nou, als ik de analysie van dit sample deed, heb ik geen exor kph gebruikt hier, want dan was het niet kunnen doen de decoding. Eerst had ik het update tot Python 3, ik heb niet deze kiezen hier, dus wat ik hier deed, was gebruiken mijn translate tool in een andere method en laten ik je laten zien. Dus een ASCII dump of de overlay en hier, dus dit bijvoorbeeld. En dan hier twee extra bytes, zoals dit, dat is een gelukkige kie, want hier zie je het repeat, zoals dit. Nou, natuurlijk, als ik dit zeg, is dit een gelukkige kie en begint met 28, kan het ook zijn dat het eigenlijk begint met een 0, zoals dit en dat 28 is aan het einde enzovoort. Dus je moet proberen verschillende rotationen van dat kie. Dus dat kan ik doen met mijn translate tool. Dus een full read, omdat we op alle data gaan acteren, niet byte per byte. Dus lambda function data en je hebt een exor decoding function en coding function in translate.py dat je kunt gebruiken. Dus je geeft het data en je geeft het kie. Ja, dus ik heb eigenlijk de kie nodig. Laten we dat weer doen. Oké, dus en let's assume dat dit de kie is. Laten we dit copy. Dus een binary dump. Pipe dit in translate, lambda function en ik gebruik exor. Dat is een built-in function in translate.py, mijn translationscript dat dus exor decoding en coding. Dus je geeft het data. Je geeft het de kie en dus hier 28 en dan heb ik die twee byte 2 nodig, want het is 18 bytes long. En nu, dit is een kleine update dat ik maakte met mijn tool, de function exor. Je had het een binary string gegeven. Exadecimal was niet een optie, nu is het. Maar als je het exadecimal als een kie geeft, moet je een 3e per meter exadecimal passen. Dat moet echt zijn. En als we dit doen, we gaan de translation doen en de exor encoding met deze kie. En laten we dit passen op strings.py, dus kijken wat we metvinden. Dat is niet de correcte kie. Want we hebben niets dat is correct. Nou, zoals ik heb gezegd, mijn arbitrair is hier te beginnen met 28, maar het kan ook zijn dat de kie eigenlijk begint met a. Dat is de kie a0, 0, 9 en zo, 3d en dan eind 28. Oké, nou, dat is een rotation van de kie en dat is ook een parameter dat ik geïmpelde een extra optie hier in exor en dat is dat je kunt zeggen dat je een rotation wilt doen op de kie. Op de default, de rotation is 0, dus er is geen rotation, maar hier gaan we een rotation van 1, dus dat betekent dat we schijven, we roteren alle bytes, één positie naar de link en dan de byte hier, dat in het begin endt op de einde. Dus laten we dit proberen. Oké, dat werkt niet en dan gewoon doen trial en error. 2, 3, 4, roteren 5 bytes. Laten we 6 bytes proberen. Oké, en nu hebben we decoded. Dus de kie is roterend voor 6 bytes, dus 1, nou 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, dus hier, 27, 0, e, dat is het begin van de kie. Oké, we kunnen dit bekijken en we hebben een decoding. En als we terug naar exor kpa, hier, sorry, exor kpa, let's gewoon exor kpa op het met de naam cs kie dot. De kie begint ook te beginnen met 27, 0, e. Dus exor kpa kan het kie vinden omdat je het de noon plaintext geeft en dan gebruikt dat noon plaintext te exor de data en als je exor encoded data met noon plaintext, wat je met dat noon plaintext eindt, is eigenlijk de kie, de exor kie. Nu, dit werkt als de exor kie is kleiner dan de de noon plaintext. Als de exor kie is groter langer dan de noon plaintext, dan werkt het niet. Want je probeert te vinden repetities van de kie. Dat is wat exor kpa doet. Nu, een laatste ding. Dus hier vertrekken we, ik heb geen noon plaintext gegeven, maar ik heb gewoon de data gezien en dacht, oké, dit is een potentieel kie. Laten we dit proberen, we proberen een error. Dat is wat we hier gedaan hebben. Nou, ik heb ook de volgende optie geïnteresseerd, optie c, zonder de rotatie te geven, dat is een nummer. Je kunt ook een rotatie geven dat is c en met de optie c, het probeert te vinden de locatie van de kie in de data en als het het vindt, gebruik het dat om de rotatie te calculeren. En zoals je hier kunt zien, vindt het de rotatie voor je en je moet niet doen aan het proberen hier. Maar dat werkt niet altijd.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCNYvgh_OuQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC4fqIuWomM3HWcsA_aZ1pzg	NCompass Live : One Book For Nebraska Kids and Teens, with Stick Dog author Tom Watson	Recorded on Sept. 21, 2016 NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/ Wouldn’t it be great if kids all over Nebraska were talking about books? The Nebraska Library Commission & the Regional Library Systems have a program where kids can all read and discuss the same book. Join Sally Snyder, the NLC's Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services, to learn all about the 2016 program: One Book For Nebraska Kids, Stick Dog by Tom Watson, and One Book For Nebraska Teens, The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry. Sally will also be joined by Stick Dog author, Tom Watson!	[ "NLC", "ncomplive" ]	2016-09-28T20:00:46	2024-02-05T15:59:50	5,061	PcVdOxdO2D0	Hello, welcome to Encompass Live. This is our Nebraska Library Commission's weekly webinar on all kinds of topics involving libraries. The webinar is being recorded and will be archived, and I'll show you where to find these at the end of the broadcast. Today's show is about one book for Nebraska kids and one book for Nebraska teams, which is a program that's been going on for a little while. As I said earlier, we have a special guest we hope will be able to join us today, Tom Watson. He's not logged in yet, but he'll hopefully be coming along soon. And in the meantime, we'll talk about our program. I just brought up our Nebraska Library Commission main webpage, and this is where you can go to search for one book for Nebraska kids and teens. But I do want to show you, this is our blog part of our webpage. And Chris, to put this up, when was it? Monday or last week? And this is just an announcement about our show today. And here you can see a picture of both books. Our one book for Nebraska kids is Stick Dog by Tom Watson. And our one book for Nebraska teens is The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die by April Henry for this year. Now, if you log in at another time where this notice won't be there anymore, a good way to find it is to just click in our search box and type in one. And there you see one book for Nebraska kids, one book for Nebraska teens, or one book when Nebraska come up. If you click on either of these, you're sent to a list. And this list includes one book for Nebraska kids slash teens. And that takes you to our main page. The things that are on this page, the most recent things are towards the top. We have a general explanation at the beginning here about the program, how it operates, and who's been involved, the regional library systems, the Youth Advisory Board, I'll talk about in a little bit. And then the books. So this year, like I said, Stick Dog by Tom Watson is our one book for Nebraska kids. And then the teens is The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die. And the way we have them set up now is Stick Dog on one side and The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die on the other side. I did want to mention that this program got started after we had begun having the one book when Nebraska. And I called this one book for Nebraska kids because to me, that made sense. But it's confusing to everybody else. So if you think I should rename it, you can send in your vote. Most people call it one book, one Nebraska kids. And that's okay because we all know what we're talking about. But I just plugged that name on it, one book for Nebraska teens, one book for Nebraska kids because I thought, well, that's where we needed to go. Anyway, after the one book, one Nebraska had gone for a few years and I should have looked back to see just when Sharon Osega and I talked. But this was Sharon Osega. She's one of the co-directors of the Central Plains Library system right now. This was her idea. She said, don't you think we should have something for kids, which kind of is how I got us going on this. Wouldn't it be great if kids all over Nebraska were talking about books? That's kind of from Sharon. And her idea was to start with, well, let's just, okay, hold onto your stomachs because we're going way down to the bottom. Here we go. This was one book for Nebraska kids and it had a two-year span when we first started. And that was Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Michelson. This was her suggestion and we agreed that this would be a good book to start with. And we just said kids at that time. So here we have, again, a flyer, some details, and some puzzles you can use. The next year, 2008, 2009, we did one book for Nebraska teens and that was the book thief with the first book for teens. And we were at that time, we're thinking high school age because not as many programs are geared to the high school age. I had a number of librarians contact me and say, please, please, please make this for the older age group. So we did. And for several years, we alternated. One year we denounced the one book for Nebraska kids. The next year we denounced the one book for Nebraska teens. And that's why these all have a two-year span because Rescue Josh McGuire was our one book for Nebraska kids for two years. And then we did The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. And she was, she worked out that she could come and tour around Nebraska and visit a number of libraries, school and public, and talk with a whole bunch of kids across the state. It was a terrific opportunity for lots of people. We're so happy that she was able to do that with us. And again, we have puzzles and activities, sometimes discussion questions. And see, all of this is still up here. You can still use these. The discussion questions are ones that we wrote here. If it looks like this, you know that they're ones that the staff here or the Youth Advisory Board wrote for the book. So if you decide, hey, I want to do that book this year, as far as I know, we still have the set that you can borrow from our book club kits sets. And maybe this is when you want to have your kids, your book discussion group read. Along with that, let's see, I'm going to, oh, unwind by Neal Schusterman. He also, it was fortunate that he also was able to come to Nebraska for a week and tour across the state and meet again with lots and lots of kids and teens. As I scroll up slowly, see, we're still doing every other one. The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett. And then up here, in 2012, you know I was going to guess that? That was our last year of just one book because that was Blank Confession by Pete Hoffman, which was our one book for Nebraska teens. And I'd had over time a number of librarians say, can't we have both books every year because I'll have my teens read the one book for this year. And then they say, what's the next book? And I tell them, well, that's two years away. And they go, oh, and are so disappointed. So we thought, okay, let's give that a try. So we did, we got going to kids and teens in 2013, which means they have one year of reigning supreme, but they're still all here and you can still use them for a book discussion group or for your classroom if you want to have a classroom read. The books are here, the puzzles are here, activities. We've written out activities for most of the books, which are just some ideas instead of just, there are also discussion questions, but the activities are something that they can create something along with the book like page 62, grade stands for greeting and review of aliens disguised for Earth. So then we said, well, create some other acronyms for the intergalactic bed and breakfast. That's what the IBB stands for. I can't believe I remember that. Oh, there it is right above intergalactic B&B. And so some kind of fun things that they can do when they can share with each other. Put up on the wall, things like that. Along with this are puzzles. I'm just going to hop down on my little list. Should we start with these puzzles? Should I start with a hard puzzle or an easy puzzle? Easy, okay, crossword. Aliens on vacation. Sometimes the Youth Advisory Board created puzzles, and then I just put them together so they were in a shareable format. I have, I think it's 20 children's librarians and teen librarians across the state who are on my Youth Advisory Board. And they, for most of this time, have been the people who chose the books. I'd send a list of here's the ones that are being considered. And then there was a voting date that they had to reply. And they did that, and then they volunteered for which part of the page they were going to help with. So maybe they made the crossword puzzle. Maybe they found out information on the author, which is a lot easier now than it used to be with everybody having a home page. Makes it easier. But down here are the clues, just so you can kind of see what kinds of clues we have. The Milky Way is a, well, I'm guessing it's galaxy. And after you've read the book, you'll know why the visitors came to the bed and breakfast. And we work hard to get questions that are definitive. So this is very likely the word that goes in there, relates to the book and isn't too hard. And I'm not the best at writing questions. My friend Janet here at the Library Commission is much better at that. So, and also the people on the use advisory board are very good at that. I'm good at finding hard puzzles. Just kidding. For example, I love the clueless crossword puzzle. And the way this works is there are, it looks like a crossword puzzle except there's no numbers. There's no clues. All there are are empty spaces. And then the words that go in there are divided by how many letters. So you know that there are four words that have eight letters. If you find a space of eight letters, you're not sure what's going to fit in there yet. But there are a few like Amy and Aura, the 11 letter word, 1315, that there's only one. So you find that number and you know it has to be this that fits in there. And that gets you started on what other words fit other places where there are more words to choose from. I like this one because I don't have to write clues, but I can put a whole bunch of words on the page. And I don't know how many of you have used any of these puzzles. Or if you think the clueless puzzle is hard or easy. Or if you think my other one I really like is the tile. Is that tile puzzle? And this is fun because it's a quote from the book. This is out of order obviously. So they cut these letters apart and then they move them around to make the sentences. Sometimes it's just one sentence and then this one obviously it's more than one. That's a long one. Wow. I don't have any clue what that is about anymore. But that's a fun thing to do. So that's what we have here. We also have found websites for the book. Sometimes a book trailer, which is fun. And then other times I care for the teen book Leviathan. We didn't really pull up any websites for the book. That's my fault for not getting on that. So you might be looking at this one day and go, oh look, all of a sudden there's websites for that. Even though it's an older one book from Nebraska Teens, we still can add some things that have either just come into existence or I finally got around to finding. So sometimes it's all my fault. Let's see. I'm just going to check over here. Still waiting for Tom Watson. I hope he can get here and talk with us. Because I really didn't want you to have to listen to me all day, but you might have to. Under Stickdog, we did find some fun things. You can see that we do not have our own discussion questions up yet. I think I wrote a few. But we did find some from Harper Collins. So we just pointed there. Here's their discussion questions on the first book in the series, Stickdog. There are five books so far, and I noticed that a new one is coming out soon. And if Tom Watson gets here, he can tell us more about that, we hope. Anyway, these are the questions from Harper Collins. I said that at the bottom. I should scroll down just a little more. I try really hard not to move the page too fast because I get car sick if people move pages around too fast on me. So I don't want to do that to you. So that's Harper Collins. And I think linking to their information is not a problem because that's why they put it up there in the first place. There's also the authors page and also the Stickdog pages, which are fun because it has a number of things. You can go here and, oh, look at this. The next Stickdog book will be released October 4. What's he doing over there? But there are, let's see, some puzzles over here. Let's see. Learn to draw Stickdog. That's what he was going to talk about today if he can log in with us. Read about the books. Take a quiz. So lots of fun things here. And he did... I have it on my list for conference this fall. Stickcat is a new book by him. And it came out in May. And it also has some pictures to download, how to draw, other things. So again, this is lots of fun. I really like this webpage with all of the different possibilities here. Go back to Stickdog and then back here. And we do have a connection to that Stickcat page right there and also down here. We have several puzzles that you can use and we're working on puzzles for the girl who was supposed to die because I got behind. And we're also working ahead for the future. For next year's one book for Nebraska kids and teens because Janet is going to keep me on board for getting things done in a timely manner. Janet's here with me, but she's not going to talk and that's okay. But if you want to ask her a question, you sure can. You can ask questions at any time by going to that question box and just typing in anything that you might want to know. You can also give me some information if you have already had a discussion group using one of our books for Nebraska kids or teens. Any of them on there. And we'd love to hear from you about how it went. And if you have a microphone, we can unmute you so you can just talk instead of typing. But if you'd prefer to type, we'd love to hear from you too. I know some librarians have had already a discussion on Stickdog. I'm not going to name any names, but I know they may not be here today. But, oh, okay. We have some people who would like to talk. I'm going to unmute them and let's see. Hello, you should be unmuted. Oh, you want Janet to talk. I didn't read that right. I thought you wanted to talk. Okay, you're muted again. Just say hi, Janet. Hi, this is Janet. One of the other people here at the commission and I really enjoy helping Sally with her books because I love reading kids and teens books. And we have a book club group here at the Library Commission. And it is centered around teens and kids' books. So we try to read the books that we have for the one book for Nebraska kids and teens. And then we help Sally out with questions and discuss the books. It helps her make up puzzles and that kind of stuff, which is really fun, you know, help and Sally out. It's always fun. I love having help. And the Youth Advisory Board has done that too. It helps send in information, which I really appreciate. Because it all takes time, but it's fun, like you said. We're still going to give people any time you want to either type in a question in the question box or have me unmute your microphone and ask your question or have something to say about it just to tell us something about how things are going in your library. We'd love to hear from you. While we're talking, I do want to mention that we are, like I said, looking ahead already and we would love to hear from you. If you have suggestions for titles for next year, then just email me or type them into your question box and Jenna will jot them down for me. The kids' books are aimed at what I call upper elementary, which is like grades 3, 4, 5. And the teen books, most of the time, we, like I said before, we try to have it at a high school level. We try to avoid anything too controversial because this is usually or often used in schools and we know that there are issues there. Controversial is a very hard to define word. That's why I'm using it. But make a suggestion and we'll see what the committee decides because that's how it goes. And we have a question about how are the books selected? And after Sharon Osenga suggested the first book, Rescue Josh Beguire, I asked the Youth Advisory Board to be involved in this and so they would send me book suggestions. I would come up with some book suggestions and when we first started, it was just either one book for Nebraska kids or one book for Nebraska teens. And I would send them the list of what had been suggested and of course, when did they get this list all about April? When did they have to vote all by the end of August? Does summer reading program ring a bell to anyone? These guys did so much helping me out with this in the middle of being extremely busy with the usual library things that are going on. I really appreciate it. So I would have a due date by when votes had to come in and they would email me their votes and I would tally it up and then announce to them what it's won. Most of the time, that's how this has happened. This last year, I only gave them like two weeks. I'm sorry, but it happened that way. And so they had very, I told them, let me know what you're familiar with. Let me know what you think from your experience would be a good book. Before they tried to read all of the books, this time they didn't have that chance. So they voted on something they were familiar with that rang a bell and then Janet broke the tie. I think you broke the tie this year, wasn't it? Yeah, because sometimes it's a tie. And I do vote, but I only get one vote and I try not to... I mean, I know what my vote is, but I wait until everything's done. I try not to influence anybody to change their... I want them to change their vote. So basically, that's how the books are selected and I ask all the librarians in the state to please send me suggestions because I read a lot of books, but there's no way I read anywhere near to what's published every year. And I talk with librarians and they'll mention a book that I haven't even heard of. How did that happen? I mean, I think I should have at least heard of all the books, but that's not how things go. So that's why I especially like to have people send me suggestions. So send me an email, type something up on the questions list here. If you know of a book that you think would be a good discussion book. If you suggest something, I probably won't put you on the spot and say would you like to do a crossword puzzle for this book, but you can always say no. I might ask you, I don't know. Anyway, another thing I'd like to ask is if you've used our books and our puzzles and information here, I'd also love to hear from you if things are working. Is there a type of puzzle that I don't know about that kids love and I'm not doing because I'm not aware of it? Let me know. Show me how it works. Try to devise one that goes with the book. My Youth Advisory Board has done that before. That's how some new puzzles have come up. While we're talking puzzles, I do want to show you the letter drop puzzle, which is really hard to write instructions for. So I'm going to click on the stick dog book with the letter drop puzzle and it looks like this. So you have these columns. This is a quote from the book. When you read across, like we all do, that will be a quote from the book. On top of each column of letters are letters that all these letters go in these boxes. You just don't know what order they go in. It isn't going to be this order, that much you can count on. This one is not going to start with a B. But that's how you work. We gave you an example here with although the A goes there. We crossed that out in the list. You can see how that works. You can see the comma with the H. Anything with a comma, like this T here, that probably goes at the end of a word too, because you're not going to have a comma in the middle of a word. I'm hoping that my description makes it fairly clear how this works. I think it's fun because you've got all the letters there. You just have to figure out where they fit and what's going to be a good word. When there's a two-letter word, some things that will probably go there. When there's a three-letter word, you can probably figure that out. Then you don't have as many letters left over to go in the other spaces. Yes, I'll go back here because on all of our puzzles, where did I just go? Letter drop puzzle, there is the answer page, which I'm not going to click on here because I'm just that way. When you're looking at these and thinking about using them with your kids that come into your library or your students in your school, you can look at the answer and see if it seems reasonable to give them this puzzle. All of these have answers, a separate page, and on the answer page, hey, let's go to the crossword answers. There's the crossword answers and down at the bottom, no, I'm wrong. Oh, that's because this is so big. Excuse me, I was looking for the request for more. Is it on the answer pages most of the time? Okay, we'll go to the letter drop puzzle because the answer is that bad. Okay, here's the answer. It's in the puzzle, and then it's also as a just phrasing down below and what page it came from. And I just love this quote, so I thought, well, we have to go with that because that's how these books are. They're so fun. And we continually ask you on different things if the readers in your library come up with another one-book idea, anything from a type of puzzle, a book to choose, an activity that should be included in this particular book, please let me know. Send it to me. We will add it to what we have already up there for our book. I'd love to hear from kids and teens and librarians about that. Okay. I'm just hopping back here. There's a question over here about do you have a favorite one-book title? Oh, that's just I don't have a favorite book. There are too many that I love. I love Aliens on Vacation. I love the book thief. I love Stick Dog. It's an excellent book. I think Love It is tough to say about a book that's about abduction and threats and things like that, but it's a well-written book. So I guess the answer is no. I don't have a favorite one. There's too many I like. And there's some books I like that didn't get voted to be a one-book, and that's how it goes. I really thought it was a great choice, but I didn't win. My choice didn't win. Does participation change when the author visits? Another good question. And I would have to say yes. The author visits that we've had, Ben Michelson came for rescue Josh McGuire. He came for a week. He said later that we just about warm into the ground and important. He was right, but he was so wonderful with the kids and with the adults. So we had Ben Michelson and Ellen Cleges and Mr. Sherman all came, all were excellent with relating to the kids that they talked with. And they all went to both school libraries and public libraries. And the kids, I think that they were hungry for this. And they so related they were buying books and getting them autographed and they were asking questions about the books and what they were going to read next. So the whole idea of this program as we say at the beginning was just to get kids another way. There are many ways. But this is one other way to get kids reading and talking. And it's great when they can talk about the same book because they can get more into either the meat of the story or the fun of the story and the activities that kind of bring things around again and make them think some more about the book. And I just think that's wonderful when that can happen. So we've talked about kind of how this all came about. How things are decided. What kind of things we put up on the web page. And I'm just thinking now why don't we have pictures, a picture of each of the books up here. Is that an issue? Because when we saw that, here I'm going back here, when we saw this, it was really fun to see the cover of the books. And I'm just thinking how could I have not thought of that for all of this time. But there we go. Janet's writing this down as something else to do. Because I think that really I'm expecting that librarians and teachers are looking at this page and not the kids themselves. Although they might learn about it and go there to see the answers to the puzzle. And that's just fine with me because they're being active and they're finding out more about the book. But it still can be a little more interesting with a picture of the covers on these. So you know what the book looks like. And then you can, you know that Stick Dog is the first one and you can start looking for what are the other ones. Because that's another thing that happens with kids is when they talk about a book and especially with an author. And they find out that there's more books they want to get their hands on them. Because they've enjoyed this one. I said with Stick Dog there's five books so far and the next one is coming out. It is titled Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti. So this is all all these books are about eating. Because what is important to dogs? Food. And so they in each book they have some kind of an adventure trying to get a particular kind of food. One's about donuts. One's about pizza. There's hot dogs and ice cream. Stick Dog is the first one and that's mostly about getting the hamburgers that the people are barbecuing in the park. And if you haven't read the books I just would like to say a little bit that Stick Dog is kind of the leader of this group of other stray dogs. They never talk about oh I wish we had a home. Oh I wish that we weren't stray. Nothing weird. They're just functioning fine on their own. They don't hurt anybody. But they do want to get to the hot dogs before the raccoon in the tree does. They don't hurt the raccoon. They just want to get to the hot dog vendor first. And they're focusing on yes I think that is Book Two. Janet asked me if that was Book Two. Let's go find out. Oh I'll never mind. We'll find out later. What's Stick Dog? Oh Stick Dog Home. You can talk. That's okay. The books. That's a good idea. Okay. Stick Dog wants a hot dog. What a good idea to go to that page. There's the first one which is about the hamburgers in the park. And the other dogs are some part of the fun is how they're named. The Dalmatians name is Stripes. No explanation given. He does have spots on him. There's a Doxon named Karen a mut named Mut named Poopoo. And each of the other dogs have ideas for how they can get like for this one the first one the hamburgers. Their ideas are usually extreme. I think it's in the first book where someone mentions a trampoline if they could get on the trampoline and then bounce on it and get over and they could somehow grab the hamburgers. Stick Dog is always very diplomatic. Well that's an interesting idea he would say. Now does anyone here have a trampoline? No, no one does. Well that's just not... We'll keep that as a good idea for the future but for right now we can't use that. This is approach I think it shows great leadership and understanding and respect for the others. I said it in more of a condescending way. He isn't condescending but he does know first off we don't have a trampoline and second, bouncing on it isn't going to get us the hamburgers but he doesn't say that to them. So they come up with some strategies but eventually they do end up with a delicious dinner just so you know. So there's Stick Dog wants a hot dog it's book 2 Chases a Pizza is book 3 Dreams of Ice Cream is 4 Oh tries to take the donut see now this hasn't been updated for a while so I feel better. No bad on you Tom Watson or whoever's working on this but this book is out and I've read it. It is also fun and it made me hungry for donuts. And it's fun because there's also the British version of the covers for these books some quite the same as ours Janet was pointing out that this is a good book for everybody but particularly when you have reluctant boy readers this one will grab them because not only is it stick feet, dogs in the book, everything is drawn like stick person, stick dog, stick everything there are lots and lots of illustrations Allah, Diary of a Wimpy Kid but it's really fun and the type has got some good white space between the it doesn't have like lines like it's it's like lined paper it's like a journal in school with lightly lined paper and so there's a great deal of white space it's not not written as handwriting but printed as type but very readable and there's a stick squirrel in this one and a stick tree pretty much a stick tree so it's fun it's good for reluctant readers which often are boys but not always and something that no one's going to be embarrassed to be carrying around in their hands because it's a good book okay I have another question what if I have a group that wants to borrow a set of books how do I do that how convenient but they would ask that let's go back back here sorry is it book club kits let's see what we type in here whoops guess I need to use the right letters book club kits there it is right down there book club kits you can so here's our search book club kits from the Nebraska Library Commission there are other possibilities but of the sets that we have here you can search for a title or author I'm going to search for what are you saying Janet do what keyword under keyword if you'd put in O B O K one book one kit see and then search and here's O that's so handy here are all of them that we've done for one book for Nebraska kids and one book for Nebraska teens are right here you can see this one was kids aliens on vacation blank confession and you can look at what the grade levels are suggested there are the discussion questions included if it's number one in a series there are I read the second book I'm thinking there might be a third one that I haven't read yet in that series all fun and it lets you know where you can go find okay also the puzzles you can just click here for the book thief and hop over to the page we were on before and scroll down to where that book is highlighted and find the puzzles so this is very helpful I'm glad you had me type that in there so if you no one you want like the last newspaper boy in America you can click on request this kit and then you get a form to fill out who you are what your library is your name email that plugs in the one that you want to request and then if this isn't available and the time frame you have in mind you can put in a second or third and third choice if you need to and then how many copies you will need if you want our whole set and it's available good you can borrow that up to 30 copies are available for this title oh it's directed I just thought it said sometimes up to 30 thank you so this particular title you could request 25 or 30 if you're doing this for a classroom read for example that would be good to have then you then it says if you need more copies than we own you're going to have to request them through interlibrary loan and that means asking for them two to three weeks in advance so what date do you want to hand these out what date will your group meet anything else you think we ought to know for example you might say looking for an audio version a few of our books that have an audio version but not that many so that's rare I guess I'd say and then you send the form and we'll respond and let you know if those are available and when we're going to put them in the mail things like that for you so that's a good question thank you now we go back back again if we scroll down a little bit if you forget that the search term is obok if you go down more down just a little entire collection Nebraska there it is because that gives you suggestions at the bottom ways to search you could have also put in one book let's try that just for fun that might also include one book one Nebraska titles let's find out yes it does because now we have some titles that are not one book for Nebraska kids but other one book one Lincoln title there so you can get a lot of ideas from this besides the one book for Nebraska kids and teens for books that your adult or teen or children's book route might be interested in this is a wonderful page that Vern designed for us and I should remember who put all this information in there I think a lot of people added entries for this to be as efficient and complete as it is so again book club kids is what we searched on and this page came up in case you want to borrow some books let's see now where were we just go back here go back to your block here I'm going to take the shortcut because then I don't have to type aren't I lazy back here go to the top a little bit oh Jenna wants to point something out on this page up in the second paragraph at the bottom says the library commission has many other book bags available check them out here which takes you right to our book club page right off of Sally's one book for Nebraska kids page you can go right to this that's good to know and as I was looking at that I was reminded earlier that you had mentioned before the show began which is we do have guidelines for choosing for books that are on our list they're not very involved but you can find that here see the youth advisory board also votes and chooses the books and then helps provide the information here's our guidelines it cannot be a golden soar one of the ten golden soar nominees for that year except for the teen choice because the teen group said that's okay we need to get more teens reading not as many teens are involved in the golden soar program as the younger kids so we can still do that until they tell me to stop and then I'll change it we want the book to be out in paperback we buy them one set for our book club kids usually Tim and then for other people if they want to buy some either to give out to the group or to have in their library the paperback approach is less expensive so we want it to be in paperback we want the book to fit the suggested age group which is tricky I know but there are things that we know are great for kids in grade school to read and books that are great for kids in high school to read and they're not generally the same and also we want some good discussion point in our book group that Janet talked about where we get together and discuss all kinds of children and teen books there have been a couple three times where we had a book that we all really liked it was great it was fun and we had nothing else to say about it there just weren't discussion points and that's not to say that book was bad it wasn't bad we we loved it enjoyed it but there really wasn't much to discuss it just happened that way so we want the book that we select to have some good discussion points some issues that it could be bullying it could be divorce it could be a fantasy where they get lost in the universe all kinds of different things but there needs to be something happening in there that you can talk about with kids and one of the things I like best about discussion books is that it's everybody's viewpoint and it's so amazing to hear the different things that kids and adults come up with that I never thought of about a book and so nobody's wrong when I read this I thought they meant this when I read that I thought they meant that and it's just interesting and it kind of broadens the book for everyone when that happens so when you're on this page then you can also return to one book for Nebraska kids etc oh I have another question do we track participation in this program number of readers and programs etc we do have forms available I haven't looked for that lately I better get on the ball, Jen it's writing it down so the people who do have discussion groups can choose to send us an evaluation we had this discussion this many kids attended or teens this is how it went to let us know who's using it and how things are going and also if they have suggestions this is not a requirement I know there are people out there having book discussion groups that I'm not aware of who they are or what books they're reading or what age group it is but it's fun if you don't mind when you have a book discussion group particularly using one book for Nebraska kids or teens to send that into me so that we can kind of keep track of the people we hear from at least but like I said I'm not sure I have that on here right now Jen it says no oh by the way, we did take a hiatus last year 2015 because we needed to get reorganized and you can tell how organized I am because I let the ball drop again and we were slow getting this up not Janet's fault, my fault but she's got a time frame for me now so I'm going to keep up with it and my youth advisory group will help me keep up with it too some other things that we were going to mention oh I just I don't know if I really brought this up but if you're using any of our books and you're using any of our puzzles I said tell me about puzzles that you are aware of that I don't have but I also want to know if the puzzles that are there that the kids are using are are too easy too hard too complicated or too simple so we can adjust what we offer now is kind of how we think the group a general group of kids or teens would go and someone one year some people on my advisory board mentioned that they didn't think that teens really did puzzles and that could very well be true but I still do we still do puzzles for the teen book because I just don't know I think some of them are might be take home puzzle here's a puzzle take it home if you want to do it or not particularly for teens it can also just be sitting out there so kids who've read the book could just sit and do a puzzle about the book or they can do a tile puzzle even if they haven't read the book and maybe that'll get them to read it it could just be a what's it called a program one of those there's a word for it anyway just something that's sitting around that kids can look at or not sitting there on the table an appetizer an appetizer should Janet said because what's our goal here is to get kids and teens reading and having a discussion about the same book when that works out for them there's no rule about how this happens in your library if it's easier to say hey teens if it's summer for example this June everybody who wants to can read the girl who was supposed to die and then at the end of the month we're going to have a quiz or what is it like a jeopardy program you could make up something like that that they could do this on their own read it think about it do some puzzles to kind of get the thoughts in and then you can either have a live jeopardy program where everybody comes at the same time or you could have a quiz page for them to do on their own to turn in and get points for summer things like that it doesn't have to be always the same so how it works for your library it's great and that's something else we love to hear from librarians is what kind of program how you're using it maybe you're using it like I just said as a suggestion let's all read this book and then we'll do our quiz pages and with stick dog you just got to draw stick dog right I think that's a law you don't have to draw the original characters stick dog you could draw stripes or poo poo if you want to but you just got to draw a dog I think maybe you could get away with not doing it but I think the kids would yell and want it so I'm looking again and for some reason Ted Watson has not logged in I'm thinking something came up he told us that he was traveling to several libraries this week to give presentations and that at the time that we we booked him he was available this morning but things come up sometimes that we're not aware of I'm going to double check my email to see if anything here's Tom oh he sent it to me I'm going to type to him to log in I don't know where it is I have to go find that out okay let's see it's got to be here calendar calendar yeah that makes sense and today okay and then because it tells him to go here on this tell him to go here where does he click okay click on number one let's see sorry I know this is on the air and we're just typing some things in here okay I sure glad I checked my that was at 10.09 oh gosh I thought I checked sooner than that okay well maybe he'll log in now and we can hear a little bit from him before the show was over that would be terrific and this way he doesn't know all of the things I said and he can be fresh so I'm hoping that he'll be able to log in we'll give him a couple minutes in the meantime we don't really need to see those instructions do you let's go back here I think this has been a successful program because our books do get checked out we do occasionally hear from someone who's had a book discussion group and how things went which is always enjoyable and we do sometimes get things from people who make suggestions for something to add to our page here they found a website that they thought went along with it for like under the girl who was supposed to die we have Kirkus reviews there that Janet found for us which gives a review from Kirkus of the book and she also found a book trailer online for that so this connects you to that site where these things are we do not pull that into our web page but connect you to the web page where these are which is good okay let's see see I think if I click twice and all of a sudden he'll be up there as an attendee that maybe he gave up on me oh I'll be so sad do we have any other questions or thoughts while we wait just in case Tom Watson is able to connect Janet do you have anything you'd like to add from your viewpoint of giving me nudges to get these things on our time frame we need um I will mention just one thing about the teen book the girl who was supposed to die as I was reading it I was paying attention to how long this is happening you know the book is so many pages but the time frame of how it happens isn't very long so you know sometimes books are like months or weeks or days or years or whatever but when you actually sit down and look at it the time frame is it's less than 48 hours wow so it's like happening very quickly you know it's really it's fast paced I've kind of forgotten that time frame part of it I'd like to point out that Janet pulled together the description of the girl who was supposed to die and it sounds a little freaky when you say do you like abduction, escape and paranoia but um yeah she was supposed to die and they're still after her so it is a very action oriented but also trying to figure out what's going on who am I, what's going on and where should I go to be safe is another good question and all the while thinking first of all she didn't know anything about her family and then once she started getting more information back she got oh maybe my family doesn't exist anymore maybe they're all dead so in addition to what's happening to herself personally there's this other thing, what happened to my family so it can be a very emotional book you know but and April Henry is a popular author too with the teens, she's an adult author as well she has a number of adult books that are popular and a number of teen books series that of course I can't remember the name of right now that are popular Janet says we should go to author information what a good idea here she is books for teens and adults, for adults and teens okay the body in the woods, oh excuse me that's the first book in the point last scene series which I've read and well that is so fun it's not fun because they're looking for evidence for a murder but that's a great picture, the body people are going on a hike and they find a body in the woods and this is the first book in the series the point last scene very well, very good book and the other ones are good too so you just never know which one should be the one book for Nebraska teens and should we ever have a different book by an author we've had before or is that fair all the other authors in the world that's another good question and I did notice when Sally when we looked at guidelines is that here? under our guidelines it doesn't say anything about how old the books should be do you read things that are do we select books that are more than 5 years old? 6 years old? yes we do I guess it's kind of not really stated but the book must be out in paperback it's kind of my way of saying it does need to be available and there are a number of books that are around for a long time still available in paperback so that's good and yes if you have an old favorite check it out see if you can still buy it and then send me the title if you'd like and we don't always buy brand new books true because we have purchased some used books from Amazon or other online retailers also from library book sales yes we are your customers too and sometimes when I go to the Scholastic Warehouse sale I find a title that of one book for Nebraska kids that we can include in our books we get the books all kinds of ways well oh there's Tom oh yay hello Tom I'm going to make you an organizer a presenter yes I want you to be a presenter and I'm going to unmute your line and let's see can you talk to us okay let's see can you hear me yes we can okay so I need to go my screen right yes okay hold on a second have you already started oh yes we're kind of winding down whoops but you have plenty of time don't worry about it I did something bad hang on just a second because I'm going to change our screen sharing to your screen because I think oh well I can't do that just now I'm going to ask the people in the laptop room if you can see Tom Watson screen how am I going to know that because you'll be you'll be seeing an incredibly handsome man oh here we go let's see we can see Tom's face yay okay so you are being recorded thank you so much so can everybody hear me too I assume oh that's a good question I believe so Linda and everyone can you hear him oh they say yes incredibly handsome and yes okay well I'm just going to usually what I do with a school visit is I will go to I will do a drawing lesson with the kids for the stick dog books and I'll draw all the characters and I thought if you guys are teaching the class or you know if you're talking about stick dog in class it might be kind of a fun interactive thing to do with your own kids in class to be able to draw the characters so the idea here is that we're going to draw them together so I hope you all have pencil and paper or you can get them relatively easily and we'll draw the characters and then you can draw them with the kids if you're actually using the book in class does that make sense yes it does thank you I have pencil and paper myself good this will not take very long it'll take about five minutes and then if you know if anybody has any questions or anything I'm happy to happy to take those and it sounds like Sally maybe you're going to have to kind of be the person who gets them back and forth right yes okay that's no problem okay so let's draw stick dog and here's what I'm going to do I'm going to draw it down here then I'm going to hold it up to the camera okay great let's see stick dog starts with a rectangle make sure you're seeing that I can do that the idea is that kids can copy these even the little guys can copy these drawings if you show them step by step how you do it here is a triangle a triangle of one corner and I always tell the kids that the only difficult thing is the head and it's not really hard after you do it a couple of times I always tell them it looks like a pair of pants turned sideways I like that pair of pants oh gosh I can do this his nose goes right here so Sally how many people do you have today got a few we have a few yes we have had 15 registered and not quite as many showed up but the thing is this will be viewed many many many times as an archive that's the thing so this is his eye two circles over the okay and kids are using pencil and paper that can erase that line if it goes through the eyes technically I'm using pen I told you I had a pencil but it's a pen his tail is a squiggle just a squiggle how am I doing Janet legs very very difficult oh so that is stick dog one of the things that I really try and get across in the books there are six of the well the six one comes out on October 4th one of the things I really try and get across in the books is that stick dog is really the leader of the pack but and his friends not that bright sometimes and but he's really patient he's an incredible example of a good friend and his sort of his leadership I think is something that kids can identify with so it might be lead a good classroom discussion like listen to these ridiculous ideas that his friends have for him and how he kind of diplomatically says they're dumb without saying they're dumb so four more dogs we'll do the Dalmatian next and I'll speak up a little bit we have a comment while you're drawing it says this is great huh I could put this on a bulletin board there you go so these are Dalmatian I went ahead and did the body and the ear at the same time but it's exactly the same as stick dog going the other way okay I can do this I get a little freaked out by the ear but I'm doing okay another pair of pants same nose same eye except she's the girl she gets eyelashes okay that's the only thing that distinguishes my characters as male or female eyelashes I didn't realize that Dalmatians have thick tails so I always say we need to draw a banana at the end oh a banana same legs now if you look at those two I purposely did them on the same piece of paper because you can tell they're pretty much the same dog except for eyelashes in a thick tail right but she's a Dalmatian so she gets spots everywhere and that's when she starts looking like her own dog and her name is Stripes and she's covered in spots okay three more dogs okay we'll do the poodle next his name is Poopoo and I can tell you quite honestly that there are times when I really regret naming that dog Poopoo he starts with a rectangle but then I go into schools and I'm with like 200 second graders at the same time and I say Poopoo into the microphone really loud and they all crack up so I guess I'm glad I just his ear is still a triangle but it's made out of squiggles I'm going to try and hold this up here triangles okay I'm going to start at the top and then go wider down and see how I do and this time we're not going to do a pair of pants one of the things you need to know about Poopoo and it's evident in the books is that he hates squirrels he really doesn't like squirrels so we're going to give him a different kind of head he's looking up into a tree at a squirrel so we're going to draw like an angry Poopoo sorry to be doing this I can't tell if it's in front of the camera or not it is thank you perfect so nose is regular but we're going to make him snarling and the way we do that is we do a flat squiggle for a mouth okay got that he doesn't know we're going to do a regular eye but we're going to give him a mean eyebrow because he doesn't like squirrels the tail is a squiggle but at the end of the tail there's a puff ball it's squiggly like the head same legs but at the end of the legs more puff balls that's what makes them look like a poodle hopefully it was really interesting when I first started the books that what breeds I could use you know I really wanted to use a German Shepherd but I couldn't figure out how to draw a stick German Shepherd so you know a Dalmatian you just throw some spots on stick dog you got a Dalmatian Poopoo you just add some puff balls you got a poodle so it was really the drawings that helped determine how what kind of characters I had which is kind of interesting two more dogs we have Mutt and Karen I'll do Mutt right here he's a little bit on the bigger side so his rectangle is just a little bit more like a square not too much but just a little bit chubbier okay he's the only dog who does not get a triangle for an ear he gets like a dinosaur footprint or a penguins flipper I'm gonna have to see this it's not colored in in the book I'm gonna color it in here so we can see it better thank you who would have it's kind of interesting if you're gonna draw with kids because we changed the proportion of his body we changed the proportion of his head just slightly to match his body and the way we do that is we make the top of the pair of pants just a little bit thicker than the bottom to make it match a little bit better okay nose and eye he's a boy no eyelashes he has two girls next one's a girl squiggle legs but we're not done with him yet because the thing you need to know about Mutt is he's shaggy he's furry and the adventures he's gonna lose things in his fur or even store things in his fur on purpose that they use as tools to snatch the food sometimes so we need to make him look shaggy so we just draw squiggles all over his body so how much could you practice that that would look like the squiggles would look like hair because they do because I've read the book and I know he has a lot of hair I originally did it kind of like the ear on poop it was just a squiggly mess and then I was like no that doesn't look great it took a little bit of time to nail down the real thing that was driving the process was that I wanted him to be so simple so that kids could copy them so our last dog is named Karen he's a doxin so she's long and skinny and short so her rectangle is long and skinny triangle for in here again in the book it's not filled in I'm filling it in here so we can see it better and then I always tell the kids you know we changed Mutt's head to match his body so we have to do the same thing for Karen so she doesn't get a regular pair of pants she gets skinny jeans oh great to match her body nose eye eyelashes perfect really simple tail for Karen and short legs I accidentally gave poo poo short legs I had to make them longer so that is Karen she is without question the biggest spaz in the books in the fifth book and the stick dog tries to take the donuts she drinks a great big coffee and just becomes over caffeinated and just freaks out for the entire foot which is really a lot of fun for me to write so those are the five characters there's also as some of you probably know is there's a stick cat series I will draw the stick cat that first book came out four or five months ago I got one here somewhere I haven't found my list for this fall yeah I'm so happy with it I think it's the funniest I love the stick dog books but I think this is the funniest thing I've written the second one of those comes out in April and the next stick dog book comes out in a couple of weeks October 4th so I'm happy to do any questions you have? I was so pleased when I heard about this one book one Nebraska thing stick dog has won a few awards here and there but I love the idea that kids and a whole state might be reading something at the same time I think it's a terrific idea we do it here in Chicago actually it's just a Chicago reads kind of thing and I think it's an idea that's catching on and I was so I got just some Google alert or something about it and I thought it was really neat so I was happy to reach out and contact you Sally and be able to make this kind of thing happen it's a lot of fun for me so if you have any questions I'm happy to take them if not I know you all got jobs to do and I got things to write so I can just scooch too I'll leave it totally up to you well we have a couple of questions one of them is as you came up with the names for the dogs and Poo Poo the poodle makes sense and stick dog makes sense Stripes is fun because she spotted but how do the kids react to the names of the dogs or do they pay attention to that oh they totally pay attention and I've always thought it's funny when people name their dogs human names so I had to have one of those that's how Karen got her name she was almost Mildred but I wanted to do something a little bit more common I guess I love old fashion names the raccoon in the second book is named Phyllis I love that name too and I'm looking for a character for Gladys I really want to use the name Gladys I just love those old fashion female names they're just great so the kids yeah they do pay attention to the names a lot and like I said when I say Poo Poo out loud you know I get big laughs especially from the younger guys especially from the younger guys well a quick question now also about stick cat I know that stick cat is stick cat's name and her friend her friend am I right his friend yeah his friend excuse me is Edith right are there gonna in that you said another book's coming out in April are there gonna be any more stick cats in that group or do you I don't think so one of the things I know I just finished the third book and it's all approved and everything we're working on I'm working on the pictures now but so I know in the second and third books there are just stick cat and Edith one of the things I found in the stick dog series is with five characters it's hard you know these books are 28 to 22,000 words long and it's hard to give everybody a role to play when you have five characters that's a lot to keep organized on the page and in the story so I kind of purposely with stick cat said I'm gonna start with two cats and it gives me a lot more sort of creative freedom to develop the characters in that first book you know it takes a while in the stick dog series to find out that you know Karen's a spaz you know you kind of get hints of it then you kind of realize it you know you kind of three or four books into it before you're like oh this is sort of you know set in cement now that this is who this is so there won't be any more cats for a while I don't think we have another question someone wants me to ask you about the pets that you own or have owned yeah yeah I have a dog here at home he's upstairs now his name is Shadow he's a Labrador Newfoundland mix I like to say he looks like a lab with a bad perm he's all black he's a big dog he weighs 120 pounds and I get a lot of my ideas from him I'll tell you I share this story with kids all the time when I'm at schools that when we're in the car it's my wife Mary and I in the front Elizabeth and Jacob are in the back but Shadow will be sitting back there with them but he will sort of lean forward to look out the windshield with us you know he wants to see where we're going and every time the bridge he ducks that is great which which I always tell the kids that's kind of how dumb my dog is he thinks the bridge is going to hit him in the head but I get ideas from Shadow because the story is the stick dog story is that stick dog is the leader he's a smart one and he really helps his friends who have kind of ridiculous ideas in ways to get the food to kind of calm them down to keep them on the path to get them away from squirrels they're distracted by all that kind of stuff so Shadow is very useful as a frame of reference for those four kind of dumb dogs well someone's asking you so no cats at your house no I'm actually allergic believe it or not the cat stuff is totally fictionalized some of my college roommates had cats about it the stick cat book was actually supposed to fit into the stick dog series it was supposed to be the fifth stick dog book and I had worked out a way with the narrator to kind of explain why he was going to do a stick cat story instead of a stick dog story and I sent it to Harper Collins and they just went crazy for it and they were like oh my gosh this thing has to be its own series and I really think the reason they wanted to make it its own series is not necessarily for stick cat it was a terrific character but it's sort of similar to stick dog but it's because of his best friend Edith she is just an absolute character and they just fell in love with her at Harper she's prissy like a lot of cats are she's fluffy she's very standoffish she's not the brightest cat in the world she's also incredibly brave their adventures are not about food, they're completely different and it takes sort of her courageous courage to help them achieve their mission sometimes and you'll just have to read stick cat and I think you'll agree that Edith is crazy she's my favorite character to write about right now she is great I'm looking forward to the second book in April just a question about you said you were doing the drawings on the book now and I'm assuming that even though they are stick dogs and cats the drawing isn't as quick and easy as we all think it would be no it isn't it takes some time but I have help with the final illustrations on the book and that's something I always try to point out who does the final illustrations in the book so I will do all the original sketches and then I will send them to Harper who sends them to Ethan who does the final sketches and the thing I've realized it's sort of like I don't know if it's co-illustrator or what we've talked Ethan and I have talked about it I don't know how to talk about this one of the things I really appreciate he's an artist and I'm still saying I'm not and but he shows motion with stick figures that is just it's like magic to me he's a real artist and he can show a dog like nodding its head or turning it away or going around a corner or speeding up or slowing down with motion lines that I just think is incredible so he takes sort of my basics but he's able to add his own little tweaks that bring them to life more than I can and I'm so happy that we have him to help but really the story of the illustrations as I said before is that kids can copy them and kids can draw I can't tell you I mean I've visited with thousands and thousands of kids and there is never a time when we don't have a good time drawing these characters together and then I'll do actual illustrations from the books too I do Karen the doggy tornado which is in the first book some other things and it's if you can sort of as teachers or librarians or whatever get the kids with pencil and paper and go through these drawings like we just did and do it with them you're going to find that they that this little spark happens and it makes them identify with the books in ways that I think are really interesting and fun thank you so much and I just want to point out that earlier before you were on we were on your stickdog webpage where there is a link to how to draw stickdog so anyone watching this and needs a reminder I'm hoping that that will help them remember what you just showed us today so they can get a reminder of how to do that with their kids there's a video that I always want adults to look at the website too it's it's on the videos page along with how to draw stickdog and stuff I forget what it's titled but it's something like family reading fun with stickdog or something and it's a father and a son in bed and they're reading the third stickdog book and their mom is actually the mom in the family is a librarian and she took a short video of the dad reading to the son in bed just threw a crack in the door they didn't know it was happening and she sent it to me and she let me put it up but it's essentially the dad laughing so hard that he has to stop reading to his son and I just think it's hilarious it's my favorite video that's stickdog related out there and I'd love for you guys to see it and it's also indicative of what I try to do in the books and that's to make them not just fun for kids the humor in the books I think is really sort of adult humor in kids books so I get a lot of nice things from parents that say you know things like I enjoyed reading this too I got a lot of laughs from this too and that's something I'm sort of proud of this isn't you're not going to find like snarky mean-spirited slapsticky humor this is all irony self-deprecation I like to think it's sort of sophisticated for the third and fourth grade crowd so check out that video it's a lot of fun while you were talking we went back to stickdog webpage and clicked on videos on the side and we scrolled down and there it is at the bottom it says hilarious family reading time with stickdog so take a couple minutes of your life and look at that it's a lot of fun well thank you so much I don't want I don't have any more questions right now I don't want to take all your time we know I'm glad we were able to do it Sally it's a lot of fun I've never used this go-to-webinar thing it's kind of cool Sally and I practiced this last week and I couldn't figure out how to work the camera on my computer so I'm glad I'm glad we got that working anyway and I will go ahead and sign off if I can figure out how and thanks again and Sally 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UCZx2agEj577i_pJz0nM8WWw	C2CC Telling the Story of Your Collections to the Press	Thursday, October 28, 2010 Do you feel that your collection is rich in stories, but no one is interested? Publicist Anne Edgar, who has generated media coverage for museums large and small, will discuss how to attract the attention of journalists, especially for stories that don’t appear compelling at first glance. She will be joined by Judith H. Dobrzynski, freelance arts contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Even if you are not responsible for public relations at your institution, their advice will help you present your collections’ stories in a way that will draw attention. http://www.connectingtocollections.org/recording-collections-press/	[ "C2CC", "press", "media", "publicity", "story" ]	2016-01-07T21:07:33	2024-02-05T07:28:00	5,112	pCm8I7svJNo	This is Larry Rieger. I want to welcome everybody on behalf of Heritage Preservation and the American Association of State and Local History. Our organizations have had the privilege of working closely with IMLS on its very successful Connecting to Collections initiative, and this webinar is part of that series. I'm confident that you will take away valuable lessons from the speakers for this webinar. I have the pleasure of learning from Anne Edgar about how to get members of the press and other media interested in a story at Two Connecting to Collections raising the bar workshops this summer. Judith Dabrinsky is one of the foremost reporters and commentators on culture. I know that you will find her insights into the workings of the press to be invaluable. Speaking of you, this leads me to ask you to participate so that we can learn more about you by completing the first two polls which you will see on your computer screen. First, what part of the country are you joining us from? Great, we're getting all kinds of responses. And the second is, what kind of institution are you affiliated with? This is a very long poll, so let's make sure that you can see all of this because we have lots of different kinds of... Let me try to resize this here. I'll slide this over here. Can you see all of that on your screen? Go ahead, Larry. Okay. Actually, now I'm pleased to introduce Marcia Simmel who is Acting Director of IMLS. Marcia is also Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic Partnerships, and she will give you a brief overview of IMLS's multifaceted Connecting to Collections initiative. As I turn the program over to Marcia and become a participant in this webinar, I have one last poll question for you. Are you watching this webinar by yourself or with others? Okay, let's... because I see that answers are still coming in on some of the other polls, I'm going to slide this off. I want to give people a chance to answer. Yeah, and this is Marcia. Susan, I'll let you move things around here for us. I will. Just let's give the audience a second to answer this last poll. Sure. While people are answering, I just want to welcome you all. We are so thrilled and pleased that we are continuing our Connecting to Collections work through webinars like this one. I want to start by thanking our wonderful partners at Heritage Preservation and at the American Association for State and Local History. You are... we've had a wonderful relationship with our two partner organizations, and we could not have done this without them. So I'll just briefly remind everybody that the Institute of Museum and Library Services is a federal agency, and we have three main goals in our work, sustaining culture, heritage, and knowledge, enhancing learning and spurring innovation, and supporting professional training so that the staff of libraries and museums can be leaders in their communities. And I'm not seeing anything on my screen right now. Here we go. Is this what you're looking for? I've taken the polls away. Okay. We're all... You know, this is election season, so these polls are really interesting to us, of course. But I can talk without the sides, too. Basically, Connecting to Collections was a national priority initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services that was inspired by the Heritage Health Index, which revealed startling needs in libraries, museums, and archives around preservation and conservation of our incredibly valuable and enormously rich collections. It's been a multi-part initiative that's included a national summit for national forums and international convening 57 statewide planning grants, almost 3,000 bookshelves, conservation bookshelves, but I suspect that many of you who are participating this morning have been part of the initiative one way or another. We want you to stay part of this family. This is an initiative that is extraordinarily important in building a kind of collective sense of solidarity, a learning community, a community that's educating not only ourselves, but people within and across the nation around the value of our collections, their real needs in taking care of the collections, changing definitions and practice and stewardship. So with that, I just want to say that I'm thrilled that there's been such a wonderful response so far, and I'm grateful here to my colleagues, especially Nancy Rogers and Abby Sweats, who are really taking this forward. Thanks so much. And I guess now I would like to introduce our two experts who will be taking you the rest of the way, Ann Edgar, the principal of Ann Edgar Associates in New York, who's done so much work, as Larry said, in our Raising the Bar Webinars, and she's worked with institutions all across the country around publicizing and spreading the word and really building public awareness and communications around the role of museums. And Judith Drobrynsky, an award-winning journalist based in New York who has written so passionately and competently and persuasively about the relationship between arts and business. Ann and Judith, thank you so much for being part of this, and I'll turn this over to you. Well, this is Ann speaking, and I'm really glad to be here. I'm taking one moment to start my stopwatch because I don't want to go on too long. I will be jumping in right now, though, with little ado. One thing I would like to ask is what do you guys think? How is press coverage different from an advertisement? If I could have some stab, there's some answers, and I know this is 101, but let's see if we can get some answers right away on that and we'll figure out what we're talking about today. And I opened up a separate chat box here that you can put your answers immediately into. I see Linda and Diana and Vicki have figured this out so that you can answer in the center. Boy, I'm seeing great answers, too. Great answers. And it's really about what we're here today talking about. We're talking today just about, at least I'm talking today, just about publicity and media relations. Yes, indeed, media relations cannot be paid for. It's not an advertisement. It does carry more credibility because an independent news outlet trusts you enough and believes in your story enough to tell it for you or to report to their readers, viewers, or listeners. So today we're talking about ways that you can convince newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online outlets that some part of your collection is newsworthy enough for their users. And they'll cover you for free. You can't control it. The media isn't there to serve you, but the media is your friend, and that's a little bit of what we'll be talking about today. I hope everyone... Can everyone see these answers? Because it's all great, it involves uncertainty. Yes, media relations cannot be controlled. We wouldn't want it to. It often reaches a broader audience. It's picked up, particularly in the states of social media. So I'm just going to hope that everyone is reading these answers that are really so good. I just want to take a moment to say that there's not enough time today to talk about everything in the degree I would like to. This is the best resource I know for this subject. $24 best investment you can make. I have no stake in it, I must say. Now, I'd like to know a little bit more about you as we talk about doing publicity for your collections today. I see it coming in. One thing I'm seeing is that, for the most part, we're not trained communicators, which is fine. That's what we're talking about today, the ability that it really works, using your common sense and your sense of what's newsworthy in your collection. So this is great that it's coming in. And Ann, I should interject here. Sure. That they can select more than one role, I believe. Absolutely, because I have this feeling that a lot of you guys are multitasking. I don't. I'm lucky enough to do this all the time and nothing else, but that has its own insanity, too. And the name of that book was what again? Let me go back. Let me grab it from the bookshelf. It's publicity for nonprofits. It's by a professional. It's by a woman named Sandra Beckwith. It's really, you guys, written for social organizations, nonprofits along the spectrum, but it's still the best and I think you'll find it helpful, too. Okay. Wow. This is great. What we're going to be talking about today is how to bring media visibility to your collection without being a trained publicist. You don't need to be. And it's about how to do that intelligently and effectively. I'd also like to, a bit of questions at the beginning, and then I won't front-load so much, but if I could also ask you what percentage of your time you are now spending on publicity outreach each week. One thing I wanted to say to you guys today is we're going to be talking about how you can do effective publicity work with few resources and, you know, not a great amount of time. I wanted to assure you, though, that I'm not talking to you today about many PR or a different set of criteria than I use. Today we're talking about the most intelligent and best way to reach the media, and most of the thinking that I'm sharing with you today is thinking about how I work as someone who's been doing this work for more than 20 years and works for museums around the country. So, 71 of us at the moment devote less than 10% of their time to publicity work. Now, I want to take just a moment to kind of let's start at the very beginning, which is what makes something newsworthy? You know, I see that there are people here from Mount Vernon, from Tennessee, from Memphis, from Kingsport, from Albany, all around the country and Canada. And, oh, wonderful, thank you so much. Yep, yep, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. You're saying all the things we're going to talk about, I will try to, therefore, perhaps go a little more quickly through this part, but I took a stab. You know, something is newsworthy when it's unusual, when it doesn't happen very often. Susan, I'm trying to seem... Oh, good, thank you. Something is newsworthy when it's the first. And of course this isn't... Susan, this is not quite clicking for me. Oh, that's because I'm not using the button correctly. I'm sorry. You guys, I only know how to use one button, and I'm not even doing well at that. But something is newsworthy often when it's the first, when it's never been seen before, when it's rare, when it's old, unbelievably old. Perhaps you guys remember that a year ago, there was a story about the world's oldest shoe, a prehistoric shoe that was found in Armenia. Well, you know, that's news. And of course, expensive, very expensive. You'll remember many of you who are my age or remember a decade ago when the Smithsonian was celebrating its bicentennial. I believe it was its hope diamond that was one of the centerpieces of that exhibition. In part because of the beauty, but in part because of the vast value. We'll also be talking today about how to find stories in your collection, and that's often human interest, because, you know, we know we're just fancy primates, right? And we are curious about each other. So you look at objects and try to... You know, it's about who owned that. Decades ago, a century ago, centuries ago. Who made that object? Perhaps who found or saved it. And of course, who conserved it? Who made a heroic effort to conserve it? And of course, that might be you. That might be your museum or gallery. In a sense, because you don't have much time and you don't have much resources, I really urge you to practice a kind of triage. To look at your collections and see if you can in a disinterested way. Everyone will just glance at this headline. The Museum of Motorcycle History receives its first brown motorcycle. Thank you, thank you. Why is that not newsworthy? Because while it might be important to you institutionally, it might be an institutional milestone for you that you now have your first brown motorcycle. That literally means that it's of interest to the world. So as you play, you do a kind of triage of your collection. Ask yourself, is this just important to me because it's a milestone internally? Because it's a collection I've waited the longest for. It's the first time perhaps we've had a permanent exhibition. If you answered yes to that and you can't find a way to link it to the outside world, I'd question whether that's the best story and to sink your time and resources to. And of course, this begins to be newsworthy. Now, we carry a burden as cultural publicists because we are often telling stories that, and by the way you guys, through this presentation I'm trying to use journalistic terms like Evergreen, like Newspeg because it's the kind of thing that we need to become familiar with and you will know many of them anyway and many of them have entered the culture. But our news can be ignored sometimes because stories about our collection can be told this week, next week, or even a year from now. So it's up to us to find some way to make it where we tap into the public consciousness, connect to the community, as someone said earlier in their response. They said it just perfectly. So it's finding a way to connect with what your community is caring about that moment. You know, I'm sure you've noticed that most every February at Valentine's Day it's not unusual to see museum exhibitions. I remember the Met about a decade ago had a wonderful exhibition of medieval books that were shaped like hearts. Of course, that exhibition was on view during, you know, and on Valentine's Day. So, you know, if you have a selection of poems handwritten by Walt Whitman, don't whatever you do issue a press release about the interest, you know, about how interesting that is and issue it two days before Christmas. You'll get nowhere. Think of Walt Whitman's birthday, which I think is, oh, Lordy, I actually even knew it might be June 3rd or something, but send news release out on Walt Whitman's birthday. Now, another way to create a news peg is to collaborate with other collections in your region, other institutions in your region, or even sometimes profit organizations, but it's a way of making your story bigger. And going back to the Walt Whitman example, so you have a really interesting collection of poems, drafts handwritten by Walt Whitman, but you know that two towns over a historical society has some amazing photographs taken in the last years of his life and even one of the early Edison sound cartridges. Consider collaborating with that historical organization and even making that consortium larger. Maybe we're thinking about a Walt Whitman's festival that again is time to his birth or death. It's about trying to collaborate to make a story so large that the press can't ignore it and wouldn't want to. Along those same lines, think about piggybacking. Say you are a museum 30, 50-some miles away from Wintichur and Wintichur is mounting an exhibition of precious porcelain statuettes of a certain period. We'll say that you have American stoneware statuettes from that same period. Pull those out, make an exhibition of them. It can be a small exhibition, but open your exhibition at the same time as Wintichur. You're not hurting them, you're helping them, and it certainly offers you an opportunity to quote-unquote piggyback on the Wintichur exhibition. And again, I would just say in a larger kind of way, the more you can exhibit work from your collection, the more you can bring people into your museum and gallery, the more opportunities you'll have for media coverage. Now, I want to pause for a moment just to say that one of my jobs as a museum publicist is really trying to figure out how not only to tell stories on the cultural pages, but how to get stories in, say, the real estate section, the science section perhaps, and of course the travel section. And I wanted to say to you today that travel sections and travel editors may be your most underused resource right now. I can tell you that the travel editors of the major papers throughout the country, whether it be the LA Times, Sacramento Bee, the Omaha Paper, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, I can tell you right now that those travel editors are really eager to hear about daytime trips throughout the country to kind of package those and share them with their readers, or make it easy for them. Think about the right season of the year, again we're thinking seasonally. I don't know if it's cherry blossom time for you or if your big season might be in August, but think about when you might suggest a daytime trip to Saratoga or a daytime trip to Atlanta that will include, of course, your museum or library. I mentioned the importance of exhibitions if it's possible. I know some of you can only mount very small exhibitions, some none at all, but when you do have an exhibition, it's so important to try to use it and in a way squeeze every little bit of notice you can out of it. One way of doing that, and I was talking to my colleague Nancy Reddamel who's going to be talking later this afternoon who's at Shelburne up in Vermont, and she was telling me how smart the publicists at Shelburne are. Because what they'll do typically is when they have a major exhibition they'll invite journalists from, you know, the Vermont area into the museum for a behind-the-scenes look at the preparing for that collection that's coming up. They show works in the process of being conserved, you know, otherwise they give a walk-through of a collection storage, but it's all about showing the journalists how they prepare for an exhibition. And what does that get you? Goodwill. But more importantly, it can get you an advanced story, the kind of story that runs a month before an exhibition or a month and a half that will kind of create a drum roll or a buzz about the show and give people time to prepare to travel to it. Now, I use the word drum roll. I don't know how many of you saw this article it was in The Times just on Tuesday, today's Thursday. It was in The Science Times, top of the fold, and it was all about an exhibition that has opened, I believe, this week or perhaps last week at The Whitney. And it's an example of thinking outside the box and not just thinking that we always have to go to entertainment or arts editors. The publicist at The Whitney saw a story in the difficulties of conserving the work of this modern artist, Paul Tech, who you guys apparently use as completely gross material from, I think I even mentioned ground beef, but was it hair? I mean, you know, really icky, icky organic material. But that's the whole story is how do you conserve objects like that? And it's an example of The Times going outside the art section and making a science story. And one point that I'm obviously making is kind of, you know, the subtext of all the talk today is that cultural coverage rarely just happens. You can bet that The Whitney was planning to go to The Science Times weeks before they did. And they knew that it was part of their strategy and plan that they would do that. And just one more thing to say about how to wrestle up coverage in advance of an exhibition. You know, if you're mounting either a temporary or a personal exhibition and you are hoisting something into your gallery with a crane, all I can say to you is think photo op, photo op, photo op. You've got an opportunity for a great picture, an interesting picture like this one. Now for those of you who are freaking out at this moment and thinking, oh my God, she's talking so fast and I don't know how to go to a photo editor, I would just say Sandra Beckwith in her book on publicity has a really great section on how to go to the photo editor and what you need to do for a photo op. Just a little bit more before I get off the subject of how to make a news peg, how to create a story that has to be told now. Because if you don't have a story that needs to be told now, your story is going to languish and it's never going to run. So again, say you have the best collection of baseball ephemera in the country, maybe 19th century stuff. Maybe if you're in St. Louis Historical Society, you've got great stuff, early modern, staying mutual. Again, don't release a press release on that in December. When are we as a culture, as Americans thinking baseball? Well, we're thinking baseball when the season opens. I think that's April. God knows I could be wrong, but I think it's April. Maybe it's more about when the little league seasons opens in your town. I think in some towns in Pennsylvania, I know you're crazy about little leagues. So maybe that's the news peg, or maybe it's the World Series. But that's the moment to send out a release with fabulous photographs on your important collection. Now, it would be easier if I could tell you that there was one time, one moment, when you needed to call your newspaper, a magazine like the Smithsonian, television, and radio. But unfortunately, things are a little bit more complicated than that. I know this slide looks like it's a diagram of nuclear fusion, so please, what I'm talking about is not that complicated, but it is true that we need to call magazines like the Smithsonian almost six months earlier than we hope a story will appear. So if you're thinking you would like the story of your baseball collection to appear with the opening day of the baseball season, I would recommend to you that you call Smithsonian or Sports Illustrated, whatever you think likely, a good six months in advance. Now, I'm not going to go into timing more. I've put lead times here, and you'll have the use of this PowerPoint. I just want to assure you, you know, don't freak out. It's not that hard. If you're afraid that you're overwhelmed by the sense of when to call, I would just say if you're going to air, air on calling earlier rather than later. Now, oh, good, good, good. I'm seeing wonderful. And Ann, I put up a little aside question here if some of you could other, if they could list their sources there. That's great. I really appreciate it, Susan. Now, oh, good. Yep, you get to know people personally. It's wonderful that you're using Twitter at something that I need. This is all the way it's done. Thank you so much. Vivian Solek and Monroe, you were doing it just the way I do it and the way it should be done. Again, as someone who's been doing nothing else for 20 years, you would think, you know, I right now do my work on behalf of museums around the country primarily by reading, reading, reading and keeping up the byline. You know, obviously I know people at this point but the world of cultural journalism is being so roiled by layoffs, et cetera, et cetera that we don't, I can't even keep up with the changes. So as a group, today we're really, by reading bylines, it's the safest way to do it and the best and of course it's not the only way. I'm looking to see some of these other answers here, compiling from mastheads, yes, yes, small town. You see them in the grocery store. I'm sure they run from you, but yes, that's fabulous. It's, I'm glad you're not using now antique mailing lists. It's worse than doing nothing in some ways. Okay, I'm going to try to move on here. Really appreciate these submissions. So, let me see. Again, thank you for those who said social media. Now, there are probably those among you who feel like I don't have the resources or knowledge to do NAPR. I probably need a list of 500 names and I need a professional list. I don't have it. Well, all I would say to you is no. When I began a media campaign for a major project, I sit down and create a press plan, which is nothing more than a list of likely prospects, the places where I think this story should be told. And frankly, that list could be as few as 10 names or as many as, you know, 50. But for you, I would say, think of your wish list. Do you really see this on CBS Sunday? Then put it down. Do you really see this in the New York Times? Because you've seen other things that are no more interesting but similar. Then I say yes, put that on your list. But don't feel that you need to have a massive commercial list. And as you think of who you might contact, consider the medium. I hope that you have fabulous images because that really drives the story these days. And if you do, think print. If you have a curator or your director is really fabulously interesting, great interview. Think radio as well. It doesn't mean you won't go to print, too, of course. But try to think of what, you know, your strengths are. The strengths of the stories are. If I can leave you with one thought today is do not depend on email blast to get your idea across. It will not work. Do not even worry if you don't have a news release or a fancy press kit. The most important tool, or should I say weapon, but I'll say tool, the most important tool you have is the telephone, a follow-up email, and the willingness to contact a journalist one-on-one. Now I'll tell you how I do it. I contact the most important outlets first. That doesn't mean the most important outlets in the world. It means the most important outlets to you at this moment for the story. And that might be the local Saratoga shopkeeper more than the New York Times. That's fine. But I call my most important people first. Who knows, I might get hit by a bus. I want to do the most important first. Although I also, of course, go to the longest lead time at the same time kind of simultaneously because I need to. By the way, I'm loving what I'm seeing people say I hope, and I'm sure everybody's reading them. I love it that people call the news outlets and ask for updates. They appreciate, you know, quoting Billy Chabot and Auburn, they appreciate not being bombarded by the wrong person. It's all so true. Now one thing I'd like to say to you is, if you, it's make freelance journalism in your area your friend. Because they work for a living placing stories and therefore they do it better than you. They know how to do it better than you and they're avid to find stories to make a living. So you make any freelance journalist you know of in your community, your friend. Sometimes I use the white pages to find a freelance journalist when I've seen a byline. You know, call them at home and, you know, apologize on the front and say, I'm calling from the so-and-so library, please if I'm calling improperly at home let me know but I did want to tell you that's something coming up. You know, if you preface it like that I can just about promise you'll be received with respect. Call in the mornings because people tend to close in the afternoon. Make sure that they know that you're a museum or library because you are there serving the public and people understand that. Let them know right away the timing involved. Okay, I'm checking right this moment my stopwatch to make sure, okay? I'm gonna, I believe that a lot of you guys can read this and some of these tips are really important. Always go directly to someone, never use general mailboxes, it just won't help you. The more personal you can make the contact, the better. And one reason is because the journalists don't want a story that they think is being shopped around everywhere. And by sending around a personal note you're communicating that you want them to notice a story that this is not something you're sending to every John Dick and Harry or whatever that Dick and Harry is. In bed, don't attach news releases. Don't over design, don't think that other means because you're small, maybe you're a small library, don't think that the big guys are creating beautiful design press releases and you aren't. It actually works against you to over design a press release because it begins to look like a promotional object. All you have is a subject line. You know, one other reason it's great to write a personal note to the press is that you can say things that you can't say in a press release. Like maybe in a press release you don't want to say one of the objects in your collections went for a quarter of a million at auction. Well, you can embed the release and in a personal note you can say that and it'll pique the interest of the journalist and you won't be saying something inappropriate in a press release. You know, when I first began working 23 years ago or so, always when I sent an envelope I wanted to prove how professional I was by having it look perfect. That's not what I want to prove now. Now when I send an envelope I write on hand so that the journalist will know that there's a person behind the message. I also try to send things by hand or by FedEx. Main Street National Publications often don't open the U.S. mail. Sorry, not much to say here but I'm hoping that you'll take advantage of every free opportunity. Nothing is more important than good photography except maybe your children. Now I'm going to leave you with hopefully what you'll feel like a two-gif. Right here is the... Oh, it's not so hard, Jamie. I know you're seeing it but it's not so hard. If you choose three people to go to and do it right, you'll do better than doing 24, 100 names. So this can be done. This is the email address for finding your local AP representative. And I'm also right here leaving you with the email address and the phone number of the new National Bureau Chief of the Times whose job is to ferret out cultural stories around the country. It's not Arthur Stolzberg or the publisher of the Times. You may be familiar with the name. I think this is his son so it's someone who's there as a reporter to be interested in you. So anyway, that's it for the formal presentation and I thank you so much. Susan, you want to take over? Yeah, well, I think at this point we're going to have a conversation with you and Judith and some of the questions. And I did want to bring up this slide again because there was great curiosity in the beginning about this particular publication so the audience can get the information they need there. I am going to actually start from the sum of what I read right at the end questions about someone works at a museum where they're not allowed to talk about the value of a slide. Yeah, I was just saying that. That's Teresa, Harley Wilson. Thank you. And Teresa, that's exactly why you don't put it in a news release. I would only send that information to it. You don't broadcast that to 100 or 500 or 1,000 journalists. But if there's someone you know and it's a contact, yes, in an email you can say, by the by, it's not for public record but, or you could say by and by it is in the public record that this has fetched so-and-so on auction. So, yes, you have to be careful on how you do it but that's the beauty of talking to a press just one-on-one and not trying to do a lot of things at once, talking to a lot of people at once. And the emphasis is also on the story behind and how you're caring for that collection, right? Yes, that's a real opportunity I think for most everybody here today. I think the public has been, I mean, I think there are polls that tell us this, that the public has been proven to be really interested in the back story of how collections are cared for, how they're stored. Sometimes that can be, mean placing a story in the home section of your paper and it becomes a how-to story like how do you care for lemons or how do you care for antique woolens. But I think that's always a kind of how-to behind-the-scenes story. Judith, do you want to add your insight on to this? Yeah, I agree with almost everything Anne said although I will say this and that is that, you know, Anne gave you a lot of suggestions that may or may not apply to everyone. For example, not every journalist wants to have a phone call before an email. So, you know, you have to get to know the people if you can. And somebody may prefer an email first, for example, and then set up a call. But basically what she said was really strong information. I want to add one other thing. Freelancers in particular, but lots of other, you know, reporters as well, and I've been both, are often seeking stories and not necessarily during your business hours or can't reach you. One thing I'm completely surprised by when I'm doing that on my own is that many websites don't have press information online. There's no name, there's no number. There might be a, you know, press at so-and-so-museum.org, which may yield a response five days later, if any at all. If your organization doesn't have a press name, contact number, link with past, press releases, and images, that's someplace where you can start because people like me are also looking, you know, taking our own initiative to look for stories as well. That's just the start. Great. And I'm going to ask you to navigate to, I got a request for seeing the slide with all the information we need to make clear to the media contact we're trying to make. But meanwhile, Judith, could you tell us a little bit about how do you find a freelance person? You know, if you're looking for a freelance journalist. I think it's the same way you find a staff person. You notice their bylines. Yeah, I would say that too. Okay. Curiosity about that. And again, I would say don't be afraid to use the most common sensical methods. If you, if it's a byline in your local paper, well, they're probably using the white pages is going to be effective. That's absolutely right. I'm completely surprised sometimes when people say I've tried to find you, I've tried to find you. I mean, the white pages, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can easily find my, I mean, on my blog is there's an email, so it's, I think that it's easier than people think sometimes. Right. With respect to what's newsworthy, I'm going back to that, how do you, how do you create value for things that you see as newsworthy, but perhaps there's some question there. Maybe it's newsworthy to a donor who Oh, that's it. I was thinking about that earlier before this presentation, and that's always can be true. You know, you've just received a donation of you know, maybe correspondence from World War II and maybe it's not particularly all that newsworthy, because there's similar things in similar archives. How do you create value? You know, if something is not really newsworthy, I think you can just do the best you can and Judith may want to weigh in, but I think you can stand on your head and maybe not succeed, but basically you can create value by doing the things that we've been talking about today. It takes a lot of research, but really researching the objects and finding any thread of interesting anecdotes. You know, finding why does this collection matter? And frankly if after your research you come up with the answer to that, it's probably something you're just going to have to send a press release out about to satisfy the donor, but you may not be able to get the media coverage to the degree you wish. Let me throw one other idea in to link it to something that's important going on today. If you have something that linked to an election in the past that was interesting and might, you know, link to this election today, or if you have something that relates to the financial crisis, you might be able to somehow use that letter, use that book, use that something in your collection to link to something that the general public is focused on today. Okay. Erin O'Malley also said she's had great luck targeting a specific group like a labor exhibit to labor groups in the area. Fabulous, yeah, yeah. Erin, do you call I guess do you call the Fort Worth Star Telegram first before you put it on the internet and I'll be interested to see if you do that. So that's what I often do. I often call the major paper first and try to get an article there and then I put the press release out in the world. That's because so often it will mean more to your local paper to get the story first. And there's quite a bit of chatter going on in the chat area about the issue of attachments. Who will open them and who won't. There's a lot. I totally agree with with the idea that maybe it's particularly freelancers, I don't know, but we're not going to open attachments and it's not necessarily the safety. Some of that is. We don't know you. We don't recognize the email address, but also it's the time. I got a press release the other day which I was completely had four attachments to it. Four attachments. All word, all different different items. A very short paragraph explaining what was in each one. Not in each one really, what the overall theme was. And there was no way. There wasn't enough in the first paragraph to interest me to open four attachments to find out what the story was going to be. I think most of it or enough that is going to intrigue the recipient's interest has to be in the main body and again, so much of what we're talking about today is making it easy for that journalist to absorb your message. Don't make it hard for them and by attaching you're making it hard for them. Absolutely. Should I jump in and address Rose Daley's question? Yeah, right ahead. Thank you. Rose, I see you've asked a really good question. How do you appeal to the general public while maintaining a certain academic integrity? Now, I hope I can say this right without wandering, but I remember reading somewhere once that kids for a while were reading less well because their primers were being so dumbed down that they weren't as interesting. And here is a moment to say sometimes when you really grasp a project including, I mean that how do you know that something's academic? It's really about why it matters and if that involves some detailed academic stuff don't don't undersell your audience any bit of information that makes the case for why something matters can be included. I will say it's so important to avoid jargon avoid artistic jargon for those of you who deal with the contemporary arts just avoid that horrible jargon or a scientific jargon but right in real English but don't feel you have to dumb down the story. There's a question from Julie about it was a longer question but paraphrase fear of bad review from the press if you do put something out there is this the loss of control that you were talking about earlier? Yes you can as a museum or a library you can take out half page ad in your newspaper and you know exactly what that ad is going to say and look like but you don't know how an exhibition is going to be reviewed or how one of your major initiatives is going to be received by the press but I've been doing this for 20 years as I keep saying sorry I don't mean to repeat but yet I'm still a bit of an idealist I feel that I work in a fair world environment I feel like the press wants to report on news worthy exhibitions and projects that benefit their readers or their listeners so I wouldn't be afraid of bad reviews if you know if you're doing good work you may receive middling reviews but you have no choice actually do you to go out into the world and just kind of have that kind of courage actually there's so many voices today that one bad review isn't really going to be all that important even if it is in the most important outlet in your hometown or a national outlet I rarely see reviews that are you know killers the way somebody used to kill a Broadway show um so I would take the chance there are many voices do you get heard if you're a paid advertiser more than just sending in well I've worked at three or four publications as a staff person and many as a freelancer I have never seen that access maybe they hide it from me as a journalist but I've never seen that you know an ad will do will guarantee good coverage or more coverage or anything like that I really would like to from my vantage point say the same things you know again working for museums that are very large and working for museums that are small you know purchasing an ad will not at all encourage more coverage and less small maybe tourist publications are very small local papers where it's a mom and pop thing but if you're thinking about mainstream national outlets don't in a way it's good for you because most of the people here today represent many of you represent smaller organizations and if you've got a good story idea that should make you feel good because you've got just as good a shot of it as someone say from the Guggenheim or the MOMA with a very big advertising budget let's address Amy Sanderson's question because I think it wraps up a lot of things can you see that there and I think Amy it's either or situation and I think that actually piggybacking on might get coverage that you wouldn't ordinarily get in any case and then I have a second comment on it which is advancing your museum mission and that is anytime you deal with journalists it's really the best encounter the best relationship is when it's a two way street and that something that has impact for you also has impact for the journalist who'll come back to you and begin to build a trust relationship with you and I just re-posted Amy's question there for people to refresh she was asking about piggybacking oh sorry yes I should have repeated it there's a lot to process here yeah right I'm looking at some of the questions and um you want to take one or I do there's just well let me oh I see that there are a number of people who are rightly pushing back at me about what I said with about an email note you know so much of this is about using the judgment so I guess um when I would when I embed a news release and say something in that news release that I in a note that I would not say in the release yeah I'm really careful because once you send something out in a personal message in an email it is out in the world with that journalist so um I often find there are things I can say that advance the story and sometimes it's not I mean this is not about releasing secret information I would never recommend that you do that sometimes it's as simple as you know there you have your news release and it's embedded in the release and maybe it's as simple as writing a note that says a dear Ariel just want you to know that I've got great uh B-roll footage you're not going to necessarily say in your news release that you have great B-roll footage so it's in your note it's advancing the story a little bit to that journalist so please don't think that I'm suggesting that you can without impunity release information that's sensitive there's a bit of a conversation about how you work with internal marketing departments and not stepping on toes um and perhaps that's where a curator has an advantage of telling the story again yeah I think the only advice I have is to try to work with them um and make them understand that you can help them do their job I think they're changing so much um you know it used to be that press offices were the owners of information in a museum or library you know they uh they were the only place that uh the only voice that was heard and they would decide that the director was the director who should comment on something or somebody else but it's you know now we live in a world of social media where some of your curators are tweeting and some are you know on Facebook and it's kind of perhaps a good webinar would be on that subject because it's a challenge to communication and press office people you know you have to face the fact that the world is changing and um work with your marketing colleagues uh I know like a colleague of mine is the director of marketing at the Guggenheim and another colleague is the director of um public relations at the Guggenheim and they work together obviously I mean when um Betsy Ennis knows that there have been positive reviews on an exhibition she makes sure that her marketing colleague knows that and the museum tweets uh excerpts from these positive reviews so there's a you know these two uh professionals these two women are working together to get the word out using their different um daily wicks and expertise I'm seeing that um from Aaron O'Malley that they're using social media as well um you know it's hard to overestimate to all of for all of us today to realize what a watershed period we've been going through in history because just to give you a example I remember learning that through a I think it was a puke uh poll in a very um professionally done poll that in 2005 there was something like 5000 reporters in the country who identified themselves as arts reporters and a year ago that had you know gone down to 2500 it had actually had so um we're working in a very different environment and social media is what more and more the remaining press is using to questions are going so fast I can't isolate one here is there anyone right well and it's not just questions but they're helping each other they're helping yeah I'm seeing that let me see this is the challenge as a presenter not to get so sucked into what's happening on the side because it's fascinating isn't it it is fascinating in fact I wanted to say something that should all press releases including blogs like it's Kimberly trick it from orange um should all press releases including blogs go through the communications department you know what Kimberly even though the world is changing as rapidly as you know we're talking about I would say yes you have complete chaos otherwise so yes they should go through your office and I hate to say this as a reporter but I think the answer is yes too I mean obviously we spend some part of our time trying to get around the press office in certain cases but um I still think the institution can't be conflicting with one another that's confusing to everybody I see that there's a question by Jean Goodman from Arthur Dale um you know we also have a full-time staff of one okay do you have any advice for organizations that do not have a PR staff you know Jean all I would say is um again that word triage you know decide what is really urgent what what is really the urgent story to tell decide one or two places to go with it make sure that when you call someone you're completely prepared and you understand why that project matters but don't you're not going to have time to create news releases and do all that stuff so it's about trying not to do everything but not losing sight of what's really and truly newsworthy and the maybe two or three places that would be most likely to tell that story and most beneficial to your institution let's take the Tim Kenny question there what about tips for getting um collections that aren't in exhibits I think that goes back to some of what we were saying before and let's elaborate um finding an angle for it finding it has it just been conserved is it related to some event right now has somebody come through that you know made a made a big uh fuss about it that has a name that's recognizable in the community or or maybe getting somebody that's with a name recognizable in the community to visit it um or uh you know relating it in some way let me give you an example that happened just yesterday and they did it last year as well the Nelson Atkins Museum uh send out a press release with a list and possibly the images as well or making the images available online um of various paintings works of art in its collection that are related and could be used to illustrate Christmas stories wow they did that last year I know because I blogged about it last year I thought it was a good idea and um I don't think they'd do it again unless it had somehow worked I thought that was a really good way to um do what Kim just asked about dying for you to answer the question from Haley chambers is there such a thing as too much press well in my opinion as a publicist you can probably guess what I'm going to say but I would say the only time you might feel that you've over saturated the local papers is if you are planning to launch a major project in the future and you fear that you've so saturated your local papers that that might be ignored so you know it's about if you can and I know everybody's stressed but it's looking ahead to the future and making decisions about what's really important to you and if frankly your newspaper will pick up anything that you uh release or any news that you disseminate you might want to begin making decisions to be sure that your most important projects will be given the prominence that they deserve I agree and I actually think there's a risk to of bombarding reporters whether they're freelance or staff with too much information too many opportunities because at some point they begin to not take you seriously I actually think readers may be in that situation as well not all but some you know again talking about email which is you know again I think it's a tool that is so important now but you don't want to be some institution that the minute a journalist sees your email moniker that you're just deleted right away and that can happen if you're pelting that journalist with too much news information there was a little flurry of conversation around Josh Williams question concerning the decline of reading newspapers any thought on that well we wish it would stop but I don't know how to get it to reverse I think for me it goes back to that issue that I mentioned earlier which is that there isn't just one voice anymore there are many voices and sometimes getting information to a local website a blogger the radio station the TV station wherever you can think of that's where people are getting their news that's where you have to go right and in fact Judy asked about public radio if you have any tips specific to them well I almost have to laugh as I offer this tip because it comes in part from a understanding failure you know I just I find that the only way I succeed with having a story told on public radio is by going to the correspondent and if I'm wrong about this please I know you'll jump in on the chat thing but I find that the editors in Washington are perhaps too overwhelmed or for some other reason they just prefer to work through their freelancers so how do you find that person in your region again if it's sometimes it's you know it's really often about using your connections I sometimes call my colleagues at larger at the large institutions museums here in New York and I say you know would it be possible for me to ask you for the email and so and people will typically share emails they may not share personal numbers but you know generally whether it be the white pages or asking friends you can often find that NPR correspondent and just another thing on radio period and TV period which is if you've got sound for a radio story you're in a a lot better position than if you have just words right and the same with TV if you have some intriguing video or they can come and make some intriguing video you've got a lot more chance of getting on there the thing in TV which I've been in a little bit myself is you know you write to the video no matter what the story is you write to the video and radio reports without sound don't usually get as much time or even you know opportunity as those with sound I'd like to address Stephanie Miller just because I so sympathize I mean I really am not saying it's a piece of cake because national journalists how do you get through to national journalists when you're only pitching them periodically you know you're not pitching them enough to become one of their someone they'll pick up the phone for what I usually do and I face that too is I do try to find personal email and an office number maybe even you know again a home office number I do try to call them but what do I do if they're not going to pick up my number because they don't know my name and again this is just what I do but I often leave a message I say and I try to keep it short but really pithy you know I'll say my name is Ann Edgar I'm leaving a message about the largest festival ever devoted to Walt Whitman and I'm doing so on behalf of the Miller Museum I'm going to be emailing you shortly I know you get a lot of emails so thank you for looking and then I email it you know and then try to go from there but you know again it is a problem okay we should probably address some of these questions up here from Angela Gaffney what if there are only two newspapers in the region I'm not sure I'm exactly interpreting your question right but I think as I mentioned earlier there are other alternatives blogs websites other places that might give you publicity great and how about Reginald's question yeah a really interesting one when you're in an area and two institutions are closely connected that they're actually in competition well you know all you can try to do is to outsmart them and outfleet foot them I mean I know of so many museums offices where they have a designated press officer and they have an assistant and they really have a budget for PR but they're sluggish and they're ledden if you if you are really smart in what you identify as newsworthy and you're really targeted to the person you go to you know you can often make an effect that really out of scale with your budget that's beyond what one might think I will say Reginald that what you really need is really strong visuals because whether it's press or television or even radio because visuals can peak the interest of you know help make a story fuller in someone's eye and head so I the smaller you are the less I would skimp on photography cost I actually I have a question Reginald so what is the outcome you're trying to get are you trying to drive a tendon to exhibitions or are you just trying to raise the profile of the museum are you trying to some press departments are very key to the image of the person running the institution can you be a little bit more specific about what the goal is that your museum is after he says increase visitation to our site okay so if it's about visitation then I think I agree with everything that Ann said and I also repeat try other outlets just try what aren't they doing what area can you do some specialized PR specialized marketing to audiences that are not reading the daily or watching TV and you can reach them a different way if there's anything in that in your community Erin opened up a discussion about YouTube and what kinds of videos are most successful and well this is interesting I might just just by chance I was reception the other night where I met somebody who works with Google and it's pretty high up at Google and I asked him about the YouTube channel for museums because I've been noticing that they're really not populated all that well and he agreed from taking the cosmic view from on high YouTube gets lots of traffic but not very many museums have had luck that he knew of or that I know of getting traction in your, with their own channel so I would say to you that it's a matter of your resources to spare and can put them into YouTube there's nothing wrong with it but if you're trying to spread resources thinly I'd re-examine whether that's the channel you want to operate as your own channel that isn't to say you can't put something special up there because you don't need a channel to put something on YouTube I would like to mention as well that the afternoon's webinar will address YouTube among other social media outlets so I hope you guys can stay over for that Nancy Revenal and we'll be addressing it and let's see what we got here you know I've talked a little bit about the importance of contacting journalists one-on-one anytime you can to make yourself real and to make your story real because the best things happen through a conversation but what do you do once you've sent you've left a message perhaps on someone's voicemail you know a short message that you're sending news you've sent the news release you've embedded it maybe you've written a note so they know it's coming right to them what do you do if you still don't get a journalist you know I you jump in Judy well I would like to tell you that I'm able to answer every email which is the way I get most of my most approaches from fresh people or PR people unless they know me like Ann who might call me and I have to say I'd like to be able to answer all of them one cannot the number of emails that I get in a day and I'm not even at a newspaper as they say I'm a freelancer it's impossible to answer all of them and many of them are totally unrelated so I don't even think that the people sending them a text and answer you know and again from the vantage point of a publicist what I would do is perhaps call you probably will get a voice machine just to say that you've left the press release there's not a lot more you can do now if you're being ignored I really think give it up you know the idea is oh Amy thank you you're just keying into exactly what I was going to say the important thing is to try to do it as well as possible right in the beginning of this process which is make your subject line as I want to say catchy but that's not the only thing, as catchy as possible and Amy McDonnell from Yale is asking what makes a successful subject line Judy will have her take what I believe might be the case I think it's important to have your institution's name because it separates you from the other pitches that that reporter might be getting from galleries or other for profit things that gives you more weight in the community but I also try to have the subject line be similar to a headline like the Yale Gallery announces New Venture with of course you also have to make sure it's not too long because it gets cut off I agree with exactly what you said make sure that people know the recipient knows that it's coming from your institution somehow and make it like a headline let's see lots of social media questions but I think that will be better addressed this afternoon to Josh Williams in Washington, Arkansas other national outlets that are free Josh do you mean free for the reader to pick up do you mean or do you mean free to have a story appear in them if you're talking about the story you know again today we're talking about how you achieve editorial coverage in a newspaper, magazine, television, or radio we're not talking about purchasing advertising so everything we're talking about today can only be free right great, great point wow we have we have really gone through a lot of ground here haven't we this is exciting I'm scrolling through to see if there are major themes that we perhaps haven't addressed and I'm sure that the audience will let us know meanwhile though because I don't want them to forget about this I'm going to put a little link up here in your upper left corner so that the audience can open up this will open in a separate window for the evaluation for the session somebody asked a pre I'll jump in here somebody asked a pre a question earlier on before the session began about the best ways to initiate contact in developing a non-going relationship and I'm going to address that a little bit and it stems a little bit from what we were just talking about which is don't waste one thing is once you have it as we said being inundated is a sure way to make them hit the lead on everything you send and not give you the time that you need to sell your story but also that's the negative part the positive part is making sure or trying to ensure that the story you give them is as exciting and interesting and has texture with facts but has some behind the scenes information or something that makes it a very rich story if a reporter knows that you've delivered for them in the past they're going to be far more willing to talk with you, sit down with you figure out what makes a good story that's a win-win for both of you one thing that Judy said that I think is so important that I probably haven't emphasized enough today in my presentation is that you can feel free to consider a journalist a resource again you don't want to waste their time but if you call someone particularly an editor at a paper and you find that a story doesn't work for them now or it's not quite right for their beat you know, ask well gee, is there someone else that you think would be a better, be more appropriate for this and you'll often find that that journalist will take a moment to help you true, I think that's very true I want to answer a technical question that I've gotten a couple of and I'm going to pull this slide over top, we are recording these webinars so after the event you can go back to this link and eventually there will be a link to the archive to the recording and also a copy of the slides several of you have asked for the slides so you know how to get to that information I'm seeing Kim Kenny talk about how when her local reporter comes she gives him copies of the text in the exhibit all of that is so helpful absolutely and it helps the journalist write with what Judy just called texture which is gives them a real feel for why that story matters not just about the objects in the exhibition how old they are but really the life of them I was watching that I also wanted to put up the reminder that the two o'clock eastern session is continuing this conversation dealing with social media specifically and somebody caught that I may have had a typo in that link I have to look away from the screen in order to answer that question and I don't want to do that right now the correct link there but these will not be available instantaneously because we're going to turn our attention to setting up for the afternoon session and then get that stuff posted later takes a little bit of time to process this so let's have more content questions come in as we have the last few minutes yeah Troy Lambert has a good point is yes get to the point you know in a way as a museum person you're a translator anyway you know you it's about understanding the importance of the objects in your collections but you're always kind of translating to the public whether it be through tours or exhibition signage why something matters and it's certainly true when you talk to the media as well so it's about getting to the point using real language not any kind of jargon okay great I see somebody here who Lynn Robertson and it's saying actually to her colleagues but it says you have to dedicate a specific time each week for doing publicity and stick to it I can't agree more because I've been in a situation of working in a small museum where not only was I responsible for publicity but I was responsible for doing the newsletter buying the advertising doing the advertising copy and I have to say those things always seemed in my experience to take precedence over making those phone calls because you know they're deadlines with the news the newsletter the directors you know breathing down your neck so it's really I think it's really important to devote a specific amount of time because publicity is a great thing to let drift you can always wait till next week you think and then you realize that you've lost any you no longer have any time to promote something and let's actually address let's address what happens if you fail to get the coverage that you want on the on you know your first try you've been working hard to get an exhibition covered or an archive covered or a conservation project covered and what what what do you do if you failed I think you and you may want to jump in but I think you try to turn that into a relationship and not a failure yeah absolutely if you really chose something that had news value and you went right to the point if someone said earlier and the journalist will you know respect your effort and if you don't waste his or her time I think it then it's about using that and it's you know the next time you call you can even say Ariel you know my name is Ann Edgar and I talked to you a couple of months ago and I really appreciated the time you were able to give me I called you then about this I'm calling you now about so you can even very quickly a little more quickly maybe than I did just now but remind them that you've spoken to them before and that they were helpful and Michelle also asked the question about how do you make an annual event new each year how do you send out the information on that she was you know I don't know that I have maybe Judy or something the only thing I would say is if you would work internally to try to always have something different something added something a little bit different yeah I what I would say is that a journalist isn't kind of no different from your constituency so what do you do for the people that you're trying to get back every year to make it new that's what you would emphasize to the reporter and you know sometimes an event will an annual event becomes part of the emotional or life you know calendar of the people in your community like everyone looks forward to the garden tour every May so you know you kind of work to create a niche in the life of the community where when you call about the annual garden tour the journalist understands that it's important to run something because the journalist understands that people in the community look forward to that annual event now let's get to Beth's question is there a day of the week when it's easier to contact reporters generally not I would say I mean there are some people if there's a columnist right certain days of the week then you know not to talk to them necessarily the day before but also if there's an art section only once a week you might you might know not to call them the day before but to call them earlier than that I would say no let's go back to what Anne said in her presentation it's just better to try them in the morning than it is in the afternoon and how the trees asked about how about excuse me how about media or overkill I'm thinking media events too that's kind of my next question I think there is definitely something as overkill as I think I mentioned there you know if you're hitting them with several emails a day a week or you're just not getting any residence residence whatsoever with the messages that you send but you keep sending them I suspect reporters will become jaded and they're not going to pay any attention to what you're offering you know in a way too I'm looking at some of the questions that were submitted before this webinar in a way they can be liberating for you because if you're the librarian and you're a one woman band or a one man band remember that you don't feel that you're losing anything because you're not contacting your local paper once a week there's no recipe for the right amount of time to call it should be driven by what's newsworthy so maybe that can relieve a little of your anxiety as well this question about getting people in hard topics I would go back to something that we very very briefly touched on and that is it doesn't necessarily have to be the arts or culture that you go there maybe you can get somebody who's interested in another part of the section the national section somebody who's writing on science somebody outside the normal person you might have a good luck there or just because it's hard you know I would just try to find an angle that appeals to the reporter that you're used to dealing with Anne? Actually I got distracted because I was looking at Robin, I'm sorry I was looking at Robin van Alken's input a kiss of death this into press release on a Friday that's probably true that's probably true Actually Friday late afternoon if it's something about the future is it not late afternoon on a Friday afternoon is not a bad idea to try to reach somebody for something that's not tomorrow you know because people do tend to be difficult to reach on Friday afternoon and if the reporter doesn't have a deadline it might be a little bit of a quiet time where you might brouch a topic that is going to take or an exhibition or something that's going to take place six weeks four weeks whatever down the line I think maybe Friday afternoon might be a good idea to try a phone call or an email I mean yeah you might reach someone on a Friday afternoon particularly that kind of one-on-one contact Okay well I am going to suggest that maybe we wrap up here with some thank yous to Ann and Judith and to the crowd that's here what an inspired conversation this afternoon of we've gone all over the place but covered a huge amount of territory and there's more to come this afternoon there will still be, will be continuing much of the same but with this emphasis on social media and so I want to thank our guest today and invite the audience to take a break for an hour and then come back for the second part of our webinar series so thank you both. Well thank you everybody really, thanks very much. From here too I've learned a lot I'm actually sorry some of these things were flying by so quickly because it's very interesting for me at least to hear from from the other side not the one side but from you know you're learning your perspective is very interesting. Alright thank you Thank you	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCm8I7svJNo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC1NF71EwP41VdjAU1iXdLkw	PM Modi addresses 200th bicentenary celebrations of Swami Dayanand Saraswati\| English Subtitles	Original Speech was delivered on 11 February 2024. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a programme on the 200th birth anniversary of Swami Dayananda Saraswati organized at the birthplace of Swami Dayananda, Tankara in Morbi, Gujarat, via a video message. In his address, PM Modi conveyed his delight at the Arya Samaj organizing the event to honour Swami Ji's contributions and to bring his teachings to the masses. The PM also noted that the 200th anniversary has come in the initial years of the Amrit Kaal. 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]	2024-02-23T02:30:12	2024-04-23T01:10:06	813	PcH9rUetYSc	नमस्ते कारकब में अपस्तिथ पुज्य सम्तगन गुज्राद के राजपाल आचार ये देवव्व्रत जी मन्त्री परिषत के मेरे साथी पुष्वत्तम्रुपाला जी आरे समाज के विविन्न संगत्हूनो से जुडे वे सभी पदादि कैरिगन अन्ने महनुहाओ देवि योर सजनो देश स्वामी दयानन सरस्वती जी की तोसो भी जन्ब जैंटी मना रहा है मेरी इच्छा दी कि मैं स्वायम स्वामी जी की जन्ब वूमी तंकार पहुता लेकिन ये समबहु नहीं हो पाया मैं मन से, रदाए से, आप सब के भीची ही हूँ मुझे खुषी है, कि स्वामी जी के योग्दानो को याट करने के लिए उने जन जन तक पहुचाने के लिए आर्य समाच ये महोथ सव मना रहा है मुझे पिछले वर्ष इस उट्सव के सुभारम में बहाग लेने का अशर मिला था जिस महापुर्स का योग्दान इतना अप्रतीम हो उनसे जुडे महोथ सव का इतना व्यापक होना स्वाबाविख है मुझे भिस्वाथ है के आयोजन हमारी नहीं पीडी को महर्षी दयानन के जीवन से परिछित करवाने का प्रभावी माज्दम बने का सात्यो मेरा सवबागे रहा कि स्वामी जी की जन्मबूमी गुज्रात में मुझे जन्म मिला उनकी कर्मबूमी हर्याना लंबे समय तक मुझे भी उस हर्याना के जीवन को नीकड से जानने समजने का और वहां कार करने का आउसर मिला इसलिये स्वाभाविक तोर पर मेरे जीवन में उनका एक अलक प्रभाव है उनकी अपनी एक भूमी का है मैं आज इस आउसर पर महर्सी दयननजी के चर्डों में प्रनाम करता हूँ उने नमन करता हूँ, देश विदेस में रहने वाले, उनके करोडो अनुयायों को भी, जन्मजेंटी की बहुत-बहुत मजाए देता हूँ साथियो, इतिहास मैं कुछ दिन, कुछ अक्षान, कुछ पल आईसे आते है, जो भविष्षकी दिसा को ही बडल देते है, आज से दो सो वर्ष पहले, डयननजी का जन्मग आईसा ही अभुत-पुर्व पल ता, इब वो दोर था, जब गुलामी में पहसे भारत के लोग आपनी चेतना खो रहे थे, स्वामी दयननजी ने, तब देष को बताया कि कैसे हमारी रूटियों और अंद भिसवात ने, देष को जक्डा हुआ है, इन रूटियों ने, हमारे बैग्यानिक छिन्तन को कमजोर कर दिया था, इन सामाजिक बुरायों ने, हमारी एक्ता पर प्रहार किया था, समाज का एक बरग, भारती एक संक्रती और अज्ध्यात्म से, लगा तार दूर जा रहा था, अएसे समय में, स्वामी दयननजी ने, बेदों की और लोटो, इसका आहावान किया, उनो ने बेदों पर, बाश्य लिखे, तार किक ब्याख्या कि, उनो ने रूजियों पर, खूलकर प्रहार किया, और ये बताया, कि बारती एक दर संका बास्तबिक स्वरुप क्या है, इसका परनाम ये हुए, कि समाज में, आत्म भिस्वास लोट ने लगा, लोग बैदिक दर्म को जानने लगे, और तक जडों से जुडने लगे, सास्यो, हमारी सामाज कुरितियों को, महरा बनागर, अंग्रेजी हुकुमत, हमें निश्यां दिखाने की कोशिष करती, सामाजिक बडलाव का हवाला देकर, तब कुष लोगो दवारा, अंग्रेजी राज को सही तहेरा है जाता था, हैसे कालखन में, स्वानमी दयाननजी के पदार पन से, जब सब साजिसों को गहरा दख का रगा, लाला लच्पत्राए, रामप्रतात भिस्मल, स्वामी स्रद्धानन, क्रान्ती कार्यों के पुरी स्रंखला तयार हुए, जो आर्य समाज से प्रभाविट ती, इसलिए दयाननजी, केवल एक बैदिक रूशी ही नहीं ते, वो एक राश्ट चेतना के रूशी भी ते, साथियो, स्वामी दयाननजी के जन्म के 200 वरस का ही पडा उस समय आया है, जब भारत अपने आम्रित काल के प्रारंबिक बरषों में है, स्वामी दयाननजी भारत के उज्वल भविष्का सपना देखने वाले संथ ते, भारत को लेकर स्वामी जी के मन में जो विस्वास था, आम्रित काल में हमें उसी विस्वास को, अपने आत्म विस्वास में बडलना होगा, स्वामी दयाननजी आदूनिक तां के पैरोकार थे, मारदरषक ते, उन से प्रेना लेते हुए, आप सभी को भी, हम सभी को भी, इस आम्रित काल में भारत को आदूनिक ता की तरा ब लेजाना है, हमारे देश को, हमारे भारत को भिखसिद भारत बनाना है, आद आर ये समाथ के देश अद दूनिया में, दाई हजार से जादा स्कूल है, कोलेज और यूनिवर्सिटीज है, आप सभी चार सो से जादा गुर्कुल में, भिद्दियारतियों को सिक्षिट प्रसिक्षिट कर रहे है, मैं चाहुंगा कि आर ये समाथ, इक वी सदी के इस दसक मैं, एक नहीं उर्जा के साथ, रास्ट निरमान के अब्यानो की जिम्येदारी उठाए, दीएभी समस्तान, महर्षी दयानन सरस्वतीजी की, एक जीती जातिस मुरती है, पेरना है, चाहितन ने बूमी है, हम उनको निरन्तर ससक्त करेंगे, तो ये महर्षी दयानन जी को, हमारी पुन्ने सर्दान्जली होगी, दार्थ ये चरित्रस है, जूडी सिक्षा वेवस्ता, आज की बडी जर्रत है, आरे समाथ के विद्याल है, इसके बडे केंद रहे है, रास्ट्रिय सिक्षा निती के जर्ये, देश अप इसे विस्तार देरा है, हम इन प्यासों समाथ को जोडें, ये हमारी जिम्मेदारी है, आज चाहे लोकल के लिए वोकल का विषे हो, आत्म निरवर भारत अभ्यान हो, पर्यावरन के लिए देश के प्रयास हो, जल सम्रक्षन, सवच्छ भारत अभ्यान, आज अने कभ्यान हो, आज की आदूनिक जिवन शाहिली मैं, प्रक्रूति के लिए, न्याय सुनिस्थ करने वाला, मिशन लाइप हो. हमारे मिलेट्स, स्री अन्न को पोसान देना हो, योग हो, पिटने स हो, स्पोर्ष में जाड़ से जाड़ा आना हो, आज समाज के सिक्षा सम्स्टान, इन में परने वाले विद्यार ती, सब मिलकर के, एक बहुत बडी शकती है, ये सब, बहुत बडी बहुमी का निभा सकते है, आपके सम्स्टानो में, जो विद्यार ती है, उन में बडी संख्या एसे योगो की भी है, जो 18 वरस पार कर चुके है, उन सभी का नाम, वोटर लिष्ट में, वो मतदान का महत वो समजे, ये दाई तो समजना भी, आप सभी वरिष्टों की जिम्मेडारी है, इस वरत से, आर ये समाज की स्थापना का, एक सुब पचाश्वा वरस भी आरंभ होने जारा है, में चाहुंगा, कि हम सब, इतने बडी अवसर को, अपने प्रयासो, अपनी उपलब्दियं, उसे सच्बद में याद्गार बनाए, सात्यो, प्राक्रुति खेति भी एक अएसा वीशा है, तो सभी विद्यार्ठ्यों को लिए, समजना जानना जरूडी है, हमारे आज्चार्या देवरत जी, तो इस दिशा में, बहुत महनत करते रहे है, महर्ति दैयाननजी के जन्बक शेत्र से, प्राक्रुति खेति का संदेश, पुरे देश के किसानो को मिले, इस से बहतर और क्या होगा, सात्यो, महर्ति दैयाननजी, अपने दोर में, महिलाों के अदिकारो, और उनकी भागिदार की बात की थी, डैय नित्यों के जर्ये, इमाम्दार कोषिसों के जर्ये, देश आज अज अपनी बेट्यों को आगे बडारा है, कुछ महीने पहले ही देश ने, नारी शक्ति बंदन अदिनिम पास कर के, लोग सभा और विदान सबा में, महिला अरक्षन सूनिसित किया है, देश के इन प्रयासो से, जन जन को जोड़ा, यह आज महर्सि को सच्छी स्थ दानजली हो गी, और साथ्यों, इन सभी सामाजिक कारिों के लिए, आपके पास, आपके पास, भारत सरकार के, नव गतीद, यूवा संगर्ठन की शक्ती भी है, देश के इस सब से बड़े, और सब से यूवा संगर्ठन का नाम, मेरा यूवा बारत, माए बारत है, दयानन सरस्वती जीके, सभी अन्यायो से मेरा आगर है, कि वो दिएवी सक्षिक नेट्वर्त से भी, विद्ध्यारतिवों को, माए बारत से जुडने गले प्रसाएथ करे, मैं आप सभी को, महरत सी दयानन की, तो सो भी जेंती पर, पुना शुब कामनाए देता हूँ, एक बार फिल, महरत सी दयानन जी को, आप सभी सन्तो को, सद्धा पुर्वक प्रनाम करता हूँ, बहुत, बहुत देनेवाथ.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcH9rUetYSc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC-crZTQNRzZgzyighTKF0nQ	Sangrur News \| School Bus ਹੇਠਾਂ ਆਇਆ 3 ਸਾਲ ਦਾ ਮਾਸੂਮ ਬੱਚਾ \| Accident \| Death \| Punjab News \| News18	Sangrur News \| School Bus ਹੇਠਾਂ ਆਇਆ 3 ਸਾਲ ਦਾ ਮਾਸੂਮ ਬੱਚਾ \| Accident \| Death \| Punjab News \| News18 #sangrur #schoolbus #accidentnews #death #child #punjabnews #punjablatestnews #latestnews #todaynews Find Latest News, Top Headline And breaking news Watch your favorite newspapers News18 Punjab Himachal Haryana websites. For All Live Coverage, Exclusive And Latest News Update, Watch The LIVE TV Of News18 Punjab/Haryana/Himachal, Catch The Latest News LIVE News 18 Punjab/Haryana/Himachal is an exclusive news channel on YouTube which streams news related to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Nation and the World. Along with the news, the channel also has debates on contemporary topics and shows on special series which are interesting and informative. News18 ਪੰਜਾਬ/हरियाणा/हिमाचल एक क्षेत्रीय न्यूज़ चैनल है जिसपर ਪੰਜਾਬ, हरियाणा, हिमाचल, देश एवं विदेश की खबरें प्रकाशित की जाती हैं \| समाचारों क साथ-साथ इस चैनल पर समकालीन विषयों पर वाद-विवाद एवं विशेष सीरीज भी प्रकाशित होती हैं जो की काफी रोचक एवं सूचनापूर्ण हैं \| Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/1IMIp73 For Latest news and updates, log on to: https://bit.ly/2Cx91Ok Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/News18Haryana https://twitter.com/News18Himachal https://twitter.com/News18Punjab Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News18Haryana/ https://www.facebook.com/News18Himachal/ https://www.facebook.com/News18Punjab	[ "news18 punjab", "punjab news", "punjabi news", "news18 punjab haryana", "News18", "chandigarh news", "Sangrur News", "accident in sangrur", "road accident", "Death", "Punjab News", "School Bus", "death in sangrur", "sangrur punjab", "accident", "news18punjab", "news18 punjab news", "news18 punjab video", "news punjab", "news18 punjab latest", "latest news18 punjab", "news punjabi", "news18 punjab updates", "news18 punjab harayana", "news18 punjab haryanal", "big news punjab", "news18 punjab latest news", "punjab today news" ]	2024-03-01T12:20:00	2024-04-23T13:27:46	351	PCpmPDZ5OH4	school di bus hehtha aaya tena saal da masoom bacha schooli bacha nu land ponchi si bus khaid reha si tena saal da masoom bacha driver ne bacha te chadadi ti school di bus bacha de sir upar di langya bus da tire moke te hi tena saal de masoom bacha di ho gayi mot tanas de ka dar dana ka hadsa wapre aaya jas de vi chik dina saal de bacha upte school di bus chadadi aaya jas karna us di moke te hi mot ho jaan di aaya tanas de ke lehraga ka de nazdi ki pende khande waal to he katna samane aaya jithe private school di van de hehtha aon de naal tena saal da masoom bacha di mot ho jaan di aaya tabani ladki nu savera school le bus chadadi aona hi chote bacha nu laya ke today she is living in the house of a person. Da bachcha khejda khejda basde niche aagaya the driver ne la par wahee kar diye bachhe de upa hu pab shada di ti jas to baad bachhe di moder tyo poore pend dewe chhe sok di leher hai so tato nodas diye ke bachhe de ser uppa di basa lang jaan diye jas kar nuz di mukhe de hi moder jas to baad police de wallo us he driver nu graftar karki mam la dharj ka leh gaya tada zdeye ke pend khande w白 अ था нा वड़ेseen सब मट्चछे भी मःता, अ्पने तूजी वेटिन। श्खॉल व खենण ट़वि�你想िचन a धिना मिद लवदजी। तर शलनता घब छडटूज शी inhabited कि व्यider। शखृदpoundा ध्याद विप्योडौई का स्डियाoning के न अग land玩 time जि�ost बआदे उस� bike के मोथ frequently tiverde muot watch jet TV balls जोко रैइतक दी मश्ज के �維ागी हो तो वाडा8 ke maath kework dinaayi बज्चे तर इमसला वाड जिस थो बजब रें तो मuringta색 blessings पद्चा आँ जंदा जी।on taxation वाजे त guitars जीitto एकय। दए बाम च्रें तती ड द्र हो भाइ. siempre ta tinsaal tiny bachhe PD accident on kare K Cookie hua khi ja skire tinaund ba bachhhas 11 народ na PSD aluminium scherthe sa purpose La Ggan kare bach zeh a byt uch cahel are beiha Ring to ha ek da te hoon paaaa bach je noom screamed lemon do kijari bach chidi life sele samulin ԱրՂԱն allevi song喜歡 Բ։Ձ estratégon Բ consumo ԚՉՅ ՂԳՏԲ հեյ։ichten�ովisphere� բել ՇՍԷհիձoric ԲԱ՝ՃԹՑն մին հ Grab Աժ Եռբի центр Ղզք ԽորգԵՔի ԱՎ՗ ոեջ դոշխ թրՅ կձը։ printing Ա��答 մ Mystery Բատրաoman Այրվոգ theological 좋아요 ು, ದ ಟ ಱಹ ರಾಥರ sake ನೋಣು ಬ ಾನಿ ಬನಿಂಯಾ ಬೋಸೃಲಳ ಮ ಽಮಂತ ರಾರ yhtಟ ಳಿ Mashದ ನಿವೂ ಽಾವ ಕಿಜಾದ ಡ೉ ಕೋನಣಿ ರಗತಕ ಲಾಮಱ criticismsಳ ಸೋವಿದ ಮಾಚಷನ ಜ ಬಾರ್ತರಿ ಕಮ ಜಾಯಳನೆರನದು ಸೋಧರಿ ಜಿತರ� র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র র	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpmPDZ5OH4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC1DtEMePmr4O6F2do6BVl7A	Address on Women’s Reservation Bill \| Parliament \| Rahul Gandhi	Address on Women’s Reservation Bill \| Parliament \| Rahul Gandhi #rahulgandhi, #राहुल_गांधी, #bharatjodoyatra Declaration: The IP of this video belongs to Rahul Gandhi. Unauthorised usage is prohibited and will be prosecuted. 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It was designed to further transfer of power to the people of India And if you look at the journey from independence, It's been that journey. It's been a constant transfer of power more and more and more power to the people of India On one side. اس کے خ nächste مندار کا حکور ہے کہ ہم پر اپر ایندیہ موضوع کرسکے سے بہت خود کرتے ہیں یہ اپر ہی بے ہیں جو اس کے حجر ایک point جانتے ہیں نقرار بہت سوئن ہے کہ یہ ایک جنگی سے لگی ہے بہت سرائے بہت سارے بہت حجر کی ساتھ پر موک کے بارے میں سے اندہ کی ایک بہت سارے بہت سائیت راج کبار were give an reservation and they were allowed to enter the political system at scale and this is another step is a big step it is not a small step and I'm sure everybody in this room the treasury benches the opposition everybody agrees that this is a very important step ہمزей پر سامنی extent بات کردی۔ ہم جیزتا ہواگ یہ بہت one biggest honestly نام تک ہے ہم선یتہ اور شیطانے کے یا hoş انگراہ کرسکتے ہیں۔� Hogwarts مجھے workforce ہوں belki Gold ہ cra puntos مند لیکن ایک اک dibujاہی ویلسان ملید گو ہے جنگ & جنگ's خودows کاری than کیجو تفرص کرنے کے بلک میں بھی ہونے کیا ہے جو ایک پہنچ گوہر جو ایک بلک شنک ہے جو ایک بات لیکن ملید کاری than کیجو چیز میں اس جانتا ہے جانتے ہیں ایک بارے کی جانتے ہیں ہےی، انہوں سے آپ جانتے ہیں ایک چیزیہ363 اُس کے حفری میں صرف ہوتے ہیں تو آپ جانتے ہیں جانتے ہیں جانتے ہیں عطاق پر سامنے کے ساتھ ہوسکتی ہیں اور زیادہ ہے ان آپ جانتے ہیں جانتے ہیں جانتے ہیں جانتے ہیں منجلہ میں بھی م پہلے سمحہ ہے ، اس بلٹی جانتا ہونے کے لئے 33% منجلہ اور بلٹ پہلا سباٹ میں آپکہ رسура بنائیں سے بہت ہوتا ہے۔ اور لہذا میں اگر یہ Jersey اس کا حق اکرد نہیں مجھے ہے جو جعون پرسطنگ روستا ہے۔ جعون پرسطنگ روستا ہے، 7、 8، 9 سی بہت نمی گرانی جا جائے کہ آپ کو انکھائی تک بھی لیتے ہیں۔ جلا ٹھک اپنی دائم ہے اس یہ اگر ہوں کسی چاہی ہے اگر کسی چاہی ہے کہ کسی چاہئے دائم ہے ان کسی چاہی ہے کہ کسی چاہی ہے وہ کسی چاہی ہے لیکن کسی چاہی ہےеляنی وہ ناملہ جانا جاتا ہے کسی چاہی ہے اس میں مِج ساتھ ہے کہ اس میں کمہانا ہونی مرون ایک بیرٹر ہے۔ اس نے ممجھے کیا اس کے ساتھ کیا اس میں مرون ایک ساتھ جانتا ہے۔ مستقبل کرنا چاہتے ہیں کہ نظر درعا مبارکانت مدین ہے جو منی بارے میں ہے ایک کچھ جو العام مبارکانی ، راجہ مبارکانی ، ودان مبارکانی ایک کچھ جو بیراکریسی ، ایک کچھ پرس ، یہ جوڈیشری لیتا ہے اور میں شاہتا ہوں ، ایک شاہتا ہوں ہمارے جو انسٹیٹوشنز ہیں ان میں او بی سی کی باگیداری کتنی ہے یہ سوال میں پوچھ رہا تھا اور میں نے او بی سی کی باگیداری کتنی ہے یہ سوال میں پوچھ رہا تھا اور میں نے علاگ علاگ انسٹیٹوشنز میں تھوڑا ریسٹرچ کیا جو جو سنٹرل انسٹرل ہندوستان کم from the obc community and and i was i was shocked and shattered by the answer میں میں نے اپنے ای سوال پوچھا کہ یہ جو ستر سیکرٹری ہیں سوری نپے سیکرٹری ہیں یہ جو اندوستان کی سرکار کو چلاتے ہیں جو ان میں سے obc کتنے ہیں نریندر موڈی جی پردان منٹری ہیں obc کے لے کام کرتے میں نے یہ سوال پوچھا میں آپ کو جو آپ دینا چاہتا ہوں اندوستان کے سیکرٹریز نبے میں سے صرف تین obc سے ہیں اور سنی ہے نہیں گبرائے مات دروں مات اور سنی ہے یہ جو سیکرٹریز ہیں جو obc کمونٹی سے ہیں یہ اندوستان کے صرف 5% بجٹ کو کنٹرول کرتے ہیں مطلب اگر اندوستان کا بجٹ44 لاکھ کرور کا ہے تو یہ 2.47 لاکھ کرور مطلب 5% کنٹرول کرتے ہیں اور سنی ہے اور سنی ہے میں کر رہا ہوں میں وہ ہی آ رہا ہوں مطلب یہ جو ہے یہ جو ہے یہ آپ کو obc کی بات نہیں سننا چاہتے ہیں obc کی بات نہیں سننا چاہتے ہیں obc کے بات نہیں سننا چاہتے ہیں آپ اوپیسی کے کلاب ہے اوپیسی کے کلاب ہے اوپیسی کے ادیتار کے بانے میں نہیں سننا چاہتے ہیں اوپیسی کے بانے میں نہیں سننا چاہتے ہیں ایک بھی نیاہی نہیں ہونا چاہی ہے یہ یہ چی دے نوٹ شوہیں ہوں یہ یہ جو ہے میں ماننے سدرش سے آگرا کروں گا ایک ماننے سدرش سے آگرا کروں گا ایک تو یہ مہلا آرکشن بھی لے اور دوسرا سبھی ماننے سدرش سے سمان ہے ڈرومتو ڈرومتو اس پالیمین میں نہیں بولنا چاہیے سر یہ جو دیسکاشن ہے سر اس دیسکاشن سر اس دیسکاشن سر اس دیسکاشن��ر گیشی جو اس سے arbeiten جاتا ہے جب یست کہ ایک بھوکشن استہدائی کے게 واato'tاDC کامنیٹی wereشن ایک ایک ب Polizei کامیوٹравствуйте ہم banging چاہاہ رہاتی ہیں اور meינی at 거예요 اس بین کانیٹان جو ڈرومتو ڈلٹن تصerning مین Бы ہے ممن علي نہیں ہے اس پیش کے Milletation یہ کہ اس دیش میں کتنے آبیسی ہیں کتنے دلت ہیں کتنے آدیواسی ہیں اور اس سوال کا جواب صرف کا سنسل سے مل سکتا ہے سرکار کو ایک سجاو ہے سب سے پہلے یہ جو مہلا کا بیل ہے اس کو آپ پاس کیجے آج پاس کیجے یہ جو آپ کے لاغو کیجے اور یہ جو بیل امیتیشن ہے جو آپ نے بولا ہے اور یہ جو سنسل سے اس کی کوئی ضرورت نہیں ہے 33% آپ مہلاوں کو سیدہ دے دی جو اور دوسری بات دوسری بات اس کو بدلیے یہ جو لسٹ ہے یہ اوپی سی سماج کاان کے سیکریٹری ہیں ان میں سے تین لوگ اوپی سی سماج کے ہیں 5% بجت کو کنٹرول کرتے ہیں تلدی سے جلدی سے جلدی آپ کاس سنسل کیجئے جلدی سے جلدی جو ہم نے کاس سنسل کیا تھا اس کا ڈیٹا آپ رلیس کیجئے اور اگر آپ نہیں کریں گے تو ہم کا دالیں گے	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5zxw3C0Ng", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCAQfQqunzE8frH3ukEbgOhA	ECO605_Topic058 \| Financial Economics	ECO605 - Financial Economics By Dr. Humaira Asad	[ "VU Topic Based Videos", "VU TBVs", "VU Lecture", "VU Course", "University Course", "VU", "ECO605", "Financial Economics", "Dr. Humaira Asad" ]	2022-11-16T08:28:01	2024-02-08T20:25:14	980	PcqoMZAghks	ताज्न आप पूर आप आद उनने बिस्छक्टन काँ आपुरी नहींगउड़़्ो। हो जब आप तिक्ररश्ट कोट कोडा इक्टा इत्र अईँन बाटने अद़् है है। एक बग फुँट एहमियत के हामिलोतें रहा? आन वोप एहमियत के हामिलोगाले चन्द फक्तस में अंप्रश रहे एक पक्तर के धिर कहते हैं। तिस को आब बभब ऊquant factor कना जाते है ठौत एक लुद बत्तर हैं। अब आप ये ख़्द श्वरेटते शब Ramya, it is important to know what is interest rate, and how can we calculate it, the changes in it, how can we influence our financial decisions. So first of all, I'll define the interest rate, that is charge, that is money, that you pay, that you borrow the principle amount, अब नप कुछ प्यषा बवारो की आप उसके उपर अभ ज़्वाव यब आप प्रन्स्यपल मांए हो गो भि आवाव बारो की है उस को थो आप चारज विखाना का, जारज लिए देते हो, उस को हम णिए अप थ्पीऊट से विश्टेन करते हैं. ये ट्स चारबूर्व मुनि इस वो स्था तो एक सब आईजागे रूए। डूई मिक लिसकतान और मँई और लोगे से लिये वो था लिझा बिसवोले के लग मुनि आईगार नहीं अपरेट कर सकतें असकिलिए आपको उसकी कोस पीर करने परतीग है और वो खोस तो आपका लोगे लागे लागी लेती है और आबी इंट्र्स रेत को किस खिष खिष्ट दिखवेशच्यान फिर में हम आपको कलटेट कर सकते हैं और सब जाजक टेजजेश के में कितना इमए तो उसको ज़ुग डिसकूष करने के लिये अबि मैं आप के साथ डिसकास करने वाली हुं एक आप ट्याज़े ख़ेट एक अप व्ट्याज़ुमाद तो weam sabse pehle discuss karenge simple loans pehre ہम discuss karenge fixed payment loan और pehre हमारे पास है कुड्ँटक बो रन्गा और us kepohaad haam discuss karenge Discount आस दिया 0 ख्यो कुपाऊन भंगा तो abhi sabse pehle simple loan क्या होती एक? तो simple loan में क्या है के आप एक सर्टन ताएं पिरियsters के लीए न мाने बारो ?] अगर आप स्थन फिक्स्ट रेट अप इंट्रूस्त आप को बताया जाते है पेंग या जो भी फिनिन्ट्चल किया निस्चूँन से या निदबिज्ट मुनि आप यहां भैसी पैसे पचाूँ किया अपको बतायागी के आपको एक साल में इतना एकस्फरा मनी हमें इंट्रुस्त के तोर पे इस प्रन्च्पल आमाच्ट के उपर पेख़ना पडेगा जितना दूरेशन आप आप आपने पास उस मनी को रखते हो उसके इसाप से आपकी जो मनी ये वो जो आपने रीपे करनी आप आद पोती जाती है तो एक चोता सा एकजमपल यहा आप को ते पुस, एक दॉलर पे एक साल के गुजर जाने के बात, मिले देने पड़िंगे, एक डॉलर अर दुस्पेन्स. और तो साल तक अगर में वो एक डॉलर अपने पास रे्तेन करने वाली हूं, जिस पे मुझे आपताय गया अगे, after 2 years, I will have to repay 1.21$ similarly, after 3 years, it will be 1.33$ and if I want to write a formula that if I tell a certain number of years, it is n and how much amount I have to repay after going through n number of years then we calculate it very easily if I want to multiply 1$ 1 plus your interest rate is 10% I have assumed in the example your interest rate will be 10% you will write it in the place of I and 1 plus I raise to the power n n will tell you the number of years whatever time period you have to see how much money I have to repay or how much money someone else has to repay in the context of simple interest then you can calculate it but if we know that in the future whoever has borrowed 100$ from me and after 5 years, he will repay 100$ after 5 years, whoever has returned 100$ the things I can buy from him the things I can buy from him cannot be equal this means that 5 years down the lane the 100 rupees I will get the purchasing power of that money must have gone down it will not be equal to 100$ to estimate this if I give 100$ to a person and the interest rate for example 8% or 10% for 5 years if someone has told me lend me the money give me the loan so how much money should I ask for after 5 years which is equal to 100$ so for that context we use the concept of present value and present value as I told you what I did to get the future value my principle was 1$ I multiplied it with 1 plus I raise to the power n so to get the present value you multiply it with 1 plus I raise to the power n because you have to make less money so you will divide it so you will keep it in the numerator 1$ and you will keep it in the denominator 1 plus I raise to the power n so n will tell you after how many years you are dealing with what is your time duration that will specify the time in number of years and if for example 1.5 years or 6 months or 0.5 years or 1.5 years that is something which needs to be accounted for and the I you have to keep that is the interest rate which you are lending on the Sharai Sood so from this formula you can calculate your present value by dividing the principal amount with 1 plus I raise to the power n so this will give you present value next the thing in the whole context we have to understand that is the interest rate we are talking about yield to maturity what is the meaning of yield to maturity that if a person has told me or the company has told me that you give us 1.000.000 and after 2 years we will give you 2.000.000 so I have to account for what is the interest rate on the interest rate this money is getting back so what is the interest rate on which we can say yield to maturity after 2 years what is the benefit of yield so the interest rate can also be considered in the context of our financial economics we take the interest rate yield to maturity and for yield to maturity I have discussed two types of formula for future value if you know that somebody has offered me that you give me 1.000.000 and after 2 years we will give you 2.000.000 so how will I know what is the yield to maturity so for that the formula which we use is the difference between these two amounts that is 2.000.000 minus 1.000.000 in numerator and in denominator I have to write 1 plus i and to solve this for i this particular expression which we have discussed for present value for example I will solve this particular expression for i so I will be able to come up with the value of yield to maturity or what I have written here I will try to explain it with the help of it that if somebody has offered me after a year after taking 1.000.000 then I will return 110.000 after a year so my n is 1 so I have not written here so n is 1 and what is the yield to maturity so what I have done I will use this formula that future value is 110 divided by 1 plus i is equal to the present value of 100.000 100.000 I will solve this particular expression for i so I will get the value for yield to maturity in this context because after a year I am getting 110.000 present value of that money which I have taken at the beginning that is 100.000 so in this expression I have written as 10% so you feel if we give 100.000 and after a year it will become 110.000 so yield to maturity in this case will be 10% so in this way you can calculate yield to maturity or interest rate next important concept I have told you that we can do lending and borrowing this is a simple loan as I have given you examples then there could be fixed payment loan fixed payment loan means that you have lent some money to a company and that company says that in the next 10 years or next 15 years or next 20 years you will be given a fixed amount of money this amount which you have lent to return it so in this context what you have to do you have to calculate yield to maturity you do not have a value your repayment is fixed and that is going on over a period of time so period of time can be 10 years it can be 15 years it can be 20 years as you take a car you lease from a bank you took a car you took some down payment and now you are making a certain walk and every month after every 3 months after every 6 months after equal intervals of time you repay that kiss so you have to repay till 5 years every month this is 30,000 to 35,000 rupees you have borrowed a car or you have leased and similarly when you lease the house even then you have to repay the fixed amount so these are the two examples in our fixed payment loan to explain the concept you can use and in fixed payment loan how will you take out yield to maturity I have written a formula for that our old formula but since there is no repayment there are multiple points so on the right hand side of your equation you will have to apply multiple points for example if somebody has said that you give me 1000 dollars and after every 1 year after 1 year I will return 126 dollars and this return will last for 25 years so if I have to imagine that in transaction in this loan day my yield to maturity so what I have to do I have to write 1000 on the left hand side and every year I have to divide the repayment from 1 plus i raised to the power n so for the first year I will divide the money from 1 plus i raised to the power 1 and for the second year I will divide the payment from 126 divided by 1 plus i raised to the power 2 and in the same way the repayment of 25 years of 126 dollars I will divide it from 1 plus i raised to the power 25 and I will collect all these terms after collecting I will solve it for i i will tell yield to maturity or my interest rate on which this particular transaction is being calculated now you must be thinking about how it will be for that we have financial operations calculators so by using that calculator we have stream cash inflows cash outflow over a period of time we can calculate it with the help of those calculators if you get excel you can use this particular concept to calculate the value of yield to maturity or interest rate next generally this is an example if we want to develop a general formula and in that perspective in fixed payment loan how to yield to maturity or any of your unknown formula you can remove it or if we have to either yield to maturity or interest rate to charge and one person wants to borrow 5 lakh rupees or company wants to borrow 5 lakh rupees so the fixed payment on an annual basis or after 6 months how much should be the cost 12% so for that this is the formula that is lv is the loan value fp is the fixed payment which you will expect to calculate if you are not given if you are given i or lv loan value then you can remove fp if you know fp the fixed yearly cash flow you know the payment of cash and the loan value you can calculate yield to maturity or interest rate so there are 3 unknowns you will know the value of 2 you can calculate the value of 3 with the help of this equation so what we did we said suppose somebody a company asked me to lend them 500,000 rupees and interest of for example 12% so every year from them how much money i should take 12% interest charge so in this equation i will pay 12% lv will pay 5,000,000 and this particular expression i will solve for fp so i will be able to find out what is the value of my fixed payment and as much as you have terms on the right hand side this will be one term for every year if you are not paying it it can be monthly payment there are 4 payments 6 payments, 20 payments you have to add these terms on the right hand side to account for the amount of payments our payments are so this is how you can find out the loan value you can find out the fixed yearly payment which you should get if you know the yield to maturity and if you know the fixed payment you know the loan value and you want to find out the yield to maturity again the same formula can help you in finding out that value as well	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcqoMZAghks", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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Welcome to today's live stream As you can see it's just a English Q&A so if you have any English questions, please let me know Start typing your questions. I'll try to help out tonight Let's take a look at the chat here Layla's here. Layla asks. Hi, Robin. How are you doing? Well Layla? To tell you the truth, I am still sick from my My vaccination I'm still a little sick. That was over a week ago, and I'm still recovering from getting the shot and Layla says I thought you would teach us a specific topic today That's getting more impossible each day Layla because as you know my other Channel Shaw English online is very big these days It's growing about 50,000 Subscribers a month. So Layla that's really hard to manage that alone Sleepwalkers here. Hello Michelle. Hello, Michelle. Let's do a Skype soon Michelle Justina's here. Hello Palavi welcome nice to see Palavi here Fennie oh Fennie Welcome. So if you have any questions, let me know I'm here to help Use me. I am a tool You can ask me a question or as it says on the side Ask questions. You can ask me for life advice. You can tell me about yourself Tell me a story or just say hi. You can do all that Let me know you're here. Let me know you're watching Congratulations you Robin. So you have a big fish to fry these days Well, you're using an idiom there, but I don't think you're using it correctly. Let me take a look Big fish to fry Don't use that idiom I've heard it. Okay. Yeah, I guess you're using it correctly Big fish to fry means I have more important interesting and profitable things to do Yes, so I guess you use that Layla. You just taught me how to use an idiom. Thank you Layla. You're the teacher today Three one two three four is why is Consonant or Val in these words cry fly Please explain. All right, that's a good question three one two three four And let's see if we can help three one two three four with that question. So let's see. Let's I'm gonna go to my white board Nothing is easy with technology. Let's see. Let's Increase that's paste Fix that last one here Is why the letter y a constant is is you know, let's fix up your question is The we're being specific to what the letter y a Consonant or vowel in these words And let's list the words with a colon here cry fly play Please explain Well as Esther's grammar taught us here. I'm gonna get rid of my taskbar and I learned a here a Commits a II You So when we're learning Depends on your school, but when we're learning the vowels and consonants these are the the real vowels the main vowels a e i o u five and We also say and sometimes why Because why is One of those consonants that sometimes can act is usually acts as a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel It makes a vowel sound it the letter is the letter y is not a vowel But sometimes the letter y makes a vowel sound Now the rule in English is every word must have a vowel Every English word must have a vowel. So when we look at the word cry we see There is no vowel a e i o u. There's no vowel the main vowels, but there is a y That makes a vowel sound Cry so that's I cry that is a vowel sound So in this case a y is acting as a vowel not as a consonant So that's why we say a e i o u and sometimes why in this case This is the vowel the vowel sound okay If you have a word like yes Why is not a vowel here? Yeah. Yeah, that you sound is a consonant sound. Yes All right, I hope that helps Khaled stated verbs What's the question? Pilavi see sir, please give me some Yeah, let's see if I can get that The comments right in front of me Please give me some English tips for beginners Pilavi you're not a beginner because you can write an English sentence You are Probably lower intermediate to my guess some English tips study every day Reading writing listening speaking Layla I heard an American guy. Oh, let's fix your grammar on that question. Let's put that up here. All right I heard an American guy say this should be say I I have made it in Jeddah But I think that means I have arrived. I made it. No Well, I I think I made it I have success This could be what he's saying I Made it in Jeddah. It means I made it. I have success. I I'm very successful in Jeddah I made it to Jeddah that would mean arrive But I made it in Jeddah. I went to Jeddah. I had success in my business or something. That's how I Interpret that I'm not sure. Hello, May And just Tina asks a question What do you usually do to reduce stress Robin? What is your hobby? Well to reduce stress good expression here. What do you good question? What do you do? What do you usually do to reduce stress Robin? We should put a comment there There's two questions split that up To reduce stress. I usually watch a movie or go for a walk Those are the two main ways. I don't have much stress I can handle stress very well, but I usually watch a movie go for a walk And my hobby these days I have no hobby these days except YouTube. I'm just doing YouTube every day Takes up a lot of my time, but I do like to watch movies or dramas And I like to walk so same How do how I reduce stress in my hobbies the same? What about you? All right, and Leila what is difference if I say all right? He is being nice and He is nice. What's the difference? Nothing. He's being is is is You know I the grammar ing ing is present continuous, you know, which means right now So He is being nice his action right now is being nice right now That's his action right now, and he is nice is just a general statement Yesterday today now tomorrow. He is nice. Okay, so you can you know, I think you know that grammar Sleepwalker, let's see what a sleepwalker has to say Wonder if that's big maybe I can make that a little bigger for you students All right, Robin. Have you ever needed to use a Korean language on your lessons for beginners to explain some rules or things? Have you ever needed to use? We're not gonna use ah. We're gonna cut out that ah Just have you ever have you ever needed to use Korean language on your lessons? And usually we're gonna express in your lessons In a lesson in a lesson plan in your lessons for beginners to explain some rules or things Yes, uh If if I'm teaching Koreans Uh There's I use a metal meta language. What is meta language? Meta language So if I'm teaching a sentence, I love English. I love English now. I'm never gonna use Korean. I love English I'm never gonna say that in Korean But I might say, you know, what is the verb? So a verb is how you explain English So a verb I might say the Korean word of verb and noun and adjective So the actual English sentences I never translate but the meta language how to explain the grammar in the sentences I will sometimes use Korean And I know ver I'm not gonna speak Korean now. Sorry, but I know the verb noun adjective and adverb Past tense present tense Future tense This is the meta language I use When teaching I might use the translation In Korean so I know all this in Korean and sometimes I use that interesting question. No one's ever asked me that Do I need? Sometimes very low-level students or did you get out of this situation? No, I do that said hello and Pallavi let's see what Pallavi sir. Can you explain the silent words? What is it a silent word I I haven't heard of silent word. It'll just let me do a quick check Silent words No, I don't I can't find silent words. You might be thinking of silent letters so, you know in In a in a word like this word Debt debt that's pronounced debt that B is silent We don't say that B. That's gonna sound like Debt so that's a silent letter, but I'm not sure what you mean by silent words and See the 1 2 3 4 how to overcome fear for speaking in English Well, we have a fear of I like your question how to overcome and Let's be more specific the fear of speaking in English Well, that's a big fear How to overcome that well practice exposure keep doing it You know, it's really hard You know, if you talk to a native speaker usually native speakers don't care About your English level too much, but I know when you when you're in your country For example, I'll talk about Koreans, you know, if a Korean speaks to another Korean in English That other Korean is gonna judge them. You know, oh, that's terrible and you know really destroy They destroy if you talk to your own country's people you destroy each other's confidence So I understand why there's a fear because if you speak English in front of your country's people They're gonna judge you and say nasty things All I can say is foreigners if you talk to native English speakers, they're not like that We're not judging you if someone speaks to me with a low-level English I I never care or judge them or laugh or make fun of them So I know it can be difficult if you're speaking in front of your own country's people But try to speak to people who don't judge you and you will gain confidence Hello win Tika, do you like history? Yep. My in university. I had a major which was English Literature I Read books in university and in university. We have a minor So the main course I studied English literature and my minor was history. So I Don't care too much about history these days, but yeah, I studied a lot of history Tika, are you familiar with the M? BTI that is the might what is Myers Briggs? test Myers Briggs What is the I Myers Briggs type indicator. Yes, I'm familiar with that. That's I'll put it up here on the classroom board So if I know this but if you guys don't know That's checking personality Personality test, I don't believe in those personality tests. So I'm not I know of it I've heard of it. I might have taken it long ago, but I'm not a fan of these personality tests I'm not a fan Good Robin. I like watching movie two So let's fix up Justina's grammar. I said my hobby is Watching movie now we can see that Justina is a Korean because she uses these symbols Which is not English. This is definitely from Korea. So good Robin. I like watching movie two Now this is a general Statement so we should use movies and that too. We should have a comma Good Robin. I like movies too. So let's cut out those little wiggly lines Sleepwalker, why should we miss an article before Korean language in Korean? You mean ah and the a lot of languages Do not use Articles or they use different types of articles I'm not smart enough to give you a smart answer on this. Just that's Some languages developed in a different way. I don't even know about Russian. I asked you about technically How can he is a prop in a sentence before but I say still can't know it's mean insertion the internet screwed you help me Well, if I said Technically Rob in here technically Here's Technically Robin is a Canadian so this Technically will mean it's a fact It's a fact we cannot argue that fact But Robin is a Canadian so Technically I was born in Canada. I am Canadian 100% That is a fact. So when people say technically they're also meaning but So technically Let's get the let's get the sentence in blue here Technically Robin is a Canadian. This is a fact, but he is not really Canadian. What do I mean is I Haven't lived in Canada For over 22 years, right? So technically I'm a Canadian, but am I still in a sense? Am I still Canadian? Maybe I've changed a lot, right? Maybe I'm not like other Canadians anymore So whenever you hear someone says technically technically this is true But There can be something that doesn't match. Let's see if we can get another example Technically See you got to bring me the examples Let's see if I can oh here technically Technically a tomato is a fruit All right, this is really good. So technically a tomato is a fruit. So Tomato is a fruit. That's a fact You can check that on the internet tomato Or tomato, however you pronounce it is a fruit Again, so this is the fact So we're saying technically But there's a but but we treat it like vegetable Now I'm not saying this, you know, technically a tomato is a fruit But we treat it like a vegetable. It's more like a vegetable, right? Some of some of you might argue me argue on this, but I'm just using this as an example Technically a tomato is a fruit But we treat it like a vegetable something like that. Okay, I got to move on Hamza, thank you. Palavi. Yes, sir. Khalid is silent a vowel There could be silent letters silent vowels three one two three four in these we're let's get back to black in these words love Success are nouns or verbs Love can be a noun or a verb I Love you He's in love noun or verb depends on the sentence success is a noun. He has success Okay, let's We got a lot of questions here. All right I didn't think that I made it in somewhere in this different from I made it to summer Yeah, okay said, how are you? I'm fine Thank you so much for answering me Palavi. Okay was see ma'am ma'am. I am not ma'am ma'am is Surprised me was he ma'am is for women and Sir is for men Give me any best site. I do not recommend any Sites except dictionaries. I recommend Oxford dictionary. Oh You correct yourself. Okay. Sorry, sir. All right. I see that was seem you corrected Wits. Hey wits. Wits has a good question here. Dear sir. How to make great mastery in English grammar a Great mastery. No, I don't think anyone has great mastery in English grammar. I Definitely do not have great mastery And we would probably use of English Grammar C right I fixed grammar and You know English grammar I would say Do not study any Grammar book If you're watching me live right now, don't watch don't study any grammar book. It's important to to Read read a lot wits, I would recommend reading a lot Don't read grammar books read story books read articles wits that will improve your grammar Justina Sorry if I move on quickly, but we got to give chances to everyone Which do you think is more important practical skills? practical skills such as social skills or Economic skills Well social skills are probably more important Of course, we need balance Good balance of skills, but you know social skills are probably more important because We have to deal with people Wherever we are and academic skills. We don't have to use those wherever we are Nowadays, I notice some videos about some American people visit Saudi Arabia and most people try to speak with them with confidence Although they only know survival words What do you think? Yeah, you know, there's Broken English We're broken any language. There's survival English English is English You can communicate you don't nobody has to be fluent to communicate in English Me hungry me eat food The grammar is terrible, but you can understand that me like pizza Grammar is terrible, but you can understand like the point of a language is I have information that I want to give to you If I don't give perfect grammar, who cares? I certainly don't care You know, we want to speak well as best as we can, but if it's broken or whatever, it's fine I'm not sure what the question was Leila What tactics do you choose in your lessons? Correct every mistake when a student speaking English or allow Them to speak further with mistakes and feel comfortable Well sleepwalker what tactics was my strategy? I Do not correct every mistake Sleepwalker if I'm speaking to students what I do is I check for common mistakes, so if I Talk to a student a lot and you know, I can identify Common mistakes and then you know after a few times talking to them. I will say oh you always make this mistake When they are speaking and they you know they make a lot of mistakes, I'm not gonna fix every mistake I will fix critical mistakes if I don't understand something. I will say hey, I don't understand I'll fix that immediately, but for the most part You know, I'm not gonna fix every mistake. I'm gonna fix some Marine Chimizhi, right. Hi Robin. How is your health? I'm all well a little bit sick though three What is the difference between Indian? Let's capitalize that Indian language is there an Indian language you mean native American language? We don't say Indian from India Hindu, I'm not sure what you mean by Indian Because there is no Indian language There's Hindu I'm not sure the questions three This is this word is the problem. Don't understand what you're talking about India But in there's no there's no language called Indian Hope you're good. Thanks Marine win. Oh, let's see what wins talking about up here In Myanmar, most people judge our pronunciation. Yeah, that's why I felt so shy to speak loudly and chat with foreigners in English Yeah, I understand now. I feel confidence in speaking because of you. Thanks a million only a million I want to I want to hear thanks a billion or thanks a trillion only a million. I Could for you Win I think you're not shy. Thank you You're very comfortable speaking with Foreigners Now a day or this is from Tika nowadays Koreans interested in this person types It's like a trend to know about your partner's character my Korean told me so ah, I haven't heard about it here Basically, everyone is getting that's been around for a while Maybe in your group of friends that test, but I'm not interested in that so much wits So a fruit is not countable. So don't use it use before is it? Well fruit is mainly uncountable, but we can sometimes There there's different kind Fruit, let's get us. Let's get some example. Yeah, this is from Fruit is usually uncountable. I love fruit. Don't say I love fruits Fruit is used as accountable now when talking about particular types of fruit. They grow mainly citrus fruits So usually it's uncountable, but certainly fruit can be countable in some situations Sorry, all right Palavi. Let's see what you got Sir I study in a school. So my question is which English books will be good for children. I'm not a child teacher Just read at their level Sorry, I don't teach children. So I don't know I can't recommend any books All I can say is read books made for their level. So if they're young, maybe there's more pictures Sorry Palavi, I cannot help you there and from sleepwalker Robin I wondered in my previous question about why did you put away an article in my sentence? Have you ever needed to use? Oh the Korean the Korean language You have to be specific. I don't remember what I did earlier, but Depends on the grammar. Have you ever needed to use the Korean language? There's only one Korean language So we need to use the Don't remember what I put earlier But it cannot be ah Korean language ah Korean language would mean there's many kinds or many Korean languages There's only one the Korean language Frida hello Layla, what does she say it? I won't stare so you can eat at ease could at ease have the same meaning of easily at ease Means comfortably like that Let's check it dictionary says Free from worry awkwardness or problems relaxed so Comfortable at ease very comfortable Hindi is spoken in Indian mainly from Delhi. Yeah, how can I improve my intonation? intonation can only Only be improved by mimic a Native speaker You have to hear the intonation and then you have to copy the intonation the intonation cannot be learned By yourself or self-study you have to hear How a native speaker speaks and you copy their intonation that has to be so listen and copy You mimic copy them Frida What is the difference between I choose a over b and I choose a to be Point is the difference between over and to Yeah, I Don't think there would be a difference. I choose a to be yeah, they just Your you can use over or to in this case, which means you choose a We have two ways to express that they both mean the same thing Grammar is the backbone of language or not how much importance to grammar grammar spelling You got a fur right the first time of learning English grammar is the backbone of the language. Yes Do you need to study it directly? No, you can acquire grammar naturally Without a textbook if you study grammar textbooks, you will never speak English, right anyone you could spend 20 years Mastering grammar textbooks. That's not going to help you with actual usage of English to acquire The keyword is acquire Grammar, let's get rid of this How do you acquire grammar you read and you listen and You practice writing the grammar and you practice speaking the grammar so Do not study grammar directly Such a waste of time the the millions of people around the world Studying grammar directly. I am not a I am not a grammar teacher. I do not support that mode of learning unfortunately in a lot of countries the teachers focus on strict grammar to the students What a waste of time doesn't help your country improve the English Get away from grammar books get away from the classroom start acquiring grammar Without direct study of grammar your your brain is smart Human brains detect patterns very well Yeah, exactly what I mean if they people speak wings people can't speak well confidence is king the word queen if if I spar if I speak to someone and they are confident about What they're saying even if they're speaking broken English. I love that person with the confidence There's a lot of people that might speak English very well not confident I I don't have time for them. I like confident people even if they have broken English What do you usually recommend for students to feel that they stop progressing in English? Well, the problem with English and any language is graduate graduate card jewel. No, it's gradual. So What does gradual mean gradual means is slow improvement? Like it's I mentioned before a tree will grow You are not going to watch the tree grow. You're not going to sit down and Sit down and Just stare at the tree and watch it grow It's too gradual. It's too grouchy and England learning acquiring or learning English is similar. It's gradual. So you cannot See the change You know, it doesn't quickly move. It's like a tree. It's so slow unnoticeable the change so Both teachers and students Because it's so gradual. We don't really detect the change as it's happening, but it's happening. It is gradual. It is happening so When a student feels that they stop progressing I the student if the student is still studying they did not stop progressing They might not have noticed But they are still Moving forward at different speeds. It might be slowly really gradual But they are progressing and I would say If they are studying and they're listening they're still progressing And if they if they stop studying English, I would say, you know, there's There's three things that can happen. Uh, you know, there's when you study English you can progress or you can Lose it But there is a middle category of Keep it Keep your level So ideally we want to progress. We want to get better. But if you're not studying so much, it's very important to At least keep your level. You don't want to lose it. You don't want to reduce your knowledge of English. So If a student really stopped progressing I would say hey, hey at least Keep your level. Don't don't start losing it. You know, if you don't study for six months You're gonna lose a lot if you don't study for one or two years Uh, that's criminal Criminal, uh, sorry. I could talk more but I gotta move on What time is it you guys are asking a lot of questions Robin, what do you usually recommend for students who feel they stuck on that's I already did that That was oh, that was Layla What? Oh, no Here's Layla I got it had a little bit of confusion I guess the first one is correct. What do you think about it? Was it the first time you meet him you met him? Face to face. Was it the first time you have met? Well You're going different grammar forms that can mean the same thing. I'm not going to go into details of div about the the past perfect in the past Simple They can mean the same thing, but anyway, both of them You could even you You had met him There's different grammar forms. Layla's you're trying this You get into that trap of students Who can express Different actions using different grammar forms And there's they mean the same thing basically they mean the same thing, but technically There are differences And students will come to me. What is the difference when I'm expressing it with this grammar form? And I'm expressing this grammar form and basically Nobody cares. It's the same thing But technically there will be a slight difference and I'm not going into that Layla So I'm I don't answer those questions anymore of I would say don't even worry If any is good singular plural goods are ready goods is ready. Yeah goods can be Plural here the goods which would mean the items The products so these would all be synonyms Now you can say An item one Uh, you can say our product one And can you say our good? Uh, no, I don't think we can I would say no, we can't use this as a good. So it should always be plural. I think Yeah So the items plural means the same as the goods that we can say one item The products the same as the goods we can say our product, but the goods I don't think we can say our good. We always have to use it plural Pallavi Is English taught differently in all countries? Yes English has taught many ways different ways around the world Many different ways everyone's learning English a different way Robert I want to tell currently I tend a class of drawing in all those classes of English But I understand 95 percent. I feel my English is progressing well 95 percent is a good Good place. Yeah, you yeah keep going Leila. You're going to the next level We blessings mr. Shaw and the people there. Thank you Frida Do you think there's a difference? Do you think there's any difference between American accents and Canadian accents? That's making this the issue too simple like If I was to Talk about the difference in accents We're gonna look at my map here We're traveling We go over to North America So Canada USA is the accents accent difference Well This part of America is different than this part of America and this part of America the accent is different than this part of America So in America each region has different accents or dialects Canada the same this part of Canada is going to sound different than this part of Canada. So in this region You know, it's going to sound different And especially eastern Canada sounds very different than any part of north america So is there one canadian accent? No, there's not there's so many different types of canadian accent Is there one american accent? No, there's so many types and same with the uk australia new zealand Now I think students get confused with hollywood english Because and down here in la there's hollywood, you know the movies the movies tend to use one kind of standard accent Is hollywood english the american accent? Not at all. That is just hollywood english So I would say this area Speaks very similar. So it's Canada up here and northwestern united states. This would share one accent So I think all these people in this area Uh, it would be difficult to find the difference. I don't know. I'm not an expert But I would say it'd be difficult to find the difference Mixing the canadians here and the americans here. You might not be able to tell the difference in accents For some of them, I don't know So is there any difference between american accent and canadian accent? Yes and no Sometimes canadians sound exactly the same as americans depending on the region Different videos. Hello Thank you witz. Hi, zekira Let's see what leila is asking here The more I spend time and effort for studying this the better result I get in my In my progress The better result you need a result that you need a noun. Is that a correct sentence? Yeah In your progress I want to reduce. I want to improve every day. Good for you Yes, I think so too that you must not lose. We have different videos that I wanted Oh Different videos Different videos is interesting in finding girls This move when I listen to that song that reminds me of my child What is the correct prepositions I choose with a remind verb with When I listen to that song I would put an it reminds me of My childhood So when I listen to that song it reminds me of my childhood. This is what you want to use it reminds me of See what's happening here. If I say my head is hurt instead of I have a headache No, no, I want to hit it. I have a headache if I spell it right I have a headache if you said my head hurts This would be more, you know a headache is a common sickness. I have a headache But if you said my head hurts, yeah, you can Can't say my head is hurt my head hurts Uh that can express a headache, but you know, you might have another injury like I Hit my head on the wall or the ground. Oh my head hurts That means something that is more serious than a headache a headache is a common thing This can mean the same thing, but I think we should say my head hurts for something more serious Sleepwalker we'll stop after sleepwalkers I'm going to finish up the live stream in a few minutes Robin, have you ever taught as a personal tutor or always for a group of students sleepwalker? I used to tutor a lot in korea These days I don't tutor one to one. No I don't need to Sleepwalker, I'm not rich, but I'm not poor I don't need to tutor one to one for that extra money. I'd rather just help people for free You know and I do sometimes I Skype Or zoom with a student if they have some Some they're preparing for some test or something and I'll just help them out So I'll tutor for free if I tutor these days. I tutor for free online To not everyone so, uh, please don't ask me. Hey Robin. I want you to teach me one to one. I tutor people Who really need it or deserve it? I'm very picky A lot of you might be hobby English learners, which means you're not going to use it for a job or education. You're just using it to I Probably wouldn't tutor hobby English users. I tutor people who need it for a test or immigration or something like that But uh, yeah, so I used to do it a long long ago, but not anymore Now let's just look at Layla and Frida Layla. I learned new information about English today I I hope everyone learned today. That's I don't want to waste everyone's time And what does Frida say? I honestly don't have much time to study English. There's always a little time every day I just do what I can with my time and might sounds good Nowadays I learn new and nuanced expressions good and vocabulary and phrases. I also advise the grammar. Okay looks good Keep doing there, uh frida I'm exhausted. You guys had a lot of good questions today. Thank you for participating We saw a few new members today. Good. Welcome. I hope to see you next week I'll be back sunday Sorry, Layla. I probably won't have a lesson Prepared at that time. Uh, it's just too busy for me nowadays Thanks, Gwee Justina Frida. Thanks everyone who's still here Uh, talk to you in the future, uh, marine. You're a good teacher. Thank you marine I think you're a kind person too	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcya2t9BWuM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCHBsqVkFraWvtNd1w0Qx4_g	Titans Introduce OC Nick Holz and DC Dennard Wilson \| Media Availability	The Tennessee Titans Head Coach Brian Callahan introduces Offensive Coordinator Nick Holz and Defensive Coordinator Dennard Wilson during a live press conference at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park. 00:00 - HC Brian Callahan 1:40 - DC Dennard Wilson 24:05 - OC Nick Holz Subscribe to the Titans YT Channel: https://bit.ly/2M1n3Kd For More Titans NFL Action: https://bit.ly/2LWlmxy #TennesseeTitans #Titans #NFL #TitanUp For more Titans action: https://www.tennesseetitans.com Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/titans Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titans Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/titans	[ "Tennessee Titans", "Football", "NFL", "Nashville", "Sports", "Titans" ]	2024-02-14T22:12:57	2024-04-18T20:46:12	3,173	pckJFgE3oXs	Good to have everybody in the process was thorough ran and I spent quite a bit of time together interviewing making sure we brought guys in to speak to them wanted to see guys in person wanted everybody to feel the presence in the room and so it was a little bit drawn out it's still going obviously there's still hires to make but part of that process was intentional we were trying to make sure that we got the best people we could get for our staff and for the fit on the personality side as well so that part of it's been really fun it's been good to get to know other people around the league guys that I haven't had some familiarity with obviously leaned heavily on Rand's relationships obviously if you all know ran he's about a big of people person as there is and he's got a ton of contacts around the league people that he knew that I didn't that we had conversations about ran was involved in all the interviews as well really good sounding board for me really good advocate of people that he knew which was really helpful to be able to sit and talk with him about the interview processes so again really excited about it it's been a thorough process I'm proud of what we put together so far I'm excited about that the people would bring it into the building and it's something that that I you know it's nice to have some life of myself for about three weeks but me ran and Tom Jones I've really been living together here in the building so good to get some more energy and life in it as well so with that I'd like to bring up our new defensive coordinator then our Wilson come on oh man first of all just thank you for being here thank you for the opportunity it's great to be a Titan great to be around this organization being around ran being around Brian I can't wait to get started you know we on the early phases right now but this is a great opportunity and I'm excited to be here questions right now we're just going through the process you know we just got here two days ago really the staffs coming together so we evaluate the players evaluate the talent that's here you know about football it's not about scheme it's about the players right so we have to figure out what they do well and then we'll put the scheme around them all right to allow their talents to flourish I could tell you this about the scheme all right and I learned this a long time ago General George Patton said this nobody ever defended anything successful you're gonna tack and attack some more we're gonna be attacking defense we're gonna be violent in our approach all right we're gonna be smart we're gonna be intelligent we're never gonna compromise for competing and that's the style of brand of football that we're gonna play around here well just like anything you you learn from the people that you've been around and obviously I've been around a lot of great coordinators so a lot of things that they do is entrenched in my being a lot of the philosophies they've had you know I believe in so we're gonna blitz but we're gonna blitz and when we blitz it's gonna be smart it's gonna be educated it's gonna be at the right times it's not gonna be reckless we're gonna play coverage we're gonna play man-to-man we're gonna be multiple in everything we do all right in terms of our fronts any of those things so we'll be versatile all right we'll be you know we'll present problems to offenses all right on how we approach it and you know we'll go from there it's been a lot of guys like you know you mentioned Greg Williams he gave me my first opportunity him and Jeff Fisher with the Rams you know I hold them I hold them at a high high regard I still communicate with both of them Todd Bowles was outstanding to be around just been around coach Harbaugh this past year hell of a head coach I think he's a Hall of Fame type type coach and those guys have been big influences on me also we have some guys on the staff that we have here that has also you know been in influences on me Frank Bush is a hell of a coach that we have as the linebacker coach Tracy Rocker I was with him in Philadelphia he's a hell of a coach Steve Jackson I worked together with the Jets he also Steve Jackson with my coach as an undrafted free agent all right and in Washington Chris Harris been around here he brings so much energy respect Ben Bloom and what he did at Cleveland and the way he had those guys play and then it was a lot of people that was already on staff like like Clint McMillan and Lori who's who's here's those people you know they're great people to be around they're going to be a great influence on me helping me through this process you did with the Ravens most recently their philosophy always seem to have a knack for finding the football creating turnovers what's your philosophy regarding trying to get the football it's not going to change you know we understand as the ball travels further and faster than it does the ground so we have to play outstanding past defense we got to keep the ball in front of us but within doing that we have to attack the ball with violence either way you get takeaways in this game is population and technique I and in the manner in which you play so the same philosophies they have in terms of the Ravens defense it's going to be the same philosophy I carry it's been the same philosophy of all the guys that you mentioned before that I worked with well the guys are here they play hard and play physical that's the number one thing all right they're tough guys all right they play with discipline all right they're physical they're violent at the point of attack and when you see that in the effort that they have and you mix you mix the coaching and the new nuances that will bring you know we'll allow them to flourish a bit what were you looking for in this position and why was one's tonight a good fit everything you guys see so far guys had great knowledge of scheme and what defenses have to be nowadays in the NFL there has to be a willingness to be multiple to play different coverages to play multiple fronts to be able to mix the coverage scheme with the talent that you have to be able to blitz when it's required to blitz be able to play max covers we need to play max covers there's just an element of playing defense now in the NFL with the way that the passing game is and the way that these offenses are that if you lock yourself into one thing you tend to get found out pretty quickly and so just one of the things I always respected about the places denarred's been and the defenses he's been a part of is that ability to be flexible and adaptable to what the scheme on offense is presenting you meanwhile still keeping a core fundamental approach to what is important on the defense and as denarred has talked about it but that's to me was the most important part schematically the other part of it was the person you know as you guys get to know denard as I've got to know denard is is great energy really positive good to be around he's a guy that I like sitting next to and I've hired a lot of the people on the staff with that in mind is that they're guys that I want to go to work with every day and and and I hope today as a staff want to work together themselves and I think that your team feels that as well so when your staff is connected and you want to be around them hopefully that the locker room feels that as they come into the building with us but at the end of the day they're guys that I like being around and present a lot of positive traits both in the schematic portion and the relationship portion which to me are equally as important when you're building a staff five places trying to denarge denarge yeah why was this and Brian the right fit for you well it's the same thing first of all you know I've always admired the Titans organization followed followed this organization when they were in Houston had a lot of people that I've worked with they come from the organization and when I got here I was already excited about that right and then when I met Brian and I met his you know I met the way he the way he is the way he presents himself the way he wants this this team to be connected right the core values in terms of what he believes in as a person in terms of having good people around them having friendships and also grinding and working together you know you know I admired that about him I had a relationship with ran already you know when we were young coming up ran Carton and I he was a he was a pro scout and I was a young coach and we had numerous conversations just you know during those days of a when we get to this point this is how we would want to do it and we've always been in contact and always admired each other on the way we would weigh each other work and so it was a natural fit and I'm happy to be here you know I'm learning about the organization being here and I'm excited to go to work your career from the back end as a defensive back coach how much of you learned from from that perspective about what needs to happen up front and how do you now kind of plug into the whole right when you work from the back to the front it's like a puzzle at the end of the day all the pieces fit a certain way so you you know from a grand scheme standpoint you can understand you can look at the game from a big picture because you're looking from the outside in and from the back to the trenches you know I like I say you know I've been around great D line coaches throughout the course of my career great linebacker coach like I mentioned again Frank Bush is a hell of a linebacker coach and as a young coach I learned a lot from from those type guys to learn how to put it together and over the years I just got better at understanding how the puzzle fits first of all you know the first thing I'm gonna look at is is this guy talented and he's I mean in terms of given effort and is he willing to compete if he's willing to compete and he gives effort I has outstanding ball skills can run physical at the point of attack violent at the point of attack and when I say that is when the ball is in the air you look at his attributes in terms of his foot speed quickness his change of direction right a lot of things about DB play isn't just about their athletic ability it's about position and leverage in the eyes and if I do they are they willing to look at the right things on a consistent basis so just just looking at those pieces and putting it together for me if I see a talented player you know I feel I can get the best out of them and you know the more talented players we have the more talented players we welcome rather offenses are now right so many three receiver etc. nickel is almost based what's your approach to how you look at DV's like do you want them to be able to inside and outside or do you plan to have that specialized when it goes back it goes back to this the more you can do right when you draft players you know you you don't want to peg a player in one one position the more you can do to help the team become versatile like you have a corner that you know he brings a different aspect and he can line up at nickel he's a good blitzer he can line up in the slot right this is a match-up game as well you know it's so many great receivers in this game and the game is spread wide open you want to have people that's versatile all right to play numerous positions to line up to be able to adjust and adapt to what you're getting from the offense they've struggled to develop the DV position you look at guys who work with you know Jamal Adams Hamilton Bradbury and what has been the key for you to be able to get the max out of this time well I live by these three principal as a coach as a coach you must be able to teach motivate and inspire and any player that I've ever been around the first thing I'm do I pride myself on being a hell of a teacher I'm gonna motivate them to be better than what they think they should be or reach the potential they supposed to and I'm inspired them to go get it and the coaches that we have on the staff they have the same mantra they believe in the same thing so when we get a player whether we in free agency or in the draft those are our guys and we're gonna do everything we can and our power to teach motivate and inspire them to maximize their potential and God didn't have success that might be part of the answer which are getting ready to give me but from day one when you meet your guys what are the things you're gonna preach that you want to see non negotiables you know day in and day out well we're gonna talk about effort and the way we play right we're gonna talk about having obnoxious communication we're gonna talk about brotherhood plan is one right a team that fails to connect is a team that fails to win all right so the connection and the way we play the way we communicate the way we jail that's going to allow the defense to come to life because when they believe in one another and they trust in one another to execute their assignment and play at a high level that's when you get outstanding violent defenses he's one of the biggest leaders on this team obviously how excited are you to have a guy like that and what are the qualities that you see in him on the field and obviously in that law well obviously I had a community talk to on the other day man he has a great personality outstanding young man but when you watch him play he's a big guy he's versatile he could play the three technique he could play outside he's explosive he has great hands he can affect the play he can affect the game by himself and you know to have players like that and put them in positions to have success it's a wonderful thing coming in here when you have a guy that plays at that level well you know it's still early in the process but you know we have OTAs we have training camp as we go through that cycle you know you get better and better you learn by doing right so you get better on your job iron sharpens iron so we'll have call it periods and all that stuff so you know you'll get better on the job but also it goes back to what I just said earlier the people that trained me to get here and then I can't mention enough the defensive staff that we put together they're going to all be a part of it when we get in the game planning they're going to have their own sections they're going to be the head coach of of their sections whether it's third down two minute first and second down drop back the run game so I'm a lean on those guys and then when we get in the game plan into the game the game plan is already done right so now it's about calling it how you saw it in terms of how the teams attack their personnel their Tennessee is on situational football okay and then as we start to play we have to adjust to the schemes that they have because they're going to have new wrinkles and with the guys we have and the wealth of knowledge that we have in that defensive room we'll be able to adjust quickly all right play by play quarter by quarter all right half by half so we'll we'll be fine in that direction talked about how you want to do things one day in positions like these what are some of those shared traits and how you both operate well both of us take pride in what we do right we we spend a lot of time on on the smaller details all right not missing any steps being able to connect with with people with players with people in the building bringing energy all right being humble in the same time you know just respecting the process all right brand and I had a long obedience in the same direction we started off you know when in smaller jobs and we've been able to build our careers step by step without missing steps so when we're in this position you're prepared for it Brian given your role obviously it's the game and your head coach and calling plays on offense were you looking to find essentially kind of the head coach of the defense and did you find that into yeah I would you know that's a interesting way to put it I know it's how people talk about it these days but I sought to sought out to find the best defensive coach I could find period head coach of the defense however you want to label it I just one of the most dynamic talented young football coach I could find on the defensive side and I think I found it then I was gonna have autonomy to run the defense the way he sees fit as a head coach I'm always my job is always to oversee that process help him where he could need help for him to lean on me when he has questions about what an offense is doing but at the end of the day the expectation is that you know denar's got control of the defense and I'll be there as a as a resource and an asset when he needs it but yeah I wanted a guy that could that could command the defense command the room for sure and I think I found that you guys kind of mentioned earlier there's a lot of connected tissue on the staff as far as guys working with each other you have a former high school teammate on the staff all those same things what does that mean to come into a new place with all you guys having so much connectivity yeah I think that we're always the product of our of our environments and our upbringings and so there's guys you come across over your time in the league and I think we're fortunate in fact that we have a lot of really experienced coaches on our staff even though obviously when my first time head coach and denar's a first time defensive coordinator but it's certainly not our first time coaching and it's not our first time with a lot of the guys that have been in these in the rooms that we're in now the important part to me is that you're open to that experience so guys that have been around and done things that I'm gonna lean on the people that I've hired to help me and I think denar will say the same thing and so when you have relationships with people and it's not about just knowing somebody these are guys that we've been been a battle with been in the trenches with we've been in up and down seasons and goods and bads and so I know how to talk to these guys I know how they're gonna respond when I when I react a certain way and that's important because you need that it's hard enough as it is to win football games and to have guys that you have relationships with that you've built over time a lot of these guys for both denar and myself have built relationships with these guys over time and believe in their abilities and their ability to communicate with us and so there is an element to that that is important to have some people that you know there's also guys that I've not worked with on this staff and I'm speaking as the head coach you know I didn't know J.O. I didn't know Justin out and I I've heard of him I had talked to him and I the minute I sat down them I thought this guy can really help us and so I was open to all all roads of to building the staff and there's some guys that I've got relationships with that I've worked with prior there's some guys that I that I didn't know at all that I came away really impressed with obviously denar being one of them so I think it's a really good mix I think we had a great mix of experience I think we have a great mix of youth and I think we have a great mix of personalities and because you guys get to know him you'll see it but I think there is an element of relationship that's important when you're building a staff that you do have some of that with the coaches you bring in obviously denar's got great relationships with a few of the guys in defense as well and that was an important part of the building the staff process you know the same things that Brian just talked about you know I feel the same and then when you're around guys that that you've worked with it's about how those guys handle success and then how do those guys handle adversity I've seen and I've seen most of these guys go through that and I know you know when things get tough you know they're gonna buckle down they're not gonna waver they're gonna get better because you know the time when you need to get better they're gonna be there right there and they're gonna be knocking at the door so you know I'm comfortable with the guys we have on the staff the things you were looking for and putting the staff together is another theme you're looking at just developing how these guys develop players at positions because it seems like when you go do the research on any of these position players like that's one of the biggest things a lot of them have done and had success at doing yeah that's a that's that was a intentional part of the process along with the personalities I was I was trying to find making sure they all fit together another huge part of that is guys that have shown and proven that they can develop and coach players over time because that's the name of the game in the NFL we're gonna draft players they're gonna be young they're gonna make young player mistakes our our goal is always to get those players from from that point as rookies to hopefully second contracts third contracts pro bowls all pros that's the that's the goal and I wanted to be equipped with a lot of guys that have proven their ability to do that I've seen in the past coaches have had like you go grab trick plays you grab third and forever you grab red zone how is that for me or do not both yeah I think it's gonna be the same way you know and when we get to talk about when Nick comes up here in a minute but at the end of the day we're we hire people because they're good at their job and we want our guys to feel empowered to go do their job and part of that's gonna be whatever each person is assigned to do we're gonna have experts in those areas so third down red zone just like denard described on defense these guys everyone's gonna have an area that they're responsible for and their input and part of the game plan and I'm gonna lean heavily on those guys and their expertise just like denard said he would as well that's generally how things are set up these days it's a collaborative approach it's a collaborative process to make sure you're getting the best from everybody that's on your staff and you're getting the most information you can have from each spot and you know I think that's how it's what I'm accustomed to it's how we worked in Cincinnati it's really how I've worked almost everywhere I've been but particularly when I was in Cincinnati that approach served us really well and you get a lot of good ideas you get a lot of good perspectives like I said in my opening press conference there's something to the diversity of thought you know you want guys that have had different experiences in different places have different answers because ultimately we're trying to do the best we can on Sundays to put the guys in the best spot so we can go win games and and that might be it might be information from from Kyle and Butler as a quality control coach he may have a tendency for me that he brings up on a Thursday evening in the red zone and we might use that to help us win the game and I think that there is nobody that's too small in the process and there's gonna be a lot of guys that have a lot of voice in the process but ultimately we need as much input from as many places as we can so we can build the best game plan every week. What's your dynamic? Mine's for a coach. I've got one more for you to know. Okay. Just you obviously work hard to get to this point I guess what's the feeling as a coach as a man to now have a defense you can call your own and maybe prove and prove and Brian are the right guy. Well like I said you know you go through this this phase you go through life you go through the job process and you put in all the work you know you you start from the bottom and you work your way through and you know you get to the point where you you know you're thoroughly prepared this is a hell of a feeling all right to be named the defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans is a hell of a feeling I couldn't I couldn't be more happier proud to be in an organization like this and you know we got to put it together and we got to put a product out there that that represents this organization the right way. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. So offensive coordinator Nick Holtz Nick and I obviously it's pretty well documented have a pretty strong relationship I've known Nick for a long time. We've only worked together for one season of all the years that we both been in the NFL. Nick's had had a pretty interesting journey in his coaching career just like Danar one of those guys that started at the bottom he started about as low as you can get and he's worked his way to this point really excited about the about the addition of Nick both for me as a head coach and what he can bring in the offensive coordinator role which is is a little different than than what maybe you're used to around here having an offensive head coach with it with a that's calling the plays with an offensive coordinator by title that doesn't call the plays it's a set up I was trying to emulate from how we were set up in Cincinnati with myself and Zach Taylor it's a system that I know is important and I know that it works and so Nick's job he'll get more into the details of it but most of it is to to make sure that the offensive staff and offensive players and the offensive scheme keeps running and all the moments that I'm not available to be there particularly during the course of the week there's a preparation part of it that's critically important to me and so very important hire there's nobody more deserving for it and I'm incredibly excited to have him on this staff I see he's been around a lot of head coaches a lot of different schemes a lot of different ways of thinking and doing business on an offensive coaching staff and it's going to provide us a lot of a lot of advantages as we move forward in the game planning issues that start to come up when you get going so without that I'll open it up for Nick Nick Holtz offense coordinator Tansy Titans for you guys what did you see in each other during that one year that you spent together that was so formative you think you know I think it's always interesting when you your friends with somebody you have a long term you know relationship or whatever and then both got put in roles and you know you always think oh I like I want to work with my friends or whatever and then you get to see them work and you get to see kind of the their process and you know how they're detailed and all those little things that you really don't know when you don't actually get in the fire with somebody so you know he really from the day he got to Oakland you know I was a holdover from Jack Del Rio staff to John Grudens and Brian came in right away and you know John's a big presence and there was a lot of veteran stuff in there and you could see right away how detailed and professional and all the ideas and development he's had in his career is it a little weird to say like Brian how did you do this for Zach as I try to kind of be you for him a little bit I think that could be but I'm also you know I think if you need to be yourself first so you know I'm not going to try to be Brian you know we're different people in that regard but kind of I think really just as each day goes seeing a couple more things that I can take off his plate or hey have you thought about this and it's really kind of an open dialogue the whole time from how we're trying to figure things out and structure it this way hey do we want this guy to be in charge of third downs let's talk about it okay and that we go from there you know I think you know like Danard was talking about you know effort you know toughness we're gonna stand for all those things but we really want to see guys playing with great speed detail and execution right and those are the three things that kind of go right off the bat right there and you can see those guys taking what we learned from the classroom taking out to the fields and really growing in that regard you know I think there's more probably a question for him as the play caller but I think we see it systematically of we want to just put we want to run good plays into good looks right we just don't we kind of want to have the chalk last where we're not going oh you know they made us hot here we did do this so that's kind of you know but I guess I kind of defer to him too of how he wants to see it and build the offense that way yeah there's a there's a time and a place where you try to dictate pace tempo there's a there's another time where maybe you are taking what the defense gives you where maybe you've called a play action shot you're trying to take one down the field they do a good job covering it you take the check down for ten yards that's a little bit of taking what they give you we are certainly gonna try to dictate the terms on offense that is that is always gonna be our goal but within being able to dictate terms you want to be able to have the mindset particularly the quarterback position really affects more than anybody else is is knowing when to take the easy throw when to dictate the completion versus when to be aggressive and so that's probably the best way I can say it is that we'll do everything we can to dictate terms tempo style of play but ultimately we'll we'll be smart about when and where we attack and when we don't have those options what do we do next what's our answer and that's that's a quarterback issue more than anybody but we'll ultimately want to be efficient when we don't have the ability to dictate to a defense you know I think everybody's kind of got their own management style you know I'm not a I don't think you'll see me as like a Yeller and a screamer or anything like that but I think if you build relationships with people and you kind of empower them to do their jobs you know I feel like the people I've worked for really they would empower you you know they empowered me and then they would say all right go and you keep getting more and more and more and that's kind of how as a leadership style of same thing with the players hey we're gonna give you this you keep going that way and we kind of build the connection in our in that regard diversity of experience diversity of opinion just how similar are your thoughts on how to build the offense have you encountered any differences there is kind of one minded I think they've been pretty pretty one minded for the most part you know we've had a few discussions about hey we've done this we've done this you know and that's you know both walk back to our offices go back to a set separate way and then come back and revisit it but there's a lot of similarities you know I think I've been in a lot of systems and I've worked for a lot of coaches even though I was in one place for a long time so I the one reason you get to kind of stay in one place the whole time is that you are adaptable and so I'd say that's probably been a strength of mind over my career and really kind of hoping to build on that and then take the things that he wants to do and the whole staff wants to do it's not just you know Brian and Nick doing all this stuff you know we got such a great staff that we're gonna build in everybody's ideas first-time OC you being a first-time head coach you also cross paths with his dad I believe at Nebraska how great is that to kind of have a guy like this as a veteran and experienced guy on the offense to you know pick his brain sometimes I'll say there's I mean as far as experience goes there's not really anybody that has more in all the different facets of an organization he's been a head coach in college in the NFL he's called plays in the NFL he's been arguably in my opinion the best offensive line coach in football for a long time his experience in his wealth of knowledge he probably knows he's probably forgotten more football than I know and so it's a huge asset to us to have him and again not just because you know that's my father but because of his experience as a football coach and again there's not many better out there and for you know Nick Nick worked for him a long time ago I would you'd argue that they're probably both very different people this point yeah my dad in particular but just the just the ability to have that that that knowledge experience wisdom perspective on all the things that that go on and from top to bottom and in the football process not just the coaching and so to have that available to us is huge and trust me he'll he'll have quite a bit of input and ability to help us along the process sorry I asked you last week when you were here he's thought about interviewing that now that you got that to the interview what was that process like what was it like which have been hired mm-hmm that there's probably not it was a there's it was a complicated process because it wasn't something that I had anticipated him in the moment if that's what he wanted to do I wasn't sure he would be contractually allowed to and it was a process that we had to work through with with the Browns organization and thankfully they really you know the kind is the wrong word this isn't a kind of business but they were they were aware enough to know the uniqueness of the situation and allow it to continue to go down that road so appreciative of that perspective from them and allow it to happen but you know it wasn't something that initially we thought was going to be the case and it turned out that we were going to be able to make it work and you know probably one of the coolest moments for me is being able to to have that happen it's been really fun to drive the work with them every day and and do those things that's something I ever thought would work truthfully so to be here with him is a really really awesome moment for me both as a son and as a professional because I know how much he can help us with his knowledge there really wasn't an interview process it was more he made the decision he wanted to come come here to Tennessee and we went about trying to make it work what's the what's the head coach assistant coach son father dynamic like it's been really normal you know it's been he's he's very understanding and of what it means to sit in the chair that I sit in every day having done it himself he knows when advice is welcome he knows when he probably should leave me alone I know when I should leave him alone on the flip side but it's just been really fun for us to be able to you know I said he's got this he's got this 16 inch clincher you know those softballs the 16 inch softballs and he played growing up and it's he has one of them in his office and you know he came in the office every day it's probably about nine o'clock and we were kind of finishing some stuff up and I'm sitting there throwing a throwing a softball back and forth as we're talking about some different ideas for something and so just to have that experience has been really cool and you know he just wants to be able to hear to help me and to help this organization win and that part's been really fun it's been it's been a really cool experience for me so far he's got his own place I don't want him no he's got his own place I'll have I have my own place where he we there's what the amount of time we spend together in the building there's certainly time for space yeah that's kind of that I think we're all like that at some at some level but yeah we're sitting there talking about plays and everything's plays off of other plays that make it look like this and double moves and everything else so it's kind of been you know to be you know the Brian said so nicely the lowest of the low quality control guy when I got in the league and where's you know you always say oh this is what I wanted to do when I get my shot or you know get in these rooms and you know the last couple years of kind of moving up the ladder it's kind of been doing those things so yeah it's it's kind of a you always kind of want to turn your brain off a little bit but it's tough so you know starting with well last year in Jacksonville you know we weren't really in the first round quarterback market so I hadn't really watched very much of them and then starting to watch them you know when I was with the Jags as you know opponent crossover film you know the first thing that kind of jumped off is obviously you know the arm talent and then the second thing I would say that really jumps off is the toughness right I think that you know we talked about for quarterbacks you know the really the three things we're looking for is decision-making accuracy and toughness and you saw all that you know and I'm sure you know he would say he probably wants to improve in some of those areas and things like that but you could see that baseline there for him of that those skills are there and so it was you know I think it's a reason what made this job probably so attractive to Brian and probably the rest of us in terms of this often mostly it's a young group of guys by lettuce it's also a veteran or two Deandre Hopkins how do you go about I guess kind of selling yourself as a new guy to a veteran who's accomplished so much like that you know I think when you get into the you know when I was coming in as a college guy into the NFL you know there's always kind of this intimidating like oh yeah you know I don't know if I've no enough and I think players always respond to if they feel you're genuine and they know you can help them right so if you come there with good information you're giving them the details or you know you're explaining something to them and they can tell you know what you're talking about they're always gonna listen because you know players just want to be successful and so I think that's how really how you earn your stripes in that regard it really doesn't have to do with age or experiences as much as showing them that your first press conference you mentioned that you wanted Tennessee to feel like a family like a place people enjoy coming to work similar to how you felt in Cincinnati how much of that starts with your coaching staff and how much are the pre-existing relationships the coaching staff has going to help establish that goal? It's a huge part of it because if we don't enjoy coming to work together how are we gonna expect anybody else to enjoy working together and so one of the goals when building the staff one of the traits I was looking for is is good people guys that can that know how to get along that know how to build relationships that are positive forces and I think you're gonna feel those guys as you get to know them but there's a aspect of building the staff that was important to me because it's hard to ask a team to be connected it's hard to ask position groups to be connected if they don't feel the same thing from the people that are in charge of the other part of the process and so you know it was great just as an example yesterday you know we had a whole the first day in for really all the coaches officially that had been hired was yesterday had a big staff meeting in the team room of all the football operations people and just a chance for Ran and I and Chad to introduce kind of our staffs to each other for some of the staffs you know you're talking about the the training room and the operations and the equipment room all these people that have an effect on our players every day they're a part of that process and we wanted to make sure that everyone also felt the same thing because again if the operation around the players is the way you want it and people are connected the way you want them connected in those roles the team feels it and then there's really that there is no other way this is how we're going to operate and part of that building of the staff and the relationships was people that had had experiences with each other and so they knew bits and pieces of the guys coming in helps that process go a little faster I think that's probably the best way to answer it. Nick will you have any specific responsibilities like red zone or two-minute or is that going to be something that is you know I'll be over you know I'm just like a regular offensive coordinator except I just don't call the place so I'll be involved in every part of the game plan you know we've kind of talked about you know even when during the interview of how we want to structure the week and things like that and you know it's very collaborative but I'll be in every part of that. How much of the hay is in the barn before the game starts about what plays are actually going to be called which is a good question quite a bit is the answer because of the way that the week operates and the way you build a game plan with the input from the staff and the input from the quarterback which is sort of the the cherry on top of the preparation process as you get to Saturday quarterbacks going to have a lot of input as to what he likes and where his favorites are he'll rank the plays as we get ready to go to a game so for example you know we might have our top two plays in third and two to three and third and four to six they're going to come off the sheet just like that especially early in the game until we have to adjust in between series or at the quarter at the half however that works but we have a starting point plan just like you have you're kind of we call them open or some people call them first 15 but you have a handful of plays in there that you're trying to probe the defense you're trying to give your guys a chance to get a rhythm going the quarterback's going to have an input into that portion of the game plan so the early part of the game when you put the calling of the plays is really sort of already done before the game starts where good play callers I think make their money and where good staffs separate themselves in this league is how quickly you can pivot in the process of a game again whether that's usually in between series or even trying to think about what's coming next and so the anticipatory part of that process is really I think what separates play callers in a league but as far as the game plan and the early part of the game it's going to be relatively well set before the game even before it even hits Sunday and so that's that's how you hope it to be that's how you want it to be and then again what where we make our money on Sundays is how quickly we can adjust and pivot and adapt to whatever we're seeing that might be different than we anticipated you're very busy I guess obviously put your staff together what's the process like and also try to get the speed with with just the draft combine coming up free agency right around the corner how have you managed to jump all that it's a lot all at one time but it's not been something that's been overwhelming I've felt very good about the how the days have gone the process has been good I feel good about that I've been sitting in the draft meetings this week obviously our scouts are in town the draft meetings are started I've been involved in those I'll leave when I got to go handle interviews or make sure something else has got to get done but ultimately leaning on all the people that that we've hired to get their opinions and thoughts in on the free agency class and in our roster and it allows me to be able to kind of freely move through each each element that comes up every day I'm I'm not in my desk chair very often I find myself sort of all over the place over the course of the day but I feel really good about where we're headed and the amount of work is still a lot but the good thing is there's a lot of hours in the day and we keep the lights on late here right now because there's not a now we're nowhere for me to go my family's not in town so it's kind of all football all day long what's left on the staff how many spots would you say you still have open maybe worse maybe a couple of spots yeah obviously haven't hired our special teams coordinator yet that that is hopefully coming soon we've interviewed quite a few people for it there might be a secondary there's a assistant offensive line coach job that is still open that we're in the process of interviewing and then obviously with with Frank going to New York there's a strength coach job that is open as well so couple of things outstanding still but but ultimately I'd say we're probably about 90 95 done I mean there's only a couple more left to go so getting really close to being final final with a new strength and conditioning coach will he get the opportunity to make a determination on the people that you retained or are they going to work yeah that's always going to be part of the the conversation but but those the people that we've we've retained just similar to the coaches we've retained in the process you know our our are with us to start and and when you get new people in you make you have conversations and they have opportunities to interview themselves and that's sort of how that works just in general coaches and strength staff be very similar so you know anytime you're hiring a new person there's always an influx of potential new people so that's the nature of our business and I think we're all on the same page with it did you guys imagine anything close to this when you were running scout team offensive for Sal back today both no not even close this is like a this is it's a you know he would ask me two weeks ago I wouldn't have imagined it so and I think the one thing you know for us we just kind of always we just kind of always just kind of kept working and you know he was in Denver and I was at the Raiders so we didn't talk a lot of football then because you know I I think he wasn't telling me anything that Broncos were doing I wasn't telling me anything Raiders were doing so uh no absolutely not but it's been it's been a lot of fun so far I would imagine I would imagine I haven't talked to lad I talked to some other people there but I have not talked to lad I'm looking forward to hopefully having a game here at some point you know because obviously I don't know if you guys know this either but Kyle and Butler also went to deal Sal so there's three of us obviously we're a little bit older than him but there's three of us now that that were from our high school and it's a proud moment for for me just as for a lot of the guys that I've that I went to high school with that we know that have had a lot of success in our respective careers it's just we've just happened to to find our way into the same building and something I'm proud of I'm proud of what Nick's done just as a friend professionally he's up to the task I can't wait to start working when we actually get to the real football part is going to be the fun part but just as a as a as a fellow teammate and an alumni I'm really it's I'm proud to sit up here with somebody that I've known for that long what were the conversations like were you envisioning this sort of stuff or were you just kind of friendship talks just more friends and then uh yeah I don't know and then we would just I think you know coach has always kind of try to get something from somebody else and then you're and then you know always talk about hey you see what's going on around the league and those kind of things or hey do you guys play the uh do you guys play the buccaneers this week hey do you guys see the coverage this way or something like that so some of those kind of things we would always talk about but Brian uh I guess the last time we talked to you maybe you were meeting Will for the first time uh I know he's since said you kind of kept him up to date what's going on with the staff and been in communication with him what what's that first maybe a couple weeks been like with them and while it's important to kind of keep come up to speed with everything yeah it's been great I just I know that as the as the quarterback you you you're certainly not um you're not owed those explanations uh or or input but I think the best relationships with with head coaches and quarterbacks are ones where they they are given those opportunities to share information like that and I thought it was important to keep Will abreast of what was happening uh both you know hiring wise where we were at organizationally just you know this is he's he plays a huge role in this in this whole thing too and so he needs to feel like he's got some at least has my ear and can come to me with anything he thinks and then I'm able to tell him what's happening for us and I think that's it's important for him to feel like he's got some involvement some ownership some input to what's happening um and again it's not necessarily that he's owed that it's just that I think that's the working relationship that I want to have with him and I think for me starting that precedent was was the right thing to do and I think he's appreciated it and it's been really fun to start to get to know him obviously he was out in Vegas I called him the other day just to check in he was getting ready to go play with Phil Mickelson um you know as as I'm learning about Will he was as I asked him when he came back he was back here uh yesterday and I asked him hey how was it you know what did you think and he goes I was just I was just mad that none of my drives hit the fairway and I was like well what's the last time you played and he goes the bye week I was like well I was like I don't know man I don't know I tell you if I went out and swam a club right now I don't think I'd hit many fairways either but just speaks to the competitiveness and he wanted to play well and show well so I just thought that was that was fun that he got a chance to go out there and be around those people but my relationship with him um his relationship with me and Nick and Bo is going to be really a critical factor in our success and I wanted to make sure that he feels like he has input and ownership into that process and we can kind of build it from there and hope that he gives me the same kind of feedback I need from him particularly when you're talking about plays and what you like and how you like it I thought like I think I said in my press coverage one of the things that made Jake Browning so unique and so helpful was that we had a good a great relationship and rapport where he could tell me and he could tell Zach hey I don't like I don't like this play don't don't call this without any kind of fear of a retribution or no you're gonna run what I tell you and that's not how it's gonna work we're gonna have an input from him and I think it's important that he feels that willingness for me um so we can we can build a successful scheme around his skill set that he feels comfortable with Brian did Mark just ask earlier about looking back at last year what he saw what have you seen looking back at last year what have you liked what have you not liked from you yeah I mean you see you see plenty of things that like every team I mean if I were to turn on our Cincinnati tape from last year we have plenty of things we want to get better at things you do differently things that every every year you look back and try to find where you can improve and I think we're always going to start with what are we going to do first because we're all new and the scheme is new so I won't spend a ton of time on what happened last year but I do watch it I do have awareness because there is things to coach off of and even if the schemes aren't the same um techniques um how things have happened over the course of a game reactions uh things especially at the quarterback spot as well like you can learn from all those things and so we'll do our best to learn from it um obviously I won't put too much stock in and what was good or bad ultimately because it's going to be different for us this year but um there's definitely things to learn from and coach from from what's happened before Brian just when you sit here in Nashville and throw on the Titan's Bengals take from the first time what was uh what goes through your mind then we gotta be pretty good um that was a that was a tough game Joe had Joe had was was fighting through the calf injury um wasn't his best day I think he didn't he didn't feel great that day and then and then we didn't play very well ultimately I mean we didn't we started out decent um but then we didn't play well I think I need us out of the ball and you know give a lot of credit to the the guys that are here in in Tennessee it was a good good day for them they played really hard they made life hard on us offensively and and on the flip side they the offensively they had a handful of explosive plays I think if I remember it correctly that that generated some points for them so tough day for the Bengals uh in Nashville and again hopefully we're on on the same side of that as a Titan this year when we play so but yeah it was that was that was a hard game for us when you look at I guess the person that I'll go back and review this team from last year was such a philosophy change in terms of how you want to do the offense how do you go about assessing guys to say this guy can fit into what we do this guy doesn't fit into what we do I think that's our job as coaches uh as a coaching staff is to be able to say what does the player do well how can we use them um because good players fit in every system and it's just a matter of how you choose to use that player uh what positions you put them in to be successful um so it's it's more about what what are the qualities that are good and how do we use them best to help us win and um yeah again that there's there's a place for players that that you have everywhere across the board um that can help you and so our job is to find out what that is and how to use them especially guys that that are under contract that are here it's our job to find a way to use them best and that's always our challenge is to put those guys in great spots	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pckJFgE3oXs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCLI5I1QwKqQn0Cf4nzdGKeQ	Week 8-Lecture 38 : Oligomerization of alkenes and alkynes (Part 4)	cyclotrimerization, oligomerization, butadiene, cyclododecatriene, nickel catalyst	[ "Cyclotrimerization of buta-diene", "Industrial synthesis", "Ziegler Natta Catalyst." ]	2020-02-13T07:36:44	2024-02-05T06:11:56	1,769	PCZDrxSZH-U	Welcome to this course on transition metal organometallics in catalysis and biology. In this series of lecture, of late we are discussing oligomerization of alkenes and alkynes topic, and in that we have discussed about four kinds of oligomerization reaction starting with ethylene oligomerization. And this we have discussed with regard to shell higher olefin process or the shop process, which uses the nickel catalyst for carrying out this ethylene oligomerization. The main drawback, even though this is an industrial scale process, the main drawback is that it is not selective in the sense that it produces a broad range of distributions of ethylene oligomers of various chain length. This shop is an industrial process that includes ethylene oligomerization along with olefin isomerization and olefin metathesis together they constitute the process of shop, which is shell higher olefin process. Subsequently, we have also discussed another interesting reaction, which is ethylene trimerization, and this is done very selectively in which ethylene is trimerized to give one hexene, and this is a process that uses early transition metal Tantalum 3 catalyst for carrying out this one hexene at trimerization. The subsequent that we have also discussed another topic, which is a dimerization of propene dimerization, and this produces hexenes of different substitutions, and these branched hexenes when hydrogenated give a high quality petrol of very high anti-knocking attributes, and this also uses a nickel catalyst for carrying out such kind of transformation. Now, with this being discussed today, we are going to proceed further, and then we are going to discuss another interesting reaction, which is cyclotrimerization of butadiene, or maybe we can call it for the sake of butadiene cyclotrimerization. This produces cyclo-octa-dodeca-triene, and uses also a nickel catalyst. Now, if one were to look, we are going to be discussing about this topic in as a part of today's class. Now, in this connection, it is worth noting that if one were to look at all these oligomerization process, for example oligomerization, trimerization, drymerization, cyclotimerization, all of these process, then one would see that the metal of choice for such process is in fact nickel, which is a late transition metal, and also supposedly very electron rich. Now, this is an interesting observation as well as correlation that comes out of these oligomerization reactions. What it says is that olefin oligomerization is usually favored by electron rich late transition metals, whereas olefin polymerization is favored by early transition metal electron deficient early transition metals. This is a conventional wisdom in the area of olefin oligomerization and polymerization. From this perspective, this ethylene trimerization with tantalum III, which is an early transition metal stands out in the sense that there are some examples of even lower degree of polymerization like trimerization happening with electron deficient metal like tantalum. But note that the oxidation state of tantalum is not 5 and 3, so hence it is not really very electron deficient as it would have been if it were in the plus 5 oxidation state. Now, with that, we will be able to focus on today's discussion, which would be centered around this butadiene cyclotrimerization reaction and look at various ways that they form. One thing to note that in terms of application, before I proceed further in terms of application, this shop is where applied for preparing detergent ingredients application in the detergent industry, whereas this propene dimerization giving hexane branches, these are in automobile because they are used for producing petrol of high quality anti-knocking agents. This is an application in auto industry and this ethylene trimerization is providing very selective one-hexane, they are also used for commercial purpose. Also to note that this particular reaction which is propene dimerization having applications in high quality petrol of anti-knocking capacity, the activity of these catalysts is extremely high, the turnover number is quite comparable to that of a biological enzyme like catalase that carry out these kind of transformations. Having said that, here we have a system which is extremely efficient and has a very high turnover number with respect to similar to that or comparable to that of an enzyme catalase reaction. From that perspective, this catalyst or this process is quite remarkable fit that demonstrate the capability of organometallic catalysis in the world of chemical transformation. With that discussion, let us move on to this topic of today's discussion which is cyclotrimerization of butadiene. What we are going to primarily focus on is the mechanism in which how it works. The precursor is a nickel to allyl complex, this allyl complex that is the catalyst precursor and the oxidation state over here is a nickel 2. That in presence of butadiene undergoes reductive elimination of the two allyl moiety to give a diallyl compound as is shown here. The reductive elimination happens between this and this resulting in diallyl compound as is shown over here and it gives this nickel 0 species with 2 butadiene. So the oxidation state for this species is a nickel 0. Now that subsequently reacts with butadiene to give the species which is shown over here. Now this is the oxidation addition reaction of 2 butadiene moiety to form this b-sallyl ligand and the oxidation state of the nickel has become nickel 2 as a result of this oxidation reaction. Now this is in equilibrium this species which is a sigma bond and this is a pi bond which are now separated and at a very low temperature greater than minus 40 degree centigrade, the second insertion happens on to this ligand giving rise to this nickel 2 species which also is nickel 2 and then this is an important species which subsequently tremorizes at reaction above minus 40 degree centigrade to give the corresponding nickel 0. So this is a sort of reductive elimination process to give the nickel 0 species as is shown here and this is called nickel and this is a nickel 0 species which finally eliminates the butadiene tremor to give this cyclic tremor. This is called trans trans trans 159 cyclo dodeca triene. This gives cyclo dodeca triene and this butadiene 2 of them then enters the catalytic cycle. This is an interesting mechanism which has been proposed by Wilke in 1960 and this involves the formation of nickel as is shown over here, so this involves formation of nickel as is shown over here. The main feature is the transformation from nickel 2 into the catalytic cycle as well as nickel 0 or the nickel nickel in the 2 of the catalytic cycle. The other important thing is that these particular species was confirmed by preparing it separately and entering the catalytic cycle through these species which also gave the identical cyclo tremorized products. This is indeed a very good reaction that has been successfully carried out in which butadiene can be tremorized to give trans trans trans 159 cyclo dodeca triene as is shown over here. So, the key features of these cyclo tremorization reaction is given below the key features. The number one of the pre-catalyst is a bicellular complex of nickel. Then the second thing is the mechanism was validated by independently preparing one of the intermediate and then successfully entering the catalytic cycle. So another important attribute of this mechanism is for the metal for nickel change in coordination number from 3 to 4 and the oxidation state 0 to 2 are observed and the last but a very important attribute is nickel in nickel 0 stabilized by donor ligands are observed. These are the key attributes of this cyclo tremorization process which shows the feasibility of this nice reaction through the metal undergoing flexible displaying flexible coordination mode by changing the coordination number from 3 to 4 as well as flexible oxidation state by changing the oxidation state from 0 to 2 in the process naked nickel stabilized by alkene donors are formed and they are part of the catalytic cycle. Lastly the catalytic cycle is even validated by entering the catalytic cycle through one of the catalytic intermediates which were prepared independently. Now having said this even though this was a very nice and beautiful reaction in terms of the applications of organometallic catalysis are concerned however this reaction is not being used in industrial scale for producing this cyclo-dodeca trin or trimer of butadiene and this cyclo-dodeca trin in industry is prepared by Ziegler-Nutter process as is shown over here cyclo-dodeca trimerization of butadiene in industrial scale process use Ziegler-Nutter catalysis and this is shown below 3 butadiene with titanium tetrachloride R2L2Cl3 and this gives this cis trans trans 159 cyclo-dodeca trin that is further hydrogenated and then finally in presence of oxygen and the second with nitric acid is produced this acid is produced in large scale about 10,000 ton per year annually. So even though this will this method of producing butadiene trimerization is a very nice beautiful method but this is not being used in industry probably because of difficulty in handling the air sensitive nature of nickel zero intermediate that is produced in the process of cyclo trimerization of butadiene and hence Ziegler-Nutter catalysis used to produce this trans cyclo butadiene then which is then hydrogenated and subsequent oxidation and nitric acid produces this diacid about 10,000 ton annually in a large industrial scale. So with this I come to the conclusion of today's lecture. In today's lecture we have looked into cyclo trimerization of butadiene in the context of various other topics we are covering along the theme of olefin and alkyne oligomerization reaction. We have looked into the mechanism as proposed by Wilkie using an nickel catalyst and then we have also looked at the alternative pathway which is used in industry using Ziegler-Nutter catalysis using titanium tetrachloride to produce the cyclo trimerization of butadiene in large scale processes for making a diacid in about bulk quantity about 10,000 ton annually. So with this I come to the conclusion again one more time of today's lecture and I look forward to taking up the topic in bit more detail little bit remains on this olefin and alkyne oligomerization reaction and subsequently we will take up olefin polymerization reaction as we meet next till then goodbye and thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZDrxSZH-U", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCnIfca4LPFVn8-FjpPVc1ow	Facebook Loves Fedora (and Chef) - Michel Alexandre Salim, Joseph Chilcote - Flock 2019	Facebook as an organization has been using Chef to manage our CentOS servers for years, but recently we've started offering Fedora as a fully-supported desktop option for our employees. This talk will cover the challenges involved in managing a fast-moving platform (upgrade notifications, security updates), securing them (encryption and escrow, password strength enforcement), managing devices while not breaking interactive use cases (all those pesky locks!), and allowing users to customize their setup but in a way that is auditable through what we call API cookbooks. -- Recordings of talks at Flock are a community effort. Unfortunately not everything works perfectly every time. If you're interested in helping us improve, let us know.	null	2019-10-15T21:57:39	2024-02-05T16:11:36	2,372	pcMD_5EAB-A	So, hi everyone, I'm Michelle and this is Joe. We are from Facebook's client platform engineering team, also CPE, not the community platform. Naming is hard, right? There are so many, not enough TLA's to go around. So this talk is going to be about how we manage our Fedora desktop fleet at Facebook and why we are managing the client fleet. So this is the agenda, first why we want to manage our client devices and then why it's actually hard to manage our client devices as opposed to managing servers and then we'll give an overview of what our fleet look like and how we manage them. And then we want to talk about, this is the most interesting part, how we want to actually collaborate with the Fedora community to actually work on things we both care about and things that we care about as well. So why? User experience, Facebook is a big company, we onboard a lot of people every week and we want the experience to be good, right? You come in, you get a new laptop, everything should be set up for you automatically or after a few years you get, you replace your device, everything should, anything that you need to work and be productive should be there for you. Developer access, Facebook has a lot of internal tools that we build ourselves, we want to make it easy for the teams that actually write these tools to be able to write them, package them, deploy them and have them work out of the box on the teams that actually need to use them. Security, I mean like there are some security standards we have to maintain, like setting up for this encryption, making sure that if someone lose the device we can actually wipe the device, making sure that security updates are applied automatically. And auditability, we want to make it so that when people make configuration changes they are actually tracked somewhere. So we know what's happening, it's being applied on any device. And also why it's hard, it's hard because the supplier is not a server, there's a person sitting in front of the keyboard. So there are things that you can do that will be like breaking someone's flow. You cannot assume that you don't want to say like run something that's CPU intensive and then someone's compile job becomes much slower. Desktops are not connected all the time. And we cannot manage the desktop when it's offline. It's also hard to actually always make sure that you can remote into a machine to troubleshoot if there's an issue. And those are just a general challenge. We have Facebook specific challenges as well. We are really big on IPv6 partly because we are such a huge company. And some things don't work so well in IPv6 because nobody else actually has an IPv6 on the environment. We'll get to the details later. And then this is similar to what Matt talked about earlier today, that federalize too fast and too slow at the same time for some people. We have some teams with unique needs that always say, oh, we want to be on the older release for a bit longer. And they keep getting nagged by GNOME software, hey, there's a new Fedora available. Do you want to upgrade? And the people that support those teams are complained to us saying, can we turn off this update notification because when they upgrade, our tooling don't work. Teams that have either third-party tools or funky hardware and by funky I normally mean NVIDIA. And then training. Before we choose to standardize on Fedora for our Linux users, this is even more of a serious issue because imagine you are a help desk technician, you are hired and you are told, hey, most people here use Macs. So we hire from, say, we hire those Apple geniuses. And then someone comes in and say, my arch Linux cannot connect to Wi-Fi. So it's getting better but it's also getting worse because now when you tell them, hey, Fedora is a supported platform and now people go there and they have the expectation that it's supported. So you know everything to make this work. So we are not a majority Linux company at the desktop. Our servers are mostly Linux but not our desks. Most people use Mac OS or Windows. So it's an interesting experience. If we get Fedora right, we are going to see more uptake, hopefully. So in the past, we don't actually, some people want to run Linux on the desktops and they come to our team and they say, can you support it? And we didn't set a direction. So we let people pick whatever they are most familiar with. So our Linux users are mostly on Ubuntu and then there's a vocal community that uses Arch. This is not a feature to support it. So we find that in our experience, people will contribute the minimum amount of fixes that they need to actually get what they need to work actually working. So after that, they just throw it away and my God, they don't touch the code anymore. So it's a bit of a nightmare. So last year, we decided to standardize and pick Fedora. And multiple reasons, one of them is that we already run centers on our server fleet. So we have all the expertise to actually deal with RPMs. Because we use centers, there's already a lot of internal infrastructure needed to support it, like how to build RPMs, how to actually deploy them. So for instance, a lot of our internal tools, like we have a slightly modified version of Mercurial that's shipped as an RPM. The same package can be used on both our server and our desks. So this is the view of our client fleet over the past year also. As you can see, we finally became a Fedora majority, the desktop fleet became mostly Fedora earlier this year. And this is the adoption curve for different Fedora versions. So it's normally quite easy to persuade people on ThinkPad laptops to switch to the latest Fedora version as soon as they are released. The people who are lagging behind, as you can see, Fedora 28 dropped precipitously pretty much around the time that it reached the end of life, but not before. Those are the people on workstations with NVIDIA. We have to make them and make them and say, hey, come on, we have to actually move away from this. And yeah, we still need to get better at actually forcing people off unsupported releases, because as you can see, Fedora 27 actually has active usage months after it was end of life. When I reached out to one of them, he said, oh, I didn't know it's end of life. So that's pretty much what our fleet looked like. I'm going to make a photojournal for how we actually manage all the software. Hello. My name is Joe Chalko. I work with Michelle on the client platform engineering team. I primarily work on macOS, but they let me play with the cool kids in the Linux pod sometimes too. And like you mentioned, some of the difficulties in managing client platforms can be pretty unique. For instance, imagine any one of your servers could go to sleep in San Francisco and wake up in Budapest and then expect to connect and update all of its configurations. And each machine has a unique snowflake sitting at the keyboard who may be part of a group of similar snowflakes. And so many of the configurations that we make, we build them to be configurable down to the machine or user setting. And to do this, we use Chef for our configuration management. And at Facebook, we use a specific API model with Chef, which deviates a little bit from the core Chef tools in that we can then set a base config for the fleet and then allow end users themselves to update certain portions of that configuration for their own machines. Chef runs in a declarative way, and the run list in Chef is by design in order. So we take advantage of that run list order to be able to make changes as Chef proceeds through its run. And Chef actually does a few different loops through all of the cookbooks. It loops through everything to compile all of the settings into a node object, and then it loops back through to execute on the resources. And so we can take advantage of that as the compile phase runs and make changes to that configuration based on groupings, username, serial number, network, any sorts of criteria that we might want to use. And the lazy evaluation is another way that we can delay configurations that are to be applied to resources at the end of the Chef run. The API model, like I said, is kind of a specific Facebook thing that we use Chef in the way that we use Chef. We manage the platform, but by default, all of the settings are either going to be nil or false. And then as the Chef run proceeds, we start filling in those configs. Like I said, we can save for the entire fleet. You'll get one setting, and then as that the Chef compiles the process moves along. Then maybe a specific group updates one of those settings, and by the time the resources run, they apply what is specific for that machine. And we also promote user choice in that most of the, any of the API settings that we have in Chef can be changed by individual developers themselves. And everything goes through change control, source control process, peer review, so anybody who wants to make a change to their system can get somebody else to sign up on it, and perhaps maybe a security review as well. And because everything is in source control, it's all auditable, so we know that you, as an individual, made a change to your specific machine, and then they can track back and look at the notes and see why that was done. Example for here is a screen saver, and this is a good example because it's cross-platform. Chef is platform agnostic, so we can run the same resource on Mac OS and Windows and Linux, and the underlying resource will take care of the platform-specific code to make those changes. So we can set a default value of true and max idle time of five minutes, which is mean, probably, do we do that? It's awful. And then when the resource runs, it knows what platform it's on, so it runs the specific calls to the APIs to make that. Screen saver change in this example, and again, we can set that default to five minutes, but somebody may say, no, I need it to be 10 minutes, and they can go in and make that change. And then in the Chef run here, you see halfway down, it's changing. It's actually going from 10 minutes to five minutes there, but it detects that the initial base setting that we set for the corporate fleet was 10 minutes in this example, but this user decided they wanted to be five minutes. Another example was password policy, and again, it's a cross-platform recipe in Cookbook within Chef that can run on all of our platforms. And the individual users could potentially make changes to their own policy. In this instance, we would want it to go through some sort of security review as well. And again, the setting, the policy on the resource level is platform-specific, whereas defining these settings is platform-independent. So one of the things we have serious problem with is running package operations. It's not so bad on Fedora, Ubuntu is way worse because by default, the first time you log into a desktop, it starts running this update application that tried to update the repo and then tell you how many updates there are. But basically, by default, Chef basically encouraged you to actually use their package resource to actually say, hey, I want this RPM to be installed. And imagine if you have 20 Cookbooks and each Cookbook has five recipes, and each of them basically say, I want to install something. You have 100 package operations going on, each of them can basically be blocked because, like, oh, someone is holding the YAM block, help. So what we do is, like, we have a two-prong approach. We find that in the past, a lot of tool authors basically have over-optimistic assumption about how useful that tool is. So they'll say, like, hey, I'm going to install this tool on 20,000 Macs or, like, on all the, like, 500, say, Fedora machines. And then we find that it's not actually being used that much. So we can move them to be installed on demand. So we can say, hey, we are going to stop installing for you and when the user actually invoked the tool. We say, oh, hang on a minute. You actually let me install the tool for you. The other thing we do is, instead of telling people, instead of every recipe actually running a package installation, we encourage people to use our API and say, tell us what you want to install. We'll have a batch job that we configure a system D and it will come along every one hour and say, like, oh, these are the packages that need to be installed. Let me run a single transaction and make sure they're all installed. So here comes the exciting part. What we actually want, need help from the community and also want to contribute back on. I tried these Fedora and Facebook colors for this. It's kind of hard because they are both really, really similar colors. So on the left part is what some of the Fedora initiatives on the right side is what we care about and as you can see, there's a lot of overlap. We run workstation on our client fleet. We are looking at Silverblue and see whether it might be a good fit. It depends on what we can do with containers. One of the roadblocks is that there are a lot of things that we manage at the system level, like we manage certificates, we manage monitoring tools that those might be a bit difficult to replicate. We want to get better at QA both on our end and also on helping Fedora with their CI initiatives. One of the problems we used to have in the past is we continuously install the network installations of Fedora every week. In the past, we actually installed them with updates enabled and what we find is that every Fedora release, there will be a post-release update that accidentally broke network installation. Sometimes we discovered it, sometimes we find that someone already reported it. So we ended up switching to actually say, let's do an installation without updates. So at least we know that once it works, it will keep working and then we apply security updates when we start configuring the machines. But that's a bit not ideal. GNOME software, there's a lot of feature requests we would like to make and also maybe help implement. Silver and CoroS, we probably are not looking at that now. And then there's the Facebook-specific issues. IPv6, which we can probably contribute fixes for and how to deal with NVIDIA hardware, which is probably sort of in scope but out of scope because I guess Fedora cannot really solve it. So some tools we care about. Network Manager, we have problems with this in some of our newer offices where we only deploy IPv6 and we find that Network Manager doesn't actually finish setting up a connection. Both Wi-Fi connection and VPN, if it couldn't actually get the DHCP v4 release, you just get confused and say you don't actually have a connection. We opened a bug a few months ago, but I guess... Not enough people working on it. GNOME software, we have some issues with package management in general anyway. One is that, as I said earlier, GNOME software will tell you there's a new release coming out and we couldn't find a way to actually turn it off. So for our user base that need to stay on Fedora 29, the only solution we could find is basically disable GNOME software altogether, except then there are other issues that happen if you actually try to run a tool that's not installed, by default it will try to actually ask GNOME software to install it and that just fails, saying like, oh, I don't know what actually runs this Diba service. Ideally, that's tunable and also we can actually keep GNOME software from managing flatbacks and firmware updates, but not for RPMs. Version locking, we use DNF automatic to apply security updates. We find that by default it doesn't actually honor the version locks that we have in the version lock plugin. So we have to basically configure Chef to actually say, hey, when someone say they want to lock a version excluded from DNF automatic, so it doesn't get updated. And again, GNOME software because it has its own RPM back end, so we have package kit and DNF and package kit also doesn't understand version locking the same way that DNF does. And GNOME keering. Currently, I was told by our security team that GNOME keering doesn't actually speak TLS 1.3 and as a feature request has been out for a while. On the process side, we want to do better QA both internally on the Facebook side and also participating in Fedora's QA process both for package updates and for distribution upgrades. And this is kind of like a reach, but ideally if we can help push vendors like Lenovo to actually certify Fedora or CentOS out of the box for the machines, that will really, really help us right now it seems that any vendor that say they support Linux mean they have some special room to build. NVIDIA, I mean, if I'm not sure what, is there are some Fedora developers helping NVIDIA actually improve their tooling, right? So we need to talk. So yeah, that's our presentation. So we'll just open up questions, anyone? So I'll repeat the question and then answer them. The first question was whether we can dedicate resources to actually help Fedora on the desktop and the answer is sort of maybe. So to put a picture, we have a team of 12 people. We manage three OSs and two mobile operating systems. So realistically we have two people, two or three people working full-time on Linux and not by full-time, I mean, we also manage other things as well. So, but yeah, I mean, this is one of the things that's blocking us and Facebook internally sort of work as a community anyway and sometimes people do things to scratch their own itch that's not really part of their team's main work. So we might be able to find some volunteers who also find this important and help fix it. But otherwise, yeah, we do have some manpower dedicated for this but I would say it's kind of probably on the order of a few hours a week instead of someone actually working full-time on a tool. The next question was how to handle package operations if there are conflicts. We find that the Fedora default right now works for us. I mean, by default it will just fail, right? And it will say, oh, I cannot actually satisfy this operation and at least it doesn't leave the system in an inconsistent state. In that case, since we are trying to move inside Facebook, oh yeah. So apparently what the NF does is it will skip packages that cannot be installed but will do everything else. So yeah, actually that would work for us since we are trying to shift to a place where we actually say we run one batch job that installs everything we care about. It's preferable if as much as possible actually runs. So do you mean whether we actually allow people to run non-English locals? Yeah, we have no policy on that. So basically I'm pretty sure users outside of the US actually set the machine to their own locals. For our Linux users, most of them are probably, I cannot give specific numbers, but most of them will be in the US, the UK and Ireland, so it's probably going to be mostly English anyway. I would say high hundreds and we hope to get into thousands sometimes soon. Oh, sorry, yes, how big is our user population? So the question is whether we actually collaborate with our server team and the answer is yes. Actually these are the two repositories that we open source. The first one is managed by the server team, the second one is the one we manage. We actually try to reuse as much of their tooling and cookbooks as possible. So the question is whether our users have root and whether they can actually run other desktops. And the answer is yes to both. So we have some system monitoring tools running, but we also don't want to disallow people from doing whatever they want. So we have some people on KDE, we have some people on i3, it's quite popular. One snag is that we make this assumption that people have GNOME installed. So if people, the further people stray away from that, the more they might have to do things for themselves. Yeah, everyone basically, yeah, everyone has root access. One of the weird voltages we had was actually when someone actually installed Spotify to snap on their desktop. And I'm not sure what happened there, but somehow like they had a partition mounted over ETC and shadowing some of our files, that was fun. Yeah, we try to increase flatback as much as possible because it doesn't have that issue. So, yeah, what are some of the biggest issues we've had with Fedora on the desktop? One of them is people who basically really prefer Santos or something like Ubuntu LTS. And so they complain about having to upgrade at least once a year. And Nvidia hardware support is another big issue. So I find that, yeah, it's mostly the same people in both situations. So they find that when they upgrade from Fedora 29 to 30, for some reason PlayMove is broken for them and it doesn't display the graphical splash screen for unlocking your hard disk. And then they say, oh, we cannot use Fedora 30 because we want that shiny thing. So, yeah, it's a lot of... The problem is that to replicate the setup we basically need to have one of their workstations try to install the exact setup and basically that's a lot of unpleasantness to do with binary packages. Part of the reason they cannot upgrade as soon as Fedora comes out is also because the Nvidia drivers might not be ready. In the ballpark, I would say probably maybe about one third. It's basically our desktops. Oh, sorry. What's the percentage of our fleet that actually has Nvidia hardware? And the answer is all the desktops. The question is, do we work with Fedora, with Nvidia to improve Fedora support? It's an ongoing process. We are trying to get them to at least 35 centers on their server models. So, like, is it really, really desktop? Yeah, it's actually workstations that, you know, like, manual voting stations sitting under someone's desk. Oh, sorry. The question was, when I say desktop, do I actually mean desktop or I just mean, like, a client machine? The question is, what's the process for fixing an issue if there's a bad package going out or there's a bad configuration? And the answer is, so we have monitoring, so we can actually see, like, hey, of all our chef runs, what are the top errors at the moment? And most of the time, we can basically just fix it by making a commit and eventually the next chef run should fix it. Sometimes there are cases where something really bad goes wrong and, like, either, like, a chef stops looking or we have an out-of-band remediation that basically tries to actually fix chef and run it manually. But in the worst case, we basically, that's why we have help desks. So we can tell the user, hey, go to the help desk and they will help you. The question is whether we have user support. So it's probably similar to Ask Fedora. We basically, we have an official support. So basically, for platforms we actually support, we promise that we will actually get to someone and answer their questions. We try to make sure they go to the help desk first because that way it scales better. For people who use Ubuntu or Arch Linux, those are technically not really supported, so we encourage the community to actually help each other. Good question. We, sorry, yeah, the question was whether we support multi-user environments and the answer is no. So it's a bit simpler that way. I would say the average user probably has one point something machines. Yeah, some of our user population, like I keep asking for this as well because I say, hey, we have expensive workstations and can we share this, please? But our security team configure things in a way that it's actually hard to do this. I mean, we want to make sure that if something goes wrong, we can actually trace it back to 1%. And if there are multiple people on the machine, it's hard to actually, for someone to be accountable. Good question. A question is whether, since NVIDIA doesn't really have a good track record of working with the Linux community, are we considering AMD? The answer is yes and no. Some of our teams, unfortunately, are wedded to CUDA. So it's going to be really hard to proceed them to switch. But from the desktop feed, we are actually really excited by Lenovo actually bringing out ThinkPad T-Series with AMD GPU. So we might basically just basically start supporting it and see whether it works or not. Next question was from someone on this side. That's a good question. And we should have put that in the slides, actually. So the question was, how do we do phased rollouts and how do we actually make sure that if something breaks early, we actually don't continue the rollout? The question is, yes, we do. And it's up to the person doing the rollout. So basically, you can configure when you want the package to go out who actually gets it first. So you can say, hey, I want people. So for our own updates, we normally say, we are going to dog food it first if it works. If it's a Linux update, we have an early adopter group and we push it to them and get their feedback. And after that, it's basically just a shorter rollout. A shorter rollout. So we basically compute a hash from your machine ID and gives you a short from 0 to 99 and then say like, oh, let's do 5% of the population. Let's do 15%. The question is whether we force updates and how. We don't, which is why if you can see from our adoption curve, it's kind of lagging. We nag people to update. So not so much when a new version of Fedora comes out because, hey, if you want to be on 29, GNOME Software is already nagging you anyway. We nag people starting one month before Fedora goes end of release. And we start nagging more and more aggressively about two weeks before end of life. Yeah, we are. Yeah, even if anyone has experience basically forcing people to update, we really want to hear from them. The question is how people upgrade. And the answer is we support both upgrade path. So some people upgrade from GNOME Software. Some people upgrade from DNF. So if people want to actually reimage Fedora, so what happens because we have to bootstrap all our tooling, they need to actually be on especially what listed network villain. So people try not to do that because then they need to go to the hub just to do it. So I don't want to keep people away from lunch. So any other question? All right, thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMD_5EAB-A", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCAQfQqunzE8frH3ukEbgOhA	MKT726_Topic157 \| Retail Management	MKT726 - Retail Management Role of Pricing in Retail Strategy M Yousaf Siddiqui	[ "Virtual University of Pakistan", "VU Topic Based Videos", "VU TBVs", "VU Lecture", "VU Course", "University Course", "VU", "Role of Pricing in Retail Strategy", "MKT726", "Retail Management", "M Yousaf Siddiqui" ]	2022-08-22T09:15:43	2024-02-08T20:25:35	376	PCznVeachQs	आप एक अग़ी तो दिशकास वहद रोल अप प्रिसिँ इन रीतेलर सटाटची जिस तरीके से एक रीतेलर के लिए प्रुडक्त बहुत अहमीद का हमिल है उसकी पाकजिँं की हमीद की हमिल है उस्की येवेलिबिलिटी, उस्की मर्षिन्टाइजिं, उस्का दिस्पले, हर चीज, उस्की आफ्टर सेल सर्विस, उस्की सर्विसेज, तो तमाम चीज आह्मियत की हा मिल है, उसी तरीके से, प्राइसिंग की भी बहुत लिए एक रीटेलर के लिए. तो सब से पहले, आज जाम दिसकस करने लगे है, रोल क्या है प्राइसिंग का? एन रीटेलर स्ट्रतची. तो एक रीटेलर के लिए, येदी स्कृष्ल पाट प्राइसिंग, बकुस अग ती इंटर डर्टेलेशिप, किस चीजो के दर में, बिט Honey the objective of the retailer, और इसके इलवा गर आब राप करते हैं, तो अदर लगोंईद, अदर रीटेलर स्टरतिची के. क्या उसकी प्रीसिंग श्टरतची ठाटेईग एह, आस्परिज उरिजनल रीटेल अब्जेक्टिट्च।।, if his retail objectives are that the retailer wants to earn higher profits then pricing should be accordingly set to that this cannot be the retailer is expecting that the high prices will be charged on the other hand he is expecting that the customer will expect too much turnover because there are not two things aligned अगर चीच थे मैरे ि exclusion.. दीवां अगली णेना सोग़े यें Standards & सब आक औत मी� median थीमने ओवाई ठीं तो थी बात यह है, के प्राइसिंग दिचीन्च मुस्ट भी इन निंटेगरेटटटट्टटट्टिब मेंनर, तो जो भी हम दिचीन लेए, उस में आंटयगरेषिन हू प्रोपर तरीके से अपके प्रोट्ट के साथ अपकी सरविस्झे के साथ, आपके सपोड धेपाट्पन you have to make purchase decision, you have to make all these pricing decision so number one, integration should be done between it and it should be in adaptive manner it shouldn't be that retailer should make a price which is not acceptable for customer customer is not buying on it because if it will be like this, then ultimately retailer is loosing the business it will be loosing more customers and at the end of the day, it will be spoiling its patronage similarly pricing should be consistent with the overall objectives the objective should be qualitative the objective should be quantitative whatever retailers have set objectives for themselves should be aligned with them pricing, policy, pricing decision should be aligned with them if it will be, then of course it will help to achieve the strategic plan because overall if we evaluate all aspects then retailer has to achieve all the building blocks to achieve the strategic plan to achieve the targeted objectives which he has set for himself and of course the customer is also a stakeholder the supplier is also a stakeholder the retailer is also a stakeholder his employees are also stakeholders his management is also a stakeholder and all the staff of support operating staff are also a part of it so to achieve the strategic objective the pricing decision should be in line with the retailer's objective similarly the pricing plan must be integrated we talked about responsive and provide good value to the customer it is very important it cannot be that if we set a price for a retailer or a retailer for a customer and he is not creating any value for the customer because customer is expecting at the end of the day because of the competitive environment that he will get some value he is not expecting that he will get 10 rupees and he will get 10 rupees of the product actually he is expecting that he should pay 10 rupees and in return he must get at least 12 rupees worth of product or benefit out of it after sale services convenience delivery installation any way any way to ensure that pricing should create value for the customer for example a retailer he sets such pricing that the pricing he can earn a very good margin but if that pricing is not creating value for the customer then customer will not buy these products till that product will not be sold till that retailer he will not be able to earn his margin in that situation so for retailer it is very important to set the right pricing that pricing which is integrated with his goals which is responsive to the customer and which is creating value for the customer if value is created for the customer so ultimately retailer's objective will also be fulfilled and if we talk about the other number then customer's objective will also be fulfilled because he will be getting a good product and the price he is getting a good product and retailer ultimately will take more turnover and will be able to ensure profitability	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCznVeachQs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCe2-1UmGzRH1XF9uMvPMzWQ	The Mush Hole: Res. School Poem - Elder Jimmy Edgar (Narrated By: Elder Roberta Hill)	This is a video for: "The Mush-Hole", a poem by ElderJimmy Edgar, spoken by Elder Roberta Hill, regarding his experience at "The Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School", in Branford, Ontario, Canada. There are also videos in this channel for many North, South & Central American Tribes & First Nations, Residential Schools, Chiefs, Elders, Historical Events, Quotes, Indigenous Concerns, Environmental Youth Activists.. and much more. ------------------------------------------------ I claim no ownership of any of the clips, video and music expressed in this video...and employ my borrowing of them with much respect and thanks. Credits are also given at the end of the videos, as well as below. **No personal monetization is being done with this video, by me, nor am I receiving any other benefits from any of these videos. They are meant for all, to heal, teach, discuss, inspire and inform and share. No theft and/or disrespect is intended. I post all of these videos, with love and respect. I am also "not" part and/or, a member of "any other social media sites: (i.e.: FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, etc.. etc.. etc..) and since I have seen my own videos from You-Tube posted on other sites, by people who are representing themselves with the name "Jaguar Bird".. and the fact, that I am often under a siege of disrespectful hackers.. (and the sad fact, that some people enjoy "pretending" to be others than themselves, on the Internet).. I wanted to warn anyone contacting a person who is going by the name "Jaguar Bird", that "it is NOT me".. and if this person(s) is claiming to be me, I ask that you please contact the Administration personnel of that site.. and make them aware, that a fraud is being committed. Thank you, Miigwetch! .. for helping to stop someone else from being deceived and/or, wronged.** ------------------------------- Many Thanks & Much Respect To: Elder Jimmy Edgar..; Elder Roberta Hill..; All The Survivors Of The Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School..; (..and to all of those in Spirit)..; The Survivor's Secretariat..; The Woodland Cultrural Centre.. and to all the other brothers and sisters who have contributed to this video with photos and/or, in any other way. Chi Miigwetch!.. Many Blessings & Thanks..! *Set video to 720p, for best viewing.	[ "educational videos", "indigenous", "history", "elders", "chiefs", "tribes", "first", "nations", "medicine", "people", "events" ]	2021-11-19T22:18:47	2024-04-23T17:08:12	227	PCa0J1G5RAg	What I'm going to read today is a poem by Jimmy Edgar. He was here at the Mushhoff from 1950 to 1960. He's Anishinaabe from Skugag Island. And when people say get over the Mushhoff or get over residential school, when you listen to his words, you're going to realize how lasting the impacts are there forever. So this is what he's given me permission to read today. There is a place I know far, far away where we get mush and milk three times a day. Oh, Canada, do you think we should be proud? Oh, Canada, to sing your name out loud, the forgotten ones you scattered in the wind have come back to haunt you now, my friend. Oh, Canada, you're home upon my home. I grew up in the school of racial genocide, self-hate and shame, always walking by my side. You changed my tongue, tried to change my mind to turn me into a different kind. Oh, Canada, you're home upon my home. Many scars covered over, many here to stay on our children now and those who are on the way. Many struggle each day trying to find the door to hear grandmother's voice as we did before. Oh, Canada, you're home upon my home. The so-called men of God who gave us care, many were perverts and I'm sure you were aware. They prayed on us, both girls and boys, fulfilling their fantasies, but left us destroyed. May you hang your head in shame, oh, Canada. So many brothers gone now, so many sisters too, who were chained in the mind when you broke our families, you sealed our fate. We hope for our children that it's not too late, oh, Canada, you're home upon my home. Reconcile with you, I cannot do. You have everything, how your wealth grew. What do we have? Broken treaties, church crap, many little children who will never come back. Oh, Canada, you're home upon my home. When I came home, I knew no one there, 10 years in the mush hole, but a lifetime of despair. Still I struggle each day trying to find the door to speak in grandmother's voice as we did before. May your God forgive you, oh, Canada, for I cannot. Jimmy Edgar.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCa0J1G5RAg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCXFW3IRzfCc6q_XM-uutAmw	City Council regular session - July 28, 2020	City Council regular session - July 28, 2020 The City of Longmont is governed by a seven member Council. The Mayor is elected to serve a two-year term and each Council member is elected to serve a four-year term. The Mayor and Council members are the leaders and policy makers in the community elected to represent various segments of the community and to concentrate on policy issues that are responsive to residents' needs and wishes.	[ "Longmont", "Longmont Public Media" ]	2020-07-29T16:35:47	2024-04-22T18:30:20	10,969	pCtLudo6WDs	Christian sin. Thank you. Council member dog a fairing. Here. Council member Martin. Here. Council member pack. Here. Council member Rodriguez. Here. Council member waters. Here. Mayor, you have a quorum. Great. Tim, have you led the pledge yet? No, I haven't. All right. Back to the school days, my friend. Could you lead us? All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, great. Thanks, Dr. Waters. All right, just a quick reminder. Thank you. Anyone wishing to provide public comment during first call public invited to be heard. We'll need to watch the live stream of the meeting. And when the call in information is displayed on the screen, like you're seeing right now, please call that number. And then we'll call on you. After, after, after, after it's your turn. Calls will be. Callers will hear confirmation. They have entered the meeting. And you'll be told how many people already participating in the meeting. Callers are then placed on hold and muted until then. Until it's your turn. And you'll be called out according to the last three digits of your phone number. So, um, all right. Let's move on to approval of minutes. We have a motion to approve the July 14th, 2020 regular session minutes. So moved. Also. It's been moved. It's moved by councilor Martin seconded by councilor Peck. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Yeah. Okay. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Looks like. Do you have any agenda revisions? Anybody else? Oh, sorry. I see that. I see that there's a revised ordinance for item 10 a. Regarding the dismount zones. Very good. Thank you guys. I see that, but right now just, there, are there agenda revisions or submission? The motion's direct city manager and. In staff to bring back future agenda items. for? Paulie? Okay. Um, a while back, um, I requested a, um, the police department to report on their use of force. That was mainly to educate the public. But, uh, in the meantime, the Housing and Human Services Advisory Board, uh, began a discussion that went over, well, we had many meetings on it, um, on whether we should defund or divert police funding by 10% to Housing and Human Services. I just wanted you to be aware that this was happening, but they decided not to go forward with it. However, it is a concern. Um, but I would like to amend, I know that, um, the city manager and, uh, the police department is working on that, um, use of force statement. I would like to amend it to include, um, whether they, whether our police department ever uses medical injections such as was used on Elijah McCain, who was given an injection, uh, that was twice as large as his body weight could handle, which resulted in a heart attack for a 23-year-old. And I think our community needs to know whether we give injections to people or not. So I would like to amend or add on to that, um, that the statement of whether what kind of medical, um, whether we use medical injections to calm, uh, arrestees. Do I have a second? All right. Uh, there is no second, but, um, Harold, when are you, um, when is that, when is the use of force policy coming back? Um, we said we hope to, hope to have in a couple of weeks. Rob is getting me the data this week to review as part of that, and we'll have that put together as well as an update on the PSU. And Councilmember Christensen, you are still free to ask that question when they're presenting. I will. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Mayor Beck? Councilmember Peck? Yep. Thank you. Um, I, I agree with Councilwoman Christensen, but, um, I would like to have this in this report, not, not only do the police use into any type of injections to calm a, an arrestee or do the EMT, uh, people use any injections. So just how has that worked? Do we use it at all? Include that in the report. Thank you. We don't need to take a vote. Do we, Harold, you can just include something there? Just let him know. Yeah, I can, I can answer part of it. We do use Narcan for, um, um, individuals that are, um, overdosing on opiates. Opiates. Um, in terms of fire and police, we have paramedics, and so depending on the health condition, we have pro protocols that we follow by physicians in terms of what we use, but that's driven by a different set of medical protocols. But we'll have that in there. All right. Are there any other questions? Okay. All right. That said, let's move on to City Manager's report and update on COVID-19. Harold? Uh, Mayor and Council. Um, so one thing that I want to touch on is not, technically not COVID related, but it is this year. So I did want to report to you all, um, that based on our mosquito trapping, um, we are going to be spraying. Um, um, on Thursday evening, we are following our policy and notifying those folks that are requesting the shutoffs, uh, for the spraying. Um, we do have our, um, our city's mosquito control contractor is Vector Disease Control International. Um, they have some informational dashboards. Um, folks can request shutoff service in front of their house. Um, we also, um, have a willingness to investigate potential larva sites. Um, and we provide email notifications adjacent to the applications on that. Um, we've been trapping mosquitoes since June 15th, um, in 12 different locations to determine the trends and actual numbers. Um, and we've been looking at our wet and standing water areas for mosquito larva production. Um, um, they had the, um, first West, now positive mosquito identified in the three county reading region, which is Boulder, Weld and Larimer. Um, we had individual neighborhood traps exceed 150 adult female mosquitoes. Um, we're going to, the spraying will generally take place in neighborhoods after 9pm. Um, the reason we wanted to bring this out to council tonight is because we have been in conversation with Boulder County Health. Um, obviously they are encouraging the spraying of mosquitoes based on the fact that we are continuing to be in the COVID situation. Um, they want to reduce the likelihood that we add, um, people who develop West, now disease on top of it. And so this is a twofold, um, situation that we're getting into, but, um, wanted to let you all know that we're doing that. The press release will be going out as soon as I update council on this so people can request the shutoffs, but this is related to the broader issues that, that we're seeing in terms of managing other diseases at this time. So that's what we're going to be doing. I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the four D's that we stress, um, dust to dawn, limit your outdoor outdoor activity. If you're out there utilizing insect repellent with DEET, um, dress in the appropriate clothing to avoid being bitten. And if you have any areas around your property that retain water, make sure that you don't, um, you do something to alleviate that problem. So that's where we are. Um, just another piece, uh, in the puzzle, not directly related to it, but wanted to reiterate based on our conversations with Boulder County health, they are encouraging us to do this, uh, to limit, um, you know, um, potential of someone contracting westbound. Any questions on that? Look like it. Thank you, Harold. Appreciate it. Anything else? Yeah, I'm just going to go really quickly over the numbers. Um, if you all want to see the graphs, I can show you the graphs. Let me call that up. Um, generally, again, you're seeing the three-day average in Colorado. Um, I'm going to show you the counts. If my computer responds, I've been having issues here. Okay. Again, you can see it decreasing. This is really echoing what the governor talked about today in his press conference. Um, we're trying to get those slides, but, um, if you look at it, one of the, I think the important, um, components on that is, um, they sort of, they had a red, orange, um, in green diagram. Boulder County was actually one of the few counties in the front range that was in the orange. Um, as soon as we get that, we will, um, provide that to council. Um, again, I'm pointing this out because this is really where a lot of the targeting of the conversation is coming in. And when you see the chart associated with Boulder County, you're going to see a significant difference in terms of the age range of people that are, um, testing positive again, um, higher in the 20 to 29-year-old population. And statewide, you can see this general decline. Um, this, this diagram is the one that the governor was referencing today on his, um, on his press conference. And what you really see is what's happening in, in other communities when we were at the, the peak in April for us, you could see a 25% positive rate. That's really what they're seeing in some of the, um, locations in the, in the states that are considered the hotspots today and in Colorado. Um, 4.56. Um, so we've really been hovering around this 5% recently, even with the, the increased number of positive cases in Colorado. Um, Boulder County, again, as I said earlier, is doing, um, fairly well, um, as we look at the rest, many of the counties within the state. Uh, again, you can see the high points in Boulder County. Um, and you can see, again, as we watch trends, you're seeing the graphs move in a very similar fashion. The difference in this is I am going to, again, call attention to the Y axis on this one. When you see many places talking about generating hundreds of cases, um, you know, our high point in Boulder has still been 45. Um, but you can see the movement in the graph that mimics what we're seeing at the state level. Um, the last few days have been pretty good. We're still, um, probably a few days to week out of seeing what the impact is of the new masking order and, um, the closures of, uh, establishments after 10 p.m. Um, but hopefully the data will continue trending in this direction. Um, this is the 5-day rolling average of percentage COVID-19 positive PCR tests. Again, you can see the difference. We've really been trending in Boulder County below 4% um, in those tests. And then when you look at the number of tests that are being done, again, you're seeing, I remember the 500 number, which was the, um, I think the Harvard study that indicated what we needed to try to do on a daily basis, um, to get a look at what's going on in our community. And you're really seeing here, uh, that they're, they're moving above that number. We're not hearing of any issues with testing. Um, I know driving today at one of the drive-through sites, uh, on Main Street, there were a number of cars there with folks getting tested. Uh, but again, um, large number of tests, um, few positives below the 45 range is what we're seeing. Um, this is the graph that I wanted to show you when, when you looked at the state graph in terms of where, um, the positive tests are being generated. Um, you know, the state had more of this gradual incline like this. What we're really seeing, um, in Boulder County is again in this 20 to 29 year old population. And that's where you're seeing a lot of the, um, the work being done in terms of communicating, um, with, with the, um, public information that they're putting out, especially as the university's getting ready to go in session, the county has, um, worked to, they are creating, um, situation where they work or a program where they work with individuals from the community. And I know they're really focused on, um, trying to get some college-age students on that group so they can, um, you know, increase the communication in this age range. Uh, once again, a five-day average of number of new cases, um, again, you can see the movement, the high peak down, up, and then you can see it starting to vacillate. And we hope we can continue on this trend. Um, residents, this is per 100,000. Uh, again, I want to point out what you're seeing is Lafayette moving up in the per 100,000, even though they don't have 100,000. Same for Lewisville, but when you look at the actual number of cases, uh, Boulder is now at 707, where it's 626. Um, again, that is really directly, you can really start seeing those age demographics starting to play in the community numbers and the number of people protesting positive. And then this is the demographics in terms of white, non-Hispanic, Hispanic, Latin X in the different communities. Um, if you remember last week I talked to you, I think it was 36, I can't remember if it was with Council or with the City Wide Web Acts. At one point it was 36.8, another point 36.2, now 35.9%. So you're actually seeing this number start to drop, which then is starting to correspond with where you're seeing the age demographics in terms of, um, who, who is testing positive. Um, this is a good one. Uh, again, this talks about what we're seeing in long-term care facilities versus not associated with it. I think the good news for us as we continue working in this, you saw we were really hit hard in long-term care facilities early on in this. Not necessarily seeing that at this point. Um, and then this is where we stand in terms of hospital services in Boulder County. Again, I do have access to some other data sets that gets more detailed in terms of what's available, but we're still in, in pretty good shape. A lot of people will, will draw attention to this available med surge beds. Again, I put the caveat that that we are still doing elective procedures and other normal hospital work. So, so that will adjust this, but in terms of ICU beds available, non-critical vans and critical vans, we're still in really good shape in terms of the hospital system. As of yet, I haven't heard of anything locally in terms of us being at capacity. Um, I have had that question recently based on what people are seeing in areas and other states. Stop sharing. So we're still in, in, in pretty good shape in terms of hospital capacity. And I haven't heard anything where, where individuals are getting concerned now. I think the big thing that if you look at the takeaway from what the governor said today, this really is about, as you've heard me say before, keeping our numbers down so that we can continue moving forward in terms of supporting everyone in our community, but especially our business owners and the people that are employed by these businesses because they are making decisions based on the numbers. What the governor did indicate today in his press conference is that if they see surges in counties where there are variances, they will reach out and contact them. And they have to have a pretty aggressive plan to minimize those surges. They will watch it. If they're not able to do that, they'll actually remove some of the variances that the counties have already have that they have in play. So again, really important for us to, um, you know, manage three things, wear our masks, socially distance and wash our hands. I may have mentioned it to this group. There was a really interesting medical study out that said if we do those three things, it has the potential to be almost as impactful as a vaccine. So those are the things we need to do. We obviously, now internally within the organization, we have opened up the library, which is good. Most of our facilities are now opened up to a certain extent where they're not fully open. And I know it's frustrating to some of our residents where we have to register for things we're not normally used to registering for. I know there was an email regarding swimming pool use at sunset. And you know, we do that on a 14 day period. We know people are almost waiting for that next 14 day cycle to come open to register. But we're watching that pretty close to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to use it, but it is a registration format. And that's how we're going to work on a number. That's how many of our programs are working. You may hear another question about the library because we are requiring masks within our library and you go, well, what about the health exemptions? The difference in that is because we're providing alternate options for individuals like curbside pickup and some of the other things. It actually does allow us to have a slightly stronger stance on that. And that's also part of what we have to do in terms of the requirements that we have in terms of sanitizing the number of things people touch and so on and so forth. So we're continuing to move forward. You know, we are continuing to really watch our staff in terms of people who get sick. You know, before I was saying we have no more than 15 people in our staff have a positive. Actually, the number was seven that I got last week. So as we've started this, I believe we've only had seven of our staff members test positive for this. Again, really important that, you know, I think that's a credit to them and what they're doing. You know, we've had at least 400 people working through this, working with people who we know are positive here, our public safety. And it's a matter of really following those protocols and really wearing the mask and socially distancing when you can and moving through those systems. So, you know, that's far where, you know, again, we're continuing to move through it, continuing to monitor what's going on, staying in contact with our colleagues. The big piece that's associated with this now is really the work that we're doing on our budget, also managing our 2020 numbers. So we're doing a couple of things. We're managing 2020 and really looking at what the revenue streams look like for this year's budget. And we're watching the same revenue streams to develop next year's budget. And so a fair amount of work right now coming in on the financial side. You all will be hearing more about that in the next few weeks. But again, continuing to move through it. And thus far, I haven't really seen anything in the last week or so that is a significant change or anything that is concerning me. If you all have any questions, I'll be happy to answer those. Susie? Yeah, a couple of questions. So early on, but I didn't want to interrupt you. You were talking about the positivity rate in Colorado and Boulder County. So at one period, I thought we were at 7%. I mean, it changed, it fluctuates so much. But where are we at currently? For Boulder County or for the state? Both? Yes. The state positivity rate is, as of July 27, 2020, was 4.56%. 4.56, uh-huh. And the county percentage was, I've got it on a different slide. Let me pull that up. I should have just interrupted you. 3.3%. Let me show you this screen. Okay. And if you all can see this. Is a 5% or less? Is that correct? Pardon? Opening, you know, opening businesses, schools. I don't know if the state's really used a percentage point. I know early on, we were talking about that as being a threshold. Well, if you remember, beginning of this, we were talking about dipping below 10% positivity rate. Then we said, we want to move below a 5% positivity rate. And as the governor was talking about it today, when you're about at 1% or 2% positivity rate, that is where you ideally want to be. And Boulder County, I just received this from Jeff today. I haven't had a chance to really look at it in depth. But if you can see the current five-day average percent positive, it's 3%. On July 1st, we are at 3.3%. Okay. All right. Thanks, Harold. What else? Oh, one more thing. Okay, Susie. Sorry. It was a two-fold question. He was going too fast. The sunset, the pools, typically on Labor Day. But given that we are limiting the amount of opportunities for people to get out there, is there talk of extending the closure date for the season? I know that Jeff is looking at a number of these things. I think it changes a little bit with the way schools are opening as well. Because normally, we close about that time because it actually costs you more because it's pretty much dead for a few days. But Jeff is looking at that, and I will follow up with him and see where he is in terms of what he's evaluating. Here comes Karen. Do you have an answer to that? Yes. Karen Roni, Community Services Director. So the answer is yes. Jeff and Recreation staff are indeed able to do that. So yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. Anything else, Dr. Waters? Yeah. Harold, I keep kind of rolling the data on testing around from week to week. The 500 number that you mentioned tonight, and that Jeff talked about, from an epidemiological standpoint, given the size of our population, is a sufficiently large N number of participants to determine whether or not there's community spread. That's lower than 5 percent. If it tells us whether or not we're getting community spread. It doesn't really tell anybody. It tells us anything about a specific population. No. So if some subset of the population in Longmont wanted to get tested, a church group, an athletic team, to make certain that none of them were infected. Is it stated this way? Is there anybody in Longmont who wanted to be tested, not able to get a test, or on the positive, everybody who wants one can get one? First of all, the question. Second, if he answers yes, what's the turnaround time in terms of results? So hard question. So yes, there are the public testing sites here in Longmont. I believe Salud is one that does that. I know that the hospitals are also doing that and working with, and what I mean, hospitals, and UC Health, I believe, and LU8 are working with Boulder County Health. There are also private labs that are doing the testing that you can pay for. And so to answer the question, there are multiple venues for people to be tested. In terms of our case with our staff, what we do is we run them through our insurance provider to ensure that they can get tested. We are in daily contact with them. And so what I would say to anybody that has a business or has insurance, that's also what they need to do to ensure that. And Joanne knows generally the turnaround time. So it could be anywhere from 24 hours, 24, 48 hour period to three to five days, depending on where they go. And so it varies by location. So it's kind of hard to say, here's the number. So if groups of people in the community, whether it's a church or a youth sports team, or an adult sports team, wanted to go to adopt a protocol, not unlike we're seeing with professional sports, right, that we want to make certain we're tested on a regular basis to make certain that no one in this mix is infected. Can they go through the drive-in clinic or site? Those that are through the state that are free that you hear the governor talking about, I believe they can do that. And do you know what that turnaround time is? I don't know off the top of my head what that one is. Okay, so that, I'll let it go. That raises two questions for me about, you know, about other decisions that get made based on testing availability and kind of the rigor of testing regimes. What do we know about tracing? So right now, I know Boulder County has probably the most capacity in terms of tracing as those positives are coming into the system. So early on, we were talking to the Jeff about providing staff, if necessary, they haven't had to request that from us. So they've done really well in terms of bringing that tracing capacity forward. I know that they also have IGAs with all of our surrounding counties where if any one of us got hit excessively hard, that the other county health departments could come in and support on that tracing. But, you know, based on what I've heard, they're doing really, they're doing well in terms of tracing capacity right now. So we're in Boulder County, we're tracing every, every positive result. That's what I'm aware of when they come in, when they're made aware of those, they're working on the tracing component. And to give you an example, we actually had a situation where that occurred on one of our adult sports teams. So when it occurs and something we're doing, we're also simultaneously, we're also reaching out to the county and talking to them about this and then they're advising us in terms of what we need to do in the broader sense of that, that event, whatever that event is. And so we work closely with them on the tracing. And my last question, I'll shut up. It's the, I know that the testing center in North Maine's a drive-through, right? Yep. Is that also true at Salud? I don't know how Salud's doing it. I can find out and get that information to you. Well, yeah, just because, because that would, if it is, then you'd have to have a car to get tested. And we have a bunch of residents without cars and, and they're kind of left out of the testing opportunity if they need one. So it just would be helpful to know. Yeah. And what I can do is I'll get Joanne to put all the testing information together because she's really the one that does it for all, all of us. I learned today on something else that she said, well, if we can't do it here, I want to send this person to here or here. And this is a turnaround time. So I'll have Joanne aggregate all of that and send that to Council. Very good. Thank you. That would be helpful. Thanks. All right. What else, Harold? That's all I have for today. All right. Great. Let's go ahead and let's move on to, there's no special reports, right? All right. Let's go ahead and move on to first call public, everybody to be heard then. So if you are listening to this, please call 1-669-968-33 and when prompted enter the meeting ID 817-9591-5872. So we're going to go ahead and take a five minute break and we'll be right back. All right. Mayor, we will give our guests just another few seconds to get logged in. Looks like we're holding at eight. Mayor, we're ready when you are. Those guests that we've just let in give us just a minute. I will be identifying you individually by the last three digits of your phone number. I will call out that phone number and let you know I'm unmuting you. And if you can please state your name and address for the record, you will have three minutes. Let me know, Mayor, when you're ready. All right. We're ready. All right. The first caller I'm going to unmute. Your phone number ends in 274. I've unmuted you. Do you hear me? How many total do we have? Yes, I can. One moment. Mayor, we have eight guests that I've let in. All right. Perfect. I'm sorry. Let's go ahead and start. Thank you. So caller, please state your name and address. You have three minutes. My name is Susan Summers. My address is 1418 Galilee Lane. I'm here tonight to address some serious concerns with the Prairie Dog extermination permitting process. Recently, a landowner was caught red-handed violating our Prairie Dog ordinance. Exterminators were on site ready to exterminate without a permit when thankfully Prairie Dog advocate Jeremy Gregory witnessed the violation and was able to stop it. Discussions then kind of ensued a little bit with a suggestion from advocates to amend our ordinance to allow for a 12-month hold on applying for a permit when someone has so very clearly violated this ordinance. Obviously, that has not happened, and so this landowner has now applied for a permit, applied for an issue of permit, a Prairie Dog extermination permit. The application for this permit shows a very obvious attempt to stay below the 1.5-acre threshold for a major permit. I emailed each council member with, I apologize, a council member had to all go. I did not have your email address. I did email an image that shows a ridiculous 68-sided polygon encompassing 1.34 acres of a 2.85-acre parcel. There are very clearly open burrows just outside many of the edges of this absurd polygon, and that has been verified today by Jeremy Gregory, who will also provide more information later. Does anyone actually believe that when the exterminator arrives on this parcel that they will follow the boundaries of this 68-sided polygon? I certainly don't think so. The exterminator will hit every burrow on the 2.85 acres. Advocates are requesting, as allowed, in the ordinance language to have city staff review this property. We are asking tonight for council to direct staff to place a hold on this permit. These dogs are scheduled for extermination this Thursday, the 30th. As advocates, we have all of the burden in finding relocation sites. We should not also be required to verify information submitted with an extermination application. It is very easy to see the issues with this 68-sided polygon within what is really a 1.77-acre active prairie dog site. This permit should never have been issued. Thank you very much. We're well over the three minutes, but thank you. All right, next. Mayor, the next caller. Your number is 328. I'm going to unmute you. If you could please state your name and address for the record. Yes, my name is Chris Vosnick. I live at 1609 19th Avenue here in Longmont. I'm calling tonight to speak about the bike dismount ordinance, as it's currently written. I do think that there's some merit in the overall idea. However, I vehemently disagree with the fine structure that will ultimately either go unenforced or disproportionately affect our lower income residents, all in the middle of a global pandemic. Tragically, there was no real discussion on the last reading by council members or city attorney that instead of the murky assumption that, quote, the courts will figure it out, the fine should have been spelled out in a structure within the ordinance. Something more akin to a $25 first offense with increases for repeat offenders makes far more sense than a $300 maximum fine on first offense that could potentially be more than violent offenses and could very well mean the difference between contempt of court and food, medicine, or housing expenses for our poorest residents. In addition to this, the way this ordinance is being implemented is only serving to say that bikes are unwelcome in the downtown area at a time when we desperately need all of the visitors we can possibly get. While the restaurants may be doing better on the weekends due to the street closers, the restail establishments are generally bemoaning the lack of street parking during the week for less foot traffic. Please do not harm them further with a disproportionate fine that will potentially scare away the bike riders as well. If council would like to enact something far more imperative, please pass a face mask ordinance and direct LPD to actually enforce it. We seem to be currently sitting around 60 to 70 percent compliance, but we can and need to do better. Longmont could very well be the beacon for Colorado and enforcement from public health orders and the example for other cities as we try to beat COVID. Thank you for your time. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next. Mayor, the next guest. Your phone number ends in 470. You are now unmuted. Can you hear me? I can. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. You may begin. Good. This is high greetings, folks. Michael Belmont, 841 Sinacity Drive. Here at Longmont. I want to tackle the fracking issue, which is coming up a little bit later and just make a couple of comments on which I'm extremely concerned. In February of 2018, a fracked well, it was kind of an inconsequential well or not a huge one, and Ohio had a casing failure, blew out gushing methane for almost three weeks, resulting in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. history, greater than many countries' entire years leakage by the entire industry. Casing failures are on the rise in this industry for a number of reasons, including operators cutting more corners because of acute financial distress that's just now pervasive in the industry. But more importantly, wells are much longer now requiring far greater pressure, and whereas four or five fractures was common in the past as recently pointed out in the Journal of Petroleum Technology, they now sometimes do 150 to 200 fractures closely spaced together, which puts far more stress on casings than ever before. So longer wells require greater pressure to blast the fracking fluids greater distances. And since the shale industry has consistently lost money on the shorter wells, they now bet on much longer ones, which is clearly a dangerous gamble given the recent history of failures. And I needn't elaborate on the dangers of failed casings to groundwater and even leakage of methane in the air as happened in the Ohio incident, thus monitoring, which can be a tool pointing to these dangerous leaks, whether below or above ground, is more important than ever. And accordingly, I would strongly urge the city to retain that live helmet to monitor our air quality based on his vast experience knowledge and expertise in this critical health arena. And I just kind of want to emphasize or express my fears. And as have been a fears of many citizens involved in the fracking issues, that who's going to play pay the cleanup costs of these spills and leaks, they can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not way more. Whether it's from operators leaving incomplete work, failures of nonplugged, improperly plugged or very old plugged wells, operator carelessness, errors, cutting costs, inevitable accidents, technical failures, abandoned wells, passage of time failures. I mean, we as taxpayers will be left holding the bag and that $7,600 we are paying caracan to police top and cubs cleanup of the recent stamp well leak is a pittance compared to what may be coming. All right, Mr. Bell, we're over three minutes, but thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. All right. All right, next. Our next caller is your phone number ends in 630. I have unmuted you. Can you see and hear us? I mean, can you hear us? Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, you may begin. My name is Anna Rivas, and I live at 4501 Nelson Road in Longmont. And I am calling with regards to that furry dog colony that slated to be poisoned on Thursday. As Susan mentioned, when she was speaking, the polygon that was drawn around in order to take the acreage count is just a crazy gerrymandered polygon. I mean, who does that? It looks like it was drawn by a drunk having a really hard time walking around while playing ring around the prairie dog colony. It's absurd. And it's obvious what what the intentions were. So I am calling to request that the permit be pulled immediately until the property can be reviewed. And also I wanted to mention that the signs need to be changed to make it to include the location. I had seen a sign that somebody had posted to Facebook and it turns out it was that sign, but I couldn't tell where it was. And I wasn't sure who had posted it. So I didn't have a way of find easily finding out where it was. I just knew it was somewhere in Longmont. So it took a little time. I gave the information to Susan who was able to figure it out, but that information should be readily available. It shouldn't have to be something that we have to hunt down. It should be very simple to see the sign regardless of if there's an image taken of it or posted somewhere, where it is, what the parcel pertains to it. Thank you. Thank you. All right, next. Our next call are your phone number ends in 882. I've just unmuted you. Can you hear us? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, you may begin. Mayor, I'm sorry, Scott Conlon, 1014 Fifth Avenue, Biskill Longmont. Mayor, City Council and staff, Monday, Biskill Longmont board members, including myself, met with City Traffic Cleaner Phil Greenwald and LDDA Executive Director Kimberly McKee to discuss the proposed mandatory dismount ordinance that's on tonight's agenda for second meeting. We discussed the Biskill Committee's concerns with having a safe reasonable place to ride to and from downtown since we're down to one lane on Main Street and obviously we don't want bikes on the sidewalks. In the end, we've listened to the concerns that the LDDA had as well as the city has for safety for people in town. As we said before, Biskill Longmont and our riders are for the dismount zone as long as it's one enforced correctly and two, that there is a safe and reasonable place for people to ride in and out of downtown. So in the end, we came up with a compromise on the ordinance, which is in your agenda tonight, proposed as 10a1. And we outlined some several work orders, which I emailed you earlier this week that I'll go over as well. First, in the ordinance change, it reflects that there is no alley on the east side of Main Street south of second, where the apartments are. As well on the west side of Main, south of third, there's a bus stop and there's a detour that exists between second and first now, which doesn't make sense to have a dismount. So we're proposing that the dismount zone is from third to Long's Peak on the west side and second to Long's Peak on the east side. Second, with enforcement, we love the new signs to be up as soon as possible, but due to the lack of Rangers not starting until 2021, see that enforcement, direct that enforcement will start later in 2021. This will give us space and time to educate the public and to intervene with those who are riding on the sidewalk now, which comes to the third point. So let's direct if we could have City Council direct staff in LVDA to develop educational materials in terms of handouts, posters, bus advertising, and that sort of thing about the new bike route that we went over as well as the mandatory dismount zones, we would be all for that. And fourth, we ask that City Council direct staff in LVDA to develop positive signage to direct riders to the bike lanes using the alleyways and support safe crossing of the avenues mid-block with proper signage. So thanks a lot for all your time and effort. And I know this has been a long time coming. We've been working on this for five years as well. So thank you. Take care. Thank you. All right. How many more do we got to go? Two more? Three more, sir. Caller your phone number ends in 119. I'm going to unmute you and then the next caller after that is 332 and you can be ready. Caller 119, you're unmuted. Hi, this is Karen Dyke. I'm at 708 Hayden Court, Mr. Mayor and Council members. First, I want to request that Dr. Helmings' contract be renewed when it comes up for renewal less next month. I use that debt almost every day. I have asthma, COPD, so knowing the air quality is vital to understand whether I dare spend extensive time outdoors. The ACEs when benzene and toluene are high mean that I can't spend much time outside. The data from long knot monitoring is much more reliable than waiting for the ozone alert from regional data which comes in at 4 p.m. Between the ozone and air pollution from fracking, I spend much of my day cowering in my air conditioned home. I do worry about asthmatic children who might not have air condition. I urge you to study the information Dr. Helmings gives tonight and consider how we might make sure residents, especially those at risk of health concern, utilize this data. Second, I note that there's a brief update on the cleanup at the stamp well site to be given later. I urge council to follow the spill cleanup closely. Form 27 filed with the COGCC on July 10th reveals a lot about this site. It's 700 feet from Union Reservoir. They're domestic water wells within a quarter mile. This spill was produced water, which is a toxic byproduct of fracking and extraction operations. Top operating states that they will install monitoring wells into additional sampling of water and soil. Soil samples taken at the site exceed the BTECS limits listed on table 910-1 in the COGCC regs. One water sample was taken. It is also listed as exceeding those limits. As an FYI, BTECS is benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene. Surface water was not tested. So my question is whether Union Reservoir is contaminated. We need to make sure that adequate testing is completed. My request is that you carefully consider whether this company that potentially contaminated this wonderful water source should be allowed to drill at another site so close to the reservoir before a total cleanup of soil, groundwater, and surface water is completed. They need to clean up the mess that they currently made first. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next guest, your number ends in 332. You've been unmuted. Do you hear me? Guest 332. I've unmuted you. Hello. You may begin. Hello. My name is Missy Nicoletti. I live at 1261 Button Rock Drive, Longmont, Colorado, 80504. And I wanted to express how I'd like Dr. Hemlick's testing to continue through the quality monitoring sites in Longmont. They've been extremely helpful. I have a history of bronchitis, so I do check them every day. And I'm very concerned about the air quality in our city. I'm on Union Reservoir probably four to five times a day, excuse me, a week. And then I also live maybe five minutes from Union. I've been monitoring the Stamp Well site every since February. And I've noticed recently, if I'm going past it on my boat, that there's some type of chemical smell coming off of it, which concerns me, and I know mitigation is going on. I did witness three weeks ago when I was on my paddle board that smoke and something was burning out of that site. And several people on the water were really concerned what was really happening. I noticed yesterday there's still a lot of activity out there. So my major concern, of course, as always, has been to protect that area. A lot of families use that area. People fish and need to finish out of there. There's children swimming and just expressing overall concern of air quality and also the contamination of water. Thank you for your time. Thank you. All right. Our last guest, your phone number ends in 972. Ivan muted you. Could you please state your name and address for the record? You may begin. That is Jeremy Gregory here, 238 Sweet Valley Court, Longwood, Colorado. Hope everyone's doing well and staying safe and committing to madness. And obviously, speaking of madness, as Susan and Anna has shared, we have a situation going on here in the village where we have an individual that has already been in violation of the ordinance once before. I caught them in the act of actually poisoning. And this explanation needs to be stopped come Thursday. You guys, I would even go as far to say that this individual now needs to be given a one-year sanction due to his history. Not a developer. He's coming in. He's now falsifying information to cut corners. When you look at the credit and it goes to show that this guy will have to do whatever he can to save me and just get these credit. I think he has anything slated to be built there. So by the rush, what rid of a colony, he doesn't have my knowledge set to be built. But last but not least, we need to have an amendment that is going to give this ordinance teeth. This is, I think, now the fourth time where an entity or an individual has come in and arrogantly and flippantly broken this ordinance and there's no enforcement. This is ridiculous. This is like spitting on the effort and energy that you all put into drafting this ordinance. And for me, especially living in this community, it's disgusting and insulting. So I'm really hoping that you guys will stop this extermination from happening on Thursday because we have concrete events that this guy's coming in and willing to have no announcement for citizen advocates. And we already have a crazy loss with this pandemic. I implore you to consider putting the sanction on this guy, at least stopping this thing on Thursday so that we can get a handle on some enforcement support that we've all put so much time and effort and energy into. So thanks for considering. And yeah, that's where I'm at. Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. That's exactly three minutes, Jeremy. Thank you. All right. Let's move on to the consent agenda, an introduction reading by Tyler, first reading the ordinances. Mayor, Item 9A is ordinance 2020-29, a bill for an ordinance amending Chapter 14.52, Section 14.52.030 of the Longmont Municipal Code on compensation for disposition of open space property, public hearing and second reading scheduled for August 11, 2020. 9B is resolution 2020-65, a resolution of the Longmont City Council authorizing the transfer of a portion of the unencumbered appropriation balance of the employee benefit fund to 24 individual operating funds. 9C is resolution 2020-66, a resolution of the Longmont City Council to approve the Colorado Communities for Climate Action 2020 policy statement. 8D is resolution 2020-67, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Longmont and the U.S. Forest Service, Boulder County and other entities for Forestry Health and Community Protection Collaboration. 9E is resolution 2020-68, a resolution of the Longmont City Council approving the second restated and amended Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Boulder County and the City of Boulder for cost sharing for the COVID-19 Recovery Center. And 9F has approved amended Council Rules of Procedure Rule 27 regarding boards. And Mayor, the only one I'm aware that staff would like to pull is F for a couple clarification questions. All right, Council Member Christensen. Okay, we'll pull F. Would you like to make a motion, Council Member Christensen? All right, it's been moved by Council Member Christensen that we pass the consensus agenda except for F. And I'll second that. I lip read it. All right, I'm seeing no discussion. Let's go ahead and vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. I'll oppose, say nay. All right, the consent agenda minus F has passed. Let's move on to ordinances on second reading, specifically 10A ordinance. So we would encourage the public to call in now. And so we've only got one item. So if you can go ahead and there we go. So go ahead and call in public. If you have comment for this issue, go ahead and call in for the public hearing. So 10A, ordinance 2020-28, the bill for an ordinance emitting Title 10, Chapter 10.2, creating, I'm sorry, 10.20, creating a new section, 065, the long-awaited code, creating dismount zones. So is there a staff report, I presume, no? Mayor, this is better, T.C. Wanmar. Evan. Hi. Well, since the first reading of the ordinance, city staff and the LDDA worked with Bicycle Wanmar on a couple of changes to the ordinance to make it a little more bicycle friendly. Hey, Susan, would you be willing to pull up the slide highlighting the changes? One minute. Thank you. So specifically there are two changes that are being requested. And the first is to change, is to actually change the dismount zone. So instead of the dismount zone being from first to long street, it would be different depending upon which side of the main street you're on. For the west side of main street, the dismount zone would be from third to long street. And on the east side of main street, it would be from second to long street. And this change was requested because there's no alternate route between first and second on the east side of main. And on the west side of main street, the bicycle is likely to be able to ride between second and third. Facts is the regional bus stop just south of Third Avenue. We also added an effective date of January 1st, 2021. And this will give staff time to install bicycle routing signage and pavement markings to help bicyclists navigate around the dismount zone. Also, since the community rangers won't be available until 2021, we can delay enforcement until then. And then the January effective date will also give staff the opportunity to do an educational campaign in advance of the dismount ordinance going into effect. And that concludes my presentation. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them. All right. Do you have any questions on this particular ordinance? All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Ortiz. Can we have a motion from council? Mayor, I think we need to do a public hearing. I guess we could. Let's go ahead now. Is everybody in the queue? No, mayor. There is none. All right. So we'll go ahead and open and then close the public ordinance. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing on ordinance 2020-28 and go ahead and close the public hearing. So do we have any motion from council please? Anybody want to make a motion? I will move ordinance 2020-28. All right. So moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. I'm sorry. Councilor Christensen? I'm glad that Scott Conlon called in and that they had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Greenwald. I do think that there are a couple of things that I wouldn't personally like to see changed. I think that it's we are conflating this with the restriction of 287 right now. It's not the same thing. And I think that the dismounting zone should be the same for both sides of the street or it'll be confusing to people. So I would just make it from second to Long's Peak all the way. Otherwise I think it's very confusing. So that's number one. Number two, I do think that the fines I think that should be codified a little bit more because when it's up to $300 I just think it would be good if we would put in there the first time somebody violates it. It's a warning the second time they get a $25 fine and they maybe find up to $300. Otherwise it's we're going to get a lot of angry people thinking we're going to find them $300 for not dismounting on the sidewalk. So I would offer friendly amendments to those two friendly amendments. You can't do a friendly amendment on a second. You got to make a motion or not. Okay. Well I just think this is very confusing to have a different dismounting zone on one side of the street than the other. So Paulie what you could do is you just need to say I move that we amend ordinance 2020 as written as follows. Okay. I amend this amendment or I amend this ordinance to make the dismount zone consistent of going from second to Long's Peak on both sides of the street. All right the chair the chair is going to take that as a motion to amend ordinance 2020-28 and which will basically state that both sides of the street from second to Long's Peak will be dismount zones. Ben Ortiz there's a motion but do we have a second? I'll second Pat. All right it's been moved by councilor Christensen and seconded by councilor Pegg. Ben Ortiz. Mayor and members of council when Bill and Scott Carlin had met with Kimberly McKee of the LVDA is my understanding that they were the LVDA was pretty adamant that the dismount zone could be maintained or be maintained in front of LHEPA's so from second to third avenue but I think Bill could possibly shed a little light on that as he was actually in that meeting unfortunately I was able to attend. I don't know if Bill is participating in or listening in I don't know if you have an opportunity to shed a little light on that as well. Mayor and members of council this is Phil Greenwald transportation planning manager with the city. I was in that meeting I think what council member Christensen is stating is that we should extend the dismount zone down to second on both sides of the street so I think that covers HEPA's and it also I think meets the intent of the LVDA it does go against a little bit of what the Bicycle Longmont folks were asking for but I think we've come up with other options that can make that work using them using the alley basically behind Santiago's is what we call it so that can be used and then also just being able to get from Kauffman over to third main on the sidewalks that way so I think there are options. Right so let's go ahead and vote on the ordinance so you know for Dr. Waters. Or set up the ordinance the amendment. Dr. Waters. I'm trying to go back and look at the original the first version the version we approved on first reading and I can't because we've got that screen up that is going to be court of vote so Susan or Don it's a little frustrating because I think what council member Christensen is moved thank you is that we adopt the same ordinance that we adopted on first reading with the exception of the enforcement delay till January 1st. So for me what we got from staff reflects the those who are bicycling the bicycle our bicycle bicycling community I guess if they were if they were confused about how this would work they wouldn't have recommended this they're the ones that are the users and to help with clarity are the are the what the agreements that I think we heard from Phil or from Ben about delayed enforcement sign engine in an education effort which is all consistent with what we got from Scott Conlon. So I guess you know we approved on a first reading we can approve I guess on second reading but but it flies in the face or it's basically a message to the bicycle community that we know more about what makes sense to them than they do and and I don't so I'm not going to vote for the motion or the amendment because what we've heard from is the community who are using this you know I think we ought to listen to. Castor Christensen. What we've heard from is members who are organized who are bicyclists everybody I mean most of us ride bicycles too and we're not part of Mr. Conlon's group which I have a lot of respect for but I don't care whether it's second or third as long as it's I thought we were originally going to just have third to sixth now it's been extended by Longmont downtown development authority to Longs Peak and now it was extended one block south on one side of the street and I to me that's not very good policy I I would much prefer to have it just be third to Longs Peak I think we are making policy based around one business and I don't think that's good policy but you know I I'm just talking about the public at large is not part of the bicycle community they just ride bicycles and when they see a sign that says you can ride it on this side of the street but not the other side of the street to me that's confusing but you know it's fine. All right so the motion was from second to Longs Peak correct all right so let's go ahead and vote all in favor the motion again on the table is making it a bike bicycle dismount zone both sides of the street from second to Longs Peak all right all in favor of that motion say aye opposed say nay nay all right the motion fails two to five with councilmember christensen and councilmember peck four and the other five against they get that right I said yay all right so I chair would I just couldn't tell so the motion still fails but fails three to four with councilmember martin count mayor pro tem Rodriguez uh councilmember waters and mayor bagley uh voting against the measure or the motion all right great thank you very much all right someone I can make want to make a motion for the ordinance I'm of approval of ordinance 2020-28 as presented in in the agenda tonight all right I'll second that all right see no further discussions go ahead and vote on favor of uh proving ordinance 2020-28 on second reading say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously thank you very much all right let's hold on one second let me just fix this real quick all right let's go ahead and go on to item f of the consent agenda did it oh yes hey i'm made it's different what the heck it says you're crying bagley get out of the chair all right I was gonna have him actually do f but that might be inappropriate so well he's taking care of Drago this weekend so he came over to go over to meet him if he didn't recognize former mayor combs he's a great guy all right so let's go on to nine f staff you've got you've got a you've actually got a presentation right no mayor I do not have a presentation um we put pretty much everything in the council com we just needed two points of clarification uh one being um did you want to do the pre uh interview screening process by to not interview applicants by a super majority or just a majority vote and our other question was regarding um item l in the draft as it um shows the motion was to um not interview those who had more than three absences we just needed clarification is that three absences over a year a calendar year over their term um we just wanted clarification on those two things so I believe I wanted a majority vote but it was a super majority vote not to not to interview somebody am I right on that one guys right so we already voted on that one and then as far and as far as clarity on missing three I believe it was during their term was it not it was your it was your motion councillor christensen what was it no it wasn't it was councilman pex all right councillor peck uh thank you mayor bagley it was during a uh during a year one year three absences within a year and would that be within the previous 12 months here or the or the current calendar year just to be exactly clear uh I think from when their term started because they don't always start uh at the same time their so the time that they're apart so basically the previous 12 months starting previous start previous 12 months does everyone else does anyone object everyone remember that correctly okay I'm going to take that as a consensus vote just in case it's not so do you have your clarification don I do but it looks like councilmember christensen has a question for christensen go ahead yeah that is um that's why I pulled it can you hear me I think yep okay um that's why I pulled it I wanted to clarify that because it wasn't clarified and it could have been used as a term which you know sometimes it's four years so you know three unexcused absences in uh four years it's not really terrible but you know you should be able to make at least three fourths of the meetings in a year if you're serious so agreed all right thank you do you want to make a motion councilmember christensen since you pulled it um I move that we amend that to clarify that it is three unexcused absences within a the previous year the previous year yes second all right all in favor say I I post in a all right motion carries unanimously want to make another motion councilmember christensen mayor if I could interject go ahead Eugene uh mayor and council Eugene may city attorney uh my concern with the supermajority vote on whether or not to interview a candidate is that the charter provides that council shall act only by ordinance resolution or motion and for resolutions and motions the charter provides it shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and so a supermajority would appear to conflict with the charter direction that council votes by affirmative majority okay so uh I'd actually move that we amend it to say the majority councilmember waters second I've been moved and seconded council waters so just explain to me how how it plays out um we would we would have a vote I guess after reviewing applicants applications uh we would we would cast a vote in a meeting to not invite someone for an interview for whatever reasons are articulated at the time is that is that how this would work I would I would imagine I would imagine so like for example let's suppose that we've got Catherine Frank Johnson who's done an outstanding job you know and we want to appoint her uh maybe we don't want to interview her um maybe there's um just wait just wait for a moment yeah in that case it would seem to me we would vote not to interview all the other applicants for that board correct mayor if I could just interject quickly go ahead um the way we would envision that working mayor and councilmember waters would be the way that we did that this last time via the pre interview screening process whereby we sent you all a sheet and then you indicated which ones which applicants you did not want to interview when there was four or more than we did not call that person in we would not call that person in for interview if you went with a majority vote well that's that's pretty easy it seems to me when you have more candidate you have more openings than you have candidates right in in that case on that four and that spreadsheet my personally I indicated I didn't need to interview these people because it's a no-brainer you had more openings or the same number of openings as applicants just appoint them uh but when you have more applicants than openings um it feels it's it's I'm not comfortable frankly with uh with expressing ourselves the way we did prior to this interview that feels like a black ball uh you know without being public about it yet I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that frankly I'm not gonna participate in that process I'll just remain silent if that's what the way it's gonna work because I'm not gonna blackball or prohibit somebody from being interviewed when we have more candidates than openings in the way that we went about this last this last process frankly I guess I guess in my I guess in my mind there's just so many times when uh I mean half the interviews we do we don't need to have them um just because we either know them or they've served on the board before um it's just it's a five to six minute interview most of the information we're glaning is off their written application and uh I wouldn't mind I just want to wait it just you know if we choose not to interview somebody in my mind it's been because why do we need to interview this person we're gonna appoint him or her so why why uh mess around with it so councilmember christensen poly you're you're muted poly okay um I agree with dr waters I I really do think that we should be interviewing any everyone and I except for people who have been serving but see this time um for instance we have susie she's new she doesn't necessarily know people I just I think it's disrespectful and I think it leads to kind of a favoritism thing going on and the only reason I would not want to interview someone is if they have a clear conflict of interest and they've even stated it and that's the only reason I would not want to interview anybody and I also disagree with the idea of just if we've only got two candidates and two openings we just automatically appoint them without even talking to them that's not a very good idea either in my point of view because you can get some really bad people that way just because nobody else applied so um I I I don't see why we would not interview anybody except if they have already served and all of us have already met them but that's rarely the case all right let's go ahead and vote okay sorry councilmember thank you mayor bagley um my reasoning is that not every board or commission meets every month some of them are uh uh every two months every six weeks um and if they if they're not if they're not meeting every month and they have three and she's absences and don't bother to tell anybody why then are they really going to the meetings I mean are they really a good applicant to be on this board um right and that was my reasoning is that um it doesn't really matter to me whether they're there or not unless they're uh unless they really have an excuse it would be like one of us just not showing up two or three times without telling anybody why these boards to me are very important and um that was my reasoning but if but if a majority of us don't want it that's fine all right but we're talking about we're at this point we're doing customer learning well I was just going to agree with Joan I think that if a person has unexcused absences and that's on the report then we could say we're not going to interview this person what I definitely don't want to do is what we almost did with Catherine Frank Johnson which was not interview her because we all knew her but she wouldn't have gotten a chance to defend her seat against more applicants than there were seats so that we definitely cannot do um but and the other thing is about the same number of applicants or fewer than we have seats it matters in some cases and not the others you know if it's master board of appeals we have to talk to them no matter what I'm going to go ahead and withdraw my motion therefore there's no more motion on the table does anyone else want to make a motion that would uh dr waters thanks mayor bagley uh I just want to point out my concern isn't with uh councilmember peck with uh the absentee issue I agree with that if uh I mean but that's a clear criteria for somebody not being eligible I'm talking more about the motion uh in the list it's the motion made by councilmember rodriguez seconded by councilmember martin uh to to prohibit to choose not to interview somebody without a specified criteria um uh and that was the one relative to a super majority I voted I voted against that when we were talking about it and if that stays in here I'm going to vote against that so I'm going to move that we delete that section entirely from this list of criteria so I move that we delete from this set of uh procedures or guidelines whatever this is um the agreement that was made during our saturday discussion uh about choosing not to interview whether it's a majority vote or a super majority people who have applied for a border commission when we have more candidates than we have seats all right all in favor sorry all in favor say aye I'm sorry man who seconded that I apologize the councilor christianson okay thank you is that a yes vote from your dog yeah that yeah pete says that that's the way it's going to be so all in favor say aye hi hi I'll post a nay all right the motion carries unanimously now oh now I'm happy to move the rest of the guidelines all right I'll second all right all in favor say aye hi hi I'll post a nay all right great okay let's move on to we all doing okay we want to rock through these last things only at 30 I'll take five are you guys okay all right let's go on to the regional air quality monitoring presentation oil and gas update please shall I take it away good evening mayor bagley and members of city council my name is jane turner and I'm the city's oil and gas and air quality coordinator I'm new this is a new position I just started in April and I'm really excited to have the opportunity to present to council I've spoken with a few of you over email but it's nice to be able to have this opportunity to introduce myself to you as well as to long month residents I'm a certified professional engineer and I have a phd in air quality engineering from CU Boulder and I'm really grateful to have this opportunity to work with a city that's being so proactive about environmental monitoring and showing such an interest in air quality research so you can bring up the slides now and I think I've introduced myself so we can go to slide two I'm going to be providing a brief update on some oil and gas activities and that'll be followed by a presentation on the city's regional air quality monitoring by Dr. Detlev Helmig of Boulder atmospheric innovation research slide three the first update is regarding production activities at the stamp well the stamp well is an oil and gas well that's located on the northwest side of union reservoir and some residents have expressed concerns about some of the production activities that have occurred particularly between July 2019 and March 2020 during that time period a workover rig was observed at the site and the residents have expressed some concerns about whether any of these activities have been in violation of the city's agreement with cub creek energy as you're aware the city has entered into an agreement with cub creek energy it covers a number of oil and gas wells including the stamp well and it prohibits certain activities including hydraulic fracturing staffs reviewed the activities that occurred during this time frame we've reached out to our contacts at the colorado oil and gas conservation commission the co gcc because they regulate the activities at this site and we've also spoken with our special oil and gas legal counsel phil barber based on these reviews it's the current understanding and belief of the city staff that the activities were in accordance with state regulations and that none of these activities have specifically violated the city's agreement with cub creek next slide the next update is also on the stamp well and it's regarding ongoing remediation activities there this remediation is a separate topic and not related to the production activities i was discussing on the last slide the remediation is happening because there was a spill a leak of some fluids at the site and that was identified on may 14th of this year workers at the site found that the source of the leak was a crack in a fiberglass tank this was a large holding tank 100 barrels it was stored above ground and it was holding produced water so that's water that has come back up out of the well in response to this co gcc has directed them to do a site investigation and that means that they take soil samples to determine where any impacts from the leak are and then they dig that soil out remove it from the site take it to be properly disposed the pit that's left behind is then filled in with clean soil and that backfilling process started on july 1st and my understanding is that it's complete the next step in the process is that co gcc will require a follow-up report that's going to be due on august 7th the report will be posted on the co gcc website it'll be publicly available and it'll include more information about the total soil removed from the site the samples as well as plans for a groundwater monitoring system so right now there are three groundwater monitoring wells out at the site as part of the city's program we test those monitoring wells every year co gcc is going to ask them to put in additional monitoring wells to make sure that if there are groundwater impacts those are well understood and remediated if needed there is right now no ongoing leak at the site the tank that was cracked has been removed there's no threat to residents that we're aware of and regarding the cub creek agreement the accidental spill at the site is also not in violation of that agreement the last update i have for you is not about the stamp well it's about the night wells and these are oil and gas wells which are planned to be drill in 2020 outside the city properties to the north the night well pad is located directly north of union reservoir but south of highway 66 now the night wells are still in the planning stages but what is happening is that we have received construction plans for an access road that will allow the operators to get to that well pad those plans are currently being reviewed by city staff in the development and review group and it's our understanding that cub creek intends to begin construction of that road as soon as those plans are approved in order to keep them on their planned timeline of beginning drilling the night wells in september of this year so if we unless we have questions i'll turn it over to our main event council member peck thank you jane can you tell me uh how much soil um it was excavated that had been leaked with the ground I don't have the number right now the engineers are working on those getting the estimate to be accurate I did reach out to cub creek and they prefer to um include that information in the upcoming report to co gcc and didn't want to provide something that was inaccurate because they're not quite done with the calculations okay thank you is there going to be any surface uh water testing to see if any that ground water has actually leaked into our union reservoir well as you know uh the city of longmont has a union reservoir baseline monitoring study that we do and we just collected a sample there the last week of june and there were no oil and gas compounds detected in our three union reservoir surface water samples so that's certainly a good sign and what do you sample for are they for bocs bocs b tax um let's see diesel range organics a number of different oil and gas related compounds okay thank you and the tank that has been removed was the uh water still in the tank when it was removed or did you was the water taken out of that tank I believe the first thing they did was to drain the tank and to take that water off site before they removed the tank okay so it was drained into a tank or it's and driven out away it wasn't put in a pool or I can't say exactly how that water was removed but there are certainly our regulations that cover how the they certainly can't put into the ground they have additional tanks that can be used at the site as well okay I would be curious as to what they did with that water okay I'll be happy to follow up on that that would be great thank you I think uh Dr Waters was next we do that so much more politely than the mayor does am I even supposed to be calling on you I don't think so but that's really what the mayor does but he's going nuts Dr Turner go nuts you got a phd you're smarter than me go you know when council members do the council members do that to him it's I find that you were in that as well so anyway Jane you may or may not be able to answer this but I I do recall that on the stamp well with the agreement we signed one of the contingencies was that the the gathering line or flow line that went from the stamp well you know south and then east again would be uh would be severed purged um uh and sealed once the night site was product and that got accelerated right cub creek or whoever I guess it was cub creek I did that a year ago which for which were grateful and um was a win I think for all of us but I don't recall when the night well becomes productive are there other implications for the stamp well because I have in my mind that the stamp well would then be shut down abandoned but I don't maybe I just made that up do you remember Dale I'm certain would know yeah that's my understanding but I think Dale would be a better person to answer this one and a council member waters could you uh repeat that for me I have a cat in front of me here got you napping uh a cat now um Dale I the um is my recollection that in the agreement we signed that once that I'm in this kind of is the connection between the the night property access road in the stamp well that when then when the night property starts producing that the stamp well is abandoned or plugged is is that I would call that properly that is it's uh council member waters it's within a certain number of days of production of a well at the night site that then the well is to be affirmatively plugged and abandoned so you're you're correct but it's tied to production yeah yeah commencing well at the night site all right thanks that was just I appreciate council member waters it's 90 days within commencement of production to abandon the stamp well all right good thank you Eugene council member martin thank you mayor bagley um I'm uh uh wondering what the point is of the commencement of the road construction being mentioned is this uh something new that was not uh in the original agreement about the night well or um we have easements in place and everything it is uh council member water um martin it is um yep uh oh he's frozen dr turner back up and god has smitten him for not following procedure so they call staff as plans oh are you back dale we missed you dale you froze let me try to answer it again council member martin the construction of the access road to the night site was a condition included in the top cubcrete city agreement from 2018 all staff is wanting to do is to keep council informed of additional work uh as as uh cubcrete progresses towards um the drilling of wells at the night site so it's nothing new uh it's going through the process as we anticipated it would and um I I believe the staff is doing the right thing to appropriately review the design of the road to ensure that it's uh done appropriately thank you very much that's comforting councilor back thank you just you're muted john okay thanks um so dale uh the access road to the stamp well does it is it also in line to the night well I mean I'm wondering um it is not a total different location okay no very different locations correct okay thanks all right doctor why don't we go on with whatever's next okay uh just one more slide an introduction slide that's slide five of my one moment okay thank you so now for the main event we'll be hearing a presentation by dr helmig on the city's air quality monitoring study you'll recall that in 2019 the city contracted boulder air to conduct a study of long months air quality and the study includes two monitoring sites and each has a special focus in the photo on the left you see the airport monitoring site on the west side of town and that was designed to gather data to help the city meet the greenhouse gas emission goals outlined in the city's sustainability plan in the photo on the right you see the union reservoir monitoring site which is located nearer to oil and gas activities which are predominantly located in willed county the union reservoir site includes specialized air monitors with the goal of identifying oil and gas air impacts to the local air quality so mayor baglan city council we've asked dr helmig to prepare a 30 minute presentation summarizing his findings so far and that presentation will be followed by time for questions so with that i will hand it over to dr helmig now yes hi good evening everybody thanks for having me here on the call um so i think i need susan's help now with pulling that presentation up okay there we are good so um those are the points i want to walk you through today you'll quick objectives of the study again then the station developments the websites that were created and then most of the time will be dedicated towards showing you some of the data that we've been gathering um next slide please okay so um dr turn already nicely summarized this there's several objectives covered by this programs the first one is to monitor greenhouse gases released from the footprint of the city with a goal to assess the city's path towards sustainability um the second point was to monitor primary oil and gas emissions and then to provide these data and interpretations to the public and as well to the research community industry partners and so forth um the next slide please and we are monitoring quite an array of different atmospheric variables most of these are atmospheric gases and i've listed them here again so these include carbon dioxide methane a whole series of volatile organic compounds so abbreviated as vocs and we'll see several of those further down then we're monitoring nitrogen oxides we're monitoring ozone also particulate matter or aerosols and then meteorological variables and then the sites also have webcams and all of these measurements are conducted automated continuous and here around at um very high time resolutions so manage to one hour time resolutions next slide please it says overview of the timetable of the progress we've made and the first phase was identifying sites designing the website identifying the type of buildings and structures we needed it took quite a while for the buildings to go into place and then be provided with power and internet um then the first location the at the the airport became available for us to move in in september and we pretty much got everything up and running within a few weeks and ever since the systems have been producing data the second site um at the union reservoir um the building became available in december took us about six weeks to get all systems up and running and ever since both sites have been reporting data and continuously next slide please again this is um where the sites are located and i need to familiarize you with the abbreviations we're using here lma stands for longmont municipal airport you'll see that's down in the presentations a lot and that site is located on the the southeast corner of the airport where there's asterix there is oh yeah thank you for pointing this out so it's been the fenced area of the airport and it turned out to be really nice nice location like that it's it's it's nicely protected and guarded and the next slide then i think shows again the the the infrastructure it's it's a trailer and a measurement tower right next to that you saw that already the tower accommodates the meteorological sensors inlets for the gas measurements and then on the left you see the instrumentations inside the shelter which in this case monitors for ozone methane carbon dioxide and then computers communication systems data logging and so forth next slide please i'm moving on to the union reservoir so we're right there where there's that star is put on the map it's within the park area and again what's nice it's a gated area so um the the park staff are keeping an eye on it so it's in the southwest corner of the union reservoir and here the abbreviation we're using is l u r for longmont union reservoir next slide please and again that shows the the building itself so this is a hard permanent structure put in place again with a tower right next to it and on the right side you can see the reservoir in the background this gives you an idea about the distance to the water edge which is about 20 30 meters or something like that next slide there's a much higher number of instruments in this facility since we're doing the farmer measurements here aerosols are being sampled from the left side that shows the aerosol equipment that's a sampling stack that goes straight through the roof of the building and then again a tower with meteorological sensors gas inlets and then the the center picture shows the instrumentation and here we're monitoring ozone nitrogen oxides vocs methane co2 and again equipment for communication data logging and so forth next slide please okay so um those two sites um here with a double red circle um those are the two longmont sites and what i'd like to point out is that there's actually no part of a regional network and what makes this this really valuable and what adds high value is that we have these comparison opportunities since we're doing simultaneous monitoring now in two sites in broomfield as well as the border reservoirs in the upper left corner and we've learned a lot about what's happening in longmont by comparing these observations and i'll show you a lot of these type of comparisons and it's also of course nice this is all now under one roof so this this allows us to build these with very consistent measurements for these comparisons next slide please and then we designed websites and some of you may have seen this by now this is the site dedicated for the longmont air quality observations and it has seven tabs that you can see at the top there the the webcam images from the two sites they're updated every 30 minutes then there are tables that show the metallurgical data the current data the past eight hours the the maximum of the last over the last 24 hours then there are tables that report the chemical measurements and then at the bottom is the same for the union reservoir next slide please besides that site we also just over the last month generated a sister site so to speak that then provides these observations from all these other sites that are just showed on the map side by side in one set of graphs so this shows the methane the ozone and nitric oxide data there's there's ways more of these plots on the same website but you can see with the color traces then how the data from the long one side so that's lma and lur compared to the observations being made at the same time in these other locations which you know gives you an idea how you experience high levels low levels average levels and so forth next slide please um so we are currently managing websites from these three different monitoring programs in longmont in broomfield and at boulder county and they're all shown here just with some screenshots and what i'm listing here also are the visits on the site visits where we have counters visit counters on these sites and what i find remarkable is that actually right now longmont has taken the first place um it's the busiest site gets the most visits of all these other sites i mean they're all pretty busy and being being well recognized um but just over the last two months we've gotten two thousand visits in the long one sites about a thousand thousand a month thirty a day roughly like that on average the next one please and then we just generated this this site um which is a data analysis tool um this just a screenshot give you an idea what you can do here you can select in the left panel the sites that you want to um investigate and then on the right side you can select the the variable that you want to plot then you have a time window um you can select the start date and the end date and then just click go and then it will generate graphs with these data um all plotted together and in the following i will now show you many many graphs that were generated with this this tool so let's move forward to the next slide okay so let me walk you now through some of the data examples um data we've gathered so far and i'll want to start out with ozone again ozone um is of quite some concern in this regions and we are since we're in a non-mattainment um area for for the ambient ozone standard and it's a secondary pollutant so again it's not emitted directly but it's formed in the atmosphere during the day um and you need sunlight for that it's a photochemical reaction um with atmospheric precursors of nitrogen oxides and vocs and given the dependence on lights you get more of that in the summer when you have more light and longer days and ozone is a strong oxidant and it impacts your respiratory system so elderly children people with respiratory illnesses are even more so affected than the average person in the bottom you can see the data from February through just a few days ago um ozone from the two monitoring sites here in Longmont and you can see we've exceeded the um this ambient national air quality standard on quite a number of occasions and i will explain that a little bit more so let's move on to the next slide please um this is now zooming into one of these um records this is three days of ozone data and again what you see here are the data from the four sites that currently report ozone and you can see it goes up and down up and down every day the lows are at night the highs are in the early afternoon and again the dotted line is the standard and just a few days ago on the 21st you can see that ozone at all of these sites exceeded the standard and you see how similar ozone behaves at these different sites so ozone it's a regional pollutant it takes a while for it to build up it moves around during the time so it's not like you know you have a certain neighborhood or a street corner where there's much more ozone than a block away it's a regional pro pollutant and we we all um experience very similar levels here however on average um um the highest level we've seen so far at the Boda Reservoir and at the Longmont Airport you can see that here as well that's where the the ozone peaked on the on the 21st so let's keep going to the next slide um what's important to understand is that the health standard is defined as the eight hour moving average so when you get ozone readings that pop above the 70 ppb threshold it doesn't mean that you violate the standard because this this event may be rather short so in the top graph you see the spikes that go over the the dotted line which is the standard um and then the the smoother line and it's enlarged in the bottom graph that's the eight hour average standard it's the eight hour moving standard and you can see that during this time window in June there were two days where the standard was actually exceeded so this is a real exceedance of the standard um whereas you know you may have short term um spikes over the line that would not be um considered an exceedance of the standard but still we put this line in the graphs to give you an anchor point where the standard is in relation to the current ozone level the next slide please I want to also um show you very interesting interesting situation we had to to help you understand what's driving ozone in this region um so this was in um not just a couple weeks ago early July um three days of data and you see ozone goes up goes down goes up but why what's happening on the 10th what happened on the 10th ozone goes up as usual during the morning and then why it took a non-stifle right around noon bottomed out you know and it was heading ways high to exceed the standard that day but then it collapsed so um let's take the next slide and that shows you nicely the value of just the metrological observations but I have here now in the second and third graph are the wind speed and the wind direction measurement from that same period and that blue line then shows you what happened during this episode when ozone um dropped you can see what happened wow it got really windy the winds you know there was pretty mild moderate one two meters per second that's the second graph and then whoa right around noon winds got really really strong and now look at the bottom graph the winds shifted they shifted from in the morning so it was easterly winds and very abruptly they shifted to the west and then they flipped back to the east right yes thanks for the cursor help perfect yes so you know this this is actually really interesting because you know we sometimes hear opinions out there stating that you know ozone is due to background or high ozone background and ozone moving in from outside of the state you know is but you can see here as the winds move west um transport comes straight over the mountain um you know ozone drops down to 50 55 you know we're in a much cleaner ozone environment and then ozone shift back to the east you get flow from east of the city and bang it goes ways up again and it exceeds the standard on that day that shows you how sensitive our ozone conditions are to the transport conditions at any particular time of day next slide please okay so ozone summary what have you learned about ozone so ozone is monitored at both the airport and the reservoir so far this season we had had four days with exceedance of the national ambient ozone air quality standard um the exceedances at the airport have been slightly higher than at the rest at the union reservoir and most times there's higher ozone in easterly winds than in westerly transport so let's move on to the next species and that's um methane this shows the methane results and so again methane what's the deal with methane so methane is a very strong climate gas it's the second strongest um warming force um causing global warming and it has quite a variety of sources um they're they're indicated in these pictures up there so in the region here where we are it appears that you know oil and gas is really the the dominant sources dominant source contributing source from methane at the bottom now you see the graph of the methane data and it shows methane for the reservoir for the airport also in boulder and then later the spring ozone came on light in room field and that's the green data so you can see it goes up and down up and down up and down lots lots of spikes and you see a lot a lot of purple and purple is purple spikes are higher than what the spikes we see at the airport and what we see at the reservoir and if you go to the next slide i think i have that blown up there yeah yeah so there you see now maybe some 20 days or so and you see you know it's it's the bottom of the data is always the same even because there's a background in methane that's very uniform across the globe but then on top of that background you see these spikes and they're very short you know they're just a few minutes um half an hour or something and you can see most of the spikes are in purple so at the union reservoir we see a far higher frequency and higher resulting concentrations in methane than at any of the other sites um next slide please um this is a comparison of six months of data between the border reservoir the airport and the union reservoir and you can see the green box whisker plots where the middle line is the median the box is from 25 to 75 percentile and the the top of that that whisker that's the 95 percentile so you can see every month of that period union reservoir had the highest methane both in the media and both in the extreme values um the long one airport towards in between and the border reservoir the blue data had the lowest methane overall and then the next slide you know shows the the likely explanation for that which is the proximity to the oil and gas development so all these dots and they're on the map oil and gas wells and you can see the union reservoir is the closest um the airport possibly the second closest and the border reservoir is about the furthest away and that nicely correlates with these distribution in the methane data we are seeing so next slide please and to show you how dynamic this can be it's a really interesting event and this actually has been the highest methane spike if we've ever seen both in three years at the border reservoir um three months in roomfield so far and this occurred on march 26th and within just a few minutes methane went up from the about two ppm background values all the way to 32 ppm so 15 times as high and you can see this just lasted 15 minutes and then it came down a gun and it was pretty much normal so the spike where it went up just like like crazy um very short short event so what happened um let's look at some other variables that were measured thank you um so the bottom two graphs now show the wind direction and the wind speed during that same time window and you see these these dotted lines um show this this time window so the wind direction from that the average across that 15 minutes was 33 5 degrees wind speed two meters per second which is you know it's it's moderate but you can really find a pretty well pretty well of wind direction and a transport so um so wind direction 3 35 degrees let's look at the next slide um that puts that now on the map so the the star shows where the the measurement station is the monitron station and the fat arrow in the middle is the 335 degree window and then I'll put like 15 degrees uncertainty windows on both sides so that's roughly you know where this the sector from which this methane plume was transported to the union reservoir and then the circle gives you you know how far the transport approximately is within a five minutes transport period given the two meters per second wind speed we had okay the next slide please okay then we have these data analyzed um as wind sectors on the left this shows um the wind roses and on top of the wind roses the colors show you know how the methane is depending on if the wind comes from one directions versus the other we can also do these heat maps on the right side so let's just look at the one on the top for the union reservoir so imagine yourself the station is right in the center of that cross and you can see that most of the methane the the redder colors um occur from winds to the north slightly to the northwest and a lot from the northeast sector but there's much lower methane when air comes over the city to the southwest and further away or at higher winds from the south um from the northwest sector as well so let's go to the next slide so that's the summary on methane so we're collecting very fast data five seconds high resolution data at both sides we're seeing a high abundance of spikes they're often very shortened durations the mean the median and variability are highest at the reservoir and the elevated concentrations are mostly associated when winds are from the north and from with easterly winds so that's the methane summary and let's move on to the vocs um so the vocs we started monitoring at the reservoir in mid-february so this this graph here it shows in blue the data from the put a reservoir that had been ongoing for two three years and then we turned our instruments down at the reservoir and said well what's going on here we were really surprised um because the levels we were seeing in february march at the reservoir were as you can tell here significantly higher than what we'd ever seen at the border reservoir before and so the component we're looking at here ethane is um our favorite oil and gas tracer because there's really no other significant sources for ethane um so you can see you know ethane was was was really high lots of spikes much much higher than what we see at the border reservoir and i think the next slide um enlarges this yeah so again the time frame for this very interesting observation i would say you know it's one of the most beautiful data sets i've ever collected in my career because there's such a stark change such a stark difference in in february and march we see these spikes with 200 300 400 500 parts per billion of ethane and then as you can see as the season progressed it became less and less and less and the last part of this record it's really low it's about you know as much as at the other side so what's happened well several things happened during this window um we um we started slowing down with lots of our activities right around march 12 and the covid restriction came in place on march 20th we started putting this data on the website and everybody out there could see look you know here's here's methane and other vocs being monitored at the union reservoir um on april 13th there were articles in the local paper um reporting about this air monitoring and then in april 20th um you know the the oil prices took a nose dive actually into the negatives which slowed down production activities so let's go to the next slide um that again compares you know this this this whole window and i've now added the very very latest data um and it actually makes you almost suggest that maybe after a period of two three months where it was quite moderate um the levels are picking up again possibly so that was ethane let's go to the next slide okay so another voc i want to bring up is benzene benzene receives a lot of attention because it's one of the vocs that's recognized as a as a toxic compound and as a carcinogen and i'm listing here for reference health thresholds that are set by different agencies so there's nine ppb standard for 24 hour exposure one ppb for long term um the world health organization claims there's no really safe limit for benzene so let's um keep those values in mind when we look at some data that be on the next slide but before that i also want to remind you there was a lot of yeah the next slide please there was a lot of attention out of interest paid to benzene um just a few months ago because there you know been observations of elevated benzene in the region um just a little bit northeast from flanmont these measurements done by cdph e um where one 45 minute measurement of 10.2 ppb was reported later that was revised to um 14.7 ppb so that's kind of the scale now to compare our data from the reservoir so let's go to the next slide so this shows the benzene from the union reservoir and you know it looks similar to ethane in february in march there was a lot happening there was a lot going on um benzene spikes many of them in the one two three four five six seven eight ppb range and then come april may it slowed down a lot and you know towards the later part now um it looks very similar to what we observe at the budda reservoir and in broomfield so let's go to the next slide um i think that compares that again on top and these are zoomed to the same scale top the benzene data from the reservoir union reservoir in purple in in february and the bottom in may again compared to budda reservoir and broomfield side um the next slide please and this is the very latest just the last few days weeks and you can see you know it's leveled down where now the benzene is very similar to what we see at the other locations um the next slide please um so where is this basin coming from where's the benzene coming from where where was it coming from um in the earlier part of the record so the four graphs here on the left they show the benzene measurements these are four hours of data it shows actually three measurements we have these we're taking every two hours these these blue the green dots so first it was low then it jumped up to that's the highest value 8.5 or something and then two hours later it came down to two and on the next graph to the right shows the methane plotted together with it which we can measure at my high much higher time resolution and you can see the benzene peak coincided right when there was a spike in methane so right together in the same and then we did again what i showed earlier we um looked at the wind direction and the wind speed and then the the map on the right side shows where that spike roughly originated from in terms of wind direction um you know so this came from the the northwestern sector so let's go to the next slide and that now does the same exercise for the 10 highest benzene peaks we observed so far um so you know you can see all these arrows are northwest north and northeast very consistent very um very consistent story here that very obviously these these elevated benzene spikes have some sort of origin that i would put in the northwest to northeast sector okay and the next slide um so this is the summary on the vocs and the benzene so we measure vocs and benzene now hourly we actually increase the sampling frequencies since these um spikes are so short and so frequent to hourly measurements at the union reservoir we saw very high abundance of elevated vocs and benzene during february through march we saw quite a number of benzene observations between one and ten ppb um benzene at the union reservoir was much higher than at all other comparison sites except the single measurements at room wield a couple three weeks ago um these elevated levels were mostly associated with northwest to um easterly winds and there's a strong correlation of benzene with methane that indicates this um this methane that the benzene has likely an oil and gas source and then levels dropped very steeply in april may june and maybe just about to pick up again right now and then i think i have one more slide is that correct oh well two more slides so you know in 30 minutes i only could give you some snapshots there are other things we measure other variables um that i didn't even touch in this presentation but they're up and running there's some interesting um interpretation in those as well so what i didn't touch today were the nitrogen oxides the co2 as well as the particulates which we measure in two different particle sizes um so personally now do this sometimes later how you can call me and we can discuss it offline and then the next slide the last slide is a summary that just summarizes everything we went through and i just leave this up and um that's the last slide i have so i'd be happy to entertain any questions you may have all right do you have any questions dr waters well what a just really quick simple question um is the criteria for where the two sampling stations are located just to get on on either side of the city and monitor flows from the edges of the city to the edge of the city is that why it's union and the airport yes so um susan could you please pull up slide 51 it's a few ones down question give me just a minute did you want 53 um 51 it should be 51 two two up please yes back one yes yes yes um so why do we measure it in two places um so the union reservoir serves two purposes you know as i showed in in the map that had all the well locations the union reservoir is on the upwind side of the city from where we expect the strongest influence from oil and gas industries which are mostly equated to the s to the to the east of the site um so that was an early preference to have a site somewhere in that general area and then the the western location um as you can see it's on the other side of the city and the the argument here is that we want to watch um how air changes as it travels either east to west or west to east across the city footprint and easterly and westerly winds are about the most the two most prominent um transport regimes we have here so this is largely driven by the motivation to monitor and watch over time the amount of emissions that's added to the air as the air travels to the city with the objective to watch the change in emissions and here in particular in greenhouse gas emissions from the city footprint so this is driven motivated by sustainability um arguments um the city has set itself the goal to drive greenhouse gas emissions down so how do you monitor if and how the city is moving towards this goal so this is actually really difficult to do but one of the things you can do is is this this map here this this this cartoon by watching how much is added as the um air moves over the city so we're doing exactly the same measurements in both locations using the same instruments the same techniques the same protocol for the primary greenhouse gases which are co2 which i didn't talk about at all really in the presentation then methane and also ozone so in between those three gases we have about 75 80 percent of the climate forcing um of gases that are um you know contributed by by human activities to um to global um climate forcing um so we're watching all those um and you know if if the the city achieves its sustainability goal and cuts all this um greenhouse gas emissions down to zero then we should see you know the same behavior and very very similar similar levels in air as it travels across the city and these are the poor two reference points that would be used for for that comparison and we already have i didn't show it but we've we've pulled data and compared um data from the tooth sides and we nicely see um you know how all levels change as as the air gets transported over the city footprint all right i thought the information was really good doctor doctor how much thank you um any other final questions or comments right dr helmick um as always your information and knowledge is more than welcome here in lawn moth and look forward to future updates reports and work from you no thanks you're looking me to share this with you tonight all right great thank you sir mayor bagley if i could just add one one quick comment as we end um as we mentioned in the council's communication staff is also uh working with dr helmick to look at an extension of his contract and we will be bringing that contract extension to you for your direction and action over the next couple of months and so we wanted to also let you know that is in the works as well right thanks dale all right let's uh if you guys don't mind um i was gonna go ahead do you have a when you're saying goodbye paulie do you have a question okay so um the next on the agenda is actually 9 20 let's go ahead take five minutes but when we come back um i plan on just taking the list that we talked about and i'll just make motions as we go along uh based on just kind of the feeling that i heard from people on saturday if somebody has a problem speak up and we'll just get through the board appointments but let's take five okay see in five all right well back one two three four five six seven looks like we're all back all right let's go ahead i might just like council no i know some council members follow along and i have been using the voting tool because we'll move so quickly i will not use that i'm going to take notes just want you to know what i'm up to over here all right see that's great that's a show of confidence there all right so let's go ahead and start with art and public places commission i'm gonna move that we appoint erin helzer and randy long to two of the five regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye hi hi say nay all right so that the motion carries unanimously just tell me when you're ready don i'm ready mayor sorry go ahead all right then on the board of adjustment and appeals um see here um i move that we appoint matthew mescal and linda whitco to the two regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye hi i oppose say nay okay then uh i'm gonna move so then there's laura howe this was the woman that also applied for the transportation commission as well um but that was one where we talked about there were two regular member terms ending june 30th so i'm going to move that we appoint laura howe is one unexpired alternate member term ending june 30th 2022 second all right it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion or debate on this one june june you're muted june is this still for the board of adjustment and appeals yes okay thanks okay all in favor say aye oppose say nay all right um the motion passes unanimously just let me know when you're ready don good to go mayor all right library advisory board i move that we appoint catherine fink johnson to the to the one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 second i'll oppose say aye aye oh opposed here in favor oh sorry it's already late i'm eating peanut butter and graham crackers we've run out lab no it's i move do we point catherine fink johnson to one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 all in favor say aye aye all right oppose say nay nay who was that council member i'd rather have carl ellip so who is nay did councilor peck yes okay so the motion carries six to one with council member what peck opposed um london housing authority i move that we appoint arlene zortman to one regular member term ending june 30th 2023 second second and so i appoint but we ratify so i'm gonna appoint arlene but i move that we ratify so second um let's go ahead and uh vote all in favor say aye aye aye okay all right the motion for application passes unanimously um i move that we appoint jonathan elden edelman edelman and andrew olmer to two to both of those to the two alternate member terms ending december 31st 2023 for the master board of appeals second isn't map you edelman it's jonathan edelman map you mess call we appointed the board of adjustment of appeals this is the master board of appeals all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right let's move on to the museum advisory board i move that we appoint meghan arnold and thomas curts to two of the three regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 second all right all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right motion carries unanimously sustainability advisory board um let's go back let's go back to that one in just a second uh so let's go on to transportation advisory board i move that we appoint joseph long and elizabeth r osborne to the to the two regular member terms ending june 30th 2023 for the transportation advisory board second all right it's been moved in second in all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries passes unanimously um what uh and then i was going to uh does somebody want to make a motion for waterboard allison gould and scott holwick i think yeah i move go ahead councilman martin i move allison gould got your waterboard okay it's been moved and seconded by councilman martin and then seconded by councilmember peck um all in favor of appointing allison gould to the one regular member term ending june 30th 2025 for the waterboard say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously all right does somebody want to make a motion for the sustainability advisory board um that looks like charles musgrave or adam reid councilmember peck i move that we appoint charles musgrave to the sustainability advisory board second it's been moved and seconded um just which term there go ahead we there are two openings one for an unexpected unfulfilled term and one for a full term so which of these so the chair is going to take the motion is being a motion for one regular member term ending june 30th 2023 the full term correct okay all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously i move that we appoint adam reid to one unexpired regular member term ending june 30th 2022 second all right it's been moved by me and was seconded by councilmember waters all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion carries unanimously i think that's it right don that is it may or the only uh we do have a couple new resignations and as you can see there's still a few vacancies our plan is to hold those advertised for everything in the fall again perfect bring those back at once well we appreciate it good job guys that was a all in all that was a pretty easy vote thank you very much thanks all right then finally we've got last but not least we need to appoint a council liaison to the long long public media advisory board who wants to do it councilmember pat start with you no i don't want to i move that we appoint uh councilwoman christensen to the um advisory board all second all right it's been moved and seconded anybody else want to do it by any chance i don't all right all in favor say aye aye opposed say nay all right the motion passes unanimously councilmember christensen represent us well i didn't ask if you're interested but you're doing it all right see all right let's go ahead and do final call publicly invited to be heard let's take just a two to three minute break and see if people call in i got all kinds of texts tonight from our fellow colleagues in surrounding cities they were tuning in during their own meetings to watch the good doctor give us presentation what were the comments just that they were watching oh okay it's a lot of interest yeah anybody in yet mayor we do have one so far we're at one minute all right let's go ahead and close it off it's been three minutes let's go ahead and put the uh put the person on so mayor we actually have two guests it looks like the first caller is your number uh with the number ending 470 you've been unmuted go ahead and please state your name and address for the record you have three minutes hi hi mayor councilmembers once again michael bellarmade 841 finacity drive thank you uh first i want to complete a thought i could not because i went beyond my three minute limit before but given the massive financial difficulties so many operators or the gas operators are experiencing now my concern is about who will pay the costs of cleanups for accidents and spills in the event an operator goes out of business presumably all of them must carry pollution liability limits but my questions surrounding this are one do we know cub creeks limits and how long of a tail it contemplates two do we have some authority and or control us as to the amount of insurance requirements uh and tail coverage and length of tail coverage and three if so given the industry trends with operator financial difficulties so widespread today shouldn't we require very high limits and long tail coverage next i want to reiterate my urging to retain debt live for our air monitoring which is so critical moving forward and of course thank him for an amazing presentation uh such uh incredible detail we get from his very high tech uh evaluation it's would seem from his presentation that when oil and gas and activity increases there are spikes in VOC's and methane i.e greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and it's very good important to know what is happening in that regard because we depend on that for our health and indeed our very lives but we see consistently growing if if we see growing and continuous severe spikes of dangerous compounds like benzene and methane methane other than documenting our own demise what options do we have to mitigate such a threatening trend like compelling an operator to shut down or at least temporarily but then the final question is which is presumed by all of that is can we differentiate between such emissions from wells subject to our contracts at union reservoir and weld county wells at large so i think those are important questions i would like the council to investigate because we're a lot is at stake here thank you so much y'all go rest well i trust thanks michael all right next our next caller your phone number ends in 882 i've just unmuted you can you hear us yes um scott connor in 1014 fifth avenue again bicycle line line uh mayor city council i understand you passed the revised ordinance for 2020-28 um thank you for that um as presented by ben orteez tonight um i would just like to reiterate um we're also asking that council direct staff and other da help with development of educational materials um for the dismount zone as well as direct uh staff and ldda to develop positive signage uh to direct riders to the bike lanes where the alleyways are part of that discussion that bicycle lawnmont the ldda and city had was designating the alleyways as a an active bicycle friendly zone um this is different than just saying you know bicycles are also allowed we're trying to make it so it's a positive experience uh we want downtown to be bike friendly and we're trying to um encourage that so i really i would like to encourage the council to direct staff and ldda to to work on this to work on how to cross uh the avenue's mid block um one of the issues we have is that we have these crosswalks on each side of 4th and 5th avenue that may not be specifically legal but we need some way to uh so we're gonna have pedestrians and cyclists in the alleyways going in both directions some way to warn uh motorists that um there's traffic moving both ways and so people feel safe so i'd like it for you to consider those things um and if you could uh direct staff and ldda for those thank you all right thank you anybody else no merit that was the last one all right great let's move on to council and mayor comments anybody council member christensen um well several things were brought up tonight that i think um we should follow up on um mr belmont's comments about uh weld county and you know all the things that he just mentioned right now i think worth following up on i also think mr conlon's comments are very worth commenting on we don't want to redirect bicycles to the alley and have them competing with trucks and getting run over so i think we're gonna have to spend a little more time with that and um uh talking to mr conlon and the bike community um i am also concerned i know we don't want to hear this but the prairie dogs you know we just got this notice today about this issue and if the prairie dogs are set to be exterminated in two days that gives us really no time unless we can put a hold on that um um i i looked at that map it is not it it's crazy and it's obviously a way to wiggle around the ordinance that i find that disturbing if somebody else would like to make a motion that we um put a hold on that uh moving forward i would uh i would support it thank you council member martin i would have to ask whether we have the authority to put a hold on the permit since that is an operational um task of the city staff however um i will reassure council member christensen that um the the area which lies in in ward two in my ward um i have plans um to inspect the area to see whether um that very complicated polygon excludes any live holes because uh it seems like in the the letter of the law um they may be within their rights if there are no active burrows um outside the polygon um but uh we can look tomorrow so just to let council know um while that was going on i was um bringing i was asking staff questions um here's where it hinges section 7.06.020 and the definitions says an active prairie dog habitat means the smallest possible area of a polygon encompassing all active prairie dog burrows on a property um that's an important definition um i then went and looked at maryon webster and oxford about the definitions of polygons and so the reality is i've asked don to the big issue is um encompassing all active burrows and so to what council member martin said i've asked don to um work with code enforcement and um natural resources staff to evaluate the active area that's what we have to really look at dr waters you know on the same thing i i'm sympathetic as well poly the concern here i just uh what's the right way to get at it for me and um herald i'm assuming you're following up with don and others on the enforcement options don gene and charisa yeah um one of the comments that was made tonight is this is a this is a repeat offender if you will or someone has had prior with whom we'd have we've had prior issues relative to prairie dog extermination um i don't you know i i don't know that you know that's true but but if that is true what are our options for dealing with developers or anyone else who simply ignores or or looks for ways to work around the ordinance that's what i have to talk to you gene about because i think the ordinance is silent to that and so i need to work with legal to see what what are the options and do we need to look at bringing something like that back and do we have an is there an option to the we is there are there means for us to to to prohibit or or delay what is apparently scheduled for thursday do you know that gene you're gonna have to jump in and help me on that one sure uh you gene may uh city attorney you know i was discussing with herald offline that uh we could contact the applicant we could do a compliance check um and you know verify the information and the application i think uh i haven't reviewed the application i heard about this issue uh during this council meeting perhaps one thing you already have so you know it's hard for me to say without having the basics information like having reviewed the application i don't know anything about the site um so you know i i saw the pictures too i don't know where those pictures are so i'm not going to give any opinion until i can determine what the facts are and then compare them to the ordinance but certainly i think it's within our authority to do a compliance check if we have a complaint that's the way code works that seems according to normal city processes and um we'll look at the issue of repeat offenders um i looked at the prairie dog ordinance as this meeting was ongoing uh doesn't address that issue um and i'm not aware of anywhere in the code that does i think you just bring a violation and then they have a another incident uh and we're in municipal court we would you know argue that's a aggravating factor for the penalty phase is it fair to us to assume that the kind of follow-up you described Eugene will happen or do we need to give direction on that is that what you think will happen we're going to examine the site um if you know that's the key we're going to examine the site if if they're active boroughs outside of the boundaries that they've defined then that's a different issue and we have to act appropriately unrelated to that but related to the bicycle ordinance i thought i heard ben um acknowledged that the things that we heard from mr conlon when you call that again in terms of signage in education and delayed enforcement that those things are all going to happen and that yes we really need to give direction yes the staff has already acknowledged this is what they're following up on is that fair it's correct yeah thanks councilmember peck thank you mayor back lee on a different issue i want to give kudos to ldda and the city of longmont and our transportation planner phil greenwald um on the downtown lane closures and extension for the restaurants phil gave a uh an update presentation at the nata meeting last week and it went over very well and there were a lot of uh questions from the the other elected officials they thought this was a great thing that longmont did and they were very impressed with how we got uh not me the city and phil to work with c dot and actually make that happen so this is a very positive thing and it the other cities and elected officials um expressed uh kudos and appreciation for longmont and are probably going to see how they can make that work in their cities so i just wanted to uh put that out there it's a good thing that they did and we should be proud councilmember et al faring thank you mayor so um last friday i went for a ride with a police officer um for just to kind of just a ride along and i did it friday night and you know we had some really good conversation i think i was there for i like maybe three or four between three and four hours with it and we just kind of scoped around and um i had the opportunity to witness um our officers interact with the public under stressful situations and just casual conversation um just you know seeing residents wave and um you know it was so i've had family members i've had loved ones who've had run in with loss so nothing in there surprised me nothing was unusual and everything that you know my own assumptions or my own thoughts it was like yeah that's that it was pretty much accurate and i think that's just from from my own personal experience um but in looking at and you know i want to get into my perspective of you know the whole notion of defunding the police and what does that mean um oftentimes when i and you know and i'll be honest what i'm hearing is you know morale first for some it's it's very it's difficult and i think being an educator for now 26 years it's difficult for teachers who to hear all the time you're terrible you need this you need that we're going to take funding away and it's it's degrading and it's demoralizing and it's it's it's it's a strain on the on the psyche and the soul um and i see that happening with with our officers um and you know so you know i've been doing the work of social justice for the last 30 years in southern california i marked marched with the chicano movement i've dedicated my last 30 years my entire adult life in equity institutional racism looking at systems of oppression and dismantling those systems and oftentimes when i hear people on both sides um to either call for defund the police or you know or bashing that notion of funding the police defunding the police you know i asked them what do you think that means and oftentimes it's it's not an accurate portrayal so you know really when we look at defunding the police and i've asked our i've asked our state representatives uh leslie harrod i asked uh representative harrod i asked you know what define that for me what does defund the police mean and it's really looking at how we allocate our funding is it more towards a criminal system or more towards uh a rehabilitation where we have diversion we have um and we see i see it in our departments in this public safety department the core team leads the angel initiative all these institutions or all these programs that we have in place that is what we had been striving for since i first started you know back in the late eighties early nineties i mean that's what we want we want to move away from this idea of just criminalizing people and throwing them all into jail starting with in the schools the school to prison pipeline moving away from that and providing opportunities for people to rehabilitate um and then i'm going to throw in my own personal experience and i share that with the officer i rode with um and what i have seen as a resident and a parent who's had to call the police on their children um my daughter when she was overcoming um just suicide suicidal ideation there was a time we had to call the police and this was back in 2013 and i tell you they weren't even in the house for a minute before i realized i made a big mistake in calling um they had her pinned down it was it was frightening to see and it was traumatic and it took also years of therapy for us to reconcile that um then we fast forward to about a year and a half ago when my son was having he was having um meltdown he was having a really hard time my daughter and her roommate helped intervene they took him to the apartment and and you know and he was he was getting really agitated and just very angry and so they ended up calling the police and i went by the time i went out there because he was really mad at me and so you know i went out there after the police were there and they had somebody i believe from the core team and they spent almost an hour with him and they talked to him and they talked him down they de-escalated the situation and the time and commitment where i was really mad and i'm like what are you doing just you know i was so frustrated but they took the time so you know what i see this department doing this is on the right track and i don't want to dismantle a system that's working and i think we have to be supportive of that and that is what um you know the community is about when i've had a chance i had a chance to meet with um our interim police chief rob spenlo and you know and he's acknowledged we're we have ways to go and that's always what we strive for as an organization is how we reflect we look for ways to grow and we make the appropriate changes so you know i think i think we are on the right track and i you know when i when i even use the term you know defunding the police what does that mean what i i look at what my context of it means and it's really just advocating for opportunities for people to rehabilitate and and find other avenues for you know rather than going through the court system or criminal or the jail system so that's um then that kind of brings me into the next thing i don't know some of you received an email from bob norris about um you know bringing up the language language language barriers um and this is something back when we had our retreat we talked about um you know i hadn't talked we talked about equity one of the things that i really wanted to see was this um some type of commission or council around equity and human relations and i want to bring it up again um and this is something that i saw that he included in the mail that are in the email about recommending some kind of board or commission to address issues of inequity and really looking at it at the policy level rather than just the just a diverse the diversity level because those are two different aspects i think what the l mac is doing it addresses that diversity inclusion that's its own set and that's a huge task to have one that really delves into policy of equity and how we as an organization and institution can um bridge those gaps of inequity that's what i think this um there's so i'm pushing that again but and i'm going to keep pushing it but that's that's what i have to say thanks anybody else erin i just want to chastise you for talking too much tonight i don't have anything to say so c manager no comments mayor council eugen he's got no comments all right no comments mayor yeah i already assumed buddy get off the screen although that thing with uh mayor tombs that was freaky when he just well he was supposed to he just started giggling he was supposed to actually just start naturally saying all right let's move on to item f of the consent agenda but he just started that was a crazy flashback he would just start giggling like you move balls i was like get going denise say something but anyway welcome you had another hand race or so oh who me oh councilmember beck i move to adjourn oh i'll second that all in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed all right motion carries unanimously see you next time see you tomorrow harrell 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UCrM4z9DzdvD3bnA5E7tDtKQ	Berlin Selectboard - October 2, 2023 [BNS]		null	2023-10-04T21:28:23	2024-02-05T06:08:57	3,649	pCK9GIsdCxY	Good evening everyone, welcome to the regular schedule select board meeting for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. I'm Brad Town, with us also are to my left, Flo Smith and Joe Stahl, to my right, Tour Nelson, our town, select board member and the minister here. Additions of changes to the agenda tour. Public comment? So, I have some concerns with road conditions, both faith roads and dirt roads, from acquaintances as well as, you know, so an acquaintance hit the whole on the backside, well, on Scot Hill, did pretty good damage to her town. So that, actually, Mr. Chair, we're supposed to be in the public hearing at this point. Public hearing for water systems. Oh, my mistake. We'll get back to it. Public hearing for the water system ordinance revisions. Dom? So, there's a document in your packet, looking to make, there's two parts to it, but one, substance will change to the water system ordinance. First is to add a definition, under the definition section for fire protection capable capacity, and that is the ability of a public water system mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. And then in the ordinance itself, adding a section, section 20, adding a section of fire protection, basically says all new houses, commercial industry or other buildings used for human occupancy, business employment, et cetera. Or any major site plan or change of user requirements requested if they're within 200 feet of our public water system, they're expected to connect to the water system. If it's some type of a structure that would not be used for human occupancy, and they're within a thousand feet of the water system, they are expected to procure capability through the allocation of ERUs. Am I about saying that right, Tom? That is correct. And the select board reviewed this about a month ago now and opted to give consideration under this public hearing. And the public workforce board has also uprooted this as far as requests would be brought before the select board. Okay, any comment on this? Will the people who are building be responsible for paying for that hookup? From the main to their house. Yeah, from their house to the main. Yeah. Okay. And could you please state your name for the rest? My name is Jane Fallon. Thank you, Jim. Any other comments? Can I? I didn't know if this was going to be addressed at all. Articles two to three to repair and update the water and sewer today. Article two that's going to be voted on on November 7th. Do you have it? It wasn't under this ordinance, but it could be part of the public comment. Or we do have a bond vote warning amendment scheduled later on that would relate back to those two articles. Okay. Now is the meeting for that going to be November 6th, the day before voting? Correct. Is that the correct time to come? And that's going to be at the school, correct time? Correct. So basically that's the time to come and talk about this? Well, we can't tonight. I'm going to get to that point and agenda more than a happy to hear your thoughts. So yeah, if you don't mind sticking around. Okay. Any other comments on this? Any questions? I think a big comment is something to do with the ERU's Equivalent Residential Units. Thank you. Roughly equal to 250 gallons per day of disposable water. Anything else? Okay. Hearing nothing more, we'll close the public hearing for the water system ordinance revisions. And let's see here. Now we're back to public comment. Sorry about that. No problem. No problem. Okay. You're up. So yeah, so this is just to, you know, bring it to the board's attention. You know, the large, large pothole and acquaintance of mine hits that shows damage. You know, to attire. There has been posts on Front Porch Forum about, like I've seen specifically Muzzy Road. Haven't seen anything other than that. And from my perspective is the closure or the continued closure at this point of Payne Turnpike North regarding, you know, Fire Department emergency response. We have responders that potentially, you know, come that do live on that side of the closure. That, you know, in a volunteer department, as you all know, time is of the essence. And, you know, so in addition to the people that just live on that side for our responders, you know, it could also apply to any of us that, you know, attempt to, or would normally be able to utilize that way to get to the station, number one. Number two, in the case of, you know, an emergency call, which we have had several, you know, because of that closure, you're now forcing emergency vehicles into much heavier traffic roads, which are being forced that way because of that closure. So you're just, it's adding another level of risk and, you know, timely response to get to an emergency on that side. So, you know, I guess I'm just hoping that, you know, it can be revisited or discuss further that, you know, there's at least a temporary fix to that and not, you know, an 18-month delay or whatever like what happened on Fisher Road. That's all. Thank you. Any other public comment? Hearing none. Okay. Do I speak now or later? Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead now. He'll sit around with you all. Okay. Yeah. I saw this thing on articles one through five that's going to be voted on. My question is, it says articles two and three, repair and update water and sewer. Do we have anything that is failing inspection? The problem with the sewer is over by the hospital. A bank has slid and has bellied the lawn. It hasn't ruptured yet, but it has, it's no longer a straight, gradual flow. It's got a sag in it because the dirt's pushed it down and that's where the problems lie on the sewer. The water, I'm not sure, the water I believe was to extend the line. Correct. Making a complete loop in the system. Yeah. So if a rupture occurred in the water, you can shut off on either side and still everyone else will have water just that short distance. Small. Okay. Now is that on the property of the hospital? Do they own the property? On the sewer line? Yeah. Tom? I think it's in the state, right? Yeah. And one of the problems there was as you go down the access where the hospital parking lot is at bank, the water has washed out underneath it and now the bank is sliding. So you have to get, did they take and say that was a stream? Correct. Correct. So now you have water resources has to approve any work or rivers and streams have to approve any work. And the ideal solution would be just put some stone in it, build it back up, fix the line, and hopefully it'll hold. Now if it's on the state right of way, is that something that the state should be taking care of rather than the town? Yeah, it's still town property. It's our line. It's a Tom sewer line. However, the state should be taking care of the bank, I think. All right. And if that fails, that line right there carries all of the sewage from up here. So you'd have a catastrophic failure rolling down the hill towards 302. And it's just be noted that how that's paid for is by the users of the sewer system. It's not the general population of the town. So the bond that would be, because it says the proposed plan involves issuing bonds to improve our water system. Now that wouldn't be the sewer. No. That's the finishing loop. The connected two ends of the pipes together so that if in that loop if something fails, everyone, all the other users will have water still. Whereas if right now, if it fails, you lose everything downstream from where the failure is. Those people go without water. And the loop is by the hospital as well? No, it comes down to Scott Hill Road. Do you know where our wells and the tanks are? Yeah, where exactly are they? They're up off of Scott Hill Road just off of Airport Road, which is called the Dodge Farm. If you're familiar with that area. So the way the system is now, the main comes down Airport Road. You know, past the airport, across Scott, a couple churches out that way, down around, you know, towards Blue Cross Blue Shield and the Berlin Health and Rehab. You know, covers up Granger and Industrial Lane in that area and shoots across Route 62 towards the mall and coals and all that area. With this loop, then when it comes out on Scott Hill Road, instead of going to Airport Road, we'll now extend in the other direction and tie it back around. So like right now, if a leak occurs on Airport Road, we'd have to shut off water to the whole system. To everybody, even though, you know, you're down by Northwood Savings Bank here off of Paintern Pike, even though you're way far away from the break itself, basically just one direction of the water, one poorly located break would take out the whole system. With this loop going down Scott Hill Road, we'd have some redundancy built in. We could cut off that section of the main that broke, but still be able to, you know, power the rest of the system. Now pretty much the people who are on sewer, that would be mostly businesses. This is water talking about. I mean water, excuse me, I meant water. The vast majority are commercial customers. Thank you. I'm sure after you leave, you'll probably think of a couple more, but like I said, we'll be back on November 6th if you stop in or give us a call anytime in between. Okay. And voting for the bond means we're responsible for it, even if the state, we don't get a penny from them. You vote the bond, in other words, if they don't pay anything towards it, we cover the whole cost, right? The bond gives us the authority to obtain the bonds. It's not a requirement that we actually go through with the bonds. It's just giving us the authority. If it looks like, you know, for whatever reason, you know, maybe construction costs go up a lot higher between now and then, or some of the reason that we fit this as a viable product, we're not committed to taking out that loan, you know, issuing those bonds. Okay. But again, on those two particular ones, it's the users of the water system and the sewer system who will pay the debt service on any loan that will be taken out. It's not the general populace in the town, that's correct. Okay, all righty. Okay, thank you. And thanks for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else on the water system ordinance revisions? Is there a vote on that? Yes. Okay, entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Any further discussion on the water system ordinance revisions? Hearing none. Those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. July flood roads update. Darling Hill. So I've included in your packet, the hydrology, hydrology survey from Darling Road. You may remember at our last meeting, we'd authorized the purchase of a, we'd authorized the purchase of a culvert in about the $20,000 range. The AOT hydraulic survey came back and basically said that would not be sufficient. They're actually recommending a concrete box culvert with a span of 14 feet and a height of seven feet. I'll let Tim jump in. Yeah, so they want a concrete box that's 14 feet wide by seven foot high, I guess, for a stream that's two foot wide and three inches deep right now. That goes downstream to theirs at 11 by four. I don't know if there's any room for a rebuttal in that hydraulic study, but it sounds a little much to me. Well, the way this works with FEMA is we don't submit each and every road individually to FEMA. We group them together in groups of 10. What it would mean for this project is we would pull Darling Road out of the group that it's in. We can proceed with sufficient paperwork on those roads, submit it, hope to get paid. What we would do this as a separate project just like Richardson Road is a fully separate project and a zone. We had a site visit with FEMA last week, Tim, or the week before. They had four or five people out looking at Richardson Road to do the same thing, and they might have some other ideas as far as what we needed to fix it. We needed to go with this full-on covert so we could do something between them. Our recommendation is we go ahead with that site visit from FEMA and see what they say. There's no action to take tonight. It's just that we won't be purchasing that covert that we get authorized, and the timeline for Darling final repairs is going to be much longer than we initially expected. It's open now. It's got temporary repairs made. It's not going to be finished for a long time. Is there anything else you want? I'm sorry. I do believe FEMA will pay for the temporary fixes as well as the permanent fixes. Okay. Did you want to mention anything else about the... Richardson Road is going to be the same. I'm rolling back as far as that one by the trailer. They did a hydraulic study on that one. When I talked to Jaren a week ago, it was in process pending 30 days and then a review board, so it'll probably be close to November by the time we hear anything out of that one. But this one had been done for a while but they'd never sent it to us. I don't know why that got caught up. So that one on Junction Road is that north of Bartlett and before the bridge? Okay. Anything else on the updates? Plugging away. Grabbing and grading this week. That one was 12 hours a day. We have 36 loads of gravel today. Barely needed it anywhere. Like you said, we're on Darling Road right now. Finished up tomorrow. And then a few loads of gravel on Neil Road to fix that up and then working our way down Route 12 would be Chase Road by the end of the week, maybe. Muzzy by next week. We're doing what we can to four of us. Thank you. Are you short on trucks? I've got just four of us and I've got three trucks. Could you use four or five trucks? Is that the thing? Would that help the process? Are you sitting and waiting for trucks to return? No, because we're doing other stuff. I'm doing other stuff in between. I'm chasing other spots and polishing them up. But yeah. You know, we can definitely... I mean, I got a few phone calls out just looking for people. Any else on the roads update? If not, Town Highway Garage and Intergate Improvements? So during the site that we saw, it wants to move the two heating units and change out that wall. Did you get a chance to go out and look at cold storage? I did not, no. Okay. So when I went out there, there's almost like two sections of cold storage, right? That's the police department stuff. That's what I thought. A bunch of the police department stuff, which is probably outdated, unusable. I think you're... Tracers. What's that? Tracers? No. All blue lights. That's better. There's like old equipment out there. What do you mean we can't get rid of them? I stepped away from the department, so... Okay. So we ought to be asking about that because in the process of doing this reconstructive remodeling or whatnot, I think the cold storage currently is tires. But we also have a large amount of flammable about petroleum products. Hydraulic oil, whatever, whatever. You know, we could get that out of there as well and have some sort of control of that material. Is that oil new or used? No, it's all new. There's one drum that used oil and it hasn't been picked up yet. But that's taking up a lot of, right now, floor space and it's not really a controlled environment for that material. I think it would be a good place to put it. It would be out there in cold storage. Depending on what time of the year one wants to be, you know, pumping off hydraulic fluid, but... That's the whole point. The command door was just, we could go in and out and get our oil supplies out of there. We should be asking about that police equipment. It kind of reminds me of what Riverton used to look like. We stored a lot of old police equipment. Yeah, there's stacks of metal targets in there, like fires and radios. They throw their summers and winter tires in there. There might have been a few sets of tires that they use to keep some tires in there. Some desks. Yeah. Yeah, because what the original plan was was like, if we ever get rid of that tire pile behind the salt shed was one of the shipping containers around here, we were going to move behind the salt shed and that's where we were going to put most of the tires that are in that cold storage. There's a spare grader tire in there, a spare loader tire. There's some tires in there that we don't even use anymore that have just kind of hung on for the year over the years. And then like all our road closure signs, the bigger wooden ones on the easels are stored in there. So basically what we need to do is go to an inventory and figure out what to get rid of. Wow. Are you just sticking around for a while? Cool. Thank you for everything, Tom. Thank you. Thank you also, Tim, for having us over and giving a good explanation of what your thoughts are and overview. It's helpful. Yeah, just with that mall, it breaks it up a little bit and it's kind of like we lose a lot of space there that we could use. Give us a little more room to work and walk around in order to time and whatnot. So I'm near the loader. There was a large tote. Is that just water for the pressure washer? No. What is that? DF. Okay. Thank you, Tim. We'll get an alt so it's cheaper. We'll get that. Usually about where it's at right now we'll get down about a half a tote and pull over or something. Call them out and deliver it with a looks like an oil truck. Ten wheeler. And your diesel fuel. Where do you get that? The fuel for your equipment. Where do we get it? Do we have storage container out there? Do we pump our own? Yeah, there's a 1,000 gallon tank beside the salt shed. Used to be an underground and they did an above ground. It was the underground was I think it failed or it was failing because it was double walled and it was leaking. The first wall was leaking so it got removed. And their options, well the best option is you leave it above ground then you can it's having a problem or not. And I think there's you don't have to report to this state if it's an above ground. If you're having a blow ground take you have to report to the state and it's got to be dipped and tested monthly I believe. Do you have a containment vessel around the above ground? That one's double walled. So anything else? Anything else? Did we want to proceed on the proposed energy problems that were discussed? Other than moving the furnaces you can do the work yourself? Yeah, I don't think it means that much. I don't think we'll have much into it. Is that a weight bearing wall? No. They're full trusses that span See that used to be when I was little I remember going in there as a kid that back half was never heated until there was barn doors on that center section so they pulled the doors closed and that first half the small half was the only part that was heated. That was the part with the water and the bathroom and the office and whatnot. So that was the only part that was heated. The back half was either outdoor temperature or slightly warmer. So a motion on the improvements? I make the motion to move forward with the town highway garage and energy improvements as expressed to us this evening when we visited the town highway garage. Second. Any other discussion on this? Should we get an estimate on moving those motives? Two motives. Who do we have serviced them now? Gillespie's and Vincent Dr. Bobby Feltsch about doing it also. I can reach out to either one of them and see what they have for price and time. Is that going to be over? Ten grand. Okay. We're off the hook there. Okay. Yup. So do you want prices or do you just want to inquire somebody that's available? I would just get the best deal you can. Yeah. Absolutely. I'll find out who's cheaper and then we'll go with that one. Okay. So all in favor? All in. Those opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Tim. Thank you. International Trade In-Low? So under packet is a quote from Regent's Trucks, Major Co., which used to be Clark's for the 2015 International we're looking to trade in. Their quote to bring it up to they said they were only accepted on trading if it would pass a DOT inspection and they'd be able to support $13.905 to bring it up there. Now I think there's I'm going to say fluff, but I'll call it fluff for lack of a better word in here. I mean they're charging us $640 to do any inspection that they're requiring themselves. There's a lot of diagnostic costs in here. They're charging $346 in tax which probably would not be taxable item. So I mean there's you know come down quite a bit from what they're quoting us here initially but my sense is instead of spending the money to get it into a condition that they're paying their top dollar for the labor and everything to bring it up to you know their so-called standard to accept it as a trade-in just get it back and put it out on the open market for the sale of bids and sell it for up to ourselves. When is the next state auction coming up? May of this year? May of next year? I mean I still want some notice to this and well the thing with this is the state auction is done by auctions international which is out of New York and you can take and advertise on you can put the equipment on there and they'll take and then you can tax the advertising for free. So talking with Craig a little bit Barry Towns has been doing it for a while now probably with sale in their shops instead of trading them in they seem to have a little bit better luck in getting a little bit more you know what I mean trade-in trade-ins what they're going to give you but they're going to mark it up when they turn around to sell it so he seemed to think that most of their trucks also go to the same guy that buys all the state trucks out of Maine running them up in the townships and logging camps and stuff I told Torres if this was the route that we chose I could talk with Barry Towns a little bit see what they do see who they go through or even if we find a direct line to the guy in Maine buys and sells all these trucks may be able to do that also they are going to fix it it's going to have like a 13 or $1,600 bill it means an ammonia sensor in the exhaust system over the death until the truck is in lip mode so when they fix that it will be drivable and we can bring it back here if this is what we choose to do well I mean the sensor that's what it's going to take to get the truck mobile much quicker there so what's the board's preference on the truck bring it back in private sailage what to go up there for begin with that sensor to be traded in to be traded in it died died in the end of spring pull it went into lip mode what's the approximate cost of the ammonia sensor they gave me a quote I think it was $1,600 that was part of the labor the sensor is like $700 for a thing that's no bigger than that cell phone in a box that dpf stuff is expensive so yeah it's had to be that sensor but it went we had it down in chaingrows in berry he was looking it over in down there because his labor rate's a lot cheaper than dealerships so and when the flood happened and it kind of got put on the back burner for a little bit and then now the other truck's ready to go so we we got it towed up there because they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it we got evans and so I had it towed up to allegiance and they put it on their computers and they came up with it and needed an ammonia sensor it's what ended up being the problem in part I'm inclined to have the work done on the ammonia sensor, get the truck back and then open it up for sealed bids and sell it privately I agree goes out as a motion in a second it sounded like a motion in a second to me any other discussion on this all those in favor aye motion carries it's the truck extended warranty with the 2023 this is the white truck that we affectionately call Betty White historically we've always gotten the extended warranty on the trucks we did not on this one when we bid those trucks everybody bid them without how much is the extended warranty about 19,000 it had all the seven years that's for seven years on the drive tree for the entire truck brake cans really pretty much like TJ's truck just went up there for the air cooler the top of the air cooler split that truck is almost three years old they put three new brake cans on it it's all covered under warranty it's very good warranty they cover just about everything on that truck with the warranty so for seven years we pretty much don't have to pay for anything wrong with it and it includes a thousand dollars in towing so if the truck breaks down the warranty covers tow belt we don't pay that and then tow bills are up to eight hundred dollars that's a thousand dollars for each tow every time it gets towed it covers the tow for seven years do you hear a motion on this how much is a tow now currently about eight hundred dollars that's through the road if you use Clark's service it's a thousand where exactly so in years past do you know how much our extended warranty would have cost us when it came through it would have been part of the bid the price that we get the truck that the 2015 has been traded in for it's the same warranty as that truck and it was nineteen thousand dollars and that was for eight years though seven they only bought seven years is there any room for negotiation on the figure in terms of what they're quoting on the truck you're getting rid of one that's just coming out of warranty that has that 2015 only had a five year warranty on it there was there was a few years there that I guess some warranties got they got five years instead of sevens yeah the 2015 and the 2017 both got five year warranties on them not seven like the rest of them we think we did the five because we were trading them in as the war as as a rotation emotion on this what was originally going to happen was that the trade of the 2015 was going to go toward the truck and cover the warranty for the white truck we originally planned that wouldn't be in vans so it wouldn't be any out of the pocket for the warranty on the white one but that didn't happen as planned basically if you take if you buy the warranty when we sell the other truck it'll just take a room got a year got until March this coming spring before we have to make a decision they automatically get a one year warranty we buy them and make a motion to purchase the warranty please your second I'll second it okay any words any further discussion I'm on the fence it's a lot of money it does guarantee you know all of the coverage that you're explaining one bill last year on that six wheeler $15,000 one bill the 2017 has had a motor and a transmission and put into it for free that's almost $70 or $80,000 I mean that 19 when you go and spend you know being a motor is $80 to $70,000 so when you go something happens to one of the motors and it's not covered on a warranty that $19,000 compared to the $70,000 that you've got to put a motor in a truck for when it's covered and that $19,000 is only a one time deal it'll wait until that motor can go twice for somebody like more town town more towns had three I think they might be on to their fourth motor in the same truck in less than two years because the manufacturing problem that's to be decided through that but they've had a truck in the shop the same truck four times for the same problem and it's been a motor job bull three out of four times so far under its fourth I believe does the warranty does that is that a repair warranty or is it a replacement warranty it's a very good question I was wondering about that too get it in writing so that we could look at I have them great I mean I have that all in email but it's from April May I suppose if it's all covered under a warranty the same one we've been getting for years the same warranty wouldn't matter if it's repair or a replacement repair or a replacement repair again the only trouble is you've got a truck then the other discussion on this those in favor aye throw in an aye motion carries right away permit on Scott Hill Road so Mr. Casablan has submitted a request for 1784 Scott Hill Road I'll call the church move this culvert and drive away wants to move it further down and add five to eight feet to it toward the south of Scott Hill he would be the side south of the church so you've gone out and looked at it I looked at it there was nobody around I didn't see them besides the fact if they're going to they'll have to put a new culvert in and then they would size the culvert now it looked to be somewhere around a foot to 15 inch so it would be an 18 inch so the new one would be an 18 so the only thing that's going to be in the town right away is just the work would just be the widening of the the curb cut changing of the culvert do we have a limit on our curb cuts on width we've discussed in this frame and you had made a recommendation that you would like to see 30 feet as a minimum was that correct I think that gives I think 30 feet would give you enough depending on the depth of the ditch the problem is you see a lot of people that just throw a 20 footer in there and then by the time you get some dirt and depending on the depth the deeper goes the narrow the driveway is and again that's another thing there's a lot of irritables there you know what I mean depth of fire cross culverts whatever there's material whether it be leadge or whatever for depth but failure culverts because they're not deep enough they surface, they get hit, plowing or they're not enough cover on them and they get crushed from you know service trucks, oil trucks whatever people back in their driveway but yeah I would agree with Joe as far as I think there was some movement towards the revise of that being a minimum of 30 feet and will the tree need to be removed or does it stop just prior to the tree that's up to them if they're going to wind your driveway I'm assuming they're going to wind that tree up because the trees stick into their driveway as it is now so they're either going to remove the tree or put the trees back out of our right away if not very close to the edge I make the motion to approve the permit from Thomas Cassavan for the work on the east side of Scott Hill Road Second I'm afraid that you want to put a conditional 18 inch culvert Yes, minimum 18 inch culvert, yes That's our standard now I was going to say that's our standard now isn't it? As far as like what Joe was just saying is that is it just as easy just to make an amendment to our policy to state 30 feet as a minimum I was going to say that I think it would have to go through zoning I think we could at least touch the base with them but yeah I'll look into that Wonderful, thank you Any other discussion on this All those in favor? Aye Motion carries One vote That we can strike from the agenda So excuse me I'm under the opinion that with the upcoming options tax if we keep in there the stipulate stipulate that will be used for capital projects that we need to tighten up our capital budgeting process we've got several aspects to it we've got buildings bridges culverts roadways highway trucks and equipment police vehicles and equipment there's many different moving aspects to it I think we need a coordinated process to do it to come up with a plan to tell our story how we're going to spend the money not just how we're going to spend the money this year next year but how we are going to spend it in perpetuity so there is grant funding available through the department of housing and community development to assist municipalities in developing their capital budgeting program the town of Orange which just went through this last year they should be getting their final report any day now if they haven't already I understand that little sex is also looking to this process so as part of the grant application the planning commission and select board need to pass a resolution basically stating that they're going to abide by the provisions of the grant program that accepted the planning commission accepted made that approval last Wednesday, September 27th and I recommend the select board do the same and we'll make that a motion second any further discussion on this hearing none, those in favor aye motion carries approval of licenses, permits, vouchers and applications I make the motion to approve payable warrant 24g07 with checks 23381 to 23437 for payables in the amount of 120,240.30 payroll warrant 24-07 for payroll from September 10th to September 23rd, 2023 paid on September 27th, 2023 in the amount of 65,276.54 and the September general journal entries as well second any further discussion all those in favor aye motion carries approval of minutes of September 11th 2023 I make the motion to approve the minutes of the regular select board meeting on Monday September 11th 2023 as presented second any discussion those in favor aye motion carries approval of minutes of September 18th 2023 I make the motion to also approve the regular select board meeting minutes of Monday September 18th 2022 as presented to us the seat second any other discussion on this all those in favor aye motion carries the round table draw I think before we get too close to the winner we have some more permanent signs for our roads that are going to be closed I'm sure it will not be open for the winner and so there's going to be signs and barricades or whatever you might believe is needed those barricades I would have to go look at the north end of the project but some of that stuff actually belongs to my player the signs are the barricades are gone barricades are gone not on down there Richardson row they're still there I don't know who that came from us but it was they belong to my player the other side is gone somebody either took them I don't know who retreated to themselves it's all the other day I was going to call WorkSafe this week and have some plywood signs made for both sides is that wrong here anything else Joe nope I was just going to verify that the first meeting for the steering committee of fire department is next Monday is that true or has that been said yet that has not been said yet I'm going to see what the schedule for this room is a town committee and I think if an all possible the scheduling of this room would be a great place to hold it being that it will be open to the public and it will be large and in charge and we'll have to warn it and everything so I was just curious if it was going to be as soon as next Monday so it hasn't been said yet has not been said you'll probably find it to be either Wednesday or Thursday but I want to check on the schedule for this room okay thank you what's it the last meeting we represented from Burlington communication here we'll talk about the police department radios there's a lot of dead spots in town um pretty good issue for the police department um they came out and did some um signal testing around the town um and I'm not certain that especially in the mall area, especially inside the mall on the handheld radios it's practically impossible to get out um still looking at some other options but one that came up is the possibility of getting the lapel microphones which is the speaker mic that hooks on to your shirt lapel um they do make some models of those with an antenna connected to it so as opposed to having the antenna be down by your hip it would be a little bit higher it might be work a little better um there are $369 um so let's get one try it out if it works we could go from there if it doesn't we're scratching out if they're not too we got a better fix as far as either Irish Hill or some other type of system at the state police so that's where we are with that so I was looking at that email and the project has been pushed to or I should say October 12th that's for the road crew repeater okay that's what that was right has my bearing on the state police sometimes well that means that they still me I think three microphones for portables that never showed up after they left because they didn't have good to know about the age I have received a few concerns sorry in there is a letter concerning Williams Road solar application as well as the annual report from Good Samaritan Shelter if you're interested in that kind of dog bite notice for our chair okay yeah just want to take and express the people that the road crew are working along and they have a master plan I'm sure and that they will take and they will fix as soon as possible other than that in the executive session entertain the motion to adjourn I make the motion to adjourn tonight's regularly scheduled slack board meeting a second all those in favor aye we are adjourned	{ "url": 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UCj82aYK2B3lTdfm2awMHPjw	Henle4Strings - Henschel Quartett	The Munich based Henschel Quartett highly appreciates Henle Urtext scores - both, in the printed AND digital version - for the page-turning solutions, the highest musicological standard behind the editions, the readability and the quality of the paper. We are very grateful for the close friendship with those excellent and renowned musicians! * More information on string quartet literature at Henle Publishers: https://www.henle.de/en/service/news/henle4strings/ * More information on the Henschel Quartett: http://www.henschel-quartett.de/ _____________________________ Learn more about ... ... Printed Urtext editions: https://www.henle.com. ... Henle Library app, please visit https://www.henle-library.com ... Henle Masterclass: https://www.henle-masterclass.com	[ "Urtext" ]	2022-06-08T12:00:11	2024-04-23T13:33:12	149	PCJ5nmX-Mhw	Mir gefällt es außergewöhnlich gut, wie Hände die Blätterparkheit der Noten gelöst hat. Den ersten Satz hier gedruckt, bis hierher, den zweiten Satz noch hier. Und dann den dritten Satz auf den nächsten drei Seiten. Man braucht keine Kopien mehr. Wir finden es einfach wunderbar, dass es nach wie vor ein Verlag gibt, der so viel Herzblut in die Herausgabe dieser großartigen Musik hineinlegt und die höchsten wissenschaftlichen Standards anlegt, an diese vielen Fragen, die sich ja doch aus den Quellen ergeben. Und wenn man möchte, dann hat man eben den Zugang in den Anhängen und kann dort in die Tiefe gehen. Und dass da keine Mittel gescheut werden seitens des Verlags ist einfach ganz wunderbar für die tägliche Arbeit. Mit der Hände ist da immer auf der Becherungseite. Wir haben gerade am Anfang den Saft einer was hier zum Schluss, 219. Oder wir müssen mal schnell den zweiten Satz. Ja, und wenn ich mir kurz was notieren will und mir reicht der Platz nicht, dann ist das Hochzug auseinandergezogen. Wenn man hier zum Beispiel mal was farbig machen möchte, wir sagen Rot, weil ich es vielleicht jedes Mal überlese, dann nehme ich hier Rot, Piano und schieb mir das einfach hier nochmal in Rot daneben. Ich schätze die sehr gute Lesbarkeit bei Hände. Super Notenbild, sehr klar. Und ein Top-Papier-Qualität, die selbst in Konzertlicht nicht reflektiert. Ich freue mich in jedem Konzert drüber.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCJ5nmX-Mhw", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCSl12nawH2_F1N49QcawaZw	SVP David Kevin Willis 062823	For more information on this or any Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) in Denver, please contact the Denver Police Department Sex Offender Registration/Compliance Unit at 720-913-6511, or by email at Sex_Offender_Registration@denvergov.org.	null	2023-06-28T19:04:43	2024-04-23T00:57:44	511	pCbnkoU3yRU	Attention, Northeast Park Hill residents. This is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi, I'm Technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration, monitoring, and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and county of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994, we had the Jacob Wetterling Act, which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Megan's law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations. In the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado, the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators, by definition, pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections, the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process, which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior, which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime, but be apt to commit another. Many sex offenders have no criminal history at all prior to their arrest. There is no typical sex offender, but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative, and secretive. 80 to 93 percent of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive. They are usually carefully planned, and most sex offenders are male. The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen. Any citizen who uses sex offender information to harass, threaten, or intimidate an offender will be subject to criminal prosecution. There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65 percent of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or Community Corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense, but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk. A sexually violent predator must register with the Denver Police Department sex offender registration unit every three months for the rest of their life. The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at 720-913-6756. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police. Remember, sexually violent predators do not represent all dangerous sex offenders. The community notification process and sex offender registration are not a complete deterrent to sexual assault. Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,390 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 2, there are 378. Precinct 221 has 125 registered sex offenders. Of those, 99 have felony convictions and 26 have misdemeanor convictions. David Kevin Willis is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 47 years old and was born on July 25th, 1975. He's a white male 5 feet 10 inches tall, 200 pounds with a bald head and hazel eyes. He's currently living at 5111 East 34th Avenue in the Northeast Park Hill neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Steadman Elementary at 2940 Dexter Street, McAuliffe International School at 2540 Holly Street, Hallett Academy at 2950 Jasmine Street, Smith Elementary at 3590 Jasmine Street. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Colorado Boulevard Park, City of Nairobi Park, Skyland Park, City of Aksum Park, Ferguson Park, City Park Municipal Golf Course, Boyd Park, Fairfax Park. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include Hiawatha Davis Junior Rec Center at 3334 Holly Street. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 34 35th Avenue and Elm Street 35th Avenue and Forest Street 35th Avenue and Glencoe Street 35th Avenue and Dahlia Street 34th Avenue and Forest Street Dahlia Street and Bruce Randolph Avenue Route 43 Martin Luther King Boulevard and Elm Street Martin Luther King Boulevard and Fairfax Street. A brief history of charges against this offender attempted sexual assault on a child sexual assault victim incapable sexual contact no consent assault to drugging victim sexual contact incapable force threats. He's currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on April 24 2023 to 5111 East 34th Avenue in the Northeast Park Hill neighborhood of Denver. Past charges against this offender include sexual assault on a child, internet luring of a child, internet exploitation of a child, attempted sexual assault on a child sexual assault victim incapable sexual assault victim helpless sexual contact no consent assault to drugging victim sexual contact incapable force threats parole violation. David Kevin Willis has been determined a sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria criteria one age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 41 at the time of the offense criteria two. The crime must have been committed honor after July 1 1997 and convicted honor after July 1 1999. Crimes include sexual assault felony unlawful sexual contact sexual assault on a child sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. The offender was convicted on October 25 2017 for sexual assault victim incapable sexual contact no consent assault to drugging victim and sexual contact incapable force threats criteria three. The relationship to the victim was one of the following victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The female victim was not known to the offender criteria four positive results or the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality a level of denial regarding the offense treatment appropriateness and motivation presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Denver District courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbnkoU3yRU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCCPX4RfQsBcpKHk71ZM7m2Q	Tahayyülden İnşaya, Bir Araç ve Sonuç Olarak Teknoloji - 1. Oturum \| Studio-X Istanbul	Meraklısına Tasarım Tarihimiz: Kütüphane Buluşmaları - 3 TAHAYYÜLDEN İNŞAYA, BİR ARAÇ ve SONUÇ OLARAK TEKNOLOJİ “Teknik güçlüklere aldırmaksızın fantezi içinde inşa edin. Daima insanoğlunun düzenleme gücüne ayak uyduran tekniğe kıyasla fantezi çok daha önemlidir.” — Walter Gropius* Batı toplumları için 19. yüzyıldan sonra ortaya çıkan teknolojik ilerleme, üretim biçimlerini kökten değiştiren ve böylelikle ürünleri ve ürünleri kullanan toplumların günlük yaşam ritüellerini de dönüştüren heyecen verici bir araç olarak modernitenin en güçlü ajanlarından biridir. Fakat aynı zamanda teknoloji, insanın şekillendirdiği toplumun inşa ettiği gelecek umutlarını ve bugünü aynı anda içinde barındıran bir fantezi, bir tahayyüldür. Tam da bu nedenlerle tasarım için teknoloji, tahayyülden inşaya hem bir araç hem bir süreç hem de bir sonuç olarak modern dönemleri anlamak için hayati önem taşıyan bir etkendir. Üstelik sadece endüstri devrimine doğrudan katılıp teknolojiyi üretenler değil, ithal ederek adapte eden öteki coğrafyalarda da öyle. Fakat süreç olarak bambaşka bir deneyim yaşayan bu öteki coğrafyalar çağın bu karşı konulamaz akışına tasarım yoluyla nasıl adapte oluyorlar? Bilinmeyen ama ulaşılmak istenen bayındır gelecek hayali içinde mistik bir güç kazanan teknoloji öğesi toplumda yeniden nasıl inşa ediliyor? Teknolojinin reel olarak var olmadığı geç Osmanlı – erken Cumhuriyet coğrafyası gibi yerlerde fantezi tekniğin boşluğunu doldurabilmiş miydi? Peki herşeyin bir anda değiştiği dönemlerde bir tahayyül aracı olarak teknoloji ne idi? Toplantıda; tüm bu soruları akılda tutarak, modernite projesinin mekanı da değiştirmeye başladığı 1910 öncesi dönemde Türkiye’deki teknoloji, tektonik ve mimari tahayyül arasındaki ilişkileri sosyo-ekonomik etkenlerle bir arada tartışmaya açmak amaçlandı. Böyle bir tartışmanın aynı zamanda erken Cumhuriyet döneminin ikircikli görünen mimarlık ve imar politikalarının anlaşılması ve bu politikaların gerçekleştirilmesinde rol alan iki temel yapıcı meslek olan mimarlık ve mühendisliğin Cumhuriyet döneminde ortaya koyduğu mesleki ideolojilerdeki farklılaşmayı anlamakta yeni bakış açıları sunması umulmaktadır. Toplantının yürütücüsü olan ve doktora çalışmasında 1850-1960 yılları arasında karayolu köprüleri örneği üzerinden Türkiye’deki teknoloji, mühendislik ve modernleşmeyi inceleyen Hilal Tuğba Örmecioğlu, Türkiye’de modernite projesinin başlangıç zamanlarının popüler hedefleri olarak ortaya konan “muasır medeniyet” ve “bayındır ülke” kavramları üzerinden teknoloji ve tahayyül konusunda giriş sunumunu yaptı. II. Abdülhamid dönemi Osmanlı-Türk edebiyatında teknolojik ütopyalar konusu üzerine çalışmalar yapan Ceren Katipoğlu sunumunu, teknolojik ütopyaların, romanlarda “fenni” olarak nitelendirilen modern yapılı çevre tahayyülleri ile ilişkisi üzerine yaptı. Malzeme ve yapım sistemlerinde kullanılmaya başlanan yeniliklerin mimari tektoniğin ve/veya üretim sürecinin tahayyülüne etkisini Mete Tapan, Osmanlı’nın periferdeki politik konumu ve prefabrikasyon üretim yöntemleri bağlamında ve Bulgar Kilisesi özelinde ele aldı. Doktora tezini İstanbul’daki erken betonarme yapılar konusunda yapan Türkan Uzun ise sunumunu betonarmenin erken örneklerinin değişim ve modernleşme süreci içindeki Osmanlı’da tahayyül üzerine etkisi, estetik algıda ve mekan algısında değişim ve tektoniğin evrimi üzerine yaptı. * Kaynak: Bülent Özer, Kültür, Sanat, Mimarlık, YEM Yayın, 2000. s.400. --- 3. İstanbul Tasarım Bienali çerçevesinde Studio-X Istanbul liderliğinde başlayan “Türkiye Tasarım Kronolojisi \| Deneme” adlı projenin bir uzantısı niteliğindeki bu buluşma dizisiyle, tasarım tarihimizin izini sürmeye devam ediyoruz. Studio-X Istanbul’un kütüphanesi X-Reads, bünyesine dahil ettiği tasarımın farklı alanlarına dair yayınlarla yavaş yavaş büyürken, 2017 senesinin Mart ayından başlayarak İstanbul Tasarım Bienali işbirliği ve ERSA desteğiyle bir dizi toplantıya ev sahipliği yaptı. Pelin Derviş tarafından koordine edilen bu toplantıların temel amacı tasarım geçmişimizle ilgili merak ettiğimiz konulara dair kayıtlar düşmek. Kimi zaman bir tez çalışması, kimi zaman bir kitap veya dergi gibi basılı kaynaklar toplantıların merkezinde yer alırken, aklımızda çoğu zaman henüz yazılmamış kitaplar, yapılmamış yayınlar; kısacası araştırılmamış konular oldu. Tasarım tarihimizin aktörleriyle bir araya geleceğimiz bu toplantılarda odaklanacağımız zaman aralığı ise son 200 yılı içeren “Türkiye Tasarım Kronolojisi \| Deneme” projesine göre daraldı; çoğunlukla 1950’lerden başlayarak günümüze geldik. Verimli tartışmalara ve yeni araştırmalara vesile olmasını dilediğimiz toplantılarda buluşmak üzere. “Türkiye Tasarım Kronolojisi \| Deneme” metinleri için: http://bizinsanmiyiz.iksv.org/turkiye-tasarim-kronolojisi-deneme/	[ "Studio-X Istanbul", "Hilal Tuğba Örmecioğlu", "X-Reads", "Pelin Derviş", "IKSV", "ERSA", "Türkiye Tasarım Kronolojisi \| Deneme", "Tahayyülden İnşaya Bir Araç Ve Sonuç Olarak Teknoloji" ]	2017-07-07T08:00:04	2024-02-05T07:09:23	4,206	pCXkzroSlr0	Hoş geldiniz, günaydın. Böyle şey mikrofona gerek yokmuş kadar ufak tatlı bir grubuz ama eee kayıt aldığımız için mikrofonda konuşuyorum ben de. Eee şey eee bu bizim geçen seneye tasarım dineli eee içerisinde başlattığımız bir serinin devamı aslında eee Türkiye'de tasarım tarihinin ekonomisi oluşturabilir mi? Sorusuyla yola çıktığımız ve bu sorunun aslında cevabına ulaşabilmek için de birçok eee kişiye temas etmemiz gerektiğini fark ettiğimiz eee bir yolculuk Pelin Derviş Hanım'la beraber yapıyoruz. IKS ve hala eee desteğin de bizimle beraber. Eee ve eee bu serinin de son toplantısı tüphane buluşmalarının son toplantısı bugün. Yazın da ilk günü. Eee hoş geldiniz. Eee Tuğba'cım bizi beraber okuduk aslında iti de eee o yüzden Tuğba'yı böyle bir on yedi sene sonra tekrar görmüş olmak ayrıca harika. Hiç değişmemişiz. Sana bakıyorum. Teşekkür ederim. Teşekkür ederim. Eee herkese geldiği için öncelikle teşekkür etmek istiyorum. Eee biz bugün buraya eee böyle Peynir Hanım'la başka bir yolculuğa başlayıp oradan bu tarafa doğru gelerek o tanışmadan sonra geldik. Eee benim için de böyle hani uzun zamandır kendim çok yalnız hissettiğim bir alanda başkalarının de ilgi duyduğunu görmek adına çok güzel oldu. Eee ben eee Tuğba Armeceoğlu Akdeniz Üniversitesi'nde yardımcada oçent olarak çalışıyorum. Eee doktora çalışmam sırasında eee teknolojiyle ilgili çalışmıştım. Modernity Mühendislik Ideolojisi ve teknoloji ilişkisini kariolu köprülerinin yapımı sürekli üzerinden geç Osmanlı eee ve eee bin dokuz yüz ellilere kadar eee Cumhuriyet Dönemi'deki ilerlemesi üzerinden bir tartışma üzerine araştırma yapmıştım. Ve bunu yaparken de eee konunun haricinde en çok fark ettiğim şey bu alanda hiçbir şeyin yapılmamış oluyordu. Öyle gayet tek başına ne bulursanız ilk defa bulunan arşivlerde daha tasnif edilmemiş belgeleri bulduğunuzu garip bir süreçti. Eee aradan geçen işte bir beş altı yıl oldu bittiği süredir. Eee yavaş yavaş sayınızın arttığını görmek başkalarının da aynı zorlukları geçmek için mücadele ettiğini görüp bu uralara geldiğini görmek çok hoş. O yüzden bugünkü toplantı aslında bizim için birbirimizi tanımak adına da güzel bir fırsat teşekkür ediyoruz ben size de hiçse. Şimdi bugün ne yapacağız? Bugün aslında biz eee teknoloji konuşacağız. Teknoloji hani eee çok böyle eee herkesin çok bildiğini düşündüğü bir kavram modern teyle ilgili her zaman konuşulur. Işte malzeme değişti. Şu oldu. Bu oldu. Evet. Çok etkili. Evet. Ama orada kalan çok da derinliğin aslında tartışmaya kafa yormadığımız bir kavram. Ve belki de tartışmayı verinleştirsek modern teyle ilgili aldığımızı da eee daha zenginleştirebileceğini düşündüğümüz ve o yüzden de bugün burada biraz daha tartışalım diye masaya getirdiğiniz bir şey. Eee şimdi teknolojiyi biz bugün nasıl tartışacağız? Eee aslında eee şöyle yapacağız. Ben hemen başlayayım. Şu cümlenin doğruluğu, yanlışlığı, eksikliği, fazlalığı üzerinden benim başlangıç nokta. Bu Gropius'un bin dokuz yüz on dokuzda manifestolarından birinde söz ettiği bir cümle. Eee ve bu cümle de diyor ki teknik güçlükleri aldırmaksızın fantazi için de inşa edin. Daha ima insan olunun düzenlemek yüzüne ayak uyduran tekniye kıyasla fantazi çok daha önemlidir. Bu bizim eee öğrencilik yıllarımızda da çok inandığımız hani biz tasarlayalım arkasından teknoloji gelir nasıl olsa dediğimiz ve hayal gücümüzün teknolojiyle sınırlanamayacak kadar çok büyük bir şey olduğunu düşündüğümüz bir eee temel kabul modernizminde bunu kabul ettiğini de görünce ay ve tep birlikte aynı şeyi düşünmüşüz bakın Gropius'la birlikte bir bak bunu gördüğüne düşündüm şey buydu. Fakat bir süre sonra bunun ne kadar doğru olduğu ile ilgili şüphelerim oluşmaya başladı. Evet bu doğrunun bir yarısı. Ama ikinci yarısına bakmak lazım. Şimdi bu da çok bildik şeyler. Ben size çok bildik şeyleri gösterip eee bunlara bakıp da aslında çok da belki de üzerine düşünmediğimiz bazı soruları sormaya çalışacağım. Eee bu Neaton anıtı Neaton Senatabı eee bu Lenin yaptığı bir yapı eee bin sekiz yüz dört yılında önerilmiş bir proje. Eee sadece projede kalmış yapılma imkanı olmamıştım. Çok büyük bir eee küre kubbeden bahsediyoruz. Eee ve bunun aslında yılba olarak yapılmasından bahsediyoruz. Yani söz konusu diye gerçekte yapılabilmesi. Ama öneriye dikkat edelim. Öneriye tam bir eee küre tam bir plan daire kesikte de bir küre görüyoruz işte hepsi böyle bir net geometre. Aynı şekilde eee Neaton'un bir başka projesi aynı eee biçim sergili burada da görüyoruz. Bu da işte bin yedi yüz yetmiş üç. Bunlar utopizmin örnepleri olarak görülüyor. Yani gelecekçilikle ilgili bir ilk adım aslında bu dönemde. Olmayan bir zamanı hayal ederken bugünün dışında bir şeyler hayal ederken böyle bir biçim diliyle bize karşılık geliyor. Yani ötgetiom estresinden ötget uzayından saf geometrilerle karşılığı da çıkıyorlar. Fakat bir bakıyorsunuz yüz yıl sonra bitirizm diye bir başka başlığa geliyoruz. Utopizmin daha böyle nereye hedeflediği daha net olan bir versiyonu gibi bakıyorum ben eee bu döneme. Bu dönemde de bir gelecek utopiası var aslında elimizde. Ama tamamen başka bir biçim estetik kanona geçiyorlar. Işte mesela eee demin ki çok bilinen bir örnek de. Ama bunlar biraz daha az bilinen örnekler işte Tulio Krali'nin filan çizimleri. Eee baktığımız zaman böyle yükseltilmiş yollar. Kübik biçimler. Çok katlı yapılar. Bunların hiçbiri bin dokuz yüz on dörtte bu şekilde yoktu. Ama bu şekilde var olan başka bir şeyler bunu hayal etmeyi tetikliyor. Şimdi ayalarında yüz yıl geçen bu insanlar niye farklı türde iki hayal dünyası yaratıyor? Yani biçim dillerini estetik eee eee nedeni estetik tahayyüllerini değiştiren altlık neydi? Eee durur bakınca aslında çok da zor değil cevap ortada da eşyal tek şey eee endüstri devrimi ve bu endüstri devrimiyle birlikte teknolojinin hayata girişi ve bu hayatın teknolojiyle birlikte dönüşmesi hali. Çünkü buna geldiğimizde bir tekrar Gropius'un cümlesine gelince biz hayal edelim teknoloji arkasından gelir. Bir başka açıdan bakıyoruz. Teknoloji geliyor. Bizim hayalimizle değişiyor aslında. Bu noktada eee şunu düşünmek gerekiyor belki de bizim eee tahayyülümüzün eee bu kadar etkili olan bir altlığı olarak teknoloji nedir? Ne yapar? Ve insanların eee bugünle değiştirdiği gibi yarınıyla ilgili düşüncelerine değiştiren bir kuvvetli bir ajan modern taycanı olarak eee nasıl farklı toplumlarda. Şimdi bu gördüğümüz batı toplumunun cevabı. Teknoloji'nin dönüşümüyle ilgili batı toplumu diyor ki işte biz böyle bir estetik algı değişimi yapıyoruz. Bizim günlük yaşamımızdaki değişimlere karşı yapılış, çevre değişimlerimiz vesaire var. Aynı zamanda tahayyül olarak da böyle bir değişimimiz var. Fakat biz neden bunu bizim toplumumuzda görmüyoruz? Kötürizm bizde var mı? Bir yere kadar eee Ceren Hanım'ı bahsedecek işte bazı eee tahayyüllerden eee bahsedecek. Eee dün akşamında konuştuğumuzda da tarçık mizahı. Itopya bizde var mı? Peki bu teknoloji dünyanın her yerine aynı anda global bir şekilde aslında yayıldığı bir dönem yani eee on dokuzuncu ve yirmi düz yüz yılın en önemli özelliği. Aslında dünya alaşmam. Eee bize de bir şekilde biz bunu üretsek de üretmesek de kapımıza dayanan bir sürek. Biz bunu nasıl karşılıyoruz? Bugün ki soru aslında bu. Yani bugün bu konu buradaki eee gelen bütün konuşmacılarımızla tartışmaya çalıştığımız şey teknolojin üretildiği geografyaların çeperinde duran bir eee geografyada bizim bu dönüşüme, teknolojik dönüşüme tepkimiz nedir? Biz bunu nasıl kullandık? Tamam belki biz üretmedik. Ama o zaman nasıl adapte ettik? Biz bunu bizim ya benim bugün kendi adına bu bu çerçevi kurarken sizinle konuşmaya çalışacağım şey ben genel bir eee çerçevi oluşturmak için. Biz bunu eee neden böyle yaptık? Neden biz de aynı sonucu ulaştırmıyor? Biz bunu nasıl adapte ettik? Bizdeki süreci eee genel kavramlar üzerinden konuşmaya çalışacağım. Nasıl adapte ettikle ilgili soruyu da tahayyürde inşaada eee ithal ettiklerimiz kendi eee yaptıklı yapmaya çalıştıklarımız üzerinden konuşmacılarımız örneklerle aslında anlatacaklar. Eee neden konusuna gelince eee ben burada size eee aslında bizim eee modernleşmiş sürecimizi Geç Osmanlı Merken Cumhuriyeti çok etkilediğini düşündüm. Iki temel kavramdından bahsedeceğim. Biri muhasır medeniyet öbürü bayındır ülke kavramları. Çünkü bu tartışmanın içinde muhasır medeniyet kavramı eee çok eee çarpıcı bir şekilde kendini sürekli tekrar ediyor Geç Osmanlı'da başlıyor. İlgit bir yanı da var. Eee şimdi söyleyeceğim şeyi mesela duydum. Var ilk öğrendim de çok şaşırmıştım. Eee medeniyet biliyorsunuz. İngilizce'de Sevedistan geliyor ve kentli anlamına, kentleşme anlamına geliyor. Bizde de çok benziyor. Medeniyet kelimesi. Eee Mudun kökünden geliyor. Mesela Medine şehir anlamına gelen bir sözlük. Eee işte Madeni, Medeni bu kelimeler şehirli anlamına geliyor. Temelden sözlüğü de aynı kökenden sürüyor. Eee ve eee medeni hayatta yaşamak, kentte yaşamak anlamına geliyor. Yani bizim istediğimiz şey temelde ne ulaşmak aslında modern teprojelimizin altlığı. Fakat ilginç olan şey şu. Medeniye sözcüğü Arapça'da yok. Bu kökken Arapça'dan sürüyor ama medeniye sözcüğünü biz kendimiz Osmanlıca da türetiyoruz. Ve bunu eee gerçekten de on dokuzuncu yözyılda türetiyoruz. Ya o tartışmanın içinde türeyen bir şey. Yani bizim ulaşmaya çalıştığımız bir hedef olarak ortaya çıkartılırken de türettiğimiz bir kelime. Bu tartışma tabii çok eee Osmanlı'nın Geç Osmanlı döneminde eee bugünkü bir algılamadığımız eee başka teoriler üzerinden eee o günün binik çerçevesi üzerinden tartışılan bir şey. Çünkü yani gerçekten çok sıkıntılı bir zaman eee parçalara bölünme durumu var, ekonomik problemler var. O yüzden hani tarih kavramın kendi kendine kadar tartışılmasının mümkün değil işin için eminliyeçilik işte eee paneslerimizin bir sürü şeyin aynı anda girdiği bir tartışma. Ama bu tartışmanın ortasında bir yerde teknoloji duruyor aslında. Eee dönemin önemli ideologlarından biri Ziya Gökhal. Ziya Gökhal bu konudaki önemli yanı şu. Eee Gökhal medeniyeti eee yani aslında eee medeniyet kavramını nasıl alacağımızla ilgili bir tartışmaya giriyor. Batıllaşma tartışmalarının hani ilk haliyerinden bahsediyoruz. Artık o dönemde batıllaşma gibi tam kelime olarak ortaya çıkmıyor sanırım. Ama eee yapmaya çalıştığı şey şu biz bu teknolojiyi alırken, adapte ederken, bu medeniyet adapte ederken bir ayrıma gidelim. Ve diyor ki muhasırlaşmak aslında bizim Avrupa'lılar gibi otomobiller, tayyareler, zırhlı gemiler yapıp kullanabilmemiz demek diyor. Çünkü yaptığı şey şu aslında batı toplumundan almaya çalıştığımız bu şeyi medeniyeti ikiye ayırıyor. Biri ürünleri, fiziksel ürünleri, birisi sosyal ürünleri. Sosyal ürünleri kültür diyor, harçsızını veriyor. Eee fiziksel ürünleri teknoloji diyor. Ve harçsızdan şiddetle kaçınarak teknolojiyi almak gerektiğini söylüyor. Bu aslında enteresan bir şey yani batı toplumunun üretiği kültürle karşı ciddi bir blokaş koyuyorsunuz. Ama ürünlerini almak için ciddi bir çaba gösteriyorsunuz ve onu yeniden üretmeniz gerektiğini düşünüyorsunuz. Yani sadece alıp getirmek değil, adapte etmek, yeniden üretmek. Yani oldukça modern bir şey, sürece nasıl uyarlanacağını, kendine nasıl kişiselleştireceğini, toplumanısı kişileştireceğini bularak çözme çalışası var. Kendine görevin yerleri var, işte enstileşmek lazım, şu lazım, bu lazım. Onlara girmeyeceğim. Ama Geç Osmanlı'da durum böyle bir seçmek gibi yaklaşım var medeniyet kavramına. Ve seçmecilikte seçilen kısım teknoloji. Bir sonraki aşamada ise buraya geçmeden Cumhuriyet dönemine geldiğinizde biz hepimizin bildiği şey medeniyeti bir bütün olarak almak lazım. Çünkü böyle seçerek aldığımızda biz bunu tam olarak alamıyoruz. Onu üreten ortaya koymadığımız ki onu da almadığımız için olmuyor. O yüzden kültürüyle birlikte almamız gerektiği için teknolojiye almak aslında batıllaşma içinde büyük bir çerçeveyle birlikte gelen bir şey. Peki bu noktadan sonra ikinci kavram olarak ne geliyor? Bu Geç Osmanlı'da başlayan gene Erken Cumhuriyete çok görülen bayındır ülke kavramı. Ben biraz kelimeleri seviyorum ki o kendim gitmeyi, yine aynı şeyi yapacağım. Şimdi bu Geç Osmanlı'da aynı medeniyet gibi ilk defa ortaya çıkan şeylerden biri de şu. Tanzimat ve şutet vesaireyle birlikte Osmanlı da normalde biliyorsunuz bir sultan var ve teba var. Teba sultan için çalışır aslında. Yani sultan teba için çalışmaz normalde. O yüzden devletin halka hizmet yaklaşımı da bizim bildiğimiz bugünkü halka hizmet yaklaşımı gibi değildir. Yani aslında halk devlet için var diye bir durum buluşur. Ama biz bunu 19. yüzyılda değiştiğini görüyoruz. Çünkü nafya vekerleti diye bir şey kuruyor. Nafya kelime olarak nekten geliyor, fayda kökünden faydalı bir şey yapma. Sultan halkı için faydalı bir şey yapmak için bir bakanlık kuruyor. Yaptığı bu faydalı şey de İmar diyor. İmar da Umut kökünden geliyor. Toprağa hayat vermek, topluma hayat vermek. Çünkü gerçekten hayatlısız kalmaya başlamışlar. Bir çöküş var ve bunu görüyorlar. Yeniden canlandırmak diyelim. Canlandırma adına yapılan fahadiyetleri de İmar diyoruz. İşte bunu yapmak için bir bakanlık kuruyoruz ve bunun nafya vekerleti diyoruz. Bu Osmanlı'daki durum. Aynı vekalet Cumhuriyete geçtiğinde isminin değiştiğini görüyoruz. Bu da çok ilginç. Bay Köken'in zenginlik refah yani. Bakanlığın amacı artık fayda değil. Refaha dönüşüyor. Ama ikisinde ortak bir noktası var. İmar. Peri ki bakanlıkta İmar yapmaya çalışıyor. Çok resimsiz olmasın diye ben biraz İmar kılmaya çalışarak. Bu orijinal bir şey benim için. Bu Hasan Fehmi Pasha tarafından hazırlanan Osmanlı'daki İt İmar planı 1880 Şimdi görüyorsunuz Anadolu üzerinde Anadolu merkezinde bir İmar planı görüyorsunuz işte yollar bölgeler bunları birbirine bağlı ve ulaşım hattı kurma. Bunun dışında ciddi bir raporu var. Su yolları yapma filan. Hatta raporun içinde düşükleri önleme gibi kısımlar bile var. İmar kavramı biraz karışık davetleşmemiş. Ama sonuçta böyle bir bütüncül bir yaklaşım var. Ve biz buna bu kalkıma planları Cumhuriyete bildiğiniz şeyler. Devlet halk için bir şey yapacak ve bunu planlayarak neler yapabiliriz diye oturuyor bir yapka planı nerede ne var onları oluşturuyor mevcut durumu tespit ediyor. 600 yıllık İmparatorluğun aslında çok da uygulama dediği yöntem ve bu yöntemlerin eksi batıdan aslında geliyor. Yani teknolojiyle birlikte yavaş yavaş bazı yöntemleri de getirdiklerini görüyoruz. İki tane önemli kelime medeniyet ve bayındırlık. İkisi de çok tekrar edilen Atatürk'ün konuşmalarında sık sık gördüğünüz şeyler. Aynı geç Osmanlı'daki gibi. Çünkü bu çerçevenin aslında iki ana amacı. Biri fiziksel olarak yeri ihya etmek. Öbürü de medeniyeti getirerek toplumu sosya kültüre olarak yükseltmek. Bu noktada tabii kavramının bizi ilgilendiren kısmı İmar'ı tabi ki doktorlar yapmıyor. Yapıcı meslekler olarak hişat mühendisleri ve mimarlar dönemde mühendis mimarlar ortak bir çatı altındalar. İmar'ı sahiplenen grub ve bizi daha önemli kılıyor bu durum. Geç Osmanlı erken cumhuriyeti döneminde modern projesi içinde mimar ve mühendislerin farklı görevler almaya başladı devletle çalışanlar, özellikle çalışanlar mimarlar ve mühendisler resimde ayrımlar oluşuyor. Bunlara girmeyeceğim. O başka bir şey bizim bence meslekler olarak devletle kurduğumuz ilişki üzerinden değişen bir profil. Ama ilk başta aynı noktadan başlamışken farklı bir hikaye mühendis'in görevi süsünü karıştırmak istemiyorum. Ama biz bugün işte bu çerçeveden, bu genel çerçeveden baktığımızda bir durum görüyoruz. Yani Osmanlı'dan, cumhuriyete devam eden bir süreç hafif de işikliklerle birlikte aslında hiçbir şey ne bin dokuz yirmi üçte başlıyor ne Osmanlı ile birlikte bitiyor duruma göre tavra göre yeni şeyler oluyor. Bu bizim bunu nasıl adapte etmeye, neden adapte etmek istediğimiz kendimizle geliştirirken neler yaptığınızda ilgili bir durum. Bu sosya kültürel çerçevesi bir de şey var elimizde fiziksel çerçevesi var. Çünkü fiziksel çerçevesine baktığımızda aslında şöyle bir durum var. İmar dediğimiz şey bizim neresinden bakarsanız bakın gerçek bir şekilde üretmeniz gereken bir şey. Maddi bir altyapısı var. Doğal olarak teknolojik de bir altyapısı var. Yani sahibi teknolojiye tahayül etmeniz yetmiyor. Yapmanız da gerekiyor. Ve bu yapmayla ilgili de fiziksel bir altyapınız gerekiyor. Değil mi ki ne geç Osman'a ne erken cumhuriyet bu konuda aslında yeterli değil. Yani bu da başka bir tartışma konusu. Ona da bugün girmeyeceğiz ama eğitim eğitilmiş kadrolar olarak da çok yeterli değil. Eğitim kurumları açılmış olmakla birlikte büyük coğrafyaya yetecek durumda değiller. Aynı zamanda inşaat içinde gerekli bu yeni özellikle teknolojinin ortaya koydu. Yeni inşaat içimleri ile ilgili bu da fiziksel olarak yok. Beton Arma ile ilgili konuşacak bugün Türkan hocamız mesela. Beton Arma ile ilgili altlık daha iyi fabrikalar bir şeyler var. Ama demir sektörü, demir çelik sektörü biraz daha zayıf durumda ve yani şöyle karşılaştırdı da daha zayıf durumda. Demir çelik sektörü aslında Almanya'da filan Hapsburglar dönemi vs. o dönemde itibaren az bir Almanya o eksende İngiltere'ce de gelişiyor. Zaten İngiltere'de madenlerle birlikte gelişiyor. Avrupa'nın üzerinde çok ilerledi bir şey. O yüzden dökme demir demir çelik endüstrisi ve bunlarla inşaat fikri aslında var. Ve bu inşaatin yapıldığından da gayet haberdar bir Osmanlı var. Yani Osmanlı inteljensiyası şeyden teknolojinin bilgi kısmından uzak değil. Yani bizim mimarlarımız, mühannislerimiz o dönemde okuyorlar. Tamamen bu yeni durumdan haberdarlar fakat ülkenin altyapısındaki vayıflıkların nedeniyle bunu burada yapmak büyük. İşte bu noktada iki şey var. Biri burada üretmek için fiziksel altyapıyı geliştirmek, biri de dışarıdan getirmek. Dışarıdan getirmek, bu yeni malzemelerle birlikte prefabikasyon kısmına giriyor. Onu metavocamızı anlatacağız. Ben burada bir örnek getirdi. Bu çok eski bir köprü bin sekiz yüz yetmiş altı sızan bir köprü. Şimdi İngilizlerin aslında Ege tarafında yaptığı demir yolları var. Ve bu demir yollarının imtiyazını aldıktan sonra inşaatını yaparken tercih ettikleri en önemli yöntemlerden biri prefabikasyon. Çünkü kendileri zaten demiri İngiltere'de ürettikleri için gemilerle getirdikleri zaman daha çabuk oluyor, hat çalışmaya başlıyor, kendini daha kolay amortiydiyor. Bu çok küçük bir açıklıkta da olsa gördüğümüz bir prefabik köprü. Şimdi bu köprünün de üzerinde bir adet madalyon var. Yani çok naif bir şekilde dönemi yansıtan bir şey. İngiltere'de de var çünkü böyle denir köprü üzerinde bu tip şeyler. Kimin ürettiğini ve patent numarasını yazıyor. Yani bu patentli bir şey, prefabik bir şey. Belli bir standart boyutta yapılıyor. Ve onun nasıl inşaatsız natı yapılıyor, montörlerle vs. Bu başka bir hikaye hocalarımı arayacak aslında. Bunu demir yollarını da çokça görüyoruz. Çünkü demir yollar dünyanın her yerine hızlı yayılıyor. Bizim coğrafyalarda da özellikle demir yollarını da görüyoruz. Amerika tarafına gittiğimizde prefabikasyonu orada kolonileşme süreci nedeniyle seyrediyoruz. Prefabik konuk üretiminde bazı bölgelerde görüyoruz. Demiler gördüğümüz yer bulgar kilisesini o yüzden çok ilginç bulurum. Afrika'da Sömürgeleşme misyonerlik faaliyetlerinin bir parçası olarak demir kiliseler. Yeniye inirip Afrika'nın çeşitli bölgelerinde hızla bir misyon oluşturmak için kullanılan bir şey. Ama biz sömürge devleti değiliz. Bizde tamamen farklı bir politik ortamın içinde bulgar kilisesi aynı yöntemle yapılıyor. Tabi bu çok daha sürsü ve gösterişli bir prefabik yapıyor ama bu prefabikasyonun tercih edilmesiyle ilgili bilginç bir örnek hem yapım süreci açısından bizim için ilginç bir deneyin. İlk defa oluyor. Yani yapıda, marih yapıda ilk defa oluyor. Hem de bulgar topluma azınlıklar vs. farklı işler açısından ilginç. O yüzden bugün bunu konuşurken prefabikasyonunu konuşurken bir yanımdan da aklınızda böyle bir şey tutarak dinlerseniz belki farklı sorular tartışabiliriz ama bu da dalama köprüsünden, 1930'lardan ama aslında bu çizdi 1910'dan kalan parçaları gösteriyor. Bu köprü İngilizlerin yaptığı bir şey değil, bu daha enteresan. Bu Mısır Hidibi'nin bir akrabasının büyük bir çiftliği var. Çiftliğinizden muhtemelen bir şehir kadar bir alan. Onun içinde nehir geçiyor ve bir sipariş veriyor. Bu sipariş de Düsseldorf'da bir alman firması da çelik firması da veriliyor. Onlar parçaları gemiyle yolluyorlar. Fakat savaş çıkıyor, sorunlar çıkıyor, Mısır'da başka olaylar oluyor ve terk etmek zorunda kalınca bu parçalar depoda duruyor. Gayet uzun müddet beklemiş 20 yıl kadar. 1930'larda cumhuriyet döneminde bu parçaları alıyorlar. Tek tek çıkartıyorlar, boyutlarını çıkartıyorlar. Ondan sonra dalama köprüsünün yapımı için eksik yeniden tasarlıyorlar, eksik parçaları sipariş verip ontörlerle birleştirerek böyle bir prefabrikasyon yaparak yani prefabrikasyon aslında geç Osmanlı'da başlıyor, merken cumhuriyeti de sıtca kullandığımız bir yöntem. Ta ki savaşla birlikte çinlik bulamaz oluncaya kadar. Bir de Beton Arme beton arme konusunda da aslında hiç gecik meli bir beton arme farkındalığımız yok. Yani henelik teknini kullanıyorlar. Bilmeyenler için bu dönemde beton arme patentli bir ürün, yani bugünkü herhangi bir patentli ürün gibi siz kullanmak istediğinizde bu patentleri satın alıyorsunuz. O yüzden o dönemde birkaç tane patent var. Henelik bunun en yaygınlarından biri çünkü en iyi tüccarlardan biri ve ton armeyi yayabilmek için onunla yapılan bütün yapıları göstermeye çalıştıkları, yayınlamaya çalıştıkları bir de dergileri var. Bugün bizim için çok faydalı olan. O dergi de Osmanlı geografyasından da yapılar var. Ve biz bu sırada anlıyoruz ki aslında bizim top mimarlar arasında da bu patenti bilen, kullanan farklı mimarlarımız var, Gej Osmanlı. Yani dünyada perenin filan kullandığı dönemlerde biz de kullanıyorduk. Farklı şekiller de kullanıyorduk. İşte neden o şekilde kullanmıyorduk? Bu da başka bir tartışma. Bu tam bir beton arme henelik bir patenti değil. Ama bu da inşaat ilgini benim elimdeki tek fotoğrafta. Dergileri her tane binasının tabi kadastro mu oluyor? Tabi kadastro binasının yapımın sırasında volta döşemelerin donatılarının yapılmış hali, 1908'de bunun üzerine beton dökülecek. Yani donatı ve beton aslında beton arme oluşturuluyor. Bir de fabrika durumuna altyapısını hafifçe girmek istiyorum. Biz beton armeyi hem kemal ettimler vedatlar filan kullanıyorlar zaten. Onun dışında yabancı bir azınlık mimar, yani benken mimarlar kullanıyor. Ve belli bir potansiyelimiz var. Yani yapı potansiyeli oluşuyor. Onun için kimento da üretiyoruz. Yani sadece mimariyede değil zaten başka alanlarda da beton kullanmaya başlıyoruz. Özellikle şeyde söyleyemedim, pardon. Şirket Hayriyi'nin kurulumu mesela, beton armeyi şehir içi kullanımda provokiyeden bir şey. Şirket Hayriyi de her şeye gidi görüyorum. Bizim bugün metroya heyecanlandığımız bir şey aslında deniz yoluyla bir ulaşım ve böyle hazır bir ulaşım yöntemi. Ve hatların bağlantı noktalarda hani bu hayteki ulaşım aslında. O yüzden iskele binalarını da o dönemin ilerici bir teknolojisi olarak aslında beton armeyle tasarlıyorlar. Belki de bu yüzden vedat veya filan ile ödük hızlı. Bunun üzerindeki bu potansiyeli arttıkça demirden daha kolay tabii değil mi? Osmanlı'da çıventa fabrikaları kurulmaya başlamıyor. Bu fabrikalar tamamen Osmanlı değil. Bazısı Belçika, bazısı işte Alman ortaklılıklı filan farklı şeyler, Danimarka ortaklılıklı küçük üretim yapan yerler oluşuyor. Bu büyük olan ilk fabrika bir geço. Bundan önce küçük üretim yapan birkaç yer daha olduğunu okudum ama bu gerçekten büyük bir firman. Aslan Osmanlı Anonim Şirketi bunlar Darıca'da büyük bir fabrikası kuruyorlar. Eski Şihim, eski isarda da galiba bir tane daha kuruluyor, eski isarda ve ciddi bir çıventa kapasitesini erişiyorlar, o döneme göre baktığınızda ve bununla bir üretim yapmaya başlıyorlar. Fakat tabii ki bu Osmanlı'nın son döneminde çok tek tek bir şey. Yani ona yetiyor olabilir ama Cumhuriyete geldiğinizde yetmez bir hale geliyor ve Cumhuriyetin hani istediği modern yapılar yapma çabasını hani her zaman eleştirilen bir altlığı oluyor. Çünkü fiziksel olarak bu bizde alt yapısı yokken bunu yapmaya çalışıyoruz diye tartışılan şey işte bahsetmen fiziksel alt yapıdan bir kısmı da bu. Yani elimizde bunu çok da üretecek bir altlık yok. Ama bu da özellikle demokrat parti dönemine doğru hızla geliştirilerek bugünkü coşarar bugünkü betonarmı ve onun üzerinden dolduğumuz yapılı çevrenin altlığını oluşturuyor. İşte bu çerçevede biz bugün tahayirden inşa ya sebep ve sonuç ve araç her türlü şekilde teknolojiyi tartışmaya çalışacak. Ben böyle bir genel bir ortam anlatmaya çalıştım. Önce hocalarımızdan Ceren hanım kendisi Çanka üniversitesinde yardımcı doçan o bize edebiyattaki karşılıklarını abdülhamid dönemi üzerimden bu fantastik projeler fantazi ve bunun edebiyatta da aslında topya diyelimcimiz ama başta ne diyebileceğimi bilmiyorum bakalım ne diyeceklerim hanım. Onun üzerinde aslında sadece böyle bir abdülhamid projelerdeyince çılgın proje olarak kalmıyor o bir gündem yaratıyor ve farklı alanları da etkiliyor bunu konuşuruz. Yani tahayürü nasıl beslediği üzerinden. Bu hocamız bizim nasıl adapte ettiğimiz süreci dışarıdan ithal ederek ne yaptığımız kısmından prefabikasyonla konuşacak. Ve Türkan hocamız da betonarme ile ilgili konuşacak. Betonarme süreçleri işte bu dönemde yapılan ilk yapılar. Çok özellik kendi bulduğu ilk defa bize göstereceği bazı belgeler olduğunu söyledi. Ben de heyecanla bekliyorum. Bu çok bilinmeyen alana kendi açınızdan çılgın yapmaya çalışacağız. Onlarım sonrasında güzel bir tartışma olur. Teşekkürler. Merhabalar. Herkese hoş geldin. Ben de kısaca kendimi konuştum. Ben mimar tarihi uzmanı. Mimar tarihinde Masrı'da hem doktorada mimar tarihi yazımanın biraz daha dışına atılmış o büyük kanalının içinde kalmamış alanlarda çalıştım. Masrı'da on altıncı yüzyılda Sinan'ın olamaz denilen camilerini çalıştım. Doktor o konuda on dokuz yüz yüzyılda eyaletlerdeki camilerdi. Yine ikbir şekilde on dokuz yüz yüzyılın kötülendiği bu camilerde etki yapılmış ve bakılmayan mimar tarihinde bakılmayan camilerini çalıştım. Jarl Erzen'le çalıştım. İki tezimde de Otlu'dan uzmanlıklarım. Tuba'nın çizdiği çerçevenim ben Tahayür kısmında yer almak istiyorum bu sunumda birazda böyle cümarkes taba daha konuyu yumuşak geçiş teknoloji konusunda yumuşak geçiş detonlara gelmeden önce bu beş tane edebi eser olacak benimsin bu sunumun bunlar o dönemin aslında entelektüellerinin yazdığı eserler çoğu aslında örkü kısalığında rüyada terakki bir Roma bunlar biraz kim yazmış kimdir diye bahsedicem bu romanlardan ama önce birazcık Tuba'mda dediği gibi biz buna nasıl adlandırıyoruz ne diyoruz bunu birazcık belki açığa karıştırmak gerekli şimdi bunlar edebi çalışmalarda Türkiye'de Biyat'ın utopyaları olarak geçiyor ama utopya kabramının batıda çıktığı haliyle tartıştığımızda tamamen oturmuyor bu yazılan anlatılarla çünkü aslında bizim utopya kelimesinin çıkış anlamıyla yani olmayan yer dediğimiz zaman bunların hiçbiri olmayan yerlerden bahsetmiyor aslında bunların ortalık kısımları hepsinde bir rüyaya yatılıyor olması bu doğu anlatımında rüya var olan bir şey geleceği rüyayla anlatılan ve aslında olan yer İstanbul yani olmayan bir yerden bahsetmiyoruz dolayısıyla utopia bu anlamda çok fazla karşılamıyor bunu Edward Said başka bir şekilde açıklıyor bu doğu ve batı daki farklı utopyaları farklı gelecek tayinlerine Said diyor ki İslam aslında mükemmel bir dünya kurmuştu dolayısıyla o dünyaya biz ekstradan bir şey getirmek durumda kalamayız hiçbir zaman binbir gece masalları gibi bu aslında bir masal gibi anlatıyoruz dolayısıyla yeni bir yer dünya harcında yeni bir yer İslam toplumları üretmez diye anlatıyor bu belki bizim bu edebi türler için konuştuğumuz şöyle de geçerli olabilecek çünkü ben bunları Osmanlı Türk anlatıları olarak ifade etmeye tercih ediyorum bu romanlarda ortak olan pek çok konu var bunlardan bir tanesi aslında geleceğin, taül edilen geleceğin mutluluk ve refah ulaşmak için bir teknolojik araca olması bütün o İstanbul anlatılarında teknoloji Osmanlı'nın çünkü Osmanlı olarak görüyorlar 4 yıllık sonrasını doğal olarak Osmanlı'nın mutluluk ve refah geniş caddeler, büyük yollar tayyareler, deniz altından giden tüneller ve ulaştığını anlatıyor aslında çoğunda tabi ki siyasi bir duruş da var ve utopyalarda olduğu zaman aslında bir topumsal düzenle ifade ediyorlar ama belki oralarını çok uzayacak, onlar da onun için çok çok bahsetmeyeceğim, daha çok bu kanta hayrı nasıl yapılıyor, oraya anlatmak istiyorum şu an bu konuya çalışırken bunlar hep sözler kaynaklar mimar olarak hep böyle görsele ihtiyaç duyuyor ve insan arıyor, hani bunun böyle bir görsen karşılığını olabilir, nasıl yapılabilir neyi tahvil etmişler acaba diye bu sunum için şöyle bir bağlantılmak niyetiyle geldim bunlar Osmanlı'nın İngilizce lütfen tüm türde ambitious diye geçen benim de mühteris projeler diye söyleyebileceği gerçekleşmemiş ama çizimle yapılmış projeleri ben bunları bu edebileği türlerdeki anlatılarla çok bağlaştırdım onun için çok hüzlü bir şekilde bunları geçeceğim çoğu kişinin bildiği bu konuda çalışan çoğu kişinin bildiği projeler, konuda toldu projeler 1890'da böyle meydan projeleri okuşmaya başlıyor, kenteki meydanların konulanmaya başladı ve meydan oluşturma isteğinin başladı bir dönemde bu vardı, ipodurun için anardığı meydan meydanı çevreleyen yapılar aslında bence ilginç mesela burada İlrem Paşa Sarayı'nın olduğu yere yıkıldığını görüyoruz ve bir polis karakolu önelliyordunun yerine çok anlamlı bir kontrol mekanizması olduğu için anlamlı bir dina bu dönem için bu projede devam ettiriyor meydan projelerinde bu var 1900 yılında beyazık meydanı projesi yapıyor bu proje için seçtiği binalar çok ilginç savaş bakanlığı bir cami, hükümet konağı bir müze ve bir kütüphane ve tekrar bir bakanlığı yani meydanı çevreleyen yapı türlerine bakanlık cami, konağı yani hükümet binaları ve aynı zamanla müze ve kütüphane olarak seçmesi gerçekten meydanı tanımlayan aslında imparatorluğun kendisini bu tanımlayacağı geleceğine dair tanımladığı yapılar olarak seçilmiş diye düşünüyorum yine aslında yeni cami meydanı için bir öneri ama bunu bir köprüle birleştiriyor galata köprüsüyle bu köprüyi anlatırken bu köprünün işte 10 derece argunluk olduğunu, elektriğin geldiğini çünkü ve olduğundan sanıyorum biraz daha üzüm çizilmiş gerçekte ki halinden birleşti bir şekilde dolayısıyla daha ihtişamlı duruyor ve köprünün uzandığı yerde yine bir meydan olarak ifade ediliyor, günüş açıklıklı, yeşillerin içinde bir meydan çok Osmanlı'nın kendini var yapımekte çok arzulu olduğu sergiler dünya farları İstanbul'da da yapılması isteniyor bunun için Daryanko'dan bir öneri geliyor bugünkü şişli ve külriyeti abidesin olduğu alana bir öneride bulunuyor Daryanko fotoğraf çok net değil, onun için çok iyi okunmuyor ama tekrar bir boşluk tasarımı aslında görüyoruz burada benim romanlarda en çok üst üste getirdiğin şey bu cisre embubi yani bu altı tünelleri bu en salacaktan saray burnu içinde yapılıyor, başka noktalar içinde birleştinme arzusu var tabii istena tren istasyonları işte Sirkeci ve Haydarpaşa bunlar aslında arasında bir bütünlük yok ve bunlar arasında bir bütünlük sağlayalım çünkü ulaşım çok büyük bir teknolojik ilerleme olarak görülüyor ve bütün bu romanlardaki teknolojik ilerlemenin en temelinde ulaşım yapıyor ilk renkli olan öneri gerçekten de daha hani anladığım kadarıyla evet çok temellendirilmemiş sadece bir yüzeyse döneri işte tek bir boşluk öneriliyor gidiş dönüş, vagonlarının geçmesi için iki tarafla ama tek bir boşluk öneriliyor bir tane bir sonraki proje yine detaylandırılmış hala aynı projenin aslında ayak sesinin arttığını biraz konstruksiyona dair ne olabileceğine dair detayların geldiğini ve de aslında işte gidiş dönüş iki tane vagon için iki ayrı açıklık önerdiklerini görüyoruz burada yine aslında bilinen bir örnek stromun 1902 yılındaki Gisre Emredi Filba projesi yine aynı bölge için yani salacak saray konunu bağlayabilmek için denizin altından gitmesi istemem bir kınak tramvayı, treni içinde barındirebilecek bir kınak ikonik olan bu teknoloji, köprü dediğimiz zaman 19. yüzyıl Abdülhamid dediğimiz zaman aslında en çok karşımıza çıkan İmaşaradi Arnavi'nin köprüleri iki tane köprüsü var bir tanesi salacak saray bunun arasında yine kısarladığı bir tanesi de belki en çok karşımıza çıkan Gisre Hamid'i Anadolu İsrarı'yla Rumeli İsrarı'nı birbirine bağlamak isteyen köprü aslında bunun için bir genel plan hazırlıyor ve köprün hangi noktalarda çok net değil maalesef ama işte Rumeli İsrarı ve Anadolu İsrarı birbirine bağladığı ve salacak saray birbirine bağladığını görüyoruz. Bu bir asma köprü öneriyor ama yine çok detaylanmış bir proje değil, teknik detayları çok verilmiş bir proje değil Diğeri Gisre Hamid'i yine teknik detaylarını bilmediğimiz ama çok ikonik hale gelmiş bir proje şimdi bu projenin ben anlatıldığı metin okuyamayacağız, bu un üstünden gideyim anlatıldığı metinden bahsetmek istiyorum, şimdi bu proje Anadolu'nun tarafından sunulduğunda kabul edilmesi için, ikna edilmesi için bir projenin yapılmasını kullanılan terimler sözler çok iyiydi proje maribi usulü bir mimarlıkla yapılmıştı diye tarif ediliyor ve aynı zamanda sağçıklı usulüne dönülmüştür diye anlatılıyor, ki bu sülümi marihinin yılbağısınması ve oradaki sağçıklı dönüşü, sağçıklı Osmanlı'nın temelinde olmasıyla örtüştürülebilecek bir durum maribi dönemin herhalde orientalist referanslarına bir cevap olarak veriliyor bu savunma kulesi olduğu da aynı zamanda bahsedilmiş toplar olduğundan bahsediliyor üst katında ve altının son derece denizin altında kalan kısmının son derece kalın olduğu, yıkılmayacağı dolayısıyla bir savaş durumunda güçlü olduğu anlatılıyor böyle bir projeyi promot etmek için son derece ilginç terimler kullanıyorlar en sonda en ilginç noktası da bence İslam'ın Halifesi, Abdülhamid'e yarışı bir köprü dükkü diye bitiyor yine Abdülhamid'in kendisine coğrafya, İslam'la birleştirdi, bir güç olan İslam'la tanıtması ve onlarında bunu o metinde kullanmaları en çarpıcı olan özelliklerinden biri benim edebi metinlerde görsel olarak birbirine en iyi oturttuğum bu muhteris projeler içinde aslında Korantin'in projesi var bu üç katlı bir köprü projesi açılabilen bir köprü elektrikle birlikte iki kanadı yapıyor ve bu üç katın alt katından tramvay ve yaya geçiyor ticari alanlar için ayrılıyor ve bu son derece övdüyle anlatılıyor elektriklerin geldiği bir köpüdür diyerek Darankon'un da aslında önerisi buna benzer ticariak mekanları barındırdığı için ticariyle dolu tramvayın gittiği, yayaların gittiği pekisinde barındıran geniş bir köprü önerisi biraz daha tarih olarak diye döneceğim köpkülerden aslında 1900'lerden önce de öneriler var Tuba'nın bahsettiği bu deniz taşımacılığının bir anda artması ve adaların da bu artan taşımacılıkla birlikte önen memnun artması değerli alanlar hale gelmesi barianın ilgisini çekiyor ve barian abdülaziz'e ana kararlar büyük adı arasında haplar var ama o yeterli değil biz evvela da ulaşım çok zor oluyor buraya bir köprü yapalım diye öneriyor detaylandırılmış bir çizimle ben bulmadım hani var mı bilmiyorum ama böyle bir şu kadar mesafede bu kadar genişlikte eğer günlük geçiş hücritü olarak az yalnız para bu olursa bu kendini karşılardan sizden para bile istemiyorum bunun için diye yazdığı bir mektup var ama tahtan indirilmesi de birlikte bu proje kalıyor barianın projesi bana en ilginç gelen projeler bir tanesi yine İzerya'nın Çanakkale Boğazı'nda bir Avrupa'yla Anadolu'yu birbirine bağlaması çanakkale üzerinden bir proje yine maalesef çok net görünmüyor işte bu geniş haritada var olan demir yolları üzerinden nasıl bağlayabiliriz diye vardı onu şöyle detayını göstereyim şu siyahla gösterilen mevcuttaki demir yolları İzerya, bu demir yoluna ek olarak kırmızı hatla Soros köftesinde doğru ve Soros köftesinde iki tane limal önererek, bunlardan bir tanesinin askeri ilman olmasını öneriyor, burası çok önemli bir körfezdir, hem ticaretin Anadolu'ya geçişi için hem de askeri anlamda ihtiyacımız vardır diyor ve buradan gelen bütün mallarında Anadolu'ya geçişi için bir yolu üzerinden bir köprü öneriyor hatta işte eğimleriyle birlikte ne kadar uzunlukta olacağıyla birlikte detaylı bir çalışma yapıyor, oldukça yine girişmiş bir öneri sunuyor yine tahtan indirilmeyle Abdülhamit'in bu öneri aslında kabul edilmiş ama uygulamamış projelerden bir olarak kalıyor işte bugün o köpüğü yapıyorlar şu anda aslında bu köpülerin bu kadar önemli olması ulaşımın çünkü çok önemli olması abimlere de yansıyor abimler aslında bir yerde Abdülhamit'in başarılarını gösteren evraklar diye bakılabilir sayesiz köpü fotoğrafı görüyoruz birkaç tanesini göstermek istedim nasıl yapıldıkları, kaç kişinin çalıştığı, ne kadar emekli olduğu ne kadar büyük alanları geçtiği bunların hepsi aslında övgü sebebi Abdülhamit dönemi iktidar için Tuval bahsetti Hasan Fehmi Paşa'nın ilk imar planında bu aynı kişinin Hasan Fehmi Paşa'nın ama daha erken 1848 tarih ile Kızılırmak projesi Hasan Fehmi Paşa kızılırman çok büyük bir potansiyeli olduğunu Anadolu'da bunun taşımacılıkta kullanılan bir nehir olabileceğini ve bu nehiri eğer taşılımacılıkta kullanırsak iki tarafı da köpülerle birbirine bağlayarak inanılmaz bir iletişim sağlayacağın şehirler arasında Türkiye'de Sinop ve Samsun limanların mallarımla Anadolu'ya geçişinde kolaylık olacağından bahsedip böyle bir detaylı proje yapıyor bu proje çok detaylı her yerinde çok iyi alınmış notlar var yine çok iyi görünmüyor ama mesela şunların her birinde hangi şehirden nereye kaç saatte gidilir diye tek tek vatalıymış gerçekten üzerine kafa yorulmuş düşünülmüş ama uygulanmamış projelerden bir tanesi olarak kalıyor yine adama bölgesi için yapılmış bir sulama projesi sulama kanalı projesi burada seyhan nehirinin hangi alanlarda kurutulup hangi alanlarda kollarını uzatılabileceğini bantlar yapılması gerektiği hangi alanlarda karım bölgesi olarak verimli kullanılabileceğini gösteren detaylı bir çalışma burada yine ilginç olan nehirinin kuzey kısmında elektrik üretilen bir santral kuruma önerisi bu santral için 7 metrelik su kapasitesi olabilecek bir baraj tasarımı var yine detaylanmamış bir baraj bu ama çok kabaca bir çizim yapılmış bir öneride bulunulmuş ve yine projeyi anlatırken bu elektrik ürettiren elektrik çukurava bölgesinde bu kadar için kullanılabilir diye pazarlanmış bir şekilde son olarak bildiğin saraylar arşivinden bir çizim kimin yaptığını biliyoruz mühendisaneyi belirin malumdaki bir öğrenci Mustafa Paşa'da Osman Nuri ne olduğu makinanın ne olduğu ile bile bir yazı yok sadece 3.500 beygir gücünde üretilmemiş bir makinadır diye ama bunun böyle bir resim gibi bir sanat eseri gibi bir kağıda çizilmesi hani benim çok uzun çekti ve bunun da saklanılması bu büyüklükte bir bu 120'ye 80'in boyutlarında bir çizim için şimdi bu yapılmamış projeler gerçekleşmemiş projeler aslında halka duyurulmuş ve tartışılmış, konuşulmuş ve heyecanla karşılanmış ama yapılmaması da büyük bir hayal kırıklığıyla karşılanıyor bu 1909'daki Kalenderlisi'nden bir kırık akıl işte altında Osmanlı'nın gerçekleştirilmemiş projeleri diye yazıyor işte bir Zeplin bir Denizaltı bir Kinal hepsinde bir Osmanlı görüyoruz böyle boyunca bir küp ve en sonunda da bir körü tarafından sırtında taşınması yani bunların hiçbiri olmadığı ulaşımımız hala budur gibi bir yergi bütün bu yapılmayan projeler sonunda şimdi bu yapılmayan projelerin insanların zihninde yarattığı durum medeniyetin ne oldu mutlu olmanın refah bir ülkede ne olduğunu düşündüklerinde aslında gerçekten teknolojide ve o teknolojik ve ulaşımın getirdiği yenilenmeyle örtüşen bir durum var şimdi ben bu edibi yürümlerden sizleri bazı satırlar okumak istiyorum bunu birebir okumak ve bozmamak için birebir vermek istiyorum ama biraz hikayeleri anlatayım eğlenceli de olduğunu düşünüyorum şimdi ilkki tarihsel olarak bir sıralı var burada 1890 yılındaki darbir rahat Müslümanları bu İsmail Gazpralı tarafından yazılan bir öykü aslında 1890 yılında yazılıyor ama 1906 yılında kitap haline getiriyor orijinaline sadık kalınarak bu taş kentli Molla Abbas Efendi diye bir kişinin ağzından anlatılıyor hikaye okumuş bir kişi kültürlüğü Frengistan'a gidiyor Fransa'ya gidiyor orada iki yıl kalıyor kendini geliştiriyor sonra da atalarını yaptığı güzellikleri görmek için İspanya'yı seyahat ediyor Kordoba'ya geziyor Granada'yı geziyor gezdiklerinde gördüğü camileri etkilen bir şeyler anlatıyor sonra da bu camilerin birinde namaz kılarken Sejadet'e bir rüyasında olanlar oluyor uyandığında 12 tane güzel kızın etrafında dolaştığını görüyor kızları takip ediyor bir sakallı dedenin bir anda karşısına çıkını görüyor beni takip ediyor dede ve bilinmeyen bir yere yer açılıyor ve aşağıya iniyorlar ve bilinmeyen bir yere gidiyorlar şimdi diğer romanlarda normalde zaman ve yer belirliyken bu roman da aslında biraz daha Ütopra'ya yakın yer belli değil yani bu bir yer ama bilinmeyen bir yer aslında ama dünyada bir yer haritalarda olmamış kimsenin keşfetmediği bir yer nereye geldik diye soruyor ve diyorlar ki siz Darurat Müslümanlarının yaşadığı yere geldiniz burası Müslümanların mutluluk içinde yaşadığı bir yerdir ve bakın gezdireyim ben size göreceksiniz biz burada mutluyuz ve fa işçinde yaşıyoruz yani hocam gelen bulurken dün akşam bunu konuşurken aramızda yaptığımız bir şeyiz öyleyim hikaye çok komik bir şekilde Ali Sarıkalar diyarında gibi başlıyor ama bu sefer tavşan değil de takallı bir gede takip ediyorlar bence evet doğru öyle bir şey var benzerliği var şimdi geliyorlar bir noktaya daha arası mı susuz kuyumu her neyse beyan ettiği mahallede hayrı rahatlanıp yine yola düştük yolumuz karşı dağın tüpünde kızılmış ve taş ilişlenmiş lağım idi kızlar lağım içine girdikleriyle ellerinde bulunan fenerleri yakmaya başladılar bu mahalle kadar dikkat etmemişiydi fenerler öz başlarına yanmaya başladılar içinde çıra şem ya da ya yok idi hem verdikleri ziya bildiğimiz ve gördüğümüz fenerlerin ziyasına benzemiyordu meğer fenerler kuvveyi dolu olup dünyamızda görülmemiş üst attık ile yasağılmış şeyler idi beraberinde bulunduğumuz adamlar ile varacağımız ülke Avrupa ile münasebet ve mühebaratı yok ise de ilmi hikmet ve mihanikide ve hünarda bulunan kem değil belki ilerde olduğunu şu fenerlerden istak ettim elektriği görüyor ve elektriği büyük bir coşku ile karşılıyor ve bu Avrupa'da bile aslında olmayan bir şeydir görüyoruz ki Müslümanlar çok daha ilerde gibi bir noktaya bağlıyor değil tabi tünel tabi haklısınız yani bu aslında hikayenin başı o pis bir yer değil bu yere indikleri noktada tünelden geçiyorlar ve şimdi de aydınlatan lağım olarak bahsedilen şeyde fenerler elektrikle çalışan fenerler sonra bir kan tasbili başlıyor ve kan tasbili fenerler olduğunu görüyoruz ulu ve meydan çimarlık togay her tarafı yüksek ve ormanlı dağlar ile çevirilmiş kutsalmış dört tarafı karlı dağlar ile cennet gibi bir çimarlıkta bulunduğumuzu gördüm dağlardan gözümüze alıp aşağıya dikkat ettiğimde gördüm ki togaylık meydanı Bağ Bahçe ve Gülistan ile hisse hisse olmuş ve bunların aralarında gülmüş madem gibi çuraklar ve sular akıyor bahçeler arasında görülen taş binalı karyeler ve yeşil bahçeler içinde göğe doğrusu zürüp çıkmış ince ince apak arab usulü minareler acayip birer resim idiler biraz binaları biraz da o güzel cennet bahçelerini tasvir ediyor yürüdüğümüz cadde 40 adım genişliğimde olup çiment ya asfap misilli bir şey ile döşenmiş idi tarifler hep bir şekilde yol içinde bir taş bir pislik yok idi yolun iki tarafında selve ağaçları ve alt yedi arşın genişliğinde meydan kaldırımlar var idi ufak ve renkli taşlar ile nakışlanmış idiler diye gördüğü o geniş yolları tarif ediyor bir de gördüğü camiler var camileri anlatıyor meydanın dört tarafı yine bahçelik ve binalar idi meydanın özü ak ve karataş ile nakşolunmuş gibi döşenmiş ve orta yerinde pek büyük değil ama hiç görülmemiş derecede ziynetli bir cami-i şerif ile şereflenmiş idi meydana düşüp cami-i şerife yakın vardıkça hayret ve ferahım artıyor idi ne acayip binal ne hoş şekil ne üst attık minalesi çahtan çıkmış gibi ve ince taşlarını oyalmış nakış ve çiçekler emsansız bir şeyler idi bu da hep cami-i ayıhtasvirler ya da ince taşlar ayıhtasvirler uslupla değil aslında malzeme ile anlatılmış diğerlerinde biraz daha diğer romanlarda biraz daha farklı olduğunu görüyoruz ikinci roman ki aslında gerçekten daha kılın ve daha detaylı verdiği rüyada terakki ve medeniyeti islami rüyet yani rüyada yükselme ve islam medeniyetinin ilerlemesini görmek diye belki bugün bir şeyimize çevirebiliriz kullandığımız Türkçe'ye sonuç yılında kader matbasında çıkarılmış bir kitap Molla Davusuade Mustafa Nazım Arzülümini iki kere basıldı bugünkü Türkçe'yle bir tanesi bu kapı yayınlarından bir tanesi de Boğazıç Üniversitesi yayınlarından çıktı benim kullandığım kapı yayınlarından olan tercümesi burada da yine aynı şekilde Balkan Harbi'nin hemen arkasında büyük bir çöküş yaşıyor Molla Davusuade ve üzüntü içinde ağlayarak uykuya dalıyor ve uyandığında kendisine 400 yıl sonrasının İstanbul'unda buluyor ve İstanbul Osmanlı ve orada onun 400 yıl önceki Ceddi'yle karşılaşıyor dedesiyle karşılaşıyor ve dedesi onu gel ben seni gezdireyim diye alıyor bu yine okumak istiyorum çünkü çok ilginçler almadan hızlıca geçeyim bir bahçe görüyorlar bu bahçe tasvirleri hep var ilginç bir şekilde bu bahçe kimindir diye soruyor Nazım ve dedesi de cevap veriyor milletindir bu bahçenin muşet olan intizamına dair sana biraz malumat vereyim bak zeminde can gibi mücellâh, sedef gibi işlenmiş kabartmalar elektrik ziyası gibi parıldıyor bahçenin enzâri temâşâyı okşayan heyetumu miyesi zemine nakşedemiş diye fiskiyelerden güzel ağaçlardan geniş meydanlardan bahsediyor ilk kez araba görüyorlar ince demir yoluna gördükleri noktada hayvans arabalar olduğunu tarif etmeye başlıyor ve bu arabaların nasıl bineceklerini anlatmaya başlıyorlar bir tanesini makaslardan birine sevk ettikten sonra dönüp bir tanesini daha sevk ettik arabaları demirlerin üzerine iterek kapıya kadar getirdi o vakitlerden tarif ederek dedik ki bunların birine ben bineceğim diğerini desem bineceksin bildiğin zaman önündeki pervânenin her iki tarafındaki kolları tutup çevirir çevirmez araba süretli yürümeye başlar durdurmak istediğin yerde ayaklarını şu demire bas araba derhal durur pervâniyi çevirip araba hareket ettikten sonra pervâniyi bırak ne vakit arabanın süreti azalırsa pervâniyi tekrar çevir diye bir nasıl kullanılır araba tarifi arabaya biniyorlar boğaz köküsünden geçiyorlar o sırada etrafına bakıyor adaları görüyor dikkat ettim adalara şimendifer gidiyordu denizde dubalar vardı tren tarafında dubaların üzerine yürüdükten sonra şimendifer makineleri dubaların yanlarındaki çarkları tahrik ederek tren kemali süretli adalara gidiyor aynı süretli yine geri dönüyordu adalara baktım fabrika bacaları etraflarına kara bulut gibi sarmıştı bu fabrikalar iyi bir şey tabi şimdiki adalar mahvoldu deniyoruz ve yine yerini de tarif ederek salacak iskelesindeki değişikli bir köprüden bahsediyor tıpkı olmayan projeler gibi bu köprü üç kat olarak inşa edilmişti en üst katında insanlar karıncalar gibi kaynaşıyorlar şimendifer araba otomobil gibi vesayetinakliye köprünün birinci ve ikinci katından gelip gidiyordu bu köprü harem iskelesinden kum kapıya uzatılarak asya'yı Avrupa'ya rapt etmişti vapurlar geçeceği vakit köprünün yalnızca birinci ve ikinci katları açılıyordu en yüksek direktli en cesim vapurlar bu uçulan mahalleden sarbes sarves girip çıkıyordu diye o köplere anlatmış durumda biraz daha anlatayım mı 10 dakika o zaman hızlıca diğer anlattığı şeylerden bahsedeyim merkez bunları bu kitap için okumadan geçeyim morsüt lokantasına gidiyorlar bu meşhur bir lokanta morsüt lokantasına girdiklerinde hiçbir yerde hiçbir masa yok ben beyaz bir mekan ne yapacağız diye bakıyor bir düğmeye basacaksın diyorlar bir düğmeye basılıyor orada bir tezgah oluşuyor bir masa geliyor sandalyeler çıkıyor istedikleri yemeği düğmeye basarak alıyorlar yiyorlar ve sonra da şey kalkıyor evet tezgahka biraz da böyle kübrük misali anlatıyor ben beyaz bir mekan da hiçbir şey yoktu diye hemen şurayı yıldızla işaretlemişim oraya bir sürece bakayım binaların üstünden giden kat kat yollar var bir de o kısmı okumak istiyorum bence o da yıldız iki taraflı ve sekizar onar katlı binalarla çevrilde geniş bir caddeye girdik bu cadde tren haydi o cesim binaların altında el ele yürütülen birer kişilik bir takım arabalar sırayla dizilmiş duruyordu dedan bana sordu sen yoruldun şu arabalardan birisine bin ben de birisine bindim oturduğumuz yerden konuştuk oğlum şimdi her iki taraftaki şu cesim binalara atsın nazarı dikkat et bunların her üç katında geniş birer yollardır bu yollarda tramlaylar otomobiler hiç durmadan sevgisi nefare eder on katlı binaların her üç katında birbirine bağlanmış bir köprü olduğunu böyle bir bina olduğunu anlatıyor aslında çok daha ilginç şeyleri var hani tavsiye ederim okunmasını bu 19. yüzyıl anlamak için neyi hayal ettiklerini bilmek için diğer kitaplar çanları altında müsahabe rüşelin rüyası benzer öyeleri tekrar ediyorlar ama her birinin aslında verilen mesaj farklılaşıyor çanlar altında müsahabe Yahya Kemal'e ait ve ilerlemeyi yine teknolojiyle anlatırken meydanları köplerin büyüklüğüyle anlatırken yine aynı şekilde versin zamanda yoldalık romanını okurken uyuyakalıyor ve 266 yıl sonrasının İstanbul'una geliyor ve orada da diyor ki ilerlememiz durmuştu bize ilerleten şey eğitimin ilerlemesi oldu eğitime referans vererek ne kadar önemli olduğunu referans vererek böyle bir ilerleme tarih diyor ama kent yine İstanbul ve kent tarihleri yine meydanlar, köpküler, arabaların çoklu ilanetiliyor rüşelin rüyası aralarında en ilginç olanı yine bu Türkliğe çok fazla atıfta bundan ve yücaten bir hikaye bütün bundan yine 200 yıl sonrasında uyanıyor bu arada belki çok hafif hasen rövüşeğini mumkim olduğunu anlatmam lazım aslında teşkilatı, mahsusacı olarak bilinen bir kişi hasen rövüşeğini 1. Dünya Savaşı'nda Osmanlı tarafından Rusya'yı arkasında ne yaptığını anlamak için İran'a Badat'a yollanıyor ama merkeze hükümette arası açılıyor o zamanın bitti evet, mahsusat dediğim için doğru haklısınız ben biliyormuş gibi herkeste şey yapıyorum ama teşkilatı mahsusacı olmasına rağmen merkeze hükümette arası açılıyor ve Badat valisi hapise atıyor rüşelin'i rüyayı hapiste görüyor ve gördüğü rüya Afrika, Asya, İran her yer müthiş bir Müslüman ülke olmuş Amerika'nın çok daha ilerisi de gelişmiş ve bu gelişkinlik arasında en üstü olan da İstanbul düğüne gidiyor düğünde Hindistan Yavalı biriyle karşılaşıyor o Yavalı pilot onu gezdiriyor Hindistan'da ve İstanbul'u övüyor sonra İstanbul'a gidiyorlar ve benzer şekilde İstanbul'un tabi uçakta geçiyor bu arada hikaye uçak önemli bir figür ve İstanbul'un elektrik kanılarıyla dolu muhteşem gelişmiş bir şehir oldu Türk'ten başka İstanbul'da kimsenin olmadı ve bunun da biz attık içimizdeki kötüleri diye anlatarak söylüyor herkes Müslüman ve en sonunda da böyle bir sürecik bir şeyle bitiriyor eskiden Rum Ortodoksu Tatçı Karnesi'nin olduğu yerde bir hayvat bahçesi yapılıyor ve bunu da yine biz burayı temizledik diye anlatarak bitiriyor böyle bir referansla son nikâhiyemde Hülya Buya tarih olarak en geç tarihinde 1921 Refik Halit Karayı Hülya Buya aslında bir çeşit yine Batı Ediriyatı'nın primiyle konuşursak istopya çünkü Ankara'yı anlatırken aslında halka rağmen ilerleme diye alıp Cumhuriyetin getirilerini eleştiren bir dilde yazıyor. Nikâhiyeyi yine aslında Hülya olduğunu anlatacak bir şekilde başlıyor bir uyku da ülkeye dalmıyor ama diyor ki gazetede gördüğüm bir Amerika'da Times'da çıkan bir köşe yılısında muhabir Ankara'ya gitmiş ben gitme fırsatı bulamadım onun yılısını size ak tabi diyerek başlıyor. Trenle gittikleri Ankara'da trenler indikleri anda yürümelerinin bile gerekmediği çünkü yolların yürüdüğü. Belli noktalarda yolunu durup indik indikleri yoldan. Meclisin önünden geçerken meclisin bomboş oldu. Çünkü zaten kimsenin orada çalışmasını telefonla bağlandığı gerektiği zaman zaten o vekillerin aynı anda hem bakan hem başka şeyin müdürü olduğu dolayısıyla bütün ülkenin aslında yirmi tane kişiyi de yönetildiği. İnsanların artık makinelerde üretildiği kadınların doğum yapmasına gerek bir rakam var. Gelip o makinaya bir işte çocuk yerleştirip onun sekiz yaşında alıp makinaya koyup üniversite mezunu öptüğümüz için çok gelişmiş bir ülke olduğumuzu. Ankara'nın havasının her zaman aynı sıcaklıkta oldu çünkü kântın büyük bir faalus için alındı. Elektrik üretimiyle ısıtılıp soğutuldu. Dolayısıyla hiçbir zaman rüzgârların etkilemediği bu şehri. Böyle olunca da binalarda pencerenin çatının da gerekmediği aslında. Binaların çatısız penceresiz yapıldığı gibi bir yerde cumhuriyetankarısını eleştiren bir yazı yazıyor. Oradaki yine kentans biri de çok ilginç. Ama zaman kalmadığı için ben oraya hızlıca geçeyim. Yirmi bir hocam. Yirmi bir. Yani yenimiz meclis hani var ama cumhuriyet yok. Ama eleştiri hani o yani aslında Kemal'in ideallerine eleştiri gibi. Evet. Zaten bu atılmadan hemen önceki yazısı. Muhtemelen. Son olarak bununla bitireceğim. Bütün bu bana çok hani örtüşüyor geldi. Bu istiklal celdesinden bir görüntü elli yıl sonraki Türkiye diye yazıyor altında. Böyle hayal ediyorlar. İşte balonlar, uçaklar. Bu arada tabii şimdi Kıldıcaşehir evden de bahsedeyim. Kadının evi aslında yükseltirmiş durumda. 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UCJkWMLSqRNKLoyUZQiNoAcQ	2/17/2021 - Burlington Department of Public Works	You can join the meeting via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83495330508 Or, you can call in at: 301-715-8592 Webinar ID: 834 9533 0508 Agenda: https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/sites/default/files/Agendas/2-17-21%20Agenda.pdf 1 Call to Order – Welcome – Chair Comments 2 5 Min Agenda 3 10 Min Public Forum (3 minute per person time limit) 4 5 Min Consent Agenda A Proposed Stop Sign at Westernmost Hillside Terrace – Riverside Ave Intersection B 192 Park St Accessibility Parking Change C COVID Vaccine Parking Plan D Amendments to Burl. City Ordinances – Chapter 20, 6 & Appendix C 5 15 Min Downtown Burlington High School Parking Plan A Communication, P. Peterson B Commissioner Discussion C Public Comment D Action Requested –Vote 6 10 Min BSD Rates – Special Temporary Rate for BHS Staff & Students at Lakeview Garage & College St Garage A Communication, J. 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[ "community media", "municipal meetings", "local media", "local government", "elections", "democracy", "free speech" ]	2021-02-18T08:57:30	2024-02-05T08:22:20	4,630	pCesimvYhnc	Mr. Brennan Hogan calling to order the February meeting of the Public Worse Commission at 6.33 p.m. our team director unfortunately will not be with us this evening he's out for personal reasons but we have City Engineer Norm Baldwin with us as well and I believe we'll have Assistant Director Jeff Padgett joining later on it as well yep we can evening everyone to the agenda any comments on the the agenda as warrants sure Hogan yes I would I'd like to whole item D off the consent agenda if I could please okay sure is that uh is that a motion yeah sorry yeah I'll move to prove the agenda with polling okay Hogan uh yes I would like to actually pull the four C off of the consent agenda the COVID vaccine part okay um I guess let's take these we take these one at a time um treat this as because we have we have a motion to pull forward D to help you speak if you're trying to speak thank you for that there's one person in the queue and I will promote them over to speak now it's uh you Yoda a lot us thank you okay you hear me yes again okay so as stated my name is Yota a lot us and I own two properties in the city of Burlington and I live in close proximity to Burton's uh proposed hub that you've been discussing um which includes a 1500 person concert venue this hub as you know sits amongst eight densely populated neighborhoods and borders Red Rocks Park the precious natural area and I'm extremely concerned about the impact the hub is going to have for generations to come in particular through the lack of adequately addressing safety traffic parking and congestion issues that urgently need to be addressed prior there are no crosswalks a good one knowing that you're going to have to finesse it as it goes along I have mainly two comments here um one uh I appreciate the fact that again DPW has identified additional bike parking spaces and and where those will be understanding that it may not be the the end all of everything but it serves an immediate purpose my mage my main concern would be along with Commissioner Bars and Vice Chair O'Neill's is the security and safety of that area and um since there are cameras on both the College Street garage and the Lakeview garage in that area is maybe the one on the corner Lakeview could be repurposed maybe toward that bike parking area to ensure that if something should happen in that area it could be covered I don't know what cameras are planned for the backside of people's bank or on the backside of the the old Macy's building as it is for that walkway but I think it might add some you know through COVID and the additional need for bikes I know that we've seen some active bikes disappearing in this city so it might be some added convenience or added safety uh to to think about or ponder the only other item I have um is on Cherry Street and and maybe Phillip can answer this for me because I my your your diagram doesn't print out very well on my printer but on the north side of Cherry you have some drop-off zones but are you still having some parking areas metered spaces yes okay yeah that's correct okay well my my main viewpoint here is that there are choke points there especially in the morning if you ride GMT bus on a regular basis um they now straddle Cherry Street coming up the hill um because of the activity on mainly on both sides and I think at the early onset at least since this is going to be massaged at least through the next couple weeks from March 4th forward at least I initially thought you should just make the north side mirror the south side of Cherry but in the meantime until you get to that point you might want to bag those meters that will be exposed as a as a test to ensure that you have proper clearances because now when a bus going eastbound up Cherry Street typically has a tough time when a vehicle of similar size is coming westbound down Cherry currently and that's something I've observed and I think you might see that I just think stepping off um understanding that this is going to be massaged and and you're it's going to change and understand it's half the students I'm just thinking that it's good to step off the curb properly from the get go and now backpedal and you can you can see really what's going on that's just my only observations and thank you very much for taking my comments right and so just to address um that area in particular so one thing that we had discussed is Cheryl going to ask about some traffic calming elements so for those crosswalks we will be putting in with quick build materials using um bollards temporary curb extensions and as you mentioned Patrick we will be adjusting things as we go so I I'm not sure if that addresses your concern as far as the parking on the north side of Cherry Street I mean we recognize that you know vehicles will most likely be coming in both directions so we want to make sure that that space is available um yeah observation thank you you bet thank you thank you and that should close out public comment for this portion great thank you mr golden all right with that so we'll bring it back to the commissioners seeking a vote on this item make a motion to accept staff's recommendation as presented thank you for that motion commissioner bar second that commissioner bows the second all right thank you is there any discussion around that motion all right seeing none bring it to a vote starting at the top alphabetically the commissioner archon bow hi mr bar hi mr bows hi mr gilman hi vice chair on you hi mr overby hi i for myself motion passes unanimously thank you so much all right thank you so much thank you thank you you thank you marty moving forward item six bsd rates special temporary rate for phs staff and students that make view on college street in here i thought i was done oh yeah welcome back do we have uh mr pageant or anyone from staff that would like to introduce this i am looking to see if he's here i think he's under the dpw communications and the attendees ah he's got a hand hand raise maybe let in dpw communications we are having some tech challenges it is not allowing me to promote uh the dpw communications account over i'll try again jeff if you can hear us you might want to try logging in under uh your account if you have access to a different account you might already be trying that i no longer see him in the attendees yeah zoom is super interesting when i came in i was my dpw engineering account and it never gives me a choice when you're logging in through one of those city accounts that you create meetings under to read to change your name so rob i'm not sure if you can change his name in that list and then maybe he'll let it'll let you out him to come over yeah i did change the name it is still giving me a failure to promote um maybe he should maybe i don't know we can talk let him know but i mean the way i log in is i use the agenda zoom address and log in as my own person and then enter my email look jeff's here good perfect well i've allowed jeff to talk that it's giving me the option to do that he's still not a full panelist so uh jeff your permissions might be a little am i in now yep you can hear me okay sorry guys i you know because i use both the dpw communications zoom account and my own sometimes it it launches me and it chooses so sorry about that yeah anyway i'm here now so thank you rob for fixing that uh jeff i'm just going to add that you're you're promoted over as a speaker right now i still can't get you over as a panelist so i'm going to see if i can that's fine i don't add all the permissions you'll need if you're presenting but uh you still may have some uh you still may be blocking some time no that's fine as long as i can talk that's fine uh all i have is the the memo is all i have to reference and i believe everyone has that the other packet so um all right so thank you for patience to that but so now we're we're moving from the outside of the garage to the inside of the garage and thank you to to laura and phil open the rest of norm's team that have been working hard on the outside of the garage because there are a lot of hurdles there as soon as they get their signage designs all done then my group will come in and put those signs up in the streets so that's just so you understand that's how we uh that's how we update so as far as inside the garage goes we have been working with the schools for the past couple months along in tandem with with tech services on the operations in the garage and specifically the rates and some of the ancillary issues around the rates so what the the request tonight is to approve a special contract with the school for uh parking for they have estimating excuse me 160 staff and 120 students and we have negotiated a rate for the remainder of this fiscal year and next fiscal year so fy 21 22 10 a month per user it will all be billed through the school so we won't have individual contracts with each customer it will all be managed through the school and then for fy 23 it'll be $40 per user so that's about that's a that's a half about a half price it is a exactly half price rate for fiscal 23 so you'll notice you you've learned in the first presentation this is a three to four year project not a two year project so um what we've done is we've committed to these discount rates for the first couple of years because working working with Nate Lavery in their in their finance department because as you go no we are financially challenged and they are financially challenged so we worked hard to find a rate that would be reasonable between the two of us for the short term and then but not over commit us for the full three to four year period so and and included in the agreement which is different so I use the I'm sure you remember we we got a standard agreement approved by the commission for our use we've modified that agreement to put a term a specific term limit on it and we've modified it to include clauses that basically say if we incur additional costs that are due to the presence of the school that we will work with the school to find a way to compensate us appropriately for those additional expenses for example if we need to hire security for you know protracted amount of time we want to find a way we we we can't carry all of those costs so that's that's the overview of the request for tonight we're requesting approval to enter into this contract to extend these rates to the schools now that you know along with this rate conversation came the conversations around security so some of the things and just general logistics inside the garage one of the things we've been assured is that the garage is not a drop off pickup pickup point for the schools we don't want a parade of cars going through cycling through the garage dropping car dropping students off also without having the bike parking in the garage that saves us the worry of having bicycles cruising around in the garage we are putting up new no smoking signs we actually went through had to go through legal to make sure that we were actually legally allowed to this was a space that was allowable to have no smoking signs go up we have new signs going up that notify the public that video surveillance is in action we have scheduled two ambassadors to be on duty when school starts for the first week to monitor what's going on inside the garage so we have a handle on how things are flowing and and because I'm also in charge of parking services now the what used to be called parking enforcement that we actually have extra people outside on those first couple days to in the streets not giving out tickets but making sure people understand not not policing per se but making sure they understand what the signs mean that no parking here to hear means no park here to hear so I'm just rattling off a number of things and you know feel free to cycle back and ask me questions about them they're kind of they're jumbled because that's kind of how we we got with all of this one of the other things we're working on right now is we do have cameras in the garages right now those cameras go straight to bpd and go straight to hard drives so they're recording everything's recording and we're working with Martha Keenan to get a computer set up in the garage that is a streaming monitor so we're not recording what's going on but we can watch what's going on so that'll give our ambassadors an idea you know if we get a rumor that there's some party going on on the fourth floor they can look at a camera and see what's going on and prepare and react appropriately um and I've been in direct coordination with the hotels also explaining to them all the things that we've done to try to accommodate the schools and make sure they understand how to get a hold of ambassadors how to get a hold of me which they they do because we have a good relationship but just so you're aware that the hotels are very you know they have all the similar concerns that everybody else thought about the students coming in and faculty just this bass of new people coming into the garages um and one of the other things sorry back to ambassadors this this demographic is a different demographic than our ambassadors ambassadors are typically used to working with it's usually it's a transient tourist type folks working in the marketplace coming to the marketplace garage or office workers parking in the lake view garage that's the predominance of without split both students and high school staff is a very different demographic and we so we're actually working with BPD to set up a de-escalation sort of conflict management training for our ambassador staff so that they can get some more skills on how to maybe deal with situations that they haven't had to deal with in the past so sorry it's a little bit of shotgun but that's a lot of the types of things we've been dealing with so you know welcome questions but but again what we're basically looking for tonight from you guys specifically is approval it to enter into a special contract with the schools with the modified rates at the modified conditions um relative to the school's um responsibilities around coordinating with us and giving them making sure that they have uh uh contact information with us and make sure they help our team manager and some of these specifics so um Marty I don't know if I forgot anything or give anything else to say but I'm happy to answer answer questions no I think you did a great job Jeff the only thing I will point out um those um really not probably significant uh to the commission is uh we will though we will be charged directly as a district for all the parking spaces we will be um charging some students for some uh vehicle uh parking which is the same $10 rate that they paid when they for parking passes at VHS but no but no teachers will not be passing that that cost on the teachers and we we're providing those bus passes to students for 11th and 12th graders and 12th graders will um obviously have prior priority thanks very yep so uh yeah happy to answer questions if you've got them all right thank you both Jeff and Marty for that uh Vice-Chair O'Neill let's start with you here okay thanks okay this is this is a tough nut here um I know we need to deal with parking but everything is so car centric the single occupancy vehicle I heard from um a couple of residents who are really concerned um and I thought I thought I'd bring it up with the parking issue as the car park issue as opposed to the drop-off issue but I guess this kind of fit if it does fit to both um parents just concerned that the focus is really on single occupancy vehicle prioritizing single occupancy vehicle um and not incentivizing non auto transport um and wanting to move um beyond the single occupancy vehicle um and consider the roles of public transit walking biking etc so this is what I'm hearing from um from folks so as I look at now the fixed parking where people are going to uh leave their cars and store them um downtown um couple couple questions here um so uh the streaming monitor um Jeff that you mentioned will that video still go to bpd yeah yes yeah this will just so the issue with the what the way the system works now is because it's recorded on hard drive the only people it's a privacy issue so that's why the bpd keeps those like so if we know a crime happened and we know what happened at four o'clock they will go and look at the video for us and then share the video with this as they can you know they just basically don't want some sort of violent inventory being recorded that so quote-unquote I could take and put on YouTube or whatever so that's a privacy thing but if it's a streaming video we're at we're allowed to watch the streaming video so that and honestly that is probably not going to come until August September timeframe whether it's a number of financial and technical issues surrounding that um how that will roll out but that's something we're working on and not just because the high school is there but because we we need that in general okay I think is something like that really needs to be communicated to parents faculty staff and students that that parking in that car park is going to be a different you know potentially different interface than what they had you know parking at at BHS on Institute Road and then you mentioned training for your ambassadors I mean Jeff I know you've got kids they're not long out of BHS that that sense that some of your training was going to be PD to deescalate and so while I appreciate that I wonder what role the school district can have in sort of diversity training we have a pretty broad section of students and how authorities interact with our students when they're going to park and you know just hormonal teens it's a it's a whole different interface so I think to compliment any kind of deescalation is also looking at diversity training as well and I don't know what role the school district can have with that but this responsibility of um you know that the city is taking on as we're having minors um utilizing our our system um in mass uh has just has some uncertain uh I don't know how to say it in English in kithy atudes uncertainties about you know how that interaction is going to going to go um and then you know thinking about um our our our students and maybe this is to marty um you were calculating um sorry how many spots 300 spots um some for teachers and some for students do we have a do we have a 911 map a data map of where BHS students live um to kind of assume those numbers or where would you get the data for figuring out kind of what student transportation might look like or the single occupancy vehicle uh so the data for students is strictly driven based on the the number of student parking passes that were issued for the last three years which didn't exceed 100 okay okay um and so and and sorry there's also a process that's going out this week um um notification to all students um for them to to make a request for those parking passes so we'll we'll have that information actually by the end of the week okay as the number of students that are going to make those requests okay and you said priority goes to seniors and then juniors is there that's correct we're right now it's it's it's actually our numbers that we're capping at 100 okay and then what about the students who um actually have a job they need to get to are there are there a kind of that um space in there to allow for like someone who's a just got their license and is a sophomore I don't know yeah I'm unfortunately can't speak to how that determination is going to be made from you know for each student but that's that's part of the messaging that's going to go out to the students this week it was something we discussed at the town hall earlier today however I don't know the the full details about that process okay and so then I guess back to back to Jeff the the or maybe maybe it was Marty I'm sorry that no teachers so the contract is with BSD the school district um and then the school district will capture the funds from the students but not from the teachers so are we asking Burlington taxpayers to subsidize parking for Burlington school district teachers we're about to vote on are the school district tax like taxes it helped me square this um why are the teachers not paying for parking from a school district perspective you know we're already asking teachers to to make a very big change from what they're currently used to by working at Burlington high school to work at this downtown site to also ask those teachers to to pay for parking was something that the district did not want to to ask of their of their teachers not to mention and it would probably have to be something that would be negotiated through their contract okay okay so they could get free parking if they parked at Institute Road and took a bus in to the downtown center they got free parking when they parked at Institute Road okay okay um I think uh the term the term on this so the this this contract then you've got these three periods here um FY 21 a five-day permit for ten dollars a month which is just ridiculously cheap um as our city parking is um you know struggling as well um so these timings then you have um Jeff let me see if I scroll down um that this this particular contract would end on the the June 30th of 2020 so I guess I'm wondering what are we 2023 is that a typo I apologize if there's a typo I guess I would just like to kind of reevaluate be able to reevaluate after this year um if then the school district has the opportunity to negotiate with the teachers on um you know an increased parking fee um for next year yeah uh for number four term and early termination or is that just termination March 2021 yeah there's a typo are you looking in the contract or in the yeah yeah page two of six the top of it um let me I'll fix that might have been that might be a clause from the um standard contract that I did not successfully purge that's not relevant I will fix that because their their term is the intent is that the term is FY 21 FY 22 and FY 23 and the reason we did that was we wanted to we wanted to um accommodate their financial challenges of FY 22 because their budget has already been built their budget is done for FY 22 and this is this is this is a load on their budget and and we're trying to help frankly and then we said okay let's give them some predictability for FY 23 which is that $40 and we basically did some rough calculations and we figured on a prorated basis 40 to $50 range is about what it costs excuse me what it costs us to cover our personnel costs so at least we're getting our people covered maybe you know we're not getting all of our supplies paid for we're not getting you know our loans paid for that stuff but at least we're paying for our people at that point and it's no and and it is an increased volume and it's an increased activity which is we see as good for the garage because the garage has been very very quiet so it's good to get anybody in there and yes $10 is ridiculously low but it's $10 higher than what where we started but now but then you talked about like additional security and again you know if we if we need to go a picture you know a 14 year old coming out of bhs after dark going into a car park i like who likes to go into a dark car park and like which level did you park on um and kind of going through there um where who what this what does this security look like and again is it a city or is it a school district how do we reevaluate this and how do we evaluate it before something just before something happens how do we be proactive on getting a sense from students and faculty and staff you know what's the comfort level in the car in the garage so so during the day they have the school resource officer that's there who primarily works inside the school but they all they they basically in our discussions they've said the practical reality is that officer will be out walking in the garage that and that's just that's the reality they will get out there um school staff also i believe like vice principal type staff do do they do patrols through the building and they will extend that patrol out into the garage and we've asked them to wear safety vests and have identification with them so we know who they are because we don't just want any random people walking through the garages um so yes we are all very concerned about the security situation but to to be clear you know we we are the city and they are the school and this is the city's parking garage and we're making as many accommodations as we possibly can but fundamentally if there if there needs to be increased safety infrastructure personnel costs of any kind it's in the contract that we will pass those costs to the school as is reasonable negotiate with them to pass them on i mean there may be some costs we incur because we want to but if it's if it's uh if it's directly school related we'd like to pass it over and i'll just add that we are a closed campus students they don't they will not have the ability to come and go from the building throughout the day um and we have access control at all entry points so if students were to leave the building they'd have to get buzzed back into the building and it's not to say that students won't figure out some sort of loophole to skip school or what not um as as we all have um but but there won't be this coming and going of hanging out in the parking garage i just wanted i just want to go back to the talk around uh de-escalation training we actually approached the school first about doing de-escalation training because they have done it the school has done it themselves in the past but they don't have the materials so i work with our health and safety person uh nicole blow and she reached out to the police department and they have some ready you know sort of off the shelf type of stuff that they're sending over to nicole and then she's going to sort of collate it and post it up on our online training platform so it's not like we're going to the police to get de-escalation training we're just using resources that they have and and going through that but i will also ask about i i guess i would actually probably start by going to school to see if you have any any uh any uh diversity training off the shelf stuff that we could add in there because i i think that would not be inappropriate also i think we could do that yeah we have some resources there we obviously use a consultant as as well um so i don't know if we would be able to make that person available to you or have you participate in some of the trainings that we already do but we can talk about that yeah and just and so you're clear also we have another meeting scheduled for the 25th um on on all of these security issues yeah everything lives are rattled off the night and what we just discussed is we have another meeting to sort of finalize and make sure we're all on the same page we've all got phone numbers and do the call and all that okay um all right i think that's it for me maybe someone else will take over one of my battle cries thanks thank you commissioner overby i only have a couple questions um and one of them was actually to point out that typo on the top of page two of six uh that should be the year 2023 instead of 2020 but you already found it um the two questions that i had were under the um in the in the uh contract under the timing restrictions there's something that says parking duration is limited to two weeks of continuous parking on all products i i don't know what that means means you can't park your car for more than two weeks so so that's the thing about but students it's but it's a monday through friday thing the permits monday through friday but you're saying that if they like just leave it there for two weeks that's that's from the old that's from a contract that's just the carryover that really doesn't apply to the students well that's a that's the generic contract yeah so the or the ordinance says you cannot park your car there for two weeks got you so that's that's from the generic contract that that answer that question i was like that's yeah i was thinking even in terms of students like what like what does that mean okay right no because we have we have customers that we sell under this same generic contract they buy 10 seven day permits and six five day permits so that clause applies you know whatever your product is whether it's a month product a week product or whatever right right and it doesn't really apply to the school at all and then the uh the options there's options for different kind of permit credentials do you have um what's the mechanism that you're using for the permits are they going to be something that's like a hang tag that can be exchanged by students or or qr qr code just like that so this is one of the things that is very explicit when you get a every person that has a permit in the garage we have their name and their email address we know there are no generic permits in the garage we know every person who went in and when they went out based on their use of their permit their qr code okay so it's so there's they're flashing the the qr code on a card of some sort that's a entry gate at the entry gate there's a scanner right they scan the qr code the gate goes up and then they and then the garage says okay got it joe smith is in the garage and then when they leave they say okay joe smith just left the garage yeah well i i just read the options that were there of the you know card decal hanging whatever so yeah that's again again it's because it's generic yeah no that's okay but i didn't see the qr code thing there so barcode thing is probably it barcode yeah yeah barcode whatever qr code all it is is a code that that that points you to a website that's it so people think it's more than it is um but anyway that's that was those are my questions about the contract i you know i i had some concerns about the ten dollars a month but i i totally think that we have to do it for now and um and i'm a little you know i would be interesting how many students can be actually riding the bus i don't know how many are able to ride the bus to to school i would think that's great sounds like it's being encouraged um but then again the students that do have a job that they need to get to after school um that's that's a constraint and some people can't ride the bus to a job so uh i i support the the project here and um but let's go forward to give some predictability the next three years we sort of know what's going to happen my only thought was that we i know i'm i'm trusting you jeff that you are on top of it as far as the number of permits that that were given um given away i'm not given away but actually committing to because things can change in the next three years and and and we know that's going to happen so i'm trusting that you know we're not going to over over commit so so just yeah so for context there macy's we had a mou a memorandum of understanding with uvm for them to move into macy's i don't know if you remember that or not um but that was i believe for they kept changing but it was somewhere between three and four hundred cars so obviously uvm is not going into macy's the high school is so that's part of the reason why we although they're projecting 120 students and 160 staff well he already said tonight they're going to limit it to 100 so we're down 20 well 120 and 160 only adds to 280 so we bumped it to 300 to be a round number so that's their allocation that just means based in contract that's their limit and that so we're happy to manage within that boundary right i'm not i'm not worried i i i think we're fine thank you i think you're meticulous in your calculations that's why i'm confident well challenge me anytime because clearly i already made a mistake in the contract thank you commissioner archambeau yeah thank i'll just be brief here i mean we are a city vermont's largest city and we effectively don't have a high school right and and this is the plan to make it work uh i'm not here to micromanage this if anything i'm saying jeff and marty you tell us what we need to do to support you because this has got to happen this is not optional right so picking apart details of this to me is like we need this to work so we're looking to you you carry a heavy burden on your shoulders right now and i'm i'm supremely thankful for all the work that's already gone into this and i can only say i myself uh you just tell me what to do and let's make it happen don't thank you thanks thank you all right thank you commissioner bar thanks thanks i i appreciate and and agree with many of the comments made um by my fellow commissioners and by all of those that put a lot of work into this i agree this is a critical and necessary um challenge that needs to be fixed as quickly as possible but i i will also echo um vice chair o'neill vivanko's comments about the free parking for for um for the teachers i i work at uvm i manage the parking there and i gotta say that there's never free parking i don't care who you are i don't care if you're the president university of vice president everybody everybody pays because parking costs and it's just it is a little unsettling to me that um and i get it that there's a teacher's union that needs to be negotiated with i i think that it needs to happen it needs to be negotiated because putting putting their cost for parking on the taxpayers is is challenging it's it's how do we explain that to people who are getting additional costs because there's many needs that we you know we need to fix institute road we need to there's so many different things that we need to do and and i'm all for supporting education but um parking is not a necessity and i'll just say this i i get on a soapbox at my work all the time parking is not a right it's it's a privilege it's with all the the great transportation that we have um and and it can be better but we've got good transportation in the area there's many ways to get to this to this location that do not require a single occupancy vehicle so um and if if i will say this again too and i know i have to deal with both parking and transportation in my my role so sometimes i'm in conflict with myself because i'm trying to get people to take transportation which is actually my revenue uh from parking um but but the biggest challenge is trying to use parking as a TDM measure to try and get people to use transportation and if you make the cost of parking less of an incentive or more of a disincentive then you'll get people riding bikes taking the bus carpooling doing things like that so so i'm i'm just throwing that out i know that this is something we can't decide tonight i'm in support of this right now but i i would like us moving forward since there is the ability within this agreement to do some negotiations and talk about it i i'd just like to keep that in the top of our minds that you know that i agree that teachers have to do a lot and and we are asking a lot from them Marty to move from where they are now to where they you know where they're going to be for the next three years but this is one of those things that's it's challenging i'm conflicted so that's that's it for me but i think that's why we limited the contract to those two years out of the three to four years that they're predicting is because there are a number of so let's say philosophical issues around exactly what you're saying is you know the school is going to need to some time to work with the teachers and or the union and with the students to find the right messaging for you know ride the bus or whatever the alternative is but that you know with i mean the Herculean effort that the school is pulling off to get into Macy's right now i mean this we we just spent the past couple hours dealing with a very small sliver of the mixture that has kind of just so that's part of the reason why we we step the rates to say let's work you into the rates and then let's cut it a little short so we can have these more challenged discussions in you know in a couple years once you got your game a little more figured out right and and just obviously no it would it would not just be a high school discussion it would be a full district discussion for all of our staff mm-hmm i think coming in the future it's something that needs to happen i know that there's i always get people asking me why can't you know how come i have to pay for parking you know i work here well because parking costs money i got to fix i got to enforce i've got to paint the lines i've got to remove the snow i've got to fix the asphalt you know all the things that money has to come from somewhere so somebody has to pay for it and i think that since it's cars that cause that challenge the cars should be paying for it so that's that's me i'll get off my soapbox i just wanted to share that and thanks thank you thank you commissioner bows i don't really have too much to add to this i i'm very much in support of this plan i would say since commissioner bar and vice chair uh o'Neil Vivanco brought up this particular issue i do think that it bears a broader conversation i don't entirely understand the the the kind of the focus on the teachers free parking part of this because i mean that part of the argument especially in like i don't know it seems very selective to say like i don't understand why we would make this more accessible for the teachers in this particular moment while recognizing the kind of the emergency situation that we're talking about more broadly i mean i understand these kinds of broader you know in terms of the broader you know kind of modes of commuting and modes of travel that we're talking about but i'm i'm a little uncomfortable with just fixing a fixating on this particular part of this but again perhaps that's something that we open up for a broader conversation in the longer term as it is right now i i'm certainly satisfied with the plan as as presented thanks thank you commissioner gillman nothing i want to add after all that great discussion so we're all set all right thank you i appreciate the concern on parking but that you know that's not in the the contract here marty's volunteered that information of that's what their that's their business of what they're doing to with the parking permits that they're buying from the city here uh it is crucial to remember that there is a high cost of free parking um on the other hand teaching is one of the professions that has been become incredibly more challenging this year than in past years and i'm not just talking about moving to a temporary facility here just like the nuts and bolts of what teaching looks like this year like it's a it's a tough gig in the best of times and it's a lot tougher now and i i'll leave i'll leave that there i i trust what uh we all are up to here i second the sentiment of my fellow commissioners that we should revisit the incentive structure for staff and how staff gets to work that this may not be the right time and i appreciate that again that's there's maybe it's a whole district wide conversation and see staff triple parked admins gather that there's constraints there and it's worthy of discussion there as well about how people are getting to their point of point of employment we are so grateful for their care and attention in that profession anyways i yeah i'm all good with this i appreciate the work and the comments here quick scan of my notes and i i think everything has been um come up in conversation here all right i'm good this i've already fixed that typo thank you for catching that 2020 should have been 2023 all right we're on it i'm done looking to public comment uh mr goulding is there any anyone from the public who they wish to speak they're hoping there's nobody signed up at this time thank you back to the commission then seeking your vote on this matter i'll move to pass uh staff's proposal here motion from commissioner archer but thank you second second by commissioner bows thank you is there any discussion around that motion all right seeing none we'll go to a votes uh commissioner archer bow hi mr bar hi commissioner bows hi commissioner gillman hi vice chair o'neill hi commissioner over b hi hi for myself motion passes unanimously okay thank you everybody well thank you everybody thank you for your time and your support this evening yeah no appreciate the uh appreciate the input in the conversation here mary thank you thank you yeah thanks right moving forward item seven approval draft minutes from our january meeting is there any discussion around the minutes entertain a motion there i'd make a motion to accept the minutes oh second that sure we have a motion from commissioner bar second from commissioner archer bow is there any discussion around that motion all right bring it to a vote uh commissioner archer bow hi right commissioner bar hi commissioner bows hi commissioner gillman hi vice chair o'neill hi commissioner over b hi hi for myself the minutes passing unanimously thank you uh directors reports uh city engineer baldman is there anything you'd like to state on the director's report we have a nice synopsis in our in our packet no i think chappan did a good job at communicating in advance of the meeting uh long list of things that are ongoing um certainly willing to answer any questions you might have as a result of those communications all right thank you if there are questions let's take them in our commissioner communications and for that close out the director's board thank you city engineer baldwin moving to item nine commissioner communications let's start with commissioner overby i just wanted to relay a direct communication i had from somebody who lives on elmwood avenue and was concerned about the enforcement process of the two hour section of uh parking on the sort of the end of elmwood that's that's just right before you reach north um street and his concern was that uh the the the mechanism of enforcement of how does the parking enforcement know that somebody has been there for two hour over two hours when people could come and go uh let's say they work and they came home for lunch and then they you know went back to work and so i had a quite an extensive communication with this person and also linked in john king um and i had asked the person to come and speak if he wanted to because he was concerned also about the price of seventy five dollars for a ticket for parking over two hours in a two hour uh limited parking place uh so i gave him the statue he was concerned that there was some discrimination potentially um in that area and was that the same everywhere in the city which it is um so i i gave him a lot of information but i also wanted to just share with other people that that the methodology that's used by the person who checks on vehicles that are in a two hour location is the checking of the the location of the tire stem so it's pretty i mean i was wondering if in the old days used to be they chalked the tire and then you know write the time on or something but just for other people to know it it it's pretty much that the system is pretty much you can't go home for lunch and and and i mean it's there's probably it's as accurate as you could get so um i did he was concerned also that it you know maybe other communities have ways for people that are lower income to uh have you know not pay as pricey a ticket and that there's mechanisms for that but i think we we just we realize that it is sort of one of those things if you get the ticket you've got to deal with the city attorney and that's the system we have and that they did the best they can to be you know not putting a ticket on somebody's car who has who has actually um not been there for two hours because they just came back from you know for lunch and they were there and it looked like they were i just wanted to relay that that information for other people so that if there is other questions about that or concerns i'm more than willing to share all the information that i learned through this communication with this um resident of elmwood avenue thanks all right thank you mr archibald no communications for me please all right mr bar thanks um so i as you can probably see for many minutes especially during the winter months i i always give a lot a lot of jury comments to the snow removal i think that they're doing a fantastic job out there sidewalks roads um safety i think that they've done a phenomenal job and and i'll just give a plug to the entire dpw for the sidewalks and the the roads that have been maintained and a lot of things i really want to give you guys props for how great things have been going i will just add to based on our conversation and and i supported the the the the parking uh in all that stuff but i i i want to say this about about the burlington school district i guess as a whole that that's a place where students come to learn and they're seeing how everybody reacts and performs and does things and if if we don't try and start educating them there about tdm and using alternative forms of of commuting and mobility um they're they're just going to graduate from there and expect to go somewhere and be able to park drive a car single occupancy so if there's one thing and it's not for us to say but i'm just saying it now so that it's in the communications you know maybe the burlington school district needs to have a sustainable transportation coordinator or a tdm person there to help educate and try and conform them i have that at uvm i know that there's a lot of different places that have those i'm just throwing out that plug that it's it's very important and and we're trying to mold young adults into uh older adults i guess so that would be a good place to to start so that that's it for me thank you mr boz thank you uh i just actually also following on that point i wanted to clarify that you know when i you know my comments uh at the end of the parking discussion i don't disagree with anything that commissioner bar or vice chair o'neill have said to this sort sort of broader issue um you know i'm somebody who doesn't actually park it at uvm i uh you know i commute by bike or by bus to get up there um my comments were more about feeling to some degree that we were fixating on one part of what seemed to be a broader issue and i didn't really quite understand why we would we would sort of single out the teacher part of this where it is a broader issue anyway i'll leave it at that in terms of my communications what i um wanted to relay is a question that was posed to me by a number of um neighbors in the pine street and flin av neighborhoods um and so they asked me to raise this particular question so this is the way they phrased it pine street southbound vehicles at the intersection of pine street and flin av turned left onto flin when the light is green even when the pedestrians crosswalk light is on for crossing this is hazardous for pedestrians including school children and people walking to from work there should be a red arrow for left turn when the crosswalk is lit for crossing having also been a driver in the situation driving north northbound and taking a left on flin it is admittedly very difficult to react to a pedestrian in the crosswalk if you've already begun to take the left turn drivers are looking ahead and up at the light beginning to turn and then encounter a pedestrian midway through crossing this is known to many people in the neighborhood to be an incredibly dangerous and scary intersection there are many near misses with pedestrians in the crosswalk they have a walk sign the remedy for this would be modifying the traffic light so there is a clear red left arrow or a no turn light similar to the one indicating no right terms from flin onto pine at that intersection so everyone can cross safely without any traffic movement again there are many neighbors aware of this hazard and if it would help to have others write in or come speak at the meeting please let me know there are multiple requests on C click C click fix from over the past year but no action has been taken so I agreed to bring this forward to the commission and hopefully I can communicate with staff following this meeting I'll follow up with staff to to you know see what's been kind of done to to either address or respond to this the concern so chair hogan do you want me to respond to that concern please yeah so we're well aware of the concern that the public's expressed there's been some communications from our signal technician over I think some period of time and I don't know precisely how long it's been in conversation he I think he attempted to communicate that to make significant change would require some significant capital investment we did meet last week as a city team to look at the issue and have are trying to assemble some solutions and were I actually this was raised to uh see click fix through um counselor mason and uh I am due to respond back to him I am the point person on that issue so I will uh certainly copy members of the commission and himself when we are prepared to kind of give a more formalized response but effectively we have uh two signal projects that are in queue that are related to school safety already and we're looking to figure out how this project could potentially fit within either time or resource and uh we have some ideas so we're we're working on it it's not I guess being discounted or ignored it's it's really just comes down to what can we do to kind of change people's behaviors I think it is going to require a significant capital investment because frankly people are are really not simply not yielding to pedestrians even when they don't have that protected movement having gone through that intersection I recognize that but this is really good to hear if you wouldn't mind either copying me on just just so I can update them that clearly there's work being done on this yeah that's great thank you that's all for me thank you all right Commissioner Gilman nothing uh nothing from me tonight thanks all right thank you Vice Chair O'Neill um so the parking the parking thing at KHS yeah we really I do want to revisit this you know it feels like the school district is this you know municipality within the municipality that doesn't have to have a transportation management plan that doesn't have to promote active transportation that doesn't have to comply with the walk bike master plan and or a net zero energy plan so it just feels like you know let's get the conversation going that said as the parent of a high schooler we need the high school open so if we have to subsidize the teacher's parking and no one's subsidizing anybody else's parking at UVM um but if we have to subsidize the teacher's parking to get the school open then then so be it but I do hope that we can have conversations um more about transportation at the school district and then to echo what uh Commissioner Overby mentioned uh I was gonna bring up something similar on on Overlake a a neighbor came to me because we have four hour parking between eight and four and he had a contractor uh at the house and the contractor contractors apparently can park on the street if they have a uh they can go beyond the four hours if they have like a decal um but this is uh you know small like one guy shop operation he does he doesn't have a decal um so he parked and then he left and then came back and he got a warning but my neighbor wanted me to like push this forward again how does the the parking attendant really qualify that the person has been there a full four hours and this isn't the first time this has come up um I was victim once too um because if you're if you happen to be parking and and I don't think they look at the they don't look at the stems of I think it's just your car was here in this general area at eight o'clock in the morning and then it was um here later on the afternoon and then you were there the whole day so I wonder if there are better systems um to to to track time um and maybe it's maybe there maybe there aren't but at least to figure out what kind of explanation we can give people to say well you can only have contractors who have decals on their car um to park on the street or you have to have some kind of timestamp I don't I don't know I I would suspect that they probably take a timestamp picture of the vehicle in position and use that for enforcement but I think Jeff could confirm that given he's now managing the the enforcement team okay because it's not it's I mean it's not a perfect um you know it's it's not a perfect science so when I got when I got um you know the warning I had moved my car out to let a contractor in and then come came home the contractor was still there and just left the car at the end of the driveway which is probably around the same spot um and she was about to give me a ticket I'm like I just got here so yeah I don't know I don't I don't know if there's a if there's a better system um with these sort of like weird time frames I will um let Jeff I guess I'll share with Jeff the concerned members of the commission have expressed and hopefully can communicate back to you how they approach that okay thanks that's it yeah thank you I have nothing further on my end and with that I'll close commissioner communications bringing us to gen item 10 adjournment and next meeting date March 17 motion to adjourn second oh is that uh commissioner archer bow with the motion pick your pick chair hogan you can have it commissioner archer bow with archer bow all right here we go via nose okay um any discussion around that motion and we'll bring it to a floor open vote here all those in favor please say hi any opposed all right we are adjourned 937 excellent good evening all we'll see you uh March 17 thanks everyone good night everyone	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCesimvYhnc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJxv5HHiwt3iQnyn9WQRnRA	IHE Delft 💧 Alumni Online Seminar: Understanding & preventing corruption in water by Binayak Das	Alumnus Binayak Das presents 'Corruption in water, understanding the issue and taking preventive measures' Investigations and sanctions are the last steps in the fight against corruption – and they come at a price, as they can further tarnish the reputation of organizations. Measures to prevent corruption strengthens integrity within organizations, thereby reducing the risks for corrupt practices. Corruption is a major obstacle for work toward achieving universal access to water and sanitation, as called for in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. Corruption leads to higher costs for drinking water and sanitation services and degrades the quality and reliability of supply, thus endangering the health of people (SDG 3). In many countries, women and girls are responsible for the management of household water supplies, sanitation and health, meaning that they are unequally affected by corruption, which erodes gender equity efforts (SDG 5). The increasing flows of climate finance into the water sector combined with its complexity and its infrastructure-intensive nature makes the sector particularly vulnerable to corruption and integrity risks. This webinar will focus on highlighting some key corruption and integrity-related challenges that the water sector encounters. It will share standards, frameworks, tools, and good practices for strengthening integrity within the water sector from policy to implementation level across institutions. Corruption is estimated to be responsible for “losses” of 10% of the investments going into the capital-intensive water sector – in some countries reaching as high as 40% to 50% (WIN, 2016). Poor integrity tarnishes the reputation and creditworthiness of water sector entities, at a time when they need significantly increased investments to meet the urgent need for climate action. A study by the Inter-American Development Bank states that mitigating corruption risks can lead to substantial savings across the sector. To strengthen integrity, there is a need to focus on accountable institutions (SDG 16). Water and sanitation sector organizations need to operate with integrity to prevent corruption, avoid sanctions, and enhance credibility to attract investments to be able to achieve the SDGs and climate-related goals. Speaker IHE Delft alumnus Binayak Das has years of progressive experience spanning more than 20 years in development cooperation, with a strong expertise on water governance and management. His work is interdisciplinary and transcends into the subjects of environment, climate change, corruption and sustainable development. Binayak has a masters’ degree on water management from IHE Delft, The Netherlands, and a post graduate degree on environment management from IISWBM, Kolkata, India. He is a Panos journalist fellow and author of numerous books and articles on water, environment, and climate issues. Binayak founded SixDegrees News, a news website on sustainable development. Currently he is Programme Coordinator at the Water Integrity Network, where he leads the development, adaptation, training, and promotion of water integrity tools, and manages collaborations with key global partners. In addition, he is leading development of WIN’s climate portfolio. Binayak’s earlier appointments include engagements with IUCN, Transparency International, Arghyam, Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine.	[ "ihe delft", "capacity development", "online seminar", "academic", "capacitydevelopment", "development", "education", "ihe delft institute for water education", "research", "sdg6", "study abroad", "study in holland", "study water", "studyabroad", "studyinholland", "studywater", "un", "water" ]	2022-11-10T08:57:42	2024-02-15T16:14:47	4,509	pcRyiMEtarI	I'm very happy to be here because we are all alumni, IHE alumni and students, so I think we had a very nice learning experience in DEL and we are interacting definitely in a very less informal way rather than in a formal way, that's how I'd like to keep it. So today we are going to talk about corruption in water, understanding the issue and taking preventive measures. I mean, as Abraham mentioned, it's a topic which is very provocative, sensitive, but how can we tackle this problem? It's something which the Water and Energy Network we are trying to address and not an easy topic, very difficult, probably one of the most difficult to address and I'll share with you some of our experiences around this. Just to mention that I've been an alumna of IHE from 2005 to 2007, the water management program, so this is where we are, we are based in Berlin in Germany and I understand you are putting the queue and they where are you from, I'm looking at that, I'm really excited to see people from all over the world participate in here and the number is continuously increasing because we are very happy to share about this particular issue, corruption, which many organizations also are very reluctant to pick up because of the sensitivities around it. So I would like to start with a quote from Wangari Mathai who had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 and she said, the global water crisis is a crisis of governance, man-made with ignorance, greed and corruption at its core. So this is very important to remember when you talk about water governance. Now very briefly about the water integrity network, we are based in Berlin, we used to be part of the transparency international and now we are an independent organization. So our work mainly focuses on advocating for political and social action for water and sanitation integrity, raising awareness of the benefits of integrity and training stakeholders to tackle this. We encourage collective action by supporting multi-stakeholder processes, connecting different actors and enabling and developing knowledge. We promote practical evidence-based responses to poor integrity assessing, researching risks and developing integrity risk mitigation strategies. So we work in many countries but primarily we have three focus countries, one is Bangladesh, the second one is Kenya and the third one is Mexico in the three different regions but apart from that we also work in different countries. For example, we are working in Peru, we are working in Dambia, we have worked in Indonesia, so in Albania. So we do work but our main focus are those three countries. Now I would like to introduce some terminologies here which you probably have come across and I just try to pick it up from different sources so that you get an understanding of what everyone was mentioning about the framework around which we work. So for example, we start with integrity because that's the core we are talking about here. Integrity means using vested powers and resources ethically and honestly and sharing services and resources go where they are intended and most needed. Practically this is done by building up transparency, accountability, participation and implementing anti-corruption measures. That's what we call the TAPA framework under which we work. Transparency is the principle of allowing those affected by administrative decisions to know about the resulting facts and figures and about the processes that result in those decisions. Accountability the fact of being responsible for your decisions or actions and of being expected to explain them when you are asked. Participation at the most basic level participation means people being involved in decisions that affect their life. So we all know these definitions and there are the definitions. The important thing is like how do you put it in practice and that becomes a bit of a challenge. We have them many times in paper that's an integrity issue if you're not actually applying them in your action. Now when you talk about participation there is another term which is becoming very important now called inclusion because participation what has been found is that it is actually not always inclusive and hence there is the whole discourse now around inclusion. Authentic involvement of traditionally excluded individuals and their group into processes activities and decision policy measures in a way that shares power. Here I would also like to mention when you're talking about inclusion we're also talking about gender and inclusion of women in the process. Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for a private gain. Corruption can be classified as grand petty and political depending on the amount of money loss and the sector where it acts. Governance. In its purest form governance describes the structure and decision making processes that allow a state or group of people to conduct affairs. When you talk about corruption when you talk about integrity they all fall under the umbrella of governance. And good governance. Governance is one but good governance is something different which is among other things participatory, transparent and accountable. It is also effective and equitable and it promotes the rule of law. Good governance ensures that political, social and economic priorities are based on broad consensus in society and that the voices of the poorest and the most vulnerable are hard in decision making. Water governance. Now coming to water governance it refers to the range of political, social, economic and administrative systems that are in place to develop and manage water resources and the delivery of water services at different levels of society. Here probably a lot of you are coming from different water sector organizations, government agencies and probably you will be able to connect if you think where actually you do encounter issues of integrity. It's internal it's external you have to encounter both in your work. And one important point to mention is that like in terms of the sustainable development goals we are already behind that and addressing issues of corruption is very important if we are able to reach towards that goal. So we know water and STG6, STG6 is linked to the goal of water but there is also this goal called goal 16 which is talking about strong institutions and no corruption. So this is where we feel important also to focus. We need to build strong institutions and strengthen their integrity. Now continuing a little bit about water governance and where does integrity fall in it we picked up the OECD principles of water governance there are numerous other ways of looking at it but here is the OECD principles and here if you see they have got 12 different pillars of governance here and they are around effectiveness, efficiency, trust and engagement. Among the 12 a lot of them actually touches on integrity it's not for example regulatory framework, financing, clear roles and responsibilities that do touch us for very strongly on integrity and here I just want to mention when you talk of trust and engagement which is strongly linked to integrity. This is related to the contribution of governance to building public confidence and ensuring inclusiveness of stakeholders to democratic legitimacy and fairness of society approach and within this if you look we have principle nine which is the integrity and transparency principle. So this is one within the governance framework where integrity and transparency comes in but it's also captured in other pillars. Another important concept which many of you are obviously aware about and this is very strongly linked to integrity is human rights to water and sanitation. When you are working in the technical space we sometimes do not look at the issues of the governance but as it is to be noted that if you are able to address the issues of governance and management a lot of the problems can be solved. So human rights to water and sanitation is one where the right to save drinking water and sanitation is recognized in 2010 by the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Human Rights Council. The right to water and title everyone to have access to sufficient safe acceptable physical be accessible and affordable water for personnel and domestic youth. The right to sanitation and titles everyone to have physical and affordable access to sanitation in all fields of life that is safe hygienic secure and socially and culturally accessible. It is important to note that like we do talk a lot about water but we ignore sanitation but this is a very important topic that we should not we should not ignore and we need to address that. So clean water needs clean governance. Why focus on water and sanitation sector? What is so crucial about it and what is it like how it is vulnerable to corruption? So one we have to we all know that water is scarce and it's becoming more so. Water governance is dispersed across agencies. It is not something which is governed by one single agency for example there are different different ministries are involved the ministry of finance is involved in it the ministry of irrigation water resources environment and it includes also different line agencies. So it's a fragmented sector which makes it very open to corruption. It involves especially infrastructure work involves increasingly large flow of public and private private investment and as we all know because you have to build a lot of pipe network infrastructure dams etc everything involves big money and big money means there room for corruption. Water management is highly technical I think a lot of you will understand that what we talk about what you talk about when you talk about hydrology when you talk about what you call modeling etc these are very technical terms which a common person does not understand. So this is also what happens under the terms of technicality sometimes corruption and misuse especially for example in designing a project and implementing design. Informal providers play a key role in service delivery we all know especially in many cities we don't have access to water in informal settlements and slums then what happens there are private vendors then many times these vendors are controlled mafia and sometimes politicians are involved in these processes and these are corruption and what happens obviously the poor wire station marginalized they are messed up they are the ones who lose most. According to the global water intelligence 10 of the 20 scandals related to the water sector involves corruption. Corruption increases between 7 to 16 percent the prices for standard and unique so we also lose a lot of the money because of corruption. As you can see you can see it's all over the newspaper it splashes across televisions this is how it comes across scandals scams around corruption happening in the water and sanitation sector. I'd like to share with you a couple of examples and before I go into the examples I'd like to also mention that the topic of corruption is sensitive it's not easy to address it when you are going to talk to when we talk to partners when you talk to government agencies the first step is actually no sorry we are all fine we have got good processes in place sorry are you here to um what you call scrutinizer but that's not the fact the point is to understand that we all know it that there is an issue but how do you resolve it and this is where evidences are there and when we talk of corruption when we want to tell that like a corruption is happening there in this organization it is very important to just not to make acquisitions without strong evidence and proof because this can also destroy the reputation of an organization and an individual hence what we try to do is like whenever we are sharing any examples etc all those have been backed by evidence have been published in places that are publicly available and not on something which you have been hearing about so this is very important to take into note now here is an example from South Africa why I'm bringing this in is our director Barbara Schreiner she talks about issues from South Africa and she mentions that like this is for one of her publications we did corruption in South Africa's water sector in 2014 she mentions about someone an old woman who is slaughtered a chicken to celebrate the presidential launch of the Guiani water project that would bring water to 55 villages going down look at 2021 the project costs have risen from around us 35 million dollars to 200 million dollars imagine that that's not even 10 years project remains unfinished amidst claims of corruption obviously there are other young boys drowned in an open trench for those who did not did get water it is often wrong the matibula who was who is the lady in here still fetched water from crocodile interest river the economy and the health impacts are affected in the villages and contributed to overdraft of department of water and lack of funding for other parts so this is an example like the chain of what can happen and when you talk of corruption we're looking at a bit broader than just the exchange of money there can be other ways how corruption and poor integrity are executed so now as we move I would like to bring another example here from Los Angeles the USA in 2013 the Los Angeles department of water and power introduced new water business many residents received inaccurate or delayed water bills some inflated massively inflated there were lawsuits which follow there was a settlement in 2017 the city committed to repay 67 million dollars to customers two key lawyers in the case worked for both sides defending the city and representing the class actions idea allegations that the city had deliberately ingenious this situation new lawsuit came up again charging the city with attempting to cover up pollution in 2017 settlement by conducting a fraudulent action review so if you look at it here is another example how corruption can happen this is around our urban water utility we're talking about now and this has gone on if you look at there is an clipping which says that like it's being investigated also by the FBI so what I also like to mention is that corruption exists everywhere during a discourse during a discussion it often comes across that like the global south which actually is the hub of corruption but unfortunately that's not true it's everywhere it's even in the global north what probably happens is that people in the global south suffer more from corruption because it affects directly on a daily life which comes in the form of petty corruption and institution and grand corruption happens at another level and we're also more money big money are involved another example I want to give which you might want to consider do you think it is corruption do you think it's a systemic failure do you think it's the issue of integrity and this is from Bangladesh where there are these excellent treatment funds for the government you know Bangladesh is one of the biggest hub of government production in the world so what this was a study which we had done with Transparency International Bangladesh and what we have found is that 40 to 80 percent of the excellent treatment plans in these factories are not designed according to standards and are not operating so by law they are supposed to be implementing the law and operating the excellent treatment plans and treating the waste water before being discharging that but that's not really happening so what are the challenges I mean one of the challenges in the last one we talked about is indications of bribery and corruption not true very difficult to prove so this is important to remember that is this an acquisition or is this an indication so this is something we need to take into account however there are other things which comes up and it starts looking at the broader aspects of integrity lack of monitoring system who is responsible for that there are sometimes lack of resources sometimes there are lack of capacity there's lack of accountability mechanism inspections are not carried out properly ensuring inspection of because not getting access to factories so there are multiple issues that you have to deal with another issue which we have been working on very a lot recently extortion when you talk of corruption we talk of bribe we talk of extortion but there also can be corruption in other forms and in this case how women suffer a lot when they're actually trying to get water we have been looking at some studies and we have also been working on our own research in some countries for example here it's mentioned that one in five women have experienced extortion or knows someone who has been accessing public services including water and here is a quote from Johannesburg if I don't have the money to bribe the utility staff he will sexually abuse me because that's the only valuable thing I can give them or in Bogota men want sexual favors to deliver water and this is a form of corruption women because of their vulnerability and inability to walk long distances to get water also given to men's demands so this is very important to note that these are some of the issues we don't talk about which are taboo but it's important that we recognize and start systematically accessing them now understanding corruption I mentioned about grand corruption about petty corruption so here I just like to elaborate a bit more on this which is grand corruption typically takes place at high levels in public or private sectors involves actors that make rules policies and executive decisions so basically it involves government agencies it involves politicians it involves bureaucrats often involves large sums of money often called political corruption highlighting the negative influence of money in political process petty and administrative corruption small scale administrative or petty corruption at the interface between public institutions and citizens bribery linked to implementation of laws rules and regulations for example and civil servants give access to water only if they receive a payment higher than the real plan usually small amounts of money often not clear where corruption petty corruption and grand corruption begins systemic or institutional corruption and other aspects to look at this does not refer to individual lack of corruption but the consistent pattern of fire in the generation and application of laws standard that favor private interests over common groups so this is like how institutions are captured by certain power groups and this also involves multi stakeholder processes where some stakeholders have more power than others and they tend to influence decisions so there are many aspects when it comes especially with water which is the resource which is required by everyone not only for drinking purpose but also for industrial agricultural etc. Now three major areas of corruption and integrity failures one which I already touched upon in the last slide is looking at corruption in public resources management then corruption at individual or institutional interface and issues of integrity equity and development going beyond corruption to look at like how it affects the marginalized and informal centers. Private gains might include diverting funds to one's own position while political gains could mean for example using public resources to consolidate power some people are in positions of power for example in utility acts the managing director has been there for 10 years that's the kind of also a political corruption which happens corruption and integrity failures happen everywhere at one end is petty corruption mostly involved in individual and the other end is systemic institutional corruption embedded at all levels even in this challenging environment pro integrity preventive actions can be highly effective so that's going to mention now that we have been talking about corruption what is more important is like how do you prevent it and that's why pro preventive measures are one of the best approaches and when you talk of integrity we look at it from a positive aspect because corruption is negative no one wants to talk about it so let's look at it turn it around and let's look at it from a positive perspective corruption and integrity failures in water and sanitation affect every stage of program development and service delivery they have remained as financial social human environmental and climate law and mostly affecting the poor so just to give a quick example if this is a water service delivery let's say phases or in water service delivery what happens is you have allocation you allocate resources you may be budget it may be allocation to different departments so then there is procurement construction service delivery operations monitoring maintenance where does corruption happen in all this and this is just a simple example and looking at it from a let's say brutal project allocation funds allocated primarily to villages of family or friends funds allocated to ghost villages and embassies procurement local power and community politics tendering processes controlled by cartels arbitrary tariff status substandard cheap materials used while construct construction is being picked up build structure not according to specifications or design service delivery rise demanded or services received vulnerable communities left behind operation lack of accountability and poor maintenance of facilities facilities no control over funds meant for operations and repairs money is appeared so this is just a simple example now when you're talking of corruption and as I mentioned earlier you have to be very careful to what you can attribute something to corruption and which actually is maybe indicative but not really corruption or maybe it's also sometimes the fault that is issued and hence is very important to investigate properly and always have the evidence and here comes one term which you'd like to bring is red flag where you are working where you are working you probably come across you suspect something something is wrong but you cannot prove it those suspicions can be considered like kind of red flag so red flags of corruptions and activities circumstances or other indicators that may indicate the presence of corrupt activities within an organization or work at the very outset it must be noted that the presence of red flag should not necessarily be treated as evidence that corrupt activities are taking place rather red flags should be observed and treated as a potential starting point for institutional investigations into corruption as well as compliance verification activity now here I am giving some examples which falls in the range of red flag probably in issues of integrity but not necessarily corruption but these two affect our functioning of the water sector water and sanitation overpricing evidence that irrigation systems in country Guatemala developed without feasibility study applied unjustified higher so they went ahead without feasibility study will you call it call it corruption probably not it's not corruption but it probably something else if there is they are mandated to have a feasibility study and they do not do that then probably there is an issue of accountability and integrity poor upstream planning designed that did not account for climate change impact resulting in projects that became non-operational in Malawi now this is this corruption no but upstream planning and do not take into account issues of climate today addressing climate issues is one of the most important as addressing human rights to water issues if we ignore these in our planning process then we are definitely leaving out something very crucial and important and that we consider integrity issues and governance issues again poor upstream planning because of land acquisition issues storage reservoir of Mabira Dam in Uganda lost almost half its initial plant capacity this is another example of planning outdated sensors drinking water systems in El Salvador based in old sensors and did not meet the requirements of the population here again is a question if you have a new sensor why not use it if you don't have a new sensor how do you actually work around it that is very important and this is an issue of planning probably and how do you actually strengthen our planning fraudulent land acquisition most only towards corruption wastewater plants in Bangkok was never built due to land acquisition problems and most of the domestic and industrial wastewater which you have intended to keep it still discharged untreated and this is a problem where land was acquisition fraud compromising design newly constructed embankments in Bangladesh collapsed due to compromising design height leading to flooding in problem what happened basically was like the embankment had a certain design just provided by the engineers but when the work was executed it was not according to the design because you can chip off and you can get money out of it and this is the kind of a problem and you cannot always pinpoint out the problem this is very difficult when it comes to investigating corruption so it will be nice if you can add some of your experienced knowledge case of corruption in the water sector it will be good to see if you if you are if you're able to put something which has evidence or is it something that is here here and obviously here we are not accusing anyone of anything now to move forward what is water integrity wind defines water integrity as the use of vested powers and resources ethically and honestly for the delivery of sustainably equitable water and sanitation services in the competition it is implicit in human rights obligation explicit in administrative justice laws in many countries operationalized through the principles of transparency accountability participation and corruption so this is how we try to look at it from a positive perspective and how this can be positively influenced integrity equal to transparency plus accountability participation and corruption here is a short video which I would like to play and I hope you can hear Abraham please let me know if people are hearing and if it is bit difficult we can definitely stop the video but let me try playing it Benak we don't hear the sound perhaps you could reshare like if you could unshare and then share again and check the optimize for video option but more than 663 million people across the world have no access to safe drinking water or sanitation these people are mostly poor and vulnerable and their basic human rights are not being met largely because of poor management corruption and wasted resources in 2015 the UN adopted sustainable development goals for the water sector to meet them we need to act urgently and improve water integrity by water integrity we mean open accountable decision making by all the people involved in managing water resources it's crucial that these are managed fairly and sustainably but too often this isn't happening all around the world people get sick from dirty water pipes and pumps are collapsing water is stolen from utilities and people need to pay bribes just to get water or a toilet this needs to stop by working together we can fight corruption and make sure the water sector is fair and efficient the water integrity network supports people like you and organizations and governments to promote integrity we can build integrity walls to keep out corruption using building blocks transparency means ensuring that people know their rights can see how decisions are taken and how money is spent accountability means making sure decision makers take responsibility and achieve fair efficient and sustainable results participation means consulting all relevant people when making decisions that affect them anti-corruption means making rules stronger and enforcing them properly keeping corruption and integrity issues hidden only lets them grow by talking about integrity and building integrity walls you can change things and make a real contribution towards achieving the sdgs because only a well-run and corruption free water sector can handle the enormous challenge ahead you are not alone explore the win website for tools and inspiration get in touch to discuss how we can work together they hope you heard it somehow i'm not able to see the camera now can you see my power point presentation yes we do okay great then i'll continue somehow i'm not able to see the faces now for some reason so anyway so that was a short video to talk about integrity and corruption now moving forward the cost of corruption and the opportunity for integrity it has been estimated very difficult to also estimate how much is lost to corruption how much money goes down the drain but if there are estimates from the world bank and others which estimates that four to 26 percent of losses can happen in the water sector due to corruption apart from the financial costs we are also talking about social costs poor water quality poor service with direct impact on people's health life livelihood environmental costs for pollution vulnerability to disaster long-term system failures poor quality delayed or missing infrastructure loss of economic productivity lack of trust between water users and government maladaptation to climate change some of the few implications we are talking about there are numerous others that you are aware of integrity is more a lever for change for more effective and equitable use of the resources already available for addressing root causes of issues and systemic problems for building trust and creditworthiness and attract new financing that is mutually reinforcing with opposed to realizing the human rights to water and sanitation that is impossible with practical incremental and impunity management practices and now as mentioned earlier just to reiterate corruption is a sensitive topic we get educated you know when you are working in an organization and someone is saying oh there is corruption in the government in this sometimes you are an honest person you're an honest person you're working there but there may be other systems in place other people and when you find this it definitely makes it frustrating it's very important to take note of this we're dealing with a very sensitive topic here water integrity is a positive approach to address integrity performance and corruption issues emphasizes equity and focuses on preventive risk mitigation health build trust and bankability citizens are keen to engage when there is an opportunity efforts to combat corruption as a society and human rights are mutually reinforcing prevention is less costly comparatively no maintenance and tackling corruption so from an integrity readiness perspective we try to look at in the different areas where you can strengthen integrity it can be done within policymaking processes it can be within regulation multi stakeholder processes very difficult for how do you address that there financial investments planning and designing resource allocation tradeoffs very important where the water has to be traded off for example in IWRM and water we have nexus processes where water has to be shared between what you call irrigation for the private sector for the environment for the human requirements so there's always a tradeoff which is gender and inclusion so what we try to do is like to make it more structured approach to address issues of integrity we look at it as like you can undertake assessments integrity assessments it can show you that where are the gaps where you can probably strengthen the system and then there are processes for for integrity management tools which you can apply and one important aspect is to always continue to keep monitoring very important to note that all these actually involve quite a bit of resources and how are resources made available for tackling issues of integrity with something and governance is something very important to also pick up in our own work now I want to go a little bit deeper into the different subsector it's very difficult to cover because water is everywhere but I try to pick up a couple of them and why it is important why can we just not let ignore it and let it go on one for example look at it when it comes to urban water and sanitation more than two billion people are expected to be living in informal settlements by 2050 this is important also to note that because of climate change a lot of the people are being displaced from rural areas from different parts and they where are the landing they are all going to be in cities and where in the city because they are not the most what you call financially well off people they will be coming to the slums and the informal settlement and we already know in that many of the cities of our world we already have the crisis of providing drinking water and sanitation health education in this settlement and then when you have with the climate impact you're going to have more people there and this is another added challenge which you have to deal with now 550 billion people urban residents without safely managing drinking water 1.5 billion people without safely managed sanitation so that was an urban urban water management utilities cities municipalities they are involved in this process how do you actually system strengthening that helps them to deliver better and and just to mention that at Water Integrity Network we work with different organizations different government agencies for example water utilities so we are engaging with them and not from far trying to tell that hey there is a problem but rather we all acknowledge there is corruption there are issues of integrity how do we together water and climate very important when you talk of water and climate we are talking not just for water supply sanitation it's just not the sectors you are involved in where we are working but involves much more many more so water is very relevant for environment for hydropower for natural disasters sanitation food and agriculture and there are obviously others apart from this disaster for example is something important for flooding drought etc now just some climate I want to mention that a lot of the focus has been around mitigation and when they say that mitigation energies for mitigation however just to be noted that water is for adaptation and this is where now more focus is going because adaptation measure and funds for adaptation are slowly increasing or there's a huge demand for such finances and if you look at it for adaptation funding three sectors linked to water absorb almost 80% of all funding and that way water and wastewater disaster risk and natural resources climate finance for water from the dream climate funds 39% of their funding is going for water related projects annually and if you look on the right side you will see this figure would say that infrastructure where a lot of issues of integrated corruption can happen if you see 54% of all costs in climate adaptation are linked to water so if you notice there's a lot of money involved in water and it's important to see how we safeguard that so practically speaking if us hundred billion dollars every year are mobilized for multi-lateral climate finance with the 13 percent share allocated for water project roughly one to two billion can get lost to corruption this is a huge number 31 cases of integrity violations have been registered in 2020 in the green climate funds integrity annual report and 40 cases in 2019 bribery and adaptation infrastructure I'm giving again an example here when we talk about adaptation what we are trying to also talk about is like how do you about maladaptation because this is something which can happen in the future and you're not aware but you can probably take measures that avoid maladaptation so for flood protection in Indonesia bribe paid to city council by one of the companies involved in project to buy funding regulation after it was found and there were investigations the project has been halted what happened we lost money there and obviously there was no flood protection measure that would be put in place for communities for the population which is very important maladaptation similarly in cyclone shelter in Bangladesh where shelter was built on the land of the government engineer while the supposed benefiting fishing community lives on the opposite riverbed so these are just some of the examples to be taken into account what happens in this process the most vulnerable are being left behind the impact of climate change is affecting the vulnerable more again to note about climate injustice only 2% of funds reach the vulnerable community out of all the whole pot there is non-partisan decision making communities beneficiaries and CSOs are not consulted in climate planning processes in countries little attention is placed for for development of people who will be displaced and I mentioned about informal settlement and there's a bias towards major infrastructure projects leaving water and sanitation behind and note if there's a need for stronger accent on human rights water and sanitation pop is coming from next in two weeks time in Egypt and this is important to take these messages forward there so why it is important so if you if corruption happens that leads to sanction and we are looking at preventive action and which is probably more effective and cost efficient now I would like to go into some of the approaches how we try to address corruption issues and issues of integrity and I'd like to bring in some risk some new term and tools which we apply in our work integrity risk and tools so integrity risk which are might be a bit similar to red flag our condition or processes that to make get the capacity to fulfill their mandate with integrity and that comprises sustainable water and sanitation service provision integrity risks have a known probability of occurring integrity risks are possible at different levels from individual sections such as accepting price for service delivery collusion in big infrastructure quality integrity tools are measures and actions that an organization can take to prevent reduce or mitigate integrity and this is an example of what are the integrity risks if you go deeper into this to understand many risks with direct impact on cost and reputation of individuals and organization limited practical guidance of prioritizing and dealing with risk so here if you see what can be a risk misuse of key position is a risk um relatives and friends preferent recruitment is a risk unsatisfying employment condition um non-cooperative customers insufficient complaints management and customer orientation falsification of invoices and accounts so there are numerous areas where integrity risks exist and how do you actually tackle them through tools which you consider are adaptable and scalable they are practical participatory data driven and adaptable which is important to note like the tools that we work with we want the organization themselves to drive the process they need to take the what you call the drivers on beyond the driver's stage and themselves identify which are the risks they think that are existing which are the risks they want to prioritize in their organization we just provide the what you call the tools and we'll give it for the organizations to decide which way they want to take it forward obviously with some support and participation from our end the different types of tools I mentioned earlier if you remember when it comes to integrity management there is assessment and there is management so for assessing integrity we have a couple a few tools which is in our work there is the annotated water integrity scan when it is difficult to talk about corruption especially in a group and to avoid people accusing each other or pointing fingers you need to approach it very uh what you call softly taking the sensitivities into account and this particular tool always what we call is a very useful tool there where you start the process of unpacking the issue without being accusatory then there are other tools like the water integrity risk index which looks that they use a big data to identify trends and patterns where corruption can exist or where there are risks and then we have a particular tool for utilities which looks at the integrity gaps that a water utility can have in applying this also in our work and then management when we know there are certain graphs the risk that this how do you address that then you will go through a process of using management tools and we have quite a few tools but I'm just highlighting one which is one linked to integrity management for organization and it addresses risk within finances human resource management it addresses risk in customer relations management and leadership external environment regulation with communities how communities can play an important role in integrity management in compliance it's also important to know that communities sometimes do not understand the laws and the compliances by which organizations government agencies have to work and this tool helps in making them aware of like what are the different laws compliance mechanisms in place and how do you actually align with them and how you also play at the role of a observer of a watchdog of projects how when they're being implemented so integrity assessment this is where what we try to do is like it's a systematic approach where we undertake with a set of indicators if you see there are like we have some principles we have five principles we are talking about thrown at the top if the leadership is very proactive in addressing issues of integrity if the leadership does not consider it important then what happens the organization is not able to address it but if the leadership at the top state we need to address the issue of corruption and integrity that is the phone at the top and here we try to identify integrity agents integrity champions in different organizations we have our own integrity champions in different water utilities their government they're coming from the government and we're very proud of them that they how they're trying to tackle the issue from within we have got mayor integrity champion who actually take up that role in cities risk assessment second point where we talked quite a bit about risk now and how do you assess those systematically controls what measures you have in place do you have code of conduct do you have what you call terms for procurement processes do you have guidelines for bidding processes do you have complaints mechanisms in place for customers for staff grievance mechanism for staff these are all integrity controls what corrective actions you are taking when you discover there is a fraud there is a gap and monitoring so we have this which helps in looking at the assessment part of integrity processes and this helps in understanding where are the gaps and then you can try to address those gaps and then you can use tools like the integrity management organization when you have identified different gaps you you have already like the preliminary data and and then you try to see how do you address it one important thing which I would like to mention is that when you try to engage with organization it's not easy it can take quite a bit of time because first you have to convince them you have to convince them that then that we are not there to point fingers we are not accusing we are not going to what you call bring distribute to your organization you know it's a reputational risk so important to gain the trust and it takes time it takes time it can even take six months it can even take one year before they decide they want to go ahead and apply different integrity management processes what I also like to mention here is that we have examples where they don't want to talk about corruption they don't want to even talk about integrity but they would like to address the issue so we have some project where they call the performance improvement change management rather than talking about integrity and corruption so we have to shift the narrative when required and that helps also in the process something important to note so then we undertake participatory risk assessment based on model every organization business model so we try to map the risk to the business model and then prioritize each other is and when it's a we the participants themselves do it the management it involves the management it involves the stuff then identification of tools that can help in addressing those risks and then you develop a roadmap what happens a lot is that we go for workshops we have training but then it's done we don't know what to do next in this case if resources are available what we try to do is develop a roadmap and implement it and road map to be implemented can take time to address issues of integrity corruption it cannot be done in a few months it can take a year to more than one year so it's a it's a long-term mid-term to long-term engagement which has to be factored in if anyone wants to venture into it and that's why it's important for donors and investors who actually invest more in integrity management and here when a roadmap is developed you try to implement it and there are coaches integrated coaches who help you in mentoring and supporting the process within an organization also there are people who are champions as I mentioned who support this process I want to give an example of where we have been applying this integrity management process and it's the khulna water and sewerage authority in Bangladesh and we have here Mr Muhammad Abdullah who is the managing director of khulna wasa and he is one of our integrity champions he has been applying the tools since 2014 and he's still engaged this is also very important to note that people change people are transferred new people come in management changes then someone new might not be interested in continuing so we are lucky to have someone there who is actually continuing and be supporting our work it may be in another organization someone who's interested in the topic of integrity however it's transferred because the government position we have such examples it again takes us time to convince the new management new director etc but it worked it has worked so in khulna what happened we we have this process started where we applied their integrity management full box and what has happened is like there have been changes within the management processes there have been reduction in delays between water connection requests and fixing the connection the digitalization of billing improvement in billing delivery regularization of unmetered connection introduction of e-propurement processes reduce opportunities for corruption and contributing to khulna water and sewerage authority's revenue generation and business this is just a small example there are numerous other examples and it's a step-by-step process it cannot be done in a you know in at one go and it's a repetitive process you need to keep repeating this i mentioned about big data we have collected data from different cities and we looked at procurement data which are available openly and we looked at the water data which showed like the pattern so this kind of tool helps in monitoring, auditing and investigations of production rates it informs sector-wide policy decisions for example regulation and oversight it informs civil society and other stakeholders to hold governments accountable and advocate for better services and that tracks progress over time I want to give an example outside of tools so systematic processes because politically process is also very important when it comes to addressing integrity so here in this case the mayor from La Paz in Bolivia he launched a cross-sectoral city-wide anti-corruption program and in the first two years the key pillars are zero tolerance based policy based or code of conduct for public officials backed by prosecution of proctax focus on wider aim of economic recovery including reforms of fiscal policy collecting more revenue and restoring credibility reshaping the relationship between institutions and residents it's important to know that the mayor probably does not have a very powerful administrative role but he has a very important political role here in this case and the mayor tried to use that role to bring change different measures that have been that have been happened in La Paz for example statutory declaration of individual asset dedicated you need to leave initiative frequently sending out fake users to control how services are delivered action for civil servants performing well with integrity, transform and procurement policy inspection of materials and construction and project measures to limit nepotism district neighborhood daring to encourage direct participation of so it's important to note that here the mayor went very action-oriented and sometimes actions actually make a huge difference another area where issues of integrated corruption exist a lot is around infrastructure so very important this is the planning center so the strategic planning is taking into account priority setting project profiling and initial screening then there needs to work feasibility studies I mentioned about an example where there was no feasibility study cost benefit analysis environmental social impact design preparation and application of tools now and then obviously budget and approval costs and budget estimates authorization approval allocation of resources where does it go and these are some of the pointers which we try to look at when you try to adjust issues of infrastructure related integrity project beneficiaries project location these things matter we all come across there is a big project there is a problem of land acquisition there are conflicts happening with the local communities there because of land but you also want your project and we know historically we know so many cases that are there and how do you address these that important to take into account environmental issues you are mandated to have environmentally impact assessment but many cases the organization for institutions don't take that out what is done with this with you I personally have been involved early in my career where an organization I was working with they used to do environmental impact assessment for industries and they used to just basically take the data you're going to collect the data they take the data and send it across so that they approve it so there are numerous examples and I think they're from my own personal experience so I would like to stop because it would be good to I can see a lot of questions on the chat and we're also you know the time so moving forward it integrity I mean it's not an easy topic it's very difficult but we need to make a start so more importantly start the conversation about corruption and connect with integrity champions I'm glad that today we are talking about this topic make the commitment make commitments publicly announcing commit some resources for it build a joint understanding of risk priorities and context with data and the most marginalized context be inclusive as mentioned inclusion is very important think from a TAPA perspective use the framework of TAPA and let's hope we are able to make some changes thanks here are some publications recent ones but there are others also if you visit our website you will find yeah I think I'm done with the presentation and happy to take some questions fantastic thanks a lot benayak let's get right to the questions may I ask you to please stop sharing please so I can share from another computer the questions that have come in okay so we have some questions here I hope you can read them I'll read them out as well so we have a few a few seconds to sort of absorb absorb the question before benayak starts to respond to them Davis asks how do we objectively cut out corruption from inclusion integrity is key but can we measure that advocacy maybe would you like to respond to that benayak yeah before responding I would like to say that it's not an easy issue and I looked at some of the questions on the chat you cannot address everything so you will be able to address something if you need to take steps small step probably and I mean when you talk of inclusion and corruption how can you actually I mean you yourself have the answer in it more towards advocacy I think there's a need for more advocacy and awareness around the topic when it comes to dealing with inclusion communities how they're included in that one and second probably you need to make available platforms tools resources that community CSOs can use one of the challenges is for example a lot of the CSOs are facing are they don't have the right resources in terms of it's a very abstract topic how do you address transparency how do you address accountability it's very abstract so here it is important that we get some of these guidelines tools resources in place there are numerous are available but how do you make them available to the target people how do you actually get them in a language that they understand this is very important sometimes they're they're put together in a very in a language that is only understandable as we call technical language how do you make it accessible to others and one more important point I think here is the need to work with the media to bring out the issue of inclusion corruption etc I hope I am able to answer that yeah thanks a lot the next question is from Ihab Bidin Jayosi who shares his perspective on the particular issue of overpricing where he contains that feasibility studies that lead to unjustified high prices can also be part of managerial corruption yeah something yeah so yeah we have a lot of responses from people when we invited them to share their perspectives their examples their stories related to corruption in the water sector and thanks Ihab Bidin for sharing one of those Fran shares that often water utilities playing a social role it's something to be addressed and solved from municipalities but not from water utilities yeah I mean if I understand water utilities what is what can be the role of water utility to address we are trying to do that for example with our integrity management work in in kulna in Bangladesh in lima in Peru we are engaging the water utility to address the issues of services for informal settlements and how do you address that but there is a challenge the water utilities have there is the issue of what you call land settlements are they are they recognized are they not how do you address those so this is something where we we are trying to like identify and understand this is no process but they are also understanding and trying to address there are innovative ways which which they're trying to address this issue a comment from Davis says advocacy on inclusion can be can advocacy and inclusion I suppose can enhance transparency and eventually contribute to addressing corruption I think excuse me sorry about my voice and me coughing I have a bit of a call I think integrity lies on such a delicate edge a comment from amna sorry is a question from amna is what could be the role of the consultant who works as advisor for governments private sectors and NGOs through providing consultancy services such as feasibility studies ESIA design and construction supervision what could be the role of such a person in preventing corruption I think it's a very very good question actually because a lot of the work happens through consultants and not necessarily to the agents the government agents and here I think the ethics and the integrity of consultants are also important to take at their home they need to be fair in their particular communication they need to point out if there are discrepancies that that are there by law by from integrity from compliance that an organization is not trying to address they need to point it out it's important they have that role that comes from an individual perspective of your own value with your assets etc but another point is what we do we do work with a lot of consultants and what I mentioned is integrity coach or integrity agents so a lot of our work when you are engaging with utilities or river basin organization it involves working with consultants because they are on the ground they're no best and we engage them we train them and we hope them to be our integrity coaches and one important thing is the consultants need to be have the trust and the faith and their relationship with the agency government agency to address this problem and this is how we learn that it works so there are consultants who are working on yes environmental impact assessment infrastructure project and and this is where it is important like the organization for the health can we support you with some kind of more information around integrity around what steps need to be taken and the consultants also individually try to see if they can build their own what you call skills and strength understanding issues of integrity and corruption and apply it in their project the next observation or question by Ali is very foundational what's your idea regarding the kind of systematic corruption which is supported by authorities yeah it's it's very difficult I mean we do we do face this challenge it's I mean we cannot have all solutions but probably what is important is that as I mentioned earlier within system there are people there are actually many people who are working who are working quietly to bring the change reform and this is part of larger wider change management and reform process so those authorities those people who are actually very much keen to address this they are the ones we consider a champion and it's very important to identify them and actually to what you call share share about their work their achievement that will provide a more motivation and a moral booster for others otherwise we'll enter into that whole negative situation which we have we obviously are dealing with the next question is how do you solve the issue of irregular water supply which originates from from non-availability of funds from the government would that fall under the ambit of integrity and corruption nor it can fall because when the decisions are made for allocation of resources how the decisions are made if you want to take human rights to water and sanitation as the first priority but in your decisions you are actually allocating the water to an industry so this is why it is important like how decisions are made decisions can be made by incident by powerful actor decisions can be influenced by money so this is where and that's that's why such processes need to be more open and participatory so that the people who are going to be affected can have just say this does not happen always and accordingly the allocation of resources should need to be made and this is an one area of work we are trying to address more project early processes designing how do you allocate resources the next question excuse me again the next question is from bo kang who asks what role does do technical incapacities play in furthering corruption I suppose so technically incapacities I mean the lack of capacities the lack of skill if you are working in water resource management you are an engineer you are supposed to be someone who knows about the sector the engineering around the management around the you need to understand all these and in simple terms what I'd like to say is going back to some of the risks we talked about so technically incapacity is something how do you get there how are you how have you been recruited into that position and this I think is an important area to look at it's about human resource management when you're hiring what is your process of hiring because we know that in many cases people are hired through political influences what you call nepotism and this is this is where lies some of this problem it's not just hiring of staff but also within the recruitment of management of board and board members who are part of an organization how do you get to be part of the board so this plays an important role and many times there are people who actually have no knowledge of the water sector the next question is in the form of a story a community deep well was dug and the pump was stolen overnight after few days after the installation which left the community without water supply would you call that corruption an instance of corruption yes we have this as one of the reasons in our full box what we call theft and vandalism theft and vandalism is also an issue of integrity of corruption right the next question from smith is about what happens when top management has integrity issues I think we've already addressed that up next user SNS SP has shared a personal story I'll try to read it out very quickly in 1970 he was building a big drainage channel of about 50 000 q6 capacity excuse me land acquisition was going on as construction agency we were not allowed to acquire the land ourselves as we are prone to be corrupt both acquisition and use of land is in the same hand and old villager came to me in and said that you have almost completed the project but I have not received my compensation for the agricultural land I went to the land department and met the highest official as we have paid the money a long time ago he was very casual in hearing and said I would look into it do not bother and do your job and having said that he shut the conversation down thanks a lot for sharing that SNS SP that is a very interesting story binaik any thoughts any reactions to that that's uh that's also something like shutting out the messenger you you are already you know this is very important you try to when someone shares the message with you you try you target the messenger and that's also very important how do you protect the messenger how do you protect the whistleblower a lot of what you call examples are there where they have been persecuted and there are also for example transference international have in place to support whistleblowers what they call advisory advisory and legal support and available in many countries of the world where anyone who gets information about some corruption and they want to share they can actually try to uh insist legal services thank you um andere miruka asks the presence of middlemen or water vendor famously referred to as cartels along the supply chain with 24 seven water availability without let's just write at your doorstep yet your taps indoors are dry the common municipality water resource notwithstanding corruption in water is real and it stinks thank you for sharing that andere the next question is from terry who asks what can we do when corruption is so enrouted in the culture the society or the country that some actions are considered completely normal and done every day by all citizens considered so normal that many people do not recognize such actions as corruption another important area where we have to deal with i mean if you look at what is corruption um in a very what you call the global education the global policy way if you look at it many things come into corruption from the global north also they look at many things of corruption and in both our global south many countries you see like it's maybe not considered corruption and these things you need to factor in and these are points of sensitivity and not sensitivity um what i would like to say is that if someone from the utility comes to your place to repair your pipe or your tap after that you probably give that person a small tip some money small money the question sometimes that is that corruption maybe it's not because you have to take into account also the people who are working with these organizations utilities yes and one important point is that um in many cases the staff don't have high salaries that's also a reason which leads to a situation so it has to be a little bit considered what is individually and when you see this happening as a pattern or systematically then definitely the corruption then you need to raise the issue um and i recently shared uh this seminar with the university in namibia and there they talked about like the students of the university if they needed to access data from the government agencies for their research purpose the university has to give them some money and this has been happening over a year and their question they asked was that is this corruption because it has been traditionally established that this part of the process you have to basically what they call the buying the data whereas this is public data which you should be available so this is one of one of the discourse discussion which was there obviously yeah we have to address it but a big case by case probably also look at it thanks benayat this was actually not the last question we have we had a few more questions that kept coming but because we were already in the motion of like doing the q and a i might have missed some of them um and also at this point we need to sort of close down the webinar we are well past our time thank you benayat for your great presentation on for your very patient answering of the questions and um thanks most of all to you the audience for turning up at good numbers and for your questions and comments a recording of the webinar will be available on the water channel and it websites and the youtube channels and if you registered for the webinar and I believe you did because that's the only way you could have joined right so you will all receive links to the webinar recording by email and I think Maria Laura has already posted some links in the chat links to pages where the recording will appear and some information about the next webinar which I believe will be in the first week of December so thanks a lot everyone and see you at the next webinar thanks abraham I just want to mention that since it's the IHE alumni I'd be very happy to see that we have a short post around the topic of integrity and corruption at the IHE stuff thanks thanks everyone thank you bye bye	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcRyiMEtarI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCTj8uOe-T0TQmbe6Y3LuAXw	2016-12-06 Members’ Statements	Sam Oosterhoff: 0:00 Lisa Gretzky: 1:20 Harinder Takhar: 2:49 Jim McDonell: 4:32 Taras Natyshak: 6:08 Daiene Vernile: 7:47 Michael Harris: 9:28 Sophie Kiwala: 11:02 Laurie Scott: 12:46	[ "yt:quality=high", "Members’ Statements", "Legislative Assembly Of Ontario (Governmental Body)", "Ontario Legislature" ]	2016-12-06T21:13:01	2024-02-05T17:30:57	869	pCkiWZoFiPI	Therefore, it's time for members' statements. The member from Niagara West Glam Brook. Speaker, I was born in the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby, as were many of the residents of Niagara West Glam Brook. The care provided by the physicians and health care professionals of that hospital is second to none in Ontario. They deserve support, an honest, genuine consideration. But throughout the campaign, and since I was elected a couple of weeks ago, I've heard grave concerns raised by physicians in my riding, and from health care providers across the province, about Bill 41, the so-called Putting Patients First Act. Could there possibly be more of a misnomer speaker? Bill 41 threatens the quality of health care provided to my constituents and puts patients last. To borrow a military analogy speaker, our health care system needs more teeth and less tail. But Bill 41 is going in the opposite direction, hurting patients, hampering doctors, and harming our health care system. Our government has a duty toward its doctors, a responsibility to hold open, honest and genuine consultations. With Bill 41, we see once again the symptoms of a failing government, a government playing politics with people's health. Ontario's patients and my neighbours in Niagara West Glam Brook deserve better. Here, here. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Lincoln West. Thank you, Speaker. It's my pleasure to rise today on behalf of my constituents of Windsor West. Speaker, the downtown mission in Windsor is critical to the health and credibility of our community. It provides safe accommodation, meals, clothing, and training to individuals struggling with poverty and homelessness. The programs and services provided by the mission make Windsor a safer, healthier, and more inclusive place, but it's the people working and volunteering at the mission that make this all possible. I would like to thank all of those working and volunteering at the mission for their hard work and dedication. In particular, I want to highlight the commitment of Ronald Dunn. Ron is a strong leader, mentor, and is able to effect change in the greater community. He is a collaborator and always willing to speak up on behalf of the disenfranchised and those living in poverty. When Ron noted an increase in demand for services at the mission because of the high cost of hydro, he did not hesitate to speak out. He is a true champion for those living in poverty. Ron doesn't do his job for monetary gain, awards, or accolades. Rather, this is something he thinks of as his duty, his calling each and every day. Speaker, the person who is always there for people through their most difficult times is himself going through a difficult period. Ron lost his mother this week, and his father is in the ICU, recovering from a serious illness. I think I speak on behalf of all those in Windsor when I say we are here for you, Ron, and thank you for all that you do. Thank you. Member from Mississauga, Arondale. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is with great pleasure that I address the Interior Legislature today. My writing of Mississauga, Arondale is eagerly awaiting the completion of a vital resource center for our community. Children suffering with learning disabilities, autism, and host of other challenges will be able to attend the new state of the art or facility after it opens early in the new year. Children and families in need who live in Peel region will now have Interior's largest treatment center available to them within their own community. The challenges that these families face cannot be understated, and it is places like Arondale kids that help alleviate some of this stress. Mr. Speaker, I have to the construction of the center and spoken by the wonderful staff that are making this facility is soon to be reality. This is a practical, comprehensive, and most importantly, compassionate project that is directed specifically to children and families who otherwise may not have this support. Aronale kids anti-spirits serving approximately 5,000 children and their families each year from this site, which will be about 20% of the caseload. All Peel area MPPs worked hard to keep this project on top of the capital project list. I slew their efforts in helping to make a positive difference in both the community as well as countless youth and families that Aronale kids will positively affect. I also want to thank the government, our government, for having the foresight to make this project reality. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Stavis, the member from Stormont Dundas in South Banger. Thank you Speaker. Over the next few months, the Upper Canada District school board and other school boards across Ontario could come to an ill-advised and harmful decision to close rural schools in many communities, including my own. Closing rural schools and busing students long distances to overcrowded schools is not the answer. Local schools allow our children to grow and thrive while providing them with a community spirit, pride and sense of belonging. Good local schools provide fantastic education opportunities and give students a chance to participate in activities close to home. Lagoon public schools serving children in Glengarry County is ranked the number one school in Ontario by the Fraser Institute. Parents, students and municipal councils from across the province demand a moratorium on the current flawed accommodation reviews. The minister must show leadership and work with all stakeholders to implement a sustainable funding formula for rural schools. It's not too late for the minister of education to act and to do what's right. I'm very proud of the communities that have come together across SDNG to show the leadership to keep our schools open and are working with the art communities and they're really working as a team. We look forward to January and we hope that the schools or the government actually acknowledges the importance of these rural schools and how well they're doing. As I mentioned, Lagoon, Williamstown Public these schools are ranking some of the top in the country and in the province and it's not something that we need to cause because we need better service. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker. I rise to pay tribute to a long-time friend of our family and a long-time activist in the community of Essex. Her name was Diane Collentonio a constituent of mine long-time social activist in our community passed away peacefully on November the 18th. Diane was a teacher in special education within the City of Windsor. Her love of teaching continued as she became involved in the children's program at the Maidstone by Centennial Museum and volunteering with the 4-H Club for over 30 years. She worked in various county fairs speaker across the county of Essex. She worked for Elections Canada as a poll clerk and as a volunteer for Statistics Canada. She was inducted into the Essex County Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2006 as a third generation farmer. She is a past president of her local women's institute and a past president of the Essex County 4-H Leaders Association. Diane has been a 4-H leader with the membership for over 30 years. Diane was also a member of the Farm Safety Association and an integral part of the pizza project that promoted market-to-market programs. Many of Diane's family friends of course will miss her dearly. My sincere condolences go out to her family Nunzio Butch, her husband of 48 years, her children Chris Mark and Nancy and grandchildren Mark Jr. and Alexandra. Diane was an integral component of our community. She made our community a better place and we certainly will miss her. Thank you Speaker. Thank you Speaker. If you visit my writing you may see on the streets of Waterloo in a very unusual sight. It's a black Lincoln MKZ car that drives itself. This autonomous vehicle the first to be legally allowed on Ontario roads and all of Canada for that matter, has been affectionately named the Atana Moose by the University of Waterloo engineering students who are driving this pilot program. Now a few weeks ago I was joined by our minister transportation at a test track with the students, administrators, representatives and a large gathering of media as the Atana Moose drove us hands free. This 10 year pilot program is being made possible by Blackberry Q and X software, Kitchener based Irwin Heimer Group in the province of Ontario. Speaker, this cutting edge car is equipped with a laser scanner on the top that spins around with information being fed to a computer in the trunk which helps to navigate the car. We know that automated vehicles hold out promise for safer roads, less traffic less pollution and expanded research and development. Because of this government's support and insight, we are leading the way and all of Canada in this area but I will say, Speaker, that it was a bit disconcerting to be riding in this vehicle and the students sitting in the driver's seat did not have his hands on the wheel. But disruptive technology will do that. It will make us feel a little bit uncomfortable, however I say anything that frees me from having to ride is a good thing. Speaker, automated vehicles, a supply chain is coming. We want to have those jobs here in the province of Ontario. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker. I stand to recognize Kitchener's resident Steve Sanderson for his efforts to open up hockey opportunities to children who cannot otherwise afford it. Efforts that saw him earn the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship this weekend. And while congratulations go out to everyone of this weekend's athletes, I'll take a few moments to express the thanks in our community to Steve for the Panther Hockey Program he launched back in 2002. Speaker, it was 14 years ago that Steve Sanderson, the head custodian at Pioneer Park Public School in Dune, began wondering what he could do to help students unable to afford enrolling in hockey. Those thoughts sparked the idea for the Panther Hockey Program, a school-based hockey initiative that provides all the equipment, the ice time, free of charge to interested students between 1 and 6. The program started out with donations from family and friends in the school community, but it wasn't enough, and so Steve purchased the extra. Speaker, I'm happy to say that the program has grown to the point where there are now 145 participants. And in the past year Panther Hockey received 20 full sets of equipment from the NHLPA along with the practice assisted by former NHL player in Guelph Storm Hockey Club head coach Scott Walker. Steve plans to keep building the Panther's Hockey Program and is always seeking keen volunteers to keep the skates moving, and of course the sticks on the ice. And so, Speaker, I would like to, on behalf of all of us here and those in the extended Panther family, a big thank you to Steve Sanderson, a custodian, a Panther, and a good citizen of Ontario. Thanks, Steve. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I'm delighted to share the exciting announcement that Phehu International from China has recently selected Kingston and the Islands as their new home. And this spring, they will be building a brand new, 40-acre, $250 million infant formula manufacturing facility in my community. Yes. Phehu's innovative goat milk-based formula has an outstanding reputation and is admired in China and other markets for its hypoallergenic properties. At a reception last week, I welcomed Vice Chairman Roger Lu and Vice President Judy Tu and their team from China. Vice Chairman Lu expressed his appreciation for all stakeholders, levels of government, and partners involved in bringing this historic announcement and investment to Kingston. In fact, Mr. Speaker, the reception, welcome, and multi-level governmental cooperation that Phehu received from our community was one of the very reasons why they chose Kingston and the Islands from many other cities in North America. I'm grateful to Minister Leal and to our Premier for their warm welcome and discussions which took place in meetings here at Queen's Park. Mr. Speaker, this is the building of a stronger, better Ontario in action and this historic investment will see 200 full-time positions created. It is my honour to welcome Phehu to Kingston and to thank them for their confidence in their new city. We look forward to this monumental announcement turn into legendary success. Thank you. Thank you for the members, the members from Hullabourg and Corthill Lakes. I rise today on behalf of my constituents in Corthill Lakes to express their profound frustration with the wind government's failure to follow their own processes when it comes to their pet wind turbine projects. My riding were forced on unwilling communities and are only serving to drive up electricity prices and degrade the local environment. The Minister of Energy recently admitted that signing 20-year contracts for renewable energy projects that specified a technology was quote arbitrary and led to suboptimal siting on competitive prices and heightened community concern and yet the government still approved wind turbine construction this past summer at this after the required completion of the project had passed and without the Minister of Environment having fulfilled his statutory requirement of responding to a direct appeal from local residents. That appeal has been outstanding for over 18 months. In the meantime, the government has spent taxpayers money fighting ERT appeals made by citizens steamrolled over municipalities by taking planning authority away from them industrialized the Oak Ridge's moraine and provided protecting it. The Minister of Energy put a stop to the LRP2 projects due to the power not being needed in the province and my constituents are wondering why the settlers landing in Sumac Ridge wind projects still are still going forward. The Minister should reply to local residents appeals under the Environmental Protection Act to stop these harmful and precedent setting projects from proceeding. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I thank all members for their statements.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkiWZoFiPI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCYl3pk2esNmCN4TS_5zaaYA	Unit 5 Problem solution Essays	New Self-study courses from the ELC! ☛ For English subtitles, click on subtitles/closed captions Study at your own pace; whenever and whenever you want. Step 1 - Create an account on KEEP https://account.keep.edu.hk/account/signup Step 2 - Activate your account Step 3 - Join the course ☛ Academic Skills for Independent learners: https://edx.keep.edu.hk/courses/course-v1:PolyU+ASIL+2018/about Other courses you may be interested in: ☛ Reading to Know! https://edx.keep.edu.hk/courses/course-v1:PolyU+RTK+2018/about ☛ Learning4Life: https://edx.keep.edu.hk/courses/course-v1:PolyU+L4L+2018/about ☛ Upgrading Your Grammar: https://edx.keep.edu.hk/courses/course-v1:PolyU+EDUT1398+2018_01/about For more help with your English go to A305: ★ Online: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/az_index.aspx ★ In person at A305: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/elc/independent-learning/ ★ Map: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/campus-map/index.html?lang=en_US&locid=5bcd3714520471ab6eaf575a Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. https://www.polyu.edu.hk/elc/independent-learning/moocs/ https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ ELC Code: M38.5	[ "elc", "polyu", "english_learning", "Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University" ]	2017-09-02T08:35:00	2024-04-18T17:49:27	132	pcmZbVtxOfY	Hi there. Welcome to our online self-access materials on problem solution essays. Let me ask you a question first. What is the similarity between a problem solution essay and a foreign against essay? I'm going to think about it. We'll come back to the question later. Okay, in this unit we look at different parts of the problem solution essay. The causes of the problem, the effects or impacts of the problem, and possible solutions to the problem. We have example essays on different problem solution topics to guide you through the process and examples of how to write effective introductions and conclusions. Okay, so what's the answer to the question I asked earlier? What's the similarity between a problem solution essay and a foreign against essay? Well, you could say that they are both types of argumentative essay. In a problem solution essay, you need to convince the reader that your solutions are the most logical. Okay, we also have extra materials to help you better understand this topic. You can find them in the further learning materials section. And if you're still unsure about anything in this unit, you can always ask the staff in the independent learning center of your university. We hope you found this information useful. Good luck in your studies!	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmZbVtxOfY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCcqvCEZZLvq1pn58DMNR0Qw	Astrology Readings for week 28th Nov to 5th Dec 2022	Astrology Readings for week 28th Nov to 5th Dec 2022 Also coming up .... NEW 10 WEEK COURSE STARTING MONDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2022 Week 1 – 28th November 2022 Gods, Goddesses & Master Teachers – What Triggers Us and Why and How We Can Help Others with Their Triggers to Enhance Readings. Week 2 – 5th December 2022 Blindfold Mediumship & Other Techniques to Practice What Was Taught in The Workshop. Week 3 – 12th December 2022 Communication Tools – Make your own – Add more to your abilities Week 4 – 19th December 2022 Creating Your New 2023 Affirmations and Spell / Timeline Weaving Week 5 – 2nd Jan 2023 NEW YEAR READINGS Week 6 – 9th Jan 2023 Reading Other Peoples Akashic Records – Tuning into Their Life Path and Helping Them Understand Any Blockages That They May Be Experiencing Week 7 – 16th Jan 2023 Healing with Psychic Surgeons – Water – Reiki – Spiritual and other types of healing. 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No. Oh dear, oh dear, I can't, I can't do this. Oh my God, you probably see me, but you can't, you can't, you probably hear me. If I come in and out again, I said I've cocked up and did it all by myself, got it all back on again. I tried to turn my fan off, which was on my block of all these USB ports and I was switching them all off, realizing that actually my webcam was one of those things that I switched off. So I had to go into settings and sort it back out again. Sorry guys, sorry about that. Oh, so hi Marejo, hello Concha and Vera, hello, hello, hello, hello everyone. So yeah, this is plan B. So I tried to come on earlier, but I then had a message to say, you've got a booking, you've got a reading books and I never have readings booked on a Sunday, or I try not to. So I must have messed up on the booking system somehow, but I did a lovely reading and it was so meant to be you know. So I'm grateful to the universe that I was able to be there for a lovely friend and so yeah. So yes, it was meant to be. So all it meant was just delaying this a little bit. So and that's no biggie is it? It's okay, I'm a light bird anyway, aren't I? So as promised, is there anybody here who I didn't get to do pull a card for earlier? Because I had to rush off. So is there anybody here who didn't get a card earlier but would like me to pick them a card? I can either pick you a Chakra card. So you can see kind of what Chakra you need to be working with at this time and see if there's a message from spirit about that Chakra, or you can have just a normal you know, a few cards. What would you like? Yeah. So oh, Melissa, hello, Melissa. Oh, I saw you holding your twins. Oh, so she had twin babies one in each arm. She did. How wonderful is that? I just dive in. I hope one day my number of bookings go up. I'm sure it will Vera. I'm sure it will. Yeah, we need to get you out there, pushed out there, don't we? So that's what we need to do. So Melissa, you would like a card? Okay, okay. All right. All right. So that's what I'll do then. Who was the first one? Concha. Was it Concha? It's the first one? Evening. Melissa, there you are. Ellie, hello, Ellie. So Concha said I didn't get a card. Okay. So Concha, I'm going to just pick your card. This is from the psychic terabyte, John Holland. I'm going to use these cards a little bit today when we do the astrology readings. So we can do astrology readings for the 28th of November through to the 28th through to the 5th of December. Okay. So first Concha. All right. Concha first card out. Patience and planning. Okay. So have you been planning? Have you been trying to make like a pattern of what you need to be doing like a list? I need to do this or at least do one thing on that list every day. One thing. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing my lists. I'm doing my lists, all the things I've got to do. Some things, the priority like this is urgent, this is not urgent, like I missed a hospital appointment. I can't believe that. I didn't open my mail on one day and they didn't give me much notice for this hospital appointment. I might mind you. Believe it or not, it's the hospital appointment for my cancer checkup. That was years ago. Anyway, anyway. Concha, are you patiently planning? Are you doing more on your to-do list? Has the to-do list kind of gone and done one? If so, I feel that's what they're saying to you. You're needing to get that bit sorted out. It's important. It's important to when you go to sleep that night and you actually close your eyes and you go, oh my goodness, I feel so good that I actually did that. I feel so good. So this is all linked with your base chakra. So it's about money. It's about your security. So that's to do with your home. Do you need to do any repairs on your home? Do you need to do any decorating things and projects on your home to make your home feel more homely? Do you need to organize things, that type of thing? So that's what I've got for you, Concha. One, two, three, four, five, six, six. Yeah, there is enough chakra, Concha. Okay, yeah, so that's what I've got for you. Okay, so Melissa, this is for you. So, card is it? Foundation and achievements. Okay, so this is indicating that you've been working on your foundations, your training, your learning, your abilities, your gifts. You've been putting all of those things in that mixing bowl called abundance. And what you've done is you've said to the universe, I'm ready. You've then visualized the bookings, visualized things coming in, visualized everything, and then it manifests and then it gives you that boost. So it's indicating that you are doing very well. And because of doing well, you're going to get more recognition for the rewards that you deserve. Okay, so I do see business, I see your stability, security, your home. All of that is going to be taking that leap ahead. Okay, the chakra card for you at the moment is your third eye chakra. Okay, so third eye. So this basically says that it's all about your spiritual home. So do you have an area in your home that maybe needs a bit of a revamp, especially if it's anywhere that you're doing readings? Maybe it needs smudging? Maybe that you need to buy a nice new candle. And that candle is for literally, it's for you know, your spiritual work. And when you light that candle, they're telling me this as well. So when you light that candle, that's it, that's you working. I've started using mine. Okay, my little candle there. And that's like my healing candle as well. I had to light it for a lady who asked for healing. So if anybody else would like me to concentrate on them for the healing, just let me know. So yeah, that's what I see for you. So yeah, good things. Good things, Melissa. All right. Hello, Nicola. Or is it Nicole? Sorry, Nicole. Oh, Sarah Ann. Hello. I had a great reading from Athena. Just finished the scariest ever wrote a former friend why I broke contact with them and his wife. Okay. All right. Hey, Tina. Hello, lovely. Always brightens my day when I see you in the chat. I love that. I'd love to bring you on live sometime to have a chat with you. You're not free now, are you? Do you want to come and say hi, Tina? It'll be so good. You've got such wonderful energy. Oh, so puncture, you are planning. If you say yes, I'll send you the String Yard link. Oh no, where did you go? I know I'm such a donor, aren't I? I've been cleaning and organizing a weekend. Oh, so maybe that was a message for you as well, Nicola, although I can pick you cards. No problem. That's so pretty, isn't it? It's beautiful. Allie, can you pull a card for me about my new love? I'm a sadge and my birthday is Tuesday on the 29th. Oh, happy birthday for Tuesday. Would I be able to get a card? Yes, I will. Yes, I bought lovely String Candle Holder from you. That's right. That's right. This is on offer at the moment. Guys, the Amethyst Candle Holder, it is now £33. It was £38. It's $5 off, £33. You do have to add on post and packaging, okay, but $33. All right, so I'm doing a little sale of certain bits. Okay, so yes, if anybody would like that, £33. This one is also a little sale. This was 22. It's my laser angel 22. Let's put a card behind it so you can see the angel. 22. It's now down to 20, £20 or $20. Okay, I'm just doing it straight and straight. It's got a little stand. £20. Sorry, £20 was 22. And the last one for sale was £30. It's now 25, Black Obsidian Crystal Ball, £25. £25. Yes, that is the sale at the moment. And I'm going to be doing a few things. I'm just going to be putting those out there, these little sale items. So Nicole, I will look for you. Did Tia say yes? Oh, she's not dressed. Looking funky. Not dressed. Oh, well maybe another time. That would be lovely. I need to put your merch on my Galactic Marketplace on Telegram for Galactic Chicks. Need your link? Well, all gorgeous items. I need help with Telegram. I do not understand it one bit. When I try and go on Telegram, it doesn't come up with anywhere that I can message anybody. I think I must have got it wrong somehow. I don't know. I don't know. So, yeah. And Greg's very busy with his family, so I'm definitely not going to worry him with it. So, yeah, perhaps I need a Vera Day. What did I get up to with the cards? Oh, kitchen and bathroom remodel. I picked up an issue with taps. Is there anybody here who's got issues with taps? Either kitchen or bathroom because I'm picking up an issue. Is that right? Right, Nicole, let me pick a card for you and happy birthday for Tuesday. What are you up to Tuesday, Nicole? My advice for birthdays, everybody, is don't rely on someone else to organise your birthday for you, okay? You might think that's nice, but at the end of the day, you have to organise it so that you get what you want from your birthday. And the other thing is if everybody organised their birthdays and did something nice for them and their friends, and if everybody did it on their birthdays, you would have a really good social life. And when there was a lot of people in the shop, there was loads of people. So, what we was doing was we'd have March birthdays and we'd do it the middle of the month. So, all the March birthdays we celebrated. So, we kind of did a, you know, secret birthday, you know, still a secret Santa, did a secret birthday and for that. So, that's kind of what we wanted. And then the kind of shop, we closed the shop, but that's what we're going to do is everybody whose birthday, we had a huge meal with their friends and family and everybody. And yeah, so, you know, sometimes it'd be expensive to go on individual ones, but that way everybody actually got to celebrate their birthdays. I can't reach my fan over there and I really need it. Yeah, so Nicole, let's have a look. Okay, partnerships and alliances for you. Okay, partnerships and alliances. So, are you thinking of going into business with somebody or are you, do you feel as if there's somebody around you who could help you in your ventures, you know? Or maybe it's time to kind of branch away and do your own thing. Either way, there's going to be a decision to be made over partnerships and alliances. And we've got the solar plexus card. Has somebody hurt you? Has somebody reacted or something in a strange way that kind of took you off balance a little bit. So, yeah, that's what is seen, okay, for you, Nicole. If you don't understand it now, then this will be direct future. And, yes, my kitchen, there you go. My kitchen sink forces leak. I knew there was something. You have to add friends to be able to text on Telegram. Oh, maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Yeah, bugger. So, where did we get to? Where did we get to? Where did we get to? And so, let's have a look. And oh, the waiting game and for you, is there something that is driving you potty that you don't like? You know, someone's supposed to be doing some work for you and somebody's promised you this and someone's promised you that and then that hasn't happened. And it's like always having to rely on someone else to complete things or do things. You get to that point now where you're going to go, do you know what? I'm doing it myself. I've had enough. I'm doing it myself. That's it. Okay. So, there's obviously something that you're going to take charge of. Okay. There are things in life that we have to be patient with and that's okay. But, you know, at the end of the day, you have to know the difference when to kick ass and when to kind of chill. Okay. This is the card, the chakra card for you, which is the base chakra. It's about survival instinct. It can be about money, finances, getting to the bottom of a financial dilemma, something that needs to be kind of sorted out, you know, made aware of. Are you overspending in a certain place? You know, have you been overcharged? There seems to be some money that needs to go back into your account. It's come off the card and it's overpayment. So, I don't know what that mean by all of that. But, yeah, you'll have to kind of have a little look. So, so Nicole says spend time with kids. Okay. And work. So, Sarah answers, drain smell funny. Maybe that was for us, but not the tap. Okay. So, hello, Tina. Tina, Helen, me too. Did you ask him? Yes, I did. I did. Hi, Doreen. We'd love a card. Okay. All right. So, who am I doing reading? Okay. So, just diving. Just diving. Diving. This is for you obstacles and challenges. Okay. So, there seems to be a little bit of a test. Okay. That is around you at this time. This test is okay. So, it's for two things. This test is a spiritual test, but it's also an earthly test. You know, you're basically putting things into priorities. Who is in need of your attention? Who's not in need of your attention? Who just demands it? There's a difference between demanding and need. And I do feel as if there's a, you're having to sort this out. They're showing me also spiritually that you need to give them some time so that they can, or this isn't for Tina. Sorry. This is for just diving. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. So, this is like tuning in with your spirit guides, tuning in with your loved ones. They're asking you for time. So, let's switch off the radio, the TV, the YouTube, switch all of that off, and just be in quiet. Okay. And just keep doing things. So, keep busy. They're telling me, you know, do your washing up, do your hoovering, do whatever you need to do, but just keep in silence and watch those thoughts because there will be some answers for you. Okay. And it will be good. All right. Stay there. Stay there. Okay. So, something dinged on my telegram thing. So, I don't know. We might be in luck. I might be able to get something. Okay. So, make sure I haven't missed anybody. So, Melissa I did, Concha I did, Nicola I did. Anybody who's asked me specifically for a card is who I'm looking for. I did Anne and I did Melissa, Nicole, Kybe Carina, Dina and Vera. And I read for Vera, add friends to the text and telegram. Okay. So, is Sarah Anne and Tina, another Tina, Tina Mead. Okay. So, hello Doreen, lovely Doreen. And Elizabeth, I love your message. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Yep. Feel you. What is your handle on telegram? No, you're asking. I don't know. Shall I have a look? How do I? Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I've got this phone that I hate as well. And it really... Oh, Vera found me. Vera found me. What was my name on there, Vera? Do you know? No. I don't know. I don't know. No. Not a clue. There's a few people that I think have found me. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Sorry. Hi, Dosey. Tina, can you? Yeah. I will pick cards. Okay. So, I'm going to have to stop soon though because otherwise I'm never going to get these readings because the astrology readings take three, two and a half to three hours. And it's already half past 2 a.m. here. So, we're going to do Tina. Tina, Tina, Tina. Tina, this is for you or spiritual strength. I feel as if there is a new spirit guide coming in that's quite powerful for you, Tina. This spirit guide is coming in with mediumship capabilities. There's also healing as well linked with this. Don't be surprised if you're not kind of getting messages from loved ones, not just your own but for other people. You are going to be feeling so much more confident and strong more than you have done in a very long time. Okay. I've got the solar plexus for you. Make sure that you protect that your gut feeling. Okay. Has there been any issues or tummy upsets or anything around you recently? Is there something that you can do to maybe calm that down by eating certain foods that you need to kind of, I feel as if there's a dietary thing that you're needing to change there, Tina. Okay. So, they're telling me. So, Doreen. Okay. Let's have a look. Doreen. So, Doreen, I've got the mental conflict. Okay. Now, this may not be you but do you know somebody around you or is it you who's going through some it's like anguish. I feel tormented by my thoughts, by my ideas. You know, as soon as I think I'm getting somewhere, there seems to be an issue or a problem or a stress situation and I need to know where I'm going. It's like, this is what's going on in your head. I can't get my head clear. Foggy, foggy, foggy energy. Okay. I'm just going to pick another card. Okay. This may be due to emotional loss. Okay. Has there been somebody who has pulled away from you? Maybe you've fallen out with somebody who you would normally be very close to emotionally. This is actually causing you stress and upset. Okay. So, okay. So, yeah. So, it's funny enough you've got the heart chakra there card which is pretty apt with what you're going through there. So, but I do feel as if this is short lived. It will all sort itself out. Okay. It really will. All right. So, Seeker. Okay. Seeker. Seeker, you've got the awareness card. So, this is telling me that you are in a state of focusing on, you know, looking for signs, seeing, you know, as you're moving through life, you're then looking and finding that your purpose, finding where you're being drawn to. What's the next stepping stone on your spiritual pathway? You know, you've gone from this to this. So, where do you go now? What's going on? I feel as if there needs to be another one. Okay. Where is your destiny? Where are you supposed to be headed? Okay. It's quite a, it's like a big spiritual boost is around you and it's important and you've got the third eye one. So, that's again the spiritual side of you. Watch out for that colour around you as well. That colour is going to be very meaningful this week for you. Okay. No, it's not. I've not got to that, Josie. The normal weekly zodiac. I'm having a beautiful time here with you. Oh, thank you, Elizabeth. Okay. Reality theorist. Yep. You sent me a text. But what's my name on there? What's my name? Oh, Shirley. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. I better write these names down because it's just gone a bit busy, isn't it? Hold on a minute. Let's find me a notebook or a piece of paper and you want one piece of paper. Just the one. Okay. So, where did I get to? Coming up, coming up, coming up here. Where did I get to? I've got the love, love, love, love, love. So, I've just done a little card for Doreen, haven't I? Just diving. I did just diving earlier, didn't I? Yep. And here's Josie. Can you do me a card? I did for Tina, didn't I? And for Doreen. Yep. Seeker. I just, no. Have I done Seeker yet? I don't think I've done Seeker. So, I will do Seeker because that's when I decided that I was going to get a pen and paper. So, there's Shirley. Could I please get a card? So, reality, reality theorist. Okay. Dantina already. Yeah. And Sarah Ann. Got you, Sarah Ann. We're also lovely here. I love to be here with all of you. Love the warm energies. It is lovely and warm, isn't it? It's gorgeous. Greetings from India. Hi, Sunil. Sharma, hello. It's Alison with the picture of you and Greg. Hey, all. Hope I didn't miss too much. Hi, curious cat. Hello. Don't worry about my cards if you're pressed for time. I'm just sure it would be interested for all. I give me a lot of clarity about what I need to hear. Of course, I'll pick you card. It's fine. Absolutely fine. Your name is Alison. Oh, it's just Alison. I didn't even know this that my actual name is just Alison. That was definitely not my intention to do that. It was not my intention at all. See, yeah. If I could get in line for a reading, I could really appreciate guidance. Okay. Curious cat. Curious cat. I've been looking to find a home purchase when I find one. I moved before the year. Home purchase. Move before. Yeah. Okay. Time lines are going. Shift L, Z to ask. Time in. Get no answer, but soon. Thank you. Gerilyn J. If I could get a card, it would be appreciated. So, Gerilyn, that's a different name. It's Gerilyn Joy. Gerilyn Joy. Okay. Do these stories. Don't worry about me. No, it's okay. Honestly, it's all right. So, Seeker, we do the fire, air, water and earth. Oh, Elsie, thank you. You're an absolute diamond. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. I just discovered so I can watch you on Facebook live or YouTube live. Oh, good. Elsie is a cat corn. Josie, you can still change your name on Telegram. Oh, good, because I want to. Susan, hello. Hello, Susan. I'm here from Melbourne, Australia. I would love a reading, please, especially if you pick up anything about Dan Andrews' election win on weekend. Okay. So, Susan Charlton and Dan Andrews' election win weekend. Okay. All right. Okay. So, I'm up to date. Apart from Seeker, Seeker is an all three fire signs. Wow. Okay, Seeker. All right. So, Seeker, you're the next one. I'm going to swap over to my cosmic deck. So, let's go up to Seeker. There we go. All right, Seeker. So, we've got the contentment card, the card that says you've done a lot of work on yourself. You've been kind of trying to get into alignment with your higher self, understanding your higher self, trying to listen more clearly to your higher self. There has been blockages or kind of like dead ends. It's like you've been trying things and there's been a dead end or, you know, you've been, it's like trying to read trust your own intuition when, you know, it has been, you know, a feeling of dead ends and, you know, not going in the direction that you want to. So, it's like, how do I trust myself now? Okay. So, you're trying to re-educate yourself with that and go with that gut feeling again. But we've got the emotion card. So, there needs to be a motion with it. Okay. So, I found that, you know, your gut feeling is one thing, but does your inner child get excited about the pathway that you're about to take? Because if your inner child is not getting excited, then I would go with, you have to have the both together. The gut feeling and the excitement with the inner child. Okay. Just my feeling. And your chart with card for you, Seeker, is the base chart because this is all about money, finances, stability, security, emotionally, physically, and all of those lovely things. Okay. So, reality theorist. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? There we are. Okay. I just need a quick sip of my drink. Reality, reality. All right. So, what I've got for you is the Nine of Pentacles. Okay. So, the Nine of Pentacles to me in this deck basically means that you've done very well for yourself and you should be very proud that you have made very good decisions in the past that are paying off now. There seems to be a key that is going to be opening new doors for you. I feel that there's an opportunity that is literally coming up, if not now, it will be in the very near future. So, look out for this. This opportunity is linking to money, finances, work, that type of thing. It's time to be selfish and it's time to say, this is about me now. This is my decision, my time. You may not want to tell other people until it's finalised though. And so, you actually know if you're going to do, you know, that that new scheme, if you're going to take that opportunity, maybe you just need to kind of, instead of upsetting anybody or, you know, bringing anybody else involved in, probably it's time to just, you know, wait. Does that mean it's wait until you've kind of analysed it and decided? Okay, so Sarah Ann. This is for you, Sarah Ann. Oh, sorry. The chakra card for you, reality theorist, is the sacral? Is there any issues with mother or mother of children or somebody who's feminine and very nurturing? Okay, there seems to be somebody who needs to have a little bit of attention, okay? There seems to be, so it could be children needing to get attention with children, needing to get in the balance of the inner child, okay? There could even be some issues, okay, around you. So, Sarah Ann, there you go. Sarah Ann, has there been any fighting around you? Any kind of like upsets, okay? Somebody who's not been very nice to you, this person needs to kick up the bomb, need to deal with it, okay? So, whoever this is, they're not playing fair, okay? You're trying to nurture and look after yourself and make yourself as happy as you can possibly be, because there is some stress around you. Somebody around you is not reacting very well to stress, and they're taking it out on you. It could be that you're feeling as if you're trying not to take it out on anybody else, maybe you're feeling stressed, okay? There seems to be some work that needs to be done in the house. Jobs need to be done, and they're not being finished. Frustration as well around you, okay? Feeling as if the walls are caving in, I need to move, or I need to change things big time in the home, okay? So, you've got the base chakra as well, so it's about your financial security. I feel as if you're needed to get that self-employed job situation up and running. It would make you feel very much more excited about your own abilities, boost of confidence will just literally shine, shine, shine from you, okay? That's what I see for you. Curious cat. Curious cat. Where are you? Curious cat? Do you guys understand what I'm saying? Ah, Phil, thank you. Thank you. So, I just quit my wage sin job so I can hear and spend time doing my art, writing, and trying self-employment. Good for you. Good for you. Ah, lovely. And Phil, you are a superstar, thank you. Attitude, power, hit, 16, the tower card are falling away of, is that Artifaces? Artifices, is that right? I'm not sure. I don't know how to pronounce that. So, Phil, please go over to our fellow light worker here, Phil's channel on YouTube, Emerald Dragon Reiki, I think it's called. Do you want to put it in that chat, Phil? And we can get more people coming over to your channel. And can I ask if anybody is on my channel, could you please hit that like button and subscribe with the little bell so that you get notified. Okay, so curious cat for you. Oh, that card just did not want to go in. Okay, so the card I've got in front of me is the Four of Swords. And that means that you're patiently waiting for somebody to cock up. I don't usually see that with the Four of Swords, but that's what they're telling me. So, you know, when you feel as if you want to make a big decision, but you have to wait for that time, you know, so that you don't feel so bad. Okay, that's what this feels like. So it's like, you know, please cock up just one more time, because that will be it then. And then I can walk away, and I can find that new job that I want. Okay, because I've got the Ace of Pentacles, the new job opportunity has arisen, but you need to kind of be the leave the last one, or you need a damn good excuse as to why you are leaving and going on to other things. Okay, there seems to be a very funny sarcastic person around somebody who does make you laugh. And there seems to be a decision about rerouting as well, maybe moving home or doing something different regarding your usual home life. Yeah. Okay, LZ, LZ, LZ. Oh, the chocolate card for your curious cat is that one has to be that one. And it's the sacral. So has there been any issues with gynae issues? Has there been issues to do with, you know, lower back, nurturing kidney area, anything to do with that? The telling you to flush out those kidneys, you need to drink a lot more than you have more than normal. They're telling me to tell you. Okay. So this is your question. I've been looking to find a home to purchase. Will I find one and move before the year end? Now there are two questions. So I think I need to do the first one. Will I find a home to purchase? Will I find a home to purchase before the end of this year? Okay. Right. So they are saying that you've got the temperance card. So, you know, if I said 50-50, do you know what I mean? That's basically what that card means. It's 50-50. This is about the looking after. Yes, you could find a home. Okay. Yes. The answer to that is yes. Is it the right home for you? Okay. Because we've got the deal with it card. Going to the heart of it and dealing with it. I really don't feel as if you should be rushing into this. There seems to be a bit of a wary situation. And they're saying, really, I think you should stay where you are. That's what this is indicating. With the cards I saw, it was like, you know, best not to go there at the moment. Okay. So, yeah, I don't even want to look at the second question to that. So the answer to that is yes, you could find a home. But there will be, its advantages will be taken away from you. And there will be, there's a charlatan energy. Okay. Somebody who is trying to take advantage of you, take advantage of your situation, your plight. Okay. So, they're saying that time is needed. Okay. And solar plexus, which goes with what I said. Because solar plexus can be, you know, protecting yourself with solar plexus. You know, sometimes when someone's hurt our feelings the first time, we hug ourselves, don't we? You know, that's what we do so that we don't get hurt. Okay. Right. Okay. So, sorry, that doesn't particularly answer it as a black and white kind of way. But last day, but just for now, I think is a very good idea. Okay. You've thought about moving, good. Okay. So, I'm going back. So, we've got this lovely person here. Okay. So, if I could have a reading, it would be so appreciated. Of course. So, Geraldine, is it Geraldine? Geraldine. All right. So, I've got some official paperwork around you. I'm seeing documents, I'm seeing letters, things that need to be completed and sorted out. Would you understand have you been avoiding it? Have you, is there something that you need to address? Okay. Which means a letter. Okay. Completing something and sending it off. There seems to be somebody who's hiding things, maybe documents, they're hiding letters. Would you understand a child at school who may not be wanting you to see some letters that are coming through the door? Okay. And there's going to, because they know there's going to be shouting. Okay. Somebody who doesn't want to get into trouble and is really trying to avoid confrontation. Okay. You're going to be juggling money around. There seems to be some, these are two separate bits of papers I'm seeing. One was the contracts. The other one was a child around you who has been trying to pull the wall over people's eyes. So, so no one can see. It's nothing to see there. Don't open that. Don't open that letter. Okay. So your chakra card is a sacral, which goes with the children energy. So if this isn't, if this child situation isn't for Geraldine, then it's for somebody else in this chat or somebody else who is reading this or listening to this. Okay. This child is trying to deceive you. They don't want this letter coming from school. They're trying to, yeah, they're trying to protect themselves. Okay. So then we've got Susan Charlton. Thank you for the superchats. I really do appreciate it. I don't expect it. I promise you, I don't, but it's so lovely. I do appreciate. Thank you. Let's just go Tina. Hi. It's lovely. I was watching, I got so excited. I was watching Dani earlier. She was with Elena and they were talking and they mentioned me and Greg. They did. They mentioned me and Greg and I was like, God, so excited. It's not kind of like a fan feeling. It's more to do with these two people. I mean, Greg must have touched them. Does that make sense somehow emotionally for them to have mentioned it? And so that's, that's a nice feeling. Yeah. Okay. Susan here from Melbourne, Australia. I love reading, especially if you do anything on Dan Andrews election win on weekend. Okay. Let's look at Dan Andrews. Okay. It was very difficult to actually get a link on him. I don't know why. It was like, I was trying to, you know, it was like my energy was trying to find him. Don't know what that means, that was a bit tricky. Okay. There's sadness around this sadness and confusion. It's like, I'm getting stressed or, you know, things aren't going as well as I want them to. You know, how can I get this moving on? You know, there seems to be, yeah, there's somebody who is dissecting or they're not being as truthful as they should be. And there's a need to kind of delve into it a little bit more. Okay. They've got to be delved into it. There seems to be something's not quite right there. Okay. Everything's upside down. Everything's on hold, but there is victory. We do have the victory card. Okay. After that, we have the achievement and the victory card. But it's after a long wait or a delay. Okay. Where everything is upside down. It's like that I'm seeing as pending, you know, like the, when you, when your computer network is really busy and you're kind of like just waiting, waiting, waiting. So I don't know if that answers you at all, but that's what I see, Susan. There we go. So that was me up to everybody by that point. Oh, there's Phil. Thank you, Phil. Please add your details down in here, Phil. Okay. So Vera, we're going to do the astrology now. So we've got Vera, who's an Aries. So I've got Sagittarius. I'm Pisces. I've got Sagittarius and I've got Libra. Reg is a triple Libra to put his down as well. So what is your Sun, Moon and Rising, everybody? Sun, Moon and Rising. Josie, Sagittarius, Sagittarius and Gemini. So Sagittarius, Sagittarius and Gemini. Okay. What else have we got? What is, I think it's artifacts. I don't know. I'm not sure. So I came in just when you pulled the chart book card and you spoke directly to what I need and I'm doing. Oh, there we go. I do believe it's, they have multiple re, multiple meanings, these cards. There are no accidents in our universe composed of thought. Yes. Yes. I would like a reading. My birthday is December the 4th. Oh, well, happy birthday. It's coming up. Let me pick you a little cards. Okay. So is this somebody you're drifting away from you? Somebody you're not kind of communicating very well, talking very well. You're a little bit sad about this. You wish that they, you know, you could communicate better because they just, they don't want to listen to what you have to say. You don't really want to listen to what they have to say. And it's been slowly, slowly getting worse. Okay, the communication lines. But there is going to be a sudden change. We've got the full card, which is a sudden change. And there's something about money, a wasting of money or money that has should have been spent there, but it was spent here instead. You know, oh, dear, kind of feeling. Yeah, it's like, you know, when something like a practical thing brings you back together, brings you back into communication together, because you then have to solve the mystery, solve the reason why this there is a something gone wrong. Okay. And there is somebody around you at this moment who really needs a bit of TLC, they need a bit of tender loving care rain. Okay. At the moment, something isn't going as well as expected. But definitely see there's an issue about money. Someone's drifting away from you and the money situation is going to come back, bring you back together. Crown chakra. So this just indicates that there is some things that are needed to be, it's like understood in the psychic sense. Earlier, when Athena was doing readings, she came up with an interesting, there was an interesting man, I think his name was David. And David had seen these wonderful kind of lights that were waking him up, and they were shining all over the bedroom. And you know, these, these were dancing and things, these lights. And when he said, I see you, and they got more excited, the lights and things. So something's telling me that maybe there's going to be something like that happening with you, big enlightening thing going on. The crown chakra is really coming alive for you. Okay. Yeah, I've done, I've just done yours Susan. So reality study some readings on there. So thank you. Then six of air scrolls reversed five. Okay. Telegram took up all my memory in my phone. Oh, Lisa, that's not good. Is it? Yeah. Hi, Terry. I just saw on galactic chicks you were on. Oh, thank you, Terry. It's good to see you here. Oh, and there's my love. Try the call. Oh dear. He obviously doesn't know. Hello, darling. I'm live at the moment. Do you want to say no to everybody? Oh, I'm doing the astrology. Oh, nice. Yeah. So it's half time. I'll give you a shout. Oh, sorry, love. That's okay. I'll let you go. Okay. All right. Love to Brittany. Never let you go, but you know, no, definitely not. Don't let me get married. All right. Bye, love. Okay. Sorry about that, guys. Okay, let me pick you some cards, Terry. Okay, ready? All right. So we've got the five of pentacles. Most people have this, this card because it's Christmas and we're spending more money than normal. We're kind of having a bit of a spend up. So that's kind of round about, but it's on the home. You're spending money on the home. You're spending money with, it's like you're, it's accessorising to do with home is what I'm seeing. Or maybe, you know, some, something in the home is costing you more money than you wanted it to. But yes, there's a bit of money being spent there. There's something to do with the move. So I don't know if you've got to move or there's got to be some movement in the house sorting through. We've got a bit of boards and cards like, come on, then bring it on. But all will be well. Okay. You've got the world card, which means that everything is turning out better than you thought. So there is disruption. There is money having to be spent on the home situation. Things aren't as stable as you want them to be. And that to me is saying that could be an emotional thing, a physical thing, spiritual thing even. But all of this will be resolved in the end. And you've got the world card, which is a good thing. Okay. So they're just little mini readings. So okay, so I'm going to have to, I just want your sun, moon and rising now. So I'm going to have to stop the one to one readings. Otherwise I'm never going to get it done. So, so yeah. Scorpio, at least Scorpio. So that's a water sign. Aquarius with Megan. Aquarius. It's air sign. It's a moving away. Okay. From Western meds to natural in my business. Okay. Lots of cross people in Melbourne. It was spot on. Feels like a rigged election. That's what it felt like love. I'm so sorry. So Contra is earth sign. We don't have many earth signs everybody. So a bit of this and a bit of that is water. LZ is sun is Capricorn. Moon is Aries. And rising is Aquarius. Okay. Susan is Libra. So the reason why I'm asking for this, if you're new to this, is to see who goes first. What, what, whether I'm going to read for the air signs first or the earth signs first or, you know, who's, what order are we going to put them in? So I've done that one. So Susan is Libra, Virgo and Libra. Okay. So Libra, Libra and Virgo. Okay. So Contra is Virgo, Libra, Aquarius. Virgo, Libra, Aquarius. Okay. And Linda is Aries, Leo, Cancer. Aries, Leo and Cancer. Okay. Beautiful readings with Athena today. I know. She's lovely, isn't she? Yeah. I had to, she said, is there any advice you can give me? Is there any advice you can give me with, and I said nothing to do with, you know, doing your readings. They're amazing. The only thing is that there's a time delay. It's only a second or two, but it's like sometimes you have to slow and wait for that person to answer. So otherwise they never get a chance to speak or get their questioning out. So yeah, that's the only thing, but yeah, no, I loved it. There you go. Thank you. Hello, Savannah. Hello, hello. The five of earth. So yeah. Ah, there's my darling. I love you. And hi, Brittany. I'll be doing your readings in late. I know that you're Leo. If Greg, if you can tell me what all of your people there are, what their birth signs are, I'll add them in. Have to dine cancer. Have I done, no, not yet. No, I haven't done any of those astrology yet. I've done some free readings. That's about it. I tried to send you to super chat, but YouTube is needing me to update my info. You are hitting the nail on the head and I know exactly what you are reading. Good. I'm pleased that you know. Yes. Okay. So awesome. Good. Yay. So LZ says hi, Greg. So D. Finn is Capricorn. Oh my goodness. Earth signs are taking over water signs tonight. Oh, we've got a plebby. We've got a plebby plebs. Oh, I can't do it. Greg, darling, could you get rid of that plague? Oh, no, it's on my Facebook. So why can't I get rid of that then? It's not coming up with my three dots. Ah, Gypsy JJ. It was so nice to put a face to the name. So she's a lioness. So that's, that's a Leo. Thank you for doing all the readings, reality. That's wonderful. Okay. So Terry, hi, Terry. So Aries and Pisces. Okay. Aries and Pisces. Reality is Scorpio, Scorpio Moon. Scorpio, Scorpio. Scorpio, Scorpio. I've got yours, my love. I've got yours, Libra, Libra, Libra. Rains is that one. Scorpio. Okay. Super Scorpio. Yeah. Oh, thank you. Reality. I sent you and Ali both a super love light package. I hope. Oh, thank you. Ah, so we've got Pisces and Aquarius. Okay. Pisces and Aquarius. Okay. So Disgotina is Taurus. Yay. We've got a Taurus. Okay. Um, yeah. Smash the like button, please. That would be amazing. It would be amazing. Terry is a galactic chick. Yeah. She said she came over from there. So thank you for doing that for me, sharing my love here. Maureen is Leo Virgo, Leo Pisces. So Virgo, Leo Pisces. Okay. So we're nearly there, I think. All right. So I think we've got enough to work out. So once again, the fire signs are first. We'll be doing the fire signs first. Then we'll be doing the air signs and then the water signs and then the earth signs, poor earth signs. They never quite go first apart from when I just say, right, we're doing the earth signs first. But, uh, all right. Perhaps they're so grounded that they don't believe in this stuff. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Okay. Oh, good. I've just, I need some energy. I've come across as really tired right now. And, uh, I need to, I need to wake, wake myself up. I may, this may not do it. I may need a coffee. I'll maybe just have a coffee. Not as much because, uh, my coffee is so weak. With my coffee, I'll show you. I'll show you how much coffee I have. I literally have a few grains of coffee. That's about it. That's what I have. Oh, hello Devon. Oh, it's good to see you. Push that over there. Push that over there. It's going to get loud just for a little bit, but only a few seconds. Okay. So let's get the fire signs up. So we'll start off with Leo and then we'll do Sagittarius and then Aries. Okay. We'll set Leo. Okay. So starting off with Leo, it's going to get loud. Okay. Sorry. Then we'll do air signs, then water, and then earth. And don't forget there's a salon at the moment. This was 38. It's $5 off. It's now 33. That is a real bargain. 33 pounds for this. Okay. 33 pounds from Amethyst Candle Holder. 33 pounds. And then this, it was 30 pounds black obsidian crystal ball. Okay. This was 30 pounds. It is now $25, $5 off. And then we have the laser angel crystal ball. Let's move that out. Okay. So this laser angel crystal ball. I don't know if you can see that lovely angel in there. Okay. So as she was 22, she is now 20. Comes with a little wooden stand. Okay. So if anybody would like any of those, you have to add on post and packaging. Okay. The most pocket post and packaging it will be even to Australia. The most is 15 pounds, but it won't be that much. It's usually around I would say seven pounds, nine pounds, something like that I would say. Right. So if anybody does want to pull any cards whilst I'm doing this and you want to add any, I know reality theorists has been doing that. So you are welcome to do that as well. More than Maria, I say. Yep. That will do it. Just a hot drink, does it? Sometimes doesn't it? Oh, yes. Sorry when I'm rocking. It's not me being a... Yeah. It just means the pain's gone up. All right. Okay. So Leo's. Okay. So this is for Brittany and any other Leo's out there. Okay. This is what's happening for you next week. Okay. Between now and next week. Okay. So there seems to be something that is playing on your mind. It's linking to travel. Okay. And issues around travel. So I feel that there is something to do with a car that needs to be sorted out. Okay. Something to do with a car. And I feel it's... That may not be the... For some of you, it's going to be a direct issue to do with the car and the travel and that sort of thing. For others, I feel as if it's to do with the fact that there may be a new car that's needed to be purchased, a new car. Okay. They're also talking about a little bit of a... It's like a worry over somebody as well. It's like, you know, when you want them to be well and you want them to be okay and it's playing on your mind a little bit. Okay. And there's a dissecting energy. We do have the Libra card with it. Okay. So there's a little Libra sign in there. I don't know if you can see it, but there's a little Libra sign in there. Okay. So that's what's going on the beginning of the week. By the middle of the week, there seems to be... It's a love life. It's like... It feels as if it is a love life situation. We've got the Lovers card. Okay. And it's like a boomerang one, you know, where it's like, no, it's done. It's finished. Oh, it's back again. No, it's done. It's done. It's finished. No, it's back again. There seems to be a back and forward, okay, issue there. There seems to be somebody who has got a very opinionated kind of message that is needing to be made. This feels as if there is a need for guidelines. I wanted to say gentle guidelines, but for some of you, I feel that they're... Obviously, because I'm not just reading for, say, one person, I have to adapt this for other people as well. So if you understand, some of you are going to have to put up some big boundaries, okay, some very firm boundaries. But for some, for others of you, it's going to be gentle boundaries are needed. So you will make sense of this, I'm sure, in your own lives. But there is somebody who's doing a little bit of stirring. Now, if this isn't love life, then this could be a family situation, a friendship situation, a work colleague situation. And so it's like somebody is definitely stirring it up, okay, they're liking the drama. All right, they're liking the drama, and there's a need to kind of get to the bottom of why they're doing what they're doing, or who is causing this to create more problems. Okay, by the end of the week, I can see that you've decided on who you want to talk to and communicate with and who you don't. Okay, it's like you've kind of come full circle and said, do you know what, I can see right through you, I'm not doing it, I'm not playing. There does seem to be something linked with legal documents or this could be a ticket certificates, this could be contracts, this could be letters, it could be anything. It's all to do with something official and something that needs to be either, Oh, Tara, hello, lovely. Oh, there's Greg's sister there. Oh, Tara, pin you up there. So yeah, this is Greg's sister. I have a lovely time. And could you send Tara some healing, because she's been really suffering with her hips and her walking. That would be great. Yeah, so I feel as if this is sudden. Okay, this paperwork, it looks as if it's sudden. Okay, sudden, you know, it's all happening. It's all happening. And it's like, I don't want to talk about it. That's what they're indicating. Don't want to talk about it, but it's all happening. It's paperwork. Okay, and I wanted to pick one of these as well. Okay, so moving on, I do feel as if there is going to be one of these kind of letting somebody go from your life, from your inner circle, letting somebody go, you're just going to be feeling like, you know, you're not of my, my mom used to say this, you're not of my ilk. And I never really understood what she was saying. But yeah, so I suppose it's like, we're not, we don't match, we don't match in our personalities and our outlook of life. Okay. And unfortunately, that's sometimes what we have to do. Okay, so, so there you go. That's for you, Leo's. Okay. All right, so Tina disco, Tina is, I think, help trying to help me with telegram. So that's what the pinging is. So, so, okay, so we're going to be doing Sagittarius now. Sagittarius. Oh, thank you, Elizabeth. So Elizabeth is sending Tarasam healing there. Okay. Lovely. Oops. It's all right. It's my fault. I didn't turn my phone on silent. Okay. All right. Which deck is the moving card from? It is from this deck. It's called the psychic tarot by John Holland. Okay, it's quite nice. It's a, it's not a proper tarot deck, I wouldn't call it a proper tarot deck. It only goes eight to nine. And it goes eight to nine. And then it hasn't got any personality cards in it. And yeah, it's got all the major arcana cards. And it's got this, it's also added in, it's got the seven chakra cards as well. So yeah, but it's a, it's, I would call it an oracle deck. It's, it does say psychic tarot oracle deck. So yeah, it's a mixture. Yes, indeedy-dee-dee. All right, Sagittarius people. I've got Sagittarius moon. So this is for me as well. So the, the card there is emotional loss. Okay, so sometimes we have to make decisions in our life that aren't always easy. And sometimes they're going to affect us. You know, and also we also have lessons that we have to learn that are painful sometimes. And so there's going to be one of those lessons happening this week, Sagittarius. But let's have a look and see if we can't find some light as well. So let's have a look. So this is the 28th of November through to the 5th of December, 2022. Okay, so we've got the temperance card, which straight away tells you that it's quite a balanced situation that this isn't all bad. Okay. And we've got the victory card. We've got the, I've done it. Look at me. Look at what I've achieved. And now it's in limbo. So have you achieved something? Have you felt as if, you know, you are very proud of you? Have you felt as if, you know, you couldn't have possibly done any better than you've done? But now it's like a rest. It's like I can now rest. I can now put my feet up. I don't have to worry. Okay. But the temperance is about making sure that your inner child is happy. Making sure that there's no sadness in your heart, because you're not fulfilling all of your needs. Okay. So yeah, it's about getting the balance right at the beginning of the week. But well done, they're saying in the spirit world. Well done. Congratulations. Fantastic. You did it. Woohoo. That is what they're saying. Exactly. Elizabeth. Woohoo. That's what it is. Okay. So by the middle of the week, or the middle of the week, you've got some emotional matters going on here. Okay. So we've got the lovers card. We've got the three of cups. And we've got the four of one. So what I'm seeing with these cards is this one is my I've already done well. I'm take I've always done what I've got to take it further. So I've got to go one up on myself. It's like I've got to got to push myself to the next challenge. Now it's definitely this challenge is linking to love life, emotions, personal life, personal matters. Okay. So it's like there is a feeling of inner celebration, but also it's like love lust, or just, you know, I just like the person. But there's definitely something that is confusing you. Because this card, it seems to say everything is perfect. Everything is great. But when you look closely, there is a slight tear down the middle of this. Okay. And there is a need to address it. There is a need to get to the bottom of any little niggles or little issues that need to be resolved. Okay. To do with, you know, emotions. Okay. So for some of you, it's going to be love life. For others of you, it will be a family member or a friend, or it could be a colleague at work. Okay. But it is definitely linked with emotions. And you're wanting to move on. Okay. That's all done dusted. Now let's move on. Okay. So by the end of the week, the end of the week, we have a person around you who is who likes everything in its place. They have, they want everything just so it's all got to be very perfect, tidy. They may have a little bit of OCD, that type of thing as well. But there are kind of the matters that they want, that they let mind putting themselves out to make sure that everything runs smoothly. And so, you know, this is fine. But at the end of the day, sometimes they run themselves into, you know, tiredness because they want everything so perfect. If it was up to you or I maybe would cut corners a little bit, but this person will not do that. They can get very stressed as well. So there is a hard worker here. I'm seeing somebody who's quite laid back, they plod along, they get there in the end, but they plod, plod, plod. And sometimes this person can be infuriating to somebody like, I want it done perfectly, because they, you know, they'll do their job. In the middle of all this, there is a big wish that is wanted, wanting to get something. Maybe this is a couple, you know, for some of you it will be a couple. And they drive each other nuts, you know, it's like Mr. laid back and do it yesterday, do it, you know, do it tomorrow, I'll get it done. And then, you know, she wants it done, or he wants it done perfectly now yesterday. I wanted to do it yesterday. So yeah, it's a little bit of a clash there. Okay, so that's what I see for Sagittarius. Sagittarius. Okay, so okay, so Rain said in our case, we are expanding our business, just finished inputting all the new inventory and got it loaded in the car to take to our shop. Okay. Okay, so Rain said, this is unreal. This is exactly what my husband and I are moving to this week. Good. I'm glad it makes sense to you guys. Okay, so we are now going to be doing Aries. So what is, what is the psychic tarot card for Aries? I know this is, this is our lovely Vera. She's an Aries. Any more Aries out there? Okay, so stand your ground. Stand your ground. Okay. So there's obviously somebody who is trying to get you to bite. Okay, so Terry, Terry Priest here is an Aries as well. And Seeker is an Aries. Yeah, so stand your ground. Stand up for yourself. We're needed. And sometimes we can stand up for ourselves without having an argument with anybody. It's just by kind of just quietly standing up and saying, no, this is how I feel. I don't want to conform or I don't want to make something fit. This is how it is. Okay. So, okay, Aries Aries. Let's tune into you guys. So 28th of November through to the 5th of December. Okay, so we have the Empress to start with. Okay. So the Empress can be mother figure, motherly character. I want to have a look and see what the other cards are before I tell you what I'm thinking. So then we've got the chariot, which can be about moving and changes. And then we have the six of swords. So looking at the three cards together, I'm going to say that there is, for one of you or for some of you, there is going to be news about a pregnancy with somebody who doesn't live near you. Okay. This person is, you know, a trip away. Okay. I can also see that this may be, for others of you, this may be links with a mum, a mum energy. Okay. Could be your mum. It could be you being a mum. And there is a need to make an important decision about a trip. Maybe one of your children want to go on a trip and you're not sure whether to let them. Okay. Maybe you're a bit worried that it may not be the right time for them to go on a trip right now. Okay. Especially without you. There seems to be links with overseas or something, maybe more. And this to me feels, it's like no looking backwards, looking forwards, they're saying. Okay. Look forwards. Maybe you've got to do a bit more research, mums, before you actually make a decision. Okay. So yeah. For others of you, I would say that there could be, you know, a weighing up and maybe it's the children that's got to make a decision about the mum. Okay. Or about a motherly character. Okay. And I'm definitely seeing links with overseas again. All right. So that is the beginning of the week there for Aries. So by the middle of the week, oh, I've got to include Vera here. I know Vera, it's not about children. It's about her children or her child. It is about her pets. So this could relate to somebody else regarding their pets. So there is a decision that is going to be made or you're going to be having to or try to make this decision. And this seems to be about, you know, maybe your pets, your babies, okay, having to decide what to do about them for their future. Okay. So the middle of the week. The middle of the week, we've got a sense of being independent. And, you know, especially financially, security wise, financially, being outspoken about being independent. Things are changing. You're changing. The situation around you is changing. And there needs to be more verbal communication about money. So there's going to be some people who are talking about, I feel household bills, you know, the status of the, you know, of economy around and the anguish, okay, around. And yeah, I do feel for people at the moment, because I know everybody's going through it. And it's going to hit the hardest people. It's going to hit, you know, and it's going to hit the people, you know, for gas and electric. I mean, I've said that, you know, so I'm only going to pay what I can afford. And that's it, you know, and they can do one. Basically, if this accumulates to a bill, you know, then so be it. They've, you know, they're taking so many bloody bonuses. I'm not, I'm not giving you advice on what you should do. But, but people, somebody pointed out, but what if you've got a meter, and you have to put money in your meter every week? I don't know if you have the same thing in America, but sometimes if people run up a bill, they put on a meter. And you literally have to go and top up your card or your key. And that gives you kind of another 15 pounds worth of gas or electric. But they're going to be taking off that. So the poorest people, they're going, that's going to affect them. It's going to really affect them. So this really is pants, it needs to be sorted. And I do believe it will be, I do believe that. But yeah, exactly. So I'm going to say to you guys, if there is anybody out there and you're listening to this, maybe it's not your birth sign, my guides do throw in extras. They do throw in other bits of communication and information. They throw in all of that little snippets for anybody who's watching. So it might not make sense to you as to why it makes, you know, it's connecting to you. Yeah, so J fingers keys. Yeah, you have a gas meter. So yeah, it's awful. Yeah. So I do feel for you. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much, rain. Thank you for that. Really, really appreciate that. That's wonderful. You guys are just so lovely. You make my heart sing. Okay, I use candles. If I can't, can't pay bill go back to living like the 1800s. Yeah. Yeah, lots and lots of candles. Make your own candles as well. Yeah. Soldiers voice. Hi, Ali. Hello. Okay, so we're halfway through this. So I just get way laid. Way laid. Anyway, there's going to be some heavy discussions about money, finances, that sort of thing. And there is a self employed business in every one of you. Even you even even you. Yes, you. And there's a self employed business. And so all you need to do is to say, Okay, where is there a commodity? Where what do people need? Maybe you like to, I don't know, make chutney. Okay, how many people out there don't know how to make chutney would like to learn how to make chutney? All you do is you stick a camera up on your work surface and you you do your chutney making and you can do a voiceover on top of that afterwards. And stick it on YouTube. The tutorials are the quickest way of earning money. Okay, out on YouTube. So you can do this, you know. So anywhere I'm just saying that there is a self employed business out there. And I feel that this is good. Okay. So what else have we got for the end of? Okay, so for the end of the week for Aries. So these cards are interesting. So I've got the three of cups, which is love life, love, happiness, celebration, love, energy, doesn't necessarily have to be love life, but can be it's love nonetheless. And then we've got the everything's on hold or upside down. And then we have the lovers card, which can be complications in love life or like a boomerang relationship. Well, what's a chutney? And chutneys like, you know, like red onion, would you call it relish? So yeah, not so not like tomato ketchup or anything. It's but it's a bit like like red current jelly or some stuff that you would have like apple sauce that you would have with your with your dinner with your gravy dinner. You know, to compliment me anyway. Um, yeah. So I feel as if there is some things upside down in a relationship here. There seems to be something not great going on. Okay, needs to be sorted out until it's and so for one of you, it will be love life or for some of you it will be love life. For others of you, it will be, you know, issue about, you know, your children at school. And for other people, it will be about a family situation. So it, you know, it's all to do with love and it's to do with emotions. Okay. So it's emotional complication going on here. There is a party energy as well on some problems with party and who's going who's not going. I'm picking this up. Okay. So there you go. That is for Aries. Aries. Yeah, cranberries. That's like, yeah, cranberries. Yeah. I live in Louisiana in USA. Lauren, chutney is delicious and it's kind of like fruited jam or reduction. Yeah, something like that. But it's, I'm just making that as an excuse, but I mean, it's, um, sometimes it's like, there's somebody who wants everything. There's everything on, on YouTube, everything. So you can earn money. You know, say if you, I don't, I'm using chutneys. Okay. What about jam? Okay. Let's make it easier. So, or jelly, jelly, you say peanut butter and jelly. So say if you've got a really good recipe, okay. Really good recipe. And you, then you've got a camera here and you're, you're cooking it and you're doing kind of step by step cooking. And then you put it out there. Um, yeah. It's like, and then you might then sell your cookbook. It's like, well, if you like this, there's more recipes. And I've created a booklet or a, or a book. You can print it yourself. It doesn't matter. This is a, um, tell me your hobbies in the chat. Tell me your hobbies and let's all make a self employed job about it. That'd be interesting. So, Elsie, hello hugs from Las Vegas. All right. So we have done all the air, all the fire signs. Everyone, we are now going to do air signs, Aquarius to start with. So all you Aquarians out there, if I did a cooking video, it would end up on how to pull, how to put out a kitchen fire. Still, somebody would watch that. They'd find it funny. You know, there's some really sick people out there. Hi, Megan. Hello. So, um, so Aquarius, let me tune into you guys. Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius, 28th November to the 5th of December. I've got leaky eyes again. Hi, Jillian. Jillian's an Aquarius. Yay. Hi, Jillian O'Connor. O'Connor. Jillian O'Connor. All right. Let's see. What is the psychic tarot card for you guys? All right. So positive movement forward. Okay. This is a very, very good card. Okay. Very good card because this is saying that you are about to go on a journey. This journey could be a physical journey. For some of you, it may be. For others of you, this will be a spiritual journey. This will be going up levels. Okay. You know, feeling as if we're, you know, we're, our spiritual self is on a roll that everything is, is, it's like becoming easy. We're hearing spirit. We're sensing spirit. We're listening to our intuition. You know, but for some of you, there's going to be literal move movement. Okay. So beginning of the week for you guys. Okay. So I'm, I'm seeing an idea that comes to you or comes to somebody close. That it could potentially turn your world upside down. Okay. You're connected with them. So this is going to turn your world upside down. And you're going to be feeling a little bit put out by that. There's a real sense of one person likes the idea. The other person hates the idea. And this, this is going back and forth with this communication back and forth. Can't make up their minds. Okay. And there needs to be a compromise. Okay. But I'm not seeing there being a compromise happening. Okay. The beginning of the week. Let's see if this progresses to the middle of the week. I'm hoping it doesn't. Well, I don't know. So we've got the isolation card, the pulling away from the hustle bustle of life or pulling away from a certain person, not wanting to deal with them. Okay. Any more. We've got the breaking free card. The, I feel stuck. I want to unshackle myself from this situation. The card next to it is the hermit. So that could be about your home. Okay. Wanting to pull away from the home situation. It could even be somebody who is, you know, wanting to get away from the isolation that they feel that they're in, you know, that, that hermit card, you know, can be a good thing where you, you've learned so much from yourself. But it could well be something along the lines of, you know, I've, I've got to, I've got to readjust my life and I've been trying to, maybe this is what the conversation was in the beginning of the week, trying to resolve a problem, but it's not gone down very well. Okay. You know, and he feels if you just can't win. So by the end of the week, by the end of the week and what I'm picking up around you guys, this is one little area of your life that isn't going well. The rest of your life. I just want to pick you some more cards, but the rest of your life is, is good. Okay. This seems to be an important meeting. Okay. This meeting is linked to love. It's a love connection. So this is meeting up with people that you care about, people that you really have a good energy with. Okay. This is somebody familiar as well. This is going on in the beginning in the middle of this next week for you guys. So in amongst the inner, I feel as if around the home and your personal life, there seems to be this issue with this good idea. One person doesn't think it's a good idea, and the other person does. So all of that is going on. Okay. But on the whole, we've got love. Okay. Real love. Okay. And having to please, having to please others sometimes is not an easy task here. But you are taking charge. Okay. We've got the control card, taking charge, understanding that somebody has to take charge of this. And I can see somebody who's a bit of a plodder, steady, reliable sort of person. Everybody knows where they stand with this person. And this person has set themselves up with a challenge, a challenge to make this right, a challenge to please everybody. So it's like a third party is stepping in the middle and going, let's stop. This isn't helping anybody. We need to do this. And then what happens is the positive movement forward comes in and actually moves everybody along. So yeah, bit of drama, I'm afraid, Aquarius, but nothing you guys can't handle. Okay. Sometimes you have to use that really good humor actually to get through. All right. So, so reality theorist is busy giving you guys some extra readings there in the chat. So thank you for that. Okay. So there's all that going on as well. All right. So Aquarius. So now we're going to go to Gemini. Okay. Greg calls these Geminiians when we used to do our astrology together. This are Hi, Rayleigh. Hello. Good to see you. All right. Gemini's. Gemini, Gemini, Gemini's. And this is Psychic Tarot. The waiting game. Okay. So the waiting game. There seems to be something that you want very, very much. Okay. And it's not happening as quickly as you want it. You know, what could be keeping it or holding it back. So with your kind of that controlling kind of nature, you know, that's kind of got, it's like that deep thought pattern side of you, that, that deepness, that, that side that says, I'm not mucking about here. I'm just going to get on with it. That part of you is really having to hold back. Okay. And not, and not break down any barriers that there are around you in order to get the job done. Okay. So, so you're having to be patient, having to rely on someone else. Okay. So that's what is going on there. So the beginning of the week, there is a little bit of confusion. Okay. Somebody is doing your head in. Somebody is confusing you. Okay. And you're having to get on and organize travel plans, organize ways to get from A to B. Maybe there seems to be, you know, issues with cars, transport, public transport. Okay. And then I've got the Libra energy. So this doesn't have to be an exact Libra. It could be that you're acting like a Libran, maybe you're dissecting things, maybe you're trying to get everything to be fair. Okay. Having to get everything organized and fair. Okay. So, yeah, so I feel as if there is, for some of you, there's going to be an issue with, with how to get where you need to go. So how to get to work when there are other things going on. Okay. And again, somebody, do they need a new car? Do they need a vehicle? Do they need to replace their permit? What do they need to do? Okay. The beginning of the week. By the middle of the week, for German Indians, we have that lovely card that says, I've done well. This is me, like me or not. Okay. So German eyes always get a hard kind of, it's like, they get a hard, hard go at it really, because everyone thinks that they've got a negative side and a positive side. But that polarity doesn't have to be that. Sometimes that polarity can be extrovert and introvert, you know, somebody who's a bit shy, but when you get to know them, they're definitely not. So, yeah, there's differences there. Okay. So the middle of the week, we've got that lovely energy that says, I'm me, like it or not. That's who I am. You've got the psychic energy going on here. You do have a character around you who's being a little bit defensive. When they're being asked, well, what do you think? Or, you know, what's going on? It's like, what are you asking me for? Why are you throwing? So it's like they're being a little bit, a little bit too sassy, just to mean with you, somebody who's being a bit sharp negative. Okay. So you're trying to just stay true to you, true to your happiness. Okay. And not bite. Okay. There seems to be a bit of anger or frustration around you as well. And yeah, get this. It's like three of swords is my deal with it. It's most sarcastic card in the deck. Okay. So there seems to be somebody who is getting angry or frustrated. You need them to calm down. You need this to kind of, you know, get wrapped around them and give them that, that hug when they are getting frustrated with life. Okay. It's like, it's like basically taking them under your wing and saying, you know, hey, you don't have to, you don't have to do this. You don't have to get angry. You know, it's all going to be fine. Just take a deep breath. Okay. So I'm hearing somebody calming another down. And yeah, there seems to be it's like somebody who gets mental health issues is what I'm picking up. I have done a little video on mental health. I was driving along. So if it be on my Facebook page, and yeah, it was basically I was talking you through how to get rid of attachments. But I need to do a special video about that, I think. So I will do that. Okay. It's another, another net forward. I've got this new, new desk. But my goodness, it's heavy. It's heavy to get out. So yeah. Okay. So that was for you, Gemini's. Yeah. So Mel says, hi, Mel says, that's me, Gemini moon, introvert extrovert. Yeah. But some honestly, people, people always think it's a bad thing being a Gemini. No. So, so, hey, Mel, mine is Gemini. Sis, there. I love you all chatting together in the, in there. Thank you. Oh, thank you very much for that. I do appreciate that message. Thank you. All right. So we can do Libra. So this is for my love, my forever love. So yeah. Okay. So he's busy watching his football Sunday. So they always have, he always does really nice dinners on a Sunday, always cook something really special. And then he always wears his gold chief's football top. He always wears that. It was all falling to bits. So I sewed that up like a good wifey. I sewed all that up for him. So yeah, that's, he's probably got this, his shirt on. I don't know if his daughter, but apparently his daughter's got a shirt as well. So I wonder if they're both sitting there with their, with their football shirts on, watching football. That's so sweet. Okay. All right. So Libra. So is you guys Libras? Are you Libras? Thank you, Susan. Thank you. All right. So just going to tune into you. Okay, Libra. I've got Libra rising. Greg's a triple Libra. Okay. That's what we need. All right. So there seems to be somebody who's been a little bit tearful, a little bit emotional. Okay. There's also a sense of a big decision. Okay. And I feel as if there's definitely, I'm picking up on one person who has, it's like I'm seeing them being offered another job or being, I've got a spammer. Why can't I have my three dots so I can get rid of them? I don't know. Anyway. So, so yeah, it feels as if there's somebody who's been offered another job or another opportunity, business opportunity, financial opportunity, but they feel sad and guilty for maybe accepting this other job or opportunity and they don't want to leave where they are. So obviously that's not going to apply to everybody. So I'm going to pick up other kind of things for others. So I'm also picking up on a character who has been tearful and emotional and I feel this is because there's been a little bit of a sarcastic energy in the workplace, somebody being bullied or being kind of singled out a little bit as well, and they are not sure what to do. They can't really afford to leave their job, but on the same time, they also have to keep their sanity. Okay. And in a kind of another way is, you know, you're facing a crossroads, you're facing a gamble. Should you go in this direction or that direction to do with money, okay, and opportunities? What to do? Yeah, I know. I don't know how to get rid of that Facebook spammer. Anybody have a clue? They aren't real people. They're bots. So I'll never take it, never take it personally. There's also somebody who's thinking of writing a book. Okay. And it's a big thumbs up from the spirit world. Yes, you should go and write that book. It's a good book. Okay. All right. So there's going to be some sort of achievement that I'm seeing happen. Okay. It's like an award or somebody's been singled out where they were saying, you did it. You absolutely did it. You cracked it. You got it sorted. So this is a really good kind of feeling here, okay, around a person. And you know when somebody's usually very sarcastic and, you know, a bit cutting and even that person around you is saying well done. Congratulations. Okay. So you're getting recognition from people who you would not usually get recognition from. Okay. Your spirit guides are also singing your praises. You have come on so much in, you know, your spiritual pathway. And it's like, wow, it's good. So by the end of, okay, by the end of next week, end of next week, you've got two aces. Okay. So you've got the ace of cups, which is emotional overflowing. And you've also got which is boredom, restlessness. And, you know, I want a challenge, you know, I want something to spark my interest. I need to I need something to really go for. Okay. But there is this obstacle. It's like, I really want to do that, but I can't. And I'm so frustrated. So is there an opportunity that you guys want to do? But there isn't that there's something that is stopping you. If that is the case, then sometimes sharing that idea or that need. Okay. Maybe on here, you know, there might be some people on here who could give you advice or help with that. Because it might be your destiny to actually do what it is that you're wishing to do. Okay. So the destiny card is there. That's equivalent to the wheel of fortune in the tarot. Okay. The wheel of fortune. So there you go, Libras. That is yours. Yeah. I can't, I can't block them. I do that deliberately. I swear that they change the how it is on there. Okay. So we're now doing the water signs, everybody. So we'll start with Scorpio, Pisces, and Cancer. Okay. And then after that, we'll do the air signs. No, earth signs. Right. Cheers. Right. This is my baby. This is my Rihanna. And she is a Scorpio. So this is for you, love. And for all the other Scorpios out there. So this is your card. Mental conflicts. Okay. So this is sometimes what we get this time of year when we're stressed and we're worried about money. We're trying to get everything organized. We're trying to please everybody. We're trying to make our already tight budget stretch. And yeah, how can we earn more money? What can we do? What can I sell? You know, how much kind of can it for it? How much can I get for it? So it's all that going on. Okay. And I feel, you know, if it's not the worry over money, then it's about getting everything done, finding time. You know, so yeah, sometimes we need to kind of switch off that brain, switch off that worry part of our brain and just switch it into manifest mode. I'm going to manifest what I want. Okay. So I want this, this, this and this. Off you go and send it over to your guides, your helpers. Okay. And let them bring it to you and have fun watching exactly how they do it and how creative it is in that actual coming back around. Okay. But we get what we expect to get. So if you expect not to get anything, then you won't. If you expect the universe to help you, then it will. That's how it works. Okay. So let's have a look for Scorpios. Okay. So I'm picking up this card. This card, my mum usually sings to everybody if they get this card when she's doing a reading. I can see clearly now the rain has gone. Yeah, she starts singing to you and holding your hand. She's very theatrical, which does the readings and I love her. I love you mum. But yeah, so, so watch for this. Okay. This is, this is like you, the clouds have all parted and you can now see straight ahead and you know where you're going, you know what you want, and you know how to focus. Okay. So this is a good card because it means that there is no longer any, any obstacles. Okay. We've got my secrecy card. Okay. My card that says I'm keeping things to myself. I don't really want to tell too many people about my situation or about my plans. Now this card says that I've now broken free using these three cards together. I've now broken free from the restrictions that I've had. Okay. In my life. Okay. So I no longer have to have to be bound by can't do this, can do that, don't do this, do that. So it's like I'm free and there's a real lovely feeling of freedom. So with the mental conflict card, it does mean that it's only going to be short lived. There's only going to be a momentarily you know, blip of worry. Okay. So we then have the card that says come and then universe bring it. Okay. So that is my seven of wands. It's like, come on, bring it on, bring it on. This is a plan. Okay. Two of wands is my plan card, making a plan, focusing on the future. I know where I'm going and know what I'm doing now. Okay. There will be some people who don't want to hear your plans. They don't want to hear your, your excitement. Maybe they quite like it when you've got a problem or an issue or this mental conflict. Maybe they do. Some people live on drama. Some people thrive on it. And you don't have to be one of those people. And you don't have to have one of those people around you, either who are feeding off that. Okay. Always talking about the problems. Or did you see this? Or did you see that? Or have, you know, what's the gossip and what's the reality of this situation? You know, it's like they're excited about the next bit. Okay. But if that next bit makes you sad talking about, then that's not a good thing. Is it? Because it brings you down. Okay. So there's somebody who's in control, very much in control, taking charge. Okay. Taking, taking, it's like I am focused. Okay. It's like the Sagittarian energy. Sagittarian is somebody who shoots that arrow into the target and they are focused on that. And it's like someone might say, no, you don't want to be focusing on that. You need to be over here. It's like, no, I'm, I'm doing that. So they won't be, they won't be made to, to deter from where they're going or what they're doing. They're very determined, even if they know deep down they're not supposed to go in that direction, they still do to make a point. So I'm sensing this person around. Also, there is somebody from your past. Okay. This person from your past could be an ex. For some of you, it might be an ex. For others of you, it may be a character who is an old friend. This could be an old person that used to work with. This could be, you know, somebody who, you know, you've, you've grew up with. Okay. But whoever this is, this person, the personality of this person is very determined. They are very, they could be aggressive even with the way that they go about getting what they want. So if this person comes into your life, then sometimes we have to think, what is their agenda? Why are they coming to me now? What can I offer them? Is there a reason? Sometimes they might not be. Sometimes they are back in your life and it's just because they've missed you. If it's an ex, have they been rejected by someone else and they want to just feel better? They, so they ping back to a plan B, you know, they ping back to that. Well, you'll do. Okay. You know, and I know that you'll always be there. And then when their relationship gets back on track, they then ditch you, don't want you anymore. And then that's the cycle. Next time they have a rail, they call you up. How you doing? I miss you. And they don't miss you. They just miss the attention of you. So sometimes we don't have to get into that kind of, you know, you know, that cycle. Does that make sense? Sometimes we have to see through these cycles. We have to see through these agendas of people. But I can see that you are standing up for yourself. You really are. Okay. So that's what I see for Scorpios for next week. All right. So we're doing Pisces. So I'm a Pisces and my mum's a Pisces as well. And so I believe one of one of Greg's guys there are Pisces. I don't know if it's his sister is a Pisces. I'm not sure. If you're still there, Tara, are you Pisces? If I'm rocking is because it's pain. I suffer with arthritis in my lower back, hips, knees and ankles. So yes, it gets to me. It just gets to me. So just have a look and see if I'm due any pain relief. So if there's any healers out there, could you send me a bit of healing? I would really, really appreciate it. Well, I last took them up past nine, up as nine, 10, 11, 12, one and it's now four. So yeah, no wonder I'm rocking. Yeah, that would do it. So I'm going to take my tablets, change my little clock. I've got a little clock you see in here. So this is my pill pot. So I've got all my pills in here. I've ever gone through this. I've got to do it. It's quite funny. I'll do it. Oh, cold coffee. No, not cold coffee. Can't. Oh, so 11, 11, send signals out to the universe that all is well. Love, vibrational energy is lots of love. Every time you see 11, 11, it's a send earth healing and love in my little pot up here. I made this clock. So I turn this clock around and so it's half past four AM here. So I put it to half past four. I've got two little mini screwdrivers here. I've got magnets in the middle there. I've got a little lipstick just in case. I've got a little perfume just in case. I've got some other slow release tablets there. I've got a little birthday candle just in case somebody might have a birthday and need to quickly grab a candle. I've got a little game for my Nintendo. I've got another little perfume there. I've got the swan that I did for my love spell with Greg. So that's the little silver swan there. Another little candle just in case there's two people. I've got sunflower seeds because you never know when you need a sunflower seed. And there's some eyebrow fend just in case I need, I got a headache. I've got a toothpick in there as well. I've got a little SIM card. I'm not quite sure where that's in. It's just a little SIM card case just in case you need that. I've got the first diamond that Greg bought which is a hercuma. Hercuma diamond, sorry. So I've got that. I've got some vitamin D sunshine tablets. I've got some of them. I've got some just in case you get the diarrhea. You've got those anti-diarrhea tablets. I've got a little trolley key trolley key and I've got some pins. So here's my little pot of joy. I've even got a needle in there as well. Yeah, I know. I'm a prepper just in case just in case just in case. Yeah. What do you guys have in your handbag? Do you have all those preppy stuff in your handbags or you know in your glove compartments lads? Do you have, what do you have in there? Anyway, Pisces, Pisces, Pisces. Oh, wow, they're busy cards. Okay, Pisces, Pisces. That's it. Pisces, you've got disruption. Oh goodness, disruption. Okay. Well, for me, it's true actually. So in my place, I've had some, a new furniture unit that goes in my bedroom. It goes above and over the bed, well me and Greg's bedroom, above and over the bed. So I've got to sort out my bedroom and get rid of all the clothes that I don't use and all of the drawers and everything. So I've literally got all that out. So disruption card. Yeah, I can take that for me. What about you guys? What about you? Do you have disruption? Have you got chaos going on in your life? Well, you will have next week, Pisces. Yep, you've got lots and lots and lots to do. Okay, it feels as if you're going through cupboards and drawers and you know, it feels as if you know wardrobes and old shoes and you know, stuff that you just keep keeping for no reason. Getting rid of it. Yes. Just like Mary Poppins. Just everything. Yeah. I do. I do. Honestly, I'll go through my whole handbag. Everyone says it's so heavy. Well, I know. You have so much in that little container. I know. So much to win. Let's make a deal. I know. Yes. Sorry. Way late. Pisces. Right. Pisces, Pisces. So I've got my bring it card. Okay. So bring it. I'm ready. I'm ready for you. Okay. And the nine of swords. I'm ready, but I don't want to hear about it. Okay. So this sometimes means that maybe there's nervousness. Maybe there's somebody nagging you. Maybe you're trying to nag someone else and they're not listening. They're going, la, la, la, la, not listening. And then I've got the plan card. Okay. So when I look at these three together, some of the scenarios that I'm seeing coming up here. Okay. So there seems to be a plan paperwork, putting your name down to something in authority. Okay. Something with an authoritative feel. It's come from wanting something different from life. Okay. So we've got the, you know, it's like being psyched up, psyching yourself up, saying you've got, you've got this, you've got this, you can do this, you can do this. Just put your name down. Add your name down to that course or to that situation. Just put your name down. So it's like your, your inner, your, your head is trying to communicate with you and tell you, you know, to be brave, to be brave. Okay. But you have been trying to close your ears off to it. Maybe you've been procrastinating and not doing what it is that you should have been doing. Okay. It could be that you've got other people who are just nagging, nagging, nagging you. And maybe they're trying to tell you to put your name down or, and you're trying to do the opposite. It's like you don't want to be told. And that is okay. But are you cutting your nose off to spite your face? Just because they've said, do it, do it, do it. And you don't want to. It could be the best thing for you. So you have to really decide yourself. Decide whether or not it, you know, so without being stubborn. Okay. Try not to be stubborn with it. Okay. So another scenario I'm seeing here is lots of gossip. Lots of people around you who are trying to take charge or trying to manipulate, to gossip, to tell other people someone else's private business. So is that going on, okay, around you? Is it a challenge to actually stand up and say, can you please stop that? I don't want to be part of this bullying tactic. You know, maybe this is, this is the time for you to actually say no. Okay. So let's have a look and see what's happening the middle of the week. By the middle of the week, get ready for communication from past loved ones, maybe spirit communication is going to be coming through. For some of you, it will be an X. Okay. You know, somebody from your past, maybe somebody who is, you know, you feel as if, you know, you've been picking up on them recently, they've been coming into your mind and then all of a sudden you then bump into them. You know, sometimes just because an X comes into your life, it doesn't always mean that they are trying to get you back or that you should take them seriously about them trying to get you back. Sometimes it's the case of just reiterating, are you sure you want this one because you could have this one back? You know, what do you want? Do you want to move forward? Do you want to move back? What do you want? And sometimes that is just the universe just making it clear. You know, you know, are you going to be committed to this new relationship? You know, is it time? Is it time? Juggling your energy, juggling your time, juggling your attention, okay, is going to be one of the key things that happen in the middle of the week for you. I'm seeing training, looking at maybe trying something different, learning something different. I feel as if for some of you, you're going to be, if you're always working in this department, I'm seeing you working in that department. Maybe you're supposed to, you know, and for instance, say if you do usually work in this department, you end up working in that department, maybe you were supposed to meet up with that person. And when you recognise them, you think, oh, I know you. I know you from my past life. Maybe you then meet the person of your dreams, just because on that day, one person went off sick and you had to cover their shift, even though you hated it and you didn't want to go. And then all of a sudden, it's like this opportunity. So watch out because the universe is doing things for you. They are twisting and turning things and making things happen. So, yeah, but I do feel as if somebody's training, there seems to be training courses and things like that and juggling money. We've got another spam of loves. I'm really sorry that I can't do anything about them. I would love a regression. I do do regressions. I was thinking of doing a little bit of a regression thing, a live one. So if anybody fancies doing and they don't mind being regressed live, I thought maybe we could have a go at that. So if there's anybody who wants to do that, come talk to me, message me. Okay. Yeah. So you're just awesome seeing juggling money around doing something different with money. I'm seeing as well Pisces. Okay. All right. So sometimes we're busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, but we're not busy doing the things we really want to do. We're doing things we have to do. And sometimes that's not always great, is it? Okay. Letting go walking away from somebody that you do not care for. Okay. Sometimes we also have to walk away from people that we do still care about, that we do, you know, love sometimes, but they're just not right for us. And each time we go back, we think, are they different? They sound like they have, you know, they're going to do things differently now. They're very convincing. Of course they're convincing. Absolutely. They're convincing. Do they believe that they will change and they'll be a better person and they'll do everything? Of course they will. That's what they'll say. They will say that. But are they capable? That's what you need to ask yourself. Are they actually capable? Because it's not as simple as listening to them convincing you that they've changed and that everything is going to be all right this time. You know, they're only saying what it is that they're hoping for. Okay. So have they learned lessons is what you're needing to be looking for, examining, you know, a different angle, different way of them seeing the world. So, yeah, I feel as if you're going to be letting go of someone or something is done. We also see a new education around workshops, learning that type of thing as well, Pisces. Okay. So, we're now going to do Cancerians and this is my other daughter. So have my mum, my mum for Pisces and we now we got Megan. This is my Megan, my eldest daughter. We've got new new people. Oh, hi, Robin. Hello. Ah, so Robin is a galactic chick. Well, I'm pleased to meet you, Robin. I'm very pleased to meet you. So, Raine says, I think I was a mermaid in the past life. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so we might have someone I would consider a live regression as long as all of you promise to visit me in the mental world of my family's thesis. Oh, yeah. So, obviously, I don't know how to get in touch with you other than like here on the live chat. So if you wanted that done, then please message me on my website. Okay. It is psychically.net. Okay. And then there's a contact me button. So, and then we can arrange it. So pleased to meet you and be in your life. Oh, well, you're welcome. Very welcome. Okay. So I'm going to concentrate on cancerans. Here we go. Oh, this is class as the world card. Okay. In this deck, so the universe. So this is when things turn out to be even better than you first thought. Okay. You're kind of going, I don't know. I don't know. Is it going to be okay? Is it going to be okay? And this is saying, oh, yeah. Oh, yes. It's going to be better than okay. It's going to be perfect. It's going to really make everything right. Okay. It's all good. I'm going to reach out to you. Good. That'll be lovely. So, Chris, Ali, have you done Taurus yet? No, I'm going to be doing Taurus. Actually, the next one. So it's cancer, then it'll be Taurus. Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. And then that'll be all of them. It's nice to be in a loving high vibe chat. Oh, thank you. Thank you. These guys are wonderful. The 5D family. It's like when I was, me and Greg was with Danny, Danny Henderson, and we was having the interview there. The vibrational energy was wonderful. And we could feel it. We could feel it with her. And it's like we've known her. It's like a feeling. It's like, I know you. You know, we've been connected. And I believe that her soul tribe and in 5D soul tribe, it's like, it's, it's mingling. Just sort of meaning it's all, all, so it's absolutely beautiful. And I'm loving it. I feel it. Thank you, Robin. Okay. So, okay. Cancerians. So hi, Maggie. My Maggie. Right. Okay. So, so, okay. So I'm picking up on a character who can be, it's like they want everybody to do it their way. And if you do it your own way, then you're doing it wrong. And you don't know what you're doing. And there's another person who says, I just want to get it done in my own sweet time. I promised you I'll get it done. I just don't want to be rushed. So these two characters, one who likes to be in control, the other person who wants to just get on with it. Okay. And then get down the pub. Okay. It's like, just want to get down the pub. So it's a tourist energy. So who's the tourist energy over there? Who's in the chat? Who's tourist? Is it you, Chris? Are you a tourist? So it's like, just, I want to do it my own way, you know. So I feel that they are very hard working. But when it's time off, it's time off. Down tools, go down the pub. Down tools, it's coffee time. Or down tools, I'm going to put my feet up, read the paper or hope you don't. But anyway, so all of this, it's like that energy, it's like knowing when to rest. Okay. And Torian's know exactly how to do that. Okay. But my goodness, do they work in the meantime? But this person who doesn't get on very well with the tourist energy because they are a little bit too bossy. Okay for them. They're too bossy. They're too controlling. And they try and take over a bit. There seems to be a need to kind of back off, let go, walk away maybe a little bit and say, I'm done. Okay. This could just be a temporary fix. It could just be, you know, I'll leave you to cool off, you know, because I'm not doing it your way. And, you know, I'm not going to do it your way. And that's how it is. And so, yeah, it's all, it's all a little bit fraught, I feel, going on there. Okay. But you've got the world card. So what does the world card say? The world card says it's all going to be turning out better than you thought, including this little kind of misunderstanding. This probably is something that happens quite a lot. And tourists, you just stand your ground. You don't really back down. And, you know, you're sad. So I'm not saying it is a tourist. Okay, it's someone who acts like a tourist, or is acting like a tourist at this point. Okay. And then you've got this person. I just want anybody new who's come in here, who is listening to this, I'm going to say that my guides deliberately throw in some other messages for the other birth signs during when I'm doing, you know, cancer and there might be a message there for you. Okay. That is also for the cancerans. Okay. So look out for those because there's little snippets going out as well. So I can see you letting go and walking away from a situation that has brought about some stress. Okay. At that point. Okay. So by the middle of the week, next week, there's a new job. I'm hearing somebody being offered a new job or promotion or extra responsibility. So there's something that is going to be excited. I'm excited. I'm feeling as if I'm focused as well. But I'm also feeling as though I can't please everybody. So if I take this job, I'm going to upset that person. Or if I don't take that job, then I'm going to upset this person. Or if I take this job, I'm going to have to hand my keys back. Or there's going to be a difficulty because I'm used to this. So it's like having to really write down the pros and the cons regarding this job. Now, if it's not a job for somebody, then it has to be about money, new money, a change of money, you know, some, some, it's like where something used to come in this way, but it's coming in this way now. Or you're getting a top up of this because you didn't before. So something to do with new money. Okay. That is owed to you that is coming. I'm definitely seeing a good feeling of I deserve this. I deserve this they're saying. And there is a need for everybody to start using this as a mantra. Just as you're washing up, just, just make it into a song. Just say, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve. It's like just something, something silly, lighthearted kind of energy. And, you know, the next day you might say, I deserve happiness. I deserve happiness. I deserve this. I deserve that. So you're just, you know, I deserve unconditional love. I deserve to meet my twin flame. I deserve to have that new car. I deserve to have the house. I want, you know, whatever it is, make sure that you do not add guilt in. Okay. Do not add guilt in. Because guilt is a complete opposite of I deserve. Okay. So you just, I deserve, I deserve, I deserve. Okay. So by the end of the week, end of the week, there is a thought out. I feel as if there is somebody who has come to the end of their tether. This is just, you know, one or a few people here come to the end of their tether regarding home. A home situation has turned into I'm done. I, I've had it. I'm done. Okay. So I can hear somebody saying, I'm moving or I'm moving out. Okay. I'm going to go and find out where I stand legally. I'm going to get a quote on what this house would be if I sold it. Or I'm going to find out what the house prices are for renting. It's like a real kind of like I'm doing it and I'm not going to turn back. Now for other people, it might not be as dramatic as actually moving. It could be that, you know, you're having to sort out, you know, thinking ahead. And this could be a five year plan that, okay, so I'm going to be paying off the mortgage for five years. And then after five years, then we're going to do this and this and this. And so it's like the step by step by step kind of achievements. Okay. And being organized with it. But it is like thinking ahead, making sure that you know what you're doing. Okay. That you know that this financial situation isn't going to take over, okay, your life. That leads me to something that I did recently. Okay. This is part of my personal life, but I'm going to share it with you guys because you guys are my family. So I got sick and tired of only paying the just the interest on my credit cards and, you know, debts from years ago that I've kind of brought with me every time I move. I like bring them all with me. And what I did was I found out about it's called an IVA. And there may be something similar in America or wherever you are. Okay. So an IVA is one down from bankruptcy. And I don't care about sharing this because money isn't, I don't take it seriously. It's like it's just a commodity. It's a commodity. So I want to live on a day-to-day basis with more money in my pocket. So that gives me peace of mind. Okay. So I'm not worried about everything. So I was getting to the point where I was like paying out and paying out and paying out and it was like dragging me down. So I went in and I had, I've just done it, completed an IVA. Okay. It's an involuntary agreement or something. Yes. An involuntary agreement. And this involuntary agreement means that I basically they accumulate all of my debts together and they then give me a figure like once a month to pay, you know, there is a tiny little bit of amount for each of these creditors. And then, and then I pay just one sum. So say I was paying usually around 500, 500 pounds a month on debts. And then it's reduced down. This is just a, for instance, it reduces down to say 100 pounds. So then you pay just 100 pounds. And then after five years, what you haven't paid is white. It's just white. And so you also have good credit rating because basically you've done the agreement. You've done the agreement. So that's basically so I'm just saying there might be some people there who are drowning and I'm not giving financial advice. I am not giving financial advice. I'm only saying this is what I did. So it's given me peace of mind. It's so it's like I'm done. I'm done with the worry. I done with the worry because we know that there's going to be a new financial system and all this crap is going. So we know this. We know this to be true. But in the meantime, I am paying, I'm saving just a, for instance, 400 pounds a month. I'm saving now where I did used to have to, you know, da, da, da. So yeah, anyway, we all deserve a debt jubilee. We do reality theorists. We do for entertainment purposes only. Yes, exactly. Exactly. So that's called a chapter 13 bankruptcy in America. I used to work for a bank bankruptcy. Okay. Yeah, so it's just an idea out there that sometimes, you know, I was a single mum and most of my children's lives I was a single mum and I was just in living hand to mouth all the time. All the time I used to get these shock. It's like it was, it was a legitimate company, but it was the interest. If I borrowed 100 pounds, I'd pay back 500. It was that bad. It was that bad. So I got myself into all those. I paid all those off, but you can imagine it's like hard. They cripple you, don't they? So anyway, I got to the point where I was like, I'm not doing this anymore. So just thought I'd share that with you guys. It might be something you want to look into. It's called an IVA and it was a lovely company that I can share with you if you are interested. So contact me if you want. There is nothing wrong with that. They rob us daily. They do. They do. But after five years, I've got no debt. It's done. So yeah, I like that bit. I like that bit. So anyway, so cancer is please try not to worry because it does feel as if there's something big happening around you guys at the end of this next week. And it's linked with finances and it's linked with planning ahead. Plans and plans and plans and balances, doing the right balance. Also, somebody who you would normally have respected and thought, what a great person that is. It's like you now look at them and think, I don't think as much of you as I did. You know, there's somebody who's let you down, okay, as well, unfortunately. But now you're the one saying, I'm not waiting to be rescued anymore. I'm going to rescue myself. I'm going to do what I need to do. Okay, so that's what I'm seeing. You're focused on your future and on your own happiness. And I feel excited for you, Cancerians. And that's a message for everybody spiritually. Okay, it's all, it's all being sorted out. When I look into the future and I look into, you know, how our lives are going to be. I always see finances. I see finances. I see, you know, everything being really good. So how can that be that every single person that I'm reading for who's got financial abundance coming? Other than the fact that there is this financial change that's on its way. So there you go. So yeah, now once you've got the world card, okay, that it's all going to turn out better than you thought. So now we're going to do, hi Joe, hi Javelins. Hello. So we're going to do the banners now. So we're going to do the Taurus. Okay, so we're going to do Taurus and then Virgo and then Capricorn. Okay, so let's have a look. What's going on with Taurus? The one card flew out. So we're going to read that one. In fact, it's two cards. So all right. So the card that flew out was Sacrifice. Okay. And I believe I can't remember what this one is. I can't remember what this one is in the, I want to look it up actually. What is Sacrifice in the psychic tarot booklet? So you get a really nice booklet. I really recommend these cards. These are the cards. The psychic tarot are John Holland. Okay. And they are very cheap deck, okay, of cards as well. I think in England they're only about 15 pounds. So Sacrifice is, it's the equivalent to the Handman. Okay. So it's equivalent to the Handman. This card signifies that there is a situation happening or about to occur in your life and you can't control the outcome. This would be a good moment to pause, rest, have patients, reflect and meditate. It would be wise to stand back so you can lean, learn to look at events with a more understanding intuitive eye. So, and I like the wording that they use in these. And sometimes what I do, and you could do this with your Oracle cards, is if you want a little reading for yourself, then hit the record button on your voice memos. Then you are, thank you, Lucy. No, I'm rocking. So then you pick out three cards from your deck and you say, right, this is, you could do it daily or weekly. It's up to you. This is the beginning of the week. And then you read from the booklet. You read it and you'll, because you've recorded it. That's what you're doing. And then you read the next card for the middle of the week or the middle of the, you know, this day. And then you do the end. And then you can just play it back. And it's like you've got a little reading for yourself. So yeah, it's just a little kind of thing that I've done before, which was, which was nice to get you got the Sacrifice card. Okay, you've then got the choose wisely card. So there seems to be an emotional situation where you're going to be asked that you've got to make a decision and choose what are you going to do? Okay. And because you pick the right pathway, you then have triumph success. You did it. Just stick with that for the week for you, couldn't we Torians? So three cards jumped out of the pack for you. So there, that's what you've got. So let's have a look and see what else. So thank you for sending here. Okay. So let's have a look. So this is the 28th of November through to the fifth of December, 22. Lovely. All right. So we start off with the emperor. The emperor to me can mean somebody in authority or it can be a fatherly character. The hermit, your home. It can be isolation and it can be wisdom. And then we have the two of cups, which is meeting somebody of great importance, meeting somebody new, connecting with somebody new, having that kind of like pow moment where you know that this isn't just any old meeting with any old person. So when I mix those three cards together, these are the scenarios that come up. So those of you who are looking for love, then I would say that you're going to make a really positive connection with somebody who really it makes your heart sing. Now this person doesn't have to be your potential lover. Now we'd like it to be, but it could just be that you meet somebody and you think that's the kind of relationship that I want or that's the kind of man that I want or woman that I want. I want to be loved the way that they love. So you meet that person, that's what I see with the two. We then have the hermit card, which is about home. Have you isolated yourself a bit too much? Is there something that you need to do in order to get yourself out there a little bit more? And this card says, you know, sometimes it's like somebody who is taking over, somebody who's being a little bit too overly dominant around you. Maybe they feel jealous because they're sensing this real intensity energy between you and this new person. Maybe it's your original friends and they can feel that there's something else going on. So a little bit of jealousy energy I'm feeling and somebody who just wants to take control rather than you do your thing. Okay. So we have the 10 appendicles, which is a rush of money or security, justice, which is legal documents, paperwork, getting your justice and the three of ones, which is I've done it. Look at this. I personally feel happy with that and excited. Okay. So we then have the three together. So I'm seeing legalities, official stuff, having to get something done officially. Okay. And this is regarding money. It's like, this is money that I'm owed. So if you are owed any money, then this would be a good opportunity at this time to get it done, to get that ball rolling so that you can get that money that you deserve. The three of ones is I've done it. So this actually looks like you have achieved that first level of commitment. Okay. So it's like the universe says, well, here's the money, here's the opportunity. This is actually coming. This is actually coming to you. You need this. This is what you deserve. Okay. Or this is what you're owed. But we just need to do this paperwork first. We just need to sort out this darn paperwork to get it all organized. And this is saying I've done it and I feel good about that. So this is the middle of the week in the middle of next week. By the end of next week, we have the star, which is your dreams, your wishes. And then we have the card that says I've got to put up my boundaries. There are restrictions, okay, around me, or I need to put up my boundaries. And then we have the tearful character, the emotional character. Okay. All right. So let's have a look, see what they mean together. So for some of you, I'm seeing a tearful character, a young energy, okay, or somebody who's a bit naive or sensitive. There is somebody here who wants what they want. They've got wishes and dreams. The star is all about the quality of life. It's all about kind of getting the best rather than just putting up with. Is there a young person around you who just needs to really take charge of their own life now? Have they stopped following other people around and actually gone down their own pathway? Perhaps it's time to say enough is enough. You know, this is okay, but this is not okay in your life. So you're definitely taking more charge of that. Okay. Maybe you was feeling naive and sensitive, but not anymore. Your dreams and your wishes are really being focused on. And look, you then have the success card. So, you know, this is a good, I feel weak for you guys, Torians. I'm excited for your week. All right. So, yeah, it's ticking lots of the boxes, isn't it, Torian? So, yeah, you'll have to keep us informed as to what's going on. Okay. Let's read some of the chat here. Everyone's greeting everybody, which is lovely. I'm very isolated at home three years. Yeah. Sometimes we've got to, and it's important now that I've noticed in America, when there was a lockdown, I was doing some free counselling sessions. And what was happening was there's lots of people who it's like they're lonely. But there's lots of people in common with them, but they're scattered. So in America it's like it's not just around the corner. Whereas here, I mean, we've got, you know, England, we can drive from one end of England to the other in one day, you know. Whereas obviously in America or Australia, it's like that's a whole different thing, isn't it? It's like, you know, you have to get an airplane to drive to the next, to get to the next place. So yeah, you're isolated and, you know, everything's, you know, split up. So is that a deliberate thing sometimes? But then I think spiritually, you're meant to be shining your light at a certain place, at a certain point in these laylines, okay, of Mother Earth and your energy and your energy alone has to be there shining your light on there. So it's a good thing to sometimes go out barefoot, even if it's cold, even if it's snowing, and just put your feet on the floor, okay, and send that energy out to the universe. It's really, really important. So yeah, it's like all of this kind of energy that you're building up. This goes for everybody. You're knowing that there's some big changes happening. So listen out for little parts of these readings, even if it's not your birth sign, please listen to it because there are some really good information coming through at this at this time. That is from my guides to you, you guys, okay. So hello, Allie, much love from Ohio. Ah, thank you. Yeah, lots of people have been isolated, but let's connect online. Let's do it. I can hardly wait to speak with you tomorrow and let you know how all this feels. I'd like to know, yeah. So we've got, we've got, I start 10 week course, psychic development, 10 week course starts tomorrow, Monday, and it's at 7 30 p.m. UK, which is 2 30 p.m. Eastern, which is 11 30 a.m. Pacific time. It's only five pounds. And if you can't afford five pounds of five dollars, then you can put a donation in. Okay. That's absolutely fine. So if anybody does want to come to psychic development and wants to start a little psychic development classes, please, please contact me and I'll send you the Zincote. I've been living out of the country for three years as well by myself. And that's fine. Yeah. Some people, they get by on their own. Oh, I've just done that one. Sorry. Okay. So all the better for self reflection and inner child healing, Tina and Robin. That's true. That is true. So up at Wisconsin. Okay. I wouldn't want to live alone. I actually enjoy living alone. I do. I do enjoy it. I'm never bored. I've always got something that I want to do. Absolutely very transformative time for me. Yes, me too. It did lots of people change. Yeah. So I would like to retire to a retirement community. Yeah. And then you're always around people, but I am finding that they are less open at the moment. You know, they've really done a number on of mind control on the old generation. I'm finding. So hi. Die. Hi, Ali from Adelaide, South Australia. So thank you, Ali. Lots of good. Yeah. I think we should all have two husbands to cook one to clean. Yeah. My neighbors are a good distance. Yeah. We're all becoming friends in chat. That's what I love. And I advise people to reach out and start Facebook chats. It's a shame that YouTube don't have chats and facility to chat. That would be good, wouldn't it? So Tina takes care of her mum. Okay. Always barefoot. He's always good. Yeah. So true. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that is the best teacher for this. I love teaching. I do for psychic event. So okay. Right. So I'm going to move on now to it will be Virgos. Okay. So Virgos. I'm going to be starting up tarot tuition workshop level one. That's it's like we do level one, level two, level three and professional. Okay. So they've all got to the professional stage. So we're going back down to level one. So if you want to start your tarot journey and learn the tarot cards, then it is the workshops with me are 25 pounds. And I always keep it the same. Now 25 pounds, $25. Okay. I know it's the difference, but it doesn't matter. So yeah. And if you can't afford it, then you give me a donation instead. It's all good. So Virgo. That's usually held on a Sunday. So if anybody wants to add their name to that, please let me know. Okay. So Virgos, Virgos, Virgos, firm foundation. Okay. So firm foundation. So this is definitely saying that you've done the foundations, you've done the groundwork. Okay, Virgos. Virgos are very good for doing groundwork. They're very good for planning ahead. Okay. And a lot of people who are spiritual and now learning to plan ahead more, they're looking at their goals. Does that make sense that they want to achieve? They want to get more organized. But it's not a strict rule. It's more to do with keeping their head clear so that they don't stress or worry, so that they don't kind of leave things to the last minute. And then wonder why that they are feeling ill because they've put so much pressure on themselves. So yes, it feels as if there is a lot more planning. The foundations have been put in and you've done well. And I think Spirit are saying, well, I know Spirit are saying, well done. Congratulations. It's good. Okay. All right. So let's have a look, Virgos. Let's have a look for you. So the tower clearing out, getting rid of the old, getting rid of anything you don't need anymore. We've got the Virgo. This is my Virgo card. Okay. This is my Virgo card. And this says that we're planning ahead. The card just fell down. It's a card that shows me that you've been let down, Virgos. Okay. And it's like you're putting up barriers rather than being let down again. Okay. So part of me feeling here is, am I... This is what they're saying. Am I going to trust another person? I'm just doing it myself, doing it myself. But you know when it's like I've got to this crossroads time in my life that I can't keep shoving people away who are trying to help me. Okay. I need to kind of make be a big boy or a big girl. I need to do this and I need to push myself forward. Okay. And you know, planning ahead, I can get so much more done if only I trusted another person and I leaned on them so that they could help me do the things that I can't do. Okay. So there seems to be, it's like learning to trust again, learning to put yourself and your needs kind of forward, but also being nervous about that as well. There seems to be somebody coming into your life around the middle of, middle of this next week. This person is a past life person. Okay. So we've got the motherly card or the nurture card. We've got the nine of cups and this is somebody familiar. Okay. Somebody familiar. All right. And we've got the ace of wands. Okay. Ace of wands. So this is something new. Okay. A new opportunity. Okay. A new opportunity linking to new loves. This could be a new relationship. This could be somebody who you've known in the past in this lifetime or it could be previous lifetimes. This could be a twin flame energy. This could be, you know, somebody who you can't believe your luck, you know, that you finally met this person. This could be a good friend, but some of you it may be a good friend. Okay. But we definitely have, it's like I know you and they say I know you and it's that deep energy connection. So by the end of this next week for Virgos, I'm seeing study, learning or development around you. So this is always my eight of pentacles where you can see that she is studying. She is concentrating on this to make this get bigger. Okay. And she's putting a lot of financial effort in as well to make it all happen. Okay. This is the perfection card. It's like OCD. I've got to have everything. Everything's got to be just so. And we've also got the card that dissects everything. And this to me says that this person is ready to learn, is ready to find out what their role is or what they're needing to do. Okay. So yeah, this new changes and new beginnings is the right thing. Okay. And yeah, it's like doing it as a perfection. It's like wanting everything to be perfect. Sometimes we have to learn lessons that maybe make us feel a bit uncomfortable. But on the other hand, sometimes we have to push ourselves outside of our comfort zone. Okay. And but it's like the firm foundations have been put down, but now everything is then moving forward from those firm foundations. So there you go. There goes. So you would like that? Allie, please add me to your tarot cards. Oh, I will. I will. I just need your contact details. That's all. Allie, I will share your classes. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, I've always had to explain that my good preparation allows me to not worry and enjoy the process that does come. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. What is her Facebook page? My Facebook page is this one. Okay. So it is Alison James and it's got psychic Allie as well there. So that's my Facebook page. This is my email and this is my website. And you've got to contact me button on there. So, yeah, if you just pass on your details and then I'll sign you up for it. Yeah. Thank you. I don't care. Sometimes I sign my name Allie, A-L-L-Y. No, sometimes do that. Yeah. All right. So we're going to finish off with Capricorn. Everyone, Capricorn. Another drink. Everyone thinks it's Greg. It's not Greg. It's me. Because I'm tuned into his page, whenever I type, it comes up with Greg and me. I got excited. I thought he was here. Change my name from T-L-R-1-2-3-2 and Tracy. Oh, I see Tracy. I remember you now. Okay. I gotcha. All right. So, Capricorns. Capricorns, Capricorns. Okay. We are tuned in and ready. Rejoice in celebration. Okay. So, this is a get-together. This is where everybody is getting together and saying, well done. Congratulations. Okay. Well done. Okay. You're feeling good about what you have achieved. And so you should. Spirit are right behind you, saying, well done. We believe in you, Spirit. Those are the words that made me remember all of my past lives with Greg. It's like he said to me, I believe in you, Ally. And it was like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. Oh, so you found me on Facebook. Good. Okay. So I'm concentrating now for your future. Okay. It feels as if I've got to reshuffle these cards. That's what it feels like. Okay. So I've got to go with that. There we go. That's better. That is better. Okay. So we've got somebody who's a bit frustrated at this time, this person. They may be feeling as if life isn't going in their way or, you know, everything that they're trying to do. There seems to be a problem there and an obstacle there or I can't do that because that person hasn't completed their bit and this and this and this. There's that frustration there. There's, I want to do it on my own. I don't want to have to wait for someone else to do it. You know, it's like, you know, when you get fed up, you say, I'll just do it myself. We've all done that, haven't we? I'll just do it myself. Don't you worry about it. And we get all stroppy and then we strop out and we pick up the tools ready to do it. I don't need to realize we actually can't do it. You know, so we try the YouTube. It's like, you know, trying to copy what YouTube's saying, but it's not as easy as that. So yeah, there's a little bit of that stroppy energy going on here at the beginning of the next week for Capricorns. But it is because you have this dream. It's like this dream of what it is that you want. You've got this dream of maybe meeting that person that you want to spend the rest of your life with, you know, you've had that dream. But it's all kind of going stagnant and you want to enhance that dream. Okay, something is making you frustrated. So where does it go in the middle of the week? Do we do we get out of this at this rut here? So this is where you have, you're drifting away from somebody, some thing you're drifting away from probably this bad feeling. It's like the two of swords is it's built up to such a thing where you can't really talk about that issue anymore without there being an obstacle. So it really is difficult, okay, to get anything moving on regarding that because nobody wants to talk about it. And there's residue of anger and frustration. But I do feel as if you're going to have to address this issue. It has got to be addressed. And I'm seeing that happen, I would say around the middle to the end of middle to the end of December. Okay, perhaps not a good idea to do at the middle of December. Hey, having words with somebody over the Christmas dinner is probably not the best time to do it. But there is going to be, you know, sometimes we need to get things off our chest and, you know, sometimes that's not actually verbally going to talk to that person. Sometimes we can write it down, burn it safely. Or sometimes we can throw a pebble on the beach, you know, into the water, get yourself a good old sharpie pen, good old sharpie pen, write on your pebble what it is, you know, briefly what it is that's causing you the issue, and then throw it as much as you can into the water, whether that's the sea or a river, okay, and get that anger out. Just as you're throwing it, you're visualizing the root being exposed and thrown. Okay, and it is clear. Okay, so I've also done a clearance video where you can clear away negative energy attachments or anything like that. So, yeah, so that's important. So I do feel as if there's people coming in around you, which is reuniting with people that you haven't seen for a long time. But let's face it, it is Christmas. And Christmas, that's what does. That's what happens, isn't it, Christmas? I'm seeing somebody around you who doesn't take anything seriously. They're lots of laughter, lots of fun. And anybody who's trying to be serious, they will, you know, knock their socks off with their humor, with their funniness. Okay, so that person's going to be around you, they're going to bring out your personality as well. Okay, now this can be online, it doesn't have to be, you know, physical thing. But this person is good to know, this person is good to know. There always has to be a plan B. So when you make arrangements and it's important to you to make these arrangements, sometimes we have to say, well, if that doesn't work out, I'm going here. Okay, or I'm doing that. Okay, so this is important that you remain in that, is in a kind of jovial kind of position. So you're not letting anything get you down, you're going, oh, well, that was a bit pants. But anyway, what am I going to do for dinner? You know, everything, it just feels as if it's got to be, you know, it's all in the greater plan. Okay. But there will be celebrations around you and achievements. You are kind of doing that. I'm not talking to this person or that person because I just don't want to, I don't feel as if they're in my orbit, they just don't get me, I don't get them. And there's going to be guilt free walking away. Okay. But you are going to be walking straight into the arms of somebody from your past. This person can be an old friend. It can be a romantic person. But it's definitely somebody who makes you smile. They make you happy. Okay, this person. But all is good. All is good there. Okay. So that's what I see for all 12 signs for next week. We did it. Yeah. So I just want to make sure I've caught up with everything. I haven't been able to read every comment. I'm sorry. As much as I wanted to. It's just the three of us in the chat now. There's 24 actually. It's just they're all accumulated together. So there's 24. But this is how shadow band me and Greg are. Okay. This is how bad it is. So some people when they go live, if you've not got many people in your friends list, you will still have more than Greg does when he has, let's have a look at how many he has on his. I mean, it is absolutely ridiculous. Let me go in 5D. So in 5D, don't forget guys to go into in 5D. Do you know what? He's not even coming up the first chat there. Would you ridiculous? Crazy, crazy, crazy. They do. They are stitching us up good and they're not actually showing me. They're not actually showing me him. This is a this is an absolute joke. He's not even coming up. He's my husband. And he's not even coming up in the in the chat. He's not even coming up. So anyway, he's got millions, okay, that he's connected with and we get about 100, 100 people. Yeah, on lives at the most 100. So look at how many he's got there. So we can't get down about it, but we appreciate it when you guys share it. When you share our content or you like our content, we share it and sharing it is the best way forward for us. But yeah. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. So I'm going to be doing and starting this new course. Okay, I'm just going to go through it quickly. What we're going to be doing in this 10 week new course. Okay. So week one and you can come to any one of these. Okay. Week one is that's tomorrow. God's goddesses are master teachers. What triggers us and why and how can this help others with their triggers? So it's it's helping them with reading. So if you're going to do readings for other people, this means that you can actually do, you can find out what it is and maybe do a bit of psychic counseling in with your readings. So week two is blindfold mediumship. So blindfold mediumship is where you take that one down. Yeah. So blindfold mediumship is where we'll ask somebody in the group to turn their back. Okay. To turn their back or blindfold themselves. And I'm then going to point out or show a sign up saying, I don't know, Laura, for instance. Okay. So and I'm then going to say, you know, you're going to tune into this mystery person. Who are you getting for this person? And then they've got to tune in for them. It's fun. And it doesn't have to be. So for newbies, I wouldn't expect them to do that. I would expect them to do maybe randoms. What random name are you picking up? What random object or what in what information could you give? Okay. So I would just do it in a light hearted way for them. So week three is communication tools, making your own, making your own runes and more. So we're going to do lots of different ways of maybe layouts, making your own layout for, you know, a tarot spread. Okay. Do that. Week four is the 19th of December, by the way. Creating your own new years, 2023 affirmations and creating a timeline, positive timelines. And for those of you who want to, we can create some spells. So I only ever do positive spells. I don't do bad spells. They come back at you three fold. And yes, not a good idea ever to do those. I wouldn't want to. So this is kind of like you might put in there some rose petals. And you might put in there a bit of mixed spice, spice it up. You might put in, yes, a little bit, a little bit of that. And then what I'm going to do is make it into a resin, pour it into resin, like a pendant, and then you can wear it as a pendant. And that's your spell. That's your positive affirmation. And you write down about six or seven positive affirmations that haven't come true. But you're saying it that it is. So say you wanted a new car. You say, thank you, Universe, for my new car. It's perfect for me. It was given to me free of charge. You can put all that down. You know, you can put anything down. Okay, it's affordable and blah, blah, blah. If you want your perfect partner, then you're saying, please, Universe, bring me my perfect partner. Okay, you can ask for your twin flame. But what if your twin flame hasn't actually incarnated down with you? You know, you don't want to miss that opportunity. So you could say, bring me my perfect, thank you, Universe, for bringing me my perfect partner, or my twin flame. So you could do that. So, yeah, then as we come back, we're coming back to the classes week five on the 2nd of January. And that's going to be New Year readings. So we're going to be doing readings for each other, recording them and see how it all progresses in the future. Okay, week six, again, all these will be adapted to the newbies, adapted to your level. Okay, week six is the 9th of January. That's going to be reading other people's Kashik records, tuning into their life path and helping them understand any blockages that they may be experiencing. So it's going into, you know, the book of knowledge and seeing if the book of knowledge will give you information. Okay, so week seven, 16th of January, healing with psychic surgeons. So we're going to ask psychic surgeons to come in and maybe do some healing with us. Water healing, Reiki, spiritual and other types of healing. Okay, so we do colour healing as well, anything to do with healing alternatives. Week eight is 23rd of January. Lay lines, ancient sites around the around the world, crop circles, UFOs, off-worlders and communication with our galactic friends, looking at some crop circles and seeing if we can't channel through an explanation of what they mean and why each circle, you know, trying to get through. So then week nine, 30th of January is elements, elementals, dragons, dolphins, fairies, pixies, all magical and mysterious beings welcome. Okay, so that's doing some readings with alternative stuff. Okay, and alternative beings. Week 10 is the 6th of February and that is fun and games with your psychic ability. So we might do a little bit of telepathy, we might do some colour readings. So the little envelopes, let me show you, these little envelopes inside these little envelopes, these little tiny glittery sparkly envelopes. There is a little task inside, so say if I undid this, okay, and inside is a little message and it says, give healing to your client on the left. So these are designed to have been working face to face, but we just say, and I pick a name out, so give healing to, and I'll say Tracy, okay, and so you do whatever healing you want to, obviously to Tracy. And then the next one, you might pick the next one out and say, let's have a look, it might be too complex for you, so you can say pass. You choose which reading type you do, so it could be tea leaves, it could be mediumship, it could be, you know, all sorts, okay, channeling, okay, channeling, automatic writing even. So the next one maybe is a mediumship reading, give somebody a mediumship, so they're all different, but some of them are color readings and everything, so it's fun and games basically, it's fun and games at the last week. So if that sounds like something that you might like, even if it's just some of them, then please message me, okay, contact me on my Facebook, if you want to add your name to the mailing list, I'm going to get into the habit of using the mailing list. When you sign up your email mailing list, you get put into a free raffle, okay, which I'll have to do soon actually, because we haven't done for a while. So I just give away a prize to somebody once every few months, I'll then have a raffle, and yeah, that just basically is a thank you for just being on it, for just being on the email list. So yeah, that's kind of what's going on, is my Patreon meeting on Wednesday, okay, it's usually going to be on the last Thursday of the month, but it is happening on the 30th, and that is because obviously it was Thanksgiving on the 24th, so I couldn't do it. Okay, so if you want to support me or Greg, we're both on Patreon, it's like a membership, and each tier you get something different, okay, so you've got Greg's, is Patreon.com, so yeah, Patreon.com forward slash in 5D, or you've got the same thing, Patreon.com forward slash psychic alley, okay, and it's as little as 86 pence a week, $1.11, okay, a week, so yeah, there's a low, it's just a way of supporting Greg and I. Let me go through some of the things that I'm offering on Patreon, okay. So Patreon, so if you paid $1.11 a week, you would be invited to a monthly video chat with myself, and we all kind of pick cards for each other and hang out together for a couple of hours, just chilling out and having fun, okay, so that's $1.11 or 90, it's actually 97 pence, okay, so that's level one, that's the magician level, then we've got high priest or high priestess level, let your dreams flow, that's $5.55 per month, £4.86 something, they might all be different the currencies, but so it's a monthly video chat like $1.11 and then you get ask a question, so you can ask me a question once a month and I will look into that for you and give you a little reading. The Hierophant, let the teaching begin, so $11.11 per month, £9.73, you get the monthly video workshop, you get classes and workshop videos, so that is, you get a list on Facebook of all of the videos, so you can go back to loads of videos I've done of, and these are like workshops just looking like a bird's eye view into the workshop, so that could be mediumship, tarot, tarot one, two, three, or professional, psychic detective workshops, location testing, so there's loads of different workshops, okay, so you could have a look at any of those and they're six hours long, so you know you can learn quite a bit. The next one's The Star, it's $22.22 per month, which is around £19.47. Mystery Gift is posted to you, okay, so Mystery Gift once a month is posted to you, plus you get your monthly video chat and plus you can see all the classes and workshop videos, and The World is $33.33 per month, which is £29.21, it's a monthly video chat, classes and workshop videos, Mystery Gift posted to you, and plus with this tier you get recorded 20-minute mini reading with myself, so I haven't got a list of what Reg does and what he's offering, but that's kind of what there is, so yeah, if there's anybody who wants to join the Patreon and become a member, that's absolutely amazing. Okay, so around mailing this, I think so, yeah, just send me a little email and make sure, if you want to, if you send me your email, because you're not sure, I put you on twice, anyway, so just because it might have changed your email address, so yeah. All right, guys, I'm going to go and rest my back now. I love you all. Thank you, you must have been getting into my life. Oh, that's touched me, thank you. Oh, Tracey, that sounds like an amazing course, yeah, I'm quite pleased with that one, yeah, I am. All right, bye then, lovelies, take care, I hope you have a brilliant week, keep in touch with me if you would like, I'd like that.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7jEH8kDfk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCsxS1-XHFDjXteSsjzxea6A	Enhanced Built-Up and Bareness Index (EBBI) for Mapping Built-Up and Bare Land in an ... \| RTCL.TV	### Keywords ### #EnhancedBuiltUpandBarenessIndex #NIR #SWIR #TIR #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: Enhanced Built-Up and Bareness Index (EBBI) for Mapping Built-Up and Bare Land in an Urban Area Authors: I Wayan Arthana, Abd. Rahman As-syakur, I Wayan Sandi Adnyana ,and I Wayan Nuarsa Publisher: MDPI AG DOI: 10.3390/rs4102957 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/5a9c85c170e6489c94092021038047f6 Source URL: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/4/10/2957 ### Image Attribution ### We used stable diffusion to programmatically generate the background images. Viewer discretion is advised. ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@stemrtcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@stem_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:35 - Title 0:00:43 - End	[ "Enhanced BuiltUp and Bareness Index", "NIR", "RTCLTV", "SWIR", "TIR", "shorts" ]	2023-09-03T23:29:59	2024-04-23T23:56:01	44	PCsKBYZ3Rpc	Remote sensing imagery can be used to monitor and map changes in urban areas due to population growth and urbanization. However, current indices have limitations in distinguishing between built up and bare land. A new index, called the Enhanced Built Up and Bairness Index, EBBI, was developed to overcome these limitations by combining NIR, SWIR, and TIR bands. The EBBI was tested on images from Denpazar, Bali, Indonesia and found to be more accurate than five other indices in distinguishing between built up and bare land. This article was authored by Iwayen Arthana, ABD Ramana Sikar, Iwayen Sandy Ednyana, and others.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCsKBYZ3Rpc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCabMx-URCjr2toe9wOE3Y-Q	SOCIALIST Richard Wolff Accidentally Argues for Capitalism 🤭	Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/@YaronBrook/join Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the Yaron Brook Show: https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx Become a sponsor to get exclusive access and help create more videos like this: https://yaronbrookshow.com/support-members/support-the-show/ Or make a one-time donation: https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ Continue the discussion by following Yaron on Twitter (https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and Facebook (https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC ) Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the Ayn Rand Institute: https://bit.ly/35qoEC3	[ "Yaron Brook", "Objectivism", "Capitalism", "Ayn Rand", "leftists", "conservatives" ]	2024-03-10T20:00:12	2024-04-18T21:31:50	60	pcUha-Cs76w	One of the ways we measure success is economic growth. The People's Republic of China, I'll use as an example, because they call themselves socialists. Over the last 40 years, their annual rate of growth has averaged between six and 9%. That is, the Chinese are growing three times faster than we are as a nation. Look, it is absolutely true that it is a disgrace of the rate of growth in the United States as being so pathetic. And the reason for that is the lack of capitalism in this country. Pick to associate China's growth with socialism is bizarre. China grew when it liberalized whole regions of its jungle, which were left free, free to have wage laborers, free to build corporations. Alibaba is not owned by the employees. There are many businessmen in the United States who claim that in China, they can do business with less regulations than they can in the United States of America.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUha-Cs76w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCMfSH3HULOeoeEbxHkqF21A	Public Petitions Committee - Scottish Parliament: 9th December 2014	1. Declaration of interests: Kenny MacAskill will be invited to declare any relevant interests. 2. Choice of Deputy Convener: The Committee will choose a Deputy Convener. 3. Consideration of a current petition: The Committee will consider— PE1458 by Peter Cherbi on a register of interests for members of Scotland’s judiciary and take evidence from— Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs, Kay McCorquodale, and Catherine Hodgson, Civil Law and Legal Systems Division, Scottish Government 4. 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Before moving to agenda item 1, I would like to take the opportunity to place on record a correction to a comment that I made at the last but one meeting. During the discussion at the committee meeting in the length of November on the petition about local authority and non-residential social care charges, I said that Falkirk Council is one of the higher-charging authorities. I am happy to correct that and to confirm that Falkirk is not one of the higher-charging authorities. Agenda item 1, declaration of interests. The first item of the agenda is the declaration of interests from Ken MacAskill. In accordance with schedule 3 of the Code of Conduct, can I invite Mr MacAskill to declare any interests relevant to the remit of the committee? Any attempt to relation should be brief but sufficiently detailed to make clear to the listener the nature of the interest. Agenda item 2 is choice of deputy convener. The next item of business is selection of deputy convener. Members have a note from the clerk, setting up the procedure for selecting a deputy convener. The Parliament has agreed that members of the SNP are eligible to be chosen as a deputy convener for the Public Petitions Committee. That being the case, can I invite nominations for the position of deputy convener? I would like to nominate David Torrance. Thank you for that. Is there any further nomination? One nomination has been received and I therefore ask the committee to agree that David Torrance, MSP, be chosen as deputy convener of the Public Petitions Committee. Are we agreed? Thank you and welcome Mr Torrance to his new position. Agenda item 3 is consideration of a current petition. The next item of business is an evidence session where the Scottish Government is part of the committee's consideration of the petition PE1458 by Peter Chirby on the register of interests from members of Scotland's judiciary. Members have a note by the clerk and the submissions. I would also like to mention that, although nothing has been received from the judicial complaints reviewer, the petitioner note by the clerk that the JCR's annual report to 31 August, which covers the tenure of the previous office holder Mo Alley, was published on Friday, so some members may have already received that. I welcome Paul Wheelhouse, who is the member for community safety and illegal affairs and is officials who came to Corkadale and Catherine Hoggson from the Scottish Government's civil law and legal systems division. You are very welcome. Thank you very much for coming along. I could invite the minister to make a brief opening statement in approximately five minutes, after which we will move to questions. Mr Wheelhouse. Thank you very much, convener, and thank you for inviting me today. I welcome the further consideration of the issues around a register of interests for the judiciary, in particular the sufficiency of the existing safeguards. The Scottish Government takes the view that it is not necessary to establish a formal register of judicial interests. That is because, as my predecessor, Roseanna Cunningham, has stated, the Scottish Government considers that the safeguards that are currently in place are sufficient to ensure the impartiality of the judiciary in Scotland. There is no evidence to date that safeguards have failed. In short, the important safeguards are the judicial oath taken by all judicial office holders before they sit on the bench, which requires judges to do right to all manner of people without fear or favour, affection or ill will. The statement of principles of judicial ethics, which states at principle 5 that all judicial office holders have a general duty to act impartially, in particular it notes, plainly it is not acceptable for a judge to adjudicate upon any matter in which he or she or any members of his or her family has a pecuniary interest. The third thing is the Judiciary and Court Scotland Act 2008, which contains provisions to regulate and investigate the conduct of judicial office holders. Under section 28, the Lord President has a power to make rules for the investigation of any matter concerning the conduct of judicial office holders. The complaints about the judiciary Scotland rules came into force in 2011 and were updated in 2013. The Lord President also consulted on the adequacy of the rules in autumn 2013. The formal judicial complaints reviewer contributed to this consultation and I understand that the new rules together with accompanying guidance will be published early in 2015. The new rules will simplify the complaints process for all concerned and clarify what can be properly investigated. In addition, as you are aware from 1 April 2014, the Scottish Court of Service has set up a public register of judicial recusals. This register was set up following the former JCR's call for a greater transparency and accountability and the informal meeting between yourself convener, the deputy convener, Chick Brody at the time and Lord President. This register sets out the reason why a member of the judiciary has recused him or herself from hearing a case and this is a welcome addition to the safeguards that I have already mentioned. With regard to the complaint system, I am aware of the criticisms made in the former JCR's annual report published last week. I would like to acknowledge the positive influence that the former JCR has had in relation to the handling of complaints about judicial conduct during her time in office and this has contributed to the improvements that are being made to the complaint system. It is of course of vital importance that judges are seen to be both independent and impartial. They must be free from prejudice by association or relationship with a party to a litigation. They must be able to demonstrate impartiality by having no vested interests such as a pecuniary interest or indeed a familial interest that could affect them in exercising their judicial functions. Setting up a register of judicial interests would be a matter for the Lord President as head of the judiciary in Scotland. The Lord President takes the view that a register of pecuniary interests for the judiciary is not needed and that a judge has a greater duty of disclosure than a register of financial interests itself could address. The statement of principles of judicial ethics states that a judge's disclosure duties extend to material relationships and a new register of recusals addresses this issue. It is also important to bear in mind the potential downsides of establishing a register of judicial interests. The Lord President said in his written evidence to the committee that it is possible that an a quote, information held in a register of judicial interests could be abused if publicly criticised or attacked a judicial office holder cannot publicly defend himself or herself, unlike a politician. The establishment of such a register therefore may have the unintended consequences of eroding public confidence in the judiciary. The Lord President has provided further information about the new register of recusals in his letter to the committee of 21 November. This records that all but two judicial recusals were on a voluntary basis. There is no record of a case where a judge or sheriff who has an interest that would justify recusal has had to recuse him or herself when a party raised the matter. There is therefore no evidence to demonstrate that the existing system of recusals is not working. I would like to acknowledge the work finally convener that the committee has done in taking forward the issues raised by this petition. As the convener has acknowledged in the chamber debate, the New Zealand bill was ultimately withdrawn on the basis that agreement was reached to improve the rules on recusals and conflicts of interests. We have similarly had the opportunity for open discussion of these issues and improvements have already been made in Scotland, such as the introduction of the public register of judicial recusals that I referred to earlier. Improvements to the complaints rules are about to be introduced. The Scottish Government's position is that a formal register of judicial interests is not practical nor necessary and I'm now happy to take questions, convener. Thank you minister. Why should the judiciary be treated any differently from other holders of public office such as ministers, MSPs or MPs? I think that the point that convener just referred to in my opening remarks was made by the Lord President himself in his letter to the 21st of November. I think that he's pertinent here. I certainly recognise that as politicians we have a duty to be accountable to the public that elect us and to be able to demonstrate that we do not have any conflict of interest. The position of the judiciary is somewhat differently as the Lord President is outlined. They don't have the ability to answer for themselves if they are criticised or attacked for their interests and therefore they are vulnerable in that sense. There's also the concern that, in some respects, particularly if there was any register of property details or issues that might cause security concerns for individuals or their families and that that potentially opened them up to threats of intimidation. I just put it in the context of my previous role where I was aware of SIPA officials who were being stalked, harassed on social media or their families who were being stalked and harassed on social media and they were being physically and verbally threatened on a regular basis in dealing with some serious individuals involved with organised crime that has been alleged. Therefore, I've seen it in a previous context that officials can be intimidated or tempted to be intimidated by those who have ill intent. Therefore, the more that we protect the privacy of aspects that could give security concerns to judiciary that will be better in terms of ensuring that we have no attempt to in any way influence the decision of a judge. How do you respond to the arguments from the petitioner and the previous JCR that the current system does not provide individuals with sufficient protection from judicial bias? Clearly, I'm aware of the concerns. I want to recognise the genuine concerns that have been raised by members of the public including Mr Chirby and the committee members during the debate on 9 October. I'm concerned to ensure that not that anyone has particularly pointed the finger of blame at any particular judge I stress but that there is at least a perception that the judicial system Scotland is above reproach and that there is no danger of bias in terms of the decision making process. Clearly, the concern that has been expressed has been addressed in a number of respects. We have the JCR position and the ability to lodge a complaint against the judiciary if it comes to light that there has been any conflict of interest that has not been disclosed. Therefore, there is a mechanism by which people can raise a complaint and that can be taken forward by the JCR. Also, the recusals process itself were to date—as I said in my opening remarks—no evidence to suggest that someone has been forced to recuse themselves by someone raising a conflict of interest. In every case so far, the judge concern has brought forward their own issues and therefore recused themself or has, in the case of two cases that I'm aware of, notably the latterly Judge Cowan who brought forward the issue that being member of the RSPB might be perceived as a conflict and put that to both parties in the court case. They were given the option to allow her to continue her role or whether she should recuse herself and, ultimately, the defendant in that case asked for her to recuse herself. The process does seem to work. Therefore, we have no evidence to suggest that, to date at least, there is any such bias that has been identified in any court case. How will the parties know that there is a conflict of interest that has not registered our interests? Are they not psychic? I take the point and I am aware that, clearly, these are concerns that I will take forward when I meet for the first time I have not yet met Lord Gill or, indeed, the new JCR, Gillian Thomson OBE. I will raise these issues when I meet with them in the context of wider discussions and see if they have any thoughts themselves. However, I think that the principle here is about the register. If there was a public register, I note again for the record that New Zealand, which was the original prompt for this case before the Scottish Parliament, has decided itself to drop the proposal for a public register and to strengthen its recusal process and its complaints procedure, which are two systems that are already in place in Scotland. In the case of the complaints procedure, it is currently being updated by the Lord President that those systems are being deployed in New Zealand as well rather than a public register. There are concerns about the ability to ensure that there is no undue influence or harassment of figures within the judiciary as a result of information that they present. In any case, the register could never be completely complete if I can mix in my terms very badly. It is very difficult for a judge to anticipate the full extent of cases that might come before them. Therefore, they could potentially have to declare absolutely everything in terms of every person. They know every organisation or member of every financial interest that they have, and that might be entirely unnecessary, given the caseload that comes before that. Humans are true for ministers. You are not expected to declare every single aspect that there is a laid-down procedure for what you as an individual minister and I as an individual member have to lay down. No one is asking us to be psychic. We need to make sure that we follow the rules that are laid down. If it is good enough for us, why is it not good enough for judges? I take the point entirely, convener, and I think that it is entirely appropriate that we do declare that information as ministers and MSPs and MPs indeed. We have the opportunity, albeit sometimes it does not feel that way in terms of the media, to be able to answer for our actions and to be able to get our point across in a way that a judge may not be able to do so. Politicians can answer for ourselves. We are usually pretty robust when we do so. It is more difficult for a member of the judiciary, and we have to recognise that as a part of our way. They are in a different position and unable to answer for themselves in the way that we would. I must say that I have not noticed that judges are slow to come forward in the Sunday mail recently, but that is our leader on that. That was David Torrance. Thank you, convener, and good morning, minister. In the letter submitted to committee on the 21st of November by a Lord President, the judiciary Scotland rules. There are new guidance and rules going to be published early in 2015. Does the minister think that there will go some way to addressing the concerns raised by a petitioner? It is a very good point, convener. We have, and congratulations, by the way, on your election, convener. We clearly will have to leave the detail of this to the Lord President to bring forward his response to the issues that have been raised by the JCR in the past and also in the most recent report. Obviously, those are issues that I will look to discuss with the Lord President when I do meet Lord Gill and Duke Horse. In terms of the detail that is in there, I will shortly bring in Kameh Corkadale, if I may, and just to discuss what detail we are aware of. I have every confidence that the Lord President has listened to the criticisms. There have already been some moves that have been made to try to address some of the concerns that were raised by the committee and, importantly, the former JCR, Moyali, in terms of her concerns about the Complaints Procedure and, clearly, reflecting on the report that raises some concerns about specific cases to make sure that the Complaints Procedure addresses all those. I will be looking to, as the minister, to see that those procedural weaknesses that have been identified have been addressed in due course, but I can maybe bring in Kameh Corkadale, convener, with your permission. I must say that the Scottish Government is in exactly the same position as the minister here in that we have not seen the draft rules. We know that there has been a consultation and we know that the judicial complaints reviewer fed into that consultation, and we have every anticipation that her concerns will have been addressed. However, we will meet the Lord President's private office and I am sure that they will let us see the rules when they are in a position to share them with us. Thank you, convener. Good morning, minister. We welcome you to your new role as the minister for community safety and legal affairs. Minister, you have indicated the laid out quite clearly your defence for not having a register. The petition that is before this committee is one that called for a register to ensure that the public could have confidence in the judiciary in Scotland. There was an article earlier this year in The Guardian which highlighted problems that were being identified in England and Wales about who judges the judges. The question that I would like to ask you, minister, is that are you 100 per cent confident that every judge and every sheriff will recuse themselves when there is an interest that they may have in the issue before them when they are in the bench? One of the issues that we have raised by the petitioner is that they feel that we do not have on public record information to tell us whether or not a sheriff or a judge has an interest on the issue before them or even the individuals before them that it may come out at a later date and it may be seen as unfair by the person who is appearing in court that they feel they have been unfairly treated and unfairly judged on those circumstances. There are clearly some very significant issues that have been raised by John Wilson. First of all, thank you for your welcome, Mr Wilson. In terms of the can I give 100 per cent guarantee that every judge will always recuse themselves appropriately, it would be unreasonable for me to say that I can in a sense that I cannot be 100 per cent certain every MSP or every MP or every other public person or celebrity will always declare their interests. However, am I confident that the system in place has procedures there to address that or will do in the course of the reforms to the complaints procedure? I believe so. It is worth stating that there is a potential to pick up the point about the public confidence in the judiciary that is extremely important. Mr Wilson has hit the nail in the head there in terms of the rationale behind the whole debate that we are having is to deliver confidence in the judiciary and ensure that it is maintained. We were trying to search as to whether any surveys that define this one way or the other and we have not been able to pick up a survey to date, convener, but there are certainly from a personal perspective, I do not have any sense that there is a widespread concern about the judiciary and lack of confidence in the judiciary. There may be from time to time disagreements over the outcome of particular cases and that is entirely understandable where you have two parties to a dispute, both a defendant and a prosecutor, but there is not the impression that I have that there is a widespread concern about the judiciary. How do we make sure that that is maintained and that there is never a concern about the ability of the judiciary to be unbiased? We need to have robust systems in place for recusals, which I think we are developing, and it seems to be the case that, to my mind at least, that the judiciary is using the recusal process appropriately. We have a complaints procedure that is perfect, but apparently not, and I recognise the points that have been made by the GCR in her report. I am confident that the Lord President will reflect on those and reform the process. Are there sanctions for those who fail to recuse themselves? Yes, there are, and if judicial holders, office holders, do breach those rules and find that a complaint is made, potentially it might be ground for an appeal if it is an original case that people feel that the judge should not have taken that case. It could be a legitimate ground for appeal, and that would depend on the case for case basis. However, the Lord President may give the judicial office holder formal advice about what they have done, a formal warning or indeed a reprimand that would be damaging to their reputation. There are measures in place to address the situation should they arise, but I recognise the concern about the fact that the recusal process, if you like, is, to some extent, shrouded in privacy because it is within the judiciary itself and not open to public scrutiny. As I say, I will look to discuss the degree to which the Lord President and the new GCR, Gillian Thompson, have any suggestions as to how that might be addressed in the future. Thank you, minister, but you are aware that recusals are voluntary, and while I welcome the Lord President's submission to the number of recusals, and you mentioned yourself, Judge Cowan's decision to recuse herself in a case that she was hearing in terms of wildlife issues, the issue is that it is still voluntary. How a member of the public or someone appearing before the bench is aware that a judge or a sheriff may have a particular interest in hearing may come out after the case and beyond the appeal process time. The appeal process time is very limited in terms of the three-month appeal process, as I understand it. It may be a matter of 12 months, two years down the road, that a judge or a sheriff may have a particular vested interest in a case that they were hearing. How does that provide confidence in the judiciary system that we have in Scotland if people fail the judges and you said it yourself, shrouded in secrecy in terms of how the complaints process is dealt with? How do we ensure that the public have more confidence that when they appear in court they will be dealt with without fear or favour in relation to the case that is being heard before a sheriff or a judge? I note the points that Mr Wilson has made. I identify that there are three possible scenarios in terms of recusal, the two that have been used so far where someone voluntarily recuses themselves. They identify themselves as a risk and they decide for themselves that it is such a significant issue that they voluntarily recuse themselves from taking forward that case. The second scenario is where there is an element of perception about it, perhaps that they do not believe that it is going to materially impact on their decision, but they offer that to both sides in the court case and leave it to them to decide whether they feel the member of the judiciary should recuse himself, and that has happened twice to my knowledge. The third scenario would potentially be where a judge or sheriff who has an interest that would justify recusal says nothing about it and thereafter has to recuse himself or herself when a party raises the matter. I appreciate that this is during the court case. We have no record of any instance of this happening so far. I have no information provided to this state convener that there has been a conflict of interest that has not been identified during the court case and has only been revealed thereafter. I appreciate that the recusal process is relatively new, so we cannot guarantee that it has never happened in the past, but the recusal process is now up and running. Perhaps we have not put enough emphasis on it and the oath that the judiciary has to take is quite onerous and is quite clear in terms of the requirements of the judiciary in terms of assessing the potential conflicts of interests under ethical guidance. The biggest issue that I have been pushing my colleagues have is that you are assuming that those who appear before a judge have some form of psychic powers here. How are they going to know that there is a conflict? If there is not a register, they are not going to be aware of that. Until Chick Brody and myself met the Lord President, and I will be fair to the Lord President here, there was not a system of recording recusals. That was a point that we made to the Lord President and, in fairness, he agreed to that. That only came into force in April. It is only since then that you have been able to assess whether judges have recused or not. Before that, it was a complete mystery. Even recusals were a mystery. The point that I am making to you is that you are making out that this is very much and that everything is done in fairness and that it is all above board. The ordinary person appearing before a judge will not have a clue whether there is any conflict in the judge appearing before him. That is the key point. The petitioner is wanting a system that is similar to what other public officials have. The only real argument that you have is that the judges cannot defend themselves. I am sorry, but I do not think that that is a very strong argument, frankly. If I can say so, convener, that is the misrepresentation of what I said earlier on. I did not say that. That is the only grounds. I think that there are serious concerns about potential influence on the judiciary of revealing their interests in a public register. It would open them up to potentially hostile and aggressive press action that might apply pressure on them to come down a particular way in terms of their adjudication. In some cases, as I said earlier on, if we are revealing property interests or anything that might give away a physical address, it could put them at risk of threats. I have experienced colleagues in the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency who have been threatened by those who are involved in criminal activity. I think that we have to be very careful what we wish for here. I totally take on board your points, convener, about the need for transparency in the sense that people have to understand that the judicial system is fair, above board and unbiased. That is entirely right that the committee has taken a very strong interest in that. I am really appealing to the committee to think about the potential consequences of having a public-facing register that could expose members of the judiciary to undue influence from outside the court process and put them at risk or their families at risk in doing so. We have to recognise that many members of the judiciary are dealing with extremely sensitive and often extremely violent people in the context of their work. It is different from politicians. It is important that they do not have the right to defend themselves. I raised that point—that is a fair point for the convener to have raised—but I have a concern more widely about the risk that it puts to the judiciary. I am a bit conscious. I want to bring Kenny Macastor and I want to come back to John Wilson, but just before we leave that point, nobody in this committee wants to put judges on any security concerns. Ministers and MSPs do not reveal their home addresses. We would obviously have a basic procedure that follows that. We would not want you to misrepresent what I am suggesting. We would obviously have a register that would respect the security concerns of judges to do otherwise. It would be a very strange policy indeed. Kenny Macastor and then John Wilson. The jurisdiction that does have a register is the United States. I have to say that I am only going by apocryphal tales, but I have seen potential candidates for the Supreme Court, frankly, probably dissuaded if not rejected by House committees where they have been frankly pilloried. It is where the balance is struck. I just wondered if there was any jurisprudential evidence from the United States as to whether it has been enhanced or whether the public opprobrium wrecked upon many people who were potential nominees for the Supreme Court just dissuaded people from going into that theatre at all. That is an important point that Mr MacAskill raises. In his submission on 23 October, the petitioner drew attention to the position in relation to register of interests in America. We have the origins of the US and the United States itself as a country, explaining some degree the formal regulation of government ethics. There has been a great attention on this since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. The Ethics and Government Act 1978 was brought in to require federal judges to file annual financial reports and have a full financial disclosure committee. The purpose is to expose judges' financial holdings to public scrutiny, which assists the judges in avoiding conflicts of interest. There is a system in place in the United States. I know that I have seen some of the reporting on particular judges—I will not quote it here for the record—but, in terms of the kinds of details that are posted, largely it includes things such as retirement accounts and life insurance policies. I am not sure whether that adds any value, but it pretends to open up people to being pilloried in the way that Mr MacAskill says and having every detail of their financial activities poured over in enormous detail. However, when people are investing in a general insurance policy or a pension fund, they do not have any day-to-day involvement in the decisions that are being taken about who that is invested. I am not sure what relevance adds to the process. There has been one case in Scotland in regard to a pecuniant interest, but in that case it was clear that the decision would not have influenced the shareholder value and therefore it was not likely to have had any influence in terms of the pecuniant interest of the judge him or herself. However, I do not know whether colleagues—either Kate or indeed Catherine—have any information about the kind that Mr MacAskill has asked for in terms of negative consequences in the United States. I do not have any evidence to hand on that. The interesting thing is that the register only deals with financial holdings in the manner that Mr Wheelhouse has just explained, so there is no personal interest or anything else. It is very narrow, and it is only federal judges that it does not go any wider. I welcome the minister to his new role. There has been some discussion this morning about the differences, but can I ask you to expand on the differences between perhaps your role as a minister and why you think that that would be different from what we have to declare and why judges do not? I am not fully aware—I am not fully convinced yet that there is an argument there. I certainly recognise that. Indeed, that is to fairly reflect the convener's point as well. I do not think that I want to misrepresent the convener in terms of his approach. I am sure that he is entirely above board with his intent here and I do not wish to present anything other than that. However, I suppose that the concern that we have is two fronts. One is that we as MSPs disclose our pecuniary interests and any other things. We perceive might be a conflict of interest. A lot of trust in us to declare those issues we believe might influence our decision making as MSPs, our roles, whether they are ministers or committee members or indeed backbenchers more generally. We are trusted to do so, and I believe that we have a good record as a Parliament in doing that. If there is any degree of criticism of what is in our registers of interests, we have the ability to defend ourselves and we have the right to do so, and we have the forum to do so in Parliament where we can correct that and put things right on the public record. It is more difficult, I believe. I am not a member of the judiciary, I have no axe to grind in this particular fight other than I think that there is an issue of fairness here and they do not have the same ability to defend themselves in public in the way that we do. That is not to say that there is not an interest in making sure that everything is above board and I recognise the points that have been made by the committee. Indeed, as I have alluded to, I will be looking to get feedback from the new GACR Gillian Thompson and indeed Lord President himself whenever I have the chance to meet him as to what they both think is necessary to try to give confidence to public confidence that, albeit in the system that is largely hidden from view, is operating in a robust way and that those who are perceived to have a conflict interest in a case are raising that, are refusing themselves voluntarily or, at least, making sure that both parties to a case are aware that there is a risk of a conflict interest and giving them that choice. It is very important that it is seen to be properly applied and robustly applied and that there is no subsequent criticism of the kind that Mr Wilson fairly raised that potentially someone could have a conflict interest that they were totally unaware of in terms of the judge who oversaw their case and that it may be too late in terms of the appeals process of doing about it and we need to get feedback from the Lord President himself and indeed the new GACR as to how they perceive that should be dealt with. Congratulations again on your new appointment and portfolio minister. You've perhaps touched on this briefly but could you perhaps expand on your argument or the Scottish Government's argument that the information on our register could be misleading as it wouldn't cover all of the potential conflicts that could arise and they have a view on the argument that even if a register is incomplete it could still have value in increasing transparency? Obviously, we have to pick up a parallel to Anne McTaggart's point as well. In the course of a debate, for example, if we believe that we have not got something on our register of interest that we want to draw people's attention to, we can do that at the beginning of a debate speech. We can say, Presiding Officer, bring to your attention my register of interest and we can flag up that there is a particular concern to make members aware. We have the ability to do that on a case-by-case basis. If we are talking about a register that people have to write in advance, it would be potentially quite difficult to define exactly if you are dealing with general cases and not a specialist in a judicial sense. It would be quite difficult to think that every scenario that you could cover, every scenario where there potentially could be a conflict of interest, every potential plaintiff, every potential defendant in a court case that might come forward and every single interest to declare. It would have to be entirely comprehensive or targeted. I think that there is a potential that if people haven't at that point anticipated that a case might come forward and they don't put it on their register of interest, it could be misleading that people might think that there is no conflict of interest there, but subsequently they have to add something in advance of a case to make sure that that is clear. I am not entirely sure that it would be easy to operate such a publicly facing register and to make sure that it was fully encompassing of all the potential conflicts of interest that any particular judge or sheriff could find themselves in. More generally, we have the example in the US that, as came across a deal, has said that it is only covering the financial aspects, it is not covering the personal relationships or memberships of bodies that may be an issue. It would have to be wider than the one in the US to cover all of the potential issues. It then comes a very difficult thing to manage in terms of what point you decide you know someone sufficiently well enough to put them on a register of interest. You have met someone on a bus, does that mean that you have got to declare an interest that you have had a friendly conversation with them, or is it somebody who has been a lifelong friend? It is quite a difficult thing to define, and I certainly welcome Kitty's view on it, but I do not see the cases compelling at this point myself. I find it strange that, in the American situation where it is, it is a requirement to register financial interests that they do not have to register membership of bodies. That is the information that I was not aware of. That appears to be the case. I look to colleagues just to check that. It appears to be the case that there is no requirement to register memberships, and I find that slightly odd if the intent is to try to capture all the potential conflicts around that seem odd. In response to that, we have examples in Scotland where people have recused themselves for being members of organisations, so we are one step ahead of the US in that sense. Obviously, Sheriff Cowan recently withdrew from a case voluntarily after having raised the issue with both parties to the case. Obviously, there was a risk of having been a member of the RSPB, and there were witnesses coming forward who were from the RSPB that that might be perceived to be a conflict of interest, rather than an actual conflict of interest, and she gave them the option and they asked her to recuse herself. The system worked well in that case. We have a system that appears to work. I appreciate the concerns that we have to be sure that it works every time, because one case going through that does not work, and that is obviously a concern. However, we have no evidence to date that that has happened, so let us look at the glass being half full at this stage. Very interesting debate in relation to the constitutional issue of the United States American appointment of Supreme Court judges, and I am sure that the Judicial Appointments Board in Scotland will look very carefully at how judges are appointed to the Supreme Court and try to draw on the rules there. However, to concentrate on the register of interests minister, you gave an example in your opening statement that through your experience in your previous ministerial role, you were aware that senior officials of SEPA were being stalked and harassed by certain elements within the community. I find it really strange in your new role as the Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs. Will you be intending to bring forward new legislation that protects public office holders from being harassed and stalked and approached by people involved in criminal activity to secure the safety of not only the office holders but their families? If part of the reason for not having a register is that judges and sheriffs may find themselves being stalked and harassed by certain elements in society, then surely we have to look at the legislation that protects individuals against that type of behaviour. If I can, I can give Mr Wilson the assurance that, in my previous role, we actually brought that forward in the Regulatory Reform Act to protect SEPA officials. That was the reason why those particular measures in that particular act brought in protection for SEPA officers, bringing them into line with other key emergency workers in terms of protection. I take the wider point about the judiciary. Clearly, it would be a criminal offence to do what we are describing, but there is a great argument for prevention rather than a cure. Why create a situation where we are having to create a new protection for judges rather than put them in the position in the first place? If we can avoid giving away sensitive information, that might lead them to be coerced in any way. That is better than having to resolve the situation subsequently through either new legislation or applying existing legislation to do so. I take the point that Mr Wilson is very fairly making, that the Government has a duty to protect people in this situation. I assure Mr Wilson that I will do everything in my power to help to protect members of the judiciary from being threatened in that way. However, it is better to prevent the situation rather than to resolve it. Can you give some guidance on what protection there is? That is exactly what the minister has said. It is a very serious consideration that we will take into account. I just want to go back to the situation with the UK Supreme Court, which was mentioned and in the context of judicial appointments. The situation in the UK Supreme Court is that when it was set up, it was decided that it would not be appropriate or feasible for them to have a comprehensive register of interests, because it would be impossible for them to identify all the interests that might conceivably arise. Instead, they have a formal code of conduct, which is similar to the position that we have in Scotland with the statement of judicial ethics. I just wanted to state that for the record. I would like to come back to that point, but I am not going to catch on with Mr Wilson again. Minister, you said that you would be wary about having sensitive information put on the public record. Could you define sensitive information? Would that be financial information, family relationship information, because we could potentially have a judge or a sheriff hearing a court case where their son or daughter or their mother or father or an aunt or uncle might be appearing before them and defending someone in a case or representing someone in a case? Could you define for us today what you mean by sensitive information appearing on a register? I can give some examples, convener. I think that we need to get guidance from professionals on what might constitute information that could potentially risk in terms of modern technology and the ability to attack or damage the interests of individuals. Certainly, information on property, if it was—I think that the convener made a very fair point that, potentially, personal households might be kept off any such register, that would be a sensible thing to do if they ever reached a position where there was a register. That is an appropriate thing to do in that circumstance, to protect the safety of the individual and their family and that they can have their residents kept private and therefore not be perhaps a honeypot for those who might want to coerce them in advance of a decision. Anything else, I guess, that threatens the safety or, indeed, potentially opens them up to coercion in terms of the court case itself, because, obviously, we want to protect the integrity of the decision-making process in the court, as well as the safety of those who are actually making the decisions, but just to see if there is anything else in terms of examples. Yes, it has just been pointed out that the assets, income and liabilities of judges, spouses and dependent children must all be disclosed, although information may be redacted to protect an individual's safety if it is in danger. This is a situation in the US, so they have obviously had a look at the issue and that is something that is worth the committee having an examination of. Obviously, it seems to me that it is for those who would wish a register to potentially define it. I am minded from what John Wilson was saying that there was a recent case in which a judge made a declaration in a high-profile case relating to a football club that he was a seasoned ticket holder at another football club. It would be fair to say that it would be your understanding that that would not have been a financial interest, it would not have been an interest that he would require to give. He did not recuse himself, but he did publicly make it available. That seemed to me to be the right thing to do, but I just wondered if you had any comments on that generality as to what you would register, because it did seem to me that the judge was correct to make that declaration, and perhaps it is best left to conflict of interest rather than to price rules. Clearly, are we expecting a judge to define or declare if he is a seasoned ticket holder at a football club or rugby club in a declaration of interest? I think that Mr McCaskill is absolutely right. We have to be reasonable about this. It is left to MSPs, for example, to judge themselves as to what they believe might constitute or be perceived to constitute a conflict of interest, and therefore to declare things. Voluntarily, if need be, there is a section on the MSP registrations where we can voluntarily declare things. We might go above and beyond if you like what the minimum requirements are. I am sure that most people, if not all of us, use that facility. We have to rely on the oath, the guidelines that are in place to guide members of the judiciary to consider what things that might be perceived as a conflict of interest or an actual conflict of interest, and to declare those and leave that to them to judge or themselves as to what they feel is appropriate to declare. I entirely commend the point that Mr McCaskill has made that somebody voluntarily made that point, where just so that there could be no perception that there was a conflict of interest, even though that was not strictly speaking required under the terms of the recusals policy. Obviously, we have examples of members of the judiciary behaving entirely appropriately and giving information to allow others to decide whether they should recuse themselves, and I think that we should commend that. I entirely recognise the role of the committee in driving forward making that a publicly facing register now of recusals, which is a very welcome addition to the process, and I commend the committee for achieving that. I think that that will help to further drive it, so people can see their examples and inform those involved with future court actions as to what kind of things do constitute a conflict of interest and help to refine the process further. To go back to Cayman Corkadeal's point about the Supreme Court, you will be well aware, minister, that prior to the setting up of the Supreme Court, that the Scottish law lords were members of the House of Lords and had to comply with the register of interests of the House of Lords. I am not suggesting that you have suggested that, in some sense, a register of interests and the alien concept of the Scottish legal system, of course it is not for generations that the law lords were in the House of Lords and filled in the register of interests. The idea that sometimes shock horror was going to fill in the register is not in fact shock horror or new at all. That went on for generations. Why did it work well then? Why couldn't it work for judges and sheriffs now? Well, I think that, as a fair comment, convener, the law lords did have disclosure under financial interests and I think that perhaps financial pecuniary interests or areas where perhaps the public could proceed to be a conflict of interest. If there is particularly a damages case perhaps and a company is being affected by a damages outcome and the judge happened to have shares in that company, clearly there would be a conflict of interest there. I can understand why, both in the US and in the case of the position that the law lords had in the House of Lords disclosure rules that financial interests were declared, what the petitioner is asking for is something that is considered beyond that, in the full disclosure of information that might, as I say, in some categories of information, might be perceived to put people at risk, either of intimidation or intrusive press activity, which would be unhelpful in maintaining the petitioner's asking for a register of pecuniary interests. There are, obviously, certain bounds that have been talked about by property assets that we would have to have some safeguards there in relation to personal property and I recognise that, convener, you have identified with that already. There are examples and I take the point on board and these are things that I would have to take forward to the Lord President and the GCR, the new GCR, Gillian Thomson, to get their view on. I am conscious of the time. I think that it was important to continue and I think that, thanks to McDonald, did you have a quick point? I just covered the point that I was going to raise. I think that the general point that I would just like to say for the record is that, first of all, we have a very high level in terms of quality of the judiciary and, by European and indeed international standards, we are remarkably free of corruption, so I wouldn't want to get any other view than that. However, I do think that it's important that, for only men and women appearing before judges, there is an element of transparency and that's what I think this committee has pursued. I would put in record my thanks for Lord Gill for agreeing to our request that we do have a register of recrusals, which didn't happen before we raised this in April last year. Welcome that myself and thank you, convener. Ms MacAskill, did you have a final one? Good to meet Gillian Thomson. It does seem to me that she's come in both it having been at AIB and, indeed, a senior civil service. Has she had a view, as a fresh pair of eyes, whether that was known to you or whether that information could be provided? Convener, if I may address that point, I'm not aware yet of Gillian Thomson's view of this, but I will be seeking Gillian Thomson's view on these matters. I'm happy to invite Gillian Thomson to relay her views on this issue in due course to the committee. John Wilson? On that, convener, I would like to put in record my thanks to Moi Ali and the evidence that she has given this committee in the past. I would also like to congratulate her on her comprehensive annual report, which I know was submitted in August and was released last week. It makes very interesting reading. I hope that the minister, when he meets with the Lord President, raises some of the issues that were raised by Moi Ali and her annual report, because, clearly, she has raised issues about the judicial complaints procedure, where she has almost alluded to when a complaint is made against a judge that disappears into the ether, and there is no transparency in how those issues are dealt with. It would be useful not only to take on board the new judicial complaints reviewer's view on how they see them taking forward the role of the judicial complaints reviewer, but also to take on board quite clearly the outgoing judicial complaints reviewer's experience over the last three years of having to deal with the judicial complaints process, and having in particular to deal with complaints that arose in the way that the complaints were dealt with by the Lord President. I hope that we can move forward and we can get a system that everybody feels confident will take forward the best interests, not just of judges but the public and everybody involved in the judicial process. I am very conscious of the time, minister. Just to say that I listened to what Mr Wilson said and I identified with what he said, I certainly add my own thanks, albeit that I was not imposed at the time that Moi Ali was positioned out. I certainly welcome the report, and we will take forward the points that have been raised in the report with the Lord President and, indeed, Gillian Thomson's new JCR. If I could just add that we only formally received the report on 23 October, so the gap is not quite as big as perhaps has been implied. I would certainly want to back up John Wilson's point. Moi Ali gave excellent and no holds barred evidence to us, which is obviously very refreshing and very useful for us. I would like to back up the points that Mr Wilson has made. I suggest to the committee that we consider the petition again in the new year, which time we can reflect on today's evidence. We need to look in detail at the annual report of the previous JCR and we look at the new rules and guidance that I believe will be published by the Lord President early in the new year. John Wilson? I agree that we look at the petition again in the new year, but I suggest that we tie into the timing of the release of the information from the Lord President in terms of his new rules, rather than us discussing it as a committee that, only to find out, the new rules have not been published. It would be useful if we could tie it in with the new rules being published. That might be useful to hear from the minister and, due course, either through him or directly from the new judicial complaints review as to what she has taken as a fresh pair of eyes. I thank the minister and his two colleagues for coming along today. I thank them very much for your evidence. It has been very helpful in working at the committee's next steps. I appreciate you coming along and giving up your time today. I thank all three of you very much indeed. I will suspend for two minutes until our witnesses to change round. If I could restart our committee, we are in agenda item 4, consideration of new petitions. The next item of business is consideration of two new petitions, and the committee will hear from the petition in each case. The first new petition is PE1539 by Anbooth on housing associations to come under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002. Members may note by the clerk the spite briefing on the petition. Could I welcome the petitioner, Anbooth? You are very welcome for coming along, and she is coming today by Sheldon Clarkin. You are also welcome, Mr Clarkin, as well. Thank you for coming. I can invite Ms Booth to speak to the petition in around five minutes. I will kick off with some questions and then ask my colleagues to ask further questions. Can I start off by saying that I have breathing problems? Maybe now and again I will have to stop and Sean can fill in for me because it just depends on how I go. My name is Anbooth, a factor to homeowner and I am factor by GHA Limited, your place. The Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 was set up in the spirit of encouraging the people of Scotland to access information and to make organisations accountable. It is in this spirit that I am asking the Scottish Parliament to call on the Scottish Government to have this act extended to all housing associations in Scotland, so they are made transparent, open and accountable. Glasgow Housing Association, which in recent times has become far bigger in the form of the corporate John Wheatley housing group, is an example of a housing association that needs to be more accountable to its stakeholders, for example factor to homeowner owners and tenants. In 2010 it was clear that the GHA was only housing association consulted on where the above act should be extended to housing associations. It is clear they did not favour this and I believe for a number of reasons that GHA, along with other housing associations, have to come under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 through section 5. Thousands of factored homeowners have had home improvement work carried out, which was composed of overcladding, re-roofing and putting up a community area costing thousands of pounds. I could not get answers to such questions as what did the quality assessment process consist of, what type of overcladding system was being used, what was the square meter cost of overcladding and in addition was the housing association charging additional money to factor to home owners. I also asked the question, was taxpayers' money being properly used or not? We asked these questions at various different meetings with the housing association, with them refusing to give us any details or any answers. It was only in 2009, after three years of probing, that we found out that the housing association was charging a 6 per cent management fee and a 3 per cent contingency charge. It took an expose by the Sunday Herald to force Glasgow Housing Association Ltd to properly itemise all improvement bills to include the above information. I also found that my home, along with 80 per cent of Glasgow homes, was overclad by the ALUMAS system, which should not be erected in damp climates, which it was. The point that I am making is that thousands of factored homeowners would have been better informed in their decision making had they been aware of all the facts and could have refused the work going ahead if they weren't happy with the cladding that was going on in their house. Therefore, if the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 had covered housing associations, including GHA, this would have been a great benefit to stakeholders. 26,000 factored homeowners also pay a management fee, which is not itemised and therefore we don't know what we are paying for. We don't know how they come to get this management fee and we cannot get any financial breakdown of this whatsoever. That is another thing that we could find out if we had the freedom of information. I believe that all stakeholders would benefit from all housing associations coming under this act and that they would be more transparent, open and accountable. I believe that my human rights would not have been breached if the act had covered GHA at an earlier date as the work in my house wasn't to my satisfaction. I am bearing witness to you today and alluding to the suffering of others and stating that this could be avoided if all housing associations in Scotland come under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002. Thank you very much for your evidence and the very clear points that you have made. Can I ask you about the social housing charter, which as you will know places an obligation on housing associations to provide advice, guidance and information to tenants? Is that working? No, it's not working. No. Anything that the housing associations that I know of set up, the people who sit on their committees are asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Anybody that has to sign a confidentiality agreement, they are not then going to be open and transparent. My understanding is that the Scottish housing regulator uses the outcomes from the social housing charter to regulate and assess how well housing associations are doing. Is that aspect working? Mr Clark, is that okay? The situation is, yes, you are right in saying that the Scottish housing regulator is very much involved in that aspect. We are talking here about the provision of information to tenants and to factored homeowners. The bottom line is that we are in the new Scotland, a post-referendum, whether people voted yes or no, and more people are involved in civic Scotland, so I think that it would be very good if tenants and factored homeowners were more involved in the decision-making process. Through the Free Information Act, it would improve decision-making, it would improve efficiency and it would basically make the housing associations more open and transparent. In fact, I can relate to the fact that Alan Benson, a senior member of the housing association movement director of Milne Bank Housing Association in Glasgow, said that community-based housing associations are already regulated, organisations are obliged and want our activities to be open and transparent. Freedom of information obligations would not, in my view, present any difficulties whatsoever. We would have better community-controlled and tenant-led organisations if the tenants and the homeowners had the chance to access the information that they need to base their lives on, because that is their homes at the end of the day. I was out making judgments about FOIs, whether they are good, bad or indifferent. Surely the current situation should ensure that tenants get good information from their housing associations and, if they do not, that the regulator should be picking this up and putting a black mark against the housing associations. Is that the current system? No, it is not necessarily, because, for example, the fact is that it was a chap called John Gibson who had to make a freedom of information request to Police Scotland and basically to find out how much money was being spent on employing police officers by the Glasgow Housing Association was actually paying their wages and he had to find out through freedom of information and it was quite a large sum of money. I think that that would have been of interest to tenants and to factored homeowners and to other stakeholders that deal with the Glasgow Housing Association. The bottom line is that at the end of the day openness is fundamental to the political health of a modern society and I believe that housing associations being subject to that freedom of information would make them better, more accessible and basically more accountable to their stakeholders and the stakeholders themselves would feel more involved and would be getting involved in the running of their associations and they would find it beneficial and they would be more involved in the decision making. The decision making would overall be improved. Thank you for that. Kenny MacAskill and then Angus MacDonald. I was just going to say I can see arguments and advantages but can you see any disadvantages or arguments again? I'm thinking in particular of how freedom of information could be abused perhaps relating to the housing of offenders, anti-social behaviour or indeed other rights that people may have. So do you see any downsides as well as the upsides and how do we then manage and protect individuals from what might be the abuse if I can call it a freedom of information? For fact, since 2002 in Scotland we have got the local government, we have got the national health service, we have got the police, an all-kept manner of organisations that have been subject to the freedom of information act and it has worked well since 2002 as an act brought in by Lord Wallace and the bottom line is that it has worked very well and it has basically improved decision making in the public sector because stakeholders are more involved. So since 2002 we have got nearly 12 years now of experience of dealing with freedom of information and I think that it has worked very well and basically any problems like that can be worked out and can be reasonably dealt with. Given that we have had 12 years of it in Scotland dealing with very sensitive areas and with many aspects of the public sector subject to it, I do see why housing associations cannot be benefited from that whole process. It is good enough for the police and it is good enough for the national health service housing association should come under it just like any other public organisation. I will make a fair point yourself about the housing regulator who should be required to pick up any issues regarding governance and expenditure issues with RSLs. However, I have to admit that I have been at a loss to understand why registered social landlords have not been included in the FOI act when opportunities have arisen since 2002 where a section 5 order could have been made, especially when, as you have just said, especially when, for example, arms length organisations are now subject to FOIs. I have examples in my constituency where constituents have been frustrated that they could not obtain fairly basic information on governance issues of local RSLs and, up until recently, allios as well. I have actually got a great deal of sympathy with the petition. I take it that that is the main driver for the petition. However, I note that there is the possibility of another section 5 order possibly in spring 2015. Presumably, if the Government commit to considering RSLs as part of that section 5, that would give you some comfort. I draw on the fact that Nicola Sturgeon, a new First Minister, stated that, we also want to hear wider stakeholder views in order to inform proposals relating to other bodies with a view to extending coverage further in the future, just as you are indicating. That is in the spirit of that. That is why we are here today. It is just so that you also know that housing associations are subject at the current time to amalgamations and mergers. The John Wheatley housing group, of which the GHA is the principal part, has now got over 71,000 properties. We have also got sanctuary housing associations, housing-based in Dundee and housing-based in Glasgow. With those larger organisations, it is incumbent that they should be subject to more control and more democratic accountability. There is probably quite a strong argument for GHA and what you described with that number of stock. As you know, some housing associations still in rural areas are very small. They are effectively private sector organisations or third sector organisations. They are not technically public sector, but that is by the by. Would you see in your proposals a sort of de minimis level beyond a certain scale that organisations will not be allowed to comply or asked to comply with FOI? I think that all housing associations should comply. The argument that it could lead to let us been asked an increase in their cost, I think that is a spurious argument. I think that with the improvement in decision making, there would be cost efficiencies made. I think that you are going to have a leaner, fitter, better housing association sector if their stakeholders are actually involved in questioning the decisions that have been made. It will lead to better quality of decision making. At the current time, whether you like it or not, a lot of people, a lot of tenants who serve on housing associations, are basically ruled by confidentiality clauses where they are not allowed to talk to fellow tenants about what is happening in the association. Thank you, convener. Good morning. It is just to take further the issue about housing associations. I am taking it that you are using the term housing association in its general term, because it has been raised by the convener. In the register social landlord sector, we have many smaller housing co-operatives, fully mutual housing co-operatives, where some of the size of those organisations can be as large as 500, and in some cases, even smaller. I worry about the arguments against introducing FOI regulation to some of the housing association movement. I am not saying that the GHA would be covered by that, but some of the housing association movement is the cost of establishing a freedom of information officer that would deal with issues. As the petition intended to include all register social landlords, not just housing associations, because the terminology has to be clear in terms of what we are dealing with. As I said, if I was sitting in the management committee of housing co-op, I might turn around and say that we are not covered because we are not a housing association. I was hoping that housing associations would be brought under the information, as we also thought that it would be beneficial, because then we could help to make decisions and work for the associations and try to come together about different decision meetings, as long as we know exactly where we stand with them at the present moment, we cannot ask any questions at all because we get no answers whatsoever, none. I think that it goes back to the early point that the convener, in terms of another member's round of table, is the issue about particularly Glasgow housing association in relation to its consultation and engagement with not only its tenants but the factored house owners within Glasgow. It is more of a concern than—I am not sure by arguing for an FOI compliance with housing associations that you might get information after the fact. You might not be able to get information prior to—you gave a couple of examples about the cladding that took place. It was not the right cladding for the right climate, for the right houses, but an FOI request would give you that information after it had done the cladding, rather than prior to the process. It is more about getting the housing regulator to ensure that there is adequate consultation and engagement with the residents and tenants before they go ahead with the work. I can just say to that one that by having more stakeholders involved in the decision making, the fact is that it may come after the horse has bolted, as it were. The fact of the matter is that if any bad decisions have been made through the scrutiny of the housing association, through freedom of information, that is identified, then that can only improve the decision making that will come thereafter. If any bad decisions have been made, that will be identified via freedom of information. Freedom of information is a very good vehicle for improving the decision making process, then and in the future. If senior housing association professionals know that they are going to be scrutinised more closely—even more closely than they currently are—then the decision making processes will improve. There will be cognisance that they will be getting scrutinised by their stakeholders, and that can only be good for the housing association, because it means that the stakeholders are getting involved in the whole decision making process. It involves that. As Ann says, it brings that co-operation and it brings that improved decision-making process together. I thank Mr Clarkin for that response, but what I am trying to get is to a stage whereby the stakeholders, as you have described them, and tenants and residents who are living in those areas, surely it would be better to get the consultation process right rather than using an FOI process, as you seem to be implying that it becomes a big stick to officers to say, well, if they get it wrong, we are going to do an FOI request. Rather than saying to housing officers and boards that they should be fully engaging with tenants and residents to ensure that what they put in place in the first instance is correct, not to then have a follow-up process whereby the threat is that, if they get it wrong, we are going to do an FOI request. What I would say to that is that the consultation, as we have seen, can work, but it can also fall down very dramatically in local government. For example, consultations over cuts to public services, consultations that have been rushed through and harried through, the free information process basically gives an added guard, an added check, an added support for the stakeholder. I think that consultation along with free information would go a long way, because sometimes in Scotland, in our history, consultation has become a dirty word. Sometimes consultation does not consist of very much. Closure of schools, various different things in the past, it has not had a great history. I think that freedom of information is a needed safeguard for stakeholders. We are obviously at the stage, as you should be familiar with, with previous petitions where we are looking at the next step. Clearly, my view is that we need to write to the Scottish Government about this particular petition. The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations is a key body as well in the Scottish Housing Regulator, which I mentioned. I think that it is important to write to the Scottish Information Commissioner about the campaign for freedom of information in Scotland and perhaps a selection of registered social landlords. Members, if they are happy with that course of action? Mr George? I am happy about that. Can we have a look at some of the smaller housing associations that have very few staff? I suggest that Benston, from Milnebank, is an association of 2,000 homes. He is also the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations, among the smaller housing associations, a whole big group of them. They are smaller. I think that they would very much welcome participation in this to be written to. Thank you for that. Taking on board Mr Clarkson's point about the Glasgow and West of Scotland housing associations would be useful to all of them, because they represent a lot of the smaller housing associations and housing co-operatives. I could also suggest that we write to Tenant Information Service, Tenant Participation Advisory Service and the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, which I think that you have already mentioned, convener. The Chartered Institute of Housing, as a number of organisations that represent both tenants and landlords to seek their views on this issue, because I think that it is quite clear that there will be differences of opinion in terms of how that would apply to different organisations. It would be useful to get that white-scoping to get the views of those organisations. Thank you for that. At the risk of being accused of being parochial, can I also end in Paragon Housing Association, which is a small housing association? Do you like Kenny MacAskill? No, I agree with the proposals. John Wilson mentioned that. The Scottish Tenant Organization, Ian McKenneth. I thank you both for coming along and giving evidence to us today. As you can see, we are taking this petition very seriously in writing to the record number of organisations that we have written to. Once we have got that information back, clearly we will let you know when this is scheduled to appear again. I thank you both for attending and I will suspend for two minutes until our witnesses to change round. If I could restart our committee, the second new petition today is PE1537 by Shona Brash on behalf of the Coastal Regeneration Alliance on the proposed entry park at Coquensley. Members have a note by the clerk, the spice briefing and the petition. I welcome the petitioners, such as Shona Brash. You are very welcome for coming along and Gareth Bryant-Jones from the Coastal Regeneration Alliance to the meeting. I could also welcome Ian Gray, who is the constituent of the member who has gotten the interest in the petition. I invite Mr Brash to speak for a maximum of five minutes. After that, I invite Ian Gray to make some comments and then we will throw them into questions. Good morning, convener, ladies and gentlemen. I speak today on behalf of over 8,000 residents in the communities surrounding the Coquensley site in East Lothian and beyond. Many other local people are off the view that this is a done deal, that there is no point in signing a petition as the decision has already been taken. We do not share that view. Our communities are not against industry, not energy, but we believe that there has to be a harmony between the two for both to be successful. Our communities have demonstrated this in the 50-plus years of Coquensley power station existing in our midst. The energy park proposal arrived as a bolt from the blue in the local press on 22 May this year. There was no warning nor consultation of a proposal of such a size and scale too large for the proposed site, which would divide communities with strong historic links. In the weeks following, Scottish Enterprise organised a public consultation in the local areas but could offer very little information on what would be included or how the site would impact on the community's closest to the boundary. People began to realise that the size and scale of the proposal would change their way of life forever. The loss of the green hills loved open green space that is used by all ages for all activities, the loss of the site of the battle of press and pans, a well-used network of pathways and a historic wagon way. In fact, all of our well-used and much-loved designated countryside land was included in the Scottish Enterprise scoping proposal, bringing the greatest negative impact on our land and coastal environments and living memory. We had not been consulted, nor had we known that our communities had been at risk for the previous 12 months without anyone telling us. Our quality of life, environment, wildlife and marine life are now all at risk. With greater disappointment was to follow with the realisation that our own council had been instrumental in suggesting the Key-Kinsey site for such a development with little regard for the communities that it serves. Over the past 10 to 15 years, the face of our communities has changed significantly. Many hundreds, if not thousands, of new houses have been built, bringing new people and new ideas to complement the talent that already existed. Previously, you would not have suggested our area as a hub for artists and out-of-the-box thinkers, but you would now. Our communities have changed and with it the aspirations and hopes of residents have changed too. While we will always honour our industrial past, the desire in our communities is to be part of the leisure, recreation and tourism that our county is well known for. Our communities can clearly demonstrate that they can embrace change and challenge. Positive community engagement came to the fore in the work of the coastal regeneration forum set up in 2010. Residents put forward how they wished to see our community shaped in the future. The existing energy footprint was acknowledged, but it sat alongside a positive community vision, one complementing the other. The CRF final report was submitted to Slothian Council, but it does not seem to have been given any consideration. Two local fishing skippers, with a combined time at sea of close to 100 years, are of the view that the extent of dredging proposed to reclaim close to 12 hectares of the fourth will decimate fishing and change our coastline forever. Their view is the impact will be felt in many, if not all, fishing communities around the fourth and their associated services. Both Scottish Enterprise and Slothian Council have relied on a statement in National Planning Framework 3, published in June 2014, to support the energy park proposals. That defines the Kakenzi site as an area of co-ordinated action, yet there is no explanation of what that means, nor is there any definition of what an energy park may be. The substantial change in use of the site between MPF 2 and MPF 3 was not part of the MIR consultation for MPF 3 and appeared after the consultation process had closed. That gave no opportunity for anyone within the community to comment on the principle. If the energy park proposal has progressed, then we may have to look elsewhere, and that is likely to mean Europe, where we think a direct challenge to MPF 3 and the energy park is likely to be considered under the artist's convention. We are no experts. We are no more than local people living and, in many cases, working in our communities. The energy park proposal is an offence to the commitment and passion that we feel for our areas. The greater offence is the feeling that no one is listening. There is no one to turn to for help other than to Parliament and to Government. We ask that Parliament urge Government to stop the work that is currently under way and to relieve the stress in our communities while proper and transparent consultation is carried out and consideration given to alternatives, including a positive community alternative that allows industry and community to sit side by side as it has done in our areas for over 50 years. Our communities want to be part of the leisure, recreation and tourism that the rest of the county enjoys. We want to celebrate your MIR, to cycle route 76, to enjoy the East Lothian Gulf Coast. We want our battle site preserved and enhanced, our green spaces and coastline protected, and our residents encouraged to enjoy our beautiful outdoors. Thank you very much for providing your evidence. Can I bring in Ian Gray? Thank you very much, convener, and I'm pleased to have the opportunity to speak this morning supporting this petition from the CRA, because it's absolutely clear that the local community that I represent supports it to the CRA of organised campaigns that have included public meetings attracting 7,800 local people. They have encouraged my constituents to write to me, and I have to say that I have had more letters on this than any other subject or any other issue in my time as an MSP. Over 1,000 constituents have been in contact with me about that. There is no doubt in my mind that the campaign is supported by local residents. The site that we are discussing is, I think, a strategic site nationally, the gateway to Edinburgh and to central Scotland, but we have to understand that it is a strategic site locally as well. It lies at the very heart of three communities—Presson, Pans, Crikensy and Port Seaton—and their interests cannot be ignored. On the face of it, this is an industrial site that we are discussing, but the colleagues should understand that Scottish Power only uses part of the site for the power station use. The perimeter includes, as Shona referred, green space such as the green hills. It also provides access to the local shoreline. It is contiguous with and covers some of the historical site of the Battle of Press and Pans, and it is traversed by the John Muir Way, which was recently opened by the former First Minister. The fact is that the existing station at Crikensy has served Scotland producing electricity for over 40 years. Scottish Power has permission to replace the station with a gas-fired station, an idea of which was broadly accepted by the community, not by everyone, on the basis that it would be a smaller facility. However, there is no sign of that progressing. Scottish Power would appear now to consider this site no more than a brownfield site, which it wants to dispose in order to realise its asset. I feel that it is betraying the support that the local community has given Scottish Power for over 40 years. It built that power station, the local community worked in that power station, and it lived next door to that power station, and it deserves some consideration of its interests. Scottish Power decides how to move on. The Scottish Government, having charged Scottish Enterprise with finding sites to create supply chain for offshore wind projects, led to Scottish Enterprise bringing forward the current proposal. A proposal has been proposed not just for an energy park but for the largest possible energy park facility that one could possibly imagine on the site. Local residents did have no indication that the proposal was coming forward and felt and continued to feel completely excluded from the development of that proposal. It is a proposal that would massively increase the industrial footprint of the site, which involves 24-7 fliddlet working, which would compromise the press and pans battle site, which would break the recently opened and highly popular John Muir way. It would compromise a potential important local development at blind wells, not far from the Scottish Power site. Perhaps above all, my constituents have found that the most offensive is the idea that it would divide those three communities and cut them off one from the other. As a proposal, it is unacceptable. It would also rule out other proposals and possibilities. I believe that my county needs jobs but not at any price. There are other ideas about how the site could be developed. Many see the tourism potential. The CRA themselves have developed a plan that they have shared with you today. Not everyone has the same ideas, but in truth nobody supports the proposal locally. The proposal has united the community in its determination to have a say. That is the most important thing. That is why the CRA is right to appeal to the Scottish Government to ask them to stop now and to start again. I think that it is important that the site comes into public ownership because there is a danger that Scottish Power will sell it to the highest bidder and who knows what plans a private developer might have for the site. However, if it comes into the private sector, we must start again and work with the community, not against the community, to plan its use with local people rather than in spite of them. Thank you very much, Mr Gray, for your contribution. Just before I ask the question to Sean Rabash, the general point I would make is that, as you will know, the committee needs to look at the general principles of energy parks rather than one specific development. Clearly, I understand the interests that you have there because that is the purpose of our committee. I could ask you the question that Ian Gray raised. Do you feel that the proposal will squeeze out other development opportunities? Absolutely. I think that our communities would like to put forward a positive community alternative. I think that that could provide jobs that would complement everything that is good about Scotland and certainly good about our garden county. I think that there is room for everything on the site, as has been demonstrated over the past 50 years, to be honest. I noted that Ian Gray recently tabled a question to the Deputy First Minister on the Cokinsey energy park. In his reply to John Swinney, he gave an assurance that a Scottish enterprise is not an ownership of the site. There is no site plan in its possession. There is no site plan in the possession, as the site remains in the ownership of Scottish power. However, he gave Mr Gray an assurance that, should Scottish enterprise acquire the site, there will be a full and active dialogue with the local community before any developments are considered or undertaken. Presumably, that assurance gives you some comfort, shaking your head. I feel that, at the minute, it seems like there has already been an awful lot of money and time and energy spent in taking the proposal to the level that it is at just now. The panic that I would have is that, how do you move back from spending such a lot of money? If another year passes, I just feel anxious that it is going to be. It already feels to so many folk. We could have had 28,000 signatures to the petition, but folk truly believe that it is a done deal. There is no any point. There are ships sitting out in the forth. They are doing this, that and the other. It is already happening. We are trying to say to people that it is not. There is a process and people do listen. They will be party, but they do not believe that. Mr Gray made some reference to ownership that was taken over by Scottish Enterprise. In our briefings, we do not have any information on that. Is that something that has been omitted? No. I believe that Scottish Enterprise is still on the site. I do not think that Scottish Enterprise is on the site. I believe that it is still in ownership of Scottish Enterprise. I have to say that there has been a harmonious relationship between the communities and Scottish Power over the 50 years. All our local bairns would go to Christmas parties in the power station. They worked really hard to develop strong links between the communities. The ground to which the whole site might be seen as being an industrial site, but it is not. The power station is on a very small footprint on it, the coal plant is on a very small footprint, and the rest of it was given over to the communities by Scottish Power. We have enjoyed it. Maybe, as in our land, we do not own it, but we feel like we do, because we have had it for so long, and we have done so much work over so many years. When you speak about the footprint, you should presume that it is here. That is the green hills on the front, but it extends all the way up to the middle roundabout. You also mentioned, in your introductory remarks, the possibility of a legal challenge in Europe to NPF 3. Presumably, that is a last resort. Yes, I do not think that nobody would want to do that, but I think that we have come to realise that this whole thing did come out of the blue. There was not any consultation with the public. It appeared at NPF 3 completely from nowhere. It was not an NPF 2 and it was not an MIR for NPF 3. It is not in the National Renewables Infrastructure Plan because Kennedy is not identified as a site for an energy park. Where did it come from and why was nobody told about it? Until May this year, we all opened our local paper on what is going on. Nobody knew about it. That is at the core of why we are so concerned about it, as well as the fact that this is a massive-scale proposal. The fact that it just appeared that there was no consultation and it would appear, having done a little bit of work and obviously we have spent several months now poring over mountains of information on the background to this, it would appear that this is about as clear a case as it would be humanly possible to get under the our house convention for a lack of any transparency in the planning system or involvement of the community within a matter of environmental planning. People are telling us that is what we would have to do if we did not manage to get the proposal put on hold now. David Torrance Thank you, convener, and good morning. Just to say I have some sympathy with your petition. I represent an area that has five energy parks in it. We developed and regenerated a run-down area that has created a lot of jobs within my area. High-skill jobs and well-paid jobs regenerated a whole of that Leave Malfuria. There is the potential to take it forward even further to the point that we are now compulsory purchasing additional land to make room for more industries to come in to Leave Malfuria. There was a lot of consultation with the Scottish Enterprise because we have the coastal path, five-coastal path, half a million visitors a year. There was a lot of consultation with local groups from the Scottish Enterprise and from the five-coastal country coastal trust to protect all those areas around the energy park. We did not have a possible dialogue to go ahead for what the local community wanted in the area. The plan goes ahead. It would be great if there was, but there just has not been. There has been a consultation from Scottish Enterprise that included four A1 boards presented in community centre for a proposal that is the biggest thing that East Lothian has ever seen. There seems to be a lack of any information being given out on the fact that this does not include the power station site, and I do not think that there would be anything—well, there would not be anything like this—stushi about all of this if it was just the power station site, but it is not. It is a huge area, including the battlefield press and pans, the green hills. These are public open spaces, they are green spaces, and it is also fundamentally in the middle of communities. It is not on the outskirts of something, it is not a previously industrial site, although it maybe was industrial in the 19th century, or some of it was anyway. It is in the middle of communities, and there has not been any of that consultation. There may be scope to do it, but it would be nice if it came sooner rather than later. It has not appeared so far. I have one other question, and it is to do with the major concerns. One of them is—which affects my area as well—underground coal gasification and the plans to go ahead, and the energy part would probably be used for that. Those licences are issued by Westminster. If you had seen the vote last night of Westminster, where a motion was put forward to stop fracking in underground coal gasification underneath houses, it was defeated last night, so it would have no relevance to the energy part whether it went ahead or not. I do not catch the question. One of your objections here is that it would facilitate underground coal gasification in the area. Whether energy park or not was not there, these companies who have the licences will still go ahead with underground coal gasification. That is probably right. This is one of the things that we recognise, that the designation of an energy park, whatever that may be, could easily be used for coal gasification. It seems like one of the things that has not been mentioned at all in connection with the site, although it is obviously eminently suitable for it. In fact, some of the proposals of the coal gasification use the first and fourth with the north and the south sides metham across to, presumably, Kakenzie on their plans. However, there has been no discussion about it at all. Again, there has been no consultation. Most locals are completely oblivious to this, and some of the main protagonists in this whole debate, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Power as well, to a point, East Lothian Council laugh when you mention coal gasification. It is never going to happen here. Any other colleagues wish to answer questions or points? Can I just ask a sort of final question? Clearly, you would not want normally to go to Europe under their house convention because that is a very lengthy process and presumably an expensive one, but have you done any explanation around that particular issue? Are there any expedients in your group, are there any expedients going to Europe under this? We do not. We are just a bunch of local people. We are not a bunch of battle geeks or busy bodies. We are just local people who are really worried about what is happening in the middle of our towns. We have had some advice from a QC who has been sympathetic to us, and we would have to take it forward with him at the expense that that would involve. Obviously, we do not want to do that, we do not have the money to do that, but I think that we would do it if we had to. We do not want to let 8,000 people down. We do hope that the group that we are sitting in front of today and our own Parliament and our own Government will listen to the folk that are living in an area. The energy park proposal will slice up the middle of communities. The catchment area for a local high school is Preston, Parns, Cackinsey and Port Seaton, Longnidry. Our barons walk the pathways, they use the road, we all these things would go. I know that a method has found ways to get around it. We have been able to demonstrate that industry, energy and communities can sit together. We would like the proposals, as they stand, to halt and to start looking at something that can work together to complement. Nobody is saying no to jobs, nobody is saying no to anything, it is just that it has worked together for a sensible outcome. Thank you very much for your evidence. The next step is to look at the next stage for the committee. I think that you have both given very clear straightforward evidence, as Ian Gray on the issue. Clearly, it would be sensible to write to the Scottish Government, Scottish Power, Scottish Enterprise and Eastlothan Council about this particular issue to get communication back and to discuss it when we have the full information before us. That is my suggestion to the committee. As always, the committee has a different view. Can you just ask whether the committee is agreeable that we consult those organisations? I am quite happy for him to consult, but can we also ask him how much consultation he has done with the local community and what input the local community has had into the final draft plans? I agree with David Torrance and, in particular, when we are writing to the Scottish Government, we would want to focus in on NPF 3, because I am quite concerned about the issues that have been raised today. The proposal seems to have landed in NPF 3 at the later stages, rather than in the early stages of consultation in NPF 3. Are members of you able to have a different view, Kenny MacAskill? It seems to me that it would be better to try and get parties to work together, because it seems to me that listening to Ian and listening to Shona, there is no preclusion to industrial development. I think that it is recognised that the worst thing might be simply to go on the market to the pub highest bidder, which might be even worse than anything, even at the worst extremes of what is here, and just simply seek some public engagement, because it seems to me that there must be the opportunity, given the size of the footprint, to achieve some of the things that those clearly, with a future view of Scotland's energy needs in the 21st century, can be delivered, but equally ensuring what is public asset, public green space, can be retained, and trying to encourage them to come together and work constructively, as opposed to perhaps giving it an edict in a dict act, much as it is doubtless being well researched. I think that simply the tone and the tenor might be important that we are trying to reach an accord. People might not necessarily be on opposite sides here, if they can just sit down and chat. Came from outer space and landed at Kikenzie, and everybody thought, help me Bob, what are we going to do about this? We really are just local folk. We are no experts. We have never sat in a room like this before with people like yourselves, and it is overwhelming. Thanks a case of hello Houston, we have a problem. Hi, how do you fix it? I thank our interviewers and our witnesses for coming along today. I think that this is obviously a huge issue, but as I said at the start, we are also looking at the wider issue. I think that we have agreed to write to Scottish Government, Scottish Power, Scottish Enterprise and East Lothian, particularly looking at consultation and MP3 is also a vital aspect of this. I thank you all for coming along and giving such clear evidence today, and that includes Ian Gray as well. I will suspend for two minutes to allow our new witnesses to go before us. If we can resume our committee, we are on agenda item 5, consideration of current petitions. The next item of business is consideration of three current petitions. The first petition is PE1463 by Aron Cleaver on effective thyroid and adrenal testing, diagnosis and treatment. Members have a note by the clerk and a submission from the petitioner. I welcome the petitioner here today. I welcome Elaine Smith, who has a long-standing interest in the petition. I am Elaine Smith, Alun Cleaver and two of our clerking team last week, to give more detail about that. Elaine Smith, would you like to give us a brief summary of where we are at with the petition? Thank you very much. I thank the committee for the amount of work that you have done so far and also for your interest. You have been thorough, you have been interested and you have understood the issues, which I have to say is more than can be said for some people in the medical profession. I want to say that straight off. You have done a power of work, but, unfortunately, I do not think that we have had as-yet better outcomes for patients or anyone you saved for the NHS. That is where I am starting from. You have Elaine Cleaver's letter. I think that that is useful in guiding you from what to request from Sine. Sine guidelines might be helpful, but I think that there are still other areas. They could take time. We know that. It could take up to two or three years maybe for the Sine guidelines to emerge. There are other areas that still need to be addressed. I propose that the committee should still keep taking an interest, because Sine might have to liaise with you to ensure the people who are asking them to carry out the work. You have not had any feedback yet from the Scottish Government's work on patient experiences. If you do not mind bearing with me for a minute or two, could I go over why I think you should keep the petition open? I suspect that you might be considering closing it. First of all, there is outstanding issues. We know that more research is required into the condition and what other options there are for patients. The lack of research into areas such as T3 prevents medical professionals from even prescribing medication that could improve the lives of their patients. What is needed is trials of T3 and trials of desiccated thyroid hormone, including in that patient experiences, so that we are listening to the patients and not just test results. That is really important. You know that, as a committee, there is still only one sole supplier of T3 in the UK. That means that they have a monopoly. Actually, there are current issues again with the supply of T3, so it is raising its head again, according to my chemist last week. We also know that misdiagnosis from your work has had an impact on the patient themselves and the NHS as a whole. Patients are often misdiagnosed with things like depression, ME, and the list goes on. You can see that from your 50 patient stories that you have received. Lorraine Cleaver's letter to you today shows what I have quoted from that. It says from the Royal College of Physicians that we recommend that those patients with thyroid blood tests are within the reference ranges but who have continuing symptoms, whether on level theroxine or not, should be further investigated for non-thyroid causes of the symptoms. That is increasingly worrying because, as you know from my experience, that is what happened to me. Over a period of years, the NHS spent thousands putting me on heart monitors, brain scans, hospital admissions, prescriptions for that and the other, prescriptions for a low immune system, etc. The cost to the public purse of that is huge. It leaves people on medication that they do not need and is not helping them. The specific issue of ME is that people are economically inactive, they are living a half-life or no-life at all. That is another major issue that the committee could take an interest in. There is also the fact that you have things like 82 medicines for type 2 diabetes, 47 for depression, 45 for acne, 16 for athlete's foot and 1 for underactive thyroid, which is an immense condition, as you know from all the work that you have done. As we know, people are sourcing T3 and pygthyroid from abroad. They can do that under the Medicines Act 1968, but there is no regulation of what they are taking. There is no knowing what is in the medicines. I do not think that people should have to go to those lines, but they are doing it because they are rising from the dead. Many doctors are concerned about the Royal College of Physicians guidance, which really only helps people who normally do not convert a real problem, as you know. It is fair to say that endocrinologists are scared to push the boat out and try other things. They have worries about doing no harm, but they are doing harm anyway by not putting people in trying them on other things that will bring them back to life. The connect testing is out there, but it is not on the NHS a lot of the time, so people are paying money if they can afford it to get the correct testing and to get on to medicines, but others who cannot afford it are just left languishing ill. There is also the issue of telling patients the borderline. That is a bit of a scandal, and people could be trying T4. If you look at your own Health Improvement Scotland scoping report, which you recently got, it is very telling where it says that the use of thyroid function tests is based on generally poor quality, non-pure reviewed evidence. Even if a doctor tests, it is only the TSH, occasionally T4, but the evidence there is that even those tests are weak. Dr John Midgley at a thyroid UK conference in October said that there have been long, sad and unsatisfactory developments in thyroid function testing, including up to the present day. He says a lot more. I am happy to share his report with the committee. We know that it is estimated that there is about 15 per cent of people who do not do well. We think that it is higher, but that is what is admitted to. It could be medical negligence not to treat them properly. Even those who supposedly do well in T4 are still obese. We have a huge obesity problem, their hair is thinning and they have dry skin, they are tired, etc. It is also estimated that only 20 per cent of people who are diagnosed are referred to endocrinologists. I think that more people need to be referred to. I know that several women recently have had strokes that could have been caused by their underactive thyroid. They are not doing well. They are suffering from ME-like symptoms, but they are not even being referred by the GP to an endocrinologist. That is just not right with a complex condition such as an underactive thyroid. I think that there are many issues, convener. Thank you for bearing with me, but there are issues such as research, testing, medication and supply of medication. I think that sign guidelines would not address all those points at all. It would be helpful, but I still believe that an inquiry by your committee would be helpful and welcome, since there are so many areas to cover. You are still waiting on the patient-experienced feedback from the Scottish Government. You have also got a new public health minister, which might be helpful if you passed all your information to her and asked her to address the committee on it. You have done such a power of work on it that it is not time to stop. There are thousands of women who are desperate for help and women's issue. Another line that you could take is to ask the Equal Opportunities Committee from the discrimination on women issue to look into it from that perspective and maybe report back to this committee. The bottom line is that if you stop now, you have pretty much wasted a lot of time over the years doing the work that you have done, which has been fantastic. However, what needs to happen is to change the outcomes for women and save the NHS thousands of pounds. I think that your committee has the ability to do that and to do further work. I thank Elaine Smith again for a very comprehensive submission to us. Certainly from my own part, there is no suggestion of closing the petition. I have got a way forward for the committee, but before I do that, I could just ask whether there are any specific questions that members want to raise before we go to summation. Again, I think that it has been excellent work that the petition on Elaine Smith has done. What I would suggest that we do is write formally to sign forwarding the evidence that we have received, including the patient testimonies and the suggestion by the petitioner of specific areas of investigation. Sign should be invited to work with the petitioner to initiate the process for developing guidelines in the area of diagnosis and treatment of thyroid conditions and formulating the necessary questions. In the meantime, we certainly want to keep the petition open, see what we get back from sign and obviously consider any other aspects that we can do longer term, but certainly we would not be wanting to close the position at the stage. First, I will get the committee's view on that suggestion. I am happy to agree with the recommendation, as you have read out. The issue for me would be that we write to the Scottish Government, as Elaine Smith has said, just to keep them updated and particularly to the new minister and keep them in the loop in relation to how we are dealing with it. I think that it would be useful if there is some pressure brought to bear by the Scottish Government. Let's sign and take up the recommendations from the committee. I thank Elaine Smith for the power of work that she has done, in particular on the issue. I agree with what you have suggested. However, there are a few outstanding matters that Elaine Smith has mentioned as well that would not be covered with the sign, convener. Could we pick up on that as well? One of my major concerns is that Elaine Smith mentioned again the supplier of the T3. We have been down this road before, convener, and I never thought for one second that we would be back here again so soon. Could we seek to resolve to ask the health minister why that is happening? We could put this in the same letter that we are informing the minister about the sign guidelines. I thank the committee. In addition to the supply of T3, what struck me throughout this whole saga for one of a better term is the failure to prescribe natural-desigated thyroid hormone. I do not see why that is not happening. I hope that we can get some answers to that, and I hope that it will be prescribed in the future, because it is a bit of a no-brainer to me. It looks like it is a solution to the problem. We add that to the letter to the minister. I appreciate that you are coming in cold to this one. It seems to sense what we are forward with. Elaine Smith On the issue of the desigated thyroid hormone, part of it is that although endocrinologists know that it might help their patients, they are keen not to do anything that nobody else is doing. They are a bit worried about that. I had a quote here, a medical investigative journalist report, which was quoting a lecture on geriatric care, but it is the same principle that told a conference. We like to stick with the standard of care, because when that, and they do not use the word to hit the fan, we all want to be able to say that we are just doing what everyone else is doing, even if what everyone else is doing is not very good. I think that that is a problem. I do not want to extend this debate, but we may have raised this at previous meetings. Have NICE been asked for the view on prescribing around this? I am not sure about that. I will check that, but I think that the problem is that it can be prescribed as you know and you saw from your health scoping report that it can be prescribed as a specials, but when we ask our endocrinologists, they are not prepared to do it because their concern will be put before the GMC, as Dr Skinner, was for years, even though he was never found guilty of anything because he was helping his patients by prescribing it. A lot of GPs that are prescribing it just aren't saying anything about it because they are scared, frankly. The overarching guideline of doing no harm makes them worried about trying something like that in case they do harm, but by not trying it, they could be doing people. In fact, I would say that they are doing harm. It might be some of you who can explore and get back to us on that. Thank you, Elaine Smith, again for coming along. You have heard this. We are very keen on this petition and we are going to pursue it in the ways that I have identified earlier, as my colleagues added around the table. I can thank Lou and Cleaver again in the gallery for coming along today. I quickly move on to our next petition. Thank you very much for coming along. The next petition is PE1523 by Jess Smith on giving the tinker's heart of regaile back to travelling people. Members have a note by the clerk and the submissions, including the recent letter, received from a Mrs Ramsey. I welcome Mike Russell. The constituency MSP was taking a great interest in this petition. I can ask if Mr Russell could make a brief opening statement to the committee. Thank you very much indeed, and I'm sorry that Jess isn't here, but she is otherwise engaged, but she's grateful for the interest that the committee has shown and the work that has been done. I have to say that she is also disappointed with the progress to date, as am I. I wonder if I might just quote from a letter that I received last week. I'm not at liberty to say who I received it from, but it was somebody in the heritage sector, and it really gets the nub of what the problem is. Although no-one knows the origins of Scottish travellers for sure, they have been part of Scotland's history and story for hundreds of years, playing an important role as armourers to the clans, as bringers of news, and useful items to rural communities across Scotland. Today, as the keepers of oral traditions, there were once all of ours, which have been largely lost in a world so dominated by technology. The story is an important one within the story of Scotland. As Historic Scotland aims to preserve historic sites that help to tell the story of the people who have lived in Scotland over the past 10,000 years, by leaving travellers out of this history, the story of Scotland cannot be complete and an opportunity to recognise the contribution of this community is missed. It also adds to the cycle of discrimination in which travellers are not visible within the telling of our history, and this vacuum allows negative attitudes to this community to flourish unchecked. That is at the heart of the response that we have seen from Historic Scotland regrettably. Historic Scotland has not grasped the importance of this issue. If its procedures are such that they cannot properly recognise the only site associated with the travelling people across Scotland, then their procedures, frankly, need to change. I am disappointed also that I am unaware that there has been any substantive response from the landowner. Am I correct in assuming that? No, there has been nothing at all. There is nothing at all. Well, I am extremely disappointed. Historic Scotland is a public body, and I suppose that it is bound to respond, even if it does not do so adequately, for the landowner to ignore this Parliament, just as she has ignored the petitioners, is, I think, disgraceful. In those circumstances, I think that there is much unfinished business within this petition. There have been, I think, over 1,000 signatures to this petition. There has been an enormous amount of public interest generated. I shall certainly continue to back Jess and those who work with her to make sure that the small, tiny spot of ground is given the proper recognition so that we can include the travelling people of Scotland as we tell our story and as we move forward as a nation. Thank you, Mr Russell, for that submission. Could you guide the committee on what would be useful to take the petition on to the next stage? I think that there are three things that would be helpful. One is a reminder to the landowner that whatever her view is, she is not above the democratic elected representatives of the Scottish people. The second one is to return to Historic Scotland and the Minister, perhaps to question the position that they have taken on the intangible cultural heritage, to question the procedures that they are following in terms of scheduling monuments, and to seek from them a solution to the issue. There may be other solutions to scheduling, but a solution that achieves the end. The end would be to have the site properly preserved, because it is not properly preserved. I drove part this morning in the grey, wet light of anargail dawn, and it has a metal container around it and nothing else. It needs proper signage, it needs proper parking, it needs to be drawn attention to. Thirdly, and I know that Jess would welcome this and it may not be possible for the whole committee, but as you convener, Highlands and Islands MSP, where you are to visit it, I am sure that Jess would be there to welcome you to it, but it would also draw attention to the fact that this Parliament is determined to do something to recognise the heritage of the travelling people of Scotland. Thank you for that. Just for the record that the clerks advised me that the landlord did ring the clerks and did speak to them, and she knows that she has been invited to write to the committee, but she has not done so yet, so I am hopeful that we will get written submission. I shall suspend my criticism until we see the letter, but I do think that if the letter went, as it did timmously, the end of September, beginning of October, she must be, as they say, guy busy if she cannot reply by that time. Thank you and welcome Mr Russell's contribution to this discussion, because I think that it is a very important contribution in terms of the history of Scotland that we are talking about, in terms of the role of the travelling people and the thinkers plays within that. The issue for me, and it goes back to the issue about land ownership, because we have a very useful submission from Councillor Robert McTire, who indicates in the third paragraph of his submission that, in April 1969, there is a record of a decision made that the area of ground relocation shall cease to be a highway within the meaning and for the purpose of section 42 of the Roads and Bridges Scotland Act 1878. Would it be possible, convener, to get clarification whether that meant the land reverted back to the private landowner? If that is a public highway, then why the land then reverted back to a private landowner is beyond me, because Mr Russell has raised the issue about not only the sight of the heart, but the access route into the heart as well, which, as Jess had indicated previously, was public access land. There is an issue about the land ownership and whether or not this individual landowner, who now claims ownership of the land, has titled that land. It raises issues, but there are a number of things that might Russell's invitation to go and visit it. I think that every committee member, if they get an opportunity, should take that opportunity to go and see, because it is not just the site that is under threat. There are a number of sites throughout Scotland. Clearly, from the response from Historic Scotland, I took it from Historic Scotland's submission and the second last paragraph of the submission on 3 November. It refers to the 1979 act, and the scheduling does not provide any specific onus on an owner to care for or provide interpretation for a monument. Clearly, I would be hoping that the committee would write to Historic Scotland to ask whether or not there needs to be a change to the act to ensure that we get the appropriate protection, particularly when the monument is in private land. Clearly, Jess Dirling's comments about the landowner can do whatever they want with their land and they have been doing whatever they wanted with their land up until recently when the fence was erected round the site, but it is about trying to ensure that monuments like that are protected and that we see the value in protecting those sites. I would suggest that we write to Historic Scotland to ask whether they are proposing to bring forward legislation that would amend the 1979 act to ensure that we get appropriate protection for sites that are held in public—private hands, sorry. I think that both of Mr Wilson's suggestions are competent. The first one about roads, we would normally write back to a Gellan butte and ask for a view from the director of LEAL to get a view on that, but I think that that is a very good way forward. Can I ask other members for views, David Torrance? Are you happy with that? I am happy to go with the recommendations, chair. I thank Mr Russell for his presentation, but I am wholly concerned at the historic Scotland's reply. It worries me that this is Scotland's only site and it appears to me that we are not taking it serious. Can we meet with Historic Scotland to discuss this further as a committee? I would also like to take up the offer to go and see Tinker's hat. Certainly, on the point of can we invite Historic Scotland to come before it is in the new year, that is certainly competent, and if the committee is willing, we will invite them to appear before it. To take this forward, I am sure that we can invite Mr Russell to come along as well. I am sure that that will make for a very interesting meeting. John Wilson? If we are going to invite Historic Scotland, could we potentially invite the cabinet secretary as well at the same meeting, so that we have both sides—the Scottish Government representation and Historic Scotland—so that we are getting the Government and Historic Scotland speaking from the same page? I think that that is a very good idea. I thank Mr MacDonald. You are happy to go with the recommendations so far? I think that there are two issues there. First, there is a land ownership. Land ownership brings rights, but it also brings responsibilities, and it is for disappointing that the land owner has not taken the opportunity to write. We should maybe pursue the issue, whether with Argyll bute council about the issue relating to roads, but it seems to me that land ownership remains and those who have vested interests, whether through their statutory authority or their ownership of it, should do that bit more. Equally in the historical aspect, I think that pushing Historic Scotland is appropriate. There may be a marginal community, but they are part of Scotland's history and tapestry, as Michael was saying. Therefore, I think that pushing on the land ownership and pushing on the historical aspect are both worth doing. So, as you can hear and Mr Russell, we are obviously very enthusiastic about petition. We are going to invite Historic Scotland and the cabinet secretary to appear before us. We are going to write to Argyll bute and check out the legalities. We are going to put a gentle reminder to the owner to give us our written submission. I think that there was also the point of writing to Historic Scotland about trying to get the criteria correct, because currently it does not seem fit for purpose, was the general point. Are members happy with that? It is a comprehensive approach. Developments, I should have mentioned my gratitude to Argyll bute council, who did respond positively, and I am grateful to them. Historic Scotland, of course, is going into a new incarnation, and it may be that, with new management, it might have a more comprehensive view of what Scotland's heritage is. That would be great. I thank Mike Russell for coming along today. I appreciate that. If I just move swiftly on to the final current petition, it is PE1526 by Jack Fletcher on behalf of 6 expression in the UK on making sex and relationship education Scotland statutory for all schools. Members have been up by the clerk, the spice briefing on sex and relationship education in other EU countries and submissions. Clearly, it looks to me like there are two main routes forward for us, but members may have other views. To refer the petition to education and culture, to consider whether the provision of sex and relationship education in schools should be mandatory, or to close the petition under rule 15.7, on the basis that the Scottish Government will shortly assure EU guidance that the petitioners are supportive of, that the Scottish Government has given a commitment to raise a profile of SRE, that education Scotland will monitor and assess implementation of the new guidance, and that those who gave views to the committee were supportive of sex and relationship education continuing to be non-mandatory. I take views from the committee on which of the two options are indeed others that we wish to pursue. David Torrance? I am quite happy to close the petition. Seen as the petitioner is a support of the Scottish Government's actions. Are members agreeable to that course of action? For Scottish schools, given the pressures that come, whether it is from business, whether it is for financial advice or whatever, the Government is shown willing and we should leave it to those charged. We have had the committee for the views to summarise that we are closing the petition under rule 15.7 for the reasons that I gave earlier. Agenda item 6, tackling child sexual exploitation in Scotland. The final item in business today is consideration of the Scottish Government's national action plan on child sexual exploitation. Members will note by the clock a copy of the action plan and for a reference a copy of the Scottish Government's initial response to the committee's support and to each of its recommendations. My overall view of someone who was particularly interested in that and my background in social work was generally that I would welcome the action plan. I think that there are a number of issues that I would highlight that I was particularly interested in. Having refuges for young people's risk of child sexual exploitation is really important. Having specialist services available in every region as we recommended again is crucially important. I would also recognise the work that the third sector is carrying out. Finally, the risk of sexual harm orders. The use of the orders needs to be more comprehensive. I understand that this is a complicated area involving the police, the fiscal service and so on. I know that we ask for a bit more work to be done on that. Nevertheless, my overall view is that the action plan did adopt most of our, if not all of our, 26 recommendations. I would particularly like to place on record my thanks to Bernardus, who has taken the time and trouble to raise the petition. I think that the committee has gone the extra mile by doing this major inquiry. I would like to thank everyone who is involved in it. I mean, said all that, and I think that we have now achieved our objectives. For that reason, there may be merit in now closing the petition unless, obviously, committee members have other views on next steps. Can I ask committee members their views? I think that it is also a moving piece, rather than post Alexis Jay, that you are quite right to thank all those who have been involved. I think that action is under way equally. It is going to evolve, but probably all that has been done, or that can be done, has been done so far, and it is now back to the agency's voluntary statutory. Finally, I should say that we will obviously draw to the attention of the Education and Culture Committee the work that we have done in this area. Is that agreed by members? Could I formally close the meeting?	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCMsrAa6m9o", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCpDJutGvw1_r_v10syjbsTg	Will Mega TV - REELZ Season 6 Episode 6	Will Mega TV - Historian Will Mega: Contributes narration and insight on Reelz Gangsters Season 6 Episode 6 spotlighting Dawud “Cool” Bey. After serving 10 years in prison, Bey was a free man in 2014. Bey is now focused on efforts to build his community via a construction business, and Bey leads an anti-violence program to fix the community he at one time terrorized. More Of My Content: My Website: https://www.willmegaspeaks.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willmegatv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MegaSpeaks Blogger: https://iamwillmega.blogspot.com/ #ReelzChannel #WillMegaTV #News	[ "Will Mega Speaks", "Will Mega", "Will Mega TV", "Will Mega Speaks on Will Mega TV", "Reelz", "Season 6 Episode 6", "reelz Channel", "Historian", "TV Interview" ]	2022-05-23T02:47:40	2024-02-07T17:21:02	59	pcX2f9b3eFo	Real Streets on Reels That Ud Bey's life can be capsulized in three sections. There's the formulation of his life where he embraces the teachings of Islam. There is a storming portion where he goes off the path of righteousness and then there's reforming portion where he returns back to his righteous self attempting to lead a community out of darkness that he once contributed to, a man trying to reform himself and his community. And what I love to do most is help people, I love to get back, I love to be involved with our community and stuff like that.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcX2f9b3eFo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCkY5L8JYwx7BT0cOXYZX_dw	Church Fire Won’t Affect T.B. Joshua’s Funeral – SCOA \| NEWS	The Synagogue Church of All Nations says the funeral of its late founder, Temitope Joshua, popularly called T.B. Joshua, would continue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch More: https://bit.ly/2KLQxbI Watch PlusTV Africa Lifestyle: https://cutt.ly/tbdOHzQ Watch via our Website: https://plustvafrica.com/live-tv Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlusTVAfrika/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plustvafrica/ Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlusTVAfrica Comment on Whatsapp: http://ow.ly/d4kQ50pT4Bt #PlusTVAfrica #NewsOnPlusTvAfrica	[ "News", "Politics", "Nigeria", "Africa", "Plus TV Africa", "Plus TV", "Plus", "Plus TV Nigeria", "Plus Television", "Plus TV News", "Justin Akadonye", "Aneta Felix", "Osarogie Ogbonmwan", "Top News", "channels", "tvc", "bbc", "cnn", "arise news", "arise tv", "al jazeera", "news central", "AIT", "Silverbird", "Buhari", "osinbajo" ]	2021-07-07T10:55:16	2024-02-05T06:27:03	44	pCZ3pAGYZHE	To other news now, the Synagogue Church of all nations says the funeral of its late founder, Temitope Joshua, popularly called TB Joshua, will continue. A fire at the church had earlier cast doubts on the funeral taking place. The fire gutted a storehouse late last night as a congregation gathered for a candle procession in honor of TB Joshua. There would be a lame state of the preacher on July 8th and a thanksgiving service on July 11th.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZ3pAGYZHE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCmTqZ28TaM7V_g7uJVuBAMw	Explanation Of Thalaathatu Usool \|\| Part 19 \|\| Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan	Al Madrasatu Al Umariyyah is an online program aimed at seeking knowledge the way the salaf of this Ummah sought knowledge. All from the comfort of your own home and in the English language. For more information, visit the following link: http://www.madrasatu-al-umariyyah.com You can also find us on: Official Website: http://www.abdulrahmanhassan.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ustadharh/ Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTqZ28TaM7V_g7uJVuBAMw BarakAllahu feekum.	null	2017-04-05T21:21:22	2024-04-23T14:19:56	2,163	PCHIBHBlEYE	فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا وياله من شراف عظيم الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد my beloved brothers and sisters we are in the explanation of the book ثلاثة الأصول written by شيخ الإسلام محمد إبلا عبد الوهاب رحمه الله تعالى we were talking about التوكل we were talking about ودعوط رحمه الله he brings the evidence for التوكل we defined what the word meant we spoke about the reality of the word and the statement of إبلا القييم and others and that which سعيد من الجبيل said we also even mentioned the beautiful Hadith of the of the Banu Israel story in which إمام البخاري ونريت إنه صحيح من حديث أبي هوريرا and now insha'Allah we are going to go into بإذن الله الكريم مواطن التوكل مواطن التوكل means the places where the التوكل is sought or a person comes with but first what we have to truly understand is that توكل is مطلوب it's requested في كل شؤون الحيات in all of the affairs of our life every part of our life we need to come with التوكل reliance on Allah تعالى that is something we have to understand but there are بيد أن هناك مواطن كثيرة بيد أن مواطن كثيرة ورد فيها الحظ على التوكل والأمر به للمصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم والمؤمنين but if we look at the Quran we find that there are many times when توكل was stressed on and it was emphasized okay and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was commanded to come with it and the believers were commanded to come with it and فيروزا بادي رحمه الله he mentions it in his great book بصائل داوى التمييز في رطائف الكتاب العزيز he mentions it and he says the following he said انطلبتم النصر والفرجاء فتوكلوا عليه the first one is the first one is if you are requesting victory if you are looking for victory and you want to gain the upper hand فتوكلوا عليه rely on him and that's the one in Surat Al-Amaran ay 160 where Allah says this one is means انطلبتم النصر if you are looking for victory then rely on him the second time is the second one is اذا اعرضت اذا اعرضت ان اعدائك فليكن رفيقك التوكل فليكن رفيقك التوكل he says when you turn away from your enemies then let it be the thing which you take as a close friend التوكل and that's the one Allah says in Surat Al-Nisa ay 81 فاعرض عنهم وتوكل على الله وكفى بالله وكيلة فاعرض عنهم turn away from them وتوكل على الله and rely on Allah وكفى بالله وكيلة Allah is enough for you وكيل number three اذا اعرض عنك الخلق فاعتمد على التوكل if the creation turn away from you then let it be the thing which you take and you rely on بتوكل that's the one in Surat Al-Toba ay 129 where Allah says the fourth one is اذا تلي القرآن عليك أو تلوته فاستند على التوكل if you recite the Quran or if the Quran is recited onto you then let it be the thing which you come with التوكل الله says وإذا تليت عليهم آياته زادتهم ايمانا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون this is also the time where you urge to come with a التوكل توكل is emphasized on the fifth time is اذا طلبت الصلحة والإصلاحة بين قوم لا تتوسل إلا ذلك إلا بالتوكل if you are looking for الصلح صلح means what if you are looking for reconciliation and if you are trying to bring a treaty and peace بين قوم and a people then come with توكل وإن جنحوا للسلم فجنح لها وتوكل على الله وإذا وصلت قوافل القضاء فاستقبلها بالتوكل فالله تبارك بالتعالز قضاء comes to you and that which he destined for you then receive it with توكل reliance الله says in صورة التوبة آية 51 إلا ما كتب الله لنا هو مولانا وعلى الله فليا توكل المؤمنون number 7 إذا نصبت الأعداء خبالات المكر فدخل أنت في أرض التوكل if the enemies resort to if they resort to مكر plotting them and deception then enter into what into the land of التوكل الله سبحانه وتعالى ودري say in صورة يونس آية 71 وتل عليهم نبأ نوح إذ قال لقومه يا قوم إن كان كبر عليكم مقام وتذكير بآيات الله فعلى الله توكلت number 8 number 8 إذا عرفت أن مرجع الكل إلى الله وتقدير وتقدير الكل فيها فوطن نفسك على فرش التوكل if you realize and you come to know and you acknowledge that every single individual their return point is to الله تبارك وتعالى and their destiny is to الله تبارك وتعالى فوطن نفسك على فرش التوكل then nurture yourself upon and teach yourself say in صورة هود آية 123 فعبده وتوكل عليه number 9 إذا علمت أن الله هو الواحد على الحقيقة فلا يكن اتكالك إلا عليه if you truly believe الله is one then don't be one who realize anyone other than him سبحانه وتعالى الله says in صورة الرعد آية 30 قل هو ربي لا إله إلا هو عليه توكلت وإليه متاب number 10 if guidance is from الله تبارك وتعالى إذا كانت الهداية من الله فاستقبلها بالشكر والتوكل if guidance is from الله تبارك وتعالى then فاستقبلها come with it بالشكر والتوكل with gratitude and reliance in صورة إبراهيم آية 12 الله سيس وما لنا ألا نتوكل على الله وقد هدانا سبولنا ولنصبرا على ما آذيتمونا وعلى الله فليتوكل المتوكلون number 11 إذا خشيت بأس أعداء الله والشيطان والغدار فلا تلتج إلا إلى باب الله if you find a better fear then don't turn to anyone except the dua of الله تبارك وتعالى and don't rely on anyone except الله تبارك وتعالى الله سيس صورة النحل آية 99 إنه ليس له سلطان على الذين آمن وعلى ربهم يتوكلون number 12 صورة النساء آية 81 الله سيس oh sorry number 12 is إذا أردت أن يكون الله وكيلك في كل حال فتمسك بالتوكل في كل حال if you want الله تبارك وتعالى to be the one who takes over your affairs and deals with you in all of your situations then you have to come with every single time and every single place وتوكل على الله every time وكفى بالله وكيل enough for you is Allah the one who is going to take over your affairs and control your matter number 13 إذا أردت أن يكون الفردوس الأعلى منزل كفنزل في مقام التوكل if you want جنة الفردوس to be the station that you reside in then come with the station of التوكل الله سيس صورة نحل آية فوتي 2 الذين صبروا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون number 14 إن شئت أنت نال محبة الله فنزل أولا في مقام التوكل if you want to gain the station and the love of Allah تبارك وتعالى then first come with the station of التوكل الله سبحانه وتعالى سيس صورة آلة عمران number 15 إذا أردت أن يكون الله لك وتكون لله خالصا فعليك بالتوكل if you want الله to be for you and if you want الله تبارك وتعالى to be one who helps and aids you all the time then be one who comes with the station of التوكل if you want then be one who comes with the station of التوكل ومن يتوكل على الله فهو حسبه صورة الطلاق آية 3 الله أصول سيد صورة النمل آية 79 فتوكل على الله إنك على الحق المبين الإمام البخاري والمسلم both narrated on the authority of جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري ربي الله تعالى عنه جابر سيد غزونا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قبل نجد فأدرقنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في واد كثير العضاة جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري we fought with the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم in one of their expeditions قبل نجد from the direction of a nest فأدرقنا رسول الله we reached the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم في واد كثير العضاة a very bushy فنزل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فعلق سيفه برصن من أعصانها so the prophet he laid down under one of the trees and the branches the prophet laid down under it فعلق سيفه and the prophet placed his sword بغصن من أخصانها on one of his branches واتفرق الناس في الوادي يستظلون بالشجري and all of the people the companions each one went under his own tree trying to find shade because of the sun no one wants to go out in the open everyone is just trying to look for a shade where they can shade themselves from the sun قال فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and then the prophet set to them after رجلا أتاني وانا نائم وايلست فأخذت سيفه and he took my sword فستي قدت I woke up ووقائم على رأسي he was standing at my head the prophet said فلم أشعر I didn't feel it إلا وسيف صلطان في يدي I didn't feel it until the sword was in the man's hand فقال لي the man said to me من يمنع كمني محمد who is going to prevent me from you now who can stop me now from you then the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said Allah الله أكبر look at the Tawheed look at the Tawheed of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم look how he is reliant صلى الله عليه وسلم was strong look how he is belief in Allah was strong he looked at a man who has a sword in his hand الله الله سبحانه وتعالى he is the one who can prevent you from harming me ثم قال في الثانية دمان سري again من يمنع كمني who can stop you from me قال قلت to the prophet فشام السيفة فها هو ذا جالسون the sword fell out of the man's hand and he was sitting down on the ground ثم لم يعرض له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet then did not want the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not harm him once the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم got the sword in his own hand and Allah brought it to his hand the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not do anything to him فهذا هو سيد المتوكيل the master of those who are who relied on Allah نسأل الله I ask Allah to give him the day of judgment with him في جنات النعيم بمنه وجوده وكرمه إنه ولي يدالك والقادر عليه also take another glad tidings my beloved brothers and sisters and another example as well لمن حقق التوكل على رب العالمين a people who have come or a person who has come with the thing that Allah promises them in this verse الله تباركه سيز ومن يتوكل على الله فهو حسبه anyone who relies on Allah and comes with توكل الله is enough for him إن الله بالغ أمر قد جعل الله لكل شيء قدرا also Allah تباركه سيز إنما المؤمنون الذين إذا دكر الله وجلت قلوبهم وإذا تليت عليهم آياته زادتم إيمانا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون when this verse Allah tells us that the believers if Allah تباركه وتعالى as mentioned وجلت قلوبهم their hearts tremble وإذا تليت عليهم آياته if the verses of Allah are recited زادتم إيمانا and the iman increases وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they rely on their Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى الله also says إنه ليس له سلطان وعلى ربهم يتوكلون إنه أي الشيطان he has no strength nor power above the believers he has no strength over the believers وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and those who rely on Allah also Allah says about the people of Jannah he is describing في وصف أهل الجنة الله سبحانه وتعالى he says من تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها نعم أجر العاملين الذين صبروا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون الله أخبرنا those who have believed in Allah and they have come with righteous actions their iman manifested on their limbs and it wasn't just a mere claim but it was seen on their limbs الله أخبرنا الله أخبرنا that he is going to give them houses houses and they are going to be from the inhabitants of Jannah and those who reside in Jannah then Allah described Jannah to us تجريم تحتها الأنهار rivers, flow بنثب خالدين فيها they will stay there forever الله then says what a great reward and a great action that they have come forward with and then Allah tells us who are these people الذين are the ones who have these characteristics they came with patience in this world they were patient they were patient upon that which Allah has predestined for them they were patient upon Allah's obedience they came with how Allah come on they were patient and it was hard and they were also patient from what they were patient from the sins and also وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they were also those who relied on Allah واتعالى and also there is a hadith الإمام البخاري الإمام المسلم they both narrated في صحيحهما they both narrated in authentic books both of them narrated it in authentic books عربنا عباس رضي الله عنه ما عبد الله بن عباس may Allah be pleased with him and may Allah also be pleased with his father عباس بن عبد المطرب that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said nations have been brought forward in front of me and then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم told us in the hadith that there is going to come a prophet there is going to come a prophet when the prophet another prophet will come by and there is only with him a prophet a group when the prophet another prophet will come and there is ten people with him when the prophet and another prophet يمر معه الخمسة he has five with him and another prophet when the prophet a prophet who is alone another narration says a prophet and there is no one with him فانضرت فإلا سواد كثير قلت when the prophet I saw a number of people who had closed off they have closed off the horizon سواد large pitch black and then I said to يا جيبريل هؤلاء أمتي this is my umma I mean no but rather look towards the horizon look towards the direction فانضرت فإذا سواد كثير I saw a large amount of people I saw a large amount of people I saw a large amount of people and it was set to me يا أمة that's your umma right over there that one that you can see that large amount of people وهؤلاء سبعون ألف that's your umma also on that side as well right there there is سبعون ألف and seventy thousand يدخلون الجنة they will enter paradise جنة بغير حساب ولا عذاب without any accountability they are not going to be accounted ولا عذاب without no punishment قلت I then said I asked I asked and it was then set to me كانوا لا يكتون they never used to do كي which is to ban themselves they weren't using كي as a form of medication ولا يسترقون and they did they did not ask for what they did not ask for روخية they go to anybody and say روخية for me ولا يتطيرون and they never came with and they weren't superstitious وعلى ربهم يتوكلون and they relied on their Lord فقام فقام إليه عكاشة من محصن عكاشة من محصن stood up فقاله he said to the prophet ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم سبليكوا الله to make me from them the prophet then said الله مجعله منهم or Allah make him from them in another narration the prophet said to him أنت منهم you are even from them you are from them so this shows that there is no contradiction between the two narrations by the way somebody might say oh look one time he is making dua for him and another time saying you are from them out of these those narrations work together so even if he did make the dua he is accepted عليه الصلاة والسلام ثم قام إليه رجل آخر another man stood up قاله he said ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم another man stood up and he said سبليكوا for me that Allah makes me from these people and then the prophet said سبقك بها عكاشة عكاشة beat you to it the scholars they said they mentioned here this man that the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام that the scholars mentioned that this man who made the second man the second man who came after عكاشة بن محسن who said ادعوا الله هل يجعلني منهم the scholars they some said that he was a bonafek he was a hypocrite and if he was a hypocrite brothers look at the answer that the prophet gave look at the wisdom and the speech of the prophet how he was wise and he didn't say yes he said it in a way where the individual will get hurt by it but he's also صلى الله عليه وسلم he's not compromised so he used his words wisely عليه الصلاة والسلام when he say سبقك بها عكاشة beat you to it are you there and that you have to understand is that جنة is not a place that somebody can take your place are you with me are you with me but the reason why the prophet عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم chose to say to him like that it was a no to him but in a way where it was with wisdom and the believers like that when you have the chance of using your words in a wise way and you can portray your message in a very why would you choose and why would you take the path of speaking in a very despicable manner why would you that's one the other narration they said it was a noble companion it was an individual who was righteous but they said that the reason why the prophet said that is to close this door that not everybody goes he wanted to close the door he wanted the door to be closed and that only one person was also صحيح من حديث ابن عباسر رضي الله تعالى عنهما may Allah be pleased with both of them he said they were a people from Yemen يحتاجون ولا يتزودون they were a group of people from Yemen they would come to do Hajj but they wouldn't bring provision with them they wouldn't pack a provision ويقولون and they would say نحن المتوكلون we are the ones who rely on Allah that's what they used to say are you there they used to come to Hajj without any provision with them and they would say نحن المتوكلون فإذا قديموا مكة when they come to Maka سألوا الناس they start asking the people they start begging the people because they need to survive right فانزل الله تعالى الله they said وتزودوا فإن خير الزاد التقوى take a provision but remember the best of provision is what التقوى ولذلك إما محمد رحمه الله says as إبن مفلح رحمه الله brings in this كتاب الأداب الشرعية إما محمد ينبغي للناس it is necessary for the people كلهم all of them يتوقلون على الله عز وجل that rely on Allah ولكن يعودون أنفسهم بالكسلي but you have to exercise yourself and you have to teach yourself to have an earning and a living فمن قال بخلاف هذا القول anyone who says opposite to that which I just mentioned he said فاذا قولوا إنسان أحمق the last statement of an individual who is dimwitted who is a fool and he also said أحمد من حمبل he says الاستغناء عن الناس أعجبوا إلينا من الجلوس وانتظار ما في أيد الناس to be rich and surprised from asking from the people by coming with actions and working is more greater and fascinated to us and is more beloved to us than sitting and waiting for what is in the hands of the people and that my beloved brothers and sisters is تقصيل المهم it is a very powerful formula place by the noble imam إمام أحمد رحمه الله taken from the نصوص الكتاب والسنة we prove that for many evidences I also want to remind you all my beloved brothers and sisters and conclude بحديثيني 2 حديث عن فضل التوكل in the virtue of وفضل المتوكلين and also the virtue of the ones who rely on Allah تبارك وتعالى and so the first one insha'Allah is going to be about the virtue of 2 noble prophets 2 noble prophets الإمام البخاري رحمه الله he narrated في كتاب تفسير القرآن باب قوله تعالى إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم من حديث ابن عباس that the prophet SAW said حسبو الله ابن عباس said sorry ابن عباس said this not the prophet من حديث ابن عباس رضي الله تعالى عنهم أما يلابي please with him and his father he said ابن عباس recited the verse حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل الله is sufficient for us سبحانه وتعالى he said قالها ابراهيم عليه السلام ابراهيم said this ابراهيم said حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل ابراهيم said this حين ألقي في النار when he was thrown into the fire وقالها محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم النبي الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ودرسه حين قالوا when the people said to him our prophet also said the same but he said it when إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم فزادهم إيمانا وقالوا حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل our prophet said it when the people came together and they said to him فخشوهم فيه the people فزادهم إيمانا إيمانا increase for them the prophet and the believers وقالوا and they said حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل and the response that the prophet gave was what sufficient to be is Allah and he is the best one to rely on so two noble prophet ابراهيم عليه السلام when he was thrown into the fire what did he say حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل when our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وزبين أتاكت باقريش أن يوهامهم عليه الصلاة والسلام ودريسي إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم فزادهم إيمانا وقالوا وقالوا حسبو الله ونعم الوكيل لا استفاس حديث اللاصور إن شاء الله وتعالى is the hadith حديث which is إن صحيحين بقارئا مسلم which is the hadith of أبي بكر رضي الله وتعالى عنه قال أبو بكر said قلت للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم I said to the prophet of Allah وانا في الغاري when we were in the cave لو أن أحدهم نظر تحت قدميه لأبصرنا if one of them just looked down if one of them peep he just took a little peak he peaked down and he looked under his feet because they were standing on the cave they were standing there if one of the heads of Quraish who was standing there just looked down لأبصرنا he would have seen us فقال the prophet then said to him ما ذنك يا أبا بكر بثنيني الله ثالثهما أبو بكر what do you think of two الله is the third one for them two and the third one is الله تبارك وتعالى what do you think who is going to beat them basically who can overcome them who can cause them harm and physical pain no one so the prophet is trying to remind me ما التوكل so I ask الله تبارك وتعالى نسأل الله أن يرزقنا التوكل عليه والثقة فيه وحدة إنه على كل شيء قدير على كنكلودة بإذن الله الكريم anything which I have said that was wrong slip of tongue error mistake show coming it's from me as shaitan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك الله وبحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوب إليه	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHIBHBlEYE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCxzvNYT-17mjYJMuDzGx7AA	Australian aid: building a robust performance culture	Join us as former World Bank Vice President Jim Adams will present his reflections on the performance of the Australian aid program. Jim is stepping down as Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee, having held the position for the past seven years. He will discuss how to build a robust performance culture based on accountability, transparency, learning and appropriate risk management.	[ "ANU", "The ANU", "Education", "Australia", "Research", "Policy", "Academic", "University", "The Australian National University" ]	2019-05-02T23:47:16	2024-02-05T06:39:27	3,238	pcHxnIIVrdw	This is one of these internal evaluation issues, and a preoccupation of many people talking about evaluation. And I have a somewhat counterintuitive view on this. I don't think independence has near as much an impact on quality as most of the people in the evaluation argue. I think much of it was made of this. And I think a perfect example of the sort of confusion, or what I call the confusion, is represented in the recent piece Richard Moore, friend and colleague of mine, had in his piece on DFAT, where he updated, made some comments on where DFAT was five years after the change. In that note, I'll quote his recommendations. The head of ODE should be an external candidate on a non-renewable contract to maximize independence. You know, if you ask me what the head of OED should be, it should focus much more on quality of the person. You should get the best person available. And you should focus not so worried about whether you're going to have a tenured person or a non-tenured person. If the person's good, they should be kept. If the person's not so good, you should probably move on and find another person. So Richard and I reflected a very important theme of evaluation, which I think is simply wrong. And indeed, I think the message for DFAT, any evaluation group for an evaluation, should be to find the best person available. And more important, I think, a message of not taking people from the organization is a terrible message about the quality of people you want to do evaluation. I mean, you want to grow people. And the ODE has been pretty effective at bringing new people in and growing people on evaluation. And you want to assure the staff that if someone really does rise to the level, that they'll have access to the top position. So I simply want to say that remains my view. And I think it's important that it's reflected very much in my experience in the bank. The best people I saw, and as I said, I did deal with them over a period where people that from within the bank who rose to the top position. So independence and evaluation is a topic people like to talk about, but I don't think it's a very sensible topic. I want to tell a couple of things about what I've seen happen during my time in ODE, because I think it's important. The first thing I want to talk about is really what I think has become a best practice, which was a little bit, it's a bit of a hidden gem, because it wasn't, we weren't aware of it quite frankly when we began. I'll say DFAT have always had a process of doing operational evaluations within the working staff of DFAT, and so they're not the big strategic evaluations that ODE tends to concentrate on. And about four years ago, in the discussions when this was discovered, a decision was made to actually do an evaluation of that work. And I have to say, it was some nervousness on the part of the committee about doing this, because no one knew exactly what to expect. There had not been any comprehensive review. And indeed, when the review was done, it was quite interesting, because what one found was actually an important resource of good evaluation. Certainly, I would argue that consistency is not the same with strategic evaluations, and not the same oversight, but there was a lot of good evaluation work being done by operational staff. And I think this is a message that really is important to give, that DFAT both has a capacity to do ODE evaluation, but also allows and supports staff in doing operation evaluations at the working level. So to me, it's a strong message about the commitment of the resources and time of the management of DFAT, and I think it should be complimented. There's been a recent review done again, more recently. Those reviews have resulted in suggestions to consolidate the work. And I think that's important, because I think that will lead to some improvements, because very often ODE is asked to help support that work, and it also has limited resources. The other thing that happened was in the first report, the discovery was that not many of these reports were available to the public. And we pushed transparency very hard in the 90C, and as a result of that, you're now seeing a record of actually getting these reports, not just completed, but they're also all being made available to the public. And I think that's an important additional asset for the discussion of evaluation in the region. My fourth point is a point that I think, I didn't realize as much as we began with, but actually ODE has played a key role in working with particularly the management division, the aid management division, on focusing on and ensuring about the quality of oversight of DFAT operations. So this wasn't in the original terms of reference, but it's interesting, we've had a very good, we've had a very good relationship with the management division, and when issues have arisen about quality, there's been good discussion between IEC and that group. So it's been an open and constructive relationship, and I'll just give you two specific examples, because I think they reflect the sort of work that is being done to reinforce and assure quality. The first one is, you know, AQC quality. These are the reviews of individual investments over $3 million. And so there's a regular process of ODE reviewing the quality of those reports and ensuring that they meet appropriate standards. When there are weaknesses seen, there's a discussion with the working level staff, and that work, I think, has provided important signals to management about the quality of staff, about the quality of the actual projects. Two years ago, two or three years ago, when some very modest changes were made in the instructions on AQCs, all of a sudden there was a dramatic improvement in project quality by at least the ratings. And so this was something both the APE Management Division and ODE worked on. And within a year, there was an ability to go back, review what the instructions were, and get, we felt, and the APE Management Division felt more accurate and more consistent represent performance. And so you had the one example of where I think the work actually made sure that the focus on quality remained high. Second example is a very new one. There's a new acronym, FAQCs. These are the final AQCs. And historically, the instruction in originally, and I'll say it in a de-fab, was the staff had a requirement once during the life of a project to do an independent review. And this was one instance where I'm afraid my biases from the World Bank came to the fore. And fortunately, Wendy, who was also involved in this, but who's also worked in the World Bank, had the same bias. That this didn't make a lot of sense. That what would be much more useful for management would be a review at the end of, an independent review at the end of the project cycle. So that at the end of the project cycle, management would have more consistent messages, both about where investments were successful, where they were not, and where there were problems either at the country level or the sector level. And I'm pleased to say that's now been accepted. And so I think these are now a part of the quality review function. And I'm hopeful that they'll contribute again to ensuring that there's accurate views of where portfolios stand, where there are problems and where there are successes as well. My next point is just to summarize a little bit. My view that a lot of excellent work has been done. And I'm talking now not about IEC work about the work that ODE has done. Both meeting the standards of delivery that were expected, ensuring that with strategic reviews that they're all made available, as well as other important pieces of publication that they do. And so I want to emphasize that, the role that IEC in this is actually fairly modest because all the real work is done by ODE and it's been a pleasure to be associated with that work. Just a couple of things which I remain very proud of. A lot of work has been done over the last couple of years on disability. And this has been a particularly hard area because there's not a lot of work in the outside world. And I think Australia has emerged as a leader in this area. And I think the evaluation both has underlined that point. But there's also began a struggle of trying to figure out how disability work can be better reflected in the eight projects that are done. So this is a work in progress, but I think it's been an important activity. As some people know, I'm an Africanist. I spent most of my back career working on Africa. And I think ODE should be very proud of the work that was done on the Horn of African, humanity crisis in 2011. And it's important not just because it was a good piece of evaluation, but I think it's sent an important message about the capacity within DFAT in terms of its global role. DFAT's not a big actor in the African community. It wasn't even a big actor in terms of amounts in dealing with that crisis and that food crisis. But some junior DFAT staff that were on site made the decision to get involved in the crisis in an active way and to work on a coordination. And in fact, from the analysis, and I think it's accurate, played a much more effective role in improving coordination in many of the longer time big actors in the food business in East Africa. And so I think it was a clear discovery of a capacity that Australia does have to both work effectively with other donors, but also to play above its weight in terms of its role on an important humanitarian issue. So I think it was a clear message there. Very proud of the first work that went completely through the process on Australian volunteers. We did have a discussion. It was the first document that was discussed. There was some criticisms and some sensitivities, but in the end, everybody felt better because it was given an award as an excellent piece of evaluation in the annual review. But I mean, I think there are two messages. He still doesn't agree. I think there are two messages. One, this issue of actually having these meetings with your comments and inputs I think is very important. Evaluation doesn't get this much attention more generally and actually I'll come back to that. The second point I was gonna make on documentation is that he doesn't only do strategic evaluations. They have a full range of other work that they do, both to monitor the work that's going on. They do regularly updates on evaluation policy to make sure people know what's going on. Policy notes come out and this review of past recommendations, I think, as I mentioned before, is an important aspect of the follow up on the learning. And finally, the spot check work which is done on AQC has been, I think, an important part of the overall quality function. I'll comment a little bit on the AAMU issue because I think that is another best practice. I mean, I'm a little bit surprised at your crowd today. There aren't many places that evaluation gets this level of attention. So I'm certainly pleasing to me to see that. Generally, attention falls very much on the sideline. And I think the AAMU defects interaction to put together these on a regular basis has been an important way of both sharing lessons from experience but also encouraging people to take a little bit more about evaluation. And as I said, it's been an opportunity to critique and to make suggestions about how reports can be improved. So I think all of those are important aspects and I wanna both express my appreciation for the AAMU that was done on that front but also really express my hope that this can continue to be built on and sustained because I think it's a somewhat unique. I haven't been able to find any other examples of where this sort of support has been given to evaluation in other areas. I would be dishonest if I didn't suggest some of the issues that I think still remain. These are issues that we spend time on so it's not gonna surprise anyone on the DFAT side. And they're really free. One is if you look at most of the evaluations somewhere it says they're qualitative evaluations. And the explanations are many but I worked at the World Bank. I was supposed to be an economist in the World Bank and I just think you gotta do more work on the quantitative side to produce credible evaluations. There are some evaluations that are good job on that. Some work was done on roads in Indonesia which I think was excellent work on evaluation putting in place rates of return. But this is an issue that we've raised often in the IEC meetings. In yesterday's meeting we had a discussion of one case where we think it's coming to fruition in terms of the evaluation of teacher training where it is gonna be an attempt to produce some real data so that judgments can be made about the impact of teacher training on the performance of students. And I just make the general observation that I think is an issue that has to be continuously pressed. Related to that is the issue of data. And I have to say here I contrast all the time in discussing data, macro data and sectoral data. The colleagues across the street from where I worked in Washington, the IMF have worked for now for over 75 years on improving the quality of macro data. They do it in every country. They acknowledge their countries with stronger weaker data but they retain that responsibility and so you have systematic and consistent macro data. It wouldn't weaknesses but it's there. When you go over to the non-financial, non-macroside, the data situation globally is a mess and it's a mess particularly in low income countries. So when you look at data sets and as I said I worked in Africa, you look in Africa, you look in the Pacific, you know what you see are blind spaces and what you see are spaces with footnotes which says the latest data 2013. And I think data is really important for policy work to make judgments about the impacts of policy, how things have changed. And I think the data issues and getting more data on the table is important. There's not only an evaluation issue, I think it's a broader issue in respect to analysis and how analysis is done and I'll come back to that. My third issue is if there's an area I'm a bit disappointed we haven't done as many country studies as I think should be done by the ODE. Country studies really represent that you give signals about a different unit of account in a project study and it's an important unit of account because I think once you draw lessons more broadly from project experience it can well help understanding where problems and issues are and it can provide an environment for discussions with not just the counterparts at the sector level but also the important counterparts at ministries of finance in prime minister's office to try to bring about broader reform in countries. So these are three areas we've talked about a lot. I think I can point to examples of where there's been progress but I think these are still a work in progress which certainly I expect IEC to continue to focus on in the future. And I'm sure with Wendy there that's going to happen. A couple of issues, I said I'd talk a couple of issues about broader concerns about, not concerns but issues that I see about DFAT, about the aid program. And it's a spiritual modest list because I don't consider myself an expert on DFAT or Australian aid but I've left a couple things I wanted to comment on. The first one is the level of aid and that's been an interesting issue during my tenure where I think I have sympathy with some of the criticisms about the declines but I have to make one positive observation before I come back to some of the concerns that have emerged as a result. The positive observation is just looking at it as a budget issue and how the budget issue was handled. I'm quite impressed with the way the cuts were handled. If you look at the first round of cuts those were largely handled by a sort of consolidation to focus on regional issues, focus on Asia and Pacific as well. And I thought that was a sensible way as a former budget person in the bank. I thought that was a sensible way to deal with that. The second cut was handled in a way that I was actually impressed with because as it was being discussed the one question I had is, does Indonesia get hit? Because Indonesia's had a long and important relationship with Australia. It's an important economy in the region but also Indonesia has gotten more prosperous and probably is less dependent on aid. So do you go down the road of simply endorsing past history or do you reflect the recent developments and actually force a cut in Indonesia and defect did force a cut on Indonesia? So I saw two cutbacks which given the decisions the actual budget allocations I was impressed with. At the same time I think there's been a cost to this and it's not the cost that people so often focus on in my view. The cost people focus on the macro numbers. We're giving some percentage of aid and it's reduced to another percentage. That is a cost certainly I don't disagree with that but out of the school that says development comes not just through money but also through policy change and so money alone doesn't impress me that much. But at the same time I think there have been real costs and I just want to underline from my experience a couple of them. You know the removal I feel personally the removal from Africa was a cost but I have a more subtle point I think more important to that. In my experience the government didn't always like it but I can point a hell of a lot of experiences where African challenges and Pacific challenges look alike and I think cutting off that experience has been done at some cost. For two reasons, one because you've got more countries and they're bigger in Africa and so you have a broader range of experiences which come to the table but also because I've just seen things that have happened in Africa that haven't happened yet in the Pacific and vice versa. But one of the things that I've seen in Africa everybody in the Pacific is talking about the private sector, the bigger role of the private sector. But one of these have happened in Africa that hasn't happened in the Pacific is there's a lot of private investment going into self-standing solar programs in rural areas which are totally self-standing, self-financing. And I've done some work in the last six months in the Pacific and nobody's doing that and there's still major challenges of delivering electricity in rural areas in the Pacific. And if the choice is between doing that through governments which already have financial constraints or being able to bring in a private sector to do it I think it's something that is actually important advice for the region. So that's one thing that I feel. The other is that you saw a significant reduction in Australian participation in global programs and global interventions. The one I know the most about is Australia expecting to become a major donor in the global education front and not essentially got precluded by the cuts. A final comment is a more general one that for a while Australia was getting a lot of attention and interest from the outside. And there were a lot of visits and maybe sometimes for the wrong reason maybe people were coming to see if they could tap into some of the additional funds. But the point is I saw much more activity of people coming in from the outside including said with a little embarrassment from the World Bank. But the point is being in place where there's noise and there's interest and there's enthusiasm and there's all the resources is not a bad place to be for working on development. So I think in all three of these areas I think there have been costs. And again it's not so much about the aggregate cuts it's just about the messages and what had to be dealt with as a consequence. My final comment, my final broad comment is about economics. You know I come from an institution that's well known to be dominated by economics but I have to say I am still consistently taken back by the limited economic skills in the Australian aid system. And it's important for the programs you're working on. I mean growth in the Pacific is the issue. If you can get growth I'm not one that's gonna argue every country's gonna be sustainable. But I think the right challenge is our government's working to do what they can do to improve their environment, their policies and their positions. And you know that challenge is a real one. And I think the need economists to work both on the growth issue but more generally on policy issues economists have a useful role to play. I'm saying this in spite of the fact that I think economists in my home country are there embarrassing themselves constantly with poor analysis and poor policy recommendations. But I hope we can be higher standards than that in the development field. And I do feel, I mean I've met with every chief economist since I started working on the Pacific in 2008. And everybody agrees we need more economists but it hasn't happened. I also think economists are a vital part of getting some of this work done on financial issues and on quantitative work to support the work on projects. And economists play an important role in that. So it's a message that I think everybody gets tired of me talking about. I always say where are the economists? I think there has been an effort certainly under the work program of Modi to ensure that when there's a case for economists that they are an important part of the team. But I just think it's more general that this is a shortage in the system. I have about six comments on the Pacific challenge to conclude as I said this is an area that I've been spending some time. When I went to work in East Asia I didn't think the bank was taking the Pacific very seriously. And so in that job I think I can say with a straight face that I certainly encourage more work there and more attention there. And I'll come to that because a lot more has happened since I was there than when I was there. So I want to be honest about that. But as I've emphasized I think the growth issue is key. Getting growth up in the Pacific is key. The slow growths of the past are not going to provide for the types and the levels of quality of life that people want to achieve. As related to this I think the private sector challenge is key. And here again I feel a very strong similarity between what I see in the Pacific and what I saw in Africa. Every government now is sensible enough to say that donors bias the private sector is important. Yes we're focusing on the private sector. And so what I do these days is actually I don't always push banker IFC work but I always go look at the doing business numbers. And you know a place like when they began in 2007, 2008, a little over 10 years ago Fiji was actually a pretty good performer. It was in the top 30. Today it's around 100. When you look at all the other countries in the region just like the countries in Africa they all fall in 100 plus or around 100. And what that shows I think are two things. One is the absolute performance isn't very good. But I think more important it's a message about relative performance and what's been done because you know the doing business stuff is not magic and it has to be always handled with some judgment and perspective. But what it does show is some countries move up and other countries move down. So you see relative performance where I think it's a fairly reliable guy. And you know a country in Africa who wanted it was you know in the high commitment hundreds you know is now in the top 30 because they've really worked hard on improving policies for the private sector and it's showing up on the roadside. So again, that linkage. My third point is to come back to the use of the the MDBs in particular the Asian Bank and the World Bank. And I have to compliment the government of Australia here. I think they've done a really good job of waking up the MDBs with respect to the Pacific and getting involved. Over the last five years, ADB support and ADB had a more traditional relationship. But ADB has doubled its support. The World Bank has tripled its support from a lower base than ADB. And so for the first time you really have credible engagement in the region by the two major MDBs. And so I'm hopeful that they can certainly play a role. They now have big offices in Sydney, big regional office in Suva, increasingly putting staff in individual countries to work with the countries under reforms. And I think that's an asset. And I give the Australian government enormous credit for this because certainly during my time I saw the emphasis that's obviously been sustained. If anything become more effective subsequent to my time. So I think it's an important aspect. One of the things that I see, it's hard to see from the region but I see as a comparative basis is when I was country director in 10ths of the year, Uganda, I had 30 donors out there. All of them had money. And you work in the Pacific and it's four or five donors. And of course you face sometimes the challenge, sometimes the asset of always being the biggest person in the room. So I think by engaging the MDBs it helps because they bring experience from outside but also because they're bringing funds. One of the things the World Bank has just done is made Fiji eligible for IDA for the first time. And I think that's gonna help increase the program that the bank can do in Fiji. Fourth point, capacity building. Certainly the center's doing a lot of this with respect to some of the neighboring countries. I'm a big fan of that. But I think more generally and I feel the same way about Africa, an enormous push was made in independence in these countries. And that generation is starting to leave. And these are some of the senior good people in these countries. And for a variety of reasons, I think there are challenges for the next generation that haven't been very effectively addressed by the international community. So I'm a big believer in trying to think through this issue. There's always frustration when people say, ah, we've done all of these scholarships. The two observations I always make is one, that you've gotta be more selective and identifying people. And two, I think the effort is too broad. I think we've gotta make a decision to focus on some key skills and make sure those skills are properly supported. And this gets people upset when I start discussing which areas, because I always begin with economists of course. But the point is that I think as I look at donor programs generally, they've treated low income countries in a way too often that you were trying to replicate capacity that existed in countries of much higher levels of income. And that dispersion has resulted in not so consistent capacity areas where you really do need capacity. And high level capacity deal effectively in today's world. So, as I said, I think capacity is still an issue. I have to highlight the work being done here on labor mobility. I think it's really important in the context of the global climate change and some of the other issues. The bank had done some early work on this largely with New Zealand and I think that it's been picked up particularly here is very important. Obviously climate change is a critical issue in the region. I was hopeful that new instruments were going to bring a lot of new resources. I was never one to believe these numbers of 100 billion a year. Those were completely fabricated numbers, basically counting anything anybody did on anything as support for climate change. I've been a little disappointed that the institutions haven't picked up as quickly as one would have hoped, but there clearly is additional resources. And what I find interesting is, you know, on the ADV and World Bank side, their view, which I think is the right view, is that if the institutional problems continue, they're prepared to scale up and use more of their resources on this because it's such a critical issue. Just a complete issue for the region. And finally, as I said, you know, I think this African story and the interactions and strengthening those debate, you know, some important contributions on both sides. You know, one of the strange things I found, you know, coming from Africa, you think of Africa as aided dependent. And when I joined the East Asia region and the bank, they produced all these briefing books, none of which I look at. But very shortly after I joined Bob Zellick, the president of the bank, was coming to Australia. He was coming to an APEC meeting. He had been involved in the formation of APEC. So I had this nostalgia. So I accompanied him and then, you're on the plane, it's a long ride. Once you read the briefing book, and I remember the exact number, which I thought had to be the state, that the average per capita assistance to the Pacific was $315. You know, I was a hero in East Africa if I raised $50 per capita, I mean, I was a hero. And so that was what, you know, made this impression on me very clearly. You know, it is an A-dependent region and there are some linkages that can be exploited. I'll conclude by making a couple of points. First of all, I thank Wendy and Steven who are my counterparts. Steven for the best four-year, Wendy from beginning. We've had a good relationship, everyone's still out. We are you, but we are for it. And we've always managed to give consistent messages. And I think their part of that has been key. And finally, I think OED, there are a lot of OED. I did it. This is an inside joke. For my first four years in IEC, I kept talking about OED instead of OED. OED? OED? OED? The Operations Evaluations Department in the World Bank. So I couldn't deal with it. But I could much better at that. Now I've screwed up, but I apologize. That's a public statement. But I wanna thank the work that's been going on. We've really had probably two or three generations now stay up in OED. And I think the quality has been sustained and built, I think, to work. And they, as I said, they do all the work with respect to the evaluations. We certainly are in a privileged position of being able to comment with Missouri. But I think, and I'm sure you can be thankful, that it has a very good group of people working on evaluation within the development side. And that group is given appropriate support within DFAT. So I've enjoyed my time. And I guess I'm available for questions or comments. It's very much for the gym, I'm sure the economists in the room are super happy. I'm very proud of the International Development Economics offerings at the Croppett School, if anyone wants to make a shift. So we do have a little amount of time for questions. So please do use the microphone though, because we are recording this session of DFAT Internet. So, any starter? Thanks for the talk. I was wondering how the World Bank deals with evaluations where you have a simple religion in this, but you have 15 programs, and all the programs are insurrated, and how do you evaluate this impact of the single program? And that's obviously a very difficult part of the question of wondering how the World Bank dealt with those issues. No, let's take a couple. Okay, we'll take a couple. Thank you. My question is about your seven-year summary of OBE work. What success in improving the quality of the M&E frameworks in individual programs, things like baselines, realism, attributions? Thank you, Jim. We miss you very much. I just wanted to ask you about a couple of things. First of all, do you have a comment about country ownership? Country ownership of the monitoring evaluation systems that belong to individual activities, but also country ownership when it comes to evaluation and what that role should be, what OBE's role should be relative to country ownership? And the other thing I'd like to hear your comments on is that Australia, if the local government is elected, is talking about an evaluated general office, that would exist as an independent office in the company and system, I wonder what your thoughts were about and evaluate the general? First to start with a question, particularly in the World Bank, I mean, the evaluation board is much bigger. So you're producing scores of reports, both at the strategic level, but also enormous amounts of the transaction level. The bank does, to make it related to the FAQ policy change that I talked about, the bank has every test manager complete in evaluation at the end of a project and then has a formal review by the independent evaluation group. So there's much more going on in the bank. It has to be both do things at the macro level and do more targeted evaluations in a way that I think is harder with the operational size of the fact. It doesn't have to make too many hard choices in that respect. The big choices, I mean, I think the one issue that we have a new director general and she's struggling with what the priority should be. I think the big question in the bank is evaluation move from a big focus on investments and quality of the program to a lot more focus on less focused discussions on bank procedures. And I think it's gonna be interesting to see how she reacts, but my suspicion is she's gonna go back to be a bit more traditional because you had IG commentating on sort of everything the bank management did. And the bank management, in my view, wasn't particularly impressed with that. So it has the capacity and it certainly does do both broader studies but also is able to do them and has a lot more flexibility than the effect to do that. M&E, well I'm gonna join M&E and the discussion on country ownership and because I have a somewhat eclectic view on this, it's not the view of most agencies including the World Bank. An enormous amount is spent on M&E in individual projects by all donors. And yet, the performance is not still including in Australia, including the World Bank. And I think I've discovered the reason for that and worked hard in the bank to convince people that I should be listened to or wasn't very successful. The point I made was in the end, the ownership is the key thing. And if you look at a minister or PS, why would they be interested in M&E for an individual bank project or an individual Austrian project? The issue is to get a broader management system and a broader data system actually works. And so the data thing that I talked about is part of it and it's getting more attention in the bank now because the bank sees these weaknesses and I think the whole issue of big data has put pressure on shouldn't development be thinking more about this than it has historically. So I've been a big believer in if you're interested in the ownership question, you should be developing government systems to monitor what's going on generally. And as part of that, yes, have some ability to do some granular work. But that's not where the money goes right now. The money goes, everybody tries to build projects just in the monitoring evaluation systems. I mean, you don't want to say the defense staff must spend hours and hours harassing their contractors. We need better data on the project. But I think it's a get the overall system going better. It's a weakness. So I have a view on that. It's not an accepted view. We certainly spend time and I can see talking about grooming data. It's an issue with management and it's certainly a concern of the management that it gets. But on that I'm afraid we'll see that the fat face is exactly the same problems that all the other donors do. And it's a very mixed record as it was. And as I said, I have a logical explanation for it but the traction of that explanation has not been very effective. Okay, evaluator general, it's interesting. During my seven years, certainly more than five times we've been called by other parts of the government to say, what are you doing? Why is it useful? We go to those meetings. We have interesting discussions. The conclusion I reach from that is that in order to evaluate general whatever you want to call this probably makes sense. Because right now, if you ask me honestly, the aid program is under a much more serious microscope than the rest of the government program that has emerged in these discussions I've had. Now, in hardly it's a function of aid generally has emphasized the role of evaluation more than most government programs and has strength and it has weaknesses. But I think it would probably be constructive that some other groups be subjected to this sort of discipline and other expenditure items that you have in the aid program. I also have to say that in DFAT experience you've got enormous support from the leadership of DFAT. And the concern that emerges in that is a concern to make sure that all the evaluation doesn't simply focus on aid. That there are other parts of DFAT that could also use some attention and focus in terms of evaluation. So I'm impressed at least within the ministry, at least with the secretary, there's a clear sense that she's giving this priority who wants to see better work in this area. Now I'm sure knowing diplomats as I do, you'll have long explanations of why you can't do evaluation, so we'll see. But my instincts are clever people could probably produce some interesting observations about what works and what doesn't. We do have time for another set of questions. Hi, thank you. And earlier on you mentioned the operational staff doing evaluations in DFAT. And I think you referred to it as a hidden gem in the department. What do you think are the relative strengths of operational areas doing, monitoring and evaluation work and specific evaluation areas doing that work? And if you were to build the ideal system, how would those two things be next? Jim, I just wanted to thank you on behalf of the AU for your engagement over the years and your contribution. I can still remember when you were announced, which I think was on the budget line. And of course we hope you'll still continue to visit and contribute to your time. But I just wanted to ask, you're probably the only person associated with the A program who's doing the same job now. Who were you in 2012? I just wanted to give you a good reflect on differences. You know, the means of bishops, but sort of government and of course from Aussage to DFAT. So any questions on that was good. You're engaged and I'm sure we'll interest us. Thank you, Kim, we're a new kind of Indigenous affairs. We've been very lucky to be able to follow in the work of your experience because you are a leader in the approach and the ODE takes I think in the Canberra Public Service. So it's been really inspiring to see how you've done what you've done with the community. I wanted to just pick up on the issue of independence that you mentioned and you focused I think on the independence of the head of ODE. And I wondered if there were other aspects of independence versus fully that you were going to elaborate on reflection. Because I think there's a lot more to it in terms of the independence, which is used as a flag I guess for something that's high quality and expertise in an independent external evaluator. But I don't think the world is quite that simple and I think everyone is subject to various forces which make us do whatever we do. So I think there are lots of risks on the side. So Mike, do you have any reflections on that? I'll talk about the positive side of independence and get away with some of these narrow ideas because I agree with that. Let me start our self-evaluation. You know, I'm a big believer in self-evaluation because there's one way to ensure more direct learning that people actually do the work. So in that sense, I think the operational work is very good. Within DFAT, it's often an interaction with ODE staff. And so you do have an interaction. They reach out to ODE for help. And so I think it's quite a constructive, quite a healthy piece of the evaluation puzzle, which as I said, was not really elaborating on or explained when we started doing this. You always have to make choices and you still have to deliver your broader strategic program. And so there are constraints. My instinct, but if I was asked where I would put more money now is I think DFAT has to be better at ensuring that the lessons that are learned are more broadly disseminated across staff. And it's a tough issue because it means taking staff and I'll actually come back to this on Steve's question because I do have some views on what's happened as a result of the change. So I just think you gotta encourage self-evaluation. What you gotta recognize, it can't be all self-evaluation because you do want someone to be over people's shoulders. You need a mix. And I think DFAT in the presence of this situation has a very nice mix. Now, Steve's asked a hard question, which is what I would have expected. I'll say one thing where I agree with Richard Moore's analysis. The government has a focus on reducing the number of staff in the bureaucracy. And this is pretty common now in these countries these days. And I think there's an issue there with respect to the aid side because in the end you had an organization focusing exclusively on aid and the delivery of aid. It's been absorbed in another organization and you both reduce size and you put the staff in a situation where if you're a reasonably ambitious young person, do you wanna do the aid route which is now a smaller piece of the puzzle or do you wanna do a more traditional development route? So I worry what's happening. Richard talked about this, is that there's a movement of resources in an overall more constrained situation which means less resources are going to the aid program. So I worry about that because first of all, it's a different business. And interestingly, it involves a lot more resources. I mean, when the reorganization first happened, I figured I better take a look at what this DFAT is about. And DFAT's main resource issues are about maintaining the quality of embassies and the security of staff. That's a very different business from trying to do development to cross Pacific and particularly of trying to do it in the Pacific. So I think that's challenge. And I think that's the big one. And I hear the rumors of what different people were saying and doing about aid. So I'll leave that to you in terms of those discussions. But I hope there's an ability to do serious analysis of that issue so that there's a confidence that the staff will be included in place to properly oversee the program. I've had to learn a lot because it's a very different system than the World Bank. And the World Bank, we make the governments do the projects. Now, the consequence of that is that I think you're better on the policy side, a little bit better on the Basque building, but everything takes a lot longer. You know, it's sort of a quiet secret that ADB and the Bank take longer to do things than most bilaterals. Because bilaterals traditionally use the Americans and the Australians have a model and heavily focuses on bringing contractors to it. So I can do a long speech on the relative strengths of weaknesses. I won't. But in that piece that they're doing, you've got to have the capacity to oversee contractors. And I will say that Australia nicely complements technical assistance to that work so it doesn't take no more working with the bar and strengthening the borrower. But again, that takes time and resources. And if those resources aren't there, the capacity thing is probably the first thing that will slip. The next thing will slip as the analytic work that's done. And in the end, you'll still be doing projects, but they won't be as effective. And you won't be dealing with what I think are the key issues, the underlying policy issues. So you can leave all of those to the World Bank and the ADB, but I don't think that's a good strategy. I think you have some advantages in working in the region that are important and should be exploited. Now, I was tough on independence because I was caricaturing what so many people talk about. But on a small line, you want independent people. You don't want people to come in the room and feeling they have an obligation either to the bosses or to someone else. And it's a tough issue. I can honestly say we've never had anything edited. We've never been told we have to change anything in the analysis we've done. It's been done by the ADB, but they are members of DFAT. I recognize that at times it's going to make them think about some of the judgment and issues. But I think it's of course pretty high on the independence front. I've seen no problem of management interference or management questioning of what was done. And I think most likely that the work that emerged on equality issues emerged sort of quietly and effectively. We were not kept out of the problem. We raised an issue, people invited us in and said, we're worried about this issue as well. Do you have any suggestions? So I feel the independence is pretty robust factor in DFAT. And I always say, you get so independent. I mean, this is the story of what the UK did. Actually, just as I was coming to head IDC, the UK essentially threw out the IDC model and went and set up a very small group of people that were part-time, they were going to oversee consultants doing work. And so I was asked in the early discussions with, when it was still on stage, should we be thinking about that? And my reaction was very strong. I said, look, this is going to be disaster. I said, what's going to happen is consultants are going to think it's their job to criticize DFAT, which they're good consultants in the UK. So they'll do that. DFAT will then have no choice, but not be constructive in response, but fight like they'll approve those observations wrong. And that's exactly what happened. Now, interestingly, the woman who's now head of the IDG went over to that group and actually really changed the incentives and got away from the model of using outside consultants but had a model which much more liked what DFAT is using. And so she was able to turn the program around, but it goes to the point that you could push independence to a point that you're dysfunctional in terms of actually working within the system. And as I said, I have no fear of that particular problem, given my experience, though, that's something. Wonderful. I think we will have to go up to a close then. I just want to say a few quick thank yous. I want to thank half the leads of the Office of Development and Effectiveness for partnering with us again on this event. It's a great opportunity for us to bring you and have you take on Australian aid. I would also just like that we had a look up this week by Rob Christie from ODE on performance culture on Australian aid. So if you haven't read that, we'd like a deep wrap to take. I'm sure we can wrap it today. Do check out the blog at deadpolicy.org. It will definitely be helpful. I'm going to see more events together with ODE on so past pesky tech up here it is. But most of all, I would like to thank Jim, who, as Steven noted, has come to the centre many, many times over the years. I've been at the centre six years, so you're probably coming a little bit more than me, but you're definitely one of the visitors that we really look forward to welcoming on, you know, once or twice a year and seeing you and hearing your perspective. So please do join me in thanking him and wishing him the best on his next visit. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHxnIIVrdw", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCQUPI1PxfE4-bqwuI26I2HA	Bocoup On Air - D3 & D3.chart	Bocoupers Mike Pennisi and Irene Ros talk about D3.js and their latest collaboration, D3.chart, a tool for making reusable and extensible charts. Learn more at http://weblog.bocoup.com and http://misoproject.com/d3-chart	[ "Hangouts On Air", "javascript", "data visualization", "D3.js", "Bocoup", "Open Source" ]	2013-06-19T18:52:26	2024-04-23T02:38:13	2,675	pc3KWhu6o6M	I just want to, I just want to. Oh, it's live! Yay! Okay, it says broadcast on AIR's live. Welcome everyone to the latest, newest Boku on AIR. Today, our special guests are Irene, Rose, and Mike Panini. Hello. Hello. So, guys, what are we talking about today? Bananas, for sure. Yeah. Because they're pretty ready. And D3Chart. Yeah. So, D3Chart is a library that we released a couple weeks ago that sits on top of the JavaScript library D3JS, which is a library for creating visualizations in the browser. Yeah. And when we wrote D3Chart, it was because we've been writing a lot of charts in D3 and we found that we were either duplicating content or copy and pasting things and we're big fans of the sharing patterns that the D3 community established with things like blocks. But we really wanted to think of a way to integrate some other patterns into creating reusable charts and providing a framework that will allow people to do that more automatically. Yeah. So, yeah, blocks is pretty, blocks is really good and the creator of D3JS, Mike Bostock, has done a lot of work making, kind of developing a good ecosystem for his libraries where people can share their work and kind of surface it in a way that's much more tangible than just writing a letter chart. So, there's, when we mentioned blocks, we're talking about the service that he's created where you take your code that's in a, what's called a GitHub gist or their code snippets on GitHub and they usually comprise graphs of some sort or charts or graphs or visualizations really of any kind and generally that service, that GitHub gist services there just to share code and so with blocks, you can feed it in the URL of an arbitrary gist and it will generate a page. So, instead of looking at the code for a chart, you're looking at the actual chart on the browser. It's been incredibly useful for D3 because there are just so many wonderful APIs that aren't always easy to understand and so through the use of these examples, I feel like D3JS managed to really grow the community that's been working with it. There were a couple of questions actually I think about the, about the library on Google. I'm just going to pull them up and ask, and I guess I'll take this opportunity too to let you guys know that if you have questions as you're watching, you can ask on either the Google Plus page or also in our IRC network channel, what is it, it's pre-node and we are hashtag Voku. So, if you have questions for me, you might pop them there I suppose. But one question came from Mike Wolfgang, you guys know Wolfgang. He is asking about how D3Chart can help maintain data integrity while respecting memory support. So, maybe I'll throw that out there for you guys. I think that's a really important question test right now and actually the next release of D3Chart, which I'm super excited about, tackles this problem. And maybe I'll let Mike talk about how, but I'll just kind of talk a little bit about the general problem of when you write a reusable chart, presumably you don't really want to rely on your data being, you know, in a certain format necessarily. So, if let's say you have a bar chart, you want to be able to visualize, you know, data when it's called, when the property is called value versus when it's called number or whatnot, right, you really don't want to have to change the underlying code of the chart to be able to make that change. And so, that's been kind of an issue that came up as soon as people started writing these charts, including ourselves with D3Chart of how it is to tackle that problem. And one awesome thing that came out of the solution that Mike worked on is the data integrity question. Sure, yeah. So, just backing up a little bit, the whole, I guess the whole mindset behind having D3Chart as a library is just to better facilitate people being able to separate out the definition of a visualization or specifically the chart and the use of that chart so that other people can reuse it. And so, we did a lot of work making it so that you can kind of extend the chart and repurpose it however you want and kind of mix and match different charts. But, yeah, almost immediately after we released it, this point was raised about, as Irene was saying, the shape of your data. And so, you can read through the issue on our, on the GitHub project page. So, if you go to the GitHub.com slash Miso project slash D3.chart, then you'll be able to go to the issues and you'll see that a few weeks ago, again, Tom opened an issue about this very problem. And so, we had this very long discussion where I posted way, way too long comments about like all my, well, all the different concerns we have among them like Wolfgang's recognizing is the integrity of the data. Because what happens is that if you want to support this, this problem, or this use case, where your, a chart should be in, be able to vary independently of the kind of data you pass it. So, just like Irene was saying, just because I make my bar chart work on the value attribute, shouldn't be there, one has to change their data around so that it matches my expectations. There's a number of ways that you can support that. And depending on how you do it, you will be very CPU intensive, a very numbering intensive. And so, if you read through that issue, you can see kind of us hashing out the different solutions and the different approaches. So, what we've, what we decided on was using data attributes. And that, like Irene was saying, is coming out in version 0.2 soon, you know. But in ES5 or ECMAScript 5 supporting environments, we'll use getters. So, that basically it allows the chart consumer, the person that's actually displaying the chart to define the shape of their data. So, that doesn't matter however with the chart was defined and how, what its expectations are for the data. Is, when you consume the chart, you say, this is what my data is shaped like. And what we do is, we support basically at runtime making that translation, so that we don't have full copying of the data. We also don't modify the data in place. So, we maintain their integrity. Right. So, basically for every data point that comes through, we'll only take the attributes that the chart creator defined are necessary and allow you to basically then provide a mapping for us. And we're only going to give you the data point that has those required attributes. So, that if you have to modify them, put them through the three layout, attach new properties to them, you can go crazy and they will be modified. And that's really convenient because if you think about it, you might have multiple charts in D3. They're all based on the same data that might all have to go through a layout. So, for example, if you put them through a treat map layout, that puts X and Y values on your data points. But then you might put them through a whole different layout, right, like maybe a graph of some kind. And those also need to be set the same attribute. And so, it's kind of an added benefit that, you know, came out of this approach in that you can put the same data set in all these different reusable charts, and they won't modify that original data. And then just then to follow backs for older environments that aren't up to the latest standards or even like not really the latest anymore. But basically in IE8, we're working on supporting this without where you don't necessarily have these ES5 features like custom getters or custom accessors. And so in those cases, if you do want your charts to run IE8, then we do end up doing more of a copying operation because it's not really a clean review otherwise. But if you want to see that, I have an open pull request that I'm still adding stuff to that you can check out the kind of implementation that falls back in environments that don't support specifically object.define property. And we'd really love some feedback on this approach. It's part of why it hasn't been merged in yet. We're finishing it up, but also are trying it out and seeing how it fits because it is a pretty big change and we want to do it early so that chart creators can integrate that into their charts in the future. But it's also a pretty big change. And so we really love your feedback. So we love feedback on all our libraries and our code. So definitely get in touch with us if you have any thoughts. Guys, there were also a couple of questions that we could pull up about to go into the sidetrack conversation. But I guess to conclude the sidetrack conversation. Joseph had, let's see, I'll show you me. Hi, Joseph. I was curious to hear your thoughts on DC and JS and the potential to extend N2D3 charts to replicators in that library. No, they are not. You weren't immediately familiar with DC, JS, but dimensional charting library. How is DC charting to work with other tools out there? So I've seen DCJS and unfortunately, I haven't used it. So it's hard for me to speak exactly to its structure. But the general patterns in DC chart are such that it's really more of an organizational framework for the way that D3 already has you write your charts. It really just identifies certain patterns that are pretty common when you write straight up DC code and breaks it up into more local pieces that also then afford you things like extensibility or modularity and so on. And so as far as, you know, as far as we think of anything that you can do with D3, you can basically layer D3 chart on top and then use some of these other frameworks that I've played around with using D3 chart with 2JS, which is a new library that came out that has a certain primitive rendering functions that can proxy to both SVG and Canvas. So I've been kind of just trying some stuff out. But then it, you know, it works pretty great because D3 chart is really small. It doesn't end up adding so much, you know, that, you know, you can't sort of add kind of your own layer on top of it. But I don't know, what do you think, Mike? So it is 2JS? Does that work on top of D3? No, it's completely separate. But you've used D3 chart with 2JS? Yeah, I was just I was just amused with seeing if I could do some joint rendering. I mean, it's not ideal. It's still probably do it in D3. Because the things that I was doing is it's just so much easier to do SVG. But you can definitely. And I've seen people do interesting things with Canvas with D3. So I definitely want to try and do a Canvas based library chart with D3 chart. D3 chart chart. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I always I kind of thought that D3 chart was kind of heavily relying on D3. Oh, it still is. It has to be like you have to have D3 defined. So it fixes the D3 namespace as D3.chart. Yeah. And I'm not sure how I'd use it. I'd love D3 scales. I just every chart I've ever written now has to have a D3 scale, even if it's not a D3 chart, because they're so useful. So where's that? Yeah. Yeah. So for me, like most of the most of the valuing in D3 chart comes from its use explicitly D3 is we're trying to we just try to define API on top of D3 that kind of recognizes the common operations you do when you're making a chart and makes them more, I guess, repeatable. And so used on its own or with other libraries, I guess I mean, you can say that it's it brings something to the table. Yeah, I mean, it's still preferred to just use I mean, I don't have to use SVG, for example, it's just as easy to render things with the DOM, right? If you're building a tree map, for example, you're just painting a bunch of divs, you can absolutely position them and, you know, use the same XY values as style properties. And you have your tree map. That's an example of using a different render me still uses D3. So you could do that. Yeah, I mean, it does end up breaking the mold a little bit. And I do think that D3 chart is best suited when you're using it with straight up D3. But so for example, I'm, I'm working on a base from which I will then build my charts. So I have a D3 chart base, which is really just random things that I find, I, you know, kind of have patterns for and then basically, every time I build a new D3 chart, I can extend that base. Instead of, you know, copying and pasting it, for example, so I can see that becoming maybe a pattern for someone who wants to write something on top of D3 chart, like a collection of actual charts, right? Because D3 chart is not a chart collection library, or library charts, right? It's a framework for creating charts. Yeah. So there are no, there are no charts. There are no charts. I mean, people make charts, which is awesome. We list those on the site. If you go to me so project comm slash D3 dash chart slash charts, that HTML, you will see both the way for you to submit your chart, then also a listing of your chart. Could it be D3 dot chart? No, I couldn't. Yeah, just wasn't. It was looking for file called D3 that chart. Oh, yeah. So there's a dash in there. What do you use to certify? GitHub. Just the GH pages. It doesn't support dots in the file. I don't know. We should, we should investigate. We'll investigate. I mean, why don't we go right now? This is the perfect time. Yeah, guys, do you mind? Yeah, well, this bumble around GitHub pages for a while. When you get it, that looks good. Yeah, good job. Yeah. Yeah. So there are some. Yeah. So Josiah was asking if you guys were discussing the whole set of data watch cycle events, which I'm sure we can talk about this. It's kind of a secret. I'd rather not say it's very no, it's not that all of you. It's very personal. And I don't feel like only family and really close friends. But I talked about the life cycle events with it. Well, I guess we're all we're all family. Yeah, okay. We're the open web family. Okay. This is where we don't really hug. But now right now, because there are the nanocomps. Well, I like it there. Okay, fine. Whatever. I'm not going to tell you how to live. All right. D three dot char, right? Yes. Alright. Life cycle. Life cycle events. So what we recognize is that baseball, basically, we gave we gave this name life cycle best to a like common operation D three, whenever you're making visualizations. And that basically, you D three has this method called data. And this is the way by which you kind of bind your data to the nodes that you're generating. And again, because D three works over SVG and also overdone, we won't get more specific as to what kind of notes they are, they might be, you know, rex, they might be dense or whatever. But generally speaking, whenever you go to draw your chart, you, you feed it some data, and you end up calling this dot data method passing the data. And then that generates a different kind of a different kind of selection. So if you're used to work with jQuery, your use, you might be used to the idea of generally selecting elements from the DOM. Or if you're just used to working with DOM APIs, it could be as easy as, you know, document dot, get elements by class name, or might be document dot query selector off, or it could be in jQuery, dollar sign, div. And all these are different ways of different on a context of making selections of things that are in the DOM. And so generally, like you can have a static kind of selection, and you just use D three dot select, and then you pass it a selector. And so that works a lot like these are the methods I mentioned. But then when you have them data bound, things start to get a little bit a little bit more complex. Because in that case, D three starts to recognize that there when you bind things to data, there are some elements that well, it needs to create some elements. If there's new data coming in. So imagine you have a bar chart, when you first start off, you pass it like four numbers. And so it needs to create four will say, wrecked SVG wrecked elements for each one of those pieces of data. And then that it can do, you know, whatever you tell it to you to make them the right heights, they all represent the data. But then if you really do call dry, again, maybe what you want to do is instead of deleting all those things, and then doing four, or in whole new ones, or five new ones, you might want to just update the ones that are there, and maybe add a fifth one, if there's more data, and then maybe even remove the last one, if you've moved your data set. So basically, it's not just, it's not just for efficiency, although it is more efficient than tearing down the whole structure and rebuilding the end. But it's also so you have constant scenes that you can kind of animate things to change. Because if this if this slice of the bar chart represents the same data and that data is just shifted, then usually in your visualization, you want to see the same thing happen with the actual thing that's painted on the screen. And so when you make these selections with D3, it can be confusing because you'll have a selection that represents things that aren't actually there yet, because you have these entering nodes that, because you have new data in, but you haven't actually appended them to your container yet. And then you also have xing nodes, so you can make a different selection that describes all the elements that used to be bound to data no longer are bound. And then you also have these, then if it's neither one of those things, and they're considered updating. And so in those cases it's because the data isn't new, but it's changed or shifted positions. So working with D3 directly lets you do a lot of things with these different kind of selections, but it can be confusing to do that directly. And also it can lead to extensibility problems. Because it's not clear for other developers, when you set up your whole chain of like do this with the nodes that are just coming in and do this with the nodes that are updating, and do this other thing with the nodes that are leaving, all that ends up usually kind of sprawl out in one big function, and they're all chained together, and you're not sure where you're modifying. So what D3 chart attempts to do is to make those selections feel more like events. So even though they are just selections that generally happen once every time you draw, it kind of makes sense to think of them as events and we adopted the API from jQuery of binding to them like they're events. And so what this means is that you don't have to, as the producer of a chart, you don't have to worry about making these special selections for these of the elements that are entering, these are the ones that are updating, these are the ones that are exiting. Because we recognize the general structure, the repeated pattern through making a bunch of different kinds of charts, we were able to encapsulate that onto the library. So it does it for you, and instead it exposes these events, so that as a chart author, you're able to look into the events and say, okay, I have a chart, and whenever anyone calls draw and passes a data, this is the stuff that I want to happen and want to have happen for the new ones, and this is the stuff that I want to have happen for the updated ones, and this is the stuff that I want to have happening through the exiting ones. And this makes it a lot easier for people to write the charts because they don't have to repeat that kind of logic. It makes a lot easier for other people to read the charts, and also to modify them, because it's much clearer instead of, like I said, this long function that does all those things. You have more discrete functions that are targeted at doing those different behaviors for different parts of the events. And then finally, it makes it easier for people to extend the charts because they can say, well, okay, I have this chart that someone else has defined that says what should happen in a bar chart when something comes in. And I think that, in addition to how this bar chart works, when new data comes in, I also wanted to do something else. And so this is a way that people can do that kind of programmatically without having to download the source code and open up in the text editor and change around the code. They can just programmatically say use that chart, but also add this additional functionality. Yeah. So we have actually four basic events in D3 chart. We have the Enter, which is what happens to brand new data points that are coming in and new nodes are going to be created for. We have Update, which is what's going to happen to data points that have been updated. So there are already elements drawn for them. Then there's Exit, which is what's going to happen to data points that have left and the elements that now need to either leave or fade or however you want to react to them. Then we have a fourth one called Merge, which is not actually one that's an official D3 life cycle event, but we realize exists because what happens is first you basically execute whatever you want to do to the updating nodes. And then you do, and so you have that selection of elements. Those get updated and then you have things that you want to do to your brand new nodes, which is the entering nodes. And the moment you're done with those things, those basically become one. And now you can react to all of them in this merge event, which is pretty handy. So if you want to highlight updating versus new, then you want to do something to all of them together, which is basically everything on stage that has an Exit event. So that's a pretty useful one. And then you can also bind, the other thing that's neat is you can bind not just to those events, but you can actually bind to those events, the transitions of those events. So for example, if you have let's say a layer, we should talk about layers too. We'll do that in a bit. If you have let's say a bunch of rectangles and they represent your bar chart, and then on entering, you want to paint them green, well you can either define what should happen on an enter event, and just set the style fill to green, or you can actually bind to the enter colon transition, and you again do the exact same thing, you just say the style attribute to green, except it's actually going to animate. Because what we're passing in instead is actually the the transition call on that selection. So that's kind of neat because you it's really easy to animate some of those properties pretty quickly. Yeah, Tom had a couple of questions actually, and I guess I'll ask his second question first because it seems more relevant. He was curious if there was a built-in way. He asked the first question first. He did ask the first question first. I'm inverting this. You know better than Tom about this question. Listen, I'm not the emcee. I'll let you do your job, and I'll do mine. Yeah, sorry Tom. Thank you. It would be different if I won't check. Anyway, Tom would like to know if there's a built-in way to redraw a chart with the same data that was last passed to him. To redraw a chart with the same data that was last passed to him. So I don't think he's about a question. Was there like a proceeding question that might have given you a question? Oh, okay. So this is actually a common problem that we've thought about, and it actually comes up very frequently. If you want to make a chart that has, let's say, getters and setters that maybe modify its dimensions, for example. So let's say you've drawn a bar chart and you're making your site responsive in some form and you want to respond to a screen shrinking by shrinking your chart. What you want to do is then just have that chart redrawn that smaller space. And so a common pattern, and this isn't something that's built in, is that when you get your data, so the way that you even render anything is through this construct we call layers. And layers is just a way to aggregate elements that are logically connected and are going to be rendering themselves based on data. So in a bar chart, it may be rectangles, we may call them bars. In a pie chart, they may be pie slices, right? You know, however you want to call them. You might have multiples of them, you might have one. But when you define one of those, you basically pass it three things. You pass it what's called a data bind. You define a function on a property called data bind. And that takes in, that function takes in the data. That's the only place really where in your chart you're going to get to interface with the data. And that's the data that comes in directly from when you call that draw on the chart that you instantiated as a user. And so a common pattern there is to basically save that data onto a property of the chart. So maybe, you know, chart that data equals data and whatnot. And then inside of some of those gathering centers that could maybe modify the dimensions and so on, you just call this that draw with whatever saved on the data. It's not something that we've built in by default because we're not sure yet that this is the common and expected behavior, especially since we're not providing by default some of those gathers and centers. But we're very curious to see what patterns people will come up with to solve that problem. Yeah. Yeah, because right now basically a chart as defined really doesn't hold any references to your data. It kind of just passes it through transparently. And once you're done drawing, it doesn't care anymore. So it's basically your data comes in to draw when you call it and then it goes out again. And so we've we've thought about supporting like a redraw method or something like that that explicitly didn't take a an argument that date argument and just reuse the last one. That's kind of a more of a leap than we want to take just now such an early stage where we're kind of getting into the space of kind of managing your data on 40. So for now, this is something that's you can do is just takes a little bit of extra work you like I've been saying is just save a reference in in your data by method. And then you can define your own redraw method if you want. It just that just calls from the last the last value of the data. Well, well, I'm talking to say that that's right exactly because this case. So whoo, whoo, go you mine readers slash question readers plus plus one to the banana on the right. Plus one. But the second question, which was actually his first question is whether it's possible to refer to the super implementation of a method within an overriding information. So it. Yes. But it's named Dunder super double underscore super. We're not sure if that's if that's how we want to support that just. So for now we're kind of we kind of just we have it because it is we're using slightly a modified version of Backbone.js, the MVC framework. We're using a modified version of its extent method. And that's essentially if you look at their extent, that's exactly how they track that. And while that one doesn't actually use the double underscore super property, it just kind of keeps it. For all reasons for coffee script support, just odd. Yeah, if you want to hear a feel of being a troll, you can even open the issue saying, you know, let's get rid of this. But. But for us, we actually do use it because specifically for initialize. So every chart that's defined the three dot chart may optionally define initialize function. And this is again kind of a back bone ism, which is basically basically like a constructor that's that that works in terms of our kind of inheritance pattern that again comes from back in JS. So if you define initialize, then that code will be run whatever you you whatever you create a new instance of whatever chart. But in addition, if your chart happens to extend some other chart, that chart's initialize method. And so forth up the chain. So if that chart happened to be extended from a different chart, now it will be called and they'll be called actually in reverse order. So the oldest or the highest or the great great grandfather charts initialize is going to be called first and then on down until you're initialize is called. And so that that that behavior exists specifically for initialize because initialize is such an important method for creating instances of charts. And it's also one of the only methods that that may be shared by all the charts. And so if you were to realistically extend it, you generally depend on the logic that your base chart has put in initialize. And so. So what we're talking about right now, though, is is is kind of surfacing that suit that super property so that you're able to do the same thing with any with any arbitrary method. And that allowing that tends to tends to couple charts and also, well, it can be it can be it can be things more difficult to reason about. So for the time being, if a chart if a chart you're using defines a method that you also want to use, then I would recommend just meaning in your method is something different. So you don't essentially shadow the implementation of the method you want to call. And so that way your extended chart will define both these methods. But like I'm saying, we really kind of feedback. So hearing about use cases for this like super functionality really. Yeah, and it's a lot more unclear with methods that are not initialized, whether the intention was to go off the chain or that the intention is to override, right, which is why you know things like super exist in other languages, which allow you explicitly to indicate that within your chart if you want to. And so, you know, we're really curious to see if it's going to work out, if it's going to work that way, if it's going to become necessary, since we are already supporting, you know, just by doing that initialize the chain effectively much more than you normally get by just using standard extending and JavaScript. So I want just to worry. Right. And yeah, and just doing it automatically is you don't have to worry about it yourself. It's done for you. Right. This would probably be a great time to remind folks that, like, if they're implementing your chart and running into issues or patterns, it should be like letting us know in the book who IRC channels because we check out all the people. We're always there. Always there. Never leave. It's really weird. Yeah. It's been here for a hundred and thirty two days. Where else should they go to Irene, like, if they want to document some stuff because. Sure. Well, we have a lot of documentation for D3 chart and it's constantly growing. So the Wiki is very detailed and we've been putting a lot of content into it. Also, the ISO project website has an entire section dedicated D3 chart. And every time that someone runs into it would be like a tricky thing or maybe a certain pattern they've established, I try to write like a little tutorial for it. They're not really, you know, tutorials in the sense of what we're going to build something together, but they are effectively concepts because we're trying to avoid the case where, you know, if here's an API and you don't really know how to use it, we're just kind of want to tell you exactly how. You can use some of those things. So if there's, you know, maybe something that's unclear, definitely let us know and we'll be right about it or if it's a bigger question, you know, we write a lot on the book who blog. So if you haven't read every single one of Mike's posts, you really should because they're amazing and I love to read them twice or three times even. So we'd love to write, you know, more about it. So whenever people struggle with stuff, it gives us, you know, kind of impetus to keep going. So that's one. You can always ping us on Twitter, you know, we're pretty reachable that way. Yeah, you can call us. You can stalk us and show the house. Their phone numbers are 555. I would prefer no one stopped us. OK. That would be helpful for me. And just, just, oh, I'm I mean, mentioned the wiki and just to be a little more explicit, the wiki right is hosted on GitHub. And so if you go to github.com slash miso project slash d3.chart, you'll find the wiki there. And so that that wiki is also open, open to edits. So like most like any good wiki so that if you find a typo or something that's flamely, flamely long or maybe, you know, maybe you're just having a bad day and you just want to get some aggression out. You can edit and change things. We need more cats. Yeah, I don't know that our wiki has any cats. I don't know what the right number of cats are. Please don't put cats. Or, OK, you put one. Tasteful. Tasteful. One tasteful cat. One tasteful cat. Which one? It's not being so prescriptive. It might be two. But it needs to be tasteful. I don't care about numbers. They all have to be one photo, all the cats. All the tasteful. And of course, issues. I should also say that we love, like for us, issues aren't just, hey, we found a bug in G3 chart. For us, it's also a way to ask questions about how to do something and, you know, or if we want to ask for a feature or if something's confusing. Like that's really important payback for us because, you know, we've been so in it for so long. You know, we've been effectively trying to come up with the right answer for this problem for like close to a year, literally, since after MISA dataset was released, we started thinking about the problem and then eventually, you know, I had the privilege of having Mike join me and come up with amazing solutions to do it much better than what we're thinking about. So it's really exciting that it means that we've been thinking about this for a really long time. So fresh eyes are super useful. So I think we've been chatting for some time now. And there's like one question that's somewhat serious, but we'll see a softball. Do I need to take the banana costumes off? No. That's the second thing that we're going to have to address. And, you know, apparently there are some who don't appreciate the important role that the banana costumes really have played. Oh, do you know how to kick people from IRC? Yeah, let me just do the IRC. Tim, Brandon, you're done for money. Yeah. Love you, Tim. I want the softball question. Yeah. Do you want that one? Yeah. Oh, there. That one comes from Adam Highland and his question is whether you guys can either one of you have a cool, clever Nixon afford that you're supposed to. I've made a couple of fun ones that had, you know, it's really easy to add zoom behavior to D3. And I recently had to do it with a couple of charts and realized that that code was like super similar. And so I'm separating that into a mix-in. And then there's also been some tool to, I also wrote a quick tool to thing that I want to try and make a mix-in, because that's super useful. Tool tips. So I always throw those on stuff. So I'll probably have that as a mix-in out pretty soon. It's probably... Yeah. I have no practical experience with D3 charts. Basically, I just I sit in my ivory tower and I think about new features that the user might want and then I code them up and I really have lost touch with that. And then I make them feel bad for a while. Then I come out with demand. That's true. Like a jerk. Like a jerk. We have an awesome work. Like a... Like an awesome jerk. Like an awesome jerk. I'll take it. But yeah, if you guys want any mix-ins that would be useful to you, let us know. Five bucks. Five bucks. No. No. That's what open source is. Give you five bucks. No, I'm kidding. Five bucks. Four or five dollar donations. We haven't talked about mix-ins explicitly. So I'll say really quickly that mix-ins are a separate kind of take-on code sharing. So we've talked about inheritance and how you can define one chart in terms of another chart. So you take your tree diagrams and you make your terrible tree diagram. It just basically takes the same tree diagram and it makes everything black and you can't read anything or something. And so that's basically you're defining one chart in your extension. So that's why we call it extensions. But then mix-ins are more of a composition of multiple charts. And so basically you can define a chart in terms of many different charts. And so what this is useful for is if you want to make a chart from components that aren't necessarily charts in and of themselves. So in D3Chart, D3Chart's API still makes a lot of sense for defining a quote-unquote chart that's really nothing more than say like labels. And then maybe it's really nothing more than boxes. Maybe that one's nothing more than axes and axes. And so you can use the mix-ins to say, okay I found like these really cool components that in themselves aren't really useful but that I want to combine in my own way and make it to a chart. And if you go to the Bogu blog you can see an example of this where I take these popular D3JS chart examples. One is of a bar chart and one is of a chord diagram. And I mix them together to make a chart that really has no meaning or practical use that kind of looks neat. But it's awesome. So that's on the Bogu blog at a post called Exploring Readability with D3.js. Yeah. And Mike's done this amazing post by actually continuously reworking the code in different commits. And so not only can you read this great post but you can also basically follow the code along as it progresses. It's like the best use of GitHub commits I've ever seen. And there's just, well this I mean it's pretty good. Yeah. Well it was, I got really good at rebasing. He is our rebasing expert. Well I forgot like there's a typo for commits back. Make all those commits again in the meantime. It's an impressive effort. I'm glad that it's somebody for that. Well guys I think we've been chatting for almost 45 minutes now so we should probably wrap it up. They were never here. Cricket, cricket. And questions. I just made them. She's just humoring us. I'm trying to make things up for you. When do we get to turn on the birthday cake? Now is the agreement. We do this and then we get on. This laptop is even on. Yeah. This is actually a mirror. We've just been looking at ourselves the whole time. I'll do that too. I was the pretender So, I guess for you to just let everybody know, we do these hangouts on air, you know, every four or six weeks or so, and it's just typically a series of Bo Cooper's talking about things they're passionate about. In a hot air balloon. You know, and sometimes in costume, which I think brings up our- It's just our work clothes. We don't have them rain in my eyes. It's the open web uniform. Yeah. So, you guys can always talk to us in the go-to IRC channel over there all the time as we mentioned earlier. Any questions about JavaScript related or banana related, we're happy to answer. But, I think there are a couple of questions in the Google thing that you can get to, but we'll try and answer those in the comments on the Google event page. But, thanks everyone for watching. Thank you guys. We love you all. Bye now. Bye. Bye. Bye now. Bye now. 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UCHU_dfHU-GnVNZl0YbAJeNA	Overview of SWA and occupational lung diseases - Presentation	Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association. Video Summary: Occupational lung diseases Occupational lung diseases are work-related lung conditions of the respiratory system. If a person is exposed to a hazard at their workplace, such as dusts, gases, fumes, vapours, mists or microorganisms they are at risk for developing a disease. These hazards are airborne contaminants which are potentially harmful substances that are either not naturally in the air or are present in an unnaturally high concentration and to which workers may be exposed in their working environment. Occupational lung diseases include a broad range of lung diseases that may be acute, sub-acute or chronic, and either malignant, non-malignant, or infectious in nature. Occupational lung disease is a priority condition under the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012–2022: https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/resources-and-publications/corporate-publications/australian-work-health-and-safety-strategy-2012-2022 For more information visit our Clean Air. Clear Lungs webpage: https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/clearlungs	[ "Safe Work Australia", "work safety", "work health and safety", "occupational health and safety" ]	2021-11-25T03:40:40	2024-04-18T17:56:14	189	pcfDjr-fItU	So just briefly about Safe Work Australia. We're a tripartite body that works in partnership with governments, employers and employees to drive national work health and safety and workers compensation policy development. We're governed by a group of members which has an independent chair and representatives from all the jurisdictions, including the Commonwealth as well as two representatives each from our social partners representing employers and workers. We're set up in 2008 to oversee the harmonisation of WHS laws within Australia and our work promotes continuous improvements and safety outcomes. And we really strive to ensure that they're practicable for small business and workers and other groups of employers as well. And we'd like to see ourselves as a key source of information as well as data and research on WHS policy issues and also on workers compensation. So onto occupational lung diseases. Well, I'm sure many of you are very well aware of many of the common occupational lung diseases in Australia as WHS professionals. But we've grouped them together in this infographic for the purposes of our campaign into diseases like work-related asthma, COPD, the pneumoconiosis or fibrodech lung diseases, which includes co-workers pneumoconiosis and various forms of silicosis. But there are also other forms of occupational lung diseases that are present in Australia. Hypersetsative pneumonitis, toxic pneumonitis, alveolar prothenosis. But what's also not on this slide are some of the cancers. We're well aware of mesothelioma, for example, that's associated with asbestos inhalation, but also infectious diseases like COVID-19 and Q-fever, which is also a feature of this campaign. Last year we published a review of occupational lung diseases in Australia from 2006 to 2019 and I really encourage you to have a look at this review if you're interested in more details. It really synthesized the available data from the peer reviewed literature, grade literature and also other data sets to try and make some conclusions about the incidence, prevalence and trends in occupational lung diseases in Australia. Its main conclusions are on the slide, that the incidence of co-workers pneumoconiosis and silicosis is increasing. Claims for asbestos related diseases continue to decline but unfortunately deaths are increasing. Claims for work related asthma appear to be declining but there's evidence internationally that suggests that these may be under reported but in general, there are really few available data within Australia on other occupational lung diseases.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcfDjr-fItU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC-2dKY4dxagxJo0adcs_OaQ	SOCAP15 - Bill Drayton, CEO and Founder, Ashoka	http://socialcapitalmarkets.net SOCAP15 - At The Intersection of Money and Meaning Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA October 6-9, 2015	[ "SOCAP", "SOCAP 2015", "SOCAP15", "Social Capital Markets", "Social Entrepreneurship", "change innovation", "good economy", "innovators", "entrepreneurship", "new economy", "social entrepreneur", "social capital", "Igniting Vibrant Communities" ]	2015-10-15T07:47:56	2024-04-23T00:59:42	1,256	pCw8EmIS0sM	So I mean that should echoing green is amazing. It's like 27 years has graduated cohort after cohort through their through their programs And I can't think of another entrepreneur network and and support system that is as long-tenured and six. Oh wait Actually, I can it's Ashoka Ha Ashoka Bill Drayton has been running Ashoka for more than 30 years They are a global entity on so many Cuts you want to go geography sector Etc. Etc. They are everywhere and so we thought it would be amazing to get Bill up here to get into conversation with Eric Brandham who's actually the CEO of Mission hub which runs so cap and a bunch of impact hubs around the United States to really go deep on what they are Plumbing in terms of learning so I want to turn it over to Eric Brandham and Bill Drayton and please join me in welcoming them Thanks so much. Thank you, Tim Thank you everyone I know the question has been asked a number of times in terms of folks first so cap But again, raise your hand if this is your first so cap ever And it is mine as well. I feel a little bit like Stephen Colbert on the late show. I sort of like the new gig I feel like I need like a band and about dancing or something like that. That's amazing I am thrilled to be here I joined as CEO of mission hub seven months ago and I'll talk a little bit about mission hub before bringing Bill on to the stage But um, you know, I'm in my mid 40s And this is the world of impact and social entrepreneurship is relatively new for me You know folks in the mid 40s is that classic kind of midlife crisis time, you know, some people find God I like to think that I found good and get to join you here on stage so I Did start life as a climate scientist I was a carbon dioxide researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography working in the lab of dr. David Keeling And worked on the famous Keeling curve both an atmospheric and in seawater carbon dioxide so It has been really fun to move through the technology industry through the worlds of startups and entrepreneurship and eventually working on platforms for innovation which has actually brought me here to mission hub What is mission hub you say? How many of you actually know what who mission hub is actually it'd be like four people in the audience mission hub One of our objectives and goals actually here at Socap was to talk about mission hub and actually raise the awareness of the mission of mission hub We are the parent company of Socap We actually are the a network of campuses impact hub co-working campuses here in the United States and in your program books on the sort of the second and third pages it talks a bit about who mission hub is and with this notion that Socap is really powered by mission hub I view mission hub as a marketplace a Marketplace that is building the future of social innovation with you all as parts of that We are a marketplace of ideas like the Socap conference We are a marketplace for skills in learning one of the new programs that we're launching at Socap 15 is Socap 365 which is actually bringing the content the rich content from this conference out to our five campuses into Weekly programming so that we can inspire and teach the next generation of impact investors and social entrepreneurs We are a physical marketplace for the goods and services that social entrepreneurs need to launch and grow Yesterday Samutney Sam out here. I know it was in the back there Sam is a managing director of impact hub New York City Which is a mission hub company and talked about the impact bizarre Which is this physical marketplace for these goods and services? Hey, Brian Brian Breckenridge from box.org. Thank you for joining us We are a marketplace for financial capital our Philadelphia campus We are going to be building a world-leading center of expertise around impact investing and continue to take this amazing fabric that we are weaving together and bring it to market and Lastly and ultimately we are a marketplace that transcends place You may have seen Socap TV which we're launching at Socap this year so cap 15 which is recordings much of the content and Snippets and bringing it online to a worldwide audience so that they can view and interact with what we're doing So first off, thank you for being here. Thank you for letting me share the stage with you this morning And I am thrilled to bring on to the stage a man who probably needs no introduction to the vast majority of people in this room But I will introduce him nonetheless Bill Drayton is the CEO and founder of Ashoka innovators for the public whose vision is in everyone a changemaker world Or anyone can apply the skills of changemaking to solve complex social problems Bill pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship as a Harvard undergrad as a Yale Student at Yale Law School a management consultant at McKinsey at the US Environmental Protection Agency and as in a MacArthur fellow He's taught law and management at Stanford Law School and at Harvey Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and serves on the boards of Get America working in youth venture. Please join me in giving a very very warm. Socap welcome to mr. Bill Drayton Thank you so much So we're talking actually before this bill and this is your first socap as well in terms of physically being here But I've interacted and seen some of our great content to date. So thank you for joining us Bill you're a lifetime social entrepreneur and have been at the helm of Ashoka since you founded it in 1980 After more than 35 years, what is unique about this moment for Ashoka? Well, I think everyone here knows the answer to that We know The way that we are a transition point the most amazing transition point ever That's why socap is so important. It's a key part of that transition and Ashoka is very privileged To be able to see the patterns because of the three thousand fellows because of our many other partners and In brief summary The world has been organized for millenia for efficiency and repetition. So think assembly line law firm But since 1700 the rate of change after being static has been escalating exponentially it's just a fact and so a World of giving people a skill which they will then repeat for their life doesn't work anymore and That way of organizing doesn't work anymore Instead we are living in a world of change Which is the opposite of repetition and we have to organize differently and everyone has to have different skills so Seeing this and realizing that we're at the turning point I think we all everyone here has a Responsibility to help the world through that transition and the key part is helping people see it Once you see it, then you know what to do especially when the people around you also see it So it's a frame change moment and thank you to socap and everyone here for being a key part of that Thank you you mentioned build the the scale of the Ashoka Fellows program 3,300 fellows across 85 countries with with now An organization of that scale and size. What are some of the patterns that you see you're seeing to emerge from from the fellows themselves? Well, I've just mentioned the most important one, but First of all, let me introduce who the fellows are Over half of them have changed national policy within five years of launch and three-quarters the pattern in the field. So these are Extraordinary people organizations and movements and we would be blind if we didn't see the patterns And that is really really important It's not only seeing where we're going but how to get there and So let me just give you an example of the largest single group of Ashoka fellows Focuses on children and young people which is probably true for everyone here in our personal lives And there's a Extremely obvious pattern 95% of them put kids in charge Which is not what the schools do It's not what most parents do It's a very different model And they're also You can see that pattern in another way because over 80% of the Ashoka fellows Started something when they were in their teens We're usually early teens And so if I just summarize this pattern you can see immediately how it fits a world where everyone has to be a changemaker The new definition of success in growing up and Therefore education is Every young child must master empathy and guide their lives by that and then when they become a young person around 12 And they have to practice and practice being a change maker Now what I've just said is Coming from the reality of a world where everything's changing and where you need everyone to be a change maker Any young person who doesn't have these skills is not going to make it Any society any city any group? It doesn't make sure that this generation of children and young people have those skills is in deep deep and fast trouble So that is a This is like just this is like 100 years ago saying we needed everyone to be literate and written language We needed people to read street signs and manuals No one's ever agreed about how to do that But that's just a fact and we're now at a moment where these other skills cognitive empathy Sophisticated teamwork a completely opposite type of leadership and changemaking is necessary so that is a pattern and The final point about it. It's it fits the everyone a change maker world and you can see that in field after field fellows dealing with health put patients Friends family neighbors peers in charge. Oh, that fits so okay As a part of that as a shoka shifted from just supporting individual Entrepreneurs to this notion of the world right everyone a change maker How did that open up new possibilities for a shoka as an organization of the way that you were organized? so We've historically been organized as a series of Individual entrepreneurs with a team Finding the best ideas entrepreneurs helping them get started building a community in Nigeria or Poland or whatever When you have to take on How are we going to change the framework of thinking for example about growing up Well, then all the pieces have to work together We have to become a fluid open team of teams just as much as everyone else and that's a very different way of organizing Over the last I'd say a couple of years we've learned Something very profoundly powerful Which is collaborative? entrepreneurship to Jiu Jitsu So, okay, we see this new pattern Every young person must practice and practice being a change maker And that means that schools have to be in everyone a change maker culture Well, how do we and in that fits the everyone a change maker world? You have to do that Well, then how do we get people to see it? Well entrepreneurs are always a small force tipping the system How do we do that together and so This is amazing That we're actually succeeding at this and we've there are four stages the first is the trigger What's the least number of forces you need to set in motion? That will create a self-multiplying dynamic leadership teams in a few schools a few writers and publishers and Leadership from some fellows that has already led in the US to 12 graduate schools of education to ministers of education We're looking to Bring on teachers unions Hall sale partners have to pick up in the next stage and you have to make it open The third stage once millions of people see it and are talking and it's the subject of conversation How do you make sure that the conversation is as sharply focused as? Intelligent as possible. How do you provide the flow of anecdotes and then finally institutionalization? That's a completely new thing and it's incredibly powerful and In a world where you have to have fluid open teams of teams This is a really important one whenever there's a critical mess of Social entrepreneurs entrepreneurs bringing major change for the good of all They need to be able to get together to be as powerful as possible And that's what collaborative entrepreneurship. You just who does one of the things we talked about before coming up is Talking about that that 12 year old So I have three kids an eight-year-old boy a 10-year-old girl and a 12 year-old 10 year-old girl and a 12 year-old girl Who was super fun and amazing what what is your message to my 12-year-old daughter Sophie? Who's out there trying to find her own sort of identity in the universe and frankly part of my motivation of coming into this role? Is is trying to be an inspiring person for her and to engage her with this universe of change? What is your message to Sophie? well Given this framework change We have something called Ashoka youth venture and the goal is to help any young person anywhere Have their own dream build their own team and change their school or neighborhood anyone who's done that has There are change makers, so let me tell you a story that I found very powerful in a meeting of about 350 us youth ventures I sit down at lunch and this very tiny young woman comes down and sits to my right No, I turned to and she introduces herself and says I'm 12 because she's sick of people thinking she's a probably And so I asked her what's your venture and she said oh well my brother is autistic and All through school I would cry When he was mistreated But now we fix that. Oh, well, how did you do that? Well, we get together Whenever we see a special student not being treated well and we figure out what to do and then we go and do it and we're very persistent now that's 90% her words word for word and If you were there you would not have one cell of doubt that she is a change maker that she knows it But she's never going to be afraid in her life and she's going to get better and better at this She is able to express love and respect in action in a powerful way and she knows it He's also brought a whole bunch of kids along with her She has her PhD in the most important skills. She has to have to contribute in a world of change There is huge demand for people with those skills the people in this room don't understand because we all have that gift What it's like not to have it. It's terrifying. It's the worst Now I asked you one other question How many student groups are there in Shirley Middle School, which is a poor rural school Which has flight of talent from the community as fast as possible. It's an Appalachian like environment. Oh over 50 Well, if there's one tenth of one percent of all the middle and high schools in the world that have 50 student groups I'd be surprised One guy in that community eight years ago took the youth venture idea and said this is how we turn it around if we've got a Community of change makers were a magnet people aren't fleeing He made it happen. So when she at 11 went into Shirley Middle School She had a problem and everybody said to her You got a problem you solve it you build a team look around. That's the way it's done and she did now What we all have to do is Make sure that every middle and high school in the world is in everyone a change maker world So it is the norm It's not Exceptional to be a change maker because the world needs everyone to be change makers and it's cruel It's awful to allow any person not to have those skills. So there's very direct action here Everyone here knows a young person The next time she says something is a mess put your book down and Quietly say well, how do you think you could solve that problem? Who well, why don't you get your friends together and fix it me? Yeah, you can do this and This is the most important thing you can do and here's why and it's okay to drop piano practice You know anyone can do that and we need to do that for ourselves For our friends for our co-workers and we also have to do it for the organizations we care about This is a very challenging transition from hierarchy and stovepipes and repetition To an everyone a change maker organization and just think about this strategic environment Everyone is bumping everyone else. Everyone is a change maker They're better and better because of so cap in the web that the amplitude of bumping is accelerating. That's why the change Curve is going up exponentially There's just a fact so you need everyone in your organization Whatever it is to understand the environment they're dealing with To see the changes to understand them to change to help the people around you change and to see the Opportunities and then everyone has to come together quickly. Oh, there's a big new value creating opportunity over here And we have to create a new team of teams a different Constellation because it's a new opportunity and oh by the way you don't get to repeat that for 10 or 20 years That's a so this is a different environment. You have to have everyone a change maker and That affects every part of your life And so I just urge you give yourself permission to recognize this is the strategic change This is a historic moment and those who give themselves permission To have the courage to say yes, this is happening and this is really good. This is a much better world That's a great opportunity to serve Thank you so much Bill and thank you for taking the time with us today	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCw8EmIS0sM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCOzMAa6IhV6uwYQATYG_2kg	HMP Necker Island	Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker want to turn Necker Island into a prison camp. --- http://support.novaramedia.com The UK is facing an economic crisis, falling living standards, a climate crisis, the rise of the far-right. More than ever, we need a resilient Left. This means we need a strong Left media, capable of thinking honestly about the issues facing us, tackling these issues head-on, as well as reaching out to those who aren’t yet on side. Our wide range of output – from listicles to essays, from punchy videos to in-depth discussions – does exactly that. But all this costs money: studio rent, equipment, contributor fees and digital infrastructure. We do a lot with a little, but we can’t do anything with nothing. We won’t charge for content or cash in on sponsorship deals with Pepsi. We don’t have private fortunes, or state backers, or big capital behind us – we just have you. Not everyone can afford to give – but if you enjoy our work, and you believe in what we’re doing, maybe you could forego a couple of your preferred beverages this month and lend us a hand instead. In the longer term, growing our regular subscriber base will allow us to meet the future well-prepared – so if you can spare a few quid a month, why not sign up for a regular subscription? We’ve achieved so much already – but the truth is, we’ve barely begun. Be a part of the change. Help us build a new media for a different politics.	[ "media", "politics", "current affairs", "news", "journalism", "communism", "socialism", "anarchism", "left", "left wing", "leftism", "leftist", "united kingdom", "uk", "britain", "europe", "crisis", "finance", "finances", "virgin", "necker island", "richard branson", "tax", "tax exile" ]	2017-08-24T10:57:18	2024-02-13T18:57:46	80	Pc0_2mRwERo	Don Don Chris Williamson great tweet this tweet for me. He should inform what we do now I think Necker Island, which is Richard Branson's island He's now resident in Necker Island Turn of all attacks and Richard Branson is not done right and he's saying well look it's because I'm 63 You know, I just want to relax something to do with tax and so on get off your smartphone, man Stop tweeting stop tweeting log out But first and foremost, I think what we should do is obviously when labors in government we turn Necker Island into a prison camp for people like Richard Branson and Mike Ashley and Philip Green and Philip Green. It's a nice place. It's nice and hot It's just that you are nowhere near us. You can't keep on picking our pockets You can't keep on sucking our blood out of us and you want to pay tax because we'll have expropriated all your wealth But you'll be a nice hot island. It's okay. I mean it'll be a prison camp, but it'd be nice They'll be like HDTV's and stuff one give them one they can fight over what channel to watch But you know if you're a daily mail reader and you're they got fucking Sky Sports fucking in category me prisons Anyway, but it'll be a lot nicer than that. You just want to be anywhere near us You'll be 10,000 miles away and good riddance. Anyway	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc0_2mRwERo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCAF9f1EcwVDM0_QkkAjeN3g	ALTC23 40 Mainstreaming social annotation in Arts & Humanities & Social Sciences: evaluated pilot	40 Mainstreaming social annotation in Arts and Humanities & Social Sciences: an evaluated pilot James Youdale	[ "#ALTC23" ]	2023-10-31T09:52:38	2024-04-18T17:47:48	1,630	PcJV3Nr1y4o	So continuing with the theme of emerging technologies, we're moving swiftly from AI and LLMs to social annotations. So we have here also from Durham, James Udale, I hope I pronounced it correctly. Yes, you have. And he's going to talk to us about mainstreaming social annotations in arts and humanities and social sciences and evaluated pilot. Okay, thank you very much. So I don't think this was intended to be a Durham-centric session. I think that just happened by accident. But yeah, I'm James. I work in one of the two teams that Paul was talking about, the Durham Centre for Active Development. And this session is kind of free things. In a way, it's regional research. So it's research that I've undertaken during the course of this pilot. It's part reflective practice. And it's also part digital perspectives or critical perspectives on learning technologies. And I think to kind of intersect that Venn diagram, it's also therapy. Because I think sometimes it's good to talk about things that are challenging in institutions. And, you know, it's also good to talk about things that don't necessarily go to plan, because failure is a really, really good and important part of the learning process. But yeah, that's it really. So I'll discuss very briefly what I mean by online collaborative socialization, first of all, just to make it really clear. What we're talking about here is kind of what it says in the 10, which is the idea of students or learners being able to collaboratively annotate, highlight, kind of manipulate a document, digital artifact or reading. This is distinct from discussion boards, which are kind of, you know, you may discuss around the subject, what we're discussing here is kind of an in situ kind of collaborative learning process on an artifact. This kind of thing typically is done in an asynchronous fashion, but it can also happen face to face. But it's really quite important to discuss that this kind of thing isn't new. This isn't really kind of emerging technologies. I think the idea of kind of annotating a document collaboratively as part of the learning process probably goes back as far as writing. As long as it's been writing, there's been annotation. The idea of doing kind of collaborative annotations on a text, pulling it apart, doing those kind of things in a seminar context, that's as old as the hills really. And we think about kind of social constructivism. You know, that's something that we think is generally a good idea. When it comes to doing this digitally, there's research going back as far back as 1995, which discusses shared digital annotations. And since the mid 90s, we've had tools like Adobe Acrobat, which have facilitated the idea of collaboratively annotating a document. So where we are now is that we have a number of kind of big vendors who are designing kind of specific annotation tools. These are simply LTI compliance. A number of those are on the market, such as Talus Elevert, Perusal, and Feedback Fruits, amongst many more. Just to collaborate as well to kind of get a sense here. Is anybody here from Talus before I continue talking? Okay, that's fine. They might hear them this morning. Yeah. Well, you know, they can correct me later on if anything I say is a misrepresentation. So the idea is that there's all sorts of kind of tools now that do this in a bespoke way, and there's also lots of vendor-supported literature. And I'm not saying that as a criticism. I'm saying that it's worth being aware that some of the literature around these tools have been supported by vendors or kind of sponsored by vendors. But there is also plenty of research around these kind of tools about how it can improve reading comprehension, how they can perhaps improve metacognition, and various kind of things in a HE context. So given all of that Durham being a bit slow on the uptake, we really started discussing this kind of thing only in 2020 when the pandemic happened. That's because the world changed in a big way, and departments who ran seminars traditionally had to think of different ways to do them online. While many departments decided to kind of go for your typical online synchronous seminar via Zoom, certain colleagues in classics and in archaeology thought, let's try and do this asynchronously online, and they discovered Perusal. Perusal being a annotation tool that claims to be free to use for educators. Colleagues found that generally these tools went down really well. Students used them an awful lot. There was more engagement over discussion boards. And when I say engagement, I just mean participation. I know there's many more dimensions that particular term, and it's a bit problematic. But they found that while there's many things about online education that they're happy to ditch, this kind of thing was actually something they wanted to return. So just to let you kind of know, Perusal is an American company founded by the likes of Eric Mizzoua and partners at Harvard University. It claims to be free for educators and students with just the false and goal of making education better being their aim. It claims to be independent. And I'd say at this point it's quite highly featured and a fairly mature service. But it's got some quite interesting terms of use really when you drill down into it because the way these tools work is you upload materials into them and you essentially give the people who own these tools the right to use that material as much as they want. Also, if you don't own the copyright of that material to begin with, that can also be quite problematic. So one of the things about Perusal, though, is it requires students to sign up to make an account to give their data to the vendor as part of the process. But it does offer a LTI integration. So our colleagues in classics and archaeology thought, let's request our IT services integrate this with our VLE, LearnUltra, which makes perfect sense. Let's get over that kind of lump that stopping students engaging and perhaps causing a bit of a problem. I'm going to use this several times and I'm also going to attribute it appropriately as well to CBS Studios. But what happened is a year went by and nothing happened because, you know, universities have closed, IT services have many closed in their times. There's lots of things that kind of stop people from engaging and doing kind of things that are asked of them. And in general, nobody wanted to hold the baby. No one really gave a crap about this. So it just kind of sat there for a year. But under growing pressure and departments who didn't want to go away, they asked, basically, IT asked myself in the academic development side and also the library to look at the tools that Durham has to find something else to do this, this kind of functionality for students to basically make these people go away, essentially. So I was involved in that analysis where we looked at various tools. We looked at discussion boards and classic conversations in LearnUltra, which again is kind of not in situ. It's not context driven. It's around the subject. We looked at our readingless software to allow us to aspire, which lets you kind of, well, surface readings are very copyrighted during wear, but you get no collaboration around that. We looked at video comments and discussion on Penocto, which is quite good for video annotation, but maybe not fully all the way there. And also we looked at how you can annotate documents in Word and also Adobe Acrobat as well. But while these tools offered some of the features we wanted, there was not the kind of complete package. There wasn't the analytics. There wasn't the integration, the type of integration with the VLE. And also things like sharing permissions are really quite difficult on Adobe Acrobat documents when you've got a whole cohort of students. And there's also the sweet chestnut of copyright and finding a way to surface readings in a copyright adhering wear. So at this point in our library, we said, well, look, we used TALIS already for our reading list. Why don't we use that existing relationship to have a look at the annotation tool, TALIS Elevate, which as far as I could see at the time was fairly nascent. It did annotation, but not much else, but it was heavily recommended by the librarians. Equally, this is a tool that you blow materials into directly, despite the fact that they have a reading list software. It's a completely separate tool that you've got to blow materials into, which didn't make any sense to me. And on copyright, they've got some web pages, but they generally say, talk to your subject librarians, which is a bit crap really, but that's essentially what they do. So given that nobody wanted to hold the baby, I thought, what could my department do, given that we're kind of academic development? And we decided that we have these pockets of funding called collaborative innovation grants, where we can basically offer academic staff £5,000 to do a small research project to look at something quite in depth, obviously, from a pedagogic point of view. Given that the projects must be innovative for Durham, and that's quite a lot of scope, by the way, must be evaluated with some kind of dissemination at the end, must involve academics and students, and must have the potential for the idea to be mainstreamed. And we thought, surely this annotation thing, if it has actually some legs, it kind of ticks all those boxes. So I crafted this wonderful bid, this wonderful research project with colleagues from archaeology and classics. We were going to get a research system to do the project, the grinding of the data for us. We were going to do educator interviews, have a student facing questionnaire, and look at the analytic data. It looked like it'd be a really tight project that would look at both Perusal and Talus Elevate across four modules. So we kind of compare both. It's worth saying that we asked both vendors to come and talk to us, but Perusal didn't show anywhere. And they obviously wanted to sell their tool quite a lot to us. So it was all looking so good so far. We had project approval. We were going to get the money to pay for the licenses. It was all going fine. Oh no, my counter's gone up one, because at this point, our IT services looked at both tools under the university's cybersecurity and data security office. And they said that basically Perusal is not fit for use for any university business. I can't really tell you why, but that's what they decided. They then decided to announce this half through the academic year to academic staff. So as you can imagine, you're teaching and using Perusal, you're told you can't do this anymore, which caused a wave of consternation and also unearthed many more Perusal users that we weren't aware of. So we had a real problem here. We had a project that had fallen through. We had a lot of angry people and we were half through an academic year. At which point, my knight in shining armor rocked up, which was a new governance committee called the Digital Learning and Teaching Group, which was meant to support innovative digital learning and teaching projects. So I thought, right, let's do an open pile up telecelevage. We've got the approval to use it already. Let's get the money. Let's do a different kind of tacked on this evaluation, but let's do it anyway across the whole year. We got the funding in April and we started in September with a view of the final report being delivered in May. So we got the ethics approval shortly after that. The idea is that we'd have an open questionnaire submitted to all 26 academics involved in the pilot and results. We'd also look at the VLE data as well to try and bullet usage across the year. The data was coded in March and the final report was composed in April. What did we find? We found that roughly academics found the primary benefit of using telecelevage was having the LTI integration, which seems really simple, but when you've been using Perusal for a long time and students have to sign up, it gets over that hurdle, although there were issues with third party cookies. We found that academic practice varied significantly. Some people just bunged their readings up into telecelevage and thought, job's done. Equally, we found people spent a lot of time developing specific activities or designing in those in-context structured prompts into documents. And you know, surprise, surprise, we found that those particular engagements, those activities had much more student engagement, much richer responses and generally more satisfied academics. And we also found the majority of student contributions were anonymous, which was slightly problematic because certain academics used this for as a basis of an assessment. And there is no way in telecelevage to turn off anonymity for an activity. You've got to have some provision for that within the tool. In general, we found variants in practice. We found typically it's critical in social reading and readings that it was used for, but also some, as I said, some assessments and seminar replacements, using it as an artwork and visual arts critique, which was quite interesting, critique for cinematography and visual arts and also fully online learning activities, but mainly it's just kind of the readings which it was used for. Some academics said that this was fantastic because they spent the time to build the prompts. They found students were actually engaging with the materials well before the course started, which gave them confidence that the students were looking at the readings in the right way and also their prompts for helping kind of students to look at the materials in a way they were happy with. But we found in general that academics really thought this was a very poor replacement for Perusal. They felt they couldn't do things Perusal could do. You can't do in-built assessment. You can't add grades. It can't pull through the group data from LTI, which is a pain in the back side if you've got seminar groups and a massive cohort. Really, I think that in general, it was, it maybe did the job for them, but it wasn't quite what they had with Perusal and they were a bit grumpy about having it taken away from them. When I performed the accessibility review, I found that even if you design the most perfectly accessible PDF in the world with alternative text, with structured headings, the second that you put it into and tell us elevate, it removes all that data and completely scrubs it out, which was really quite appalling. Equally, when you upload images, you can't have alternative text to the images, which is, again, really crap given where we are at this time, five years on from the regulations. We found the Zoom feature was limited and we found equally things like pin drop annotations and drawings, students couldn't add alternative text, which is a common problem with those kind of interactions. Again, we asked TALIS, why do these two tools, reading the software and this annotation software, not in script, together, why don't they talk together, why don't they work together? Why can't TALIS elevate, wrap around readings that have been surfaced in a copyright-ideering way? Why can't those and structure prompts that people spend a long time building in be rolled over when their modules are rolled over? Why are they completely lost? Why can't comments include more than just plain text if people want to include successful hyperlinks? Again, why can't the grouping information be pulled through from the VLE? Why can't student-adult types of text or drawings and also why can't you selectively turn off anonymity for certain things? I guess they're working towards some of those things, but they have no answers to some of the bigger questions, I think. Roughly from this, I conclude that we found from this particular evaluation that this practice is nascent, but growing at the university. We think that we've got problems or we know there's issues of growing student numbers, a very, very small city, and the need to do more online provision. I think really the aim of having more active learning in classrooms is part of our strategy refresh. Really doing more of this stuff, online asynchronous collaborative annotation makes a lot of sense, especially given that we're seeing kind of a snapback from the pandemic where the VLE is being used in a very kind of repository kind of way. It's good to think about the VLE really as kind of a more of an active learning platform, and this kind of stuff can really support that. So despite the flaws in Talus Elevate, and certainly there's loads of flaws in there, the report recommended that we should support those academics who want to do this by evaluating, by licensing at a limited basis on the agreements that Talus does some of the things around accessibility that we're worried about and works towards some of the key features that we're worried about. But obviously we'd also keep an eye on what's coming because we've got the NULTRI, we've got Microsoft 365, and those kind of rolling SaaS services have got new features coming through all the time, which may kind of give us a solution. So at which point everyone lived happily ever after? I don't think they did because we found out that the governance group, I found out the governance group that was meant to be reviewing the paper was dissolved shortly before the paper was meant to be received. So I had to write a whole new report for the University Teaching Learning Committee to go up to Education Committee, which is quite high up the chain. So that was an awful lot of stress, but we got the recommendations endorsed. Things looking pretty good at this point, having gone off the rails completely. So yeah, everyone lived happily ever after, but they didn't because at this point we found out the software budget had been cut without telling us, which meant despite the recommendations, despite the endorsement of the Education Committee at the highest level, we had no money to pay for that thing. So what I would say in summary is these kind of online cognitive annotation tools, well, so this kind of practice of annotation is really, really, it's valuable. It's got obviously potential for both mainstream use in blended and online education. It's really a chance to kind of emphasise active learning, as I mentioned, and you know, really it's just a good thing to have, and it's got lots of potential in literature around metacognition about students kind of developing more structured ways to read. I think there's a lot of stuff there that really has benefit across different disciplines, not just arts, humanities and social sciences. I think that I would kind of throw a few punches at the vendors behind these tools, just because I think that the current crop of tools seem to be really contingent educators making informed decisions about copyright, or just kind of them farming off the big questions to subject librarians, which I think is a bit crap. And I think also it's absolutely ridiculous for a vendor to develop a tool which is accessible as far as the actual framework of the tool goes, but completely ignore user stability features. I mean, I think as a sector we've got to take a hard line on this and really kind of put our money where our mouth is and push vendors really hard to make sure they don't ignore this because it is just really crap. And I think lastly, you know, terms of service on these tools are really problematic. The vendor's claims to be kind of benign legally is to say, well, you know, you need to give us right to use your materials and our tools because, but I think it's an over stretch kind of unlimited right to use your ledger slide potentially goes a lot further than just showing it in one activity. And I think our copyright people in the university had problems with that. They raised it as a flag, but they were suitably kind of, I guess, placated by the vendor throwing lots of documents at them, which I still didn't really think answered the other core question on this. And I think lastly, universities like Durham and large institutionals to work in they can be very difficult to get things done. And as found, it's great to get senior management kind of backing for your projects. But when you see a lack of willingness to engage and hold the baby and really kind of just gatekeepers who don't really want to look at something in the first place, that's probably a red flag when you kind of undertake these kind of annotate and these kind of evaluations over the course of a year. And I think lastly, a quick at no one in particular, I'd say that if you do care about innovation, whatever that looks like, you've got to support the people who want to do it. And because ultimately it's educators and then students who have a bad experience as a result of that not being supported. Yeah, okay, that's just for my overall thoughts in the entire process. And last thing to say, actually, I guess, while this was going on, we have a undergraduate third year software development module in computer science that is always asking every year for client briefs for things to put together for their group projects. And I gave the brief of an LTI 1.3 compliant annotation tool with copyright adherence and accessibility at its heart. And I had two projects working with this year. One was a browser extension, which was an interesting way of doing the work. The other was an LTI tool, which was web based, which I would say is probably almost usable in some ways, was superior to TALIS. Not that we'd ever be able to use our production because, well, that's the way the world is. But it was a good process to go through and it makes me have a response in my fair first course after a bit of a difficult year. And that's it. That's all I've got to say. Thank you for thank you for listening. Thank you, James, for keeping to time. So do we have any questions for James? So I thank you for listening to this. I'm going to give you the mic. Cheers. Yeah, that's some really good research there. I wish we had had that work because we've got TALIS elevate our institution. And I wasn't aware of the extent of the inaccessibility. I was aware of the copyright issues, but not inaccessibility. So that's quite interesting. Where are you now then? I mean, in terms of, obviously, there's a project there for some development, the browser and the LTI integration. But is there a prospect of TALIS being used? Are you looking for other things or the tools at the moment? So basically, the funding was cut. So we have no money to buy the actual tool. That's not going to happen. Academics have been offered the chance to basically work with, essentially, to follow on to me to kind of help academics try and do the practice in a different way with the current tools that we've got, despite the fact that it doesn't quite all match up. So that's my fun kind of developing workloads or workloads of that. I think what's probably happened is a lot of academics have said, you know, you've told us we can't use perusal. You've spent a year wasting our time on this pilot that's gone nowhere. I'm going to go back to perusal, sod you, solve the centre. That's kind of where we are. So we're trying to support those who want to do it with the tools that we've got, but I imagine there's a large amount of attrition and goodwill, because that's the way things are, I'm afraid. So Frank Hansel, but that's what it is. Another facepan there. James, is there any way that some of that student work could be sent back to TALIS and to help their development team and find some quid pro quo. Clearly they don't have the development time to commit to this. That's kind of, they'll be prioritising somewhere else, but use your expertise, your students kind of time to try and lose them along a little bit. Coming from a software development company, sometimes a little bit of that can kind of buy you some goodwill. Yeah, I mean obviously the student's work is their own and the source code is their own, but I think certainly the things that those tools have surfaced, I'm happy to show examples with TALIS, and obviously I think working on the pilot twice were really quite good in engaging to hear feedback, but I think obviously act upon it is another question and as you say, there may be issues within the company resource to actually make these kind of things happen and expedite them, and I understand that, but at the same time, yeah, I think certainly TALIS have received all of the recommendations of everything that we've done, whether they act upon it or whether they can act upon it, or their interest to do so is it's up to them really, yeah. But yeah, it was definitely good work by the students, I think that like I said, I would be nervous about letting TALIS see too much of what the students have developed, for reasons, but yeah, it was a good project, and I think next year we might do this, given that it's obviously been useful for them as well. I mean certainly software development students, they don't tend to think an awful lot about what accessibility, I mean they have to to some extent, but I think to the level that we were requiring, you must upload a PDF that can be fully screen readable and keep semantic dates like headings, that was a challenge for them, that wasn't an easy thing to do, so set that up from the outset and they did it. Any other questions, comments, follow-ups? Just in terms of that, do you know kind of if other universities are trying this in a similar way and that you could use some kind of consensus to again sort of influence TALIS or other companies, perhaps they don't know that there is a significant problem, perhaps you've gone further down this, then they're aware of and would really want to commit to, but if you see that there's a you know a number of other institutions doing the same, it might really sort of help it rise up their priority list. Yeah, yeah, possibly, I mean obviously I think it depends on individual universities focus and essentially what they want, and if you've licensed a tool already, I mean I'm looking at you, I mean I guess are there things that you feedback to TALIS? The same response, it's you know the library can handle it, they'll give you some advice and our access to it as well is linked in with SAGE and that creates a problem because it's seen as an overreach by SAGE to try and get their sort of subscription continued by getting their product used by our teaching staff, so there's a political thing as well. The thing I forgot to mention was around digitization, so the university has a digitization process but that's not compatible with the one that TALIS uses and TALIS Elevate uses, so we have an instant kind of disharmony there which obviously causes a bit of a bit of friction as well but yeah I mean I'm happy to obviously share what I've done with both universities if they want to take this further, and as far as my work on this goes I probably won't be looking at an awful lot more unless a magic money tree happens to share, there's more scope to push this further, beyond obviously helping academics who want to try and do this kind of stuff with the skills that we have which maybe don't quite go all the way and the full annotations he'll does. My question to you James is following up on that comment that we as a sector need to put some pressure so what would be the mechanism by which you think we should do that? I don't think we should be licensing stuff without doing a full accessibility review and I know that that should be part of what we do now anyway because again we're five years on from the actual regulations how many universities do that? How many universities really kick the tires and accessibility beyond just looking at the statement and saying okay they've got a VPAT actually going through it we're looking at it from a usability point of view actually testing some of the claims maybe it's resource I don't know but I don't think we should be paying money for things really without assurances that they're going to basically come up to the place because what's the point to academic staff that you must make your materials accessible when you're giving them a tool that they can't possibly make things accessible with? So you know I've I mean I think certainly just money talks that's my that would be my opinion pragmatic but yeah Oh yes Wait point on that just an observation that's actually the Austrian government are doing that they're pushing back quite hard using consultants to really do detail accessibility reviews and saying this is what you have to complete now in one of us to do business with you so other governments could follow suit I guess Yeah definitely and I think they probably should I mean really they should have been doing it five years ago but you know that's the way things are and the other thing I was thinking is open source so do you Yeah encourage your students to publish that and that organically you know proper licenses and so on creative commons and whatever that gets improved and then we don't need to pay tons of money or something that can be adapted by institutions I don't know I'm too naive here No that's a really great idea I mean I certainly think that our IT department wouldn't be a fun about because it'd be one more tool to support that's not being supported by a third part they need obviously software as a service they'd like things to be outsourced I think the idea of kind of supporting updating patching some of themselves is really not attractive but I think yet open source it possible will be the way to go Yeah definitely A last question from anyone comment a massive thanks for your presentation James and well thank you very much	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcJV3Nr1y4o", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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I'm drone tech for those of you that have not been following this January 6 sham commission And I can't say that I've been following it very closely It seems like most people aren't and that's driving the Democrats and their media absolutely insane right now But I did want to go through a couple of these exchanges that I found interesting and entertaining Welcome to the rules committee. It's good to see you One thing I do think I want to correct Is that chairman Thompson and vice chair Cheney never said that the purpose of this was to bring criminal referrals That the purpose of the investigation was for the purpose of investigation is to get to the truth of the causes in the events constituting the attack on Congress and on the Capitol, okay Before we get into this I gotta stop it here first off There was no attack tens of thousands of people peacefully marched on that day most mostly peaceful You had a handful of people that got rowdy with the riot cops some windows were broken Most of the people were let in by the Capitol police. They walked around They stayed within the velvet ropes and there were even a lot of Trump supporters who stopped other people from doing property damage And you can see some evidence of this in the video taken by that BLM activists that got paid by CNN and MSNBC We had one unarmed woman shot and killed for no apparent reason and this was swept under the rug as a heroic act by a coward and Another important detail about this whole January 6 sham is that the media instantly started lying about it right off the bat They claim that one of the Capitol officers was killed along with five other people and every single one of those turned out to be Unrelated to the riot unfortunately though the drive-by media tactics had done their damage and it reverberates to this day with media and Randos on Twitter still making these claims another truth that completely eludes rat skin here is the fact that not a single person has been Charged with insurrection or an attack lastly the FBI found no proof in their investigations of coordination or any plan to quote overturn an election by force like Dems and their media keep repeating over and over like a big lie We're gonna get right back into this fiery exchange between rat skin and Matt Gaetz But first it's never been more important to have an emergency food supply these days The future is still more uncertain than ever That's why people who know what's coming are using today to prepare you can't wait until the last moment by then It's too late the most important thing you need is long-term storage Emergency food and saving $50 is impossible to pass up, but supplies are limited so go to www.preparewithdronetech.com right now and stock up that's preparewithdronetech.com There's no time to lose do it now. Here's the question. I want to ask you Let's let's just start with basics. Do you accept that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election? I accept that Joe Biden is the president. Do you accept that he won the election by more than 7 million votes and defeated Donald Trump by 306 to 232 in the electoral college a margin that Donald Trump called a landslide when he beat Hillary Clinton by the same Numbers, I think that our election was uniquely polluted by these Indiscriminate mail-in ballots. I think that this was the first time in America's history where the mailbox beat the ballot Do you think there's sorry, but this is just unreal that this is America in 2021 We have a Democrat here questioning another elected representative about his loyalty to the current president He's demanding a purity test of sorts here that gates acknowledge Brandon's greatness and his legitimacy now be on the fact that this just reeks of authoritarianism or something that we would see happening in a third-world country The guy demanding this declaration of legitimacy spent the last four years trying to undo the results of an election By claiming that the president was some sort of a Russian spy that stole the election with Putin He got up and said that Trump is a Russian hoax There's a lot of uncertainty. He said that Trump is a Russian hoax. We have it on camera Okay You know, there are all these meetings, you know between the son-in-law Jared Kushner and Kislyak and all these Russian agents And you know, I don't know whether it was a money-making operation I don't know whether they were actually colluding to distort the news and to frame the campaign But that's why we need an inventive commission in France They hacked and trashed Macron in a bid to elect the right-wing immigrant bashing Marine Le Pen You said that Russia hacked the attempted to hack Macron in the French elections. Yeah, well, we know that I mean I mean Washington Post has reported that the French cyber intelligence agency has said that it's not true I haven't read this article, but certainly Macron is not true Yeah, well certainly from Macron is convinced of it and everything that we read before well I mean it was reported days ago Associated press. Well, so, you know, this guy Ratskin is a total hack job He's been peddling conspiracy theories for years now going back four years He attempted to undo a democratic election that he didn't like the results of with conspiracy theories and disinformation from Russia Which he helped disseminate across the country and this attempt to impeach Trump to undo the election of Kevin McCarthy negotiated an agreement for an independent outside commission with five Democrats Five Republicans equals subpoena power right down the middle and Yet Donald Trump decided he didn't like it because he doesn't want anybody investigating January the 6th So he turned against it and then the Republican leadership flipped over and turned against it I think you voted against that commission. Why did you vote against that commission? For many of the reasons that I've discussed today that the focus on January 6th the So you don't want to know You don't want to know anymore. I think we have a process in article 3 where the courts get to determine those issues If the United States government brings charges people can resolve those in the courts You don't want to okay with you guys mr. Gates. I know you too. Well for this. You don't want to know the answer You don't want to have an issue. Mr. Gates. Let me ask you. Let me ask you a serious question The I just I gotta stop here because it's funny to me that he keeps screaming at him that he doesn't want to know But he won't let Matt gates answer any of his questions like he doesn't want to know Matt gates is Answers to his questions or he's scared of what he's gonna say He his whole strategy seems to be asking a question that makes it look like He's some sort of a bad actor and then do not let him respond because he's gonna have good responses So this whole thing is just maddening because as we all know any election that Democrats lose They claim is illegitimate as I pointed out to you guys many times in past videos in 2001 when Democrats lost to Bush Tens of thousands of them rioted and actually attacked Bush's motorcade. They were trying to stop the inauguration They actually attacked the motorcade on its way to the inauguration And I don't remember any calls for hearings or cries of insurrection or attacks on democracy the insidiousness of this Theatrical performance being put on by the Democrats is plain to see and if we had a true free press That wasn't completely corrupted. They would be hammering the Democrats on that Mr. Gates, let me ask you to ask you this Let's say that the exact same attack had taken place Let's assume a hundred and forty five of our officers were beaten in the face With baseball bats steel pipes Confederate battle flags. I Just you notice how they try to make everything sound as horrible as possible bats and pipes and battle flags Like they they they really try to emphasize things that really when you stand back are not that big a deal I mean look at any left-wing protests over the last few years during the the Trump years they use pipes They use weapons and Portland they straight up were using bombs in some cases And I'm sure that the 2,000 officers that were injured during the two or three years of riding by Democrats when Trump was president And was actually facilitated and cheered on by the Democrats and their media was completely different Which is exactly why we've had no hearings on those riots, etc Let's say they interrupted the counting electoral college notes for the first time in American history Oh my god They delayed the count that's like worse than 9 11 I have a really good memory So I remember way back in ancient history when Democrats invaded the confirmation of a supreme court justice and delayed that But I'm sure that that was completely different for four or five hours. Let's say Marauder's insurrectionists came into our building enchanted for hanging vice president Mike Pence, but what? Oh my god, they chanted were they chanting loudly because that's an even bigger threat to democracy And as we all well know nobody's ever called for violence against Republicans like Trump, George Bush, Rand Paul or any conservatives and even if they did well You know, let's just change the hypothetical this one element. Mr. Gates. Let's say it wasn't the proud boys Let's say it wasn't the oath keepers. Let's say it wasn't the three percenters Let's say it wasn't the Aryan Asians. Let's say it was al-Qaeda or isis Would you really not want an investigation into what happened with that attack on america if al-Qaeda or America attacked the u.s capital I would think that the least capable institution to bring them to justice would be this january 6 committee You would not want I would far prefer the legal process to play out or the military process to play out If the american people had to rely on the congress itself as an institution to protect us from isis without law enforcement without the military It would be a deep deep trouble. Okay. Is that a new position for you and mr. Jordan because I know you guys are new hypothetical Oh my god nailed it. I mean, of course ratskin's gonna interrupt when he's making a really good point Uh, but I mean al-Qaeda and isis if that was al-Qaeda and isis that had done that They would have used car bombs and ak-47s not fists and flag poles or battle flags We've been involved in a lot of different investigations both of you. For example, does Benghazi ring a bell I was I believe a law student at the great William and Mary law school. All right. Well, let me let me but before I come to Mr. Jordan, let me ask you this Do you think that people who are subpoenaed by a court or by the united states congress Who think in their head that they might have a privilege or someone else might have a privilege Have the right just not to show up I believe that p bannon says, you know what I'm guilty as hell to incriminate myself in some surreal parallel universe a Presidential executive privilege even though he didn't even work for the white house at that point He'd been fired by donald trump in august of 2017. This is in january of 2021 in december of 2020 But even if he thought that he's got to come before The committee and he asked to plead it. Do you not agree with that? I think that no honestly Did you know that? Mr. Raskin I allowed you to speak and I didn't interrupt you. I hope I'm giving the same opportunity Just giving the honest answer The honest answer is that the magan litigation that you and I both followed closely as members of the judiciary committee Actually is the path forward magan didn't have to show up to assert that he was waiting for legal The president asserted executive Now you're the one given challenges to the stenographer. So yeah, I'm telling you wait a second I'm gonna elaborate on your your answer here. I haven't even given my full answer It's not how it works in the world's committee. Mr. Gates. Just just to follow this then the president Mr. Gates, I'm gonna give you the chance to respond President trump asserted executive privilege President trump asserted executive privilege for magan president biden has not asserted. I believe there is there is not asserted executive privilege Trump has initiated litigation Look, the reason you all waited on magan is because the russia hoax wasn't going well for you and the reason you're not Waiting now is because you have no other legislation or other solutions for the country You had them again playbook, but you've ditched it because you guys need january 6 so bad. Okay. Yes. Yeah All right. Well, I mean it's he just summed it up right there It's all they got right now because the midterms aren't looking so good. I mean, that's what it comes down to I mean, we know for a fact that none of this is principled or needed because We've never seen any hearings or investigations in any of these other past incidents that I talked about here And on that point why have we never had any hearings into the attempt at assassination of half the GOP senate on june 14th 2017 A radicalized democrat targeted and shot five republicans almost killing steve scolese while the shooter yelled This is for healthcare now despite this man being an active bernie supporting democrat and having a kill list of republicans The fbi classified it as suicide by cop They actually defended this classification up until april of 2021 then in may finally admitted it was domestic terror But very quietly. I mean, can you even imagine if a republican had shot up a bunch of democrats? Do you think that we would ever hear the end of it? Of course not that day june 14th 2017 would be seared into the minds of every american So where are the hearings for that? Well, both democrats and the media had a big hand in demonizing republicans for their opposition to obama care Comparing them to suicide bombers and repeating the conspiracy over and over that republicans wanted people to die I think we're starting to see why there's no hearings or scrutinizing over what exactly radicalized this man The media and the democrats were allowed to just sweep it under the rug And republicans don't get a pass because they allowed it to happen. I will say they deserve some credit I guess for getting the fbi to change the classification But come on. All right, folks. 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UCVmofN8ePaJHGoUw6bPX9Pg	Walmart Caught in a Big Lie-Police Brutality Getting Worse-The System Must Be Changed	Plus Chiseler's Hall of Shame-Voice Artist William H. Morrow III-Evicting and Abusing the Homeless That The System Created. To employ the voice over services of William H. Morrow III contact us here. Serious inquiries only please.	[ "Uncensored Hard-Hitting Truth", "Politics", "Liberals", "Tea Party", "Conspiracy Theory", "End Times", "Bible Prophecy", "Democrats", "Megalife21", "Newsletter Censored", "James P. Madonna", "William J. Eisenman", "Progressive Discussions", "Talk Shows", "Fox News", "voice over artist", "William H. Morrow", "Chris Christie", "Police Brutality (Literature Subject)", "End Time (Belief)" ]	2014-08-17T04:37:06	2024-02-07T17:04:35	8,510	PcGYDH3ZHVM	James B. Madonna and the Referent Dr. William J. Eisenman. James B. Madonna and the Referent Dr. William J. Eisenman. Okay, it just happens to be Saturday afternoon. August the 16th, 2014. Yes, summer is fleeting. Rapidly fleeing from us before you know it. Actually the decorations over at St. Joseph's, where they have the St. Joseph's Italian Festival for Labor Day weekend is already up. When is Labor Day weekend? It's right before Labor Day. Early September or? It's the weekend before Labor Day, which falls on a Monday. Oh, you mean what date? What date? Early September or what? Like you know, the 4th or something or what? I don't know. I'm tired. I'm wiped out from yesterday. I'll have to consult the calendar. You'd better have to consult the Calunda. Yeah. Otherwise known as the Calunda. Yeah. Well, it definitely has been a turbulent week, but let me get the formalities over with. First of all, welcome to Uncensored Hard-Hitting Truth. I am your host, James B. Madonna of Megalife21. And we are coming to you live and recorded by time you get around to watch the show from the Newsletter-Censored Research Center in northeast New Jersey. And the weathermen said it was going to be all, it was going to be really nice and cooler and comfortable. Yeah, because they stay in the studio at Central Air Condition. It's hot and humid out. Humidity has been high. And they tell people, oh, you can shut your air conditioners off and open the windows. Bullshit. I fed it off yesterday. Bullshit. No, it's not. Last night, okay, it was like 70 to 60 overnight, but the humidity was high. You know, it always feels warmer in the house. So the weather people, they're full of crap. And they're very inaccurate. Anyway, I will formally pipe aboard my illustrious co-host and mentor and the very founder of Newsletter-Censored in 1977. Yes, you can Google it. It should come up with my authentic Bosun's whistle. He welcomed aboard our uncensored, hard-hitting Truth Starship Newsletter-Censored, the one and only the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this week, sir? Okay, fine. Good. Now that I got that over with. Yep. And we're both introduced and people know who the hell we are. Let me commence with my little thing that I do here, my little monologue. I don't have much to say, but what I do have to say. Oh, before I say it, I want to say something else. Myself and Reverend Dr. Bill, we were discussing right before the show began about how many more people of color have to suffer and die before America realizes, before America wakes up and realizes that this fascist police state we live in now, which is totally supported by the Republicans in Washington, are getting out of hand. They've gone too far. They're obviously racist just like any other Republican. And it's really getting out of hand. I mean, what's next? All right, first we have unarmed people being beaten or beaten to death or shot to death, blacks, African-Americans. But it could happen that cops beat a homeless man to death. Cops shot an elderly man who was a World War II veteran who refused to go to the hospital and he didn't cooperate with the police and they shot him, unarmed again. A white guy, but unarmed. And the list goes on and on and on and on. Whether it be beating up the homeless or shooting this poor young man unarmed in cold blood, like they said in the Wild West, when is it going to end? Next, they're going to shoot people for not liking their face. Oh, that person, I don't know. I don't like the way that person looks. Bang. I mean, last night I saw a video on Facebook. St. Petersburg, Florida, I believe. Florida is going nuts, of course, against the homeless. Oh, but they ripped up all of their tents and all of these crapola. I, Gary, no posted it. Yeah. And I reposted it on my groups. And it shows the police with knives tearing up and slicing apart the tents of the homeless. Gee, I guess a tent is much too luxurious for a homeless person. I guess our government, our system, especially the red states, feel that a tent is just too much luxury for the homeless. Oh, yes, yes. Well, refrigerator ends. You heard that, idiot. Michelle Bachman? No, some other stupid representative over there. Well, Michelle Bachman says the poor should not have air conditioning. Or televisions. They're not worthy of it or something like that. She doesn't realize that things have changed. And that, which was a luxury years ago, is now a necessity. These things that they're nitpicking about have, these are inventions that have been around for many decades. So, you know, it's nothing new at all. And it's not a luxury. And furthermore, they don't mention something that's, in my opinion, a million times worse than a poor person having refrigeration, cable TV, an air conditioner, and whatever, a vacuum cleaner. What's way worse is a rich person or a corporation getting billions, multi-billions every year in subsidies and welfare for the rich. That's light years worse than the poor having air conditioning and a refrigerator and cable. But that's okay. Yeah, but that's okay. Because the rich aren't lazy, you know. Well, they're definitely the biggest hypocrites in creation, especially particularly the right wing, you know, rich. I'm not talking about some liberal celebrities that are rich and are progressive. I'm talking about the greedy conservative rich. They're hypocrites. They're constantly speaking with their foot in their mouths. I mean, Bruce Limbaugh was trivializing the death of Robin Williams by saying that he died because he's a liberal, but he just kind of trivialized it, you know, just opened his big mouth. As long as it fits into his stupid political whatever, he uses it. Yeah. But getting back to the police state, you know, it's getting way out of hand and it's going to get to the point where, you know, the old saying, when is an animal most dangerous when it's cornered and it has absolutely nothing to lose, that people can only take so much. Well, somebody put up a video the other day and I asked the cops in the video, of course, went after the person who said something. Oh, wait a minute. Is that the one where the police officers slapped the woman for no reason in the face? No, no, no, no. He dragged the guy out of the car. The guy who said he didn't do anything illegal. So as the video progressed and et cetera, what came out of it was that you can be arrested for saying something that the police do not like. Like a snide remark. Don't have to be snide. It can be, I'm not guilty. I didn't do anything to say. So you have to be like a robot. You have to speak only when spoken to. You have to just do what they say. Otherwise you're resisting arrest, okay? And you can resist arrest by saying something or doing something. Right. Well, after they make the bogus arrest and they handcuff you and they read you your rights, ha-ha. If they read you your rights. Right. If they read you your rights. Now if you're going off to get booked in the pokey there in the Hooskow, whatever, in the police station, of course you can, you know, if you want, you can say comments like, you know, we live in the fascist country. This country is fascist. This country, I mean, you can say what you want because you're being arrested. Who's going to listen? They probably won't. In the police station. They probably won't. Of course. You know, it's like, it's open season on the citizens of the United States. Open season, you know. Well, I would like to have a moment of silence for the untimely, very shocking death of Robin Williams. I was very shocked that a man with so much life and so much energy would have, is dead even though he committed suicide and I had no idea because I did not see the interviews of him by, I think, Barbara Walters, Larry King, you know, where he mentioned his substance abuse and depression. I had no idea. I only knew the Robin Williams when he was on in movies and talk shows and everything. I only remember that part. But it's definitely, depression is something to be taken seriously, not lightly. And, you know, he was a favorite of mine so I want to have, oh, go ahead. Before you do your moment of silence, he was on an anti-depressants and there is your culprit, the suicidal ideation. They cause you to commit suicide. But is that a little similar to the theory that some of those kids that shot up a school? Exactly. They were all on drugs. They were all on prescriptions. Prescription psychiatric medications. Correct. And so was he. Well, got to love that big pharma, pharmaceutical industry. Oh, yeah. Sarcasm, of course. Got to love... I hit myself in the air with the show. Got to love big pharma. He had to explain that to republicans that they don't get sarcasm. No, they don't get much of anything, really. The only thing they get is when you wave a lot of money in front of their nose. But anyway, moment of silence, because he was, I did take it very badly, he was a favorite of mine. He was a very nice person, humanitarian-wise, you know, to people. He was very good to people. He had compassion yet. He was a progressive, you know, just like James Garner was, you know. So, another great guy. Alright, moment of silence for Robin Williams. Okay. Now, I'd like to say hello, greetings. To my very close, near-dear friend, Miho in Osaka, Japan. She is now... She might be on vacation. She is visiting Kyoto, or is it Kayoto? Kayoti? Kyoto is the K-Y-O-T-O. K-What? Yes, Kyoto. The K-O-T-K-O-T treaty. Wiley. That we did not sign. The United States. I'm not familiar with that. You know? Well, she showed me some, you know, ancient buildings, like pagoda-looking buildings. It looked very nice. Of course, Fukushima is still leaking. Ah, yeah! A huge swath of leaking. And you don't hear the mainstream American media talking about this. They sure dummied up about this. Didn't they? You know, but anyway, I also want to say hello to New Jersey's premier personal trainer to the stars and nutritional consultant, Mr. Mario Petrus. Greetings, Mario. And also to slick Rick Brown of Steel, Stone and Sugar, the magnanimous trainer, Supreme Trainer in Southern California, Mr. Rick Brown, he's part of Steel, Stone and Sugar. Okay. Walmart. Walmart had a, someone took a photo of details of a, like a display case in Walmart. You know, you have like things that are on the shelves and then you have items that are on the end. They used to, I don't know if they still call them end caps, but their, you know, companies pay, usually pay a little extra to have their products on the end. But this was, these were Walmart products. And before we go to lunch, I mean, before Reverend Bill goes to lunch and before I do my show and meet with William H. Morrill, our voiceover artist, I'm going to show the picture, the image. So you people please, when you see the image that I'm talking about, hit the pause button and read it. Because this is evidence of what I'm saying. Walmart had a display case with Walmart products and all over the display case it said, Walmart, investing in American jobs. Walmart proudly made with American jobs. But when you pick up the product itself and you scrutinize the label, it says, plain as the nose on your face, made in China. So there goes, I thought you would get a kick at it. So there goes Walmart, you know, as far as honesty, integrity, you know, their liars. Advertising lies. Their liars. It's false advertising. Doesn't surprise me at all. But I think it was funny, but then again, not funny, how companies that are sort of deregulated by the wonderful Republican Congress are just allowed to lie to you and rob you and claim something that they don't do, like support American jobs. And meanwhile, it's all outsourced, you know, manufactured overseas. And they pay you absolute shit wages at Walmart. Wages have not risen for the last 30 some years. And the Republican Congress is having a fit over $10. $10, whoa, that's too much. $10.10 an hour is so far below the cost of living. But let's raise the stock prices for the CEOs, okay? The CEOs always blame it on the shareholders. You know, hey, my father is the shareholders. Well, like William Morrill told me, you buy stocks and that's the chance you take. It's a common stock. And the CEO is obligated to his company and not to cow-tow to the shareholders. Yes, he is. That's what all corporations cow-tow to. The shareholders. Well, that's not the original old school. Of course not. Nothing is the original. Yeah, old school. You care about your customers. Short-term profit. The stock price must be kept high. That's what corporations do or worry about or whatever. Not the product, not the price, and not what the customers say. That's all bullshit. No, it's... No, it's... An honest way to run a business is not bullshit, but what they do is contemptuous towards their customers and because they're kissing up to the elitists because they're the ones that are the shareholders. Why would they care about the customers when they have the monopoly share of the market? Why would they care about competition? There is none. So no competition is breathing down their neck at all. That's correct. So they can do what they want. That's what happens when you privatize public stuff with states and counties and whatever. The state can raise the price and do what the hell they want then. The last thing I read last night might have been right. It said something about... Yeah, well, it seems like the attitude behind all these people running the corporations is very similar to Republicans. In actuality. It seems like they're sociopathic in personality. The corporation runs the managers. The corporation is sociopathic. No remorse at all for anything, no scruples for anything they do. Now concerning some good items I was reading last night concerning, you know, one of the best things that can happen is to overturn Citizens United. Bingo. And it mentions bringing back public funding for campaigns. Now, did that happen at one time? Public funding. No, in other words, take the money... It's public funding right now. No, they were saying something about discouraging the huge campaign contributions from the fat cats to candidates running for office. Get the money out of politics. That's a separate issue. That's separate from... What you were saying, yes. That's the way to go. Get the money out of politics. And you know what else? Get the politics out of politics. Well, because politics automatically is a demonized word because when you mention politics to people, they say, oh, no, I don't get involved in it. Oh, I don't want to hear that. Politics means division. And it says on our... I believe it on the... On the money, on the Constitution or whatever. E pluribus unum. We are one. Right now, if you're talking about a politician that was very well loved, like FDR and John F. Kennedy, or Eisenhower, you know, you're talking about really good eggs, really good people, then the word politics is not demonized. There were people who voted against them. Well, those are the greedy scumbags. Whatever. So that thought, you know, because one is good, he's still considered bad by some. Well, what I mean is the less corporatist a politician is, the word politics in that person is not as negative. But even those who you might assume and credit with being progressive could only go so far. Well, Bernie... FDR as in... Now, Bernie Sanders, you were telling me, made a couple booboos concerning, was it the military contract of building that new plane? Yeah, he wants it in Vermont. Yeah, was it the F? So, yeah. F what? 35. F35 and then there's something else he did. Well, it's connected with that. Whatever it is. He's got to take money from those who are going to give it to him. And the little people don't give money. So, you know, when you're taking money from somebody, you are obligated to them. So, is that why Hillary Clinton is behind Monsanto? Of course. Because Monsanto's giving her megabucks? Hillary Clinton isn't corporatist, just like the other ones. But I'm sure... I pointed that out to somebody yesterday who was saying something about a Republican wouldn't do that or a Republican has never said something like stop, stop, something about cutting the poor or something. What is this guy? Live under a rock somewhere? There's a lot of people... Republicans disdain the poor. There's a lot of people totally out of touch with reality. Especially these idiots that like to hear themselves talk online, these tea baggers. I don't know what the hell they are, actually. They don't either. They're from under a rock. Because they don't know what the hell is about a rock. I'm willing to bet that Hillary, Chelsea and Bill Clinton do not consume GMO foods. Regardless who, what corporation they're behind. If she's behind Monsanto, I'm sure she eats healthy. And that goes for... He may not. That's why Bill Clinton ended up like he did with his heart problem and everything. And it goes for... If he doesn't eat properly. The food from the White House or whatever. GMOs, that's another issue. But the point is, they're corporate whores. Two-party system, we say this every week, is corrupt. They're corporate whores. And we have to, people should demand that the independent candidates are invited to the televised debates. That is not solving the problem. Yeah, people get to know them. That is not solving the problem. Well, how was the... Make the field fair. That is fair. And that takes money out of politics. But if an independent is a true progressive... Who's gonna put him in a debate? Where's his money that he can compete on the road to the debates? Well, what if, what if the American public just makes a decision based on hearing this independent... What kind of decision? The American public does not make the laws anymore. The corporations and the plutocrats do. Well, when Barack Obama was running for re-election, I thought Joe Biden kicked poor Ryan's ass in the debate. I thought he did an outstanding job. And that's... That carries a lot of weight in the public eye. Watching Joe Biden just... Obviously not. Kick his ass. Because Joe Biden is down on the list of presidential candidates. Now, I'm giving you an example about the power of a televised debate. People get to really see the candidate and hear them and, you know... Why? It's better than any commercial. Why? Because they're... They're discussing the issues back and forth. You didn't see Ralph Nader. You didn't see Jill Stein. Because they weren't... You didn't see Rocky Andrews. Because they weren't invited to the debates. That's my point. I'm making the point again. I'm the one that originally mentioned inviting them to the debates. No, nobody invites them to the debates. That's a problem. That's not the problem. What is the problem? He just likes to contradict old James. That's what it is. Because you never listen to what I say. What is the problem? The system. You keep on saying it every year. And the system has to be changed. Period. Well, who changes the system? You don't invite them. You don't do this. You don't do that. But who changes the system? Laws. Making laws. Who changes the two-party system? Somebody independent from the two-party system. Oh, God. There is nobody independent, but one person in the Senate and in the Congress right now. People you mentioned before. That's only Bernie. What about your Ralph Naders and your Jill Steins or Rocky Anderson or Jesse Ventura or Dennis Kucinich? What about all these people? If they ran as an independent and they got invited to the televised debates. If they ran as an independent. Somebody changes it. They need money. What you're saying is... Change the system. You think that being in a televised debate is not enough. See, what do you like those commercials? Stop with it. You're putting the cart before the horse. But you put more value into commercials? Oh, God. You're way off the beam now. Why do you say it requires money? Commercials cost money. The independence don't have money. How do they get into the debates? How do they get into the commercials? How do they get into anything? Unless you change the field. People laugh at political commercials. What does that have to do with changing the system? Why do you think you need a lot of money to win an election? Why? You tell me. Because that's no setup. If you go to the debate... That's the system. I want to change. If you're the primary independent... Oh, God. If you're one of the... If you're one of the most popular independents and you're running on a low budget because you're not CalTown into corporations. But you're the man for the job or woman. How do people in Arkansas know that? Because they'll see... Low budget. Because they'll see you on the debate. You're not getting to the debate. Well, then people have to insist that the independents get to the debate. People have to make laws. People have to make laws. Not the corporations and not the plutocrats. We need an even playing field for everyone. And that involves changing the system that you have in order right now. Hey, I'm off of that. No, you're not. You think in terms of that. Hey, invite them to the debate. What debate? There ain't gonna no debate. And why not? Money. You have to grease somebody's palm to get on the debate? No, you have to have money to run your campaign. Yes. It doesn't matter with you. To buy commercials. To do this, that... Here's what the commercials... To buy paper. To send out placards to people, etc. Money. Oh, God. Money. Oh, God. Like that song. Money, money, money, money. Oh, God. And that involves, again, as I say, 1,000 times the system, it is in effect now, is corrupt and has to be changed. Now, how you change it is a problem. Because you, as an individual in America, cannot walk into a congressman's office or a senator's office and say, I want this law put into effect. But if you're Alec, if you're a plutocrat in the corporation, you can do that. Because you got money to burn. That's great. And you got money to bribe. That's great. They run America. You don't. And until you are back in effect and in charge, none of these things can be accomplished, like changing the system. Right. But that's what has to be done. Okay? Okay. Well, solution is there. Yeah. How to bring it about is a problem. Is a problem. Well, let us now sink our teeth into these readings. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Was indicted. Good. On two felony counts for alleged abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant last Friday by a Travis County grand jury. The case stems from Perry's veto of the 7.5 million by annual funding for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit last year. He threatened to withhold the money unless District Attorney Rosemary Lemberg resigned in announcing the indictment special prosecutor Michael McCrum of San Antonio McCrum said he felt confident in the charges brought against the governor and was ready to go forward. Mary Ann Wiley, general counsel for the governor said that Perry is being charged for exercising his rights and power as governor. Rights and power. So he lives by a different set of rules than us, I guess. Isn't he bitching about the excess of power that Obama might do to help the immigration problem? Yeah, well, they're always calling Obama a dictator. Dictator, tyranny! Tyranny, tyranny, tyranny, yeah. Tyranny, because they're pissed off that things are not going their way, you know, with the... the plutocratic oligarch and I guess enslaving the mainstream. The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution. We will continue aggressively to defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action. We believe we will ultimately prevail. In announcing the indictment, McCrum said that he weighed the duty he had in looking at a sitting governor. I took into account the fact that we're talking about the governor. That carries a level of importance. But when it gets down to it, the law is the law and the elements are the elements and the analysis is whether the facts meet the elements of the offense. Perry made it clear in public and through emissaries that he didn't believe the state should fund an office headed by someone who had lost the public's trust. He pointed to Lemberg's April 2013 arrest for drunken driving which included her videotape belligerent conduct while being booked at the time the Public Integrity Unit which investigates and prosecutes public corruption and malfeasance was examining one of Perry's signature projects. If she had resigned, Perry would have appointed her replacement. Lemberg, who had pleaded guilty, fulfilled her 45-day sentence, completed a treatment program and refused to resign. Perry vetoed the money. McCrum was appointed to look into the case and the current grand jury has been studying the charges since April. That issue was whether Perry was simply playing typical political hardball or whether he crossed the line by threatening a public official to take an action resigning by which he might gain a benefit. The grand jury is looking at potentially three state statutes whether the long-time Republican governor tried to bribe a public official into stepping down. If he abused his position by misusing public funding to obtain a benefit or whether he tried to coerce Lemberg into taking a specific performance of her official duty Perry's office has defended his actions saying he exercised his constitutional authority to veto appropriations. A half-dozen members of Perry's staff have appeared before the grand jury including his budget experts, legislative liaison, deputy communications director and criminal justice advisement. So I guess we'll have to wait on that one, huh? Yeah. Well, there's no doubt that Republican governors most likely have many skeletons in their claws that are ready to fall out. It's, you know, your Scott Walkers, your Chris Christie's and this guy Rick Perry, this bubble-headed booby. Foreign dog breeders have gone unregulated for years. Shipping puppies so young and so sick that one in four died before reaching a U.S. airport. You're talking about puppy mills or just breeders, period? Foreign dog breeders. Foreign dog breeders, okay. The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved a regulation Friday that starting in 90 days will require all puppies imported to the United States to be at least six months old, healthy and up to date on vaccinations. Census Bureau dates as show about 8,400 puppies a year were imported between 2009 and 2013. Because there were no regulations, however, the Humane Society of the United States believes the numbers were much higher. Many of the puppies came from mills in China and Eastern Europe. For God's sakes. The country that likes to kill and eat dogs is breeding dogs for pets where everything they make and everything they grow is either tainted or defective or toxic. But it's cheap. There's your capitalism for you. What a bunch of idiots out there in America who still try to argue with me waving the American flag. You know, America, America, America. I said to one guy, you sound like a larity cable guy. America number one, America, America, America. You don't like it? Leave it. Oh, Scandinavian countries do it the best. Oh, why don't you go and move to Scandinavia? You know what? Go fuck yourself. I think it was Gary Nol, I'm not sure, but somebody put up last night on Facebook. There's this show where there's this one news guy who tells the truth all the time. He's not very popular in his newsroom, of course. Is he on mainstream media? No, cable. Oh. And anyway, these newsmen were gathered around the table and they were, I think it was in a college or something, they were talking to the class in the college, the young kids in the audience. And everything was America is the greatest country in the world. I would have had a big fight with him if I was in a school. Well, the gentleman, when it was his turn to speak, began speaking and told him the truth that America is not great in anything. Period. Period. And he listed them all. I mean anything. And someone asked something on Facebook yesterday of where are they in something. And it's down the bottom of the list. America is like infancy, death, et cetera. Hey, we're down the bottom. Hasn't all great civilizations in mankind met their demise? They all have met their demise. They all have. All empires have died. All empires have died. Except the one that resurrects every now and then. And we're waiting for the seventh Resurrection. The United States Empire was only like 250 years old. Was it 1776 until now? Well, actually from 1789 when the Constitution took effect. Listen, regardless what Ronald Reagan used to say about socialism and communism failing and capitalism being number one, it's all bullshit. Capitalism has proven to be a complete failure unless you're... Not for the Pluto crowd. Unless you're rich. Yeah. Unless you're rich. But that's how it was meant to be. So the American, the so-called American dream and capitalism is for the rich. My grandfather was right. Today to have a modest American dream you need to make $130,000. To be ahead of the game. Not ahead. I just said modest. Modest. American dream. Well, some people... That means a car. Your kid is in college. Some people might be... Some people might be happy with that. But you need $130,000 a year to acquire that. Didn't you hear my point? The median income in America today is $51,000 only. Right. And so the poverty, the government's projection of what the poverty level is is probably way below what it really should be. What do they say? 2022, $21,000 a year? I believe that's a family of four. Poverty? No, poverty is higher than that. I don't think... You can't live on that $20,000 a year? Of course not. And besides, something has to be done rather soon. Where do you live? In a tree house? A family of four. Somebody put up a video the other day. Houses could be made for the poor. Little small ones. I noticed that. I noticed that. Little cubby hole. Little pigeon coops. Chicken coops, yeah. I saw that. I made it. Where can you put them because the cops will come and rip them up? One was a solar tent. One was a certain kind of flexible fiber that when you put water on it, it becomes hard like concrete. Yeah, that one, yeah. But these were just made out of wood. Where do you put them? Yeah. If you're broke and somebody gives you one of these chicken coops to live in, I mean, you know, and you're homeless and you're flat broke. Okay, where do you put the chicken coop without getting evicted from the land? Well, my point being that something has to be done rather quickly in some way, somehow, there will be no jobs. There will be people that cannot get, will not get, maybe don't want, whatever, jobs. Jobs won't be there. So that way, there would be no way of making a living that way. So there must be some way of providing for these people. Unless, of course, you put them into FEMA camps and kill them. But the day is coming when there will be so many people out of work and out of money that they will not be able to survive. So something has to be done. Now, it has been bandied around for years and years. Switzerland is doing it right now. An annual income, Richard Nixon wanted to have an annual income for all Americans. You know, for Americans that needed it, actually. We don't need to give it to the rich. You don't need to give anything to the rich. No subsidies, no bailouts, nothing. As the Bible says, they have their consolation. You need not cow-toe to them, cater to them or whatever. They have their consolation. Well, he who gives to the rich shall surely come to want. That's correct. I mean, but you see the people, the phony, counterfeit Christian Republicans always giving to the rich. That's the Washington consensus. Always give to those who have because the others are just playing lazy. And no good, actually. Okay, they have no worth. If you don't have money, you have no worth in the capitalist system. Simple as that. Yeah, in order to survive, number one, let alone be happy and have a so-called American dream, you need a bundle of cash. The recent study says that for you to feel happy, in America, you need to make $75,000. Plus pay your bills. Well, that pays your bills. What are you talking about? Well, happy meaning, you know, having surplus cash to take nice, a decent vacation, maybe get a better car. I just said, 75. Go out to eat. Yeah. As you get more than that, happiness does not rise. As you get less than that, happiness is not there. $75,000. And one of my favorite things that you told me was the exact percentage of Americans from, let's say, 1776 and so on 10% are self-made. No. Who have ever moved up the economic mobility of that. In other words, if you're an American and you're born in a blue-collar neighborhood and your dad earned, let's say you were like Archie Bunker living at 704 Houses Street, Queens. You're a blue-collar guy and hangs out at the local bar and drinks cheap beer. Okay. Only 10% of Americans ever elevated themselves to a higher standard of living. That's what you're saying. I wouldn't use the term elevated themselves, because that indicates that the person did it. It's not the person's responsibility. I mean, got a break in life. Let's understand it from the other point of view. 90% can do it. So 10% were either elevated through some sort of privilege. Something beyond them. Some sort of privilege, a break in life or breaks. Only 10% ever improved their lot in life since the beginning of the United States. So all this... Upward mobility. The land of milk and honey and pull yourself up out of bootstraps and the land of opportunity that some people I know were giving me the lecture about, which I told them is bullshit. Well, I'll tell you this. 30, 40, 50 years ago, Sam was working at GM. Just making $50 an hour. Yeah. And that was a big... An hour there. GM was a big company back then. Well, what I'm saying is... Walmart. What I'm trying to say is, the $50 an hour back then was with the prices around him and etc. Today, it's lower than that. Today, the largest company, Walmart, is much, much lower than $50. Are you kidding me? That's correct. It's like... What is it? $8 or $7.25? Or $9.00. But the problem is that the buying power is not the same. That's what it is. No, the cost of living. It was equivalent to $50 an hour. You know what I mean? Back then. Well, if you're renting... What you're buying. A simple one bedroom apartment is like, on average, give or take $1,000 a month, right? It's probably $1,400 here. On average. Right here. Even in Florida where there's really no jobs, I hear a decent apartment. I mean, not a filthy cockroach-ridden ghetto place, but a decent place to live. Clean. One bedroom is like between $7.00 and $800. Closing in on $1,000. That's cheap. A month. Well, yeah, but in a state where, you know, the jobs pay cheaper and there are few and far between, you know? Even all there is is retail jobs. It's not a good thing. Well, there's a lot of people retired down there. They don't need a job. So they use that as an excuse. I don't know who uses that as an excuse. The point is that there's a problem. No, there are people that are not old living in Florida. There are young people there. Of course. Mr. Knoll lives down there. Well, he has his ranch. In that section, that is going to be overrun by water soon. Oh, because of the rising sea level? Correct. You're talking about Gary Knoll's organic farm? Whatever he has down there. And his place that he's got there? Whatever he has down there, he is noticing that the water when he comes up is coming up further and further and further. You're talking about freshwater or seawater? Seawater. What the hell, freshwater? If you said freshwater, I would be afraid of the... The frackers are killing all the freshwater. His friends might be disappearing from the alligators. Huh? Oh, fracking? Is killing all the freshwater? You see that photo of all the cattle that died from drinking fracked water? Yeah. From fracking? Yeah. What do they think? Again, that's another example of we, the people, aren't making the laws. The corporations had the plutocrats on. Right. No, and the Carolitis, they don't want to pay to clean up their fracking poison. The... And the state is behind them. Wow, they didn't want to privatize... The state added cleaning up for federal government or whatever. They never wanted... They want to socialize all of their bad things and privatize all the profits. So, of course, the corporation that's fracking is not going to like the state coming down on them saying, hey, you better clean this all up. Because then the politicians, I guess the governor, won't get any money from corporations. That's correct. And if they ever say that, it's all show. Because they will eventually do what the corporations want them to do. Because they're bought lovers. Okay. Paid for hook, line, and sinker. They're paid for their whores, their corporate whores. The whole system is corrupt. And speaking of the whole system being corrupt, especially the two-party system, forget everything you were told ever about and circle down economics. It doesn't exist. It was never meant to work. It's total bullshit. And I don't care if you stupid brain cell deficient teabaggers don't like what I'm about to say or disagree with me. What we have is siphon up to the top 20% economics. The devil's economics. Siphon up economics. It's a siphon for those red state people that don't recognize this. Siphon up economics. We don't have fish aquariums. Wow. It's a fish aquarium siphon. Would you expect me to bring in a big, huge siphon? You know, like... They go out to the swamp to get their fish. You don't keep an aquarium. It's a siphon. Well, actually, I have another one at home that I use on my aquarium. And it eventually broke. It doesn't siphon anymore. But I'm just keeping this one. You can suck on it. This one is a prop. Maybe you can suck on it. I don't think I want a mouth full of aquarium water. I use that for fertilizer and it makes outstanding fertilizer for my veggies. But no, not to have it in my mouth. So this is what we got. Siphon up economics, all right? All right. Just for prop purposes, I will keep that. This is the second major USDA effort regarding puppy mills in the last 12 months. In September, the agency enacted what is called the breeders. Having four or more female breeding dogs have to be licensed if they are selling to consumers sight-on-scene on websites in flea markets or in classifieds. Yeah. The Humane Society and the ASPCA said they routinely get calls from people who unwittingly bought a puppy mill dog from a foreign or U.S. breeder. Only to have it die because its illnesses were too severe to overcome. Yeah, make sure that breeder is registered and licensed. Hey, when we walk into a restaurant, don't we see a health department certificate on the wall? Sometimes. They give a letter grade. They grade the restaurant as far as their inspection goes. And in New York, it don't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't? No, because they were paid off. They were just at the other thing and they just give them their letter. That shit still goes on. Cockroaches, rats. Even Mayor de Blasio? That still goes on? Of course. People getting paid off? Hey, mayors can't do everything. And they don't know everything. That is a problem. These things have to be brought to their attention. Yeah. Yeah, because otherwise they would have to hire undercover spies to spy on the people working for the city. They would have to have spies and then what if the spies are paid off? You see what happens with the cranes and all that stuff? These guys are supposed to inspect them and they crash. And it crashes down and lands on somebody? That's correct. Yeah. It has been hard to track the number of puppies that are imported. We have seen an increase just in the past few months based on calls from consumers who bought teacup puppies from Korea. Oh boy. That's right. Like teacup toy poodles. Remember the Chihuahua in the old days in the teacup on the back of comic books? I think it's dangerous. Well, some people might think it's cute to have a little thing like this that you can fit in your pocket. But I hear that a heavy person or a fat person can accidentally sit on a teacup poodle and kill it and not even know it. You gotta really watch them. You gotta watch them carefully. They're too small. But breeding, what they've done with breeding, when they go too far and it's a detriment to the animal, I'm not for that type of breeding. Importers have been sending puppies that are less than eight weeks old to the United States in airliners, cargo holds. Don't forget there's no heat down there in the cargo hold. Oh no. No, it's not. No. Well, they ship them in crates, right? Yeah. Imagine a six-week-old puppy in a dark Asia. In a dark crate. To the United States. How frightening that poor thing is probably scared out of its wits. We are talking about baby animals. They are delicate as it is. They could be shipping 100 dogs in the cargo hold. You only need one dog to have an illness and all of them could have it by the time the plane lands. It's an airplane cabin. Don't people get sick aboard an airplane? One person has to throw. Yeah, because the air is just recycled. Sneezes or something. Yeah. Under the new regulation, published on Friday, violators can be fined up to $10,000. Heavily fined them, without a doubt. The ban eliminates the easy access to market that farm breeders have had for years. All for the sake of money. Well, as in everything for the sake of money in our wanted capitalistic system. With disregard for animal life, the environment, human life. Of course. Of course. And people really look up to that stamp of approval. Oh, USDA, FDA approved. Look at all the drugs that were recalled after people dropped dead. Oh, you're going to really... That's why I don't... You know... And what about the Pinto? I really don't feel comfortable with the USDA certified organic label. I don't feel confident in that at all. Well, they want to change it so that the bad food is labeled under organic. Okay. Ready for your break? Yes. It is time... I'm stopping. It is time. Don't interrupt me. You'll be like that young man I interviewed. I did a video connected with Holistic Health Talk. He was a young man that had attention deficit disorder. And he wouldn't sit still and he couldn't concentrate at all. He had a point. He had not even 0.1%. He had almost no attention span at all. And I titled it about children getting fed toxic sugar. The sugar plays a big role in that, huh? Was he on something? Ritalin or something? The grandfather didn't say if he was on something, but the grandfather did say he had severe attention deficit disorder and the kid just couldn't sit still, could not concentrate. He couldn't listen to me only for a split second. He would listen to my question and he's out of control. And then I mentioned sugar and I just think the kid... you know, today's children are so overly coddled and the parents give them anything they want just to shut them up. No discipline. And the kid probably gets tons of sugar. It's obvious that these children are getting too much sugar in their diet. Dr. Feinberg, Feinberg. Yeah, right, exactly. So anyway, it's time for the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman's gastronomic delight known as lunch. I will now meet with our voiceover artist, William H. Morrow. And you will... Before I meet with William H. Morrow, which is going to be followed by our promo done by William H. Morrow, as soon as we leave you, you're going to see the image, the picture of what I was talking about earlier with Walmart claiming that it's... that it invests in American-made products and American jobs. It's a complete lie and you'll see where it says Walmart invests in American-made products and American jobs and then you will see the close-up of the label where it states made in China. You'll see that right now. Bingo! We'll catch you later. Bingo! Okay, we're here with William H. Morrow III, our voiceover artist. Now, before I start with the main topic, I just want to add some inductees into this week's Chisler's Hall of Shame. Number one, progressive soups. I used to eat progressive soups when I was a kid and they were chunky and chock-full of ingredients. Meat, veggies, now it's mostly liquid. It's really despicable, to say the least. Also, I noticed that Dunkin' Donuts and Whole Foods Bakery, they shrank the sizes of their donuts and muffins. But the prices sure didn't shrink. So I'm going to induct these three into the Chisler's Hall of Shame. I'm sure we will have other inductees this week. Now, Mr. Morrow, sneaky companies ripping off unknowingly, ripping off people unknowingly, like the power company or is it a result of incompetence of today's... Well, first of all, you've got to be by ripping off, though. Well... You say ripping off, you've got to back that up. Well, like, for instance, when a person gets an electric bill that's astronomically high and there's no way they rang up that bill. Also, another example of your actual true bill, they could be adding a couple pennies here and there, a five, 10 cents, you wouldn't notice a difference. When you're dealing with millions or tens of millions of customers, those little nickels and dimes add up big time. So you just wouldn't know. Last month was, say, $100 and 12 cents. Next month is $100 and 17 cents. You'd think nothing of it. But that adds up. Now, or is it a result of the incompetence of today's chief office labor? Like, for instance, the situation you had, you made an appointment with a physician in advance. Well, when I got there, they suddenly don't take my insurance. In my coverage book, every doctor in their office and their organization, every one, they were the first on the first page. I said, and they couldn't find me in the computer. Right. I said, you have no appointment. I said, what's going on here, ma'am? I said, I called your number. Right. At your headquarters. And it's written on my card. It says 812-930. Right. Today is the 12th meeting. This was two days ago. And it was about 920. So I said, I don't understand what's going on. So my people are working on it to find out what's going on. You weren't even in the system. Yeah. We have no record of you having an appointment here. I said, well, I made this over two weeks ago. There you go. I said, what's going on? So I don't understand what's going on with everything. It's just like, everything's crap-shoot. It's what you'll rule out, whatever you do. You make an appointment, you may not have one when you get there. You just don't know. No, I've had... It's not cynical, but I'm tired of it. You've all been through a lot with this stuff, and it really gets on you after a while. It really does. Well, I've had personal situations very similar. I just noticed across the board nowadays there seems to be this incompetence with the office people they hire, and I think it's because they're all paying cheap or they could be outsourced. Well, nobody made you take the job. You went and applied for the job, went through the interview process, got the job entailed. Now that you were accepted, fortunately, you're lucky to have a job. Why aren't you doing the job? What's your problem here? If you can't do the job, just say, I can't do this. You supposedly have the best technology like everybody else, computers, and whatever would have your own fax machine. Yeah, but if all the companies are doing the equivalent of price gouging in terms of salaries, if they're all stiffing people and they're not getting a living wage, they're paying people for not giving a shit. Don't take the job then. If you don't want to do the job, don't accept it. Say, I don't work here, I can't exactly live on that. Well, I say have the government put pressure on the companies to give a living wage and... Well, you know I agree very much with that. Or bring in the unions, bring the unions back. Well, that possibly were also, as I said, I think minimum wage, like working in the fast food places, establishments, I think when you're making that minimum wage or near it, you should not be taxed. Oh, let's be honest. After taxes, what are you really making per hour? Is this fair? The individual, come on. Well, they're even taxing unemployment. Yeah, so this is just wrong. I mean, people need to live. Don't you want your people to live a little bit? Have a little enjoyment. I don't understand. You remember what Henry Ford said. He wanted his employees to be able to buy. Everybody in America could afford a car and all of his employees could afford a Ford. To buy a Ford, right? Yeah. I don't understand this thinking. We're taxing minimum wage people, so I don't know if they're... After taxes, what are they making? Six, maybe seven, oh five, give or take or whatever. It's insane. I think it should be exempt from tax... A certain amount shouldn't be exempt from taxation. And, you know what else should be taxed? The mega churches. Well, you also have the lotteries exempt too, to an extent. If you're paying up to $599, they'll pay you at any aid, whatever you want to call it, agent or whatever, store. And it's tax free. Now, I don't understand this. It's almost like price gouging of the underprivileged. Yeah. The price gouging of the minimum wage earners. Right. We're going to take it from you. We want it. We want a piece of your action. We're doing nothing for you. But you're our partner. You're going to pay us. Unemployment is just as bad as getting the minimum wage, more or less. I mean... And that shouldn't be taxed, but they're taxing it. We're just not doing enough to help our people and keep our people happy. It's just... It's like it's deliberately set up to oppress the poor and the mainstream. Well, it is. I mean, it's got to be because it's law. It's what the law says they get for our they must be taxed, which is the law. That's on the IRS or whatever you want to call it nowadays. I don't know. Gestapo. But I... Yeah, speaking of Gestapo... We've got to take care of our people better. They're not doing them. And any pastor, any big-time pastor or evangelist that wants to stick his nose in politics, I think they should pay taxes like that guy in evangelist Pastor John Hagee in his Baptist Church in Texas says that that the poor should start the debt. Well, that's really nice. He gets way tax-free. He wouldn't give food stamps. Because he's under the guise of a church. He's not religious. That's his front. It's a front, right? It's odd. I don't understand why we do what we do sometimes. We're taxing people that can't afford to be taxed for one thing, minimum wage orders. Right. Even if it goes up to $15 an hour, which is what they're... Well, Seattle, Washington. That still should be taxed. It's still not quite up to a chill-off. It's a lot better than what you've been getting people. Seattle, Washington raises it to $15 an hour. But then again, you put these people on this minimum wage and you take who suck money from it and you tax them. But you still don't buy law pass where they get any benefits at all. Right. They still don't get benefits. The government's got their hand in their till and they get low after what? Scraps. It's just wrong. And don't get me wrong. You love the government the whole bit. I do love my country immensely. I'm proud to be an American. But some things we do are wrong. Yeah. And some things need to be adjusted and changed. We need to take care of our people. I'm not bitter. I am disturbed by it. Well, there's definitely incompetence across the board. When you call an office and you get disconnected or you don't get a human being... Well, I called about, remember I mentioned earlier in the conversation, they said we don't cover this insurance. They were number one in the book. But they always took your insurance. No, but I called the girl at the insurance company yesterday. She said, could you hold for two or three minutes? I said, man, I'm not to be rude but I'd rather not because I know on these phone calls how long two or three minutes can be. You have my phone number, right? She ran it off to me. I said, fine. Well, you call me back after you call and contact the doctor's office. I never heard a word from her yesterday. I haven't heard a word yet today still. But what do I do here? There's just one example. How many others? Tens of hundreds of thousands or millions maybe you're going through this. This happens constantly. But you want me to stand up over two or three minutes? Well, we're going on 48 hours. Right. It's not your fault. I told her, I said, man, I know how this goes. It won't be two or three minutes, please. But see, they're making you, they're penalizing you and making you suffer for something they did. I'm still up in the air. I don't know where I stand. But you didn't screw up. They messed up. You said I, my new coverage, my new program, nothing changes. It said nothing changes. Nothing changes. Well, I went in and said, oh, we don't think this is true. Right. Well, I don't need shocks like this. I know, I know. I'm a little tired of it. Okay. Yeah, so we both agree through personal experience and observation with others that across the board there seems to be almost deliberate, deliberately set up in competence in every industry, whether, you know, especially customer service. Customers are not respected anymore. They seem to be contempt for the consumer. Well, customer service is worse than it ever was before. And it could be anything. It could be a government program, caseworker. It could be a business putting you on hold forever. It could be misspilling. Well, I think the bottom line it comes down to human beings. The bottom line is a great, I don't know if it's a minority or a majority. A great amount of people are not good workers. It's that simple. It's that simple. Don't say everybody's creative. That's BS in platitudes. They're just not good. They're lazy. Like I said moments ago, they go in live for the job. Want to get the interview. Hope they get the job. When they get the job, they don't do the job. And all they do is complain about the job. Well, the companies don't want to pay for an experienced worker with a good track worker. You do the best you can. You've got the job. You always go far beyond what is required by you. I was always told that by my father. Money or not, you do your best and go beyond. It's laziness to be why I'm not being paid enough so I'm not going to do it. I run into people like I had when I was in management. I said, these people, this is ridiculous. They want you to leave. Quit. They don't promote you based on merit like they did in the old days anymore. They don't appreciate employees. They treat you like shit. A lot of it's time promotion quarterly or annually. That's so minuscule. They don't give you much. $10 more a week what's that break down to in an hour? $10 more a week. 40 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents. Everybody that worked for Old Navy in the Gap told me they only got 25 cents raised for the whole year. 25 cents for the year. For the year. That's it. You mean per week, per hour or what? Per hour. See, that's just if you work. If you're lucky enough, most companies will give you full time. What's 40 hours times 25 cents a quarter? That's $10. It's crap. $10 extra a week. It's chump change is what it is. And after the taxes and that too, how much does that come to? You know, with this course, the high course of living, people need what they call a living wage. If you want somebody, if you want a staff working for you that's top notch. You have to pay for it. They're not going to work for it. A true figure. Across the board in America, depending on which region you're in what is a true living wage? Give me a dollar on that. Gary, Indiana. It's $34,000 a year you need for our true living wage. What was Paramus, New Jersey? $48,000. I've never seen a true dollar figure. I've heard the term, the phrase, living wage. What is the government's assumption of what the poverty line is? I think it's $23,000. I think that's outdated. It's $23,000 based on the course of living. It doesn't match up with the course of living. I don't even think if the $15 an hour in Seattle, Washington matches up with today's course of living. If you're going to put $15 an hour it's 40, that's $600 a week. That's not bad. Before taxes. After taxes. You're still not doing that great. It's a lot better than $10 and 10 cents that the Congress is complaining about. So you're doing a little bit better than Lousie? Yes. You're not doing great. You're not high on the hog. You're not paying a mortgage or renting a really nice place to live in. No. You might be able to live safely, comfortably in a quiet neighborhood but you're not going to live high on the hog. No. With $15 an hour... That's just you. Would that be hard enough just if you were alone or if you have a wife. Children. What can you really live with that? Because you know most of these companies nowadays don't want to give them full time. No, they don't. They want to avoid the benefits which is another part I've said before the government should get involved in and say we know your tricks. Part time or not you're giving them benefits or some kind of benefits, partial benefits. Give them some. Large rents go for nowadays. One bedroom apartment. Depends where you are. They do vary across the board. Different regions. The cost of living in general is not cheap by any means and if a company president wants the best working for him he has to give them incentives. He sure gives himself incentives. Oh yeah. Oh, without a doubt. Extra, I don't know, $30, $40, $50 a week before you give yourself millions of stock hospitals every year. I heard about one CEO that was getting $10,000 an hour. And they're crying about lousy $10 and 10 cent minimum wage. That's probably a private jet and whatever. It was shown that in the free world the United States has the highest paid CEOs the highest profit margin in corporations among other things but also number one in poverty in the free world is the United States. I don't know if I believe that. Children go to bed hungry, child poverty. I mean, you've got children dying almost every few seconds in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. I don't believe that. Let's just take a look at Detroit. Looks like a war zone. They still have the water shut off. I'm going to leave Gary and Deanna which was the birthplace where Michael Jackson grew up, his family. I think almost 90% of the entire town is boarded up. What about Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut? Horrible, Bridgeport's horrible. And then what used to be there University of Bridgeport was an excellent school at its time. And that's your your capital, the state. Your state capital. I thought it was Hartford. I don't think so. Connecticut? I thought it was Hartford. I could be wrong but I don't think I am. Now in the news I heard that the media reporters rather, I'm sorry reporters from all the big networks were arrested in Ferguson, Missouri. I didn't hear about all the big networks. A couple were arrested and it was wrong. That censorship? It wasn't from all the networks, no. It was a couple guys. They didn't arrest all of them across the board? No, not on the street or anything. It was video tape that their cameraman did. Even President Obama mentioned it today because we do not arrest our reporters for telling the truth of the reporting. They were sitting in McDonald's eating this and he was dressed like a soldier but I guess he was caught in the police. He comes in and slams a guy against a coke machine, soda machine or whatever. Totally uncalled for. Pure, again, distantly attacked. It was his Nazi Germany. Like it's a police state? I mean this is ridiculous. And that cop? That could be a soul. That cop did to the young black man. We don't know the whole story yet. He shot him in cold blood like in the wild west. Point blank, unarmed. I'm going to say the young man was innocent or guilty until all the facts are in. He can't cast judgment. So far the eyewitnesses from the neighborhood It sounds like the cop was wrong. Yes, I agree but we don't know yet all the facts. The bottom line too is the young man was unarmed. He was either walking or running away. He got shot in the back. He was shot more than once. When he turned around the cop shot him. This is just wrong. He shot him in the front. This is like the day before he was supposed to start school. That's like the wild west when they used to say murdering somebody in cold blood because he's unarmed and the cop blew him away. That's it. Well you remember that what was his name the guy that was killed years ago in New York. Unarmed and all the cops fired over 50 plus bullets at around the American. Abadou Diablo? Diablo? Abadou Diablo? Over 50 plus shots fired. He was going for his keys and the cop was unarmed. And the cop says it looks like he was going for a gun. 50 plus shots? It was in front of his house. 50 plus shots? Why does it take 50 bullets? Why does the cop have to rough up and beat up an unarmed woman? They've been doing that. Why did that homeless guy have to kill to beat the homeless man to death in Arizona? I don't know that one. Yeah, I think it was Arizona or Texas but the cops are beating up homeless people. It's almost like they don't talk and reason with you. And many times in the past I have interfered not violently. I'm going to break you because you know me all these decades. I stop at arguing with the guy and I go over and I'm serious. I said, whoa, whoa, to the guy, not the cop. Calm down, please. Everybody relax right now. I never lost one. And even the guy that we were calling, the perpetrator or defendant or whatever said you were so nice that you called me right down. Try to talk to people. Don't come in screaming in their face. You're talking about disfusing the situation. Talks. Whoa, just relax. Well, speaking about police brutality I'm going to end the show with one thought. Let me know what you think. It happened recently. North Dakota police officer used a taser on an 8 year old girl because she was taking a tantrum. Now it takes a real big tough macho man to use a taser on an 8 year old girl. Don't get me wrong for saying this. I have an awful lot of friends that are cops. That's calorie, that's calorie. Sometimes they want to play cops or rovers too badly and play with their toys, meaning tasers and guns or whatever. They've lost sight of how to truly and effectively defuse the situation. And I'm not saying this goes for all cops. I'm just saying it's a certain few. A few bad apples in the barrel. I think the vast majority are great. But we always hear about the bad ones. Well, we do hear about the good ones once in a while. But lately there's all been a lot of bad. It is. And it's sad. Because the police are not all bad. But you don't have to be trained in that situation. It's common sense. She's an 8 year old girl. What threat is she to me? As a law. She's not going to do anything bad. She's a kid taking a tantrum. She uses tasers. Or try to just hold her at bay and keep back a little bit while you cough her back up or maybe social work or something. A psychologist or somebody to come down and talk to her. Little one. Relax. Please. That sounds like a like a like a very insecure coward with a small dick. That's what it sounds like. It's just what you do. That's cowardly. Some things you don't do. Some things are unnecessary. A lot of things are unnecessary. It's a child. It's a minor. Just picture how small an 8 year old girl is. You pull a taser and I was your sidekick cough. You pull a taser and I said, what are you nuts? I said, she's 8 years old man. I wouldn't let you do it. Why was this guy doing this? What's your fancy argument? Choose big for her age? There's no defense against that. There's absolutely no excuse or defense against something like that. You know? That's it. So anyway, until next time. Bye bye. Take care everybody. Hi, this is William H. Marrow. The best way to join our organization is to get your free annual subscription to Newsletter Censored with your gift to support this work. The newsletter of hard-hitting truth and news fighting censorship and conservative propaganda since 1977. 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Now, what Dr. Bill and I were discussing as he was chowing down here was the fact that in St. Petersburg, Florida, well, the state of Florida has a Republican governor, which probably all the the redneck Florida crackers that live in Northern Florida voted for, voted, you know, him in. Well, they hate the poor. They have a disdain for the poor. The rich and the conservatives, they created the class warfare against the poor and not only do they evict homeless people, but they destroy their homes. And in this case, the police were cutting up their tents or shredding their tents and the homeless really don't know where to go. I mean, and no matter where they go, even the homeless people lived in the woods in Lakewood, New Jersey in tents, they were evicted from the woods. Where do you go? You can't have a tent. The right wing feels it's too much luxury. I think they want to kill off the homeless and the poor, honestly. Yes. That's what it seems like. There's too much of a burden and they will not work for slave labor. There's too much of a burden. Yeah. It's unbelievable. You don't want to pay for them, do you? You don't want your taxpayer money to pay for them, do you? Well, you are being sarcastic. Of course. You want your taxpayer and your tax money to go for big subsidies to big corporations, no? You don't want them to go to the poor. Listen, if I'm rich just like Judge Judy said in an interview one time if you're rich and you pay more in taxes and it helps the United States of America a lot then as a rich person, I wouldn't mind just like Judge Judy says, I don't mind paying more in taxes if it's going to help people and help the country because guess what? You're still rich. You're still living high on a hog even though you're paying the tax burden. It's the same thing that sociopathic corporations and their managers can't see. It's a very simple thing. Better wages, better buying. Simple as that. Henry Ford had the right idea, like I was telling Bill Morrill. Henry Ford wanted his employees to be able to afford to buy a Ford. A Ford, a Ford. Bingo! You know, I mean what better advertisement than the company of a company using the product that their company makes. Exactly. But they don't get it because they're sociopathic. That takes long-term thinking. Long-term thinking. The managers of corporations are not set up for long-term thinking here. They're set up for quarterly thinking. Whatever happens to a short-term repeat business and word of mouth advertisement and having your customers and their children and perhaps their children's children coming back to buy your product because based on reputation and word of mouth. Let's say you are a company and you buy a product which is bundled up with mortgages and the mortgages go over 30 years, whatever. What happens today is what they did on Wall Street and etc. They take all that theoretical profit of 30 years and they use it today. Okay? So there's no more 30 years of so many profits coming in every year. You use it today it's gone. That's what they've been doing. You use it today to make loans to make this, that, speculate, boom, boom, boom, boom. But then it's gone. Your 30 years profits are theoretical profits. They're not there anymore. See? They're there. Every quarter. That's all they care about. That's what they care about. Stock price goes up if you're doing good in a quarter. CEO then walks away with high stock prices, golden parachutes, etc. and he drove the company into the ditch. Right. He's not getting compensated based on merit. No, not at all. Oh, but they want that for poor people. And how many people actually do get raises and promotions based on merit. That's another old school positive thing that took place. That's correct. So getting back to what I said about the homeless, they're evicting the homeless that they themselves created that our society themselves created our leaders. I don't want to blame society that like incorporates the people, but no. I mean that the system that the system created. Correct. There is a division between the top 20% and the bottom 80%. Okay? Just like there's a friction between laborer and employer in our capitalistic system. There's not peace, my friend. You see it in history. Well, the employer's always trying to get more for less. Very good. See, the system created. Yes, not our system because when I use the word hour it sounds too much like it's incorporating we the people, which I don't want to do that. It's the system which means there's a division between the top 20% and the bottom 80%. Yeah, those corrupt, parasitic blood-sucking corporate whores on the top that are running things. And of course before we mentioned police brutality getting worse you know that's it. All right, let us see. Yes, the police no longer protect and serve. They are militarized. They are a fine force. And the police are acting more criminalized, criminalistic that is a word. That's what the problem is. Abuse of power. You know, like abuse of power should I say Chris Christie? You know Chris Christie has not been shining a light being shown on him lately. He's off the spotlight. Well, he's bigger than. He's actually much bigger than the spotlight. He's raising money for the Republicans. Ah. He appeared somewhere the other day in which he defended his position whatever the hell it was with an arrogant remark. Of course. As usual. Yeah, you gotta agree with him at the town meetings. You gotta agree with him. I had enough of you. He'll terminate the conversation. But he hasn't been in the paper that much as I've seen. Nothing's calmed down or whatever. Ready to move on here? Yes, sir. Let me see what we got here. More docks. Nancy Frank could no longer care for her two Chihuahuas. Nancy Frank and Doc Schoen. Does he look like Frank Footers? Nancy Frank? All right. I'm sorry about that. So she was glad to find a young man she thought would give them a good hold. Days later, the dog's remains turned up at a gruesome site in a Reno motel where detectives found a decapitated dog and four dog heads. Which is some kind of satanic ritual? In a small refrigerator. Oh, my God. Those poor pups. Two of the heads belong to Nancy Frank's dogs. Those sickos out there, I'll tell you. Jason Brown, 24, was arrested on July the 9th. Charged with six felony counts of torturing or maiming and killing an animal in a troubling case that has sparked public outrage. Jason Frank, good. They got him. Brown. Brown, I'm sorry. Jason Brown, they captured him. Good. Authorities said they were called to the motel in a busy area across the street from a shopping mall in suburban South Reno, Nevada. What's the story on this, uh, Jason Brown? After a maid reported the discovery in a room Brown had been renting. What an idiot. He knew the maid was going to come in and clean. Officers also found two bloody kitchen knives. The scissors of a Swiss army knife. Two dog collars with rabies tags registered to Nancy Frank. Along with her dog's dishes, blankets and tennis balls she had given Brown to help make her pets happy. So she entrusted the dogs with Jason Brown to take care of them temporarily. She could no longer care for them. Oh, she gave, she, he had he adopted the Chihuahuas from Miss Frank. He adopted them and decided to torture and kill them. On Wednesday, a half dozen animal protection activists excuse me with signs demonstrated outside Reno Justice Court where Brown's status hearing had been scheduled but was continued to October the 16th. His lawyer, John Oakes told the Reno Gazette Journal last month that Brown has mental health issues and might need a psychiatric evaluation before he goes to trial. He's not responsible for being evil. Don't blame it on him. As prosecutors say Brown killed five dogs at the motel and a sixth one at another location. Like myself and William Morrow have said for a long time now animals need and deserve rights in law, in made into law. Animal rights. Animals have been abused and tortured and killed for way too long now. What about those sheep shears on Facebook the other day? I mean, I asked a stupid question. I thought you sheared sheep several times using their wool and etc. But if you're punching them in the face and you're kicking them and you're bruising them and cruel to them how are you going to get a second shearing? They're dying. I mean, I was I don't know what to say. I just know that I always thought that sheeps were sheared like me when I got my hair cut real short like this and that's it. And then you share them the next time? And they grow back and you share them again and they go on their merry way. But how the hell are you going to share them a second time if you're beating shit out of them and killing them? I didn't think that they need to be tortured to share them. They don't. Whatever they're doing, I don't know anything or whatever. I hope it's not American. Human race is really befitting what it says in 2 Timothy in the Bible. It really coincides with 2 Timothy. It's really suspiccable how humans are getting. Back to Mr. Brown. He was being held in the county jail on a 70,000 and could face more than 20 years in prison. The former Reno high school student also faces 2 counts of possession of a controlled substance meth andphetamine. No, here we go. So they're going to blame it on the drug and the guy's going to get get a small sense. Melissa Lubeck of Nevada was one of the voters for animals was among the protesters who turned out in front of the cart house in hopes of making sure Brown doesn't get out of jail soon. We want to make sure justice is served. Animals deserve better rights than they have. We don't want to get any plea deal. No, no. Five dogs tortured and killed? No, he should be punished severely. Security was beefed up inside and outside the court complex. Citing concerns for Brown's safety. The county jail. Like we should care. Did not make public the information about the status of an inmate. Poor thing. Have to protect him. He is off our website for security reasons. Who's going to protect those five innocent animals? Six. Six. Six? Who protected them? Court documents show that during Brown's interrogation he acknowledged he bought a dog from Frank and that he was living alone in a motel. He initially said he entered the room two days earlier to find his gray dog dead in the bathroom. So he says he's innocent? And please innocent then? Washoe County Sheriff's Detective Joe Bowen wrote Brown said the dog looked like it had been cut up. And he suspected a girl named Debbie did it. He later changed his account. Hmm. Bowen said Cheryl Bloom a lifelong friend of Brown's and his family who was interviewed by detectives the day of his arrest said Brown talked about having urges of rage. Oh, so take it out on innocent animals. Yeah. Okay. The next day she said Brown told her he had killed his friend's dog. And it made him high. Sadism. He got a thrill out of it. Just like this there was a photo about I don't know who she is exactly but it's this attractive blonde who's a supposedly an MTV personality that just allowed her puppy to starve to death. The ribs sticking out and everything. Her photo was posted which I'm very happy about and her name. I just don't know who she is because I don't watch that station. But yeah she just allowed her puppy to starve I think they the puppy died. I don't know. I didn't see that part. But no I mean allowing it means they're feeling no remorse no compassion for the animal. True Timothy. No empathy. Sociopath. Another sociopath. Yeah. What do you call no natural affection without natural affection. A society that is growing colder and colder and colder. There's no doubt about it that you know I mean look throughout history every time an evil dictator came about people always thought that that was the end times. But as far as Timothy goes it fits in perfectly with our time these days fits in perfectly but I mean a cute little adorable puppy you take the responsibility of getting a dog a pet and then you just decide not to feed it my question is why why get it number 1 number 2 why starve it. Why just leave it there source of food to starve it. It's like it's worse than abandoning it because if you abandon it somebody might find it and put it up for adoption or take care of it themselves if you abandon it. You look at that situation that you're talking about and you look at the video that somebody put up there last night I think it was Gary Null it showed many many instances of people saving the lives of dogs yes on a highway the dog was near the divider not the divider I'm sorry well yeah the car pulled over the dog was on the side of the highway abandoned. There was a black dog on an ice flow. Oh really? Yeah there was nothing else around but water nowhere for it to go and some guy went out and he got him brought him up onto the ship But I've seen videos posted by Gary Null of abandoned frightened dogs on a highway being rescued by people I saw that one you're talking about the woman made it across the highway and spoke to the dog the dog was afraid but she eventually sidled up to it and put the collar or the leash on it and put it in the back seat brought it into her car put her own life in jeopardy to do that crossing the highway I think she was parked on the shoulder of the road kids went in the car or something there was another dog that was hers in the back seat she put it in the back seat she rescued it so abandonment is horrible but the animal might get rescued but the dog is living with a wicked sick bastard and the dog is being starved in captivity there's no hope there's nobody there to rescue the animal there's no excuse for it there's nobody there to rescue it little change of pace my husband of 30 years had an affair a year and a half ago we struggled through the aftermath and are trying to restart our relationship Dear Abby he remained in touch with the other woman until she finally pulled the plug on him and now he has no interest in talking with me about our relationship or how to improve it huh he is distant and refuses to say I love you he doesn't initiate hugging and kissing he will initiate sex every so often but I'm usually the one who seems to need more contact sometimes people grow apart because it's their own fault they take each other for granted or they stop contributing to the relationship I'm talking about the women too it's not always the men when I questioned him he tells me everything is alright monogamy takes work and I am making a mountain out of a molehill we have good times but I really feel his lack of affection and she blames him for I bet I don't want to leave this man I love him dearly I'm seeking counseling and have for many years should I keep waiting for a renewal or has my membership here lapsed and I'm just kidding they should at least try to save it but you know what she lives seeking counseling Alaska what does he say about Alaska is a shortage of women or men women This guy had two of them. What the hell would they like would they Inuits with a Eskimos or were they uh, we don't know I mean, I don't know what kind of women they had. Well, I know they they have Sarah Palin is from up there, but uh in general. I don't know what kind of women Reside in Alaska, but there's not a lot of them. The dear Abby says Because you love him dearly and don't want to leave him stay for it however Everything is not all right, and you are not making a mountain out of a mole. No your husband Appears to be punishing you for something and unless you get to the bottom of it your relationship with him Will remain icy cold And maybe get it colder a licensed marriage counselor Maybe able to help you rebuild your relationship like I said But it won't happen unless he is willing to try fix two people to dance the tango If he isn't Then you should go without him and let the therapist help you decide This is the way you want to live the rest of your life Well, he's not he's not even sitting down with her and being honest as we're having a a Non-argumentive Discussion, you know how you make the power a power coming clean say, you know Either either I'm doing these things. I'm behaving this way for this reason or that reason or I don't know why I'm doing these things You know Maybe he knows the reason and doesn't want to tell her they got to do something yet All right chief, what do you got got more dogs? Dogs abused. This is a dog day abused dogs or something else When Shetland sheep dog Maggie comes home from the groomer Her owners praise and pet her shiny coat Much to the chagrin of pit bull stormy Well, we'll headbutt her Until family cuts out the compliments jealous Stormy's jealous Said owner Amy Putnam better watch out stormy don't lock on to the Sheep Shetland sheep dog You know how you're supposed to treat your kids the same Well that goes for dogs, too They get along great Go with the flow. Oh, they're not including so until one thinks He's being slighted. Maybe they're not including stormy with the in the affection. They have to be inclusive of stormy Yeah, you don't do that nah, I you know Stormy's probably Feels unwanted or something after hearing stories like Putnam's a psychology professor Decided to study for the first time weather The human emotion of jealousy really happens in dogs. Sure it does The nine-month study published in July in the science journal plus one Hints that it could be possible But if other experts are not so sure that it's jealous Well, I will not say that dogs do not experience jealousy This article does not prove that they actually do Dr. Bonnie beaver also insists dogs Dr. Bonnie beaver Oh God without me commenting with a joke. I have to ring the levity pills buddy beaver I hope she doesn't have buck teeth Despite what people think or Harry Bush the guilty look Head cowered ears back eyes droopy He's a reaction to people throwing tantrums over chewed-up shoes and accidents on the carpet she said but Christine Harris a Professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego Says her dog study Supports the theory that there's a more basic form of jealousy She and a former student worked with 30 sick dogs Videotaping owners ignoring their pets while petting and talking sweetly to stuffed animated dogs or jack-o-lantern cows Okay, a pair of independent workers watch the videos for behavior like aggression or attention-seeking my My cat dead petty is very Jones Yeah, apparently sure you told me stories about very Joe him. Yeah, but he's Teddy is Yes, it's extremely jealous he's got to be the center of attention When people interacted with the stuffed animals their dogs pushed or touched them 78% of the time tried to get in between the owner and the toy and Snacked at the fake dog There was much less of that behavior when it came to the toy pale 42% of the dogs tried to push or touch them 15% tried to get between them and 1% snapped Dr. Harris believes the dogs saw the stuffed animals as rivals When they see a loved one show affection toward another What appears to be a real being they engaged in real behaviors to try and draw the affection back to them That's what you see in humans too. Dr. Beaver said The study opens up thoughts about what an animal might be experiencing But she's concerned about calling and jealousy A dog might be more interested because another social being is interacting with the owner Dr. Harris said She's not claiming a dog's internal experience mirrors that of humans Because it's impossible to know Some say that's not jealous behavior that dogs don't have emotions like this Others had said I'm being too cautious And if they have emotions like us They will have behavior like us yeah, oh When a dog is welcome into a human family it becomes part of the pack and you become the alpha hopefully and You know If there's no other dogs around especially if it's a it's a lone pet dog They will associate themselves more with humans than dogs. That's that's what parrots do You know, that's how they become tame And that's how they get attached to you for their 60 years Sometimes more 75 parrots, but and they're very intelligent and well if a person gets one African great parrot, which is the best talker. Okay, they become very attached to you If you get two African great parrots, then the parrot The parrots associate themselves with being a parrot because they They interact with each other and then that's when they get nasty towards Humans when they don't want to be bothered they'll lash out and bite you because they They differentiate themselves say now they have a Buddy and they know their identity You know, it's what I hear happens, but anyway After their 2012 election loss a More appealing Republican Party was supposed to emerge Republican governor Bobby Jindal leaves we Louisiana stressed that the party had to stop being the stupid one Now now they're just the mean cruel one Let's look at the progress while extremely concerned about wasting taxpayers money It did not prevent the GOP Hardliners from initiating a government shutdown last year They're so worried about the taxpayers money that they give trillions of it away to corporations And that cost the US economy billions of dollars then Republicans tinkered with the debt-sealer Fortunately common sense prevailed and a disaster was avoided. What they were doing was spiting president, Barack Obama Next was the Benghazi They don't want the black man in the White House. Yeah, which the GOP hoped to exploit Trying to convince voters that this incident trumped the Watergate scandal it didn't work Now the right is about to start a lawsuit against the president the exact reasons as to why We apparently will not find out as we move along. I would just tell them You know, guess what guys? The tax burden is being shifted back to the rich. I don't want to hear anything about it Shut your mouths and pay your fucking taxes. Shut you're gonna say that shut the fuck up. Well, I Would say to them And since they make the law, you know what they'll say to you what? Back off James. You can do nothing Are you talking about the Republican Congress? Correct because because they have the votes. That's correct And there's no filler. They are the Lentis land. No filibustering can take place, you know still a bustering takes place in the Senate and it can take place. Well, you know on anything that is not a money bill the Senate have has been Voting unanimously on some very unpopular 41 Republicans very unpopular things Recently happened. Well, they always do that That's the filibuster You don't have to actually do it. They just say hey, we're gonna filibuster You don't have 60 votes to override so you need 60 to override a filibuster That's great. If you don't have 60 you can't override a filibuster. You can do nothing You are stuck That's where we are. So you just need at least 60 60 votes Republicans own the house and They also stymie the Senate. They have the Democrats do not have enough votes in the Senate. There are there are not enough or in the house Well, that's obvious for the house and while at it's why not commit more precious time and Resources to add impeachment proceedings knowing very well that to succeed Two-thirds majority in the Senate is needed, which is not likely with few exceptions the GOP Still denies climate change Oh gosh or the existence of hunger and poverty and What were you saying the the governor of Louisiana wants Republicans to stop being a stupid Stupid the stupid party And the presence of a crumbling infrastructure Yeah, you don't believe in any of that The party is obviously committed to do anything but solve the nation's problems No, they're just committed to giving all your tax money to the rich Jindal's warning seems to be lost as Indicated by the above action, but if the people who keep voting for do not Recognize that they are the stupid party What good is it? Well, the proof is in the pudding if you say who if you say stupid things Then you are the stupid one in the stupid party But if the people vote for them don't recognize that they're so if they're stupider If they're just as stupid if not if they're just as dumb and dumber Then the then the Republican politician Then they don't see how stupid their candidate is Or if they're suckers that don't have a pot to piss in and they they reelect the same Republican Because they will never vote for a redemigrant Because the the cult the cult following morons Believe in things like a fertilized egg as a human being and all this bullshit They believe in a Christianity that is not biblical Yeah, I figured it and yet racist Christianity and yet. What do they do? They carry the Bible around with them Doesn't the ever-popular Well, we talked about last Saturday the ever-popular right-wing pastor in Mr. Hi, Mr. John Haggy and Baptist Church in Texas Feel that the poor should not get food stamps or welfare. They should just die of starvation That's a nice Christian for it. He's a pastor. Wow You know or or many many right-wing Churches throughout the country though the one in Kentucky refuses to marry interracial couples and what do you think the The prosperity preachers are all about well if they're preaching prosperity It means that those who prosper are blessed by God. So what are the poor then? not blessed cursed by God I Wouldn't blame God. I would blame the capitalistic system Well, I would ask Joe Osteen sitting in his his great mansion What do you do you ever take any of your donations or any of your churches donations and help the poor with that money? Was it you that told me that that Joe Osteen does not have control? over the donations that he gets there's another Body of there's another group of people running the actual church Usually is it's usually run by a committee committee usually well. I wonder if the committee Donates any of that money to well, they usually have some sort of You know poverty thingy that they push out there could earn more money. Well, you know Well, that Robertson has his African take care of the little cutie thingy. Oh, yeah. Well Joe Osteen obviously got the money from somewhere to buy his huge mansion That's church money. That's church money not his mansion They throw him out of the church tomorrow. He loses the mansion. Oh So the committee could could vote this they could say well, you know what? We don't want you anymore. We don't like this Joe Osteen anymore If it's run by a committee they can do that right and board them out They try to the worldwide church of the guard tried try to institute such a Program and get rid of Herbert W. Armstrong. So in other words the evangelist that does TV shows is is like a puppet of the of People behind them backing him up like the TV show He's however, he's a performer. He's a he's a performer representing a bigger. He's charismatic He brings in the money People people or suckers Love them. They love the evangelists. They there because he said they like his personality He has charisma like a lot of women say they bought Joe Osteen's book because oh, what a wonderful positive smile He has this big positive smile on his face all the time and and and and they like they like feel good people They like people that make them feel good preach on to me only good things Yeah, they want to feel good. They don't want to hear the real truth. They want to feel good Herbert W. Armstrong is Autobiography tells the story of a couple. Yeah Who were seeking God? They were really seeking God They belong to a Pentecostal church. Yeah, and you know Herbert, of course Blame the whole situation on everything and they were They were sick or something and They were healed and And they went back to their Pentecostal Church And that was their excuse when Herbert came around to find out how they were doing or whatever We feel good We feel good Well, they also a lot of people are lazy instead of opening up the Bible and reading it They're out of listen to their pastor sit on their their asses and listen to the pastor and the pastor could be very wrong like John Hagee or Hagee and it's it's for certain that they are very wrong because the Bible is not is not open To everyone just reading it and and being able to understand it. It's not as the parables show God does not want certain people to know certain stuff But there are many portions of the Bible that are plain simple and in your face They they must be interpreted by the prophet Yeah, and then you go to the Bible and say oh my god that It's exactly right. Yeah, but you didn't see it before and you wouldn't see it without the revealer Yeah, like if you read to Timothy, it's pretty It's pretty self-explanatory when you read right, but you have to you have to understand to Timothy in a time period in a certain time period Which is now yeah in the end time before the tribulation before the second coming See It didn't happen in ancient Israel. Yeah, it's a Racist isn't it funny. Isn't it funny how how biblical verses? That are directed towards the end time are in Much earlier books and not all jammed into revelation There is Daniel. They are in all there and Isaiah there is Chronologic chronological That is why when you study the Bible you open up your concordance And you look for everything Under one thing with the concordance if you are looking for let's say end time Then you would find everything on end time and you would find out Where to look that you go look. We should execute. I say Daniel So that's that's why it's important to have a concordance That's why you can't read the Bible from beginning to end and hope to understand and the King James, of course King James version All right, so that wraps it up. What do you think it's a wrap? It's a rat. It's a wrap and that ain't to eat speaking of wraps. I Picked up some corn tortillas From the ethnic market and I keep them in the freezer, you know, they're very easy to separate With a knife and I use them as bread, you know, you can use them with a hamburger You can use them with a hot dog you can use them whatever but the corn tortillas are only this big and The flower tortillas are the big ones that you can make an entire sandwich out of it and wrap it right up. I Wish they made the corn tortillas large like the flour ones Then they would be very versatile, you know, you would have your small ones and your big ones To make a sandwich because it tastes very good the corn ones, you know, speaking of the word wrap You know, I hate rap music, but I like Wrap the food, you know, Mexican food Sandwich wraps, you know, anyway a Breakfast burrito can be made at home You know, put ham or whatever sausage or whatever yours in your omelette your eggs old spices and everything and just wrap it up In the tortilla anyway I digress Like Taz says on TNA wrestling. I digress to the end time. I digress. Thank you. Thank you for joining us for Uncensored hard-picking truth And we'll catch you next week Have a safe I guess you would call it End of summer weekend Or not quite almost middle middle of summer weekend Bye-bye Say so long to these people This has been a Megalife 21 production	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcGYDH3ZHVM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC6CbAK73ohEL5XeRi0wbN9w	Preview: Global Innovation Index 2014	Global Innovation Index (GII) 2014 sneak peek from WIPO Director General Francis Gurry, and co-editors Soumitra Dutta (Cornell University) and Bruno Lanvin (INSEAD). The launch of the 2014 edition of the GII takes place on July 18, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. It ranks the innovation performance of 143 countries and economies around the world, based on 81 indicators. More on the GII: http://www.wipo.int/econ_stat/en/economics/gii/index.html This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/	[ "Global Innovation Index", "WIPO", "Cornell University", "INSEAD", "Innovation", "Innovation Ranking", "Innovation Performance", "Most Innovative Country", "OMPI", "Francis Gurry", "Soumitra Dutta", "Bruno Lanvin", "GII", "Global Innovation Index 2014", "Human Factor In Innovation", "Innovation Index", "Innovation Policy", "Rankings", "Most Innovative", "Índice mundial de innovación", "Indice mondial de l'innovation", "Leaders", "Economics", "Economic Growth", "Innovation Indices", "Benchmarking", "Benchmark", "Research", "Economics of IP" ]	2014-07-10T07:34:09	2024-04-23T02:37:52	70	pCWuZmElhko	How do we improve our quality of life? Essentially by doing things differently. How do we do things differently? Essentially by innovation. More and more competitive behavior is focused on innovation. And we see that also with respect to human capital. What we are really trying to do out here is come up with the best understanding that we have today. The most holistic understanding representation of innovation in different economies. And we certainly hope that this model and associated data and framework will enhance understanding of what is happening in the world and help both policymakers and decision leaders in business make the right decisions. We are extremely happy to be in Australia on the 18th of July. We know that the impact will be tremendous on social networks, on all kinds of media. And we invite everybody who cannot join us physically to actually connect, participate, interact because this will be the global launch of 2014.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCWuZmElhko", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q	Ash Dhupar, Publishers Clearing House \| IBM CDO Fall Summit 2018	Ash Dhupar, Chief Analytics Officer at Publishers Clearing House, talks with Rebecca Knight at IBM CDO Fall Summit 2018 in Boston, MA. #IBMCDO #AshDhupar #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/16/old-pch-does-fresh-analytics-tricks-with-hybrid-mix-ibmcdo/ Old Publishers Clearing House does fresh analytics tricks with hybrid cloud mix Picture a 65-year-old company that has amassed data on 100 million people. Suddenly, it learns that data is the new oil commodity, but its on-premises legacy computing infrastructure isn’t cut out for advanced analytics. Does it trash its data center and rush to public cloud? Or can it take a more balanced approach and still cash in? The company in question is Publishers Clearing House LLC. It markets merchandise and magazine subscriptions with sweepstakes and various games customers play to win prizes. PCH finds itself in the position that many large legacy companies are in nowadays. It has a boatload of data that cloud-native startups would love to loot, but it lacks the latter’s baggage-free agility in the computing department. “Because we are such an old company, we still have our legacy DB2 infrastructure,” said Ash Dhupar (pictured), chief analytics officer for PCH. “A lot of our back-end databases, a lot of our back-end processes are all attached to that.” Dhupar spoke with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the IBM CDO Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. They discussed how PCH serves customers’ data back to them and its hybrid IT architecture for analytics. (* Disclosure below.) On again, off again The company has invested in modernizing initiatives that leverage customers’ data to better serve them. It pools its own data with data from other sources to personalize customers’ experience on its website and through direct mail. Customer data informs the intelligent recommendation engine on its site, which accounts for 40 percent of its sales, according to Dhupar. PCH has perfected the blend of infrastructure with some on-prem-cloud compromises and trial and error. About three years ago, PCH began migrating workloads to cloud. However, it found the cloud environment lost against on-prem in some things. “We have a MapR cluster, which was cloud-based, and now we have brought it on-prem very recently,” Dhupar said. MapR is a leading platform for data analytics and artificial intelligence. Running it on-prem is cheaper and allows PCH greater control over things like data privacy, according to Dhupar. “For our web analytics, we use Google’s BigQuery — that’s where you collect a lot of data on a daily basis,” he stated. The company sidesteps sticky compliance issues by hiding personally identifiable information from analytics. “Frankly, the analytics teams don’t need the PII information to build any algorithms as well,” Dhupar concluded. Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the IBM CDO Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the IBM CDO Summit. Neither IBM, the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)	[ "SiliconANGLE Media Inc", "SiliconANGLE", "SiliconANGLE Inc", "theCUBE", "Wikibon", "John Furrier", "Dave Vellante", "Ash Dhupar", "Publishers Clearing House", "IBM CDO Fall Summit 2018", "Rebecca Knight", "#theCUBE", "@theCUBE" ]	2018-11-15T23:36:12	2024-02-05T08:43:09	787	PCAKqTMubQc	Live from Boston, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM Chief Data Officer Summit. Brought to you by IBM. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of the IBM Chief Data Summit here in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host Paul Gillan. We're joined by Ash Dupur. He is the Chief Analytics Officer at Publishers Clearinghouse. Thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. Thank you, Rebecca, for calling me here. So, Publishers Clearinghouse is a billion dollar company. We think of it as the sweepstakes company. We think of the giant checks and being the prize patrol, surprising contestants. But it's a whole lot more than that. Tell our viewers a little bit. Just explain all the vast amounts of businesses that you're in. Sure. So, in a nutshell, we are a media and entertainment company with a large base of customers, about 100 million customers who are motivated with the chance to win. That's the sweepstakes angle to it. And we have, you can categorize the business into two buckets. One is our media and entertainment side, which is the publishing side. And then the other is our retail side, which is where we send a sale merchandise to our customers. Think of us as a catalog and an e-commerce company. On the media and entertainment side, we have a very good engagement with our customers. We get about two billion page views on a monthly basis on our website. We, about 15 million unique customers on a monthly basis are coming to the site. And they spend a considerable amount of time with us on an average anywhere between 12 to 15 minutes, depending on the type of the customer. Some of our very heavily engaged customers can spend as much as about two hours a day with us. Trying to win that either the big prize or there are small prizes. Like, if you go on our site, there is a winner every day. Like, there could be a thousand dollar winner every day playing a certain type of a game. So that's the media and the entertainment side of our business. That's completely ad supported. And then we are, the retail side of the business is, we are in direct mail. So the traditional, we would send someone a direct mail package and an e-commerce company as well. Just as a small nugget of information, we are, we send almost about 400 million pieces of physical mail, which is including our packages that are sent and so on and so forth and built. So still a large direct mail company. Still profitable and still growing. I'm sure the US Postal Service is grateful for your support. They need all the help they can get. The, you collect essentially the prize money is your cost of data acquisition and you have a huge database, you told us earlier before we started filming of about 100 million people that you have data on just in the US alone. Now, what are you doing at the upper limits of what you're able to do with this data? How are you using this strategically other than just personalized email? Sure, so I think using data is a core asset for us. For us, we are utilizing in giving our customers better experiences by utilizing the data we have on them, marrying it with other data sources as well, so that we can personalize the experience, so that we can make your experience when you come on the site better. Or if you're sending something to you in mail, we give you products that are relevant to you. So to bring it down to a little more tactical level in case of when you are on our site and on our e-commerce site, there's a product recommendation engine, right, which goes in and recommends products to you on what products to buy. Those product recommendation engines drive a significant amount of sales, almost about 40% of our sales are driven by the product recommendation engines. That is all understanding of the customer, what you're buying, what you're likely to buy, and the algorithms behind it are built through that. Can you give another example, though, of how, if I were, I mean, you said all these customers are united by a common desire to win and to play a game and to win. But what are some other ways beyond product recommendation engines, which are now sort of old hat, what other ways are you enhancing the customer experience and personalizing it? Sure, sure, so I'll give you a recent example where we are utilizing some of the data to give a more relevant experience to the customer. So when a customer comes on our website, right, when you're coming to register with us. So as you register, as you fill in the form of you, give your name address and your email address, and you hit submit, at that very second, there are some algorithms that are running behind the scenes to understand how are you likely to engage with us? How are you going to, let's say, because we have a diverse business, are you likely to buy something from us? Or are you not likely to buy something from us? And if you're not likely to buy something from us, which means I can get you to, and not waste your time in showing you merchandise, but I can give you an experience of free to play games, and you can, within free to play games, what type of games, like understanding the persona of the person, we could say, hey, you probably are a lot of player, or you are a word game puzzle player, and we could give you and direct you to those experiences that are more relevant to you. In case if you're going to buy something from us, are you likely to buy, highly likely to buy or less likely to buy? Depending on that, should I show you just 10 or 15 products, or should I show you more than that? Are you more likely to buy a magazine? And so making it more relevant for the customer experience is where it is all about. We use a lot of this data to make that happen. So analytics is really core to your business. It's completely strategic. Where do you sit in the organization, organizationally? How is that reflected in the way your job is integrated into the organization? Sure, so it is, I'm part of the C-suite, and I think our CEO, he had this vision. I think he started, he loves data, first of all. And- Lucky for you. Thank you. And he truly believes that data and analytics can drive growth and bring innovation from different areas if we utilize it in the best possible way. So A.M. part of that team, and work very closely with each of the business owners. That's the key out here is like it is, analytics is not in one corner, but in the center of all the business areas, giving them either insights or building algorithms for them so that we can make either better decisions or we can power growth, depending on which way we are looking at it. In term, you're the Chief Analytics Officer, and we're here at the Chief Data Summit here. How different are the roles in your mind, and do they work together? I mean, you have a CTO that is responsible for sort of Chief Data Officer responsibilities. How do you two collaborate and work together? It is a very tight collaboration. And they're two separate jobs, but it is a very tight collaboration. We work hand in hand with each other. And the best part I would say is that, we are all focused and we are all driving towards how can we drive growth? That's the bottom line. That is where the buck stops for all of us in the companies. Are we building projects? Are we doing things that are going to grow the company or not? So the collaboration with the CTO is a critical piece. They own the infrastructure as well as the data. And when you own the data, which is in a way slightly, I would say, data governance, I would say, is a thankless job, believe it or not. But it is a critical job. It is, if your data is not right, it is not going to work for whatever you're trying to do. It's the garbage in, garbage out. We all know about that. And we work very closely. If there are CAPEX proposals that needs to be put in place because we are going after a certain big project, whether it's putting things together in one place for a 360 view of the customer, all of that is worked hand in hand. We work together in working towards that. What is your big data infrastructure like? Is it on the cloud? Is it your own? Are you Hadoop-based? What do you use? All the above. All. Now, so what we have is because we are such an old company, we still have our legacy DB2 infrastructure, a lot of our back-end databases, a lot of our back-end processes are all attached to that. We have a warehouse, a SQL Server warehouse. We also, for our web analytics, we use Google's BigQuery. That's where you collect a lot of data on a daily basis. And recently, I think about three years ago, we went into the cloud environment. We have a map, our cluster, which was cloud-based. And now we have brought it on-prem very recently. Back from the cloud? Back from the cloud on-prem. And there was very good reasoning why we did that. I think, frankly, it's cheaper on a longer term to bring that on-prem, and you're a lot more in control with all the issues with data privacy, and so it is... I hope you don't mind my interrupting, but we have to wrap here, and I need to get that question. You have data on 100 million consumers. What are you doing, with all of the attention being paid to privacy right now, what are you doing to ensure the... We have a very, very, I would say, intricate infrastructure, data governance, data, there's a whole slew of, I would say, people and processes around that to make sure that our data is not exposed. Now, luckily, it is not like PII to the level that it's a healthcare data, so you are not really... You have information that is crazy, but you still have the PII, the name and address of these customers. And as an example, none of the PII data is actually available to even to the analytics folks. It's all stripped, the PII is stripped off, you give us an ID to the customer, and frankly, the analytics team don't need the PII information to build any algorithms as well. So, there is a whole process around keeping the data secure. Great. Well, Ash, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE, it was a pleasure having you. Thank you, and thank you for inviting me. I'm Rebecca Knight for Paul Gillan. We will have more from the IBM CDO Summit just after this.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAKqTMubQc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC1NF71EwP41VdjAU1iXdLkw	Will never forget meeting with PM Modi: HS Prannoy	Subscribe Now: https://goo.gl/8qsb5E Stay Updated! 🔔 Follow us to stay updated: ► Download the NM App: http://nm4.in/dnldapp ► Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/narendramodi	[ "Narendra modi", "modi", "prime minister of india", "pmo india", "pmo", "pm narendra modi", "pm modi", "pm modi speech", "pm narendra modi speech", "pm modi speech today", "namo", "pm of india", "pm modi speech latest", "pm modi latest speech", "modi speech", "india", "narendra modi youtube", "narendra modi latest speech 2022", "modi speech today", "modi live", "modi live news", "prime minister narendra modi" ]	2022-05-22T05:19:57	2024-04-23T01:11:32	20	PctoddPHCUw	It's been really exciting to be out here to meet Prime Minister Sir and I think he had called us back when we were in Thailand and he congratulated but then to meet him in person, to meet him in real I think it was just something else and I think this is one day which I will never forget in my life.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PctoddPHCUw", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCWdOXab4Vup48wvCFG-ElNQ	Elite Dangerous: Jameson's Greatest Achievement	Elite Dangerous: Jameson’s Greatest Achievement Inspired by the Audio mix and music created by Jan Trensinger. Warning: Potential Spoilers if you've not visited the Jameson Crash site in HIP 12099. =============== Buy Elite and Frontier stuff! 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Now I know I said I'd be coming home soon, but they've asked me to do something, something important, and I couldn't say no. I wanted to be there, believe me, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices, and well this is one of those times. I don't know if that makes much sense to you, but maybe it will do when you're older. Anyway, I thought I'd send you this log. I know it's not the same as being there in person, but it's the best I could do. I'm sorry. I'm not really supposed to talk about my mission, but if I'm going to miss your birthday, the least I could do is give you a good story. Consider yourself sworn a secrecy soldier, okay? I'm sitting in the cockpit waiting for the old clear. They want to tinker with her for a while first, but they don't seem to have done any harm. All systems online, everything's looking good. I said I wasn't feeling just a little jittery. They're high shifts. That's a whole different story. Classified, they said. All I know is it's designed to target the bug's hyperdrive, so they won't be able to leave the system. Of course, it doesn't work. I'm just kicking the hornet's nest. That's why I've sent my nav system. Jump out as soon as I'm deployed to payload. You can't be too careful. Wish me luck. I've never seen a high ship up close before. It was amazing, kiddo. Well, I just have smart they are. I will advance. Remind myself it wasn't them I was attacking, just their technology. As if this microwave fires theirs even works. I watched the payload rocket into the belly of their ship and stuck around just long enough to make sure it hit home. Then I punched this one. That's what they told me. Just the hyperdrive, so we'd be safe again. So we could live without fear. There were sensors on the payload, so I could monitor the reaction and make sure it activated properly. I'm staring at the date now. I grabbed my ship and sent it to trigger after I deployed the payload. My system's dead. The controls are out. Can't even access the escape pod. I guess I should have known they wouldn't be coming back. The bugs are dangerous, no doubt about it. Well, this is mass murder we're talking about. You can understand why they want to keep it a secret. I know some men wouldn't want to admit they've killed thousands of sentient beings. I guess the guys back at base think they're doing me favor by burying me out here in the black. Personally, I'd rather people knew what happened come out of it looking too good. I don't have much time. There's a big old plan in my viewport and it's getting bigger in a second. People will talk about what I did after I'm gone. The missions I flew, the things I accomplished. There's something I want you to remember. What they say. But if it garlands they handle my name. Whatever they write in my tune stuff. Greatest Achievement. Love you son.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCknp8xCmeY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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तो खेडा कहापर है? गुजरात में और यहापर पिछले वर्स के मुखाबले वर्त्मान वर्स का उत्पादन एक छोथाइ से कम ता तो यहाप के तो किसान ते मोहल लाल पान्टेया और संकर लाल पारीक इनके कहने पर गान्दी खेडा गये और गान्दी ने यहापर सच्तिआग्रा किया और गान्दी को सब भारत आने के बाड चंपार नहम्दाबात खेडा और और खान्दी अपर सच्सिएग्रा किया और खान्दी को सब भारत आने के बाड चंबार नहम्दाबात खेडा यह थीन प्रमुग गतनाय है इंसे गान्दी जुडे ते और खान्दी सपल होते चलेगे उसके बात क्या हूएज कि गान्दीने विर्वें क्या आप याभा है। कि गांदीने Österreich Yogyahafi kya hain येागसुन्निस सबिस्कों असहियो गाँडोलं की है।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।।। देखिया मभी केवल संश्व्ष्ट्रूब में आपको बतार है जिता आपको जरूगी है लेकिन बहारत में मारच में रोलेत अग्ट ताया रोलेत अग्ट जिसके कारन जलिया अला बाग आत्या कान्द हूँँ बाता लेकिन वु चाते गान्दी जलिया औला बाग घणा में हिसा ले सकते थे लेकिन उसके पहले ही उनको थ्लगतार गर लिया गया इसी लिया जलिया अला बाग आत्या कान्द में किवल इतना योग्टान है इशकिवोचा आप फ्रॉडौएम �Оग जल्तेथारून झाना मैं छार देतेकता है। वी। लोगेद आओऔद आप कोंगाई के लगी। 6 April 1919 को नादीने रोलेट सथ्ट्टागरा का गठन किया था तिक इसे रोलेट सथ्ट्टागरा भी के सकते है या आपको अपका सभाल बूमा देगा इसे सथ्ट्टागरा सभाभी आपके सकते है फिर असक्बाद गांदी को पकल डिया गया उनको वाने नहीं दिया गया, इसके बाद वो जलीया वाल अबबाग ध्या कान मेहिस्सा नहीं लेपाए फिर क्या हुँँँँ, कि प्रत्हम्विषुद के बाद इराग को तुरकी से अलग कर दिया गया बाद के मुस्लिमोंने अग्रेजों की सहाइता इसी लिए की फिर क्या वाद के भाद किसी दहारमिक नीती में अग्रेज रस्तक शेप नहीं करेंगे लेकि प्रत्हम्विषुद की समापती हुँँँँँ, और अग्रेजों के लिया इसंगाम दर मेक होटा था खलीपा जो की सर्विस्रेष्ट होता था राँक को तुरकी से लाख करके मित्र राश्तों अपस में बाप लिया और खलीपा के अस्तित को समापत कर दिया जिसके बीरोध में भारत में अली प्रदर्श ने ख्लाफद पाल्टी का गंतं बाते रही है, तब तक के लिए जैहिंद जैबारत धन्निबार	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3lsBZNlDs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCuMju9suI0zVyIkEv1_vbUw	Better Call Saul's MICHAEL McKEAN hilarious revenge, a must see for any comedian	Michael McKean is hilarious so when I asked if he ever did stand up, he told me about attending a miserable open mic. For those of you who have never been to a windowless basement and lost a little of your soul, McKean offers a little glimpse into the deadening experience. He also offers the most cathartic solution that you too can do! From Laverne and Shirley to Spinal Tap to the X-Files to Better Call Saul, which is in its second season on FX, Michael McKean continues to create iconic characters. He is also a Grammy winning, Oscar-nominated singer songwriter, and has appeared on television, stage and screen in over 225 productions and counting. As if you needed another to reason to fall in love with the brilliant Michael McKean, he tells Catie Lazarus on Employee of the Month about the subversive, yet subtle, little cure-all he concocted against an obnoxious shmuck. To hear our full conversation, listen to Employee of the Month podcast on SoundCloud or iTunes. New interviews each week. Connect with EOTM: Website: http://employeeofthemonthshow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EOTMS Twitter: http://twitter.com/CatieLazarus iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/employeeofthem... Youtube: http://bit.ly/EOTMyt Recorded February 2016 at Joe's Pub \| Audio mixed by Alex Syner \| Video by Adam Abel, Meredith Kaufman Younger, and Fernando Azevedo \| Edited by Meredith Kaufman Younger \| Graphics by Ed Mundy \| Theme Music by Eric Biondo Band featuring MC Jelly Donut and Shockwave, both of Freestyle Love Supreme. www.employeeofthemonthshow.com	[ "Michael McKean", "Catie Lazarus", "Employee of the Month" ]	2016-03-09T17:14:42	2024-02-05T17:35:18	64	Pc3guPVMOy4	So I was sitting at the bar waiting for my my piece. It was just an open mic thing and so there was this there's woman up there and she was pretty funny you know I she was she was okay she was scoring okay and I thought she was pretty funny and the guy was just trashing her kind of under his breath. Jesus Christ you know he was just really just trashing her and so then when he goes up he goes up before me and he says look pal would you do me a favor would you turn on my tape recorder when I get up there so I said fine you know and I turned on his tape recorder and through his whole set I went what the fuck is this This is the worst fucking comic I've ever seen. I have no idea who he was I hope he went home and cried.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3guPVMOy4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCBdj_mp0p9oqPDzeN-Wjjlg	The San Francisco Cable Car: a conversation with Taryn Edwards and Rick Laubscher	Moderated by Matthew Félix. Mayor Breed has announced that San Francisco’s historic cable cars will begin running again the first week of August. To celebrate join biographer Taryn Edwards and Rick Laubscher president of Market Street Railway for a conversation about Andrew Smith Hallidie and the invention and the importance of the cable car to San Francisco’s history, development, character, and culture. Moderated by Matthew Félix. Taryn Edwards is an historian and librarian for the Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco. In addition to her professional duties she spends a lot of private time digging up history of the place and people associated with it. She is working on the life of Andrew Smith Hallidie and her research interests include San Francisco’s early libraries (there were lots!), industrial exhibitions and fairs, mechanics’ institutes worldwide, and the technological innovations that were born in the Bay Area. Find out more at tarynedwards.com Rick Laubscher is a fourth generation San Franciscan, former journalist, and civic leader who currently serves as board chair of the Union Square Foundation and as President and CEO of Market Street Railway, an independent nonprofit group focused on preserving historic transit in San Francisco. He is the author of On Track: A Field Guide to San Francisco's Historic Streetcars and Cable Cars. More information on Market Street Railway's work at www.streetcar.org. Matthew Félix is an author, podcaster, and speaker. On his Matthew Félix on Air and as Program Director and Host of the San Francisco Writers Conference podcast, he has interviewed NY Times bestselling authors, leaders of organizations such as LitQuake, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the Mill Valley Film Festival, and notable figures in fields as diverse as travel, health, and the environment. Matthew has also spoken about subjects ranging from creativity to podcasting to marketing for authors. Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize called Matthew’s debut novel, A Voice Beyond Reason, “(a) highly crafted gem,” and his latest book, Porcelain Travels, won Gold for Humor in the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Awards and was a Foreword INDIES Humor Book of the Year Award finalist.	null	2021-08-04T19:35:10	2024-04-23T17:06:02	4,182	PCe8Lan-Rj4	Okay, welcome to the San Francisco cable car a conversation with Taryn Edwards, and Rick lobster. My name is miles Cooper, I'm one of the librarians at mechanics Institute. And for those of you who are not familiar with mechanics, we're an independent membership organization. We have a beautiful library with great books, and we're the oldest library in California designed to serve the public. We also have many events author talks, we are a cultural event center, and we have a world renowned chess club. We have virtual events you're attending one now thank you for joining us. If you're live or watching this on YouTube. We also have in person events right now we have a Tuesday night marathon for all of you chess players you can join us wearing a mask and play a rated game. So membership of mechanics is only $120 you get a lot of for your money. So please join or renew your membership we appreciate that. Okay. Without further ado, I'm going to pass the mic over to Matthew Felix who's an author, podcaster and speaker, and the host of the San Francisco writers conference podcast and actually before I do that if you have questions. You can type them in the chat, and we will try to get to those at the end of our presentation. So welcome and Matthew. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, everyone for being here tonight so we're really excited today obviously it's a big day for the cable car. So thanks for being with us tonight to celebrate that. And I'm going to be in conversation with two people who know a lot more about the cable car than I do. Starting with Taryn Edwards, Taryn you probably already know if you've attended other mechanics Institute events. Taryn is a historian and librarian here at the mechanics Institute. The research interests include San Francisco's early libraries, industrial exhibitions and fairs mechanics institutes worldwide, and the technology technological innovations that were born here and continue to be born here in the Bay Area. She also happens to be very interested in the life of Andrew Smith, Hallity, and she shares her research on him on her blog, which you can find at Tara, Taryn Edwin's Tara. And Taryn Edwards calm. Big lobster is a fourth generation San Franciscan, a former journalist and a civic leader who currently serves as board chair of the Union Square Foundation, and as president and CEO of the Market Street Railway, which is an independent nonprofit group, focused on preserving transit in San Francisco. He's also author of on track, a field guide to San Francisco's historic streetcars and cable cars. Welcome, Taryn and Rick. Thank you. Let's start off with the man behind the cable car the man to whom the cable car is attributed I'm going to start with you Taryn since that again as I mentioned in the bio is an area of particular interest to you, Andrew Smith, Hallity. So without getting into his role related to the cable car which obviously we're going to talk about at length momentarily. Can you just give us an idea of who he was who the man was. Absolutely. Andrew Smith holiday, Mr holiday as I call him at Mechanics Institute. He was one of the most extraordinary people that I have never met his life. His life was crammed with invention, near death experiences, selfless service to civic causes that he cared about. He was a tireless supporter of San Francisco's industrial and educational interests. He was a firm believer in women's educational rights and a champion of working class children. And on top of that, he was until the end of his life in 1900 he was California's premier wire rope manufacturer. And thus, he was the, some people say he was the inventor I like to say he was the father of San Francisco's game changing means of transportation. Okay, but more importantly, hold on, more importantly, he was involved with San Francisco's libraries with the University of California with the Mechanics Institute was a really well rounded person. Sounds like it. And he wasn't born in the States, if I'm not mistaken. No, he was born in London in 1834. And how did he end up coming to the States and end up specifically in San Francisco. Well, his father who was an inventor himself suffered some bankruptcies during the gold rush, and in 1852 decided to take advantage of some opportunities that came his way and bring himself and his two sons to California. And they ended up in the Mariposa mining area. And how did that go for them. Not very well things did not pan out. Unintended pun intended pun intended. Okay, so things didn't pan out. And then what happened to father and son at that point. Father decided to go back home and, and publish a book. So many of us do, but he left his teenage son, Andrew alone in the, in the mining area in the in the Sierras and Andrew bounced around for a few different years, a few years doing various things before landing in San Francisco and starting his own wire rope manufacturing business in 1857. Okay. And so we're going to talk about the wire rope manufacturing obviously because that was fundamental or is fundamental to the cable car. But you mentioned he was very, very involved at the civic level and in society. How was he involved specifically I don't think you mentioned this just now specific to the mechanics Institute he had a very close relationship with the mechanics Institute. Can you tell us a little bit more about that if you didn't already I don't think you mentioned this. Well, he was involved with mechanics for about 40 years of his life, 14 of which he served as president. And it's not why you call him Mr. Hallity. Out of respect for his, for his service or does that come from someplace else. You know, in the 19th century, you hardly ever referred to someone by their first name. See, even if you are married. Mrs. Halliday would always say, well, Mr. Halliday will be home soon. Interesting. And so you just kind of you just kind of carried that forth as you've developed your research to him and learn more about him. Exactly. You almost never see him referred to as Andrew. It's always Mr. Halliday so I just. Interesting. Okay. Okay. Interesting. What are some other positions because he I think he ran for mayor. Can you just give us an example or a few more examples of how involved he was in society because it was it was very impressive. He was on several boards and commissions, he ran for mayor, he ran for Senate, he founded the San Francisco Public Library. More importantly, he was the, the impetus and the vision behind garnering public funding for libraries at the state level. He also draft the actual law that provided public funding for libraries in 1878. It's called the Rogers Free Library Act. But believe me, Mr. Halliday was dreaming it three, four or five years earlier. And it's named for his partner in crime, Senator George Rogers. Okay. So he really he was really a supporter of learning and public learning learning learning for the public it sounds like throughout his life. He was actually useful knowledge, he was very concerned about people learning a skill that would help them succeed in life. So he wasn't so much interested in a, I mean he was interested in a broad liberal arts education, but he, his main interest was industrial vocational and mechanical training. Okay, interesting. So, so let's go back to some mechanical training or some mechanical skills that he had that again, you mentioned the wire rope, the cable. Can you, and that came of his experience while he was actually involved in mining. So can you tell us a little bit more about how him being a minor led to development of that, of that wire rope. Well wire rope came to him since birth. I mean his father was the first person in the English speaking world to patent the concept of wire rope. And he did that in, in January of 1835. And so, how it is father would spend, you know the next 20 years perfecting this technology, as would holiday's older brothers, and holiday himself in the United States. So, so yes, holiday started a wire rope manufacturing business in 1857 but really he learned it his father's knee how to make it. Interesting. Now Rick, can you tell us a little bit about, I don't know I'm curious is the wire rope or the cable that we use today is that the same as what we started with when Andrew holiday. We started the cable car and developed the cable car has it changed and what, and what do we mean by wire rope, a little more specifically. Well, wire rope is the same thing as cable. Okay. And how they use wire rope as as Sharon pointed out he was the leading manufacturer of it. And it was used in had a lot of application in mining work to carry aerial buckets of or or tailings above the ground. How he saw an opportunity to extend his brand, if you will, or extend the use of his product. It's pretty much made the same way. If I remember correctly, there's a core of sizel or other very durable fiber plant fiber that is surrounded by strands of little wires that are bundled into braided wire. The whole thing is is very strong and it's very heavy. Go ahead. Yeah, no I was just going to say that it was just really interesting to me when I was preparing for today and that's why I asked the question and you got it right by the way sorry if I threw you a trick question there but you got it right. And so far as how the wire or the cable rather is actually pretty complicated it's not just a piece of, you know, a couple pieces of metal kind of twisted together which was really interesting to me. I'm going to cheat and defer to that infallible source that we know as Wikipedia. So we had to take this with a little bit of grain assault but this seems in you can correct me if if what I read sounds up sounds off but it seems legit. Quote, each cable is 1.25 inches or 3.2 centimeters in diameter, running at a constant speed of 9.5 miles per hour and driven by a 510 horsepower electric motor located in the central powerhouse. Each cable and this is what you were just talking about that I found so interesting. Each cable has six steel strands with each strand containing 19 wires wrapped around as you just said a size rope core to allow for easier gripping. And then it says to protect the cable, each one is coated with a tar like material which serves as a sacrificial lubricant. I love that term, much like a pencil eraser roads away rather than than paper. So, so yeah I just thought it was interesting you know we might just see this cable and just think it's a bunch of metal sort of twisted together or whatever but there's a lot there's a lot going on there each strand has 19 wires so I just thought that was that that was fascinating. Yeah, and just so you know, the cable, the cable car shops and operators and everyone else always referred to it as the rope. It's never referred to it to cable. And that's why I wasn't sure because we call it wire rope, but then I'm glad you clarified I didn't know if cable and wire rope was the same thing or why do they refer to it as such. And when you look at the pavement markings the operators. They know this by heart but on the pavement in front of the car between the rails is a series of messages in yellow paint telling the operators what to do. If, for example, there's a double X. That means mandatory stop you must stop you can't roll through that. If there is a saying that says let go. That means you must drop the cable because the cable under the streets about to turn in another direction underground to go back to the cable barn for for winding. Or when you cross the other cable line at Powell in California Street. If you don't do that. There is a, these are all 19th century devices with 20th century 21st century monitoring capabilities with alarms and things like that. There's a bumper bar they call it that forces the cable out of the grip, so that the cable so that the grip will not cut the crossing cable in half, right, or, or anything like that and and that is a very interesting, very interesting arrangement. We're going to talk more about the grip and the brakes as well because like you said the technology is is fascinating in addition to the to the wire rope that the grip and the breaking is fascinating we're going to talk about that in in a little bit. But Taryn, let's let's move away from the technology just just momentarily and let's talk about because now we've established how we got kind of the main piece which is is the wire rope or the cable. Tell us about I know that as you've been doing your research, you've you've touched on how there's there's a lot of mythology surrounding both and Mr. Mr. Halady as I'm going to try to remember to refer to him now. Mr. Halady, and, and how the cable car came to be. Now it seems as if there is one story that seems to have, we seem to have settled on as whether it's urban myth, or whether it's not, we seem to have settled on it's sort of the definitive how Halady came to sort of decide wait I need to get the idea and decide to implement the cable car. Can you tell us what that what that story is. Yes. They claimed in a, in a later statement about the, how the idea of the cable car came to him. He claimed that one winter evening, he witnessed a terrific horse car accident where a horse car basically careened down the hillside and the horses were mutilated and he said that is why I decided to do something about it and put my thinking cap on, in order to solve that problem of accidents on the transit system for San Francisco transit system. But I really think that that is a wonderful story and surely he saw horse car accidents as did everyone who was alive at that time, but the reality is that using cable using wire rope for transit purposes, had been on Halady's mind, since birth practically, because of experiments that his father was doing on the black wall railway which was an early cable drawn railroad in London. He also was involved with using cable drawn steam plows and mining elevators, and all kinds of exciting applications of wire rope with to use to move people and things basically, and how they himself had his holiday tramway, which was an elevated vehicle that moved or across the countryside. And that is very much like a modern day ski lift, but and the, the notion of it can easily translate to an underground cable system which is what the cable car is today. So not such a big jump and, and maybe the horse accident like you said he saw them but whether or not that was actually the definitive moment that the aha moment for him. We'll never know. But what we do know is that he did have the idea, whenever and however he had the idea, but then something else that I learned and preparing for today that was really interesting to me was the city didn't just pay for it, he had to come up with the money himself. Can you tell us how he went about that and how his, his, his attempts to do so were received by the public. Yes, well, holiday at that time in the 1869 1870 and earlier than that actually, when he was thinking about how to apply his, his endless wire ropeway concept to the streets of San Francisco. He was president of the Mechanics Institute at that time, and his fellow board members were friends, and more importantly bankers. That helps. Yeah, and so, you know, two gentlemen that he knew Joseph Britain, which was a lefager, he was a lefager for he made maps and other pieces of art. He and Henry Davis, who was sheriff, a sheriff of San Francisco. They, Mr Davis also happened to be the president of the National Gold Bank and trust. And together, these three guys, they got together and convinced other people. It was Moffitt, who was a paper manufacturer and also a banker to, you know, gather together gather their funds and, and help get the funding for the cable cars research and development. Of course, they couldn't, you know, it's very, very, very expensive endeavor. And so holiday had to put a great deal of his own money to front the project. And it cost over $40,000 which I don't know what that would cost today but well as luck would have it. As luck would have it, I did do a little conversion because you said in the research that you shared with me that $40,000 came from him, but that there was another $60,000 from from all those bankers and things so that it ended up being closer maybe to $100,000 which to in today's money would be over $2 million, which I thought was again, really interesting. It sounds reasonable. It sounds reasonable, right for a for a for a cable car, the first, the world's first cable car line. So it, so it started operating and that was called again the clay street hill railroad it opened today in 1873. And as we know today of course like we said in the beginning, the reason we're doing this today is because we just got to reopen our own got to reopen the cable cars. And if you have a question, I don't know. And this again is from Wikipedia, because my research is impeccable like yours, Karen. But I'm going to read a quote here, and I'm going to ask both you and Rick your opinions on this so the first successful cable car was clay street hill railroad which opened today the promoter of the line was holiday, and the engineer was William Michael Schimer accounts differ as to the precise degree of holidays involvement in the inception of the line and to the exact date on which it first ran. Now Rick, on your site. What is it street streetcar.org. No, is that right. Yeah, streetcar.org right streetcar.org. You do attribute the invention of the cable car to holiday so are you it sounds as if you're fairly confident that despite what this is kind of there's a little doubt, you feel pretty confident that he deserves the credit for the invention of the cable car. Well, yes and no. I mean I concur with Tehran that you know this this was not one person's invention. It was an iterative process that created, you know, a new technology, the cable had been used in use before for other uses and the concept was pretty simple. Apple Simmer's contribution was considerable. In fact, the grips that are used on the city's cable cars today were invented, definitely invented by apple Simmer, not by, not by hality who's, who's grips on the original clay cars were pretty, pretty primitive. I don't know whether hality engine engineered those himself. It's not clear to me. He engineered them himself but as with all inventions he was improving upon someone else's patent, namely the man named Fowler who made a steamplow in England and holiday when discussing his own grip says I am basically improving upon Fowler's grip. And like I said we're going to talk about grips in a second, but Tehran, can you tell us about there's another urban legend myths that again this one I also discovered in your in your research about that first day about that first run of the cable cars and about some hesitation that someone had it right at that that moment when they were supposed to launch can you share that story with us. Hality owned a franchise to build a railway. I won't tell you what the exact streets because it's there are so many and it's complicated and five minutes of that is very boring, but don't tell us we don't want to hear it then. Construction construction began on the line in June of 1873 with an August 1 deadline, but you know things take a long time to build, and even though everyone was pushing to get it done. Midnight past, but they were almost ready and just past midnight which is technically the next day August 2. So there's started up that they started up the steam engines and that, I believe was the Leavenworth and clay powerhouse at that time. So they're at the top of Clay Street Hill it's 5am. There's a small party of engineers ready to ride down the hill, and the grip man, the story goes. He was an old locomotive engineer so used to driving on the flat. He looked down the steep hill of Clay Street and lost his nerve. And holiday, he was completely confident in his invention he said, thanks I'll take over. He jumps in he takes hold of the grip. So using the grip he picks up the cable that was running down the slot in the street, and he took the car straight down its first descent down Clay Street through the fog. What a hero. What are you well you know the people at the top of the hill were like, we don't hear anything. So holidays meanwhile is going down. And when the car reached the bottom, it spun around on a turntable just like just like we use today, and he pulled it back up the summit of Clay Street. And of course, you know he's comes up through the fog, and everyone was delighted and of course it was a success but it was actually August 2. But the city, you know they were thrilled. And so they didn't really, you know, call him on that. Well, I'm glad they were so forgiving. So Rick something else that was really interesting to me that I did not know is so we have that first line, which again was the Clay Street Hill Railroad. If I'm saying that yeah Clay Street Hill Railroad. And so I think today if we built a line on some sort of public transportation although I guess it wasn't entirely public but we would probably just build out from that initial line but that there are many lines that were followed scattered all over the city. There was a Sutter Street Railway the California Street cable railroad and others, but they were all built independently. Can you tell us a little bit about how that happened and why that happened. Sure. In those days, all transit lines were built by private enterprise financed by bankers expecting to make profits off of the nickel fare, which is what it costs to ride. And San Francisco was no different than the eastern cities that that had horse car lines, and then later adopted cable car technology, and then later electric street cars after that. And it was all based on what I describe as renting the street. You paid the city the municipality for a, in essence, a license to operate your vehicles in their street in the public right of way, and you had an exclusive right for that, that stretch of street. And it cost you money. That was part of the cost of doing business. No municipality had the wherewithal or really the desire to operate public transit systems until early in the 20th century when a couple small cities did it. And then San Francisco started the municipal railway in 1912 in reaction largely to corruption on the part of this conglomerate called United Railroads, which had taken over many of these little private companies that you describe. In the 1860s, 70s and 80s, right. And they bribed the entire board of supervisors, for example, and the mayor to allow them to string overhead wires on Market Street immediately after the 1906 earthquake and fire, so that they could convert the operation from cable cars to much faster and larger street cars. Right. So let's, let's take a step back though, let's put the brakes on for a second. And let's I'm just curious, Rick, your thoughts on, so as this, as this, this network is expanding even though it's different lines but but there's still a network that's expanding throughout the city so how did that change the city, how did that change its character and and its development, having this this new network of transportation. No, it changed tremendously. Before Paladins cable car and then the construction, a few years later at the California Street cable railroad company by Leon Stanford and others. The big fancy part of town was South Park on Third Street, about six, five blocks south of Market Street because it was flat to get there. You know, Nob Hill was at great views and all that stuff but it was very difficult to get up. And so it really changed the direction of development in the city from North South, you know, in the immediate what we now call soma to East West out of the series of streets that carried you to what we now call Richmond District through the Western Edition. Interesting. Interesting. Taryn anything to add there I mean because I'm sure we could just spend just an hour talking about how how the cable car affected development but any sort of high level things to add about that. I don't know about high level but you know on the flats, good nuggets. You know the, as, as the city developed as industry developed and more things started to be made locally, you know factories were right next to the fancy neighborhoods or even just working class neighborhoods and the smells of, you know, smells, you know, the downtown flat area what we call downtown now south of south of Market. South of the slot as they say, you know it was full of factories and really not a place for people to live after the silver rush so 1870s 1880s, you wouldn't be caught dead loving there it was dirty and nasty. And the cable cars change that cable car that enable people to live elsewhere further further afield right right. Okay, so we've mentioned a few times the grip is obviously very important to how the cable car works so Rick, can you, can you tell those of us who don't know who are familiar. First of all, what is the grip we've like I said we've mentioned it a few times and how does it work because it is interesting technology. It's very simple technology, the cable cars you point out runs at a constant nine and a half miles an hour under the street. And it's directly below a slot in between the two rails that carry the wheels of the cable car. Everybody's seeing the way the cable car tracks look the grip slips right through the middle of that slot. And, and you, you put the grip in there when you leave the cable car bar. You have an open pit and then the grip slides right into the beginning of that slot and it stays in there for the whole day, unless it has to be removed a very few locations because it wears out or something goes wrong. Grip basically works like a giant pair of pliers. When the grip man, and they are almost all men there are now a couple of female grips in history and so I guess I should say grips. When the gripper pulls back on the lever that is the grip lever, the dies, which are big pieces of rather soft metal clothes around the cable, just like a pair of pliers would close, you know, and they hold it tight, as long as the grip is in a certain position. There are a lot of times when you don't want the cable fully gripped for example when you have to stop at each corner. So what happens then is you, you release the grip about halfway, and then the cable it's like a little hole in the pair of pliers. The cable is still encircled by the grip, but it can run freely in between. It's a very simple system. Right, but releasing the grip isn't enough to stop completely. So how does it stop? How do the cable cars stop? It sounds like there are three ways they might stop. There's three sets of brakes, and they're again, they're all mechanical. The first are the wheel brakes, which are simply pieces of metal that are used to rub up against the outside of the wheels and slow them down. And that metal also tends to be a little softer composition, because if it were too hard, it wouldn't work as well. And then you have the track brakes, which are pieces of cedar or pine. They've used both over time that are pre-cut by Muni today in their wood shop, and they're made by the thousands literally, and they are put between the wheels in a spring-loaded device so that when you either step on the foot pedal or turn the crank for, you know, you are pressing the wood against the rail. And that is something that gives you the characteristic smell when you are, you know, when the cable car is slowing down. Right. The final one is called the emergency brake, and it's just what it says over the slot brake. And that is, that's kind of a last resort thing. There's a red lever in the front of every cable car, and it simply releases a piece of metal designed and sized to go into the slot and stay there, like a guillotine. And that stops the cable car right now. And so you don't use it, except in extreme emergency, because in some cases, if the car's going downtown, downhill, and all the other brakes have failed, if you pull the slot blade, as they call it, you can actually take the car off its wheelset. Thanks. So this all sounds really physical. The grip and the brake, it sounds very physical. So is that safe to assume that the job of the grip woman or the grip man is pretty physical? It's extremely physical. Yeah. Anybody who's tried it knows, you know, that it's not something to trifle with, but it's also an art. It's not just brute strength. There are techniques involved to it, which, which grips who are really experienced and expert will, you know, know how to do to relieve the strain, specifically on your back. You know, your back and your shoulders are the two that things that, you know, really get a workout. Right, right. So let's go back to, to the history. So that's kind of how the cable car came to be and some of the technology related to the cable car, the fundamental pieces of technology. Again, according to Wikipedia, I read that we ended up with 23 cable car lines at one point, whether that's somewhere, you know, more than 20 lines, we now have three. What were some of the factors that led to the decline of the cable car? The biggest one was the electric straight car. Cable cars, when they were perfected, were not only usable on hills, but they were twice as fast on flat ground like Market Street than the horse cars they replaced. And maintaining horses was extremely expensive. Despite Halliday's story about the abuse of horses, you know, and all that sort of stuff, which inspired him. Railway companies had every incentive to take good care of their, of their horses and their service lives were not very long. And, you know, it costs a lot to feed them. So it would take something to justify this huge capital investment and it was very sizable in all this underground paraphernalia that made a cable system work with horses at least all you needed was two rails. You know, and, and so the technology because of its efficacy and its greater speed than with the dominant public transport of the time, which were horse-drawn streetcars, spread very quickly. Cable cars were soon introduced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sydney, Australia, London, Paris. I mean, it was amazing. And just like that, they were eclipsed by the invention or perfection, I should say, in 1887 by Frank Sprague in Richmond, Virginia of the electric streetcar, which in turn was twice as fast as the cable car and did not require all the comprehensive underground installations. So most of these surface, most of these flatline cable cars in San Francisco and elsewhere disappeared very quickly as soon as their owners could convert them to electric streetcars. Makes sense. So, Taren, this might be a trick question because I don't know if there's actually if we, if it's something we can actually answer definitively. So if not, just it's okay. But can we trace, I mean, because obviously, you know, well, can we trace the point in history more or less where we went from perceiving and seeing cable cars as basically a mode of transportation to them becoming sort of an iconic part of, of our city's identity, or is it just something that maybe happened over time and, I mean, as a historian, is there any do we have a sense of kind of when and how that happened or was it just so gradual. It's kind of hard to say. Well, I would say, you know, the, the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed a lot of the cable cars and the lines and of course that was an opportunity for people to convert to electric railways. But some of the lines survived. And I think that after 1906, when the city was kind of rebuilt partially still but I think people started to become more concerned and more interested in things that make San Francisco quintessential. What is the essential thing and certainly in the 1940s and 1950s, there was kind of a revival of interest in the cable car in fact to coffee table style books came out one by Edgar Myron Khan who was a railroad enthusiast, and the other by Lucius Bebe and he was kind of a writer and a kind of humorous thinker. I'm sure he did other things I just don't recall what he did but you know they both published books about how wonderful the cable car is. So I think, and certainly when these books were published. There just was a sense of isn't San Francisco great. Isn't it wonderful, all the things that we love about San Francisco martinis and cable cars one of those things. I love that that's interesting I didn't know about those two books and how they might have played a role in that that's interesting. Rick, in more simple terms, why do we love cable cars. We love cable towers. You know, they they they fit into the set they're unique to San Francisco now. There are, you know, people say well this there's a cable car here there those are technically different things. Yeah, and there's certainly no system that's it's extensive. Sorry. Take that. If you need to take that we can wait. I turned off my phone. I don't know what happened. Technology, technology can't love it can't can't live with it can't live without it. Anyway, you were saying it's ours, the cable car. There are, there are, there are are uniquely ours and there is a mythology around them or not mythology but a nostalgic thing that a baby and his his partner Charles Clegg in their book and also Edgar con did really kind of heat up in the 1940s. And that caught the attention of Friedel Kussman, who I assume we may talk about here, a woman who was very active in garden clubs and other things at a time when women were not allowed really in society to have responsible, responsible governmental leadership positions or even civic leadership positions other than women's positions and Friedel, who I got to know very well in her later years, and her associates in the garden club of San Francisco and other places said, they were devotees of cons book they knew the romance of the cable car and the stories of a San Francisco that even then was bygone. The day when the cable car conductor would stop the and gripman would stop the cable car in the middle of the block to let you off at your home. And that you know the gentler kindlers kinder San Francisco and her cane, who was at that time a very prominent columnist with a chronicle started to amplify that you know it was it was something that was just ours. The cable cars were kept safe until 1944 because the franchise to operate them belong to a company called Market Street Railway for which our nonprofit is named. 1944 muni took over Market Street Railway and inherit these cable cars that, frankly, their management didn't want and neither did the city, because they cost the city money they were losing money at muni at the time was supposed to make a profit believe it or and so a shipping magnate son of a shipping magnate from the east coast a man named Roger Lapham, who was the mayor and coincidentally was the grandfather of loose lapham later longtime editor partners but I digress. Roger Lapham as mayor said I'm going to modernize the city these things are junk we're going to get rid of them they're they're they're relics. And Friedel said no, no, we're not going to do that. And in a ballot measure that she got put on the ballot night November 1947 she handed the mayor his head metaphorically. And so that, you know that's kind of further burnished. Yes, the image of the cable cars in San Francisco. We are running out of time. So I'm just going to ask a couple quick questions and then because I do want to leave time for Q amp a like Miles said at the beginning. And I'm sure people have lots of questions. But so let's just let's fast forward now to to now to coven the cable cars got shut down last March, they got reopened again today. Something I read in the LA Times said that Jeff Tumlin director of the San Francisco MTA cautioned that the system would still be in testing mode in August and writers should expect delays. So I was I was kind of surprised to that not that, not that we would expect delays but just this idea that I guess we can't just flip a switch I mean because we have had the cable cars and operation for more than 100 years. I'll just very briefly because like I said we are out of time. Can you just give us a high level sense of what's involved in getting them operating again because it's clearly like I said it's we're not just flipping a switch there's obviously more involved. There are people who will, I mean, we could debate about this for a long time but the short answer is, there are those inside the cable car system who think the system could have been brought back in a shorter time frame. It was, but I can certainly understand the top management's caution and you know desired to set expectations at a low level. I can tell you that this morning I rode the cable car with the mayor that inaugurated the service but even before the mayor's cable car came downtown. People were climbing on the cars at 930 this morning and having a great time and I'm not aware of any problems at all on the line today. So we'll see how that goes but I, I think they're back. So maybe it's just more about allowing for the possibility of anything since they haven't been operating for a while but it's not as if there's a necessarily a tremendous amount of testing that has to take place like you said you were on one today and other people were climbing all over them so so that's, that's good news and also good news I read that for the month of August the cable cars are free. You guys didn't know that yeah so that's that's also good news because I think what are they is that $8 $10 normally I can't remember what the eight dollars eight dollars with no discounts. Right. And that's that and no children's fairs and you know that means that a family of four, going to the wharf and back on the cable cars will have to pay $64. The same trip on the F line street cars historic street cars, but going around on waterfront will cost you $12. So that that's a very big dichotomy and we'll have to see how that impacts things. Yeah, yeah. All right, I have more questions but we are out of time, 10. Thank you very much so that we can again, like I said open it up to Q&A. Thank you, Taren for for bringing your historical perspective and your research and let me just remind people that more about your research into specifically into Andrew or Mr. Hallity can be found at Taren Edwards calm, and then also for more about Rick and his work, check out his book on track a field guide to San Francisco historic street cars and cable cars, and the market street railways site is at street car.org. And now we will open it up to questions. Thanks. Matthew, are you going to read the questions or as miles. I see I've got my chat window open I don't know miles have you been standing or so we just start going. It looks like people were interested in illustrations and pictures of any of you have those on your computer we could screen share and show those but we might have to do some research before we do something like that. Maybe we can host it if people are interested we can host a like another event with pictures about you know the backstory of the cable car and maybe Rick will come on. Also, and talk about the market street railway. Let me let me see while we take a question let me just see if I have a couple of shots on here that I that could be helpful. But by the way, I would suggest to anybody who wants to see a fabulous archive of early cable car shots and other things. Go to SFM TA that's munis parent SFM TA.com slash photo. That's their photo archive and it is fabulous. I have scanned a number of glass plates of cable car photos from the days of the old United Railroads, and they are amazing. The fidelity and the detail. I found some questions here Paul asks, why 9.5 miles per hour was a faster cable speed ever considered cable car speeds. Parts of the system farther out, like the section on Fulton Street actually operated at quicker speeds I think the fastest I know of for one stretch was 13 miles an hour. But I think the reason was safety at the time because you were operating at a bunch of among horses and wagons and other things. If you take a look at that famous movie a trip down Market Street in 1906 taken just four days before the earthquake by the Miles Brothers. The camera was actually bolted to the front of a street car, going down Market Street at 9.5 miles an hour, and you can see pedestrians horses wagons dodging to stay out of the way at that speed so my presumption is, it was a safety thing. Hmm. Great. And let's see Gray asks, Karen, was Mr. Hallity, a founder of the SFS. SPCA. Yes, he was a founding member of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, but Mr. Hallity was also on about 10 other boards at any given time in his life. I don't think he ever went home to dinner until late, because he was must have had something going on every night of his life. So yes, he was a founder of the SPCA. I know he personally did love animals, but I know he was not on the board of that organization for very long. So sometimes people make the connection between the cable car and the SPCA. And I wish I could find a direct connection but I think it's just a coincidence because he also was on all kinds of other boards as well. Thank you. And Margaret asks, are cable cars the only national landmark that moves. No, the. That's the short answer. New Orleans. St. Charles streetcar line shares that distinction. And that line goes back to 1835. Originally with horse cars. I have a picture here. I don't know if I can share the screen. Let me see. Let me see if I can make. Yeah, there you go. There it is. Okay, that's how it is original car. Original set this, this setup was called the dummy and trailer setup, the dummy. Don't ask me why it's called that I'm not sure it's the place where the grip was you can see here. There's the little wheel grip is what they use to tighten the the grip on the cable different than the levers used now. And that's to a trailer behind it, where most of the passengers that that was an enclosed trailer. And then of course you see the outside section here. Later that was combined in the in the open and closed sections became the model for today's cable cars, which date back to about 1878 that design. The openness of the cars because you know we I talked about or I asked you guys about what makes them iconic right and why we love to cable car so much well one of the reasons that I personally love them so much. I mean, what's more thrilling than hanging on the cable car going down, you know, California street. So I'm just curious, and I, does that ever get the city into trouble because we would never allow that today. Right. I mean that's part of what's so exciting and about about it is historically. You know, we weren't as risk averse and we didn't have all the litigation and things like that. So it's really cool that we were still able to have that does that ever cause any problems for the city because I did see someone fall off one one time. He was fine, but I actually saw. I actually saw a guy try to get off too quickly and just roll and he was fine I'm just curious did we know anything about that Rick or Taren. I'm not sure. Mainly because you couldn't find anybody to, you know, to carry insurance, private insurance on, not only this but some of the other, you know, the transit operations of the city. So I know that yes there are settlements and they pay and safety is is a real important consideration, but you're right. If you tried to inaugurate this today, a service like this in a busy city, it would never happen. Helmets and knee pads and yeah, no, it's not gonna happen. Yeah, does this other this other picture come up on the screen. This is an interesting picture we just found a couple of months ago. Somebody poked it up and came out of the New York Library picture collection at some point we don't know when but this is what the cable cars on Market Street used to look like. And this is at the corner of Hayes and Stanion. You see Golden Gate Park in the background there. You see vacant land around it. And these these cable cars were very large 34 feet long, which is about eight feet longer than the Powell cable cars. And see how large, how large they were and you used to be able to sit facing forward. Right, right in front of the gripman which must have been a lot of fun. There are also no windshields on the cars until 1911 when they were required. But you can see the family resemblance it's very strong. And Rick, today we have two types of cable cars to different. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we have we have the California car which is can be operated from either end. And that was those were developed by the California Street cable railroad company, which was an independent company until 1951 when guess what they lost their insurance because somebody took a fall and sued them and they didn't have anybody to pay it. So the city bought them at that point. And then in 1954 they cut the whole system in half. This is a subject for another time there were shenanigans and misleading representations to the public and the California Street line endured. And then the Powell Street, two lines starting at Palin Market endured but what of them got a different route. And those cars are shorter single end. And you know they're both iconic. I have some more questions here one that relates directly to that picture you were just sharing. And somebody asks, what's that thing on the front of the car. This call let me see if I can share again. And then while you're sharing there's another question. Is it. Yeah, go ahead and answer. This is this is called, this is called a lifeguard. And it's scooped up pedestrians or dogs, anything that got in front of the cable car and fell. This thing had little springs on it and it would cradle the person before they could get run over by the wheels. And a different version of this called an eclipse fender was required on all street cars, until the early 1950s. But it was replaced with a different safety device. All right. There's another question. Oh yes, you can. And let me ask this question. Okay. I'm going to ask. Is it feasibly possible to extend the cable car lines, for example, California line to Fillmore or Mason line further north. Go ahead. No, you go ahead to run. Do you see, do you see my big picture of holiday space. Yes. Okay, so what I wanted to show you is actually my last slide. Now do you see the cable car. Yeah. Great. Okay, this is a this is opening day on the cable car. This is the, you know, August 2 1873. This is a press photo taken. The man in the stove pipe hat on the far left that is holiday. The man next to him is probably from Burr, who was the owner of the clay street bank, who was a big donor to the project. This, the lady sitting next to him is howdy's wife Martha, and she looks old in this picture, but she really was maybe 30. She's wearing a sheer veil over her face. So that's why she looks strange. And then next to her with the bow tie. That is Joseph Britain, who was the lithographer, one of the lithographers of Britain the firm Britain and Ray, and he also was a president of the Mechanics Institute at one time or another. I think I wanted to show you because we've referred to this a few times, but many of you might not be aware of it. This is how it is endless wire rope way, which was a progenitor of the concept for him of moving things via cable and using a grip. That is what I wanted to show you and then this picture is one of the howdy rope way and how it would traverse the mountainside. So that or could be brought to mills and to other places. Okay, that's all I wanted to show you we'll just have to host another event where we talk more specifically about stuff like that. Well, I have a question that relates to the question that the person had about extending the lines are the cables affixed length and then, you know, cables cables are affixed length and there are splicers. Who's your people whose job is to splice all those little strands we talked about earlier the 19 strands in each in each bundle and the six bundles together so you have a seamless endless cable. That's what it takes to run because they are wound on giant machines and the cable car barn. And the cables actually stretch over time. And so every and and the winding machinery is set up so that it can be the tail ship as they call it can be pushed back further and further in the cable car barn to allow for the stretch to keep the cable taught when it gets to the back wall of the cable car barn then they have to cut a piece out of the cable to start the whole process again if the cable hasn't already worn out. And just to be very quick about this extending the cable car lines is tremendously expensive because you have to construct a new terminal, which is a lot of other stuff to turn the cable around at the end of the line. So you have to get in this city's town you in this town you have to get permission, or at least a acquiescence of people who live along the extension to the extra track work and even though California street west of van s had cables cable cars until 1956. There's hardly anybody living there now that lived there then, and you know, I haven't seen a lot of enthusiasm of any kind for it. So that's the short answer that question. What one should go do is number one visit the market street railway, little mini museum there near the ferry building, but also take the California street cable car up to the cable car museum and tour that it's it's open now as well and it really is inspiring to walk cables be spun into onto the drum and just the noise the smell. It's outstanding and then you can take the power street line down the hill and grab a Irish coffee at the Buena Vista. Yeah, this is the month to do it it's free. Any other questions. Let's see. Okay, here's a question from Paul. Was the cable car barn at California and hide part of the longer California street line. Yes, that was the powerhouse. That's where Trader Joe's is now for those kale foods before that for those who needed geographical point. That was that company's sole cable car barn and lines crossed at that intersection. The California line which is still with us today, had one rope cable that went from there down to market street and in the to the east and it had a whole separate rope, going out to Procedo Avenue in the west. And both of those ropes were pretty close to maximum length for efficient operation of the rope. In north south, there was a line on hide street that went from aquatic park up the hill as the Powell hide line does today to a pine street and then it went over pine to Jones Jones down through the tenderloin to a feral street and then down a feral to market. That was a very popular line with people who lived on Russian Hill, but the city wanted to turn those streets into one way streets to accommodate more automobile traffic. And in 1954, they won acquiescence through the board of supervisors for doing just that which many of us feel was an outrage. I don't see any more questions here. If you have another question, please do type it in now. This has been fascinating. I've learned a lot. Rick, I'm just going to jump in again while, while anyone else possibly thinks of another question. Can you just tell us a little bit about how we maintain and restore the cars because I'm sure that's a major undertaking. Actually, there's a really excellent crew of city employees who do this work. There's a foreman named Arnie Hansen who is at the cable car barn that takes care of the maintenance of the cars. And there is a master carpenter named Andrew McCarron in dog patch on 22nd Street. There's a building right next to the muni bus yard down there. And there's a playground in front of it and there's always two cable cars in there going through complete rebuilding. You can go up to the window you can take a look. It is a fabulous place. It's not open to the public but you can see in. And, you know, they build these things from scratch and the craftsmanship is amazing. So they build them from scratch. Well, they, technically they can't because they're national historic landmarks but what they do is when the car starts to rot and all wood rots, right, and they are almost all wood with steel reinforcements underneath and the frame. Take the car and they'll test the wood if the wood still solid, they'll keep it. If it isn't, they'll take it out and replace it. But they do it to, you know, exact drawings that they had before now they are doing a few little improvements and they are improvements. The cable cars used to have kerosene lamps hand hanging from the roof in the ceiling to light the inside of the car. Well, you can imagine what would happen if they hit a bump and the thing fell into the wooden car. And so, and they had a dim kerosene lamp shining through the front of the car the precursor of headlights. It was very dim. And so, later they put in in the 20s 30s they put in lead acid batteries under the seats of the car so you could power rudimentary headlights and running lights and interior lights. Now what they've done is they've converted all the lighting to LEDs, warm LEDs not the cold white ones, which give much, much improved battery life. You know, it'd be nice if they could get solar on the roof but it doesn't. I don't think it would quite work. But they're thinking about improvements, little improvements that don't show. Right. Thank you. And goodness, it's the warm, the warm LEDs. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Kind of light glow. Yeah, well these guys, you know that these people are real lovers of history. As a matter of fact if you look at the Powell Street cable cars that you'll see that they're used to be all be painted the same color. In the last 20 years they've started getting painted in the authentic liveries the very car war at different points in history and our nonprofit has facilitated that with research and other things so you know the mayor for example wrote on a car today that's been painted for the period 1907 to 1921. And, you know, that's all been documented there are 10 of these cars now out there. So there's a lot more color on the street but it's for a purpose which is historical accuracy. They really want to talk they really want to talk to you really want to talk. So the cable cars, the new the new look that the colors if they're stunning. So everyone should run out tomorrow and and ride the car. Yeah, and I would just put it a little plug that our nonprofit rescued a cable car that was retired and sold off to the owner of a cattle feedlot. In the 1950s, and his family gave it back to us we restored it cosmetically it's from the old O'Farrell Jones and hide line. And we gave it to me and they put a modern running care on it and they use it on special occasions now. And we helped restore an 1883 cable car which made its debut just before the pandemic broke out from the old Sacramento play line that replaced. So more history keeps coming to the cable car lines and we think that's great. Wonderful. Well thank you for joining us everyone who tuned in or is watching this on YouTube. I want to thank Taren and Rick. And of course Matthew for asking wonderful questions and facilitating. And I do hope you become a member of Mechanics Institute, and of course, visit the San Francisco Railway Museum and gift shop. Right next to our wonderful. Very building very building. Parting thoughts or words people want to say before we have a parting thought and that is that they should take the virtual tour on August 11 of the Mechanics Institute, and I promise to mention the cable car. I'm joking. I'm not joking though. That's where I was born. I would like to think Rick imparting I would like to think Rick, well I'd like to think the Mechanics Institute for doing this so thank you Miles thank you Taren. Thank you Mechanics Institute but I also want to think Rick and the Market Street Railway for the work that they do to keep the cable cars and keep the street cars, part of our city because everybody loves it I love it. And so just thank you to you and your organization for the work that you guys do. Thank you Matthew it's a labor of love. Indeed it is thank you as well. Okay, well thank you all for joining us and thanks for chatting and asking questions and giving thanks in the comments. We're going to wrap things up here and yeah. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Everyone night. Bye bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCe8Lan-Rj4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCDOXs_34FF93o66Z-S0py1g	He Says: "I Love You Too" Does He Really Mean It?	FREE Discovery Call with Jonathon► https://jonathonaslay.com/coaching Join My VIP Group for $7-- https://jonathonaslay.com/midlifelove How Men Choose Their SoulMate (FREE Gift) https://www.jonathonaslay.com/gift/ Self-Love the Book: http://www.selflovethebook.com The "What Would Love Do?" Podcast https://www.jonathonaslay.com/category/podcast/ Recommended Books https://www.jonathonaslay.com/jonathon-recommends/ #jonathonaslay #datingadvice #doeshereallyloveme	[ "Jonathon Aslay", "Jonathan Aslay", "Dating Advice for women", "Self Love", "Dating advice over 40", "dating advice over 50" ]	2021-11-16T15:00:12	2024-02-13T18:53:35	461	PchwM4RQBjg	Heather writes, question. My boyfriend says I love you too, instead of I love you when he says it, wait. My boyfriend says I love you too, instead of I love you when he says it first. Does it mean the same thing as I love you? If so, why does he have to add the two? Oh, now if I'm understanding this correctly, you're saying I love you and then he repeats it, I love you too. Listen, folks, we've been literally indoctrinated with this, think about your children or think about when you were a child, when your mom and dad or you say this to your children, I love you, and they go, I love you too, mom, I love you too, dad. It's very natural to follow up with that. Most likely though, when some, but your children rarely out of the blue say I love you. I gotta tell you, when I get a text from Colin that says I love you, breaks my brain, that's just my heart melts. And so, and my point is, is children oftentimes don't initiate even 10 full or even remotely close to the 10 times we initiate with our children. Here's the thing, I think in romantic relationship, if you're not building, if you're not co-creating a relationship together, you're just merely companionship, connection and sex, then oftentimes people feel nervous saying the words I love you because to a man, I love you can mean a commitment to the future that they may not necessarily be ready for yet. So this is one of many possible reasons a man might not initiate the words I love you because that implies that I might, to women's ears, I love you means, oh, you're gonna marry me and you're gonna spend the rest of our lives together. This is why I sometimes prefer the word like better than love. So I'm here to say that when he says I love you too, sometimes it's just conditioning. We've been so indoctrinated this as children and it could also be a resistance to telling you because he doesn't wanna create the impression that he's gonna go the distance with you. That's a possibility. I would have conversation with him about that. I would also invite you to start exploring, co-creating a relationship together by reading the book, eight dates by doctors. Folks, I gotta stop here for a second. I'm gonna hold this book up. Most of you are effing clueless when it comes to the mechanics to a healthy happy relationship. Let me repeat that. Most of you women, most of my audience's women are clueless. If you haven't read this book to understand the mechanics to a relationship, you're basically winging it, winging it, winging it and you're basically expecting men to be the leaders of the relationship and let me tell you something. You're giving the job to the wrong person. Men are terrible leaders at the relationship because they're even more clueless. Now part of the difference is with midlife versus men in their 20s and 30s. When a man is in their 20s and 30s and they've decided they want a wife, they're actively focused on finding the mother of their children. After age 45, when guys stop having children unless by accident, they don't know what they want. And folks, you don't know what you want either. In fact, I just got a letter in the mail saying, Jonathan, let me illustrate this point. I was working with a woman a couple of years ago who called me up or wanted a coaching session and she's telling me about the relationship and she says, Jonathan, I want more commitment from my guy. I'm like, great, what does that look like for you? But Jonathan, I just want more commitment from the guy. I'm like, great, what does that look like for you? But Jonathan, I just want more commitment from the guy. I'm like, great, what does that look like for you? But Jonathan, and she thought screaming was describing. Her screaming was coming out of anger that she thinks I didn't understand her. What she didn't understand is I was asking her to describe what it looks like. And this is why I continually share what it looks like for me to give you some context to creating your own. For me, it's like my committed relationship looks like ideally would look like this. We spend three or four days a night a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building schools, both in our personal and our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy that leads to either moving in together or getting married. That's what it looks like. But Jonathan, I just want more commitment. Well, then you better fucking figure out what it looks like for you, ladies, because if you, and what I said to her was, if you can't describe it to me, how can he know what it is for you? Ladies, I say this with love, but some of you are batshit crazy, okay? And you wonder why it's so problematic. Now, part of the reason why you're batshit crazy is because you're naive. And I'm grateful you're listening to me. And if I turned you off, then you're not ready for this message. And if I turned you on, and I don't mean by my looks, by my words, what I mean, then I invite you to do the work. That gets interesting. I had a contemporary critique one of my videos and in that, I talk about a lot of books and the comment section on his channel was all this guy is doing is telling us to read books. Who has time to read books? I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. You want a healthy, happy relationship and you're not willing to invest maybe one year of your life reading 15 minutes a day. In 15 minutes a day, you could literally finish all of the books I recommend in 15 minutes a day or 20 minutes a day. You're not willing to invest 15 or 20 minutes a day, but you'll brush your teeth every day, you'll get manicures, you'll buy expensive outfits, you'll get Botox, you'll get plastic surgery, you'll do all this shit to make yourself look good. I'm being judgmental here a little bit, but you're not willing to do inner work so you can actually be a good partner. Folks, if you're not willing to do the work unlike this woman who went to the Hoffman process I shared with about before, those are the people that are gonna end up in the juicy, delicious relationships and everyone else is gonna have most likely mediocre relationships or worse dysfunctional relationships and let me tell you something. Esther Perrell said, the quality of our life is predicated on the quality of our relationships and let me tell you something, life is all about relationships. First, the relationship with yourself and the relationship with others and I gotta tell you, most human beings are stunted emotionally. Most human beings are stunted emotionally. When you become emotionally mature, you get tired of people really quickly. It kind of sucks. You have a lot less friends and at the same time you have much richer friendships when you're with people who can actually be intimate with one another and intimacy stands for into me you see, into me you see, into me you see and that's my invitation for everyone. So I went off on a tangent here. I forgot the original question. My boyfriend doesn't say I love you so that's my response to that one. All right, thank you so much for that question, Heather, I appreciate it.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PchwM4RQBjg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCtLUXq8ti0SvMnQMKVejLsA	Use Reflection + VoiceOver for iPad Video	In this short video Allison from the NosillaCast Mac podcast demonstrates how to use the Reflection App plus VoiceOver to create a video screencast of an iOS device including visual cues for button pushes. http://podfeet.com	[ "Allison Sheridan", "NosillaCast", "podfeet", "Mac", "Apple", "iOS", "iPad", "video", "screencast", "screencasting", "accessibility" ]	2012-06-13T04:06:43	2024-04-23T02:53:10	266	pCC0qSZqsxY	So here's the problem to be solved. A lot of people want to do demonstrations of their iPad in a video screencast, but it's almost impossible to capture a good image. Enter the application reflection from reflectionapp.com. Reflection allows you to mirror your iOS devices screen directly onto your Mac using a USB cable and AirPlay. It's really, really tricky. Go on over to the website to check out exactly how that part of the puzzle works. But I'm going to offer you one more trick than just telling you about this super cool app. First of all, you can see right here that I am using my iPad and I'm able to go in and out of applications and look at my folders, that kind of thing, and everything looks great. But you'll notice that you can't see me tapping. Right now I'm going to tap on entertainment again. You saw that, but you don't always see taps. Let me give you an example. Let's go into utilities and I'm going to open up the App Store. Now I'm going to tap on fantasy baseball in the upper left, but watch what happens. You didn't actually see me tap that. I click search and if you're watching carefully you could see that I went backwards. I also can't move my finger around and actually point at anything for you. You just see the effect that I'm actually clicking on it. So let's use a little trick I just figured out. We're going to open settings and under general we're going to go to accessibility and this is the trick. We're going to go, we're not just going to turn voice over on. We're going to turn voice over on under triple click home and the reason to do that is voice over is a little tricky to get used to and if you turn it on it's kind of hard to get back out of it if you don't know how to use it. So we're going to go ahead and set triple click home to be voice over. Let me go back. So now at the bottom you can see here, sometimes I can show you a little bit, triple click home is set to voice over. I'm going to go to the home button and now I'm going to hit my home button three times. Okay, now that would get, that would get annoying after a while. So what we're going to do is I'm going to double tap the screen with three fingers. Okay, so now the speech is off but you're going to gain a benefit of what I want to show you. Notice how I can move my finger around and I can show you different icons. See how every icon has a little box drawn around it. So that's a big difference that I can really highlight something without actually activating it. So now let me go up back to Utilities and you do have to get used to using voice over because I can't just tap it now because voice over doesn't react that way. I have to double tap. So now let's go down into the App Store, double tap again. And now this time I'm going to be able to show you exactly what I'm pointing at. So I can point at Fantasy Baseball. I can move around here. I can go to Twitter later Pro down to Zombie Checkers over to Smart Drawings. I can even highlight this description here or highlight the price. So you can see that I can give you a lot more feedback about what's going on on screen. Now this does depend on the developer to have done a good job with accessibility. Sometimes I've noticed the little boxes don't actually land on the things you're trying to read. So this might not work with every application but I think it might make screen casting a little bit better result if you use voice over on the iPad or on the iPhone or iPod Touch when creating a screen cast. So I'm going to hit triple click home one more time and it'll turn off. Thank you and I hope you appreciated this little tip to show you how to do a screen cast using Reflection App but voice over to help you highlight things on the screen.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCC0qSZqsxY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCP-iaFrmWcOG0o461wMicdg	Born to Hunt! - Life of a UtahRaptor \| The isle	Not all dinosaurs are made equal and for whatever reason this one, this one was one of those cases. The Beard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2qAoplubT_13uGXzGW3oA Discord: https://discord.com/invite/thegamingbeavercorner For our Lord Raptor Jesus: https://bit.ly/2zmvEiT LIMITED EDITION MERCH : https://thegamingbeaver.shop Follow TheGamingBeaver: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegamingbeaver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamingbeavergram/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/agamingbeaver Watch more TheGamingBeaver: Assassin’s Creed: https://bit.ly/2RtYPYY Lego Jurassic World: https://bit.ly/2OnWRHo Ark: Survival Evolved: https://bit.ly/2qxrjFP Newest Uploads: https://bit.ly/2RzGKMC Popular Videos: https://bit.ly2RfnuVs The Isle is an open-world survival game in which players choose from 3 factions in an attempt to survive a fierce island. Hunt. Prey. Survive. Play as many various types of dinosaurs such as large carnivores such as T.rex, Spinosaurus and Giganotosaurus or herbivores like Stegosaurus or Triceratops #Theisle #Recode	[ "TheGamingBeaver YouTube", "TheGamingBeaver YouTube channel", "TheGamingBeaver Channel", "YouTube TheGamingBeaver", "YouTube channel TheGamingBeaver", "Channel TheGamingBeaver", "Jurassic World", "Jurassic Park", "The Isle", "Fish Feed Grow", "Evolution", "Hungry Shark", "Mobile Games" ]	2020-07-17T19:14:21	2024-02-05T06:17:06	1,557	PCVfvxattaI	Here we go. There we go. There we go. Hello everybody and welcome to the Isle of the That one so before we get into today's video, um, I did mention oh look at the way I run I did mention in the last video that we were doing a banner competition for the discord server And I was gonna announce the result in the next isle video I didn't realize it was going to take a little bit of a of a while But first off before we end up dying being killed by something I just want to say these are the runners up just so there was so many variation because There was so little guidelines when it came to what to create like we got a plethora of different types So first up is meldo lady who created this beautiful little collage of uh loads of different dinosaurs and uh Me the beautiful assistant and I'm pretty sure that's winnie, which is very much appreciate. Um, I'm sure she was very happy to have received that The second one comes from k.m. Kitties. We are such a beautiful. I don't know whether this was Uh like pencil drawn and then scanned in and like it looked the colors look great on it Again, this was so hard to actually pick a winner because they were so different and diverse I was like, oh god, which one do I pick? I love the unicorn wizard the toast you've even got the uh the gaming beaver beaver I suppose we call it. I've never even given it a name the logo As well as much next one come from lord hydra. I think it's I think it's lord hydra or hydra Uh, a beautiful, uh, again another like multiple characters toast peggy eyes Scappers as well, but I've got I think it's smudge killing one of the indoor rappers because we tried to kill it That's right. Oh my god. I'm unicorn wizard as well as some other dinosaurs on the top. I love the text It's so good. There's so many good ones This one sniper lady seven the pixel is beautiful, but it kind of reminds me of some sort of video game Uh, like it's just so well done though See this is what I mean. There was just so many different types out. I was like, oh god, which one Uh, this one by g1 colson or go on colson Uh the game of beaver go with me and toast and I'm kind of like taunting it I love the style of this one. It's beautiful. Yeah, that one crown face crown Which is like a vape wave kind of uh I don't know. It's it's so bizarre Like a beaver with a head that's sort of coming apart and then it's like I don't know. It's cool I love it. But again So weird so well done though And next one coming from phoenix shows me riding a toast a very cute toast got literally no neck I guess well just contrast does have a neck. It's got definitely got bigger arms. It's so chubby jay tano or tano Um toast and the taco gotta love a taco ramen demon point six six six That the colors are crazy now on it has me sat in a stump and the final the winner is Minisaurus Rex with a beautiful beaver with headphones on Give me headphones. Oh, we need to release those with that next merch idea Running away from a toast. I love the colors on it I I love the layout detailed but easy to see and I was like that has to be it any one of these Could have made a great banner Uh, I just want to say again like a big shout to everybody because there was loads of different submissions And you guys did great like there wasn't like a like you know with the last one It was pick a scene that happened in the last episode with so much This was just a banner just a banner for the discord and you guys knocked it out of the park So many so many talented people like I love coming on the server or when people when this was open Of course and just clicking on it and saying oh god what people submitted today. This looks awesome I was like this is great. Why don't you do this all the time? So now on to What surprised me is that there is literally no servers hosting Irvama no, oh it's a skid Oh, so if I run forward and I go back Ah, I was scared now what I was hoping to do was have an aisle server up already because it was like do I do I have a server for Irvama or do I have a server for Um, just a classic aisle. I think at this point the classic one and I think they'll always be that for now Anyway, uh just because there's only two creatures eventually We'll have extra creatures added into this game because it does look gorgeous this version even though we have great battle mechanics And the communication where you can only show your name If you call like and cute the squeaker like that makes it so much better and more engaging It's like oh well You have to constantly call to see each other's names and I like that. I like to be lost into the world I found the road do however love how adorable this raptor runs Look at him. He's so cute He's so cute. He's so quick as well for a tiny little raptor I think they have however fixed the bug which meant that um fully grown dinosaur's show up is tiny thing So that's good because that was that was kind of like game breaking in a way If I remember right, I just have to follow the road and I'll find water Oh, it sounds like a yawn. It's so cute. Why'd you watch my videos like you come here and you just get burped out? What why are you here? Yeah, he's the mud. Oh little baby. Oh, it's so cute. Oh Okay, so if I follow it that way if I remember correctly that takes me to the swamp So let's let's try the swamp. I get the feeling this is going to be one of those episodes It's gonna be one of those episodes where I die of hunger That's where edit in the foreshadowing. Did I do that? Did I did it? No, who's footsteps are these? I'm never gonna find them though. You kidding me In this long grass No way No way. I'm finding them. Oh I am a bush. You can't see me. It's a tonotto numb numb numb Oh my god. What's he doing? Okay, is this a bot? Who is this? Why they why they so slow? Why? Oh, there he goes. You try to kick there Oh god. Whoa He probably heard us. Oh no Wait, it's not an adult. Is it? What's he doing? Do I have my crouch speed or anything? Did I I got him? I think oh, did he did he do a kick there? Oh, there's a kick Don't you squeak? Yes Oh, look at him go. It's not really that quick. Is it just a beep? Oi stop calling. He's trying to kick me. Is he gonna try and kick me? The lag I think I've done damage to him Okay, I guess I guess I just bite No, oh you slapped us How many bites does it oh he's lying down? No, I can't tell. Is he dead? Did he die now? Oh, he's dead. Yes My first kill oh get in Can I pick him up? Oh, I know this like oh Yeah, that's so cool Oh look at where the body physics go. That's awesome. I feel like that was an easy win for me I don't feel like he did much. He didn't stand his ground if all he did was just turn to face me And uh try to kick me and attack me. Maybe he would have won. Oh, it is lovely smelly flies there Okay, type of water. No drink. Yeah, buddy. You don't take a bath I might suck at the aisle, but urema. I might not be too bad at I guess I just want to sit on it Don't I I mean the chances of me finding another one is very rare Oh, I like little jibbles. I'm a little bit bigger than a weebaba But do I grow as fast if I sit down? That's the question. Do I need to keep moving? Good lord, he's lannicked it. You're doing a terrible job with this server. Why am I dropping so much frames? Would I rather it be this baron or would I rather it be more full? Well, it can stay like this as long as I'm little otherwise it's going to be boring Let's go to god's thumb. It's interesting this it's like having a holiday from the aisle But not really having a holiday from the aisle It's something if you like the aisle, but you want to do some a tiny bit different you play over me. Oh Fine, I'll just keep on following the path then no shy and no nothing not even a cup of tea Is life really worth living without cups of tea james? No, but we'll sort you on anyway Oh, oh Hey, uh Oh No Is he gonna try and kill me? He is He's gonna try and kill me great Do I lose him? I literally went round a tree and lost him That's impressive. I went wrapped in a circling lost him Oh, I want to I want to be able to like See him. I want I want him to like walk past me Yeah, look here he comes And there he goes Look at this guy though That was lucky. I could I think he can only do three hits. Oh never mind as a fourth Oh god, I was like where'd he go? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, he's cold Frozen smoothies cool. I guess I could cover back up. I suppose I guess I'll just keep hitting them Oh, he's he's bitten me though Oh, come on bite him Oh, is he dead? Oh, I got him. Yeah Yeah Avoid death from another raptor Although he'll smell this carcass now I mean, he should be able to if he starts smelling and maybe hide behind a rock in case he comes along I don't know. He might be a little bit bigger than me. I'm really not sure And I don't see water Anyway nearby whatsoever. I don't know why these tannados seem to have such a problem taking our raptors on Let's run all the way back this way find some water. Shall we what what are we now? Look we're halfway But he saw the other raptor when he went by was like, yes finally I can go And I can't even chat because the button I use to record is the button it to like to turn on chat Combat for the utas seems pretty basic You were you run at the enemy and you spam bite a little bit different when it comes to the tonnado I think I prefer that I prefer like the the straps when you're running like is it going to go in for a bite kick now Oh, it's a fork in the road Uh-huh, it's a swamp. Oh, I'm here really or is this a different swamp? Oh my god frames Oh my god, why we are like 15 for Oh god, is it time for me to run away? No wonder my game is lagging I get like 17 frames a second when I'm near them And I'm right next to him. Oh, he's definitely an adult. Wait. Oh, where's he going? Did he did he just run to hide in these bushes? Oh, wait, am I swimming? Okay. I thought he was swimming. Yeah, he ran into these bushes. Oh god. Oh god, I fell in Oh, not so good. Can't get out Five frames a second makes us really hard. What the hell's going on. There must be a bunch of people here I mean there is that's why it's lagging. It's come to that point in every isle video Where there's a big group of people And it's like do I go and interact and possibly die or? Well, that's probably the only option I'm gonna go over Oh god, I'm on the floor. I don't even know what's going on. I'm swimming. I sank to the bottom Like a rock. I'm gonna walk over to them with my 10 potato frames a second I'm so used to hearing this noise as like a bad thing So so when they start calling oh no Oh, no. Oh, they're tracking them I see them. Yeah, they are tracking them. Yeah. Yeah, they're after that adult tenotto. Are we all friends? I haven't called out yet. They don't know where I am who I am. Oh god Like how can I defend myself? Like I've barked so hopefully they can see who I am Who are so worried like If I if I call out and they see me are they gonna go get him? Oh, okay. How many died? What happened? Cannibalism at its finest. Oh my god. There's so many of us feast in our potato frames Oh, wow, I didn't realize how big I got. I thought it was the size of that guy to the right When did this happen that a gross bird? Oh god. There's oh god Oh, there's a lot of smells a lot of things going on over here smells Wait another one died died It's just like a pool of dead an adult died Were these all killed by the tenotto? They're just like sacrificing themselves I do apologize about the frames. I think it is just because there's so many people in one area and uh Because this is still in beta. It's uh, it's it needs a little bit of optimization The council will decide your fate. That's right rolling them out together Yes, ah doing the classic putting your head through a floor trick. I like it I want some now all the adults have eaten. I'm making sure I don't die here I'm gonna I'm gonna try and play this as carefully as possible Uh-huh. They did kill it. I thought they had so there must have been a lot of casualties then I'm surprised. I haven't been told off to not go near them because I'm not an adult yet But then again, we don't have chat They're probably already saying that Beaver no stay back. Don't do anything. Yeah. Oh seven for six phrases. That's the lowest I've seen it Oh, is that 1v1 sort of fight style fight club wrap the fight club. Go get him. I don't even know how to pounce. Oh god. Whoo Ah very good. I do like that animation. That's very good. Yeah, I think the server's broke. Yep, I knew it I'm back. We're back like a week later There was a raptor like right next to me. I don't know where he's gone Um, but luckily he didn't kill me because I just had to alt tab for ages while I uh Almost recorded with the wrong microphone Wait, so does Do swimming not work anymore? Did this just happen? Okay, that's interesting. Can we drink though? Oh, well, I can I can certainly rub myself in it. That's for sure. I should make a separate youtube channel It's just that one video on it. I was in a separate youtube channel called the beard And if we could we get the beard of 200 000 subscribers Oh my god, if I could have a hundred thousand subscriber plaque that says the beard You know what? I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna make a youtube channel I'll tell you what if the beard ends up getting more subscribers in my actual channel, I would cry Whoa All right, then you want to fight you want to go son You want to go? Oh, wait. Whoa. Did he just teleport? Where do you go? I don't think he's hit me once yet. Can we even bite each other? Oh my god, he's dizzy Fight for alpha Oh, maybe that's the first time I've bitten him What are we done? Are you done with fighting? Are you good? Yeah, I haven't even like I well, I'm not showing any signs of biteage There we go. There we go. I think I could beat him now Well, suck it then you decided to stop that fight. I think he was bigger than me too I win I like this aisle. I'm good at it. Or at least I'm better than I was normally. So there you go Oh, it is it's a baby. It's another oh bless Oh, well, I just killed one of my own kind easy come as you go He must have just been that hungry that he decided to gather go at me And then he died off we go. Ah, yes funny grown I should be able to pick things up now And pound some stuff Okay, when I look that way I get 60 fps or look this way I get 20. I get the feeling there's probably gonna be people over here then. Oh, I see two tinnados Yep, yeah, there they are Oh, we got a hunt Oh little family. Oh, they don't even know They have no idea I'm here Yes, I'm up to your baby How are you gonna do? Oh, you're gonna run after me. Oh, what he got is what? How'd he get me like that? That's impressive. I don't even know how he did that. Oh, they're threatening me. Is that a challenge? My heart got past you Where's the baby where did you put the baby you tell me get into a bush? No, did not go into a bush Where'd he go? Where did you tell your baby to hide? He's in the bloody water, isn't he? He's in the bloody water Oh, he's not This is it get going get going. Jesus run It's definitely gonna be where they are, right? He's probably he probably ran to the forest on the other side. Oh, hello Did you find that baby? Did you kill it? You've got blood. I don't smell any. Oh, okay. Yeah, sure. Whatever You want to try and make a break for it? Yes. Yes. Yes. We get you I want to attack them, but I don't know how to pounce I think it's like right stick in Is it or is it? Ah, that's it. It's right click Gotcha, but then he's just gonna stop and the other one's just gonna start battering me But it would be cool to test it out if it was just one of them That would be better go around the back of them, dude. Go around the back Ah, there's the baby This has turned out to be a way more exciting episode than I think the first part of this video anyway Right, they're gonna start running. They're definitely they're definitely gonna start running as soon as like they Out they're out of sight 100% Slowly get closer They're diverging They're verging from the road What I need to do is get round in front of them So they slowly come towards me because I need as much stamina as possible So I need to get ahead and wait for them to come to me because they look like they're going in a straight line They're just going looking for food. Oh, there they are. Oh, I didn't get I didn't get ahead enough Okay, that guy's distracted Here we go Oh, yes, there's two of us on him. Oh, nice. Where are your stamp, dude? Go on then Oh god, oh dear Right, I've got to look for a rock Oh He really hurt me there. I thought I jumped on him. I thought I got him, but uh apparently not They're still causing them trouble. I don't know whether they have they killed is the baby that they had Oh, let me have a check. Can I sniff a body? Ah, they've deliberately chosen to go on the road Oh, this is fun. I like this. Got you. Got you. You psyched yourself out Aha psyched you out again. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go for you Ah Yeah, yeah, worry. They're gonna go for you. They're gonna do it Yeah, I didn't think that they would attack if they were really close to each other. So if I go in between them, that's good No, oh, what are you doing? Don't run into him like that. You're gonna Let us eat the baby. I'm really trying to figure out. What's the best time to like try this I know for a fact that when I was a tonado a fully grown one and a raptor pounced on me My health went down so quick, but I did kill him because he latched on the front So I think the best way for me would be to latch onto the side Because if I latch on the back, I'm gonna get wiped by a tail or hit by that kick. He's still running around I've got to give him credit. He's uh, he's doing a good job. Right. Okay. This guy's by himself. This guy's by himself Let's see if we can get him That was terrible. Oh, that pouncing did not work. God damn it. Oh, he's alive. Look at him go. Wee Okay, this guy's either really good Oh, he's terrible. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go Oh god, oh god on the floor gonna die gonna die can't get up gonna die died That was good. Wow Well, I don't know what exactly happened there. Um Like whether I had to keep on clicking stuff Why it took me so long to recover that that's the thing like once once I'd fallen off And I started being battered. That was it. I was dead that either needs fixing or I don't know but the way he was stood still I shouldn't have I should have been able to get up super quick So I don't know exactly what happened But I'm glad that I did ambush him and I did attack him on the side. Uh, it's just a shame that like 1v1 Like the only way to be it's another source is just run in and attack you pounce. You're basically done unfortunately But uh, yeah guys, that's gonna have to wrap up this video if you enjoyed it leave a like until next time I'll see you later. Oh, bye. Bye	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCVfvxattaI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCUrmP8bnlC6z5WFCWFraFkA	MGC Public Hearing – April 25, 2023 - 6PM	Public Hearing of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission	[ "Massachusetts Gaming Commission", "Gaming Commission", "Massachusetts gambling", "Massachusetts casino", "MassGaming", "MGC", "Boston casino", "Wynn Everett", "Wynn Resorts", "Encore Boston Harbor", "Wynn Boston Harbor", "Everett casino", "Springfield casino", "MGM Springfield", "MGM Resorts", "Suffolk Downs", "Plainridge Park Casino", "Plainville casino", "Problem Gambling", "Responsible Gaming" ]	2023-04-26T12:17:44	2024-02-05T08:50:48	7,025	PCjq9KLZDTE	Ladies and gentlemen we're going to be starting in just a few minutes But we're waiting for one more of our fellow commissioners who got stuck in traffic, but she's do here like in two minutes According to her GPS system. So bear with us and thank you for being so patient. I knew this was gonna be a great crowd Good evening everyone. Can you hear me? Okay? I'm glad to see that some folks have taken some seats over here on the side if you wish to have a seat over there You make your way I'm gonna start with some public comments for you. This is of course a meeting public meeting and hearing of the Massachusetts gaming Commission And I want to welcome you today is Tuesday, April 25th 2023 We have only one item on our agenda for today And that is to offer an opportunity to interested members of the public to share comments with us relative to the development East of Broadway associated with Encore Boston Harbor My name is Kathy Judd Stein, and I'm the chair of the gaming Commission, and I'm joined today by my fellow commissioners Commissioner Hill Commissioner Maynard is joining us from his home state of Kentucky. He has a an ill relative and he's He made his way down there to be with her But joining us in To be part of today's important public hearing Commissioner O'Brien And Commissioner Skinner The proposal being advanced is that the project will be constructed as a phased Development across the street from Encore Boston Harbor on the east side of Broadway in Everett, Massachusetts The gaming Commission is currently considering the first phase of this development to determine whether to include the development or portions thereof as part of the gaming establishment In order for any gaming or sports wagering activity to be permitted in this new development It would have to be included within the boundary of what we refer to as the gaming establishment To be clear the commission will not be deciding whether to allow the development to be constructed at all The authority to make the decisions associated with that Including the issuance of all required permits falls to other governmental entities The commission will evaluate the request before us in further detail at a future public meeting or meetings Accordingly the commission will not be voting this evening as to whether to include this new development in the boundary of the gaming establishment In preparation for that evaluation the commission is interested in any information or comments that the public may wish to offer relative to this development Accordingly your presence and insights that we Look forward to hearing today will help the commission in making its decision And we thank you all for being part of the process and showing up this evening Before we begin taking public comments I would like to lay out the process and establish the ground rules that we wish to follow this evening This meeting is intended to afford an opportunity to offer input and comment on the development and Specifically as to whether gaming and sports wagering should be allowed To any entity or member of the public who is interested This meeting was not designed for anybody to offer opinions about gaming and sports wagering in general Instead, we are solely interested in hearing as much as possible about the public sentiment toward the project presented Presently before us With that said I do want to add that if anyone is interested in ever providing the commission with comments We welcome that and have a portal on our website where you can Provide written comments on more general matters not associated with tonight's topic Momentarily we will open the floor To public comments to make the best use of all of our time We ask that any member of the public proceed as follows in addressing the commission First if you pre-register to speak at this meeting your name has already been added to the speaker list And I'll be calling the names from that list If there is a time remaining after we have heard from all the pre-registered Individuals will open the floor to comments from any other individual who is interested in offering comment For those of you who haven't met Grace She will be here all evening and you can just step forward if you wish to provide comment and provide the information she needs When I call your name, please approach the area up front State your name and tell us where you are from and who you're affiliated with and third given today's Participation to ensure that everyone who wants to speak gets an opportunity to do so we will limit individual comments to three minutes Grace will give a 15 second warning So that you'll be on notice and we'll expect the speaker to begin wrapping up their comments We may allow an additional 15 seconds if necessary And also We're happy to allow you to return to the podium if time permits and you truly have something additional to share Forth, this is not an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions of encore If you have questions, please address them to the Commission and we will determine how to proceed from there Of course any commissioner may ask any question up a commenter at any time and commissioner Maynard We will be watching for you so that you're assured your your chance to ask any question Finally, we recognize the great passion that many of you may have for this subject matter Often in different directions We welcome your comments to reflect that passion However, for this part of the process to achieve its greatest value It's tremendously important that this discourse here today be respectful And this is one area that I know that we can all agree on And some we wish to thank you in advance for taking the time to be with us this evening My fellow commissioners. Do you have any additional remarks or comments? Commissioner Maynard all set. Okay, so with that Grace I think we'll go ahead and I'll call the first speaker. Oh That's right. I'm so sorry. Thank you for that reminder. If it's not in the script. I forget. Okay, so We have chief Joe Delaney Who is going to give on both some opening remarks and introduce our speaker from on core Boston Harbor? Thanks, chief Delaney. Thank you, madam chair and commissioners and members of the public I just wanted to take a couple of quick minutes here just to go through a little bit about the process that we're going through in order to Make these decisions So what we have come up with is essentially a three-step process The first step happened back in February when the Commission agreed that Gaming could be allowed across the street In in the proposed development The second step is today where we'll hear from the public on comments regarding the development And then we will hold a third step to this in the future where the Commission will actually consider whether or not to include the project as part of the gaming establishment and As the chair indicated this We are only looking at the first phase of this project on core is proposing a much larger project with some additional Hotels and other things. We are just looking at the first piece of this project, which will include An entertainment venue as well as poker room sports wagering parking garage and so on But we are not looking at that larger project When those pieces of the project are ready to come before the Commission They will have to come back in front of the Commission to for us to again make that determination Whether or not those should be included as part of the gaming establishment So with that I'm going to turn over to Jackie come from on core who's going to give a brief Presentation to show you what the project is all about and what it looks like Thank you chief the lady Madam chair commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight to present our east of Broadway project I'd like to thank the public officials the residents of Everett the community partners and most importantly our employees who have come here tonight To express your opinions The last ten years as you may know we've been acquiring land across from our property, which we term east of Broadway To date we've acquired over 15 acres made up of over 65 parcels separate parcels of land We are now ready to proceed with the first phase of the development Sorry, I had a PowerPoint presentation Can I sorry? Okay? Next slide please The the first phase of the development outlined in red as you can also see there are additional phases of this development Outlined in black, which are mainly comprised of additional hotels However, as Chief Delaney said for purposes of this meeting. We are only focused on the first phase of development Which we have proposed to be an extension of the gaming establishment Next slide please Here's a rendering of the first phase of the development which is connected to uncle Boston Harbor by a temperature controlled enclosed pedestrian bridge In this first phase of development we are proposing food and beverage of approximately 19,000 square feet a nightclub a rooftop lounge a comedy club of 200 seats gaming a poker room specifically about 18,700 square feet a theater of 979 seats and The pedestrian bridge 23,000 square feet and a parking garage connected to that as well Of course all gaming uses will require the approval of the gaming commission as Chief Delaney stated previously Next slide, please Is next slide? Sorry Can we go one more? Next slide, please These are some renderings of the proposed project. This is the view that you would see heading I believe north on Broadway Next slide, please This is a view of the facility viewed from uncle Boston Harbor across the street And you can see the rooftop lounge at the top there Next slide, please Here's a red rendering of the pedestrian bridge going into the property across the street the east of Broadway property Next slide, please Just another pretty rendering for us Next slide, please In terms of timeline we started the state permitting process in September 2022 The Everett planning board approved the phase one in December 2022 We recently had a public informational meeting that was open to the public at uncle Boston Harbor Phase one construction is slated to start subject to all approvals in fall 2023 With a projected opening in fall 2025 Next slide, please So in response to discussions with the city phase one contains a raised seven foot wide bike lane We are also going to work with the city to work on a design to integrate Dedicated bus lanes In terms of resiliency we have elevated the first floor above the future 100 year floodplain We also have onsite renewable energy generation Zero net energy building during operations and improved storm order management Next slide, please In terms of community benefits As some of you may be aware some of the properties were used for industrial purposes and will require environmental remediation of the property We are proposing about 2000 construction jobs And more than 800 permanent jobs across a wide range of skills And i want to be clear that the 800 jobs that we're proposing are for phase one This project will of course strengthen the city of Everett's tax space We also estimate a 3.5 million dollar contribution to affordable housing in the city of Everett The the pedestrian bridge of a Broadway provides access to the harbour walk Complementary shuttles water transportation and the blue bike program Next slide, please We propose to continue our commitment to local hiring through career fairs hosted by community partners Our own career fairs monthly community information sessions quarterly meetings with community leadership mass hire north workforce board As you may recall we provide a hiring preference to our hosts surrounding and neighboring communities Starting with the city of Everett then maldon boston cambridge chelsea medford somerville Our neighboring communities of lynn melrose and revere And uh also to communities within 30 minutes of everett Next slide, please At ebh today 88 percent of our team is from communities within 30 minutes of everett 58 percent of our team members are from local and neighboring communities We have almost 500 employees from the city of everett Approximately 14 percent of our current workforce Next slide, please We will also continue to meet our established goals for woman minority and veteran employees As you know our goals are 50 percent woman 40 percent minority and 3 percent veteran At ebh currently we have 46 46 percent woman 56 percent minority 2 percent veteran This gives us an opportunity to increase the number of women which we are Which is something that we continue to work towards We appreciate all of your attendance at this event tonight and we look forward to listening hearing And ultimately responding to the comments that you make here tonight. Thank you very much So now we can proceed with our first speaker And uh mr. Mcneil jamie mcneil, please And when you Have a seat mr. Mcneil you can press the green Buzz the one on the right and it'll go green and that will activate your microphone. Thank you so much The chairman members of the commission My name is jamie mcneil. I'm the general agent for the hospitality workers union unite here local 26 We represent over 1200 workers at anchor boston harbour and 12 000 workers regionally And we're also joined here tonight by members of the teamsters union local 25 Our organization has always supported encore boston harbour Over 10 years ago our organization knocked on thousands of doors To elevate serious concerns we had with the suffix downs proposal And the significant benefits we saw in regard to the encore boston harbour proposal Since then we have helped encore boston harbour in every possible way From job fairs to press conferences to lobbying efforts and high-profile advertising campaigns We have ensured the successful development opening and operation of encore boston harbour Because of the commitment to good jobs encore has made to its residents To the area residents excuse me We are here tonight to simply say that we want that commitment to remain as encore boston harbour continues to grow The massachusetts gaming commission is considering the granting of an approval of a category one gaming license application in theory Section 18 of the massachusetts general law 23 k states that the commission shall include in such a evaluation of such an application Whether the applicant has included detailed plans for assuring labor harmony during all phases of construction reconstruction renovation development and operation of the gaming establishment We look forward to supporting this application But at this hour we do not have a labor harmony commitment on all aspects of this applications We therefore cannot provide the massachusetts gaming commission or the applicant with the support letter for this application at this hour We look forward to further discussions regarding this application and we'll keep you apprised of any future developments Again, we thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight and We look forward to further conversations in regard to this application I'm happy to take any questions Thank you commissioners Mr. McNeil, do you have written your statement in writing? Would you like to submit them to us or? Okay, thank you Commissioners you're all set. Commissioner Maynard. Are you all set? Thank you again for this opportunity And next we have um, is claudia castrow Good evening. Uh, if you push the button on the right her microphone will Be And speak close. Thank you Mi nombre es claudia Castro Vivo en Everett con mi familia desde hace 23 años somos dueños de nuestra casa Y asistimos a la iglesia de san antony Mi hijo se graduó de la escuela secundaria de Everett Good evening. My name is claudia castrow. I have lived in Everett with my family for 23 years We own our home and attend st. Anthony's church. My son graduated from everett high school Soy runa tender del hotel anchor boson harbour. I'm being soy leader the junior here local local 26 I am a hotel runa tendon at anchor boson harbour And also a leader of united here local 26 I came everett todos recordamos cuando se propuso por primera vez el casino todos estamos emocionados leímos en el periódico una y otra vez que este casino traería buenas buenos salarios y beneficios además el casino está cerca de mi casa Here in everett. We all remember when the casino was first proposed We were all excited. We read in the paper over and over That this casino we will bring wages and benefits Plus the casino is close to my house ahora estamos negociando para mejorar los salarios y beneficios en el casino todavía no tenemos un acuerdo Me preocupo por el futuro de mi familia en everett We are now negotiating to improve wages and benefits at the casino We don't have an agreement yet and worry about the future of my family in everett Me gustaría decir que recomiendo este nuevo proyecto al otro lado de la calle pero no es No sé cómo serán los trabajos I would like to say that I recommend This new project across the street, but I don't know how the jobs are going to be Todos aquí esta noche están apoyando a everett Queremos apoyar el proyecto si trae mejores Empleos a la comunidad Pero no hay nada por escrito tampoco un acuerdo Todo lo que pedimos es que encore escucha a sus trabajadores y ponga por escrito la promesa de buenos trabajos All we are asking for is for anchor to listen to the workers and put the promise of good jobs We are now negotiating to improve wages at the casino We don't know how the future of my family is going to be in favor of the future of my family And put the promise of good jobs in writing Gracias por la oportunidad de poder expresarme esta noche Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. Thank you Thank you. Thank you very much Caleb limos And forgive me if I mispronouncing I a french canadian background So I want to cut say that name in a completely different way. So please correct me. Thank you Muy buenas tardes a todos. Mi nombre es Khaled Lemus Yo limpio áreas públicas en encore Esto significa que trabajó todo los días para mantener limpia el área de juego Good evening. My name is Khaled lemus. I'm a public air cleaner at encore This means I work hard every day to keep the gaming area clean También soy un líder de unite here local 26 I'm also a leader of unite here local 26 Mi esposo y yo compramos nuestra casa en Everett durante la pandemia Hemos llegado a mar a Everett y nos gustaría quedarnos aquí My husband and I bought our house in Everett during the pandemic. We have grown to love Everett and we would love to stay here Empecé a trabajar en encore el 22 de abril de 2019 Cuando aún estaba en construcción Recuerdo llevábamos cascos para trabajar Estábamos felices de tener el trabajo estaba muy feliz de tener el trabajo I started working at encore on April 22nd 2019 when I was still under construction I remember I had to wear a hard hat to work. I was very happy to have the job Ganamos nuestro primer contrato sindical en medio de la pandemia cuando encore se comprometió con nuestros con aumentos y beneficios justos Ahora estamos negociando nuevamente Para mejorar nuestros trabajos y beneficios Todavía no tenemos un acuerdo con encore No sabemos qué pasará We won our first union contract in the middle of the pandemic when encore committed to fair raises and benefits Now we are negotiating again to improve our jobs and benefits Um, we don't have an agreement with encore yet. We don't know what will happen Tampoco sabemos cómo serán los trabajos en este proyecto al otro lado de la calle No hay nada por escrito que nos tranquilice Así que todos estamos muy preocupados We don't know what the jobs we like across across the street This is there's nothing in writing to reassure us and we're all very concerned El futuro de Everett y el futuro de este proyecto están unidos El proyecto nos levantará a todos o nos arrastrará hacia abajo Esperemos que este desarrollo nos levante el ánimo a todos Y levante a todo Everett con él Muchas gracias The future of Everett and the future of this project are tied together The project will either lift us all up or will drag us all down We hope this development lifts us all up and lifts all of Everett up with it. Thank you Thank you so much Greg and Maury Good evening I'm well. How are you tonight? Can I'm before you get started? I'm going to make sure and is the is the microphone on We want to make sure people can hear you mr. Maury The one on the right it should be green light. There you go I always I was very close to being a commissioner from the very beginning And we lobbied up the state house to get the on the bill passed through the senators and everybody um So my name is Greg Maury. I'm from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and I'm from Palm Beach County, Florida I've got two house lots in my name to my family They resumed the area for marine industries and the biggest marinas in the world showed up, which is riverbitch and viking So this is viking. This is steve winds yacht That's steve winds yacht, and that's wain hyzing is yacht Tonight I didn't bring my plot plan I wish I'd have bought my plot plan because that I would have proved it beyond a reasonable doubt And I'm in the same yacht facility with steve wind and wain hyzing and donald trump is there too. May I add? And i'm a democrat Okay, I just wanted to add i'm a democrat and they just sort of like beat the hell out of me All right, but that's who that's where that is. That's palm beach. That's river bitch River bitch right there Let me spell it. Ah y b o w i c h river bitch related group Right there. There's all types of writing about carlos fidea His title is the chief ceo A wain hyzing or holding he just doesn't have a casino. He owns the biggest car dealership in america He owns catalac missatis bends. So this is what he looks like Mr. Mori, I'm going to I'm going to remind you that tonight We need to focus on the why support the project on the development across Yeah, I support it That's if you want to elaborate on your On that that would be really helpful. How do I submit my um information to you That this is the only how do I do it like an illegal way? Well right now you're um You're giving your presentation. You can always memorialize them in writing to us but go right ahead I just wanted to remind you of of to Of the fact that it must be focused on the Development across. Oh, we support the development. This is the other owner common kramer right there From palm beach. That's all My neighbors next door And I I didn't give salda to mekel permission To go to palm beach and make a secret deal He shouldn't have done that and he did Okay, so I know there's ongoing investigations going on My name is greg mori. I support the project. I'm a union carpenter Thank you, and you have more time if you want to continue. I did I just know there's investigations going on. We're going to subpoena him here Up the state house. Maybe we'll subpoena him here He has thousands of young ladies giving presentations around around the country thousands of them They're like a dime a dozen. You know when we're bringing the real owner. This is the real owner Just bring the owner right Thank you. Mr. Moria. It's good to see you again. Thank you so much Frank renieri Frank renieri It's a green light on For you that can speak into the microphone The right button should turn green for you excellent Good Thank you. Thank you First of all, I am in favor of the project of the future From every number one My most concern is Traffic Last year from the rotary to go over the bridge The bridge was open It takes me half an hour before I go across when it takes two minutes That's the enormous of problem traffic at traffic That's enormous your people first need to talk project. It's wonderful for the celebrity for the young generation For me and okay The probably is traffic In case of the emergency Nobody could go through over there gonna be murder When the hotel Everything it's building over there The theater it's building Thousands of people you come out of 500, you know, there are no way to go The many things that road The other question The one I want to say I believe Citizen of the Everett He got to the right to vote to say yes or no Thank you very much for listening Thank you. Thank you very much Tony Raymond Raymond Good evening, and you'll need to just push the button on the right side It's it's on for the green light. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Good evening. Tony. Raymond Ward 3 resident I would like to say I do not support the expansion of gambling beyond monsanto plant Not until and especially until the current hosting agreement has opened up Enchanged We would also ask this board if online capital being taken in since it's legal inception Can be factored in can it I don't know. I hope so We should be zeroing in on that. That's a lot of money We as a public of hardworking tax paying citizens expect and we demand transparency Everett deserves more from encore In the state of massachusetts for bearing all the pain with not enough benefit We are struggling with traffic as frank just mentioned parking A drain on city city services amongst many other things Over development throughout the city. I stress transparency from this administration Here I am to request the mass gaming commission Request that any gambling expansion beyond the original monsanto plant be put to the voters in everett 2023 I disagree with mr. Wynn's lawyers and the city lawyer j. Silverstein Who said the people wanted this When they originally voted in 2013 As the ballot question specifically noted monsanto plant or site Where the casino resides currently The referendum voters would have no knowledge of monsanto buying a company back in the early 1900s The land now wind wants to say it's part of monsanto Most of us wouldn't have had a clue as to this Was probably found in some archive somewhere in city hall I believe this move by mr. Wynn is to bypass the city councilor's request to reopen the host agreement I stress many of us want to revisit the host agreement Everett is bearing the brunt and everett is getting the least from this deal Let's at least put this to the voters. Thank you for your time and consideration Madam chair I should have asked this question To frank before he left Could be just dawned on me. Would you like to have mr. Renneri come up again if he's frank. Are you still here? Yeah, could you you can answer the question from there, but could you stand so I can see you please did I hear you say at the end of your Um words that you would like to see a revote take place Yeah, come on up them Yes I believe at the end of your remarks you said to us that you would like to see the city have another vote Yes in regards to this project. I want to be clear. That's what you said Yes, thank you. You are Thank you madam chair Thank you. Um, mohammed use Good evening. Good evening chair man and chair women First I want to say that I absolutely support the new development across the street from Broadway Um, and I'm viewing encore from the lens of an employee I've been in the workforce since the late 1900s So in 25 years working in this great country I've worked in hospitals I've worked for government contractors. I've worked in nursing homes In most of these years. I've been in the cleaning industry From a lowly cleaner as people like to say move my way up to manager my previous job I was director of environmental services And anybody here who's ever worked in the cleaning industry knows that unfortunately this industry is thankless We don't necessarily get appreciated We don't even feel respected however Encore does the exact opposite of that Um, I've worked at a hospital that I will not say the name of But when that hospital won awards me being a housekeeper, we were not mentioned And if anybody's been in the hospital You know that in order for you to get into that room The housekeepers need to come up in there and clean that area surgically clean We were not mentioned in any of these awards Whereas here at encore when we achieved five star status They went out of their way to recognize my public area department So everybody in the public area department knows that they are and they're actually one of the five stars They we have a pre shift every morning every afternoon and every night before every shift and countless times The pad department, which is the public areas cleaning department and the housekeepers are mentioned from the president From people all over the all over the company and we're always highlighted And we feel like when Encore wins we win also So now not only has encore provided thousands of jobs It's increased the the quality of life for myself and many of the people sitting behind me Now across the street All I see is more opportunities for more local Bostonians people in this community Everett more than all of these surrounding areas All I see is more opportunities for more people to have a better quality of life That's all I have to say thank you Thank you Madam chair. I didn't get this gentleman's name It's mr. Yousuf. Why you suf? Do you want to correct my pronunciation? Mohammed Yousuf. Yes Next is Esther Janes y a n e s Good afternoon. My name is Esther Janes And I um I I want to say I support the new Project for anchor boson harbour I started to started working in June 19 And I have great opportunity. That's not only for me. That's for us for everyone and Also, I want to say it's great opportunity for More Employee for anchor boson and the local boson to everett And I want to say thank you Anchor boson for giving great opportunity. I live in in everett for 19 years And I always I be I feel very safe to be here too And I just moved for Riviera and I have wonderful opportunity to be an anchor boson harbour and I Agree with this. Thank you Thank you Anika pierce p i e r e s Hi, good evening everyone My name is Annika Piris. I'm from Dorchester. I've been working for anchor boson harbour since free opening um, I just want to say that I uh support this project and um again Since working since the beginning offer um anchor has offered competitive pay Excellent benefits and opportunities for growth um employees um Enjoy a supported divide Diverse work environment um strong emphasize on work life balance um and ongoing professional develop um development Um as a proud mother of three, um grateful To have this opportunity. Um, that's it depend on Welfare and have a job that can help me pay my bills take care of my kids and have a work in life balance um And if this project will offer more of this opportunity. Yes, I definitely approve it Thank you for hearing me. Thank you I'm sorry before you leave. Can I just ask what is your job? I am I am the assistant director of public areas And that that's where all the I mean we are considered women minorities, you know, could you say it one more time? Please with your position assistant director public areas and Just a request those who are speaking uh commissioner maynard's just having a little difficulty hearing so You can just put your mouth close to the microphone and it will help him. So thank you so much Thank you Uh Farah Murphy M. U. R. P. H. Y. Good evening and thank you for having me My name is Farah Murphy. I'm a resident and I fully support the construction across the street from oncour or close Um, I am the assistant director to horticulture and floral for oncour Um, I just want to share a little bit of my story. I started as a gardener um, worked my way through opportunity from oncour schooling training Up to supervisor manager and then Gladly and happy to be the assistant director now I have a great team of 20 We like to offer the same opportunities that I was offered which is again training schooling english classes um, and I believe strongly that Oncour is a great place to work for um, I can Vouch for that as well as my kids Um, and if this provides more opportunity for growth and more jobs Um, I I mean I'm fully supportive of that Thank you for your time Thank you Next uh darin costa C.O.S.T.A Good evening. Good evening. Thank you To the chair and the commission for presenting Um, for the record darin costa. I'm the award three counsel here in everett Um, again, I appreciate the chair the commission for presenting. Uh, I appreciate what the wind company has done It's a clean up toxic lands. There are not many companies that can afford the margin to do something like that Uh, I also created and continue to create Permanent and temporary union jobs. Um, so there is a lot that you bring to the community Uh, also everett does demand that you do pay fair wages and provide a safe work environment for everybody either At the front stage during construction or after in your permanent positions I'm going to kind of go through a couple of points. I did attend the Event that you guys had at the mone room on april 11th So it did mention affordable housing the numbers that I received that day don't match the numbers that I see today But numbers aside, um, I really want to make sure that wind feels like invested in the community where it's not just Promising the city of everett fountains, but actually guaranteeing us a solution you guys are Wind has occupied a infrastructure of people that can drive Programs and manage expenditures in ways the city cannot today, right? So giving the city money isn't a solution It's a step in the manner of a solution But I think managing a program with the city closely would probably add more value to the city of everett Um, I think there was about 3 000 parking spaces proposed All of them being above ground I'd really love to consider and I know it comes at a large expense But more underground parking And that leads to my next comment and why it's so important to me to not have cars occupy Above ground space. It's because we need more open air space We need public accessibility We need community space Although what has been built and currently is in place is very beautiful. It's off off street Meaning it's not visible to the average everett resident walking down the street and catching a bus It's likely not even Highly attended by the average everett person So I believe that as you expand, please consider Creating community space that's easily visible and available to all of everett residents is where no one feels a pressure to spend money In fact, when I came to the mone room on april 11th, many people weren't aware of some of the services including the free valet parking Just because it's it's it's just not necessarily knowledge that people have but it's a wonderful It's a wonderful benefit of having you in the city. There are a lot of Free things to enjoy, but I don't think they're as visible as they should be Now you guys have an overhead access Going over broadway It really seems closed off especially on the new building side. You have to kind of transport through the building I don't know if you've ever been to the td bank north garden, but they also have a public private space Which goes into the commuter rail station In in the td bank north garden. It's open. It's inviting Right as you build these publicly accessible areas that provide conveniences like going over Broadway, I just urge that you keep them open and inviting so that they're part of the community and not part of Win where you have to access win in order to access those public areas Community engagement I took a quick survey four hours ago and about 18 of 22 respondents said they hadn't heard about this I had but i'm more of a keen observer of what's going on. I just would really Want to Kind of push you if possible. I don't know if there's a better word than that But to be more engaged within Our city and mayoral social accounts And also being part and present at the more well Attended events at the city. There there are many including like for example, easter so You you do have a presence for example at earth day, but there are some other events that are more highly Visited so if you could consider being a part of all and engage directly You know the students do it so involving the students to help you engage directly with these events that offer a large Give back to the community because they're highly attended Shuttle expansion I love the shuttle in place and this is going to go back to community engagement because not a lot of people know about it It's being better better. It's being publicized better today, but it needs to be better Managed meaning we need more exit and entry points to public rails. There are a lot of people that rely on efficient public transportation on a daily basis and that shuttle is what's closing the gap in the infrastructure That's missing an Everett today, which is a lack of rails Also the water taxi expansion, I'd love to see the water taxi available seven days a week not just on the weekends I feel like that would be a huge benefit if it was well known in Everett that they can make it to Longworth by a boat for free And keep in mind for the public that these shuttles are created as part of an agreement As the developments approved here in Everett part of the agreement requires that the wind casino Establish these shuttle routes and establish these Abilities for people to be able to go from one area of the city to another As you establish your extended footprint, please advocate for infrastructure improvements I don't see anything in the horizon. For example, Everett has a deteriorating overpass in Sweetser Circle It's not far from the Encore Casino So as you work with the state as you work with others, please advocate for a significant investment in infrastructure in the city of Everett We lack a vision of tracks. There is no vision today of tracks coming into Everett While the orange line runs right behind the wind casino Please consider to consider the continued community impact of gaming When you guys open the original Encore Casino, you know, it's one or more calls to 911 per day Right, so it does put a strain and likely as we further and expand development that strain is going to continue to bubble So just please the original host agreement does have a community impact fee Please not only continue to encourage community impact fee increases due to this expansion But also try to help shepherd Data and statistics that would allow people to understand how that 5 million is actually Utilized by the city because as of right now, it's general it's put into the general fund Mr. Costa, I'm going to ask that we have a little bit more just a few more minutes. I have one more point one more point Okay, excellent So we need to negotiate a new host agreement to include the original gaming footprint and operation today Is not acceptable, right? We need to look at the entirety of the agreement And just for the public knowledge the Encore property was sold recently at 1.7 billion that would generate 42 million in property taxes It's currently assessed for the city assessment at 1.3 billion Which would generate about 32 million of property taxes annually In reality today Encore pays approximately 22 million as a payment eluin taxes So lastly just please if you could send me the documentation that you showed today And if you do have any follow-ups from the public that have concerns If you could also include me in those distributions, please. Thank you so much again, mr. Costa So we will put the Encore boston harbour gave that presentation that will be on the gaming commission's website We will have any comments that we received in writing will be available on our website I think you referenced the moray room. I'm not familiar. Was that mona mona. I'm sorry mona mona. I guess Yes, that might have been Meeting that Encore boston harbour hosted. I don't believe the gaming commission was there, but oh, yeah apologies It was hosted by the Encore directly, so it was a it was a great presentation excellent and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't well attended and that's why I bring up the community engagement portion Meaning they should be encouraged to be involved in every event possible that Gathers a large population of people either from ever or the surrounding because a lot of people are affected outside of ever by And you might be interested too on our website. We do have a research agenda and I believe we do have a report on engagement of Encore boston harbour community and and there was a feeling that The community wanted to be more engaged. So you've raised a very valid point and that too is available on our website So please um go to our website. There are a lot of resources that I think Will help you and I think Encore boston harbour remains here So I'm sure that they took note of all the items that you raised that will be directly related to their proposals Yeah, and I'll send it by email. So you have it. Oh, that would be helpful. Thank you Can I just get someone's contact information? Just so I know what it said right Grace or um or our thomas mills will give you our website address and actually before you go mr. Costa I had a question for you about when you talked about community engagement I know it sounded like you were directing a lot of that in terms of wanting more engagement with Encore, but In terms of getting out the fact that this meeting for the mgc was happening Are you do you also want more communication to the community from the mgc about these types of meetings? Or was that directed at Encore's relationship with the community? So They're they're kind of like for example today's meeting is not on the city schedule like on the city's calendar Like I have an automated ios Integrated calendar and it doesn't pop up there. So there are ways that we could also Through the city social. I mean goes out through the city. So exactly I mean it really has to be a marriage between the gaming commission on corn the city And we do spend a lot of resources on things like social Facebook and other social platforms. That's a good way to engage people And again some of these events take a take a census on which events gather the most people And it's generally the events that the 4th of july event for example It's generally the events where you know Easter for you know, and I'm sure the city has those statistics for example I saw on core at the earth day and there are a lot of people there But it doesn't engage it engage a lot of people who are involved Already as part of civic organizations or city organizations where the the easter Event the ever little league event, you know, we're holding a parade, you know in on saturday These events are well attended, you know and well attended by a diverse body of people versus an earth day It's it's a great photo out And it's it's great work. I enjoy I was there. I was shoveling, uh, you know Uh miss devany and I were shoveling the old trees on elm street that were cut down and now are part of the river green So there's beautiful things happening and on core has played a large role in that I just think that engagement has to be like a three-legged stool and it's really Everett on core and the mass gaming commission Thank you all very helpful feedback. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Um, uh, ricky, um bella bow Bella bow, I know I'm like this is my people Oh Good good evening. I looked and there we go. Thank you so much. Good evening Hello, everyone. Uh, my name is ricky bella bow. I am one of the owners of v10 development I wanted to thank everybody for uh being here tonight um, we are Investing in everett. I actually have been in the boston area for almost 20 years now Going to school in the area and investing in a lot of different communities We moved and started investing in everett About seven years ago buying multifamily properties and now we've our businesses grown We just completed the 600 which is up the street, which is a 30 million dollar investment into everett In total we've invested about 40 million into everett And I think you know looking at the tenant base in our building Actually was reviewing it and we have about 10 of our current tenants work at on core boston harbor And some of the feedback we get when we reach out to our tenants is You know what brings you to everett and it's the idea of live work and play And I think across the street really opens up more opportunities for more people to work here More people to play here and more people to live here, right? And so I think that's what really excites me about across the street You're taking a site that is contaminated That needs to be cleaned up and that's what on core can do for that And I think it's uh, you know for all of these reasons i'm completely in support of across the street Thank you very much And that was b e l i v e a u Okay Next uh jonathan desilva d a c s i s i l d a Good evening. Uh, my name is jonathan desilva I'm an everett resident. I support the project. I like everything that they have done. Um at on core It's very well managed. It's a beautiful building And I would love to see that continuing across the street So definitely support it Question too. Yeah, go ahead. So when you are an everett resident, I need to ask this question I've heard from your fellow residents. They'd love to see a revote Of that area throughout the city. How do you feel about that? um You know, I I really do like the improvement that they've done across the street I don't know what that vote is about. So kind of the one to comment Okay, thank you. Thank you Ashmael room br un Oh, there you are. Thank you. Hi Well, thank you and good evening Yeah, the right button. It will should be on excellent I'd first like to start off madam chair. Thank you for giving me the pleasure to speak today Um, so my name is ashmael brun I'm a young real estate professional in the city of everett And I absolutely support this project I'd first like to start off by saying that I can personally relate to a lot of the residents that spoke Um prior to me coming up. I grew up in a working class family To asian immigrants in malden prior to moving to everett And when the on-court casino was first established The first thing that I can remember is all of my friends and colleagues were super excited because Of the job benefits that they were getting whether they were iron workers Uh cocktail waitresses security guards You name it, you know, there was a sense of pride and a sense of growth Um, and I want to and I want to say this. I'm here because I support growth I'm a millennial. I'm a young working professional We've been through so much as a community through covet Economic volatility, which most of us are still going through You talk to any of the residents the price of eggs grocery stores things are through the roof And I would like to see us move in a direction of advancement and growth And I think this project will bring just that When you think of everett and you think of on-court and you think of all the liveliness that it brings to the community That's something that I want to see continuing to push forward Not only for my generation, which is stepping up buying property Which is going to be supporting to most of the economic growth that we see right now But for future generations to come Um, and with that being said, uh, just want to thank you guys again for the opportunity to speak Thank you Mr. Maynard, you'll speak up if you have any questions, correct? Okay Thank you. Next we have Ben Kovacs k o v a c s Thank you So my name is Ben Kovacs. I I recently moved to the 600 at the top of Broadway Um, I originally came to everett because of all the activity here Um, the casino it's a place where you can, um, enjoy a lot of your free time I we're actually opening an office in everett. So like ricky bellovo said Living working and playing in everett. Um, I think that's a big part of our lifestyle as a younger generation So having more local amenities will Be a big win for for myself and then others And so I fully support this project Thank you Next, um, brun fielho Fielho you'll correct me Hello Um, the spelling is f i a l h o that is correct And can you help me with pronunciation? It's fialio Beautiful. Thank you Um, thank you for having me. Um, I'm 100% fully um I love that what they're doing with the project here and I reside in everett And i'm really excited about the project that they're making Making it happen right now So I'm fully supported of it Thank you. Thank you so much Cara henson h en s on Good evening. Good evening. Thank you for having me. Um, my name is Cara henson. I work at encore boston harbour Um, and I thought I knew what I was going to say, but it was wonderful to hear The voices from other encore boston team members that came up and spoke about their personal experience And I do think um, you know working. I do want to share that working with encore You know one of our core values is care about everyone and everything and it's wonderful to hear that in this story because certainly You know jack you share the statistics of what our culture looks like But also their commitment to the growth Through learning and opportunity So I think with the build across the street. We're very excited to see that continue to happen Thank you. Thank you miss henson Richard Garcia G a r c i a Good evening Good evening. Thank you, madam chair. I think it's a commission I Well first I wanted to come up to speak as um perspective of Former resident of ever someone who grew up here and was someone whose family still lives here Um, my mother's still in the home here and also as an employee of encore boston harbour um during my time in encore i've been able to join from before we opened and I got to see the Uh, the opportunity that it gave not only to our local communities, but specifically to the community of ever to the community that I Had the fortune to grow up with and we've been fortunate enough to not only provide Employment opportunities but also opportunities for growth um professionally and personally for our team members whether that's uh English as a second language classes other professional development courses that we provide And then the engagement that we have with our community I know that the east of broadway project is something that I fully support Mainly because it will allow us to continue to provide that opportunity and to continue to engage with our community And provide all those professional development opportunities that we have given to our team members um And ultimately it will I know continue to uh strengthen the city of ever Not only economically but also in terms of what it can provide for its citizens in return for its residents in return Thank you Thank you Mr. Garcia, what's your position? At h my position uncle boston harbour's recruiter Oh, there you go Thank you Andrew DeLaurie del or y andrew Good evening Good evening. Madam chair members of the commission. My name is Andrew DeLaurie. I'm an attorney and a real estate broker here in Everett I am a resident and I am a father and a husband in this city as well I spend most of my days uh at 365 broadway So I just wanted to come up tonight and uh give my support in in favor of this project. Um What I can say is I've been a resident of the city for two decades. I watched the original on core building Get built out of the sky uh from my my bedroom window every day, you know here comes a new story and you know I watched that come together and I think um It was impossible to envision what on core is and what it has become and what a resource it has become to the city of everett. It truly is uh at an exclusive You know five star worldwide destination It's unbelievable that if you grew up in this city to tell you one day that there would be an on core there You know, you'd get told you were you were crazy. Um What I see across the street currently is not the highest and best use of the property On core has had that in their possession They clearly have identified that there is a better use to that I don't have any doubt in this company at this point that they can Run a successful sports book over there gaming area, whatever they're going to do. It's going to be successful I think that all I wanted to request from the commission tonight is that There's a focus on what on core is you know looking out towards the rest of everett in terms of uh, You know what the contribution is to the city. They're everywhere. They're the biggest employer But I heard tonight. There's only 500 employees. We're a 49 000 person city So one percent of our workforce is working in our city's largest employer So I would like to see on core continue to host job fairs and go out into the community and just make sure You know the 500 ever residents who work in the casino aren't just cleaning toilets and mobbing floors I'd like to see on core make sure that they're finding our highest And best talent And you know helping we're making sure that those people get promoted throughout the ranks so that you know Ever residents continue can continue to reside in what is becoming a rapidly growing economy here in everett Additionally, I'd like to see You know the civil service improvements the fire and police Are very busy You know, I'd like to see what on core can do to help contribute that and and how this a new use will Contribute to additional calls and stuff like that And I'd like to know is there going to be any additional infrastructure improvements This was a large infrastructure project when the first phase of this was completed So to think about a second phase it just begs me to wonder, you know, what is the true traffic damage going to be on that and you know What what is the actual infrastructure going to look like contribution for everett's everett's fact everett's benefit at the end of the day You know just long story short. I absolutely support it. I think it's amazing for the city I just want to make sure that on core is giving people a reason to turn left when they come out of the casino And go to everett as opposed to turning right and going to boston and going to assembly row and summer bowl I'd just like to see You know continued growth to support, you know, the rest of the city outside of the the on core premises I think that they certainly have the ability to do it. I just uh, I'd like to see the commission You know kind of hold them accountable to that Can I ask your question? Um, and in terms of whether there should be a referendum Well on expanding gaming across the street You know position on that I'm hard-pressed as an attorney to to give you an illegal opinion on something without really having researched it, but I just I'm asking as a resident not as an I don't I don't see any any benefit to a referendum It's a it's an item that was approved by 87 percent of the voting public in the city of everett originally And I haven't heard any comment here tonight to think that there's going to be a significant swaying from from that viewpoint So I I'm not sure what the additional time and expense and burden on the city of having a referendum That is is going to get passed to anyway really is so there is the current use is not the best use And there's never been anything else proposed on that side of broadway that is anywhere near as complementary to the city Is that and I think that the city should support it and we should have as little red tape in the way of that approval as possible This commission exists to vet those problems and I I have confidence that you've done that Madam chair You don't have to answer this question. I'm going to ask it Back when you did vote for this project Did you think in your mind that this new piece of land would be encompassing of what? You voted on I mean It's it's hard to even It's hard to say encore has been more successful and and more beneficial than I could ever imagine I If you told me it was going to go across the street at some point because they were going to build a business that would be So strong and so capable of holding over there. I would have supported it originally I just you know It yeah, it couldn't even be in the first building couldn't even be envisioned at this point So to go to phase two they can do it. I think we should support them fully on that Thank you, madam chair Thank you, sir. Thank you Mike Michael McLaughlin mcl a u gh lin Good evening Good evening, madam chair and members of the game commission and on core casino Michael McLaughlin former ward six city councilor in that area now the vice chairman of the school committee Absolutely support this project for a whole host of reasons Many of the same reasons that I supported on core originally 10 years ago Which is hot to believe it's already been 10 years but 10 years ago when I probably Single-handedly knocked on almost every door in the city and talked about gaming the gaming commission and coming to the city of Everett with the casino Gaining 87 percent of our support in the community It's about jobs. It's about the economic growth It's about the possibilities that it can bring not only just for the city of Everett, but the region and for the state It also gives us an opportunity to once again put our city back on the map of Growth beyond our wildest dreams It gives us an opportunity to open up a parcel of land in a side of broadway that I could never have imagined as a lifelong resident in the city of Everett I like to go to the casino not because I gamble because I like to talk to people that work there I was actually happened to I thought the meeting was at the casino tonight And I went there before realizing it was here in the chambers And as I was walking through the casino and through going into what I thought was going to be a ballroom I was talking to a gentleman about his life changing experience of getting a job at the casino About the fact that he works 40 plus hours a week and how it's changed his life That conversation just happened half an hour ago with myself and my employee of the casino Those opportunities is what I like to hear because when I supported this project I thought about people that Needed a shot to have an opportunity that maybe didn't go to college Maybe weren't like myself the most successful books month But had an opportunity to come and get a job and to provide for their family grow their family Buy a house started business and so forth I hear those stories every time I go to the casino and to think that we have the opportunity to go across the street And just continue to build on that success can only be what I would consider a dream come true Um, I know that the gentleman asked that mr. DeLurie previously Was this site talked about 10 years ago in the game and commission when the uh proposal was for encore No question in my mind that when I've talked to thousands of residents not only then 10 years ago But every time I've talked to residents since always has been about what else is coming on lower Broadway What is the next site? What is the next possible is going to be developed on lower Broadway? And how is it going to be complementary towards the game? I mean towards encore There's never been a question in the city of Everett's mind in thousands of residents I've talked to about all of lower Broadway being redeveloped at some point into a worldwide destination of Casino life entertainment shops restaurants and other types of amenities that would a compliment a compliment the casino so And quite frankly, I think if there was a community Vote taken that 87 percent would be on the short end I think would be even greater and I know for sure that I myself would be out every single day making sure that the people Understood the benefits of this project. Can we look at what we've learned from 10 years ago and how we can make it better today? Absolutely Can we maybe make a stronger host community agreement? Can we do some things for better outreach or police and fire resources? Of course, you always can learn from the past and make it better to the for the future But there's no question that this project is right for not only Everett, but for the region and the state And the people of Everett will support it wholeheartedly. Thank you for your time tonight. Nice to see you Stephanie martins m a r t i n s Good evening Good evening. Um Well, thanks for hosting this meeting. Um, first I want to Echo my colleagues. I'm actually also i'm in city councilor So I wanted to first echo my colleagues comment on the need for better communication and engagement You're this meeting is taking place in our chambers and I personally found out yesterday Through the mayor's executive director. Um, I mean it's assistant. I can't even speak tonight. I'm sorry So we've I found via email. So I don't know where else it was advertised But different people use different means and it's It's you know, we need to to explore all of them so we can reach more people Um, so my personal thoughts are that uncor has been a great addition to the city of everett And I could support the project as long as there is a fair renegotiation of the host agreement The values union labor fair wages employing effort residents investing in our public safety personnel and infrastructure Including a combined fire and police Public safety substation and the investment in citizenship and job job preparedness Through our organizations so our residents can qualify for the additional jobs that are created Additionally, we would like to see a concrete traffic solution plan in place And we would like to see more partnership and investment in our local businesses Honoring their initial promise to use our local businesses as vendors and obviously an investment in affordable housing if possible subsidies for rents or Honoring landlords the rent below market so we can keep ever residents in everett So thank you Thank you councillor councillor councillor We have some questions. Thank you so much No problem I was just curious. What ward do you represent in the city to to thank you Thank you, madam chair So I don't know if asking a local official this question is appropriate Or if it's somebody I should be asking in our staff or if it's somebody I should be asking an eph The question is this I've heard at least three or four times tonight But the host agreement should be re-looked at And open reopened and renegotiated What triggers that Is it through the city? Is it through ebh? It doesn't seem to be something that the mass gaming commission Would be and I'm saying the word in charge of or would have something put into place to reopen it It would be something between ebh and the city So i'm trying to understand i'm a former local official Okay, so if if I was sitting where you were sitting I think I would be screaming at the top of my lungs. I think to the mayor's office, but I don't know What what city government is compared to town government Why that hasn't happened With this new proposal being put forth That's the question. I don't know if you can answer it or who should answer it But I think it's something I need to understand I would say the main reason why we keep bringing it up is that when initially when it was first negotiated It was based on a certain Revenue that was being made on that side of town, but now they were adding revenue So should we be should the uncor be giving more back to the city because it's also now adding more burden more traffic And but to answer your question I think that would be a miss devany answer the mayor's chief of staff and I believe it's been communicated to the council that They're beginning those negotiations, but we're not sure what the status is but that is an administration um situation Certainly tonight's a hearing and so we would not be we don't have a resolution of these matters, but we have noted your comment I think that We can explore your question more fully with staff Okay, thank you. We appreciate you taking note of that. Thank you. Thank you so much anthony depi aro D e p i e r r o did you say close? Okay, let's let's have it Good evening commission. My name is anthony de perro. I am a lifelong effort resident former elected official In this city, I've sat back and I wasn't going to speak tonight, but I've heard a lot of Residents and business owners community members alike speak I definitely think that the city deserves more revenue, of course with the expansion of a property that's going to generate more money We need tax revenue or an in lieu of tax payment renegotiation of the host agreement something Uh, and the other thing I want to touch upon is the votes to revote There was almost 90% In the affirmative when the ballot initiative was held I don't think there were many people that went out to vote that day that didn't hope or think that eventually This would expand all over lower broadway or at least be the catalyst to attract other resorts other hotels other development So that was the plan all along And happy to see it coming to fruition. Thank you for your time and appreciate you hearing me. Thank you Thank you. Mr. DePiro Mr. DePiro, what was the position you had? I was the former ward three counselor former ward three. You're right. Yes. Thank you. Thank you Steven simonelli simonelli Good evening Mr. Simonelli has a speech impediment. So he wanted me to speak for him It's actually questions. You said no questions. I don't know how to To form this. So that's not a question, but he said In the fiscal year 2023 how much money did on core give ever under the host agreement? For the record, he wanted this question On the uh to be documented Thank you for that. Um, and he has just one more Yes To the mayor how much of that money went to the tax rate? So those two questions he wanted to be documented for this evening And I did speak earlier. He asked me to speak for him I I appreciate that and we we are happy that you helped him Can I just get a clarification on the second question? You're asking How much from the mayor was do you mean did it affect the tax rate? How much of that money went to the tax rate? So she's asking you how did it affect the tax rate? You mean bring the tax down? That's right Can I add a few things from when I spoke earlier taxes went up and everything? I want you to note that people are quite angry About taxes going up and I would like to add as a ps Affordable housing is non-existent and everything So don't kid yourselves Um So with respect to those two questions, uh, joe did you get those and and perhaps some grace if we could um Get mr. Simonelli's uh contact if he's willing to give the contact information We can try to get back to him on those questions Does that work? He appreciates it For the record, he appreciates it and he will leave his contact information with that young lady over there. Thank you And I I think our Our last speaker unless there's an additional speaker is ken Krause k r a u s e And if someone else wishes to speak after mr. Krause, you can just let grace know Good evening. Good evening. Nice to see you ken Krause medford resident and Member of the board of directors of the friends of shawalier auditorium, which is the Municipal performing art center owned by the city of medford I was involved in some previous hearings on zoom when this Project came up in an earlier phase and it's nice to see you in person. We appreciate your Uh consideration of the um issues that we brought up the question being tonight Should the project be considered part of the gaming establishment? We agree that it should be which was our position initially The question that I have for you and it's similar to what commissioner hill mentioned a few minutes ago is I was intrigued by the Suggestions that the host agreements Be looked at with the new project and My question was whether the gaming commission had A role in the creation of those the approval of those It sounds like that that's the question that needs to be looked into If they don't I would suggest that the commission consider If this is approved that it's part of the gaming establishment to consider adding as a condition To that approval that the host agreement at a minimum Be reevaluated or a supplemental host agreement be agreed, you know Could put together for this property because it is a some substantially different Property larger properties are much like the meepa process has to be undertaken to look at the environmental impacts of this additional project I think that calls for the host agreement to also to be Looked at in the case of medford. We have a surrounding community agreement and It's effective To some degree this project is even more going to be an impact to our venue Because the current venue at encore has the ballroom that Could be configured as a performing arts center and occasionally was but the new phase one of the Broadway project will have The 997 seed theater that will definitely be Used for that purpose so the original surrounding community agreement and host agreements and the agreement with the other live performing arts centers in the region Were to address, you know trying to keep the competitive balance When you have a municipality Whose revenue stream is much different than a multi-billion dollar casino, you know to try to keep the playing field level So all of us can compete and thrive we want to see as many performing arts senators In this region as possible, but we also want to Make sure that ours as a municipally owned venue is viable. So, um, I would hope that host agreement surrounding agreement Issue is something that you do consider and again if you don't have jurisdiction on You know approving that that you strongly urge or include as a condition of your approval That the host agreement be Either reopened or a supplemental agreement be made with the communities for this particular project and i'm going to go back and encourage our mayor to reach out to on core and talk about the impacts for a additional project and a new Surrounding community agreement as well. So Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Kraus questions Since this project has been put forth and there's been some discussions as your group Had any conversations with ebh regarding the iLove agreement or our venue is not part of that Organization, um, I wasn't involved then so i'm not sure why that didn't happen I think that perhaps our mayor decided to independently put together the agreement. I will, um, say that on core did send, uh, email to the, um members of that group on april 14th Notifying them of the Meeting tonight and that's how I heard about it That group forwarded to other community organizations that were similarly involved. So I would thank them for making that outreach Thank you. Madam chair. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Kraus Thanks We wish to thank the public. Oh, yes, would you like to come please? You could just state your your name, please My name is al alford latanzi. I'm the ward six counselor. Could you spell your last name, please la tt is in thomas an zi um I didn't really come to talk, but I'd like to say a few things. Uh, i'm in favor of the project Um, I think it's great for ever it More tax dollars we take in the better it is for the people who live here. I'm happy about that I think on core is going to do a great job. They already did a great job Um, one thing down people complain about is the traffic You know getting through going into boston. That's been a little bit of a problem And also, uh, the host agreement. I agree that maybe we could renegotiate it and Make a few more dollars for the city. I mean, we do have to put up with all of the things that go on it on core It's a great place. We enjoy it. Um, very excited about the new development uh, I think it's going to be great for the city and About it. Are there any questions you have for me? Um, madam chair, so you may have been hearing us ask other councilman and uh fellow Citizens about a new referendum. How would you feel about that? Should should there be one? Well, I we helped out with the ever united and we got a tremendous voter. I I don't think we need the referendum. I think the people have ever wanted they want that to be developed we we've been an industrial city for Monsanto for I don't know how many decades And with all this new stuff coming all coming along, I think it's changing the face of everett No, I don't think we need a referendum. I think that most of the people 80% of the people voted for it before why I don't think it would change. I mean When on core came in they Can I talk about on core for a minute? You know not the side that you're developing, but I know we're supposed to talk about that but when on core came in They've been trying to remediate what Monsanto left behind for decades In our mayor worked a deal With steve win and it came out great and he remediated all of that polluted land at his expense And built a 2.6 billion dollar project and brought in a lot of tax dollars and that's going to happen across the street So I think it's a wonderful thing. What's happening here? I can't believe it, but it's I'm watching it grow So you're sitting in my seat, by the way Now I see how to spell your name I think I think what I hope you can understand from the commission and certainly as one member Is we're not ever at residence The vote was taken many many years ago I lived 40 minutes away in Ipswich and I have to Figure out what people were thinking when they when they voted And the big question that was before us and is before us is when people were voting Were they thinking about this project this property? being expanded when they voted and as a sitting elected official and a citizen of this great city I need to hear from you. Is that what you were thinking when you were voting for this? And is this what your public was thinking and that's what we have been juggling with over the last few weeks and months Well, that's why we're asking when when encore was building um, I knew a lot of the businesses below the rotary and They started selling So yeah, we knew something was going to happen. I mean they they bought all that land down there and it's going to be developed into some really nice stuff and I just think it's a win-win situation Not not as a pun, but a win-win situation for forever. I think it's I think it's wonderful the more development we have You know people do complain about traffic, but ever it's changing ever it ever is a changing community so Sometimes it takes a while to get through where you're going, but in the long run I I think it's a great thing. What's happening in Everett right now Thank you for your time. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Madam chair. Thank you Commissioners we have one John mcdonald Oh, thank you councillor and and I got the spelling correct I said your name sounds familiar and I've been looking at it this evening. So there we go We've been in Everett 115 years my family, you know what and and I don't live too far away. So now I'll keep track of that Thank you so much. Yeah Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Okay Have a good night. Have a good night. Thank you for your service Good evening. Mr. McDonald That's it. Okay. Good evening I'm John mcdonald I've been a resident of Everett for 40 years Uh, I'm not a real estate developer. Uh, I'm not a real estate specular spec speculator Uh I make no money off the city of Everett and I'll get paid by them in any way. I don't work for on core Okay, and when you call like a middle-class working guy moved to Everett 40 years ago with my wife Decided to live here and we know Everett had its problems and we were all far on core You know, we thought it'd be great and we like it You know, I don't gamble. She does a little bit. We like walking around there Although it's not like they said visible to most residents on the end of town where nobody really knows If you're on the other side, you're not going to be down here unless you gamble but The only thing would I look at and I'm I like the development I like the idea of but there's a lot of problems as people have mentioned traffic There's definitely a huge problem All I've seen is an increase of the problems that Everett has by having on core here More strain on all the resources that we have and Then I look at the fact my taxes go up every year The host agreement is fixed their tax. They don't pay anymore I'm paying more and more to support the facilities That are supporting on core And I really think the host agreement needs to be has to be something has to be done about that Because the taxpayers are outraged that we have all the stuff going on down here And they're the ones who are paying for it That's about all I got Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. McDonald Okay Thank you want to wish All right pass along our appreciation For those of you who have stayed this evening and for all the speakers who have Ungenerously provided insights for us and for our consideration gaming commission is very thankful for your participation Um, I've just been told that we have this room till 8 so streaming will close Um, we are tonight gathered um as an official public meeting So I will be in one second, uh asking my fellow commissioners to properly adjourn Um recognizing the time again. We just want to say to all of you. Thank you Thank you to the city of Everett for allowing us to use the facility tonight We were really hopeful that we would be able to See people in person A gift post pandemic. So thank you again Commissioners, what would you like to say? We have four minutes I would like to say good night and I move to adjourn Second Commissioner, um, would you have any any comments commissioner skinner? No, but it just wouldn't be right and I know, you know The room is half empty, but I do really appreciate your patience in my tardiness I I mean, you know, I'm not a resident of Everett But I can attest to some of the traffic issues not attributing that at all To encore but I was literally 12 minutes on Broadway right at the rotary. So I made it in all as well. Thank you. Thank you everyone and we have a motion before us With no further comments again. Thank you commissioner o'brien. Hi Oh commissioner maynard. I'm so sorry. Yes, please go right ahead. I'm sorry I just want to thank everyone, especially the city of Everett For accommodating me joining virtually today Unfortunately, I do have a family member in the icu And this was the only way I can meet obligations to both you you and and to them And I appreciated all the comments to covious notes and look forward To having further discussions on this matter and thank you again Thank you commissioner maynard Okay, and commissioner maynard. You've heard that we have a motion for adjourn We have a second and we will go from here commissioner o'brien. Hi commissioner hill Hi commissioner skinner commissioner maynard I vote yes. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCjq9KLZDTE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q	Steve Pao, Barracuda Networks \| AWS re:Invent 2014	In the cloud, companies need security that can compensate for a “broader attack surface” and a new array of “threat vectors,” said Steve Pao, GM of Security at Barracuda Networks, Inc. As Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to provide more options for hybrid cloud and pay-as-you-go subscriptions, Barracuda’s security services have moved hand-in-hand with Amazon’s values. Not only does Barracuda aim to offer total threat protection to AWS customers, but it’s taking steps to emulate Amazon’s methodologies within its product offerings. Barracuda launched a pay-as-you-go firewall web app at AWS re:Invent 2014. It allows customers to demo the service before making a purchase. Barracuda also announced an AWS Amazon Machine Image (AWI) that enables customers to use the same security policy between their physical and AWS data centers. While migrating to the cloud means companies need to adjust to new security threats, Pao emphasized that the ability to scale according to business needs means that AWS offers a powerful value proposition. The pay-as-you go model Amazon uses enables businesses of all sizes to access just the AWS services they need, and no more. Pao also pointed out that because customers no longer need to over-provision their budgets in anticipation of business costs, they can choose to innovate at their own pace and “get bolder with their online presence.” Amazon and Baracuda work well together, Pao said, because they have the same end user in mind: A person Amazon calls the “whole stack professional” and Pao describes as a “mid-market IT professional who wears a lot of hats.” Because Amazon and Barracuda are tuned in to similar users, Pao said they are a natural fit when pursuing similar initiatives in the marketplace — for example, leveraging partners “like managed device providers and IT resellers” and offering AWS users pays to “download Barracuda products as AMIs.” Watch the entire segment with Steve Pao below, and be sure to check out more interviews from AWS re:Invent 2014 on SiliconANGLE’s YouTube Page, here. Also make sure to follow us on Twitter for all the latest news and analysis from AWS re:Invent 2014.	[ "AWS Re:Invent 2014", "Amazon", "SiliconANGLE", "Wikibon", "John Furrier", "Dave Vellante", "Mark Hopkins", "Jeff Frick", "Jeff Kelly", "Stu Miniman", "David Floyer", "Paul Gillin", "Steve Pao", "Barracuda Networks" ]	2014-11-12T23:29:32	2024-02-05T08:44:22	1,194	PCh16ZBlQoU	Live from the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's the Cube at AWS ReInvent 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsors, Amazon and Trend Micro. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Las Vegas for Amazon ReInvent. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by Steve Powes, the GEM of security at Barracuda Networks. Welcome to the Cube. Thanks, John. So we'd like to break down all the action, and we can't not talk about security. Every single show for the past year and a half that we've been to, whether it's been enterprise or cloud, security's always the hot button. And it's been that way forever. We've interviewed Illumio yesterday, hot startup that's burning the boats, as they said. They're in it to win it, going big or going home, around perimeterless security. So you guys are in this game with a lot of customers from the heritage of Barracuda, with the appliance from spam filtering and firewalling now to fully baked out technologies now. Where are you guys with security vis-a-vis this big cloud trend, which is perimeterless? That's right. Well, I think that the big thing, as you mentioned, is that we really stand for total threat protection. And really what that's about is securing all the network threat factors and whether those threat factors come in over email, from a web application, through remote access, from browsing, by users on the network, by mobile users, or even network itself. It's been very, very important to protect all the threat factors, which changed as we've gone to this perimeter less network here, is that the attack surface has changed pretty dramatically. And so we've seen a lot of the attack surface move from physical networks to virtual networks. And now, as we've seen, we've seen a lot of the virtual networks. And now, as we've moved out the SaaS and the public cloud, it's just a much broader attack surface and we're committed to protecting that. So I got to ask you about application security because you can lock the front door and put all the defenses on the perimeter, but applications are calling out with API notifications, the firewall rules are huge, all these policies have been around. So there's a legacy on let's just say firewalling, and then now you've got apps coming out inside the firewall, shooting out notifications. So how do you do that? How do you guys deal with that? And what's your advice to your customers? Yeah, well I think the first thing is awareness. The first thing is awareness. A lot of people in the old days of spam actually said, hey, I have a firewall in front of my email server. And I think what people actually recognized was that firewalls don't block spam. It's not what they were designed to do. And what's interesting is that web application attacks also don't get blocked by firewalls. You need a special kind of technology for that. And just like how a spam firewall isn't really a firewall, it's an email server, what people have to recognize is to protect web applications. You really need web reverse proxies. A firewall won't block those. And where is those proxies being native? Are you binding it right in the application? And with virtualization, what changes with this? Is there, I mean, it kind of gets complicated, sounds complicated, is it? It can be, I think, but that's one of the real powers that something like an AWS environment provides. I think in historical data centers, a lot of people look to reverse proxies as another bump on the wire, another thing that would need to be, you know, scaled and another thing that would be kept operational. But I think that one of the things that really is the power of the cloud is that rolling out sort of this new service-oriented architecture where different functions are distributed, you know, throughout different compute loads and, you know, throughout different virtual servers, is something that just becomes day reger. And so we're seeing a lot more openness in this whole cloud environment to doing that. Okay, so I got to ask the question. Barracuda has this great business. Now you see Amazon making moves. Cloud is obviously happening. How do you guys approach? What's the partnership motion look like with Barracuda and Amazon? How do you guys work with them? I mean, you guys have your groove swing business. They got their machine that's being built and built and built. Just kind of, you know, new services being announced. It's certainly all cloud. But what's the motion? What do you guys do? How's the value? What's the conversation link? Well, you know, one of the things is, is that we are just, you know, at the show, obviously, we've been spending time meeting with our counterparts at Amazon. And I think that one of the things that we both feel really passionate about is the end customer. So there's a whole bunch of machinations in terms of how you go to market. But at the end of the day, I think that we're really aligned is around the customer. And for us, that is, for Barracuda, that's the mid-market IT professional who wears lots of hats, who can't really be a specialist in every area. And as Amazon has looked to its customers, they often use the term into the whole stack engineer. And so it's the same kind of principle that, in fact, you got to do what's actually right for the customer to facilitate new paradigms. And so we've already started working through a set of initiatives with Marketplace, you know, obviously. So we have a number of customers who want to go download Barracuda products as AMIs. And that's certainly one path to market. And I think that one of the things that we're both looking forward to is increasing ways that we can both leverage partners like managed services providers, traditional IT resellers, and others who can really partake in this overall go-to-market type of ecosystem. So talk about for the folks out there, I'd like you to share your opinion about why is Amazon so disruptive? I mean, honestly, they're doing well. Some say they're hiding the ball in the numbers. This black box, the Andreessen Horowitz, tried to unpack it recently in a blog post that they did. Remember who wants to know what Andy Jassy has under the hood? We all know it's scaling. But why are customers going there? What's your take and what's the landscape look like for the folks that are trying to understand Amazon, the forces of Amazon, good and bad? Why is Amazon so compelling? Well, I think that what it really is, it's democratizing very, very large-scale operations. And so it used to be that you had to be a large Fortune 500 company to be able to afford to have the data center operations with the level of sophistication that Amazon is providing. One of the things that I think it's very compelling for Barracuda's segment of the marketplace is that now all of a sudden, Barracuda-style managed services providers and even Barracuda-style end customers can actually begin to appreciate the kinds of SLAs and the kinds of scalability and the kinds of infrastructure that was previously just reserved for the big guys. And that's a great point. You now have more creativity, more available to you with Amazon. So I got to answer the question. So I was talking last night at the press dinner, a press event with Jeff Barr who's the chief evangelist for Amazon. It's been around for a long time. I've known him back in the day when Amazon just started. He was just doing blogging basically. We were talking about some projects that we were developing kind of together and separately at the same time, which was around the whole blogging revolution. And he had one of the ping servers back in the day. And he made a comment that he said, if Amazon had existed then, I would have blown it out and basically would have done all these things. But at the time, as an entrepreneur, you couldn't, it was out of reach. It was risky because you had to spend some money, right? That's right. The vision wasn't totally big so there was no risk-free way to get in there. So now we have a new model where, as you said, you can do things now like a large company. So the question is with that kind of a backdrop, what is it that customers can do now that you see them with Barracuda using Amazon for? Because if that premise was then and still now, there are some things where you say, you know what? I never could have had that go for that ask because it's too big of a reach. I need a data center. But now with Amazon, what's gettable for business? What can they do? Right. Well, I think that one of the things that it really provides is the scalability. I think one of the real tricks, particularly in Barracuda's segment of the market is the cost of over-provisioning. You know, for example, we have a number of customers who operate. You mean customers over-provisioning for headroom or pre-pay? Absolutely. Well, a good example is just very, very seasonal businesses. You know, there are a lot of Barracuda business, Barracuda customers who operate, for example, in retail where there's obviously seasonality within retail where you get big during certain buying seasons and small during others. Even in environments like higher ed, as an example, the school registration system needs a lot of availability during the end of quarter and beginning of quarter, not so much in between. And so you really run into, you know, across a wide variety of customers. And it's not just high visibility. You know, we had Coca-Cola, for example, up at the APN summit doing a keynote. We had Condon asked. Very, very high visibility brand names. But, you know, there are very many ordinary businesses that have the exact same kinds of requirements. And really the costs of over-provisioning, the costs of trying to anticipate scale are just prohibitive for the typical business. And so I think Amazon presents a really interesting way to get much, much bolder about how you want to take forward your online presence. It allows you to do some more innovative things with your marketing and your commercial angles. And it's able to do that in a way that's paid as you go and doesn't require such huge upfront capital or funding to get done. So what kind of synergies do you see with Amazon, say marketplace? I mean, obviously, Barracuda, you guys have been that kind of business model. Don't overspend, low-cost appliance. I remember the early days, and even now that's a real mandated company. But now with the marketplace, customers have choice. They're going to buy and try new things. Is your value proposition with that integration? How do you guys see the opportunity for a business, the business model side of it? Well, it'll give you a four-part answer. So I apologize in advance if it's a long one. But the first is I think that there's a lot of folks that we're seeing who just want to do the lift and shift. So some of the things that we're actually doing there is making that really easy. So we've got a lot of folks, for example, who have looked at things like email security and liked the privacy that a non-premises appliance would give them, and simply allowing our spam and virus firewalls to actually be run up in AMIs, up in the cloud, actually allows that lift and shift to happen transparently. The second is, as people are actually looking... Explain lift and shift for the folks that we don't know what lift and shift is. Sure, sure. It's basically taking something that used to do on-premises and just moving it in place out into the cloud so you can get the management benefits of the cloud without changing your workflows. And you don't need a forklift to do that, do you? You don't, you absolutely don't. It happens very, very transparently. In fact, our customers spin up the AMI off the marketplace. They move their configuration from their on-premises system up to the cloud and change DNS records and you go. It's simple. The other aspect here is is folks who want to actually take their public-facing applications and improve the security. You know, in this past year's Verizon Data Breach Report, the 2014 Verizon Data Breach Report, it was shown that 35% of the breaches were actually related to web application attacks. And so we're definitely seeing that as sort of the threats continue to evolve, organizations wanting to start taking advantage of new protections. And as mentioned earlier, the cloud makes it so easy to go do that we're seeing a number of customers who as they're moving their applications to the public-facing applications of the cloud, having an opportunity to very easily improve their security there. So that's one area we're playing. A third area is really as people want to extend their internal applications for more capacity or availability off in the cloud. And one of the big powers of the cloud is just the geographic dispersion. And we have a lot of customers who, in physical data centers, just couldn't afford to set them up where they may have had all their customers or where they had all their employees. And so with this whole ability with the cloud to be geographically dispersed, you know, there are a number of advantages. So you see the customers redefining architecture based upon what's available in the cloud? Absolutely. It was always sort of desired architecture but impractical. So one of the things that Barracuda's doing is helping customers provide connectivity, primarily through our next generation firewall and VPN technologies to get across multiple locations. And really the last element, which is the area that we really talked about, is that you want to really start taking advantage of new cloud economics, not just to take advantage of geographic dispersion, but also around the compute elasticity and the ability to grow the environment. That's an area that we're very excited about. Yeah, so lift and shift is, okay, my existing business, and then the re-architecture using the cloud is fulfilling a dream. Basically, I can do more with the scale and as Andy Jassy likes to say, experiment. I find it interesting that he used that word experiment because what he's saying is, he's trying to mitigate the risk management in an entrepreneurial way by saying, yeah, do an experiment. If it fails, it's the same as an experiment. But that's good. You can do that at low cost and go out and test an architecture with that thesis. So that's awesome. So I've got to ask you on the show, explain to the folks out here, what's your observation? And if you had to, as Jeff Frick just tweeted, put a bumper sticker on the show, what would it be? You know what I think it might be is old concepts become important to revisit. And what I mean by that is that when I look at the show, I see so many things that those of us who've been through many cycles in the industry have seen before. So for example, all of a sudden, consulting firms are at it again because people want to actually understand how to take advantage of new architectures. System management is becoming an important topic again. Log management. Containers. Yeah, log management is becoming an important concept again. And it's because we have to revisit a lot of the old concepts. And certainly, you know, for us, we see the security. It's definitely been a hotter topic than many of these other topics as of late. But definitely, it's sort of revisiting old concepts as we start to really rethink old things. You know, I'm an old Oracle guy, so the whole Aurora announcement to me is very, very intriguing. It's revisiting old concepts. What do you think about that announcement? It kind of had an Oracle undertone to it. You know, I think it really did. You know, certainly, you know, I was... It didn't come out. I don't know. I didn't hear him say the word Oracle. He didn't really say the word Oracle. But I think that really when you look at Oracle, Oracle was really an attack on the old flat file ISAM databases of the past. And I think when you look at this sort of horizontally scaled database architecture, I mean, there are certainly going to be some questions to be asked, particularly with things like MySQL, compatibility in an API layer. So it's going to be pretty interesting. So the old becomes the new again. So I would agree with you. It's interesting. David Vonte is not here. My co-host always and I have talked about this. The mainframe is back again, but it's just broken down and reassembled with modern off-the-shelf distributed components. Well, and it's a more horizontally scaled mainframe. And you got open source in there. So, you know, same concepts, new tooling, new platforms, but no one really owns the platform anymore, right? So you're seeing this kind of commoditization, the flattening of the ownership of the quote platform. Yeah. Well, it's interesting to me, even at the show here, even thin clients are being revisited again. I was over and we're looking about how to do, you know, NVIDIA and ViewSonic with their thin clients. I mean, jeez, that reminds me of the days of the X-Terminal. And so, you know, many old concepts are being revisited, but in much more evolved ways. What do you think is the concept that people aren't seeing yet that's an old concept that will be big? That will be a big part of this narrative, of this inflection point and shift that we're seeing? Yeah. Well, I think that the, probably the biggest part of the narrative is that, is that we all, we all need to become IT generalists again. I think that we went, we definitely went through an area of massive specialization where you had, you know, for example, people who would get certified very, very deep on Cisco. And people get certified very, very deep on Database. People get certified very, very deep on Storage. And so I think that, you know, even in the Microsoft environment, you see a lot of people getting very, very deep certifications in the Microsoft environment. And I think that one of the things that, that really does, does emerge with all of these things just becoming building blocks is that, that the level of, I believe that the level of specialization that's going to be expected of IT professionals is going to diminish. And then in fact, the breadth is what's going to become very important. And a lot of the automation on the services side will become abstracted away. That's right. That's right. And so, and that's, you got to remember that we're, we're kind of all started in the IT industry. IT people had to be experts across a wide variety of services to kind of make everything work. And we ushered in this era of specialization. And I think that, that now we're going to be working at this less component level and more at a system level. And I would totally agree with that. I would also add that they're also being required to be much more of a savvy aware business person. That's right. Because now they have to look up and bring the front lines of the business into IT closer. Meaning they have to respond to business outcomes. And we can give it back. I mean, one of the things I really appreciated about the, the APN keynote yesterday with Coca-Cola is the CIO for Coca-Cola. She actually gave the money that she saved back to marketing, you know, for branding. Yeah. And that's the new normal. It's actually lower cost and better performance. I got to ask you about the show. Give us a quick, give us a quick plug. Thank you for coming on. I really appreciate it. Love Barracuda. But I'll give you the last word. Give us the update. Put the plug in for Barracuda. You guys part of the test drive program. What are you doing with Amazon? That's right. So the business, give us the quick pitch. Absolutely. So here at the show, we remain very, very active in the AWS community. We launched our test drive of the Barracuda web application firewall that launched just yesterday so that the people who just want to give the products a try actually get their own instance to play with. They actually, we provide instructions as to how to go run attacks against a vulnerable website and how to protect that in a web application firewall. We actually announced at this show an AWS AMI version of our load balancer ADC. So what that enables is for organizations that actually want to maintain a hybrid environment between physical and AWS data centers. They can actually maintain the same traffic management policies across both their physical and their cloud infrastructures. We have continued to push forward in our other product areas, both with the Barracuda spam firewall in AWS as well as the Barracuda ng firewall in AWS. And we're continuing to march forward to really provide this total threat protection in the AWS infrastructure. Steve, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Steve Powell, the general manager of the security group at Barracuda Networks. Here inside theCUBE, we're getting all the action on the ground here at Amazon re-invent. Again, Andy Jackson took the stage today. Great demos, great partners. And again, tons of breakout sessions. We got a lot of guests coming. Stay tuned. Wall-to-wall coverage here on theCUBE. We'll be right back. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. 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UC1NF71EwP41VdjAU1iXdLkw	PM Modi lays foundation stone & dedicates development projects in Tumakuru, Karnataka	PM Modi dedicated the HAL Helicopter Factory to the nation in Tumakuru. He expressed delight that hundreds of arms and defence equipment are being manufactured in India which are being used by the armed forces today. “From advanced assault rifles to tanks, aircraft carriers, helicopters, fighter jets, transport aircraft, India is manufacturing it all”, the PM remarked. 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UCOzMAa6IhV6uwYQATYG_2kg	Experts Weigh In On Whether UK Should Unlock On 21 June \| #TyskySour	Hit 'set a reminder' above in order to not miss the show. Public Health England have warned that the Delta variant of Covid-19 is more transmissible, more likely to lead to hospitalisations, and more resistant to vaccines than the variant from Kent. Should we pause plans to remove more restrictions? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar. _________________________________________________________ #TyskySour is broadcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7PM here on the Novara Media YouTube channel. 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Now personally I don't think that's the case but I do think there is some reason to be worried the latest data from public health England has suggested or shown. The delta variant is more transmissible causes more severe disease and has some resistance to the vaccine so that causes some serious problems for our plans to remove all restrictions as I say I don't think this is the end of the world but definitely something we need to be worried about we'll be explaining it all to you tonight also on the show probably the most ridiculous story I've seen on news night. Since Jeremy Corbyn stop being you with the Labour Party was every other night when when he was but this is this is up there with with the worst ones and a story about the Napier barracks the government were found to have acted on lawfully again. Tonight usually I have Aaron Bustani but he is away and I am delighted privileged to be joined by Ash Sarkar. How are you doing Ash I'm good I'm fully vaccinated now Michael I'm so jealous. I know you know what what feels really good is Bill Gates always knowing where I am yeah and I'm magnetic now that's great I get my first on Thursday and I'm hoping it's going to be Madonna because I want Dolly Parton to know where I am yeah that is more fun. If you're new to the show do hit the subscribe button and if you've already hit the subscribe but sometimes you get super disappointed when you accidentally miss a live show then make sure you turn on notifications using the bell icon. Now public health England have released new data on the COVID variant first identified in India and which is now known as the Delta variant. It's not looking good so the data confirms that the Delta variant is more transmissible than the alpha variant which was previously known as the Kent variant now PhD estimate is roughly 50% more transmissible. The imperial epidemiologist Neil Ferguson probably the most respected epidemiologist in the country he told radio for this morning it could be anywhere between 30 and 100% more transmissible. Now this explains why it has been able to out compete other variants quite so quickly. This is a chart from the PhD report which we're taking most of most of our data from today. And this shows quite how quickly the proportion of the Delta variant have has increased so the light pink you can see that's the Kent variant or the alpha variant which made up almost 100% of cases until the end of March. The Delta variant shown in purple now is the dominant one that now makes up 71% of cases sequence so you can see quite how much more transmissible that is then the Kent variant. Remember the Kent variant was already a lot more transmissible than the original that's the one that that caused us to have 60,000 cases per day at the start of January so this is it's significant that this variation has come into being. The report also suggested that the Delta variant caused more severe disease this is what we didn't know already so in terms of the greater transmissibility we're getting a bit more accurate data as they collect more but this idea that it causes more severe disease is new. And it's pretty worrying actually they found that controlling for age, sex and underlying health conditions the study found that people caught the people who caught the Delta variant were over twice as likely to end up in hospital as people who caught the alpha variant or the variant first identified in Kent. That's a very significant degree of greater risk lots of uncertainty there but again significant again to think of what India had to go from that they did this without the vaccines with a with a virus which was way more transmissible than our Kent variant and also twice as likely to get you in hospital seriously seriously, seriously worrying. Finally on vaccines. Yesterday's PHE report had no new information on the effect of the Delta variant when it comes to vaccines, but we know from a previous report that after one dose that az and Pfizer vaccines appear to be 17% less effective against the Delta variant than the one first identified in Kent that's after one dose after two doses that difference gets slightly less significant effectiveness than the one first identified measured in terms of symptomatic infection. It could be for all we know 100% effective against severe disease it's too early to say in any case what we have is a triple whammy the Delta variant is more transmissible causes more severe disease and has some vaccine resistance. So as you know dominant in the UK and all of this means that some experts are doubtful England will be able to go ahead with removing all restrictions on the 21st of June, as was originally planned. Anthony Costello is the director of the UCL Institute for Global Health and a member of the independent sage group. This is what he said on BBC Question Time last night. Do you think we should lift restrictions on the 21st of June because we have a Delta variant the what was called the Indian variant, which is now thought to be 50 to 70% more transmissible. Evidence comes out today that you are 2.7 times more likely to end up in hospital with this variant compared to the Kent or alpha variants and it's got evidence of vaccine escape. So if you have had one dose of vaccine, you are only 34% protected. If you've had two doses, you're only about two thirds protected. So that means that the real figure is that only 40% of our populations had two doses. That means there are millions and millions of people who could be infected by this virus. Now, many of them will be younger and death rate should be much, much lower, but many people could end up in hospital. The NHS could be thrown into another surge. We just don't know. So what do we do? I think at the moment what we have to do is to watch the data extremely carefully. Now, I think probably Anthony Costello should have been a bit more clearer than when it came to the vaccines because whilst he is correct, you know, after two doses, you're only two thirds protected from the Delta variant. It might be the case that that's much higher when it comes to serious disease, which is ultimately what we care the most about. But his general point there, I am very sympathetic towards. Essentially saying we should vaccinate more people before we take away the final restrictions. And the reason I'm sympathetic to that is because I don't think the arguments against delaying are particularly strong. And for me, these come in sort of two, two forms, which on the face of it, you know, they're not ridiculous. I just don't think they're that strong. So one is to say the costs are too high. You know, so even though this risks more hospitalizations or more young people getting long COVID, we can't go on any longer like we currently are. Now, for me personally, I feel like at this point in time, life is actually fairly tolerable. You can meet lots of people outside, you can drink in pubs, you can eat in restaurants. The only thing that will be delayed is nightclubs and mass events indoors, right? I can live without those for a month or so. The second argument potentially more significant is when people say, if we postpone this now, we will inevitably indefinitely push it back. So there's always going to be one excuse after another. Now, this is potentially a more nuanced argument. Again, I don't really buy it. And that's because whilst there is a degree of vaccine escape with the Delta variant and indeed the Nepal variant we're going to talk about in a moment, against all of these vaccines work to some degree and against most of them with most vaccines to a really large degree. So we're going to be in a really, really different situation when the vast majority of the population are vaccinated. And that could happen quite soon or at least among the adult population. I think we could very in a month or so have almost universal coverage. These are some stats about the current take up of the vaccination rates, which shows you, I suppose, how much hope there is that we will have super, super high rates of vaccination within a month or so. And then we'll be in a qualitatively different situation. So you can see from here, among the 80 pluses, there is 97% uptake of the vaccine between people aged 75 and 79. There's 100% uptake. There's probably some rounding going on there because I presume there are some people in that age group who haven't been vaccinated between 70 and 74, 98%, 65 over 95%. People 60 to 64. Super, super high numbers all the way down until you get to those age groups where people are only just getting offered the vaccine. So this was in midweek, by midweek, people between 35 and 39%, they had 68% coverage. Now, I imagine that will be going above 80% in a week or so as all of those people get invited for those. So to my mind, it could easily be the case that in a month or two, we're in a really, really strong position to loosen these. Final restrictions. I don't really see the rush. There are, however, intelligent people who think the 21st of June probably can go ahead as planned. Intelligent people we should take very seriously. Jeremy Farah is director of the Welcome Trust and sits on Sage, he told the Daily Mail. There is a danger of not opening up. This infection is now a human endemic infection. It's not going away. Humanity will live with this virus now forever and there will be new variants this year, next year, the year after. There will be new variants and we will have to learn to cope with that. Lockdowns are awful. They are a mark that you haven't been able to control the virus in other ways. They have very profound consequences on mental health, on education, on job opportunities, particularly affecting people on lower incomes. Societies can't stay in that mode forever. He also said, if hospitalisations have remained low and deaths have remained low, I would accept a degree of transmission and I would open up. I think this is the hardest decision, frankly, of the last 18 months, actually. I am optimistic in the sense that I do believe that vaccines are incredibly safe and very effective. Now, for me, as I say, I think this is an argument we should take seriously. I'm not actually sure what the restrictions we currently have. I don't know if they are having that bad an effect on mental health because, as I say, I think we can do most of the things which are essential to our wellbeing. Obviously, we need to provide certain businesses with support if this is delayed. Let us know what you think in the comments on this question of the June 21 reopening. Ash, where do you stand on this question? Michael, I actually find myself in agreement with you, which is that we can do most of the things that really add to our quality of life. We can travel around the country. We can stay over and visit our friends and our loved ones who we've maybe not been able to see very much for the past year. We're able to do a lot of socialising outside and now with the weather improving a bit, that's actually kind of quite a pleasant thing to do. And we can do some indoor socialising as well. So I think delaying this next step, it certainly doesn't make me feel as abysmally awful as when Christmas was cancelled and all these other things which felt like a lifeline were being pushed back and further back. So I think that delaying in this instance isn't a huge deal. But I do have a lot of sympathy for the Jeremy Farrell argument, which is that lockdowns are a sign, a mark that you haven't been able to control the virus in other ways. And so I think it's really important that as we're reaching this other point of going, okay, so what amount of transmissibility do we accept as we unlock and as we ease restrictions even further that we still maintain in our heads this question of like, okay, so what does effective virus control look like within that context? The fact is, is that the government has been nowhere near as agile, responsive or reactive as it ought to have been in controlling the spreads of the Delta variant. So you had those weeks where India wasn't put on the red list. You have, I think also a real failure of test, trace and isolate. These are measures which should be able to identify outbreaks of new variants very quickly and manage to contain them within quite tight localities. And that's not something that happened. And I think there's also an issue that where there are local measures being put in, it was very, very light touch. So when the Delta variant was contained to a few towns, there wasn't a sense of, okay, well, things are going to be different there. So we can stop that becoming the dominant strain nationally. So there are all these ways in which the government was slow, sluggish, and it doesn't explore the options that it has available to it to avoid national restrictions either being delayed or indeed imposed. So I think that that's a really important thing for us to bear in mind, which is, well, why did this spread in the way that it did? Could that have been avoided? And also when we do eventually get to the great unlocking back in the club, Notting Hill Carnival back on, red stripe all round, what is it going to look like with monitoring the spread, the transmissibility and potential risks? And how will the government react to that in such a way that manages to preserve freedom for as many people as they ultimately can? And I think that those questions being ignored at this point kind of fills me with a little low rumble of dread. Because it sort of says to me that we're not taking seriously that unlocking the easing of restrictions, perhaps even the end to social distancing, won't mean that we behave as though the virus doesn't exist anywhere anymore. I mean, I think that take that you have and your approach is similar to mine is actually very common. I haven't heard anyone in the real world sort of say, I am so desperate, everything rests on nightclubs opening on the 21st of June and me being able to queue for a pint because that's one of the things you'll be able to do. You'll have to stand up in a pub instead of it being table service. But what frustrates me is that the media and the BBC especially are really reporting this like it's a life or death thing. So it's this constant headline thing of will they won't they unlock on the 21st of June? The scientists are still deciding we're still looking at the data. Oh, this new variant has come and this could completely throw us off course. And my problem with it is that they don't because it sort of talked about in such life or death terms. That's where I think lots of people get this impression. Oh, that we're about to go into a new lockdown because if they're taking it this seriously, it must be a really big deal. And I think it really needs to be put in context that look, what we're debating is whether or not we stay with what we've currently got, which isn't that bad, or we go to something even better, right? And I feel like the way it's reported is more the other way around. Are we going to have to go back to lockdown? That's why everyone's incredibly stressed. I just think everyone this 21st of June date, everyone should just chill out. I think we should learn about these these these variants because I do think, you know, they're worrying and important. But I just wish the mainstream media would just chill out about this particular day. And, you know, I understand there are people who work in hospitality for whom this is a very serious issue when it comes to their businesses. But then that should be reported as an economy story. And it should be a question of does Rishi Sunak have to cough up a bit more money in case these these businesses can't open for for two more weeks. You know why it's being reported in that way. I mean, you're you're right. Of course, there are considerations of delaying, you know, reopening the clubs and putting on mass events. Me learning how to dance again actually really hinges on that because I've forgotten what my hips are for that completely forgotten what my hips are for. But of course, a lot hinges on that. But the reason why it's reported in this way is because it animates and speaks to an internal division within the Tory Party itself. So it is this Taylor's oldest time, which is the minute you've got some kind of conflict between a Conservative cabinet and their back benches or even rifts within cabinet itself. And quite often it speaks to, you know, to what extent should the state intervene in something. Then that ideological difference, that difference in political orientation within the Conservative Party is presented as the fundamental dividing line for society at large. We see that again and again with Conservative Party stories. And one of the things that's I think worth bearing in mind is that according to polling that's been done of the public, 50% of people wouldn't mind that much if the unlocking on June 21st was deferred, right? It had a minority of people saying, look, I really, really want this to happen by hook or by crook. But again, the story isn't reported in that way. The, you know, split within the Conservative Party is presented as though it's indicative of, you know, a much deeper division within society and it's not. It's an ideological difference within the ruling party. No, I think that's such an important point and actually an assessment of so many of the news stories that we face. It was exactly the same with lockdown when, you know, when it was clear we needed one in January, the overwhelming majority of the public were like, please do something. We can see this is out of control. And the media were reporting it like, oh, will Boris Johnson U-turn and upset his back benches? And it's all like this is just a completely irrelevant debate. Variants, let's go back to variants. As I say, I don't think any of these variants are going to take us back to square one, but we do have to be alert to them. And there is potentially one more, which is even more worrying than the Delta variant. This is currently known as the Nepal variant. Maybe they'll give us a name for it that doesn't involve a place at some point soon. But for now we'll call it the Nepal variant. This has all the characteristics of the Delta variant we talked about because it mutated from that one. But it also has a mutation which could make it even more effective at evading vaccines. So it would combine the transmissibility of the Indian variant with the Delta variant with the vaccine evasiveness of the South African variant or the Beta variant. So it would be worrying if this would become widespread. Again, it wouldn't take us back to square one, but we really don't want it to become dominant. That is why the government have taken Portugal off the green list because they know that this Nepal variant is present if not widespread there. And that's upset some people traveling in Portugal because they're going to have to quarantine when they get home. Speaking on Sky News, the community secretary, Robert Jenrick, explained the decision. I appreciate this is very disappointing and frustrating for some people. But we were always said from the beginning that we would do everything we can to protect the UK from infection, from new variants. And if circumstances changed in countries that are on the green list, then we would review it and take action accordingly. Two things have occurred in Portugal. Firstly, the amount of positivity has increased significantly. It's doubled in the last three weeks to a level that's much higher than we have here in the UK. And then secondly, and perhaps more importantly, although both countries have prevalence of the Indian variant or Delta variant as it's called, we're also seeing in Portugal now growing evidence of a further mutation being called the Nepal variant. We don't yet know how much of a problem that is, how transmissibility is, whether it might be too difficult even for our vaccines. But it's important that we take a cautious approach and so we take action now whilst we do research and learn more about that variant. It's of course good to hear Robert Jenrick talking about a cautious approach. Probably would have been helpful if the government did that in March when we were importing hundreds and hundreds of cases of the Delta variant, which is causing us so many problems now. I'm going to go to a comment here in Buckley with a five or two questions. Do you think this will be the final COVID wave or more to come? And do you think we will get out of all restrictions this year? Let's take those one by one. So do I think this will be the final COVID wave or more to come? I presume we probably will have more to come. I mean, we are having one in a way now. I mean, cases are rising both because of the spread of the Delta variant and because we have fewer restrictions than we did a month ago. At this point in time, it seems like that could cause a spike. It won't cause a wave as we had in January because most of the vulnerable people are vaccinated. And even if you have a variant which comes along, which can evade those vaccines, we think probably it will have some effect at least at stopping hospitalizations. You've got to think that the real big problem with COVID-19 when it arrived is that we were all completely was called naive to this infection. We hadn't seen it. Our immune systems had no idea what it was. We were all completely taken by surprise. The we here is all of our collective immune systems. If we've had the vaccine, even if there is a bit of a variant, we're not going to be completely surprised by this virus, which means that the effects of it shouldn't be quite so severe. So probably we'll have some more waves, especially if we get a new variant, which is more evasive of the vaccine. So it might, you know, spread even if it doesn't cause serious infection. The final question, do you think we will get out of all restrictions this year? I've got no idea. I've got absolutely no idea. The issue is will. I think there's a degree of confidence we need to have about how much the current vaccines protect us against the new variants. And the government might decide that we need to do a booster system in autumn, et cetera. And potentially there will be some new sort of minor restrictions. I don't think we'll have anything like a lockdown at all, but potentially you could have some fairly not particularly problematic recommendations. Work from home, don't go to big indoor nightclubs, things like that. I can imagine restrictions being in place, but not particularly onerous ones. Let's go on from COVID-19. In fact, actually COVID-19 is very relevant to the next story. Before we go on to that, do like the video if you're enjoying the show. The High Court has ruled that the government acted unlawfully by housing asylum seekers in ex-military barracks during the pandemic. 200 people contracted COVID-19 at the site where residents slept in dorms and were unable to socially distance. Public Health England had told the Home Office that Napier Barracks would be unsuitable accommodation during the COVID outbreak, but the Home Office did not listen. Now, I think we can see some images of the site now. It's located near Folkestone in Kent. You see some ex-army barracks. The conditions inside it are, according to the lawyers, squalid, according to the people living there appalling. You've got up to 13 people to a room, and that was the case even at the height of the second wave. So we're all being told limit your contact of other people. If you're sharing a room with 13 people, that's pretty goddamn difficult. There was also a massive fire there in January, I think partly started due to protests because of the conditions. As I've said, over 200 people caught COVID-19. Now, the core of the judgment from the High Court was about the failures of health and safety guaranteed for the residents in Napier Barracks. Now, the judge, Mr. Justice Linden, said, whether on the basis of the issues of COVID or fire safety taken in isolation or looking at the cumulative effect of the decision making about the conditions in the barracks, I do not accept the accommodation there ensured a standard of living, which was adequate for the health of the claimants. So very damning there. The Home Office said this is good enough for these asylum seekers. The judge has said no, this was not adequate putting 13 people to a room in the middle of a pandemic. It's obviously not right, right? You're not taking the necessary precautions there. He didn't just stay with those health effects. So he also criticized the detention-like facilities the men were held in. So of those, he said they were supposed to live voluntarily pending a determination of their applications for asylum. When this is considered a decision that accommodation in a detention-like setting, a site enclosed by a perimeter fence topped with barbed wire, access to witches through padlocked gates guarded by uniformed security personnel, will be adequate for their needs, begins to look questionable. In concrete terms, he found that from 15th of January, when an instruction was given that residents were not to leave Napier Barracks without permission, he said that meant, or in that instance, the claimants had been unlawfully detained. Really, really horrific story. Ash, I want to know your take on it. In the middle of a pandemic, sharing a dorm with 12 other people in a base surrounded by barbed wire and no escape. I mean, this is all, I mean, it's, it's disgusting and it's really quite dystopian. Yeah, I mean, it's utterly dystopian. And I think one of the things that we've got to do is take a step back and look at the context in which this emerged. So one of the things that I think that the Home Office has tried to do is tread a line between technically fulfilling its statutory obligations in terms of housing and looking after asylum seekers by law. The Home Office has to do that while also pandering to the most reactionary voices within the immigration debate. So if you cast your mind back to earlier this year, this issue of asylum seeker accommodation had become really quite poisoned by the efforts of the far right. You had the likes of Britain First barging into these empty hotels which had been requisitioned for use to, well, not requisitioned, contracted for use to house asylum seekers while there was, you know, zero tourism to speak of because we're in a pandemic. So Britain First go in and film and it was all very sensationalized. You also had Nigel Farage following suit. And so one of the things that the Home Office acknowledged in their own Equality's report on Napier is that, well, yeah, housing asylum seekers in Barracks is far from ideal but there's a case to be made that by, you know, appearing to be less than generous that essentially you can make you can make it all right with the taxpayer that we're having to look after these people anyway. So this issue of horrific conditions in the accommodation, it's not a glitch. It's a feature. It is definitely intentional because the Home Office thinks that that's how you can do the hostile environment pandering to the far right and fulfilling statutory obligations at the same time. And then shortly after that fire, which you mentioned, which occurred back in January of this year, one of the things that Pretty Patel said wasn't, oh, by the way, this is deliberately awful because that's what you want to do. She pinned the blame sort of squarely on the asylum seekers themselves and said, look, it is entirely insulting to the taxpayer in a sense that you'll spit in their eye and complain about the conditions here when they're the ones footing the bill. Oh, and also how dare you say that barracks aren't good enough for you when this was where we'd put our armed forces, personnel and soldiers, right? So that was the case that was being made. It was on the one hand, be grateful you've gotten anything on the other. I think the sense of pandering to the far right, perhaps using terrible accommodation as itself a deterrent. And what was being lost in all of this is of course the humanity of the asylum seekers themselves. So you had some reports going as high as up to 28 people sharing a dormitory during the pandemic. And we're saying a dormitory, it's not like a dorm in a hostel. If you look at the pictures, there are these horrible kind of platform beds, really dirty, really squalid conditions, absolutely no capacity to socially distance whatsoever. You're also housing people in a barracks, some of whom have experienced torture and persecution in the countries that they've just fled from. So it really is a distressing environment to put human beings in. And so what had happened is that the asylum seekers had raised complaints that their access to legal advice and to healthcare had been delayed or inhibited by the home office, that they couldn't socially distance that there were these coronavirus outbreaks that the accommodation itself was not fit for purpose. And that's what led to this protest and the fire that followed. After the fire was put out, the staff were instructed not to go back in, but the asylum seekers were made to go back into these buildings, which didn't have electricity or heating or hot food. So after this fire, these really vulnerable and deeply traumatized people were made to go back in. And so this ruling is significant in a legal sense. It means that the home office will have to agree damages with these six asylum seekers. It also perhaps opens the door from more cases to be brought against the home office. But in the political sense, I don't think we'll see anything looking like accountability. Priti Patel knows that part of her political position comes from being extra nasty to migrants and particularly asylum seekers, particularly those asylum seekers who have arrived in a small boat crossing. Boris Johnson has spent political capital before in protecting her and shoring up her position when she breached the ministerial code and all those bullying accusations made against her. So I don't think we're going to see anything like her resigning. However, if there are more court cases, the home office could find itself in a really tricky position. Does it choose the optics of looking nasty to asylum seekers over and above being in breach of the law, over and above having to make what could be quite costly payments? I don't know. It's really disgusting. I mean, as you say, this is not an accident. This is a political decision, isn't it? I do think a large part of this is Nigel Farage going around saying how you've put up these asylum seekers in hotels and then Priti Patel thinks, well, we better put them somewhere disgusting now, which is disgusting. It's a political decision, it's a political logic to take. We're going to move on from this story. And before we go on to the next, Navarra Media's store relaunched recently. You can now get your hands on some Navarra merch whilst also supporting us in the process. We can bring you up some images of that now. Gorgeous wares. If you go to navarramedia.com, navarra.media.shop, you'll find Navarra Media long sleeves and loads of other items, including for the first time, Evertisky Sour merch. There are also water bottles, hip flasks, and just added today the Navarra Media tracksuit. All clothes are organic and ethically sourced. I'm particularly excited about the tracksuit. So that's at navarra.media.shop. When Labour was led by Jeremy Corbyn, senior staff members sought to undermine the party during a general election. How did the BBC react to this news? Silence. However, this Thursday, Newsnight set aside a whole 20 minutes to expose the scandal of Unite the Union organising to deselect a few right-wing MPs. A movement founded with the highest of ideals. A movement always bedeviled by profound differences. And in recent years, a movement laid low by bitter divisions. It's the honour of my lifetime to lead this great movement. A new era now with the leader pledged to restore unity. But as Keir Starmer experiences a tough period, divisions are bursting into the open. Foul play comes to cry from adversaries of the left as Newsnight sees evidence of the depth of planning on the left to challenge established Labour figures. I think up and down the country, there were attempts to destabilise Labour MPs, just to get rid of them. I think if people had known that these conversations were taking place when they were taking place, there would have been real shock. I think even Jeremy Corbyn would have condemned that kind of behaviour. So you've got the gloomy music. Nick Watt, the host, is talking about the depth of planning on the left. Tom Watson is saying the plans were so scandalous, that Jeremy Corbyn would have opposed them. This was all people trying to destabilise Labour MPs. Let's take a look at what this sinister plot amounted to. It's explained by Nick Watt via some leaked emails. A new flare-up of old embers after Newsnight saw emails by a West Midland Unite activist outlining plans to try and unseat leading Labour figures. In an email dated 12 February 2018, addressed to a senior Unite official, Howard Beckett, the activist Steve Price outlined plans to influence the selection of councillors and to put the skids under the former minister, John Speller and Tom Watson, who was then Labour's deputy leader. Newsnight has also seen internal Unite emails in which officials discuss Mr Price's first email. One said that one hour may not be enough time to deal with all the issues he had raised. In a second email on 15 March 2018, addressed to Howard Beckett, Steve Price wrote of how his networking was vital in building up trusted left-routes in 59 constituencies. Finally, Steve Price wrote that it had been agreed that he would be paid, but he needed a form of words to describe what he was wait for it not doing. All of that sinister music and all of those tones of voice of what were the left organising to do, it all amounts to, in 2018, a trade union, Unite, organising with an activist who wanted to deselect some MPs who the trade union weren't politically aligned with. That included people like Tom Watson and John Speller. Now, this is not a big deal. Trade unions are supposed to have an influence in political parties. Trade unions have always tried to influence selections. If you want to influence who is an MP in a Labour seat, what you're first going to have to do is deselect a Labour MP. This is all completely normal and it's especially normal considering that in 2018 you had Tom Watson actively working to undermine the electoral chances of the Labour Party. You don't understand how they've managed to get a story out of this, but they have. And they've employed all the old usual suspects to essentially pretend to be outraged that anyone could possibly fight battles within the Labour Party instead of battling the Tories. It's outrageous that a time when all our focus should have been on defeating the Conservative Government in the interests of the people whom we're elected to represent, that unite, our biggest union, that there was a discussion going on about how to undermine sitting MPs and get rid of them in something like 59 constituencies, that there was a discussion about getting rid of councillors who didn't meet the political agenda of the few people at the top of unite. There was a discussion about sacking key officials at the Labour Party, the General Secretary, and the official in charge of looking at anti-Semitic complaints. And there was a discussion about placing people in seats where MPs were retiring or those seats were seen as marginal. It is appalling to envisage that all that was going on when we were all trying to defeat the Conservative Government and as a trade union, never has it been more important for them to do their day job, which is to defend their members' interests against all the changes that come from the gig economy, from insecure Labour, and from the challenge to employment rights. Now, if I had any more hair when I was... When watching this, I would have teared most of mine out because watching Margaret Hodge complain about people who dared to organise inside the party instead of battling the Tories, because the only priority should be battling the Tories, it's bananas, quite frankly. Margaret Hodge spent the past five years at every opportunity undermining the electoral chances of the Labour Party by going on the radio and calling the leader a racist. She had a vote of no confidence in the democratically elected leader. She had no interest in Labour winning any elections during those whole five years, yet she's allowed to go on Newsnight and claimed to be outraged that anyone did any completely legitimate organising within the Labour Party. She even made it sound sinister that MPs, even in seats where the sitting MP was resigning, no one in their right mind thinks that's remotely sinister. I'm obviously in favour of mandatory de-selection. I think it's perfectly within any activist's right to try and de-select a sitting MP who they don't feel is properly representing them. But she made it seem like even placing an MP where someone is resigning is a problem. I mean, you've also got to take some of those examples. They were trying to get rid of the person who was in charge of anti-Semitism complaints. Now, you've got to remember Margaret Hodge and the anti-Semitism complaints were dealt with so poorly. Why do you think they were maybe trying to get rid of that guy? Just as they were trying to get rid of the general secretary. We know from the Labour leaks that the general secretary partook in conversations where people were incredibly disappointed that Labour had taken Theresa May's majority off her. So for Newsnight to allow this to be pitched as there were some left-wingers who were too distracted to win elections when literally talking to some of the people who were most obsessed with undermining Labour's chances is very, very bad journalism to say the least. The story doesn't end there because Hodge didn't just sort of take pride of place in this Newsnight segment. She has also used this story of these leaked emails which I find very inoffensive to notify the police. She's told the police on Unite the Union in particular Howard Beckett. Why is this a police investigation? Obviously, they might complain about MPs getting deselected from their jobs for life. That's not a police issue. Her claim is what's dodgy is the funding of this or the potential funding of this. So let's look at her explanation of what she thinks was unlawful. She says, I have recently seen emails suggesting that Unite top officials have been covertly funding political activities, keeping this secret from its hardworking members. If true, this is unlawful. Now, the emails in question were shown in the Newsnight report there from an activist, Steve Price, who suggested that Howard Beckett, who's the Assistant General Secretary of Unite, had agreed he would be paid for the organizing he did. Now, this would be problematic if it happened and was not declared when trade unions do political campaigning with their money, which is perfectly legitimate. They're supposed to say they've done it and say how they spent it. So if this happened without being declared, it would be problematic. But there is no evidence that happened. All there is evidence of is one activist saying, oh, someone told me I could get paid and no one replied. On Newsnight, Howard Beckett, who is the person who these allegations are essentially being targeted towards, he responded to the allegations. Yes, Steve made a proposal to me and I decided to go in a different direction. There was nothing wrong with the proposal that Steve made. The idea that Tom Watson is shocked by this is quite extraordinary. But I decided to go in a different direction and treat our political officers. So no, the arrangement never was formalized with Steve. But as I said, there's certainly nothing wrong with the suggestions that was made in New Zealand. You say never formalized. You went in a different direction. But it is very odd language. For instance, can you explain what's going on here? I need a form of words to describe what I am not doing. If there's nothing wrong with that, why does he need a form of words to describe what he isn't doing? No idea. I have no idea why Steve chose that language just over three years ago. But obviously Steve is an activist in the West Midlands, a good activist. He obviously had ideas in his own mind as to how he could generate activism around the West Midlands. And he wanted some financial remuneration with it. I decided in the end that I would go with our political officers. And I wanted to see that activism that Steve talked about organically grew, rather than have a fiduciary relationship. But there was nothing wrong with Steve's suggestions at all. And there was nothing shocking about it. So first of all, he's saying quite rightly, well, he said he thought he was going to get paid, but we never paid him. Maybe a misunderstanding happened. These things happen all the time. By the way, I have no idea if they did. I just think it's ridiculous that this story from 2018, which at most, I mean, how much money could this have involved if it actually happened? How is this worth a big deal, news night story? Also, it's worth saying, she's saying, well, why would he possibly, unless this was deeply sinister, why would he have said, I need a turn of phrase to explain what I'm not doing, right? And I mean, for me, it's obvious what that would mean, which is that unfortunately, despite lots of campaigning that we did on the left, to campaign to replace your sitting MP, you have to do lots of negative campaigning because we don't have open primaries. You have to deselect them first before you get to select someone better. Now, obviously, trying to deselect a sitting MP at the very least, it's a little bit awkward. You don't normally say, oh, I'm organizing in this CLP to deselect a sitting MP because people will look at you a bit funny, right? So it's quite natural that you're not going to necessarily say that that's your explicit plan. And the reason that's necessary is because the structures of the Labour Party are so awful. The thing, though, ultimately, because we're getting into the weeds now, because the big picture here is this is all from 2018. The amount of money, I assume, is involved. If there is any money involved, doesn't say there's no proof that all of these denials from Unite would be tiny. This is being dug up now because there are general elections going on in the Unite, or sorry, elections for the general secretary of Unite going on now. Howard Beckett is one of the candidates and members of the PLP don't want him to win. So they've leaked these pretty innocuous emails to Newsnight, and Newsnight have decided to do a whole 20-minute piece on it, interviewing all of these people who spent five years wrecking the Labour Party as if they're serious authorities on questions such as this. And why I find it so shocking is because we had another report that was full of leaked emails of people who were actually very willing to undermine Labour's electoral chances. We know that when Labour actually performed surprisingly well, there was a conversation, including the general secretary, including head of elections, that they were all incredibly disappointed that Labour had done well. That was a scandal, right? There is no evidence that Unite didn't want Labour to win a general election. There is tons of evidence that many top staffers had no interest whatsoever in Labour winning a general election. As far as I know, Newsnight never covered that, right? Newsnight never covered that. That was actually scandalous. There was actually evidence of wrongdoing. Here, you've got in 2018 a trade union organised to deselect some MPs. Give me a break. Ash, I want to go to you on this because this is just infuriatingly ridiculous. And I don't know what's more embarrassing. Actually, I do know what's more embarrassing because what's most infuriating here is listening to Margaret Hodge talk about how dare people not be 100% focused on Labour winning a general election. What I find most embarrassing here is Newsnight thinking this was worthy of a 20-minute segment. I mean, you're completely right. 20 minutes for a really flimsy piece of journalism where there isn't a smoking gun where you can point to it and go, okay, money did leave, you know, how I'd beck it or unite and did pay this activist. And here, we've got to prove it wasn't declared. Then you've got 20 minutes, essentially, of speculation based on an exceptionally boring email thread in which there is no clear evidence of wrongdoing. And so the idea that that amount of journalistic time, and I use my journalistic here quite loosely, has gone into something which doesn't even deliver the coup de grace. I just think aren't there better stories to cover? Was this a slow news day? Could you really not think of anything else? If I was an editor at Newsnight, I'd be saying, well, go back and get me that missing piece of evidence which proves beyond the shadow of the doubt that there was wrongdoing and not declaring payments, right? It's a really bad, flimsy, insubstantial piece of journalism without that. It's also incredibly boring. But let's also talk about how it's put together, all right? The BBC is supposed to be balanced and what that balance is, we all know is fiercely contested. There are guidelines, but there's also something in the eye of the beholder. One of the things that I thought would involve being balanced would be putting, I think, tougher questions to Tom Watson and to Margaret Hodge. So when she's coming out and she's saying, this is when all of us should have been focused on defeating the Tories, then you, I think, quite fairly go, but didn't you put a motion of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn the year before? I don't even think Jeremy Corbyn would approve of such behaviors. Wouldn't there have been a conversation about, well, hang on, momentum, the campaigning organization close to Corbyn was trying to make open selections of reality. It was yourself and many others who put the kibosh on that. So the very basic forms of stress testing that you would expect from journalists to be put to these figures didn't happen. So for the BBC, I think, it's worse than embarrassing. It's actually undignified and I think raises serious questions for the credibility of all those involved. But let's get back to the kind of, when you've got a story like this, which is essentially so bureaucratic, tedious and flimsy that it doesn't have a killer blow, you kind of have to squint at it to see what the picture is. It's kind of impressionistic. Essentially what this is trying to achieve is an overall, I think, smear of Howard Beckett, who is one of the left candidates in the race to replace Len McCluskey as General Secretary of Unite. But it's also, I think, serving this purpose of trying to, you know, delegitimize the role of unions in the Labour Party. Now, the Labour Party came out of the trade unions. It came out of the Labour movement and obviously, as a lot has changed in terms of trade union membership, trade union militancy and also the decline of industrial labour, of course there have been huge changes in terms of that historic role of the trade unions within the Labour Party. But essentially the principle is that the party is itself the political expression of organised labour. That's still supposed to be the point. Now, you do have a tendency, a wing within the Labour Party, you know, kind of most perfectly encapsulated by Peter Mandelson, who thinks that shouldn't be what the Labour Party is about. That they should essentially be a kind of technocratic, managerial and sort of bit more redistributive party which from a lofty distance operates in the interests of those who it deems to be the less well-off. But, you know, fundamentally isn't about empowering them or anything like that. And the Peter Mandelson theory is that if you do break the reliance of the Labour Party on its trade union funding, then, well, you just rely on big money donors. The problem is, is that under the leadership of Keir Starmer, there has been a decline in trade union funding and there hasn't been a huge return of the big money donors that the likes of Peter Mandelson would like to see come back to the party. So in terms of political strategy, this is, I think, entirely counterproductive because, one, one of the broad brushes that the public emerges where there's like, oh, this is another Labour infighting story. None gives a shit about 2018. You know, a few people could tell you the real difference between Tom Watson and Jeremy Corbyn, all right? These aren't things which anyone other than, you know, really like, clued in politicos will care that much about, right? The bigger picture is one of our, oh, Labour's a bit of a mess again. Two, you're alienating one of the party's biggest funders without an alternative stream of funding in place, right? These big money donors are not coming back. And three, what you end up with, I think, is a strange thing to do, which is if you're the Labour right and what you want is for Howard Beckett to be drummed out of the United Leadership Race. Well, at the moment, there are multiple left-wing candidates, right? And if you keep all of them in the race, you have an increased likelihood of someone who is, you know, kind of more affiliated with the right of Unite, you know, coming through as the left-wing vote gets split. So I think doing a big hit job on Howard Beckett is, you know, what if he did, you know, leave the race? Well, that's actually a bit worse for your guy because you still get another lefty coming through and perhaps winning the general secretary position. So yeah, just embarrassing, poorly thought out, unstrategic. And I just, like, I was watching that segment mostly because you told me to, Michael. And I was like, how is this going on for so long? You can go and watch that on iPlayer if you want, Thursday night on Newsnight. I laughed out loud a few times just because of how ridiculous it was. One thing I do want to mention, right? So there are two ways that story could have been relevant. So one, it's the whole sort of, like, deselection is an illegitimate thing to do, which I've explained enough times, why I think it's ridiculous. The other is this is a bad story of money being used illegitimately in politics. Now, you've got to think here. I've got no idea if this money changed hand. Obviously, Howard Beckett's denying it seems like their evidence is very, very weak. But the amount of money you'd pay an organiser to help deselect some people is not much money. You know, you're talking a couple of grand or something. Again, this is completely hypothetical. Now, yesterday, another story about money in politics broke, which was that a Lord, who Boris Johnson gave a peerage, despite objections from the House of Lords ethics committee, gave the Conservative Party half a million pounds three days after being sworn in to the House of Lords. Now, that's a genuine story about money in politics. That's a lot of money changing hands, and it's a lot of money changing hands between an elite with vested interests and the party in power. This was a trade union whose job it is, or one of their key jobs is to organise to make political change and who have every right to organise in selection campaigns. Potentially, they've denied it, but the allegation is paying one activist a bit of money to tide him over while he's organising. It's completely ridiculous. We've got one more clip of it for you because I want to show you how biased the host was in the discussion afterwards. Before we do that, if you are enjoying tonight's show, please do subscribe, because we don't do arbitrary hit jobs on trade unions with no evidence. Let's go to this clip from the show, from Newsnight, and I think what's important here is it really shows you basically how much disdain Emma Barnett, who's hosting Newsnight in this instance, has for trade unionists and how much deference she has towards MPs. You completely see the different way she speaks to Howard Beckett, the different way she treats what Margaret Hodges said to what anyone at Unite has said, and then the different style of question she asked to McDonough, who is on the panel with Howard Beckett. Let's take a look. You think Margaret Hodges is going to the police because she doesn't want you to be in charge of the union. Do you genuinely think that's why she's doing it? Of course she is. She's got no other reason to go to the police. There's nothing unlawful. She's just listed all those reasons that she said in the film. Well, I'm not sure what she listed them. You must have heard something said that I didn't hear say because what I heard from Margaret Hodges was we should all have been working to defeat the Tories in 2017. Well, she called it appalling. She called it appalling and she's concerned about third-party payments and potential criminal activity. Can I just bring it on to you, though? I suppose if you're watching at home... Emma, that's language. Emma, just as soon as I can just say because this is ridiculous language and this is the BBC. There is no criminal activity in respect to this. If we wanted to engage someone to generate activism within the region or if we wanted to ask a third-party to sponsor someone to engage in political activity in the region, that is completely and utterly appropriate. And that is democracy in places of criminal activity. Let me... Margaret Hodges is making a political stunt here. As you have said. Let me come back to you. And the hypocrisy of her making a political stunt whenever she undermined the efforts to get a switch of government in 2017 is raisable. Howard, I'll come back to you in just a moment. Siobhan, to bring you in at this point. There's nothing wrong with this, according to Howard Beckett. This is what unions do. Now, all of those questions whether or not they were put towards Howard Beckett or Siobhan McDonough were hostile towards Howard Beckett. So first of all, she says, do you really think... Are you really suggesting that Margaret Hodges could call the police because of political reasons? Almost implied in her voice that this is an outrageous thing to say. He says, I don't know what her reasons were. She listed those reasons. She called it appalling. She's really challenging Howard Beckett. How could you possibly question the motives of Margaret Beckett? Then when she goes to Siobhan McDonough, her question is essentially isn't what Howard Beckett's saying ridiculous. She says, they say it's completely normal for trade unions to do this. Do you think this? Now, that's not a challenge to Siobhan McDonough. That's an invitation to trash trade unions. As I said, we haven't showed you the whole piece. You can go watch the whole thing yourself. This is definitely a fair reflection of the tone of the whole piece. But I just find the open disdain for trade unionists and especially left wing trade unionists compared to the deference towards MPs appalling. Asha, I want your take on that. And I suppose how Emma Barnett gets away with it. Michael, if I speak, I am in very big trouble. I prefer not to speak. Let me put it this way. I do not think that what was conducted was a fair interview which upholds the standards that the BBC is meant to uphold. I have no problem, by the way, with Howard Beckett being subject to a hostile interview. He is putting himself up for a very powerful position within the labour movement. He should be scrutinised and put through the ringer. That's what I think everyone in politics should be put through. And that's the standard which should be applied evenly. I also don't have a problem with the principle of trade unions' political participation being something which is put under the microscope. There are no sacred cows. That is something which should be interrogated because actually I think it's so easily defensible that it stops being a conversation and a point of contention quite quickly. But these standards which are being applied to Howard Beckett, which is that there is evidence of his wrongdoing by virtue of having received an email, is not a standard of morality or integrity that I think that Emma Barnett were she to be held by those standards would have the kind of career prominence or success that she does. And that's all I'm going to say. This is all a matter of public record. You can Google Emma Barnett father emails and you can see what I'm talking about. Because if we say that the emails that you receive is evidence that you know that wrongdoing is going on and therefore you are not deserving of a role in public life. That's not something that I think would be a standard that would mean that she would end up with a career that she has had. Put it that way. That was a very enticing way to end that segment. We won't go any deeper into that, but you can use Google if you are interested in learning more. 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When the government announced its first lockdown in 2020 they recognized that people who are unable to go to work might struggle to pay their rent. Now to that end they implemented an eviction ban. Communities Minister Robert Jenrick promised that no one would lose their home because of the pandemic. It was all very good rhetoric. The ban was of course welcome. However, now that ban has come to an end and according to the Joseph Roundtree Foundation 400,000 renters have already had eviction notices or been told to expect them. So the government in their traditional fashion they implemented an eviction ban but they didn't sort out the underlying problem which means at the moment they remove that ban. There are lots of people now at risk of becoming homeless. This of course could be catastrophic for private renters. It could also be catastrophic for local authorities who have to work out how to house so many people who are being kicked out of their privately rented homes. However, despite the social catastrophe that could be about to befall on us some of the noisiest voices on our airwaves have been from landlords complaining about people who haven't paid rent and who they haven't been able to kick out for the past 12 months. We've had many of them call into radio stations have their quotes in the newspapers or on the evening bulletins. They're all very, very annoyed that there was an interruption to their passive income, the income they get for essentially doing nothing. Here's one calling into LBC. Hi, Andrew. I'll fed up the back teeth hearing about these poor hard done by tenants. What about hard done by landlords? Some tenants are very good. A lot of tenants are playing the system for all it's worth. Now, I went to house tenants. I'm actually in the process of evicting the tenants. I've actually got a call date. But these tenants have been playing the system for the past year plus. What does playing the system mean, Michael, to the own initiative? They can't be evicted. You can't be evicted? Yeah, but what does playing the system mean? Whatever they do, they can't be evicted. Right, so you've got people in properties and they're not paying their rent and you can't get... But they'll have a personal reason why they urgently need to sell that house. So I'm actually using the section 21 notice. But the fact you make is what tenants seem to not understand and what people like Shelter don't seem to understand is this is the landlord's house. It's up to him what happens with it. Now, I need to actually apologise there because in my introduction, I was saying we've heard loads of landlords on the airwaves saying that they're upset and pissed off that their passive income was interrupted because they had tenants who couldn't pay the rent because of unforeseen circumstances. The COVID pandemic and they haven't been able to kick them out in the middle of the pandemic so they're all very, very upset about this. That's not what was actually going on there. This was a landlord whose tenants were paying their rent but he's still calling in to a national radio station really upset because even though throughout a pandemic his tenants were paying their rent, he couldn't kick them out onto the street anyway. He, for whatever reason, wanted to sell his house and he thought, look, it's the middle of a pandemic nothing to do with me, whether or not my tenants will end up homeless in the middle of a pandemic. I want to kick them out. It's my house. I can dispose of it how I want to. I always think becoming a landlord has the tendency to turn people's brain into mush. I think that was really an example of it. Let's watch a little bit more of that call. I'm truly appalled at the way the Tories have carried on over this. They have made it difficult beyond belief to get more landlords. Once I sell up and I'm sure I won't be the only one, there'll be less houses to rent because it's just not worth the egg roll and you don't make a fortune over it. People think if you rent houses out, you're rich. You're really, really not. Once you've paid out all the exceptions, I've had tenants who've phoned me up to complain about the batteries and the smoke alarm they've been placing. People can't make it up and charge it themselves. Isn't that your job, as a matter of fact? Or does that fall down to you or to them? Well, I would say it's down to them. It's like a battery in the talks going. But I'm a good landlord. I've done everything that's ever been asked for me to be done. A lot of tenants, there are some good tenants about, don't get me wrong Andrew, there are some good tenants about, but there's an awful lot who aren't. This is what I mean by becoming a landlord. Now I want to get rid of all landlordism. I don't necessarily think every landlord is a bad person. I don't like to cast dispersions like that, but I don't think the job was not a job. I don't think they should exist. But they all think universally they're a good landlord. Now this guy is saying, look, I'm a good landlord. I'm not like the other ones. You'd previously heard he wanted to kick out his tenants who were paying their rent in the middle of a pandemic. He's not a good landlord. I'm sorry, that guy is not a good landlord. He also said, I'm not rich. People assume I'm rich. Now, lots of private landlords aren't rich. They're not super rich at least. 45% of private landlords own just one property, which means they're not necessarily going to be in the realms of the super rich. However, even though they might not be super rich, they're probably going to be richer than their tenants, and that's because they're taking half of their tenants' income without doing anything. That's why they're called passive income. That means you get to sit on your ass while someone else goes out to work and then pays you a third of their income, a half of their income every month. Then you're complaining that you can't kick them out on the street in the middle of a pandemic. He's also like, I have to change their batteries. I change the batteries for someone's fucking fire alarm. If I've got two grand a month to do it, I'll change batteries for every device if I get some nice passive income that I can sit on for my pension pot. It's just phenomenal how you can have people who they're just receiving a third of someone else's income and they still feel sorry for themselves. Ash, I want to go to you on this. I'm worried I've offended some people by saying that being a landlord turns your brain into mush, but I do really think that it's often the case. Look, I think regardless of whether or not it turns your brain into mush, landlordism is a social disease. I think it's a social disease. That's a better way of putting it. That's what I think it is. Look, this guy is obviously so obnoxious and lacking in self-awareness that I'm astonished that he can get out of bed every day without just simply falling over under the weight of his own delusions. You know, what he's saying is patently ridiculous. One is the idea that you can be a good landlord when you want to kick out rent-paying tenants. And two is this idea of, oh, what's the landlord's house? He can do what he wants with it. Well, if that was the case, you should have kept it empty because when you do have sitting tenants, there are rights that they have because it would be completely absurd to have a society in which people could rent and have zero rights to remain in that place when they're fulfilling all their obligations. So what he's saying is just completely wrong. But the third thing, which is, oh, well, if there were no landlords, then there'd be fewer properties to rent. It is the existence of a buy-to-rent market which contributes to the value of his asset going up and up every year, right? So the value of housing is outstripping increases in wages to the extent that we have this completely absurd situation where by virtue of having a house, you essentially have a hand on financial stability for the rest of your life, whereas if you're a tenant, you know, every month you pay rent, you're further and further away from achieving that kind of buy-in to the economy and a sense of stability for your own future. It's the existence of the buy-to-let market which drives the value of his property. So that's the thing that I kind of also want to bring up is that you're talking about, well, you know, not every landlord is going to be rolling in it. Of course, that's true. You know, the majority of landlords own an individual property, not huge portfolios. But the fact is, is that whether or not the income that they generate from owning this property and lending and, you know, renting it out is a huge amount or whether or not they have to carry on another form of work in addition to being a landlord. They've still got a whole asset at the end of it. If they're already a home owner, you know, an owner-occupier, then it's a second asset. And when you have a situation like ours where, you know, people are seeing the value of their pensions decrease as the state pension age goes up, where you've got huge problems in terms of the availability of, you know, social care for the elderly, having that extra asset at the end of your working life is a huge deal, right? It is a huge deal. So even if you're not filthy rich, even if you're not cocaine champagne every weekend, you know, you are significantly better off in terms of your future if you are a landlord. And I think maybe the third thing that I sort of want to add to this, you know, sort of taking a step back and thinking about what it is the existence of landlordism has done, as well as generating really fucking annoying phonins to LBC. What landlordism has done is that it has shifted power in quite a profound way away from working-class people, right? What social housing did was that it operated as this wonderful engine of class consciousness. You know, it sort of generated in its own way, you know, radicalism, political organization, but also the availability of cheap social housing meant that you could have working-class people participating in the arts and creative endeavors, you know, without thinking like, okay, shit, I've got to work three jobs just to pay for the rent on this terrible fucking flat, right? It made society better in all sorts of ways to have available social housing. It's not just the fact that that social housing is no longer being built to the extent that it was. It's not only that the social housing was sold off under Thatcher. It's that the manner of it being sold off under Right to Buy then consolidated a huge amount of economic power in the hands of landlords themselves. So four in 10 of every property that was purchased under Right to Buy is now a Buy to Let. So you had this huge transfer of power away from social tenants, a huge, I think, erosion of the social safety net for working-class people and, you know, an increase in housing precarity because of it and, yeah, it was essentially, you know, fertilizer for the social disease of landlordism. The social disease of landlordism where working-class people work all day to pay someone else's mortgage. That's what you always hear like, oh, look, no, it's not easy being a landlord. The rent and the rent barely covers the mortgage. It's like, yes, but then you get to keep the house at the end of it, right? If I'd be less bitter about the rent I paid, if I got to keep the house, right? I wouldn't mind paying the rent I pay if I got to keep the house at the end, but the landlord gets to keep the house. I cover the mortgage, he keeps the house, right? It's not... And then they're phoning in feeling sorry for themselves. So I always get especially bitter when we talk about landlordism because I just think it is the most unjust feudal relationship we have in society. I don't think there's any justification whatsoever for it. There's no economic benefit to having working people pay the mortgage of people who were lucky enough or rich enough to buy an asset in the first place. No social good comes of it whatsoever. Abolish landlordism, build council homes, and that crybaby calling into LBC can get a real job. Michael, are you a secret Maoist? I am. I'm quite into that kind of stuff, actually. You know what, I think when it comes to landlords, we're all Maoists, baby. We are all Maoists. Exactly. I think it's in some places, but landlordism, get rid of it. All right, let's end tonight's show there. Ash, it's been an absolute pleasure being joined by you this Friday evening. Great. Loving it as always. I like seeing your face, especially when you've caught a bit of the sun, Michael. Oh, I'm glad you mentioned that. I was glad it ran today because it made it a joy planning this show. Thank you for watching and for your super chats and comments. As ever, we'll be back on Monday at 7 p.m. You've been watching Tiskey Sour on Navarra Media. Good night.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_FTMOcLpQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC2RbTnQ9sr6r1FgbFKf-fOA	Two Thief River Falls City Council Members Charged For Brawl		[ "Lakeland Public Television", "LPTV", "PBS", "Bemidji", "Minnesota", "MN" ]	2018-07-21T04:26:00	2024-02-05T16:24:31	58	PcyexeQcWLU	Charges have been filed against two city council members who were involved in a knockdown chair swinging brawl during a discussion about a children's splash pad. The Pennington County attorney has charged Joshua Hagen with fifth degree assault and Gerald Brown with disorderly conduct stemming from a fight at the Thief River Falls City Council committee meeting more than a week ago. Brown said a heated discussion over swimming pool money and a splash park escalated. Charging documents say the men were shoving each other and ended up on the floor. Brown suffered injuries to his face and Hagen sustained abrasions to his back and chest. Brown says he does not plan to contest the charges. Hagen resigned his council seat earlier this week citing medical reasons. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyexeQcWLU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCTPDxhZ5d8nZgZFLTITA5LA	27Nov2014 - Migrant Voices: Q&A		null	2015-02-06T09:14:26	2024-02-05T08:21:19	1,935	PCu1qDO3N2w	En realidad no es una pregunta, es más que todo un agradecimiento muy especial, porque estas personas, mujeres además, han compartido una experiencia personal y yo sé que no es fácil de manera que quiero hacer un reconocimiento quizás de todas las sesiones que hay en la agenda de este Consejo de la OIM, esta es la que más nos llega al corazón y verdaderamente les agradecemos mucho, me interesa mucho la historia de la, entre todas obviamente que son todas muy interesantes de la persona que tiene ascendencia peruana y chilena y su trabajo obviamente en mi país es supremamente interesante y lo valoramos muchísimo, muchísimas gracias a todas, la cuestión de género es muy importante, siempre se dice que las mujeres están en situación de vulnerabilidad entre los migrantes pero también recalcamos el valor y la superación y las posiciones que han alcanzado de manera que muchísimas gracias a todas y cada una de ustedes y muchas gracias a la OIM, gracias. Muchísimas gracias, o sea, por su intervención. Otro ordenador por aquí, por favor, Venezuela, tiene la palabra. Gracias, mi delegación comparte las palabras expresadas primeramente por Colombia, es un país con el que tenemos muchas cuestiones en común, incluso en particular con temas de migración. Sobre los relatos también evidentemente, como lo decía la compañera de Colombia, son relatos bien fascinantes y son una de las, digamos, de los debates en este panel de esta organización que seguramente nos toca a todos, ¿no? En especial, diría yo. Por supuesto, gracias al panel, desde nuestro periodo hemos escuchado unas historias muy duras pero es la realidad por la que estamos aquí en esta sala empeñados en empujar cambios para que estas historias cada día tengan menos cabida y para procurar, por supuesto, evitar de que los millones de inmigrantes estén solos y perdidos, como lo decía la joven Morevi. Algunos de ustedes han tenido éxito al final de un calvario que pensaron seguramente nunca acabaría, pero detrás de ustedes la realidad es que hay muchos que no podrán jamás contarlo ya que seguramente están durmiendo, están teniendo un sueño eterno en alguna tumba desconocida, ¿no? Como decía también el moderador, nos preguntamos si un euro diputada debe gozar de un programa especial de protección que quedará para los miles de inmigrantes que están muy lejos de posiciones de privilegio. Nuestra delegación lo ha venido repitiendo a lo largo de los distintos paneles de debate que hemos tenido esta semana. Nuestro compromiso en la contena de la xenofobia debe ser la guía de todos los instrumentos y legislaciones que intentemos construir los estados tanto en la política doméstica como en los distintos foros internacionales, en especial en los ODM para post 2015, ¿no? Está claro que los derechos humanos no pueden tener enfoques parciales. Seguramente se dice pronto el reto es llevarlo a la práctica. Los primeros que deben estar convencidos de que esto debe ser así son los diseñadores de política y los que tienen el deber de implementarla a su vez. Un elemento fundamental que quiero destacar es lo que ha tocado la joven Moravi, es que los insultos descalificativos y negación de derechos básicos como el reconocimiento comienzan en la escuela. Esto nos indica que el primer desafío pasa por la educación adecuada de nuestras poblaciones en los niveles iniciales. Así que quizás en nuestra opinión evitaremos que la xenofobia llegue hasta la cúspide del poder, como lo ha denunciado la Eurodiputada. Muchas gracias. Gracias, señor presidente. Duce la representante de Marruecos. Sua mi voz a la de mis colegas en dar las gracias encarecidamente por haber organizado esta mesa redonda y también saludo a los ponentes. Me complace ver que mayoritariamente están compuesto por el sexo femenino. Eso reconforta la feminista que yo soy y también la defensora de la paridad. Hombre, mujer, creo que hoy está compensándose bien. Bien, de cierto también que vemos que esta mesa redonda también se inscribe en la continuidad de los testimonios anteriores del consejo. Para los padres de Ulrike y también de Yurika, por esto que han sido invitados. Felicitó el OIM por esta idea de poder hablar de la migración y la familia. Gracias también, señora Cecil Ekenje, porque mi primer encuentro con ella fue con ocasión de la Conferencia Ministerial sobre la Diasfora. Ella tenía que reunirse con nuestro ministro. Y yo cuando la vi quería hacerle una pregunta. Cuénteme su historia, pero entonces no podía pedirle que me contara su historia, porque otros asuntos nos ocupaban. Agradezco muchísimo pues a que la OIM haya invitado a Cecil y nos haya contado su historia. Doy las gracias también a la señora Lee, que ha hecho una intervención también muy importante y que incluso nuestro país nos va a servir muchísimo en nuestra política migratoria. Estamos ahora en base de integración de nuevas culturas de los migrantes y experiencias como la de ellas son muy importantes para nosotras. Para finalizar, me voy a preguntar, dirigida a todos los ponentes que desean intervenir. ¿Desean ustedes que su condición, consideren ustedes que su condición de mujer ha dificultado o facilitado su experiencia migratoria? Sí, sí o no, porque también. Gracias. Muchísimas gracias a usted. Antes de tomar la pregunta, la República Democrática del Congo, el Distinguido Delegado, es intervenir. Adelante, por favor. Gracias, señor moderador, por ofrecerme la palabra. Y gracias también a las ponentes por las exposiciones tan interesantes que nos han presentado. Mi pregunta va dirigida a la señora Cecilia Kienge, diputada del Parlamento Europeo. Señora Kienge, la miración en Italia, o en Europa, en términos generales, tiene una incidencia política segura, influyendo en la integración en la sociedad de los extranjeros. Usted, como diputada y militante en distintas asociaciones, ya ha participado en muchos encuentros relacionados con la migración y sus consecuencias, pregunto, ¿qué es lo que ha observado durante su presencia en el Parlamento Europeo? ¿Acaso la imagen del migrante en términos generales está empezando a cambiar? ¿Cree usted que la opinión pública empieza a comprender mejor la situación como la de usted y la situación ante la migración? No, es verdad que las expectativas no son las mismas que en la realidad, siguen las reuniones y las deliberaciones, pero, acaso, empieza a haber un cambio en la percepción que se tiene del migrante, según su opinión. Gracias, señora. ¿Desea intervenir? ¿Adelante? Gracias por su pregunta, dice la señora Kienge. Me cuesta responder, porque hay que decir que la imagen del migrante no ha cambiado tanto, la verdad, porque ahora aún me sigue costando intervenir en el Parlamento, razón por la cual en la actualidad estoy creando un grupo para luchar contra el racismo y la discriminación, porque en cierto modo la discriminación se ve con la miedo, un miedo a la delincuencia, con frecuencia en efecto al migrante se le asocia con la delincuencia, ahí debe radicar el cambio en las mentalidades y en la sociedad, y eso desde luego no me echa atrás, en todo esfuerzo cuando se inicia yo sé que hay que remangarse. Yo sé que otros grupos políticos que comparten las mismas ideas, hemos pedido que haga un cambio de planteamiento con respecto a la migración. Siempre que la migración se vea como una fuente de peligro, será muy difícil contar con una política que tenga como pretensión a coger al migrante, lo que hay que hacer es una política común con toda la comunidad, y eso no es tarea fácil, hay normas, hay directivas elaboradas en el Parlamento con toda la comunidad, pero esas normas y directivas no se aplican de la misma forma en los 28 países, ahí radica la debilidad, debemos procurar aplicar lo que está en los propios estatutos a la Unión Europea, a saber solidaridad y corresponsabilidad para con los 28 países, es un trabajo desde luego delicado, difícil puesto que tiene que ver con la imagen que se tiene del migrante, y también con lo que yo decía, cuando yo empecé mi mandato en Italia empecé con palabras sencillas, yo no soy de color, soy negra, con ello quería decir que había que empezar a utilizar las palabras que corresponden con transparencia, este es el mensaje que yo quiero transmitir en Europa, para que en el Parlamento Europea ya empecemos a hablar con una política que pueda verse a los migrantes como un recurso, como una riqueza, no como un problema, eso es en lo que debemos emplearnos a fondo, y estoy volcada en mejorar la percepción en materia de ciudadanía, es un desafío en muchos países, si las personas no pueden tener una identidad cierta de lo que son, difícilmente vamos a comenzar el camino de la integración, pero bueno, ahí estamos trabajando, muchas gracias. Estamos llegando al final de la reunión, y antes de dar la palabra a la señora Lee para responder las preguntas sobre la condición de las mujeres, quise también yo intervenir, el año que viene tenemos una campaña con los medios sociales para poder desgranar los elementos de la percepción ante los migrantes para que se vea con mejores ojos, yo creo que esta mesa redonda muestra a las claras un ejemplo de cómo nos está yendo bien en algunos países en ese sentido, para los que quizás no estén muy familiarizados con ciertos medios sociales pregunten a los jóvenes, en cualquier caso cada país puede crear héroes de los migrantes contribuyendo sí a este fin, no solo queremos a futbolistas, sino también otro tipo de contribuyentes a esta causa. Señor Lee, voy a retomar lo que se dijo sobre la condición de la mujer, si eso facilita o complica las cosas en mi caso, pues bien, hay que entender que la diferencia de cómo se ve el multiculturalismo en Corea, bueno, todo yo se veo vinculada al matrimonio, como ya dije en mi discurso, la mayoría tras políticas multiculturales de Corea son políticas para la familia, un 80% de los migrantes casados en Corea son mujeres, 80% o más. Cuando la sociedad brindó la oportunidad a los migrantes para poder expresarse, salir, trabajar para la sociedad, la mayoría de los que aprovecharon la oportunidad eran mujeres, puesto que eran ellas las que, de hecho, eran las migrantes. Ellas salieron y se enteraron la sociedad, trabajaron, hicieron cosas. Mi condición de mujer en Corea simplificó, en efecto, romper los techos de cristal y seguir hacia arriba. Desearía mencionar igualmente algo sobre la educación contra la xenofobia. Es importante que, cuando yo, mi femiembro de la Asamblea, se promulgó una primera ley sobre este tema. Hasta entonces se pensaba que la sociedad era homogénea. Los libros de texto se les enseñaba a los niños que deberían enorgullecerse de tener una única sangre. Yo conseguí que se promulgaron a ley sobre la educación sobre el multiculturalismo para la enseñanza básica. Es importante para todos, sobre todo en países que están empezando a intentar abrirse la migración, pues hay que educar a los niños con respecto a lo que es el problema de perjuicio, la discriminación, la xenofobia, etc. Muchas gracias. Decía, nos estamos acercando al final, pero veo que han alzado el cartel dos oradores. Alemania, por favor, en primer lugar. Gracias al personal de la OIME por haber organizado esta reunión tan interesante ya por la mañana sobre los objetivos del Tesarillo Sostenible Posteriores a 2015 y también las presentaciones de la voz del Migrante Tan Convincentes esta tarde. Si acaso pudiera pedir algo, es que podríamos presentar este tipo de ponencias a un público mucho más amplio. Aprovechar, por ejemplo, los vínculos que tiene la señora Lee en la televisión para que hubiera mayor proyección. Es la única apelación que tengo que hacer. Gracias de nuevo a la OIME por organizar la reunión. Gracias. Seguro que quizás habrá muchos en la sala que apoyaran su iniciativa. La representante de Teopía tiene la palabra. Gracias, señor moderador. Estamos muy complacidos con la organización de esta miserredonda. Nos sumamos al colega de Alemania en decir que es fantástico este tipo de ejercicios. Se habla de distintas formas de la discriminación, la xenofobia, el racismo, la intolerancia que encargan los migrantes. Pues bien, este panel ha mostrado esos diversos aspectos de discriminación basándose en como prescindiendo de la condición que tengan los migrantes y las familias. Me refiero a la descendencia que tengan los migrantes. Tienen distintos problemas de integración. Ha sido fascinante escucharles. Han surgido temas que normalmente son dejados de lado, pero que debemos abordar. Me refiero a las familias de los migrantes, tal como lo han descrito las dos últimas ponentes. Tengo dos preguntas. Primero, ¿qué opinan sobre qué hay que hacer para velar? ¿Por qué la integración de los migrantes y la familia en los países de acogida sea real? Lo digo porque a veces han vivido años y años en el país de destino y aún hay problemas, según lo veo yo, para integrarlos. ¿Qué más cabe hacer? ¿Qué opinan ustedes para poder integrarlos? Después, sobre manifestaciones de xenofobia, racismo, ¿consideran ustedes que estas han ido evolucionando? ¿Han cambiado al escuchar los comentarios de la señora Zamudio? Ella hablaba de las preguntas que le hacen a ella, de dónde viene, etcétera. Decía que invadían a su espacio vital, personal. Es interesante, me ha hecho a mí pensar también si hay ese tipo de manifestaciones o que han ido evolucionando, que son distintas. Si se puede comentar al respecto, gracias. ¿Y quién desea intervenir para responder a la primera parte? Adelante. Bueno, yo creo que en este momento hay que decir que las políticas para tratar de acompañar a los migrantes en la integración en sus países de Acoquida tienen que incluir a la sociedad a donde están viviendo, pero hasta ahora tenemos países donde, sobre todo en la política respecto a la vivienda, cuestion es que no permiten un buen encuentro entre la población nativa y en los migrantes. Más bien se orientan hacia la formación de guitos, comunidades que van a vivir encerradas sobre sí mismas. Y para lograr una buena integración también hay que lograr el apoyo de las instituciones locales, hay que contar con instrumentos que permitan hacer comprender el país de Acoquida y hay que entender también cuáles son los derechos de los que se disfrutan en los países en los que están los migrantes. Y es el conocimiento de esos derechos que va a permitir una buena integración teniendo una posibilidad de contacto directo con la población local. Eso da la posibilidad a la gente de conocer quién está llegando, quiénes son las nuevas personas que están en ese país y con quién se van a estar en frente y todo eso creo que va creando clichés, o ideas recibidas. Yo creo que también hay que responder un poco a lo que decía la señora de Marruecos, está vinculado también con la pregunta final. El hecho de ser mujer para mí, por un lado, me complicó mucho la vida, porque la mujer siempre está sometida a ideas ya recibidas, sobre todo a las mujeres africanas, la percibimos como negra, usted viene de África. Yo era médica, yo trabajaba en un hospital antes de empezar mi vida política, pero la pregunta que me hacían siempre era, pero usted es una negra de Estados Unidos, era como para decirle, bueno, es menos grave si es negra americana, pero no negra africana. Entonces creo que hay que recorrer un largo trecho, era culpable por ser negra, era culpable por ser mujer, era culpable por haber nacido en el extranjero y también culpable por haber osado el estudiante y llegar a un cargo de responsabilidad de cosas que no tenía que hacer como mujer. Y eso creo que perturbaba todas las ideas habituales, los tabúes y creo que me complicó mucho la vida y es por eso que hasta ahora sigo siendo atacada, sigo siendo insultada y es por eso que ya no puedo ni siquiera pasearme sola en Italia. Es un poco concentrado de todo lo que les estaba diciendo, es cuando un país toma conciencia de todo eso y empieza a elaborar problemas, programas, de sensibilización para elivitar ese tipo de ideas, allí empiezan las políticas de integración. También quiero agregar que hace un par de semanas me encontré con el ministro de inmigración de Bélgica que había formulado principios bastante racistas y lo invité a ver la exposición sobre el Congo porque lo que yo encuentro es que no se ha prestado suficiente atención a cómo restituir los daños causados por la colonización, no parece ni siquiera en los libros, se habla de la pertenencia étnica de ideas recibidas sobre las personas, pero mostrar la diferencia por el hecho de que no somos iguales y que hay una diversidad si realmente queremos trabajar sobre la integración, eso significaría también revertir todos los programas escolares a todos los programas de comunicación y también nos haría revertir todas las políticas para que haya una verdadera interacción entre la gente. Insisto, me complicó la vida, pero también como mujer también me enriqueció muchísimo porque hoy me siento mucho más segura y fuerte. Gracias, creo que hay un tema que ha surgido con gran vehemencia, es la necesidad del respeto y también de la estima que debe ser otorgada en forma paritaria a los migrantes. Puede ahora usted responder a la delegación de Etiopía, es una buena pregunta, pero creo que usted nos estaba preguntando si la manifestación de la xenofobia ha ido cambiando y si aparecen formas diferentes hoy en día. Sí, claro, yo creo que esto es algo que quizás hoy en día es más útil y creo que de alguna manera nos hemos sido también acostumbrando. Quizás la resistencia que yo mostraba al principio cuando escuchaba estas preguntas antes es como una prueba porque se respondían de forma hostil, entonces yo sabía un poco más cuál era la idea subyacente mientras que si me aceptaban también esto me estaba diciendo algo. Y creo que lo subyacente quizás es la historia de cuál es el aspecto que debe tener un noruego porque yo he comparado notas con amigos que provienen de familias emiradas pero de familias europeas blancas y vimos una diferencia en cómo ellos son percibidos y el tipo de preguntas que se les hacen a ellos y cómo son aceptados. Así que sin duda, efectivamente esto es algo que se ha ido depurando y que sin duda tiene que estar relacionado con lo que significa hacer de apariencia noruega o cuál es el aspecto que debería tener una persona que proviene de tal o cual país. Gracias usted por favor. Yo quiero hacer hincapié sobre los aspectos multiculturales y económicos en Corea comparados con otros países. Yo creo que estamos muy bien ubicados para ver cómo otros países fueron evolucionando antes que nosotros y crear así nuevas formas, nuevas políticas como para tener una Corea multicultural propia. Una de las cosas que yo hice antes de llegar al Parlamento y aún antes de estar en política es tratar de mejorar la percepción de la gente acerca de los migrantes. Y a medida que iba conociendo gente, muchas veces me atacaban en formas xenofóbicas sobre todo cuando inicié mi carrera política. La gente me insultaba porque estaba en el cine y también en televisión y de repente hubo como un giro las posiciones. Empezaron a atacarme con ideas xenofóbicas. Yo creo que hay que pensar que quizás era porque estaba subiendo peldaños o quizás era algo diferente, pero la percepción era muy negativa hacia los extranjeros y muchos, me han dicho que el odio que reciben, sur que me afieran de haber tenido una experiencia negativa con los migrantes y muchas de esas experiencias negativas permean la sociedad entera. Así que yo creo que es muy importante que la gente en Corea y los migrantes en Corea que puedan salir y tratar de modificar las percepciones de la mayoría sobre los migrantes. En cuanto a la integración, hasta ahora yo creo que una de las cosas que ha hecho el gobierno coreano es asistir y tener verdaderas políticas. Corea tiene una de las mejores políticas de apoyo a las comunidades de migrantes y algo muy importante es que los gobiernos apoyan a las comunidades de migrantes. Hay muchas de estas comunidades, los filipinos o los vietnamistas o los campoyanos, etc. Y cada uno tiene su experiencia y han estado en Corea más o menos tiempo y algunos facilitan realmente la integración de personas que van llegando a Corea con lo cual es muy importante que el gobierno ayude a estas comunidades extranjeras y al mismo tiempo creo que hay algo bastante gracioso que vimos. Antes si tal vez lo hablábamos antes en el foro. Yo fui a una aldea en Corea y vi que todas las personas más ancianas de ese pueblo estaban tratando de aprender vietnamita. Eso es decir, ¿por qué? Porque hay muchos migrantes que se han casado con chicas de vietnamita y por qué ustedes están aprendiendo vietnamita sino que tendrían que saber más bien las mujeres vietnamitas que aprendan el coreano. Bueno, nosotros les agradecemos que hayan venido hasta aquí y que esta aldea haya cobrado nueva vida y entonces yo le preguntaba a las mujeres vietnamitas que estaban allí ¿y por qué llegaron hasta aquí o cómo? ¿Por qué alguien me recomendó venir hasta aquí o me recomendó a mi marido? ¿Y quién es ese alguien? Y entonces al final encontré que dentro de esa aldea habían muchas mujeres vietnamitas casadas con hombres coreanos que provenían de una aldea en particular de Vietnam. O sea que había un verdadero glazo y dentro de esa aldea pudimos ver cuán fuertes eran esos vínculos entre todos, entre las dos aldeas y la municipalidad y que trataban de ayudar a esta comunidad de migrantes y los propios migrantes se ayudaban entre sí para integrarse, para traer una mejor vida dentro de Corea. Gracias. Bien, ahora estamos avanzando al final de nuestras deliberaciones y no hay otras intervenciones, creo que podríamos dar por cerrado este panel. Ha sido un gran placer ser la persona minoritaria el que está en la otra punta del espectro y creo que hemos tenido una experiencia con gente maravillosa. Me siento muy honrado, gracias por haber escuchado y haber contribuido.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu1qDO3N2w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCWA6pfcx4Ok4xsIA7Mkr39w	CSE 545 S16: "Application Insecurity pt. 3"	Recorded lecture for CSE 545 S16 on 2/22/16. We discussed the ELF file format, typical ELF sections, PE file format, the x86 CPU family, memory addressing in x86, x86 registers, EFLAGS, data types, and endianess. http://adamdoupe.com/teaching/classes/cse545-software-security-s16/	[ "ELF", "x86" ]	2016-02-23T01:25:21	2024-02-05T07:06:06	3,087	pCjZSRG3NKE	Good morning, I guess it's still kind of morning, right? For some of you, probably very early morning, 10.30. All right, I started a little bit about, Eric pointed out that I made a bit of a mistake on the time description for part one. I'm gonna update it so the types are zero, one, and two. So I thought we don't have to change anything about the grading infrastructure. So it should be a small, easy change. Cool, eight, well, we're gonna get into stuff, so we're gonna save any assignment. Two questions will be answered by Si on Wednesday, Si on the corner. So I'm not gonna be here on Wednesday. I'm gonna record a lecture for you so we can continue with this awesome application in security topic. And then Si will hold the in-class discussion section. So bring all your questions on the assignments, bring it on Wednesday, they'll talk about it, and you can have a cool, good discussion. So yeah, you can also tell them what you want covered if there's anything specific you wanna see. I think he's totally willing to do that. All right, then let's get into it. Okay, so we are talking about applications and then we're talking specifically about lights. No, we're not talking about lights. Okay, so we were talking about compilation, right? So we're trying to understand the process by which our application actually gets executed by the CPU, right? So we've looked at, okay, so we have a language written in a high level language like C or whatever. And so we've seen that the compiler, right, will first compile that program to assembly where the assembler will compile that to a binary object and the linker's job is then to take all the binary objects, link up all the references, and create an executable file, right? So we have our linker, and we talked about the differences between static linking. So static linking is done at compile time. So any libraries that are statically linked are included in your binary, whereas dynamic linking flags are set on your executable that says, hey, at runtime, I'm gonna use the libc library and I'm gonna call the printf function and these other functions. So load those up at runtime. And so we talked about the common executable formats, ELF and PE. So now we're gonna dig into what are these actual files? So what does it mean the executable format? Is this a common executable format? What do I mean? Exactly, yeah. So when you compile using GCC a program, you just give it an output name, you'll output a dot out. So the question is, what is the structure of that file? We kind of already talked about, I believe on Friday, that it's not just x86 binary. The operating system doesn't just start executing it. There's additional metadata about that file that the operating system needs. So that's what the ELF is a file format and PE for Windows is a file format. So this is kind of an important distinction in your mind when you see an executable on Windows or on Linux, right? So that you know, hey, this isn't just binary code, right? This is actually a file format that tells the operating system how to load and execute this binary code. So ELF is a great name, I actually love it. A lot of cool puns that you can do with papers about what's next up. So it stands for the executable and linkable format which is actually kind of a more unnamed but with a good acronym, so. This is how you should name things, by the way. So it's incredibly well used. One of the important things is the file format itself is architecture independent. What does this mean, architecture independent? x86, x64 independent. Yeah, doesn't matter. Arm, it's x86, x64. The file structure is the same, right? Whatever the binary ends up being maybe, the binary code may be different for different processors, but it's architecture independent. So at a high level, there's four types of ELF files. So they can either be relocatable files which means that the linker, right? The linker hasn't done any job on this so this code needs to be, is able to be relocated to any address so that it can be linked together with other object files. So when you compile something with a .c, the .o file, that binary object is gonna be a relocatable ELF file. Is this executable? No, right? The keyword is fixed, right? So this code doesn't live anywhere yet. It doesn't have a specific address that it's gonna be executing at, but it has all the information needed for a linker to put it wherever it wants to go. So executable is kind of the one we're probably most familiar with, right? So all symbols haven't resolved except for symbols that are used by shared libraries. So the dynamic linking process. If you execute like a specifically .so file, a .so file is a shared library. So this means that it has information about what symbols it exports and how to call it at runtime and load it. So this is another type of ELF format. And finally, the fourth one is kind of weird, huh? A core dump. So what's a core dump for? What was that? Segment. Yeah, so when your program terminates or set faults it's probably when you've seen it, it creates a core dump, which is a memory, the dump of the code and memory of your program at that point. So that way you can debug it so you can see where your code is executing and what happened. Very handy tools. So read ELF is a very cool tool that parses an ELF file and tells you information about the structure of that file. What's the file command? The file called file on your Lake machine. Yeah, you can still find a type. How does it determine file type? What does that mean? It reads the first four bytes. First byte and determines the time. Yeah, so maybe not necessarily the first four bytes, right? But what file does, right, so all the data on your program, including ELF files and every other type of file, right? It's just bits on your hard drive. Right? So oftentimes programs wanna know, hey, is this a JPEG? Is this an ELF file? Is this a whatever? In Windows, you often have the suffix that tells you kind of what the program should be, but on Linux, there's no restriction like that. So oftentimes they include magic bytes at the beginning that says, okay, every JPEG file will start with a GPG. I actually don't know if that's true. I can't remember exactly what it is, but if it's a valid JPEG file, it will start with these three bytes or four bytes. And so the file command basically has this whole database of all of these files and these magic numbers. So if you can look at a file and say, okay, based on the magic number, this looks like an ELF file. Or based on the magic number, this looks like a zip file or whatever that file format is. Okay, but now we can dig into more into the ELF file format. You can see I messed up a little bit here. That's fine. So first, at a high level, we have the header and the header specifies special information about the ELF file. After that, we have what's known as the program header table, which is basically a table that's gonna tell us about other parts, where to find more information about the parts of the program. We have actual segments and sections, and then we have a section header table, which describes all the sections in our ELF file. And so the idea here is these segments and sections depend on what type of file it is. So the loader sees a collection of segments and a collection of sections, right? Depending on what it needs. So segments are multiple sections. And the idea is that these header files describe the structure. And important information is also in the header. So there is a ELF magic number. It's not exactly ELF, it's a four bytes. I think the first byte is one, not exactly on the texture. But that's fine, you can look it up. It's very easy to tell. After that, there is the addressing info, which says this specifies the size of addresses in the ELF file. Are they 32-bit addresses or 64-bit addresses? So why is this information important? It's architecturally dependent. It's architecturally dependent? Yes. But how does this help us? Why is it a second byte in the header? So what's the big difference between 32-bit and 64-bit? What about memory? So what's the size of addresses in memory? Yeah, 32-bit and 64-bit, right? So pointers are different size, right? So if I'm using addresses in my ELF file, which part of what ELF says is, hey, put this segment at this specific memory location. I need to know if it's 32-bits versus 64-bits. Because if I think I'm parsing a 32-bit address, but really it's 64, I'm gonna mess everything up. And so that's why it's the first, one of the first files here, sorry, files, one of the first header elements here so that you can know when you see an address later what the exact size is going to be. We have a byte here for the file type which says, I believe this specifies the endiveness of the file if it's little endian or big endian. It then has more details about the specific architecture type. Is it x86? Is it MIPS? Is it ARM? You've got ARM that's 32-bits, which is gonna be still, the address in info will say it's 32-bits, right? But the architecture is ARM and not x86. Do you know this name structure? The entry point? What does it mean, the entry point of a program? Yeah, the start, where, right? So this is, now we get to like the very critical component of the binary, right? This is the important metadata that tells the operating system where to start executing this binary from, right? So this is an address that specifies the entry point. And then we have an offset that says where to read the program header and an offset that says where to read the section header and the size of this header. And then an entry that says the size and number of program headers so that you can read this program header table, right? If you don't know the size, that'll be a problem. And then the size and number of entries in the section header file. So the idea is each of these segments are either going to be code or data. We don't actually know, but the segment header table specifies all the information that says, okay, segment zero should be put at address 08001 and it's executable. And then segment two should be located at 0x10 and it's data, it's read-only data. So we can see that, so I'll show you an example in a second. So the idea is each section that header specifies the type of the section and the permissions. So what does it mean permissions? Why is that? I was talking about permissions. Is it like read-only or read-only? Yeah, right? So this is actually, it's not necessary, right? But this is a way for the, trying to think of it as the program or the operating system. The operating system has to support it, right? But it's a way to say, hey, this memory is read-only memory. It should never be written to, right? When would that be useful in just a day-to-day program? Probably for the scope. You're finding the scope of the variables. Which scope specifically? That's global. Yes, exactly. So global, right? So global constant variables you can put into memory that's read-only and you can never write to it, which helps guarantee that your code is never gonna alter any of those programs or any of those memory, yeah, not programs. It is all just bytes, okay? So some of the permissions you can have are bits that say, hey, this section is part of the program. You can have, you can say that, okay, this is not actually space in the file. There's nothing in the file so you don't have to load anything in memory. But this memory should be mapped. So this memory location, this is some global memory, but it's uninitialized. We have sections for the symbol table and the dynamic symbols. So the symbol table specifies strings and it says what kind of symbols we have in our code. The dynamic symbol says this is what we're going to use or it represents how to link up that dynamic linking. We have a string table that specifies how to match IDs, identifiers with symbols. Relocation information that contains all the information that the linker needs to handle relocation. And so the flags, the flags specify the permission. So we have alloc, so the section is actually allocated in memory. Of right is the section is writable, but this section is writable. Execute that the section is executable and there should be a readable. And there's a flag that should say that something is readable. So we can look and if you look, you can actually use the readElf program to read out all these segments. So it's actually really interesting to kind of look at this. So this is just kind of a generic or typical version of an Elf file. So usually the dot text name of the section will be the program's code. And so the type, it's programming bits. So it's code or data of the program. It has allocate and execute. So alloc because of that memory should be created in the program and it's gonna be executed.data is initialized data, which is gonna be allocatable and writable. RO data for read-only data. So we have a read-only section, which is just allocatable. The BSS is uninitialized data. So what's the difference here between the read-only data and the BSS? It says no bytes and program bytes. So what does that mean? So it's BSS like blank space. Exactly, yeah. So the idea is, we don't know. So this would be global data that's uninitialized at the start, right? Or it could be, I think the heat starts in there. I think the heat may be another one, but, but yeah, right, as opposed to read-only data. So like all strings in our program, right? The compiler can take those, well, I'm sure that would probably go into data. If we have some constants, right? Those will go into read-only data. And so we know what that data should be, right? It has a compile time value, an initialized value, whereas in the BSS it doesn't have any initialized data. If we did have a read flag, would you have the read flag on for the read-only data and offer the uninitialized data? You would need it for both because your program will need to be able to read the contents there. Actually, maybe that isn't a read flag. Maybe I'm getting confused with approaches that try to add read flags. I have to look at it, but it may seem like a, well, I think we'll get to it much later, but it may seem like a pretty crazy use case, but there are some cases where you actually don't even want to, for security purposes, you don't want to read. You just want to be able to execute, let's say your code segment. You never actually read from it, so you don't want to do that. So just for comparison, the PE file format, it was introduced, and we know the limit on comm programs in Windows small 64K. So then they were like, okay, well, 64K is not big enough for programs. So this is, when you have a Windows program that's an EXE, it's not a binary, right? It's a PE file format. The idea is just like ELF, it contains all the information necessary of the operating system to load that into memory and execute that program. So PE is different because the programs in the PE format are written as if they were always loaded at address zero, right? So you don't have to specify an entry point, right? Because it's known that the entry point is going to be zero. But because of this, there's extra information so that the program can actually be loaded at different points in memory. That's just with the, and this is because of the header, so this is what I was gonna say. Let that thing go up, yes. Battery problems. All right, so this is why the header has to contain the information so that the code can be. So why do you have to do this? Why do you have to fix, if the code's written as if it's everything's executing from address zero, why do you have to have additional information to change? What was that? What about jumps? You need to access a different location. Yeah, so depending on how we do jumps, right? So some jumps can be offset based, right? And say just jump four instructions down. That wouldn't be too big of a problem. But if we wanna jump farther than that, right? We may wanna jump to a specific address. So if my jumps say, hey, jump to 10 because I know absolutely from zero that's where I'm gonna go, then now that doesn't work if we relocate from zero down to somewhere else. So we need to know to update those jumps. Also calls, so if we're gonna call a function and we use its absolute address on this zero-based system, we're gonna need to know to change that. See if this works. Don't we use stack pointer for that? The short answer. For some things we do. For local variables we use the stack. But for global variables and calling functions, we use more or less fixed addresses. Okay. So who has experienced coding x86 assembly? Cool. All right, the recipe is gonna be a crash course in x86 assembly, so it's fun. It's really like everything. Okay, so x86 has a long and complicated history which kind of manifests itself in the architecture itself. So it's kind of started off as a 16-bit, for 16-bit processor, so that 86 comes from the 8086, which I can't say I've actually programmed on. Then additional modes were added to it, so additional, we'll see what the protected mode of the real mode is in a second. Then they upgraded the 32 bits, so we talked about the size of the addresses, but why is this such a big deal moving from 16-bit to 32-bit? We can address instead of two to the 16 bytes of memory, we can address two to the 32 bytes of memory. The same reason going to 64-bit is so nice, so we get access to a wider range of memory. Further features added new features, added faster speed. There are multimedia extensions that are added, right? So x86 didn't really remain constant, it is continually being added to. Why do they add things to these? Shouldn't we just like say, bang, stick with x86, never change it so that all programs are gonna be backwards compatible. What's the third party? Third party? Third party in what sense? Different vendor devices. Different vendor devices. Close, I think you're... What was that? Explosive benefits. Wait, is that it again? Benefits, so... Ah, peripherals. Yeah, I mean, part of the instructions could be because of that, right? We wanna support different architectures. What's one thing we're always concerned about? Let's see if you use performance speed. We want it to go faster, right? Our programs, we want our programs to execute faster. So one way to execute something faster, right, is to code a better algorithm, make it be more efficient. Another way is to just shove something into the processor, right? Make the processor make it fast, right? It can do things in parallel, right? A lot better than a program can. It can, you know, complex things are happening in hardware, right? It's gonna be a lot faster. So this is why we can put like multimedia things in there, right, or we can put security encryption into the chip, right, so hopefully it'll be faster to speed up our programs. Anyways, so there's all kinds of additions. The SSE allows you to do multiple, like compute on multiple sets of data, right? So you're gonna have, so that's the other trade off, right? So if you have, you can make your program execute faster or if you can shrink down the size of your programs, you'll make the program faster, right? Even if the instructions still take the same time because of caching and everything in the system, right? Smaller code that does the same thing is probably gonna be faster. All kinds of stuff, we have hyper threading and now we get into the point where we actually have kind of hit the limit on how fast we can make the actual cores, right? How many people will have like 3.5 gigahertz CPUs? Fortunately, not any more, right? I kind of miss those, but I don't know, maybe they're actually faster now, I'm not an expert. The problem is we hit a point where our chips are generating so much heat, right? That we can't just make them faster and make them do more things per second, but we can take advantage and do multiple things at once, right? So then it's okay with this continually decreasing transistor size, let's try to throw more cores on the die, so I have independent processors on one CPU. So what is Moore's law of state? I don't think it's the size of the CPU. So I'm gonna, 18 months, yeah I guess you can't remember the exact years, two years, ooh, sad. Yeah, so the idea is one of the, I guess a lot of you probably know, right? The key thing there is it's not, people use to think of it as the speed is doubling. Speed of CPUs are doubling every 18 months or 24 months or whatever it is. It's actually about the number of transistors you can fit into the same space, right? So it used to mean that that caused a speed increase because you could just do more things faster because the distance between the transistors was smaller. I don't know, I'm not a hardware person, right? But at a certain point you can't make things faster because you hit heat. For every time you try to go faster you generate more heat. And so what they've had to do, so this is why now they still are getting the transistors smaller and smaller, right? But they can't really make it any faster so they add more cores. Basically they've given up and saying like, okay software people you've got to code your application so that they take advantage of this parallelism, right? Not just, you used to be just buy a new chip you go from a P2 to a P4 and it feels like everything's screaming, right? Because it's executing so much faster. Now you get a new chip and it's like, oh it uses less power so my battery lasts longer. Which is good, I'm not going to complain. That's not quite the same. All right, and then we got into 64 bit architecture which AMD first released and then Intel adopted so they actually used the same architecture there. Okay, so I'm going to talk about memory addressing. So what was the memory addressing? Like server, VAM, doctor, professor, address. Page table. Page table? Kind of, actually yeah, I think that gets into it. What's that? Lookup table. Say it louder. Lookup table. A lookup table. So yeah, how do we access memory, right? It's one of the kind of fundamental parts of our program, right? Our program is due commutation over data, right? Essentially, so the commutation part's pretty much in the code, right? But then how do we get to that data, right? We want it to be in memory, we want it to be in disk, whatever, but we need to access memory. So because it's 32 bit, right? We can access memory, we can access two to the 32 bits of memory all the way from zero to, I don't know how many f's it is, ff, ff, ff, ff. All right, eight f's, right? And so the question is, so what does that mean? When I access this memory, right, what does that mean? So with a flat memory model, basically it just means our program sees memory as a single contiguous thing from zero to two to the 32 minus one, or four gigabytes of data, we use access whatever the heck we want every earth in there. What's the problem with that? Yeah, right? So processes interfering with other processes. It depends on if there's any process protection or memory protection, but if we think it's okay, everybody has access to raw physical memory, right? Then what happens when processes are actually executing over and on top of each other? So the idea is, it also gets a little bit more difficult. So how do you, how do we implement these things like writable or not writable or executable? Is that something like this one? But who, I can access everything, right? So in the OS we have to check basically every single memory access to understand is it within this, doesn't have these proper settings on it, right? Or maybe the hardware then has to support that. So it makes things more complicated. So the idea is, they said, okay, this is actually kind of crazy to do this. So let's what they call, we'll segment the memory. So instead of treating memory as one huge contiguous segment or one huge flat memory space, we're gonna separate the memory into different segments and then each of these segments, then we can address them separately and then we can, the operating system can use these segments to know exactly what's being accessed and to access the memory. Yeah. What if you have, maybe it's a bit machine, but you don't have four gigs of physical memory. Yeah, exactly. It'll be a problem, right? Every program would have to handle that correctly. They would have to have a handler for when they tried to go. And then you have to establish a standard of, well, does memory start at zero or does it start at FFFF and work its way up? Obviously zero down would probably make most sense, but yeah, it'd be a problem that needs to be specified somewhere. Okay, and so the other memory model is this real address mode model, which is actually how things used to be. So this is actually kept around for compatibility purposes. So your modern processors right now if you're running an x86 processor, when it boots up, it boots up into this real address mode. So that way you can actually still run DOS and older operating systems that run in real address mode. You can still run that on your modern CPUs. It was all crazy backwards compatible all the way back to the original 8086. Okay, so this is kind of how the different models come together, right? So a flat model, we just have an address space. But in a segmented model, I have different segments. So something tells me which segment I'm talking about, right? So this, let's say, register whatever tells me, okay, which segment am I trying to address? And then this register tells me the offset. And then that maps into a segment and then we get into page tables, which I don't think we're talking about too much, but that may be mapped then to a different part of actual physical memory. So the program actually has a different view of memory than the physical memory that the kernel sees. So what's the benefit of this segmented model versus the flat model? As you said, giving permissions to sections about read rate takes much less space. Which one? Mm-hmm. What about memory allocation? Yeah, if I can maybe allocate at the segment level instead of giving the program a whole four gigs, right? And so I may, in this way, I can actually maybe control or have a handle on as the operating system how much memory a program's using. What about, how much memory, so how much memory can I access here in this flat model? Two to 32, right? What about here in the segmented model? It could divide it with the offset on this. Yeah, so if the offset is 32 bits, right? In the segment selector, who knows, we got 32 of those, right? You can actually allow the program to access more memory than just two to the 32. Which is actually originally how this came about is with 62 bit, or 60, cool, it doesn't make sense. 16 bit applications. So in 16 bit applications with a linear model, you can only access two to the 16. But if you wanted to use more, they introduced the segmented model, so your program could access two to the 16 times however many segment selectors. So you could actually access more segments and more memory. What's the downside of this segmented model? Hard to manage what all the segments and from whose perspective? Determine what the offsets are. Like have an OS figure out which segment that you're accessing. Yeah, so maybe as the compiler writer, or if you're writing by hand, right? The developer has to keep track of both these things, like segments and the offsets. You have to keep track of which segments you're using. It also can make it harder to analyze this code because you're dynamically calculating offsets and selectors. You're also doing extra processing here, right? For every memory access, somebody has to do this addition of segments plus offset to get the actual address from memory that you want, right? So that's gonna add some kind of overhead, right? So, hey, just showing that you don't get anything for free, right? Everything has some kind of cost. Okay, what are registers in general on CPU? Yeah, so they're giving them just as like bits of memory, bits or places of memory that live actually on the chip and are incredibly fast to execute or to access, right? And this is, and in most assembly architectures and languages, right? You can actually only do computation on registers, right? You can't say, okay, add that memory location to that memory location, right? You have to first bring in the value from memory onto the register, then do some execution and then save it back into memory because if something stops or whatever, that value is just in your register and your CPU and it goes away. In some sense, you can think of them as kind of local variables of the processor, right? So the processor has its variables that it's executing on and this is how it's done. So on x86, so how big are the registers? It depends on like five answers, I think. Yeah? It depends on the architecture. So if it's a, if it's a big architecture Yes. Okay, so we're gonna talk about only 32 bit from here on out, pretty much. So yeah, so pretty much everything's gonna be 32 bits. So the registers are 32 bits, right? Because they have to hold addresses which are 32 bits, right? So that's how everything kind of follows from there. We'll see some backwards compatibility stuff with 16 bits and then for 64 bit, obviously the registers are gonna be 64 bit, 64 bit registers, yeah. So the registers on x86, there's four general purpose registers, which means you can kind of use them for whatever. EAX, EVX, ECX, and EDX. So a couple things to note here. We'll look at it in a sec, oh, we'll get there in a second. So the AX is the 16 bit way. So in 16 bit, there were AX registers, DX register, CX register, and DX register, which I see, that's not a D, right? So the E stands for extended. So it's extended from 16 bits to 32 bits. So that's how you know you're referencing a 32 bit register. So conventionally, right, which is not, doesn't mean it has to be this way, right? The machine will absolutely execute no matter how you use these registers. A is the, uses the accumulator, right? So an accumulator, you're adding things to, you're changing, right? EVX is usually a pointer to your data. What's a pointer here at this level? What's the address of the address? The address, yeah, exactly, right? So it's just inside EVX would be the address of whatever memory or data that you're computing on. And then ECX would be your loop counter and any idle operations can happen with the EVX register. So the EAX register, 32 bits, wide, right, contains 32 bits. So important thing to know, while you're writing x86 assembly or when you're reading x86 assembly, if you see a reference to the EAX register, it means all 32 bits of EAX. If you see a reference to the AX register, it's just the lower 16 bits of the EAX register. So things can get tricky if you move, if you're comparing AX with zero and there's something in the higher bits, right? They're ignored because it's only these 16 bits. So this is something to keep in mind while you read code. This is split into the AH, so the A high byte and the AL, which is the A low byte. And the same with all the other registers. So there's other registers like ESI. Okay, I can't remember what the SI stands for, so I'll go ahead. What was it? It's not a single instruction. So let's do the stack pointer. I don't remember, I'll have to look it up, yeah. Segment index. Yes, segment index. Yeah, that's right, it's used for the segment stuff. Good catch. All right, and so just the same way, right? You can reference the lower 16 bits with SI. We get to a pop. Oh, not the segment, close, close, right. Source, so we're doing high speed memory transfers. ESI is the source and EVI is the destination. And there's also other special purpose registers. So like we said, ESP. So SP stands for stack pointer, ESP stands for extended stack pointer, the 32 bit stack pointer. So this points to the address of the stack on our program. So we'll look, we're gonna go really into depth about how the stack works on X86 assembly. But it's important to note that this is, it once again is convention, you actually don't have to use it like this, but we'll see there's instructions that automatically implicitly use this stack pointer register. And EVP is the base pointer. So it's just also known as the frame pointer. So this points to the current functions, the currently executing functions frame, which is gonna be on the stack and we'll see how this is done. So the frame pointer is how all of the local variables and parameters of a function are accessed. So they're all different offsets for the base pointer, which allows local variables to be, to have multiple invocations on the stack at once, because each function frame, each function has its own local variables and parameters, but they're all the same offset for EVP. We'll see that too. Okay, so these are the segmentation registers. So these registers, we can use to select different segments, the CS is the code segment, DS is the data segment, the SS is the stack segment, not 100% sure exactly, I can't remember, extended segments, I can make out stuff I'm not going to. Any, the E-flags register is constantly changing based on the instructions that we execute. So things will be updated in here as we'll see based on if we can do the compare instruction and compare two registers together, then the E-flags, a specific bit will be set that says, hey, they're zero, or hey, they're less than or greater than. Instruction pointer, incredibly important. What's the instruction pointer? Yeah, it points to actually not the currently executing instruction, but the next instruction in memory. And another important thing is we can't read this or set it explicitly. So how do we modify it? How is it normally modified? Who modified it? Let's say no jump instructions, and I'm just doing some executions. So is it changing if we don't have any jump instructions? Yeah, better, otherwise we're not executing code, right? So who changes it? The EIP is essentially the program counter. I guess one of the two possibilities, it's not us. OS actually isn't executing at this point, it's just us on the CPU. The CPU is actually changing it, right? So part of the x86 architecture, what it does is it, so going back maybe to your architecture days, right? You have the instruction fetch and instruction decode cycle, right? So as part of that, it fetches the instruction, the next instruction from memory, it decodes that instruction. Part of that decoding process tells it how many bytes that instruction is, and then by the time that executes, it's gonna update EIP with EIP plus the size of that instruction, it just decoded. So this is why, so x86 is not a fixed-length architecture, it's not like a risk-style thing, like ARM. So the size of instruction can vary from one byte to, I actually don't even know, to like a lot of bytes. So, but you, the programmer, can implicitly control this, right? By calling jump instructions or call or return instructions, right? So this is a way that you have to manipulate the instruction pointer. I'll give this a second. The little trick, which may come in handy later, is that you can actually read EIP by executing a call instruction. So a call instruction, as we'll see, the semantics are jumped to this address and pushed onto the stack what would have been the next instruction to be executed after this call instruction. So after this, on the stack, is what that next value would have been, so you can implicitly read it there. And there's a whole bunch of other stacks for floating points and all of the n of x and the SMM loads, there's all kinds of crazy registers in there. But the main ones we'll use is the normal kind of EAX registers. Questions on registers? All right, so let's look at the E flags. So this is that register that I said, right? It's 32 bits, we know that. It has the current program status. And so each of these bits means something. Yeah, so the zero flag will say if the thing, when you do a compare, that's zero and then branch or jump if zeros instructions will check the value of this bit. If it's one, it will jump, if it's zero, it will not jump. All of these kinds of stuff, tons of stuff. Flags for overflows, if you've done an addition and the value overflow to 32 bit number, that flag will be set, all kinds of cool stuff. So why is it important to talk about that? Oh, the question? Yeah. The zero bit, it says it always said values to produce anyway, why are they there? These values? Future proofing probably, just in case. Like there's only so many control bits that you actually need for your programs, right? And so I would assume this is just a way for them to reserve things in case they need it in the future. I think about a hundred percent. I mean, it's definitely why it could, also it could be that they're using a different context. Maybe in the OS they get more bits because they're operating at a lower privilege level. That could be, but yeah, I mean, the direct bits here don't really matter. It matters to know that they're there and this is how they're used. All right. So data sizes, so what do we mean by data sizes? Why do we need to talk about data sizes? Is that obvious? Data sizes, yeah. So we like to think about things in terms of architecture, right? Awards, bytes, half-words, double-words. We can talk about those for pretty much any architecture, but how many physical bytes and bits each of those things are can actually vary between architectures, right? So XA6 we define, you know, byte is eight bits, a word is two bytes, a double word is 32 bits, right? And so you have quad words and double quad words and it gets me crazy. Last thing I'm gonna end on right now. So you must be aware of the Indians. Intel uses little endian ordering. So what does that mean? What does the endian miss? Are you asleep? Yeah, so it goes back to the data sizes, right? Like for a word or for a double word, where is the most significant byte stored and where is the least significant byte stored? So for instance, if we wanted to store the double word, O3, O2, O1, 0, 0, and we wanted to store it at address 0, 0, F6, 7B4, 0, right? What is at 0, 0, F6, 7B4, 0? Is it 0, 0 or is it 0, 3? It's actually 0, 0. So we'll do 0, 0 and at 41 is gonna be the byte O1 and at 42 is gonna be the byte O2 and at 43 is gonna be byte O3. If it was big Indian, these would be flipped around. Which actually makes it crazy when you try to look at these things and we'll see exactly why when we get closer to some exploitation things. But this can, if you're not careful and you're not paying attention, this will come back to bite you because you'll try something and be like, this doesn't make sense. Why does it work? I mean, you look at it and you see all your bites are swapped from how they should be. It's an endian miss problem. How are integers signed integer stored? What does 2's complement notation mean? It's like another 2, you're looking good today. That joke. What's complicated? Yeah, so we flip all the bits and we add 1. Right, this is how they're stored. So negative 1 is stored as all f's. Negative 2 is this. What is this number in 2's complement? You should have a calculator. Figure out how to use like program mode on your calculator on your laptop. Comes in really handy. All right, and that'll do it for today.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjZSRG3NKE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCZbH6HekER0QsS8Mvi6HGfw	Pete Wickiser Goal vs. Penn State Brandywine 9/5/21	Stevenson senior Pete Wickiser scored this goal off the crossbar in the second half of Sunday's 5-1 win over Penn State Brandywine.	[ "stevenson university", "stevenson mustangs", "mustang athletics", "gomustangsports", "go mustang sports", "stevenson athletics youtube", "stevenson youtube", "stevenson mustangs youtube", "division III", "ncaa division III", "ncaa", "stevenson university athletics", "stevenson university mustangs", "stevenson university athletics youtube" ]	2021-09-06T00:44:42	2024-02-14T20:07:45	23	PCSfCWHqEWM	Wiccaster turns and fires and he got it. Wow the senior out of Hereford with a blast From about 22 yards out to the upper 90	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCSfCWHqEWM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJXltguGSVIZAcbIglaZ-mA	DeAndre' Bembry talks adjusting to being a starter	DeAndre' Bembry talks adjusting to being a starter, as well as other aspects of Saturday night's game against the Suns. Subscribe for daily sports videos! 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It was just, I don't know, the Sun's pace is a lot faster than ours, so it kind of, I don't know, we was trying to figure out offensively how to score, and I mean, we were turning the ball over, so that kind of messed up our whole pace of everything, because we're not really turning the ball over at that high of a rate, so that kind of messed up our offense, and obviously our defense, we can't really do nothing. We're now running and shooting open threes off their turnovers. You had a season high tonight in points, how would you describe the level of comfortability you've been able to have out there on the floor with your teammates and disrupting things for the team on the defensive end? Yeah, offensively, I'm just playing my game, trying to be aggressive. Steve told me over the past week or so just to keep trying to be aggressive, because you know, I'm gonna make the right play, so just trying to find my ways out there, and obviously James is looking for backdoors and stuff like that, and even Kevin found me a couple of times, so just being able to play off of those guys, I mean, we need some points off of it, other than those two guys. And DeAndre, does your mentality change at all from coming off the bench versus starting? I know that you're someone who prides yourself on bringing energy, but I guess there's a difference in bringing energy off the bench and then starting and having to kind of bring that energy as a starter? Yeah, I mean, obviously it's different, coming off the bench, not sure how the game, how the pace is going, and coming off the bench, I used to try to change the pace if we were down or anything like that, but starting, everyone's still just waking up, I guess, and trying to get their blood flowing, so it's kind of harder for most guys to keep that pace for everybody, but me and myself, I mean, that's my game, just coming in and being aggressive defensively and trying to disrupt plays, and luckily we were able to get back in the second half. Yeah, I mean, it's more so just a thing I just wanted to do, just hang on the rim. So, yeah, I don't know, I kind of made that one of my signature dunks, and I got it, just hanging on the rim from a helicopter from Streetball, that's kind of where I got it from a little bit, but also just me just wanting to hang up there, and I think I kind of started that in Atlanta, in my Atlanta days, and also last year with Toronto, and just trying to keep it up. Nah, nah, how good, they kind of respect what I'm doing, they know I'm not trying to be cocky or anything, just more so just, they're used to it. Andrew, turn this a little bit, but talk about their pace throwing you guys off, when you had that 16-0 run in the second quarter, and then obviously in the fourth, when you showed up to make it to game, what do you think was working for you guys during those stretches where that wasn't really a problem? Yeah, it was our defense, I mean, our offense is always going to be our offense, we got plenty of guys that can put the ball in the hole, so defensively, first half we were trying to play 45, which is obviously one through four switch and keep the five back, and they were killing us with that, so second half we kind of made that switch where we wanted to switch everything, and it kind of made it tough a little bit, that's what got us in the game though, us being able to switch one through five, and just be disruptive, and after that, that's what got us in the game, we were able to switch and be in the lanes and rebound on ball, so that ended up working for us. One more for you, James said he's still kind of trying to figure out when to pass versus when to shoot, when to find shots for himself versus when to set other guys up, especially without Kyrie in the lineup. Do you see that of him out there, or someone who's still trying to figure it out for himself? Tonight, I guess, if you want to say that for tonight, but James is great man, he does everything for us, obviously it wasn't his best shooting night, but I mean we all know he can score the ball, we all know he can pass the ball, he's one of the smarter players on our team, so it happens, obviously like I said, he wanted to play a better game, I think that's more so where that's coming from, but we trust James in every way, so I know he'll get back to it, but he'll make it a play, and I mean he sees the game better than a lot of players, so that's the last thing we worry about.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcS0LwOKCxQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCGUBZrH31AkJK-_JZxMLOKQ	Fix green screen noise with Ultrakey Chroma Key and fix audio in Adobe Premiere	https://tip.tm/fix-green-screen-noise Brad Hahn shows you how to fix your green screen noise using the Ultrakey chroma key in Adobe Premiere as well as how to fix your audio. Freedom! and MGN now pay Brad the full-time salary his job used to pay him after he quit his job so he can focus full-time on his true passion of being a YouTuber. Why? Because Brad is the first recipient of the 7-year Freedom! Scholarship, a completely new idea launched today by Freedom! and MGN (the multi-gaming network powered by Freedom!) See Brad's work ➜ https://destiny2.mgn.tv The Freedom! Scholarship is for deserving creators who need financial help to go full-time today. Freedom! gives them 7 years to make YouTube their full-time source of income, helping them every step of way to achieve their dream of becoming an independent full-time creator. 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This is going to be a tutorial for you editors out there who are trying to make YouTube videos and maybe want to learn this skill, which is blocking out background noise in your audio as well as chipping out that green screen that you've got in the background. So I'm going to assume that you've already got your audio track and your green screen file already imported. If you haven't already, go ahead and just click and drag them in. What we want to do is you want to click and drag your video in first because that creates a source. A source is exactly what Premiere Pro will recognize when it's exporting so that it knows what type of file it's trying to export at what resolution size. So this is me. The video that I'm going to be putting together here is going to be a video that I uploaded on the Freedom channel, whereby I introduced myself to you guys. So I thought it would be a great example to just do that one. You can see my face right there and all these different weird movements. So yeah. Anyway, so now that I've got my green screen in, I'm going to click and drag my audio and what I like to do is I like to just move this over so I've got this entire canvas to play with. And if I zoom in, you can zoom in by holding Alt on your keyboard and then just use your mouse wheel. You can see that I've got the audio from my camera, which is here. This is my camera and my camera audio and then you've got the audio just underneath it, which is the clean audio that I'm going to be using. I record my audio all through audacity. So first, what I'm going to want to do is I'm going to zoom in a little bit more. I'm just going to match these up quite literally just clicking and dragging. So if I move my timeline just over here, I'm going to zoom in even more, get right up in there and just match up everything. And then we're just going to quickly hit play just to make sure it matches together. So throughout the... And it does, but it's very, very loud, so we're going to be fixing that. Once that's all matched together, I can completely delete the camera audio because I don't need it. I don't need the camera audio anymore. It's completely matched up with my audio that's directly underneath it, which is the audio I'm going to be using. So I could just right click that and click unlink and then just delete that and just move that up like that. So now we have some clean audio. So throughout the time of me, there's a few things about this that we still need to change. So it is typically quite loud. So what I like to do is go to your controls over here, go to your audio and then just lower that down just quite considerably. So throughout the time of me, that seems a little bit more like it. Now let's go to a quiet area of the timeline. So there's no audio going on here at all. And let's just listen to the background noise. So I don't know if you're picking it up your end, but I can actually hear the fan of my computer directly underneath. So what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to click on the audio, we're already clicking on the audio. And just in the top left hand corner, there's going to be an arrow pointing to the right. Click on that and it's going to bring open this tab here. So as we can see going by our audio, we are on audio tab one. So we're going to head on over to audio tab one, which is this tab. And just above the black line, because we're going to be applying a noise gate above the audio, so that obviously takes an effect. Click down and then go to noise reduction. And then move on over to noise gate and then just dial that up to 60. I think 60 is a really good baseline. It's going to sound muffled at first, but this is normal. Essentially what happens is the noise gate is trying to calculate what noise to get rid of and what noise to keep. So if your voice is a consistent noise that is happening in the background, it knows to keep it and then anything that's inconsistent, like background noise and white noise, it knows to remove it. For example, so throughout the time of me working in retail, I wanted to brilliant. And now if I go to a quiet area, literally nothing. So throughout the time of so this is very, very effective. It truly, truly is. And the reason why I say it's really, really effective is because, believe it or not, I record all my videos in my kitchen, a very abnormal place for a gaming setup to be whenever you're gaming or recording. But that is where I am because I simply just don't have the space anywhere else. So behind me is the motor of a fridge freezer. Sometimes the tumper dryer is on at the same time. And sometimes the washing machine is also one at the same time. Sometimes all three of these things are all running simultaneously. And I want to edit that out. During the time that I recorded this, there was just the motor of my fridge freezer and the fan running on my computer underneath. But apart from that, it doesn't seem like any of our appliances were switched on. But more often than not, when I am recording YouTube videos, there is so much going on in the background. And I just want to make sure that I'm removing as much as that as I possibly can. And the method that you've just seen right there is exactly the method that I used to not only match up the audio, but clean the audio to make sure that the software knows that I just want you guys to hear my voice and nothing else. Now let's move on to the green screen. Now, green screen is always fun. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click and drag a background into my projects box here because obviously I want you guys to see something behind me. So I just clicked and dragged in a picture from Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is a game that I love so much. And if you guys watch the MGM Destiny 2 YouTube channel, you will know that I am the one that creates the content for MGM Destiny 2 as well. So yeah, we're going to leave that there and we're going to work on getting the green screen out. This is where the fun begins. So what you're going to want to do is head on over to the effects tab and then type in ultra. And the reason why you want to type in ultra is because the effects that we're going to be applying to our video is called ultra key. And ultra key is what we're going to be using to obviously chip out the green screen. So click and drag that directly onto your video. Go back to your effects panel at the top. And then suddenly you've got your ultra key section that's just popped up here. So you want to grab your pen, your little pen thing here. I forgot the actual name. It will come to me, I'm sure, as I finish recording, because that's what always happens. And then just click in the back and some of you might look at that and think, oh, wow, it's already happened. It's great. You've got a lot of noise in the background. There's still so much to do. My face is beyond pale whites. I look like I'm losing life by the minute. So we're going to be fixing all of this. So what we're going to do is I'm going to click and drag the video up by one because I want to put the background behind me. Therefore, if I just click and drag that there, bang, suddenly the background is behind me, but it's still a lot of noise there, especially in the top corner up here. We're going to be getting rid of all of that. So click on the eye just to hide the background, but we know it's there. You want to come on over to the left hand side and you have a drop down that says composite. We want to change that to alpha. Changing it to alpha will make me completely white. And the reason why this is extremely beneficial, because it gives you a clear outline as to where the noise is and what you're trying to get rid of versus you. So I'm the obviously completely right passion. You got all this noise in the background. So on the left hand side, we've got all these different levels. We've got transparency, highlight, shadow, tolerance, pedestal. We're going to be playing around with every single one of these. So we go to transparency just here. We've got a level. I'm just going to slowly increase that. OK, so you can see by my face there that that's currently coming back into focus. We don't want that. We want that to be completely pale. So we want to leave it at forty eight point seven there. Move down to highlight. Highlight I usually put all the way down to the very bottom. Obviously, if you highlight more, you'll see more. If you decrease the highlight, you're going to see less. And that's the point because we want to get rid of that noise. Then we want to move over to shadow. Now shadow, you might actually tweak after we finish this process, but we don't usually want to increase that that much. I sometimes leave it on just fifty four point four or fifty four point five. That's usually a good little sweet spot for shadow. Shadow essentially means that you, as a person, when the green screen has been chipped away, that there's no shadows blocking out you and that you're still visible when people watch you. Tolerance I usually put to a hundred percent purely because it doesn't really impact much, but you can see like the odd one or two pixel that it's able to fade out. So it's definitely there to help and pedestal. I usually bind to the very top and look at that to me. That's just so satisfying. When I see things like that, it's like, yes, things are happening. So, yeah, you can see that we still have some noise down here. So we're going to be getting rid of that. So I'm going to be moving on to the next bit, which is matte cleanup. I wouldn't touch the choke or the soften just yet. The choke and the soften is something you want to use as a last resort as it actually takes away the edges of yourself. So if you can actually limit that, that'd be good. We're going to go straight to contrast and move contrast all the way up. And as you can see, it's getting rid of this even more. And then just underneath that, we've got midpoint. We're going to be increasing the midpoint and it's getting rid of that even more. And look at that. So now if I go to my alpha channel and then put that back to composite, you can see that it's actually completely fixed a lot. There is still some things that we need to work on now. I look very pale white and you can see just on the edges, there's like a gray line on the outside of the of the edges. That's where your soften comes into play. So we're going to go to the soften and then we're just going to increase that. And you can see those those gray lines just fade away. And the reason why we use the soften specifically is because it softens the edges of yourself, which means it's not going to be a sharp cut. It blends in perfectly with your background and it just makes things look smooth whilst getting rid of that gray line. Now we're going to go to the very bottom one, which is color correction. Now I've been making videos a long time, so I already know what saturation I'm going for. But if you look at my pale white face right now, I'm going to change it from 100 percent to 132.4 and that pale white face is now. Got some more life into it. That looks much better. So now we can uncheck the eye that we use to hide the background and boom, we have me. And now let's play the video with this little clip with the audio completely fixed and the green screen completely fixed. Let's just extend that background there. Let's go. So throughout the time of me working in retail, I wanted to. There we go. So, guys, I really, really hope this helps you out of your videos. This is a really great way to sort of spice things up a bit and make things look a little bit more professional whenever you're doing gameplay videos or voiceover commentaries and things like that. Guys, even like on this video, if you did enjoy watching, let me know your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below and I'll see you in whichever video I next make. Take care of yourselves, guys. Thank you, Brad. He is the first recipient of the Freedom Scholarship Seven Year Plan. Click that I to learn more about the scholarship and get to know Brad. He introduces himself, shares his story in that video so you can understand why he was the first pick. And if you want to be next, just watch that video and learn about the scholarship and how we picked them in case you want to be the next recipient of the Freedom Scholarship Seven Year Plan. That means you have seven years to make it big where we replace your full time job salary so you can focus full time on being a creator right now instead of some time in the future when your channel is generating enough revenue for you to quit your full time job organically. We accelerate the process by letting you start being a YouTuber today. All right, Freedom Family, I hope you enjoyed Brad's video. I am George from The George Show, and if you like this video, click the like button so we understand what kind of content you enjoy. Tell us down there in the comments below what you thought of the video. Until the next one, take care. To get more George, click that big F that will subscribe you to Freedom Central, home of The George Show. And PewDiePie gave one of you, Freedom Family, a big shout out. Click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3D sets for you. 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UCJXltguGSVIZAcbIglaZ-mA	Aaron Boone following the Yankees extra innings win	Yankees manager says he's proud of Sonny Gray for playing a big role in the team's win over the White Sox. Subscribe for daily sports videos! YES' social media pages: YouTube: yesnet.me/YESyoutube Facebook: yesnet.me/YESfacebook Twitter: yesnet.me/YEStwitter Instagram: yesnet.me/YESinstagram	[ "mlb", "baseball", "new york", "new york yankees", "yankees", "video", "highlight", "play", "viral", "injury", "fight", "brawl", "ejection", "swing", "mechanics", "delivery", "home run", "grand slam", "walkoff", "derek jeter", "alex rodriguez", "babe ruth", "mickey mantle", "gleyber torres", "greg bird", "giancarlo stanton", "aaron judge", "didi gregorius", "brett gardner", "luis severino", "masahiro tanaka", "cc sabathia", "aroldis chapman", "aaron hicks", "interview", "prospect", "all star game", "aaron boone", "review", "reaction" ]	2018-08-08T05:12:12	2024-02-07T17:09:48	256	PCAJaQu6S8w	Aaron, that was your first look of Sonny Gray out of the pad. What did you think of the job he did? I'm just really excited and proud of the effort, you know. Obviously, it's been tough circumstances for him of late. And, you know, when we put him in this role, you know, one of the things we said is, you got to be ready, because there's going to be an important moment. And you may not know when. And tonight, obviously, became that moment for him and for him to go out there and pitch like that with confidence, with focus, and so well. Just really excited for him, proud of him, and a good comeback for us. Because of the week he had, do you think that's a little bit more of a meaningful outing for him? Yeah, no doubt. I think there's probably absolutely something to that. You know, when you face adversity and tough times in this game and then get thrown right into the fire in a tough spot and deliver, it's not an easy thing to do. And so just proud of the effort there and proud of him coming in and playing a huge role, obviously. And who is a guy that didn't make the roster out of spring training, but since he's been called up, it seems like all he does is get big hits. Do you ever allow yourself to think where this team would be if you weren't getting the production from him like you're getting? Not really. I just, he's just been such a good player for us. And, you know, he's so good in the box. Obviously, the home run to get us tied earlier, you know, a little while ago. And then, you know, off a lefty, just changing speeds on him, able to get enough of it. You know, yeah, he's the ability to make adjustments that he's shown throughout the year has been impressive and just another good night for him. Seems like a lifetime ago, but Cece, with a lot of strikeouts tonight, what was he doing well? I thought he just, the command was different tonight. It was better. He had his cutter going, but he was able to flip in his slider for a strike when he wanted to the back door. I thought he threw some good change ups, but just tightened up the command and, you know, had to work hard because they fouled off a lot of pitches. So drove his count up quite a bit and I felt like he worked hard, but for the most part, filling up the zone with his stuff. Is Chapman okay? He's okay. He just, he needed another day down after the long performance the other night, but yeah, he should be, he should be fine. Another guy like Andrew Hart gets back to back change ups and the situation like that. And the second one was really off, you know, off the plate, a pretty good pitch. What is it about, I guess, about maybe the thought process or the ability to adjust that? That's just, you know, I think our guys and I put our young guys in there as well of being prepared and having a plan. And, you know, that's just homework, paying attention and going up there with an idea of what you want to do in a big situation and deliver it. What is the next step for Sonny now? What is the next step for Sonny? Is it just to continue it? Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously some extended length today, you know, we'll probably be down a couple of days again, but, you know, we'll for now stay in that role and you never know what could happen or things change as the days unfold or different needs pop up. But for now, he'll remain in that role. Is it Jeffman's arm knee just overall body? Just overall, I think, just needed another day of bounce back. You know, I think he threw as many pitches as he's thrown so long in that game. So just, I think, just a little stiff in all the days on. I would expect him to be available tomorrow. I would expect him to be available tomorrow, yeah. Bird okay, just like the men's up with. Bird okay, Sadanio's there one pretty heavy split guy and you know, that's Luke's here for that, for that situation, but Birdie is a guy that usually against most all lefties, I'm very comfortable with him in those spots just because he's able to usually work walks even when a leftie is really tough. But Sadanio's the one guy that we just like to match up a little bit better there.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAJaQu6S8w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCeQYemGBA3zkt2WY5dpRxsw	January 21st 2024 // LIVE SHOW - AOS Ingenuity (never bet against JPL)	JPL lost contact with the Mars helicopter drone on Thursday after a flight was cut short unexpectedly. Using Perseverance (the rover, and the persistent commitment to a goal), they regained contact after a period of "long-duration listening", and are analyzing the data to understand the communications dropout. What do you think happened? Join us to discuss! When the live show completes, our members can join the after party here: https://youtube.com/live/wCvBdLhkAjc Not a member? As little as $1.00/mo gets you access to all the fun and chaos! Continue the conversation by joining TMRO on Discord: https://discord.gg/htEJMHyFBE	null	2024-01-22T07:17:57	2024-02-07T22:32:48	4,006	pcMpqFuPUUw	That's not the scene I was expecting to show up on screen. My name is Jamie Eganbotham. I am joined by a Jared Head, let's see if we can do this correctly, a Jared Head and a Ryan Caton. And I am coming to you from, where am I? I'm at the Courtyard Marriott at Kennedy Space Center, which is my favorite place to say when I'm down here because it's on the north side of base and so it makes it much easier to get into base. I'm sorry for being vacant for so long. It's been a hot minute. Just doing stuff down in Starbase. Also, we're trying to broadcast on X today. In theory, it should be able, if you comment on X, I think we can bring your comments into the show. I did try it right before the show and it failed. So I'm not sure if it'll work or not. On that note, let's get straight into it. Who do I wanna start with? Do I wanna start with Ryan? I feel like I should start with Ryan because Ryan is in a windstorm, much like Starbase and he may literally blow away at any moment in time and so if we lose Ryan in mid broadcast, that LOS may be expected. So let's start with Ryan this week. It's been a very exciting week if you're a fan of Hopper vehicles. Star Hopper, many people's favorite. However, there's a new Hopper being introduced to the club which is called the ZUK3 VTVL-1 which is essentially the Antspaces version of Grasshopper but for their new vehicle, which is the ZUK3, which is essentially, you don't really have to squint at it, it's a Falcon 9 kind of copy, very heavily inspired design, which is probably the most polite way to put it. But this vehicle, as you can see here, I actually kind of like the look of it. It's quite a nice Hopper. And it successfully performed a hop, it flew up to a decent height and then it also translated across a little bit. So it launched from, it's kind of, hang on, let me see if I can go back to that. So it's kind of, this is after it landed here. So it launched from this stand. It's got like these yellow kind of plinth things that it was standing on. So it launched from this stand and then it translated over a few meters onto its landing pad, which is a slab of concrete. So it successfully flew up, moved over just a little bit and then landed again. So yeah, we can say this is a pretty good, successful hop for Yan Space's first Hopper. This is now, I think the third private Chinese Hopper which has flown at this point. So China's private space industry is very, very clearly moving towards the Falcon style of reusability and they all seem to be doing a rather good job at it. So fingers crossed it's not that long until we start seeing more rockets doing RTL SL landings and drone ship landings because I think it's probably fair to say that the US space flight industry, your ULA's, your Boeing's, your NASA's working on SLS, that the reusability isn't really, this kind of thing isn't really, you know, what they've been working towards. So it's exciting to see them working, see China working towards the future. A very proven method of reusability, not only for bringing the vehicles back, but also for driving flight costs down because as soon as you get the rocket back, you can turn it around, you want another payload on top of it. So this is very, I'm personally very excited to see this happening and hopefully it's a little bit of a kick in the butt for US aerospace organizations which haven't been working towards this and maybe even Ariane Group as well, they've just been throwing out renders and not actually really showing any recovery hardware. But you know, I just, I hope that this inspires more of the Western world to follow this proven route if SpaceX already isn't enough of an inspiration. Well, Ryan, it feels like it's not really a East versus West thing, but a private versus commercial company thing, right? From what it sounds like, right? Because the US is developing additional landing systems, Blue Origin, their whole thing is reusable rockets, right? You've got Rocket Lab, well, they're technically a US company, but you know, whatever, they're working on reusable rockets. So we've got a bunch of reusable rockets kind of in the works, right? And that are not necessarily coming out of China. I think the difference here isn't whether they're US or China or anything else, the difference seems to be, in my mind, are they a new space company? Are they taking a new approach to things and trying to change and shake up the industry? Or are they a legacy space company who it's just, you know, they've done this for a hundred, well, that's too long. They've done this for 56, I can do math, but they've done this for over 50 years or they've acquired companies that have done it for over 50 years. And they just like the status quo, they're fine with the status quo and they have no incentive to try to do reusability. And, you know, to them, I think maybe reusability still is not proven well or fully proven to their liking, I guess. Because I feel like, what did Falcon launch 96 times in 2023, something like that? I feel like that's proven, right? Like if you're a legacy aerospace company, I feel like that's proven. But is that not the line of demarcation? Not like, isn't it really just like new space mentality versus legacy space mentality? Yeah, and that's kind of what I was trying to talk about, but I guess I swerved it accidentally. Yeah, the person, as being from Europe, I just want, I want all of these new space companies to kind of kick Ariane space and try and force them into doing more reusability stuff quicker instead of saying we'll do it in 10, 20 years time. So, you know, and Ariane space is very much a legacy space line after being formed out of an organization which was formed in the 1970s. So, you know, that's where my main passion is driven for trying to get Ariane space to do some more reusability things. So, Mari Marskal has a really great comment as well, which does kind of undo what I was just talking about, which is how private are private companies in China, right? Because don't they all have to be tied to the Chinese government in one way or another? I believe that is true. However, there is certainly a difference between some private companies which are primary contractors of the government space agency, and there are different companies which are developing their own hardware which aren't taking hardware. So, there's kind of three steps. You have the main contractors of the government space agency. You have other companies which are taking already developed hardware by the agency and putting it on their own rockets. And then you have a third group of companies which are fully developing their own hardware flying it on their own rockets. So, even though, you know, the organizations within China have to be part of the government just because that's how their country works, they are developing their own hardware. They're not taking hardware that's already been developed by the government. I think then the other, so that's a good comment too, but the one I wanted to talk about was from JTTV, which is, can they take about our SpaceX, right? We're looking at all of these companies doing what SpaceX did a decade ago, but if you're chasing SpaceX from a decade ago, are they ever going to be able to catch up, right? Because if you're chasing something from the past and not accounting for the present or the future, like how far are they actually going to get? Like, are these other companies not just going to continually outpace them or is it you got to start somewhere? You've always got to start somewhere. So I think my opinion on this is that all of these companies developing reusable vehicles can take the lessons learned by SpaceX and kind of, they're not developing this for the first time, right? SpaceX developed this for the first time and they proved it worked. So I think that they can take the lessons learned, apply it to their own vehicles and then maybe not fully catch up to SpaceX, but at least get a lot closer than where they are right now because right now there's a massive gap. I think they can close the gap. I doubt anyone will be able to overtake it, but I think the gap can definitely be closed. This is also a great comment from AeroVail. Chinese companies are competing for an almost entirely separate market. That may be true. I guess I'm not familiar with what market they're competing for then. Is everyone not just competing for putting satellites up? Right? Like there are only so many payloads on the planet. Most of what China is going to be competing for will be internal because obviously export controls and other things, not just from the United States, but from a multitude of other regions around the world are basically like, no, you don't put your payload on a Chinese rocket. You'll put it on this certain group of rockets that we have officially designated that you may do that. And if you don't want to do that, you can get into a lot of trouble. And a lot of that comes back from Boeing and Hughes launching on Chinese rockets back in the 90s and those designs for payload integration actually being taken a little too far in some instances and some technology crossover occurring that was not necessarily wanted in that time period. So really, I think what you're saying is China has their own version of ITAR in ear, which makes sense, which makes sense, sorry, which makes sense, right? Everyone wants to protect their information. They want to protect their assets. No one trusts anyone else. Fun, good times, but like, yeah. Yeah, I feel like the most recent comment from Mr. Huggy also, I think says a lot too about China being its own best customer, which is that they have a large workforce that can literally throw more resources than all of the United States rockets together. So it's not gonna be quick for them to catch up in terms of things like that because they've got the people power in order to put behind it if they really wanted to end up catching up. Is it a people problem though? This is problem solving problems, right? You don't need a lot, you don't necessarily need a lot of people to solve tough problems. You need one smart person or like a very small group of people who can think differently than everyone else to figure out how to solve these problems. Do they have that mentality? Maybe yes. Maybe they have a greater chance of finding people with that mentality. I feel like traditionally in traditional aerospace, it would have been a very smart person and then a small subset of people below them that worked within that. But I feel like with a lot of modern aerospace companies, you're seeing a conglomerate, a very smart people at the top with a large number of people who may have very select expertise. Back in the day, people working on rockets, it was just purely people who had aerospace backgrounds and other things like that. It's not like today where you see people who have aviation backgrounds or even like some people I know who worked on race cars that are coming in now and helping fully assemble and get these rockets together and ready to go. So it's a lot more than just like the traditional idea of what a person working on a rocket's gonna be. And I don't see why that would be any different in China than it would be here in the United States or in Europe. I feel like the difference is, so Mr. Huggy brings up another good point, which is take BYD, a company that started after Tesla and now outsized Tesla. The difference is electric vehicles, we didn't really invent anything there, right? Like we changed perceptions and we changed what happened with reusable rockets. Like we don't know what we don't know. Like we're trying to figure this out. There is not a reusable dual stage rocket on the planet that I'm aware of today, right? SpaceX is learning how to do this. You have to invent the future, not just, I think there's a fundamental difference between Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla is changing perceptions of what a car is. SpaceX is inventing the future as it goes, right? And I think they're equally important but very different. So I don't know. It takes a certain mentality to invent the future, right? Like be like, no, you know what? We're gonna do this completely differently. We're gonna try this whole new thing that hasn't been tried before. Let's see what happens. And I guess my point is to Ryan's story and Jared blew away. We all expected Ryan to be the one that would blow up but no, no, Jared's the one that went first. Welcome to the show everyone. Anyhow, okay. I guess my point is like, it feels like China is just trying to copy what we've already done. You can find what you have in your car somewhere but if you're not trying to invent the future, will they ever be able to catch the next one? The person who's inventing the future will always be the next one because they're the ones creating the future, right? Or am I just thinking too deep that the next one is going to be the next one? Who's Shane, man? Who's Shane? Well played. We all stand on the shoulders of the client. That's another very cool one. By the way, brother, they do not speak on behalf of SpaceX, right? These are all, this is just me asking questions. Sponsored by Sandisk, exactly. I wonder if Jared knows that everything's gone sideways on his system. Can we go full screen to the Sandisk? I'm just curious. Like what do we have going on there? Oh, no, we can't. All right, Ryan, did you? There's another vehicle which launched for the first time over the last couple of weeks and it's an actual orbital class launch vehicle which was Orion Spaces Gravity One which kind of destroyed its barge a little bit. It's not really a barge, it's a fully blown ship when it launched. This is a fully solid launch vehicle. Every single stage is a solid rocket motor and it's more powerful than Vega which is also a fully solid launch vehicle. This is the most powerful solid rocket launch vehicle ever launched, right? This is like insane power and apparently, unconfirmed numbers and they may just be put that thin air but apparently the cost to launch something on this per kilogram is cheaper than Falcon 9. Now, I don't entirely buy that but if they can make rockets for really cheap and not have to bother with reusing them, then I don't see why that would be an unrealistic kind of idea. But anyway, open to discussion. Rocket that destroys its barge, good or bad. This is incredible footage. I love this rocket so much because it's just ripping the ship apart. You see pieces of ship flying away at lift off. Also, I love that shot. That's a drone icing that they had. Yeah, they had loads of drones up. This is really cool. I think we are scared of solids for no real good reason. I mean, a few good reasons, but like I'm not anti-solid. We've had this debate for years. I ain't scared of solids. Look at that, look at that. Oh my God. This is insane. In the best possible way, I love this rocket. It flies through its own plume. It flies through its own plume. What? It flies through its own plume. It exhausts, creates steam, destroys the boat, and then it just flies through what it's created. It's insane. The boat, I just see that boat limping home. Oh, it hurts. Why did you do that to me? It was, so, and it might just have been the shot, but I kind of expected, it didn't lumber off the pad, but I did expect it to like shoot a little, look at that. That's so awesome. Oh my God, Ryan, this clip made my week. This is incredible. I love this so much. Oh, this is awesome. Who made this? So this is yet another private Chinese company called Orion Space, O-R-I-E-N Space, and they have been developing this vehicle for not that long, and they managed to successfully launch it on its first attempt, and apparently it's even Falcon 9, so. They need a water deluge system. If only there was water nearby. Yeah. That was really cool. That is interesting because you just kind of broke my own point of like, hey, you need to invent the future. Well, that, I'm not gonna say that's not something no one's ever done before, because like we have seen all solid vehicles. Vega, Aries One X, probably the dumbest rocket ever launched. Just trying to start a war, just trying to start a war. It's all right, you can hate success. Was it successful though? Was it successful? What was that second stage? What was like the only thing that was actually Aries One was in a parachute, and how'd that go? How'd that go? Anyhow, sorry, sorry. Mark has called NASA Space Flight for debate. Let's see if he turned up. How do you call Chris again? You just go train, train, train. Is that what it is? Something like that? Okay, anyhow. Yeah, I mean, that goes, that flies in the face of the point I was just making, which is they are trying something different. Like, I don't think I've really seen a vehicle quite like that. Like no one seems to be going and trying to solve the problem using solids in that way. The problem is like lowering the cost of orbit, right? Part of what holds space back, in my opinion, is simply cost of orbit. It's so frickin' expensive. If we can get those costs way, way, way, way, way down, we can start to do really cool things. And it starts to enable different types of satellites and different types of payloads. And they're solving in a different, unique way. So all right, thanks, Ryan, making me my words on air. It's fine. I gotta say it's really interesting to me that this company, Orion Space, they've got another rocket that they're building right now called Gravity 2, which is basically going to be a Falcon 9 because its core stage is gonna be powered by nine Keralocks engines. Oh, I already got that. And hold on, hold on. It's gonna have two solid motors with it as well. So it's like they're taking a Falcon 9, they're upgrading the Merlins on it to like twice the power. Having them run on, you know, working that way. And then like, okay, that wasn't enough. So we're gonna stick two solid boosters on it while we're at it. Hold, hold, hold. Why is the power of a Merlin on a Keralocks engine? That's what it says, about a hundred tons each. So that's just about twice the power of Merlin, right? I think I'm declaring shenanigans. I'm making it possible. I'm making sure to pull it up here. It feels like it's, if you take a Falcon 9 and an Atlas V and convobulate them together, you end up with this rocket, right? Nevermind, it's just a hair more than a Merlin is going to be. Okay, I'll buy a hair more, but like double the performance. I'm like, on a Keralocks engine? No, I read it wrong. It's okay, I read it wrong, as usual. But no, it's a Falcon 9 with two solid motors on it. What a great, it's that thing that everyone on Reddit was clamoring to happen, but there you go. I guess we'll have to see. It's supposed to be semi-reusable, so I don't know how that's gonna work, so. Well, I mean, the shuttle was semi-reusable, right? The solids came back, they refurbished the solids. Yeah, they refurbished the shuttle too, so. Yeah, I mean, it was semi, it was refurbishable, right? Like, we've had this debate for years as well, right? Shuttle was not reusable, it was refurbishable. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right, you couldn't just change the tires again. Well, there was no, none of the intended 96-hour turnaround on Shuttle, so. But that was a good vision, right? That was them inventing the future. They didn't quite achieve it, but also they didn't have the technical, I mean, they didn't have computers like we have today, so it's still an amazing accomplishment. I don't wanna belittle the shuttle, it just never met that particular goal. I feel like, did Falcon 9 reach, and it hasn't reached that yet either. 96-hour turnaround? Close, isn't it? I think the shortest boost to turnaround is still over like 22 days or something. Pad turnaround has gotten down to under three days, but actual vehicle turnaround is still well over three weeks. But that's still- I'd imagine it's actually probably not had turnaround, that's the limiting factor now. I would imagine it's probably drone shift availability that might be the limiting factor now. I can tell you here at Vandenberg, it definitely is with things like that. So, but I'm not sure if that rings true with the Cape, since y'all got two on the East Coast, we only got one here. What was the- Yeah, but you also have RTLS, right? And that reduces that time greatly because it's like, especially in Vandenberg, because it's like right next to the launch site. So dumb question, what was the fastest turnaround on Shuttle? What is the fastest they turned the same orbiter? It was quick, right? It was moderately quick. I wanna say, we talked about it on the show too. Train, train, train. Where's Chris? Train, train, train, train, train. Someone get Chris Birkin. Oh, holy smokes. So, it's actually Space Shuttle Atlantis that did it. STS-51J to STS-61B was only 54 days. Okay, so slower than Falcon 9, but still, again, back then, pretty freaking good. Like they were making good progress that was Atlantis. Was that prior to the Challenger disaster? Wait, 51, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah. And then the Challengers would change everything. So, I mean, two months, yeah, yeah, exactly. Two months, like they were making good progress. Aerospike has a really good point about Falcon 9s, which is that they've had a booster on land a few minutes after launch. So, that's a fast turnaround, I gotta say. So, you've had a booster on land a few minutes after launch. Yeah. I don't understand the- No. RTS. Sure, I mean RTS, but you're not launching- 54 days? Nah, just wait eight minutes. Please, boo. No, that's not what we mean. Mike makes a good point. They didn't even have the boosters back with Shuttle in 96 hours. Yeah. Yeah, the solids, the solids we mean, right? Like, I mean, that's, I feel like you can't exactly include the transit time. That's not really the point, right? There's transit time to get it back to where it needs to be. And that's not really what we're talking about here. We're talking about like kicking the tires and letting it go again, right? Yeah, like the whole enchilada is flying again. Yeah, yeah, exactly, right? So yeah, of course it takes transit time to get it from where it's going back to the launch site, but imagine if you could just take a rocket, it lands on the drone ship and you just bring it straight back to the launch pad and launch it off again, right? I think that's the vision, right? That's where we want to be. Question mark? But when you include solids, that time becomes longer because you would have to, unless you have a multitude of solids lined up, ready to go for the next one, you've got to take those reusable casings, clean them, refill them, the propellant has to cure, et cetera. And for a shuttle, that was a very, very long process. I feel like to your point, the only way it works with solids is if you have a rotational cycle of solids that you can just attach back to the vehicle and go. You're right, the solids would be the long lead time item. What I'm trying to say, like critical path almost, but you could design around that. So you're still reusing it. Anyhow, we're going way off the rails at this point, but it's fun to go off the rails. Ryan, thank you. Those were amazing stories and I love that second rocket so much. It's like, I kind of want to make that my background, like the dark, black plume that comes up off the ship. It's so incredible. It's so incredible. By the way, at the Marriott, this is an actual, like, this isn't a green screen or anything. I just have the blur filter on, but like, this is actually what they put in the above the beds. It's pretty cool. It goes all the way over. And every room has a different like vista and then I have these little astronaut hang on, hang on. Wow. Look at that. There's astronomy there. Oh, you got the astronaut nightlight. Yeah. They put these in all the rooms. My kids have one of those. Yeah, right. And so then you turn it on. I've never really figured out how to turn it back off other than doing plug it. And then it does like a little night show up on the ceiling, which is pretty cool. And they also like a planetarium. Yeah. They include Spacecoast Star newspaper. That's fun, right? If you're ever down at Kennedy Space Center, this is my favorite hotel to stay at. This is the, no advertisement or anything. I just enjoy it here. It's the Marriott Courtyard Titusville, I believe. And it's right next to, like, oh, and they've got a bar up top called the Space Bar. And whenever there's a launch, you've got a beautiful view of pad 39 and 40. And you can, and they'll pipe in like countdown net audio and you can just go up to the roof, have a drink and watch the launch. And it's actually a beautiful place to watch launches. So again, if you're ever down at Kennedy Space Center and you wanna watch a launch, you can buy tickets at KSC. I would argue on the Space Bar, I think is a better place because you get a little bit of music, you get a little bit of vibe, it's a little bit of fun. You're not quite as close, but you're only like a mile further away. It's not that much. So anyhow, there you go. Jared, how about you? What got you excited this week? Oh, boy, we had a lot going on with the moon over the past couple of weeks. Not necessarily good news, you know, but hey, at least folks are trying. And that is certainly what's been going on with it. So we had- Is that the title of this episode? At least folks are trying? Yeah, I feel like that's a pretty solid, oh, hey, solid title for our show coming up. But, you know, first one I want to talk about was the first attempt at a landing from the United States since 1972, which was Astrophotic's Paragon lander. That was launched on the debut of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, which for all purposes appears to have aced its first launch with that there. So that's off to ULA for doing such a good job on that there. But Paragon, on its way to the moon, getting ready to prepare itself for its first set of engine burns. And they ended up finding out that there was some sort of propellant leak that ended up causing the spacecraft to get out of its orientation, which I thought it was really funny that a spacecraft from Pennsylvania was having a hard time finding the sun, which makes sense considering Pennsylvania's weather and things like that. Then in addition to that, whatever, hey, you know what? That was a friend of mine from Pennsylvania that made that joke. So as far as I'm concerned, that was a homegrown one. So there were obviously a lot of problems. We're trying to use the attitude control system in order to correctly aim and then also kind of guide the vehicle, something that it was not designed to do. So they were asking a tremendous amount of that attitude control system to both stabilize and essentially change the orbit of Paragon as it went around. It went as far out as the moon. The moon wasn't there when it arrived because it no longer had the capability to actually burn its engine to put itself into that transfer orbit to get itself to the moon. But Astrobotic, to their credit, they kept finding ways to maintain power and maintain the orientation of Paragon there and keep it going for longer and longer and progressively longer. They originally thought, oh, we're only gonna be able to have it for about maybe 12 more hours. And then they were finally able to get it so that it could end up spending nearly a week operating with that there. Eventually, they did burn the absolute control system once it was at its apogee, essentially, from Earth and its highest points that they would re-aim it to enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up safely, which it did so over in the South Pacific Ocean just a couple of days ago. And it was basically to make sure to keep things nice and tidy while up in space. They actually worked with NASA and the United States Space Force in order to figure that out, work with that there. So hats off to them. It did not at all go like it was supposed to. But they were at least able to get a tremendous amount of engineering data, which is extremely important when you're trying to do something that nobody has really done in over 50 years. And in addition to that, some of the scientific payloads that were on board, they were able to actually use them and take data with them and get them back to the customer, which is very, very happy with them. And as the thing, yeah, Arvail is bringing up a really, actually Arvail and Mollymar's got, I want to start with Arvail though, which is that one that there was an engineer that was there on his day off, which just happened to be, yeah, it really does sound like something absolutely wild, which is that they had someone who knew the code that could fix it, they uploaded it, they had just a handful of minutes before loss of signal and they had no idea if it was even gonna work until the acquisition of the signal after that. And it did work, thankfully. So that's how I'm able to keep that going. And then also Mollymar's got, which I think is bringing up another very impressive point, which is that astrobotics transparency in PR was unbelievably impressive. There are a large number of space flight companies and agencies, might we say, that could learn a thing or two from being as vocal and as open and as straightforward as astrobotic was. I feel like you're saying this till we're blue in the face. You know, it's almost like if you tell everybody what you legally can, that people end up appreciating it and you actually don't look as bad in the end. So like, did Paragon work? Absolutely not, this one just botched itself, but did they do like an incredible job in terms of demonstrating the technology, getting things right, learning how to fix broken things in Cislunar space? Like, that's incredibly important. Success is great, but if you've got a lot of problems with it, that's how it goes. Oh, yeah, okay, well, thank you, Eduardo, on that little correction. The engineer was just about to start his shift, but arrived earlier and happened to know the code, so he just jumped right in. So, very, very cool with that there. Either way, that's a story. He's gotta be one of those hacker movies where they're just doing this and like random, like, matrix-like things are flying up on streams and just, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, we've got a crash. A fire wall. Oh, no. We've got a statue of Liberty hacked. So, yeah, that's just kind of how it goes. That's how it does be sometimes in spaceflight. Sometimes you've got a hack in as hard as she can with that. And then also with the moon, I did want to talk about JAXA's own land or Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. They're a lander, the smart lander for investigating the moon or slim. Also had a little bit of a problem. It landed, it did land successfully on Friday. And Japan became the fifth country to successfully land a vehicle on the moon. It's the United States, the Soviet Union, China, India from last year. And now Japan has successfully soft-landed a vehicle on the surface of the moon. You need to swap US and Russia. Russia was first. What's up? Russia was first. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, the Soviet Union. Yeah, did I? Well, I was just reading them off at order. It didn't, if we want to go chronological order here, fair enough, we could go Soviet Union, United States, China, India, now Japan, with that there. But, the, there's something happened to slim, which is that it appears there was some sort of glitch to some sort of glitch somewhere in the power generation system. So something controlling the power distribution from the solar panels just didn't work. And it ended up causing slim to run on battery power and not use its solar panels at all once it landed. There's a lot of people saying that it was the orientation that slim landed at, that slim actually landed in a way where it was off angle and the solar panels were in the shadow of the spacecraft, which meant that it wasn't generating power that way. But that was something that was based on telemetry that was coming through a visualization. And if there's anything that we've learned about telemetry through visualizations, it's that it's not always accurate. So I'm not willing to trust that 100%. It makes sense, obviously, because if your spacecraft is blocking your solar panels, you will not get power. And that's kind of important on the moon because a day on the moon, last 14, or a full day, day night cycle on the moon is 28 days. So you get 14 days of light, 14 days of night. So if you're waiting for the sun to move into the path of your solar panels, you might be waiting a week, a week and a half in order to get something depending upon which way the solar panels are pointing. And that is certainly well beyond the limits of Slim's batteries, which was just a couple of hours. So Slim was able to deploy two very small rover hoppers that it had and the signals for those rover hoppers were actually picked up here on Earth as were the signals from Slim. So there is data and telemetry analysis that will be occurring over the next couple of weeks to see what we're gonna get out of Slim and the two little rover hoppers that it deployed. But unfortunately, not a 100% success, but it did reach a point. Yeah, there's the rover hoppers that were on the moon. That's the thermal detonator that we all remember if Java the Hut was threatened with there on the surface of the moon. So yeah, that's the biggest of the rover hoppers here. I love this little thing. Look at it, it just bounces. That's how it goes across the surface of the moon. And it just kind of bounces itself around and works with it. And then again, there's that other little one that sort of opens up and then roves around. And that's the one I say that looks like a thermal detonator from Star Wars. And then there's Slim, which is how it's supposed to sit on the surface of the moon. But if the telemetry is to be believed, it's actually sitting not in that orientation. But imagine that side opposite of the engine is actually the way that it's sitting on the surface of the moon. So it rotated about 90 degrees too much if that's what actually happened. So we'll have to wait and hear from Jackson about whether that is indeed what actually happened or not. So yeah, so those are my two mooner stories that were quite exciting to me, even though they were failures, they were still very important. Very good. I don't want to necessarily say good failures because failures are bad. But they're failures in the sense that a lot is going to be learned from those. So then was it a thing? I mean, that goes to the question of failure, right? Like these were tests, weren't they? No, so with Astrobotic and Slim, these were both missions. This Astrobotic mission was a part of the commercial lunar program services through NASA. So that was a contracted mission and they didn't work. So yeah, that was some money that ended up not going where it was supposed to. It taught us a lot, but then again, the results are what you're gonna wanna get from the money that you give to an agency typically. And that's typically how things are going to be judged in the eyes of the people who dole out that money. It's all like us who are in industry and we understand the concept of you got data back, that's good. So, you know. But hang on, but under the clips contract, I'm sure they got some of that money, right? They, I'm sure there were milestones under clips that they had to hit and they hit, I'm sure they hit many of those milestones. They just missed a big one. Yeah, on the moon. Right, but I mean, kind of like Boeing with Starliner, they can try again on their own dime, I assume, right? Like there's nothing preventing them from going again, assuming they've got the ability to do it. No, and they'll most certainly have the customers to do it too, I would imagine. The moon is so hot right now. So that it is the place everybody wants to go right now, both from a scientific perspective and a resources perspective as well, a use perspective. So we'll have to see what ends up happening in the long run with that. I think they all just need to start bringing Tesla Powerwalls with them, they'll get a lot more power. Wait, the weight doesn't matter, it's just space. Weight doesn't mean anything in space, it's fine. Yeah, I was gonna say, Artville actually had a really good point, which was that Jackson, the main objective was to land. So they did hit their main objective. Another bunch of other objectives were the test systems that would be used to land a larger lunar lander on the surface of the moon. And no word on whether those systems worked or not. So one of them that was very interesting to me was that they were actually using a system to determine where they were while coming down towards the surface of the moon by using basically commercial facial recognition software in order to see if you could literally simplify it that much in order to land on the moon. And of course we don't know if that was part of the issue or not, we still have to wait because this has been less than 48 hours since it happened so if you could find any info about anything within 48 hours of failure as to the accuracy of it, I would often question that. So right now we're all just kind of waiting to find out. I don't know, let me challenge that a little bit. I think once you have a failure, oftentimes very quickly you've got suspects. Now you may not have root cause, but usually there's like data's pointing you in a fairly specific direction, right? And so. Oh yeah, internally. Usually whittle it down fairly far. You may not be able to get all the way to root cause. I would agree that if you're saying, hey, I've got root cause in 48 hours, it's like, but do you? Do you? But like. Oh well, I'm saying most of the time when you see people speculating, at least online, there will be people claiming root cause within six to eight hours after something. And then also that is often, even the beginnings of something like that at this stage, 48, 72, 96 hours after a significant anomaly, it's still mostly internal at this point, even the suspects. The suspects are internal at this point. It is not often that you get a, again, with the transparency in things, which is something that we saw that was complete opposite of what we usually get from companies with Astrobotic keeping us updated hour, it seemed like hour by hour, they're giving us updates about what was going down. So yeah, just like that's, I don't really know of, I'm really honestly trying to think of a situation where an anomaly has happened and a company has done that in recent, at least in recent memory. So I can't, I can't think of that. So. Fair. Yeah, all right. I mean, it's really cool that everything, everyone's trying to get back to the moon and just do really cool things at, at on around the moon. I'm really excited for a cis-lunar economy to happen. And I think this is the stuff that we have to do if we want to enable cis-lunar space, right? I mean, not fail, but we got to send missions to the moon. We need to learn some stuff. Like we have not really spread our lunar wings. This is terrible, whatever. No. Since, you know, this early 70s, right? For the most part, ish, ish, right? I mean, we little spot missions here and there, but like, Yeah, like we've done, we've done the basic robotic exploration since the Apollo program. So, you know, a lot of it really started with Clementine, which was a early 90s mission that was a NASA, US Navy, common NATO combo mission where they worked together to try to develop a spacecraft for navigation and things like that. And then they're going around in orbit around the moon, did a mapping of the moon and basically found those permanently, like we knew that there were permanently shadowed craters, but we didn't just know the extent of them. And then it was lunar prospector in the late 90s that went into orbit around the moon. And it found hints that there might have, that there might actually be water ice in those areas. And then we finally got into things with lunar reconnaissance, orbit, or another stuff. So it's, I feel like, hang on. I feel like, was it the 90s or aughts? I feel like the early aughts is when we discovered water on the moon, multiple times in a row. Like we kept rediscovering water on the moon and everyone's like, oh my God, there's water on the moon. I'm like, didn't we already learn that? Like, didn't we already know this? Oh my God, we just found water on the moon. It's like- I think it was different countries that were finding it and confirming it. So that's why it seems like, oh, hey, we keep rediscovering water on the moon. Then we already know it's there. Well, it's one that, you know, in science, if you discover something independently of each other and you start all finding it together, then I think you might have something, you might be onto something, you know? So it sort of reminds me of like quantum mechanics from the 1910s to the 1940s. Everybody ended up just kind of discovering the exact same things. And it's because it turns out physics works the same for everybody. So if you all go all in on it, you end up finding the same stuff. And that's what happened with China, with Europe and then the United States as well. They weren't necessarily working together on the same missions. Like I think China, I want to say it was one of like Chang'e two or something like that. Man, it's Chang'e one or Chang'e two. That was in orbit. European Space Agency had smart, smart one. And then the United States was a combination of data from lunar prospector in the late 90s and then lunar reconnaissance orbiter once it got there. So- My point was kind of like we would send onesie twosies, right, as a species. We'd send onesies twosies since the 70s to them, right? Like maybe a lander once from the U.S. and wait a few years and you get another one maybe or not even a lander, just even just anything that was going around. It was somewhat sporadic for a while. And now we're at a point where we just had two missions. We're going to have, as Aravail says, four to five more missions this year alone, right? I don't think we've seen this level of activity since the early 90s. No, no. We haven't seen this level of activity since a Gerard K. O'Neill book, honestly. So, yeah, it's really exciting. I was going to actually say the next one that's scheduled to go is Intuitive Machines Nova Sea lander and I'm very hopeful. It would be nice to have at least one win this year. Let's have a win, you know. I feel like a football team, that's gone like 0-3 at the start of the season and it's like, yeah, if we could just get one, then the momentum will change if we could get to the playoffs, you know, kind of with it there, so. Thanks, Cadlaso. So, yeah, in case anybody's wondering what it's been like to be a Mercedes fan for the past two years, there you go. Just no wins over the past, you know, just kind of, man. Also, 10 question, are they landing on the moon or are they regalithing on the moon? Who, Nova Sea? Just in general, like, wouldn't there just not land as regolith, right? Litho-breaking is so early 2000s, Jamie. Like, come on, get on with it here. The only people that are still interested in litho-breaking are Russia and that's typically not by design. But, but I'm still sure, you know, all joking aside, I'm still sure that Ross Cosmos got data from that mission that they're gonna be able to use for the next lunar mission and that would be great to see them succeed at that. So. This was a fun show. Thank you both. I think it was, it was interesting to see Ryan have basically two stories about two new rockets out of China. So very similar stories about, but like, and then again, epic desktop background with the solid plume going up. And then Jared had two stories, similar stories about the moon. I don't remember the last time we had like, Tuzi's Tuzis where they're like, very similar to each other. But it's actually kind of a cool thing that's happening in space, right? Because space is just building up. There's more stuff happening. There's more companies doing stuff. Not all of them will survive, right? Yeah. I got one more, which I think I don't think we can see that. Forgive me, forgive me, I'm sorry. Which is the one that our thumbnail about the show is about. But I mean, nevermind, talk about burying the lead. But we got to talk about ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, because we just recently found out that on its 72nd flight just a couple of days ago, that it was going good, everything was fine. It flew to 40 feet, or excuse me, 12 meters. Sorry, I forgot about our use of units here for a second. It flew to a height of about four elephants. And then it continued on its flight. And then during a period where it was descending back down to the surface, communications was lost between the helicopter and the rover just before touchdown. So there were some, obviously people were a little frightened by that because ingenuity was a tech demo. It was basically like, can we actually fly something in the atmosphere of Mars? Turns out we could. And genuity was really only made to last for five flights. It wasn't made to last this long. We're asking, every time we do a second of flight with ingenuity, we are in bonus mode at this point. Anything is gravy at this point. So JPL was working very hard to try to get back in touch with ingenuity. And I'm very happy to say that as of last night, they have been able to get in touch with ingenuity. So we do know that ingenuity can talk to the rover and the status update yet as to how ingenuity is other than that it is capable of talking to the rover. But I feel like if they're talking to it, then there's a good chance that it's probably doing just fine on the surface of Mars. So yeah, we got it. Celebrating over here. And the best part is I can do the hand gestures off camera. And so you can't see that I'm doing them. What's the hand gesture for it? Cause maybe I can get it to do it too. Well, you've got to have the latest version of Mac OS. You have to have reactions turned on. And then if you do like two thumbs up, that'll get you the fireworks that I just did. Really? Cool. Okay, that's not working. Everyone's trying to do it. Oh, you did it! Go team! Oh no, I can't do it. Oh well. Congratulations everyone. Yeah, good job JPL. Excellent job. We're just, yeah. Two comments here on this one. First, JTTV is wondering what that is in Freedom Bananas. Oh my gosh, like 40 Freedom Bananas tall? I don't know, I'm not near banana. I don't have enough bananas around me, that's for sure. So I'm not a banana person, so. My second point is I feel like every NASA mission is like, oh, it's only designed for three missions. See it now, showing them how to do this and all we're gonna get for the rest of the show is stuff like this, right? Oh no, it's not gonna work for me, whatever. So we always hear like, oh, it was designed for five missions and we got 300. Oh, it was designed for 30 days and we got 10 years. It's like, okay, okay, okay. I hear you, you're getting extra time, but if you're consistently and always getting so much extra time, someone's analysis is wrong, right? Like you're overbuilding it and that's fine, you can overbuild it and you say, don't say, oh, it's designed for five missions. Say, no, no, it's actually designed for three years. Like it's, we need it for five missions, but we've designed it for five years. That's fine too, but this whole like, oh, we're gonna get three days out of it and 10 years later, it's still running. It's like, okay, you can do that a few times, but when it happens every single time, I question your analysis as to how you're doing this stuff. And then at that point it's like, okay, well then, how much weight could you have shaved off? How much more of a mission could you have done if you had actually allocated that weight that now went towards extending this life of this five day mission to 10 years? Like, what could you do? JCTB basically has it right there, which is that those kinds of things are typically budget related. They are not necessarily design related. So you've got to basically be able to do that. And that's not fair. Us saying, hang on, but then that's not fair. Then us saying, oh, it's only designed for two weeks because of the budget is not what the vehicle is actually designed for then. That's just like, that's how much funding the vehicle has to run the program on the ground. And then once it's working, you can go back and ask for more money to keep running the program, right? Is that what we're saying? Okay, cool. Essentially, yes. It's not designed for two weeks, it's designed for 10 years or whatever it is, right? Well, they designed it to last as long as it can. Of course, what did you do to not do that? Tata, would you ever design something to be like, I only want this to last a week, right? Like, wouldn't you do that? That doesn't make any sense. It depends on the circumstances. If it's legit only gonna be used for a week, then yeah, you need a buffer, but a week. And then that saves you money. You can put that money into other things that saves you weight. You can use that weight for other goals. Exactly, right? And if you were told, I need you to design something for a week, and you do this several times, and consistently your stuff lasts five years, wouldn't you go to the engineer and be like, hey man, you're overbuilding this, I need you to design it for a week, sure, make it two weeks, fine. But like, save that weight, save that money, save that everything else, you're overbuilding your product. Yep. I feel like, we all get excited about this. Sure, once, if it happens once or twice on accident, just because like, oh wow, it really works, that's one thing. But when it happens over and over and over and over and over and over. Eka actually has a really good point here, which is that many companies do with planned obsolescence. Are we just so used to the concept and the experience of planned obsolescence that when something actually works longer than it is supposed to, we become paranoid and we become like extremely like, wait a second, this is a grand scheme. You know, what could possibly be happening here? No, it's not that. I think I'm just, I'm officially declaring shenanigans on this whole. No, oh, there you go. For X and Y. Therian has another one there, which is it's also about the science objectives and how long do we need to achieve them. Interesting thing about the Mars exploration rovers, those were designed to last for 90 days, right? So we're gonna try to knock out all of our science objectives in 90 days. And the biggest science objective of the Mars exploration rovers was to find evidence, past evidence that water had been present on the surface of Mars. So spirit landed, opened up the pedals, found it was in the middle of a big old rock valley crap. Now we've got to drive and we've got to find a place where there may possibly be evidence of that because we are very clearly in an area where this is not where it's at. So we need another 89 days to try to find it. Then you get something like opportunity, which literally rolled into a crater called Eagle Crater. They opened up the pedals, they took the images around and on the side of the crater, there's bedrock, which is geological, that is the foundation of geology. If you've got bedrock, that is exactly what has happened in this area. Went up, analyzed it, found it right there. So within first two weeks they got it right out of the gate. They had to drive like 30 feet to go get it. So it's all just a roll of the dice. And you have to make sure that every time you roll the dice you hopefully have a spacecraft or a vehicle or something there that's gonna allow you to actually do that. All of that is fine, I have no gripe with any of that. My gripe is saying we designed it for 90 days and it's going 10 years later. Okay, fine, you can have that happen once or twice. Like that's just going to happen once in a while where you just get lucky and it just works forever. But like when it happens every single time, it's like you design this to work longer. There's no way that every single time you designed a thing to work for 90 days and it goes 10 years that like, I'm declaring shenanigans. Okay, well if you wanna go argue with JPL, have fun. I'm going to go argue with JPL. I'm not gonna go argue with JPL. I'm gonna put up, I'm 50 times, 50 times. So all I know is I'm not gonna bet for you to win that fight, Jamie, because you never bet against JPL. Jenna, I feel like you have something you wanna say. Yeah, the claim that it was designed to last for two weeks, I think just has to be around budgetary concerns. If you were on one of these programs, there is no way that you would wanna design this awesome vehicle that's gonna do all these amazing things and discoveries and it only lasts for two weeks or it only lasts for 90 days. You're going to design it to do the very best job that you possibly can within your budgetary and time scale and mass targets that you have allowed to use. Every rocket that they're planning to use, they've got a total mass. All right, cool, that's what you got to work with. Whatever you can use and whatever little pieces you can use up of that mass and still be able to get to your target on time, you're going to use. You're going to divvy that up and oh, you need more mass for a higher torque motor so we can climb mountains. Cool, like you've already paid for it, that's what you've got to work with. You're not going to make it lighter because it only needs to work for two weeks, especially if you can get a 10 year mission out of it and think of all of the science that we've gotten out of all of these 10 year long, three month missions that we wouldn't have previously if they had actually designed it to work for 90 days or plus tolerance. Good data, that's my point. They're not designing it to work for 90 days. There's no way they're designing it to work for 90 days. And we keep repeating that, being like, oh, it's designed to work for 90 days and work for 10 years later. That is not how this goes. It is not designed, they may have budgeted for it to work for 90 days but that is different than designing it to work for 90 days. Angry noises. I think the chat's fundamentally disagreeing with me, but whatever. I was gonna say, so for the Mars exploration rovers, vehicle, rover and launch and development of spacecraft and other stuff like that was about $750 million for that, right? So it was pretty expensive. The 15 years of mission operations was almost $400 million. So I'm sure it was a lot cheaper to go with that initial 90 days of budget need as opposed to saying, hey, can we get $400 million for 15 years of budget need? Because there's a difference. There's a difference in saying that this program was budgeted to last for 90 days versus this lander was budgeted to only work for 90 days. Was designed to work for only 90 days. Only designed to work for 90 days, right? There's a fundamental difference between those two. I agree with you wholeheartedly. It was only budgeted for 90 days. The chat room's like, it's easier to ask for, that's cool, that's all great. We all agree on that point. What I'm saying is the spacecraft, these crafts are not designed to work for 90 days. They're designed to work for as long as they possibly can. In all the, like what engine here is going to design it to only work for 90 days? You're just not gonna do that. They're designed to work for as long as the program will allow and then they have to go back and ask for new budget to actually run the program. That's fine. So it's like, oh wow, we're on flight 75. Well, cool. Like of course they designed it to work that long. It's not like the helicopter was only, like it was gonna, like after flight six, they had a button that said destroy, right? Like, of course, of course. And I just feel like this is a false narrative that we have of like, trying to be like, oh, look at how amazing all of this stuff is. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. You just didn't have the money for the project. That's very different. It's very, very different. It's a different story. Anyhow, that's Mike, right? The chat room just, again, the chat room is unalimentally disagreeing with me. I get it. I get it. You're all allowed to be wrong and I can be the only right person in the room. That's how this works. Jamie, I just find it really funny that you're like, that you're like, oh yeah, 15 years on Mars. So, you're like, well, why did you say 90 days is the first place if it was going to be 15 years? So, we don't know how long it's going to last, right? It's a false narrative. That's the thing that gets me, is I just don't like the false narrative part of it, right? No, I watch TV. The 90 days story tells well in news, right? It's a narrative that we're trying to sell people that is not entirely looking at the bigger picture. I think that's Mike Wright with it, right? Like, it's not, it's making it sound like... It's disingenuous. It's disingenuous, exactly. I think that's what it is. It's disingenuous. All right, we've harped on this for way too many minutes. Yeah, I was gonna say, you're probably... Most everyone seems to be with me, so it's fine. I'll lay off this particular one for now. I'll wave my hands in, I surrender. I surrender. About half a minute, sorry. 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UCFBVnWh7KbS0fsPuTh2ZVJg	King Noah & Towhid “7 Kings” on Linking w/ Birdman & Slim Cash Money \| Towhid New Music (Part 1)	King Noah on Linking with Cash Money getting his Artist signed Towhid on New Music #birdman #Slim #cashmoney Subscribe NOW to BOSS Talk 101 its a Unique Hustle: https://youtube.com/c/ECeoUniqueFashions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e_ceo_/?hl=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosstalkpodcast101/?hl=en Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boss-talk-podcast-101/id1555978974 Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yD2UzYyp3Pg9JwBjgK92j	null	2022-06-08T16:50:51	2024-02-07T17:06:25	326	PClQt4nVZCA	My jeweler, I was buying some jewelry from God and I increased the jeweler And so we went to Mississippi take him on a meeting run to the radio station I stopped him by the chain while I was there. He said bro, I'll print out decent shit like this with babe I said you got a line on him. He said yeah, I call him up. 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He said what the artist is They don't stay so I called them to come down and you know felt like 18 at the time. So he come out bad He walks straight he walks straight up to me just	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PClQt4nVZCA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCmuP70--NYoqgyo3N0ZwDCA	Pitching New Shows on Netflix - Movie Boss S2Ep1	The Movie Boss pitches Netflix on a string of bad movies and shows. He dives into his PIE series, a Back to the Future prequel and a Cats mini-series, developed exclusively for Netflix. JOIN: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuP70--NYoqgyo3N0ZwDCA/join SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/adamdoesmovies SUPPORT: http://www.patreon.com/adamdoesmovies TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/@adamdoesmovies_ INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/adamdoesmovies_	[ "Pitching Netflix", "Netflix New Shows", "Calling Netflix", "Netflix skit", "Netflix parody", "Movie Pitch", "Netflix exclusives", "netflix 2021 shows", "Back to the Future prequel", "Cats tv series", "Netflix Comedy", "MN Comedian", "Funny YouTube Creator", "Netflix" ]	2021-03-04T01:56:44	2024-02-05T06:23:28	281	pCqc9RBj4Mc	Netflix on the phone here. Perfect. I'm gonna set you down and talk shop. Listen, as you're aware, this is Adam from the Hitch Channel. Adam does movies and recently I've decided I want to get it on some of that sweet Netflix coin. I dab you didn't see it. It was awesome. I don't want to beat her on the George Bush. I'm gonna get right into some of these movie pitches I have for you guys today. Starting with one I think you're really going to enjoy the taste of. First pitch I want to throw out today is for a TV series titled Life of Pie. Now don't get that twisted with the movie that came out years earlier. A couple decades as a matter of fact. No this is about a literal piece of pie. I'm thinking this runs a solid three seasons pushing into a potential soft fourth and ending with a hard fifth. Life of Pie is the journey of the sweet sugary treat from creation to consumption. It's going to be a drama thriller with a heavy focus on family. Episode one would deal with the crust of the pie and by episode five we're in full-blown baking mode. Season one finale would end with the pie cooling off on a ledge with the threat of a crow potentially taking it out or a nosy neighbor who just wants to stick his fingers in the thing. Second idea a sequel trilogy to Back to the Future tentatively titled Front to the Past. The story here would center around Marty McFly's family specifically his daughter Maggie McFly. Essentially what we're doing here is we are just recreating the first three films gender-swapping changing locations but the beats are all the same the like this the arcs are all the same it's just a fresh coat of paint. We're force awakenings this thing we're we're drastic world in this thing okay it's easy money and I always say you know the old adage if it ain't broke why risk it. I also think it's paramount to get Melissa McCarthy in this thing as Doc Brown's daughter have her kind of take over the doc role it'll be very slapsticky have her fall-off things ladders fat women falling off stuff is always fun time I think we doubled down on that. The villain of the picture is the only one we're not going to change the sex of that's going to remain a man because white men suck we want to push that forward in the script as much as possible really want to make that a driving factor here I think that's something the audience will appreciate from a back to the future film. The third and final piece I'm gonna leave you with today although I have many more I'd like to pitch is maybe my most controversial I'm not really sure but here's the deal we all know that cats the cinematic I'd say masterpiece if I could go out in a ledge like a cat didn't receive the accolades I think it deserved and the main reason for that that folly was that it was meant to be a miniseries on Netflix yeah think Queens Gambit but with naked anthropomorphic cats walking around licking each other dancing on rooftops sexually making a lot of perverse comments and really just shaking things up and that's really what I want to do with this miniseries is shake things up a lot and I'd like to bring back Taylor Swift that'd be the only character I'd bring back because I thought she did a good job in that role I'd love to see Taylor Swift's pussy again cat I'm not hearing much on your end what are the thoughts here Jerry what are the thoughts on my ideas you like the pie you like the pie idea life of pie that's awesome we got a picture then here you want you want cake instead of pie you want to you want to follow a cake instead of a pie you're killing me on this Jerry you're really bending me over on the cake thing Jerry listen it's pie or nothing it's pie or I walk okay and here's the new title for you Jerry if you can wrap your around this one you that's the new title for the show you no deal net flex	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCqc9RBj4Mc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC-2dKY4dxagxJo0adcs_OaQ	SOCAP14 - The Evolution of Conservation Finance	Conservation finance is at a pivotal point. There is rapidly expanding interest in moving beyond donor-driven models to commercial, investor-driven tools and strategies that protect valuable natural habitats and ecosystems. This session will explore opportunities and trends as this market evolves, and what it will take to attract traditional investors and recruit new sources of capital. http://socialcapitalmarkets.net SOCAP14 - Igniting Vibrant Communities Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA September 2-5, 2014	[ "SOCAP", "SOCAP 2014", "SOCAP14", "Social Capital Markets", "Social Entrepreneurship", "change innovation", "good economy", "innovators", "entrepreneurship", "new economy", "social entrepreneur", "social capital", "Igniting Vibrant Communities" ]	2014-09-05T15:27:34	2024-04-23T00:59:43	3,861	PcvXSilwrfY	So it looks like we're gonna get going Hi and welcome. My name is Ricardo Bayon. I work with a group called echo asset management partners I'm gonna turn it to my co-panelists to have them introduce themselves But before I do that, I wanted to just set a series of ground rules, but I don't want it to sound very formal They're not really rules because what I actually want this to be is a no rules. No holds bar discussion There's enough of you that we can actually have this kind of discussion So knowing that it's after lunch. It's the evening. Many of you have been staring out at the Golden Gate and wishing you were out there Rather than in a room. I figured that I wasn't gonna let any of my panelists put up PowerPoint presentations And and Peter begged and begged and begged, but I told them no way no PowerPoint presentations for you So he may have a little PowerPoint withdrawal, but the idea is that we have a conversation and and I was selected for this job Lee tells me because I'm Annoying enough to to be up here and bug people So my job is to not let people ramble on to interrupt them To ask them hard questions and to just generally be my own annoying self So I guess I won't date myself by saying Phil Donahue But Essentially what we're trying to be here is kind of like I don't know what would be the equivalent nowadays Geraldo Rivera is still too old. I don't know you're young Eric What's the what's the YouTube equivalent of a talk show host these days? Who knows but the point is this is more of a talk show than a series of presentations So you don't have to wait for any Q&A session to raise your hands and ask questions If you have a burning question raise your hand I will try and call on you But please wait and hold your fire until you get a mic because this is being recorded So we want to get it on the microphone And our subject is the evolution of conservation finance And so what we're going to talk about is sort of the past present and future Of conservation finance and we have a great panel up here to talk about that and I'll pass the mic to Have them introduce themselves and I'll try not to be annoying when they do John My name is John Tobin. I work at Credit Suisse based in Zurich Where I have global responsibilities for sustainability at the at the financial institution Much of that has to do with risk management, but increasingly We're getting involved on the opportunity side of sustainability and Conservation finance is a topic we are getting actively involved in So can everybody see my PowerPoint? No So my name is Peter Stein. I'm one of the managing directors of something called the Lyme Timber Company We're a private equity fund structure that invests in high conservation value forests I'm the old person here Not just on the panel in the room at the conference in Sanford. No And I've been doing land conservation for exactly 41 years Hi, I'm Susan Finney silver I'm at the David and Lucille Packard Foundation And I manage our PRI program program related investments and about half Of actually both our grant making and our investing are in the conservation and climate arena Happy to be here Yeah, it's it's great to be here as well. My name is Eric Holstein I work with the nature conservancy and I work with an initiative that we have called nature vest Which is an initiative to take the 3500 employees roughly that we have The projects around the world and the six billion dollar balance sheet And look at how we can leverage private capital to achieve conservation objectives And so we're interested in impact investing and investing and conservation investing from the perspective of What can we achieve in terms of the fisheries improved? The miles of riparian habitat improved and the conservation outcomes and look at investing as a mechanism as a tool for doing that Great, so we'll start We'll start off with with a question for for john John Along with peter and a bunch of other folks around the room susan even eric Were involved in a a report that came out recently that credit suice did with wwf on Conservation finance. I was going to ask john to tell us a little bit about his involvement in that What the findings of the report are and and then to follow up with a bit of a question on Why is a big bank like credit suice getting involved in this? What's the interest there? Thanks. Well a couple thoughts on that in terms of The Principal findings. I have to say that what struck us that struck us the most about the work that we did is was that in the process of interviewing especially high net worth individuals for Our data collection process. We were struck by how much interest there was in environmental impact investing Social impact investing is probably a decade ahead of Environmental impact investing there is a much greater diversity and number of Financial products available for investors on the social side of then on the environmental side And to our surprise there was a you know huge interest on the part of people Again, particularly private high net worth individuals in being able to put some of their wealth into these In into this area The reality is that the available availability of products is limited and that's something that we need to work on Maybe the other finding that I would like to highlight is the fact that Ultimately the story of conservation may be a happy one Relatively happy one at least if we're able to bring private capital to bear And why do I say that as part of this study? We took a look at what the conservation needs are globally And we came up with an estimate based on you know a consensus number of three to four hundred billion dollars per year that are required in that would be required in order to you know really Detect biodiversity and protect Habitats to an extent that is consistent in the long term with You know a healthy and sustainable coexistence of our species with the other 20 million species on the planet Those numbers can be you can quibble about you know a few million more a few milling less But but but that seems to be the consensus out there So three to four hundred million and how do much how does that compare to what is being put into conservation today? Uh, we came up with a number of roughly 50 billion dollars yearly going to go into conservation Uh, roughly 80 percent of that is from Public sources and from philanthropic sources. Maybe 20 percent of that is coming from private investors Okay, so 50 billion that is going into conservation Three to four hundred million which is the need if we're really going to maintain a healthy and sustainable environment in the long term How do you feel hold on a second a happy story? How is this a happy story? Uh, that's the punch line is coming Um, come on come on There is a that gap Could be filled with if that gap put it this way if that gap is filled with private capital It could be a happy story Why? because we looked at the total amount of new and invested capital every year that becomes available and The gap between what goes into conservation and what conservation needs are is roughly one percent of all New and reinvested capital globally on the part of retail high net worth and institutional investors So if we could actually direct a just one percent of all of This new capital and reinvested capital to double bottom line activities that would have A good a positive environmental impact and would Provide some returns for investors. We could tackle the problem So give us an example of what is uh in your view a double bottom line investment that that fits that bill because By those numbers a whole lot less than one percent is being invested In this because it's 20 of that 50 billion number, right? Yeah, so I'm not very good at math. So I'm not even going to attempt that but it's a whole lot less than one percent It's probably a tenth of that. Right. Um, yes, definitely A lot less than that but a few examples. I mean, uh, some of them We have heard about today. Some of them we will hear about shortly, but anything from sustainable commodities sustainable forestry Offset markets payments for biodiversity Services Any of a number of different fields where As the markets develop we may come closer to filling that gap But admittedly it's a huge gap and it's a huge and it's a gap that will only be filled if Private capital is deployed through intelligently designed financial structures and good business models that allow Private capital to really be so I mean, I think we would all love it to see one percent of that money end up in conservation or something like that What do you think is give us one thing that's missing? What what what would change it? Did the report highlight? Activities that could be done that would help that one percent come in any number of Of points things that you could point to but if I had to point to one thing I would say the deployment of good structuring muscle People and Who have the willingness and the ability to structure good financial transactions that will have this double bottom line it Getting to where we are on the impact investing side on the on the Social side of things has taken a very long time and of in a huge amount of thinking There have been all sorts of obstacles regulatory financial etc And it's through the deployment of good Structuring muscle that we can get there Necessary but not sufficient right and and I guess that answers a little bit my question of why is a big bank like credit So he's interested in this is it because you want to help move that? 1% to conservation or are you being are you being asked by your clients to to move in this direction? Absolutely, I would say the number one motivation is an ever increasing expression of desire on the part of Clients particularly high net worth individuals for product that will allow them to invest Not necessarily all but at least a certain part of their wealth into products that will have Uh, you get positive impacts that go beyond the financial part. So this panel is about evolution So have you seen a change in that respect? I have I have, uh, I should Emphasize that Credit Suisse is relatively new to the to the impact space But but even during that time. Yes, we have seen what do you think has changed what why is why is Why are your clients asking for this? Is there some something you can point to any ideas? I nothing in particular that comes to mind immediately that is Causing this but the fact is it's happening there used to be a mentality And and still the prevailing mentality is you make your money this way and then at the end of the year You take part of your returns and you donate them to good causes. There's a clear trend towards Moving away from that Schizophrenic approach to investing and trying to align your values with your own investments more than there used to be It's no longer about making money any way you can and then You know paying for your sins at the end of the year by making some small donation more and more It's about investing in things that are good interesting, I I mean, I think if we take a look susan, I wanted to turn to you because Packard as well as more foundation are working with tnc with echo asset management partners and with jp morgan On producing a kind of a report that goes into the numbers How much is actually going into conservation impact investing? Um It's kind of a follow-up to the report that credit suiz and others did which looked at the problem This is saying okay. Well, what's happening out there? What are people doing? Um And I think john's painted a sort of good news bad news story right good news There's a lot of potential bad news There's not a whole lot of money going in and when he says 50 billion dollars Even if you take all of the social impact investing Money that that jp morgan and another report on social impact investing, which I should add didn't include conservation impact investing at all That number was 10.6 billion Last year so well short of the 50 well well well short of the 400 billion Um Can you give us some some highlights on the report and and also talk a little bit about The role that you see for Packard institutions like Packard in this process Yes, definitely, and I think you know building on john's point I think certainly it is true that conservation investing is Both in terms of scale of dollars in terms of being as john said a decade behind You know, I would agree with those things. I think you know this You know at the collective that came together around commissioning this report I think um really saw though that there is a glass Half empty and a glass half full, you know side to that story and so Um, I think we felt it was important to document. There's been a lot of um studies There's been a lot written. There's been a lot of attention a lot of forums around how the social investing has grown And I think you know, we felt it was important to document the conservation investing side And you know whether I think when we look at the numbers that are coming out The number we did a survey of sample of conservation investors The number that's come out is 24 billion. Am I allowed to say that we haven't come out with a report yet, but You know 24 billion over five years But of which a lot of it is development banks. So it's really about 2 billion. That's private investor capital So you could look at that number and we wonder how you know, how are we all going to look at that number? Is that that is a limited number? You know, so you could you know, look at that number and get depressed or say impact investing You know is is irrelevant for conservation. I personally don't feel that way I feel that that number is you know, it's an early in the evolution The other striking finding is just the the rate of growth and it's looks like it's doubled You know over a five year period likely to Double or more than that over the next five years. Um, I do think um, it is an opportunity of of You know, it's early and so my hope is that it's early and also that Um, when you look at the 22 billion the other side of development banks I think there's really a lot of opportunity there to partner with either that 22 billion That's development banks and also the private sector capital that john alluded to some of the structured products that you know Remain to be created. Um, and so there's really a lot of uh partnership opportunities across Asset classes and sort of turning to the other question you asked rickardo about how packard looks at this I think that's really a lot of where we're uh spending our time within our shop Which so we have a 180 million dollar program for peer eyes or MRIs And I think what we're doing a lot of in the last few years is looking for those opportunities Um to scale new innovations So to really use our capital to come in after it's been proved after some of these innovations have been proven out And and and are ready to really scale and grow and to find those opportunities and you know Provide growth capital and I think you know, there's more and more of that I guess again that also is a little bit of half empty half full I think that what we're seeing is versus five years ago when we were doing a lot of very sort of just bread and butter Land transactions or you know very straightforward. We're seeing a lot more of creativity From folks like you You know everyone who's here at soak up. I mean, there's just so much more Creativity going on that's the half full. I think the half empty is in my view There's a lot more capital right now than there is a what I like to call absorptive capacity I feel like being able to find Investable, you know places for it At least from the investor side and I know that certainly that could be a source of debate and discussion And maybe Ricardo is about to do that. Can you give us an example of the types of new creative mechanisms that Packard is Investing in sure. I mean, I think To give sort of thumbnails and then I can flesh out any of them You know, for example, we Invested in the the spin out of the Certification system for biofuels called the round table on sustainable biofuels To create a market standard for biofuels Another example is our investment in the freshwater trust where Basically, they are designing an innovative System for creating water quality credits using an environmentally sound scientifically based system that Is innovative in the market? So we've provided them with growth capital to really scale that up in the pacific northwest and hopefully Nationally over time And then I guess another example I would use is is we're doing a lot with trying to Find ways to layer our capital with other sources to bring other sources I mean conservation has been driven by government funding by donor funding And really trying to find ways where there's other layered sources of capital. So like carbon credit funds. We were invested in the echo Green carbon fund. We're actually just now. It's not approved But we are taking to our board a recommendation for a five million dollar investment in the alphalia climate fund Which has been successful in europe but has not yet gained traction in the u.s. And we're hoping to help them Um boost that um If I have time for one more example or not sure go for the other one I was just going to say was ecotrust forest that was one where we tried to Use our capital as a debt layer to bring in private equity capital So it's kind of creating a capital stack where foundation is more willing to take risk perhaps than a than a private investor or Different type of risk or a different return Yeah, so and I guess it what's interesting is I think that um, what we find is there's different tools for different Transactions and a lot of times so so the taking more risk is actually not always the role And so for example in ecotrust forest, we actually um do need to preserve our capital So we have 180 million dollar fund. So and we need to preserve that over time. So so We sometimes for some things that are very bullseye will come in with a first loss But for example in ecotrust forest, that's not really actually what was needed. In fact the private equity investors That's what they do Is take risk and so actually coming in with the 1% Actually fairly more risk averse capital But that just had a the thing we do have is we have no profit motivation lower return So a lower return. So we're able to sort of Juice up the returns as always the you know Not so elegant way to say it probably not Yeah, the way the lawyer would like but but it's sort of to to be that part of the capital stack that will enhance The returns for those private equity investors who actually can are set up to take risks But do need the return hurdles to be met Peter you you've been at this longer than a lot of people looking at conservation finance from a variety of different hats private hat public hat NGO hat I mean talk to us a little bit about how you see things changing and where you would like things to go in the future But perhaps start by telling us a little bit about your experience with lime timber and how that's evolved over the years well I'm kind of short-sighted so I can only talk in the millions not the billions but I I made the transition from the NGO world to the private capital You know money grubbing world 24 years ago And a lot of my friends Thought I was crazy But it it worked out quite well And what it really is is harnessing a lot more capital than will ever be available through philanthropy so i'm a giant fan of Susan's program related investment function at the Packard foundation in fact i'm a fan of all pri's anywhere but They really are there as leverage to grow the comfort for private investors to invest in this space and so lime timber lime timber became an impact oriented manager Without any impact investors. It's kind of the opposite about How much of this happened so in in 1990 or 1991 when I joined lime timber forest land Continues to be available to invest in it was a little easier 24 years ago but One of the challenges was to kind of Change the behavior behavior of private investors And you probably could do that through counseling But you can also do that. I know some that would be pretty resistant to counseling So well, we didn't take that tech anyway, so the way we changed behavior We started with our own behavior, but it's been Mimicked or copied throughout the timberland investment industry now Is to bifurcate the ownership of timberland? So if you actually want to make a timberland investment versus A path of development investment You either have to find a remarkably stupid seller Who just wants to sell their timberland at its timber value? Or you have to find a way to monetize the non timber values in the investment And the monetization mechanism in the united states of america and about 73 other countries Is to buy some of the property right interests in in america We call it a conservation easement or a conservation restriction if you're in massachusetts In furan kebac you call it a conservation servitude, but basically some of those rights Were acquired by land trusts or by public agencies and they bend or Influence the behavior of the party that holds the balance of those rights So the best way to understand this is lime timber just wants to be a timberland investor We never meet any stupid sellers anymore We're paying the same price that every other timber investor wants to pay Most of them are also real estate developers We don't want to do that. I could not go home to my wife I wouldn't be able to explain it to my children. I would lose all my friends at the nature conservancy and the trust for public land So the ones you haven't lost already, right? So anyway, uh, but coming off if I go too long So, uh, but it what what really changed over the last 24 years is we now no longer just go to conferences And give presentations or listen to presentations. We actually get commitments from institutions and families so First five years there was there was not a nickel of impact investor money at the lime timber company By 1995 we had a single impact investor the jessie smith noise foundation in new york city Our last fund, uh, which is vintage 2010 41 of the capital in that fund came from impact investors that totaled 61 million dollars So out of 160 million dollar fund two fifths of the fund came from impact investors Obviously, we're not doing anything about solving the gap between 50 billion dollars and 300 billion dollars But we're i'm actually seeing real dollars being committed by real people real families real institutions foundation endowments small college endowments secondary school endowments Our very first public pension fund, uh in our newest fund But uh, they are actually getting the rationale Of why it makes sense to become impact investors and they're not doing it because there's a charity motivation whatsoever We're making market rate returns But they're finally getting the fact that they think it's changed. I mean, what do you? I think the fact that it's no longer just lime timber that there's actually a cohort of private equity structured investment managers I think they're, um, it may be over. I may be overselling this But the fact that we actually now have some common reporting schemes About impact like the iris metrics from the global impact initiative Uh, I think the fact that we have a track record. So we're raising our fifth capital pool now Uh, I think it's challenging if you're a startup. It's challenging if you're in the you know 10 to 50 million dollar space But at the couple a hundred million dollar space, I think people are ready for that And how many how many assets do you have under management now? Uh, it's what it's thursday, right? Yeah, okay, so How's timber doing today? Timber did a timber did really well today. No, um, we own uh, Exactly 1.2 road islands worth of land about 700 000 acres Uh, and in terms of money, can you share any details of how much assets? Uh, yeah We have about 350 million dollars of assets under management. Did you want to get in here? Well, I was just gonna um Say one other dimension to the question you just asked about what's changed and I think one thing Certain we've observed Is what's changed also is the way people define themselves and peter was kind of alluding to that I do think even in the last three years Um, we've gone from a world that was more what john said to sort of bipolar world of are you Profit seeking or are you impact seeking and I think as we co-invest in funds now We actually are just going through an analysis right now As we look at whether that you know to classify our affiliate investment as a peer eye and we try to go through analysis Okay, is this a profit seeking investor our other co-investors or are they impact and they were all You know pretty really every single one were really along this very fuzzy spectrum They had some, you know, they were either a finance first fund within a strategic fund Or they were strategic within a finance first or they were and it I just think even in the last three years There's been real and I and I'm blurring in a very good way of sort of more holistic investing That's that's happening. So then in addition to the you know, the ground up from the investment side I do think there's a real Psychological shift on the investor side as well So it seems like we're coming to an interesting curve Or an inflection in the curve where the capital is becoming more aware. There are more products like lime timber, etc Where does the the nature conservancy stand in all this and how are you seeing the evolution of conservation finance? And I know you just helped create with a major bank jp morgan this entity called nature vest Which echo is also involved in Tell us a little bit about that and about how you see the shift and where you would like to see it go into the future Great. Thanks. Ricardo nature vest There's a lot of information in the creation of nature vest as a as a data point and it was created through a partnership with jp morgan chase To take what is a really strong transactional history at the nature conservancy in all 50 states in the us 30 plus countries around the world and In a sense roll that up and try to get much more disciplined and proactive about creating a pipeline of products that could go out to market The conservancy brings to the evolution of conservation finance I think some very unique attributes because of our history and our dna is a transactional organization But as a conservation first organization and we have a one thing we have is a very large staff of scientists About a half of the nature conservancy are phd scientists. They are passionate about making sure that the impacts are well understood but also Uh Tracked and followed and and the investments are built around kind of that conservation outcome. I'm thinking transactional phds. It's kind of We have we it's it's it's a it's a really it's a day to day It's a very fun tension for for us in the organization because I sit there and I sit and I work with my team to try to structure Transactions and then I have to take those to the phds and say does this pass the sniff test? What else do we need to know about these and and what I would say is that nature vests And this relationship with jp morgan chase and leveraging kind of tnc's platform Is that in a number of these areas like investing in natural infrastructure? Or green bonds or fisheries. There's a really interesting and compelling science component about understanding What happens for example if you follow a fishery? That's maybe been overfished how long before it recovers and could potentially return money to investors And does that happen on a five-year time frame which is to sort of a nice time frame for investors or does that happen over 30 years? Similarly in natural infrastructure sort of what are the issues and I know echo is very involved in this work But what are the issues around? The trade-offs that get made around different types of infrastructure Is there a sort of deep green versus a light green and we're in a position to both kind of help understand what those trade-offs are And and structure products around them that are ultimately investable So the idea behind nature vest is to Structure these products come up with these products that they can can then be taken to the market and then People like jp morgan or credit suisse or others could could come in and invest in part of the vision around nature vest Is to get involved in that early deal structuring investment creation Leverage that platform And then hopefully in some ways bring those almost as pilots to market But that that success for nature vest is actually that other other folks at scale are doing this So we we may have de risk for example natural infrastructure. Hopefully with some help from echo And funding from Packard De risk de risk them to the point where the where they are well understood as investment vehicles You know what kind of the science outcomes are or the conservation outcomes? You know what the risk return profile is around the investing and that they become investable for commercial investors so To interrupt Eric, but with an example lime timber also invests in wetland mitigation and stream banks and We got into this because we watched NGOs make wetland mitigation bank investments and stream bank investments and Our first one was a partnership with the virginia chapter of the nature conservancy when they had essentially tapped out internal resources To do this But we had watched them do it three other times and we then became their private investment partner for the fourth Investment so it's really already happening Mm-hmm Yeah, and I mean talk a little bit about the experience guys I know the california chapter of the nature conservancy and nature conservancy generally has a tremendous wealth of experience of investing Capital in both land real estate timber even fisheries in ways that that that generate the conservation results I mean, can you talk about some specific examples where you've seen that? Achieve conservation results as well as investable returns from the private sector Yeah, it's a it's a really a fair and good point on the west coast the nature conservancy Is the second largest owner of ground fish fishing quota? Uh, so that includes all commercial investors. We have bought and sold 1.5 million acres of property. We actively manage 500 000 acres of property So in terms of transactional experience, we have lots of it. Um, often it was Not done in sort of this structured way so, um As an example though of of I think Where an organization like the nature conservancy and our partners and we have some very generous and wonderful partners who help us Do this work our effective is with this ground fish story, which was 10 or 15 years ago With funding from foundations We went in and we bought permits boats and quota pounds and retired them from the a big piece of the ground fish fishery in the west coast we then Relicensed them out with a bunch of conservation restrictions about when and where you could fish What kinds of fish we created with the community's help some restrictions on Well some mechanisms like a risk pool that basically just kind of allowed the fishery to be much better managed And we worked and I think we should talk a little about this But we worked on a policy angle to restructure the governance around that fishery So that it wasn't a completely open access fishery And then this last year we completed the first divestiture of that quota share Back into one of the communities that had sold us the quota in the first place and they bought it They paid real money for that It was funded by a commercial lender And it's a great example of kind of early engagement involvement by a nonprofit Changing kind of the the rules of the game putting some structure around it from a regulatory standpoint And our expectation now is that that model of reforming a fishery this way becomes something that is investable Are you worried that if if we get to the kinds of numbers that john's talking about You know 400 billion dollars going into conservation and you know the the wolves of wall street like Some of the people on this panel and others come in and they start you know doing their usual rape and pillage of Of a fishery is that gonna affect the conservation results or do you think we can we can find ways to you know Harness the gordon geckos of the world and the greed is good philosophy and and still achieve conservation Yeah, I think this is a great question and I and I live it daily because I walk into the office And I wear a bunch of hats. I have this this phd in economics I guess it doesn't make me a good guy, but it makes me one of the scientists sort of Uh, but then I'm also the one economics Bringing these deals to the to the organization and working with people there's some folks in the audience with nature vest But sort of bringing these deals to the organization And so I get a lot of pushback from the scientists and I would say yes This is a big concern for us Which is sort of the watering down of the conservation outcomes around these investments and so We think about this sort of I think green bonds are a great example of it Which is I see a real role for the nature conservancy and for kind of rigorous science That determining what is an appropriate conservation outcome around green bonds And let's at least make sure that investors know what the trade-off is that's being made between the financial return and the conservation outcome And getting really kind of precise and clear about that so that you know not every green bond is equal Yeah, it's interesting You should mention green bonds because I think it's it is indicative of this transition, right? There are all these bonds billions of dollars being transacted now where people are putting money into largely renewable energy It's most of the green bonds. We've seen 95 probably more than 95 percent have been about renewable energy And some you could say are You know so light green they're approaching some other color And some are truly green But there is also a signal that's out there that billions of dollars of demand For these bonds is happening So, you know, can we harness that to achieve some of the conservation results that the tnc pushes for Susan, are you worried that this If if there is this influx of money that it will change the The landscape out there Well, I definitely think that you know the the sort of what's been branded the impact imposters I think is a real Phenomenon and I do think or the light, you know, the Barely light green Investments, I think that what we strive and this gets back to you know the role of Foundations of NGOs. I think to be able to be that I think that's in government, right? We haven't talked about it that you mentioned it Yeah, no, that's a very good point and I think you know as we think about the roles in the capital stack part of it is In you know, what's the return? What's the risk but then part of it also is to help to be the arbitrar Of being able to do that deep scientific analysis that eric is talking about I know that when we come to investments For example, the investment that we're recommending again it hasn't approved yet But in althelia part of what we're trying to do is to say we've diligence this from a programmatic perspective We've delved into all of their ESG. We can kind of help You know be that arbitrar and be a lead investor so that other investors can look to us and our Diligence around what is really the impact and programmatic impact of these investments in terms of your question rica, although I think we have to worry about Having good regulation in place and good compliance as long as we have that I'm very pragmatic about these things as long as the outcomes are the right ones from a social point of view I worry a little bit less about the motivation of the investor than many people do I think if the ultimate social outcome is a positive one if what is primarily motivating the investor is The greater good of society or of the planet or it is His or her bottom line But I don't get too worked about too worked up about it. We want the right outcomes and that's the key thing And I mean it's interesting that the the study you were involved in john said 80 percent of the money that's going into conservation now is some mix of governments multilaterals and and philanthropy right Our study that we are involved in on conservation. Vesta said 90 percent of the money that is actually going into impact investments and granted, you know, this was a very limited Survey it was a very limited pool of of people we asked because we didn't have You know the time or the resources to really go everywhere We probably didn't touch a lot of impact investors in in europe But this is a first step to quantify what the size of it was but it found too that 90 percent of that money Was coming from bilaterals and multilaterals organizations like usa id organizations like, you know, the development aid agencies of sweden norway u k u s Etc etc etc Can you talk john a little bit about the role of government? In this space what you what do you see is the right role? For government in encouraging us moving towards that 400 billion that you talked about as a banker and a biologist I may not be the person best qualified on this panel to talk about government But I personally I think government is absolutely crucial government and regulations passed by government are what create Markets if we did not have governments and we did not have regulations We would not have markets because the market is nothing but the natural working out of the game that is played in the Regulatory framework that is in place So the rule of so they're the referees of the game and they they write the rules and they referee the game And many in the private sector There's a tendency in the private sector to kind of you know downplay the importance of government and to You know react negatively to almost any kind of regulation and I think personally and I'm not speaking for my institution I'm speaking as an individual I think that's terribly unfortunate because if we don't have good government And we don't have good strong predictable Intelligently developed regulation. It's very difficult to play the game of the market Just to give two examples from from our own experience at echo We have a a carbon fund that that Packard is an investor in and you know There would not be a carbon fund if there wasn't a carbon market And there would not be a carbon market if the limits on emissions had not been set by government So what the carbon market is essentially doing is Taking a public good that hasn't hadn't been priced and turning it into You know something different where you can set limits on it another example We're looking at fisheries investments learn trying to learn from the tnc experience and other experience And we're trying to figure out where we can put private capital and create investable solutions that will lead to sustainable fisheries We're finding it very difficult to do that in places where there aren't things like quota fisheries where the government hasn't set up limits On the sustainability. So we believe that the government plays a fundamental role But but but maybe you can chime in here peter and talk a little bit about your experience Well, you know it it it certainly Levels the playing field a bit, you know, we work predominantly in In the u.s. We've made a total of one investment outside the u.s. In canada, but The reality is Don't get too crazy now, peter Okay, that counts that counts But think about the fact that we're monetizing the real estate development potential through the sale of a conservation easement over a working forest If you have no zoning and a landowner can do whatever he or she can possibly imagine That easement is going to be more expensive So more public resources and a little bit of philanthropic resources will go into Compensating the landowner for the purchase of that easement if you're in the adirondacks One of maybe seven or eight places in the united states of america That has what I would call robust regional annual regulations easements are far less expensive Because the development potential has already been modified through a public regulatory scheme So that's how we're seeing it Frankly, I would challenge anybody to to find really good investments in the u.s. Only that don't have a good strong governance or regulatory structure When I think the laws in the u.s. Around property rights or what enables the lime timber model I think the existence of the pacific fisheries councils what enables the transaction I described around fisheries And I would say the lack of that in some cases like around cap and trade and carbon is somewhat hindering that market the uncertainty For example of what what is happening post 2020 in the california carbon market. I think is holding a lot of people back What I would also though say is there are nongovernmental ways to achieve the same ends. So I really like the Round table for sustainable biofuels that sort of transparency allowing the market to Make decisions based on disclosure of information I think and in many cases be an appropriate substitute for that kind of regulatory oversight Or at least it's a good complement to the existence of a strong regulatory oversight or governance rules So I feel I've failed at my job because none of you have raised your hand and nobody has stood up and And and and wielded a chair and thrown it at us or something like that. I mean come on guys. All right, I mean Mike Wait, can you wait till you get the mic because it's being recorded? Mike van Patten mission markets. Um, ricardo, we've known each other for years Quick questions. So it seems that some markets lend themselves very well to structure Structuring asset-backed securities like tradeable quota and so forth And some do not like payments for ecosystem services because they're so localized and they're so esoteric What is your opinion on Is the hope of a market for payments for ecosystem services ever going to really evolve where it's actually investable Or is it too local and too, you know, customized versus let's say transferable quota I mean, I'll take a stab at it and then pass it on to peter But I think that that that we are seeing it evolve just maybe not in the way Some of us had had initially thought or hoped right So we are seeing to some degree the creation of explicit markets for ecosystem services in carbon and and and people say the carbon market is dead But if you take a look outside the us and even in california here The carbon market is alive and well and then carbon markets are just not happening at the global scale They're happening in california in kebek in korea in japan in brazil in mexico in europe So it's going down to to what i call the the highest effective level of sovereignty that we have because Globally, we have no real sovereignty to decree and set these standards But at the same time there's another way this is happening right so the other issue we're working on beyond carbon or forestry is Green infrastructure. So how do you use green technologies natural systems to deliver Clean water storm water management services to cities Cities are desperate for these services Just their only solution until now has been the traditional gray infrastructure They're spending not millions but billions of dollars in this infrastructure if we can channel some of that Into the provision of ecosystem services from natural infrastructure That's that's in my view a payment for ecosystem services Developing in a very different way than some of us had hoped peter. Well, I was going to say the same thing about sort of urban green investments, but Look at wetland mitigation banking investments. That follows a national rule It's the part of the clean water act and it's the 404 permitting under the clean water act that drives Public parties private parties under a no net loss of wetland scheme to invest In making up for the wetlands that were harmed We are actually lime timber does this ecosystem investment partners does this new forest does this there's There's probably 350 million dollars of investable capital in the us focused on that payment for ecosystem services right now And it's a three to four billion dollar market annually So are they do any more questions? I don't know how much time do we have like Five minutes not a lot of time So we'll take two more questions and then I'll ask one final question of the panelists over here back in there Hi, wendy richards, and I'll ask my question as a private investor So I have a pretty clear idea from this morning's panel what I could do with my next investable dollar If I go to lime timber this panel is about the future So instead of going to lime timber and committing today if I hold back on that dollar Or perhaps you can argue I should come to you Why should I save that dollar and wait for jp morgan or credit suice? What exactly are you going to provide in these products? Like very specific What would the investor be getting in your vision if you're successful in the partnership That you're looking to do and in the work you're doing. What will we be investing in? Yeah, I'm happy to take a crack at this one as examples though of products that we are developing at the nature conservancy One is that last year we launched a conservation note That was A 25 million dollar offering That was then used and invested by the nature conservancy in a variety of projects We're structuring investments in fisheries globally outside of the united states For as riccardo mentioned the recovery of those fisheries We're structuring a fund in latin america that would provide loans to farmers in post conflict areas to convert from Kind of monoculture beef ranching to civil pastoral systems that are much more complex systems that are also better for the environment and way better economically We're looking at investments and funds in natural infrastructure in carbon In water rights in australia. So each of these things would be an investable fund That we would be structuring that would be in a portfolio of things another type of real asset With a different kind of risk return profile than the other ones That if you were looking at it as a retail investor, you might think that you you want you want to have a portfolio built around that particular profile And I think what's interesting here is that you you mentioned a lot of different types of investments I think to answer your question. What would you be getting? I think there's a dual return, right? There's whatever the rate of return is for that particular investment and you know The ones we've seen go anywhere from on the low end 2% irr all the way on to the higher end, you know 20 something or 30 something irr in the best of cases But at the same time you have if the if it works and it leads to more sustainable fishery You have a sustainable fishery outcome or a sustainable water use outcome or or whatever the outcome is you want it to jump in John But if I understood the question correctly, it's Do you wait for jp morgan or credit swee's or do you go with lime timber? And why would absolutely wait for credit swee's Well, I would actually that it's a lot less about the institutions because after all a lot of the large financial institutions have open platforms open architecture platforms products like lime timber may end up being put on the Investment platform of jp morgan What financial institution large financial institutions can provide is some additional structuring muscle Can provide some scale and what I think is key is because of the The depth and extent of relationships that these institutions have with high net worth individuals it can Intermediate between interested investors and between the lime timbers of the world And yes, some of these institutions will develop their own products as well But I view the role is not Antigonic to but rather complementary to The lime timbers So we had one more question up here Up here we had she had her hand up before Go back to you afterwards. Thank you. My name is Lana Raymond I love the idea of being able to invest in a nature conservancy note like a treasury bill Could you speak to the earlier you were talking a little bit about How green the investment is light green dark green, etc Where can the investor look in the future for information about The level of greenness who's going to be the authority to rate the greenness of an investment so You know like you know a theme of our panel is sort of we're still nascent on that But I think there are some answers coming forward There is the the gin you may be familiar with has created something called the iris the impact reporting investment standards, I think I've got that right and So several of us on this panel We actually Sponsored and funded an effort to build out the conservation Impact metrics within iris so iris as with many things impact investing the social investment metrics were very well built out I think several of us saw a need to really make sure that the conservation metrics were beyond just number of hectares So so we had a working group. There's a rigorous process And so those are now on the iris platform to be used so that it's a start And I I mean, I don't think everybody is using them yet But but if more customers say We want to see how you're meeting these standards. I think that's a big step I do think there is a role, you know, for instance in this whole green bond discussion Of a third party like tnc or somebody else going out there and saying yeah, this is green and this You know less so In order to put some some sort of standards. I mean, we got this in organic We've got this in fair trade, you know rainforest alliance I I can see it coming in the investment world and now with the standards that iris has I think that's a That's a good a good first step in that direction So one last question back there And your last answer may be helpful on this In the in the transactions you've discussed I'm thinking how does imposition of conservancy goals actually Improve the value of your asset So I think it's a little counterintuitive to me that imposing these restrictions actually makes the fishery more valuable So when you have these pressures to produce returns Maybe this measurement is the answer but but help me out. Am I Am I evaluating that correctly? Yeah, let me let me speak to this and then I'm happy to have other folks on the panel talk about it too In the case of fisheries one of the biggest challenges is open access And that as fishermen are competing with each other for a very scarce remaining Asset base that they over fish. So they're fishing the the fishery well beyond what is sustainable To a level that is harmful to that fishery and also to the ecosystem around it So the imposition or the layering of something like in this case the pacific Council fisheries council was to impose a set of rules around access to that fishery and allow The nature conservancy and partners to put these restrictions on how you would fish onto that fishery and actually and actually Assign the property right which was previously not assigned To the fishermen and to the communities who could then own it as quarter share And by owning it as quarter share then they could manage it much more sustainably because it was incentive To do so and I think that story holds true across a whole number of different assets about assigning the property rights And then having the ownership of those property rights established Now there is a sort of flip side to this which is that ownership does also come with some unintended consequences that We were very concerned about in that particular example, which is that we didn't want An industrial scale fishermen Acquiring all of that property right and over well and fishing that fishery to its maximum because there would be significant kind of social impacts Along the fisheries and the coastline and those communities And so part of the regulatory structure was about designing Some rules that that set maximum amounts of that that quota that any one organization could own So I think it's that kind of thoughtful It is sort of it's not exactly market making But it is sort of expressing society's preferences through regulation That I think is important as you put together these structures And having an organization like the nature conservancy that has a strong kind of policy skill set and connections and can can exert that influence And working with our partners like Packard and others to have that dialogue at a in some cases a national or a global level We view as very important to make sure that those unintended unintended consequences are well considered and thought out Yeah, I mean I think that the way the way I look at it. I think there is a fundamental problem, right? We do not in our economic system value some of these ecosystem services We've had this huge blind spot for hundreds and hundreds of years and you know because it's not valued Uh planting soy or planting palm is more quote unquote valuable than maintaining a forest So I do think at the heart of it We will over time need to fundamentally change our economic system to add this value Uh, I guess to use a tech metaphor. I think we're operating on you know windows 1892 uh As opposed to to where we need to be in a world where you know, you have twitter and facebook and all these other things Right imagine if you were working in windows 95 in today's world You know, you'd see that blue screen of death way too often And I think the problem is the rules were written at a time when what was important what was scarce was capital and labor Not natural resources, but we're transitioning into a world where natural resources are scarce And at being scarce they will become valuable and that transition is in a potential for Increased profit and you see it in the in the fisheries as they become scarcer You know, there is that potential if we don't get into this tragedy of the common situation Where everybody's chasing the last fish if we can give it some breathing room to recover That is potential value. I mean you just look at the recovery of fisheries if they are if they are left untouched That's a classic financial j-curve That you could invest in and make profits off if if you did it right The question is how can you do it right? So I know that I'm I'm being like Told to get off here or else we're going to be pulled off with a hook but Before we do that I wanted to ask one last question of each of our panelists and that's a very simple question If there was one thing you could do to achieve that 400 500 billion dollars for conservation of which a huge chunk of it would come from private capital What would you do and and how would you achieve it quickly? The single most important thing we could do is to try to get individual investors To recognize that their own investment choices Where they put their wealth where they put their pension money has an impact on the world And to align Where they put their money and their pension funds with their values And in some cases that may mean some people putting Their their pension money into coal companies. I think in a large majority of Of cases it will it will have positive effects We need to be less schizophrenic about how we invest and we have to bring our values and our investments closer together Well, I just say here here to what john said the only Only way I think I might attempt to phrase it slightly differently and it's actually been Licensed or trademarked by a wealth management firm here in san francisco Is the is the concept of full consequences? I think you alerted to the fact that we don't have an economic system that values natural resources completely So if you're an investor you really need either on your own or with great wealth Advisors from jp morgan chase morgan stanley goldman sacks and credit swiss To have advisors who can really talk to you about the full consequences of your investment And that would go a long way to getting that money there susan I guess I would then turn to I mean we've talked about the investor side and certainly I do think there are You know is capacity that's needed, but I actually think you know as I alluded to earlier the absorptive capacity I do think there's a lot of interested capital that wants to have an impact and so I think you know I I'm very heartened seeing what's happened here with socap Over the last few years and a lot more You know, uh, hopefully just as much hope and aspiration, but I think a lot more actual deals Being represented and so I think that's where my hope would be That there's just a lot more investable activities that have been structured And ready to be invested in To to get to that scale Yeah, I think I would echo this I think we need more product and to get there in part We're going to need clear regulatory rules and oversight that reduce the uncertainty in these markets And I think just to leave it on a glass half full note One interesting thing that we are seeing happening is that they tell us there is about to be a 40 something trillion dollar transition of wealth From the the baby boomers to their heirs Now this is and also other research tells us that when people inherit money, they change their management styles and they change their managers Interesting to note the children do it at about 80 something percent And and spouses women do it at 90 something percent. I don't know what that says But but the point is there is an incredible opportunity here In that transition of wealth to do it in a way that john was talking about of of aligning values with investments Because I think you know this whole this old world that By having an impact you are giving up on returns that is not always the case It can be the case, but it is not always the case There are cases where you can get both returns financial returns and impact returns and those are the ones we need to find Those are the ones we need to structure. That's the kind of product I think we need to put out there to capture a portion Whatever percentage is it one percent two percent of that 40 trillion dollar change of wealth so, uh, whatever we can do to to capture some of that I think is really the The challenge for the next 10 or so years, but a big round of applause for our panelists and thank you very much	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcvXSilwrfY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCxzvNYT-17mjYJMuDzGx7AA	National Centre for Indigenous Genomics Inaugural Oration		[ "ANU", "The ANU", "Education", "Australia", "Research", "Policy", "Academic", "University", "The Australian National University", "Higher education", "degree", "study", "university student" ]	2022-12-20T01:18:59	2024-02-05T06:39:23	4,801	Pc2Y0YwLPlI	Thank you Aunty Matilda for that very delightful welcome to country. She bought us on irreverent, I think, but it was a very gracious welcome to country. And I acknowledge and celebrate that we meet on the traditional lands of the Nambri-Nanamal people and pay respects to Elders past and present. The Vice-Chancellor, our superstar, Professor Brian Schmidt, and I welcome you to the Australian National University this evening. We are joined by many distinguished academics, students, friends, supporters, alumni, all part of the ANU family. We are Australia's first and only national university and tonight the East Coast has truly met the West Coast because here we have representatives from the National Centre of Indigenous Genomics and representatives from Telethon Kids Institute, a pediatric research institute established about 30 years ago in Perth, Western Australia. And the connections go even deeper because one of our speakers this evening, Professor Alex Brown, is a Professor of Indigenous Genomics at ANU and at Telethon Kids Institute and he happens to be based in Adelaide, so we're covering the continent. And then the wonderful Glenn Pearson is also the Chair of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics here and is a Senior Executive at Telethon Kids Institute in Strategic Leadership and Indigenous Health. And just to top it off, I'm wearing two hats this evening. I'm the Chancellor of ANU and I'm the Chair of Telethon Kids Institute. So we are less than two degrees of separation. As you know, ANU was established in 1946 in the spirit of post-war optimism as a resource-focused university that would help solve the challenges facing Australia at that time and we had a particular mission to bring credit to Australia, to advance the cause of learning and research and to take our rightful place among the great universities of the world. And over the last 76 years, ANU has met its mission through its people. For our students, our academics are among the best and brightest. They have become public sector and private sector leaders. We have Nobel laureates, prime ministers, business leaders, community leaders, people who are dedicated to changing the life of their times for the better. We've met our mission through our research, world-class research from physics through to philosophy. We have met our mission through our values, our culture, not just what we say, but what we do as an institution. And the exemplar of all of that is the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Let me give you a little bit of history. Back in the 1960s, an eminent ANU biologist, Professor Bob Kirk, collected blood samples from Indigenous communities across Australia for the purposes of research. And about 7,000 blood samples were collected. They were used for research to advance the cause of health and medical research for Indigenous populations. They were kept at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, but concerns were raised about the processes, about the way they were collected, issues of consent and the like. And so there was a lull for some years until 2013 when ANU put together a managed collection of the samples and set up the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, an ethical governance and custodianship for these very precious samples. Under the direction of our Vice-Chancellor, a national consultation process was then undertaken to find the donors of these blood samples, those that were living and the relatives of those who had deceased. And this process was to listen and learn and understand the wishes of those who had donated these blood samples. After a number of years, this very respectful and sensitive and comprehensive consultation has resulted in joint action plans with about four communities. We have many more to go, but about four communities have expressed a wish that those who are living are agreeing to have the samples remain for genomics testing and research. And the relatives of those who have deceased have agreed that the samples can be sequenced, but then cameras are not their home. The samples should be returned home and they will be repatriated. Now, I witnessed this process at first hand because about 20% of the samples were taken from the galley-winkled people of Elko Island near East Arnhem Land. And there was a very detailed and comprehensive consultation so that the samples of those living have remained here and the samples of those who have deceased have been returned home. And there was a traditional burial and burial poles were installed on Elko Island. Brian and I were privileged to attend a replica ceremony that was held here and the two burial poles you see outside in the courtyard are duplicates, replicates of those on Elko Island. And about a dozen galley-winkled people came down for the service. It was sensitive, it was moving, and I've never been more proud of this university to see what we had achieved. Now, we're going to hear a lot more from Alex Brown about this, but I also wanted to share with you that the connection with Elko Island continues because next year we have our first student from Elko Island attending ANU to study an arts degree majoring in politics and Indigenous health and Faith Stevens, and she will be starting here in February. So the connection with Elko Island continues. And this is under our Cambry program, a scholarship program that was set up in 2020 with a $50 million endowment. Then you will give half and then we will raise the other half, and it's to ensure that Indigenous students have an opportunity to study at this great university. And Brian and I have often spoken of our aspiration that this university be an institution of choice for First Nations students, academics and staff. And to that end, I'm delighted that PDU is here because Peter, of course, is our first Vice President of our First Nations Indigenous portfolio here at ANU. Now, to our very special guest, Pat Anderson, who is delivering the inaugural oration tonight for the National Centre of Indigenous Genomics. Now, just to let you in on a secret, Megan Davis was meant to give the oration, but she became ill. So like the trooper she is, Professor Pat Anderson said she would step in and deliver the address on justice, equity and engagement. Now, Pat is well known to most of you in this room. She is an internationally renowned advocate for Indigenous affairs. She has been, well, she is the chair of the Luwitsha Centre and she was the co-chair of the Reconciliation Council, which underpinned the statement, the Uluru Statement of the Heart. So she received an AO in 2014, quite rightly, for her services to Indigenous issues, including health, education and the protection of children. So, Pat, we are so grateful and delighted that you could be here. Please welcome Professor Pat Anderson. Just in case. Well, if you want more water, you can stand up and I'll get in your position. Thank you for that very generous welcome, Julia. You're a much respected politician. You've represented the country very beautifully, I think, overseas. So thank you for that and thank you for the... Well, it's not really for me. I'm only here tonight because of Megan, but I'm actually reading her papers that this isn't mine at all, but I just wanted to make some comments at first about this whole area of genomics. There's a long history to this, which you alluded to, because I'm approaching it not from a scientist's point of view, but from a social justice point of position. In the day, and I'm only talking about in the 1990s, Indigenous people globally have a terrible history with this whole area of science and the taking of blood and samples and what have you. It started, though, with our history looted with pain and hurt about what we call back then the Vampire Project. The taking of our blood for scientific exploration, often without our permission and certainly us not understanding what was actually happening. This was felt globally at the time and across all Indigenous groups. So we used to interact with each other in those days. We used to write letters and use the telephone. We would get warnings from Native Americans say to us, they have been here, watch out, they're coming your way. And this used to circulate at those days around the globe. So be careful that they might come into your community and to your families. However, we have certainly come a long way since then and it's evidence today. Professor Meagan Davis has invited to give this first inaugural aeration and I'm stepping in for her. Now I have to say, back in the day that would never have happened. You would not be inviting Meagan to come and speak here, nor would you be inviting somebody like me to come to any university because when I was growing up and living in Darwin, I'm Aliyara. I'm brought up on Larakia Country. I'm actually a close connection to William. Calcadoons where Aliyara and our countries are but. So it's really close to what we call our poison cousins. And I'm sure you'd explain how all that blood thing works because it is a scientific thing as well. So that's new as well. It's more and more a student coming from a long way away to the university here and I know she'll be welcome. So in the past though, if you'd invited us to come and talk, we would have responded with some insult or other at the time. We just wouldn't do it. When I was chair of the Larakia Institute, genomics appeared on the scene again and we were even then very suspicious of this and closely questioned everyone who was associated with the study. Alex would remember that. And he and two, to cut a very long and distressful story short, in the end we were forced to decide, in the health sector at least, that we perhaps need to come and join in and sit at the table, so to speak. However, it's still very suspicious. Mick Gooda, who was the previous chair to Glenn, had just left the Larakia Institute. He was our CEO at the board and we said to him, Mick, you go on to the ANU Genomics Committee and come back and tell us what they're really up to. So he was a spy. That's a true story, not that long ago, you know. But that's an indication really. There's a few PhDs here actually on this whole kind of area and this suspicion and anger. I think Mick stayed on that committee for some time as the chair and he was able in the end, he was completely sold by it. He was able to correct us and just say, that's really stupid. Anyhow, now though, it's my great pleasure to deliver to you on behalf of our much respected Professor Began Davis, respected across the nation, the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics and inaugural summer aeration. I'm not going to talk any more about the pain because Megan speaks about that much more eloquently than I do. This is Megan. The title of my story this evening is Life Story. And so I want to begin with somebody's very important life story. It was related to me by Azua Hermes, whom we all know as the Deputy Director of this fantastic National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Azua was responsible for developing our community engagement strategy. She shares the NCIG story in our Indigenous communities and then works with each community to decide what to do next. Can these samples be used or reused? Should we dispose of them respectfully? One day at one of these information sessions she talked with a man from Beagle Bay who had a very young age, had been taken from his family and sent to an entirely new community. Too young to be kept in the dorm trees he was given to another Aboriginal family. He was a member of the stolen generations of survivor. He was upset to have heard that when he was young blood samples had been taken from him and members of his mob, most likely without their genuine consent and now he was being asked to give consent retrospectively. Azua understood how this man felt having grown up in a community not too similar to Beagle Bay and with her own family in this collection she could relate to the uneasiness this person felt. That was globally at the time I have to say. She listened carefully, she listened respectfully, she listened to his story, his hurt and anger and his frustration. And after a lengthy discussion the man turned to her and summed up his view directly. This is him. I have had so much taken from me, my family, my law, alowari, my land, my language, my song, my dance and now you tell me you've taken my blood as well. What else is there left to take? I have to say I admire that man's forthrightness and insight. He was asking exactly the right question. Because of this life story and his questions captured perfectly the crucial moral issue at stake in the work this centre does. The crucial question it all comes down to who owns his life story? I can only answer in two words, he does. The fact that we can use science to tell the story of life is an incredible human achievement. The men and women who began this amazing scientific journey by unlocking the double helical structure of DNA. James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosyn Franklin, Morris Wilkins and others were brilliant scientists. Their discovery laid the basis for today's genomic research with its almost limitless possibilities for medical advances. But I wonder if back then in cold rainy foggy 1950s Cambridge and London it ever occurred to them that one day their discovery could stir up such an emotional response from man from the hot hazy Australian interior like the man was you spoke of. I wonder if they knew they were creating not just the story of life but the life stories of individuals of communities, of mobs. Providing precise numbers to this big personal question, who am I? Where did I come from? What might become of me? For many these questions are incredibly important and sometimes incredibly painful. Finding the answers and therefore someone's life story can be a source of pride and self-confidence and therefore of strength and survival for them. You may recall the great Bob Marley song Buffalo Soldier, it goes if you know your history then you would know where you're coming from then you won't have to ask me who the heck do I think I am. You will find similar sentiment in great Australian songs as well. They're about taking ownership of our story controlling our own DNA takes this a big step further. It allows us to take control of our genetic story and therefore gain control over the building blocks of our own lives. What's our life story? How do we take control of it? It's a central question and first nations survival. And when you possess very little sometimes that life story can be the only thing of value to have to have to hand down to your children grandchildren and community. After all, stripped of our land and its source of wealth what do we have except knowledge of who we are? For someone to come along to potentially take that life story from you draw it away in a vault here in Canberra perhaps then publish in some academic journal maybe make lots of money from it through some medical intervention without properly asking permission and then fail to use its information to benefit you and your mom. Well, it can seem like the last straw. It's not however if it hasn't happened before. Replace genomic researchers and DNA samples with anthropologists and recorded oral testimony. You can see history repeating. Go back slightly further and you can replace them with stolen human remains collected without permission taken to museums sometimes halfway around the world. This moral right of Indigenous people to retain control over our life stories by controlling what is done with their DNA with our DNA in some ways gives ultimate meaning to the slogan nothing about us without us because there's nothing that's more definitively about us than our DNA and the genomic sequence it's arranged into to give us life and make us who we are. If that isn't worth hanging on to what is history has failed to understand this and to get it right. When samples of DNA collected on large scales and communities like Galawinku in East Dunham land in the late 1960s in the midst of a typhoid outbreak consent was supposedly obtained but only in theory. In reality DNA was taken without active or informed consent. The Centre's team have been told that when the DNA sample collectors came to Yarraba in Far North Queensland they would sometimes intercept school children outside the school gate to distract DNA without their parents being told. It's a story with obvious and rather disturbing historical parallels and as a result of such practices people were shocked and upset and initially at least inclined to request their samples for those of their family members to be destroyed. Our job now is to stand this situation on its head make it something positive and give indigenous people around the world back their life stories this way of giving them full consent of their DNA so that the life stories it helps tell them can be a source of strength a source of health and recovery and future careers for their children something that benefits them and in turn something that benefits all Australians and all people of the world by helping advance medical science. The inclusion of the genetic information from First Nations peoples around the world will help fill the gaps in understanding and providing huge benefits that will help us and indeed everyone. In some ways it's a profound and very practical expression of our common humanity another deep symbol of reconciliation and justice. This is the broad moral basis behind the creation of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics back in 2013 chaired by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda. In practical tasks it's practical tasks is to bring to indigenous communities the health benefits made possible by genomics and precision medicine. These potential health benefits are enormous and the future of science will determine just how enormous they will be. Professor Alex Brown, who will follow me will be able to explain the science but the general picture is clear. Scientists are creating rich libraries of human genetic variation allowing us to gain greater understanding of the human genome and the molecular basis of the disease. It is being used to help treat cancers in prenatal screening and in treating rare diseases. Excuse me. With the creation of the Centre which oversees some 7000 Indigenous genetic samples in the NCIG collection we can ensure Indigenous Australians can also enjoy the benefits of this age of genomic medicine. Currently these genomic database spaces are biased towards people of European ancestry. Indigenous Australians like Indigenous peoples worldwide are not adequately represented. This has to be rectified. If it isn't Aboriginal Indigenous people around the world including here will be excluded from the benefits of modern genomic medicine. And that would further widen the already too far too wide inequalities in health and life expectancy turning tragedy into future into further injustice. With a sufficient knowledge base the scientific power of genomics can be used to better understand and combat diseases that are all too frequent among Australia's First Nations peoples. Diseases are sadly all too familiar with like kidney disease, rheumatic heart disease, diabetes, mental health problems. According to the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare today an Indigenous Australian is almost four times more likely than other Australians to have diabetes or pre-diabetes. And twice as early as chronic kidney disease. And almost one in five Indigenous Australians suffer from it. It's a terrible state especially in the Northern Territories. Above the 26th parallel in fact that's me, not Megan. And the risk increase quite dramatically if you live in a remote community where I might add epidemics and pandemics can also cause extreme damage. Now we already know that many health conditions afflict Indigenous Australians are driven by socio-economic inequality. Diet, unemployment, poor housing, the mental health byproducts of historical and contemporary injustice. And I might add, for me, racism. The answers don't just lie in medical science. But we also know that when those other factors are controlled some Indigenous people are genetically disposed to higher incidences to some chronic diseases. And these diseases are sometimes less responsive to treatments developed for non-Indigenous peoples. That's where some of your work I think in that space. We need to know why. We have a duty to find out the answers why. Genomics can help tell us it is going to take a big scientific effort. This is partly because the genetic variations between First Nations people from across Australia are so wide. Genetically speaking, variations between an Indigenous person from Cape York and another from the Kimberley are as wide as they are between North West Europe and Southeast Asia. We keep telling everyone that we're a collection of nations. And I guess you could say, you say that by showing those these major variations among us, genomic research proves it. To put it bluntly, this goal of including all Australians in the benefits of modern precision medicine are made possible by genomics isn't going to be easy. But it is doable if we try. Success requires providing people with strong reassurances that their genetic material will be overseen by Indigenous people, treated with respect and only ever used with their consent for purposes they also consent to. We've found to date that when we provide these reassurances to people and also explain the health benefits to them and their communities of genomic research, people are willing to participate. Hence, the way the Centre has been structured through legislation with an Indigenous majority on the Board of Governance, which is ultimate oversight of all Indigenous DNA samples and the uses to which it can be put. No Indigenous genetic material can be used without the Board's clear approval. And the Board is able to determine the Centre's research priorities advised naturally by some of Australia's top experts. This is complemented by a world-class community consultation protocol that allows consultation in ways that meet Indigenous community needs and uses Aboriginal ways of decision-making. By doing these things, we have established an unbreakable link between people and their genetic information. By making Indigenous people true partners with the Centre in this way, the basis has been established for success. Like I said, it hasn't been easy to do this, but fewer scientific endeavours in modern-day Australia are worthy of our collective efforts. As we can see by the range of people here this evening, there's a lot of goodwill in this project and for the Centre. NCIG has received broad support with its sizable investment of money and people and priority from the ANU, as well as our nation's most important scientific and medical research agencies. These include the National Health and Medical Research Council, Bioplatforms Australia, the National Computational Infrastructure, the Australian National Data Service, and the Australian Research Data Commons. We are hoping for broad philanthropic support, too, as we grow. As you can see from the list of organisations supporting us, this great cause is backed by some of our most highly trained people from across many areas of science, not just medicine. I want to acknowledge their support, especially the ANU. I'm delighted to see our noble Laurence, Professor Brian Schmidt here, representing his university, when such great people are behind you. You know your cause is a strong one. And more support will be needed to provide the scale that the venture will require. The Centre is already beginning to expand from its initial pilot project. We're in the process of growing from four to 17 people. Perhaps most exciting, we are adding four young Indigenous PhD researchers two in science and other two in the social sciences, as well as setting up a master's programme in Indigenous genomics. That's a long way we've come, isn't it? In doing this, we're not only creating a fantastic career path for young Indigenous people, we're training the next generation to take control not only of the decision around Indigenous genomics, but to understand the science and to apply it. In all these ways, getting First Nations people more control over their lives, tackling chronic disease, creating scientific careers for highly talented young Indigenous people, we are ensuring that Indigenous life stories isn't just a past life story, but a future life story. A story maybe of diseases confronted and beaten, and of life expectancy rising, but it will only happen if we make it happen. And if we listen to Indigenous Australians and work with them to determine how their data is collected, where and how it is stored, and the ends to which it is used. Australia is famous for its medical science. Now we can be recognised for leading the way in making the science and medical applications of genomics work for Indigenous people here and across the world. Australia is in the middle of a historic debate about creating a constitutional voice for First Australians. I'd like to think that we are doing what we are doing here at the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, a demonstration as demonstrating in a microcosm. Literally, a microcosm, the very real practical benefits that are made possible when you respect people, give them a voice and listen to them. We've shown this approach can work. It's another page in the great life story of our country which we will share. Thank you. So thank you, Pat. That was wonderful. And thank you also for channeling Megan, as you did very well. I also want to thank Aunty Matilda for her irreverent welcome, as she always does. And I did, just to be clear, did not Pat her. I gave her a hug just in case anyone was wondering. So tonight in the conversation, I think we've shown a spotlight on, I think, a history of inequality of how First Nations people across not just Australia but the world have not had an equal go at it within health and medical research. But I think we can see, as indicated, a change. And a change that when I started, I talked very much around respect. The first thing that students hear from me when they come to A&U at commencement, I said, life's complicated rules, but if you start with respect to your fellow human and everything you do, you probably won't get anything wrong. If you just work that one single principle, everything else tends to work itself through respect. It is no wonder that the First Nations people of Australia don't trust medicine and health of blood samples taken without their permission. And there's an old Dutch saying, which is that trust comes in on foot and goes out on horseback. That is, it's very, very difficult to build up trust. It's slow, but by continually demonstrating respect, that is how we'll build up trust. And when we go through and we see the opportunity around health and genomics to empower Indigenous communities to have better health, it has to empower them. It has to be their choice and their agency. And it is a compass on us all in our way of helping bring reconciliation is to be able to work in a trustworthy way so that those benefits can flow, but we cannot expect them to flow without that trust. And so I think meaghan's oration had that theme of respect throughout it. And what I have been, if I can be honest, surprised is how fast trust has come back despite hundreds of years not deserving of trust. And yet in a very short period of time, five to 10 years at this institution, we have seen trust flowing back. It needs to be earned every day. It will never be taken for granted, but it is at the core of everything that we do. And Pat, as you have presented, social justice, equity, empowerment ultimately lies at the heart of harnessing power of genomics in ways that matter to First Nations people. And that trust that I've talked about can help us on all of these fronts. And as Julie talked about, it also provides the trust for people to come and study here for the first time from Alcoa Island. And you can see how everything starts interacting. Julie said is that we are ultimately here to listen. And I think universities need to, in this era, do less talking and more listening. And I always tell my young students that sometimes you can win an argument just by asking questions. And maybe you should think about that because it's actually quite powerful. So tonight we have one final speaker. And I have immense pleasure in introducing the next speaker. But before I do this, I want to thank Professor Graham Mann, who has really stewarded INSIG since his time starting here at John Curtin School of Medical Research. And I should say I literally have done nothing except for to say, let me listen and let me help you tell me what you need and want to do. And I think Graham has done very much the same thing. And so what we're seeing here is what happens when you actually sit back and empower people and let them have the agency to do what they want. And so that's the thing that I'm most proud of. But Graham has in his time at John Curtin School of Medical Research really embraced that philosophy. And I do appreciate that it's a tireless job being the head of John Curtin School of Medical Research. It requires a huge amount of dedication. And I do look forward to your reappointment on the NCIG Board as one of our two ANU represented members. Let's thank Graham. I also want to especially thank Azur. Azur Hermes has become an iconic part of this university since she first arrived. And she, I just cannot describe the level of leadership that she shows here. And she's someone I genuinely look up to. And when I come over and occasionally get a coffee over here, I often see her here and sneak a little conversation and find out what's going on. And so Azur, you have just been a bedrock for NCIG. And so thank you very much as well. And finally, it is my pleasure to introduce Professor Alex Brown, who today was formally announced as the incoming director of the ANU National Center for Indigenous Genomics. This is a big deal. We had no problem believing in Alex, but Alex has believed in us. And together, mainly Alex, he has secured more than $5 million in research funding for Indigenous Genomics. And this is a quantum leap forward. And it certainly shows that the long-term investment that goes back to even the previous vice chancellor in NCIG has been the pathbreaking way that we want it to be. And can I say has had support across the Australian research sector. And so I do thank everyone for playing Team Australian on this. It is a wonderful opportunity for NCIG to have the impactful research that we know it's up. And this is the beginning. And you're going to see that over the next 20 years that you can literally have profound changes across the Australian landscape by what's coming. Alex is an Aboriginal medical doctor and researcher. He grew up south coast of New South Wales and he attained his master's in public health in Israel before returning to Australia to manage the local center for disease control in Alice Springs. In 2007, he set up the research program in Central Australia with Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute with a focus on heart disease and diabetes in Aboriginal people. During this time, Alex commenced and completed his PhD on depression and heart disease in Aboriginal men. Over the last 20 years, Alex has established an extensive and unique research program focused on chronic disease and vulnerable communities with a particular focus on outlining and overcoming health disparities. He's been involved in policy since he commenced as a doctor and he's been heavily involved in engaging government and helping set the agenda in Aboriginal cardiovascular disease management and control and chronic disease policy more broadly. He sits on a range of national committees and co-chairs the Indigenous Research Health Fund. And so tonight, Alex will be speaking about how and why an Indigenous Australian reference genome resource will be the foundation of genomics research, clinical genomics and precision medicine in Indigenous communities. Now INSIG is driving the development of Australia's National Indigenous Genomics Data Resource and as Megan has outlined via Pat, this development is a unique Indigenous governance program that we hope is exportable in all sorts of ways, but it's a great start here because it's so challenging. And it's a unique research model placing First Nations Australians in charge of the genomic data and it's used just as it should be. So we're very proud of that work and colleagues across campus are, you know, thinking about how we can continue to undertake work in all sorts of areas to advance the health and understanding of First Nations people with that respect at the center of everything we do. So join me in welcoming Professor Alex Brown to the stage to tell us about the future. Well, thank you very much for a wonderful introduction, a very kind introduction. I'm very mindful of paying my respects and thanking Aunty Matilda for inviting us all onto country. I'd also like to say that my country is just down the road about an hour away towards the coast and so this is about as close as I get to being on in my space, but I'm very grateful to be here. I'm also very, very honoured and grateful for some elders in the room who have helped guide Aboriginal affairs, Aboriginal medicine, Aboriginal research for the last 30 years. Aunty Pat, it's wonderful to see you here. Tom Karma, Ian Anderson, PDU and many others. People often say that we stand on the shoulders of giants. I've never really been comfortable with the thought of putting my hulking frame on anyone's shoulders. I'd much rather reflect that we're held in the embrace of our elders. In Central Australia, this is called Kanyanampah, to have, to hold, to care the act of embracing and looking after. And I've certainly felt that, so thank you for the reflection of that. Look, what I thought I'd do is take you through really what the aspiration and ambition for the work that we can do together as the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics and the increasingly broad ripple effect of impact we're having on bringing others to that table to make a difference for the future of our children and their children's children. Where did I start in my journey in Aboriginal health research as a very old slide? Anyone who's seen me, give a talk, heard me, give a talk will be sick to death of seeing this slide. I'm sick to death of it. The reality is I'm sick to death of all the sickness and death. This really speaks to the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. And really, this life expectancy gap, there's new ways of measuring it now. It probably is a poor reflection of the true differentials that exist for our communities. But the life expectancy differential in around 10 years, probably more. And about 80% of that differential is accounted for by chronic diseases, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and increasingly cancer. These are the areas of work that I've spent the last 20 years on trying to make sense of and trying to overcome. And where we began our journey in being involved in genomics research was really looking at a community-identified priority for the work. This was really to understand why our communities experienced diabetes at such high rates. You can see some data here on this slide. We see extremely high rates of diabetes in our communities at every age. We see marked inequalities in the development of complications as a result of diabetes and other associated conditions like heart disease. We see here the onset of disease is very early, usually 20 to 30 years earlier than what we see in non-Indigenous Australians. We see a very aggressive phenotype, a very aggressive development of complications from diabetes like kidney disease, like heart disease. And we see these intergenerational cycles of transmission of type 2 diabetes from mother with diabetes to child. And increasingly data is stating to show that these cycles are set up not just from mother to child, but mother to child to grandchild. As a consequence, the feeling was and the conversations we had over three years was that genomics offered us something to explore, to try and explain the patterns of disease and the inequality that we see. Now, what is this story about precision medicine we hear? Well, precision medicine is the application of genomic science to actually make sure we're delivering what is on offer. It involves just like any sort of blood test, but on a more complicated scale, the ability to take samples from patients who may or may not have disease, to make sense of those results and identify a range of markers which may be associated with and can be used to predict or identify that a patient is suffering from that particular condition. The breadth and depth of this data with genomics is on another order of magnitude to a blood test of somebody's hemoglobin, some hemoglobin A1C, but the principle is quite similar. Now, how it's used mostly at this stage is the identification of the right diagnosis for the right patient. Similarly, precision medicine can speak to the identification of the right therapy for a particular phenotype or clinical characteristic or disease that somebody may be suffering, or it can be used to target the right treatment to the right patient. But we think it's got a lot further to go. We're going to make a difference on inequalities. We actually have to make sure that we're developing precision prevention agendas. What's the right prevention for the right patient, given their circumstance, given their clinical scenario, given their environment, given their family, that will prevent the development of disease in the future. By the time they get to my database of heart disease and diabetes, it's too late. How do we prevent it much further up the chain? Similarly, how can we know how people will progress or not progress with their disease over time? How do we hold it steady if we've missed the boat and somebody develops disease? So we think there are applications for precision medicine. We just have to bend it to our will. Now, there's lots of conversations and I introduced you earlier yesterday to the concept of multi-omics. You can just add omics onto the end of a word and you've got a new scientific investigation. The other way to think of it is our ability to look at all of the layers of information housed within the body from the actions of your cells and your genes to tell your body how it functions, what it does, what it looks like, and how it develops or is resistant to disease over time. And we now are building the capabilities to actually look not just at the story of genetics but the story of layers underneath that. The epigenetics, the transcriptomics or the signals sent from your DNA to the rest of your body to how it should function and do its things, the proteins it makes, the metabolites that happen as a response to those proteins. We can look at all of these layers and try to make sense of disease, but we're not there yet. We think there's an opportunity to get there in the next five years. Now you may ask why do Indigenous peoples not really like to talk much about genomics. I think Pat and Megan discuss that very clearly. The truth is in living memory, my ancestors remember having their heads measured because they were somehow subhuman. They weren't really full as part of humanity. There was something fundamentally wrong about us as Indigenous people. In fact, science has not been our friend. It's been used as a cover for the lie that was Terranaliens, but we weren't human enough to worry about the rules and how you should treat people of all types with respect and dignity. So you can forgive Indigenous people for thinking what the hell are you guys up to? And this is reflected in some ways in the involvement of Indigenous people in genomics databases. Well, the real reason the rates of inclusion are so low is because the scientists haven't bothered to ask us so much. But similarly, Indigenous people are wary of being involved in genomics research and Pat touched on some of those realities a little while ago. The truth is we need to do better. We are underrepresented in all of the efforts across the globe in genomics. But the call for ensuring that Indigenous people are involved in all of this isn't just about inclusion in your database. That's not going to deliver equity. We actually have to make sure that Indigenous people are in control of their own destiny in genomics as in any field of science and research and policy and civil society. Genomics is a reflection of how we should treat the rights and aspirations and needs of all peoples, including Indigenous people. We've got a long way to go to make sure that genomics not only is equitable but delivers us equity for our people. And what we've learnt in our work, this is work in South Australia focusing on the genomics of diabetes and complications is what a lot of jobs to do to do this the right way. There's a lot of work spent on consultation. The work that you have to do has to be focused on the priorities identified by communities. It has to be controlled by Indigenous people and their interests from the very start. You have to adhere to a range of cultural protocols, many of which are different in every community you're working in. Fundamentally, you have to be accountable. Somebody has to take responsibility, not just when things go well, but especially when things go poorly and they will. We have to be focused on the benefit that the work that we do delivers. It has to be tangible. It has to be meaningful. And do you know what? Benefit has to be defined by the community you work with, not your own esoteric interests as a researcher who can come up with 10,000 ways to write a grant, to tell everyone how wonderful you are and how awesome your science is. It's not enough. Communities define what benefit means. You know what? You should just ask them. You'd be surprised. Similarly, we have obligations of guardianship, of custodianship, and making sure that every gift given to us in a research context is treated with respect it deserves and our lessons are shared and that favour richened. And we're obsessed about doing this for DNA. And what we found out was every story, every narrative, every survey, every dot point on a piece of paper that you feel in as part of research is a gift that should be treated with respect and dignity it is given with. We should give thanks. Everything matters. It's not just the DNA. And we have to rethink what we think we offer Indigenous people in terms of genomics. If we're going to deliver equity in genomics, not just in equity in access, but equity in outcomes, we have to turn our heads upside down and think about what Indigenous people offers us in terms of the conduct and our interpretation of genomics. Indigenous people have a lot to offer. Surviving for 65,000 years in this continent and not dying is a pretty good effort. Not only is that, you'd have to have a pretty good sense of what it takes to maintain small populations across generation after generation after generation through change, through adversity, and through even in the later years, the significant impacts of colonisation. And what is the conversation we need to be having about why we should be doing genomics in Indigenous communities? Well, there's lots of reasons we can come up with Indigenous communities want to talk about, but sometimes they're a little different. Communities want to use the power of genomics to tell their story, where they came from, what their stories already say, what's been held in law or trooper for 60,000 years, unchanging, unbending, known and transmitted and danced and sung across generation after generation. They want to build the terms of engagement on their terms. This is fundamental to building trust. They want to be able to utilise genomics to get a clear answer, particularly for their kids who are struggling with a diagnosis when they may be suffering from rare diseases. But we can also use it to better predict disease, to better identify the risk of people having trouble in the future so we can stop it in its tracks. We'll have to be able to build a workforce. This is a benefit in and of itself. And not just the workforce that knows what genomics is, a workforce of Indigenous people that leads the future, according to our aspirations for genomics into the future. We need to build the right data systems. We need to build equitable policy. It should improve access to better healthcare delivery, but ultimately our KPI is improving health outcomes and reducing inequality. That's an enormous task ahead, and one that we've all agreed should be our shining guiding principle. So what have we built? We've built a team in Adelaide to support the efforts here of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics in partnership to focus not just on genome biology, but to build a national ecosystem for driving benefit and change from genomics directly according to the needs of Indigenous Australians. Developing a system, focusing on understanding complex diseases like heart disease, like diabetes, and like cancer, and working on large-scale cohorts that we've established over the last seven or eight years to truly get to the heart of why our communities experience inequalities like no one else in this nation. We have a particular interest in precision health. How do we actually take genomics to make a difference to the delivery and targeting of healthcare to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across this country, and significant interest in healthy people and healthy place across time, and how genomics can be utilized to understand our place in our symbiotic relationship with country across time. As part of this national consortia, we've brought together a lot of people who want to work together, not just with us as partners, but with Indigenous communities the country over. Based across all states and jurisdictions, we've been able to bring together a coalition of people truly committed to making a difference. Our focused work will be on telling the story of Indigenous people with the assistance of genomics. What is our story? Where have we come from? What does that mean? Clearly, to be able to do this, we have to invest in the development of various data sciences. We have an opportunity to understand genetic variation led by the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics here around what makes us special and unique, but beyond what we already know, it makes us special and unique. Our interest in complex disease, our willingness to build capacity, and the importance of collaboration across research, but also health systems and community architectures. National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, as has already been touched on, has a strict guiding set of principles about caring for a very unique collection, collected some time ago, but has the opportunity, according to communities and individuals, to be used for good in the future on their terms as they define. We can develop best possible practice in this area as an opportunity to learn and teach and engage with others from right across the globe. We've got a role to care for this collection, to engage deeply with communities and ensure that Indigenous people control the agenda from top to bottom. This is a demonstration of the work that Azira and her team have to go through. It's monumental. You cannot really get to understand how much time goes into working with communities to even get to a point where a single sample could be sequenced. Many years, many conversations, lots of yarns, lots of tears, lots of drama, lots of accountability, lots of cups of tea. Thanks Azira. There's an opportunity here, work led out of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics to utilise advanced technological approaches to genome sequencing to develop reference genomes which will be the template against which we can make sense of the genomic investigation of disease that we need to do with our communities across time. It may be that one reference genome won't work, I'll leave that to the smart bioinformaticians to tell me as we develop that over time. As was touched on, from a genomics perspective, work led here from the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics has already identified how unique and rare we are. 22% of the variants seen in the initial scan of genomes from the Indigenous samples held within NCIG are unique to this continent and Indigenous people seeing nowhere else in the globe that we know of. But even within that, there is variation across communities. We talk about heterogeneity all the time, we are different. That uniqueness across communities is going to be as important and powerful as knowing that we're different and similar to other populations around the globe. This will be the unique contribution that genomics can make from Indigenous peoples consent to unlock our understanding of disease and health more broadly. Our Indigenous Genomics agenda has been supported through the MRFF, the Medical Research Future Fund to set up this national network. Its idea is to build Indigenous leadership and empowerment in genomics the country-wide. Not just in doing stuff, but guiding stuff and engaging with communities so that they are the authors of their own destiny to advance scientific approaches to health and disease. We will build it. We will enhance communities' ownership and control of the work that we do. We will identify and communicate key matters of policy in genomics for our communities. We will develop and model best practice, build the workforce of the future of Indigenous people leading their own charge in genomics. And we will develop a very clear pathway of benefit defined by communities about how genomics can be used for them. How this looks is a whole raft of national nodes around the country. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria here in the ACT through National Centre for Indigenous Genomics here at ANU and Rare Disease flagship led by Gareth Bainham and colleagues in WA. South Australia will provide a coordination node basically because everyone deep down wants people to tell them what to do. Well, we'll just do that. Because you know this. Clearly our role is to focus on Indigenous governance, policy of matters that matters, the data systems that are required and capability development. And hopefully each of these flagships will focus on key user cases of genomics that should deliver benefits to our communities if done the right way. We need to define what's required to deliver that benefit and who sets the agenda about what really matters. Where are we heading? We think the next five years will be an extremely important extension of the foundations that NCIC has already laid out for us. We think we can set out a national genomics ecosystem. We think within that timeframe we need to integrate and make sense of complex multi-omics in the work that we're doing in South Australia. And we have a particular interest in understanding or at least getting strong signals about how disease has developed over time in human populations. Beyond that we need to understand and respond and collect information that represents the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across this country to use this as a base for a precision medicine platform so we can deploy it at scale and make a difference in people's lives. And we want to know what it's going to take to deploy genomics and all of its pieces into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary care so that delivery of benefit is direct. We ask the question what does equity in genomics look like because that's fundamentally what our agenda is here. We have to have the right principles. We have to invest in the right foundations. We need to make sure that we're not just doing genomics that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to but the will of genomics is bent to reducing inequality particularly from a health perspective. And we need to make sure that we deploy and implement what we learn at scale and evaluate its impact on the health and wellbeing of our communities. That is our agenda moving forward. So why do we need to do anything specific in Indigenous communities in genomics where unique we are. Our knowledge is sacred, it's contextual it's deeply rooted in country and so is our DNA and it needs to be managed and cared for and controlled by Indigenous peoples and their interests in the first instance. Science has failed us and we need to redress that imbalance. We know as Indigenous people what our responsibilities are for generations to come. Fundamentally if not done well genomics can serve to widen the inequalities we already see so our agenda has to be about delivering meaningful benefit to communities as defined by them. This is our story moving forward we can't do it alone we'd love to have your help we look forward to working with you into the future. Thank you. Russell Gruen I'm the Dean of the College of Health and Medicine and that has been a true privilege to have that oration thank you very much Alex and thank you Aunty Pat for your oration too. I think it's one of the most amazing things about this institution is the ability to be surrounded by people who are leaders in the science leaders of the community leaders in humanity and I'd pay tribute to Alex, to Pat and to the other Indigenous leaders here in the room who have been really paving the way and make this a very special organisation and an organisation I'm really proud to be part of and feel very privileged to be able to stand amongst you and to learn from you and to continue to learn from you going forward. I'd really like to have a little bit of time for some questions and answers so do you want Aunty Pat to come forward? Aunty Pat would you be able to come back to this chair? Alex got to say that was terrific thank you I'm sure there are lots of interesting questions but please feel free to ask Aunty Pat or Professor Alex Brown a question. I'm going to start Aunty Pat we've talked about the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being involved in the research and enterprise itself what can we learn as non-Indigenous people about that process and how can we foster good practices in organisations that we're working in? I don't want to sound trite but I think this university is making a real effort these are hard lessons learned, they don't come easy and we are quite difficult to deal with and rightly so so the things that you're doing here I think it's one of the better universities in terms of encouraging I always feel comfortable here I've never been a student here but I've come here on many occasions and I always feel comfortable here and that's a measure for me that it's doing okay it doesn't sound very scientific but that's how it is and it's very difficult to deal with us lessons are hard learned but we're getting there and I remember Ian Anderson when he was a student and Alex I remember when you first started out so we have come a long way but it's hard but I think that's the best I can do it does sound a bit trite because I'm here but nevertheless I think some of the history of the medical profession confronting us has been a difficult one I grew up in Darwin and my mother was a stolen generation and the superintendent of native welfare of Carl and Compound was in fact a doctor and doctors featured throughout history having those sorts of controlling authority kinds of figures so it's been a long hard road to come to him we're sitting here beside people like Alex and Ian in particular so it's been a long like everything in this country is hard everything's hard maybe something to do with the landscape itself it's a very difficult landscape it's a hard country to live in and I think it makes for tough people with fairly tough ideas we've had to be tough to survive despite everything that's done to us we can all sit here like we are this evening so many people here people who I respect and admire Josie Douglas from Alice Springs from all over Australia actually here tonight and just as an aside when I was growing up coming to a place like this was not possible we weren't welcome in fact at universities when I was growing up in Darwin the only job that was available to me was to be a cleaner I'm not suggesting that but it was the only option so that was the future for me to be a cleaner and everybody before me and after us we used to clean at the hospital once again coming into contact with the medical profession but also labour forced labour for the public service the families in fact it was public policy of the day and it was my mother to read and write that's in one generation so tough country eh we've got an opportunity though we have an opportunity to change all it's just changing but with the coming referendum I'll ask that you all try to inform yourself make an informed decision read about it so as you were able for those of us over 18 once in a lifetime opportunity so I'm going to be quiet now in Brussels Thank you very much for both of the presentations they were just sort of challenging and inspirational in turn I guess a couple of themes that really struck me Pat when you were speaking to sort of the communication across continents warning of interventions of scientists and now the need to sort of galvanise efforts and activities across different First Nations communities internationally in the area of genomics so I'd be interested in reflections on that point what's happening internationally in collaborative efforts in First Nations genomics and I guess the other theme was that beautiful timeline of Azure's engagement with community and the pace we know that genomics is taking and the challenge then to ensure that Indigenous principles and consultation and activity is considered in that global context the global alliance for genomics of health etc how do we ensure that activities that are already underway heed the message of First Nations genomics That's your responsibility that's what you have to do I was looking at Alex actually you know all the scientists in the room that's your responsibility not mine I'm like going off the stage you're just walking onto it so hopefully through our experience and the experiences that you've had you will be much more mindful and more aware and alert to things that are wrong and you'll decide what's wrong and what's right OK that's the shortest Q&A that we're going to have forever because we have one more question Janine hold on one more question I was just going thank you both for really beautiful presentations the Alex can you expand on the contextual because I think it's a really important point Thank you for that that wasn't a Dorothy Dix either by the way I mentioned to you Julie add ohm or ohmix onto word becomes a new scientific paradigm Gareth has asked me about the contextual ohm what this refers to is really the work that people like Ray Lovett in the room, Lisa Wop in the room would understand about getting a better handle on the context in which the genomics operates the environment the psychosocial stresses the behaviours and measuring that accurately so that when a bunch of scientists sitting in a dark room with a whole bunch of high performance computing spit out some genomic signals they can make sense of it because we've done the work as indigenous people to define what we what matters most to us in terms of understanding exposure, stress colonisation, racism environmental characteristics that will influence how our body functions and that we can make sense of what the results are from science with who we are as indigenous peoples first that's what I mean by the contextual ohm that's the work that we have to do as a nation so that we can compare the data in the future and know that it tells the story of indigenous peoples in the first instance from our voices Terrific, thank you I'm sure Aunty Patton, Professor Brown would be happy to answer more questions afterwards for example, seeing the yep, okay to eugenine Mahon from the Thank you Russell and look it's come to that part of the evening where it's only two minutes and me standing between you and some networking getting up and moving and importantly some food so could I please start by acknowledging that we are on the lands of the Ngunnawa and Nagambi people and also pay my respects to and love to elders past present and of course future emerging generations so good evening everyone my name is Janine Muhammad I'm a proud Ngunnawa woman from South Australia little place called Point Pierce Mission and I'm honoured to have been appointed only one week ago so I wasn't expecting this gig tonight the Deputy Chair of NSIG I'm also the CEO of the Lowetshire Institute which is Australia's only national Aboriginal community controlled health research institute so I'm doubly honoured to be able to close tonight's proceedings and to thank our Aunty Pat Anderson for an amazing speech tonight delivered on behalf of Professor Meagan Davis can I have a round of applause as most of you would know and I think you've heard it tonight Aunty Pat was the chair of the Lowetshire Institute for nearly 20 years and now continues to guide our work as our co-patron that 20-year journey in health and research has involved work that reflects many of the issues that Meagan has powerfully raised about genomics as has been said the Lowetshire Institute was founded by community leaders because our peoples had largely been locked out of the research process non-indigenous people did research on and about us not by us and for us so this is groundbreaking work tonight Meagan too has said that there's transformation ahead and this comes through the work of NSIC Meagan spelt out clearly our people have previously felt that they've not been able to do the work that needs to be done but indigenous lead and strengths based as NSIC is has seen a huge and important shift today in our board meeting we were quite clear and touched on the topic that we know that we will only ever travel at the speed of trust so I thank Pat and Meagan very much for the powerful words here tonight and of course Professor Alex Brown for his leadership, his vision and his wisdom and the talented William Barton for another amazing performance and my many thanks on behalf of the NSIC Board also goes to Professor Russell Grohan for that short but insightful Q&A and of course to the honourable Julie Bishop and Professor Brian Smith and of course tonight would not be possible without our amazing NSIC team and the events team here tonight can we have a round of applause that my friends marks the end of the formal proceedings for this summer oration I wish everyone on behalf of the board happy holidays, safe travels home tonight and we look forward to working with you all next year and on a personal night I look forward to a positive outcome also being led by the work of Pat Anderson and Meagan with the referendum that is pending and a formal voice for our peoples in Australia's Constitution now an ending I invite you to join the board members and teams for some drinks in the foyer good evening everyone	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2Y0YwLPlI", "license": "Creative 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UCMCs6gXP7dsoL4TEG6oZ2DQ	22 Ally Anderson	An exploration of the literature on the care of women with a previous caesarean section (CS): How can we improve their experiences? A chance to discuss and reflect Facilitator: Jackson Ngaruiya Muchiri The caesarean section (CS) rate is rising internationally and is associated with increasing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC) is a safe and satisfying option for many women in subsequent pregnancies, however, VBAC rates remain low in many countries. Midwife-led models of care have been shown to improve intended and actual VBAC rates and offer an alternative to obstetric-led care. Birth after caesarean section is not discussed in detail during midwifery training. This session will explore the literature available on the options and care available for women who have had a previous CS and will allow students to discuss their own experiences of caring for women with a previous CS and consider how this care could be improved.	[ "VIDM22", "midwifery", "VBAC", "evidence based practise", "midwife led care", "Caesarean section", "C-section", "student midwife" ]	2022-05-09T06:31:14	2024-04-23T03:30:56	2,252	PCZFd2O4FW4	At this juncture, I'm going to introduce our speaker for today. Ali Anderson is a qualified midwife at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK. She is a practice development midwife and is the VBAC specialist midwife. Ali was a secondary science teacher for 13 years before embarking on a change of career to midway free. Ali commenced on an MSc in Global Maternity Health at City University of London in 2021. Due to Ali's previous law, she is passionate about midway free education for students, preceptor midwifes and qualified midwifes for their continued professional development. Ali and Jay is being on the VIDM committee to put together this amazing conference. Ali, you have the presentation now. Thank you, Jackson. My camera keeps flitting on and off, so I'm just going to leave it off and then the screen is a little bit bigger and then towards the end, when we're having a discussion, I can try and turn it back on again. So this session is really an exploration of the literature on the care of women with the previous Caesarean out how we can improve their experiences in subsequent pregnancies and deliveries. And hopefully there'll be chances throughout the session to discuss and reflect. I really would like as much interaction as possible. So feel free to add things in the chat box as we go along and I can try and include them. But there's options for you to get involved as well. So we're just going to start, first of all, with a little question here. So I'm just and I want you to think about just from the latest available data, which was from the Trinital in 2021 and it was on the Caesarean section rates in 2018. And just have a think about what you might know as the highest country Caesarean section rate was at 56.7, 42.8, 37.6 or 23.9. So quite varied answers there to give anybody a few more minutes to answer. So interestingly, all of the people that answered thought it might be 56.7 percent. It's actually answered B, 42.8 percent. And that was the Latin America and the Caribbean. And there was quite a disparity in the percentage of Caesarean section rates in that report by Bertrand et al. in 2021, as you can see from this graph here. So it's known that this nationally across high, middle and low income countries. Despite this rising rate decreases in maternal and perinatal mortality are not seen when more than 10 percent of births in the population are by Caesarean section. Out of 94.5 percent of live births across the world in this data analysis, 21.1 percent on average gave birth by Caesarean section with averages ranging from as high as we've seen there of 42.8 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean to three to five percent in places like sub-Saharan Africa. This is a long way from the World Health Organization's recommendation of a 10 to 15 percent Caesarean section rate in 1985. Repeat Caesarean section following a previous Caesarean section is the most common reason for this rising rate according to Lundgren et al. in 2016. So this disparity that you can see from that graph in Caesarean section use across the world was described as a too little too late and too much too soon phenomena by the Lancet series conducted by Miller et al. in 2016. So in 2010 an estimated 3.5 to 5.7 million unnecessary Caesarean sections were completed in high to middle income countries compared to one to three and a half million Caesarean sections that were needed but not performed in low income countries. Too much too soon or overuse of Caesarean section for non-medical indications like repeat Caesarean section has been associated with an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and their babies as well as becoming a financial burden on health systems and creating a barrier to universal health coverage. So a few of you are commenting there on hospitals that you know so Lunders visited a hospital where their Caesarean section rate was over 80% and in Brazil we've got private hospitals with 92 to 93% Caesarean section rate and I'm going to come on to Brazil a little voice and then Karen from South Africa said that they've got a 78% Caesarean section rate. So obviously that data that I've just shared there was the most recent that's been publicized from 2018 so I've got no doubt that Caesarean section rates are most likely to have changed since then and by the looks of it it's probably an increase. OK, so I've just got another little poll for you to think about here. So for this one I want you to think about the country that you live in and I want you to think whether Caesarean section is used too much even when they're not needed. Just a few more seconds for those still filling in that poll. OK, thank you for taking part in that one. So that's a really interesting percentage, the 88% of you think that Caesarean section is used too much even when they're not needed and only one of you think that it isn't. So that just shows actually that it's becoming more prevalent and there's lots of reasons for that and some of them might come up in this discussion. So let's have a look at Caesarean section and maternal morbidity. So the increasing maternal morbidity related to rising Caesarean section rates has been widely studied. It's been linked to an increased blood loss, abdominal organ injury, risk of anesthesia complications, venous thromboembolism, a need for hysterectomy, an increased risk of infection, post-operative pain and longer hospital stays which all add to the financial burden of these increasing Caesarean rates as well as the woman's length of recovery often being a lot longer. And in subsequent pregnancies, the woman can also be affected with an increased risk of uterine rupture, placenta accreta or previa, ectopic pregnancy and infertility according to the World Health Organization in 2018. And as well as maternal morbidity, there's a link between Caesarean section rate and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Babies born by Caesarean section are at higher risk of respiratory distress syndrome, an increased likelihood of admission to neonatal intensive care units, persistent pulmonary hypertension, stillbirth, 1.7 to 1.9 higher risk of neonatal mortality and an increased long-term risk of asthma, type 1 diabetes and obesity in childhood. And I know in the clinic that I run at the hospital I work in, where women are coming to their first booking appointment, having had a previous Caesarean section, they're often not aware of these risks. And then when I tell them that there's going to be some longer term effects of being born by Caesarean section, they've often never heard of those links to asthma, diabetes and obesity in childhood. So it's really important to give that full picture, so they're making that really truly informed decision. So just another little quiz just for some thought here. So I want you to think about the risk of repeat Caesarean section. So just three options to think about here. So do you think the risk of repeat Caesarean section is higher than the first Caesarean, lower than the first Caesarean or the same as the first Caesarean section? If you chance to click on which option you think there. I'm not trying to trick you with these quiz questions, some of them are a bit easier than others. So yes, all of you have got the right answer there, that repeat Caesarean section does have higher risk factors than for your first Caesarean section. Research by several groups of researchers, Silver et al, Canary et al and Lou et al, have all shown that repeat Caesarean section is associated with significantly higher maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, compared with the first Caesarean section. So what other options are there for women that are coming in their subsequent pregnancies? So VBAC, vaginal birth after Caesarean section, can be a safe and satisfying option for many women who have had a Caesarean section in their first pregnancy. And it's associated with a reduction in overall maternal and neonatal morbidity and a lower incidence of maternal mortality. However, according to a study by Hazel Kiedel et al, who was a speaker at the VIDM a couple of years ago, in her study she showed that VBAC rates across Europe range from 20 to 55%. So a big disparity there in the number of women undertaking a VBAC and only 14% and 12% of women in 2016 had a VBAC in Australia and the United States respectively, respectively. So studies by Martin et al and David et al have shown the implementation of a midwife-led model of care for women planning their next birth after a previous Caesarean section has been shown to empower women in their decision being more informed about their options, being more informed about the care that they can ask for. For example, having a water birth, being mobile, refusing cannulas if they're spontaneously laboring. And it also has been linked to improve intended and actual VBAC rates. So let's think about maternal choice for a moment. National reviews in the UK of maternity care have consistently and increasingly recommended midwifery-led continuity of care as key to improving women's experience of maternity services. So changing childbirth in 1993 insisted choice, continuity and control should inform the development of services and maternity care should be woman-centered. However, conversely Cox in 2007 argued that women were given more choice over their maternity care with the publication of changing childbirth. And this may have led to more women choosing to have a repeat Caesarean section over a VBAC. And I said I'd come back to Brazil after Paloma mentioned the Caesarean section rate there. And that maternal choice has been shown by Bahia Gitao in 2002 to result in a steep increase in Caesarean section rates in that country. A UK study by Meding Gitao in 2007 highlighted that informed choice is key to effective woman-centered care and highlighted that psychosocial implications may supersede women's physical concerns about birth after Caesarean section. So consideration should be given as to why women choose repeat Caesarean section when evidence does highlight good success rates and advantages of a VBAC. In a 2012 meta-synthesis of women's experiences of VBAC it was suggested that health professionals often presented risk-focused options to women with a lack of balanced information about the positive aspects and benefits of a VBAC. And that meta-synthesis was by Lund Gitao in 2012. And so this may be related to the provision of risk-focused maternity care we see in a technocratic model of contemporary childbirth. Lund is mentioned there that women are not told the risks of Caesarean section when they're offered their option of a VBAC versus an elective Caesarean section. And in the hospital that she mentioned earlier, there's sole Caesarean section on the grounds that it keeps them tight for their husbands. So there's lots of different reasons that medical professionals do give to women that might skew their thought processes when choosing options. Brazil, there's an increased presence of retrograde doctors and politicians promoting women's right to choose Caesarean section. So I think there's obviously a discussion here about right to choose versus them having all of the information to make that truly informed choice. So just another little poll here. So just three options this time. Now we're just thinking about that risk-focused care. And I want you to think about in modern studies, what is the risk of uterine rupture when aiming for a VBAC? So three options there. So one in 100 or option B, one in 200 or option C, one in 1,000. Just a few more seconds. So there's quite a difference in the way that that risk is portrayed in those three different answers there. Let's have a look. So a bit more difference in the answers there, but 50% of you have gone for option C, one in 1,000. And some of you have gone for the one in 200 and one person for the one in 100. So the answer in modern studies is C. And two recent studies have shown that the risk of uterine rupture is 1.3 in 1,000 births. That was by Dekker et al in 2010. And a more recent one by Clark et al in 2020 had the risk of one in 1,000. So I'm going to come on to the Auckland report in a moment Pauline, so hold that thought. But yes, she's asking what are your thoughts on the recent UK Auckland report that suggests not using Caesarean section rate as an indicator of good practice? Yes, let's hold that thought and we'll come back to it, don't worry. So Begley et al did a lot of work on risk-focused options compared to evidence-based options. And as we saw in that question there, that uterine rupture is often portrayed as a risk factor of one in 200 or one in 100. In fact, in my own trust, we still give the risk factor as one in 200 or 0.5% to women. Two studies that included these higher risk factors did include partial ruptures in their analysis. And there were other studies, so there's one in 2019 where the risk factor was one in 500. And we've seen those two other recent modern studies where it was about one in 1,000. Two studies also have shown that there are no differences in level of morbidity when aiming for a V-back after one or two previous Caesarean sections. And that's with relation to uterine rupture. And a study in 2016 showed there was no indication that V-back after three previous Caesareans carried any more risk. And that was by Vigorito et al in 2016. So perinatal mortality. Women can be told there is more risk to their baby during the year 2019 per 10,000 for a V-back, which is higher than an elective Caesarean section of five per 10,000, is actually the same risk as for a prima paris woman. So again, it's how you portray that risk factor, whereas often they're just told that if you lace it with the idea that it's the same as for a prima paris woman, it puts a different slant on that risk. Moving on to maternal death. So there's a risk factor of 3.8 per 100,000 of maternal mortality with the V-back, whereas the risk of mortality is 13.4 per 100,000 with an elective repeat Caesarean section. So it's definitely a lower maternal mortality rate when cared bought for by a qualified midwife. So the risk of elective repeat Caesarean section. A systematic review of 21 studies across the world by Marshall et al in 2011, it included over 2 million births, showed that for elective repeat Caesarean section, there was an increase in rates of blood transfusions, hysterectomy, surgical injury and adhesions as the number of Caesarean births increase. And women at 8.4 times more likely to have invasive placentation in their next pregnancy after a Caesarean than to have a ruptured uterus. But that risk isn't often portrayed as much as the uterine rupture risk is. Invasive placentation when compared with uterine rupture is associated with a significantly greater risk of neonatal respiratory morbidity, hysterectomy, maternal complications and longer length of maternal hospital stay. And that was a study in 2020 by Ulster Natal. The risk of adhesions increases by 10% with each repeat Caesarean section and can lead to chronic pelvic pain, infertility, bowel obstruction and other complications. These risks often aren't portrayed to women when they're having this decision-making conversation. And then the last risk there is the success rate of a VBAC. So often health professionals can talk about long labours that may then end up with a Caesarean section. And that's quite off-putting for women who've been faced possibly with that in their first pregnancy. But if we tell women that if they spontaneously lay they're always around 75% and that if they've had a previous vaginal birth, their success rates actually go up to about 90%. They're much better. So I just wanted to take some time to think about midwife-led care. We've obviously had the state of the world's midwifery report in 2021. And that advocated for midwife-led care to facilitate positive birth experiences, to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies, to allow collaboration within a multidisciplinary team and to reduce Caesarean section rates. Midwifery continuity of care has been widely studied and I'm sure people have read the paper by Sandra Letal. And it has been shown that women with midwife-led care are less likely to use regional analgesia, less likely to have an instrumental birth, more likely to experience spontaneous vaginal birth, feel in control during labor and birth. And trials have shown that midwifery continuity of care significantly reduced the Caesarean section rate. Midwifery care is important for women planning a VBAC and it is, as we've said, associated with increased rates of intended and actual VBAC. Hazel Kiedel in 2019 with her team showed that four factors are really important, control, confidence, relationship and active labor. Women who had midwifery care in their study when planning a VBAC felt more in control with their decision-making. Their midwife had confidence in their ability to achieve a VBAC. They had more support and more time spent on their antenatal appointments, to build a relationship with the midwife. And they were more active in labor with lower incidences of epidural use than if they had continuity of care with a doctor or fragmented care. Hazel Kiedel talks about this journey from pain to power in her research. This journey from pain to power after a previous Caesarean section is strongly influenced by both negative and positive support provided by healthcare professionals. Women who had that fragmented care experienced lower autonomy and lower respect. And women found that having a VBAC, it was less traumatic than their previous Caesarean section and women planning the VBAC benefited particularly from midwifery continuity of care. So if we think about these questions here, in the country that you come from or where you work, what are your experiences of caring for women who've had a previous Caesarean section? And how do you think care for these women could improve? And while people are thinking and maybe typing in the chat box, I did want to address Pauline's question there. In the UK, we've obviously had the reporting of Caesarean section rates removed. And obviously with this, there is a risk that those Caesarean section rates may increase or already are increasing. And obviously by reporting Caesarean section rates, the Ockenden report highlighted that there was that ethos perhaps of trying to keep the numbers as low as possible and not having that intervention when needed. So there definitely is a balance between carrying out Caesarean sections when they're truly needed, but not avoiding them just to keep rates low. So anybody who looked after anybody that has had a previous Caesarean section, I know from my experience that the trauma-related birth conversations are really important. A lot of the women that I see do need some kind of birth reflection in their subsequent pregnancy to really have that thought process about how they can improve their situation, how they can reflect on their previous birth experience and move forward. Several people typing there. Sorry, Grace, I missed yours, because I hadn't spoken about birth as highly advocated because there is this belief that when a woman starts with Caesarean section, then she will continue to deliver through Caesarean section. Yeah, I think that's right, Grace. I think in my hospital, certainly 50% of women opt for the elective Caesarean section, and then we've got about a 70% success rate for those that opt for a rebax or the actual percentage of people having a Caesarean section is higher than that 50%. Linda's saying, I think we need to go back to basics and relearn the value of the oxytocin-rich environment to minimise Caesarean sections. Yeah, I'm quite keen to tell the women that come to my clinic that they don't have to have a cannula, according to nice guidelines. If they're in spontaneous labour and there's no other risk factors that they can labour and deliver in the pool if there's no other risk factors as well. But these are often things that are neglected to be told to these women. And I think sometimes when they know, they can have that bit of normality after that complicated first pregnancy, then that can often be a little bit of a ray of sunshine when they're thinking about this subsequent pregnancy and their birth choices. Yeah, I think there definitely is a fear in midwives that they're looking after a high-risk woman and they want to have a monitor and a cannula in case of an emergency, definitely. Any other thoughts about how any midwife-led models for women with a previous Caesarean section? So Pauline's saying also, even if they do not, if they do need a repeat Caesarean, the process of labour, they had help lump preparation for the newborn, so it's still very helpful. Few couples know of this and feel the labour part was for nothing. Yeah, yeah. I think a lot of women choose an elective Caesarean because they don't want to go through that labour and then have a Caesarean at the end, but again, it's how you frame that risk to the women and if there are any benefits that you can bring into that discussion. I think Karen's agreeing there with Linda's idea of this fear of the midwife. And the obstetricians as well. I think when a lady comes into the delivery suite with a previous Caesarean section, they are labelled with this high risk factor and then it's sometimes a battle between what the woman maybe has made a decision with, with wanting a water birth and having the mobile telemetry if the unit has it versus that fear of the obstetrician that they want better monitoring and overseeing of that labour. It's a, I agree in some circumstances, Linda, definitely. We also see this idea of epiduals as ideal for VBACs. Yeah, so there's a really good website called Labour Pains and the other thing that I really like about that website is it has translations for women that don't speak English as well and it really goes through birth pain relief options and it's about giving them all options as well. So mobility and not every unit has telemetry CTG monitoring but if you do have them, it's explaining that they can ask for that and that they can be on a birthing ball, they can be in a pool or a bath. They may not want to birth in there but it actually is a really good pain relief for labour as well. Any other comments or offers of improvements? Are you from the UK, Pauline? Have you got any comments about the Auckland report? I think certainly there's a lot of panic or worry in you improved education and training that has to come from this report and I think it'll end up being a lot more risk-focused care unfortunately rather than evidence-based. I'm from Malta, it's another country we haven't had yet. Welcome. Okay, so a lot of you train in the UK. I've never been to Malta. So let's just summarise what we've discussed there. Yes, I'm doing a map of all the people that have attended the VIDM so it's nice to see another country. So just to summarise but feel free to keep chatting because there's still some time and it sometimes takes a bit of time for the internet to catch up with your comments so I'll try and catch them as they come up there. But to summarise, Caesarean section rates are rising over the world and in part this is due to repeat Caesarean section. Caesarean section we've heard is linked to increased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Midwifery care is important for women considering a V-BAC as it is linked to increased intended and actual V-BAC rates. And we should wherever possible endeavor to give evidence-based options rather than risk-focused options. And midwife-led models of care for women considering a V-BAC. We now know are linked to them having confidence in themselves and their body. Feeling in control of their birth choices, having that supportive relationship with their care provider and staying active in labour. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could offer this to all women considering a V-BAC. Pauline's saying there, unfortunately locally some obstetricians have interpreted this report as the endeavor for physiological birth. Yes I think that's true and I think initially that was what had come out of it. That's not the overriding message but it's unfortunate, isn't it? What media picks up. Caesarean saying there, if we did all those things that are recommended to care for V-BAC moms the first time they labour, we might not have so many V-BACs. That's very true, very true. Thank you. I must really appreciate your interactivity. It makes it a lot more interesting and I think it's one of the benefits of this conference is that we can have this conversation and interaction and sharing of ideas. It's one of the things that I love about the V-IDM. So thank you very much for interacting and sharing your experiences and thoughts. I'll hand over to Jackson but if anybody that's listening wants to put a proposal in for next year, get thinking now what you could present on while looking particularly for presentations on anatomy and physiology as well. So always welcome. I hand the presentation to you. Thank you, Jackson.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZFd2O4FW4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCXLZUvZ6cNnkLiJOIoXPhew	Matthew Denny - Discus and hammer thrower and Griffith student		[ "Griffith University", "Queensland", "Australia", "Brisbane", "Gold Coast", "Logan" ]	2018-04-12T23:54:29	2024-02-05T08:16:42	31	pCf6vC7Tix4	The biggest thing that drives me is the challenge of being the best. Everyone talks about their zone. It's being able to get into that and hear nothing but your thoughts on the exact thing that you need to do in that moment to make the difference between winning and losing. We've done all the training to be able to train hard and be strong and fit and be technically good, but it's actually the simplicity that makes you a really good athlete. To be remarkable, the only thing that I do different is do everything with commitment, passion and love.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCf6vC7Tix4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCw-kH-Od73XDAt7qtH9uBYA	What is Hyperinflation & Climate Change's Impact on the Alps \| Stories of the Week \| WEF	This week The World Economic Forum are highlighting 4 top stories - what is hyperinflation, the impact of climate change on the Alps, a record breaking super computer and the world's first autonomous ship. The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change. World Economic Forum Website ► http://www.weforum.org/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/ YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/wef Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/worldeconomicforum/ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/wef LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-economic-forum TikTok ► https://www.tiktok.com/@worldeconomicforum Flipboard ► https://flipboard.com/@WEF #StoriesoftheWeek #WorldEconomicForum	[ "sustainable global goals", "climate change", "sustainability", "davos agenda", "World Economic Forum", "Davos", "politics", "finance", "economy", "news", "leadership", "democracy", "education", "4IR", "technology", "tech", "AI", "automation", "work", "future", "world news", "economist", "world", "forum", "economic", "world news today", "worldeconomicforum", "recommended for you", "globalization", "robotics", "bloomberg", "documentary", "Autonomous ship", "hyperinflation", "inflation", "the alps", "supercomputer" ]	2022-06-17T14:00:17	2024-02-05T06:31:20	374	PCqa93AvwT0	Thank you for watching!	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCqa93AvwT0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCMP5_7v48WfDKfoirLCcNgQ	President Reagan's Radio Address on the Federal Budget on January 7, 1989	Full Title: President Reagan's Radio Address on the Federal Budget and Executive Salaries from the Cabinet Room on January 7, 1989 (Taped on January 6, 1989 for January 7 Broadcast) Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent) Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Collection: Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration), 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Transcript: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/010789a Production Date: 1/6/1989 Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600 Phone: 800-410-8354, 805-577-4000, Fax: 805-577-4074, Email: reagan.library@nara.gov National Archives Identifier:117700887 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117700887	[ "U.S. National Archives", "Ronald Reagan", "Reagan Presidential Library", "Federal Budget", "Executive Salaries", "Radio" ]	2018-06-13T17:28:06	2024-02-05T06:33:08	364	pcEArbR-lVQ	And you're going to flag me on each minute, all right? 30 seconds. Mic's on. Stand by. My fellow Americans, on Monday, I submit to Congress my final budget. It's a responsible plan which cuts the deficit without touching social security, weakening defense, or reducing benefits to the needy. And the best news is that this budget proves it can be done without raising your taxes. Our growing economy will in the next fiscal year produce $84 billion in new revenues with no increase in tax rates. Since the whole economic pie is expanding, the federal government's slice grows along with the private sector. Raising taxes would be the surest way to kill the economic goose that lays the golden eggs. So I leave as I came dead set against any new taxes. And even if there were a tax increase, history shows that Congress would almost certainly spend the additional money. It wouldn't be used to reduce the deficit. It would just mean that you had to pay for an even bigger government. And now, with an estimated $84 billion in new revenues coming in, we can both reduce the deficit and increase federal spending. By combining new revenues with previously scheduled reductions and savings in other areas, priority programs will grow by nearly $50 billion. There are more funds for air safety, fighting crime, housing the poor, and the war on drugs. Funds for AIDS research and prevention is increased by 24%. And money to clean up toxic waste goes up by a fifth. We also increase funds for the science and space program and for basic biomedical research. And student aid funds are increased again, bringing it to a level 83% higher than where it stood in 1980. Real defense spending is increased by 2%. This is a small increase, but an important one, the price of peace and security for America. Through strength, we achieved greater realism in the US-Soviet relationship and breakthroughs in arms reduction. Our defense budget will enable us to continue on this path. Let's remember that despite the internal reforms in the Soviet Union, they are modernizing their weapons at a rapid pace, spending a far larger share of gross national product on weapons than the United States does. Spending on Medicare and Medicaid will increase by $10 billion in the next fiscal year. But if the past is any guide, the headlines will claim we've actually cut funding. Well, taint so. In Washington, when spending goes up less than had been projected, they call that a cut, even though more of your tax dollars are being spent than ever before. With Medicare, we've simply limited the increase in payments to providers of services. There is no effect on the people who receive the benefits. So my fiscal year 1990 budget provides for the needy, does not raise taxes, and by controlling the growth in spending reduces the deficit next year by nearly $70 billion. This not only meets the Graham-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction target, it reduces the deficit even further and puts us on track to a balanced budget and a modest surplus by fiscal year 1993. This budget is a realistic program which protects the working families of America, provides adequate support for those who depend on government, and helps assure America's prosperity in the years to come. I've often spoken of the rising incomes Americans have enjoyed in recent years, but one group lags behind. According to a new report by the Bipartisan Commission on Federal Salaries, real pay for top-level government jobs has fallen by 35% since 1969 due to inflation, while private sector pay has outpaced inflation. So my budget includes higher pay for vital positions ranging from judges to scientists to elected officials. This increase is still less than what was lost to inflation. Even after this raise, the real income of a circuit court judge will be 19% less than in 1969. The cost of these increases will be absorbed in the budget without slowing progress in the deficit, and we'll be getting something important in return. When salaries are too low, it's hard to attract and keep America's best in government. Federal judges are leaving the bench in record numbers, partly because they're paid less than junior members of some law firms. The national institutes of health that fight cancer and other grave diseases have vacancies for senior researchers that have been empty for 10 years due to poor pay. Also troubling is that some officials, particularly in Congress, now supplement their income with special interest honorary payments. My support for the pay increase rests on my firm belief that such payments undermine the integrity of our government and should be abolished. We must be willing to pay for excellence in government or risk a government run only by people of wealth or by those beholden to special interests. Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcEArbR-lVQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCvqbFHwN-nwalWPjPUKpvTA	What is Wasm A Non Experts Opinion by Kelsey Hightower	Through Q&A, Kelsey Hightower will answer your questions about how Wasm works together with Kubernetes.	null	2023-04-06T18:58:28	2024-02-05T16:35:50	2,345	pcSTNW6QK9s	I have the absolute honor to introduce to you our last speaker or better to say the last Q and A, something like that. Illuminary in the world of technology, Kelsey Hightower was over two decades of experience in the software industry. Kelsey has not only built and led high-performance teams but also being a key contributor to groundbreaking projects as Kubernetes. As a esteemed developer advocate, author, speaker, Kelsey has become synonymous with the Kubernetes community, providing invaluable insights into the cross and the evolution. His passion for open source technologies and his ability to make complex concepts accessible have made him a thought after presence at conferences around the globe. And in his role as a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, Kelsey has been key in shaping the future of cloud-native computing. And as over 56,000 stars on his no-code GitHub repository shows, he is also a proven minimalist. What else could I say to that? You might cannot hear you, but please give him a warm welcome, the inspiring and the innovative and the incomparable Kelsey Hightower. Hey, thanks, Max. I think I'm here. We're gonna do a bit of a Q and A. I'm happy to be a part of the fundraiser that you all are doing for such an important call. So thanks for giving me a little time to participate. Thank you for being here. And I would like to drop you the first question into the room which we see already in the chat, which is like, what is Wasm anyway? Yeah, look, you know, I'm a non-expert. So the original title for this talk is, what is Wasm a non-expert's opinion? And so for me, you know, coming from my view of all of this space, I'm someone who typically writes back in applications, spent a lot of time writing Python, where there's a runtime that has limitations. And that runtime has a global lock interpreter that tends to slow things down. If you're gonna do something like multi-processing and multi-threading, you have to work around those. But overall, Python definitely works for me. I've done some Ruby, has similar limitations, also written Java. And when I think back to the Java days, you know, this idea that there'll be a runtime between the OS and the code that I write to produce by code, Wasm makes me feel like Java all over again, but the goals are very different. I think most people have interacted with Wasm at some point, you know, just look at your web browser. A lot of those extensions or plugins or the ability to run native code directly in the browser. I would say Wasm did a killer job going beyond what JavaScript can do and giving companies like Adobe, if you're running Photoshop in a browser, the ability to run C++ in the browser at native speed, wonderful. Now here's the challenge. Is Wasm suitable for the server side? Now this is the part where I'm not quite sure. I would say for me, I love the frameworks that I get to use. The standard library in Golang is great. A lot of people have used things like Ruby on Rails. And so we've seen this a bit before, right? There was Unicernals, right? Before containers are right around the time of containerization. A lot of people were excited about Unicernals, this idea that we can shrink down what we ship, something smaller than containers, something more secure. I think Wasm has similar aims. You know, there's this whole Wasi standard to say, hey, what do we need to add to the Wasm runtime to make it work well on the server side? Like the ability to connect to a network, reading files, right? All the fundamentals. So it seems like we're building those things up from the ground up and ideally in a secure way. So in short, a non-express opinion, Wasm is a new runtime similar to what you think about the JVM scoped way down for the type of workload it aims to support. That could be a plug-in for an existing app, like if you have a web server like Nginx and it wanted to have extended functionality, you could do that via Wasm module. And it will feel like a web browser in that case with new extensions or it could feel like the JVM but tightened down for security. Do we really need all of those language facilities when we're just writing HTTP applications? Maybe the answer is no. And if that's true, then we can start with a much lighter weight runtime, aka sandbox and see where we go from there. Great, awesome. And I think this also answers a little bit the questions which we get from Sven, which is on the first hand side. Do you have non-expert opinions on features you want to see on Wasm installer for Kubernetes? I think the number one feature is why would people use it? Like seriously, like why? You can use Golang, you can write apps and Rust. You can keep using Ruby on Rails, that works just fine. Or maybe you prefer Node.js. I think the question we still have to answer here is why would you want to target Wasm? So to me, Wasm is almost like a different computer in some ways, right? You're not going to be able to do exactly the same things you were doing before. So if you're used to having the entire Linux system call interface at your disposal and your libraries and frameworks do that, if you run in Wasm runtime, more than likely those things won't be there. So things may not work like you expect them to. And so now we have to ask the question, why would I make that trade off, right? All software developments about trade off. So we get the sandbox stuff. So to me, I think it needs to be easier to tell if the code I'm writing will work or not. So to me, I think there's a little bit more on the early adopter side of I have an existing app. Can I get any value from Wasm? So if I take my standard go code that I tend to write, is there a way to parse that file and say, hey, this is not going to work? Or recommend a Wasm framework that will allow me to have a drop-in replacement so I can keep writing that app in the way that it does. And I know there's some startups that are working on this where you import a library and they take care of all of this kind of bootstrapping for you so you can go back to writing what feels like normal style code. So the number one feature I want is, will my code work? Whatever that looks like. It could be a static analysis tool but just give me something to say, here's how you go from where you are to where, to what's next. This actually fits quite well together to say like going back to minimalism, having it simple. Developers need to be able to use it right straightaway, not wrapping the hat 10 times around until they like, find any kind of ways to troubleshoot it and open somehow the, this kind of black box after. I will say one positive thing. The way the community has been interacting with the existing world, like the container de-shim that allows you to run like wasm edge runtime, package your existing watch a module in the OCI image, put it in a standard Docker repository. And for a lot of people, that is a really good way to just reuse a lot of infrastructure that they already have. So I would say bonus points for adopting the existing deployment rails that is very different than how some other run times tried to enter the market by telling you that you had to just start over with all of your infrastructure versus being able to leverage what you have. So kudos and bonus points there. Great, awesome. Do you have some good starting points for the people who have never heard about wasm before where it's like, oh, there's one two resources you definitely should hit up and take a look at? I would say if you're new to this but you have experience like with backend applications deploying anything. I think especially since we're talking to the Kubernetes community I would definitely look at the native integration that you see for like Docker if you're just using plain old Docker or the stuff that you can see in the Kubernetes community where you can kind of jump in with a new container D runtime. So today we have run C that runs your standard container images. In this case, you get a different runtime that runs side by side. And I would just go through the Hello World tutorial. So number one, get your infrastructure the current infrastructure you already use able to execute wasm modules. I would say things like wasm edge are a good fit there. There's really good tooling, really good documentation. Once you're there again just start with the Hello World stuff. Make your wasm at, you'll feel the limitations of what you can and can't do but then soon enough you'll find you'll be right back into the process that you're familiar with. Packaging it up in the container image store it in the registry and then run it inside of your existing cluster. The second thing I would probably do is look at tools like, you know Cloudflare has a whole ecosystem around extensions inside of Cloudflare. And so I think those are written in wasm or they support wasm. So maybe your favorite tool already supports wasm as an extension or plugin layer. And so for a lot of people if you're not interested in writing brand new apps or this new sandbox maybe you're interested in extending your existing applications. I remember writing my first Lua module for Nginx. It was really cool that I can extend the functionality. If you start to look at systems like Istio, service meshes, various other systems including databases, they're starting to support this idea that wasm will be the common layer. So go look at some of your existing tools and see if they support wasm as a plugin architecture. Then you can just start writing snippets of functionality and deploy them. And that might be a good entry point instead of writing whole new applications. Yeah. So following actually the approach to also have seen from coming monitor dig applications towards microservices, start small, get the first pieces done, make your experience, find out what doesn't work and keep moving. Awesome. Spend us further more asking like, do you see a use case of wasm containers for multi-architecture clusters? Again, we're back to the runtime discussion, right? In Golang, I can easily cross-compile between the various architectures. The JVM also gives me a lot of functionality in that space. And so I don't know if I'm gonna pick wasm to get cross-architecture support. I think you can get that with existing tools. Let's just be honest with ourselves. Today, multi-arch support is really, really good even at your laptop with a macOS, right? You can use things like Rosetta to run x86 binaries on an ARM processor. So I don't know if wasm is that's the number one selling point. I honestly think it's gonna be a slimmed down sandbox and fast startup time. Look, I work at a large cloud provider and so we have a spectrum of compute, everything from VMs to container platforms like GKE that are backed by Kubernetes. But what about the serverless side? Is wasm a good way to probably do faster serverless? Is wasm a good way to think about embedding functions inside of tools like Bitquery. So you can do data analysis with custom functionality. That's the way I'm looking at it. So less about multi-arch support and more about can I get better benefits from the security sandbox? And remember, Linux containers are not necessarily considered the most secure thing in the world, right? Even in that space, you can see us using sandboxes like GVisor, which sits between the OS and the app and emulates those system calls so that way we get a tighter sandbox. And some people are going back to even VMs to be the sandbox layer because they can start up pretty fast. So maybe wasm is all about maybe how do we get VM level isolation and not necessarily have to adopt all of that overhead. So I think that's probably gonna be the biggest value but you never know. I'm pretty sure some people will like the cross-platform nature of targeting a runtime with bytecode but we've seen that before. So I wouldn't overindex on it. Well, it's always a little bit hard to predict the future, right? In preparation for the day, we were just for fun asking JetGBT, hey, what do you think about the future of Kubernetes? And obviously the data which JetGBT is trained on is a little bit older. So surprisingly or not surprisingly, it perfectly matched what we have seen throughout the day, some GitOps, some security. Now, I think you're a little bit more aware of what's going on in the ecosystem around Kubernetes and JetGBT since 2021. What's your prediction? What are the next topics beside wasm? If Kubernetes is super successful, it will disappear. If it's successful, it goes away. And it goes away in the way that Linux goes away. It's still gonna be there. It'll be more important than ever. More people will use it than ever but it won't be so in our face, right? It will become so reliable like roads and bridges and freeways. And I think it just gets buried. And then I think what people then start to focus on is the platformy level of things, right? And we'll give that new thing a new name, right? Just like Kubernetes is a different name than Linux because it represents a whole different cellular abstractions. I got a real feeling that eventually we'll get to a point where most people just talk about workloads, not deployments and pod disruption budgets and mounts and volumes. I think the libraries will just get a little bit more sophisticated. I think people will focus more on building apps. It's funny, I work at Google, we just open source a tool called ServiceWeaver, just last week. And what ServiceWeaver does is you write standard Go code and the framework, depending on how you deploy it, it will decide to break that monolith up into multiple pieces, create RPCs in between those components, and then make all the underlying deployment decisions on top of something like Qube. So in the case of ServiceWeaver, it treats Kubernetes like one big computer, generates all of the necessary startup code, aka pod manifest, et cetera, under the hood, including when there's time to do updates. And so in that case, you can see that Kubernetes has now been abstracted away into a low level implementation detail. So I think in the future, as Kubernetes continues to get better, thanks to the community, by the way, it starts to fade away. And then we all go work on the next set of abstractions that hide those. Yeah, that's a very interesting perspective. And I think also one of the biggest challenge yet, which we see also working with end customers. I mean, in reality, most larger enterprises have like at least two or three cloud provider in their, in their tech stack plus a lot of stuff on premise, sometimes not very good connected with each other, but surprisingly everywhere is running somewhere as a container or a Kubernetes. And we see that there is already a lot of like work on unified in some way, because even so Kubernetes itself is somehow everywhere like compliant with each other, it's still different talking to API gateways, to the storage, sometimes to just provision different resources or simple stuff like, well, simple stuff is maybe not the right word, but like key management. And all these challenges often come across the end users and see them, yeah, very much challenged. And I like this perspective. We recently discussed with a customer about the cloud of cloud platform, like the strategy for leverage, like forget what you have there. I mean, one thing I would say, and maybe we unfairly did this to Kubernetes, but we ask it to do too much. You know, managing data volumes, managing secrets, rotating secrets, managing metrics and observability platforms, that's a whole job and skill set of its own, right? This would be equivalent to try to ask the post office or FedEx or UPS to also manufacture TVs. That's, these are separate layers. Those logistic companies are really good at moving things that are in the box. And to me, that's what Kubernetes is good at, right? It's good at moving applications inside of container images. That's what it wants to be great at. But I think we see this a magical control plan and we say, huh, wouldn't it be nice if we can get a similar API and management style for all of these other systems? And I don't know if it's the perfect fit. It works, but I think at some point we have to realize that these control plans, we do need them. These workflows and orchestration engines, we do need them, but do we need Kubernetes to be the universal thing for all of those things? And that's where I would pause and say, I'm not sure. I do think using Kubernetes to configure those things, but those actuation engines, they deserve their own focus. So that way, just like CDNs gave us the ability to distribute media across the world, Kubernetes gives us the ability to distribute containers across multiple machines. Why don't we still focus on good control planes that may stand alone, that may run outside of Kubernetes to provide those equal benefits for the other layers, secrets management, logging, observability, you name it. Do you see already projects in this direction, which is like the Kubernetes plumber platform? Well, yes and no. Yes, they're called cloud providers. They're called CockroachDB SaaS offering. They're called Gmail. They're called search engines, right? They're called Stripe, right? These are all platforms of their own that have APIs for doing purpose built things. Kubernetes happens to be a place where you could run one of those platforms. You could use it to keep the application containers that back those platforms running, but I do think we have to have a mentality. I would say from an open source perspective, I think Let's Encrypt is a golden example, right? There's this universal service out there that allows anyone in the world to use a common API to mint TLS certificates and rotate them. That is a hyper-specialized service. It's open source, but in this case, it's not a, I mean, you could run parts of it yourself, but it isn't a running yourself situation. It is a global service that you could use. So I do think that open source mentality has to progress beyond source code that you download and build and run yourself. What is the open source equivalent of a managed service backed by a community? And so if you're willing to go there mentally, then everything doesn't need to be installed in your local Kubernetes cluster. You can expand that to be more global services. And then you use the ones that are specialized. And then now you're just interacting with APIs like Let's Encrypt is just one example. And one day, hopefully, we'll see a global service or Postgres, where you don't need to install Postgres necessarily in your cluster. You can just leverage a fully distributed, replicated Postgres instance via library and credentials. That's a very interesting perspective. So you think that one of the big steps for Kubernetes, maybe at one day, Kubernetes version two, fingers crossed is like that. We have an unlimited amount of servers out there which uses a similar Kubernetes API with all that it's Kubernetes itself, but it's a format. Yeah, but think about it. Everyone running Kubernetes today, your organization, big or small, isn't that what you're trying to do for the people that work there? You don't want them thinking about how to provision Kubernetes or what version Kubernetes is that. Most platform teams are saying, we will take care of that component. Our job is to unify that process, whether you're using something like GitOps. GitOps is a good example of our attempt to provide that facade. I could have clusters running across multiple regions. Hell, multiple cloud providers. But in that case, I don't want to leak all of those details to everyone at the company. That would be highly inefficient, right? We don't want to talk about what version of Prometheus that I install. We just want to tell people that if they expose slash metrics, we will configure a loop to pull those metrics into essential stuff. Isn't that what we're building? So if that's what we're building, then we know for a fact that Kubernetes is just the ingredients. We're the chefs that are trying to create the full meal for the people we work with. Don't you think at some point this will become the new baseline and then ideally new providers that show up will just say, we have compute everywhere. But all you have to do is just give me your Kubernetes manifest and objects and hell, maybe there will be a few custom ones too. And then you can just leverage the system without running it yourself. I think this is where a really a lot of organizations are going into this direction and looking for it. But yet it feels often like they get this very big box of Legos, which is open source projects, and try to build out of these different stones with the different colors and the different shapes, something which is useful for them. And I think there's- Yeah, it's probably right because Linux was like that, right? You have Linux, you have the shell, you have said, awk, you have bash, then we get puppet chef Ansible, then we get terraforming cloud providers, and we step back 10 years later and we bring it all together and we call it Kubernetes, which does a lot of what those individual pieces we're doing ad hoc into a more standardized API. And look, give it another five or 10 years and all these patterns of the people that are listening are building will become the new thing. And then we'll just use that and maybe less people are starting from scratch. Yeah, cool. We received another question from Sven. He's very active. Have you seen Chris Nova's a raw way? And do you think that those projects like would compete with Kubernetes or contribute to evolving concepts, for example, node management? All right, so I'm going to go look at this right now. I haven't seen it. So I'm going to just breeze through it. It looks like there's a distributed systems runtime Damian does, is it written in rust? Right? Yeah. And I'm just going to read the, read me really quick and pretend I know what I'm talking about. And it says, or it is an admission to be the most loved and effective way of managing workloads on a node. Our hope is that by bringing a better set of controls to a node, we can unlock a higher, a brilliant higher order distributed systems in the future. All right, so just reading that sentence I'm going to pretend that I know what I'm talking about. It says it deploys a memory safe runtime Damian, a process manager as PID 1 to initialize the system's scheduler processes, containers, virtual machines and the whole nine. All right, so now let's back up. So pretending like I knew that already, I can see this is where they're going because when I was at CoreOS we wanted something similar, right? There was a Docker Damian. We thought it was too complex. We thought it had too many moving pieces and we thought we needed a better PID 1 and we thought the better PID 1 was system D. And so we built a system called Fleet that would leverage system D and actually we advocated for system D to grow more and more features. And system D I think can create VMs. System D can actually pull containers and start them or it can just run your standard library from a path. And so I look at this project and say, hey, look, what if we had a better system D with a better API? And for some people that was Docker and just like all innovation, people like Chris say, hey, we've learned a lot in the last decade. What can we do better now giving the new tools and knowledge to us? So what I look at this is her collapsing the layers. Right, saying, you know what? Let's take all that we've learned, all the moving parts, let's squish them down again and let's try again that has something that's way more unified and more purpose built for this case. Does that replace Kubernetes? It could, right? If you don't need Kubernetes and all you need is a big node that does the right thing or maybe it challenges the cooblets, right? Should the cooblet have more capabilities and features? And if so, does this become the new cooblet that runs on the machine that happens to be able to be interacted by a scheduler like Kubernetes, right? I can see this also being great for a system like Nomad, right, a universal process management that can actually manage more than just processes, containers and VMs. Hey, we'll see, right? If it pans out and we need a better layer at that layer, I think this is a good thing to be in running. Awesome. Now, something more un-technical as you were being very long time in the community. And we see that the Kubernetes community day is popping up everywhere around the globe in different cities and places where we maybe even not would expect them. What would be your five cents you would give to all of these little communities when they get started and what is your hints for like getting successful in their jobs and organizing the local community, grow the community, which is sometimes the hardest part and make it flourish. I would say this, you know, there's something so important about being local and understanding the needs of your local community. I think some communities made the mistake of trying to copy another region like the US or try to copy a global event like KubeCon or CNCF conference. Those are cool places to get inspiration, no doubt, but more than likely there is something missing. Sometimes it's as simple as translating the documentation material into the native language so more people will have access to those things. A lot of times you know that there's opportunities whether that's in your local government, local companies that can't really afford to hire internationally, maybe they need to develop local talent. To me, those are the biggest opportunities that someone like me or someone that only operates as a global entity cannot do. You know the unique challenges and opportunities of your local environment, double down on that. And then more importantly, once you do, export those unique solutions that you come up with. Right, cause maybe your local needs, like there are some countries that don't necessarily have advanced infrastructure in terms of networking. And so that what they have to do is create more efficient networking protocols. Maybe they need to have controllers and not use so much of the network when they're talking to the Kubernetes API so they make it more efficient. If you solve those kind of problems, don't forget to share with everyone else because maybe we don't have those problems but we can definitely use the efficiency gains from those that do. So don't forget to share as well. That's awesome. I think that's also what the community stands for. Share, stay together, get into the exchange, learn from each other. Now we are heading towards KubeCon Europe. Are you going to be there? And if so, what are you most excited about? I do plan to be there. I'm excited about, I think I'm gonna do a couple of workshops, maybe a panel. And the workshop's gonna be about helping these open source maintainers and projects figure out actually how to turn the corner in terms of running their business. A lot of these maintainers want the dream job which is to work on open source full time. And some of those maintainers would love to do that independently. Not everyone wants to go work for a large tech company in order just to work on open source. So how do we do that? How do we help those individuals make that transition to a small business owner? Not everyone wants to raise capital. But those that do wanna raise capital, how do you actually leverage your community in a very authentic and honest way? We all know that open source projects need to make money in order to survive if they wanna be a business. But how do you go about that the right way? And so I've advised lots of companies, Docker, Acuity, Versailles, all of these companies have really good track records in terms of dealing with the intricacies of open source and enterprise. So hopefully I can share some of that knowledge with people that are looking to travel in one of those two similar paths. That sounds exciting. And I think it's also well needed because there are so many cool new ideas, fresh ideas, but quite often they are missing time to get really developed and getting kick started. Now I will shortly check if there's any other question popped up so far from the... Yeah, there's one more that popped in. It was like a K-Wasem. Do I know anything about K-Wasem? Nope, I'm gonna show you how I do it though. I go to the website and I clicked on kwasem.sh in the first sentence says, and I love when people get straight to the point in their descriptions. So thank you for whoever wrote this. K-Wasem is a Kubernetes operator that adds WebAssembly support to your Kubernetes nodes. It does so by using a container image that contains binaries and configuration variables needed to run pure WebAssembly images. So without diving too much deeper into what it actually is, I'm going to assume because this is what we used to do way back in the day in the early Kubernetes days before we had Damon sets. And it's also how we leverage Damon sets. So if I wanted to tune the kernel for my Kubernetes nodes and you want to do it the Kubernetes way, you might run a Damon set just to cheat, right? One that had like the right amount of privileges to go and tune the kernel to a certain set of parameters. So in this case, I think there's a similar pattern that's happening here. In order to make K-Wasem work on Kubernetes, you need to add some pieces. You need to actually either A, have a new container D-shim and install something like the Wasm Edge runtime. You got to do those things and configure it to actually work. And then at that point, you can probably leverage Kubernetes to start running Wasm containers that will use the right runtime. Maybe there's something different happening in this case. Maybe they have their own runtime that runs at a privileged level. And I used to do this with Go, I used to cheat. I used to have a pod that was ready to run any binary that it found. And so I ran that as a Damon set and then I can just drop Go binaries at a URL and this pod would pull that URL and I would just do that. So I never had to package my Go apps and container images. I had an empty container image that was just looking for a certain spot on the file system or looking for a URL. And that was a magical way of just using straight Go binaries in a Kubernetes cluster. So it looks like Hey, Wasm is doing something very similar giving you this illusion that, hey, number one, get your cluster ready to go by using something like a Damon set, AKA a controller, making sure that everything is set up correctly. And then once it's done, my guess is leaving behind either an API or the right things you need to just start using container images or Wasm modules directly inside your Kubernetes cluster. Cool. Well, let me just asking, what do you think about AI supporting day two operations for SAE guys? You know, I got this question a couple of weeks ago and someone asked me about, you know, when to use AI or ML inside of operations. And I had a Twitter space not too long ago and someone helped me understand the difference between like what AI is trying to do, which is predict things versus what we tend to do as developers, which is symbolic programming. If this, then that, right? That's very straightforward. We use symbols like a mathematical function. When we know what the two inputs are, we can calculate the actual result like a calculator does. Very straightforward. So if you know the answer, then use it. So let's talk about SRE. So in the SRE world, let's say you know your app needs 500 megs of RAM to do its thing. You already know. So just configure it using your YAML file with the 500 megs. How do you know that it's 500 megs? Because you did some load testing. You did some benchmarking. You've tuned the workload to work within those parameters. Okay, you can use a very straightforward process, but let's say you don't know. Let's say you're a hosting company or you're a platform and you're getting random workloads. Now you don't have a clue. So now you have to guess or predict. And so in that case, if you want to do this at scale, because you may not be in a position to benchmark all your customers' workloads, nor are you in a position to ask them to do so. So you may have a feature that says something like, I don't know, auto configuration. Well, how would you do that? Well, now you need to predict what the value should be, but you need input for that. So I think when it comes to SRE, we have a day one, which is do we have enough data about our workloads? How much traffic is coming in? When do they fall over? Historical context. If you have all of that data, and I think Kubernetes gets a head start there, right? Because container images, all the information we get from the kernel, you got things like for Meet This, there's so much there. If you were to take all of that data from the network, from the app itself, from the rate of things flowing inside of the network, and whatever behavior you can derive from things like logs, you might be able to pull together a really nice model. All right, the same model, a great SRE person would have in their mind when they see certain things, they make certain adjustments, or they can be proactive and say, hmm, things seem to be getting busy, I'm going to autoscale even though we don't need it, so we can handle the load. Yes, AI will give you the ability to create similar models. So maybe we have an AI ML backed autoscaler, but remember the predicate here. We need data that can actually help us predict when to scale things up and down. So I think Kubernetes gives us most of the facilities to make decisions, it gives us enough of that data. Now the question is, what models are we talking about? And those models are going to be a live experimentation until we get it right. But I would say Kubernetes gives us a great head start. If you want to start using AI, but remember this ain't magic folks, we are literally just saying we're going to create models based on data that we see inside of our environments, but you know what, I'm going to guess, the majority of people won't need that. The majority of people can do something like time-based autoscaling. You know for a fact that your customers come in around 8 a.m., you know that you're going to launch a campaign during the World Cup, you might want to scale ahead of time versus predicting, and the last thing I'll say here is, even if your AI model predicts that you need a hundred more nodes in your cluster, the cloud provider may not have a hundred nodes available in that zone or region. So you might want to be a bit more proactive in some of these situations. All right, thank you very much Kelsey. In respect of your time, I know it's very early at the moment. Maybe it's a good time to get breakfast for the kids and the wife. Again, thank you very much for taking the time, joining us and it was very interesting to talk with you. Wish you great day, great week, and yeah, hopefully see you in Amsterdam. Yep, awesome, bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSTNW6QK9s", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCu5jWnjHt6eGhg8Qfk--gcQ	Triple Point	The solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a substance can all coexist at the triple point.	null	2020-12-12T12:45:01	2024-02-05T08:32:01	402	PCzKfbTUJOk	Okay, so here's a recap of what we know about phase transitions so far. In particular, when we change the temperature of a substance, we can heat it from the solid phase. Its free energy will decrease slowly until it becomes equal to the value of the liquid phase. At that point, the liquid phase is lower because it's dropping faster. It will continue to drop until the point at which the gas free energy has a lower free energy than that of the liquid. So we go through solid to liquid to gas. If we draw what that looks like on the phase diagram, we start solid. We cross the solid-liquid boundary. We enter the liquid phase. We continue heating until we boil as we cross the liquid gas boundary. So moving from solid to liquid to gas on this free energy curve is like moving from solid to liquid to gas on this phase diagram. If we do that at a different pressure, a somewhat lower pressure, on the phase diagram, the way that shows up is because we're at a lower pressure, the boiling point has decreased. So instead of boiling at this temperature, we've boiled at this temperature instead. So the boiling point decreased as the pressure decreased. On the free energy diagram, what that looks like is each one of these curves decreases, but the gas curve in particular fell by a lot further than the other curves. So instead of the boiling point being here, the boiling point decreased to a lower value. So again, there's a connection between drawing a line on the phase diagram, drawing a curve on these free energy diagrams. But as we've noticed, these two curves are approaching each other. Eventually the two curves are going to have to meet and understand what goes on there. But if we drop the pressure to a point where we want to understand what's happening right here, solid changes to become the liquid. But at this point, according to the two curves we've drawn on this curve, the solid and liquid free energies are equal to each other. So anywhere along this curve, the free energy of the solid is equal to the free energy of the liquid. Anywhere along this curve, the free energy of the liquid is equal to the free energy of the gas. This point is on both of those curves. So at that point, the free energy of the solid is still equal to the free energy of the liquid because we're on the solid-liquid coexistence curve. And that free energy of the liquid is equal to the free energy of the gas because we're on the liquid-gas coexistence curve. So all three of those phases are in equilibrium with each other at the point that I've drawn right here. If we draw what that looks like on a free energy diagram, what that corresponds to, we've lowered the pressure some more. So these curves have dropped even further. The gas curve in particular has dropped by a lot. So it's dropped all the way down to the point where it now intersects the solid curve and the liquid curve. All those curves cross at one point. Instead of having two different phase transition temperatures, the vaporization temperature of the boiling point has continued to decrease down to the point where it matches the melting point. So the melting point and the boiling point are occurring at the same point. They coexist with each other. Solid, liquid, and gas phases all coexist with each other. That point is called the triple point because we have solid, liquid, and gas phases all coexisting with each other at that point. We can then ask what goes on as we continue even further at lower pressures still. Let's go down to yet lower pressures and see what happens if I draw. If I start in the solid phase and increase the temperature and see what happens to the solid under these conditions. In this case, I guess we'll start with the free energy curves. Lower pressure, so each one of these curves has continued to drop. The solid curve is lower. The liquid curve is lower. The gas curve is lower. But now, solid, gas, liquid. Now notice that the liquid phase curve is never the one that has the lowest free energy. If I take the solid and I increase the temperature, the most stable phase starts out being the solid, and then switches over to the gas. So what we have here is if I continue to draw boundaries on my phase diagram, the solid region of the phase diagram is all of the region up to this solid liquid coexistence line or up to this new line that I've drawn. And when I cross this line, the thing that happens as I cross that line is the solid phase has become equal and free energy to the gaseous phase. So it's in equilibrium with the gas phase, and the liquid phase is not involved anymore. So at this point, I have a solid gas coexistence curve rather than a solid liquid or a liquid gas coexistence curve. So that's the process that we call sublimation. So rather than melting a solid to form a liquid or boiling a liquid to form a gas, if the solid transforms directly into the gas without going through the liquid phase in between, we call that sublimation. And the reason that happens is because the liquid state free energy is now high enough that that's never the most stable phase. Only the solid or the gas have a chance of being the most stable phase at these low temperatures. So this begins to point out the feature that we can sometimes have just one phase. Sometimes we're on a coexistence line where we have two phases in equilibrium, solid liquid, liquid gas, solid gas. Or sometimes, like at this triple point, we have three phases in coexistence with each other. And those different locations on the phase diagram, single phase, double phase, or triple phase regions of the phase diagram have important thermodynamic differences as well, so we'll cover that next.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzKfbTUJOk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCVHSZbNip-wSx2EjXOvUkKQ	Equilateral iff Equiangular		[ "ephs;", "geometry;", "unit" ]	2012-10-01T15:45:10	2024-03-04T14:17:14	191	PcEONvlJU0g	Earlier we've talked about equilateral triangles and equi-angular triangles and we have this theorem from the first day's first day's notes A triangle is equilateral if and only if It is equi-angular So here we have an equilateral triangle we can tell because of the congruence marks And so that means each of these three angles must be congruent so if all of the angles add up to 180 and Three are congruent Then 180 divided by 3 is 60 degrees so each of the angles in an equilateral triangle equi-angular are 60 degrees So let's take a look at this theorem a little bit more and and apply it to some problems So right now this triangle Well, what kind of triangle is it? We have congruent angles angle r and angle t and what that tells me is I have an isosceles triangle for sure It's guaranteed to be an isosceles triangle and in particular since these are base angles Then our t is the base and so our s and st would be the congruent legs So let's solve for y and we can only use those pieces of information To solve for y right because they're even though it's tipped on its side Those are the legs of the isosceles triangle So since legs are congruent six y plus five is Equal to 7 y minus 13 So let's solve for y first. Let's subtract 6 y from both sides And then add 13 to both sides So we have y is equal to 18 Now if y is equal to 18 and it says we're to classify this triangle by its sides well, we know for a fact that it's an isosceles triangle because These base angles were congruent However, it's possible remember an isosceles triangle could potentially be an equilateral triangle if all three sides are congruent And so let's take this value of 18 for y and Substitute that value in for each of these three side lengths. So sub in y equals 18 for these three sides So for each of these six y six times 18 plus five that's a hundred and thirteen 78 times 18 minus 13 is also a hundred and thirteen not a surprise there because those are the congruent legs in an isosceles Triangle, but this blue statement five times 18 plus 23 is also equal to a hundred and thirteen And so what that tells me is all three of the sides are congruent to each other and so triangle rst It's not just isosceles. It's actually equilateral	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcEONvlJU0g", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCgtFFXZoUxZy3PE_dyhWDhQ	How to Know You are Living a Supernatural Life - 9 IMPORTANT Signs	David Diga Hernandez shows you how to know you are living a supernatural life using the Scripture to show you 9 signs. If you have always wondered if you are living supernaturally or want to know how to live in the spirit, this message is for you. 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Text ETV to 747474 ______________________________ 00:00 - 9 Signs of a Supernatural Life 05:42 - The Ultimate Sign 17:27 - Stay Focused on Jesus 34:06 - The Purpose of Supernatural Power 44:56 - Prayer Produces Power 59:46 - You Are Supernatural 01:01:58 - Pray This 01:06:48 - Get Involved #EncounterTV #DavidDigaHernandez	[ "How to Know You are Living a Supernatural Life", "9 important signs", "david diga hernandez", "steven moctezuma", "how to live a supernatural life", "how to live supernaturally", "how to live in the spirit", "how do i live in the supernatural", "how do i live a supernatural life", "how to surrender the holy spirit", "how do i live according to the spirit", "how to see in the spirit", "how to increase your spiritual discernment", "encounter tv", "david diga hernandez holy spirit", "holy spirit" ]	2022-06-12T02:27:56	2024-02-05T07:38:34	4,530	PcnVYIDJAT8	It's time for the church to begin to once again walk in that ancient power that the early church knew. This great power that we see demonstrated in the life of Jesus. This great power that we see demonstrated in the book of Acts. The apostles, the early church, the church martyrs. They carried something with such weight on it that it toppled nations and changed culture. And I think one of the reasons, not the only, but one of the reasons, the power of the Holy Spirit was so prevalent in certain moments of church history is precisely because were it not for the power of the Holy Spirit, they would have ceased being. I don't want to do anything in my own power. Some people are so reliant upon their own power that when the Holy Spirit removes his influence, they're not even aware because they can continue with business as usual. Yet the early church had no other choice but to depend on this power. And in looking at the trends in the world and the signs of the times, it's easy to predict you don't have to be a prophet to do so, but the church is once again entering a season where either you have the power of the Holy Ghost or you're not going to survive in this hour. And this is what we call the great sifting. This is a moment in history when the wheat is being divided from the tear. This is a moment in history when the true remnant of God's people are rising. This is a moment in history when the truly bold righteous are raising their voices against wickedness and iniquity. This is a moment in history that is ours to seize. This is a moment in history that presents the greatest opportunity that the church has ever known. I don't care what the news says. I don't care what the naysayers say. I don't care what compromising churches and pastors have to say. I know that in Christ we always have the victory because of the power of the Holy Ghost. There's no power that can stand against it. People talk about what about this spirit and that spirit and this stronghold and that stronghold. I'm here to declare tonight that whatever spirit you might be talking about, there is no spirit more powerful than the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit himself will take care of any demonic influence. People warn you, religious ones do. Be careful about growing. Be careful about getting too powerful. Be careful about going too deep in the spirit. They say things like new levels, new devils. Church, there is no devil that can walk on your level when you're walking in the presence of the Holy Ghost. Demons cannot swim in the depths of God. He's the hiding place. He's the refuge. It's not even a battle for him. The Scripture declares, He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. And this supernatural power is ours to claim. This supernatural power has not lost its potency. The one difference between those with power and those without. Actually, I should word it differently because every believer has been given that power. The problem is not every believer uses it. The difference between those who walk in that supernatural power and those who don't is one word, surrender. Surrender to the Holy Spirit. So here are some signs that demonstrate to you that you are walking in supernatural power. These are signs that demonstrate to you that you are surrendered to the Holy Spirit. But not only are these signs, these are promises. Spiritual markers to which we try to aspire. Truths in Scripture that we see available to us today. For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. The same Jesus of Paul the Apostle. The same Jesus of the early church. He's the same Jesus you and I served today. And at no point in history did God arbitrarily put his finger on the timeline of history and say, here is where I stopped working. He still works today. He's searching for surrendered vessels. Number one sign that you know you're living a life of the supernatural. Number one, you act like Jesus. It does you no good to pray in tongues if you're using that same tongue to gossip. It will do you no good to pray in tongues if you're using that same tongue to cuss out your family members in private. Will do you no good to pray in tongues if you're using that same tongue to speak lies and deception. I believe as I will list in a moment that some of the signs of walking with the Holy Spirit are demonstrations of power. That's a fact. You can't get around that. But the truth of the matter is that in Matthew chapter 7 verse 23 and onward we see that there were those who did walk in power but were still rejected. The number one sign that you have the Holy Spirit is not that you speak in tongues though I believe in speaking in tongues. The number one sign that you have the Holy Spirit is not that you can cast out devils or heal the sick though I believe in casting out devils and healing the sick. The number one sign that you have the Holy Spirit is the character of Christ in you. Galatians chapter 5 verses 22 through 23. The Bible says this but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. There is no law against these things. I think what's sad is that many believers are often bored by the basics. Don't give me a sermon on peace. Give me one on the end times. Don't tell me about patience. Tell me about prophecy. Don't talk to me about being gentle. I want to hear about dream interpretation and while those other messages are good and needed and I teach those topics too many believers are bored by the basics and because they're bored by the basics they lose the very foundation upon which you place power. This is why it's so dangerous. Many believers come to God for His power, get a touch of His power from His presence and then walk away from that presence. You say how is it possible that people can live sinful lives and still demonstrate such power? That's because the Word of God is so powerful that it still has power even when a hypocrite preaches it. It still has power even when a fraud uses it. So we're not impressed necessarily by demonstrations of power. Neither was Jesus. He was more impressed with those who would do the will of His Father. More importantly, not how many sick people have you prayed for though you should pray for the sick. The question is how many people have you demonstrated love to? How many people can point to you as an example of the character and the nature of Christ to where you demonstrate such love that it confuses them? To you respond in such a way that they can't understand? Why didn't you respond when they said that? Why didn't you fight back when they attacked you? Why didn't you do what was expected of you? You know, you had every right to get revenge. You had every right to do what you wanted to do. That kind of love and patience that confounds those who don't know the love of God. The type of character that's demonstrated when you come into contact with someone who is so broken by the world that it transforms their life when they come into contact with you. I think about how Jesus would go from town to town in person to person. I can't imagine standing with Him there in His physical form having an actual conversation with Him. I can't imagine having even a one-minute conversation with Jesus and leaving without being transformed. That truly is supernatural. To look at someone and not have to pretend to love them but to look at them and to have such love that it pierces the most stubborn of hearts. I've seen men and women of God who carry such a grace on their life that all they have to do is shake someone's hand and I've seen some of the most stubborn, hard-hearted people begin to break down and cry without even realizing why they were crying. They began to tremble because they felt such love. The very same love that was demonstrated on the cross while we were yet sinners, the Bible declares. Christ died for us. The kind of love is this selfless, giving, sacrificial. A kind of love that confounds. The kind of patience. The kind of kindness. The kind of joy that's attractive to even the unbeliever. You know, when we think of people who are spiritual I think sometimes we imagine personality types. Spirituality is not a personality type. What I mean by this is that sometimes people will pretend or they'll behave in such a way that they think is in most people's minds associated with spiritual character. So if they think someone who is spiritual is really serious, never smiling, speaks with the King James accent. If they think that's spiritual, guess what they're going to? They're going to act that way and people will be repelled by it. Why? Because people have this innate ability to recognize insincerity. They know a performance when they see it. I'm talking about such love that you can just be yourself, such surrender to the Holy Spirit that you can just be you talking to someone and they sense something different. That is probably the greatest demonstration of all the supernatural signs of the supernatural life. Is that ability to carry the nature and the character of Christ to where when you walk into a room, atmospheres change. Conversations change. The mood shifts. People who are filled with the Holy Spirit have such joy and peace about them. They become like an anchor for those who know them. Times when everyone else is losing their mind, you become that anchor they look to. That peace they sense around you. That's first and foremost you act like Jesus. Number two, you begin to drive out demons. Now I'm going to read a portion of scripture to you in Mark chapter 16. Now, believe it or not, there is a debate in the church world, at least in biblical scholarship about whether or not Matthew or Mark chapter 16, this tail end, these few verses 15 and on. There's this debate about whether or not this is actually in the original texts. In other words, some people say, well, this was probably added later and therefore it's not something that we should apply. But this is actually a common misconception. I don't have time to go into all of the details. But in researching it, I've actually found that you know how sometimes people just repeat something and people just start repeating it and it just becomes common knowledge because everyone else said it. I've actually found in researching it that the evidence for saying that this portion of Mark is not something that was included is actually quite weak and it's actually very, very, very well established that Mark chapter 16 verses 15 and on are actually a part of the New Testament gospel of Mark. Now I say this because though not everyone will have this issue, there are some who genuinely believe in the demonstrations of power, but they struggle because of this common misconception regarding this portion of scripture. But I assure you if you study it, you will find the truth. Now here's the issue. Most people will study a matter, get to the first layer, find all the objections to it and say, oh, I guess it's not a part of the Bible. You can't just study to the first layer. You got to go even deeper than that. Some would say, well, so many scholars back that position and it's true, but you'll find that many of these scholars back the position not because of research they've done, but because it's simply quote common knowledge, end quote that this portion of scripture doesn't belong in there. Now I give you that quick little lesson on biblical history there, but let's go now and dive into these verses. I can assure you these are reliable and these are a part of the Holy Bible. Mark chapter 16 verses 15 to 18. And for those of you watching online, I'll put a link in the description to one of the books that actually defends what I was talking about. And then he told them, go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved, but anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe. They will cast out demons in my name and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety. And if they drink anything poisonous, it won't hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick and they will be healed. Now let me just also say that when the scripture here mentions handling snakes, it's not speaking in the literal sense and I'll prove that to you with another verse right now. So I'm not saying that you ought to go all go buy different snakes and start handling them. I don't want to see them all around the conference center. Okay. The Bible very clearly here is speaking about demonic powers. Let me show you another verse real quick and then we'll continue talking about casting out demons. Go to Luke chapter 10. I'm going to read verses 18 through 20. Yes, he told them and this is Jesus speaking. I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. I love that verse, by the way. Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy. Who's he talking about? He's talking about Satan and his kingdom. That's the context. Now watch this and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. So very clearly here we see this link between the reference of snakes and demonic powers. Nothing will injure you, he says, but don't rejoice. And this brings even more clarity to the point that's being made, but don't rejoice because evil spirits obey you. Rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. So I would also caution believers not to base their entire identity around exorcisms. People ask me, do we have a problem with demonic oppression in the church? I say yes, but an even bigger problem is demon obsession. We're so obsessed and focused on the demonic that we sometimes get caught up in that. When there's a real simplicity to how Jesus did it, which I'll show you again from the scripture. Now here we see the Bible says don't rejoice that evil spirits obey you, but rejoice that your names are registered in heaven. In other words, rejoice in the fact that you belong to Jesus. Rejoice in the fact that you are saved. We accept the fact that we can command the forces of darkness using Christ's authority. We rejoice in the fact though that we are saved. That is the primary source of our joy. And what can begin to happen is that believers begin to base their identity, their spirituality around these side commands. Primarily we are children of God. Primarily we are to expand the kingdom of heaven. We are to evangelize the lost. We are to live holy lives. We are to worship and so forth. But something very dangerous begins to happen whenever we take our focus off of who Jesus is and place our focus onto what Jesus does. This doesn't just apply to casting out devils. It applies to healing. This applies to the prophetic. This applies to end times. This applies to defending the faith. That's how you get heresy hunters. People will take these portions, these ministries that are to be expressions out of your identity and then they build identities around it. To where I'm not a Christian, I'm a demon basher. Let me tell you, my friend, there's only one demon basher. His name is Jesus. It's the Holy Ghost. He's the only one who does it. And again, this applies not only to casting out devils. This applies to healing. This applies to prophecy. All the other things I mentioned, why do I say this? Because I've been in services where the focus was healing. I've been in services where the focus was just prophecy. Really, there's no mention of Jesus at all. I'm just going to tell you like it is because I want to equip you, especially for the times ahead. You want to know why the church had power? It's because they weren't obsessed with that power. They were obsessed with Jesus. And Jesus is that central figure, that grounding, that foundation. He is the Word. You plant yourself on Him. And if you base your life on your relationship with Him, if you find your identity in Him, then there is balance. Otherwise, we end up in all different directions. Again, this applies to many end times. Some believers base their entire worldview on eschatology, end times. Everything's all about that. That's the filter, the lens to which they see all things, rather than looking to the lens of their salvation found in Christ. That's why Jesus says, don't rejoice that the spirits obey you. Rejoice rather that your names are registered in heaven. Still we see this power that has been given to the church. Let's be real here. Demons exist. And if you're sitting here tonight and you're not aware of that, you're a target. If you're sitting here tonight because your wife or your husband dragged you here and you want nothing to do with what you might call all this Jesus stuff, I pray your eyes be open. Because the reality is that the Scripture describes the existence of demonic beings and a lot of the things that are happening in the world that don't make sense to you make sense to we who know who we are in Christ because we can see the demonic powers at work in our world even now. You want me to get real real here? I've seen demonic influence in the eyes of high ranking government officials. People don't like when we say that. That's not going to gain us any votes. It's the truth. Spiritual warfare is real. Demons exist and demons are not metaphors for evil. They're not illustrations of the darkness. Demons are sentient beings that actually exist in the spiritual realm and they affect this world. And demonic powers understand human nature. They've been around for hundreds and hundreds of years and they study human nature. They know what tempts you and they know what makes you afraid. They know how to manipulate you and they know how to deceive you. What happens here? Sometimes is that these demonic beings really they're parasites. We don't have time to get into their origins. I have teachings on my channel on the origins of demonic beings. When you really begin to study it, you'll find that demonic beings are actually parasites without physical bodies that wander the earth. What does Jesus say? When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it what? Wonders or goes through or roams through the desert seeking rest but finding none. Why is it seeking rest? Because they grow tired outside of physical bodies. Here we see in the scripture that they look to attach themselves to what you would call a host. Now we know it's a fact. It's well established that Christians cannot be demon possessed. We know that that's a fact. So who are we in Christ? We are ambassadors. We are representatives. We are called as believers to cast devils out of unbelievers. Now here's where there is some confusion. And I used to be confused on this too. Believe me, you know, there's this misconception about casting demons out of unbelievers. They said, well, you can't cast demons out of unbelievers and they get that idea from that portion of scripture I just gave you where Jesus said when an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it goes to the desert seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, I will return and it goes back to the house, finds it what? Empty, swept and clean. And then it says, it calls for seven others. Now that state is worse than before. So they say, well, don't cast it out of an unbeliever because if you cast the demon out of an unbeliever, they can end up in a worse state. But here's what that doesn't take into account. Number one, that doesn't take into account the fact that we're not promised tomorrow. So the fact that I'm betting that that person can have their demon cast out a month from now, a year from now, even 24 hours from now is a bet I'm not willing to take. Number two, that person is tormented. And think of how religious that is. I would cast it out of you but I can't because my religion tells me so. I have to leave you there like that. Like the Pharisees who wouldn't allow Jesus to heal on the Sabbath. We don't cast devils out of unbelievers because we think that somehow it's violating some code. And this is why I say you have to base your identity on Christ and not on subcultures of Christianity. The other thing this fails to take into account is that it's God's goodness that leads a man to repentance. So think about the man who came to Jesus out of the graveyard, amongst the tombs. He comes to Jesus and then he wants to what follow him. His salvation came after his deliverance. So we see that deliverance like healing, like prophecy, like any demonstration of power is actually a sign for the unbeliever. And when you drive that devil out, they are free. Saying well I don't want to cast devils out of unbelievers because they might end up worse is like saying I don't want to get my unsafe friend saved because they might end up backslidden. Really think about this. This is why we have the responsibility people of God to drive out forces of darkness. How do you do it? Simple. Actually be a child of God. That's it. It's in Christ's authority. How did Jesus do it? The scripture says with the word, he drove them out. The Holy Spirit does not debate with demons. He dominates them. Think about what we're visualizing sometimes that maybe the Holy Spirit is arm wrestling with a demon. And they're going back and forth like this. And you didn't say the right word so I don't have enough power. And give me the right words, the right prayer so you can power up my strength. No way. You say well what happens if I do that and it doesn't come out? You pray and you fast. What happens if it doesn't come out after I do that? It's probably a mental illness then. Because if it is a demon it has to obey. I'm just giving you the truth guys. This is the reality. And so we as believers have been given this power, this think about the way in which Jesus exercised this ultimate authority and power over demonic beings. It's not like I'm using my authority. I'm using his. And when you use the authority of Christ it is absolute. It is all powerful. There is no devil who is stronger than the Holy Spirit. Ms. Coleman was reported to have cast out many demons in her meetings and people see it in our meetings but when people start manifesting I have the worship team raise the music and we deal with them and then it's done. I want demons screaming nonsense on my broadcast. Also what that does, well never mind. Ms. Coleman was said to have driven out demonic powers and one instance an eyewitness who I spoke with said that this man had come up just you could see obviously demon possessed. He couldn't even get near her. Steps on the platform falls out under the power of God. She says a simple precious in the name of Jesus. I command you to go. That guy shook like violently shook, screamed and then lied still. And Ms. Coleman is only she can do in her own voice. Said that's the way Jesus did it. And you have that same power. Don't let the enemy lie to you. You don't have to be intimidated by demonic powers and I'm not talking about scoffing at supernatural beings. I'm talking about recognizing who you are in him and recognizing that you're using his authority. What do I do if they don't obey I told you if they don't obey you fast and pray then come back if they still don't obey you. It wasn't a demon. The Bible is true or it isn't. You have been given that power. Think about that authority he's placed in you to destroy the works of the devil. I pray that the church would rediscover this power of driving out demonic beings. It's not superstition. It's not old fashioned. It's not gone in past. I would dare say there's probably more demonic activity today than ever before. Sometimes we're so concerned about being politically correct and culturally correct that we placate to people's emotions and we try not to offend. I'm so sick of people trying to counsel demons out when they should be casting them out. That's a sign that you're walking in the supernatural. Number three, you minister healing to the sick. And for this biblical reference I look back to Mark chapter 16. We just read that portion. And no, it's not the power of suggestion. As many skeptics have said. Power of suggestion, power of suggestion. They tell me things like well they only got healed because they believed they would. I say that's exactly what Jesus said. Your what has made you whole. Your faith has made you whole. You can heal the sick. Why aren't you going to the hospitals? I never claimed I could. Only Jesus does. And he's present in the hospitals as well. You ever noticed Jesus didn't go to any hospitals? Because he was doing the work of his father primarily establishing his teachings, ministering salvation. I'm not saying don't go to the hospital or the streets. What I am saying is that it's not my job to heal nor is it yours. This really takes a lot of the emotional struggle off of you because when I first began in the healing ministry I would pray for the sick and when they wouldn't be healed I would just obsess over the reasons as to why they weren't. Now the Bible does give us examples of why people aren't healed. It could be a demonic attack. There could be sin in their life. That's actually biblical. Well what did Paul the Apostle write? He said some of you are sick and have even died for this reason because of the sin of taking the Holy Communion unworthily. So that's one reason. That's not always the reason but it's one reason. Another could be doubt. There were places that Jesus would go that he couldn't heal hardly anyone because they just didn't have the faith for it. Now that is a cop-out that sometimes I think preachers use too much. Well he didn't have the faith. I think well maybe that was it. It could also be the other factor that so many fail to take into account the sovereignty of God. You know people say well I don't believe that you can wield the gift of healing like they did back in the day. And I say hey I don't believe I can wield it and B I don't believe they could either. Everyone and everything even the spiritual gifts must align with God's will and in accepting the sovereignty of God it liberates you from trying to be him. Trying to have all the answers. What does the Bible say? You lay hands and he will heal. What power do we think we have other than the power of God? I mean think about that in a practical sense. I put my hands on you and a disease leaves your body. You saw it here last night. What is that? It's not me. And here's what so few people don't understand about healing. Yes there are keys to ministering to the sick such as stirring their faith ministering the word going through the deductive list of reasons as to why people may not be healed. That is all a part of the healing ministry. Yes but can I just tell you as I stand here before God I promise you I promise you I promise you there are no secrets. There are no gimmicks. There are no programs or methods. People watch and they go I wonder what he does. What's the secret? People ask me all the time because they want to learn what I've learned from people who've mentored me that they've seen and want to receive impartation from. They go they must have told you something that none of you are telling us. There must be something to it. My friend I'm telling you it's as simple as believing and trusting in the power of God and then you leave the rest to him. But people of God you have been anointed by the Holy Spirit to place your hands on the sick and watch them recover. You don't need David Hernandez to do that. God gave you that power. Well what does the scripture say? These signs will follow those who believe. Those who believe what? Those who believe the gospel message that the disciples were to spread around the world. He commands them spread this message and whoever believes this message these signs are going to follow them. When you live surrendered to the Holy Spirit healing miracles will manifest around you. When you live surrendered to the Holy Spirit you don't have to chase signs. Signs will follow you. Number four you win souls. Acts chapter one verse eight. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem throughout Judea in Samaria and to the ends of the earth those who are marked by the Holy Spirit's presence and power carry within them a passion for the lost. I would dare to go as far as saying that if you don't care that others meet Jesus I doubt that you've met him yourself. True believers reproduce. True believers plant seeds. Now we all have a different part in it. I'm not saying you all have to stand on a platform and lead people in a sinner's prayer as we sing I surrender all. What I am saying is that all of us have the part to play whether it's sowing a seed here or there of love and kindness or the message here and there or praying for someone some plant some water but God is the one who brings the harvest. All of us should be concerned for the state of the lost but those who live lifestyles of the supernatural see souls say if you're finding that your fire is dying you have to give him something to burn. And I found that many times that when you win souls it stirs something in your spirit. Well what did Jesus say to the to the woman at the well when he won her to the when he won her to the truth and the disciples come back and they're trying to feed the Lord they had gone into town to get him some food they come back they made the trip just for him and they say here have something to eat he said I've already I'm already full I'm good thanks guys and they're thinking that he have something to eat physically and he says no my food is to do the will of the one who sent me when you win souls it strengthens your spirit. You want to stay on the cutting edge keep winning souls you want to stay out of compromise and apathy and spirit spiritual laziness get back to winning souls. My friend let me ask you something and I don't want you to answer it out loud answer it within your own heart and mind when was the last time you shared the gospel with someone. No I don't mean when was the last time you were kind to someone or invited someone to church I mean when was the last time you shared the gospel message of salvation through Christ Jesus. This passion for souls is stirred by the Holy Spirit in fact it's the very purpose of his power. We just read it in Acts 1A ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon you and then what? Be witnesses those who boldly declare salvation through Christ and let me tell you something those who do this they're going to be hated by the world. The world will hate you for preaching this message because it pierces right to the very heart pierces right to the very soul it cuts deep like when Stephen the martyr was preaching the message and those who were attacking him covered their ears and began to scream I can tell you right now that I've seen this reaction from people a pastor has recently gone on to be in glory his name was Pastor Jed Smock some of you knew him some of you may not know him some of you probably know him but don't know that you know him he's a college campus preacher and Pastor Jed Smock or Brother Jed is he preferred to be called Brother Jed was one of the most misunderstood ministers of the gospel I've ever seen his message was quite confrontational and I would watch this man on college campuses in fact when I was 16 he's the one who taught me to preach the salvation message I don't use the same style and methodology but I use the same strategy if you will and this man of God would stand and he would preach on college campuses and his message was fire and brimstone turn or burn and I think sometimes we get upset with believers well that's not love well sometimes it is and you see when we get to heaven God's gonna be able to say I sent the fire and brimstone preachers I sent the kind preachers I sent the ones in the middle and everyone in between and you still didn't listen to the message so never judge another minister's method we tend to do that well you're turning them off to the gospel no Jesus said in John 3 that they're turned off to the gospel because they love sin that's why not because of your method and so his approach was I'm preaching he would tell me I'm preaching to the self-righteous I'm not preaching to those who are broken and know their sinners because I'm preaching to the self-righteous this is the college campuses now people who think they have it together they're moral, they're good, they're intelligent they have no need of God he says that's why my message is so harsh it's the Jesus was very harsh with the self-righteous and so I'd watch this man of God and he would stand up on literally like college amputators the free speech zones and I kid you not he has had bones broken property stolen he's been yelled at, cussed at, arrested and I've seen it all preaching with him I've had beer bottles thrown at me but you know I would watch him he would preach these outlandish messages but people just missed they didn't realize the genius behind his methodology he was actually a college professor they didn't even know that that he was previously a college professor just an actual when I say this I'm not exaggerating or complimenting he had an actual genius mind like a genius mind the man was brilliant but the way he presented you would never know that and that was his intention he said I want to be like an infomercial get their attention first and I would watch as he would preach boldly and loudly declaring God's judgment and wrath and people would gather hundreds and hundreds and sometimes thousands of college students would gather to hear this message and then as the day went on once he would gather a crowd he would stop with the what he would call the commercial pull up a chair, sit down and just begin to share and teach calmly and discuss and debate and reason with them and I watched this man for years he just just over the past few days ago he passed away I received the news and you know I saw one instance where an atheist had disrupted his message and so did a Christian a Christian comes up to him while he's preaching people of God this happened a believer stops him in the middle of his sermon and says I want everyone here to know that God loves you and what this man is preaching is all hate and I want you to know we don't judge you I want you to know we love you they thought they were being virtuous you know I'll never forget an atheist spoke up an atheist and says to that Christian who interrupted he says you know I've seen you on campus all the time we pass each other we talk not once have you ever told me or warned me about hell atheist now who didn't believe he said this man's been here for one day and he's pleading with me to be saved said I can conclude only one of two things either a you don't really care about me or b you don't really believe the Bible that atheist is right we don't warn the wicked of the wrath to come or share of the salvation the good news of God's forgiveness either we don't really care about the lost or we don't really believe the Bible number five sign of the supernatural life you live in prayer Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18 says pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere Jesus was often led away to pray so they consistent lifestyle the believer prayer is the activity of dependence upon God when we don't pray we're pointing our finger in the Holy Spirit's face and saying I don't need you when we go a day without prayer we're saying to God I don't need you today when we go a week without prayer we're saying to God I can handle the week without you when we live our lives without prayer we're saying to God I can live within my own strength and power proof that you believe in prayer is that you pray the Bible says pray continually continually continually this is a command to us something that we ought to choose to do church of the living God this is a spiritual discipline that we must enact but those who live in the supernatural life are constantly in prayer they may even think you're crazy sometimes because they see you looking like you're talking to yourself praying and seeking God remaining in fellowship with him day to day the practice of his presence the awareness of his nearness knowing that he is available and active and alive in every moment and in everything in every situation there is this connection that is established in your heart when you fellowship with God I'm here to remind you tonight that private prayer is revealed in public power ministry is the overflow of your prayer life what you see on this platform what you experience in the service it's an overflow of our ministry's prayer life not just mine but every single person on this platform every single person working here it's the prayers of our partners it's the prayers of our supporters it's the prayers of those who love this ministry and this is the power of the church do you talk about power? it's found in the lifestyle of prayer to consecrate yourself daily to lay your life down to acknowledge who he is in every moment when you begin to walk like this there is an actual I'm not kidding with you when I say this when you begin to walk and pray like this there's an actual tangible touch that comes on your physical being that people can sense when they get near you I could tell you story after story of people being touched by God's power I wasn't even aware of it here locally I was ministering years ago I was in the lobby outside of a church just greeting the people saying hello and this woman comes hobbling by me she's had like damage on her knee and in my peripheral I could see that she stopped stood up straight and started looking around like this and then she starts to stomp her leg on the floor and as she's stomping her leg on her floor she starts to scream and then she starts jumping up and down and then she runs up to me and she starts shaking me and I have no idea why she starts shaking me and I'm like what is going on lady? she says and she's so ecstatic she can hardly tell me she says I had a surgery on my knee that was done and they botched the surgery it left me injured and in pain and I couldn't walk correctly she says I don't know what happened all I know is when I was walking by you something jumped off of you and onto me and then the pain completely left and I'm asking the Holy Spirit I was a little bothered I'll be honest because I said Holy Spirit there are times when I'm praying for the sick and I'm just you know as if pushing their head is going to do anything you know we do these things that we think are just going to have you know we pray louder or squeeze tighter on the head or whatever we do these methods and again it's not a method it's just faith and so I'm praying and praying and praying and I'm like Lord sometimes it doesn't happen the Holy Spirit says because I live in you and every so often I like to reach out and touch people I was at another conference ministering in the elevator coming down much like what you experienced you had Aaron you told me you were shaking this is not a boast on me we've already established this is just something all believers can have I'm telling you it's not me it's who's around me Aaron tells me he was shaking he says this is what were your words you were using? I don't know you were gone you were in a whole different place and we were just having a conversation in an elevator same thing happened to me these girls are in an elevator and if you know me I don't like elevator rides Pat will tell you I always try to avoid other people in elevators because I just don't know what to say in those moments so I'm there and we're riding down the elevator these two girls are staring at me and I'm like okay I'm just looking at my peripheral one starts to just break down crying and shaking and my curiosity got the better of me I said why are you crying and she's like gasping she goes I don't know I just looked at you and there's something on you I'm telling you church it's the tangible touch of his presence when I first started to dig that well of prayer in my prayer life I was shocked at how many people were having encounters without me even knowing it I walked into my class one day I said I believe I was in eighth grade prayer life being established for eight hours a day and I had come out of this just the night before I was just in this beautiful glory and I come to the school I shake the hands of one of my friends he falls to the floor and then he gets up he goes what did you do I said I don't know he said I shook your hand I felt like an electric bolt go through me and I couldn't stand up and I said okay this is I got I got I'll be honest with you I got a little freaked out it was different and it's not just about people being slain in spirit I'm talking about carrying the glory you host that presence and when you're in prayer you're aware of that constantly which leads me to my next point number six shall I continue who is just blessing you this evening point number six you are sensitive to the Holy Spirit remember this sensitivity to the voice of the Holy Spirit is not just about how clearly you can hear him but about how quickly you respond when he speaks delay is disobedience I can't tell you how many times I've heard people brag oh I hear God all the time oh I could hear his voice and my question is always but do you obey him do you do what he says to do Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 says and do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live remember he has identified you as his own guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption I'm talking about a fear of God that prevents you from gossiping I'm talking about a fear of God that prevents you from criticizing men and women of God and ministries just because you don't understand them I'm talking about a fear of God that keeps you from secret sin I'm talking about a fear of God that keeps you committed to prayer and the word even when no one is looking I'm talking about a fear of God that causes you to say within yourself I'm not going to quit I'm talking about a fear of God that won't allow you to withhold when God tells you to give I'm talking about a fear of God that won't let you watch certain things listen to certain things go certain places and be around certain people and then be okay with others thinking that you're weird for it I'm talking about a fear of God that says I want to please you above all that fear simply is grieving him sensitivity to the Holy Spirit I was ministering Chicago Illinois Steve you were there issue were there and then I think Nick you were in the lobby or you never went to Chicago okay well Steven issue were there we're in Chicago and I'm ministering I'm getting ready I'm ironing my shirt as I'm ironing I felt this weight come on the room you know like earlier today and I felt like I was just waiting in like this current of water and it was so heavy I said I just want to be very very careful about the way I step I know it's odd we don't always understand this and I'm not talking about legalism some people so paranoid they're they feel guilty if they didn't pick out the right shirt for the day and they wonder if they missed the Holy Spirit it's not what I'm talking about but I sense this and I knew in that moment it was a tangible touch of his power and so what I began to do was host that tangible touch of his presence I started worshipping and praying and then I go down to the lobby and you Steven issue were there and a few other guys you were all talking about something you weren't talking about anything that was worldly or secular just basic things sports where we would eat oh have you seen Chicago very very very benign conversation as I listened to the conversation that began to lift so I stepped away for a moment I said okay something I don't want to lose what I'm sensing and I walked over and on the television screen I saw a program wasn't wicked wasn't demonic wasn't anything that was blatantly evil it was just a regular like news program like I would have no issue with my daughter sitting in the lobby while we were waiting and sing what was on the screen it was so innocent even as I looked at that TV screen I began to sense that that that tangible touch start to weaken so then I go to the lobby I tell Steve I said Steve you're gonna have the talk to the Uber driver because I don't I don't want to disrupt what I'm sensing I put my headphones on I just started listening to worship music and I'm trying to just we got 15 minutes to get to the service so I'm just for that 15 minutes I'm trying to preserve what I sense and then as I'm looking out the window I see restaurant signs and you know signs for legal services and again nothing evil nothing blatant nothing filthy just mundane everyday things and as I began to look at those signs and see those things I also felt that beginning to weaken and it was as if the monotony of everyday life itself was an insult to the glory of God so I just like a crazy person I just stared at the back the seat in front of me and I'm just praying we get to the service I go to the back room I didn't want to look at anyone talk to anyone and then I come onto the platform eyes closed I didn't want to look out at the people I start worshiping and what I sensed on my physical being intensified and then filled the room it was like I carried an ember to the service and the worship of the people caused it to become a flame now I'm not talking about sensitivity to the Holy Spirit that wraps you in legalism as I said I'm not talking about it being a way of life that every little thing like that always those are rare moments that that tangible touch comes on you like that but that's the way we have to carry his presence in our lives when we're in a conversation that just isn't quite right to actually leave that conversation when someone has something on the TV if it's our house we tell them to change it if it's someone else's house we go to a different room when there's a place that you're at and it just doesn't quite fill right you know how many movies I walked out of and my friends thought I was weird so I gotta go to the lobby I'm sorry and they would make fun of me and snicker and laugh how many times there are things that others may allow that you won't you have to just tell them sometimes maybe the destiny I'm going for is not the destiny you're going for let me just say it like it is maybe you want that anointing on your life more than they do and I've often said that when you get saved you lose your unsaved friends when you start walking in the anointing you lose some lukewarm friends too and I'm talking about that life of sacrifice yes if you could call it that because I don't know if there is such a thing being that he always gives back more than we give to him I'm talking about a life of sanctification being set apart sensitive to his voice and I'll give you the final three real briefly number seven you walk in God's provision supernatural provision think about Matthew chapter 17 verses 24 through 27 where Jesus orders the disciples to pull up a fish and there's a coin in the fish's mouth I'm so tired of people fearmongering can I just be blunt with you? remember in Matthew 6 when Jesus says you can't serve two masters you can't serve mammon and God and then he says this is why I tell you not to worry in other words he was saying that worry is how you worship mammon every time you worry about money you're holding a worship service for mammon now I thought first when the Holy Spirit told me that I thought no that can't be surely surely you understand that sometimes we get a little nervous he said no I want faith yes you could acknowledge that things are tight you can acknowledge that but to worry is to worship mammon the multiplication of food in Matthew chapter 14 verses 13 through 21 you may think you don't have enough but he brings it out those who walk in the supernatural walk in God's supernatural provision number eight those who walk in the supernatural walk in God's supernatural protection we saw that in Mark chapter 16 where it says if they drink anything deadly it won't hurt them now here the Scripture is not saying go drink poison you know there are churches who do that they'll give their members poison to drink to prove they have the faith no no because think of Matthew 4 in Matthew 4 the devil tells Jesus something similar he says if God truly will send his angels to protect you why don't you throw yourself off the building and the angels will catch you he says no you shall not test the Lord you're gone so the promise of divine protection is not the invitation to put yourself in danger so wear your seat belt so that's number eight you walk in God's protection and number nine you walk in God's peace these are the marks of the supernatural life surrendered to the Holy Spirit now as I said not only are these signs of the supernatural working in you these are promises to obtain a standard by which we measure ourselves a truth to aspire to you are a supernatural being I want you to say this out loud say I am supernatural do you really believe that write that in the comment section you watching live or on the replay I am supernatural that's who we are goes down to one thing surrender surrender to the Holy Spirit we often pray things like Holy Spirit I want you to fill me heaven responds he wants to fill you you're just too full of yourself we so often cry out for him we say give me more give me more give me more of your Holy Spirit give me more of your power you realize child of God the moment you were born again the fullness of his power and this person came to dwell in you it's not about you getting more of the Holy Spirit it's about the Holy Spirit getting more of you you want to know the key to the supernatural life you want to know the key to what the martyrs had the early church had it's the death of self I am crucified with Christ to be able to say no longer I live but Christ lives in me to be like Enoch who walked with God and was not for God took him I often say to the Lord Lord I want to be a was not too I want to cease to be I want to be a portal through which heaven can touch earth I want to be an empty place for you to fill I want to be a surrendered vessel for you to use Lord in my weakness please be strong you want that stand your feet lift your hands begin praying out loud in the Holy Ghost now Kondo robobosente Kondo robobosente de enterre bebe kente now please no moving around no walking not right now not right now movement should be limited to emergencies only there's no reason to be getting up and down emergencies only reverence reverence reverence for the presence of the Holy Spirit you online continue to pray with us if the voices and sing I sing praises to your name soft lift your voices church oh Lord name is great and greatly to be praised sing it again I sing praises to your name as we sing it in my life Lord be hands and say this the Holy Spirit use me I'm a yielded vessel Holy Spirit for those areas of my heart that I struggle to surrender give me the grace to surrender give me the grace to submit tell them this church tell them I give myself to you my mind my heart my body it's yours Holy Spirit as your people stand here desiring to be used by you to power come on them now it's same power that came and shook the building in the book of Acts chapter 2 come mightily upon them now mighty name of Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa don't be afraid that's the power of God don't be afraid pray in the Holy Spirit church it's here it's here it's here just lift your hands ask him to place ask the Holy Spirit himself to lay hands on you ask the Holy Spirit to lay hands on you right now there it is there it is there it is thank you Jesus thank you Jesus whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa yep yep yep that's the power of God just ask him ask him ask him it's here it's here ask him ask him I'm telling you this is the real deal it's right here it's right here the very same the very same in the book of Acts fire in Jesus name whoa there it goes there it goes there it goes there it goes all across this room that's the power of God now use it use it use it I sense such a strong and on lift your voices pray in the Holy Spirit keep praying keep praying keep praying keep praying keep praying Kondo robobos sentedient pray pray pray pray pray Kondo robobos get this guy in the in the blue shirt in the blue shirt quick Kondo robobobo you watching online too the Holy Spirit's power is moving God is moving he's going to touch you I promise quickly now Sergio quickly keep praying keep praying keep praying keep praying keep praying lift your hands search touch in Jesus pick them up guys what are you feeling on you I have no way to describe it thank you Lord thank you Lord keep praying church keep praying Kondo robobos sentedient baby baby baby that one that one receive it all receive it all receive it all receive it all in the mighty name of Jesus keep praying church keep praying fire in Jesus name whoa God is here lift your hands receive it come on watch out Pat oh Kentedient it's the power of bring her here if she can get here take your seats there's such a strong power help them to their seats if they can and we're not even halfway there yet church we're not even halfway there I want to get something out of the way not that it's not important but I want to do it now and then we'll get right back into the flow here I sent such a stirring and anointing the Bible says in 1 Kings chapter 17 and you watching online don't tune out I promise you the power of the Holy Spirit is tangible and that same power here is going to touch your life we're going to believe in just a few minutes bodies will be healed people will be delivered the church will be empowered but the Holy Spirit has instructed me to get this out of the way and again I must emphasize it's not because it's not important it's very important but I must do this now 1 Kings 17 8-16 before I read that I want you guys to see next to you those of you in attendance and Tim we can start posting the links on the chat section I want everyone in the chat watching live to click on the link that they're posting now my moderators are posting it and Mr. Lay is posting it too those of you who are here there was a paper that we gave you when you walked in pull that paper out I want to show you something I want you to see God's hand of provision here pull out that paper on the paper there's a QR code I want you to scan that with your phone's camera scan that with your phone's camera if you don't have the paper in front of you you can take your camera and zoom in on that code if you don't know how to use it ask someone next to you and they're going to help you with that and Ruben quickly please deal with that outside thank you that's the faster pace please Ruben and then we're going to handle that now now go ahead and open that QR code and you're going to see a link how many got the link wave at me if you got the link how many still need help wave at me if you need help okay good I want you to scroll down because I want you to see something I'm going to I'm going to do it too because I don't have the link you online in the comment section you click it too I'm just going to be real straight up with you you see what it costs and you see where we are we need God's people to make that sacrificial gift to help us finish off these costs so that we can keep doing these conference we don't want to say no to any region any nation we want to keep saying yes I'll tell you it costs what it costs it costs what it costs we do our best to save here and there but these events cost what they cost and we don't charge people at the door because we want to give it away for free and now you can hear from the Holy Spirit and out of your own free will decide in your heart what to do and as you're looking at that you'll see how the giving of others progresses and causes it to go up and you'll see how our collective joint efforts together can make all the difference so you can use that form right there on that link and you'll see it jump you online you can do the same thing and we can collectively see this happen now watch this first King 17 8-16 then the Lord said to Elijah go and live in the village of Zarathath near the city of Saddam I have constructed a widow there to feed you so he went to Zarathath as he arrived at the gates of the village he saw a widow gathering sticks and he asked her would you please bring me a little water in a cup as she was going to get it he called to her bring me a bite of bread too he's a little forward but that's okay he's a prophet but she said I swear by the Lord you're gone that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house and I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal and then my son and I will die but Elijah said to her don't be afraid go ahead and do just what you've said but make a little bread for me first then use what's left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son for this is what the Lord the God of Israel says there will always say always they will say it again say always there will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again so she did as Elijah said and she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for many days there was always enough food there was always enough flour and olive oil left in the containers just as the Lord had promised to Elijah here we see a woman in a difficult situation the famine much like what we're facing today people talk as I mentioned last night of inflation you're filling it you're filling it at the gas pump you're filling it at the grocery store you're filling the push of inflation you're sensing the power of the currency losing its ability but though the dollar may lose its power though currency may lose its power I'm here to remind you that God has not lost his power and God will provide all your needs now watch this the Prophet comes to her can you imagine the Prophet coming to this woman and she's saying to herself I'm just going to eat this my son and I and then we're going to die and the Prophet says okay great plan but while you're at it make me some bread too and then also if you have a cup of water that would be great and so he's asking and he's making request and people today would criticize the Prophet how dare you ask that woman in such a trying time but I'm here to tell you that the Prophet asked not because he was being selfish but because he knew that this woman was one step away from a miracle now I'm not here to promise you the moon I'm not here to say that if you give tonight you're going to live a perfect life of health wealth and happiness that's not the promise of the gospel but what I can say is that the scripture declares I've never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread it's not going to happen and so just like this woman who barely had enough to make it I'm challenging you to give and to give generously you see what she had wasn't enough anyway and if what you have isn't enough that's not your harvest that's your seed if what you have isn't enough that's not your harvest that's your seed and the scripture talks of giving generously to God's work and God responding to that generosity with an increase in resources this goes for those watching online too I know sometimes we can feel disconnected because it's a live stream but this promises for you too God will provide no matter what but I'm talking about stepping into something greater I'm talking about not allowing that voice of fear to consume you but instead stepping over and saying God I'm going to trust and even as you look at this site right now look you can see the people giving you can see that going up you can see the increase I'm telling you God's doing it you can see the bar getting larger I believe this entire need can be met tonight I have no doubt I've seen it happen before I've seen more than this happen before in a single night but all it takes is the people of God by-facing you know what? I'm just going to do my absolute best you hear from the Holy Spirit you do your absolute best and watch how your giving impacts it now if you use the QR code you will see if you give on that page you will see your giving impact the event I'm challenging those of you online click that link in the chat I'm challenging those of you here to also continue to give you can see the breakdown there more importantly church we give because we love Jesus we give because we love souls we give because we love the gospel and if it seems like I'm rushing it's because I am because I want to get on to the next thing now but this is important we do have to take care of it now I'm going to ask the ushers to come they have the offering envelopes if you'd rather not give on this form that's fine we have envelopes we're going to pass those out right now for those of you who want to give by cash or check if you want to give by card you can use that form right there on the link that we gave you if you want to give by cash or check you can give using an envelope whatever you do do it generously unto the Lord look at this look at the need coming in guys look at how God's people are responding from all around the world and from this place and I believe God is going to meet this need and then this will enable us of course to continue doing our work into the next few months this will enable us to put things toward the studio that we're building in Round Rock, Texas and I believe it guys I believe God's going to do it and I believe God's going to do it in your life too often we hold back because we're afraid that if we give there might be lack in our house but I'm here to tell you that givers never lack givers never lack and as you release that seed as you release that generosity you're giving a sign to God that he can trust you with the resources that he gave you what did he show you in your vision? what did he show you in your business? what did he show you in your ministry? what did he show you for your future? you may at times wonder about the dream that God gave you but I'm here to tell you that the dream will not die the dream will come to pass but he just wants you to step out in faith step out in faith respond to the voice of the Holy Spirit thank you to those of you online I'm seeing the many gifts coming in from online I'm seeing the many gifts come in from those of you in this place thank you, thank you, thank you for your support and if you're watching this a month from now, a year from now you can just use the information on the screen to support the ministry in general but I want to say thank you for your support I really mean that I don't take that for granted it's, I know especially in times like this most of us were going okay we got to plan a little differently now and we get through that season I'm right there with you and there are some who they didn't even know there was inflation like what do you mean inflation? I didn't even pay attention to what was happening that's good then God's blessed you and that way that's wonderful but I know that for many it's a challenge I want to say from the bottom of my heart thank you we do not take this for granted and we use your resources with as much wisdom as we can possibly muster from our staff and we are, we are as effective as we can possibly be with what you invest in this ministry so thank you to those of you giving online thank you to those of you giving in person lift your hands let's pray for God to bless it then we're going to worship and just let the Holy Spirit do as only he can do Father in the name of Jesus I pray Lord that you would begin to bless your people Lord I thank you that they're responding as led by the Holy Spirit I thank you that those here are obeying your voice I thank you for a people who are sensitive to you Holy Spirit who are willing to obey you despite what they may fear that they're willing to put their trust in you I thank you Lord for those watching online right now live and on the replay who are willing to step out in faith and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit and I pray Lord that you would rebuke the devourer on their behalf I pray Lord that you would not only cause them to survive in this season but to thrive Lord I pray not only for provision but for biblical heavenly prosperity I pray Lord that not only would they have enough but Father that they would have more than enough Lord that the needs would be met and that there would still be enough left over to help others near them in the mighty name of Jesus we pray and the church said Amen	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnVYIDJAT8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCXFW3IRzfCc6q_XM-uutAmw	Rational Alchemy: AJ Foxx, Sobremesa Creative Solutions	Nigel welcomes AJ Foxx of Sobremesa Creative Solutions to talk about modeling, live performing, and digital branding of live events. Produced by T.G. Lewis at the Captn's Lounge for CiT NETWORK.	[ "Longmont", "Longmont Public Media" ]	2023-01-04T20:52:29	2024-04-22T18:30:09	1,489	PCmGsnhBUT8	Welcome to another edition of Rational Business. I'm joined at the table today by a very special guest, A.J. Fox, who you could easily consider a creative solutioner. A.J., welcome to the table. Thank you so much for having me, Nigel. You are involved in so many things that it's almost impossible to find a good starting point. But let's start with your business. I guess I should say businesses. I have multiple businesses. My main business is Sobra Mesa Creative Solutions. Sobra Mesa is a word that isn't really translatable in English, but it comes from a Spanish word, which basically talks about sitting around a table with friends and having community and having good talk over like coffee or like a pastry or something like that kind of that feeling and that environment that's created. What was that word again? Sobra Mesa. All my best ideas have come from sitting with my friends, other creatives around a table and just like having a snack and like brainstorming, shooting off like different things to one another. And it's been really cool. I really started doing more of like the event work. I was doing event work before COVID, but that slowed down for obvious reasons. For very obvious reasons. And then Rufio from Rue Entertainment, he puts on monthly events with Ritual Noise in Denver every second Friday at Tracks Nightclub. And they needed a vendor manager and he gave me an opportunity and I knew nothing about like vendors or management. But once I started to pick up on it, I like realized I was like, oh, wow, I was kind of built for this every time I was younger and they like shut down a street and put up booths. I was there. I was like, I want to go. What's going on? Who are these people? And I just really like knowing different people who do different things. So it just fits in well. Right. I mean, you must have a vast collection of expertise in all different areas. Jack of all trades kind of type of deal. I have like ADHD, so hobby jumping and just kind of staying on my feet and always trying to go deeper and see what I can do more and how I can be helpful has always been a big part of like getting into what I do. Right. In your business itself. Okay. So you do a lot of work. What was the name of the gentleman again? With Renfyo. With Rue Entertainment and Ritual Noise. Oh, Rue Entertainment. Right. So you do a lot of work with Rue Entertainment. But how about you on your own? Because you also organize events locally. Yeah. So I wanted to, you know, after getting into the vendor management stuff, I wanted to create more opportunities locally because like Denver is a track and I don't want to go there all the time every single time I work in event. So I really wanted to get into local events. I started a second business with my best friend Emily Rodriguez and we have a business called creative strokes events, which is kind of like a mash between my business and her business. And we put our names together. Nice. So we do local events and we've been doing that for about a year together. We're about to do our sixth event together, which will be the giving season's fair. November 5th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. We're shutting down the street and we're going to be hosting vendors inside and outside of Longmont Public Media, which I also do event work and vendor management with them as well. We're going to talk about that in a few minutes. Right. So, yeah, I know the whole starting events here. My friend Emily came at me with a really cool idea. She was working closely with the Altona Grange Hall and helping them with like their foods and flea markets type of like market series and thought that we had the potential to do something really cool. So we did like a fall festival there. It was a really fun time. Followed it up with like a makers market in December. Really good time. We try to focus on like just small business owners, makers, artists, cottage type of maker things. I like it. I like it because you're always trying to help. I don't want to use that. I was going to use a word I shouldn't use. You always want to try and help the smaller businesses be successful. I'm all about like small business support, you know? I think so many creative people and people who have an idea, they have this idea. It's a great idea, but how do you execute it? Like how do you break up that big goal into like bite-sized chunks and turn it into something that you can actually like achieve and that's just where like coordination and organization comes in. So a lot of, sometimes it feels like you're hurting cats. Sometimes it's always worth it, every single time it's worth it to just see people be able to like show up in the world the way that they want to show up in the world. I agree. I agree. Especially when it comes to this aspect because here at the Captain's Lounge, for instance, we had a lot of trouble marketing who the Captain's Lounge is. Right. What the CIT network is. And so I've been delving into that over the last couple of months and boy, what a confusing area to work in. Right. Branding. Oh, branding. Right. It is so difficult. It can be. It can be, like even for me, it's hard. I think a lot of people like creative entrepreneurs, they have so many different areas of passion, you know? Like I know that you're not just podcast interviewer, you do photography. Right. You're also like everywhere in the community. I see you all over the place. And I mean, I have my hands in so many different like places as well. I like to make vision maps with like my clients and it's something like a therapist passed down to me like years ago. Figure out what your mission statement is, what your big goals are, the things that support you in achieving those goals, the things holding you back and achieving those goals. It's really cool. But that's kind of what I start out every single time, just helping people get narrowed down on like really what is their mission statement. Right. We actually did work on our own mission statement and we've helped from someone else and we've actually stuck to it pretty good. The problem we're having, of course, is getting the name out. Right. And that's always the problem. Right. And everyone suffers from that. Yeah, everyone does. But you know, the solution is actually really easy. You need to show up for your community and your community needs to show up for you. And there's the case. Yeah, that's the key. Community's showing up for you. It is. All the answer is in community. You know, these corporations are going to, like, I mean, maybe if you get like a sponsorship or something in the future. But as far, if we're talking like on local, boutique, business, small business level, you need to show up. You need to make neighbors. You need to know beyond like a first name basis with the people who own that restaurant or, you know, whatever it is, the services, the two people like neighbors again, you know, I think it's been interesting after COVID. As we're talking about the community, that now brings us into the Longmont public media. Right. And you really surprised me. You've only been working with them since August. Right. Well, they've only been doing like events on the level that they're doing since August. It's very new to them. Longmont public media started during COVID. So they didn't have the opportunity to get their name out there. They kind of like, you know, when you're a new business, you can come into the scene with like some momentum. You know, you're like, we're new. Well, this is what we're doing. Like get excited about us. We're excited about being here. And you missed out on that during COVID. You're not allowed to do anything. And then also it's a very small operation and different personality types. Not everyone has the energy level. We'll be like, hey guys, we're Longmont public media, you know? Right. It's important to have people who do want to show up and do things like that. Right. I met their marketing manager, Ryan, in a really funny way. We met playing Pokemon Go. Longmont has a really impressive Pokemon Go community. Hold on a second. I have got to do this. Yes. What? Yeah. No, he literally, we're in a group chat on Facebook that I randomly got added into, because I wanted to play like raid Pokemon with people and I don't have enough in real life friends that will play Pokemon with me. So you have to make them online. And it's a very local group. He posted in there one time. He's like, hey, I'm with Longmont public media and we're going to start doing events. We're looking for people who are interested in being involved, essentially. And I was like, hey, I'm an event coordinator and vendor manager and I've been looking to do more things in Longmont, more things I can have my kid involved with as well. So sign me up. And came, I did a tour. My mind was blown when I did a tour at LPM. I had no idea that that kind of space with all these resources and all this equipment was all available to the community for free. And, you know, I was just blown away because I do photographic opportunities and events with my business, Sobra Mesa. And I do like a Sobra Mesa creatives photo shoot every month with a different theme. And I'm always looking for different studio spaces, different areas to shoot. And it just seemed like kind of like a one, like one place to just stop and resolve all my issues that I run into with every single time, lacking equipment, lacking space, lacking lighting or something always happens. Oh, that's a guarantee. Right. So I was just like, my mind was blown. I did a couple of events with Ryan, just weekly events and they were fine. It was a slow start because people didn't know. But, you know, that's kind of what we were expecting. And then we had to hit it really hard because we got put with doing the member drive in September and it was like two weeks or sorry, not two weeks, but it was like a lot of them just trying to get new members to sign up and we got a bunch of new members to sign up. We had a bunch of great events going on and the community that's shown up and shown out for LPM has been super like just like astounding. It's really cool. There's a lot of people who don't walk in that space and just you can just see like the wheels and the gears turning in their head. Right. Yeah. And I'm just like, what kind of art are you going to make here? Nice. Yeah. Longmont Public Media. Let's talk about that for just a little bit more. It's in a wonderful old building located on 4th and Kimbart here in Longmont. And when you walk in, you can just feel the energy of the building. I don't know what it is. And they've got a beautiful studio area which is very large. They've got mixing boobs, recording. They have a podcast studio. Podcast studio. They have like the audio engineering. Yeah. They have like printers if you need to print out, like make prints of anything. They have like computers with all the editing software you need for video or photo. They have like live Twitch streaming. Right. Availability. It's just crazy the amount of like opportunity. Right. That is in that space. And we were faced with like, you know, the city of Longmont was really trying to focus on making sure that the budget was being used in a way that wasn't the best use for the city and the people. And so we had to present and show up to city council meetings every week. I went for three weeks in a row and I spoke and I made like a speech. And I've never talked to like the mayor or like city council or anything like that. And it was really cool seeing how many people came from different corners and places of Longmont just to show up for LPM and even people at like the city meeting who weren't there for LPM were like, actually LPM has impacted my life in a positive way too. And they're a staple to our community. So continuing just to get more eyes and ears with, again, like coming back to that, it's just, it's hard to get out there. There's so much content to digest. It's getting thrown at you all the time, getting people to look at your promotions, your flyers, come to your events, come to your classes. Oh man. It's difficult. It is. It's difficult. Any other words to talk about on your business or Longmont public media? Because we're now going to change if we've got nothing more to say. Well, I guess the whole thing with the business and LPM that ties in is community. I'm passionate about community and I'm passionate about helping people make the art that they want to see in the world. Right. So that can very much just sum that up. I've got an amazing event coming up as well. We talked about that. It's like the giving season's fair, but that is like, if you are an artist or if you have a small business in the area or if you are trying to provide like a service or you're trying to put the things you make out there in the world or if you like to bake, this is a great opportunity to set up a table and to meet so many people in the public in the community and to do the thing that you love to do. So anyone who's interested in that can always get a hold of me. Absolutely. Change gears. Yeah. Modeling. Yes. You also do an awful lot of modeling. I do. And we've had the pleasure, of course, of working together. Right. Couple times now. Couple of times now, but how did you get into modeling? Oh, man. I got into modeling when my mom worked at the Dillards at the Twin Peaks Mall that was torn down here in Longmont and they set up a runway show and they needed like models. So like everyone got their kids involved. I like walked the runway in the mall. How old were you? I was probably like eight or nine. Oh, nice. Super young in like the school uniform type of deal. And I was, I don't know, I've always been like a thespian at heart. And I was like in musicals and plays growing up, did photography classes in school, would take photos of my friends, they'd take photos of me. So it was really like a hobby for a long time and then I started managing models and I wasn't a model. But then every time I was managing models and going with them to their shoots and making sure that they had their outfits like just helping with all the back, like the behind the scenes stuff. While the malls were getting ready, the directors would be like, hey, let's get a couple of photos of you or whatever. So I'd jump in, get a couple of photos and it would be cute. I'd be like a new profile picture. I didn't think too much of it and then people started to ask me to model more and more. And then it turned into brand ambassadorships and like promo modeling, which is like I do mostly like, I just did like a brand shoot for like a lingerie company that's like locally owned. So mostly that's like the kind of work I do is with local people. With local businesses that need someone to show off their product. Yeah, that's what I like to do. And of course it doesn't have to be clothes. You could be holding something, standing on something, sitting in something. It could be anything. We've done like a whole variety of clothes and not clothes shoots. Like I mean some of the alcohol commercials, they want like a really like classy, elegant, like put together look in some of them. They're like, do a Jello shot off your friends butt. Hold on, let me make a note of that. I want to see that video. I was actually going to print it out, print out the still image. It's just so glorious. I want to hang it above my mantle and get one for my friend who is my co-model in that because that was a good time. But I love modeling. The photographic events that I do every month are so that way I can just like create a different theme to add to portfolios for people and like another opportunity. I'm very much like into making sure that like BIPOC and LGBTQ plus like people can get in front of the camera. Anyone of any experience level should be able to get in front of a camera at any point and feel confident. And feel, yeah, uncomfortable. And comfortable. And just have a good interaction with like person taking the photos and getting the photos taken, the environment. So sometimes like the group meetups can be really intimidating for models or photographers and you almost like want to go with a friend so that way you don't feel out of place. Out of place. Right. But the photo shoots every single month they're a blast and they just keep getting better and better. And we get to like feature a different photographer in the area. So it's nice because you get a group of models to network with that photographer. They get to check out that style. Yeah. You know, interact with that person because each person, each photographer brings something so different. I'm glad you mentioned that because people don't realize it but every photographer does something a little different. Right. They look at different angles. They different lighting techniques. Different editing styles. Different editing styles. Right. You know, and I mean your work even and it changes from set to set. It depends like what you're doing. What you're doing if you're doing something outdoors or if you're going to do something more set up. Yeah. I was doing, I did a shoot with a very good friend of mine, April T's. Mm-hmm. And she wanted to do a sunflower shoot. Mm-hmm. So we went and did the sunflower shoot all locally here, even though she lives up in Bailey of all places. Wow. That's far. At 9,000 feet. I did a series of color and I just did, you know, very standard colors type photographs and I'm looking at them and going, you know what, I'm going to make these look like they came from the 1800s. And I've got software that will allow me to do that. Mm-hmm. And I turn this whole set into something that looked like it just came from the turn of the 18th, 19th century. A little sepia-ish, but not too much. Mm-hmm. Really look sweet. Sent them off to her and she said, job well done. Right. Exactly. And that's like the whole thing and it's like being it just, again, getting faces to meet. Yeah. So that way like, you have common interests. Maybe we could have common interest and common together. Absolutely. And share space. Absolutely. Well, so yeah, and make art. It's like the shoot we did down at the Speak Easy when we first really got to know each other. Right. That was good. It was our first time meeting. We were friends on Facebook for a while before then. Yeah. And it was so nice because everyone got on. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. And that's something else people don't understand. If I'm not having fun behind the camera and you're not having fun in front of the camera, the results are going to suck. Right. However, if you both work together in a teamwork type thing, so much better. It is. I mean, that's also why when I perform, I usually have a performing partner too because I'm sure I could go and perform and do a whole act just on stage just by myself. But having someone, I do comedy burlesque. So having a partner to interact with and pull funny pranks with and gags with and everything is so much better. And at the end of the day, you know, I involve food. I need someone to smush the cake on me. Right. It's just better that way. It's funny because a lot of models starting out afresh, see, you have done this without realizing it. They say, Nigel, can you give me any tips? And I say, yes. Go along to your community theater and try out for a show. Right. That is going to give you everything that you need for photography. You're going to have to be on stage. There's going to be light shining on you. There's going to be people barking orders at you, asking you to do something. And it is a great way of learning what you have to do when you get into modeling. Right. Because people don't realize it. As soon as you are in front of an audience, modeling, acting, giving a talk, giving a presentation to 10,000 people, it's all acting. It is all acting. I like to call it code switching. Okay. Different environments need different types of energy. Yes. And I have an energy budget. So deciding, it's like we're doing the podcast first thing in the day because if we did that at 1 p.m., different version of me. Different version. I can understand that. For sure. But I just think that it's important to know how to turn it on. Yes. To just turn it on, to know it's like, okay, to really know when to show up and how to present yourself in the way that you want to present yourself. Absolutely. Again, with the branding comes back to branding, you know, branded as comedy, burlesque food type of fun performances. If I did something that was outside of that realm, people would probably enjoy it, but it would be a little confusing. Yes. And people, but people already love what I do and that gives me an area to keep pushing and pushing. So I think once you know what lane you want to be in, you can really, like the only competition you should be in is yourself. Because like once you start comparing and contrasting yourself to other actors, performers, creators, that's like you comparison games, the imposter syndrome kicks in. And you know, we don't have time for that. No. No one is going to be a better you than you. That's like comparing apples to oranges. You wouldn't go and eat an apple expecting it to taste like an orange. And when you want an orange, I think that there's plenty of space in the world for us to show up as who we want to be showing up as. And I think that there's plenty of space for us to support other people, even if they do photography too and you're doing photography, even if they're doing comedy burlesque too and you're doing comedy burlesque or whatever, there doesn't need to be like a competition type of vibe at all. I mean, April Tees, who I mentioned earlier, she has her own burlesque group. Very, very successful. Awesome. So it's kind of nice. We should probably think about wrapping this up for now. Yeah. I've got a funny feeling that we can probably sit here for another hour and talk about stuff. I mean, yeah. Do you have any closing comments? Oh, man. Closing comments. Closing comments. Don't be afraid to be yourself or to do the thing that has been, you've been held back to do life is short and don't take it for granted. Make the art that you want to make in the world the way that you feel most authentically to show up. Don't assume the capacity of yourself or others and just show up in the best way that you can. Absolutely. Couldn't agree more of you. AJ, thank you so much for coming into the studio. Thank you, Nigel. This was just a wonderful interview. It makes such a pleasant change from in politics. Oh, I know. I'm about to go into that soon. Oh, well, I hope you've enjoyed this interview. We've only scratched on the surface of who AJ really is, but she has given a lot of very useful information and a lot of good tips and she's just a really open and honest person. So, you know, if you're in the Longmont area and you need help with an event or modeling or whatever, contact AJ, she will be able to help you. Also, top left-hand corner of the screen, there's a subscribe button. Please hit it. On Nigel Aves, your host, signing off. We're in the Captain's Lounge Studio and that was a rational business. Thank you very much. Take care out there. Bye-bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCmGsnhBUT8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC6JhS4GvWf3AJfOTfkrse2w	Simulation #511 Daniel Goodwin - See Biology as an Engineer	Daniel Goodwin is a PhD student at MIT Media Lab making technologies to explore the brain. Previously he was an entrepreneur, co-founder of MileIQ, and EIR at IDEO. http://danielrgoodwin.com https://media.mit.edu/groups/synthetic-neurobiology LinkedIn ► https://linkedin.com/in/danielrgoodwin ***** Simulation interviews the greatest minds alive to inspire you to build the future ► http://simulationseries.com Design Merch, Get Paid, Spread Thought-Provoking Questions ► https://yoobe.me/simulation *** Subscribe across platforms ► Youtube ► http://bit.ly/SimYoTu iTunes ► http://bit.ly/SimulationiTunes Instagram ► http://bit.ly/SimulationIG Twitter ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTwitter Spotify ► http://bit.ly/SpotifySim *** Facebook ► http://bit.ly/SimulationFB Soundcloud ► http://bit.ly/SimulationSC LinkedIn ► http://bit.ly/SimulationLinkedIn Patreon ► http://bit.ly/SimulationPatreon Crypto ► http://bit.ly/CryptoSimu PayPal ► https://paypal.me/simulationseries *** Nuance-driven Telegram chat ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTG Allen's TEDx Talk ► http://bit.ly/AllenTEDx Allen's IG ► http://bit.ly/AllenIG Allen's Twitter ► http://bit.ly/AllenT ***** List of Thought-Provoking Questions ► http://simulationseries.com/the-list Get in Touch ► simulationseries@gmail.com	[ "simulation", "science", "technology", "simulation series", "Allen Saakyan", "Daniel Goodwin", "Dan Goodwin", "See Biology as an Engineer", "Biology as an Engineer", "biology", "biotechnology", "biotech", "engineer", "engineer with biology", "engineering with biology", "biotech engineer", "MIT", "MIT Media Lab", "brain", "neuroscience", "neurobiology", "synthetic neurobiology", "Ed Boyden", "MileIQ", "IDEO", "dan goodwin mit", "biotechnology engineering", "expansion microscopy", "optogenetics", "protein sequencing", "multiplex", "neurons", "RNA", "multiomics" ]	2019-07-31T02:54:34	2024-02-05T08:25:28	3,876	PcJGEOg7coI	I can tell you that I feel this excitement and creativity around the new technologies in biology like it was Silicon Valley seven, eight years ago. I remember having really fun geek-outs when I was there like, oh my gosh, we could use AW, like Amazon web services just came out, like we can use this and train a big network and then we can solve this and we'll make a company. People felt that. Now the conversations I have here are the same thing. People are like, wait a second, you could use CRISPR to knock down this transcript and oh my God, you've solved a disease. That's really, and then people just like start piecing together these different parts. And so if there's one thing that like is important to get people excited about is that shift of biology is now this engineering substrate, not just like a descriptive thing. Boom, what's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sokian. We are still at MIT in Cambridge in Massachusetts. We are at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building. We are gonna be talking about developing technologies to capture the complexity of biology, the brain and so much more. We have Daniel Goodwin joining us on the show, hello. Dude, thrilled to be here. Thank you so much for coming on, I'm super excited. And huge shout out to Adam Marblestone and Alex K. Chen for making these introductions happen. Good people. Good people for sure. Daniel Goodwin is a PhD student at MIT Media Lab making technologies to explore the brain. Previously he was an entrepreneur, co-founder of My Like You and entrepreneur in residence at IDEO. And you can find his website link at Danielrgoodwin.com as well as his LinkedIn profile in the bio. All right, Dan, let's start things off with our question that we love asking. We find ourselves as stewards of earth. What is your current take on the state of humanity? Oh man, start on the small questions, huh? I have to answer that from three different perspectives. And so I guess as we get through this conversation, it's gonna come up. There's different ways of viewing the same thing. So I'm gonna start with the perspective of the designer. And the designer starts with the empathy first for the individual. And what I say is that that says everyone's beautiful, everyone's got a story. So the story of humanity right now from that perspective is that a lot of things are changing, people are concerned, but humanity's beautiful. I'm then gonna contrast that with the perspective of somebody that in his career has bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of ads online. And that gives me this perspective that's a little darker where I think about the social media and I think about the persuasion machines because I really think that's the right term for those things. And when you think of it that way, the future of humanity is scary because we have these new technologies. And I've seen those things work. I was one of the first people to buy Facebook ads all the way back in 2010. And at the beginning then we were amazed by how good they were. And there's a reason those things doubled in price every year, 2010, 2011, 2012, all the way to like 2016. So anyway, from the persuasion machine side, I think there's a technologies that are very scary and the only way to really fight against that, I think, is to improve our education, improve our minds. And so that's why I love what you're doing. The third perspective is the scientist of what I do now. And the scientist of what I do now is I work with technologies to change biology. We're both exploring biology, but then as we go into it, we realize that as we find these new things, we can repurpose them and we can use those to fight disease, to explore the brain deeper, to explore other organs, to start doing multi-scale maps. And so from that perspective, I'm extremely excited because I think that what we're sitting on now is kind of very analogous to kind of where we were with electronics 40 years ago. What we're doing now with the, being able to recombine all these different biological tools to start building applications on top of that. Oh man, it's a very, very exciting time for humanity in terms of the technologies and biology that are gonna come out. Yes, yes. Well, those three perspectives, the designer, the persuasive technologists, and then the one that's actually building the technologies to better understand the body and give us the tools to increase our longevity, our working memory, our intelligence, augment, eradicate disease, augment ourselves. Yeah, your radar, it's so funny because you'll end up explaining this, but thanks to a lot of mentors and other influencers, you've been able to align yourself with that higher purpose and meaning to pursue what you're doing now. And I'm excited to be able to get into that. Yeah, there's a really great quote that I heard recently which is that, the goal is to fall in love with a problem, not a technology. And so if you've got, and I love that, there's a bunch of different ways to slice it. There's a really good read which is Mansearch for Meaning. And what he says all the time is he quotes Nietzsche, who says like that if you have a good why you can survive anyhow. Anyhow, baby. And it's a great idea. And it's the same thing like when you've got a battle flag that people can get behind, it's night and day. And so, yeah, I mean finding, build it using biology to make humans better is one of the most inspiring things. But now, but you also need to start diving into that even further, right? I want to make the world a better place, doesn't mean much, right? I want to understand the brain to cure disease, that's there and then if you can go even one step further then you start getting into a tangible problem. Yes, and being technology agnostic as you tackle that problem is critical. And because there's always going to be new frontiers and technology pushed to be able to tackle that problem, you need to adapt and yeah. And that's one of the things I'm really excited to chat with you too, because I've noticed that a lot of the biggest technologies that end up coming out started as a sub-problem of a sub-problem. And you look at Google, right? Google was structuring information in the digital library initiative from NSF, right? That was a sub-problem of a sub-problem. And by the way, for any kids listening out there, do your linear algebra homework because PageRank is just an eigenvalue problem. Anyway, PageRank is a... PageRank is like actually a very simple linear algebra problem. It's brilliant, but the point is, yeah, anyway, that is getting hugely tangential, but the idea is being exposed to what the valuable sub-problems are. Yeah, and so to think about these huge things that totally change our life, if you trace back their lineage, they start as a sub-problem of a sub-problem, turns out it was really big. CRISPR, you just talked to George Church, is the same idea in terms of programmable, nucleic acid editing, right? Who would have thought that was important? Well, biologists would have thought that was important, but the average person on the street 10 years ago would have meant nothing to, right? Oh, we already know things like can cut DNA, that's not important. Oh, but if we can make it programmable, anybody can use it to cut anything. Next thing you know, you're solving monogenic diseases, you're giving kids, like, solving forms of blindness, solving forms of, like solving sickle cell anemia, like there's these very interesting applications that are coming from what originally was a sub-problem of a sub-problem. And then all of a sudden it's the family members themselves that say that my child, my parent, my relative got their fix. Is now saying the phrase CRISPR, right? Yeah, the scientists. Where can I put more money into that? Yeah, yeah, into that. So, and that's what I love so much, is like, you know, for my journey as a PhD student is to be exposed to these sub-problems of sub-problems. The things that I get most excited about now, I never even would have known were a problem, or I never would have known were a challenge. When I started this PhD four years ago, I thought that it was gonna be taking machine learning algorithms and processing image data, and then that was what was gonna be to solve the brain. Four years later, and we can, we're hopping around here, I think it'd be helpful to tell you that the narrative in chronological order, but the punchline at least where I'm at now is what I find myself being so excited about now are things I wouldn't even have known were an issue before I started doing this. And I think that's also one of the things that I can sell something here, is to get people excited about biology. Because when I took biology in high school, it was just, it was a descriptive science. We had to study and memorize all the different things, and who cares about it? But now I see biology as an engineer. And when I see biology as an engineer, it's no longer a descriptive science, it's a physical science with applications that are super wide ranging, and that is really fun. Damn, that is a profound pivot in thinking. Yeah, it is, yeah, it's no longer just labeling the cell, but it's now become a, I'm applying this as an engineer across the world in agriculture, in healthcare, in X field, Y field. It's just endless where the applications are. So this is only the beginning of whatever's quoted to be a hundred trillion dollar industry over the next hundred years or something crazy like that. So yeah, that means there's a lot of entrepreneurship and a lot of creative potential to be explored in the field. Let's do the journey. Okay, so you've had a crazy journey, born in the Bay Area, then raised in Idaho, and then down in LA for college, and then up to Stanford for brain computer interfaces. Teach us about this trajectory. Yeah, so I work on the brain now. My undergrad was I set off bombs on bridges. Whoa. Yeah, so it's been a journey. How do we- To rebuild that? No, to characterize them. So, and actually simulation-wise. No, no, no, we actually set off, we called them cold gas thrusters. We went out to remote bridges in Maine and we set off these things and they create these impulses throughout the structure and we put these really high resolution accelerometers all throughout the structure and you can characterize it. And then you can characterize the resonant frequency of these bridges and that gives you an idea of if a terrorist was to place a bomb here, where would the weak point be? Anyway, so how did that go from that? Yeah, it was really fun. Professor Daron at Harvey Mould College was my mentor and he was phenomenal. So how did I go from that to the brain? Well, the thing, all of that research was signal processing, right? So we got all these accelerometers on a bridge. We used those to create a model of the bridge. Well, in some ways that's similar to the way I thought of the brain initially, right? We take electrodes, we can put them in the brain, we can measure high resolution electrical activity and then we could decode that to move robots. And that was my dream. And so I went to, I shall say, it's also when I started getting involved with entrepreneurial activities. So the end of college started doing some web stuff. But really, my goal was to become a neuroscientist. So I enrolled at Stanford as a PhD student in electrical engineering. And I got talking to a person in the lab that was doing these brain-computer interfaces using the robots. And the mode there, and it still kind of is the way it works, is that you put these electrodes in an animal and then you create a machine learning algorithm to learn what that activity is in order to articulate the degrees of freedom of a robotic arm. And then I remember I had this very clear moment where I was a first-year grad student, super wide-eyed, and I met this guy in the hallway, or it was like the social, and he was working in this lab that I really, really wanted to work in. And I just said, blah, this is me, like I really want to work in this stuff. And he looks at me so sad and he's just like, I've spent four years training an algorithm on one animal, and the animal died. And it had taken another four years to retrain the algorithm to do the robotic task it was doing. And I remember this because I remember feeling so shocked and so sad for him. And that's where I realized, okay, that created my first crisis of confidence in neuroscience, where I was like, okay, clearly there's gotta be a better way. I don't want electrodes shoved in my brain. The exceptions are for people that are locked in or have a severe spinal cord injury. There was no way to translate the data. You can't translate it. To another animal? Not at that, now this was 10 years ago. And all those people that work in those fields are fantastic and I'm sure they've solved it. But the state of the art at that point was pretty much like one animal, one algorithm. Yeah, wow. So that's when I took a step back and I said, okay, well, what really is the problem here? Like, is the problem electrodes in the brain or is the problem the data processing? And also at this point, I was a 20-something dude. I was in the middle of Silicon Valley, the mobile wave is taking off. And I realized that the data processing is the biggest challenge just across the board. So another fantastic mentor of mine. So I got to work with Fei-Fei Li, superstar and really nice person. And so I worked in her lab for a while and we were doing natural scene recognition. Natural scene recognition being like, is this a photo of a classroom? Is this a photo of the woods? The funny thing about this is this is right before the Alex neck came out, right before the phrase deep learning really just like hockey stick. So we were working on things before the deep learning what craves. So in fact, like everything I worked on then was pretty much just wiped out by the Hinton's work and yeah, the neural network's work. But the amazing thing about that was to start doing image processing. And then that's when I realized that, you know, like this is when iPhones had been out for about two years. So the idea of like all this data coming out in the world and the need to process it was like, this was like a really like a big inflection point. And I fell in love with that, the data processing side. So the first thing I did was I did FMRI analysis, thinking that would be an interesting way to study the brain. So just to say this is so critical because it's something around 90% of all data is created is good created in the last two years. It just keeps happening with the IOT era and with all the brain mapping that we're doing in the biology mapping. It's just, we need to be able to process this data in coherent ways that can be passed down to the Gen Z and past them. I regularly talk about terabyte data sets. Like I will use terabyte data sets and like I'm 33 years old. I started life with the three and a half inch poppy. So it's crazy to be thinking about a room built. Yeah, exactly. Okay, cut from where I... So anyway, I was doing the image and processing analysis but what I realized is that the deeper I went in the image and like the data processing side, the further away I was getting from touching people. And the thing is like, I think an important part about my background is my mom's a nurse, my dad's a professor. And I really liked, and I kind of have that perspective of like I want to work on hard problems but it's got to be rooted in people. And so I found myself drifting, like just chasing harder and harder problems but then kind of getting lost on what my battle flag was. And I got really lucky by enrolling in a class of the Stanford Design School. And it was by complete fluke that I even got in there. I really should be like, I should not take any credit for this. I was dating a girl at the time and she's like, I really want to take this class. It was called From Play to Innovation and it was taught by Stuart Brown and Brendan Boyle. Amazing, Stuart Brown by the way is the guy who coined the idea of play as a primal need. His, oh, it's such good work. And then Brendan Boyle is a partner at IDEO and he teaches the D-School. And those two guys- We need to get them on the show, yeah. Oh my God, yes. From play to- From play to innovation. To innovation, that's beautiful. Yeah, and it was the perfect time for where I was in life because I had now like wandered down, like kind of wandered into the dark searching for hard computational problems and I was distant from like the why I do it. When you go into the Stanford Design School and the IDEO way of thinking, the first thing you ask is, who are we trying to touch? You know, and then why? You know, it was like, what's their problem? What are their needs and then how can we solve it? The very last thing you get to is like, what is the technology we actually need? Before you even get to that, you've already prototyped things, you've come, like you've got some confidence and that's what you need to build and then you like do the hard part of the technology. And for me, like I can't tell you what a 180 that was. And that's also when I realized like, oh man, I'm not made for the PhD right now. And so that, you know, once again, like trying to figure things out and I had this like big moment of like, okay, I want to like, I want to recenter on people. And so Brendan Boyle at IDEO gave me the great opportunities. Like, look, IDEO is, we have a role for entrepreneur residents. You've got some background in mobile apps at that point. I spent a summer working with a friend at the business school, created a company called Pocket Gems, which is now a gigantic mobile gaming superstar company. And so I got to, so I spent some time in startups. I'd already, when I said like I bought Facebook ads, like this is when I bought Facebook ads. And that was the start of that. And realizing like, whoa, you know, like people are quite modelable when it comes to like getting people to click on things. That's like, that's kind of like when I, when I say things that are cynical, it's based on some of this background. People are modelable to get them to click on things. So, you know, statements like that, where are ethics, morals? Oh, I get it. I feel this. And like, Yeah, that's huge that you felt that. And then the fact that you've tapped in to feel and talk to people about it, versus just doing it without recalibrating and thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's huge. So the conversation I had with IDEO was that they were interested in mobile apps. They were interested in trying to explore things outside, you know, like the fee for service. Like, how can we think, like IDEO has got such a great background. I should describe who IDEO is, because I'm just, I'm throwing around this buzzword. For me, it's been such an important part of who I am. But it is just, you know, it's a name. So I, yeah. Such a good design firm. Such a good design firm. Yeah, fantastic place. Been around for 30 or 40 years. The foundation, like founded by four people who are all giants in their respective fields. And it's got the background of being involved with the early days of the, like they invented the mouse, they invented the laptop. They're, and what they preach, or what they sell is a process of solving problems. Right, like, that's kind of a really important thing. Like you don't guarantee an outcome. You guarantee doing a process as well as you can. And so their whole thing is called the human-centered design process. And that starts with understanding people, prototyping towards something that solves their problem. And then you can figure out how you want to scale it up. Keeping the human, yeah. Focusing every human-centered design. That's the phrase. And so, it would end up being nine rounds of interviews. You know, it was like, they took it very seriously. And so when I showed up there, they have this policy there. Like everyone at IDEO is really interesting and awesome and yada yada. So we don't care. It's all about like, welcome to the place. Like, what do you do first? You know, like, it's all about like, what credibility you can build inside the firm. And so I was coached like, hey look, we have this great opportunity. It fits your background perfectly. We've got this joint venture with Sesame Street. And we want to explore what it means to do, like mobile apps. And specifically, like, we started with this idea of potty training. So now this is like a very funny point to just pause, right? So like, I'm a 26-year-old guy. I just went from a windowless office in the computer science building, you know, like where we took a photo out of Fei-Fei's office, like just to see what sunlight looks like and we put it up on the wall. Like that was like the windowless office we worked in. And then now like I'm in this beautiful design firm where like people are well-dressed and well-slept and like I'm sitting on the bathroom floor like learning about potty training with like a parent and like, you know, like two-year-old and her parent. But it was also like such a great experience for me, which is like to say that this process works. You know? Like we went through this really long journey of like we had a hypothesis, we tested it. Everything that I do in science is actually like, you can map it one-to-one. And I think that's where the human-centered design process like probably started from. So... The translational application of it. Yeah, but we're not talking about like, we're not solving some part of the spice zone. Like we're solving a human need. And so... Getting kids potty trained. Getting kids potty trained is where we started. Sesame Street partnership. We were prototyping ways like, you know, because yeah, so there was a partnership and we're trying to figure out like what the best opportunity would be. And so it started with potty training, but through that process of prototyping, we realized that it actually wasn't potty training. It was the opportunity for it to use Elmo as like the good big brother. Because that's what Elmo is. Elmo is a three-year-old older brother. Yeah. You know, who sets a good example. Yeah. And so... Oh, that's great. Yeah, so from that opportunity, we realized that kids just like, parents take up after yourself. Exactly. Say thank you. Things like that. Brush your teeth. Brush your teeth. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, yeah, so in the end, like we made a product that sounds very simple, but is based on these insights of spending hours with kids and parents, specifically focused on potty training. But what we realized is it's just like having Elmo on demand is like the good older brother. Elmo on demand, yeah. So we made an app where kids get a FaceTime from Elmo. They get a FaceTime. They get a FaceTime call from Elmo. That's exactly it. They're kissing and Elmo's like, hey. Hey, it's time to go brush your teeth. Wow. So, yeah. Wow, that's great. Yeah. Becomes a trusted older brother. We're so far away from neuroscience, but it's gonna come back. It's coming back, it's coming back. There's a David Ewing Duncan talking to robots is coming out soon. And he talks about human robot interactions of the future. And one of them is the Teddy robot. And the Teddy bot is the trusted robot that works with the kids. And all of their kids' developmental needs and the love and compassion and the recommendation in this big brother sense. And so, this is a huge part of our future, I think. And I love the idea of getting from a trusted source like an Elmo. Yeah. That was a very crazy transition from the basement with the windowless room with no light and not having translational applications. Yeah. And I was living in a garage before then. I mean, I'm just every cliche rolled into one. OK, so that's how you do it. Well, so this is the idea thing. And what I should say is what we did is with the close Elmo stories that had to go through the whole Sesame Workshop educational thing. They take their thing, their work very, very seriously. So did it satisfy the educational criteria that they set out? Then I got to go to New York and actually be on set because we got to write the words and see Elmo perform it. And so anyway, it was a really, really great story. And then I got to see its scale. So that was the second app that I was involved in that did well. So first it was social mobile gaming, then it was Elmo calls. But the goal of being at IDEO was to start a company. That was from the start, that was what I was supposed to do. Entrepreneur in residence. Entrepreneur in residence, found a company. And so what I was focusing on, and this actually goes back to the second perspective when we started the State of Humanity question, is I looked around at the way we use the internet. And I looked at every Google search we do is used to service ads. Every interaction we have on Facebook is used to optimize our mini feed and then service ads. So I started being curious with, well, what can you do to give people their own data back? That was the design prompt, actually. How can you give some people their value back? I'm wearing an activity tracker watch and that. And so I guess there's a decently long story there. But I was prototyping with different ways of just capturing phone. And you know what? The data you produce from your phone is this data exhaust. It's just there, right? And so the question was, how can we give this back to people in a meaningful way? And so I started, like everybody does in 2012, building a photo sharing app. And the great thing about being in a good creative environment is people will tell you if it sucks. Ed, you know who I'm doing my PhD with, he'll tell me if I'm doing bad work. When I was at IDEO and I was doing this project, people told me, like, I don't get it. Why are you doing this? And that's when I met. You have to be careful, sometimes people can't necessarily also see the imagination. Yeah, it's kind of double edged in a sense. But yeah, I agree, though, you need to be around people that'll tell you why it won't work and be very clear and stuff. And yeah, you go back and forth. Yeah, that's a good point, though. Yeah, I mean, like, well, so this is where a lot of people have different perspectives. Brendan Boyle has a great idea that people are the most creative when they're the most comfortable. And I like that idea. I would also push on it. I think, for me, I do some of my best work when I'm under pressure. Likewise. And so I don't know if there's the right answer for each person. But I do know that when I'm really doing something that's hard, I don't want hugs. I want people to push me, and I want to be better. So when I was showing this photo sharing app around people, I don't get it. I was like, thank you, because that's the person I'd be trying to ship this thing to. And then I talked to my mentor at the time, a guy named Dan. And Dan, 10 years older than me, same height, same build. I think of his brain like, if it was me after 10 cups of coffee, and what we were talking about is the most interesting thing in the world, that's Dan's brain. He led a lot of the venture thinking at IDEO. And the way he could connect ideas and bring people together and see 10 years ahead, it was just everything you'd want from a mentor. And I showed him this. I'm like, hey, look, I did this thing. It tracks you everywhere you go. You can take photos with it, and you can match. And he's like, yeah, I don't get it either. But he said, look, does this tell me how I'm moving? I was like, yeah. He's like, could you do this to tell me whether I'm driving or not? And I realized immediately, I was like, oh, man, OK. I see what we're talking about here. When you work in the consulting business, you drive to different places. Every time you drive, you can expense it $0.55 a mile. I thought, oh my gosh, that's a really good business. So we will automatically track every mile you drive using the phone in your pocket. Very, very simple business. Now, Dan has a great quote, which is, don't confuse a clear view for a short distance. So just because we had a very clear view, we're making a simple product. We just needed to track mileage. But getting that thing out, so we left IDEO. We started the company, just him and I. Oh, wow. And that's what we were working on. And it took us about a year and a bit and five iterations before we could ship it. And so I was the founding CTO. Dan was the founding CEO. Dan has a phenomenal product sense. And so we had something ready, like, OK, we can put it in the app store. He's like, no, it's not good enough. Sure enough, we did some user testing. Yep, not good enough, scrapped it all, rebuilt the interface. Anyway, five times later, we ship it and immediately it starts succeeding. Because we had something like we had something based on a need. We'd done all the same IDEO user testing. Like, we had the insight. Gosh, that's huge to be patient until you iterate on it until it's beautiful enough to actually hockey stick up the user experience, and it'll actually share it with other people and get people using it that way, yeah. Yeah, and so I was living off street burritos in the mission of San Francisco. Oh, man, yeah, it was a tough time. And so that's actually when we got involved with StartX. So we went from a situation of being in many different, you know, like in a big, vibrant environment, IDEO, to basically kind of working out of our apartments in the early days of the startup. And I think it's really important, and I love what you're doing with this educating people. And part of what a big, important thing to say is I think of myself as a creative, right? And I've learned what it means to be on a creative journey. And a big part of the creative journey is being depressed and being bummed and feeling like crap and working through that I think is just part of it. That's like part of doing something that's hard. So when we first started this company and I wasn't leaving my apartment for four days at a time just sitting in my underwear programming, I felt like crap. It was a really hard time for me personally. And so it also worked out that StartX was a few years old at that point and they were looking for entrepreneurs and residents. And there was my background at that point, there was Dan's background. And so we went there just a few days a week to hang out. And it was all these, like, Stanford founders doing these companies and a lot of them have succeeded, by the way. Five, six years later, the success rate is super high. But it was great to just kind of be in a community again. And this is before My Like You started growing and all that. So that's also a good example of a creative community. I think we'll come back to that, but it's definitely worth putting on the side. So the point is My Like You started working very early on. We had something that people totally got. We had a product that worked, and then we were at the scaling up phase. And this is kind of funny to say, but you work all day on a really hard, big problem, right? All right, we've got something working, but now we need to make the next iteration, the next iteration. And it's hard to get that thing that makes you feel good. Like, it's hard to get that instant gratification. And so for me, years into the company, the two most gratifying things for me to do was customer support and reading neuroscience papers. That was like, those were my gifts to myself at the end of the day. And you were teaching me the customer support was because you could immediately get gratification from helping a customer. Yeah, it feels good. It's like, hey, I happen to miss this drive. And I look at the data, I was like, yep, I see what happened, solved it, and thank you so much for being a customer. And like, here's a perk. And I'm like, oh, thank you. You also see some weird cases in customer support. Like, oh man, there was this one guy who was just being so rude, you know. And every time I'd be like, oh yes, you know, like, you know, we'll like happy to help. Stay happy. Yeah, it's like so rude back. And then one day he just emailed me back like weeks later. He's like, look, I was going through a divorce. You were like the only person who's nice to me. I appreciate it. It's like, wow, man. So yeah, humanity at scale, right? Like the weird emails you get. And then you actually were successful enough and ended up selling to Microsoft. So that happened later, yeah. So the thing is I hit this point where I realized that I was like, what I, the dream I had was to make a successful company. And it was succeeding. I was working with one of my heroes, you know, that the team was growing, that the user base was growing. We had a product that people loved. But I was feeling that something was missing. Like something like, and I was like, and that was coming at a cost of my personal productivity. That was coming at a cost of, you know, like the light, like satisfaction, whatever you want to call it. So I started thinking like, oh gosh, you know, what is it? And then I looked at like, well, what am I doing for fun at night? I'm reading neuroscience papers. And I had this feeling that like I should be there. Like that's what's bothering me. Like I needed to be in it. Yeah. And so we started the phase out. So along with one of our financing rounds, I started, like I started phasing out. And this is credit to the people at My Like You, right? Like I was so lucky just to work with the best people. Chuck and Dan, Chuck became the CEO. You know, like that, like a founder leaving, like you just got to call it out. Like that is a hard. And that can be a very bad thing, right? But if they're moving on to something else they're really passionate about and you get the right team filling the spot. Right. And you do it collaboratively. You know, so like when I say this, you know, like I'm the product of really great people investing me. Like Dan, like it was a phenomenal guy to invest in me. And likewise, I would say the same thing. I think we all are to a certain extent. The product of great people investing in us. Yeah. And then now you give it back, right? Like, hey, I know how to do things. Like let me invest back in you. That's right. So, and I think that's the best way you can show respect to the mentors, right? Is like show that you can be a good mentor too. Yeah. Which is also why like I think it's important to be really open about like, hey, look, I'm not perfect. I've screwed up so many times. The point is that's when I started transitioning back into neuroscience. And so this point I'm 27, 28. And there was a heroic neuroscientist named Sebastian Song. And I'd met him all as an IDO. And I reached out to him. I said, look, like your work doing deep neural nets on very, very large scale image data is like, I think the biggest thing in neuroscience. I really want to work with you. Like, what can I do? And he offered me a job to come work with him out on East Coast. So I moved across, this is when I started working at the Simons Foundation. That's when we started working on the paper we were talking about. Yeah. So you got that paper was published in Cell in 2015. Yeah. Yeah. That's huge. That's a big deal to have that done. And I'm glad that you made a reach out to Sebastian to make that happen. I strongly suggest if you get the chance to talk with him. Sebastian Song. Sebastian Song, yeah, a really, really magnificent guy. He's a physicist turned into a machine, like computer scientist turned into a neuroscientist. Very, very, very cool mix. The point of being there, and we can talk about that work is it's going to get into the idea of complexity in biology. But part of me being there was also like, this is working at the Simons Foundation. Was me testing hypothesis. Nah, like, look, I know how to program. I know how to do machine learning stuff. Just give me the data. I'm already a neuroscientist. I've read papers before. And that's when I realized working at the Simons Foundation being surrounded by some of the best neuroscientists in the world, that I was missing something. I was fine. When there's a seat at the table, people were talking in a different plane than I was. And I realized, darn it. Hypothesis disproven, I need to get my PhD. And so specifically what I became really interested in is the source of new data. Because this is the Peter Norvig out of Google saying the idea that the best data is better than the best algorithms. And so with the brain and biology, we're at this point now where in combination with the genetic modification tools and our ability to understand more and more organisms and mine more and more insights out of all these different kind of metagenomic data sets, we start getting more tools to get more signal out of biology. And I guess the way I would describe it, thinking about biology now, is if we're in this building now, we think we studied the complexity of this building with our eyes. And we see that there's this brick in the wall and there's a million of these bricks in the building. Okay, that's how what the building's composed of. But when you get all the way down to a single cell, you can't use light anymore. You can't say there's a million bricks in the membrane of the cell. It just doesn't work. It's like the protein is so much smaller than the wavelength of visible light that we don't have anything to throw at it to bounce back. So what you start doing- Protein's smaller than a wavelength of visible light. Oh yeah, our visible wavelength is 500 nanometers. Proteins are tens of nanometers. Yeah, one nanometer, yeah. It's like orders of magnitude, so you can't see it. But the thing is, your cells are filled with millions of these things. But you can't image it other ways. You can image it other ways, but here's the trick. You have to pick a subset of the proteins that you want to explore. That's the work that we did in 2015. And so the thing is, when you want to visualize protein, you start with an antibody. An antibody is taken from your immune system that can be programmed to bind to a protein. And then once you've got something that you've built that can bind to protein, you can modify that to have some fluorescence. So that's how you can visualize proteins. I care about actin beta, like a part of the cytoskeleton of cells. So you take an antibody for actin beta and then it'll stick to every actin more or less and then you can put a fluorescent tag on that. Then you see all of actin. Then the question is, how many proteins can you do like that in a single image? If you want to take a picture of a cell, I'll go right to the punchline. It's four. More or less, it's four colors that you can resolve out of a light microscope. Why? That's it. Because it's part of the physics of the way the light excites from these proteins. You can only pack so much into the visible wavelength of light. So if you get them too close together, they start cross-bleeding into each other and then you can't resolve them. Oh, we can't resolve them. So really, you're looking at only about four colors. And how does that work? This is the antibody method. This is the antibody method, yeah. So where we've been to biology up to 2014 is you pick your four colors. You pick your four bricks that your cell is built out of. And that's super powerful. Don't get me wrong. We've made so many fantastic discoveries there. But if you want to really tell me how a cell works from the ground up with four pieces out of a million, nah, it's like it's limiting. Totally. So how do we do it? How do we do it? This was the paper, though, that you were just describing. Thank you for that. Yeah. So what we showed in that paper, this was Sebastian Sung and Quenghun Cheng, who's actually in this building. Quenghun, yeah, KC is amazing, yeah. Things really big. And so what KC had developed in his lab was the ability to do multiple rounds of this antibody stain. So now instead of doing four different antibody targets, four different proteins, you can now do four times, for each time you hit the microscope. So you do two imaging rounds, you can now see eight proteins. I think in the paper we showed 20 or something like that. And that's really big, because now you start seeing a lot more complexity in biology. Because 20 starts becoming a lot more discriminative than four, especially when you start talking about the brain. Like one of the biggest things that people argue about in neuroscience is the idea of cell typing. Like how many different types of neurons are there? Or glia as well. Glia, but even just neurons. Yeah, like even just neurons. Oh, just the neuron. Yeah, people say there's more types of neurons than any other cell type in the body. So what are the other neurons broken down into? What are their subsets? Yeah, well it depends where in the brain. It depends whether it's an excitatory neuron or an inhibitory neuron. Oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, OK. Yeah, and then it's a deep world. So then you have these two warring factions. You've got the lumpers that just want to put them all together. And then you've got the splitters who are like, actually no. Excitatories one, inhibitories one. Oh, but then subunits of that. And then occipitals one, and cortexes one, and amygdala's one. Is that, they actually think that the cells in the amygdala are different than the cells in the cortex. That's what, yeah, well then, yes. And so people are able to do that from two different molecular techniques. Well, because one's been evolving also much longer, limbic structures have evolved longer. So we're talking about different regions of the brain. Yeah, and the cerebellum has these beautiful, like if you look at Purkinje neurons, they're just these big, beefy, planar neurons with all these big, beautiful spines. But yeah, so the point is, yeah, it's very hard to, like, that's something you have to show, not tell. There's a lot of different cell types. We'll have some nice embeds here as well, but yeah. Because there's been some gorgeous fiber that you can see the neural architecture, mapping that and being able to show that, at least for now. And that will have some embeds here to see. And then furthermore, as you're saying, all the way down from where we go up from the spinal column all the way up to the very tippy-toppy neocortex is all potentially different neurons. Yes, and then you start getting like the different parts of each neuron. Then you have like the subcompartmentalization of that. And so the thing is, like, yes, there's two different molecular techniques that people have been doing so far to characterize different cell types. And I'm not trying to avoid going too deep in the cell type world, but it is a good example of where we are with biological tools. So one thing is you can look at them. And when you look at them, generally you do different antibody stains, right? Hey, you know what? Like, if it's an inhibitory neuron, it's probably expressing GABA. So like, let's do an antibody against GABA, right? Or like, and then, or if it's inhibitory, it's probably got V-glutes, like vesicles for glutamine. Like, it's gonna be, we're gonna do that. And sure enough, like, if you antibody stain the two, you'll never see those two cross-talking, right? So that's one type of cell type. But then there's the other side where we've made so much progress thanks to one, like, some of the people you've interviewed with sequencing, right? So now sequencing is very interesting because now we're starting getting into a type of data that we can understand. We're getting into digital data. Is inhibitory and excitatory neurons of different sequences, too? Well, they have different expression patterns. The expression patterns. Yeah, so this is fun because like, I gotta keep in mind that like, I'm four years deep as a biologist, right? And I'm a child. Yeah. And a lot of other people are also somewhat children. Some are really intelligent. So we have a big audience, very. Look, when I first started this PhD, I didn't even know how to use a pipette. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, and I think it's also worth pointing out like the creative journey that when I first started, I was like, look, I'm a good computer programmer. Like, I know how to do design. Like, I'll figure it out. It's just slightly different. You came to the right place with your background, though, of computer science. The media lab. Yeah, the media lab, yeah. Well, there's an important part of, I think my personal journey, which is fun to say is like, when I first, I went straight into experiments, like whatever, like, I'm smart, I'll figure it out. I did really bad work for months. And I did work that was so bad, I was in the bad track of, I knew what I was doing was bad, like low quality, but I didn't know how to make it better. And the result of that was I was getting heart palpitations. Like, I was missing heartbeats. Just like, I was pipetting, I'm like, I don't know why I can't do better work. And then that's what, once again, like, come back to mentorship, right? I got really lucky, and I worked under a phenomenal postdoc named Shahar. And when I started working on this project, he started giving me the structure of thinking about biology and thinking about these challenges. And so together, we've been working on this great project that's several years in the making in collaboration with George Church's lab and Adam who connected us and Ed's group. And what we're trying to do is we're trying to actually see the sequences in space. The sequences. See the sequences in space. Let me live in space. In space. Space between nucleotides? Or space? Space means a lot, yeah. Yeah? Space here? Where would space? Space inside the original tissue. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, and so this is fun because like I'm like talking to myself four years ago. Like when we have this conversation, it's like what is this stuff, yeah. You got the structure from a mentor of how to see biology. Shahar? Shahar, yeah. This is so critical is that when we get the mentor's multi-year long journey perspective that can augment our so we don't need to go through the same treacherous process of figuring it out. But we can get kind of a cheat code in a sense. Can help a lot. Yeah. Yeah. There's nuance there too. There's so much nuance because there's a time where it's best to be a student, right? Like there's times where it's just like tie on the white belt. Be like I trust everything you tell me and I'm gonna do it because like you're gonna teach me how to be better. But then after a while as a student you have to start developing. Like I don't believe everything you tell me. I'm gonna start pushing back. That's good. And the question is like you need to figure out what your optimal rate of growth is, right? And so for me it's been this interesting thing where I started to be like screw everybody. I'm gonna figure it out. My rate of learning was flat. I was doing nothing. And then I started working on a great mentor. And every time we got into technical argument he was always right. And then I was like all right, white belt on, you know. And then we started working through it. And then now like it's fun to have these conversations and it's like this nice peer. And I think like all my mentors in the past I think like it grows to that. You know it'll always be that balance of like you're my mentor and I appreciate you. But it's fun to start being able to push back. It's like hey, you know what if we did this? And so space. So let's go into space, yeah. So the amazing thing about biology recently is the idea of complexity is now expanded with the idea of sequencing. So now we're able to get into a world we understand. And I mean by that is like now we're getting into digital data. We understand the idea of ACTG, right? We think about like you know like when we think about our genome, right? We, it was sequenced when 2001 and then Barack Obama went on the stage in 2013. And he had this wonderful status like for every dollar that went into the human genome project 140 came out in terms of startup companies and add like overall additions to the U.S. economy. We need more things like that as soon as possible. Yeah, we need more things like that. And people I think begin to get the idea of ATCG. Right, like they started getting okay we were six billion base pairs, three billion base pairs. And somehow like that long code makes us who we are. Right, so let's talk biologically quickly of like why that makes us who we are. That genome, that's three billion base pairs, six billion base pairs. If you stretched it out by the way it would be a meter and a half. But somehow that meter and a half gets coiled all the way into a tiny little cell that's just five millions of a meter big across. So first of all that's a biological miracle. Now that did. Whoa, okay so. We're gonna wander all over the place. But it's fun. So the six billion bases straight out is a meter and a half and it can get coiled up in a cell that's only five microns. Five, 10, depending on the cell. It gets quote on the nucleus, yeah. In the nucleus, yeah, yeah. Whoa, okay, yeah, yeah. So this is how a biology over the billions of years has figured out how to become very, very efficient. Okay, continue. Yeah, so some, okay, so you've got this ball of DNA. The ball of DNA will selectively open up. When it selectively opens up that DNA can start being transcribed into mRNA. The mRNA is what then encodes for proteins. And the proteins are the bricks of the cell. They are like your whole cell is proteins doing things massively parallel. Occasionally the nucleus which houses the DNA opens and gives a little messenger RNA to make protein. And then the protein does the further processes, catalyze further processes such as digestion or different types of processes. Yeah, I mean, a protein will do everything from being structural to being functional. Like it'll, you know, it'll cut, I mean, when we say CRISPR-Cas9, we're talking about Cas9 being a protein that cuts DNA. So when I put food in my mouth, it's almost as though my body is going, ah, it's time to express for digestion. Yep, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. And people do studies exactly like that. Like what's the genetic expression difference of when like when you're hungry or you're thirsty versus you're normal. Yeah, that's exactly what people do. And so what do people do there is they'll just take a sample of those cells and they'll sequence it. But they're not sequencing your DNA, they're sequencing your RNA. And so this is where, you know, it's a very, it took me quite a while to like really grasp this because I come from the world of thing about source code, right? I come from the world of thing like I wrote this thing and then it does stuff. The thing is like the DNA is the source code. And by the way, like it is a huge, like not faux pas, but like it drives biologists crazy to speak in these metaphors of like, oh, it's like the DNA is like the source code. Well, it's not really, but like for the very, very like beginning of getting used to thinking about it, it's helpful for a bit. So the DNA is the source code that runs things. It produces copies of itself, which are actually the ones that produce proteins. And so the reason that that's important is that you can't really tell the, like with exceptions, you can't really tell the difference between the individual DNA inside a cell. But you can see that what we call the expression profile difference between cells. And so when we talked earlier about like GABAergic or you know, like inhibitory or excitatory neurons, neurons that do functionally different things, the DNA is the same. They're just behaving differently, which means they're expressing the different RNA. And then so you're trying to sequence the messenger RNA. That's exactly it. How do you sequence messenger RNA? Aha, well, so this is what Illumina did. I mean, this has been done by many people for a while. But the idea is that people like they would, they would take them all like, well, the first thing you do is you take this beautiful piece of biology, right? And the first thing you do is you chemically homogenize it, which means you blend it up. And then you flow the DNA or the RNA that you care about across this piece of glass. It'll functionally attach to the glass. You will then amplify it. So one copy of the same thing becomes 100, 1,000 copies. And then you can do this chemistry to make it glow, just like we were talking about with antibodies earlier. You can make it fluoresce. And what's- That's a polymerase chain reaction? PCR is a way of amplifying DNA. So it goes from the one, mRNA goes from the one to the- To many copies. To many copies through PCR or other methods. Yeah, that's sure, yeah, that's right. Or Illumina does it in a different proprietary. No, no, it's the idea. I mean, you have to prepare your sample to go in the Illumina machine. But the point is it's able to read it out base by base. By base by base, yes, yes. And so what it looks like is a bunch of dots. It's just a piece of glass that has a bunch of little dots. And then you take another image of it, you do some chemistry. And then that one dot is now fluorescing a different color. It's now fluorescing a different color. And then after you do enough rounds of that, you can now actually piece together what that was. Hey, you know, like green, green, green, purple, green, green, red, red. You know what? That's the actin' beta again. We found this transcript. And so what we can do is we can create these molecular profiles of cells. So like, keep on, like, a goal is to understand the brain. We're now like far down, we're talking about cell typing, right? You're creating molecular profiles of cells to better understand the big picture of the brain. And so what have you been learning with the molecular profiles of cells? Well, similarly, what have I been learning personally is that- Because that's the direction of the- That's what I'm, yeah, that's where I'm getting into. So we're not talking about two different things. We're talking about the complexity and sequence space. And then earlier we were talking about like viewing things in physical space. And so the goal that I've found to be really worthwhile is to be able to combine the two. Yeah. So why have we been limited for four colors, four dimensions of biology when there's so many more? And so what we're doing in the lab is we're combining these ideas. We're doing, we're capturing the physical information and we're capturing the nucleic acid information together and then we're reading them out. So what does that mean? That means we're able to see a single RNA, or sorry, we're able to see like hundreds of RNA, of different types, inside the space of a single neuron. And then we can start learning from that. And we see really weird things. This is like one of the other things that's really interesting is that biology from my perspective is on one hand is filled with these incredible experimentalists who go into these very hard problems with very little tools. Like you can see so little out of biology at first, you have to know exactly how to slice the question, right? So when Phil Sharp discovered the Intron here at MIT and won the Nobel Prize for that, it blew people's mind to be like this guy saying, hey, wait, you know what? These mRNAs that people are producing actually have junk DNA that just gets cut out and it's useless. And the whole field was like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why would biology develop this thing to produce junk that gets cut out? And then he fought it, he proved it in the 80s with very like, what we look now is like very primitive tools and then he won the Nobel Prize for that. So my goal is to take biology to make it accessible for dummies like me. And me, yeah. Who like, maybe I can't design these like brilliant experiments to like be able to get these insights with very limiting tools. Maybe if we just made the ability to see this complexity in the sample itself, then we might start getting there. So democratizing the way that we both view and begin to probe at an abstract level some of, but you gotta know the micro level then. So you have to understand the micro level and then be able to run these hypotheses as at a more macro level to enable more of the creative potential but that people don't get some of the micro stuff. Yeah, and the scale of look, I think what you're touching on is a really important point is the scalability of a tool. Like if you, there's a really great idea, which is that if one person can do it, it's an art. If a few people can do it, it's a science. And then if a lot of people can do it, it's a technology. Well, that's a good way to put it, yeah. Right, so I've done art. I've also accidentally done art. The worst thing you can do is make something that you think is gonna be scalable and then nobody cares. What do you think are the best ways for us to now be developing technologies to understand the complexities? Yeah, okay, so this is the thing. I've now been four years in biology. I can tell you that I feel this excitement and creativity around the new technologies in biology like it was Silicon Valley seven, eight years ago. Right, I remember having really fun geek outs when I was there, like, oh my gosh, like we could use, you know, like Amazon web services just came out. Like we can use this and train a big network and then we can, you know, solve this and we'll make a company. Like people felt that. Now the conversations I have here are the same thing. People are like, wait a second, you could use CRISPR to knock down this transcript and oh my God, you've solved a disease. Like that's really, and then people just like start piecing together these different parts. And so if there's one thing that like is important to get people excited about is that shift of biology is now this engineering substrate, not just like a descriptive thing. I should say really quick, like, I took one class in biology, two classes in biology and undergrad. The second class I took, which was my last one, was ecology where we counted crabs on a beach. And I just left. I was like, that is, that's not my science. I don't care about counting crabs. I don't, that's descriptive science. I want to be able to do things with it. So your question was developing the best technologies to help us understand the complexity of biology in the brain. Yeah, so this is what we want to be able to build for. I want to be able to like pull a sample out of a meteor. And I want to say, I've only got one of these. Let's fully describe it. And right now we can't do that. We can say, okay, like we want to like, this is a alien brain and we can put it in an electron microscope and we can throw electrons at it rather than photons. And electrons can resolve smaller things and we can eventually piece together all the little connections in this brain. That's one thing we can do. But then the sample's dead. Like when you do that, you lose nucleic acids. You lose the proteins. Or we can do what people have been doing, which is these antibody stains, right? And we can do, you know, 30 proteins, right? This is a really like one-of-a-kind meteor brain. Maybe we could, you know, see 30 proteins, you know, or we can grind it up and then we can sequence it. What we want to be able to do, my goal is to be able to do like an hour. Like this is shared with people in my lab and like a lot of people in this field is we want to be able to do all of those in one sample. Yeah. And so to do that, you need this highly multiplexed RNA readout. And the reason is that people have not solved how to do the protein readout. Like highly multiplexed yet. So we can't do that, but we can read out nucleic acids. So how do we do the complex protein? That, those are some very good people working on that. That is like, so protein sequencing is a huge open challenge. Interesting. That is very much a holy grail. That's very hard to do. Yeah. But also like the thing is like, from my perspective, like I've done hard things that people didn't care about. You know, I think people will care about RNA sequencing in context of like the original tissue. And if we can do it in a scalable way, then I think that's what I'm laser focused on right now. Interesting. Okay, RNA sequencing in the actual tissue. Yeah. In the space. In the space. Yeah, so how do we preserve space? Well, like what we do in our lab is we can anchor everything in a gel. So this is like, this is one of the things. This is the hydrogel? This is the swallible hydrogel. Yeah, expansion microscopy. Expansion microscopy. Yeah. It's like the stuff that's in diapers. Yeah. Yes, that's right. That's exactly right. You've done your research. Yeah. Yeah. And so first of all, like to admire that original work. Because when I, that had just come out when I joined the lab. And also like kind of when we say like sub-problem of the sub-problem, I didn't get it. I was like, I don't care. Like I want to solve the brain. Why are you making things like gels that expand? Well, it turns out that one of the problems is the limitations of light. But also like having a scaffold to explore biology with. Like in this case, it is a physical scaffold. It will anchors all the molecules you care about. You can pull them apart and then you can do whatever you want with them. And turns out like that idea, which is like kind of esoteric to the outside world is both super scalable because it's diaper polymer and it costs nothing to do. But then also like you can do additional chemistries on that intact sample. So whereas like people have formed, like formerly if you wanted to read out lots of different RNA, you have to flow them across the glass cell. Now we can actually preserve the whole thing in the original context. So instead of grinding up that brain, you can now look at the brain and you can see hundreds, thousands of different RNA molecules. So you're adding an expansion microscopy polymer to the space between the tissue. And then you're able to make it easier for yourself to go in and do the antibody binding, enabling you to then sequence more easily the proteins and the mRNA. And I should say like, you know, like sequencing means a lot of different things. The point is that you can, we use the word multiplex, which is like a very fancy way of saying read out lots of. Multiplex. Multiplex is what we say, but that's like kind of like a, that could be like- It's like a multi-omics as well. It's kind of like you're trying to do a multiplex read out, which means sequencing. Yeah, sequencing, capture protein, you know like- So like RNA- So there's a few major classes of biological molecules, right? You've got the nucleic acids, you got the proteins, you got the sugars, lipids. Oh, interesting. So in the perfect world, you see all of them at once, right? Like that's, if you want to talk about like multi-omics, like get all the biomolecules, but turns out that's hard, right? And so like, and I think, but if you want to take that meteor brain and you want to understand it completely, you do need to be able to see all molecules. And then at least the first thing you can do is you can start by preserving them. And then eventually, you know, like if they're all physically in this thing, you can get the information out. Some wrapping thoughts are, what about then other technologies that you are just roaring with your imagination, but that are really hard to like ground and actually implement, but what is the field thinking with its wildest imagination could help? Well, I think about two things on that. I think first of all, like a big part of my background is design like scalable consumer products, right? And then deep science, like I guess whatever you call this, like doing a PhD in neurobiology, tool building for neurobiology. The thing is, the way science is done and communicated has a lot of room for growth. And specifically the funding side of it is very interesting. And so the one thing I have a particular interest in as well is like how can we start rethinking or can we start redesigning the structure of scientific funding? And that's like, so this is like, same thing, I'm answering this in the context of like if you could design any technology, I'm framing this as like, if I could design any system, I would like really want to explore this. And I think there's, I think there's interesting ideas and there's really like good opportunities. But that's like, that's one thing I think about. Yeah. Shout out to the brain mind ecosystem. Brain-mind.org. I mean, they're really rethinking financing for the brain. They're doing a great job. The ecosystems of neuroscientists, philanthropists, all that type of stuff. So yeah. Okay, interesting. So that's the first one. What's the second thought? Yeah. So the other thing I would think about is, okay, this is gonna sound jargony. So we're gonna unpack it. Is non-monolithic artificial intelligence. Yes, teach us. Okay. So I'm now at the point where when people talk AI, blah, blah, blah, like for me, the discussion's over. Like it may not be exactly what we imagined for the movies, but it's gonna hit. That's my philosophy. Yeah, totally. I think it already happens. Like this is like, you know, and we see it everywhere. We see it in the success of ads. Like that's kind of why I come back to that. Like there's a lot of money being poured in that. Those ads work for a reason because those things are perfectly targeted. How are they perfectly targeted? They perfectly understand you. Yeah, correct. There's a reason that Facebook spent $19 billion targeting WhatsApp to buy WhatsApp. Do you know why? It's like, because you now have this enormous corpus of conversations, real human conversations. A couple gigantic papers have come out in the past three years that like to me, like I left the lecture being like, oh my God, like this is why am I like Facebook bought WhatsApp. One is something called once again jargony, deep learning on non-Euclidean data by Bronstein and Jan Lacune. When the non-Euclidean meaning? Graph structures. Graph structures. Yes. So what we do when we process image data is we learn these filters on these filters or just a bunch of linear operations done on what you call Euclidean data. Euclidean just means there's some distance function. So like, different strain these two pixels. Euclidean, when you talk about graphs, that didn't really like, there's not really like that distance function metric. These people solved it. Jan Lacune runs Facebook AI research, right? So the thing is, you know what else goes like a graph, our conversation. Like every time, like back and forth you and I have, like it can go in three or four different directions. You and I are just choosing different paths throughout this graph. The tree of possibility. So when I think about like these AI things and what they're scary about, oh, we'll talk about the other deep learning paper that blew my mind. But when I think about like the AI and the things that are gonna come from it, like it's gonna happen. Like, and it's gonna at least happen in a resolution that's like a lot of people aren't gonna be able to tell the difference. So if you know what's gonna happen, how do you react to it? You react to it one way realizing that very few people are gonna be able to replicate it. Great example, Amazon Go Store. I don't know if you've ever been there in Seattle. Nobody else, but Amazon has that image processing capability right now. There are a couple others that do now. We have a standard cognition office that's right in our office in San Francisco where our recording studio is and they're doing it at a pretty close level right now. That's good. And there's apparently some competitors as well, not only in the United States and even in San Francisco and stuff, but also in China as well. But anyway, yes, continue. So the idea of the non-monolithic AI is you need to start finding ways that you don't need to have a warehouse full of computers to replicate that same performance. Interesting. So you're talking about replicating performance with non-warehouseful of the data. So in this case, the monolith is the Amazon web services cloud, the Google cloud, the Facebook, like we'll process every conversation. Yeah, non-monolithic, what does that mean? Well, it means lower power. Lower power, yeah. Right? It means something that you don't need these like, a lot of this AI stuff that's been done in many ways and I think it's, I'm saying this out of respect, it's brute force. And now the deep mind work is incredible. So like, but the thing is like, if you look- Could you send a computation through potentially with the power of something like a quantum compute, just hypothetically, through a swath of data and then be able to come out so something really small could give you something really profound through a couple petabytes or whatever of data. Yeah, a couple petabytes. I think, well, so humans are amazing because we can learn from pretty much no data. Oh yeah. Well, don't we get a lot of data though? We get a lot of data in, but the thing is like, you get bit by one alligator, you're gonna stay away from alligators the rest of your life. Like on the current, like state-of-the-art neural networks, they need to get bitten by a lot of alligators. Well, that's an interesting one. So, and you look at this, like our brain requires the same amount of power as the lamp in your refrigerator. It's just a few watts. Whereas like the power that it took to beat Lisa Dahl in AlphaGo was, I don't know, thousands, like that multiple orders of magnitude. So if you scale this up, you think that like very few people can replicate a Google, Facebook. So to me, one of the most motivating things also about really understanding the brain is to start thinking about like how more people could have access to that kind of computational power. Because this is the punchline. I think it's gonna happen. The question is like, is it gonna be in the hands of a few? Or is it gonna be in the hands of anyone who can like get their hands on it? We agree, we've had lots of conversations about the substrate monopolies and the way to potentially put it in the hands of the many and democratize it for maximal creative computational purposes. Yeah, so, this is a whole nother conversation. When we do this, the Bay Area, visit next time to the recording studio or next time in Cambridge, Dan, we're gonna have you back on. We gotta keep unpacking this. Also, just as an interlocutor, just a little thought for you is that this has been one of my favorite conversations, trying to put the recency bias aside. Just because I love your energy, I love the way your cadence, I love the way that you make really profound connections across fields and you make it relatable. Your analogies and metaphors and stories are what really helps people get it easier. So, huge shout out to you. This has been such a pleasure. Thank you for coming on the show. Dude, likewise, brother. Yes, quickly, do you think we're in a simulation? Ha, no. Okay, and then what do you think's the most beautiful thing in the world? My wife. All right, all right. This has been so, so, so fun. And we'll get to unpack those answers on the next time we do the show. Huge thank you everyone for tuning in. We greatly appreciate it. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below on the episode. 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UC2tCmMLvKtQZ1VqkoLKD1Mg	Sev Chats @ SummerJam Perth 2023 🏀	Sev Chats @ SummerJam Perth 2023 #summerjam #sevchats #perth #funny #interviews #viral #fyp #sneakers #sneakers #AusOpen #australia #basketball #NBA #shorts	null	2023-01-25T01:13:04	2024-04-23T02:32:54	56	PcNQFh8oS2o	Which one of you is the biggest simp? Him? His only reason is how you look beautiful today. Nah, gee, if you really jeep it, I'm not a simp. Who is the biggest mama's boy? I love my mommy to death. I can't lie to you. My mom does everything for me, but she puts my underwear, my room. This guy was breastfeeding to the age of 14. Who's most likely to get posterized on the court? Michael! Michael! Michael! Hey, that's my son right there. Everyone, I've got B. Ready, ready? Now we out in summer jam, you know I'm the man. I'm above as rich and we're trying to get some bands. Call me Michael Jordan, I'ma hit you with a jam. Falling, cause you know that's who I am. And I'm never number two. I been movin' with my gang and we movin' pretty smooth. I better be on TikTok. No more Rick Ross, I'ma eat like a Rick Ross. Ain't a shit talk.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNQFh8oS2o", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCjnmZw3h4XnpK3e5D2jvIGA	STM32MP1 OLT - 39. Peripheral Serial Peripheral interface	Find out more information: http://bit.ly/STM32MP1-website STM32MP1 microprocessor series with dual Arm® Cortex®-A7 and Cortex®-M4 Cores A general-purpose microprocessor portfolio enabling easy development for a broad range of applications, the STM32MP1 series is based on a heterogeneous single or dual Arm Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores architecture, strengthening its ability to support multiple and flexible applications, achieving the best performance and power figures at any time. The Cortex-A7 core provides access to open-source operating systems (Linux/Android) while the Cortex-M4 core leverages the STM32 MCU ecosystem. Follow us on : Facebook :http://bit.ly/Facebook-STMicroelectronics Twitter : http://bit.ly/Twitter-STMicroelectronics LinkedIn : http://bit.ly/Linkedin-STMicroelectronics Blog ST : http://bit.ly/Blog-STMicroelectronics Instagram : http://bit.ly/Instagram-STMicroelectronics	[ "ST", "STMicro", "STMicroelectronics", "&s5hQ4xYa9L2th_#" ]	2019-09-24T11:48:47	2024-02-05T08:03:12	1,489	pCsltm2YuGM	Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 Serial Peripheral Interface. The internal serial peripheral interface, or SPI, provides a simple communication interface, allowing the microcontroller to communicate with external devices. This interface is highly configurable to support many standard protocols. Applications benefit from the simple and direct connection to components, which only requires a few pins. Thanks to the highly configurable capabilities of the SPI, many devices can be simply accommodated in the existing project. The STM32 SPI offers various operating modes that are explained in more detail in this presentation. The communication speed can't exceed half of the internal bus frequency, and a minimum of two wires is required to provide the serial data flow synchronized by clock signal in a single direction. An optional hardware slave select control signal can be added. The data size and transmit shift order are configurable, as well as the clock signal polarity and phase or polarity and timing adjustment of the slave select signal. The crucial configuration and settings can be protected by locking. At the protocol level, the user can use specific data buffers with an optional automatic cyclic redundancy check or CRC calculation, and transfers through the DMA controller. There are a wide range of SPI events that can generate interrupt requests. The simplified SPI block diagram shows the peripheral's basic control mechanisms and functions. The separated clock domains are highlighted by areas with different colors. All the interconnection signals between the domains are synchronized. The PCLK clock domain has to be clocked when any access of the SPI registers is needed via the peripheral bus interface. The SPI master needs at least an active kernel clock, as it has to output the clock signal for the slave. The SPI slave can transfer data without any internal clock signal, as the serial interface domain is fully clocked externally via the SCK pin. All of the data passes through the receive and transmit buffers via their specific interfaces. The available features can be enabled or disabled depending on the peripheral's configuration. There are four IO signals associated with the SPI peripheral. If required, the peripheral can keep control over the associated IO signals, even when it is disabled, to prevent any unexpected glitches. The SPI master always controls the bus traffic and provides the clock signal to the dedicated slave through the SCK line. The master can select the slave it wants to communicate with through the optional slave select or SS signal. This stored in the dedicated shift registers can be exchanged synchronously between the master and slave through the MOSI, master output, slave input, and the MISO, master input, slave output, data lines. In full duplex mode, both data lines are used and synchronous data flows in both directions. In simplex mode, one node transmits data while the other receives the data. Data only flows in one direction. Depending on the communication direction, only one data line is used. Unused SPI pins can be used for other purposes. Half duplex mode integrates the previous two modes by sharing a single line for data exchanges and data flows in a single direction at a time. There is a cross connection between the master MOSI and the slave MISO pins in this mode. The master and slave have to alternate their transmitter and receiver roles synchronously when having a common data line. It is common to add a serial resistor on the half duplex data line to prevent possible temporary short circuit connection, since master and slave nodes are not usually synchronized. In the SPI network includes more than one slave, a star topology is commonly used. The master communicates with one slave at a time, since you can only have one slave transmit data back to the master through the common MISO pin. In this topology, a separated slave select signal from the master has to be provided to each slave node, so the master can select which slave to communicate with. Thanks to separate slave select signals, SPI data and clock format can be adapted for each slave if the multiple slave nodes do not have a common configuration. Another multi-slave configuration is the circular topology, where the inputs and outputs of all the nodes are connected together in a closed serial chain. A common slave select signal is used for all the nodes as communication occurs at the same time. All nodes must have the same data and clock format configuration. Microcontroller SPI nodes typically use separate internal transmit and receive shift registers, so the data transferred between them has to be handled by software in a circular mode. A specific underrun feature can be selected during the slave configuration to automatically handle these transfers by hardware. SPI networks can operate in a multi-master environment. This mode is used to connect two master nodes exclusively. When neither node is active, they are by default in a slave mode. When one node wants to take control of the bus, it switches itself into master mode and asserts the slave select signal on the other node through a GPIO pin. Both slave select or SS pins work as a hardware input to detect potential bus collisions between nodes as only one can master the SPI bus at a single time. After the session is completed, the active node master releases the slave select signal and returns back to passive slave mode, waiting for the next session to start. Several parameters are used to set up the data format. These parameters can define the data frame size and the transmit order of the shift register. The clock can be set to one of four basic configurations defined in the Motorola SPI specifications. The combination of two bits controls the polarity and phase of the clock signal. When the phase control bit is cleared, data bits are sampled on the odd clock edges and seven clock edges synchronize the shifting of the next bit onto the data line. This is the opposite when the phase control bit is set. The clock polarity bit defines the idle state of the clock signal and which clock edge is used for data sampling or shifting. The slave select signal can be used with both polarities and the functionality of the MOSI and MISO signals can be swapped. Several parameters can be used to optionally adjust the timing of the master transaction flow. Signal timings for the master node can be adjusted when needed. This is the case when a slave node needs a longer time to wake up from sleep mode following the setup of the SS active edge or when the slave is not able to handle a data flow that is too fast. Up to 15 additional serial clock signal period delays can be inserted by MIDI or MISI parameters. Data frames can be optionally interleaved by SS pulses. All SPI data transactions pass through the embedded FIFOs organized by bytes. A write access to the SPI write data register stores the written data in the transmit FIFO at the end of a send queue. A read access to the SPI read data register returns the oldest values stored in receive FIFO that has not been read yet. When the communication speed is fast and data frames too short, it can be a demanding task to ensure correct data flows, especially when the clock signal becomes continuous and full duplex mode is used. Slave nodes are more critical as they have to properly follow all the transaction timings provided by the master to prevent any data overrun or underrun conditions. The user can organize data into wider packets and handle multiple data read or write events by minimizing access to the data registers. The services are based on FIFO threshold events signaling packet ready operations. If FIFO thresholds are properly set, multiple data packet services can be performed upon minimum FIFO occupancy events. Read and write events can even be serviced together based on common dual events. These features efficiently decrease the number of services and so minimize the load of the microcontroller when handling data flows. This can be especially useful in low power modes when data is sent while the microcontroller is sleeping. When the DMA is applied additionally, it helps to significantly reduce overall loading on the system in run mode. In the figure shown, you can see the principle of how four short data frames can be written and read by a single 32-bit or 16-bit access of the dedicated data registers associated with the FIFOs in accordance with the FIFO capacity and maximum configurable data size of the SPI instance. The SPI peripheral features two FIFOs to handle the data flow. The capacity of the FIFOs and maximum data frame size depends on the product and the peripheral instance. The frequency of the FIFO occupancy events depends on the FIFO threshold setting which organizes data into packets. A single packet can include up to 16 data frames but its size may not exceed half of the FIFO's size. Possible combinations of data and packet size to fit into available FIFO space are listed in the table. Once room for a single packet is available in the Transmit FIFO to store a new complete packet of data or a single complete data packet is ready to read in the Receive FIFO, the corresponding TXP or RXP occupancy flag is set. The user can then perform proper write or read service of data registers corresponding to a single packet size. Both packets to be transmitted and received can be serviced by a common handling procedure when the dual occupancy DXP flag is set. The occupancy flags are evaluated dynamically in relation to the bus traffic and the current FIFO content so they have to be checked exclusively once the associated packet service is fully completed. Both the master and slave can apply either endless data transfers or handle a defined number of data to be sent within a single session. The number of data is practically unlimited as it can be extended on the fly as long as the transaction is ongoing. A cyclic redundancy check can be implemented automatically or the slave select signal can be handled by hardware on the master side during the session. The master can start or suspend ongoing communication at any time. The current data frame is finished when the transaction is suspended. A specific CT size counter counts the number of data frames remaining in the current session, end of transaction or EOT and the transmission complete TXC flags indicate the end of session and bus idle while an additional specific TXTF flag indicates all data submitted for transmission and its event disables interrupts from transmission occupancy events. Transmissions automatically stop when the session is completed at the master side even if there is additional data in the transmit FIFO. All the FIFO's content is flushed when the SPI is disabled. The user has to read out all the received data before the SPI is disabled. Except for occasional errors, the software has to take care of FIFO occupancy events only while the session is ongoing. Once the session is finished and the remaining received data is not aligned with the packet size, the last RXP occupancy flag is not set but the RXWNE flag is active and the level of the current FIFO occupancy is signaled by the specific RXP LVL level counter that depends on the data size. The counter value signals how many data frames remain to handle at the received FIFO. Nevertheless, application software can still perform full packet reads without any drawbacks as the only consistent data will be popped from the FIFO. Similarly, full packet writes to the transmit FIFO can be applied in this case as only the consistent data will be pushed into the FIFO while redundant writes will be discarded. When the DMA is applied, such non-aligned data is handled automatically. To prevent overrun conditions and the loss of any data, the master can temporarily suspend ongoing transactions when its received FIFO is full. The slave can be configured to detect and react to underrun conditions when no data is ready to be sent in its transmit FIFO and when the master continues or starts a new session. During protocol level communications, the DMA controller can be used to automatically handle the data flow events, the CRC calculations and the updating of the FIFO threshold. In case of threshold control, the last odd data frame is correctly applied in packed mode when the number of frames is not aligned with the packet size. If the CRC is enabled, separate CRC calculators are used for the transmitter and receiver. The CRC calculation result is automatically appended at the end of each transfer by the DMA controller or by software control. Both CRC polynomial pattern and CRC frame length are programmable. The size of the polynomial is defined by its most significant non-zero bit and it always has to be longer than the data size. The CRC frame length has to be equal or a multiple of the data size. The CRC calculation is frozen during the CRC pattern transaction. Results from the transmitter CRC calculator register are loaded directly into the shift register and the received CRC value is stored in the FIFO and compared with the receiver CRC result. Redundant CRC information are automatically flushed from the FIFOs. As the CRC registers are automatically initialized, the CRC can be used in DMA circular mode. Initialization patterns for the receiver and transmitter can be configured either to zero or to all ones. By this flexibility, a wide range of protocols is covered. The slave select signal is commonly used by the master node to select the slave node for communication. The signal implementation is mandatory in multi-master and multi-slave topologies. Though it is not mandatory at a single master slave pair, it could be helpful for data flow synchronization regardless of the topology case. The slave select signal can operate as an input or as an output depending on the SSIOP control bit. The SS input can be managed by hardware or software depending on the SSM and SSI control bits in either master or slave modes. As an input slave, it is used to identify itself as the active slave for communication. As a master input, it signalizes a potential conflict between masters in a multi-master system. The SS only works as an output in master mode and is managed by hardware in a standard or specific control mode. Additional slave select outputs can be provided by the GPIOs under software control. There are a few enhanced modes when the slave select signal is under specific hardware control. The slave select signal can operate in a pulse mode where the master generates pulses on the signal between data frames. The duration of the pulses is programmable in steps of SPI clock periods. The clock phase and polarity are configurable in this mode. Another enhanced mode is the TI mode where the data flow is synchronized by the SS pulses provided by the master on the last bit of data. The clock polarity and phase configuration is fixed and the slave data output is automatically switched into high impedance when the bus traffic stops and on a specific configurable timeout. Here is an overview of the SPI interrupt events. There are FIFO and error detection events to handle data flows. DMA requests are triggered internally by FIFO threshold events. The EOT event raises automatic control of the last incomplete packet when the overall number of data sent is not aligned with data packet size. Here is an overview of the SPI instance status in specific low power modes. This status depends on state of MPU or MCU subsystem domains and to which of them the peripheral instance is allocated. Every instance is divided and handled by three separate clock domains. The PCLK clock domain has to be clocked when any access of the SPI registers is needed via the peripheral bus interface. If the bus clock is stalled, the peripheral registers content is retained. If the peripheral kernel clock is enabled, the clock generator can control the SPI master operation too. Otherwise, the peripheral is able to operate in slave mode only because the peripheral serial interface is then clocked by the external clock signal via SCK pin exclusively. A peripheral event with wake-up capability can be configured to wake up the system. No SPI instance can operate when its domain is in low power, low voltage, stop, standby or shutdown mode. That is why it's important to ensure that all SPI traffic is fully completed and the peripheral is disabled properly before the peripheral domain enters one of these low power modes. The SPI performance depends mainly on the applied clock. At a minimum, the clock frequency should be twice the required communication frequency. The actual rate of communication can be decreased by application factors. The user has to consider SPI bus loads such as the number of nodes, the connection distance, the input capacitance, as well as the GPIO settings. Fast GPI mode should be applied on the data and clock signals. Lower power supply voltage and extreme ambient temperatures slow down edges. Sometimes slower data hold or setup time requirements have to be respected between nodes. Applications can't always manage the fast data flow due to frequent servicing of exceptions. The DMA capacity has to be considered as well as the number of DMA channels used by the system, frequent interrupt services or execution of non-interruptible instructions. The SPI can be used in a wide range of applications where a simple data transfer is required without the need for a complex communication protocol. Secured transfers are also supported when used with smart cards. Here are some helpful tips. The user should be aware that traffic on the bus may still be ongoing even if the DMA transaction is completed or the transmit FIFO becomes empty. That is why the user has to carefully check the peripheral status and follow the suggested procedures before disabling the SPI or placing it in standby or shutdown mode. Use the data size control if you need specific control like CRC or slave select signal handling by hardware. The use of the DMA, data packing or handling dual event at full duplex mode can increase the system's overall performance. These features can help especially when data frames are short and a fast continuous communication flow is required. Hardware management of the slave select signal is not quite necessary for the SPI master single slave pair, but it can help synchronize the data flow and prevent conflicts in a multi master system. When the SPI master has to be disabled temporarily for any reason the user can prevent any glitches on the associated outputs working at alternate function mode by keeping them at forced under control. Then the GPIOs are kept at the state corresponding to the SPI idle configuration. The user should keep all the configuration and settings locked to prevent any accidental changes. There are some additional specific aspects which should be taken into account when designing an SPI network. Evaluation of FIFO occupancy flags is dynamic and depends on the bus flow. That is why the event service has to be applied when the complete data packet which corresponds to the FIFO threshold is finished. When the complete packet service is finished either read from or written in the FIFO the occupancy flag can be tested again. Slave internal logic is clocked from an external SCK pin. Certain flags need a few periods of SCK signal cycling to be evaluated and can't be evaluated as long as the SCK signal stays at idle. 42 MP1 devices embed six SPI instances and each support all the features presented so far. SPI2S1, SPI2S2 and SPI2S3 are multiplexed with I2S interface and have double extended FIFOs and data size registers. Optional sources and so maximum frequency of kernel clock provided by RCC differ instance by instance. More details are available in the product reference manual and associated data sheets. Refer to these other trainings which are linked directly to the SPI. Users should be familiar with all the peripherals that can affect the behavior of the SPI. There are some dedicated SPI application notes. To learn more about general SPI connections and interface issues there are many web pages as well as SPI bus monitoring tools available. Many digital oscilloscopes support direct reading and analysis of data and clock signals on the SPI bus.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsltm2YuGM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCKzEdLMdKIVs7FQucbz48bQ	Implicit Differentiation	In this video, we discuss the difference between equational relationships between variables being explicit or implicit. This motivates and introduces the notion of implicit differentiation, for which we provide an example. This is lecture 24 (part 1/5) of the lecture series offered by Dr. Andrew Misseldine for the course Math 1210 - Calculus I at Southern Utah University. A transcript of this lecture can be found at Dr. Misseldine's website or through his Google Drive at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uz6yZPp4ihIX46DXMDc9TxyXuEThNw1o/view This lecture is based upon Section 3.5 of Calculus by James Stewart. Please post any questions you might have below in the comment field and Dr. Misseldine (or other commenters) can answer them for you. Please also subscribe for further updates.	null	2021-02-09T22:06:10	2024-03-04T14:23:12	939	PCUNThJ5E_A	Welcome back to our lecture series Math 12-10, Calculus 1 for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Misseldine. In lecture 24, we are going to be starting again a two-part lecture, which we'll roll over to lecture 25, in which case we want to talk about the idea of implicit differentiation. So before we jump into the deep end of the pool about what implicit differentiation even means, we have to first kind of talk about what does it mean for a function to be expressed explicitly or implicitly. And so let me give you some examples to try to illustrate this point. So in almost all of the examples and applications you've probably seen in this calculus class and in previous mathematics classes, your functional relationships are typically given in the format y equals f of x, where f of x is some algebraic or trigonometric expression of quantities like cosine, the square root, all of that business. So we have some algebraic expression involving x and then y all by itself is on the left-hand side. This is what we mean when we say that y is given explicitly in terms of x. The relationship, because that's what a function is after all, it's a relationship between x and y. So if you take, for example, y equals f of x here, but f of x is specifically x squared, then this means that like, oh, when x is one, then y will equal one. When x is two, y equals four. When x equals three, y equals nine. So we have this connection where, okay, x equals one, two, three, y equals one, four, nine. So there's a relationship between the quantities x and y. Functions are all about those relationships. Functions are specific relationships that given a specific y or, excuse me, a specific x coordinate, there's only one y attached to it. So there's a little bit of a uniqueness in the relationship that defines a function, okay? But when you come to the study of derivatives, we're talking about dy over dx, this is supposed to be the instantaneous rate of change. How is y changing as x is changing? Okay? That's what the derivatives measure. How does y change as x changes? And so if you have a relationship between two functions, like for example, excuse me, between two variables, that doesn't necessarily make a function, like you take this graph right here, this is a so-called elliptic curve graph. This graph does not pass the vertical line test, it is not a function relationship. But even still, if we pick a specific point x, y, we can still ask questions about like, what's the tangent line at this point x, y, for which the slope of that tangent line would still be dy over dx. So how is y changing as x changes at that instant, right? We're getting to that. So our functions, function relationships are these explicit relationships, y equals f of x. And so many examples we've seen of this would be like y equals 3x minus 2, y equals x squared plus x plus 6, y equals negative x q plus 2 over x to the fourth minus one. These are all examples of these explicit functions or perhaps a better term to use here. These would be explicit equations, right? Because these are all equations after all, right? y equals something, y equals something, y equals something. The relationship on between y and x is explicitly given in the equation because y equals, et cetera, right? Now, on the other hand, some equations of x and y don't have y explicitly solved. So for example, take this equation right here, 4xy minus 3x equals 6. This is an equation. It does have some x's and some y's. And therefore, not necessarily every choice of x and y will solve this equation. So there's a relationship between x and y. What pairs of x and y coordinates satisfy that equation? That's the relationship. But we don't have a y equals whatever. Y is somewhat concealed inside the equation. Another example, y squared plus 2yx plus 4x squared equals zero. It's an equation. Yep, it's a relationship. Every time you see an equation involving the variables x and y, that forms a relationship between x and y. A little more complicated one. You take y to the fifth plus 8y cubed plus 6y squared times x squared plus 2yx cubed plus 6 equals zero. Yep, that's an equation. It's a relationship. And these are all relationships for which the relationship between x and y is said to be implicit. Y is said to be given implicitly in terms of x. And so these implicit equations still develop relationships between x and y. And it's natural to ask, at this instant, how is y changing with respect to x is x changing? That question about the derivative is still relevant. But we can't compute it the way we've usually been doing, right? Well, OK, I should mention that with some of these equations, sure, the equation is an implicit relationship. But we could switch it into an explicit one, right? I mean, after all, if you take 4 times xy minus 3x equals y, or equals 6, right? It wouldn't be too difficult to solve for y right there. Maybe we add 3x to both sides. We end up with a 4xy equals 6 plus 3x. Divide both sides of the equation by 4x, right? Do that. We then end up with y is equal to 3x plus 6 all over 4x. That would be perfectly good. And, you know, we could maybe simplify it something more, whatever, but that's beside the point. We're able to solve for y. y equals this expression, right? y equals this. And so it turns out that y is a function of x, which we discover with that function relationship is right here. So even though we had an implicit equation to start with, we were able to solve for y to get an explicit equation, so y is explicitly defined in terms of x. On the other hand, consider the equation y squared plus 2yx plus 4x squared equals 0. This one is a quadratic equation with respect to the y. We see it right here. So we could try to solve the quadratic equation. Maybe we write factoring. That one seems a little bit difficult, not just because of the x's that are present. And so then we could try maybe using the quadratic formula or completing the square. The two forms are the equivalent to each other. But if you were to solve for y explicitly, y equals, you know, the negative b plus or minus the square root of, you know, et cetera, the quadratic formula. If we use that, we're going to get a negative 2x plus or minus the square root of, we're then going to get a 2x squared minus 4 times 1 times 4x squared. And this all sits above 2 times 1. And so the quadratic formula would tell us that y would solve in this manner right here, which we could simplify that a little bit more. Y equals negative x plus or minus the square root. We're going to get a 4x squared, which you can actually factor out from the group there. You can take out the 4x squared, that leaves behind a 1 minus 4, something like that, all over 2. Okay, we could keep on going. And of course, there's some concerns, of course, going on right here. When we take, you know, the square root to take square of 4, take square of x, that's all that nice and dandy, we're going to get the square root of this negative 3. So it's got like imaginary relationship, but this again, this is beside the point. The thing here, we could solve for y explicitly. Of course, though, this is not a function relationship. You'd be have this plus or minus going on right here, right? There's not a single x that's attached to y. You actually have to break up the problem into two pieces. It's kind of like this picture we were looking at a moment ago that I drew on the previous slide, this idea of this elliptic curve. It fails the vertical line test. What you could do is you could break it up in half. So you have this upper half, and then you have like this lower half. So if we segregate the graph, we could treat like this part is a function relationship. This other part's a function relationship. So if you're willing to treat us like two separate problems, you can solve for it explicitly. So even though we solved for it explicitly, it still wasn't a function relationship. But with that caveat, we can deal with it. But then look at this dreaded beast right here. y to the fifth plus 8yq plus 6y squared x squared plus 2yxq plus 6 equals 0. We don't have a quote unquote quadratic formula for this type of expression, and you would be hard-fetched if it's even possible to solve y equals whatever, even if it's not even a function relationship. So when you have these implicit equations, it does become necessary to consider, can I solve for y? And even if the answer there is yes, you have to ask yourselves, is it worth solving for y when you're studying these these relationships between x and y? And the short answer is oftentimes, if your goal is to find the derivative, no, it's not worth solving for y even if you can. But sometimes you can't. And so now we're ready to get to this idea of implicit differentiation. So even though the equations may or may not correspond to an explicit function relationship or some explicit equation, it doesn't matter. Because when we take an equation like this, y squared equals x cubed plus 17, this is one of these elliptic curves I keep on drawing, its graph would look something like the following if we were to put it on the xy axis. We could still ask ourselves, what's the derivative at the point x equals negative 2, y equals 3? So that might be like some point around here. We could ask about this tangent line right here. Well, the tangent line would still have the equation where you're going to get y minus, well the y coordinate which is 3, equals the slope, well the slope should still be y prime, right? The derivative times x plus 2. So if you want to find the equation with this tangent line, the only concern is how do you find the derivative? How do you find the slope of the tangent line which is this dy over dx? The slope is still going to be a rise over run, a small infinitesimal change of y with respect to a small infinitesimal change of x. And the strategy of doing that is going to be the same. What we're going to do is we're going to take the derivative with respect to x of both sides of the equation, are written in a slightly better manner. We're going to take the derivative of y squared with respect to x and we're going to take the derivative with respect to x of the right-hand side as well, x cubed plus 17. And so we take the derivatives. Now the right-hand side, it's not so crazy here, right? Because this derivative will look like the normal sense. We're going to take the derivative of x cubed. We're going to take the derivative of 17. 17 is a constant, so its derivative will just be 0. By the usual power rule, the derivative of x cubed with respect to x should be 3x squared. That's our right-hand side. But what do you do with this derivative of y squared? We take the derivative with respect to x. We know that the derivative of y squared with respect to y, you know, if we were to do that one, the derivative of y squared with respect to y, that would be a 2y. But we're not taking the derivative with respect to x. We're not taking the derivative with respect to y. We're taking the derivative with respect to x. So how does that change affect things? y is not constant with respect to x because the relationship between x and y is a dependent relationship. y does depend on what you choose for x. The two are not freely independent of each other, so we can't treat it like a constant against 0. What do we do? Well, it turns out the way we're going to save ourselves is to use the chain rule because the chain rule tells us that if you take the derivative of any expression u with respect to x, you can always change this into be like the derivative of u with respect to v times the derivative of v with respect to x. You can insert any new variable into the situation if you want to. Now in this situation, that's going to be extremely useful. We can take the derivative of y squared with respect to y. Ah, that we know how to do. And then we're going to take the derivative of y with respect to x, for which the derivative of y squared with respect to y, that's a 2y. And the derivative of y with respect to x, I'm just going to abbreviate that as a y prime here for short. This is equal to 3x squared. Notice if I divide both sides of the equation by 2y, I end up with y prime equals 3x squared over 2y. More specifically here, I've now discovered that dy over dx. The derivative of y with respect to x is equal to 3x squared over 2y. Now this is a little bit different than how we've seen things previously, right? Because now the derivative is expressed as a function of both x and y. This happens in this so-called technique of implicit differentiation. Can we calculate the derivative when we have this implicit equation, as we saw in this example, using the chain rule, we exactly can do that. So we have a formula for the derivative. What we need to compute, right, from our tangent line right here, we need to find the derivative at the point negative 2 comma 3. So we can evaluate the derivative dy over dx at the point, at the point negative 2 comma 3. So that would mean x is a negative 2. That would mean the y-coordinate is 3, like so. So simplifying that, you see that there's going to be a 2 that cancels on top and bottom. So it just gets rid of one of the 2s. The 3s will cancel. The negative sign is still going to be squared. So in the end, this turns out to be a positive 2. So this way, we have a little more careful here with our cancellation here. The 3s cancel out simple enough. The negative 2 squared, because of the negative sign, you can just cancel out the negative there, because, sorry, because you're squaring a negative will be positive. And so 2 goes into there once. So it turns out to be 2 when you're done with this thing here. The slope is 2. And so then we come back up here and we put that into our equation for the tangent line. The slope turned out to be a 2. So y minus 3 equals 2x plus 2, or 2x plus 4. If you distribute it, add 3 to both sides, you get y equals 2x plus 7. This is the equation of that tangent line that we sketched up right here. And we found this completely in this implicit manner. We don't have to solve for x. And so I should mention it's often useful to use this symbol dy over dx, as opposed to the prime notation, because we use the prime notation. If you write something like y prime, am I taking the derivative with respect to y or with respect to x? It matters a lot. So sometimes it's better to write this dy over dx, but it can get a little bit cumbersome. So we sometimes abbreviate. Just if you do that abbreviation, make sure it's clear from context which variable you're taking the derivative with respect to, because as you switch, you know, the derivative with respect to y versus the derivative with respect to x, that does give you a different outcome here.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUNThJ5E_A", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC2TXq_t06Hjdr2g_KdKpHQg	Christian Schaffner: Quantum Cryptography (deutsche Übersetzung)	I will entertain the audience with a science talk about quantum cryptography, covering both some classics (Quantum Key Distribution) and the latest developments (position-based quantum cryptography) in this fascinating research field. [No previous knowledge of quantum mechanics is required to follow the talk.] Christian Schaffner	[ "CCC", "32C3", "Gated", "Communities" ]	2015-12-29T01:07:45	2024-02-05T07:29:17	3,626	pCnOCTesjRM	Unser nächster Vortrag ist über Quanten-Kryptografie. Wir werden lernen, wie man die Quanten-Mechanik benutzen kann für Kryptografie und wir werden wahrscheinlich auch ein bisschen Rhetorizität machen. Ich verstehe nicht ganz, wie es funktioniert, die Kommission zwischen Quanten-Mechanik und der Testerie und heute unser Speaker ist Christian Schafner, glaube ich. Herzlich willkommen für unseren Speaker. Herzlichen Dank, Christian Schafner ist unser Speaker heute. So, ich warte hier auf meine Slides und das sind sie schon. Ich arbeite bei Qsoft, das ist eine Firma, das ist ein Wissenschaftszentrum in Amsterdam und ich bin auch in der Universität Amsterdam und wir kollogieren mit CWI und ich bin glücklich, dass ich heute hier sein kann. Ich erzähle euch heute ein bisschen was über meinen Forschungsfeld in der nächsten Stunde. Für den ersten Schritt setzt bitte eure drei Bildbrillen auf. Oh, ich habe keine mitgebracht, das tut mir ziemlich leid, aber das macht nichts zu viel aus. Aber ich werde meine aufbehalten. Seid ihr bereit? Sehr gut. Also geht es los. In 1967 haben die ersten Menschen einen Fuß auf den Mond gesetzt, wie ihr vom Bild gesehen habt. Wir haben dieses Bild wurde durch die NASA verbreitet, aber vielleicht haben sie es auch gar nicht gemacht. Vielleicht glaubt ihr diesen Verschwörungstheorien aus dem Internet, dass das eigentlich nur in einem Hollywoodstudio gemacht und das eigentlich nur ein Fake war. Und das bringt uns zu der ersten großen Forschungsfragen, an dem ich arbeite. Wie kann man beweisen, dass wir wirklich an einem spezifischen Ort sind? Ich werde auf diese Frage zurückkommen, ein bisschen später in meinem Vortrag. Zuerst ein kurzer Übersicht, was ich heute erzählen möchte. Wenn wir über Akpantenkriptophie sprechen, müssen wir natürlich ein bisschen was über Akpantmechanik an sich machen. Das wird der erste Teil sein. Dann geht es auf zwei Applikationen. Das ist die Quantum Key Distribution und das zweite ist Position Based-Kriptografie. Da kommen wir dann zurück auf diese Frage mit der Mondladung. Also los geht es. Einführung in Quantenmechanik. Zum Zweck dieses Vortrags können die auf ein Cube nehmen, dass es ein Quantenbind. Das kann man sich vorstellen, dass die Position eines Fotos mathematisch gesprochen ist. Das ist ein Einheitsvektor in einem zweitensinnenden Hilbertraum. Wir machen es jetzt ein bisschen mehr praktisch. Fotos sind Lichtteichen. Also wir haben eine Lichtquelle. Wir werden einen Positionsfilter dazwischen schalten. Die Richtung des Filters gibt uns an sich die Polaration. Also wenn wir diesen Filter umrehen, wird sich die Position enden. In Quantenmechanik ist es so. Wir haben ein paar spezifische Namen. Z.B. die heutzentale Direktion nennen wir den Nullstatus. Das ist der Nullstatus, den wir nennen. Und diese Notation mit diesen Brackets rum, mit diesen Klammern. Die benutzen wir, dann werden wir das nennen. Ich benutze hier dieses Symbol, dieses ohne Symbol mit den heutzentalen Pfeichen. Das soll unser Nullstatus sein, unser Nullstate sein. Die eigentliche Richtung ist eigentlich nicht wichtig. Es ist nicht wichtig, ob es nach rechts oder nach links geht. Wichtig ist nur, dass wir diese heutzentale Richtung haben. Es gibt auch eine Portion, die ist autokonal. Das sind die Einstites. Hier werde ich auch mit diesen Punkten erstellen. Zusammenformen, die eine Basis, eine autokonale Basis, von diesem Vektoraum. Und dafür brauchen wir dieses gelbe Symbol. Wir nennen dieses Kompuznale Basis oder Direktivinale Basis. Wir gehen jetzt hier ein bisschen mehr in die Praxis. Und wir bauen das jetzt. Das heißt, wir brauchen eine Lichtquelle. Wir haben ja Lichtquellen überhaupt. Wir haben sogar eine in meinen Händen. Dieser Laser hier ist eine absolut gute Lichtquelle. Jetzt braucht man eine Positionsfilter. Und das ist der Punkt, wenn man seine 3D-Blitz ausziehen kann. Und nächstes Mal, wenn ihr ins Kino geht, nehmt ihr mit nach Hause. Weil das sind ziemlich praktische Sänger. Die kann man auseinandernehmen. Und wer kann die Positionsfilter rausnehmen und für unsere Experiente benutzen? Wenn wir das machen, können wir effektiv sein Quartensystem putzen. Ich habe hier eine Lichtquelle mitgebracht. Ich drehe jetzt diesen Filter und ich habe somit dieses System gebaut. Wenn wir jetzt ein Q-Bit nehmen, es soll so gut sein wie ein normales Bit, wie wir es kennen. Wir haben hier alles und Bob, unsere beiden Händen. Alles möchte kommunizieren mit Bob. Was ich jetzt machen kann, sie nimmt ihre Lichtquelle, benutzt diesen Positionsfilter wie wir ihn haben und schickt das zu Bob. Bob kann da ebenfalls ein Positionsfilter aufstellen in dieser autoknalen Art. Wenn er nur dieses erlicht hat, dann sieht er gar kein Fotos. Das sagt Bob. Er hat hier einen Experiment mitgebracht. Wir können jetzt für die Kamera switchen. Ich habe hier diesen Laser-Pointen, anderen. Und ich leuchte mit dem jetzt hier. Ich habe hier kleine Polar-Bärchen für die Positionsfilter mitgenommen. Die kann man ziemlich günstig kriegen, wenn man jetzt Weihnachtszeuge kaut. Hier ist der Laser. Ich leuchte jetzt durch diese Positionsfilter und wie wir sehen können, alles schickt jetzt eine Null. Bei dieser andere Filter hier ist 90° gedreht. Und wenn ich dieses jetzt ein bisschen umdrehe, diesen Filter, dann sieht man, dass dieser Punkt viel heller wird. Es ist kein perfekter Filter, aber es funktioniert ziemlich gut. Das Licht ist fast weg. Man kann hier sehen. Wir gehen zurück zu den Slides, bitte. Wenn wir diese Technik benutzt, können wir klassische Informations von alles nach Bob schicken. Insbesondere wenn Alice die 1-Status schickt und wenn beide das richtig aufstellen, kann Bob Fotos im Status 1 lesen. So können wir das System benutzen, um 1-Status zu schicken. Wir machen eigentlich eine Messung. Alice schickt ein Status 1 und wir messen dann eine Messung in der kompetenzialen Barsis. Und was wir daraus ziehen, ist ein klassisches Bit mit 0 und 1 und das passiert mit einer gewissen Wahrscheinlichkeit. Wenn Alice diesen 1-Status schickt, mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit 1, wird Bob eine 1 messen und nichts ändert sich in der Barsis. Wir machen jetzt etwas ein bisschen Interessanteres. Was man auch machen kann mit einem Cupid, ist, wir können es nicht nur in diesen beiden Richtungen polisieren. Man kann auch Sachen dazwischenmachen. Man kann diesen Filter ratieren, wie man möchte. Wir nennen diesen Status jetzt im 45 Grad. Wir nennen das jetzt 0-Status, aber in einer Barsis. Wir nennen das die Diagonal-Barsis. Wir haben jetzt den Status 0 und die 2-Status. Wir benutzen jetzt die rote Farbe, damit wir das markieren können. Also wieder den 0-Status und den 1-Status, Diagonal-Barsis, zusammenformen Sie das andere autogenales System. Das heißt, dieser 0-State ist nichts anderes. Weil kann das in linearer Gewerkung, das ist eine aus linearer Kombination benutzen. Also wir nehmen, wir renovisieren die Summe von diesen beiden gemessenen Signalen und wir kriegen genau diesen 0-Status. Was wir hier haben, ist nichts anderes. Wir haben eine Superposition von 0 und 1. Wir haben ein Q-Bit in einem Status, das gleichzeitig 0 und 1 ist. Also grundsätzlich, wenn wir diese Diagonale Position benutzen. Was passiert, wenn wir das jetzt messen? In der Kommissionalen-Barsis, in der gelben Barsis. Was wir kriegen ist ebenfalls eine klassische Spit, aber was wir haben ist eine Wahrscheinlichkeit für dein. Also wir schicken dieses Diagonalpolisierte Licht durch und Bob benutzt wieder seinen Filter, den wir vorhin benutzen haben. Das heißt, die Hälfte des Lichts geht durch und wir haben das vorhin im Experiment gesehen. Das Licht ist schwächer geworden, das heißt, ungefähr die Hälfte vom Licht ist durchgekommen. Ich müsste dieses Experiment jetzt mit einzelnen Foto machen, aber da würde ich ja nicht sehen. Also was die Klangmechanik unterzählt, wenn wir das hier messen in der Kommissionalen-Barsis, dann kriegen wir ein zufälliges Bit. Das heißt, mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit 1,5 kriegen wir, nachdem wir die Null gesehen haben, ist das wirklich ein Nullstatus. Auf der anderen Seite, wenn wir mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit ein Zweitel haben, messen wir 1, dann werden wir das Status zum Status 1 wirklich messen. Also was wirklich rauskommt, ist wirklich porresoziiert in diese Richtung. Lasst mir ja noch ein bisschen was mehr zeigen. Ich kann das hier wieder zeigen mit dem Experiment. Das selbe Setup wie vorhin. Jetzt jetzt hier Campos auf der anderen Seite. Ich drehe hier wieder diesen Filter weg. Was ich jetzt machen kann, ich nehme einen anderen Filter, einen zusätzlichen, und ich stelle ihn zwischen diese beiden Filter. Und was wir jetzt hier sehen, der Punkt ist wieder plötzlich hier, wenn ich den Filter zwischen die anderen Filter stecke. Das ist etwas sehr Merkwürdiges. Nichts geht durch, und jetzt stellen wir etwas dazwischen, und jetzt ist der Punkt wieder da. Was passiert hier, warum passiert das? Gehen wir zurück zu den Slides, hier kommt die Erklärung. Wir haben hier angefangen, mit diesem heutzutage porresozierten Licht, wenn wir etwas 90 Grad gedreht ist, dazwischen den Punkt passiert nichts. Was wir jetzt gemacht haben, wir haben einen zusätzlichen Filter reingemacht, und dieser Nullstatus, den wir hier gesehen haben, das können wir verstehen aus der Position vom roten und diagonalen Status nach rechts und links. Also das ist wieder diese Linearkombination, das ist die Superposition. Und wenn wir diesen diagonalen Filter dazwischen machen, messen wir genau in dieser Basis und kriegen dann daraus zum Beispiel den Nullstatus, also wir lassen nur Licht durch in diese Richtung. Ich habe das vorgesehen, ich habe damit ein Shadows geändert. Also ich habe die Position geändert, also zumindest die Hälfe von und die Hälfe geht durch. Also von dieser Heutzutage haben wir den Sinn in die diagonalen Richtung. Und wenn ich wieder diesen nächsten Filter nehme, habe ich wieder die Superposition und ich habe ungefähr ein viertles Licht, das jetzt wieder durchgeht. Also effektiv ändert die Messung den Zustand des Systems. Man kann das als Superposition der Zustände interpretieren. Das ist die Magie von Quantenmechanik. Danke. Danke. Das hier ist ein schneller Überblick, was wir bislang gelernt haben. Hier gibt es diese Zustände, die kann man produzieren. Das ist gar nicht so schwer wie ihr gesehen habt. Was ihr tun können, wir können den einen messen und wir bekommen mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit den gleichen Zustand. Wenn man das in der zwei falschen Basis misst, z.B. dieser diagonalen Basis, dann bekommt man mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit einen halben, den Null und mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit einen halben, den Nr. 1. Zustand 1. Mit dem können wir jetzt das Wunderland von Quantenmechanik betreten. Hier sehen wir das 1 zu 0, was eine Superposition zwischen 1 und 0 ist. Das hier ist Schrödinger's Katze, worüber ihr vielleicht gehört habt. Das ist ein Gedankenexperiment, wo man ein Q-Bit hat, was in einer Superposition zwischen 0 und 1 ist. Und in dieser Box ist ein Aufbau. Oder per ich davon, ob 0 und 1 ist, wird ein Gift rausgelassen und dann ist die Katze tot. Wenn Position 0 ist, nichts passiert und die Katze lebt. Macht das nicht zu Hause mit dieser Box? Und dann sollte innerhalb dieser Box dieser Zustand auf den makroskopischen Zustand der Katze erweitern. Das ist natürlich noch nicht in der echten Welt beobachtet worden. Aber da gibt es Superpositionen in den Molekülen. Aber nicht Katzen. Vielleicht kommen wir da irgendwann mal hin. Mit diesen Sachen kann man natürlich auf Quantencomputer bauen. Da ist das Bild von dem größten Quantencomputer wir zurzeit haben. Der hat 9 Q-Bits. Das ist von der UC Santa Barbara und das ist von Google gekauft worden. Und da gibt es sehr viel Konzentration in diesem Gebiet. Und ich werde mich heute auf das Gebiet hier unten basieren. Das ist, worauf mein Talk konzentrieren wird. Ich werde euch noch eine kleine andere Demonstration zeigen. Ein kleines Experiment. Ich habe diese schwarze Box in meiner Hand. Das ist ein physischer zuverliegenden Generator der sich über den USB-Port an einen Computer angeschlossen ist. Ich schalte jetzt zu der Anwendung, die dann eine zufällige Nummer erzeugt. Man kann die Seriennummer sehen, dann kann man auswählen, was man tun möchte. Welche Bits? Zum Beispiel 1000 Bits. Und hier seht ihr die zufälligen Bits, die noch nie jemand zuvor gesehen hat. Vielen Dank. Wie funktioniert das? Wenn ihr zu der Webseite geht von dem Hersteller in Switzerland, dann werden sie euch erzählen, dass in dieser Box eine Lichtquelle ist, wie diesen Lichter, dass Cubits aussehntet, die wir gesehen haben. Die werden auf ein semi-transparenten Spiegel geschickt. Das ist nichts Besonderes. Und was der Spiegel macht, er lässt, wenn wir das Photon durchgehen oder es geht zur anderen Seite oder spiegelt es. Und das passiert ungefähr mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit 50%. Dann gibt es noch ein bisschen Nachbearbeitung und dann bekommt man diese zufälligen Nummer am Ende. Das ist sehr interessant. Leider habe ich nicht mehr Zeit, in dieses Gerät ein tiefer einzugehen. So, da ist kein Quantencomputer hier drin. Das ist Technologie, die wir bauen können. Das Einzige, was wir dafür gebrauchen, ist Quantenkommunikation. Das ist etwas, was wir heute machen können. Ich werde langsam jetzt zu der ersten Anwendung kommen. Das ist Quantenschlüsselverteilung. Um das hier zu verstehen, muss ich noch eine weitere Sachen erklären. Das ist das No-Cloning-Theorem. Das ist ein mathematisches Aussage, dass man einen Zustand hat mit diesem Fragezeichen. Der wählt einen von diesen vier Zuständen. Das Ziel ist einen Dolmachen. Das hier ist Dolly, das Cheap. Wir wissen, wie man scharfe kloned. Das Ziel ist, einen unbekannten Quantenzustand zu kopieren. Das Ziel ist, eine perfekte Kopie von diesem perfekten Klonen von diesem Zustand zu machen. Und was das Theorem zeigt ist, dass es genau so eine Cloning-Maschine gibt. Kein unitären Operator und nichts in der Richtung macht das möglich. Der Beweis ist ziemlich einfach. Hier könntest du nach ein paar Stunden von Linear Algebra und weil dieser Kopiervergang ist ein Nicht-Lineare-Vorgang und nur lineare Vorgänge sind in der Quantenmechanik erlaubt. Es ist verboten von den Naturgesetzten aus, eine Kopie zu erzeugen. Das riecht schon ein bisschen nach Kryptografie. Man sollte das benutzen. Das werden wir jetzt tun. Zwei Leute in 1984, Bennett und Bresset. Sie haben eine Kopie, eine Quantenphase, wo Alice Quantenbits zu Bob schickt und dann schicken die über einen authentifizierten Kanal. Dann gibt es den Abhörer der diesen Quantenteil von dieser Kommunikation abhören möchte. Sie haben eine Kopie, eine Kopie, eine Kopie, kann abhören. Man sieht aber, sie kann es nicht verändern, was sie da sieht. Das Ziel in diesem Aufbau ist, ein Schlüssel zu bekommen. Ein klassischen Bit String, der für beide Seiten gleich ist, für Alice und für Bob. Das Ziel ist, dass Eve das Schlüssel nicht bekommen kann. Das und ich erkläre euch jetzt gleich, wie es weiter geht, wie es genau funktioniert. Das lustige Sache ist, dass das nicht auf irgendwelche Rechnungsannahmen ausgeht, wie Faktorisierungen, Diskrete, Logarithmen usw. wie in klassischer Kryptografie, sondern es funktioniert komplett ohne das. Und damit ist es möglich für alle Teilnehmer an der Kryptografie eine symmetrische Schlüssel-Kryptografie zu benutzen. Das heißt, man generiert einen One-Time-Pad für die Entschlüsselung. Und als Übergriff habe ich diese Übersicht, diese Folie erzeugt. Und dann zeige ich alles, was zum Teil auch an diesem Kongress schon behandelt worden ist. Und hier zeige ich es, welche Kraft der Attack hat und effizient den effizienten klarschen Angriff, sagt, dass er das in polimiale Zahl ausrechnen kann. Und das ist jetzt der Unterschied zwischen Quantenangriffen, wo die Quantencomputer begriffen. Das Letzte ist das Everlasting-Cycli, was bedeutet, dass man das nach einer bestimmten Zeit oder nach einer endlosen Zeit das entschlüsseln kann. Und alle klassischen Angriffe wie ESH und ESH sind irgendwann brechbar. Da ist kein Angriff durch den klassischen Angriff. Leute haben anguckt und sind jetzt ziemlich sicher. Und sie sind ziemlich sicher gegen Quantenangriffe, wenn man lange Schlüssel oder lange Ausgaben benutzt. Und das andere ist natürlich auch wieder einfach eine lange Zeit, dann ist es möglich. Dann, wie ihr gestern gehört, dann gibt es der Shores Monster, das ist diese rote Box hier, was eine RSA oder discrete logaritmen brechen können. Also quasi jedes öffentliche Schlüsselsystem, was heute in der Internet benutzt wird, kann man mit dem Showargruppen muss brechen, aber dann kommen diese Post nach Quanten-Kripto auf. Das, was hier gestern in einem Talkbund, das ist ein Hash-Based, Macalese und Lettys-Based-Kripto. Und wir sind viel zuversichtlich, dass dieses auch Quantenangriffen widersteht. Und was mein Vortrag auf einen geht, ist, was hier unten vorkommt. Und was hier passiert, ist, dass man mehr Technologie auf der ehrlichen Teilnehmerseite verwenden um das einzubauen. Und wir können mathematisch beweisen, das heißt, wir müssen auf keinen Annahmen vertrauen. Und hier seht ihr, die größte Annahme von diesem System ist. Und dass der Angriffer handeln muss, während das Protokoll läuft. Und wenn er den Angriff nicht erfolgreich abschließen kann, dass dann der Schlüssel immer sicher ist für alle Ewigkeit. Und man kann natürlich so Technik benutzen, die mit einem mehr konservativen Ansatz verwenden. Lass mich euch noch ein bisschen mehr in einem Detail erklären, wie das hier funktioniert. Dieses QKD Protokoll, Alice nimmt einige zufällige Quantenzustände. Und sie verschlüsselt das in der jeweiligen Basis. Und so bekommt man für jede Position unten 0 oder 1. Und das ist, was dann Alice über den Quantenkanal zu Bob schickt. Und er weiß nicht, was diese Zustände sind. Und er weiß nicht, was die Basis ist, in der Alice das geschickt hat. Und dann muss er zufällig eine Basis zur Messung wählen und Messes darin. Und dann er kann, sobald die Daten erreichen, ankommen, kann er sofort messen. Wenn er die richtige Basis gewählt hat, dann bekommt er doch das gleiche Bit wieder raus. Wenn er aber in der falschen Basis gewählt hat, dann bekommt er nur ein zufälliges Bit. Was vielleicht dem, was Alice sich gedacht gewählt hat, übereinstimmt, aber vielleicht auch noch. Und Alice schickt dann über einen anderen Kanal zu Bob, welche Basis er sie verwendet hat. Und dann kann er sehen, ich habe die ersten beiden Sachen in der falschen Basis gemessen. Also schmeißt sie weg, sie sind misst. Und dann schickt er zurück an Alice, dass er die ersten beiden nicht richtig gemessen hat. Und schickt sie dann zurück zu Alice, sodass beide die ersten beiden wegschmeißen. Und das ergibt dann den Schlüssel, was hier 1-1-0 ist. Natürlich haben wir jetzt noch nicht den Abhöre berücksichtigt. Wie ich schon gesagt habe, Eve hat volle Kontrolle über diesen Quantenkanal. Well, luckily we kind of try to use this no-cloning theorem. Well, Eve doesn't know the basis either, so for her it just looks like one of these four states. And we've seen that the no-cloning theorem actually forbits her to make a perfect copy out of it. Also, copy everything. Klassisch gesehen könnte man einfach alles kopieren, was da durchfliegt. Und es würde genau gleich sehen, also was Bob hat. Aber in der Quantenwelt ist es nicht ganz so, weil man kann nicht einfach mal eine Kopie machen. Deshalb, und das ist jetzt der tricky part, die ehrlichen Player müssen jetzt testen, ob Eve da war. Weil Eve kann das probieren, eine Kopie zu machen. Aber wir sehen, messen oder beobachten diesen Zustand zu messen, das ändert ihn. Also, das heißt, der mehr, dass Eve abhören möchte, desto mehr muss sie damit interferieren. Und deshalb werden da Fehler drin sein in dem überlebenden Teil. Und nun in dem nächsten Schritt. Dass alles so pep durchgehen, müssen jetzt das vergleichen. Wie viele Fehler sind ungefähr in dem überlebenden String. Und die werden das korrigieren, indem sie einfach klassische Fehlerkorrektoren durchführen. Und dann werden sie den nächsten Schritt machen. Das sind sich Provisabilification. Und sie werden das runtergehen. Und das, das heißt, sie müssen noch ein paar Bits opfern, weil sie wissen, sie müssen noch ein paar Portionen durchführen. Aber im Schluss werden sie einen kleineren Key überleben, von dem wir garantieren können, mathematisch, dass Eve nichts darüber weiß. Um das zu machen, ist es ziemlich tricky, mathematisch gesprochen, muss man einen ganzen Kurs folgen über keine Informationstechnologie, damit man das mathematisch wirklich beweisen kann. Aber intuitiv gesprochen, ist es nicht ganz so schwierig. Wie ich bereits gesehen habe, das ist etwas, das wir wirklich machen können. Die ehrlichen Player, die müssen nur diese Fotos probieren, so wie ich das gemacht habe. Und Bob muss die nur messen. Also technisch funktioniert das. Wir brauchen keine Quantencomputen. Aber ich fahr das vielleicht, aber sonst interessiert es nicht. Wir interessieren sich die ehrlichen Spieler. Und diese Firma, die das machen, auch Quantum Key Distributions, die wir sie sehr vom Bädchen sehen. Das ist etwas, das man wirklich gehen kann in ein Laden und das kaufen kann, ist ziemlich teuer. Jedenfalls diese Devices existieren, das heißt, die können auch gehackt werden. Also man kann gehen, das aufmachen und so sieht das aus von innen. Das ist jetzt ein etwas älteres Modell, aber dieses Shrek, so diese schwarzen Boxen, die sind verbunden mit seinen hauptischen Fasern und kommerziell Erwerber. Also es gibt, glaube ich, die Hackendes. Das ist Vladim Makarov. Er ist ursprünglich aus Russland, er ist jetzt in Wachaloo, Kanada. Er hat einen Labo Teum, die das hacken. Sie öffnen diese und auch diese Zufassnummern, Generatoren. Hier sieht man ein Bild von ihm im Camp in den Niederlanden, als er am Hacken war, 2009, also diese, seinen kleinen Koffer mitgebracht hat. Sein Abhör-Koffer, mit dem er dann diese QQ Day System gehackt hat. Ich möchte nicht wissen, wie er damit durch den Zeug gekommen ist, aber er hat es gemacht. Er hat einige Schichten darüber zu erzählen. Das ist ungefähr der Zustand, und das geht auf die Art von der Quantum Key Distribution. Ich gehe jetzt langsam zum letzten Teil von meinem Talk. Ich möchte gern zu dieser Frage zurückkommen. Erinnere ich euch an die Frage? Genau, es ging um den Mond. Woher, wie können wir beweisen, dass wir wirklich an einer gewissen Position sind? Normalerweise sind kryptografische Spieler in einem perfekten theoretischen Welt benutzen diese Beweissachen wie geile Informationen, wie passwörter, geile Schlüssel, die man im geilen Ort aufhört, oder eventifizierte Informationen, wie eine pass- oder biometrische Information, wie ein Fingerabdruck, so etwas, das einem auszeichnet, gegenüber der ganzen Crowd hier in dem Publikum. Die Frage, die ich hier stellen möchte, kann eine grafische Position von einem Spieler genauso benutzt werden? Ist es möglich? Nur den Fakt, dass ich hier auf der Bühne stehe mit eigentlich sonst niemandem, reicht das, um mich von euch zu unterscheiden? Zuerst, das klingt wahrscheinlich ein bisschen wie eine merkweilige Frage, aber er stellt euch vor, die hat diese Bank zum Beispiel. Wir gehen hier rein und wir sehen diese Personen, die da arbeiten, die wir noch nie vorher getroffen haben. Aber nur der Fakt, dass diese Person hinter dem Schalten steht, macht, dass ihr diese Person traut für eure Transfer und Anliegen. Natürlich, die Bank schaut, dass da nur vertrauenswürdige Leute hinter diesem Schaden arbeiten, aber trotzdem, es ist grundsätzlich dieser Platz, wo diese Person steht, macht diesen Unterschied. Vielleicht andere Applikationen? Seid ihr wirklich auf dem Mond oder sind wir nur in einem meditation-Kontext? Also zum Beispiel, also wir wissen, kommt so ein Signal, ein Kommando wirklich von einer meditation-Hauptquartier oder nicht von einem nehmen, oder hier in diesem Kongress, wir möchten nur zu einer bestimmten Assembly kommunizieren möchten und ihr möchtet nur mit genau dieser spezifischen Assembly kommunizieren. Oder auch, es gibt auch dieses Pizza-Lieferproblem, also wir möchten verhindern, dass es Jux-Anrufe gibt in Notfallstellen und es gibt noch viel, viel mehr. Probiert darüber nachzudenken, was es hier für Applikationen geben könnte. Also lass uns das mal versuchen. Das ist jetzt etwas, das wir immer machen, wenn eine neue Frage aufkommt. Wir abstrahieren jetzt zuerst mal diese kleinen Details. Wir versuchen das jetzt mal zu simplifizieren und wir fangen jetzt mit dem Basic an. Ich werde jetzt hier annehmen, dass alle hier innoviert in einer Dimension leben, auf dieser Linie. Das ist natürlich nicht realistisch, wir leben in 2, 3, 4 Dimensionen. Aber wir nehmen jetzt an, wir erleben alle auf dieser Linie. Wir haben diese Prüfer in der Mitte und der Prüfer möchte genau an dieser Position ist. Das ist ein allgemein bekannter Platz und alle wissen, wo das ist. Was wir jetzt sicherstellen möchten, dass wir keine Koalition von falschen Prüferinnen, also niemand, der nicht an dieser Position sitzt, zum Beispiel hier, die Böse Alles und der Böse Bob. Auch wenn die kollaborieren, sollten die nicht fähig sein, weil sie glauben, dass sie an dieser blauen Position sitzen. Es gibt auch mehr unrealistische Annahmen, zum Beispiel. Die Kommunikation funktioniert auf Lichtgeschwindigkeit. Das ist meist natürlich nicht wahr. Auch wenn wir optische Fasern benutzen, ist das auch weniger als Lichtgeschwindigkeit. Und ich nehme auch an, dass die Berechnungen sofort passieren. Wir brauchen keine Berechnungszeit. Das ist auch nicht wahr. Und ich nehme an, dass die Very Falsch einen eigenen Kanal haben zum Koordinieren und kommunizieren. Wir versuchen das jetzt mal so. Der erste Punkt, die Zeit geht hier runter und wir haben das Protokoll. Eins, nehmt jetzt ein beliebiges X und schickt das zur Prüferin. Das ist jetzt gefragt, das zurückzuschicken, das sie macht. Der Very File misst jetzt die Zeit, was es gebraucht hat. Das ist extra kommt. Das nennt man Distance Bounding, weil es erlaubt uns, eine Obergrenze zu finden. Also wenn die Prüferin weiter weg ist, braucht es länger, bis die Nachricht bei der Prüferin ist, bis sie wieder zurück ist. Das heißt, wir haben eine Masse für, ungefähr, wo die Prüferin setzt. Wir machen das auch von der anderen Seite, mit einem anderen beliebigen String, auch Y, und die Prüferin schickt das auch zurück und wir messen die Zeit wieder und damit sind wir hoffentlich fähig zu den Sagen, wo die Prüferin setzt. Schauen wir, was passiert, wenn die böse Alice und der böse Bob da sitzen. Es ist nicht schwer zu sehen, das Protokoll kann geschlagen werden. Was die jetzt machen können, ist, dass sie sich zwischen schalten und weil sie weiß, wo die blaue Linie ist, also wann die Prüferin das zurück schickt mit, wartet sie jetzt einfach eine gewisse Zeit und schickt dann das Informationspaket zurück. Und Bob macht genau das selber. Er schaut sich dazwischen und wer hat das Paket und schickt es dann später. Für die Welfile schaut das genau so aus, als wirklich die Prüferin in der Mitte schickt. Das heißt, sie können diese Situation nicht aushalten, weil das Protokoll ist gebrochen. Ein zweiter Versuch, wir schicken dieses X und Y wieder sowieso ein klassischer Input und die sollen so ankommen, dass die an derselben Zeit bei der Prüferin ankommen. Und die Prüferin soll jetzt eine Funktion durchführen, dass zum Beispiel soll die Prüferin schauen, dass X dasselbe ist wie Y, das kann eine absolut beliebige Funktion sein, die einfach zu warten ist und die Prüferin schickt dann das Resultat der Funktion zurück zu prüfern. Diese schauen, wie lange das dauert, bis es zurückkommt. Also wir sagen, Berechnen braucht keine Zeit, das heißt, das passiert direkt. Und dann hoffen wir, dass das funktioniert. Wir versuchen jetzt mal zu brechen. Alice und Bob setzen jetzt hier. Was die jetzt machen müssen. Alice schaut sich jetzt hier wieder dazwischen. Sie nehmen jetzt das X, sie kopiert es. Es ist ein klassischer String, das kann sie machen. Das heißt, sie kann eine Kopie machen für sich selbst und schickt die andere Kopie rüber zu Bob. Bob macht das selber mit seinem Y. Er macht eine Kopie, behält die und schickt die andere zu Alice. Und jetzt an der richtigen Zeitpunkt kommen die genau an und sie können diese Funktion berechnen. Diese Funktion ist bekannt. Alice kann prüfen, z.B. X gleich Y ist, kann das berechnen und schickt das in der richtigen Zeit zurück zum Veryfile. Also wir haben wieder das Protokoll komplett gebrochen. Es zeigt sich, das ist ein kleines Problem. Es gibt kein klassisches Protokoll, dieses Problem löst. Eine Positionsfreikation ist klassisch eben unmöglich. All diese Referenzen sind übrigens hyperlinks, wenn ihr das runterlöst, könnt ihr auch die Prüfre machen. Und da steht auch, dass es ein generelles Problem ist. Es gibt kein klassisches Protokoll, das hier sicher ist. Das geht nicht nur in einer Dimension, das geht in allen Dimensionen. Man kann immer die Attacker so patientisch funktionieren. Und die können das immer miteinander austauschen. Und die können die selbe Funktion immer so machen, wie das die Prüfre machen würde. Und so sieht es aus Jetzt gucken wir uns die Attacker an. Also Alice hat ja diese Kopie von X und zählt das mit BAB und berechnet diese Funktion. Das braucht einen Kopien von klassischer Informationen. Und wir haben gesehen, es gibt einen Quanten Non-Cloning-Syrem. Das heißt, es ist nicht möglich. Das heißt, vielleicht sollten wir mal Quanteninformation verwenden, damit es unmöglich wird probieren, durchzuführen. Also versuchen wir das mal. Wir nehmen jetzt das folgende Protokoll. Der ist Welfare send schicken wir ein beliebiges Q-Bit. Wir zeigen jetzt dieses Fragezeichen, das wird geschickt durch diesen Quantum-Kanal. Und zwar so, dass es auf der anderen Seite wird ein klassisches Bit geschickt. Das wird gleichzeitig jetzt wieder ankommen. Und jetzt soll die Prüferin das Q-Bit einfach zurückschicken zum ersten Welfare. Der will das messen, die Zeit messen, schaut, ob das dasselbe schickt hat. Und sagen wir mal, das ist kein Problem. Wenn das Bit 1 war, dann soll die Prüferin das einfach durchlassen. Und zwar durchlassen zum Welfare 2. Das ist das Protokoll, das ich zeigen möchte. Das ist das Spiel, das wir jetzt spielen möchten. Als Alice und Bob. Also Alice hat jetzt das Q-Bit und Bob hat das normalklassische Bit. Und das ist das selbe. Wenn B0 ist, dann muss Alice das Q-Bit haben. Wenn B1 ist, dann muss das ungekehrt sein. Also Bob macht die Kopie, schickt das seit Bit weg. Alice hat jetzt ein Problem. Bei den Non-Cloning-Syremes muss sie jetzt hier eine Kopie zuversuchen machen, was sie nicht kann. Das heißt, sie muss sofort entscheiden, was sie tut. Aber sie weiß nicht, ob das Bit 1 oder 0 ist, weil es braucht eine gewisse Zeit, damit das Bit zu hergeflogen ist. Also können sie jetzt raten. Sie können jetzt sagen, das Bit ist jetzt 0 oder 1. In der Hälfte der Fälle würde sie richtig raten, dass das Bit 0 und 1 ist, aber in der anderen Hälfte der Zeit, dann braucht B0 das Q-Bit. Und dann ist es zu spät, weil es bei Bob würde es zu spät ankommen und dann eine Wifi würde es merken. Das sieht aus, ob das sicher wäre, weil hier so eine Wahrscheinlichkeit ist, dass es einfach schief geht. Also eine Null, nicht Null-Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Wifi wissen, dass da eine Attacke ist gegenüber der mit den ehrlichen Prüferinnen in der Mitte die immer funktionieren. Das ist einfach drin. Genau. Es gibt, wenn wir das immer wieder hohen, wenn wir das 100.000 Mal machen, an irgendeinem Punkt merken wir, dass die Wifi-Werten diesen Fehler sehen und feststellen, dass da eine Attacke ist. Das ist das zu denken. Es steht sich raus, so ist es nicht. Man kann dieses Protok brechen und zwar auch perfekt. Das war eine ziemlich große Sache. Um das zu verstehen, wie es gebrochen wird, muss ich jetzt ein bisschen mehr erklären. Zwei Dinge. Das erste muss ich erklären, was EPR-Pare sind. Das ist eine magische Quelle. EPR-Pare, die sind benannt nach diesen drei Herren. Eins sind Podolski und Rosen. Das sind Paare. Das ist der Grund, warum die Paare nennen. Wir haben diese Pfeile hier. Das ist so ein gemächster Zustand. Wir haben hier diesen magischen Kleber dazwischen. Da gibt es einen Zwischenzustand. Das ist ein verschränktem Zustand. Verschränkte Cubits. Es ist möglich, diese zu generieren. Alice kann die so präparieren und eins nehmen und das andere abgeben. Die können auch sehr weit voneinander weg sein. Das spielt keine Rolle. Die können an derselbe Einwerten generiert und werden dann getrennt. Zum Beispiel über eine Glasfase. Das kann hunderte Kilometer sein. Aber die sind immer noch miteinander verschränkt. Was bedeutet das, wenn jetzt Alice geht und misst ihr Cubit zum Beispiel in der gelben Basis und weil dieses Cubit auch nicht genau weiß, das wird jetzt ein beliebiges Bit sein. Mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit 1 ist es 0. Das wird kollabieren. Mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit 1,5 und 1 kollabieren. Aber das Lustige daran ist, gleichzeitig, wenn Alice diesen Zustand gemessen hat, kollabiert das auf der Seite von Bob. Das ist diese EPR-Magie. Das ist das Lustige daran. Einstein hat das selbst spukhafte Fernwirkung genannt. Ein Schäferer davon gar nicht begeistert. Was bedeutet das jetzt hier? Wenn jetzt Alice hier eine 0 misst, ist auch Bob ein 0-Zustand. Und wenn er das jetzt nochmal misst in dieser gelben Basis, wird er mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit 1 den Output 0 kriegen. Er wird genau dasselbe mit messen wie Alice vorher. Für Einstein war das so, das ist nicht gut. Das scheint sich irgendwie zu versprechen mit der Revitätstourib. Das stimmt nicht. Weil er hat nicht ganz verstanden, was da passiert. Die erlauben und nicht Informationen zu kommunizieren. Das gibt uns nur ein geteiltes beliebiges Bit. Und wenn Bob das misst, wird er dasselbe zufällige Bit kriegen wie Alice. Das ist einfach ein geteiltes zufälliges Bit. Das ist nicht Informationen, die Alice vorbereitet hat und das zu Bob gesagt hat. Es wird ein zufälliger Zustand sein. Das ist der Unterschied und das Krehen von diesen korrelierten Bit. Das ist vielleicht schwierig zu verstehen, aber kein Problem. Auch diese sehr schlauen Leute haben Probleme mit, als wenn ihr das zum ersten Mal seht, kein Problem. Es ist okay. Wenn wir das haben, können wir so was machen mit einer geplanten Teleportion. Wir machen jetzt nicht die Star Trek-Version, wir machen das, wie die Leute das hier vorgeschlagen haben. Das funktioniert folgendermaßen. Alice und Bob haben so ein IPR-Paar. Das wurde gezeigt, das funktioniert effektiv. Die teilen jetzt dieses IPR-Paar und dazu hat Alice jetzt ein unbekanntes Q-Bit vorbereitet. Dieses Q-Bit ist ein Fragezeichen, und sie möchte das gerne zu Bob schicken. Sie möchte das Bob, das am Schluss auf seiner Seite hat. Sie kann eine komplizierte Messung machen auf diesen beiden Q-Bits. Das ist eine sogenannte Bell-Messung. Das ist eine Messung an beiden Q-Bits. Also die Hälfte von diesem Paar und ihr eigenes Q-Bits. Das Resultat von dieser Messung ist ein klassisches Ergebnis. Das sind zwei beliebige Bits. 0, 1, 2 oder 3. Und durch Magie, durch das Verschränkungen wird dieses Q-Bit auch ankommen bei Bob. Es wird in einer Verschlüssen-Version oder in Art kommen. Das ist so ein bisschen das Analogon zum One-Time-Pad, das wir kennen. Das ist sozusagen das Quanten-One-Time-Pad. Und wenn Alice hier dieses klassische Bit, dieses Sigma zu Bob schickt, kann er dieses verschlüsselte Signal dann anschlüsseln und kriegt das originale Q-Bit das alles vorbereitet. Das ist das die Grundlage der Quantentelepation. Das heißt, wir brauchen dieses verschränkte Paar, wir brauchen die Bell-Messung und dieser Outcome von dieser Messung geht dann los zu Bob. Und dann können wir diese Verschlüsselung rückgängig machen und können dieses ursprüngliche Q-Bit wieder sich bemachen. Das ist kein Widersprüch zur Realitäts-Tourie. Das hier passiert nicht sofort. Denn die Messung dieses ursprünglichen Q-Bits können wir erst machen, nachdem wir dieses Sigma von Alice gekriegt haben, das heißt, wir brauchen eine gewisse Zeit, also dieses Sigma muss zuerst von Alice zu Bob geschickt werden. Wir haben keine Informationen, die schneller wie die Lichtgeschwindigkeit verschickt wurden. Wenn wir das jetzt hier wissen, können wir jetzt diesen Protokoll brechen. Wir haben hier die Attacca. Alice hat hier auch ein Q-Bit, Bob hat das Bit. Das Bit soll bei Alice ankommen, wenn das Bit eins ist und wenn das Bit eins ist, soll es bei Bob bleiben. Wenn wir jetzt diese verschreckten Q-Bits benutzen, warum sollten sie das nicht tun? Die können die einfach vorbereiten. Dann können sie dieses Protokoll absolut brechen, wenn sie diese Quantenteleportation benutzen. Alice macht diese Teleportationsmessung und ist im Q-Bit, das sie hier hat, zusammen mit dem ersten Bit von unserem verschränkten Paar. Das wird das verschränkte Teilchen zu Bob bringen und werden hier dieses Ursprünglich-Q-Bit und das ist, wie erwähnt, verschlüsselt. Und das schickt Alice dann diesen Weg entlang. Bob hat das Bit. Das heißt, er weiß, ob er das Q-Bit behalten soll oder nicht. Das heißt, er wartet, ein Wetter auf den Schlüssel und kann das entschlüsseln und wenn das Bit.0 war, dann wird er es zurück teleportieren, also er macht genau dasselbe nochmal und schickt dieses Q-Bit, dass es wieder so bei Alice ankommt. Also ist es am richtigen Ort, also ist es sozusagen doppelt verschlüsselt bei diesen beiden Messungen. Aber da ist es genug Zeit, das ist eine klassische Information bei Alice ankommen, er schickt das weiter. Das heißt, er würde den Output von dieser Messung unterlernen, das heißt, ich muss das zweite Q-Bit angucken und ich muss diese Verschlüsselung rückgängig machen und wenn ich das gemacht habe, habe ich das richtige Q-Bit. Damit haben wir das Protokoll absolut begebrochen. Für die Wifi sieht das so aus, als ob da alles in Ordnung wäre und niemand ihn damit ersetzen würde. Gibt es da Protokolle die nicht gebrochen werden können? Und hier ist es eigentlich das Hauptresultat in dieser Forschungsfeld. Es gibt kein richtiges Protokoll. Was wir gezeigt haben, ist das sogenannte No-Go-Summit in 2010, dass egal welches Positionsvokationsprotokoll kann gebrochen werden, wenn man eine große Nummer von verschränkten Q-Bits benutzt. Mit den genügenden Ressourcen muss man jedes Protokoll brechen. Wie immer, es gibt die Frage in die Forschung, wir haben eine Frage. Es führt immer zu neuen Fragen. Die Frage ist, braucht man wirklich so viele Ressourcen, um das zu machen, aber gibt es ein Protokoll, so dass es einfach ist, das zu benutzen, wenn man nur eilicher Player hat? Aber wenn wir eine Attacke haben, braucht es sehr viel Verschränktheit. Weil das wäre sehr gut. Weil dann haben wir ein an sich sicheres Protokoll. Und das ist eine der großen Vorschussfragen, an denen ich jetzt gerade arbeite. Und ich möchte euch gerne einladen, auf meine Homepage zu schauen, die ihr finden könnt. Ich denke, das bringt mich jetzt aus um zum Ende. Ich hoffe, ihr habt etwas gelernt in diesem Vortrag. Zuerst habt ihr gelernt, was Q-Bits sind. Wir haben keine Cloning-Theorem. Wir haben etwas über Verschränkungen gelernt. Und wir haben am Schluss die Quantentelepation gesehen. In der ersten Applikation habe ich über die Quantum Key-Distribution gesprochen, im Kontext, wie das funktioniert. Das zweite war diese Positionsbasierte Kryptografie. Momentan eine sehr aktive Forschungs-Fiat. Das hängt auf wer genug verschreckte Q-Bits haben. Und wir können es nicht sprechen, wenn wir nicht genug davon haben. Ich danke euch. Sehr herzlich für eure Aufmerksamkeit. Hallo. Danke für den tollen Vortrag. Ich habe eine Frage. Betreffend die Quantenschlüsselverteilung nutzen Leos Machines. Und du hast gesagt, dass die hackbar sind. Und von meinem Verständnis ist das dieses Hacking nicht in dem Quantenparteil nennen, sondern mit dem spezifischen Implementation auf der klassischen Seite in den klassischen Kanälen. Ja, natürlich. In jedem System, das wir implementieren, können wir zeigen, diese Sicherheit verbessern. Wir müssen sicherstellen, dass wir die Realität modellieren. Die Realität ist viel komplizierter. Wir müssen Foto-Detektoren benutzen. Und in diesem speziellen Fall der Foto-Detektor, den wir ertaktiert haben, hat die Detektoren geblendet, indem er eine sehr große Menge Licht reingeschickt hat, weil die sind sehr sanitiv, weil die sind eigentlich für Einzelverton ausgelegt. Und dadurch hat er alles aus dem Modell rausgerissen. Also es ist wirklich eine Attacke an der eigentlichen Implementation. Aber grundsätzlich kann ich sagen, das ist der einzige Art, wie man das machen kann. Wir bauen und irgendwie machen eine Attacke. Und das ist so ein Zyklus. Also Dinge werden immer besser und besser in dem wir die untersuchen. Frage aus dem Internet. Erste Frage. Kann man da irgendwas zu Hause machen mit begrenzten Budget? Man kann nicht so kleine Experimente machen, man kann sehr viel Spaß haben mit diesen polisierten Glas teilen. Aber in der richtigen Kryptofie ist es wirklich schwer, weil damit man diese Sicherheitstests machen muss man wirklich auf einem Einzelverton-Level arbeiten. Und das ist sehr schwer zu händeln. Also da braucht man wirklich ein entsprechendes Labor. Ein Kommentar über den Quantentag gestern Wenn du AIS benutzt oder ekele Autifikationsmethode Wenn du dein Überblick Battles hattest dann zeigst du Wenn du aus Kompens als eine war es das andere nicht und das ist nicht true Mein zweiter Kommentar ist wie es über die mobile Kommunikation genutzte WLAN-Kommunikation Also zuerst über diese erste Frage Ich glaube, wir sollten das zusammen diskutieren Der zweite Kommentar natürlich In dieser Frage die Forschung ist hier ich mache jetzt hier eine sehr starke Annähe und haben grundsätzlich wie ich das gesagt haben ich nehme irgendwelche Fake Prüfer Es klingt nicht wirklich wie ein realistisches Modell also wie ein realer Welt-Szenario Ich spreche über den ersten Teil Was würde Schlüssel-ID geben für den mobilen Teil? Es gibt eine große Nachfrage auf die Hardware-Frage für diese Protokolle Es gibt natürlich Dinge, dass man vielleicht ein Teil wirklich tragbar machen kann und die beste Addon bisher ist diese sogenannte Everlasting Security Also man muss wirklich eine aktive Attacke machen an diesem Punkt, wo es ausgetauscht wird und wenn man da nicht erfolgreich ist dann ist der Rest eigentlich die Sicherheit ist dann garantiert Mikrofon 4 Korrigiere mich wenn ich falsch bin, aber man braucht eine direkte Linie dafür, dass die hier funktioniert wenn mal irgendwas wie Router dazwischen hat dann würde es nicht funktionieren weil man das auslesen möchte und kopieren muss Würdest du das so klarzumachen? Spürst du den ersten oder zweiten Teil? Über beide Also für die Quanten-Schlüssel-Austarschen dann macht das nicht so ein großen Ausdruck das funktioniert aber wenn man das um Ecken führt, wenn man da optische Faser nimmt im zweiten Teil ist das ein bisschen schwieger Es ist immer eine Frage über das Timing Also man muss das mehr realistische Settings benutzen weil wir sind nicht kommunizierend auf dem Level von Lichtgeschwindigkeit es wird zusätzliche Probleme geben also wir brauchen da mehr Arbeit, dass wir da ein realistisches Setting haben weil wir da nicht gerade eine Linie haben wir haben da Ecken drin das heißt, wir haben nicht nur eine spezifische Position sondern viel mehr ein Intervall wo jemand setzt aber das sind Fragen, an denen wir gerade wirklich forschen wir versuchen das zu modellieren Hallo Ich glaube, Tanya hat eine ähnliche Quarantie aber du sagst, dass es keine Berechnungsbeschränkungen dafür gibt aber braucht ihr das diesen outdefinisierten Kanal weil man macht das mit klassischer Kryptografien mit all das also man hat mal wieder die Berechnungsannahme wieder da glaube ich, das Ganze im Kreis läuft man versucht zu ersetzen was im IS-Verschlussung funktioniert und benutzt dann wenn eine Haschfunktion oder ähnlich ist oder irgendeine traditionelle Kryptografie um das funktionabel zu machen das ist der Fall ich glaube, es ist eine sehr teure Lösung für ein nicht existentes Problem also grundsätzlich braucht man nicht diese kommissionale Schemen aber du hast also recht wir brauchen diese Schlüssel was wir nie verhindern können dass IF diese ganze Kommission blockiert wenn das passiert dann kann sie einfach dazu führen dass wir keine Kies mehr haben aber was das macht aber das habe ich bereits gesagt man muss wirklich aktiv sein in dem Moment das Austausch und das ist zu das Upgrade zu diesen klassischen Schemen leider haben wir keine Zeit mehr wir danken dem Speaker noch einmal ich habe die Fersetzung	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnOCTesjRM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCjRZr5HQKHVKP3SZdX8y8Qw	Tools for Rapid CSS development - Talk.CSS #45	Speaker: Sathish Kumar Thiyagarajan Sathish will talk about the tools that can help us to use CSS effectively to build web applications. Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/SingaporeCSS/events/261692488/ Produced by Engineers.SG Recorded by: Ambrose Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/CFZWr/	null	2019-11-06T12:13:54	2024-02-05T07:59:17	1,221	pcaovUHr7gM	Good evening everyone. So, my name is Satish Kumar Thakarajan. The topic that I am going to cover is rapid CSS development. So, I am not a CSS developer actually. In fact, I am new to Singapore. This is my first meetup presentation. Thanks for the opportunity. So, I speak about Java Elasticsearch Web Development CACD around Chennai. So, I organized for official Elasticsearch meetup for Chennai and Java and all those two. So, yeah, to get started. So, my relationship with CSS is not like a CSS developer as such. I work with UI teams where we need to come up with UI much quickly and effectively. That is what we do. So, for us, tools is very important so that we can get things done quickly. Basically, we belong to service industry. You know how it works. The earlier that we solve the problem, it is better we get the projects. So, this is what I feel when we do a web development. So, if you consider a HTML, which is a raw content and it is very clear it has a better clarity and JavaScript is more powerful. But when it comes to CSS, CSS is always kind of confusing. So, CSS is kind of, it has its own specific place. The reason being, one, CSS is very simple and that is the complexity that CSS brings. The problem is JavaScript, we develop JavaScript only through JavaScript developers. Not other people touch as JavaScript because they know it will fail. But CSS, everybody touches. B, A, designers, developers, everybody touches it. So, because of that, what is happening is there can be possibilities where you can get started with CSS easily and you can corrupt your project easily with CSS. So, it is very important that we go with proper safeguards before we work with CSS. So, whatever I show you now, this is not because we learn a lot with CSS at least what I felt is. It is not about you learning a lot, but rather you practice a lot. You can understand CSS only by practicing it. That is what I felt. So, these are all the challenges that people face. It is applicable to both HTML as well as JavaScript tools, but specific to CSS. So, these are all the two challenges that we need to address. You need to have a right mix of tools. That is, we should know which tool to be used and what is the purpose to be used. Many of the times, we use all the latest tools, but we place them in a different way and that is what corrupting our project. So, then interoperability. These tools are developed, tested separately as a separate unit. When you combine them together, they don't operate that well and because of that, either you need to take that root or this root and that is the place where the problem starts. So, now let me start with IDEs. I use Visual Studio, but you can use any IDEs, but these are all the basic tools that we expect out of an IDE. So, for example, let us consider, we use Visual Studio code. So, what is the purpose of ID? Before I get into that, so if you consider JavaScript, Java or any programming languages and before we do that, we should understand why we develop CSS now. We don't use CSS as a development tool earlier, but nowadays people call CSS as a development platform because we write a lot of CSS and CSS does a lot of things where we had limitation with CSS earlier, which was done by JavaScript, but now even that part, CSS started to own it. So, it's important that we make a proper CSS. And with IDE, for any, like any other languages, the basic things that you expect is, you need code completions, you need code navigations and then there's a tool called MET, which we will see and surprisingly many people doesn't understand, use that, and then snippets. And then the red color, we'll come to that later, but let us see the first basic ones. So, now, if it is Visual Studio, so these are all the tools that I used. There are a lot of tools. So, first thing is, there is IntelliSense for CSS classes. So, I enable that. So, what it does is, now it will give you the code completion. Say for example, now in my case, I used, say, Bootstrap and then I go to my index.html. It's nothing new. So, you get all the code completion. So, there is no way that you give a different class name that doesn't exist. So, that's the idea. And then there is CSS peak that I use it for navigation. So, now, once you enable it, okay. Now, I can navigate. That's the purpose of CSS peak. Did I enable it? Okay. CSS peak, enabled it. Okay. I need to restart. Go to definition. Okay. So, I can navigate it. And then Emmet. Emmet is a tool that not many people use it surprisingly. But the purpose of Emmet is, Emmet is a tool which is accessible in all the IDEs. The purpose of Emmet is, as a web developer, we have a specific way of thinking. For example, let us think of writing an LI, UL, LI with five elements. So, we say UL and inside that LI, and then you need five LIs. And then you have A inside. So, this is kind of CSS, but this will make your typing much, much easier. Apart from typing, it has a lot of other tools also, but that is, we will have a separate thing for that. So, Emmet is cool for typing. So, it will make your typing much, much faster. And then snippets. I'll come to the snippet a little bit later. Snippet, as it suggests, reusable set of code that you want to say, okay, you want to say, for example, in my case, I created a snippet. A custom snippet, if I say, in my HTML, if I type ULL, this is what I want to create. So, you can say ULL. So, like this, you can write custom snippets. Okay. Now, the problem starts. So, people use IDEs for formatting, limiting, and auto-prefixing. I think it is not a good practice. The reason being, the formatting, limiting, and auto-prefixing, they need to happen independent of your ID. It might happen in your build tool also, like Jenkins CI pipeline also it should happen. So, for that reason, it's always better to use your build tool, like NPM script, webpack, and all those stuff. That's always better. And now SAS. SAS is often either people love it or people hate it. It has its own reasons to be used. It has its own reasons not to be used. So, there are situations where you should use it. There are situations that you should actually avoid it. Okay. Now, let us see what is SAS. As you all know, it's a preprocessor where CSS has such a language. It has its own limitations. It can't give you any other programming language and all those stuff. It's like TypeScript for your JavaScript, Puck for HTML, a CSS is for your CSS. But then, these kind of language for languages always comes with these limitations. Some people complain that I need to get deeper. So, I will use the language as it is. Why should I use another decorated language? Is it like just a sugar coating? That's the thing. But actually, if you dig deeper, it has its own space. Particularly, when CSS3 came, many developers still think that, okay, CSS3 is there. CSS3 supports variables. And we don't need SAS. No. SAS is not just about variables. So, SAS is about, say, if you are, if you are, if you are, if you want to team your system, teaming is still, it is better to be managed with SAS. Because if you look at Bootstrap, Material.css, take any CSS libraries, their teaming is supported with SAS. The reason being, it supports custom functions. A custom functions, you can have functions in, you have functions in CSS, but you can't create your own functions, reusable functions. And custom builds. Custom builds is very, very important when you are building a design system. What do we mean by a custom build? So, consider you are including Bootstrap in your system. Now, in my case, I use SAS. So, this is my CSS. And finally, I have my, I have my NPM scripts running. So, it keeps watching. So, that's your workflow. And now I have my CSS. Now, I want to generate my CSS out of SAS. So, now, if you say, okay, I included Bootstrap. So, now you see Bootstrap is, Bootstrap is part of my SAS, CSS. Now, in Bootstrap, you have two options. It's there in official documentation also, but the purpose is this. Now, you can make custom builds. Consider you are just making a very simple site. That is just a website. So, mostly you are going to deal with layouts. You are going to deal with typographies. You are going to deal with some animations and all those stuff. And you don't need components like farms and all those stuff. You can very well select what you want. Only those items will be bundled in your final CSS, which means the, of course, the file size is smaller, but then you can make one way of looking at this. Yes, the file size is smaller. Okay, it is going to be performance benefit. It is not just a performance benefit. Consider you are making a design system in a product company where you have a lot of, it's like a hierarchical tailgate you are preparing. You have your own tailgate. And below that, you have product specific tailgates. And you want to make sure that this product is safeguarded from the other project. And if you want to create that kind of custom builds, it is always better to have this kind of module systems. For module systems, it's still CSS. That's a better job compared to the CSS modules and all those stuff. But the word of caution is one, if you are working, traditionally, there is something called node SAS. That is what is being used in older Angular projects and all those stuff. So you might have faced this problem. If your organization is kind of restricted, your build systems will not allow to be, allow to download these kind of systems. The reason being, node SAS is not a JavaScript implementation. It's a binary implementation which will be restricted in your firewall. So slowly, NPM is giving native things. For SAS, there is something called Dart CSS. Dart SAS, which is written in Dart, but it compiles in JavaScript, which means it will download without any issues. So if you're starting a new project, always use Dart CSS over node CSS. And then nesting. Yes, SAS is powerful. That's how I started. So the complexity with these tools is, we should know where to stop. So beyond the point, if you go nesting to more than an allowed items, it might complicate your project more than simplifying it, actually. So be cautious about nesting. And one good thing is, there's a concept called immutable CSS, where it's always better. You write one CSS class with one CSS property, and that is not specified in other things, just to avoid side effects. So that's one thing that we can consider. And then stalelint. Stalelint is a linting. So wherever, say for example, now let us consider a case where you have your variables, and then you don't define anything. It doesn't. Now, this is for your kind of static code analysis where if you make a problem, it's always better. For stalelint, you can install it here also. It's better, IDE also notifies its two-way checks. Put that check in your visual studio also, as well as put it in your build tool. It's always better, just to have an earlier feedback. Now, coming to an interesting part, actually. This post-CSS, when people talk about post-CSS, OK, post-CSS is there. We are going to use post-CSS. Post-CSS is not a single tool. Rather, post-CSS is a tool chain that makes a lot of very useful CSS tools work together. For example, we will be using auto-prefixer. Let us consider what is auto-prefixer. Auto-prefixer means let us take, OK, I have included post-CSS already. So let us consider, now this is the app-CSS. Just for simplicity, I am removing all the other stuff. So now let us look at app-CSS. Our CSS is clean now. Now, what is the purpose of post-CSS? Now, let us consider auto-prefixer. So if you make this kind of statements where it is supposed to be converted specific to your browser. So you need to have some prefixes specific to your browsers. So that will be taken care of automatically. Now, coming to the second part of the complexity. In the earliest slides, I told about these tools. They are developed with the different different teams. It's not mandatory that they work together, actually. So now let us take a classic case. Now what I am trying to do is this post-CSS also provides another tool where it says preset. It's like Babel for CSS where you can write future CSS today. And it's kind of a transpiler. It converts your CSS into the browser acceptable form. If you put something like this, it is going to make it this way. That's the idea. Now the problem is you take your SAS, and then you put it here. It will not allow you. The problem is because SAS considers that this is not a valid syntax. Now, we can't make this file and this one works together. But instead, there is another way. The other way is SAS provides you the flexibility to import CSS without an extension. It will be considered as just a plain CSS include. Now with this, the thing is now I have an extra CSS. So here, consider I keep it. And you see it still says it is not allowed. The reason being, so I need to enable post-CSS support. Now it will go. Now the way that we make these two things work is we need to tweak our. So now if you look at it, I'll explain the logic, but you can see the code. So the way that I did this, I put a different tool chain for CSS as well as SAS, where if you change a CSS, it compiles a CSS because CSS is accepting this syntax. And it will put it in my disk with the post-CSS processed. Now this is post-CSS processed CSS. And then that I include in my SAS. And that's how I am able to get that finally into my final CSS. So this kind of tweaking is always needed. But it comes by trial and error actually. So now this is all the things that I learned over the period of time. It's always better we keep developers away from CSS. Is it really possible? Yes, if we go with strict rules, it's still possible. The way that we can achieve that is make your design system as a root and then allow all your CSS toolset to that project. And make your development projects minus CSS tools so that the CSS is not at all available to the developers. And the second thing is snippets. Snippets is a great way of abstracting it. By writing custom CSS, you can make sure that you have a predefined markup. Make sure the developers doesn't use different markup for a same-looking UI. So that you can abstract. And then keep CSS in CSS as CSS. Even though SAS supports all the features, don't write a lot of your CSS in a SAS way. Try to stick to CSS and keep it in CSS. It's always better. And CSS as a design tool. This is one thing that people always take it in a different way, but actually it works. So if you are familiar with this terminology, this terminology was there a few years before, but nowadays people don't use it. There was a moment called no PSD movement. What it says is rather you design your system with a Photoshop sketch or these kind of property tools that actually provides PSDs or JPGs. And then that converts it into another tools. And then finally, it gets into HTML. You do your design inside HTML and CSS itself. So it's an interesting concept. At that point in time, the tools were not that much available. But now, luckily, we have tools like Bootstaff Studio, Webflow, Wix.com, and all those stuff where you can design your websites. And the output of that is CSS and HTML itself. So whenever we see in online, this is the advantage that they put. What you see is what you get is the output. But actually, practically when we use it, there is a hidden advantage that I felt rapid descent. So I did it with two different developers. One is a qualified, certified usability analyst. He has around 15, 16 years of experience. And he has expertise in Photoshop and all these design tools. When I told him this idea of designing with CSS, he was adamant not accepting it. But it took only a year with a lot of projects. And now, when I see it, he's able to develop it relatively faster. And I tried with relatively fresh graduates two, three years And then he was able to. He started with CSS as a design tool. And he can come up with a design much, much earlier. So it has advantage. But you should know the right tools. And you should always make sure you are on top of better practices. And that's how you can use CSS as a design tool. But if it is possible, it really makes a lot of sense. And use tools with basic settings. Be cautious, even though these are all attractive tools. In fact, in post-CSS, there are 200 plus tools, actually. And I felt some of the tools, if you use it, it makes your life way more complicated. It's better to stay away from that. So before you use a tool, start with a smaller team, practice the tool. Once you are confirmed that, OK, this tool actually makes sense for your project, in fact, some of the tools are very specific to your project, and then roll out to the rest of the teams. That's always better. So thank you. Another applause for this very informative talk. Thank you very much.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaovUHr7gM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJvZYspa9qxhoccHGQfYIFA	The Application of Deep Learning for the Segmentation and Classification of Coronary ... \| RTCL.TV	### Keywords ### #coronaryarterydisease(CAD) #coronaryarteries #angiography #UNet #pretrainedmodels #RTCLTV ### Article Attribution ### Title: The Application of Deep Learning for the Segmentation and Classification of Coronary Arteries Authors: Şerife Kaba, Huseyin Haci, Ali Isin, Ahmet Ilhan ,and Cenk Conkbayir Publisher: MDPI AG DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13132274 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/a0d507f2fd79455ba1982987c9598d85 Source URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/13/13/2274 ### Image Attribution ### We used stable diffusion to programmatically generate the background images. Viewer discretion is advised. ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@medicinertcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@medicine_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:58 - Title 0:01:04 - Outro 0:01:08 - End	[ "RTCLTV", "UNet", "angiography", "coronary arteries", "coronary artery disease (CAD)", "pretrained models" ]	2023-10-23T21:51:59	2024-04-23T16:57:33	69	pc6uxZfmUUg	This paper presents a novel approach to detect coronary artery stenosis using computer vision techniques. The proposed methodology consists of two stages. Firstly, it uses UNET, RESUNET A, UNET++, RESUNET A and UNET++ models for automatic coronary artery segmentation. Secondly, it employs DenseNet 201, EfficientNet B0, MobileNet V2, ResNet 101 and section models for coronary artery classification. The results show that UNET model achieved the best performance with a dice score of 0.8467 and a jacket index of 0.7454. Additionally, DenseNet 201 outperformed all other pre-trained models with an accuracy of 0.900, with a specificity of 0.9833, positive predictive value of 0.9556, Cohen's Kappa of 0.7746 and AUC of 0.9694. This article was authored by Serif Kaba, Hussain Hasey, Ali Aisin and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc6uxZfmUUg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC3lp1Pk33sziERUwvmiNBqQ	CS213.2x S114 Re-designing Mumbai Vada-Pav Restaurant (Program)	This video has been released by Studio IIT Bombay under Creative Commons license.	[ "CS213", "CS213x", "CS213.2x", "Implementation of Data Structures", "Data Structures", "IIT Bombay", "IITB", "IITBombayX", "Professor Deepak Phatak", "MOOC Course", "Lists" ]	2022-01-11T11:36:33	2024-03-04T14:15:56	329	pcAPgr4aXpM	Welcome to this course on data structures and algorithms. Today we will be revisiting an example that we had discussed earlier namely the Mumbai Vada power restaurant. You will recall that we had implemented that particular operation using queues. This time we will see how less could be meaningfully used to implement the same functionality. You will recall that in the earlier version there was a function called order goes kitchen where the information of order was placed and the preparation time for that order was loaded in an array. Now, instead of an array we would like to use a list. So, the same information about the order placed and the preparation time will be loaded in a list of type structure kitchen. Let us recapitulate the various data structures quickly. Maintaining information for food and customer arrival was in a structure called food info and customer info. Then there was a customer queue which contains information about the customer arrival etcetera. Next we were to maintain information about the orders placed and the order that goes to the kitchen for preparation. So, we had an order structure which contains information of the order that is token ID cost to be paid etcetera. Kitchen was the main structure which contains information stored in the structure order along with the preparation time for that order. Then there was an order dispatch queue which contains token ID of the order which is ready to be collected by I guess. The function that we had written were load menu which will load all the items which are available on the menu which set food items which will load the complete menu. In the load menu we will be setting up individual food items. Next the customer arrives functions actually adds a customer to the customer queue. Place order is another function which gives the token ID and cost assigned for every order that has been placed. Order goes to kitchen is the important function you will recall earlier we had used an array. Now the information about order place and preparation time will be loaded in the list. Dispatch orders of course is already we have seen earlier the orders which are ready to be collected. Now we are not going to relook at the entire program we will only look at the modified function and class of the Mumbai Vada power restaurant. The entire program with appropriate modifications for the functions is displayed under the slide unit on IIT Bombay X. So here is the program the class restaurant which was earlier written slightly differently this time notice that I have list. So list in kitchen is a list of the type kitchen that has been added here rest of it is same. Next I have the function order goes to kitchen. Now in order goes to kitchen what we are doing is we said K dot order to order we said K dot preparation time to prep time. Now we push back this K into the list in kitchen. So this is the difference because now we are dealing with a list and not with an array. Here is an important thing earlier also we did that we wanted to sort the array on the preparation time or dispatch time instead now we have a list. So notice this function restaurant dispatch orders it has list in kitchen dot sort. How will it sort? It will sort using a comparison which is stipulated in another function. What does it say? First dot preparation time less than second dot preparation time if that is true it will return true other it will return false. Please note that this function compare itself is being passed as a function pointer in this sort statement. So the list will be sorted using this compare function which is written here. All that we now to do is that once the list in kitchen is sorted as long as it is not empty I keep pushing the order dot token id from the sorted list that I would have got by using this statement. One by one the order will be sent to the dispatch it will be pushed out and that is the end of this function. The output will be same because we are giving exactly the same input to the program that we did earlier. We will have exactly the same you can verify that by running this program. To conclude in this particular session we saw how the Mumbai Vada Pav restaurant operations can be implemented using a list instead of an array. Please note two important things the declaration and handling of the list and second this sorting of the list in this particular case we have used a function pointer to indicate what should be the comparison operation done for sorting. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAPgr4aXpM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCjFmkmzvMl5pwHgFVV7F5gw	F. 3/3/23 - RNB OF 12 TEAMS FOR - 2020-21 UPPER DECK THE CUP HOCKEY 2-BOX BREAK #3 PYT	* JOIN our group breaks on https://JaspysCaseBreaks.com/ * WATCH seven nights a week! Some nights will feature a LATE NITE! * VISIT our 3,000 sq. ft. shop at 1402 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach, CA! - Open M-Sa from 11a - 6p - Open Sunday by appointment - We're following all Covid-19 safety protocols for your safety and ours! :) * FOLLOW us on Twitter and Instagram @JaspysBreaks https://twitter.com/JaspysBreaks https://instagram.com/JaspysBreaks * THANK YOU for watching and subscribing! * CONTACT us via the "Support" button on JaspysCaseBreaks.com * FAQ here: https://jaspyscasebreaks.com/a/faq	[ "#sportscards", "#casebreaks", "#sickhit", "#mojohit", "#bighit", "#boxbreaks", "#packopenings", "#irlpack", "#baseballcards", "#groupbreaks", "#nflcards", "#footballcards", "#nbacards", "#basketballcards", "#casebreak", "#groupbreak", "#topps", "#panini", "#upperdeck", "#bowman", "#leaf", "#tristar", "#hermosabeach", "#unboxing", "#livestream", "#sports", "#sporstalk", "#collect", "#thehobby" ]	2023-03-04T05:29:47	2024-04-24T00:05:14	123	PC_Bg5Q6vqg	What's up everybody, it's Jayce here for JaspiersCaseRace.com 2021 upper deck, the Cup Hockey, 2 box break, pick a team number 3, just sold out with this random number block that features 12 teams, guys, the Islanders, the Lightning, the Black House, Canucks, Red Wings, Hurricanes, Blue Jackets, Panthers, Golden Knights, Predators, Jets, and Yolks. Now you get a piece of all these teams via a serial number break guys, those are examples of how it works, number any, unnumbered cars are randomized. At the end, do the breakers discretion, so we'll see how many there is, if there is any, if there's multiple, we can give them out in one lot, or maybe one by one, we'll see how it goes. But of course, everything should be numbered though. Here's a dice roller, Jay, down a D-Low, and of course you have 0, down a 9, although signature renditions I think are not numbered, so I guess we have to pay attention to that. Alright, so here we go, let's roll, and we got ourselves a 1 and a 3 4 times, good luck. 1, 2, 3, 4. Shawn Matic, down a D-Low, those are the teams that's just for the sorting purposes, 4 times, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 0, down a 4. So Shawn Matic with 0, ending our renditions, Shawn Matic with 5, Edward 9, D-Low, you have any one-on-ones, 3, 6, Jay with 8, and then D-Low with 7, 2, 4. So there you go folks, let me just delete this here really quick, just so I can alphabetize the list over here, do that, do that, let's put that in right there too as well. So I appreciate it guys, coming up next is the break itself.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_Bg5Q6vqg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCAQfQqunzE8frH3ukEbgOhA	Excretion (Class Hirudinea) \| Animal Diversity Invertebrates \| ZOO512T_Topic113	ZOO512T - Animal Diversity Invertebrates (Theory) Topic113: Excretion (Class Hirudinea) by Dr. Farkhanda Manzoor @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan	[ "Virtual University of Pakistan", "VU Topic Based Videos", "VU TBVs", "VU Lecture", "VU Course", "University Course", "VU", "ZOO512T", "Animal Diversity Invertebrates (Theory)", "Dr. Farkhanda Manzoor", "Excretion (Class Hirudinea)" ]	2023-09-22T07:58:53	2024-02-08T20:24:19	269	pcv-7G5pq58	इस मुड्यूल में हम पाईलम एनिलिदा की ख़ास रव्दिनया का रप्रिज्टेएब लीज के बारि में अच्क्रीट्री सिस्टम को दिश्कर्स करेंगे. आप ये मेतानेफ्रीडिया के 10-17 पेर्स मोझुद लीज की बारि चुके सिँखमेंतिड है इसल्ग आप एक आप और उप्रोडिट्रीटिम मजुद होक आत है. अब ये मेतानेफ्रीडिया हाँ ये क्या करति है. Matt naphridia highly specified structures आझ के साड जो अपनिंग है उसको हो मखाएंगे, newer term इसके लावा इसके साड घऊभ्भूल मजुद आई, इक इसके साड, केप्सुल मजुद आई जो के कबशेप्त आई, ये सारे के साभे, शॉबछर जो है, ये ईन्वाल वोतिहें, कि स्लोमिक प्लुड के अंदर से बड़ी के वेस प्रुड़स को निकाल सके इस के लावा जो दूस्रा एहम स्ट्रक्छर जो एकस्क्रिषन में नवाल है वो है इस के अंदर क्लोरा गोजन तीशूस अब क्लोरा जो तीशूस क्या करते है प्रुड़ बड़ी केवटी प्रुड़ वोके पूरी बड़ी के अंदर इंकी ब्राँची सचली जैंगी और हर ब्राच जो है प्रुड़ स्लोमिक प्लुड से वेस मैटीरिल को खोलक्षन का प्रुष्स जारी रख अब ली चीज जो है, ये क्या करती है? दे नारमली एकस्क्रीट ता प्लाज्मा कहाँ से फ्रोम्दी इंजेस्टिट ब्लुड मील्स तुके ये अक्तो पेरसाइत है, ये वर्टी ब्रेट्स का ब्लुड जो है वो इंकी डाईत है अब वर्टी ब्रेट्स का ब्लुड इंकी डाईत है, तु इंके लिए एकस्क्रीट्चन क्या होगी उसी ब्लुड के अंडर, जो वेस्ट प्लाज्मा है, that will serve as an एकस्क्रीट्री बाई प्रुडग, अर एकस्क्रीट्री प्रुडग, to be excreted by the proto-nephridia. अब अघक्किस्क्रिचन जो लेज़ इंकी लिए अगरोड लिए पालेग tenho या सक्क के देनूँँरे अ� plate. अपको ऐस marketing, अपको इस सा थी को में लोअ, आपको उस्पक लेगा चीझnicas कहूता from excretion in the body of the leg of the body. एक चाहचा वहाँ तो दाएट के लिए यह एक बलड़ को सक करेंगी उसके साथ ही नक अंदर एक शक्विष्टिन का प्रोसेश तो है वह अग्टीव हो जँएगा आप जैसे जैसे इंकी फीटिण का प्रोसेझ अग्टीश करेगा तो इसके अंदर उसकी अपिशन्सी के अंक्रीस करने के साजितना बलड़ बड़ी के अंदर आज़ा फूँड आंटर होता जैएगा उतना ही इसके साज़ साज दाजेशन का प्रोस्सिस पी अक्तीवोग अब लिची की इंजेशन जो है इस में जदतर जो एंवोल्व है वो ह तो सगे भ़ अप ल्च्डऩे फिजंचा लागे लागे पिजंचे हूँँझे फूँँँओी प्सकोई। वो मुऊद लेच भीद्गा पेरा साइट अन्स ती शमाज़े आए आघ चिक्म्त चानि में... अव हर सैगन्माद तो उत्सके उपर यें नफ्रिद्यम च्यूब या प्रतो नफ्रिद्यम श्त्रक्त्चचचचचच Dragonball या प्रतो नफ्रिद्यम जो फ़र चलाद उप आन्हीं, अस उब अ की नहीं तॡब अस्झ्रीक्तिय में ठे च्नलिदा, टे ती कुई बद।ढ़।	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcv-7G5pq58", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCqvR7OChITZK9NQQsv5aGsQ	OFE - Summit 2010 pt 7	Vice President Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda - Keynote Openforum Europe Summit 2010	[ "Neelie", "Kroes" ]	2010-06-18T14:40:30	2024-02-05T15:57:27	188	PCiHVAtFEtY	I think we stand back setting from a cartel. I think that is a good start, so to say. But I want to do more. Some standard setting bodies already have exalted disclosure rules, so why give me arguments? Why not all of them? And that is a matter of efficiency, in my opinion. And surely, as a matter of effectiveness, when the commission mandates standard bodies to draw up a standard, it should have the right to be more demanding on the standardization process to ensure that standards are less demanding when it comes to their adoption. That sounds logical, doesn't it? We could also think about enticing other standard bodies to adopt such rules, for example, by giving their output preferential treatment when approving them as European standards. And finally, why not tie the public financing of standards bodies to the existence of good, exalted rules? Let me wrap up this point anyhow, by making one thing absolutely clear. We want to make standard setting more efficient and not more burdensome. Take that line home. We don't want uniform rules everywhere. We want smart rules that are adapted to their respective fields. And standard setting for software interoperability is not the same as setting a new standard for, say, digital television or mobile telephony. We should have the right rules in the right context. And the standardization reform I discussed earlier, and the ongoing consultation on the draft guidelines for the horizontal cooperation freedoms, will initiate a further discussion on exalted disclosure in standard setting organizations. And I'm absolutely convinced that a more visible role for foreign and for concertia standardization in Europe will already lead to many improvements here. Okay, now we have taken care of standards and they should be available. But what can we do to ensure they are used in a smart way? We want to help ICT procurers to avoid missing opportunities. And together with my colleague Michel Barnier and with Antonio Tantieri, we will draw up detailed guidance on how to analyze the technology highest requirements in order to make the best use of ICT standards in terms of specification. By the way, that is quite a complex exercise and not only because three of us are involved, so three services are involved, but it's also...	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCiHVAtFEtY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCMP5_7v48WfDKfoirLCcNgQ	President Reagan's Remarks on Senator Dole and INF Treaty on December 17, 1987	Full Title: President Reagan's Remarks Announcing Senate Minority Leader Dole's Endorsement of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Question and answer session with press in the Press Room (Dole gives remarks), Remarks by Senator Robert Dole endorsing treaty in the Press Room, Question and answer session with President Reagan in the Press Room, Question and answer session with Senator Robert Dole in the Press Room on December 17, 1987 Creator(s): President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Television Office. 1/20/1981-1/20/1989 (Most Recent) Series: Video Recordings, 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Collection: Records of the White House Television Office (WHTV) (Reagan Administration), 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 Transcript: N/A Production Date: 12/17/1987 Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted Contact(s): Ronald Reagan Library (LP-RR), 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0600 Phone: 800-410-8354, Fax: 805-577-4074, Email: reagan.library@nara.gov National Archives Identifier:81145268 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/81145268	[ "U.S. National Archives", "Ronald Reagan", "Reagan Presidential Library", "Press", "Bob Dole", "INF Treaty", "Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty", "SS-20", "Soviet Union" ]	2018-01-04T16:46:29	2024-02-05T06:33:13	1,182	pcZkzEROqJE	Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. It's been a great pleasure for me today to meet with Senator Dole and to discuss his support for the treaty signed here during last week's summit. The INF Treaty was the end result of a process that took over six years to arrive at the moment of signing. I, in fact, proposed the zero option in the first year of our administration. As a matter of fact, I did so at the National Press Club. Many of the points contained in the agreement were hammered out through tough negotiations on both sides. I welcome the support of the Senate Republican leader and count on his efforts to help ensure Senate ratification. I understand there's a certain degree of apprehension about reaching any agreement with the Soviet Union, but I believe that once the details have been closely examined, the consensus will be that the INF Treaty is a solid step forward, a recognizably positive note move for America. The treaty is consistent with the goals set out by the administration from its first days. Building up our defensive strength was designed to convince the Soviet leadership that they couldn't win an arms race. The second half of the formula is reaching agreements to reduce weapons on both sides to an equal and verifiable level. Such reductions are in our interest and the interest of world peace. This treaty accomplishes exactly what we set out to do. First and foremost, it is the first agreement in history to reduce, not simply limit the buildup of nuclear weapons. The Soviets are in fact giving up more weapons in order to reach equality at a lower level. This is a breakthrough precedent that can serve as the basis for progress in other areas. Furthermore, this treaty is not based on some notion that the Soviets can now be implicitly trusted. Given their record, I would never have signed a treaty that did not contain the most stringent verification regimen. There's been an impressive exchange of data, and there will be continuing exchanges after the treaty goes into effect. There will also be the right of on-site inspections to confirm what we've been told. During the entire process of destroying the INF missiles, each side has the right to observe in order to ensure compliance with the treaty. We will even be monitoring the facility where their SS-20 missiles were assembled and have the right to visit other INF missile facilities on short notice. It's not a matter of trust. We will watch, inspect, and be present for the destruction of these missiles. And for 13 years after the treaty enters into force, American personnel will be on-site in the Soviet Union to make sure there are no more SS-20s being produced. succinctly put, this treaty contains verification provisions and other safeguards that should impress even hardened skeptics. However, but I believe some of our opposition is not just a result of a perceived defect in the treaty, but also flows from a concern that our country will continue to deal with the Soviets from a position of realism and candor. This treaty is reason for hope. It is a good first step, but we're not letting our guard down, and we don't want anyone to have expectations that cannot be met or verified. As Jefferson and other presidents before me have stated and restated, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. That's never been more true than today. And we'll remain vigilant, realistic, and dealing with the Soviet Union. This treaty is consistent with that commitment, a verifiable trust. I'm confident that over these next several weeks, as more senators have the opportunity to review the terms and provisions of this agreement, that they'll come to the conclusion that it deserves ratification. And now I'm going to turn this and oh, I'm turning this over to Senator Dole. Is that the word, Mr. President? Mr. President, we're very upset about this, sir. Do you feel that you're helping Mr. Dole off the hook on INF? Let's put the same thing up. If we would like to have the President a question before he leaves, can you answer the... He's going to leave until I finish my statement. Well... Are you being dragged into the campaign, Mr. President? No. What if I might just give my statement, then? As I told the President a couple of weeks ago, when we were asked about the treaty, I said, give us some time to look at it, some time to read it, some time to analyze it. And I've done precisely what I told the President I would do. I've not only read the treaty, I've had the opportunity to have it analyzed by experts in and out of government. And I've spoken directly with our key NATO allies. And I've had a series of meetings with the President, members of the administration, to address my concerns. In all of this, I've been concerned not only about the treaty itself, but also about its strategic and political implications. Now that the treaty has been negotiated and signed, the focus will shift to the Senate. The Senate will decide whether this treaty goes into effect or not. And as the Republican leader, I will lead the fight for its approval in the Senate. I've been the point man in the Senate for the President's national security programs. And over the years, we've won big critical fights. And I hope that we can win this one too. What we want, what I told the President just a few moments ago, is a big bipartisan majority. I think it's also fair to say, and we've discussed this with the President, with Colin Powell and others, that there are areas of concern that have been identified, special concern to me and my colleagues, whether it's verification or compliance and the imbalance of conventional forces in Europe. And I think by addressing these areas, working with the President, working with the administration, the Senate can strengthen the treaty even further while not requiring renegotiation of the Soviets. And I think we've been assured that we can work together on these areas, and that's the only intent and the only purpose of it. So I guess I would say, as I said a couple of weeks ago, that as soon as I've been satisfied that we could verify and that there was compliance and a strong support from the Allies, pretty much what the President said in his next to last paragraph, as soon as other Senators go through this process, you're going to see support building for the treaty. And finally, I think we're all very grateful to the President, talking now about my colleagues in the Congress in both parties for his outstanding work and for his efforts that led to the signing of this very significant agreement a little over a week ago. President, if you get a question up in presidential politics, sir, what about presidential politics? No, there's nothing of that kind here. George Bush feels that you're bailing him out because he was failing in Iowa because of waffling on the treaty. Were you afraid to stand on the platform with him when he spoke? I used to be in. I thought it was the courteous thing to do. Hello, Senator. Thank you, Mr. President. Bush's guy says that this isn't a matter of conscience. It's a matter of expedience because you're slipping in the polls in Iowa. Well, that's not accurate, but you know, I don't want to get into a Bob Dole-George-Bush thing, but we just have different roles. Mine is an active role. Mine is the leader of the Senate. He doesn't even vote on the treaty. It's true. I mean, it's a fact. I mean, he does not vote on the treaty. You were being hurt on the INF issue. You lost the mayor of Ames, Iowa. You lost three people, three top supporters in Rhode Island today. Weren't you being hurt by your failure to back the president on the INF? No, no, I don't think there's been any change. In fact, we had to plan a question in Iowa last week to bring up the INF treaty. So, you know, I don't want to spend the Bush people putting on it, but my point is this, the president's done an outstanding job. It's going to come to the Senate. I said from the start, it's a two-phase operation. The first phase is negotiating, signing the treaty. The second phase is the ratification process, and I'm going to be a vital part of that. I'm the only Republican candidate who's going to even vote for the treaty one way or the other. And I'm here to keep my promise to the president. He wanted my support. He has my support. And I'm going to be very active as I have in the past to try to get the treaty ratified. You weren't stampeded by the political scene? No, I said ten days ago, I can read the polls. I could have read the polls two months ago. But we had to, you know, as soon as the treaty was available up in S-407 where it's secure, then it was made public, we started to work on it. I talked yesterday with Margaret Thatcher, with Helmut Kohl, with the prime minister of Italy. I spent some time this morning with Secretary Schultz and with Admiral Kroll. I think overall I've visited about 16 different sources that I have some confidence in, obviously including the president on a couple of times. And if I'm going to provide the votes, I had to be objective. I had to make my own judgment. And just, I don't think it's criticism, but the vice president was for it when the president was for it. That's the way it works. That's the way the system works. Senator Dome, you made this impression. Senator Dome, you made this impression. Senator Dome, you made this impression. Senator Dome, you made this impression. Senator Dome, how unequivocal is your support? You came out here and said you support it, but then you seem to want some reservations. This has been the perception that people have been talking about. Do you support the treaty? What are your reservations? What reservations will you support? I told the president I supported the treaty. My job now will be to try to get as many Republican votes as I can, and I want a lot of Republican votes. I don't want all the Democrats or nearly all the Democrats and a handful of Republicans. That doesn't mean that we cannot work with the administration, as I believe we can, to strengthen the treaty in certain areas. And we'll be – well, whether it's – you know, we're a lot of concern about conventional weapons imbalance. And it seems to me that's an area that's bipartisan concern. It's a concern, obviously, to the president. We discussed this with Colin Powell when he met with us the other day. And I think we can work with the administration on that. If there's any question about verification, we can work with – What can be done through reservations? Well, there all can. You've got declarations, understanding reservations, and amendments. They have different impact. We can make it clear that – at least a statement that, you know, there'd be no other treaty considered unless there's some redress. You know, there are a lot of things you can do. It wouldn't be a start – a serious start. We can do anything. Well, we don't have any language. I'm just saying these are areas of concern. Nobody, as far as I know, has any amendments drafted, but, you know, we are alert to what's happening up there. Are you suggesting this won't be ratified without amendments? Are you suggesting this won't be ratified without some amendments and stuff? I don't want to get into – there are amendments, declarations, understandings, and reservations. It won't come through clean the way it was written. Well, no – but you can have these things without – they're not killer amendments. In other words of this, no renegotiation. It depends precisely on what it is. You can amend the implementing legislation, and you avoid all that work with the treaty. Would you vote for this treaty in its present form if it's not changed in any way? Well, it's not – Did you vote for it right now, the way it is? I'm not certain I'd answer that, but, you know, I'm support the treaty. If the vote were to date, I'd vote for it. But it's seen me we have the right and we have the obligation of the Senate to do something else. That's to go through the process. Is it equivocal in your support if you're not prepared to say you vote for it now, as it is? No. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says the Senate shall advise in consent. We've had about 1,500 treaties before the Senate in the last couple of hundred years, and some haven't been accepted, and a lot of them have been modified, but not many of them have been modified to the killer amendments. What are your concerns about verification? The President says it's about as good of a perfect verification system as one of your – It's a very good verification. Why don't you do that way? Why don't you do that? No. What I said, I expressed the concerns of some of my colleagues on verification. We had 10 of my colleagues down to see the President a couple of days ago. I don't express concern about verification. Senator Wallop expressed concern about compliance. I'm the Republican leader. I'm not expressing just my concerns. I'm expressing concerns of the Republicans, who I hope in the long run will vote for this treaty. Can you have enough concerns about verification, Chief? No. We're looking at verification. I don't have any present concerns. Senator Al Haig, that George Bush cheapened the summit by putting commercials on the TV about his meetings with Corbettel. No, I don't want to comment on that. Are you willing to pledge to us today you won't put commercials on TV showing you with the President here? Yeah, I didn't discuss that with the President. But no, I don't know. I don't have any with Corbettel. How about with Ronald Reagan here? Senator, you said I do support the treaty. I told the President I do support the treaty. And then you said you wouldn't answer whether you would vote for it. Well, I don't think that's a fair question. It's not going to happen that way. But let's say we had the debate and weren't anything offered, and it's in the present form. Yes, I'll vote for it. But that's not a good question. Aren't we turning your endorsement today into the Senate's role in more or less of a rubber stamp? You've tried to distinguish yourself from George Bush by saying it's your job as a Senator to live up to Article II, Section II of the Constitution with Dyson Consent. You're implying that the hearings that are going to be held before the various committees are irrelevant. And that you're just going to push ahead and try to get the support for this treaty. So any attempt on my part? You must have been not listening when I talked about the concerns about verification, compliance, and the imbalance of conventional weapons. That's what we're... Do you want to see your role now? We're not undermining the role of the Senate. No, no, I see my role supporting the role of the Senate. That's precisely the role we have. I see my role pretty much as Senator Byrd described it the day before yesterday on the floor when he said that the Republican leader wanted to fulfill his responsibilities on the Constitution, and he doubt that there would be a two-thirds support for the treaty without the Republican leader's support. So what I'm doing is precisely what I told the President I would do. I have a different role than the Vice President. I'm not here to quarrel about the Vice. We just have different roles. I'm the leader. He's the Vice President. Yes. I think at this point we don't have any language. I mean, we're looking at conventional weapons. I know Sam Nunn is. I know Senator Byrd is, but nobody's running around and say, here's an amendment. You know, we've only had to think about eight days. Yes. Senator, were you trying to say earlier that you do not think your delay in endorsement of the treaty has hurt you politically at all? No. I think when people understand, as they will, because suddenly all the actions moving to the Capitol, the will when the treaty is set up, I don't think it's been set up yet, hearings will start the 19th or the 26th depending on when we come back. And I'll be testifying before the Foreign Relations Committee. We'll have a lot more information at that time. I assume Senator Byrd may be testifying, too. But I think there was so much hype and a lot of misunderstanding in the media about what the role of the Senate was. But I don't think there's been any change. Senator Byrd, you said you had reservations. That's what I said. I wanted to have some chance to look at it. So I've done that. You mean you think those people who are defective would have anyway? Who were they? Well, the mayor of Ames. Good, now. I'm a honey of... She got a job from the governor who's for Bush, you know. So it's just a payoff? Senator, if the treaty is not a question of standing in line, what is more than the erosion of your lead? We don't have any erosion of our lead. We think it's a tight race. It's been a tight race from the start. We've always said it was a tight race. You know that... But that's another matter. Senator Byrd, you're not losing points. You're not losing points. Some polls show you can drop it. Who's? I don't know which one. Well, there aren't any. Senator, do you think that your presence here with President Reagan gives a boost to your campaign? And on the other hand, Kurtz, Vice President Bush? I don't think the president's trying to do that at all. He said precisely what he was doing. He was staying neutral. And I think it's just a matter of fact that I am the Republican leader and I'm going to be active in this process. And I told the president to give me a little time. Let me take a look at it. It took seven years to negotiate it. Give me a week to look at it and I'd let him know. It wasn't mine. It's a pretty good idea, though, as it worked out. Senator, the vice president's people say that... Who are they? I mean, I don't talk about... You've got to identify people. I believe it at that, but the time being... I don't believe they're here. But trust me when I tell you that the vice president... I've been verified. That the vice president's... I don't know that in Russian. The vice president's people are saying it's fine. If Bob Dole wants to support this treaty, we welcome him on board. Johnny, come lately as he is. The vice president's been for this thing for six years. And basically saying that the vice president will continue to benefit by taking the high ground on this thing. How do you think that's going to play politically? Isn't it just a little too late for you to get any political... No, no, I think he just... Maybe I've made it clear there is a difference in our roles. I vote. I vote on the treaty and he doesn't... He does it inside. You're going to be a tie with a two-thirds majority. You figure that one out. Yeah. That's what Dupont said. So I was ready for that one. No, I don't think I had anything to do with it. Somebody suggested it. And I thought it sounded like a pretty good idea. Does Senator Baker have to twist your arm to get you out? No. I agree to come willingly. You know, that's... Well, it wasn't mine. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't... This thing just happened. We're just passing through town. I understand what you're saying about the treaty itself. You talked about declarations and amendments and various other things that couldn't propose it as they are. I'm still trying to understand exactly what Bob Goldfinne thought of the additive. I understand that. Not in your role as Senator in order to Republican leader by talking with you personally. 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UCZ5BKpljxXj4Y8Ut164GnSg	Academic Freedoms and Hidden Truths (The Rule of Law in the New Abnormal)	Challenges to Truth in Thought and Learning. The host for this show is Chuck Crumpton. The guests are Vernellia Randall, Benjamin Davis, Tina Patterson and Doug Chin. Current challenges to academic and other freedoms and truth in learning and critical thinking. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6l97L9SHRP40PaPAEyZaWsL ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Hawaii time most weekdays, then we stream our earlier shows all night long. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising public awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.	[ "Think Tech Hawaii", "Tech", "Energy", "Globalization", "Diversification", "Economy", "Hawaii", "popular", "academic freedom", "censorship", "truth in learning", "critical thinking", "Chuck Crumpton", "Vernellia Randall", "Benjamin Davis", "Tina Patterson", "Doug Chin" ]	2021-10-15T04:44:17	2024-02-05T08:09:29	1,939	pClDQc8GRzY	Think Tech Hawaii, Rule of Law in the New Abnormal, whatever that may be, and welcome. We have just another truly stellar Paul Starr panel here today. I'm going to start with Professor Renalia Randall, Professor Emerita, University of Dayton School of Law, and one of the leading experts anywhere on race, racism, and the law, which is particularly germane to what we're going to be talking about today. Ben Davis, Professor Emeritus from University of Toledo, School of Law, and now teaching with the University of Illinois School of Law in Chicago remotely. And Ben is in Virginia where he's been able to look at some historical presidential sites and ancestral homelands, in a sense. Tina Patterson in Germantown, New Jersey has mastered many trades, business, entrepreneurial, mediation, arbitration, both domestic and international. And Doug Shin, our former Hawaii Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, now a partner at Starr and O'Toole, Marcus and Fisher, one of our leading commercial law firms. And welcome, Doug, with Professor Randall, Ben Davis, Tina Patterson. Today we're going to dive as deeply as we choose into freedom of thought, expression, and the restrictions on that, not only in academic freedom, but in all sectors that we're seeing put into place by particular groups. Which are the ones that concern you the most? Ben, you brought this up. You want to start us off? All right. So at the first level, I think there's an effort at, I've become aware of at the University of Georgia system to end tenure. All right. Now, most people out there say, what's tenure and what does it mean to me and all that? But what I can say in the academic space, at least for me personally, the sense of tenure was the opportunity to think freely on a topic and not feel any risk as long as you're a reasonable person in terms of not doing weird things at your school, but on any topic that you were thinking of working on and having the freedom to explore to whatever the views of powers that be might be on this or that point. It was that freedom that you get from tenure that allows for the more, I think, rich intellectual processes in university. So one part is the University of Georgia kind of threat to tenure that's going on now, and I understand others places too. Second aspect of this would be boards of trustees putting pressure on deans and deans possibly succumbing to the pressure with regards to somebody who is quote unquote doing something that is out of line with what some member of the board of trustees thinks is appropriate. And that kind of whispering in the ear to a professor that what they can't talk about this or that in their classroom, the distinction between Dean being able to maybe say something, which is a whole issue in itself, and the professor having the academic freedom in their pedagogy and what they're trying to teach their students in their classroom is a real concern that I have that people are feeling pressures like that. I know if people are feeling pressures like that and having to deal with it. And my concern is I know people who are leaving schools because they can't take the pressure. A third kind of issue of this is a professor talks about things that they think are important and you know some group of students in the classroom don't want to hear it. So they start a whole protesting up to the Dean and all that about this professor talking about things that they don't feel comfortable with hearing. Okay. And the professor may have the view that this is important. In fact, some case books may have sections on it that point point out that is part of the pedagogical process. This is helping people to understand whatever the rules are the particular topic is and this kind of again whispering to the professor to please don't talk about. I'm not talking about a professor being obnoxious or acting irresponsibly or anything like I'm talking about somebody who as part of their academic goal of preparing people in their classroom are being told to quote unquote trim their sales a bit away from what would be totally in another environment I'd say in three four years ago five years ago would have not been controversial at all and would have actually been something totally totally normal. Those are the kinds of things that that I worry about. The last one I just want to add is when you have legislatures that are passing laws and you can't talk about something in the classroom whatever that means because you know for example that there might be a professor who teaches environmental law and the legislature will pass the law saying you can't speak about climate change how can you teach environmental law to people when you can't talk about climate change you know what I mean but obviously critical race theory which by the way is carrying a lot of weight as a term not being able to talk about it. I live here in Charlottesville, Virginia okay Charlottesville, Virginia you know the capital of the south in the civil war race pervades this history but the blood is in the ground. Then I kiss I want to separate the the legislative action from the other kinds of things that you mentioned but my experience is that that's been going on I've been in legal education for 30 years it has followed me the entire 30 years of my teaching of the exact behavior that you're talking about. I got taken out of classes I got petitions made up against me because I was teaching race and racism I got told that it wasn't an issue of academic freedom that it was an issue of a dean's right and there was no media to rally around you know and I think and I'm not saying I was unique I think that that kind of thing was happening to people who was teaching about race and racism in the 90s okay wherever they happen to sit in the 80s and you know what really is different to me even 15 years ago there was discussion about getting rid of tenure so that discussion is not even new what's new though I think to this whole process is the legislature passing actual laws saying you know you can't talk about that and I'm wondering if this is I you know if I'm wondering if this is sort of like they know that cannot that it really can't stand up under challenges but the idea is to damp down the discussion while challenges are happening which could take year two three years to overturn the laws so I'm not sure that I think the laws are legal I think the but the impact will be that until they are litigated out uh it'll have an impact of damping's discussion but I think that's the only difference I see not the other thing you mentioned but okay well then what I would say to you is the common denominator of all these things for me is instilling fear okay instilling fear in the professor as to what they're going to do to create a second guess idea in the professor's head and you know I'm not going to go down with the old chilling effect thing I'm just saying that the you know it's enough fear trying to get to tenure okay I mean about you know whether everyone in the faculty will vote for you and all that stuff okay but in addition to that now setting up rules that uh have the effect of making a professor hesitate like oh my gosh does this term I'm talking about like uh the water crisis in Flint is that talking about climate change so I can't talk about it because uh somehow that might be conceived as being related to climate change and climate change is something I can't talk about I mean that kind I know that sounds crazy but I'm telling you that that instilling that second guessing in your head as opposed to you being in the pedagogical space of trying to teach what is the things that you think are useful for your students to be uh uh the best prepared for what they're going to have to face out in the real world that is really what I feel is about trying to get us all to feel fear okay and fear in this sense that obviously oh my goodness you're not going to get tenure or or alternatively it's fear like you're going to be moved around all the kinds of things that you describe but these are all efforts of instilling fear and right now it seems to be that there's an an effort to really heighten the amount of fear and to basically repress thought or intellectual intellectual uh adventurism intellectual uh exploration to have something that even seems a little bit like trying to have a part party line and uh it's very totalitarian to me especially when the legislators get involved that's the word that came to my mind is that this is a very totalitarian you know remaking the past in terms of what is acceptable I heard one professor talk about a lot of their students have had the disney version of american history and that they are confronted with this and trying to explain them and I know professor at randall you've had to spend time in your classes just having people understand the history you know because you can't even get to the theories because they they don't understand they don't even know the history and uh and that can become traversal just to tell the histories differently here's one thing I will tell you that I learned recently when I was visiting james madison's plantation which is that the marquis de lafayette in 1824 when he was doing his national tour sort of everybody thanking him for what he did in the revolution a war visited uh james madison for four days at his plantation and the first two days he spent talking to the slaves or the enslaved people about what they were going through and at the dining room table when he was there with madison he spent a lot of time trying to convince madison to get rid of his slaves to free them I hadn't heard that until I was out at the plantation I know about marquis de lafayette from all we to know about from back in the revolutionary war park but apparently even said you know I'm not sure I would have come back here if I knew you were going to keep your slaves well now was that controversial you know that's history that's reality but that that that kind of thing might be oh you're talking critical race theory or something that's got to be I still I still feel like that I I understand what you're saying and maybe it's just I've been fighting this so long that it doesn't feel different to me it really doesn't feel different to me it feels like more of the same uh and uh and I don't know I mean it is not a feeling steer but it's been about instillings instilling fear as long as I've known it and let me ask you and just one sec before let me ask you folks is there another very real very practical very threatening aspect of this fear and that is the legislatures state and national those are the funding sources for all the public schools k-12 and university and gretch school well sure you know there there've been clinics that send a message that right this law may not be enforceable but when you come back to us for funding if you are on the wrong side of this law guess where you're going to be on our priority list yeah there there are clinical programs that have uh you know obviously somebody with some insignificant power of business interest has been upset about some of the work that they've been doing and they put pressure to try to get those clinics made to be disappear because at law schools because they were taking on cases that were uncomfortable to that particular business interest you know but didn't it start about 12 years ago that I'm just saying that that that that that people that the clinics were threatened that have been threatened for the last 15 years by conservative groups who and laws have been passed as a matter of fact I'm trying to think which state actually passed the law saying that the law school clinics could not represent people from a certain group uh and that's you know that's been around a while uh and it's a problem I mean I'm just saying this this is this is a package okay this is what we're going through in this period now I can tell you in the 30s I know that there were people who were talking pro union stuff at different universities who are professors and they would get hassled about their pro-union approaches that happened to Toledo when I was there unfortunately Toledo had a point of view which was that you know hey academic freedom the person is free to do the research that they want to do you know but let me add another one that's in this game is that uh the public and private version of the of the professor a professor goes to something as a private person and you know how you're at it anything that you go to pump buddy might ask you uh uh general chin so what do you do you know I was the former I'm working with a law firm or used to be the attorney general something like that or somebody asks you uh uh miss Patterson you know what do you do oh I do this to that right okay all right and then you get an article put up like I don't know attorney general goes berserk in meeting you know like that right you know you know right and uh maybe even letters get sent to the governor right or to the head of your law firm where it is saying we are shocked that you know uh this partner said this thing or kind of thing like that when you were acting completely in your private capacity or were shocked at where you work uh uh miss Patterson that they you know and that kind of stuff I've seen happen too you know and in fact that happened to me once it was really funny because I went to a true the vote meeting because they're talking about voter integrity back in 2012 and I asked a couple questions the place went crazy on my questions right I was the only black guy in there was anyway they called the police on all me oh I mean I'm kind of good and then I you know I there was an article put up saying you know law professor goes berserk now how do you know it's a law professor I'm talking to the guy today well today what do you do oh yeah you know I I work down here I'm just here you know seeing this is like ordinary citizen I was accused of being a compliant of the Democratic party to be in conspiracy with the New York Times you know I mean I'm giving you all the craziness and this got back disagree I just think that in 1987 I was working for bull event how's your daily pentagraph in Hoffman in Portland Oregon and I went to speak to a junior high school and I've always been political so uh and I pretty much told them that everybody was racist and they should say so right that and we should deal with it when I got back to my firm you can bet the pressure was put on me oh sure okay I mean I mean the thing is is that let's deal with the legislative component because the personal pressure component is one that has always been around and will continue to be around even professor Randall I hear you but the personal pressure part two as well as the legislative for me are all part of the same thing and the battle we have is to fight those things that if you are in a that law firm and if they're going to like make you lose your position so to speak because of what you said in that kind of setting that's a comment on them not on you understand in the in the in academia there's this kind of intellectual process you're supposed to go through and intellectual exploration that is crucial to helping our country I think become a better place and really want to protect you I just want to add something here just to bring it home back here to Hawaii I I want to thank very much the academics here for for just constantly speaking up and and and I want to encourage you to keep doing that more I'll tell you a quick story which is that my parents were brought over by Christian missionaries to the United States and and so as a result I was raised in a very sheltered very conservative religious background that taught me a lot of great things taught me a lot about faithfulness and perseverance and mercy and things like that it also taught me a lot of not so good things in terms of you know in terms of like kind of just what I would think about LGBTQ issues what I would think about whether or not minorities should speak up or whether we should just go along and just you know let things happen and never say anything and there was a lot about there was a lot about my own culture that taught me about you know perhaps wrongly about about uh just being a model minority and not saying anything so to me I always think to myself when I look back in my life and go how do I go from this conservative sheltered background to like being a Asian-American who then sued the president for a Muslim ban how did that all happen I'll tell you what it was it was it was my undergraduate education and it was my law school okay so I went to Stanford you know I actually I actually remember writing to the people at Stanford saying I'd like to have someone who's my roommate who will be the same religion as me because I feel more comfortable with that and they just know that's not that's not what we're about and you know and then and then the same way you know when I went to law school I remember being challenged and hearing so many different different viewpoints that I resisted honestly because of the way I'd been raised and yet it stuck with me they were seeds that were planted inside me that that the longer I the longer I lived and the more I experienced things I was able to you know like change and evolve and grow and and I just want you to know that that you're you know even when you think you're falling on deaf ears or you're feeling all this pressure that that as somebody who was one of the students who came from that background I needed to hear that like I needed to be told no you're going to listen to a different viewpoint and and to be able to think differently about something because I think it really it really helped me along the way so so I appreciate that just thinking about things locally here there is no question that that the legislature every single year holds their funding of our universities over their heads and I know that for people in Hawaii we tend to think well we're not we're never going to get to that place where you know our progressive values will be challenged but I think that's something to always be careful of because I think Hawaii will often look at what's happening on the mainland and then you know and then start adopting some of those things into their rhetoric and so so I appreciate the warning signs you know if not the actual signs of racism that could potentially be pervading and causing our academic freedom with freedoms to be stifled yeah but let me give one more second okay because I wanted to ask Tina we're hearing now about the role and the value of this freedom of thought expression to contributing to leadership abilities to stand up to speak up and the individual abilities what kind of difference has that made in your life Tina what learning experience that you've had that have enabled you to stand up speak up take choices and chances and risks I think much of Doug indicated it's the being in an environment where intellectual curiosity is welcome and supported um undergraduate school it was encouraged to ask questions to to challenge to to literally make your own decision to give him what was presented to you to do the analysis thoughtful analysis intentional analysis I think back to your original question that's one of the things that concerns me most is that we're we're seeing and we're being bombarded with the message of you don't need to think about it I'm telling you this is the message this is the message you're going to carry forward um whether it's everyone is going to be the model african-american the model asian the model it muslim um this this is the message that you're going to carry forward and drawing or moving outside of the lines has consequences whether that is losing your job being presented in a such a way whether on social media or in the newspaper so um I think ben you talked about this but I think it really really being um vigilant and knowing that there may be a price that you you'll have to pay for for taking that stand as as we were talking I think about the book how democracies die and it's this it's that attack um and it's the attack on the leaders those who are take a position that are is not favorable or favorite as well as those who are you know holding status quo um you know right now there's this tug of war and I think about what you said Doug I'm recently graduated from the public leaders for inclusion council um cohort and it was focusing on islamophobia and I thought how are you know the focus recently in the media has been about islamophobia but where have we seen this repeated elsewhere and it's the same message of where do you stand on this do you do you take a stand or do you just go along because it's good for whatever fill in the blank whether it's your your purse or your your reputation or your long-term career goals yeah I understand very much this this whole idea of like being this motivator I remember just you know like even as a as a young student feeling like feeling afraid you know like I'm afraid to hear a different viewpoint because somehow that would you know mess me up you know and and and it took professors and counselors and mentors being able to say don't be afraid like it's okay to think about another side to this um and and I needed to hear like even like the smart guy I was you know I was going to there like I I needed to hear that in order to you know to develop and to become a more full person so so I really appreciate that I even thought about the the fear of like just what Tina was just saying about you know having a fear of you know Muslims and you know to me I thought one of the greatest like one of the greatest rewards from being able to bring the lawsuit against President Trump was meeting the the Muslim folks the people in our community and and just hearing their stories and speaking to them and and realizing that there are so many stereotypes that I have in mind since 2001 that that was from the message that I've been hearing so much from everybody else that that just being able to like meet them it was it meant so much and yeah and so and so I really appreciate that this is you know like we really need those academic freedoms in our last couple of minutes and from each of you what's the kernel the most important thing we really need to stand up and speak up for now to protect freedom of thought and expression in our learning how do we do that I think we need if I jump forward it's very difficult um whether case through 12 college or in a graduate program as a teacher but I do think that whatever the level you're at you have to model freedom of thought for those who are your students there's a wonderful image always comes to mind it's an old Charles Lawton movie called this is our land where he's teaching these little kids in France and the Gasapo are coming along to arrest him and so he finishes sort of with a wonderful soliloquy and then they're starting to take him out and they grab his two arms as they're taking him out the door and he does this one move with his arms where he just goes like that which is like I walk out of my classroom as the professor okay I'm not it was like this kind of academic freedom even though the system is going to come down on him it was this act of defiance against efforts to make to diminish him as the person who was in instilling information to the best of his ability to his students and I think you know I personally thought they always get moved when I see that little scene in black and white about what we could you know what is possible now there's a lot of fear though okay there's a lot of fear I respect that there's a lot of fear and you know fear to be a motivator I mean I've always felt like I've always used fear in my life to move me to move me forward to move me ahead to to do something to use that tension in my body to step out of where I am as opposed to withdraw but one of the things we didn't talk about which I I think we should I'm not for complete freedom of thought I don't want racist sexist homophobic transphobic thought in my classroom I'm sorry about it and I will facilitate you trying to move out of it but you will know that what you said what you did is completely unacceptable to me uh you had that thought but no not all thoughts are acceptable I'm laughing because my my foster mother used to say to us you can think what you want but you can't say everything and I you know I think that that there is some truth in that that that and part of what we've gotten into is the feeling that if I think it I can say it and then I don't want any backlash from it because that's my freedom to be able to do it so okay so we're going for boundaries yeah that's a great insight and thanks much for us we're out of time for today but we've dive pretty deep into what our responsibility to truth really is and part of that is the freedom to be able to get to it through critical thinking but another part is the responsibility to put that truth first and not to sacrifice the truth for the sake of irresponsible freedom it's a good place to wrap up today it's a good place to come back to and let's see where that takes us next time folks thanks for joining us think tech Hawaii keep us in mind our donation month begins November 1st and we'll ask you to support us to the extent that you feel it's worthwhile and can for us a Randall Ben Tina Doug thanks so much for joining us and come back again in a couple of weeks we'll be back	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pClDQc8GRzY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC_rrSQtWl4d5iW50kg3ilXA	DPS5015 ZVS High Voltage Traveling Arc	DPS5015 with ZVS high voltage Traveling Arc or Jacobs ladder	[ "elecifun", "hobby electronics", "Traveling Arc", "high voltage", "DPS5015", "ZVS", "diy power supply" ]	2016-10-23T22:32:09	2024-02-05T07:45:38	728	pCXL_pkpjNk	Hey there YouTube Well, it seems like my camera, or the one sports thing, has given up all together So, this is going to be my camera for a little while And I thought I'd just, before I shift this off somewhere else I thought I'd just show you there See, this camera doesn't even focus in unless it's my eyes But it's a little jacos ladder circuit, you know Zero voltage switching I had this all built with wires, if you remember Or if you saw the video where I built this up with loads of wire And all I've done is I've just decided to take all the wire out And just literally connect the two transistors And give it its circuitry And, and it works I've got this connected with my two transformers Because it's quite a good little power supply that's turned out to be You know, going through the red rectifier there Two transistors Capacitors, capacitors Nice tank storage Before we got the booster And then we got this for 18 volts It's in the wattage There's a lot that's sometimes pulling 80 and a half amps Anyway, I've got my calling on this So I'm going to turn it down Start off when it kicks in about 18 volts So, 20 volts, 21 volts So I'm going to go up there That's 27 volts And that's 30 volts That's 32 volts That's 34 volts 35 volts 36 volts 252 watts I'm not sure, I just looked through the 30 volts 376 watts I'm going to start turning that down Do some heat change Not really bad Not really bad That's quite warm I'll probably let that cool a little bit Oh, that's quite hot there I'll let that cool a bit All right, that thing's working Okay, let me just check the transformers That's all right, okay I'm going to put a little bit warm on it Same as this one Can't feel anything anywhere else though, really No, that's all good I think this one's a tad warmer than this one Nothing too warm This is a little bit warm And this one's quite warm here It's quite warm So I do that to cool down It goes to show that it works like this, doesn't it? It's got a bit of power through there Quite chuffed with that So anything's going to kill this This one now I've given it a 6 inch gap pretty much At the top So this is 20 I'll put it on 30 volts That's 30 volts Let's go to 33 So 11 amps 387 watts I'll solve then 38 volts I don't know if that's... I'll turn that down I'll give this a go there better I don't know if it's this I'll turn it down This is going to get hot This is going to be the thing that goes first In here Especially that sort of voltage That's pretty high Maybe that That's going to be too much for me That's 5 inches It'll be alright for a quick run 17, 18 volts It's close to 200 watts 27 volts 35 volts 40 volts I'll do about 57 volts on the input It's not pulling down Transformers so much The input voltage is still The same I'm going to go 40 volts 43 volts We've just got to the extent of what we can do So I'm going to start backing up I know it's only going to take so much power It's not going to make that That's going to be pretty damn hot I'm not even going to run Yeah that's pretty hot That's okay That's okay The whole circuit's okay About a ton of stuff A little bit that's wash This thing This hasn't even been doing anything It's just been sat here Not even getting up to half volume I don't know what this can do with It's not even warm The fan hasn't been on It wasn't constant Unlike 250 watts or anything But it didn't seem to be Doing more During that voltage An extra bit of voltage from Sort of like 35 Upwards There's a little bit of difference But like 40 volts And just above the 40 volts Didn't really seem that much different So they get quite warm Interesting	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCXL_pkpjNk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCabMx-URCjr2toe9wOE3Y-Q	Yaron Lectures: The Nature & Impact of Objectivism (Kiev)	In this fireside chat, Yaron sits down with Mikhail Vinnytskyi at KMBS University in Kiev to discuss Ayn Rand's philosophy and the impact of objectivism on contemporary society. Recorded on November 11, 2015 at KMBS University in Kiev, Ukraine. Like what you hear? Become a sponsor member, get exclusive content and support the creation of more videos like this at https://www.yaronbrookshow.com/support/, Subscribestar https://www.subscribestar.com/yaronbrookshow or direct through PayPal: paypal.me/YaronBrookShow. Want more? Tune in to the Yaron Brook Show on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/ybrook). Continue the discussions anywhere on-line after show time using #YaronBrookShow. Connect with Yaron via Tweet @YaronBrook or follow him on Facebook @ybrook and YouTube (/YaronBrook). Want to learn more about Objectivism? Check out ARI at https://ari.aynrand.org.	[ "Yaron Brook", "#YaronBrookShow", "Objectivism", "Capitalism", "Trump", "Libertarian", "Republican", "Politics", "Democrat", "Freedom", "Free Markets", "Individual Rights", "Role of Government", "Free Speech", "Pursuit of Happiness", "Ayn Rand", "Ayn Rand Institute", "Yaron Lectures" ]	2019-10-31T20:00:00	2024-02-05T07:45:21	6,033	PcmyI0I0-BE	I want to start here by asking you a few questions, we're going to try to do this in a sort of a dialogue kind of way. I'm a huge fan about The Struct. I've done many, many, many, many presentations about the book. I'm as much a fan also of The Fountainhead, as much a fan of Anthem, as much a fan of many of the other novels. And as a matter of fact, I've actually done a little bit of reading on something called Objectivism, which is the philosophy that Inran tried to sort of name her, her philosophy of Objectivism. Could you tell us a little bit about, first of all, why the name of Objectivism? Secondly, maybe a few words for those of us that aren't familiar with certain basics. Maybe you can do a... Yeah, so let me start with the basics and then we'll get to the name, because I think the name will make more sense once we understand the basics. So, in Inran's philosophy, reality is what it is. Now, that sounds kind of obvious, but many philosophers in the history of philosophy says, now, our consciousness creates reality, or reality is imposed on us by an external consciousness, by God or something, and they can make a change at any time. A is A, a very Aristotelian term from Aristotle. For Iron Man, reality is what it is. There's a law of identity, there's a law of causality that's immutable. It's independent of our consciousness. But we have a tool to understand reality, and this is our reason, our faculty of reason. Our faculty, we can observe reality, we observe reality as it is, and we can understand it, we can integrate it, and as a consequence, we can reshape it. This table didn't exist before some human being took elements of reality and created a table. So, reality isn't what... So, the way you learn truth about the world is not through your emotion, it's not through mystical revelation, it's through the use of your reason. And really, this is where the term objectiveism comes from. Subjectiveism relates to the fact that reality is objective, it's independent of our consciousness, and we know about the world by using reason to identify this reality. Well, that's what's objective about it. Objective relates the facts to actual reality and what's out there. Now, so that's kind of the philosophical, epistemological, metaphysical basis. I know those are big words for business students. I'm a business guy, so I'm not a philosopher. But what does this mean? It means that if reason is how we know reality, if reason is a tool by which we survive as human beings, who reasons? Who thinks? Who uses their mind? Only the individual does. There's no group consciousness, there's no group reason, there's no group think, in spite of some business theories that try to suggest there is. We each have to think as individuals. So, as a consequence of that, our survival, our pursuit of values is dependent on our own use of reason. So, for when the whole moral focus is on the individual, it's on what's good for the individual, and that's at least for self-interest. She rejects the idea that the purpose of life is to serve other people, it's to sacrifice, it's to live for the group, for the collective, or for your neighbor. But she also rejects the idea that other people should serve you, that they should sacrifice for you. No, we should each be independent people, living our lives for the purpose of our own happiness, our own fulfillment, and ultimately our own flourishing. And here she follows Aristotle's kind of, Aristotle's, again, ethical code where the whole purpose of morality is to achieve eudaumonia, which in Greek means something like happiness of flourishing. Your own, not the groups, not other people's, but yours. And then the whole problem of morality is, how do you live a good life? Morality should teach you how to live a good life, should give you the principles, the ideas of how to live a good life. Now, what political system is appropriate for an individual who must use his reason to live a good life? Well, a political system that leaves the individual free to do so, because we need to be able to use our reason and follow our values. We might be wrong, then we learn from our mistakes, we might be right, but then nobody else can tell us, oh no, that's not a good value, don't pursue that. They can't force us. So political system free of coercion, which is capitalism, so she rejects any form of coercion, both on the left or on the right, and she believes in a system of government that separates state from ideas, the state has no ideas, it doesn't indoctrinate ideas, the state has no economics, it doesn't have an economic policy, it doesn't promote economics, it doesn't repress economics, it's a separation between the state and economics, the state doesn't educate, the state doesn't do science, the state does one thing and one thing only, and that is protect us, protect our rights, protect our freedoms. From foreign invaders, you know a little bit about that, from crooks and criminals, and has it been disheveled to obitrate disputes other than that it stays out of our lives, leaves us alone? You just, that's the whole flow, you know. You just picked up a whole bunch of questions. I can imagine. I'm not sure if this mic is working, yes it is. There's going to be a whole bunch of reaction out of the audience because I saw a whole bunch of eyes go up, so what I'm going to ask you to do is formulate your questions, and I'm going to open up the floor to a lot of questions, but as the moderator I'm going to use my own self-interest for about 10 minutes, and I'm going to try to ask a couple of questions myself, if that's okay, alright? And the questions that I have actually don't relate to the separation of the state from economics yet. We'll get to that, good, and the role of the state, we'll of course get to that because one of the issues in Ukraine is you picked up one of them and that's judiciary. We'll get to that. Your statement was that Ingram is talking about, the rent is talking about let's, every person should be interested in living a life that is of self-interest. Neither, and we all remember, those of us that have read the book, we remember Galt's Oth, yes the word was Klerko. The Galt's Oth, which was, I will always, you know, never ask another to live for me, nor shall I live for another man. Approximately, just a little under two years ago, a couple of things happened. Three months, people froze, people stood, people protested. And I would challenge that probably most people in this room had some, if not physical, that emotional attachment to that event. And that was about being selfless for a cause. It was about being selfless for the cause of freedom, very much about self-sacrifice, and collective sacrifice. So how do we, I mean, in order to get to collect, in order to get to individual freedom, we have to get through self-sacrifice. That kind of sounds like original sin. I mean, that's the bad way of doing things, isn't it? Well, I mean, I reject the premise. That is, I don't agree that it's self-sacrifice, I don't agree that it's self-less. Those people out there, just like any fighters for freedom, including the founders of America, who are clearly individualists, are fighting for themselves, for their freedom, for the values they believe in. What's the point of having a philosophy of self-interest if the state is going to tell me what to do? If I'm going to be oppressed, then I don't need a morality of self-interest that I'm going to be oppressed. Society in which morality is meaningful, that morality has meaning, is a society that is free. I can express myself. So fighting for freedom is selfish. It's a requirement. I'd say, I don't believe in moral duties, but it's as close to moral duty as you get. It's a requirement of any self-respecting person with self-esteem is going to fight for their own freedom and for the freedom of the people they love and they care about, which includes a lot of people. I care about a lot of people because I think there are a lot of good people out there, but I care about them because they're a value to me, not in and of themselves. So I believe that most revolutions are for freedom. The funny fathers, and I mention the funny fathers only because I know their history and I don't know the creamy industry, they signed the Declaration of Independence. The odds were, if you were betting, you would bet clearly that odd makers in London would have predicted, well, London was biased, but let's make it in Las Vegas, that they would all die if Las Vegas existed. Well, of course it did, but, you know, that they would all die, right? And indeed at the bottom they said, we're signing, we acknowledge that we're risking our life, our honor, our life, and our property for this. But they also realized that our life lived as a slave. Life lived as a surf. It's not a life worth living, right? So fighting for freedom is something you're willing to risk your life for. Fighting for freedom for yourself and for the people you love is a selfish, self-interested act, and indeed it would be irresponsible if you had the choice between surfdom and freedom not to fight for freedom. I would say it would be immoral if you had that choice not to fight for freedom. Freedom is not optional. It's not like that. Freedom is nice, but I could do without it. No, freedom is necessary for human flourishing. So you have to fight for it. And yes, you risk your life for it. I'm not being a committing suicide for it, but risking your life for it, risking your life in a significant way like the founders did, absolutely. I view that as completely selfish. So what about those people around us that don't have the ability to fight for freedom? You promote it in another way that you can. Look, I mean, hey, Rand didn't have any kids. I got four. Do I have a responsibility to them? Sure, so I'm not telling you that it's your one responsibility to go out into the streets and risk your life when you have four kids at home and you need to feed them. You have to make that evaluation. If I have no obligation to live for another man or to live for anyone else, what about the obligation to feed my kids? You certainly have an obligation to feed your kids, and the reason you have an obligation to feed your kids is you chose to take on that obligation. Whether you like it today or not, whether you like your kids or not, right? I hope you do. But let's say you didn't, right? Got contracts. I'm sure you were in business, you signed contracts. Later, you regretted them. Tough. You signed the contract. Having kids, I shouldn't say this. This is a religious country. But one of the reasons I'm pro-abortion is because I believe that signing that contract of having a kid is a big, big commitment. You should have as many outs as possible out of that. So once you have the kid, you know, you're signing an obligation to feed them and clothe them and educate them for the next 16 years, and as you're more responsible, it's a contract. So that's just the way it is. That's why I urge you, before you have kids, think about it a lot. Make sure you want them. Make sure you're going to love them. Make sure you're with a partner that's probably going to be with you for a while because kids and divorced marriages are not that great. You know, they don't do that well or it's unpleasant for them. It's an important decision. And it's a contract you're signing for 18 years. In business, we rarely sign a contract for 18 years. Here's a contract for 18 years or 16 years or whatever. But you see, I don't view, and it's related, you didn't really ask this, but I don't view what we do for our children as sacrifice. Because if we really love our children, they are of very high value. So if I don't go out to movies and I stay with my kids, it's because I love my kids more than I love the movie. Right? And I've got this contract. So it's not a sacrifice. I view... I try never to sacrifice in life. So never to give something and not expect anything in return. I always expect something in return. And for my kids, I get a lot of pleasure in return. Now, they're adults now, so it's more iffy about the pleasure. But I'm very proud of my kids and my kids are fantastic. And they pursue their passions, which is what I taught them to do. Okay, so I promise I'm not going to monopolize this conversation. Okay, so we've done sort of general cosmology philosophy, that sort of thing. We went to Maidan. We've talked about kids. I want to go back to politics for a second and then I'm going to open up the Florida business. Okay, so you'll ask the business questions because I have a feeling that there might be a few business questions. Politics. The role of the states that you mentioned and that is a very limited role and that is to maintain order. In other words, police, army and to be some sort of right, well what do you do in a country like this one where people trust each other but don't trust the state? And one of the things that we're doing right now which I think is probably most people would agree is successful is bringing in a new kind of policing. But we still have a massive problem with creating that really just arbiter, which is called which is called the judiciary. In fact I think most of the people that would be reading out of the shrug would be seeing Wesley Mooch in a lot of judges and they'd be seeing a lot of James Taggart in a lot of judges as well. So how does that work? Well, I mean, transitions are messy and transitions are difficult. There's no secret formula. You don't have to have a free country without an independent judiciary. I mean to me the foundation of freedom is a rule of law, an objective law and for that you need an independent judiciary you need a judiciary that's not corrupt and it is not either from the side of let's say the business activity or corrupt from the side of politics politics has to be independent. Now if you have a lot of corrupt judges I would fire them all. Clean house and appoint new ones and make sure like in the United States a point for elect well I think that's open you can, you know in America for example some are appointed, some are elected there's no empirical evidence that I know of that the states that do appointment are better than the states that do election or other way around. So I'm not sure it's critical. As long as somebody is elected right that point needs to be elected and as long as many of the judges are more local than the federal that is it could be at the local level that they're appointed it shouldn't be all be elected by it shouldn't be all be appointed by the federal government. That is a recipe for disaster. You want to make it local but the important thing is to have, so one is to have a new set of judges but would you really need a loss because that's Steve and the law should be clear so that you could read them as a business student and understand them so you don't have to have a law to read to get them and they should be objective in the sense that they relate to reality and can be interpreted justly so that when there is a judge that's corrupt you can say look here's the law right it's not this hard it's not that hard you're clearly way off and somebody can kick him out or impeach him or unelect him right elect him out of office so to me if I were coming to a country like Ukraine and as an advisor the first thing I would try to fix is the judiciary because again but not just the judiciary also the laws and what laws primarily the laws that define property rights and contracts those are the most important laws for business most important laws for day to day activity you want to define what property is how it's exchanged owns it under what terms what they can do with it and so on you want to define them in clear terms and then you want to define clearly what a contract is and how it's arbitrated and so on and then you want to you want it as many judges as you could trust to get in there and partially maybe firing them all even though some of them are good addresses the judiciary of trust because at least it's a clean slate we don't yet not trust these guys because they're new and I would start with that if you ask me I would have a whole series of programs on how to fix the economy and get it going I think they're all simple I actually think economic growth is one of the simplest thing and most understood things that yet nobody nobody in the entire world except maybe a few countries in Asia practice it people have a great ability to ignore the obvious and the other thing I'll say is nobody actually nobody's an exaggeration almost nobody learns from experience we like to say we learn from experience but nobody actually does people repeat the same mistakes over and over again which is what Einstein called you know what Einstein called that doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results that was the definition insanity according to Einstein if that's true this world is nuts it's completely insane all our politicians are insane and most of us are because we just think of your own life how many times you made the same mistake over and over again and you refused to learn from the last time you did it now you're going back to my four kids see I stopped it too I figured that out what's the what are the basics and the obvious for the economic growth the basics the obvious is freedom every country every country that has allowed its population economic freedom respect for property rights respect for contract law and that people alone has thrived and my favorite example of this is Hong Kong I don't know if anybody's been to Hong Kong once in your life to Hong Kong so here's a place that 75 years ago was a little fishing village there was nothing there there's no natural resources, nothing and the British came there and they established the rule of law British legal system because they kept the 19th century version rather than the socialist version of the 20th century and that's it hands up, no safety no nothing, just we protect property rights, we protect contract law and millions of people came from all over Asia the poorest people in the world no skills, nothing today Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than New York City the GDP per capita which is a measure of wealth per capita is the same as the United States so it took Hong Kong 70 years to do what the United States took it 200 and something years to create and the United States has natural resources Hong Kong has not all you need to do, and this is what China discovered it started out in the south of China near Hong Kong and they said okay we're going to do an experiment we're going to let them give them freedom and give them pseudo property rights we're going to pretend they have property rights and let them pretend and sent Jian and Dongguan and Guangzhu skyscrapers, industry Dongguan makes 50% of all the shoes in the world, shoes you're wearing are probably made in Dongguan because of freedom and China today, over the last 30 years this is a statistic nobody talks about over the last 30 years 1 billion people have come out of poverty 1 billion people have come out of poverty in India, in China in South Korea in Taiwan, in Hong Kong in Thailand, any place that's adopted capitalism even a little bit but of course the more the better boom, wealth is created and the poor benefit proportionally more than anybody else because they go from starving like they did at a mall potentially middle class so it's basically freedom now how do you implement freedom you know, it means in a country like Ukraine privatization on mass, not a little bit not just the Ukrainians open the capital markets up let Germans in, let Americans in anybody except Russians in let them buy Ukrainian land let them buy Ukraine let them buy the country it's great, that poor in capital they'll bring in the management expertise they'll bring in the business, deregulate eliminate regulations in business lower them significantly and then a tax system that's flat simple you know, I think Estonia has a good model for flat tax unfortunately, even Russia has a model for a good flat tax it's got a corporate tax, an individual tax no VAT no complicated, messy stuff from business taxation and I bet you, you do those three things privatize lower regulations, flat tax and there's no reason the Ukrainian economy, given where it is today can't grow at 5, 6, 7% GDP growth now you're talking about becoming a developed country very, very quickly and a rich country and if you want to defend yourself against the Russians get rich it's the best defense let's open up the floor does anybody have some questions because we made some assumptions here that everybody is very much familiar with the philosophy of Ain Rand and libertarianism and objectivism and the first half an hour we got into a very I guess pretty complicated discussion if there's people that want us to step back a little bit that's fine, we can do that or if you've got questions that relate to your business or to your personal lives or to your political politics now's the time to ask thank you for your lecture thank you for coming, my name is Vera six years ago I read Atlas Shroud and it made me join the libertarian party of Russia and I was the first elected official from the party and later I moved to Kiev for obvious political reasons and three years ago there was a kind of civil uprising in Russia that unfortunately didn't end up the same way as here in Ukraine Atlas Shroud was a very popular book and now in Ukraine I see that many young people are involved in Ain Rand and objectivism and libertarianism so my question is do you connect the popularity of Ain Rand books with people's willingness to live in a free country and where in the world you think her books are more popular and another question sorry may I ask too the first one I'm getting gold so is there a connection between Ain Rand books and kind of movements to freedom I don't I hope so, I think so but there were movements towards freedom before Ain Rand let's put it in perspective the founding fathers existed without Ain Rand and there would be many movements over history that have wanted real freedom and economic freedom what Ain Rand gives you is a sense of moral certainty moral confidence and she gives the liberty movement, we'll call it in a general sense a philosophical foundation in my view for the first time in human history I mean John Locke tried that but he's weak in many of his philosophical assertions I think Ain Rand's solid gives it a solid for the first time in history the idea of freedom is solidly defended philosophically so I think that'll give freedom movements as we move into the future a greater passion greater stability and greater influence because I don't know how much history we want but if you think about the Enlightenment the European Enlightenment which really led to all the freedom movements and led to all the good things in life they had a weak foundation and I think what Ain Rand does she's an Enlightenment philosopher she solidifies the Enlightenment and gives us the ability to establish freedom in a way that's more sustainable than it has been in the past I am delighted and fascinated by the fact that Ain Rand is so popular in Russia and Ukraine and generally in Eastern Europe I'd say right now Poland all the way down to Bulgaria and Serbia the Serbian translation of Alistair came out a couple of years ago and now the translated fountain head and virtue of selfishness which is a non-fiction book of Ain Rand's it really seems to be a big surge of popularity with Ain Rand in Eastern Europe which I think is fabulous and very exciting because I think there's a huge amount of potential because you guys know much better than we do in America the evil of socialism you get it because you've lived it that or your parents or your grandparents lived through the evil of fascism you know you've got a bit of that on your eastern border right now so I'm not originally from America I'm originally from Israel so I know a little bit more about the world than I think most Americans do Americans are pretty lazy life is good you know and if it's deteriorating economic growth there's not the air and jobs are it's still good we get a new iPhone every year we get an Apple TV I've got an Apple Watch things are good why are we about freedom in America at a fast rate nobody worries about it because life is too comfortable life's not comfortable for you within a generation or two you've lived all of them so I think that's why there's a sort of existential angst in Eastern Europe and I think when there's that angst people are searching for answers and I think I'm going to present answers you agree with them or not she presents a point of view people like to engage in that it's a little too lazy oh why should I engage in new ideas you guys need new ideas you know you need new ideas she presents some, engage with them you like them, great, you don't like them, fine but at least engage so I think at the margin there's certainly things like Students for Liberty and the growth of certain libertarian forces within Europe and even in America are direct consequence of Iron Man there's a book written a long time ago in the United States called it all begins with Iron Man it's not a very good book but basically that if you're a libertarian you almost always started with Iron Man to become a libertarian and I think that's true, I think that's why we've got a large libertarian movement in the United States and in Europe and in South America and even in beginnings of it in Asia Iron Man is essential for that and she's making those ideas more popular and again you can see with ESFL, with European Students for Liberty where Iron Man has a significant voice just as a point of information these two couches many many years ago this would have been four years ago I was sitting there and the gentleman on this side would have been a person that probably is concerning would have been recognizable to anybody in the room Petro Poroshenko and one of the questions came up of what's your favorite book and interestingly enough one of the things that he one of the authors that he mentions is Ayn Rand you may not see that as voters but perhaps it started with Ayn Rand and it's gone in other places she is often beloved by people who hold the completely opposite philosophy I'll give you an example I don't know how many of you know out of a stone he made a movie Wall Street Oliver Stone is a committed Marxist I mean he will admit to being a committed Marxist and Wall Street is an excellent movie from a Marxist perspective it's very aesthetically it's a good movie but it's pure Marxism the whole presentation is a Marxist presentation Oliver Stone's favorite book is The Fountainhead and his dream is to make a movie of The Fountainhead he would turn it into a Marxist book now The Fountainhead is an anti-Marxist, anti-collective is pure individualist book but all of a stone is complete so people get all kinds of stuff out of Ayn Rand I have the Hollywood actors and actresses have said that I would shrug this is their favorite book and then they go off and spew some leftist nonsense so she has an impact on people at some level and sometimes that's all they get from it is some emotional response you don't walk away from Ayn Rand neutral it hits you in some way and sometimes people misinterpret what she says for example The Fountainhead is often misinterpreted as form of subjectivism do whatever you feel like doing that's Oliver Stone's interpretation but it always impacts people and it's really interesting all the list of people, celebrities who say Ayn Rand is a favorite author it's one of the reasons it's a powerful experience she had a second question second question is that I see it as you mentioned that we in the Eastern Europe we had that awful experience of communism but besides that there are many people who still vote for left politicians, for populists and those who are strongly convinced that individual liberty is very good they do not connect it with economic liberty what do you think is the reason of this problem why it happens so as I said people don't actually learn from experience and the reason they don't learn from experience is because they feel it's something having the ideas shape the way they interpret their experiences so I know a lot of socialists who say communism's never been tried they didn't do it right they've only had been in charge or that socialist country Venezuela right now people are starving in streets there's no toilet paper there's no soap might remind you of a distant period in Ukraine's history and yet nobody's learning just like Venezuela Chile, the richest country in South America because of capitalism, has elected a socialist twice to become president it's because it's shape or fallacy so what is it about philosophy that prevents us from accepting that capitalism works and that socialism doesn't well what are we taught in morality what are we taught in ethics from when we're this big we're taught that to be good means to sacrifice to be good means to give to be good means to share to be good means to be self less well what political system is consistent with that socialism, it's very selfless it's all about sharing it's all about giving to each according to his needs, from each according to his ability that's the morality of selflessness morality is much more fundamental than economics so people feel like socialism is white it's just, it's fair it's moral, it's an ideal capitalism's all about making money pursuing your passion, whose passion my passion, it's egoistic it's selfish, it's self interested so they urgh, they don't so yeah, you get skyscrapers it's unpleasant, it's not a nice thing and people vote in morality there's a saying in America, in American politics people say, people vote in pocketbook they vote in pocketbook issues not true people never vote economics never is again exaggeration, but they don't vote economics people vote what they think is right what they think is just and the fact is, we live in the world in the west that socialism is just and capitalism is unjust there's a huge debate going on in western Europe and in the US about inequality, but it is good there's no white equality about it they learned anything from it, no some people produce a huge amount they make our lives better, they get rich some people produce a little bit and that's okay too, we're teachers we know we're not going to be billionaires teaching until the internet really takes off but it's enough a lot of fun exactly, so we've actually we're probably smart enough to go out there and make some money but we've done a trade off we love teaching, it's a lot of fun we take less money, huge inequality between me lives around the corner from me cool, he's doing what he loves I'm doing what I love, that's great that's inequality is a good thing, it's not a bad thing but people, what they value and if you want to ask me about inequality, I've got a book coming out in March about it's called Equal is Unfaith there you go so again people vote what they think is right let's see this example and then we'll take the next question which people you would think want to keep their money the rich would never vote for higher taxes if they purely voted economic interest, they would only vote for low taxes but what Obama read for president of the United States in 2012, he promised to raise taxes on the rich promised, and he fulfilled that promise how do you think the rich voted? if they were voting economic interest, they'd vote against Obama but they didn't the 10 richest counties in the United States went for Obama in California, there was a referendum everybody got a vote on increasing taxes on the wealthy from 10% to 13% that's on top of federal taxes, that's an addition 10% to 13% 30% increase how do you think rich people vote? for it, they think it's right because they think it's just because they feel guilty about all the wealth that they've created and this is, I'm not talking about stupid wealth, I'm talking about Silicon Valley so Silicon Valley overwhelming they voted to raise taxes on themselves because they vote morality, they don't vote if I can jump in here, I'm not seeing any hands so put up your hands if you want to ask more questions but I'm going to jump in here he's going to dominate the, yeah exactly because I'm having a lot of fun the issue is that in the business school environment, we see this a lot of owners business owners asking themselves is it right that my salary is 10 times higher, 50 times higher 100 times higher than my cleaning ladies or my other employees I mean they have a right to earn more, don't they and it's a question that we get a lot of and it's a question of guilt it's the guilt of success I want to ask you about that because if we read Rand, it's really simple because she assumes that people that have money made it due to their own ability to what do we do with people that have laid an awful lot of money but not necessarily due to ability and I think that everybody in the room will recognize who I'm talking about when I say people like Ahmetov and because there's very little ability there in terms of perhaps those of you that have seen interviews would know and some of the other really, really, really rich people in Ukraine, they're not the Hank Reardon types they haven't developed a new metal they're certainly not the types that have gone off and done some sort of huge innovation they haven't made their money in the Silicon Valley way I think the best and most just way to deal with it is to create competition so that they lose all their money because stupid wealth doesn't last for free market now they does in a politicized market in a corrupt market they use the government to protect themselves but if you take away that protection and this is why I insist on inviting foreign capital in create competition to your oligarchs right let them compete let them feel like if they don't work hard they're going to lose their money you could courts and redistribute their wealth that's very messy and very dangerous and prone to injustice because the real entrepreneurs will be sucked in with the bad entrepreneurs the best way to do it is to create real competition and they'll lose their money this happens everywhere around the world when people don't really own their money and you create freedom around them they lose it or they lose it within a generation the kids lose it and one of the board is privatize create a great great business environment with anybody in the world people work hard the smart people I just need to get rid of all the cut them off so that would be my solution to the oligarchs with a hand here thank you very much for your presentation it's brilliant really I'm a Ukrainian journalist and I spent enough time in Washington DC where we were on our one thing promoting Ukrainian interest in the United States I'm a bit familiar with the situation actually I had the same question about the role of oligarchs in Ukrainian society because they're also pursuing their own happiness and they really don't care about the society and they literally buy politicians and in the end of the day the politicians do what they demand and actually as I know the United States also faces the same problem it's a big issue in the United States so what's your opinion about money in politics should it be split off or how to deal with this how to fix it because money played a huge role and lobbyists and all this K Street all this stuff so let me comment on something you said earlier first and then I'll comment on that I don't believe these people are pursuing their own self-interest I don't think they know what their self-interest is I don't think they they use this in pursuit of their self-interest they are emotional they want power they want money money for their own sake I doubt any of them are happy any of them are fulfilled certainly none of them are flourishing in the Aristotelian sense of the word money does not equal flourishing money power certainly does not people who remember Iron Man's Oath don't live off of other people what does it mean to buy off politicians it means you're leaching off of other people leeches you know what a leeches sucks your blood it's an organism that sticks to your skin and sucks your blood that's a leech, in economics a leech is somebody who uses politics to suck money that's force wanting you to sacrifice for them that doesn't lead to happiness it doesn't lead to success at least the money and power money and power do not equal happiness and success I don't know anybody who's got power who's really happy political power in town now how do you deal with it the only way in my so I don't believe in getting money out of politics I think that's a disaster because that's an issue of free speech the fact that I could all that money doesn't mean you could silence me if I want to use my money to make political statements I have every way to do that it's an issue of freedom of speech the only way to reduce cronyism to reduce the involvement of business in politics is to shrink politics it's to make politics impotent to make politics impotent so if politicians can't regulate business why would I so in the 19th century America when America had small governments and wasn't involved in every aspect of the economy there was very little cronyism even 50 years ago there was less cronyism than today the reason there's a lot of cronyism today is because government regulates everything and I'll give you my favorite example of this in 19 I think it's 1994 top executives of Microsoft were invited to the senate in the United States and they sat there in front of the senate and the Republican this is a Republican not even a Democrat, Alan Hatch is a Republican senator from Utah he yelled at them and he said you have got to start lobbying you've got to build a building in Washington DC if we Washington is impotent and the guys from Microsoft said look we don't need you we're developing the most innovative software in the world we're changing the world literally Microsoft changed the world that's this department, it goes after Microsoft why? because they did monopolies they might offer you something for free how bad is that so what did Microsoft learn from that lesson and of course this dragged up for years and they lost the court case and they had a bureaucrat station that Microsoft for 10 years Apple went like this, Microsoft went like that all because they refused to play the game the games set by politicians guess how much they spent today they got a beautiful building inside Washington DC you know you could walk to the Capitol you could walk to the White House if you take the way the power of politicians to regulate to control if you create a tax system that's flat, no deductions you can't deduct any expenses or just tax revenue revenue expenses and that's it then why should I lobby you don't control anything now I have to run my business so the only way to stop cronyism the only way to stop this oligarch type relationship the power relationship is to make politics impotent and you do that by having a simple tax and by eliminating regulation minimizing the regulation to really the protection of property rights that's it you don't need government to do anything more than that the marketplace can take care of it they really need the marketplace to tell you what taxi to take Uber is a great example I can rank from driver to drink at me the marketplace is taking care of all of that I don't know about here but there are fights everywhere because the taxis or government controlled if government regulated are saying this is unfair and it's right, it's not fair we should stop regulating taxes not stop regulating Uber stop regulating taxis because we don't need the regulators we can regulate ourselves Uber is proven to us I don't see any hands I know monopolies wow I mean, okay I said stuff you must disagree with what was the challenge for me there we go there's a hand okay, alright I was gonna go on the taxi bit but okay ideas to install all these Tesla batteries and all those of producing energy systems will that bring us to the world we do not need a government at all because my house will be heated my telephone will be recharged who the hell should they pay the taxes what will it happen just in 20 years time if we actually do not need the at least heating and electricity and water and anything like this but yeah, think about it this way I mean in America I buy my electricity from a private company not from the government I buy my water in some places from a private company now the government unfortunately regulates those but they wouldn't be better if they didn't almost all the heating all of that today in America in Moscow and I'll say something about it in Moscow in a minute I have a lot to say about it what's that yeah, I'm not a fan I'll tell you why in a minute so none of those things do we need government now for we could privatize all of them and you should privatize all of them you don't need government to supply you with electricity Thomas Edison was not working for the government he was working for himself motivated by the profit motive motivated by his own passion for new discoveries and for ideas what do we need the government for the things that only a government can do which is guns we need a government to protect ourselves so that I don't have to carry a gun when I walk around the streets afraid of being mugged I want the police force I want the police investigating a murder I want the police investigating I want them to be good at it I want them to be professional and I don't believe in private armies and private police forces because I think all that generates is conflict and violence and the worst type of anarchy so I believe that the government should be involved in guns that's it a military to protect us from bad guys overseas terrorists, invaders and a police force to protect us from each other and for fraud and a judiciary because we're going to disagree once in a while and we need somebody to be able to arbitrate disputes that's it that's why I said separation of economics from the state what do you need an international representation for I believe Tata should be zero capital flows should be allowed and immigration should be for the most part open so why do you need an embassy in the United States under those conditions okay, so we do but is it that important? no if Americans want to come here great they want to send their dollars even better they want to invest here, wonderful see see the whole field of international relations in my view is a creation of statism we've got alliances and these powers and those powers again and we're going to allow this industry to come but not that industry because these guys are this is all benefits the elites who control the countries I mean, if I were running America I can't speak about Ukraine but if I were running America a lot of countries I wouldn't have embassies in why does the US have an embassy in Saudi Arabia? I hate everything about Saudi Arabia the way they treat disgusting place why does America sanctioning the existence of Sharia law by having an embassy in Saudi Arabia? should it's not national it's based on their morality based on whether they're good or bad and some countries are bad and some countries are good oh well, now we're getting to more subjectivism and this is good now we're getting to philosophy good there's one standard for morality and that is the standard of human life if a regime or a country if a culture you've grown up with multiculturalism one of the most evil ideas in human history cultures are not equal some cultures promote human life they encourage human life they support human life they thrive and I have no idea why these ugly paintings are in here and not only are they ugly but they're scary put up today so this is that painting some some cultures produce Newton some cultures produce Thomas Edison other cultures don't produce anything they produce female genital mutilation that is evil that is not good that's an evil culture it's an evil country a country where a woman can't drive is an evil country you have every right as a human being to do whatever you think is good for you independent of your woman or man that some king the king of Saudi Arabia can tell a woman she can't drive or that she can't have sex or that she has to marry into a polygamous situation is disgusting it's evil it's immoral they're cultures that are good and they're cultures that are bad and I'm willing to criticize my own culture fanatically will do just Jews fundamental Jews that is an evil culture I despise them they treat women every morning a man wakes up and says the first blessing he says is thank you guys for not making me a woman and they treat women that way that's not you can't say that's the same as normal culture in a western country normal culture in a western country is a Jewish or fundamentalist anything in my view so it's not the same as some carving in tribal Africa sorry one is great art and one is... we have to have values we have to have scales not everything is the same this is why I'm against equality I don't believe equality exists some people are better some people are worse some cultures are better some cultures are worse some people are damn evil some cultures are evil judging is important in life judge and be ready to be judged it doesn't go one way it goes both ways that's life she don't shoot me say anything about it a lot not stupid remind me and I'll say something thank you yet another humongous thanks and for the privilege of being here a friendly professor of philology over here a friendly neighborhood professor I have a philosophical question if you will in view of the prior statement that had to deal with the cultural divide my question is in view of that how different the cultures are how different are the places that the cultures come from ethically identity wise anything how applicable is in fact objectivism to cultures that come from a fundamental a different place than the one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all hey wait a minute you do realize that Anna's name was Anna Rosenbaum and then she came from St. Petersburg okay Aiman was born in St. Petersburg to middle class Jewish family it's what will convert bad cultures into good cultures Saudi Arabia and they are fighting just like you fought for freedom they are fighting for freedom in Saudi Arabia and hopefully one day they will have their revolution and they will get rid of Akkadian I felt we got rid of kings long time ago and replace them with an elected body that protects their individual rights as that document said the document you were quoting which is the declaration of independence it might be the greatest political document in human history all men are created equal equal not in a sense of equality of outcome but in a sense of embodying freedom embodying liberty and if I would give it an epistemological all men have reason all men are capable and women of course are capable of reason men in old English refer to both men and women which is pretty chauvinistic so the idea and of course the founding fathers got us wrong the document was written made it to have slaves and all men are created equal that they had to have a civil war 600,000 people had to die free of the slaves so contradictions don't last so I don't care if you're a tribesman in Africa or a peasant in China or an intellectual in Ukraine human nature is human nature and Ayman's philosophy is consistent with human nature it's consistent with man as a rational animal which is Aristotle's term again all of them are rational all of them are only going to achieve values through reason all of them need freedom and liberty in order to achieve those values capitalism is the only system that works and here's the example right there was no capitalism in Asia ever when they tried a little bit of it incredible success in Taiwan, in South Korea in Hong Kong, in Singapore and now in China they're not westerners but they respect individual rights to some extent Japan has to ask the Japanese to write a constitution and the Japanese handed General MacArthur a constitution based on Japanese principles and General MacArthur said this is crazy this is a stupid constitution it won't work, he shredded it and he as an assistant wrote the Japanese constitution and it's the only constitution in the world and in many ways all individuals have the inalienable right to life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness taken from the Declaration of Independence and guess what Japanese and Japanese are very very well under constitution written by an American general and his assistant because these are inalienable truths they are reality for all men Japanese, Chinese, Americans doesn't matter there is a superior culture there is a culture of man as a reasoning being it's a culture of individualism and if Africa adopts that culture they will do fantastically well if they don't adopt it they will do fantastically bad your example is a little bit dangerous because we have another little guy that wants to write our constitution for us but his name is not MacArthur well it's a question that's a problem so my name is Elena and I have actually two questions so first one you told that immigration shouldn't be regulated if it wasn't regulated for example in Europe Europe would be destroyed with all the migrants all over the world so let me answer that and then you can ask me the second question so in a free society in a completely free society and in a society that's not at war it's the Europe I believe immigration should be free now that doesn't mean citizenship citizenship and immigration is not the same thing people should be allowed to come and work citizenship you should have a requirement for citizenship a lot of years lived in a certain knowledge of the constitution and the system of law under which you're going to live but let's take Europe right now first of all it's not free Europe has an advanced very lucrative very corrupt welfare state so why are all the immigrants going to Germany and Sweden they don't want to go anywhere else Germany and Sweden why because they know when they get to Germany they get to Sweden they get a check and then they get a home the Swedes there's a huge shortage of housing in Sweden but the Muslims who come they get a house so the welfare state is a magnet so you can't have a welfare state and I believe in eliminating the welfare state then you can open up the borders but the second qualification is you can't be at war now I believe and this is controversial but I believe that the West isn't warped with radically slum it's a war we're afraid to name it's a war it's a war we won't even fight you're at war with them you certainly can't let them flood your country so it's legitimate for Europe to say look you guys we're at war with you you can't come in just like Americans didn't accept Nazis into America during World War II they said oh generally you can come but if you're Nazi you can't come now by World War II even America closed off its borders so those would be like two qualifications no welfare except for Ukraine and war with Russia to say ok Russians you can come no Russians because we're at war with you after the war we can talk after the war as long as there's hostility there's nothing to talk about so those were two of my qualifications about my question look your answers this came from my children my two sons they were the fourth generation born on a different continent wandering Jews we've been immigrating for thousands of years we haven't heard anybody my children were born in America I was born in Asia in Israel my parents were born in South Africa go figure and their parents were born in Lithuania they were your neighbors my wife's mother was born in Morocco my wife's father was born in Palestine but his grandparents came from Uzbekistan so I have no sympathy for I have a lot of sympathy for people moving around I immigrated from Israel to the United States and I think that's a good thing for me and I'm a little arrogant I think it's good for America too I'm very tolerant regarding all this I was born in Moscow but I was living in Ukraine and then I was studying in Vienna so I know a little bit about this thing my second question is regarding Elon Musk so he changed industry he had different ideas in different spheres and he really changed many industries but he was supported by Obama and actually if there wasn't Obama's support maybe some of the companies were bankrupt so what will you say he's a corrupt businessman he's no different than your oligarchs he's a crony where he made his first money that was PayPal PayPal never had any government involvement and that's how he made his fortune but then almost all of his investment have been in government supported businesses now I don't blame him too much for SpaceX the only client he has right now because of the way the government does it is NASA but Tesla bad, bad, bad business I don't like Tesla I condemn anybody who buys the car and this is why I'm subsidizing me I'm a middle class American and my taxes are going to Elon Musk who's rich, he's a billionaire he's taking my money and building cars that rich people buy that I'm painful that's him all but he disclosed all the technology in order to build the industry he disclosed everything that doesn't make him a good guy why does that make him a good guy? Apple never disclosed any of the technology every patent that Apple is locked up is that bad? is that bad? is that bad? no, they've got 100 ideas think about Apple Apple invented the personal computer it invented object based you know we use objects using a mouse it really invented the ipad the ipod turned the ipad into something it invented the iphone Apple has invented millions of things and they don't unleash the technology that doesn't make them bad so Elon Musk has the right to make this technology public but that doesn't make him a good guy the fact that he uses my money to subsidize his car and to sell it to rich people at my expense it's just wrong you know, you want an electric car pay the full price why are you taking my money to make it cheaper so the cost sells like $80,000 it should sell $120,000 if it sold $120,000 Elon Musk wouldn't make any money as Tesla doesn't make any money but they would lose a lot I think electric cars are stupid but the just to continue with that to play devil's advocate for a second what about the environment and what about the fact that Tesla is making cars that don't have emissions will make your grandkids healthier than your kids so I have a lot to say about this but let me start by the myth Tesla has no emissions where do you live what is electricity where does electricity come from the most filthy emission of all of them I call Tesla cars coal cars not electric cars, coal cars because the produced electricity has to burn coal there's no other way in America 50% of the electricity is made from coal the most duty of all forms of producing electricity or nuclear nuclear is very clean that would be the right solution now if you went nuclear and you produced and you actually had the cost it's a question of whether nuclear energy produces cheap electricity that's a question but if it did, then maybe then electric cars one day would come but right now, electric cars are coal cars they emit coal those batteries you know how much CO2 has to be emitted and how much pollution has to be emitted so there's a whole environmentalist movement creates this mythology about what's clean and what's dirty that's complete nonsense and we all buy it everybody in the West Bank it's complete nonsense I love recycling you guys love trees you like trees? I like trees do you know that recycling destroys trees in a free market why does recycling paper recycling wood products destroys trees this is economics 101 trees are a renewable resource let me ask you another question I'll get back to trees in a minute if we are stuck eating chicken everybody's stuck eating chicken in the world would there be more chickens in the world or less chickens in the world I think we better ask Yurko Kusuk that's one of the rich guys they'd be less chickens because people would have less of an incentive to grow chickens if we stopped using wood products tomorrow would there be more trees or less trees less people would have no incentive to plant trees and indeed the land that today is used to chop down trees and make a profit we would say it's a waste just being a forest maybe I can build a home there maybe I can build an industry there or maybe I can use the land for some other productive resource you know there are more trees today than there were a hundred years ago in America you know why because we use more paper so we have to plant more trees so we can cut down more trees so we can use more trees if I estimate that I will need more trees in the future than I do today I will plant more trees because I'll need more trees to chop down in the future to supply demand simple supply demand I will innovate I will find ways to plant more trees on the same plot of land to create more density now you say but you lose old trees fine but I don't really care about old trees that much I just care about trees and if you just care about trees you want to use as much paper as possible and you don't want to recycle because then demand will go up in the future and now plant more trees this is just but nobody knows it or recycling plastics and all the other recycling you know that the pollution from the truck driving to collect all the recycling bins in California pollutes more than putting it all into a landfill landfills are easy you dig a deep gold underground and you fill it up with a plastic trash the earth is huge there's plenty of room for all that trash so there's a lot of mythology in the environmentalist movement what do we do about global warming is that the issue of the day no I did a post on this the other day in the recent democratic debate democrats but they were asked the five democratic candidates were asked what is the largest threat to the national security of the united states largest single threat single threat to the national security of the united states and they all said climate change nobody mentioned the Islamic threat nobody mentioned Putin even though there are people out there that say that the united states is in fact their number one enemy can I just say that I think that's insane I mean let's go over the climate change that's happening I'm tempted to seem to be pretty flat in the last 12 years but even if it's happening there's a lot of warm out here in Ukraine you could use that a little bit trees love CO2 the more CO2 in the atmosphere the more growth of greenery there is the more food we get the more algae there is the more trees there are and that becomes habitable I don't get it many years ago somebody invented this wonderful invention that solves the problem of climate change it's called air conditioning in southern california on the edge of the desert the only reason there's green stuff all over the place is because we water it in the so called drought of california we still water everything by the way because of you the colorado river doesn't make it to the pacific anymore who cares I think a lot of fish care I don't care about fish really nature is there to serve us not for its own good we I'm selfish nature is there you like spotted owls buy some and if you want to buy a big forest don't let anybody develop it and grow spotted owls they don't taste that good come I mean nature is there the way human beings survive I'm being partially funny the way human beings survive a changing environment that fit our needs if we stop changing our environment we die as a species every other species adapts to its environment or dies we don't adapt to our environment we adapt the environment to us so when we didn't like caves we build mud huts we took mud which is environment we changed it and built a hut when we didn't like just picking berries and nuts we build animals and when that was inconvenient we rounded up animals and put them in pens and grew them for food that's what they do to chickens and cows and pigs today we we want to build a skyscraper we chop down a mountain and we take all the the bricks there and we build a building we go underground to get cold that's how we as human beings live so my response to oh we're changing the environment is cool that's great that's how human beings survive that's how we live now again I value trees I value nature and there's plenty of it if you fly over the United States 90% of the United States is empty there's plenty of nature out there but do I care about another fish in the Colorado River no I don't and the fact is that today in California I don't get water because they are pouring water into the Pacific Ocean to save some little fish in some river near San Francisco I'd rather take a shower I would and I think it's better for civilization that I take a shower the whole drought the whole drought in California is politically made we could desalinate the ocean there's a massive desalination plant in San Diego that produces all the water San Diego needs but yet they have to cut water use because there's a drought but in San Diego there's no drought but California has announced a drought so they have to cut water use but we could build 10 desalination plants and fix all the water problems it's expensive why because electricity is expensive in California why because we're shifting electricity from natural gas to alternative energies which are much more expensive so electricity is very expensive so the desalination is expensive in Orange County where I live in California we have the largest plant for water recycling in the world they collect all the rain water they collect the sewage water they treat it and they recycle it we don't have a drought in Orange County we have plenty of water because we're very efficient at using the water that we use can I just ask you something those facilities that you just talked about the desalination plant the water treatment plant aren't those run by the government? the desalination plant for certain isn't it's run by private enterprise but they're run by local governments these are usually public private partnerships well only because the government forces it on them but I think I'm pretty sure I might be wrong but I think that desalination plants in San Diego is private capital it's a private public partnership so the water stream you have to go public but there's no reason the water pipes couldn't be privatized it's just a phenomena we're going to wrap up here a little bit but I have a question sorry there's a question, I missed it yeah if you don't want him to wrap up then just raise your hand the Austrian I wanted to know two things do you want to think that all Saturdays on environmental stuff are kind of money? I'd like to know what you think about the Swedish model because Sweden is like kind of this almost perfect society high taxes very strong middle class people actually wherever you go in the world you meet more Swedish people traveling around in americans there's also kind of cultural stuff I would say but what do you think about the Swedish model? I've got a lot to say about Sweden and it's actually a couple of videos last year I was in Norway in Bogan and I gave a speech at the University of Bogan about the evils of the Norwegian welfare state it was a lot of fun what was the first question? oh, subsidies I'm against all subsidies all subsidies again, you want to preserve a particular environment you want to preserve the rainforest you want to preserve a particular part of the ocean and I'm not kidding you, buy it the solution to all environmental problems or almost all environmental problems is private property and there are funds in the United States there's a large fund in the United States that goes around the world and buys and turns it into private property endangered you know, ecosystems and that's great as long as you're using the private property model and not stealing my money you know, go preserve your spotted house and your smelt and your fish and whatever I believe rivers should be privatized if the river out here was private it would be clean because you know what, my backyard is very clean public property is typically good because it doesn't nobody owns it, nobody cares about it and there are ways to privatize rivers in the old west in the United States, they used to have water rights and they privatized rivers and they determined what to do about the fact that one guy's cows would poop at the top of the river and you were trying to drink from the bottom and how do you arbitrate those there's a whole theory and Ronald Coase was a famous economist in Chicago who wrote a lot about this but there's a lot of theories on how to deal with that but that's ideal if you could privatize lakes, rivers and the oceans it would be wonderful they would be clean and there would be lots of fish because there's no private incentive to destroy all the fish it goes back to chicken, right because we privatize chickens there's more chickens we privatize fish, there'd be more fish it's just a question of how to do it we need to figure it out so I'm against all environmental or any kind of subsidies government should stay out of economics out of any economic activity Sweden utopia when you start with Sweden so let me give you a little history of Sweden first because I think history is important between 1870 and about and certainly the second world war and maybe even until a little bit after the second world war Sweden had the most capitalist economy in the world in the world it was the freest economically of any country freer than America and indeed during that time major Swedish industries were created it was among the richest countries in Europe maybe I think it was the richest country in Europe when I took capital basis the biggest companies in Europe were based in Sweden their industry was famous it was incredibly wealthy society and then around 1960 Sweden decided to become socialist so what did they do they took all the money that had been accumulated by all these families over decades and they started redistributing it and they lost their industries and they lost their lead by 1979 the biggest industry in Sweden anybody knows what the biggest revenue industry in Sweden was ABBA the rock group the pop group you know what the second largest industry in Sweden was by the late 1970s Johan Berg the tennis player they had decimated their industries and by 1994 Sweden was basically Greece it was bankrupt since 1994 to today Sweden has been shrinking government spending reducing regulations even reducing payouts it has a voucher system for education which we don't have in the United States you can send your kid to any school and basically Sweden has become a lot less socialist than it used to be it still has high taxes, still distributes a lot less regulated than the United States it's easier to open a business in Sweden than the United States it's easier to be a banker than in the United States so first if it's utopia it's not a socialist utopia it's just a different mixture of a mixed economy than America is so that's one Sweden has no free speech Sweden has hate speech loss if you paint a painting that people find offensive you can go to jail you can look at this up on the internet a Swedish painter about a year ago went to jail for painting an offensive painting it was offensive he's a neo-fascist awful painter he still shouldn't go to jail for this freedom of speech should be sacred you should be able to say anything it could be stupid it could be insensitive it could be racist it could be anything you ever like to say you people can choose not to talk to you but you can't go to jail for that in Sweden you go to jail for somebody put up a YouTube video a couple of months ago a couple of months ago in Sweden claiming I don't know if you know this but Sweden has the highest rate of rapes in the western world maybe in the world as a total so somebody went on YouTube followed by Muslim migration I don't know if that's true or not they were brought in front of a judge they were taken to court for saying that and the judge said I don't care if that's right or wrong it's insensitive you can't say that's not a utopia in my mind Swedish entrepreneurs if you're really ambitious where do you go to America if I always suggest this experiment and I wish somebody would take me up on it let's have no immigration controls between Sweden and America and let's see which way they go I bet most of the Swedes go to America but let's make it hard because you might say it's because of the weather they don't want to go to California let's make no immigration controls between Sweden and Minnesota Minnesota is very cold and it's where most of the Swedish immigrants live I bet you they all go to Minnesota a lot of them go to Minnesota America is a much better place than Sweden our homes are bigger we're richer, we drive nicer cars we have a higher standard of living by any measure of standard of living there's no comparison Sweden if it was ranked based on states the wealth of different states would rank in the lower half of wealth per capita of states in the United States we're much richer in America for that it's more equal but equality is not if I'd rather be rich than equal let me there's one thing I want to say about Sweden would you rather be poor than you yeah I'd rather be poor than equal because then I can rise up an unequal society provides opportunities for people to rise up an equal society is stuck wherever you happen to be and if you want I mean you should buy my book on equality but if you want to know my views why I think the idea of equality in terms of the most evil idea in human history you can ask thank you for a very interesting lecture my name is Yuri and I have the question connected to Sweden about their neighbor a few days ago I read the news that they are planning to introduce so called basic income for early people in their country not dependent on what they need yeah so what do I think of basic income I think it's terrible because to give them the basic income you have to take it from somebody I don't believe in taking money I don't believe in taking from one person giving to another it's better than any other welfare program it's better in America we have food stamps we have welfare we have Medicare we have a million this is a voucher system basically you get money you spend it anywhere you want the government isn't telling you how to spend your money so replacing all of welfare with a minimum income and that's the only welfare you get you don't get anything else from the government you get the minimum thing you want to spend it all on alcohol fine but we're not going to help you once you're drunk it's a better than what we have today so if you were going to have any kind of welfare system that's the kind I still think it's wrong I think it's wrong to steal from one person and give to another the example I always use is if my neighbor has no money for food he's gone bankrupt he's lost all his money whatever the reason his fault not his fault whatever he doesn't have any money he can come to me and he has two choices he can ask me to help and I might help him if he's a nice guy and if my kids don't need the money right now and if I've got a little bit extra I'll help him because I'm a nice guy I value human life I think it's a good thing and I want to help people be successful particularly if you didn't lose it for his own fault if it's an innocent thing or he could pull a gun out and steal my money if he gets together with the neighbors and they all vote to take my money does that make it less than stealing? so if he comes to me with a gun and takes my money everybody thinks he should go to jail that's wrong but if the neighbors vote to take my money somehow magically we turn stealing into welfare and it's okay I think welfare is stealing I think it's daylight and robbery and I think the fact that people vote for it it just makes them complicit in the stealing so I don't believe in any redistribution of wealth zero if I want to help somebody I believe in charity I believe in free will I believe people should be charitable for you now remember what I wanted to say about Sweden one of the things people say about Sweden it's related one of the things people say about Scandinavia is that they're happy every happiness study Swedes are happy there are two things to say about that one is if you go to Sweden and you ask people if they're happy everybody expects them to say yes and they say yes and studies are sophisticated they're not that obvious but generally if you ask them if they're happy culturally they're expected to say yes Swedes were happy which is the exact opposite of Ukrainians I was going to give the example of Jews you ask a Jew if you're happy and they say yes then all the other Jews are going to say you're happy how can you be happy there's no such thing as happiness nobody's happy nobody's happy because it's culturally unacceptable to be happy so there are cultural differences but there's another issue of happiness studies if you ask Swedes if they're happy they say yes but if you ask Swedes in America if they're happy they're even happier Swedes rich but Swedes in America much richer because part of the reason Swedes are rich is a certain culture culture matters some culture is good some culture is not they have a relatively entrepreneurial creative culture they're educated when they go to America because there are more opportunities because there's more freedom they're even richer than they are in Sweden American Swedes live in Wisconsin and Minnesota they live in big, big homes they have incredibly comfortable lives and they're very happy even happier than Swedes so all these studies you have to really you have to control for the right variables we do regression analysis in business the whole point of regression analysis is knowing what to control for 90% of the studies out there they do econometrics or garbage because they don't do the controls right it's a tough thing to do we're going to wrap up but I want to ask you one more question and I'm going to save something that's specifically related to Atlas Shrug because when you were talking about Sweden and you were talking about subsidies and you were talking about the evils of taxation in fact the taxation of Sweden is theft you were basically talking like Francisco which is for those of you that have read Atlas Shrug one of the key characters but Atlas Shrug has an interesting ending to it and the reason I mention this is because the third volume has just come out in Ukrainian translation and it's about something called Gulch now I'm not going to for those of you that haven't read it I'm not going to reveal what Gulch is all about but for those of you that have read it you're immediately smiling because it's a pretty special place and one of the things that I found in this room and in other classrooms where I've talked about I've talked about Iran is the reaction of many business people that buy into the philosophy of objectivism is you know what let's all get together and get the hell out of here let's all just Ukraine is a country that's got all kinds of problems it needs to fall apart before anything will be done with it any of the business people in the room will turn around and say that's a cop up so I guess my question is is Iran telling us to cop up or what's the message behind Gulch is clearly a literary thing but if we all decide to cop up then the world collapses but it's not your responsibility to hold the world up which is part of the message of Atlas Shrug you're not responsible for other people's errors and Dagny who doesn't buy that who wants to fight on for the world learns the hard way that the world doesn't want to help and all she's doing is subsidizing even subsidizing destruction and by leaving she actually makes a bigger impact but I don't want to give away the ending but so there are two problems with the idea of let's all go somewhere else there is no Gulch Gulch Gulch Gulch is a literary mechanism it doesn't exist in reality you can't create it in reality I know billionaires who want to buy an island and start a new country nobody's gonna let you do that you know if you create a country that's too free guess what will happen if you find an island you start it and you set up a free bank bank that will take deposits all that what will happen the Marines will show up nobody's gonna let you do it ask the Cayman Islands why doesn't Switzerland have private banking anymore because America told them you can't do that and if you do that we're gonna shut you down we're gonna boycott you we're gonna destroy you so you can't create a truly free country this is why America is so important without getting in a sense of permission from one of these superpowers I told the guy you can do that you can buy an island you can start the country on one condition that you buy a nuke with it and you point it at Washington DC and you prove to them that you'll actually use it then they'll leave you alone but other than that they'll never leave you alone I know you've got a big thug that you're dealing with to the east I deal with a thug in Washington not quite as bad but bad still a thug still politicians and you've got thugs here around the corner involved they're all thugs politics is about thugs it's about taking money from some people and giving each others in the modern world doesn't have to be that way shouldn't be that way but it is that way so what do you do I mean a lot of American businessmen since the financial crisis have said I've had enough they shrugged and they've retired they worked part-time they're not willing to pay into the system anymore they're not willing to make an effort some of them even have left and gone to Singapore, Hong Kong, I know a guy who says I'm going to Thailand next crisis I'm up I can't blame them your responsibility is to your life if that's going to lead to the best life possible for you you should do it I believe America and the western civilization can still be saved and maybe that's just because I'm in the business of trying to save it so I have to believe it can be saved because otherwise it won't be the purpose of my life so you're more Dagny than John Gollum yeah in a sense in a sense I am and in a sense I understand Dagny more than I understand John Gollum there's a sense in which I do it and you can see in the characters for those of you who've read the book Francisco is the one who struggles a little bit well I'm sitting around right particularly in the beginning he has a hard time you know this world is worth fighting for there's too many good stuff you know I love life and I love the world we live in I love America I love Silicon Valley if you haven't noticed I love Apple I love that there's a new iPhone every year I'm not willing to just go on to Desert Island somewhere and give up my new iPhone but I love other people I love being able to engage with people and I love a lot of people don't agree with me because they're incredibly productive because they do great things because they make wonderful products because you know not this guy but some of the paint beautiful I'm just sitting opposite this you're absolutely correct I mean all of them it's like life is not worth living in that universe I mean I have a view of art I want to live in the universe of his painting I want to be there I want to live in the universe of Michelangelo's David I'm even willing to live in the universe of Michelangelo's Pietà because it's heroic and it's beautiful and it's a mother carried for her child put aside any religious element that's the world I want to live in I want to live in the world of 19th century paintings of romantic you know that's the way this stuff is there I want to run away you know I want to live in the world of great romantic music of passion, of excitement, of fun of adventure that's the kind of world I want to live in and there's a lot of adventure and fun in the world as it is today I don't want to go with five of my best friends to some isolated place I love you guys too much in a sense I love the interchange I love the exchange I love what you do with your lives and the products that you produce that make my life better and this is why and I'll ask a question to myself a lot of times objectivists are critiqued as you're cold hearted you don't care about other people and you don't care about the poor no I love poor people who are ambitious and I would actually help them in a free country I love people generally I love human life I love the idea of human life I love the little babies because I love the potential that they have to become fully flourishing human beings objectivists are lovers that's how I perceive humanism is the philosophy of love it's about loving yourself it's about loving life and if you love yourself and you love life you love human beings not evil human beings to be able to do that you have to say Hitler was evil these people are evil they're bad they should be gone right but these people are not they produce beautiful things they create wonderful stuff so you have to be judgmental but the focus is on love to be able to truly love you also have to be able to truly hate you can't have one without the other because you have to appreciate the value and you have to appreciate this value it's a lot I think you define objectivism in a new way for me and that's called judgmental optimism or optimistic optimistic judgmentalism I like to call it a philosophy of love because love involves judgment you don't love everybody you love some people a little bit you love hopefully your spouse a lot and I've been lucky I've been married 32 years two kids and I love her I believe in love and it's about life that's what it's about philosophy I don't recall the philosophy a philosophy for living on this earth a philosophy for living on this earth that to me is what it's all about to live I want to thank you very much for coming tonight and I want to thank particularly Aaron for an inspiring session	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcmyI0I0-BE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCIkb_JzWFpHQtEuZMnVRyFw	Choosing and Using Keywords	This video covers developing keywords that you can use in the library's databases. NOTE: This video will be updated in summer 2017 to reflect the new CSU library discovery system, OneSearch.	null	2015-08-31T19:58:38	2024-02-05T07:41:01	162	PCUjnPS2_1g	Choosing and using Key Words brought to you by CSUSB's John M. Fowl Library. In this video, we'll cover how to develop keywords that you can use to find sources in the library's databases. The first step is to write down your topic or research question. Here we have, how does air quality affect women's health? Next, you'll want to identify the main ideas within your topic or research question. For example, let's begin with air quality and women's health. These are your keywords. Now, brainstorm and take note of related keywords such as synonyms or broader or narrower terms. This will give you more options to mix and match so you retrieve the best results. For example, air pollution and smog are terms related to air quality and females and gender might get results related to women. Possible combinations include air pollution and females, air pollution and gender, smog and females, smog and gender. You get the picture. Let's examine the actual search results retrieved by some of these strategies. Here we're using the database Academic Search Premier, which you can access through the library's website. The combination air quality and women's health gives 276 results. The combination air pollution and women's health gives 734 results. Changing keywords changes the number of results. If you get too many results, add another keyword to your search. Remember that the more keywords, the fewer the results. For our example, you could add an additional keyword such as poverty. This combination air pollution and women's health and poverty cuts it down to 14 results. Remember that brainstorming keywords is an important initial step in the research process. However, you might find that you'll need to revisit and change up your keywords based on what you find in the databases. For example, here I see the term ozone pollution. This would also make a great keyword to use.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUjnPS2_1g", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }

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